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We (technical folk) can (mostly; some of the terminology is needlessly unfamiliar). A florist, beautician, candle maker, restaurateur or scuba tour operator is unlikely to find themselves on the NIST website pilfering through webpages that may as well be in another language.

The linked page simply has one extra hurdle; it requires an entrepreneur to first click on:

> Self-Employed? Solopreneur? NIST Has a Cybersecurity Guide Just for You.

then follow the steps already outlined i.e. click on the abstruse Small Business Cybersecurity: Non-Employer Firms (NIST Cybersecurity White Paper 50), which directs to an academic style page with the report.

If anything, the linked page makes it harder to find, since it requires an additional step.

Since this is intended for small business owners with a thousand competing priorities, hiding the potentially useful guide between walls of text and down a rabbit hole of abstruse links and titles will result in significant drop-off.

> The publication is written in lay language

yet the title is mostly irrelevant gobbledygook!:

> Small Business Cybersecurity: Non-Employer Firms (NIST Cybersecurity White Paper 50)

Small online businesses do not refer to themselves as 'Non-Employer Firms', they have no idea what 'NIST' is, most wouldn't know what a White Paper is, let alone number 50.

'A Crash Course in Cybersecurity for Small Businesses' would be an instant improvement.

Working now.

Wonderful little bit of data analysis. I appreciate that the data visualisations let us see the answer from just a scan, no reading required (except the legend to make sense of the colours).

Tangent: I assumed this was a clever piece of marketing for an underlying company, but looks like 'NameDaisy' is purely a personal project (as opposed to a business).

Will Betteridge’s Law of Headlines Fail to Take Number One Spot?

https://wikihack.netlify.app/feed/top

Thank you I see them now. Since I enjoy reading the HN comments more than (and often prior to) the video itself, I'd love the comments to be on hover or sidebar (like Wikihack) on the main page so I can use them to decide whether to invest time on the video.

I like that it links to the actual HN comments (I don't think Karpathy's yt equivalent did that), and tbh I enjoy reading the context in which articles/videos are mentioned as much (or more) than the articles/videos themselves.

Youtube sometimes displays an 'Ask AI' button under the video. I recently searched 'Pride of America' (the cruise ship) and the top result was interesting but alarmist/clickbaity, along the lines of 'Don't make these 7 mistakes'. 'Ask AI' let me ask "what are the 7 mistakes": it told me, and in 10 seconds I could deem that video a waste of time. Very efficient.

Overall this 'Ask AI' button is going to smash content creators who rely on clickbait. As a user, it greatly improves my ability to skip bad/clickbaity content, which I really appreciate.

My Cloudflare solver is command + w. It's 100% reliable in a headful browser and occasionally results in finding an alternative site that doesn't place its priorities (denying bots) over the user's (judicious use of time).

Chrome extensions do the same thing, but worse (the warnings make it sound like the creator of the extension is going to see every page you visit, when really it's code that runs in the browser; it doesn't take html or any other data anywhere)

Measuring the size of the heist in USD is convenient but arbitrary, as what was stolen was predominantly Stablecoins, BTC and ETH. So it makes more sense to measure the heist in Stablecoins, BTC and ETH. But that doesn't create as exciting a headline, as the BTC component was almost 50x smaller than the Mt. Gox heist!

Interestingly, this 18,270 BTC Binance theft is only "the largest crypto theft on record" when measured in USD. In terms of pure BTC, it's not even close to the 2011-14 Mt. Gox loss of ~850,000 BTC!

> the largest crypto theft on record

Interestingly, this 18,270 BTC Binance theft is only the largest when measured in USD. In terms of pure BTC, it's not even close to the 2011-14 Mt. Gox loss of ~850,000 BTC.

The emergent patterns are... stunning. Especially the ones around 2m35s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL9BTbIGxLg&t=2m35s

A downward trend in the number of questions doesn't imply the site was in decline, since there's only so many questions you can ask about a given technology, so would-be question askers find the answer via search engine rather than having to create a new question on the site.

Tangental, but I tried plotting number of questions by month including deleted questions. It shows similar trends to questions by month (so nothing particularly interesting): https://imgur.com/a/NLLB3OK

Query: https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/edit/1969...

He said the same of the stylus during the iPhone launch, but it eventually came to life (just in a much more specific setting/use case)

The original question was why do people take issue with the US enforcing its immigration laws, but not with other countries enforcing theirs (when the laws are approximately the same).

Your point is that immigration laws don't sufficiently take into account an illegal migrant's economic status (i.e. make reasonable accommodations for those in poverty or desperate circumstances), which is a totally fair perspective.

But that doesn't affect OP's initial question/observation, since countries other than the US also apply their rules uniformly, which disproportionately affects the poor.

> the United States has spent a long time having a tacit policy of only partially enforcing its immigration laws

This seems relevant. In other policy areas (unrelated to immigration), there's the concept of gradual change, or a 'glide path'. For example, when raising prices on things like licences or levies, sometimes governments do it gradually over a number of years. Another example: when something is banned, the ban is not enforced immediately but intermediate steps are taken to ensure the public can adjust. By contrast, the transition from immigration rules being unenforced to enforced seems to have been sudden.

The primary problem others have with ICE is thuggish enforcement and lack of accountability, especially when reckless.

But your problem seems to be a combination of the wealthy having an easier time accessing the US (agree, but many countries have purchasable visas), and poor illegal immigrants having no other option (partially agree, but not all illegal immigrants are poor, and many who are do have alternative places they could go legally).

This seems like an obvious and workable solution. Could it be being blocked by something - perhaps unions representing local workers? (only guessing)

Snideness aside, your argument is that laws ought not apply to someone who is poor.

That's sometimes reasonable - e.g. the apocryphal loaf of bread being stolen to feed a starving family. But it's not a universal defence. And not all illegals are poor in the first place.

Got it. So distain is more for ICE's thuggish approach than the laws/consequences themselves.

To play devil's advocate for the heavy handedness and harsh detentions, Australia had a problem with 'boat people' in the 2000's, and subsequently built a massive detention centre on a island, meaning those intercepted never made mainland. The heat was oppressive, processing times were usually measured in years, and illegal arrivals were mostly sent back to where they came from.

But.. the illegal arrivals basically entirely stopped. So although it was harsh (including on a lot of legitimate refugees), it did force entry via legal channels (of which Australia has historically had many).

Helping refugees makes sense, but should existing laws be changed or broken? (there's a big difference). It feels like many smart people are advocating the latter, which appears at odds with their behaviour and attitudes in most other domains (i.e. law abiding). Also, what makes refugees specifically the US's responsibility? E.g. verifying, processing and integrating refugees puts strain on domestic systems, and strain scales with volume.

I change countries a lot and my default assumption for any new country is that overstaying your visa will be treated seriously, resulting in something like immediate detention (in a very lousy environment), probably a fine, and near-immediate deportation (at your expense), and probably some sort of quite serious ban (probably greater than merely months). And that's if the individual has a clean record; I'd expect it to significantly less benign otherwise.

Although this default expectation is pessimistic (and some countries might not be nearly that harsh), I don't think it's wildly inaccurate. What I don't understand is why it's common for intelligent people (seemingly only in the US) to consider violations of visa/immigration conditions acceptable and ICE bad guys for enforcing the law?

Brilliant! Now do it for companies' T&Cs please!

I glance at the HN headlines but rarely have time to dig into the details (and the few times I read 30 mins or more, a lot goes over my head).

Are there any good accounts to follow (platform agnostic) that give occasional updates on the intersection of AI and math that aren't too dumbed down, i.e. that a layperson can appreciate?

> for support, ask on StackOverflow!

Just a euphemism for "we have no customer support". In fairness, it's a more helpful suggestion than just a customer support stonewall.

Some companies had employees monitor their company's Stack Overflow tag. I think Stripe did that. I probably benefited from that at least a few times, which, in those moments of need, would have been quite helpful.