skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel vindicated but also a bit surprised that my gut feeling was this accurate.
This is 60 years ago... In that same timeframe the EU was formed and grown to 26 nations including roughly 10 that pointed nuclear missiles at each other one time.
The closest I've come to being "blown away" by it was a project where I needed to clone the results of an Excel workbook onto the server, without installing Excel. I started with PHP as my normal language, but it ran into the ground when I had to deal with order of operations, new operators, and cell references.

I'd never really used a Lisp-based language before, but I decided to give Clojure a try, and it was the first time I grokked the value of "the program is the data is the program".

In PHP I had different "things" - operators, functions, scalar variables, class variables - and I needed to think about what was assigned and when. But in Clojure, everything was "data" that I could use to construct bigger pieces of data. Maybe that's obvious to better programmers than me, but my mind was blown.
> Leftists will scream about civil rights.

(Except for that pesky Second Amendment)
The Zettlr Steering Committee
> state puts refugees in the same areas (Rinkeby, Vivalla, Tensta, etc ...).

No it doesn't. Refugees are placed in municipalities all over Sweden but most choose to move to the big cities as soon as they can and end up in these districts because they are the cheapest.

> slightly elevated crime rate.

Citation needed. Compared to what? Casual crime is very high compared to traditional Swedish society. Also a lot of crime goes unreported because the locals don't trust the police to be able to do anything.

> That's where the integration effort stops.

Simply not true. There are oodles of integration efforts all over Sweden at many levels; public projects, local initiatives and on top of that immigration heavy areas gets more public funding than average for schools, after-school activities, park/street cleanings, etc.

> Even professionals who move to Sweden for work have a hard time integrating in Swedish society.

That's because Swedish is a small language and most professionals don't plan on staying.
Most Swedish professionals speak English on a native speaker level and most large Swedish companies has English as the official corporate language.
In my experience most non-English speakers that comes to Sweden spend their efforts on becoming fully proficient in English while the English speakers are delighted to find that they can use English everywhere in society.
Learning Swedish has a very low priority and after a couple of years most expats grows tired of the cold, darkness, taxes, low salaries, etc.
Just to add an opposing viewpoint:

I first encountered Tcl when tinkering with Quartus, and initially hated it with a passion. Once I eventually figured out which types of brace to use in which context, and started to appreciate having variables and conditionals available in .sdc files, the loathing started to give way to a grudging respect.

Now I really appreciate the elegant simplicity, the ridiculous ease with which it can be integrated into a C/C++ project, the ability to script JTAG communication with a running project (complete with Tk-based UI), the lack of dependence on any online repository or source of truth.

But especially I appreciate the lack of churn, which means the same scripts will work with the current release of Quartus as well as a version from more than a decade ago (needed because newer versions dropped support for newer devices.)
Security is a process not a product. Anyone selling you security as a product is scamming you.

These endpoint security companies latch onto people making decisions, those people want security and these software vendors promise to make the process as easy as possible. No need to change the way a company operates, just buy our stuff and you're good. That's the scam.
> Many countries have switched off most of their MW transmitters in the 2010s due to cost-cutting and low usage of MW by the listeners. Among those are Germany, France, Russia, Poland, Sweden, the Benelux, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia and most of the Balkans.
Chances are the guy was just horrible at reading the room and people made fun of him for like five years.
> much of it code and lashed together by amateurs for free

Per FOSS survey, most of it is written by professionals and they get paid for it.

Then, most of the rest is written by professionals who do something on the side. The amateur for free thing is mostly a myth.
CoC violations — particularly ones egregious enough to warrant removal from a project — often involve topics of a highly sensitive nature regarding events which could potentially reveal the identity of the victim party, which is entirely not appropriate. While I completely understand the frustration around the current lack of communication regarding this incident, it's fully appropriate given the situation at hand and those party to the proceedings are the only ones at liberty to discuss what happened.
Sorry? So obviously with GC one means managed GC. Otherwise the comment above doesn’t make any sense at all since then Rust itself would use GC because it also supports reference counting.

Strictly speaking you could obviously say reference counting is a form of GC. So to avoid GC you then surely recommend people to use C since that, in contrast to Rust, Swift, C++ and many others, really doesn’t use any GC, neither managed nor reference counting based.
The opposite. Money lenders were non-christians, because Christians were forbidden from charging interest. It is also easier to excommunicate a money lender if they aren't a fellow Christian, so the arrangement was actually to the benefit of Christians.

What you are doing is "affirming the consequent". Most Jews were working normal jobs (obviously excluding the ones they were legally barred) like everyone else.
"And aren’t they kinda right to not trust their employees if they employ 50,000 people with different skills and intentions?"

Yes, in a 50k employee company, the CEO won't know every single employee and be able to vouch for their skills and intentions.

But in a non-dysfunctional company, you have a hierarchy of trust, where each management level knows and trusts the people above and below them. You also have siloed data, where people have access to the specific things they need to do their jobs. And you have disaster mitigation mechanisms for when things go wrong.

Having worked in companies of different sizes and with different trust cultures, I do think that problems start to arise when you add things like individual monitoring and control. You're basically telling people that you don't trust them, which makes them see their employer in an adversarial role, which actually makes them start to behave less trustworthy, which further diminishes trust across the company, harms collaboration, and eventually harms productivity and security.
Given that Russia is not facing an existential threat comparable to that of Nazi Germany, I don't think there's any way the conflict could be anywhere as driven as that.

Could Russia mobilize more? Yes, absolutely. But based on what we've been seeing they lack the supply lines, resources and frankly military competence (which is unsurprising given how Putin deals with anyone but yes-men) to be able to do anything with that if they had it. Also, as I said, the NATO response to invading, say, Poland would also look extremely different from the current NATO response to invading a non-NATO border state.

The Soviet Union's main advantage during WW2, other than receiving immense support from the Allies (both in supplies and military equipment), was that it was fighting the Nazis on their back foot. The Nazis had made a similar fumble as Russia did in Ukraine by misjudging the climate and seasonal weather and they also didn't have a reliable supply line. The Soviet Union did deal a devastating blow in Stalingrad but the Nazis there were pretty much stranded in hostile territory without support at that point and many soldiers were suffering from frost-related health issues. When the Soviet Union actually invaded Germany the Nazis' troops were already spread out all over Europe and into Africa and losing ground in the various occupied territories.

The Soviet Union suffered massive casualties and contributed more sacrifices to defeating fascism than any other country involved, but militarily its capabilities do not translate into any scenario involving modern Russia NATO analysts would lose sleep over. Russia is "holding back", yes, but so is NATO and especially the US. Even the "modern" equipment the US has started sending to Ukraine is decades behind on what the US military has available. Ukraine's stronger allies have very much been holding out on "the good stuff" and instead mostly cleaned out their dusty reserves. Russia OTOH doesn't seem to have the production capacity nor resources to churn out its newer equipment (which is still years behind what the US etc have access to) and is already falling back on decades old stock and desperately buying ammunition from North Korea of all places.
mIRC has it's own scripting language that doesn't have to do with Tcl.

Maybe you are talking about eggdrop IRC bot that uses Tcl as its scripting language - but then your comment and attribution doesn't really make sense.
Or, y'know, more obviously: Saudi Arabia. The country the West loves doing business with and doesn't make a show of demonizing for public appeal.
Hmmm. Most common problems these days are certificate related I would have thought. Binary data transfers are pretty rare in an age of base64 json bloat
More like infect something. Your computer.

> The cost of increased software security vulnerability is easily justified.

Sometimes yes, sometimes no.
Do you believe that the Tiananmen Square Massacre didn’t occur? If not — the parent’s question has to do with China because the parent is assuming free societies that engage in trade with China (whose governing regime has gunned down protesters) have moral authority to lose when, in fact, there is no difference between engaging in trade with regimes that would gun down its citizens who engage in protest (ie, Bangladesh) and engaging in trade with those that have and that would (ie, China).
How many of these individuals should we admit annually to our welfare regime?
Sure, but there are other countries in the world besides Germany, France, Russia, Poland, Sweden, the Benelux, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia and most of the Balkans.
I tend to think of `eval` and `apply` as being fancier versions of `K` and `S`.
I think this inverts cause and effect: they often were money lenders because they were excluded from more traditional jobs and/or land ownership
This argument is so tired: the meaning of this prefatory clause is not intended to be a limitation as some would hope.

Nobody is "fuzzy" - the left-most SCOTUS Justices don't make this argument, see Caetano v. Massachusetts.
These statements always feel a bit circular to me. Sufficiently bad for what? Sufficiently bad to be indistinguishable from a cyberattack. So, "a software update bad enough to look like a cyberattack looks like a cyberattack". Well, yes.
The "efficient journal hypothesis" -- if something is written in a paper in a journal, then it's impossible for anyone to know any better, since if they knew better, they would already have published the correction in a journal.
> Is Cuba a dictatorship? No.

Lol Cuban here. This is disingenuous. By definition and in theory, a military dictatorship and a uniparty "republic" are not the same.

In practice, it is very much the same. They are extremely dangerous, oppressive regimes that are dominated by few families.
Unfortunately, the latest build of Firefox Focus for iOS — what ought to be Safari plus all of the good parts of Firefox’s tracker blocking — seems to now allow x.com to open. I’ve also started seeing ads where they were blocked before (e.g. theguardian.com.)
Markdown doesn't give you a table of contents, an index, page breaks, control over typesetting, control over table layout, captioned figures, diagramming tools, etc. The difference is about the same magnitude as between Pong and Call of Duty. Yes they're both video games, sometimes one is preferable over the other, but they are not equivalent.
More than plain text? I doubt so.
You’ve contributed the commented form of a downvote. As have I. Nether of us contributed to the discussion.

Requesting the parent to share their likely painful memories or else they’ve committed some sin against hn leaves a bit of a bad taste in my mouth.
That case was theatre / kayfabe. The FBI was using an emotive case for turning public opinion against encryption and set some legal precedent. The goal wasn't really to unlock the phone which could and was be done by other means.

If they have a path to covertly compel action as a state secret under National Security / anti-terror laws we will only hear about it from whistleblowers. It won't be something the target can disclose let alone test in court.

FWIW I also don't believe in Apple's nobility as resisting on user's behalf. They happily bow to the state and remove apps for e.g. organising protests, monitoring deaths in US wars, csam scanning etc. IMHO their interest in encryption is to prevent jail-breaking and protect their app-store cash cow.

> interdicting shipments of laptops/phones and doing the work themselves

I don't think that proves anything about their powers. Given the option, I'm sure they would prefer to install things themselves without third-party knowledge or consent.

We have evidence of complicit action e.g. black rooms like Room 641A. I think the nature of "consent" and "obligation" gets pretty grey when it comes to the security agencies. They don't get results using court orders. I'm sure they have assets employed as staff in security sensitive positions.
I'm currently on leave but this (LTI) is what we do at work much of the time.

Typically LTI is used to add third party components (or in-house ones) to an LMS. For example we have our own Teams Integration, lecturers can make a Microsoft Team corresponding to any course they teach, their students can see the URL of the team if they've lost it but can't leave or create a team.
Not sure about the American southwest, but here in Europe we not only have heat waves, but also periods of heavy rain causing (more and more) severe flooding. I rather see everything on stilts in the future ;-/
> Are OpenBSD programmers somehow vastly more competent

It's not about competence, it is about priorities.

OpenBSD obsesses about security, so that's what drives the decision-making.

All public companies are driven by profit above all, with the product being just a mechanism to get more profit. As a direct consequence, quality (and security, which is part of quality) is not the top priority. Security is only relevant to the extent its absence reduces profits (which very rarely happens).
They say that, but all I hear is immune system triggering a cytokine storm and killing you because it was worried you may catch a cold.
I've seen automated AI agents that can spend time reflecting on themselves in a feedback loop. The model alters its state over time and can call APIs.

You could equate saying something "aloud" to calling an API.
You really want the cheapest? The cheapest have awful IP reputation, mostly datacenter IPs.

Most suppliers in the market are fly-by-night criminals or full-on botnet operators, mostly based out of Eastern Europe and Hong Kong. Then you have the slightly less shady Luminati type suppliers who pay developers to drop an SDK into their app.

If you want a legit supplier you can invoice and not have to use crypto: https://oxylabs.io/pricing/residential-proxy-pool
I can't decide what's more damning. The fact that there was effectively no error/failure handling or this:

> Note "channel updates ...bypassed client's staging controls and was rolled out to everyone regardless"

> A few IT folks who had set the CS policy to ignore latest version confirmed this was, ya, bypassed, as this was "content" update (vs. a version update)

If your content updates can break clients, they should not be able to bypass staging controls or policies.
but what are the security guarantees? and how are they made to each of the parties listed.

why would a web site want to query a tpm, whose job is to enforce DRM protections?
A list of files (tab-separated) in each of the dumps is avilable in a separate download: https://archive.org/details/ibm-lists-details

These are _very large_, multi-MB zip files, indexing I think north of at least 100GB worth of files.
I was immediately willing to bet a hundred quid this was C/C++ code :)
Let's review the facts...

The Pokémon company, in their own incompetence, leaked information by literally shipping it out to everyone on the internet who cared to download a copy of their game.

A child with computer skills found the data, got all enthusiastic about it and told the world via social media.

This fucking guy called the kid's house and bullied and threatened his family with legal repercussions that would likely not ever materialize.

He threatened a kid whose only crime was loving his employer's shitty game too much with a federal crime. An empty threat at that. "Hacking software, that’s a federal crime". What hacking software? Your own incompetence led to this. Try not sending people data you don't want them to have.

This piece of shit is actually so proud of what he did he brags about it in public instead of keeping it to himself.

This fucking asshole actually got a kick out of watching the kid's live reactions to his nonsense on Twitter.

A child's curiosity was destroyed for the sake of a corporation's profit and control. Using his skills to analyze files? He will never do it again.

Bullying a child and his family somehow made this guy a legend in the Pokémon company.

Nintendo and all related corporations willingly employ people like this guy.

At those firms, shitting all over your customers and their families makes you a legend.

Did I understand all the facts correctly? I need to double check because what I just read made me doubt my sanity.

I refuse to believe this guy is stupid to the point he actually thinks the kid "hacked" the game. I must conclude that this was just a power play from the rich corporation he represents. The real threat was to bankrupt his family with a nonsense court case which would no doubt drain their time and money. Even if they won in court, it would be a pyrrhic victory due to the costs involved. Therefore despite likely having no leg to stand on this asshole leveraged the legal system to bully a child and his family into obedience to their corporate overlord.

I've always suspected this was the real intention behind all the "threats" coming from these corporations. Never thought I'd actually see them not only confirm it but also brag about it in public. What a wortless piece of shit.
> Yes, they have to migrate once.

They have to migrate each time they change the format, surely. Either that or maintain converters going back decades, to apply the right one when a document is opened.

> but they don’t need to maintain 8 different versions of Word going back a decade, make sure all security patches get back ported

Nor does Microsoft for Word.

> With word, I need to be able to open an old document with the new version of word, make changes then re-save it so it’s compatible with the old version of word again.

You don't have to, unless you want the benefit of that.

And Google Docs offers the same.

> Nobody uses the version of Google docs from 6 months ago. You can’t. And that simplifies a lot of things.

Well, I'd love to use the version of Gmail web from 6 months ago. Because three months ago Google broke email address input such that it no longer accesses the contacts list and I have to type/paste each address in full.

That's a price we pay for things being "simpler" for a software provider than can and does change the software I am using without telling me let alone giving me the choice.

Not to mention the change that took away a large chunk of my working screen space for an advert telling me to switch to the app version, despite have the latest version of Google's own Chrome. An advert I cannot remove despite having got the message 1000 times. Pure extortion. Simplification is no excuse.
Literally the owner of Twitter/X has an agenda and lets his employees change the algorithms to his liking.

Twitter/X is filtered by algorithms selecting the contents to be visible.

It's now a rage machine, to amplify right-wing populist views.
Is that an ESD hazard? Do you have a special antistatic hoodie?
Well, we live in a world where we allow this kind of things to happen. Imagine if we live in a world where you still have to manually push and pop the stack (because functions are deemed too academic and not optimized exactly the way I want it). That is what I feels like watching critical infrastructures written in C or these older languages.

Having to manually push and pop stack is not something to proud of, only do that out of necessity. There's a very reasonable option between C or C++ and Python (or whatever is deemed slow). Using C doesn't prevent you from designing a shitty application that uses shitty algorithms.

"Ooohhhh I get it, this pointer is no longer valid because the array have been reallocated because that function have this side effect after that commit", he said as he gave out a small smirk at the hilarity of this bug. I wonder if he would find it as amusing if his coworker regularly rolls his sleeves and randomly regularly writes assemblies directly in the source code because compilers aren't smart enough to perform a particular parameter passing optimization that he really loves to do.
> Airport staff need to be able to support them. Not HN types.

Airport staff are not debugging the windows install. They power-cycle it and see what happens, otherwise call the vendor to come in.

So there's no actual reason other than lazyness to build kiosk mode computers on windows.
Your last sentence makes no sense. Not every Jew identifies as Israeli and by claiming that Israel represents all Jews on this planet you are taking away their agency.

Think about how stupid what you wrote is in the context of a hypothetical second Jewish country that also claims to represent all Jews.

It is as crackpot as saying Switzerland, Austria and Germany all represent all Germans.
Next you'll be saying "I dont need an immune system..."

Fun fact an attacker only needs to steal credentials from the home directory to jump into a companies AWS account where all the juicy customer data lives, so there are reasons we want this control.

Frankly I'd like to see the smart people complaining help write better solutions rather than hinder.
I love this comment, you are absolutely right.
If every country/government would use the fediverse to enable free speech, and maybe even promote it, that would be a big step forward.
> You do not deploy anything, ever on your entire production fleet at the same time and you do not buy software that does that

I am sympathetic to that, but its only possible if both policy and staffing allow.

for policy, there are lots of places that demand CVEs be patched within x hours depending on severity. A lot of times, that policy comes from the payment integration systems provider/third party.

However you are also dependent on programs you install not autoupdating. Now, most have an option to flip that off, but its not always 100% effective.
> Twitter is by far the best source of news and analysis currently.

It no longer is that. The "For You" algorithm is just... bad. You get worse news than from the worst of the most biased/filtered/uncaring/whatever-your-definition-of-bad-is media.
I think A16Z and the companies they’ve funded have done a great deal of good for the world. The very web browser you’re typed your angry comment into is a technology pioneered by one of its two founders.

Being anti-VC is essential being against technological and economic progress.