skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The root of the problem is that you simply cannot expect your average police officer to have a working intuitive knowledge of bayes theorem.
I mean it all means bunk till a mass produced product is on the shelves. A lot of these “breakthrus” fail to note edge cases like scalability, durability
I always wondered if the style of writing and coding could lead to the identification of the real author.

Or was he also clever enough to change his way of writing to even hide that?
> Do we need 16-core PIC16 Mini ATX workstation too?

If it were usable for my workloads (running *nix, basically), I would absolutely love that. ...I admit, I'm struggling to think how to scale PIC up that much, and IIRC doesn't it use Harvard architecture? That'd be a struggle. But anyways, yes, if we could make it work then that would be beautiful.
Well when the VPN disconnected on the old Mac version, apparently it continue to let traffic through. I think they’ve corrected that now.
It's not just a continuum, because in addition to being more or less trusting you also always have the option to do just a little more work to be sure. Trust, but verify.
By this time I have a feeling this plane is never gonna fly again
That's super fun. Thanks.
I reckon for designers are excellent for forms. The further you go beyond a data crud app, the less benefit you get from visual designers, because more stuff will be animated, contextual, custom, etc.

CRUD apps is a really big application space to cede, though, I totally think tooling is worth it.
Yes! Martijn Dijkstra is the sort of resourceful, technically-minded person that inspires the hell out of me.
Clear russian troll accounts, posting in Albanian forums, on how X Western entity is bad (by X, it is usually EU/NATO/US). It is a monthly pattern. A couple of times, it can be a coincidence, monthly repeated occurrences? It is not.

Are they getting paid by the government, or just doing on their own, that I don't know. But it is clear Russian activity.

(btw, Albania is not a slavic country, and albania is a mediterranean country and has nothing to do with Russians, and these are not just random folks dropping in asking for the usual tourist info, or just sheer curiosity.... )

If "by clear evidence" you mean a video of the people actually typing these comments, located in some Russian building, with clear "Troll Farm Company sponsored by Putin and the Russian Government" marking, sorry, I don't have that.
Ask HN: How do you read and understand an open-source project?
Looking for different approaches

Would love to hear your experiences
Some advice for a mini-itx (or other format) board, low/mid budget, with more then 1 SATA port?
I want to build a NAS to replace my old ReadyNas...
Not really, at least until end users are buying ARM machines. But honestly, I think this bit is overplayed. An extreme majority of modern developers writing software that runs on consumer computers are not writing assembly language, and most of them aren’t even writing code in languages that compile AOT to machine code. I’d argue most of the things people use nowadays run in the browser.

Desktop isn’t even the hot new thing anymore, mobile is (or, at least, was.) Ans as fate would have it, mobile platforms are dominated by ARM already. Many modern developers already deal with ARM as it is.

Going further down the rabbit hole, I’d argue that most applications aren’t even nearly CPU bound and would run just fine with emulation, and nobody will bat an eye. This isn’t really theoretical, considering there exists x86 emulation in ARM Windows 10.

And finally, most open source software already runs on many architectures, just look at how many architectures Debian supports.

It does increase load on developers, but not to a degree that would make the benefits to competition unworthy. I think a good amount of developers are capable enough to figure out how to cross compile.

Architectural splits are not new. Apple did it twice already with Mac, and while there’s no evidence of a third one on the horizon yet, it’s certainly not beyond them.

And hell, maybe in the future, developers largely won’t ship architecture-dependent binaries. It is yet to be seen what might happen with WebAssembly and similar technology.
well, it’s a rant from a junior dev. he doesn’t know what he doesn’t know. in 3 years time he’ll look back at this and cringe.

EDIT: nope. author has 10 years of java. this is the worst kind of sr dev. they think their java expertise applies to some other ecosystem (python) because well it’s all computers amirite? that python has a dependency problem doesn’t mean docker is broken! he couldn’t diagnose a problem therefore the tooling is bad. get over yourself.
> And if we're serious about microservices, why do specific clusters need to live behind a dozen levels of security groups, load balancers, VPCs, etc that all have to be custom crafted before we can even run an app

That's the difference between IaaS and PaaS. If you don't want to deal with custom infra, go with heroku or platform.sh rather than AWS.
Your comment is an example of corrosive cynicism. And I don't think it's true either. Resistance to further extensions has built since the last extension.
Could you please elaborate on how Raspberry Pi's approach is an issue?
Yeah, that's a valid point. And it took me a couple years to internalize these differences -- mostly by being burned on numerous occasions. Base R has a lot of idiosyncrasies and they have to be memorized, unfortunately.

I develop R packages for my colleagues and so I stick to Base R whenever possible. I don't want my packages depending on the tidyverse at all. But for EDA, I am agnostic about what my colleagues do. They should use the tools that stay out of the way and let them get their hands around the dataset intuitively. For me that's Base R, for others it's data.table or tidyverse.
The work was probably done by Finney and Szabo together. As Satoshi is a fictional entity it could represent either or both of them. Though I think the writing under the name Satoshi was probably mostly Szabo.
I was told this several hours ago on IRC - this is not an official statement:

someuser@somewhere.canonical.com:
I can confirm that we're aware of the issue, have done some initial remediation (e.g. shutting down CI systems that might pull potentially compromised code) while we do a more in depth investigation.

someotheruser@ubuntu/member/username:
And we've of course revoked the access that was abused.
I'm starting to wonder if Wright could actually be pathologically delusional and convinced to be Satoshi, despite the accumulated evidence against it. I'm no psychologist but it reminds me of how paranoid schizophrenia is typically presented.

At the beginning, it looked like an elaborate fraud but now, he barely makes any sense at all in his declarations.
Not to mention the writing times that would rather point to someone in America rather than Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto#Characteristi...
Oh no, what have I wrought? Another addict. Well hopefully it served as a warning to more people than the number of people it tempted into getting hooked. It’s only because I haven’t set up my PC since I moved that I have had any time in my life not playing Factorio myself. I still have the dreams, though.
I'll go against the conventional wisdom and stress on not trusting recommendations; instead, test chairs on your on as much as you can.

Bodies vary too wildly to work on the basis of other people's experience. Also, the price is not an indicator of quality at all.

I have experience with a "famous high-priced high-recommended" model mentioned here, and the experience was bad (sadly, the first 10 minutes of testing felt good). I don't say that it's bad or good; it just doesn't work with my body shape.

I had another experience with another "recommended last-posture-technology" chair, and it was exhausting to use.

Ended up on a 250$ chair that feels much better than the 1500$+ one.
“1. Big buyers are bullies: Large tech companies exert negotiating power over founders and selling companies because they can, and stack the deck in their favor with buyer-favorable terms.”

Well duh. Gravity is a bitch. What else is new.

The problem is more like: most tech companies that get acquired by “big buyers” have less than $10m in annual revenue. There is very few competent advisors in this space because most tech M&A advisors work for boutique investment banks where $1m is the minimum acceptable fee. Hence founders genuinely do not know if a 30x revenue or a 3x ebitda is a “great offer”

“2. Big buyers get more protection than they need: Many of these terms are unnecessarily one-sided. For instance, buyers hold back a much higher portion of the purchase price to cover potential liabilities than they need.”

Self serving crap. This smells like “we won’t make you make scary sounding reps and warranties so we can pay under market” (see above re: very few founders can tell what a great offer is, which is exactly what Atlassian would prefer).
https://www.google.com/search?q=ModuleNotFoundError%3A+No+mo...

In all seriousness he has half a point, but for the wrong reasons. Docker doesn't let you take your "old" languages and put them "in the cloud" over more superior approaches - it's a shipping container. That's it. It's a known quantity that lets you slot your 10,000,000 LOC Java monolith alongside your 25 line Python microservice and orchestrate them with the same tools.

That's the advantage. The side effect is, sure, you can take your old, shitty code and run it "in the cloud", and it's nothing "we should get rid of".

To put it another way: "Shipping containers protects a transportation method that we should get rid of". Sure, drones could fly every item individually to you from the factory, but while you're fiddling around with that Maersk is shipping 20% of the worlds GDP every year by dealing with what it knows best: how to move containers, not caring about what's in them.
If you look at monthy data to make it more interesting, there are 12-month trailing earnings (inflation adjusted) up to March 31 on that page and the all-time-high is $135.48 on Feb 28 (I think that remains the all-time-high as of the end of Q2, but that's not important).

Before the 2008 recession[1], the market peaked in October 2007. Earnings had reached the all-time-high ($104.38 inflation adjusted) on Jun 30, 2007.

Over the following twelve months (second half of 2007/first half of 2008) earnings were $60.12, and over the next twelve months 2008/09 just $8.92.

Earnings improved from there, but it still took 4 additional years to get back to $100 of earnings over a twelve months period ($78.84 on 2009/10, $95.15 on 2010/11, $98.12 on 2011/12).

[1] GDP growth remained positive in the first half of 2008 but by the end of the year it was officially decided that the recession had actually started in Decemeber 2007.
Probably this: https://www.zdnet.com/article/openpgp-flooded-with-spam-by-u...

It has no effect on GitHub, though, which doesn’t use keyservers as part of its validation process.
I've been using a stool only [1] for my home office for a bit over a year. It's nice, and as a guitar player it's much more comfortable for playing, but you absolutely cannot work off a laptop alone. You need an external monitor at eye level, keyboard, and mouse/trackpad. Any amount of hunching over or cramping your hands together is going to cause back and neck pain, much more than laptop work from a chair.

I still like using a stool though, and it's ruined office chair arm rests for me now - I have to remove them immediately to be comfortable working from them.

[1] https://www.target.com/p/backless-wood-24-counter-stool-natu...
I have worked at well known tech companies and I personally dealt with some less-valuable-but-still-PII. We didn't store the PII because we cared about exploiting it or because we wanted to somehow sell this data to outsiders, that's not how we made our money. We took and continue to take the security and privacy of our customers very seriously. We made sure we were GDPR compliant as well.

Instead, the small PII we had was used for fraud signals and for logging/debugging. Very frequently we would get complaints about things not working and we would have to go digging through logs to figure out exactly what happened, and without that data it was hard to figure out exactly what happened if something went wrong.

Most of the data was TTLed in our logs between 7 to 90 days so that took care of most of the issues. Other data that got logged into a data warehouse needs to be deleted via Spark jobs, which takes several days to scour all the data.

Like I said, the companies I've worked at don't need user data for its primary product and even then it took time to fully delete a user's data upon request, so I can imagine it taking a lot of time for a company like Google where extensive use of user's data is widespread throughout the company.
The Asteroid Peril Isn’t Science Fiction
Once Firefox starts to ignore DNS resolvers configured at the OS level other apps are sure to look at it and think it must be a good idea because Firefox is doing it. Soon there will be a multitude of applications needing this disabled in their own unique way.

If the Mozilla Foundation see this as an issue they should instead be developing a separate solution to provide this system wide. If you must bundle it with Firefox and offer to install it at browser installation or upgrade time. Don't install it by default and certainly don't enable it without user permission.
I've been slowly developing the opinion that the emergence of Docker is in some ways a phenomenon of extreme JVM-envy. In between cracking jokes about "Write once, test everywhere" in Java the critics decided "yes actually all our languages suck at cross platform by the way so we are going to hack together a giant kluge so that we can just keep coding however we like and carry on". So while Java had deprecated environment variables because "Hey, you know one day someone might make a system without environment variables" they were re-inventing the JVM as the Linux kernel so that `/dev/stdin` will always exist and they can stop worrying that another OS will ever exist.

However I think this viewpoint misses some of the fundamental features of Docker that are nothing to do with platform independence and more about isolation, configuration management and orchestration. I would use docker and docker compose even if it could only run Java which is already cross platform. Because I love how it lets me map volumes, ports, orchestrate startup and shutdown with compose etc etc.
The stick is stolen from humans. (Also, while this is headlined as "spear fishing", the orangutan isn't able to catch any fish with it.)
One advantage to a FS over a program is that it gets to be really interoperable for free; pretty much everything can work on raw files, and the unix ecosystem is very good at inter-operating with filesystems as an "API".
Isn't evaluating prices in terms of "desirability" tautological?
Probably not. The vast majority of Ubuntu development occurs on Launchpad. A few important projects are developed on Github, though. Notably, LXC and LXD. The maintainers of these projects are quite active, and would likely have seen any harmful changes being made.
Interesting book and corrageous author.

We live in a world where the biggest nodes are able to enslave the smallest nodes through very convoluted and strange ways.

One of these is controlling how people think and brainwashing them to do something they normally wouldn't.
> The Nato partners consider it international water and does not accept Canadas claims

Or to out it another way, NATO partners don't respect Canada's sovereignty claims because the Northwest Passage is too valuable and Canada can't enforce its claim. Contrast that to Taiwan, a nation that should be independent, (and is not 'international waters') but no major country is willing to recognize it as such.

Greenland would be the same way.

And by the way, Alaska and Louisiana purchases were executed because Russia and France respectively knew they were never going to be able to hold those territories and ceded it for cash.
Piracy is still very much a thing in the 21st century.

I mean actual piracy.
Yes but did they go in and perm delete the Trash label/folder? They still are alive for 30 days. Three weeks is inside that window.

>It also says you can delete this log by deleting the email, but three weeks after we deleted all email, the list is still there.
I am wondering if we can find his c/c++ code from 2008/2009 and compare with bitcoin early releases - that would clarify a few doubts...
AFAIK, there are 160 bits of entropy in a bitcoin address. Let's say satoshi has ~1 million addresses with bitcoin in them (2^20). That means 2^140 attempts need to be made to steal any of satoshi's bitcoins. Cracking 128 bits of entropy is essentially impossible[1], cracking 140 bits is even harder. This collider tried 7 quadrillion addresses in 1 year[2]. That's 2^53, nowhere near 2^140.

[1] https://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/1148

[2] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nzpv8m/the-large-bitcoin-...
There used to be a distinction in the US: Saran Wrap was made of Saran and was much less oxygen-permeable than other cling films as a result. In a development that represents some kind of evidence about trademark law, Saran Wrap in the US is no longer made of Saran, due to concerns about plasticizers leaching into food; but it is still sold as "Saran Wrap". Here in Argentina, I can still get cling film made of PVDC, just not Saran-brand PVDC.
> the head of the European comission isn't elected in a popular election, but chosen by representatives of the respective countries, and then affirmed by parliament.

Exactly. All the more reason why people don't care. Having a parliament for decoration is not something to boast about.
The runtime of all webthings in written in C++ (and Rust, which is kind of its spiritual successor).
If you read the article it says the Orangutan attempted to fish this way after watching humans do it, but was unsuccessful.

Still a very cool picture, and amazing to see the orangutan learn by observation like that.
Have you spent any amount of time reviewing the claims against his "proof"? We're talking about purchasing backdated companies(ie, the Tulip Trust), referencing products that didn't exist at the time they were allegedly used, sharing PDFs with obvious edits, etc.

Here's a good analysis of Craig's own testimony from last week and the inconsistencies:

https://blog.wizsec.jp/2019/07/kleiman-v-craig-wright-part-3...

> I'm more interested in the truth

The only way he is telling the truth is if an enormous number of claims is a massive conspiracy theory.

> The truth is that I don't know if he is Satoshi or not

You don't know I'm not Satoshi. I don't have to prove it:

> If someone fails to prove A that does not mean that (not A) is true

> I would expect more from the HN community.

True. We do have a habit of hero worship (ie Jobs, Musk, etc) so perhaps we should similarly believe Wright just because he said to.
Reminds me of the Orangutan Sawing on PBS Nature episode. Of course most animals can be trained to do a variety of things but picking up skills observationally and then transferring it down couple generations is quite an interesting domain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oRq78CwE7c
This way of speaking is believable for Chinese scientists and militaries. The cop had a very different tone.
Exactly. I wrote this in another thread, applicable here too:

--

>Also, Craig Wright doesn't have the technical understanding to have written the Bitcoin implementation. Listen to him speak. If you're honest with yourself, and if you code, you'll realize that he's likely never written much running code at all, much less a full implementation of a complex cryptographic and network protocol.

This is an important observation. Craig gives himself away every time he presents at a conference. His talks just throw up a bunch impressive technical jargon and graphics, but then completely fail to weave it all together into a coherent whole, leaving only a disjointed mess.

It fools people who aren't watching closely and thinking critically. But Satoshi Nakamoto being possibly one of the greatest connectors and integrators of disparate technical ideas in our time, Craig Wright he is not.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20372374
>>> and that doesn't seem to discourage breaking traffic rules en masse.

Seriously I drive and I cycle. I have in twenty years never seen one person jump a queue and take a red light past a line of other stopped cars. I see it daily on a bike.

The degree of rule breaking is orders of magnitude greater.

And no I don't think it's a waste - although I do think it will take deaths before the impetus grows. I mean I had a valid number plate made in two minutes by a caravan sales person today, the ANPR cameras not only exist but actually are in place on the junctions, and if you really want you can start crowd sourcing it on the most dangerous sections.

PS
Scooters clearly should not count - they should just be banned and anyone over the age of 30 on one simply jailed for twenty years till they grow up ;-)
It's just a writing device, in this case. The contrast of mundane detail and the high calling. Used all the time, e.g. NYT's style has pretty much devolved to the formula “begin with the details, then introduce the central topic.”
There's another interview with images of another tree at https://www.21cmuseumhotels.com/museum/exhibit/tree-of-40-fr...
No, not a professional in this field - or even close - but with a smidgen of formal education (BA minor in physiological psych).

I guess I thought it was "obvious" in the sense that many people routinely face employment-related drug screenings which don't test for these compounds.

But yeah, reading my comment again, I think you're right that "obviously" is probably overstating things.

I do think that it's probably sadly optimistic to say "I’m pretty sure that we’ll know exactly what he took", unless things have changed since I last studied this material.

I hope that there is a conclusion on which psychoactive compound(s) this person ingested; I apologize for my tone.
That's why you have two pilots in the cockpit, reduces the probability of a crash all the way down to 1/4.
After they allegedly uncovered JK Rowling writing under the pen name Robert Galbraith, even an average Joe like me knows that writing style is identifying (at least that's when I first heard of it being effective). I've never tried as hard to be anonymous as Satoshi has, but this seems like something s/he could reasonably have done.
Absolutely not. Fastmail is an Australian company and is subject to one of the most intrusive digital surveillance requirements in the Western world. And thanks to the Five Eyes framework, easily shared among intelligence agencies.

They do not compete on Privacy at all in my opinion. So then the choice comes down to price, features and economic viability of the organisation. I think price and features they are on par with Office 365, well at least for individuals not for enterprises.

But in terms economic longevity I think Microsoft wins hands down. Fastmail might be days away from bankruptcy, none of us would know as it is private company. I would rather have my personal email, that is the glue to modern life, with a Trillion dollar company than with a relatively new minnow.
That says nothing. There is no widespread feeling that russian-whatever is causing EU's current issues. Saying that it is the Russians is just as effective as sticking its head in the sand and parroting american political chitchat. On the other hand, a perceived external threat usually increases coherence in nation states, but EU is a different kind of institution that should not pretend to work this way.
I guess it would be possible to run my own local DNS server that connects to these DoH servers. Does any DNS server support DoH? This could also allow the user to override domains using their /etc/hosts file in case DoH on Firefox doesn't support it.