skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no formal way for consistent verification of a person across activitypub but Mastodon provides a way of verifying ownership of one or multiple webpages by a specific account. If an account has any links in their bio - if those links are accompanied by a checkmark they're the verified owner of that linked page.

Journalists could potentially do this with author pages on their publication's websites if the publication added support. Alternatively many journalists have personal websites/blogs which they may already have verified.

For example, Micah Lee & IGD News have both done this on their Mastodon profiles listed above.

The other approach is just to self-host your own personal single-user instance as Tony Webster has done.
There are some documents they're putting on ice for another 5 years; I wonder if they're ones that relate to him?
Thread of Suspended Twitter Accounts
A few of the things we’re excited about in crypto
It's the same situation with privacy features in browsers. All it does is give trackers another data point to cross reference with the things you can't or don't think to scrub.
This is a low quality article. Disk encryption at rest has a bunch of reasons to be required besides someone breaking into AWS to steal the disk (and someone could bribe an employee to do that as easily as bribe an employee to steal your data digitially.)

This blog post is like someone complaining "parameterized queries are so much more of a pain than just using string interpolation to build my queries. I'd never allow SQL injection in my app." Hubris of an inexperienced engineer imho.
I thought it was testing reaction time. So I would wait for it to jiggle. Got a 165.76s. Then came here to check at the comments. And obviously I was confused.

All good now. Fastest time I got was 18.85s on mobile. 5 days of practice later will probably hit 15s.
Something is better than nothing, though.

Just because something isn't 100% perfect in every scenario doesn't mean it shouldn't be done at all.

But I agree with your point, if you're really worried about data to the point where you don't trust AWS with encryption keys, you should self-manage your keys and manually encrypt/decrypt data without AWS KMS.
Status anxiety and social class
I don't see anything wrong with it. The jet kid can create his own website
How does this work on intersections? E.g. if you have to turn, because straight ahead is wrong way sign for a one way road.
True. We need to accept the fact we really don't know what happened, while also realizing that conspiracies can (and do) happen.
Not to mention locations of safe houses, organizational / reporting structures of CIA stations, techniques for cultivating assets, etc. There are plenty of above-board reasons for not doing a full and complete release of all docs.

To paraphrase Pulp Fiction, "When you conspiracy theorists get together, you're worse than a sewing circle."
I don't think shared accounts violates the guidelines since no accounts are routinely created from sharing it. Having an identity to relate seems to be an ideal preference, but not a hard requirement. Some people do routinely create new accounts anyway to avoid fingerprinting writing styles.

Anyway, shared accounts are interesting because it's a hack on the signin system to allow a more anonymous posting. It reminds of Stallman's aversion to password in the early days, and repeats his login ID as his password.[0]

[0] https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch07.html
Sorry my sympathy for "starving" artists isn't sufficient for your liking. 95% of modern art is drivel that can and should be replaced by AI art. A recent walk through the MoMa in NY had me weeping for humanity. Filled with, in some cases literal, trash that any 5th grader could produce.
Jack Ruby was a supporter of the president who impulsively killed Oswald. Given the timeline he would not have been able to plan it in advance. This is obviously one of those things that have been infinitely followed up on and done to death.
> The idea is to extract more money

I'm not sure it should be characterized that way.

It's pricing based on value. Clearly, someone running a database on a 128-core server is realizing way more value than someone running a 4-core server.

So how do you charge where it's far pricing for both the 4-core server person and the 128-core server person.
The algorithm was made 2500 years ago, but was it already a problem/puzzle back then? Were scholars already immediately misinterpreting it? I mean, at least the person who wrote it understood it correctly I assume?

Also I'm not sure if I'm understanding everything correctly about the Sanskrit language: does this algorithm define the Sanskrit language, or was this algorithm made to try to describe the Sanskrit language? Usually languages have way too many exceptions to be distilled into simple rules, how was this possible here? It's not a spoken language?
Of all countries Germany understands better than anyone the tradeoffs between fascistic censorship and allowing any kind of speech no matter how dishonest or hateful.
Archive link: https://archive.ph/t3huM
update: tried this build script and seems good

https://github.com/jimeh/build-emacs-for-macos
Ask HN: What's the best way to learn Git deeply in 2022?
Most of the resources I've found are either:

1. Surface level but up-to-date with git's newest features (e.g. `git switch`, `git restore`)

2. Deep references of git's philosophy, commands, organizational structure, etc., but a bit out of date and not covering features from the last few years.

Can anyone suggest any resources that are both up-to-date and thorough?
Under the DSA? No, it didn't exist when that happened.

If it happened now, Twitter might be able to make the case that the posted materials were illegal (which was basically their stance at the time) and get the EU's blessing.

Otherwise, sure, they'd have the same problem they have today.
I think the author and the commenters here are using two different threat models. A lot of people here are saying you should encrypt the disks because it’s best practice for security. Or because it protects against some specific, if implausible, scenario. They’re talking about theoretical security.

The author is saying the probability that it improves your security is so low that any time it takes away from other security related work is actually making your security worse. That’s a different threat model, and it’s probably the better way to approach security, and the author is probably correct - if he actually uses that saved time to improve security in other ways.

I have a question though, what are the laws that require encryption? I can think of HIPPA, SOC2 maybe? What about GDPR?
Blackjack 21 and Romanian 'Macao'. Super simple.
Logged tropical forests have amplified and diverse ecosystem energetics
we're not ignorant, we're taking many things into context. Musk is a public figure, he's being hypocritical, he's not actually being "doxxed", and his kid wasn't threatened by somebody who used the plane's location.
Not the datacenter hands. They won't have access to the encryption keys. So the hard drive they do have access to won't be very useful.
They don't go into a landfill unless they're broken. Old drives that someone could still get the data off of end up on eBay.
Are you saying Drew Harwell, Ryan Mac, and Keith Olbermann are not "real" journalists?
Why on earth would they literally ever do that? There are always numerous procedural backdoors on how to avoid that if you play by the book (can't release from archives if it ain't archived for reason XYZ for example), and endless options if you don't.

If you as chief just take a single copy of some strong evidence and burn it, that's about it, who is gonna stop you. People on top of these power pyramids have usually more massive ego than their body can actually take so its easy to feel righteous about such acts.

Out of all the possible reasons, killing one's own president is confidently on top of the list of reasons to never ever disclose.

Not that I subscribe to any particular theory since we don't know and probably never will, but there are way too many weird coincidences and events to make the lone shooter theory anything but a fringe, unprobable one.

But given how massively CIA et al fucked up long term almost everything they took upon, this would have to be their best-executed mission by far. That doesn't mean somebody else wasn't more competent/lucky.

A story from my former soviet-enslaved country in east europe - after iron curtain fell, secret services were intensively burning all the heaps of incriminating paperwork gathered in prior decades on themselves and their collaborators, and bribes were done to get ones that evaded this. Very few remained. That's how you easily erase past, no other digital copies on distributed tapes. Now most apparatchiks are in politics or organized crime, often both.
Come on, we all know the real syrup snobs tap their own
This is such a cynical take. By ditching removable bits they save on internal room which allows bigger batteries. I would take 25% better main battery life over removable any day. If you don’t mind carrying an extra item (because that’s what swappable batteries means — by the way how do you keep the spare charged?) then get an external. Even easier to swap and use, often supports pass-through charging, and doesn’t create yet another aperture that needs waterproofing.
Hello, author here!

What you describe is essentially what I currently do. But I've inherited an infrastructure that was not setup that way, and re-encrypting things has been very time consuming.

The company I'm at now use multiple AWS accounts where teams have their own accounts, and it's common for people to forget to use KMS when creating databases or similar. I might have just failed in my search but I couldn't find any way to block default keys via SCPs. If you have any suggestions for that I'm happy to take them!
It's not. Just spend some time thinking about it not as a command to execute, but rather as an operation on a data structure you're working with (which is your repository) and it will click.
Some time ago Joe Rogan thought this joke video[1], showing a Boston Dynamics robot being trained for the military which goes rogue and attacks his human handlers when they try to have it shoot a robotic dog, was real. He was talking to Lex Friedman about how the video tricked him, but that the scary thing was how close the video was to reality. Friedman tried to explain to him how things that seem human like, such as the movement that the actual Boston Dynamics robots make, doesn't mean they're anywhere close to actually thinking like a human.

The thing is, when someone is outside of a field, it's easy to misunderstand things and assume a capability that's not there. If you've never dealt with the CIA or FBI, it's easy to imagine that they're some all powerful organization that's able to kill off any politician they like at a moments notice with no scrutiny and silence anyone who even raises any questions. If you are familiar with the organizations, this point of view is as naive as someone who says, "Oh, you program? I came up with the idea for a game where the player can do anything they want and AIs will just generate the content for them. You think you can program that?"

And the issue with conspiracy theories is that any fact that gets presented just gets funneled into the preffered hypothesis. For instance, you mention "Oswald was killed before he could speak." But that's not true, he was answering questions from reporters before he was shot[2]. And the guy who killed him, Jack Ruby, wasn't. So supposedly these powerful agencies want him dead so he won't tell anyone what happened, but instead of shooting him when they find him and saying he was resisting arrest, they arrest him alive, let him talk to reporters, hire an unhinged local criminal to kill him, and then let the unhinged guy they hired live and don't worry about him talking? The more you look at the details of what actually happened, the less they support the conspiracy theory.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3RIHnK0_NE&vl=en
[2] https://books.google.com/books?id=_kmVEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT10648&lp...
Jack Dorsey will donate $1M per year to The Tor Project
https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus
Mattermost is great, but it's not decentralised, it doesn't federate, it's not end-to-end encrypted, it's not based on an open standard, it's vendor-locked to Mattermost, only has one usable client implementation, and is rather aggressively open core (unlike the BundesMessenger distribution which is entirely apache-licensed FOSS). I'm also not sure that whether deployments easily scale up to million+ users like a big Matrix deployment can.

It's worth noting that if Mattermost adopted Matrix, like Rocket.Chat has[1][2], the vast majority of these limitations would fall away :)

[1] https://www.rocket.chat/press-releases/rocket-chat-leverages...

[2] https://matrix.org/blog/2022/05/30/welcoming-rocket-chat-to-...
I have to admit, it would take a lot to convince me the CIA wasn't involved.
I believe this kind of study will shed more light on how much more we have to learn about nutrition and how our body processes and metabolizes nutrients.

I think a lot of nutrition has been, for lack of a better term, very basic and somewhat stoicimetric - fat consumed equals fat stored, cholesterol consumed equals cholesterol stored, and also treating manufactured sugars (e.g., High Fructose Corn Syrup) as equal to natural sugars such as what's found in fruits and honey.

This and many other studies have shown that this parity between input/output is not what happens nor is it an adequate reflection of how our body works. Treating the body as a simple machine in this manner is very naïve and has lead, in my opinion, to a huge amount of misapplied health advice or just outright wrong policies.

Of course, the factors driving this have profited handsomely from this misdirection, but that's another angle suitable for it's own thread.
Not to downplay the significance of this disaster, but this is one of the worst nuclear accidents we know - yet "It is estimated that the radiation leak may have caused 240 additional cancer cases, with 100 to 240 of these being fatal". Not all dams are used for power, of course, but the failure of the Banqiao Reservoir Dam[0] is estimated to have killed 171 000

I guess all infrastructure implies some degree of risk to life and health

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure
>How does one prove an image is an 18 year old, even if they are, and not 1 day younger?

That's up to the jury. I'll defer to their judgement and in the absence of additional information (information neither of us possesses) that is the only reasonable position to take.
I think the issue is that frequently the problem is with a small part of a complex subsystem that you don't understand (or perhaps didn't even know existed) before something went wrong. This sort of problem is extremely time consuming to debug via "properly" learning about the system, so you end up (much like Fabien) taking a fix from somewhere without fully understanding it.

There's also a timing issue. Often when something goes wrong it's at a random time when I'm probably intending to do something else. I don't want to put off that other thing even more by taking a "slower" route to fixing the issue.

You can of course still learn a lot along the way, as you say. So, it's not all lost, but it does seem sub-optimal.
I really like the idea. But I am skeptic - digitalisation of Germany's public services and offices in the past hasn't exactly been a success story.
America's biggest vegetable growers fought for water. Then the water ran out
> so I felt the need to point out that Musk’s achievements aren’t really disputable

Why? What do the previous achievements matter in a discussion about a self described “free speech absolutist” suddenly banning accounts without any transparency

All I care as a Twitter user is if the accounts I follow will be there tomorrow- if not my experience is diminished
This is a cool story and a lot can be said about it, including how authentic/organic it is. I think your exact scenario had a lot of luck involved, but I think what we call "luck" is the type of thing is more common than we would think. What I'm talking about is continuously getting in situations that allow luck to happen. If someone is consciously aware of this phenomenon, they can continuously expose themselves and increase their odds. I think some refer to this as the law of attraction, but that doesn't seem right to me given the law of attraction's magical attributes. It's more statistics at play IMO.

It's important that it's authentic though as people can see right through someone's BS. In your situation you were simply playing a game you liked, which is about as authentic as it gets. There are a lot of people out there grinding away at something they don't necessarily enjoy, for the end goal of making money or success, which sounds terrible to me. I'd much rather grind away at something I truly enjoyed and where it's a win/win whether success comes with it or not.

In my younger and very introverted days I accidentally figured this phenom out. I was on a BBS site for a couple years, just hanging out with people with the same interest (motorcycle riding/racing). This led to IRL meetups, which led to me riding for a professional motorcycle racing team, where I lived my dream racing fully built Superbikes for several years. There was some luck involved of course, but it would have never happened if I hadn't participated authentically on some random website.

Since learning this important life lesson I've applied the same philosophy to my professional life. At this point I've had enough "lucky" situations happen where it's affirmed my opinion of statistics at play.
This contradicts my experience.

I use Linux every day and I never touch the engine.

I also set up Linux for computer-illiterate old ladies. They love it.
>This trick is unlikely to be useful again.

Ahh, but now others can benefit from your work :) It's a system or a community. The wizards hand off to the communicators and enable more users.

>In the meantime, the best I can think of is to pay for my distro, report bugs, and email manufacturers for Linux support.

Hell yeah! and keep posting technical solutions. Even the little things you do like keeping your site very readable, posting the text instead of screenshots so it's searchable, etc. all help.

>dkozel and your kind, whoever you are, wherever you are, and whatever you are doing right now, you are legend.

You too, man. Remember Gandi's quote: “Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
I am actually really impressed with this and have been testing it extensively, keep up the great work. I have actually found multiple applications for use that don't necessarily cover what it's intended for.
Riding Around with Mayor Rey León (2020)
If you like the command line, there’s time warrior. (timew)
Just checkout (not cherry pick) the last commit from your reflog and point your branch to it and you'll be back exactly where you started. "git rebase --abort" simply did a checkout and pointed your branch to a place from before you started rebasing (that you apparently forgot about), you haven't lost anything.
How the Arab world's most populous country became addicted to debt
I think a "compiler" isn't too bad — certainly easier than an IDE by a long margin. An optimizing compiler OTOH, can be a bit of a beast. Because the optimization passes self-interact, on every line of code, repeatedly, any small error in the passes can dramatically amplify (or cancel out!). It means the level of quality of the optimization passes is (by necessity) much, much, much higher than plain old SW. It's just ... very tedious.
It's my understanding that the reason for the delay in settlement is to allow for mistakes to be resolved.

Not retail mistakes of course, but mistakes that might impact the people who count (unless your retail mistake impacts someone who counts, i.e. your broker who misfilled your order).
> Not to excuse Musk's actions, but he's a victim here too.

When you look into them, perpetrators are a victim in some way, but legal-wise we look at responsibility. Musk is responsible for his actions here.
istjohn: What happens to Fernando at the bridge in For Whom the Bell Tolls?

ChatGPT: In the novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway, Fernando is a member of the Republican forces fighting against the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. He is sent by Robert Jordan, the protagonist of the novel, to blow up a bridge as part of a mission to support the Republican cause. However, Fernando is captured by the Nationalists and is tortured and killed as a result of his involvement in the mission. The scene at the bridge is a pivotal moment in the novel, as it highlights the brutality and consequences of war.

I'm not sure how well it would do on this question if it only had access to the text itself and no access to analysis and summaries of the book, but I think it would do a pretty good job already. I expect it would just struggle more to contextualize the scene without external resources.

Edit: I was wrong. I tested it on a passage from some fan fiction, and it did not do well. In fact, it did not even know that one of the two characters in the passage existed, despite lengthy dialogue.
That was before he became president right? It's surreal for anyone who assumed the office of presidency required or possibly conferred dignity, he is (was?) the defacto leader of the Republican party as well.
I plan and retrospectively tweak items in visual calendar apps and augment/analyse them structurally using my own tooling, see https://github.com/andrey-utkin/taskdb/wiki/Live-demo
Thanks for the article.

VSCode is dead to me. I don't want to use development tools which allow a corporation to constantly inject it's agenda into my work.
As mentioned in the article, the German health services already adopted Matrix for their "TI-Messenger", which is supposed to make secure communication between health care professionals easier. Or, well, possible at all. Right now this is a morass of "don't mention anything private" emails, letters and faxes. I'm surprised that ticker tape isn't involved somehow.

But don't worry, if German health services doing something right is triggering your "the end is nigh!" response: As far as I know, the rollout for patients is still a long way coming and they still don't even have a date set for video chat (right now a cottage industry of anyone involved in HC doing their own WebRTC thing).
I think he's referring to the Epstein/Maxwell situation, in which two lone child traffickers trafficked children with no customers or collaborators (at least not any who have been charged with anything).

At least, that's the closest recent situation I can think of.
It seems that the species of bee and pollen source make a big difference in the consistency and flavor of honey. It would be interesting to know which types of honey are highest in the healthy compounds and lowest in unhealthiest compounds (presumably sugar).
iOS Safari can even do this.
Diablo IV Collectors Edition Does Not Include the Game
This is the same problem as politics in the public discourse in general. Did that reporter drop the details that would actually drive my decision? You ultimately have to go back to the sources, and it all takes a tremendous amount of time.
This is interesting. Being German, when I read the headline I had a "not another public IT project destined to fail" moment. But this actually makes sense. The government and military need a secure communication tool, it is not a pie in the sky, but built on existing software, and they start with a well defined user base. My guts feeling is that this will be a successful project.