skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been waiting for ~23 years for the copyright system to grapple with the implications of 1. having a copyrighted work A 2. taking someone else's "patch" (mod/crack/whatever, I call it "patch" as a general term) B and 3. combining them on your local computer to produce a final work C. We techies have been arguing about who has what rights, who can block who from doing what, who's responsible for what, etc. in that situation for at least that long, when the mood strikes us. I'm still unaware of any really clear precedent on this and I'm pretty sure legislation remains utterly oblivious that such a thing is even possible, or how powerful it is. I've been on the lookout for even a hint of this for a long time and there's hardly been anything.

I guess the economics just haven't worked out to produce a true showdown. Game mods are in my opinion the clear favorite for where this would finally rise to a court-level problem, and clearly there's been a lot of conflict in this space, but nobody yet has been foolhardy enough to build a large enough business on selling some mod that when the owner tries to shut them down they actually go to a full-on, precedent-setting legal battle. (After all, economically, when you get to that level of capability, why not make your own game that you clearly own? That path has been trod many times.)

So, my best answer to your question is, honestly nobody really knows what kind of rights Razor may or may not have to the final product of their crack, especially since it is not the crack itself being distributed.
i don't actually know much about employment law, but as I understand it this is different from most of the other protected classes (race gender etc.) after googling I found this statement from the EEOC:

https://www.eeoc.gov/foia/eeoc-informal-discussion-letter-32...

"Favoring an individual with a disability over a non-disabled individual for purposes of affirmative action in hiring or advancement is not unlawful disparate treatment based on disability, and therefore does not violate Title I of the ADA.(1) Both the text of the ADA itself, as clarified by the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, and the EEOC's implementing regulations explicitly state that an individual without a disability cannot bring a claim of discrimination under the ADA."
If you grew up in post collapse USSR, you aren't of the age where you have to deal with the problems the parent post describes. It's important to recognize your lack of personal experience with it. I'm not saying that post collapse USSR wasn't a bad time. It was an absolutely horrible time and I am glad you're here.

But it's important to recognize people have different challenges and live different lives than you.

I'm likely much younger than you. My parents were able to afford to raise me in a house they owned, at my current age. I am not and nowhere near that buying power. My parents can look forward to a retirement fund. I cannot. My parents were able to work through the summer to pay for their graduate degrees. Graduate degrees are too expensive for me to attain, now. My parents could afford to take me to the emergency room when I had fevers as a child. I cannot afford a single emergency room visit for anything.
It's both. I wrote some notes on that here: https://til.simonwillison.net/deno/deno-kv
I don't think it would require a full reiteration of the original article. You can briefly summarize the relevant facts; newspapers have been handling ongoing stories this way for over a century, it's a well tested pattern.

I've also seen websites that provide an executive summary and links in a callout box at the top of the page, that's an option too. Just providing an uncharacterized link does not serve the reader very well.
No, I'm not.

> socialism: a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
"we want a real democratic and pluralist left party—one which unites all those who believe in socialism"

Or, if you want the Marxist definition:

> a transitional social state between the overthrow of capitalism and the realization of communism.
"socialism is the first stage of the worldwide transition to communism

And therefore:

> Communism (from Latin communis, 'common, universal') is a left-wing to far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need. A communist society would entail the absence of private property and social classes, and ultimately money and the state (or nation state).

Reading further into communist societies:

> A communist society is characterized by common ownership of the means of production with free access to the articles of consumption and is classless, stateless, and moneyless, implying the end of the exploitation of labour.

How ironic that you tell others to read when you yourself don't know the definitions of words you use.
> The team estimates that just one part of the reserve in Tanzania could be as large as 54 billion cubic feet (BCf), which is enough to fill more than 1.2 million medical MRI scanners.

> “To put this discovery into perspective, global consumption of helium is about 8 billion cubic feet (BCf) per year and the United States Federal Helium Reserve, which is the world’s largest supplier, has a current reserve of just 24.2 BCf,” said University of Oxford’s Chris Ballentine, a professor with the Department of Earth Sciences.

I’d note this is only enough for 7 years of consumption. I’m not sure what kind of game changer that is.
> Since their apps require Android with SafeNet or iOS, they pretty much enforce the Google/Apple duopoly.

That is positively insane. So if you don't use vanilla Android or iOS, you can't use a credit card for more than 50EUR? No phone, dumb phone, too bad?
> an assistant secretary for health

Specifically, Levine is the Assistant Secretary for Health—a senior political appointee, chosen by the President and confirmed by the Senate, reporting directly to the Cabinet-level Secretary for Health and Human Services. Also a uniformed four-star admiral (2 ranks below Commander-in-Chief) in the world's most powerful military. Oversees thousands of government employees, millions of dollars in taxpayer funds, influences major policy decisions that affect the lives of millions. In free societies, writers are allowed to criticize, and even mock, powerful political and government officials. But perhaps you prefer the Russian system?
Some "cultures" are just organs of a larger cultural superstructure, and they don't make sense to discuss in isolation.
* removing egress costs up to 3x your amount of stored data

I'm pretty disappointed overall by the price increase for storage. Compared to when they launched B2, they now need 1/4 as many servers with 1/2 the upfront cost to store each petabyte.
Hey that's neat! Super annoying having to dig through the dynamically-generated DOM.
Hand written wasm is too low level to use a UI framework with, but there are rust frameworks that compile to wasm for web. For example, Yew and Leptos are both web-first frameworks, and there are a few such as Dioxus or wgpu that are native-first and work on web.
Would there be a portal where people can report potentially hacked IoT devices?
Those sorts of places are fun to interview at. 'So what sort of source control do you use'. You would think everyone does that by this point. An easy slam dunk question to ask and for them to answer. I had one say 'well sometimes we check it into sourcesafe but usually just copy it around the 5 of us on a fileshare' (this was like 4-5 years ago).
If the patch is distributed on its own, without the original binary, is it still a derivative work? Is the unique, creative work of writing "perform XYZ instruction at XYZ address," in lieu of the original executable, still derivative?

This is actually an unanswered/unproven question that comes up quite a bit in automotive tuning, where individuals and tuning companies modify OEM calibrations and create application software patches which, while they are unique and perform stand-alone functions, run on top of OEM ECU software.
Factions within the government have been trying to sell it off for that time. Other factions don't feel like wasting political capital defending this hill because they can't easily explain the issue to the public.
It was definitely not bad faith. They're pointing out that OpenTF isn't bothering to hold to quality standards that Hashicorp had for Terraform before the fork and they aren't trying to raise beyond those standards to reach the levels common in higher quality community projects like Linux, Kubernetes, LibreOffice, and OBS Studio.

A project being run by professional developers who have a lot of experience working with the Terraform code should be capable of doing this.
Very true. I'm not in SiFive's target market. Though I do use M0 and M4 cores fairly frequently. But I'm not a direct customer of ARM, though. I think that's what you were implying.

I think part of what I'm getting at is it's TOUGH to get people to adopt new IP. And it's TOUGH to be all things to all people so you can compete in the low end against M0s and MSP430s, in the mid range against A77s and in the high end against i9's.

That being said, if SiFive fabbed a catalog part with one or two E20s at a reasonable cost, I have an immediate need of 200 of them. I only wish there were another 500 of me with a similar need so there was a chance we could get it fabbed at a decent price.
Completely agree. They did the best with the data they had. I’m glad they didn’t fudge it upwards earlier. If anything, this gives me more confidence in the ONS because they did the right things.

I know unsophisticated people only look at the result, not the process. These folks are quick to blame whenever they perceive a mistake. Disappointed to see this take from the Economist.
It was common as well to use these things called Code Wheels:

https://archive.org/details/code-wheels

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_wheel
That's enough to tell you if a given request is being seriously discussed.
It's great to see this question posted, I was considering the same thing. My plans is to offer my services to the niche hobby groups I'm in. Many of the members of those groups are older and not tech savy. At the same time, a lot of them do business that relies on a website for marketing. I'm hoping to improve the sites they have, many still look like they made them in the 90s.

You might be able to find niche groups with members in the same situation. Once you help a few of them, they'll spread your services by word of mouth.

Good luck!
Asking a few friendly countries to deny airspace to a flight is still pretty radically different from hacking up a reporter because they said something the Prince didn't like.

Try again.
Is it just me, or does "WebAssembly" seem like an oxymoron? Maybe it's because I've been involved with the web since its earliest beginnings.
Well for the case right now, I'm building a multi tenant system. Some tenants want features that no others want and they pay for my hours on those. I still have enough control in these cases.

I come up with better lower costing solutions when the stakeholders express WHY the feature is needed, what problem it solves. Then we and I can creatively explore HOW to solve the problem. There's usually several ways to solve anything, many that vary by orders of magnitude in terms of cost or architectural complexity.

If I am dictated always on the HOW, handed fully solutioned work to implement like a monkey I rebel and have a long talk about how this won't work. I never have had to quit over this stance but I would if it wasn't reconciled.

So when I say control, that's really what I specifically mean by that word. The ability to negotiate and explore the HOW with the why being firmly in mind.
I bought it through the App Store and it requires you to give the app Accessibility access. I hesitated about this, but it does make sense. The good news is that you can turn this setting on and off easily. So potentially you could only run the app with access to keyboard input when you're choosing to write something that's not sensitive.
Timelinize is still in alpha (under heavy development) so you can follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/timelinize -- I'm still working on a landing page, been too busy with the actual app. If you want to try the development previews in alpha, though, just let me know how to contact you and I'll send you an invite.
For anyone interested in the process there are a bunch of places that do Risograph printing. People make all sorts of creative things with the machines.

https://www.pushpullseattle.com/risograph.html

https://www.odditiesprints.com/risograph

https://www.paperpresspunch.com/riso-printing
You'll be horrified to learn exactly how much business is conducted through unsecured fax machines.
I have personally found several IoT vulns in everything from Zoom devices to Japanese robot hotels, and I run a security consulting firm. Swooping in with my 2c.

Most of the time the engineers making these things -think- they are reasonably secure, but they tend to have little to no infosec experience and are moving too fast with no accountability.

Worse, even when there is some accountability such as code review, the release engineer creates the security problems at release time either as a supply chain attack or stupidity.

If I were making the rules, I would ramp up common sense supply chain accountability which would cause some of the most prevalent problems to be spotted early.

My wish list:

1. Require all source code be signed (git signatures or similar)

2. Require all source code reviews by peers be signed (minimum 1)

3. Require source code to compile deterministically

4. Require at least two individuals or entities verify code signatures, compile code, and compare identical hashes

5. Require proprietary firmware products have an external security firm on retainer incrementally reviewing code (including dependencies!), as well as reproducing, and co-signing releases.

6. Require proprietary products use a source code escrow service that will make their code public the day support and security updates stop so the consumer community can patch for themselves

7. Require open source firmware products have a bug bounty program (potentially with government funding like the EU does)

Happy to chat about this sort of thing with anyone interested. Contact info in my bio.
Can Amazon's reputation get worse?
Definitely!

Have you tried adding whatever terms you want retrieved back as 'metadata' attached to your vectors?

https://docs.pinecone.io/docs/metadata-filtering
I remember when I was young getting a game from my older sister's college boyfriend. Gave me the game on disks, and also a photocopied manual just for this same purpose. Used to be super common for games to use these kinds of checks for anti piracy. I thought it was super funny though, because the game was pretty old, and I was confused why this guy didn't know how to find a cracked version of the game to avoid having to pull out a 60 page manual just to play.
For that query, the Chrome developer tools console spits an error like so:

>d.7527c434450544045365.js:1 Uncaught (in promise) SyntaxError: Invalid regular expression: /^(https?://)?([\w\.-_]*\.)?notepad++\./: Nothing to repeat (at
Classic tech to think of technical solutions to a regulatory problem, but I like it.

Could have the code run in a sandbox where people can apply “external” network traffic trying to hack it (or apply vulnerabilities), inspired by how you can run ML models on kaggle.org on Kaggle servers to validate models.

Have end-points as honney-pots, so if you can access these endpoint you prove you have compromised the code.

If there is no new code with patches the keys are released.

This way FCC/gov don’t need to maintain a technical system. Just build this once.
> This is a bunch of retro-grouch reverse-snobbism hogwash.

The advice isn’t bullshit, but neither is it some technique that will “improve your photography significantly.”

People who draw will do all sorts of weird exercises to develop their skills. This includes targeted practice, and yes, digital artists will sometimes practice with pen and paper. I see that practice as being kindred with the photographers who shoot on film as an exercise.

Mostly, it just encourages you to spend more effort visualizing the end result before you press the shutter release on your camera. It’s not some powerful technique to unlock your skills, but neither is it snake oil or hogwash. It’s easy to get stuck in habits, and one of the habits you can get into in photography is to just take a ton of pictures, hoping that one of them will look good. Maybe you just keep taking pictures and making adjustments until you get the right picture. Spending some time with film just forces you to break the habit. It would be nice if you could just tell somebody to slow down and think about what they’re doing, but we’ve got these messy human brains which don’t always follow our instructions as well as we’d like.

> Even the most serious, dedicated, methodical beginner will find it all exhausting unless they're practically autistic.

We used to teach film photography to ordinary high school students, maybe age 15 or so. I don’t think our current generation of high school students is substantially different.

> Film has terrible dynamic range…

This depends on the type of film you use. B&W film has phenomenal dynamic range. Color negative film has excellent dynamic range. Color positive film has narrow dynamic range.

If you shoot slides, you have to be damn precise with your shots. B&W negatives are very forgiving as long as you don’t underexpose them too much†. The dynamic range of B&W film is probably higher than the capacity of your lens to produce a high-contrast image. If you took pictures pointing your camera into a laser beam, or pointing into the sun, your picture would get overwhelmed by flare.

†Likewise, digital is very forgiving as long as you don’t overexpose.
This is likely outside of the scope of this proposal, but my red team brain sees IoT devices from China as a distributed Trojan Horse.

In a time of conflict with China, firmware updates will be sent which will create the largest DDOS botnet in history.

Our cheap IoT lightbulbs will take down major internet infrastructure.

I don’t know the solution to that problem, but it’s a problem. Isn’t it?
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-pandemic-is...
I'm not seeing any trademark registrations by Hashicorp on TF, nor any mentions of TF in any of the Terraform marketing pages. Not to say that Hashicorp couldn't try to be difficult anyway, but it feels like at this point doing this would just raise the visibility of the OpenTF project.
As the Atari 800 and Atari 400 also had. The later models omitted the speaker and piped the click out with the sound chip audio.
Well, while we're on the topic of insinuations that totally don't give away underlying biases, it's possible for really ethical individuals to run a number of competing corporations well, though there's not a load of incentive for them to steer clear of regulatory capture, cartel-like collusion and various other forms of customer-screwing behaviour.

The larger point being: there are many areas of the economy in which the free market approach is clearly better, and there are many other areas of the economy in which the free market approach is clearly deficient and a government-run agency is superior. Insurance is in neither of these convenient buckets. "Unlikely" is an opinion on a hypothetical; it is not necessary when real-world examples abound.
Thanks! What’s the best way to apply?
You jest, but there are definite advantages to this. You'll accumulate a broad base of knowledge and see connections between seemingly unrelated concepts which other people don't even think to consider.

Of course, it could also be a fast track to insanity from a fragmented mind. Only one way to find out! Check back in a few decades...

(The caveat is that information should have some quality that makes it worth retaining - e.g. learning about a bunch of trivial technologies or math concepts, no matter how unrelated, would be more useful than reading thousands of news stories that become quickly irrelevant - but the caveat to that is that there is still some value in consuming a sufficiently broad base of news stories for you to develop pattern recognition and an intuition for how to adopt to macro trends.)
I have no idea if Jake reads these or not, but having read both his and his wife's blogs over the last month or two, right after our youngest was (finally) given the all clear for Leukemia:

It is astoundingly hard to read these, having been through something similar (child, not partner). I tried to keep a blog of our experiences, and... it was one of the most difficult things I've ever done. I quietly shuttered it about halfway through, when we had some setbacks and I couldn't bear to write anything.

I'm not sure if I should thank you for posting or not; these posts are both intensely personal and very public I think. I can say that I truly hope they help you and you wife as you work through this.

There is a sentiment shared at a retirement or funeral in the Navy (my chosen career):

Fair Winds and Following Seas.

We have the watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhwZwHaE5JE

I hope there is someone to take whatever it is you consider your "watch" in life.
> There is good reason why virtually all farms in America have remained family farms.

This is the wrong metric; we don't care about the number of farms, we care about the amount of agricultural productivity. Large scale family farms and industrial farms account for more than half of all agricultural output in the US (USDA (2021) America’s Diverse Family Farms).

> What growth in farm sizes we've seen has been mostly on the back of machinery and other technical innovation allowing families to do more work, and not so much farms being able to hire more and more labourers.

I agree--in fact, larger machines and more automation allows large operations to reduce labor costs in ways that smaller family farms can't compete with, which is helping to squeeze out small family farms.

> The latter has not happened in any significant way because educating farmhands about agriculture is a monumental task.

No, it's because farmhands don't have access to capital to buy land and equipment. Farmhands understand agriculture, moreover, even if you can buy a small farm you'll be working 80 hour weeks to break even--you have to have a large operation in order to keep your head above water (the only really viable small operations are selling prestige 'organic / locally grown / free range' foods to yuppies and even then I'd bet many of those farmers feel pretty strapped). Anyway the farmhands aren't the ones calling the shots on how the land is managed, they're shoveling shit and driving the tractor where and how they're told.
Seems to happen with any query containing "otepad".
Also, security researchers should have strong legal protections; they should be given the benefit of the doubt at every turn.

Currently, researchers are sometimes threatened with decades in prison for testing the security of websites or devices. If they act in good faith as researchers, this should never happen.

This is literally a national security issue. We currently stifle security research on essential IoT devices primarily so companies can avoid being embarrassed by their own poor security.