skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article links to an official government consultation document from the Home Office.

That said, a lot of UK consultation docs never even makes it into parliamentary committees, much less makes it onto the floor even if supported by the majority government, so while people should get involved in the consultation it's a bit early to worry that this has a real shot.
Activists park burnt-out tank outside Russian Embassy in Berlin
"Because it's cheap." Lots of "leaders" don't see much further than that...
Depends on how good OP's opsec is as a security researcher. If they're any good, they should know what traces they left. Did they use a VPN via a coffee shop's wifi, or did they connect from home. Canada is a different country from the US though, so it might be time for them to lawyer up and see how extradition works for CFAA violations.
Black and white thinking doesn't work in the real world.
Yeah, that shit is why I took a brand-new NVIDIA Shield back to the store immediately after getting it home - it literally cannot be used without signing into a Google account. I bought it thinking, "hey nice, I can use this 4K Android home theatre device without Google being involved, since it's from NVIDIA and thus hopefully free of all that crap". I even did my homework on this: no material included with the product, nor NVIDIA's online product page, indicated that an Android account is strictly required to actually use the product. I ended up doing some more searching after returning the product, and finally found a singular customer support page that happens to mention it. Gotta love it...
A single button that says "Yes" with no question mark anywhere in the dialog is definitely a dark pattern.
BMI can be misleading sometimes, more than normal muscle mass for example is not really accounted for — if you have the chance have a look at your body fat percentage.
Let’s see if Bing Search AI can fix this for Jeff?
Uhm... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passportization ?
How did you measure that 250k? That’s the population of like Iceland. Sounds like a lot, but perhaps my “how many golfballs fit in a schoolbus” guesstimate game is off.
Not sure why this was downvoted. People who actually listen to classical music regularly know who Bell is, even if they may not like him. He's hardly obscure.
They don't consider any alternative to be viable.
Out in Space Lies a Mysterious, Planet That Shouldn't Exist
Even without any plugins Vim has useful stuff you might need in a pinch.

Eg:

Column editing using visual mode.
Syntax highlighting
Tree-based undo features.
Fuzzy file finding in a project path.
Spell checking
Support for c tags
Line numbers
Mouse support
File navigation

On top of that you might want to learn vi for systems built with busybox.

Or tools that use readline like repls and sql clients.
Sending anonymously could work if possible, here you have to be authenticated with your government email, otherwise they just ignore it.

On the other topic: it definetly isn't anything like public photography you mentioned, at least not in my jurisdiction. Here it is enough that the company says "you were not supposed to see that data" and that is enough to claim unauthorized access. It is then up to the court to prove that they had adequate protections etc.

The OP says they are based in Canada. It definetly warrants hiring a lawyer to get advice on this matter, but IMO it is not worth it at all. The best possible outcome is getting a tap on the back and a thanks from the company, the worst possible outcome is legal proceedings. Expected net gain is negative.
Plant based diets are purely worse for you - you can tell because you need to slam 11 different nutrient pills to keep going without your body failing.

You terminate earlier on these fad-diets than on your natural omnivorous diet - and what's more, if you did pure meat and no vegetables, you're actually 2x better off than on a purely plant diet.
That sounds like a reasonable distinction between verbal and written as in email or memo, but chat is then in a grey area. Chat is used more often than not in a casual conversational way that does not promote a lot of thinking before writing.
> Local governments also request funds from the central government.

That can happen with the Church as well, local priests get their "salary" from a central (at the national level, not the Vatican) institution

> Also, people pay taxes directly to central governments.

At least in Italy you can devolve 8/1000 of your taxes to the Church, and that's not your local church but again, the national-level institution (and they redistribute it to lower levels). I think in Germany it's very similar, and probably in other countries too.
GPT Paranoia
You jump to questionable conclusions here. They just meant that Microsoft messing something up to this degree is not a big shock to people who already had MS related issues.

Some of their designs are downright malicious (like locking the email account until you give them your phone number), more often it's amazingly bad software/UI, and sometimes they'll ruin your weekend by rolling out a Windows update without asking which wipes your partitions or throws bluescreens on boot.

I decided a while ago it's not worth it for me and stopped using as much MS related stuff as possible, and I'm glad I did.
Just out of curiosity, what are the most recent chips it's feasible to do this kind of tear-down for?
+1. i just used a debugger today at my work for the first time in 4 years by coincidence. normally i just throw a couple prints and rerun the test and today i was reminded why. takes like 8 minutes to run the test in debug mode. lots of useful info in there but usually i can guess where the error is without it.
it was indeed good at pinpointing the sigsegv though.
Because they think that they must use Windows no matter how bad it is.
> I've always been interested in sailing. I'm from Illinois.

Almost a haiku!
How does that work? Is there some evil villian at Microsoft, twirling his mustache maniacally laughing himself to sleep because Mr Jeff here can't create an Azure app? This is a case for Hanlon's razor.
Might want to check up on dev salaries outside of the UK, I found the norm pretty terrible relative to CoL in London...
And of course when monasticism was more popular in Europe the results were similar, hence the monastic origins of aqua vitae and Chartreuse, among a variety of other drinks.
Arghhh... I swear I only have one Microsoft account, but it randomly seems to use either one password or an older one. I've been round loops several times resetting the password and all seems well, until it seems to want an older one again.

I didn't bother porting my Mojang account to Microsoft, it was too stressful to use.
I think the ocean isn’t conducive to technology.

Ocean water corrodes everything, no humidity control for drying things, chemical control near impossible, no heat control (no fire), etc.

And given octopus use there intelligence to hide from predators, it may be difficult for tightly knit cooperative social groups to form.

A cluster of octopus will look like a great dinner for sharks and other predators

Unless we teach octopus to make weapons and war on sharks? Then octopus could eat richly & rule the deep?
I think it's very convenient that you can get something useful without having to install anything, and it just works on every platform.
I may have jinxed it; the other day i was thinking how impressive it is that Microsoft handles their decades old AD/azure/live/xbox/etc auth systems and that they all work together well.

In this case, is there another company with a similarly old and complex auth system that does exemplary work?
Sounds like you have good manager! Management is there to manage. Sometimes, surprisingly, they actually do!
Why did I imagine Bono taking a selfie with the spy ballon lmao
Hi welcome to Europe.
No, some other big tech companies also had to do this.
Person is angry at the world because not everyone has the exact same opinions as her (or her closest circle of friends). More after the break.

I think she has a valid point that it's often misleading to refer to "the fediverse" as a holistic thing when it's really a network of wildly different small communities. However, you could say the same about Twitter or Tumblr or HN or New York City or really any social place above a certain size.

I honestly haven't understood at all what the problem with Mastodon was. If anyone could explain this, I'd be grateful.
With respect to the original investigator in the 2006 linked blog post, isn’t it rather obvious that a way to measure the total-dissolved-solids value, where those solids affect the way light refracts in water, is to use a refractometer?

I would guess that different solids cause different amounts of refraction. Most beekeepers have a telescope refractometer that’s calibrated for checking water content in honey. (Wet honey bad, dry honey good.)

You’d probably be able to use it for salt content too, for example, but if you brew coffee then put honey and salt in it, one measure of refraction obviously isn’t going to help you pick apart how much of each substance you have. (The original refraction post talks about this — sugar in your coffee will taint your refraction reading’s ability to proxy for TDS because now it’s measuring coffee+sugar. Although you could of course weigh how much sugar you put in the coffee. A handy technique if you have a cheap refractometer calibrated to a specific range into which the additional sugar can place you, and the deviation from which you can use to measure how strong your coffee is.)
It does! But having the simulation right there helps you learn them.

I had two main questions to answer when making this. First, how does ship physics work anyway; second, what is an appropriate UI that feels like being an officer ordering a couple of hundred people around? I previously worked on a flight sim, where it's appropriate to move a joystick, or a mouse, and have the plane respond straight away. I think that would feel wrong here - it would make the ship feel like a toy.

A benefit of the technical language is that it helps convey the idea that the ship is a big, complicated machine, with all the parts worked by people. It's also fun to see the strange words. So I decided to lean in to technical language and verbal commands. I was starting to work with git, and thought about using a command-line UI for the game; but I went with something inspired by the menus and hotkeys of old roguelikes.
Reliability is probably about the same, but the Microsoft account signup process is a nightmare compared to the old Mojang system. There's like 4 different X-Box or Game like websites with slightly different usernames and they don't talk with one another and various features are scattered across all of them. Even flipping the switch that lets you join an online game is buried half a dozen menus deep in the bowels of the system and is labeled in a way that you'll never find it if you didn't Google for the instructions first. It's so unnecessarily complex and confusing.

The worst part is that some bot years ago signed up for the X-Box account using the same email I used for the Mojang account so converting the account first required me to take over the bot account with a password reset. But the bot set the account in up German and it's apparently impossible to switch the language settings for everything. I got most of it switched over (across four completely different configuration pages), but stuff like the emails are still sent in German. I'm pretty sure my account is going to be locked sometime in the future once they figure out that it was originally a bot account and there is no chance I'm going to be able to get my alpha Minecraft account back when that happens.
> and finally found a singular customer support page that happens to mention it

That's the kind of results Google should be surfacing, but it lost the game, it is so useless now for precision searching.
I think it’s dependent on the person learning the material. My college had a similar course and it was also highly regarded as useful by students. However, while I found the course fun I already knew most of the basics from my research job, and the advanced stuff hasn’t really come up again even in work (e.g. fancy git or gdb commands), so I’ve entirely forgotten it; my biggest takeaway is probably ctrl r for searching in shell. But I can see why a guided intro would be really helpful to someone who had no experience or some trouble getting started learning this kind of material (which is very different from programming or computer science).

There’s probably an aptitude threshold past which the course’s value diminishes - don’t mean any disrespect to anyone, just trying to expand on your point. The top students either have already figured it out or will do so easily, so they might be better off doing something else with the time they would’ve invested in this. But for a lot of students learning about these tools and concepts can be a real force multiplier, more so than a random upper level course.
Telling divd.nl (Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure) can be a good option too.
At some point, we might need to accept that "mock" has become a generalised term which refers to many kinds of test-doubles. If it's being taught that way in universities and embodied that way in tooling, then the term has a new meaning.
This is exactly my set up! Although I adopted it as a PhD student precisely to avoid those expensive options in the first place. I've just never found any cause to change since.

Aeropress allows you to combine immersion and high pressure with a £25 device that largely self-cleans, and is small enough to travel with. It makes a smooth, rich-tasting coffee.

With electric grinders you pay for the burr, which is what really matters, and then an electric motor. But if you buy a fairly decent hand grinder like the C2 chestnut, you get a far better burr for the same price, and because of that hand grinding is really easy-going and quick. I enjoy doing it every morning.

There are some coffee enthusiasts that create over-complicated aeropress recipes, but the truth is that it was designed for simplicity. What I've found matters is:

1. Small-to-medium grind size

2. Stand upside down to immerse for longer

3. Use 80-85c water

4. Stir

5. Press gently

Obviously the quality and freshness of the coffee beans matters too, and you can vary the immersion time for the strength of the coffee you want.
I'm not a talented developer but I did spend my day on an F# piece of code that builds a databale based on a record type using reflection (and eventually realized it was going to need to be recursive) and I probably would've just quit if I wasn't allowed to use a debugger.

Now maybe if I was better that wouldn't be the case, but even the cleanest "wish i thought of that" functional code i've seen still looks like it'd be easier to fail fast using a debugger with.

In fairness though, I will admit I use the debugger a lot less when i'm not screwing with reflection on generic types or whatever because runtime errors just happen a lot less in functional styles. Usually if it compiles, it runs, because the compiler can sanity check the code better than you can.
Honestly I think I may be even slightly more productive, but whatever, I make more than I can spend, I don't think any amount of money would make me work 5 days/week (I mean that quite literally, unless it was maybe for a couple months, and in the 1e6 ballpark, my time on earth is just too valuable to me).
I am interested in that. How do you do it? Do your roast the coffe in a skillet, or do you have special equipment?
Phoenix 1.7.0 final is out
Uninstalling google drive from my phone helped a lot. I was getting daily junk, mostly in russian. SMS is a constant though.
Why assume it fails?

ChatGPT: "One pound of feathers and two pounds of lead weigh the same, which is one pound or 16 ounces. The difference is in their volume, where a pound of feathers takes up more space than two pounds of lead. This is because the density of feathers is much less than that of lead, so even though the weight is the same, the amount of space they occupy is quite different."
The monarchy hasn't directly interfered in government or law like that for a very very long time... it would have established a difficult precedent for Elizabeth II if she'd on day one suddenly did so
And then your child has a Mojang account, and then you can't use Minecraft because the throwaway account is associated with your phone number, and it's tied into the Active Directory of .....

This sort of scenario. Or a million others.
Yesss. Watching someone who knows what they're doing at, eg, a DaVinci Resolve Micro Panel is a thing of beauty, easily rivaling the performance of a skilled musician. Too bad they don't do performances to the public.
Especially when they’ve made it clear that admitting to more than 40 hours per week is an official problem!
They are worried that it may have been human to human transmission. Yes, they say they don't know for sure, but even the possibility is worrying to them. Hence, "worrying" in the title
> is nowhere near an "edge of functionality"

No, but something unusual went wrong and getting it fixed will be harder at MS than a smaller company. There probably isn't a single person who understands why without a fair amount of research. Without the publicity, MS would be inclined not to spend the effort to fix.

> Also, a software engineering product run by a large organization is going to have tons more functionality

This was exactly my point - the large product with tons more functionality will likely be more brittle, harder to use, and get support for if something breaks. If you aren't using that functionality, you often won't be well served by the company. I had this experience with EverNote. I'm also a very happy AWS customer, but I think that is because their products are a set of (fairly) independent products, rather than one huge system.
I think it can be useful to distinguish between the "known and unknown unknowns" here. For example, everyone will quickly realise that that they need to know git, and they will learn what they need to know (a known unknown). A university course would maybe save them time, but it would not really change what you know after 2 years in industry. Compared to e.g awk or shell scripting which can be incredible usefull, but maybe not something people realise by themselves that they need (a unknown unknown). A university should make people at least aware of these latter tools.
I'm a little late in responding, but I want to correct my previous comment. It appears that I linked and quoted a section from a title specific to the Department of Education. Instead, [1] applies to all federal agencies. It appears that it's up to individual agencies to determine when it's appropriate to grant exclusivity, so the rules may vary between Departments and their agencies.

With that said, any exclusive license, including prospective exclusive licenses, must be published in the Federal Register. So, any exclusive licensing should be available to the public. Additionally, the agency has to give first preference to small business applicants. However, this only applies if the small business capable and have "equal or greater likelihood as those from other applicants to bring the invention to practical application within a reasonable time", both of which are at the federal agency's discretion.

I think your concern is still valid, as I share it. I just wanted to correct the misinformation I presented previously. It still appears that the "default" licensing of Government-owned patents is to be royalty-free and non-exclusive, but what I didn't previously consider is that is only the default if they choose to license it. They could just as easily not license it at all.

1: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-37/chapter-IV/part-404
Because on your work computer you just login with your work office 365 and not your personal one and then the above is not a problem whatsoever?
Shout out to geerlingguy, the creator of many helpful ansible packages!
Yeah, and locally for us in the UK it's just cucumbers, oh and in one supermarket there were no eggs once?

Our experience is the same, basically, the whole thing is just a sort of mad nexus of anti-Brexit / supermarket profiteering / media sensationalism / slightly bad weather making a small difference / supply chain issues.
Not op, but yes, after reading the full article it is not proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the named individual is in fact the person behind the shady actions. Not cool to dox someone when one is not totally sure…
It's not just the company bureaucracy, it's also laws and regulations. It's great to be a startup in the US where you have a large and fairly rich customer base. But when you go international and have to deal with all the myriad laws there, often contradictory or poorly defined, your code will be messy. Very messy. Plus these laws keep changing and your customers keep moving to different jurisdictions or giving you wrong information.

Add to that various attempts at fixing problems, adding features, partially removing unsuccessful features, supporting old systems, framework/library migrations in various states of completeness, different developer's ideas of how to do things, and that rockstar developer who wrote really obscure code and then left to grow pomelos, and you have an incredible mess without even having to bring in company bureaucracy.
Windows is only $5m a year and legal threats if your time is free
The article suggests it was killed by the same thing that kills all "total freedom, no moderation" chat forums. They attracted all of the pedos, trolls, and nutjobs and it killed the community, just like every single community that has tried this in the past. The concept just doesn't scale. You can't build a social platform without accounting for bad actors. It's like trying to build and airplane without accounting for wind resistance.
In fintech operations. Salary is very much fine over this side of things. In fact we get paid more than our US counterparts.
How do people in UK feel about the food shortages?

Do they blame brexit?
Radio Newspaper
Helix doesn't have tabs or folding, I find it really hard to use an editor without those features. The preconfigured LSP stuff is nice, but after you set it up in vim you usually don't have to mess with it unless you want too.
Good to know it's learnt the same way as in 1998
Go ahead!

Lots of people keep their jobs because the employer can't afford to lose them. That goes for freelancers too. I have freelanced long enough to know that a lot of people in my industry lack basic competence, or don't care about their customers over the long term. I have customers now worried about what they will do when I retire in a few years. That's not because I have so many special talents but because the smaller companies I work for find it very hard to find good people, and they don't have the expertise to judge whether someone actually knows what they are talking about or not.
Google should be surfacing things which paint google in a bad light?
Agreed, when I commented earlier I was also thinking about mentioning something similar with regards to classes of bugs due to interactions between systems.

Unless you have a setup where you can easily run one system with a debugger attached while connecting it to everything else, you’re basically restricted to running a debugger for bugs that can be reproduced locally.
After converting, my brand new MS account got locked for 'suspicious activity' within minutes. To get back access to the game I had paid money for, I had to... you guessed it: add my phone number.

Really makes me consider just not playing anymore.
It'll just end up with mandatory RTO and end of WFH. It's kinda funny how enlightened WFH HNers in this topic don't realize that they're effectively (in WFH case) defending recording of every private workplace conversation forever so it can bi sifted through by lawyers, HR and compliance auditors for any kind of wrongdoing.

It's a precedent workplace surveillance in total scale just to hunt for (I quote) "shady shit".