skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He did however suggest that the UK, Dutch and Swiss agencies can't be trusted in this case, which is beyond laughable. It implies that another actor would have tried to kill former Russian agents and UK citizens with a chemical weapon.

Why would anyone in the west go to such lengths to frame Russia in this? It'd be like kicking a kid that's on the ground. They have nothing to gain from it.

Adding to that, the bluntness and stupidity of these operations fits the style of Russian agencies very well. They don't seem to be very good at covert operations anymore as they failed to adapt to modern technology.
Are you sure? If you've attended any of the top 3 universities, you just were shielded from it; generally IT/math/science related faculties work well, it's the social-related faculties where it works really badly, but still, you won't see it as a student. I'm happy to tell you more in private.
yeah I'm not sure "celebrity teachers" is a great model either
She's a single mother of two. The article doesn't say how old her children are, but if they're young enough to need child care before and after school (they may go to different schools that start at different times than Cooke, and she has work to do before and after school starts) that will add up very quickly. You also don't know anything about how much money she had to borrow to afford getting her degree (or degrees if she has a Master's). So yeah, $69k can be a low amount of money, even in places like Raleigh with lower costs of living compared to New York or SF.
I'd just like to address a pet peeve by saying that the Fermi Paradox is dumb.

It's often thrown around as a low-effort dismissal as if it were a fundamental law that must be fulfilled for extraterrestrial intelligence to be considered.

It's a relic of a less-informed era when space was filled with aether and green-skinned humanoids were fancied to inhabit the Moon and Mars, and flying vehicles were expected to be our primary mode of transportation by 20 years ago.

An extreme simplification that basically says "If X then Y MUST follow. If no Y then no X."

——

We have long had the technology to establish a permanent presence on the Moon, why haven’t we done so by now?

We have the tech to put men on Mars, why are we not even planning to do that already?

We can build photovoltaic cells, why isn't the Earth covered in them yet?

There are still uncontacted tribes on this very planet untouched by modern civilization, why haven't we uplifted our own species yet?

I guess we don’t exist either.
> Let’s have a shortage of teachers so that they’re forced to raise wages.

or you will get incompetent teachers
I almost fell asleep reading it :D
Who knows if they were carrying anything. The Novichoc bottle probably just magicked itself to Sailsbury and they were just GRU agents with passport numbers differing by one digit on a happy holiday to see the Cathedral twice. Or maybe not.
Sony does business everywhere, and if it's flagging the copyright in your country I assume it is possible to sue the local company.
> I wish I knew how many people viewed this question during that hour.

here's my naive attempt to crudely estimate this:

http://www.siteworthtraffic.com/report/ycombinator.com

> [daily] Unique Visitors	257,211
> [daily] Unique Pageviews	439,687

https://www.similarweb.com/website/news.ycombinator.com

> Total Visits 15.88M [per month]
> Pages per Visit 2.51

https://ahrefs.com/blog/website-traffic/

> SimilarWeb overestimated total unique visitors for 91.67% of the websites.
> SimilarWeb overestimated total unique visitors by 308.81% on average;
> SimilarWeb overestimated total pageviews by 210.58% on average.

SimilarWeb estimates 1.3 million total daily pageviews . Lets blindly correct trusting the ahrefs comment about overestimation, that gives us 1.3 / (1 + 2.106) = 0.42 million total daily pageviews. That roughly agrees with the siteworthtraffic 0.4 million unique daily pageviews number. So, let's arbitrarily trust siteworthtraffics 1/4 million unique daily visitors estimate.

Let's assume that traffic is uniformly distributed over each 24 hour period (wrong) and that 50% of traffic hits the first page of links under /news, /ask and /show (wrong) and that 50% of traffic hits other links. Of the former 50% of traffic, lets assume that 50% of people who click the link also scan the comments (wrong), and that views are proportional to the number of votes each link has (wrong), and that the current selection of links and votes is the same as during the 1 hour period between the question being asked and answered (wrong).

the sum of votes over links on the first three pages of /news, /ask and /show is roughly 4200 votes, and this ask topic has 19 votes, giving it a weight of 0.0044 .

multiplication gives 250,000 unique visitors / day * 1/24 * 0.5 * 0.5 * 0.0044 = 11 unique visitors during the 1 hour period before the question was answered.

it wouldn't be surprising if this estimate is off by 1 or 2 orders of magnitude -- underestimating, not overestimating, obviously -- if you can propose a more plausible estimate, propose away!
> Clearly a safety and health issue.

Why clearly?

I like standing up to workplace nonsense as much (or way more) than the next guy/gal, but seems rigid to refuse to code from a different room for a day.
Depends where, I suppose.

I've worked (and still am!) in London in loads of different sizes and types of offices, and have yet to see a single pest (mouse, cockroach, mosquito, etc.)
Original comment was from Britain, so yes.

But let´s face it, if the Americans realized just how often the British are being conversationally sarcastic at their expense, it wouldn´t be Russian invaders that we´d have to worry about. Fortunately the accent cues don´t seem to get picked up that often.
yes, in LogDevice it's called "sealing". However, as it stands, a newly activated sequencer won't wait for sealing on the old epoch to complete before taking new writes - in the tradeoff between write availability and consistency LogDevice picks higher availability. Blocking new writes until sealing is complete, however, should be fairly easy to integrate into LogDevice as an option.
Remote Browser Isolation in 2018
Hi HN! How would you build a remote browser like browserstack (cross os browser testing) nowadays? I started prototyping with noVNC (HTML 5 vnc client) & tigervnc but especially with the use of webgl, the load of a machine running dockerrized Ubuntu xfce easily gets >60 % on an 4core i7 16gb server.

Next I found the amazing GTK Broadway, have you ever used it? It brings GTK apps into the browser. You can seamlessly use libre office in your browser by just starting it with two environment variables (and the Broadway daemon) BUT it was impossible for me to find a working webgl Bowser purely running on GTK (epiphany etc all crash in Broadway when webgl content is present) or even use webgl in webkitgtk.

The next thing Im looking into is screen sharing via websockets and remote controlling the remote browser with something like node-remote, which basically just captures the mouse movements on a website and sends it over to the server, but the delay seems bigger even when sharing on the same machine in two browsers.

I've ready about qt being able to stream via webgl to expose UI via the web, but I could not find any runable demo of it.

I think remote browser isolation is a great tool for security, experimentation, hiding the origin of content , working on other OS , working on software not supported on the local env, or even bringing technologies like webgl to non supported browsers.

I'm Keen if there's something I haven't heard of in 2018, if someone knows about how browserstack is build that would be so much of interest, as I somehow can't believe that they put so much resources into their service as my current approach (VM with VNC)
Same thing (former police officer here).
Quotes from OA

"...shortening school weeks and enacting emergency certification for people who aren’t trained as educators."

and

"This year in Oklahoma, a record number of teachers were given emergency teaching certifications, despite no traditional training."

and

"The pipeline, meanwhile, is drying up. Between 2008 and 2016, the number of new educators completing preparatory programs fell by 23%, according to the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. And once ­teachers make it to the classroom, attrition is high: at least 17% leave the profession within the first five years, a 2015 study found."

UK metrics: the government tends to plan on a 9% per year replacement rate for most public sector jobs. We have around half a million teachers in England and Wales, so that is 45,000 extra newly qualified teachers each year. Not sure what the numbers are like in the various states in the US. Remember that employing a cohort of teachers with a lower qualification level is going to give you a support and in-service training need that lasts for 20, 25 years or so.

Mind you, 17% leaving in first five years is actually pretty good. Much higher in UK. Could be the fact that the occupation is more accessible to people with children keeping people in as alluded to early in the article.

Time off: the summer holiday isn't pure holiday as such, and a lot of what you do as a teacher happens outside the classroom. Being able to decide when I do the extra work is nice, but the work still has to get done.
Just tested a few and the quality is quite a leap forward. AV1 1080P looks almost as good as VP9/MP4 4K in my tests. Check the Halo one out in particular. Wish they had some 4K available.

Caveat: "At time of writing, these transcodes are encoded at a very high bitrate for decoder performance testing."

Also, I wonder why Firefox isn't supported, since it does AV1 decoding?
I'm fond of his formulation "our owners".

P.S. trying to get a quote for that, I found this, which looks interesting: https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-gore-vidals-cliffside-p...
They where popular way before microservices, only less dynamic. Mostly from an operational perspective they give a single entry point which can be better secured and monitored. It also allows to easily decouple unstable backends from your user so even though functionality is broken (404), the user experience doesn't have to suffer (serve stale cache, respond with a proper branded error page which helps the user forward (instead of a cryptic app specific error page).
Alexa, What Can You Teach Me Today?
That's entirely true. But then the tv signal doesn't ask the tv to tell a few dozen other entities its deepest secrets.

That I know of. With smart TVs I guess it could well.
You chose the wrong pill my friend
How to Set Up CI/CD Pipeline for Cloudflare Workers Using Serverless Framework
We are using Traefik with k8s with great success in production. They start to provide commercial support, which is great for enterprise.
I don't believe that.

But neither do I believe that I'm obligated to render data the way you ask me to.
Just in time before the International Day Against DRM. Act against it!

https://www.defectivebydesign.org/dayagainstdrm
How democracy died in Hungary
Hazel is amazing. That said... I'm no longer a Mac user.

There are no good Windows equivalents.

I wish I had enough programming knowledge to write a truly cross-platform equivalent.

This is a serious itch I'd like to scratch.
You're indeed right.

But the fact that the US Federal government always find money to feed its military while cutting the other departments [1] (including education) doesn't change the underlying fact that Education has a lesser priority than the Military in Washington DC.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_United_States_federal_bud...
British Airways, Vistara partner to open up new routes between India and London
Perhaps, but for me "immanentizing the eschaton" still wins on points ...

(for convenience: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanentize_the_eschaton )
That is one of the interesting things about all this - but there are also much easier ways to do false flag operations.

The evidence of this and previous assassination attempts is either there´s some idiot at the top of Soviet intelligence who just has to be creative, or far more likely the whole point is to send a very public message to the rather large Russian diaspora, that no matter how far they run, Mother Russia is looking over their shoulder.

For that purpose, a quiet inconspicuous assassination would be totally pointless.
> that will add up very quickly

Indeed, if both of her children are in daycare programs the costs can easily exceed the amount she pays for her rent or mortgage.
It does now: https://www.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/
Our Google Places API monthly bill went from 0 to $3000, price dumping hangover?
> Production branches should be identified and configured:

> ...

> Require all commits to be GPG signed, using keys known in advance.

Is it possible to configure "all commits gpg signed" on Github? I haven't seen this option.

Another interesting thing that Github lacks is signed git pushes (`gpg push --signed`) that allows audit logging who moved which object to which ref.
compare with Unix shell commands I learned in 1980, that I still use every day
Guerilla style. I like it.
Yes, but it is slower, and doesn't allow me to make small payments without the security token. Also, even checking the balance requires the security token with the web portal. Further, I'm sure that many banks don't have their web portal optimized for phone screens (because on a phone you are supposed to use their app).

But yes, it's a matter of convenience mostly.
Why not use chemical weapons? Kim's brother was assassinated by VX for example. So it's not really out of character for autocrats.

Chemical weapons are easy to use in quantities that ensure limited effect.
Visualization of storm surge – Unreal Engine real-time rendering
Just because they decided to drop the Web UI concepts do not mean that what they chose was more powerful or the better decision in general -- it suggests it was the right decision for them.

Also, since when was Google "the" company pushing web UIs forward? Mozilla is that company in my mind -- remember the time when they made a whole mobile operating system based on it, and at the same time tried to push forwards for various parts along (WebBluetooth, other APIs)? That's what investing in the web as a platform looks like. Flutter is successful, but not in a way that plays nicely with anything else -- if you want to push a platform forward or encourage growth, doing things that play nicely with others even if they're less convenient for you is the way to go.

I'd love to be enlightened to what you think is the problem with DOM in particular that makes it not the right model -- TVML and UWP dropped the DOM, but basically replaced them with their own walled-garden re-implementations of basically the same concept. A quick look at the documentation for both and pages like collectionList[0] in TVML and the Getting Started page for UWP[1] look just like shitty HTML.

Ultimately, I can see why they would invent their own UI languages, because it means they don't have an external standard to comply with and can move pretty quickly. I think this is the major reason, not that those other markup languages they created are magically better than HTML's standard. Again, I think this is less of an indictment of HTML than it is companies trying to move as fast as they can without care for interop -- great for them, but probably bad for developers who have to learn all their little languages that are re-creations of an established standard.

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/tvml/layout_elemen...

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/get-started/con...
Bitcoin is under attack in India
This visualisation is a remarkably clear & effective way to communicate the (otherwise abstract) risk data.

From: https://twitter.com/itsren/status/1040313433978286082 - rendered real-time using Unreal Engine
That was sarcasm. I doubt they were even spies, or anything beyond the regular spying that always goes on between all parties...
Which is, of course, just a fancy way of writing (-7:30) to 03:00
So this is several theories wrapped into one. The Dyson Dilemma (meaning Dyson spheres seem inevitable for civilizations with no more tech than we’re expected to have this century) reduces this idea to civilizations tend to destroy themselves.

It’s important to remember that we are not arguing if some if not many or even most civilizations destroy themselves. For this to explain the Fermi Paradox you’re arguing that basically all do and there are lots of problems with that argument.

Dyson spheres are not subtle. We can say a high degree of certa8nty that no Dyson spheres have emerged within a billion or so light years of us where light has had time to reach us or we would’ve detected them.

Say 10,000 civilizations rose up within that sphere. Even if 9,999 of them destroyed themselves we would detect that 1 tha didn’t.
What do they do in the 3-4 months off each year? They're not attending their schools.
Is there an open issue or documentation for this somewhere? We rely quite heavily on lambdas trigger by S3 events and have never experienced this
Scale of the universe interactive game
I am not a lawyer, but I do hiring in Germany.

> Is this normal procedure?

Yes, this is normal. You get the job offer, you agree, then you go and sign the contract.

> Would I be able ditch this and join another company before actually starting this job?

For up to six months after your first day of actual work (specifics are noted down in the contract), you are in "Probezeit", a probation period in which either your employer or you can end the contract within two calendar weeks with no reasons given. This reflects badly in your CV, though.

You cannot sign and then not show up, though, without them being able to claim damages (usually the cost associated with finding a replacement for you).
Oh my god, do we really have selfie-friendly stores now? I get it from the company's standpoint (free advertisement), but it is appalling to me it is now normal to feel the urge to post in social media about purchasing an overpriced lemon juice.
Very cool usage of UE. It's such a fantastic engine. They're also making a big push into architecture visualization.
Right, there is a tooling argument. My point was that you can get most of the packaging with just chroot -- images are just tar archives at the end of the day.

But I might be biased given that while I've worked on both runtimes and image tools, runtimes have a lot more interesting problems so I tend to focus more on them when discussing the benefits of containers. :P
Much easier and quiet way is to find a criminal guy who would kill Skripal for money and make it look like a robbery.
Ah yes! It's famous not just in Europe, but in the whole world!
>He did however suggest that the UK, Dutch and Swiss agencies can't be trusted in this case, which is beyond laughable.

Yeah, because agencies and especially of good old colonial powers like UK and Dutch have historically been very trustable, and not at all working to promote the interests of their states (with lies, covert action, false flag operations, and so on)

>It implies that another actor would have tried to kill former Russian agents and UK citizens with a chemical weapon.

Yeah, nobody does false flags ever.

A more plausible explanation is that Putin waited 12 years to kill the guy, long after he was out of Russia (where they could have gotten to him far more easily), and from 2000 other ways to kill someone they chose something that's the equivalent of living their business card on the murder scene...
That is just an illusion ultimately, which you see crack in instances like these. Google play services have system level privileges. If you don't want such surprises, run AOSP.
No, the CJEU does not regulate the EEA. That would be the EFTA Court.
Wikipedia forbid companies from adding facts to tabular data?
Same with me, they're my go-to dockerized automated https reverse proxy setup. Takes a few minutes to setup.

But recently though, I grew tired of handling 2 or more docker images, then I discovered https://github.com/Valian/docker-nginx-auto-ssl. One image, sets up in a single command without volume sharing complexity of jwilder/nginx-proxy. One caveat though is the larger cpu overhead (from lua) when handling high volume or high reqs/sec.
I noted this in my other response but since when is Google the king of the web and in what way do you mean that?

Mozilla seems to do the most work trying to move the web as a platform forward.

Flutter is a system that would be impossible to create or fund unless you were at google scale, because it's massively wasteful as an idea -- it's literally a complete rendering engine and widget system built from relative scratch. It offers more flexibility than adhering to any other established UI standard, so I'm not surprised it made sense for them -- surely they can move faster with Flutter than they can by trying to support all of HTML.

There is a cost to using established standards and being held accountable to outside forces, Google just chose not to pay that tax here, which is well within their rights.
I'm a huge advocate of using Docker but a static blog is one of the use cases where I don't bother using Docker. It's mainly because development and production are very different in that case.
this is a brilliant concept, seems really useful for anyone prepping for a technical interview.
Getting access to the automated process on a platform requires that you are a large player. If you use the smaller system to issue notices, there is no plausible way you aren't acting in bad faith.

That plausible deniability offered by the automated system probably gives the large players sufficient cover.
There could be several reasons for not arresting these "spies". First, there might have been just suspicions but no real evidence, something that would make prosecuting these men problematic and also cause a significant diplomatic struggle for the Dutch. Secondly, the evidence itself might expose sources and methods that the Dutch would not like to be exposed in a publicly prosecuted legal case. Third, the NRC article suggests that these individuals might have been two earlier evicted Russian embassy employees, in which case they might even have been immune to arrest.

The timing of these allegations are at best suspect. If the allegations are true, it would definitely not look great on Russia. But it might have been about Russia trying to get insight into what they are up against in the whole Novichok debacle. Not nice, but something (m)any governments might try, in a case like this.

It should also be noted that Holland is not an impartial party when it comes to Russia. One of Holland's largest companies, Royal Dutch Shell, bought exclusive concession rights (for several decades to come) to natural resources in the Ukraine, most of which became inaccessible to them after the regime change in Kiev and the subsequent separation of Crimea and the eastern part of the country that it triggered. Shell, just as key American players who made similar deals, will not be happy about how events unfolded in the Ukraine. Furthermore, Shell has a substantial leverage within Dutch politics and government. Of course, none of that proves that the Dutch can not be trusted, but it might be wise to at least not blindly believe whatever Russia related news comes from them.
I don't take pills, I live here and all the Skripal story is looking like a bullshit to me, that's my point of view so you can see not only what your mass media is feeding you.
Russia is gaining power and other countries don't want that, so come up with ideas to blame Russia in all sins.
Pardon my aesthetic judgment, but this is a beautiful comment.
Perhaps instead of waste they are worried about, it's detection. Instead of broadcasting everywhere and letting all the swarm devouring aliens know where you are, doing a highly focused beam is far less likely to get detected.
Current International Space Law Is Far Too Vague and Broad
Gitlab also provides hosting and free private repos.