skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the eff's work in general, I don't think they're right about govt. use of drones based on their helicopter comparison. Simply, if you're going to make a counter argument, then it should be more persuasive (it wasn't to me at least)

> But, as we pointed out in our brief, drones are fundamentally different from helicopters or airplanes. Drones can silently and unobtrusively gather an immense amount of data at only a tiny fraction of the cost of traditional aircraft. In other words, the government can buy thousands of drones for the price of one helicopter and its hired pilot. Drones are also smaller and easier to operate. They can fly at much lower altitudes, and they can get into spaces—such as under eaves or between buildings—that planes and helicopters can never enter. And the noise created by manned airplanes and helicopters functions as notice to those who are being watched—it’s unlikely you’ll miss a helicopter circling overhead when you’re sunbathing in your yard, but you may not notice a drone.

Just bc something is easier and cheaper to use, it doesn't pteclude its use by govt. officials in public spaces. They could have hired a helicopter instead, and then the eff wouldn't have an argument. The motivations behind the action needs to be addressed, not the tools used to carry out the actions. However, without the privacy angle this wouldn't be an eff case.

Were the drone oeprators even allowed to use the airspace at the altitude they did? Any illegally acquired evidence can't be used by them. I have no specifics of this situation so I can't say.
This does require that the interestingness of being the least interesting article is large enough to cover the gap between least interesting and next-to-least interesting (plus the interestingness of being next-to-least interesting). Probably true, QED
Given that the attack subverted the TLS certificates, I'd say key-based TOFU is still a better alternative.

Of course, checking the server key is better than not doing so, but any knee-jerk response to TOFU will probably make your security worse.
Anyone know if there is something like `The Recurse Center` in London ? would be cool to join something like this. :)
I feel like this right here is what the singularity actually feels like.

With minimal effort, humans hookup AI to do some job, and things "just get better" rather than entropy taking its natural course and many things (without maintenance) trending towards "worse".

Once you have a bunch of this human / super-human level doing mundane things on wikipedia, they're now there in perpetuity, constantly improving.

I suspect this is what's going to start to happen across the economy: all of a sudden, the sidewalks seem cleaner, and trains run on time more often, traffic seems less congested, and latency in your favorite software product starts going down (with AI being turned loose on that legacy's software's code base that it gradually refactoring and optimizing in the background).

Effectively, what typically is happening due to entropy (decay, latency, quality, dirtiness) will start to move in the opposite direction due to automation and background AI.

This reversal of perceived entropy will start gradual, and then accelerate, and then on a day-to-day basis many things you touch in your daily life will be improving and then... singularity.
I love how you imply that the only time DAs participate in gratuitous punishment of citizens is when cops threaten their careers.
> I pay; so should they.

I feel like that's oversimplifying the distinction between a non-profit and us?

If we donate all of our income to charity, we don't pay taxes. That's because taxes are used to incentivize and disincentivize specific behaviors. We, as a society, want cheaper healthcare for people -- especially those who can't afford it. That means incentivizing hospitals (via tax) to help those people.

I'm up for a removing non-profit status from hospitals if we otherwise pay for people's healthcare, but nobody really seems to be making progress there.

(I'm not addressing your comments on campaign finance because I agree with you that it's broken and I think it's off-topic for this thread.)
Oh that’s interesting. Do you have any book/article recommendations for psychogeography?
it's a claim of war crimes. isreal was blamed, which seems to be the issue in this case. this is not a case of a direct pro palestine statement, but more anti-isreali sentiment

> he labelled Israel’s retaliation to the October 7 attack by Palestinian militant group Hamas as “war crimes” and compared the conflict to the Troubles in Ireland, on the social media platform X (formerly called Twitter) last week.
I read somewhere else that you have to consent to the TSA to search your stuff if you're flying but of course you do NOT have to consent to a warrant-less search from law enforcement.

They are relying on someone trying to make their flight not knowing or realizing that distinction to (basically illegally) search them without even probable cause.

The only reason it's not illegal for them to even search them in the first place is because the person consents.
“I’m shocked at the rhetoric and actions of so many Western leaders & governments, with the exception in particular of Ireland’s government, who for once are doing the right thing. War crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies, and should be called out for what they are.“ (1)

He also had another one condemning Hamas and also Israel and calling for peace.

(1) https://twitter.com/paddycosgrave/status/1712790539844612553...
> All issued SSL/TLS certificates are subject to certificate transparency. It is worth configuring certificate transparency monitoring, such as Cert Spotter (source on github), which will notify you by email of new certificates issued for your domain names

This seems like the kind of thing domain registrars should do for you.
>But our mayor oversees thousands of employees

Chances are they engage with much less and obviously don't have interactions with thousands of people and are keeping all of that straight in their head, so this is not a good reason.

You don't get credit because you oversaw a public worker whom you've never engaged with.

>makes decisions that influence hundreds of millions of dollars of spending

They also have access to (sometimes) smart people to filter through information and distill it down for them which is honestly the hardest part, not the decision making. It is unlikely they are compensated compared to the work they put in.

I'm not saying the job is easy, but they aren't doing it all themselves and the core problem is that the people underneath them are probably making no where near $450k. Salary just doesn't correlate to actual effort these days.

That said, $450k for a mayor is fine. Someone who can become a mayor can easily be a corporate executive making millions.
I think he is being cancelled for being critical of Israel and because he and Web Summit have ties to Qatar.
We're just gonna stick our heads in the sand and pretend we don't live in an authoritarian police state dystopia then?
One thing I wonder about is if the plaintiffs thought about what this could end up meaning for them during discovery if they go forward with the suit. My understanding is that since evidence and statements around this would be central to the case and relavant to the truthfulness of the teen's claim or the teen's belief in it that he should be able to use that as part of his defense too. That could make any potential criminal trial more difficult for the cop since anything revealed here wouldn't be sealed or otherwise restricted as part of the public record.
In our personal budget, we link everything we can, because we spend a lot more smaller items randomly, so we can't manually input everything.

For unlinked credit, we just create a budget item for that card and we try to budget them out properly, but it isn't as easy, and we lose tracking into the spending.
Curious: Did you "take the tour"? I doubt I would have had the patience to figure it out on my own, but after taking the tour, I had no problems.
The problem is that management needs there to be zero slack in the system, or they don't think they're doing their job well enough. I've seen this pattern over and over:

1) a new vertical team is created, including seasoned devs and ops hands, a bulldog of a PM, maybe a business analyst and QA as well

2) the team is successful, creating a new product that legitimately brings value

3) executives want a new line of business and so spin up a new dev team, but figure they can do it on the cheap by having the old team's QA/PM/Ops folks work for the new team too.

4) this happens a few times and now we've spun out the support functions to separate teams with their own managers

5) we're back at square 0

Why do they do this? Because they need to increase "efficiency" in order to justify their existence. They're managers, after all, so they can't directly produce value. Their only hope is to increase the efficiency with which work gets done. The problem is that a maximally efficient team/system is a minimally resilient one, and there's no one in the org who thinks their job is to promote resiliency. There's also the problem that showing an "efficiency" like one guy doing the job of three is concrete and easy to prove. An increase in systems-level efficiency -- by having three people doing three jobs and therefore not blocking any of the other expensive professionals on those teams -- is seen as as theoretical and largely hokum.

I don't know that there is a solution to this really. Even bronze age militaries experienced similar dynamics, so I'm not hopeful we can solve it by doing "agile". Also, sometimes they are right: there really isn't enough ops work on a vertical team to justify a whole full-time employee, and they really can produce more value consulting for multiple teams. I find that this is rare though, and takes a special person who is adept at context-switching. Most people aren't, and I don't know of a repeatable way of training or identifying these people, so it isn't a practical strategy for big orgs who need these things at scale.
I wonder about a possible iatrogenic explanation for police being tyrants. I bet there's a case to be made that simply being educated on how tyrannical behavior works could help to cause it to happen in the first place. In fact, it almost seems like you'd HAVE to go through that in order to get a grip on the problem in the first place. This is pure armchair psychology, Can someone straighten me out? Is there something to this?
They’re working on making foundation cross-platform. When that is done, things should look a lot better for non-GUI applications.
Former news junkie here. The GP is correct. Unless you are making concrete decisions based on those conflicts on a day to day basis, there is little to gain following it on a day by day basis.

He says wait a week. I actually used to wait a month - at the beginning of the month I would catch up on all the news. Compared to when I would follow things on a daily basis, I got more accuracy, and less haze. When you go through your RSS feed all at once for a month, you'll see how crazy often things are inaccurate in the first few days - something I didn't notice until I looked at it from on high.

The truth of some things may never get clear. Those are in the minority. For most events, it does by a large margin.
The line between Junior and senior is arbitrary, but there is a difference. The difference is not skill, but experience. And experience cannot be learned from boot camps or man pages.
Exactly. I got the "breaking news" from Nitter. Like so many things it seems NYT reporters have leaned into destroying their own profession, by choosing the easy "thin" path of generating news articles by rephrasing tweets and shirking the harder work of analysis of sorting through the firehose. It feels like the Innovator's Dilemma where NYT doesn't want to miss out on being part of people's procrastination/relax loops, and it's cannibalizing their actual value.
Kerberos right?
> Over a hundred thousand people, mostly young with full lives ahead of them, have reportedly died in the Ukraine war so far...for what?

Appeasement is a bad strategy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeasement
HN user strathmeyer seems to believe it.
> The attacker managed to issue multiple SSL/TLS certificates via Let’s Encrypt for jabber.ru and xmpp.ru domains since 18 Apr 2023

> We tend to assume this is lawful interception Hetzner and Linode were forced to setup based on German police request.

> Another possible, although much more unlikely scenario is an intrusion on the internal networks of both Hetzner and Linode targeting specifically jabber.ru — much harder to believe but not entirely impossible.

And what if the attacker tricked somehow the letsencrypt challenges?

Or this is supposed to be impossible?
These are the 'damn lies' form of statistics. It starts out showing 2D representations, then switches to a linear format. It also uses sideways scrolling which is cumbersome than vertical which would be far more natural (but people are too used to scrolling far in this direction so let's do something awkward).

It's hard for me to say what 'dimensionality' accurately portrays magnitude of wealth. Showing us say 2d projections (pictures) of 3D cubes might correlate, but I suspect that it more of a logarithmic than cube root relationship.
Red Blob helped me a lot when I was in high school and college.
I think that's all true, but you also have to take into account NATO expansion.

I don't fault NATO or Russia for their fear of each other, as each of them continually maneuvered for better military advantage against each other.

I think it's hard to imagine the West welcoming Russia into the global community as long has it presents a credible military threat, no matter what the leadership is. Similarly, I can't imagine Russia ever agreeing to a unilateral demilitarization under any leadership.
No I don't.

But instead of providing nameless fake experts to try and dispute the recording content they should just say it's impossible to verify so not acceptable as evidence in either direction.

Although I wouldn't mind interviews with actual experts, but saying "independent journalists" with no names or anything definitely turns on red flags.

But ignoring the recording I still find the evidence strong enough to assume this was in all likelihood a failed jihad rocket.
Ooooh, what addon for the AWS SSO?
Do you have a few favorites in this genre?
C# designers have always made good choices about syntactic additions. Contrast this to modern C++ designers who jam in every new addition with the goal of total inscrutability.
> Cryptographic signatures can prove that.

Assuming you have a fully trusted and bootstrapped side channel to get the public key from. And assuming that the compromise that resulted in this maliciously published binary also didn't compromise the private key.

Both are tall orders.
> Yes, but taxes on capital gains are much, much lower than taxes on interest.

Not true in California: Capital gains are taxed at normal income rates, and treasury interest is state tax exempt.

For the hypothetical taxpayer earning $100k/year:

Long term capital gains: 15% federal + 9.3% state = 24.3% total tax

Treasury interest: 24% federal + 0% state = 24% total tax
An emergency protective order is usually given with no verification because it's much better to give one out incorrectly then to fail to give when you you should have.

But those are only pending a court date, a few weeks at most. A "real" one is issued by a judge after interviewing both parties (or by default if one doesn't show up) and those are very reliably real. I don't know anything about the letterman thing. If it was an emergency one yeah you don't want to read too much into it. The real ones though are very reliable indicators that something fucked up went down.
I quickly researched this a couple of months ago and came to the conclusion that using separate accounts was the only easy-to-understand way to do it. So now I have accounts like:

Hosting Expenses
[SomeTag] Hosting Expenses

It's nice because its compatible with all the built-in reports, including graphs, though it takes a little while to configure presets for them all filtered by the right accounts.

Also curious to hear if anyone knows a better way.
Sometimes it's not horse and zebras, but horses and donkeys - both are reasonably plausible. This is generally the case in a war zone, where stuff goes wrong and friendly fire occurs all the time. If a journalist tells me that it's horses I'd hope they've done the leg work and checked that it's not donkeys first.

The way that the NYT reported on this isn't technically incorrect or *obviously wrong ("Israeli Strike Kills Hundreds in Hospital, Palestinian Officials Say") - they basically said "Hoofbeats from horses, party A says". But it stresses the account rather than the source, despite it being fraught to take claims from either side at face value. All people took in was "Israeli Strike Kills Hundreds in Hospital" despite that claim being far from confirmed.

Journalists can absolutely publish what officials with a vested interest say - but if you're going to frame it in a way that suggests that their claims are more than unverified chatter you'd better make sure that the preponderance of evidence supports that claim.
No, but’s it’s a very common interjection even among Muslims living outside of those countries (response to sneezing whether or not someone says equivalent of “Bless you”, response to when someone asks how you’re doing, etc)
How is this sustainable? What is the solution? Austerity? Inflation?
What is an example of "fixed income with qualified dividends"?

Interest received from treasuries are taxed like ordinary income. The only special tax benefit is interest income is exempt from state income taxes.
You mentioned you hadn't looked at it in the article, but FWIW this is exactly the approach Dolt takes.
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Israel did not pretend they hadn't fired the missile in that case. You may disagree with whether it was deliberate or not but you have no evidence that it was. Which fine, that's a mental framework you are choosing for yourself.

Hamas, meanwhile, has been caught lying multiple times over the years with actual evidence of those lies. Objectively one of these is far more reliable than the others in their relationship to the truth.
The working poor don't have any money for the government to take. The middle and upper-middle classes have plenty of money for the government to take, but not enough to afford expensive accountants and business formations to shield their assets, or at least not enough assets to make that cheaper than just paying taxes. The wealthy have tons of money for the government to take, but can spend tens of thousands up to millions to shield it so they can't.

The natural progression of that is a cyclical squeezing of the middle classes via revenue extraction and of the working poor by cutting services.
The self-attacks are out of control right now (no one thought that image was real, it looks like a digital painting at best). World War III might just be countries bombing themselves and propagandizing for the opponent.
This is not about W-2 remote workers, these are about offshore/onshore consultancies that hire supposedly Russian/Chinese freelancers to work, and instead these were North Koreans who then used remote access to corporate for data exfiltration and other hacking activity
Perhaps you're looking at the 18th century definition of 'bourgeoisie', which commonly means middle class.

However, the clue was the use of 'proletariat' which is the wage-earning class while 'bourgeoisie' would be the class which owns the means to production, in a Marxist context.
> Over the past decade or so, reports started cropping up of cases in people with no history of travel outside the U.S., suggesting that they may have caught the illness locally.

May have caught it locally? I mean, what are the other options, that they were kidnapped while unconscious and caught it while traveling in a different dimension?
Working on more, but nothing exists off-the-shelf for >300ppi eink. No one has ever done eink under magnification like this so higher density screens don't exist (yet). We made a custom bitmap font system and font to squeeze every bit of optimization out of this screen that we can. Text rendering isn't pristine at this low res but it's good enough to not hinder reading. https://x.com/johnboiles/status/1715136868290081104?s=20
> but I guess this kind of point of view comes with the job and wealth

I am very much convinced that a big downside to being rich is it allows your opinions to ossify. No matter where you started, how hard you worked, or how world-changing (debatable) someone's contributions were, once they get power (in any form, but especially money), it insulates one against having to change. I'm not advocating for austerity all the time, but it's painfully obvious from pretty much every "self-made man" that made it big that they are living in a bubble, full of yes-men because they fired all the people who had the temerity to say "hey, perhaps that's not quite right."

Even though I'm slightly above average in a number of markers and I've taken pains to expand my horizons and take on differing POVs, I'm still surprised (quite often!) by things I just had not thought of. And I'm not even rich, albeit I'm privileged enough to take long breaks from paying work.
There are but this assumes that services like the transparency log servers and LetsEncrypt are not being legally compelled to do or not do something.
I fill those out with "passwords" that are unrelated to the question.

Joke's on you (until I lose the answers, then it's on me)
And yet this was newsworthy for the unusual number of deaths. That's pretty telling.

To your broader point, yes just ignore the problem and everything will go away. That has worked so well.

The folks calling for an unconditional surrender of Hamas are not wrong. That's the only way to end this bloodshed, that, yes, includes civilians on both sides. Only one side is doing it with the primary intent to kill civilians though.
> They have the ability to seize and search devices (phones, computers) without a warrant within 100 mi of the us border or international airports

Would that mean all of Hawaii is within that 100 mile limit?
This might have more to do with Web Summit and Cosgrave having ties to Qatar. The Qatar government funds Hamas and houses the Hamas leadership. It's amazing what you can get away with by being an OPEC+ cartel member.
Electronics-wise there's little difference with NACS. I promise they'll find a way to fuck it up.

Sincerely, non-Tesla EV owner
Comment I replied to used the word "bonds", not "treasuries".
Even public money goes to such charities.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/CEO-of-S-F-nonprofit-...
It was normal, a large conference room table where the editors sat and then a ring of chairs around the room for guests and lackeys.

My imperfect recollection is that guests were briefly introduced by their chaperone to the room so that editors could speak up if there was a potential conflict.

For all of their faults, there certainly was nothing resembling outright impropriety. Just structural challenges.