skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit of a tangent but a quick search didn't find any references to this so I may as well post it here:

There's a big wiretapping scandal going on Greece since the beginning of August, accompanied by an equally big attempt to cover it up.

What happened is that a Greek MEP discovered that there was an attempt by someone to infect his phone with Predator. Later it was confirmed that he was also being spied upon by the Greek Intelligence Agency during a period that he was running for leader of the 3rd largest party of the country (which he won).

This came as an addition to reports from a journalist that he being targeted by the intelligence agency when they were investigating the scandalous legislation that gave the country's bankers immunity.

The PM had admitted the spying of the MEP stating that "it was lawful, but wrong" and he fired the director of the intelligence agency as well as his nephew that was the director of the PM's office.

It's worth pointing out that the the first piece of legislation passed by the current government was one that transferred the intelligence agency directly under the PM. They also legislated more laxed criteria for the position of the agency's director to fit the profile of a person the PM had already chosen. It's worth pointing out that the PM claims that he didn't know the reason the MEP was being targeted and that he it would be outrageous if he knew.

Relevant news articles:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62822366

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/27/world/europe/eu-spyware-p...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/07/greek-pm-kyria...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/08/greek-pm-denie...
Probably UK people are, there's a running bet on pretty much anything there.
Gotta add _somewhere_ an introduction to what it actually is. I could figure it is _related_ to extensions, but what it _is and does_ is nowhere. Only empty buzzing like "It is an evolution of the extension platform that takes into consideration both the changing web landscape and the future of browser extensions."
Apart from the “design by committee” argument, the Linux Foundation seems to be ... slightly evil, with so many WEF members filling up its ranks.
The biggest benefit to Game Pass that is seldom acknowledged is having the same game library for everyone. My friend and I can play together with hundred of titles to choose from, without having to convince one another to spend money.

We like this so much we sent an older Xbox One to a third friend with the idea to get him to buy Game Pass so we can all play together.

I dread the end of this early growth period for Game Pass.
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> If the later why are traffic violations also not levied as apart of your net worth?

You did not read the link at all, correct?

It clearly states that in places like Finland traffic violations are where you see "day fines".

> It seems to me that it is a question of the purpose of the courts.

The purpose of the courts is to interpret/enforce laws. Government creates these laws based on the will of the people.

If the purpose of the laws is not to "dissuade behaviours" why do we put people in jail? Isn't the whole purpose of the jail system to remove freedoms so they can think about their actions and not do that again?

Taking peoples money via "fines" is also intended to "dissuade behaviours" so your point is unclear?

The problem is the system has become somewhat of a joke.

Large bank creates thousands of fake accounts and earns millions in fees. Large bank is fined an amount below their "ill gotten gains" so the fine is nothing but a "cost of doing business". They are still ahead of the game at the end of the day.
Courses in almost all universities are evaluated. Those evaluations actually do matter.
And this is the official reported inflation (from the state agency), some other indipendent agencies claim that the real inflation can be at 150%.
Off-topic & genuinely curious: How would you have typed/displayed if the amount was 54,000.42?
No we also add in a punitive fine as a deterrent so the crime doesn’t happen again in the future. Punishment should be equal which means high net worth criminals should pay proportional punitive fines.
Why? Not every job is remote friendly, why set up that expectation? I get that there’s some give and take from both sides here (teacher, being paid by students, and students, meeting the expectations of the teachers tasked with both educating as well as filtering), but I don’t think making everything remote will get people who already skip class watching videos of class.

Edited to clarify filtering comment: if teachers don’t filter out low performing students who don’t make any effort to work within their environment, then the trust in a college degree as a signaling mechanism to potential employers goes away. It’s already started to go away for a variety of reasons, but graduating students who can’t do basic math and can’t regularly even attend lectures will destroy it completely within the next ten years. I say this as an employer who already has a shaky trust in a degree based off real world experience hiring CS graduates.
Under GDPR, you have to ensure you gather consent properly. If your tools are not equipped to deal with that, that's your problem, not the tool's author's.
Are you underestimating the choices of his mother and her capacity for creating an unprecedented intellectual atmosphere?
A good start.

I hope the investigation keeps going and exposes more of the comedic web of fraud that fuels the crypto ecosystem.
The public's. That information is widely available in easy to understand formats in every language. People spreading misinformation is not the fault of scientists.
Another Bitcoin talking point that’s never backed by any actual numbers.

The El Salvador experiment suggests that Bitcoin’s appeal in the third world is very limited, and the use cases are better addressed by more efficient payment technologies.

(Btw I’m not going to click on your random Twitter or YouTube link. Why do crypto people assume that a reasonable debate involves dumping social media links without explanation.)
After 6 months of voluntary unemployment
aren't fertilizers mainly produced using the haber-bosch process which takes nitrogen, the most abundant element in the atmosphere, directly from air and combines it with hydrogen which is split from water, producing oxygen as a waste product which can itself be sold for oxygen cutting, scuba, and more?

of all the things that are limited in this world, this seems like it ranks among the least concerning. Sure, it takes electricity, but that itself can be much more efficiently collected going into the future
54.000,42

https://www.languageediting.com/number-formatting-europe-vs-...
I am not an advertiser or anything, but businesses dont "trust" them. The moment businesses see an alternate option with more transparency and somewhat similar results - They will jump ship. Although we are way far from anything like that coming up (on that scale)
Industrial control systems (sadly, imho) don't use Linux as often as they could/should, but such systems do have the ability to injure their operators or cause large amounts of damage of course. [1]

The first priority is safety, absolutely and without question. And then the immediate second priority is the fact that time is money. For every minute that the system is not operating, x amount of product is not being produced.

Generally, having the software fully halt on error is both dangerous and time-consuming.

Instead you want to switch to an ERROR and/or EMERGENCY_STOP state, where things like lasers or plasma torches get turned off, motors are stopped, brakes are applied, doors get locked/unlocked (as appropriate/safe), etc. And then you want to report that to the user, and give them tools to diagnose and correct the source of the error and to restart the machine/line [safely!] as quickly as possible.

In short, error handling and recovery is its own entire thing, and tends to be something that gets tested for separately during commissioning.

[1] PLC's do have the ability to <not stop> and execute code in a real time manner, but I haven't encountered a lot of PLC programmers who actually exploit these abilities effectively. Basically for more complex situations you're quickly going to be better off with more general purpose tools [2], at most handing off critical tasks to PLCs, micro-controllers, or motor controllers etc.

[2] except for that stupid propensity to give-up-and-halt at exactly that moment where it'll cause the most damage.
Have you been in touch with the SEC? Their investigation is ongoing, and it sounds like you might have info that could help them clean things up…
To be clear, sauna in Finland is so universal part of the culture that it's hard to come up with a scenario where a person wouldn't have access. Every home has its own sauna or a shared apartment building sauna; office buildings often have saunas; prisons and military barracks have saunas; elderly homes, ice breakers and even remote archipelago lighthouses have saunas. Every public swimming pool has a sauna, and there are arranged sauna events for homeless people.

During hospital stays you probably do not have the chance due to health and hygiene reasons.

Like the parent posts already said, if you live in Finland you definitely have the means and time to use a sauna.
uMatrix is discontinued, so it's not being developed for MV2 or MV3.
Yes they would be upset because it wouldn’t work
As a nonlawyer I’m curious what your risk might be. You accepted money for consulting services from what is apparently some sort of fraud conspiracy? And you seem to have info the SEC would want and might feel compelled to eke out of you with a little pressure.

Your story seems to put you in the moral right. But what about the legal right? Is it time to get a quick lawyer checkup?

(I’m not implying anything. The answer may very well be a definitive “no, this is a nothingburger.”)
> microsoft: ofc, you just need a phd in software to workaround all the efi nasty blockades we did put in

That's not a fair assessment. Linux used a whitelisted shim, which only included accepted entries in an easy-to-edit/hack EFI variable. Imagine writing your secret password on a normal VFAT partition that any OS can boot/read/change. This is the equivalent.

The proper way is to enroll the private keys with the bios, and sign the payloads yourself (or let your distribution handle that), which is way more secure and can be automatized if you select the custom secureboot.
Yes. No minimum wage for locals.

Btw, Germany also didn't have a minimum wage until fairly recently.
> a little trauma makes a strong rounded person.

It's sick and extremely maladaptive to say outright that everyone should be traumatized for their own good.
Well that is worth examining. What does Fabrice think of his own legacy, and how much does it matter to him compared to other aspects of life? We can't really answer that question without his own input. How would the fabric of our lives change if we had a legacy similar to that of Fabrice?

The reason I'm asking these things is that we often hear the words legacy and respect in specific contexts similar to this one, but there isn't much follow up as to what this respect and legacy entails for the individual or exactly why it is so important compared to other aspects. This is a crucial part for our life plan because we consider people like Fabrice in retrospect after they have already succeeded, in a fun twist on the anthropic principle, but we don't consider the alternative Fabrices who have failed in other universes and risked everything for legacy. And we rarely consider the past Fabrices in our own universe from previous generations whom we have already forgotten despite their success.
AP classes are excellent, and excellent students take them. The 101 courses in college are basically remedial courses for the students who are not excellent. I think this points to problems earlier in education: excellent students are always going to excel, but the rest of the students now accepted into college (and student debt) are not well prepared by the education they received in high school. This started before the pandemic.

The twentieth century began with children learning Latin and Greek in high school and ended with adults learning remedial English in college.
The astronomers I've seen lecture say that they have a pretty good mapping of the asteroid belt and they know that there are no planet killers in there anytime soon which seems to intuitively make sense since we only get planet killers on the order of every 100 million years or so. Of course there are tons of smaller asteroids out there that can be problematic as well. I wouldn't want to be around when Berringer Crater was created, but that was still a few 10's of thousands of years ago if I'm remembering right. (I'd recommend stopping by if you're ever in the American Southwest).

I'm not all that familiar with any of the big radio telescopes, but I thought that China's didn't have the active radar capabilities that Arecibo did. That said, I find it sad that something like Arecibo was possible to build and maintain in the 60's but not now. I suppose that has to do with the perception of it moving from defense project to science project.
Tangent, but we recently had some rich guy drunk driving an e-scooter in Germany. The fine was extremely low because in most cases the court estimates how much a person makes without checking, and lowball it to ~1500€/month (it’s usually not worth researching how much someone makes and by lowballing it chances are the person won’t object). The case resulted in 30 day-fines, so 1500€.

But this guy did object the judgement. Well, the objection was overruled, but by now the court had heard of who this was. The new day fine was 2,670€ resulting in a total fine of 80,100€ :D
I don’t agree. I think anticheat CAN do plenty. Many game companies don’t have the resources or care to build entire divisions around anticheat. Hardware bans are extremely effective when done right. Not many games do invasive hardware bans though.
This is exactly how I learned Vim. Afterwards I bundled it all together into a book (shameless self promotion I know)

The book is a weekly practice schedule that takes ten minutes a day to build up muscle memory for variety of techniques on premade files. It starts with the absolute basics, but builds all the way to advanced regular expressions with lookahead and lookbehind. By the end it covers the management and editing of marks, registers and macros.

It's amazing what a difference it makes to have muscle memory with macros and registers. Of course one can devise their own katas from the docs, but I just did the legwork of manufacturing scenarios to practice them.

https://leanpub.com/deliberatevim
Please don't steal. You may be making it difficult for the people you steal from.

I often use the same username(s) on multiple forums where people discuss similar topics because I want other people who visit the same forums to recognise me as being the same guy.

I've found this username taken a few times, and it has bugged me every time. While it is from Tolkien's Elvish, it is obscure and then misspelled (actually a portmanteau). I've had to add a prefix, such as "TheReal" to it.
>>keeping a large amount of money in that account

Or any banking account linked to PayPal. They can and will claw it back...

Money should be moved as far from paypal's reach as possible, everyone should view them as a hostile vendor.
Legacy of Contamination:TN Kingston coal ash spill unearthed a nuclear nightmare
With private access tokens demo'ed at WWDC2022 [1] as a better replacement for captchas, this problem can be reduced to a great extent. As this becomes an IETF [2] standard that Google and Microsoft and many others will also implement, this will no-doubt be used to solve bots-in-ads problem.

1. https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/10077/

2. https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-private-access-tokens-...
How I Manage My Passwords
I don't see VR solving the issue per say, the tech is already there it's more a value prop issue, ie how to package it all together and make it work.

Games like DayZ handle positional audio very well but a 3D engine is overkill when it's just audio that is missing.

AR I think will fill this space over VR but time will tell. Imo a solid 2D layout with flexibility to 'move around' is all we need for UI.

It's the audio rules that haven't really been mapped out outside of gaming I'm aware of
I suppose that might be true, but we can imagine a situation where there is no choice in the matter:

If network security cannot be maintained without sufficient inflation, then it surely it doesn't matter how philosophically wedded some users are to the 21m cap. It would lead to a hard fork, with two resulting coins:

1. An unchanged 'Capped-supply Bitcoin'
2. A new 'Permanent-subsidy Bitcoin'

Given a total breakdown in network security of the 'Capped-supply Bitcoin' (and its associated collapse in value), we would expect users to deem the, still secure and therefore higher value, 'Permanent-subsidy Bitcoin' to be the 'true' Bitcoin going forward, no?
You're presenting authoritarian states and democratic ones as independent. But some of the democracies are part of a geo-political arrangement in which they benefit from the existence of countries with non-democratic regimes.
> Instead, people email each other, text, chat, video call... help can be synchronous or asynchronous.

> Professors need to get with the times and make themselves available through channels that their students are more comfortable with

If an international student can write the professor, I'm thinking that is already the case. Email at university has been a thing for over thirty years.

"The highest-achieving student was an international student for whom English was not the first language. Yet he wrote me regularly requesting specific topics and textbook pages to prepare for class."
I don't see it that way. If your job is to promote things part of your process, with respect to ascertaining the validity of that work, should be in a wide range of ethics. She knows she has fans that will believe anything she says which is part of the reason why she's paid to promote things. But if all of the sudden a bleach company is paying Kim to promote drinking it to prevent and cure cancer it might feel different. Kim is still directly hurting people through her brand, but in a different way.

> Also, if you buy something just because a celebrity told you to, you have poor decision making skills and it’s worth your while to work on that.

While likely unpopular I wish there were some decent studies on this topic. Like age demographics, screen time in social media, income, schooling, and other background information on the people that fit into this charade. I think this would shed some light on the predatory marketing Kim, potentially, engages in - knowingly or not.
the thing is, people who want to use this for defamation don't have an incentive to sanitize the data - the message might stick around regardless of whether it has any merit (we've seen this happening even at the most publicly scrutinized national level, imagine how much fewer defenses smaller players have)
> some generations actually are worse than their predecessors

Sure. But the point is that the prior generation is too biased to correctly identify when this happens. And it's a solid point. The older generations are far more often wrong than they are right. Many of the kids I know who were supposed to do horribly in life due to their parents being too easy on them are now pretty damn successful adults.

> there are specifics I see for youth today: they are emotionally more fragile and underdeveloped, are more passive in general, understand complex situations less, and have a harder time in accepting reality

I haven't seen any of that in the kids I know. Perhaps it's the adults who are guilty of these things and can't handle the kids. Kids take a huge amount of work to be around. It's tiring. This is nothing new.

If you predict a storm tomorrow, you'll eventually be right. But that doesn't make you good at prediction.
Sure is. He was also sentenced for a ludicrous amount of tax evasion while in office and he is still in politics
This is one of the more interesting comments I have seen in 15 years of reading hn, care to elaborate anymore?
> It doesn't seem obvious where exactly to draw the line here

In my opinion it's pretty clear: Lobbyism is okay as long as it is public and doesn't involve bribes. It's bad when it happens behind closed doors and involves either direct or indirect payments (eg. awarding contracts to friends of lawmakers).
There is a day and night difference between stealing and fraud.

And this is barely fraud btw. The only reason she is being fined because they they didn't file a form with the SEC for approval which would've meant they could only sell to "accredited investors".

Don't you see they are lettering pissing at you. They think your too stupid to invest. You supposedly live in the most free country in the world but you need permission from the government to invest your friends company (or for your freind to ask u for investment). This is the world you want? parasite.
Scientists lift the lid on reproducibility (2016)
I tend to think Vim is the best editor, and Emacs is the best OS. So I use Vim inside Emacs with Evil mode.
The SEC has real, legal teeth. In this case, Ms. Kardashian took a legal settlement to avoid a criminal verdict. In a prior job, a mutual fund startup, I was restricted from purchasing stocks unless I ran it through an internal company process first, then ran it by the SEC, all because, as sysadmin, I had access to "live stock feed", which is considered privileged information. If I had a hunch to buy something, by the time I ran that potential purchase through those two processes and got permission, generally the window of opportunity had closed. Of course, I knew this because it was made explicitly clear to me when I took the job, and when we went through the paperwork to setup the live stock feed.

Still, my lack of awareness would not have been a valid excuse, had I crossed the line with the SEC, and the potential penalties were very real, and very steep. Then again, I didn't have vast resources to keep on-staff legal personnel to manage my interactions with them, nor was I a celebrity or politician, so all the rules apply to me, all the time, where that might not be the case in every situation.
PS5 is still not available anywhere in Switzerland. Why it is so scarce? It is used for mining or something?
Why aren't they using some sort of sandbox, apparmor or selinux based security? The places where foreign data and code are allowed in consoles should be pretty limited.

I still remember the dirty COW exploit on Android and it was useless because all you are getting is root in some heavily restricted namespace.
August Hanning (Ex Head of Federal Intelligence Service) about Pipeline Sabotage
Q: Wen Sie dahinter vermuten würde
...
A: Natürlich denkt man an die Ukraine
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Russland..es könnte sein, dass sie ein Interesse haben
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Polen hat den Abriss der Pipeline gefordert
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Es gibt schon Verdächtige

Compare with:

https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-nord-stream-pipeline-...
because if you get your account compromised on one site/forum because of lax security on their end, you don't want all your accounts compromised.
A fair verdict and fair punishment can also be one that dissuades the behavior in the future. It can be both.
She actually got 250k from the deal and was fined 1.26m, is that enough?
Will be, I'm sure, the source of many research papers. But pretty horrible for people living through it: 150%+ yoy increase in prices! That's positively Argentinian.

A strong argument for independent central bankers.