skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no doubt. I was one of the pro-Java people in 2001 (dating back to 1996). Language religious wars were really strong in those days, like there could only be one true language, everything else was a toy. The Java backers and community fought against that too aggressively relative to their own limitations.

Today each language ecosystem is much more self sustaining and has its own bizarre culture that looks frustrating to outsiders.
He mentioned that it’d be slow and there’s a LOT of work to finish in the announcement. He’s (now) aware of the challenges.
I stopped doing this recently because it makes password breaches devastating and online tracking easier. Now the only stable screen name I use is for my professional persona. Everything else I sign up with whatever random screen name is in my head at the time. Some of them I toss in the password manager, effectively making it also a username manager. Others, like HN, I don't store the username or password at all. Once the session dies for whatever reason I just make a new account. It's very freeing!
Is bubble milk tea good for your health?
Presumably at some point advertisers aren't willing to pay for out-of-date plugs, at which point it might become profitable to cut out the plug and replace it with other ads dynamically.
well, for intel-cpu's i am not so sure how it might be possible, given all that is known after the spectre/meltdown fiasco.
So even Latacora-advised startups use plain old email for bug bounties. Why then does the blog post recommend using Signal for that?
> If you ask why and how you will find hope.

Unless you conclude "dumb luck".
We have long associated usernames with identities, and assigned trust and obligations to those.

One of the first places this was recognized is email addresses. Reassign the email address username, and the new person might receive sensitive email intended for another person, and also impersonate them for some purposes, accidentally or intentionally.

(Additionally, today, with all the creepy mass intimate profiling that's going on, both parties linked to the same address could have their profiles tainted in ways undesirable to them.)

A service transferring usernames to another party, simply because that party would like to have that particular username (not because of some separate transfer of some functional role), seems questionable security. I'm surprised the first example from the article, NPM (who should be security-paranoid right now), would permit something like that, as a matter of policy, even if it wasn't obviously a direct threat in this instance. And then the next example -- Telegram -- is also a concern.
Mm, I think perhaps usernames died with Google Accounts and then they added a new feature to choose a short URL for Google+ or something.
I don't know where you found MD5, most PKGBUILDs have `sha256sums` in them.

Package signing is (hot take!) overrated and can be somewhat theater. It helps if your package manager connects to third party mirrors, but otherwise, the only threat it protects against is "the https server is compromised but the package build farm is not". I don't know why anyone would worry so much about that.
It is not so simple to "attach" cargo to a train. The train crew knows how many cars the train consists of and there are periodic "defect detectors" that among other things report the number of axles to the crew. The crew also has a manifest, and eventually they would notice if something was out of place. Individual train cars also have radio tags that are used to monitor their status as they move:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_equipment_identifica...
But Elon does reflect on things. Part of his motivation for starting this company was to give humanity the possibility to interface with powerful AIs, which he fears will „leave us behind“. So yes, it might change the definition of humanity, but not because it‘s some unintended side consequence, but because it‘s a solution for a - in his perception - more existential threat to humanity as a whole.
Regarding the original YouTube channel name system.

Google used to redirect from YouTube.com/name to YouTube.com/channel/name. So, naturally, creators started printing merch with the short form.

Then Google gave several of those short URLs to marketing brands, and claiming that the creators were at fault for using the short URLs (which had been stable for more than five years at that point).

Pretty lousy.
Europe Billed Galileo as Its Answer to GPS. It’s Been Mostly Down for Days
So, a loop?
Is it a bad idea? I see articles like this all the time, and job postings with decent pay, $100k+ on Indeed. Maybe long term it's a bad idea to invest in a technology that's bound to disappear.
>The door isn't there, but many "business traveler" hotel lines are closer to what you describe.

Exactly, every business hotel I've ever seen has had a fridge, kitchen-style sink and a microwave. Then touristy locations often have condo rentals on a weekly basis which will have proper kitchens and washer & dryer, if you're travelling long enough to need a kitchen it's probably going to be a week or more.

Worst case people can do what Americans have been doing for decades, travel with a cooler and refill with new ice as needed. We did this all throughout my childhood when we'd go to Florida from Indiana, we'd eat out for dinner and sometimes for breakfast the whole trip but lunch was pretty much always sandwiches made from perishables kept in a cooler. We'd keep drinks in a small igloo and then we'd usually buy a large Styrofoam cooler for the food.
I have a feeling this is an apples to oranges comparison.

Can you serve clients directly over HTTP using Sia in a permissioned manner? If not, then it's not usable like S3. If it's not usable like S3, then S3 pricing comparison is meaningless.

Also, how correlated is Sia pricing to the overall cryptocurrency market? Will my costs go through the roof when there's another crypto bubble?

Would it actually scale? If Sia became popular, would prices go up like Bitcoin transaction prices? Isn't the extremely cheap bandwidth due to spare capacity of average broadband plans? If so, wouldn't providers eventually cut that off? Broadband pricing relies on the fact that most users don't use all of the bandwidth most of the time.
Twitter seems a good realtime source for this kind of information, better than HN.
Am I the only one who felt like they were in the photo round of trivia night looking at the unlabeled heat maps?
Australia’s Data Retention Law Allows Telco’s Metadata to Remain Unencrypted
Imagine how many more they'll find when they throw actual human passengers at the place.
Real name policies bother me a lot. They're just about the laziest and most personally-intrusive way to get the worst kind of legibility into your user base.

I don't often wish for legislative resolutions to social ills, but if anything needed a law, it's this. Maybe California or the EU will take up the torch. Ideally both, I don't want companies evading these kinds of things by bifurcating their userbases.
Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Way in the Future’
Ah, yeah - figuring out what they have in common is the trick :)

Good APMs and trace tools will let you zero in on traces by characteristics - so if you notice there’s a bump in requests which have a 2 second load time, you can select them all and analyze how they are distributed - whether they are mostly one browser, one location, or one user even. But you need a solid strategy for tagging and logging traces.
> Your demands do not make much sense to be honest.

Who's making demands? I think Musk's demonstrated understanding of auto manufacturing is quite superficial and I'm fishing for evidence to the contrary. I'm not bothered by the fact that the evidence does not exist, I think it actually says something.

> A CEOs job is to run the company and take advise and input from other subject matter experts.

Hopefully it's obvious to you, based on how this thread started and more generally Musk's history of statements about manufacturing, that if Musk's attitude were simply "I'm just running the company and taking advice from the experts" we would not be having this conversation.
While I understand the privacy/tracking problems, why would password breach be a problem, if you are already using a password manager which would supposedly make it easy for you to use different passwords on different sites?
Library of state-of-the-art pretrained models for Natural Language Processing
If mm-waves can't penetrate skin, wouldn't even holding the phone by the wrong part be enough to make 5g useless?
The Possibility Gap: It’s Time to Label This Dark Pattern
This isn't an advisory, it's just a blog post. We're meant not to editorialize titles, and this one was a doozy; the appropriate title is "A proactive approach to more secure code".
In the UK, we have a system called a "summary care record", which contains just the kind of information likely to be useful to care teams doing urgent work on you. Things like blood type, medication allergies. Then all the detailed stuff is held separately and is presumably harder to access.
I am comfortable with Python, Julia and R, but the static typing and functional aspects of OCaml make Owl look enticing.

Can anyone point me towards a good free online resource for learning OCaml?
Obviously not if you are comparing it to the OCaml bytecode compiler, now doing a full AOT compilation to native code depends pretty much how those 3rd party libraries are delivered and optimization levels being used.
I would recommend docker based graylog over local install for security and simplicity. I've been using https://github.com/joschi/docker-graylog-alpine for 2+ years in prod. Docker based setup also provides an easy mechanism to run the same setup in prod as well as test/ local to test upgrades or simply to have a local graylog for local dev of an app.
The problem is, at least for noise, that a city doesn't have any laws on the books to police noise or, even if they do, don't actually have enforcement officers working during the time that most noise complaints are made.

Take Toronto where the by-laws are too strict (11pm cutoff) but the enforcement is lax. It should be reversed.

"""
After Hours noise complaints

At this time ML&S officers do not work at night/shifts. However, in some instances (when warranted as part of an investigation) an ML&S officer will make arrangements to conduct an inspection during the evening/early morning/weekends. These arrangements are generally made after direct contact with the complainant and/or submission of noise logs.
"""

https://www.toronto.ca/311/knowledgebase/kb/docs/articles/mu...
Aligned incentives? Making a “simple” operation as hard to write as it will be on the machine.
Minus the network of independent logs as from what I remember only keybase.io runs their own log system. Although they do timestamp their Merkle tree roots into Bitcoin.
Because Signal would be better than the PGP theater. In practice, though, it doesn't matter; people are just going to use plain old email no matter what. They're not going to encrypt their findings to you.
Thanks, yes I'm aware of it, but totally can't get into this format of articles - I miss stuff like he did on minimallyminimal :/
Do brogrammers diminish as automated back-ends arise?
Read up on law sometime. You'll see terms like "reasonable" everywhere, which merely offloads the critical components of the law to, well, people you'd hope are reasonable (capable of reason).

If you can't rigorously define something, you certainly still can work with it, pursue it, use it, regulate it, etc. Consider: art, love, health, happiness, pregnancy, ...
Agree on the statistics, disagree on calculus. I use that all the time... even for business apps!
Since I cannot edit my other posts anymore, I thought I'd leave some references here for those that are interesting in reading.

[1] High-level overview. The applications are somewhat outdated w.r.t. 5G (2003)

[2] Literature review of possible causes of harm from non-ionizing radiation

[3] Further review of biological effects

[4] "RF Energy Absorption by Biological Tissues in Close Proximity to Millimeter-Wave 5G Wireless Equipment"

[5] "Safe for Generations to Come: Considerations of Safety for Millimeter Waves in Wireless Communications"

[1, PDF] http://99.51.244.77:823/YourFreeLibrary/RF%20Safety/Standard...

[2] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0031-9155/37/4/00...

[3] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/989978

[4] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8247178

[5] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7032050
Ok so the UI or procedures sucked but what's really aggravating as a tax payer, at least to me, is the lack of foresight and proper funding where it matters. Though to be honest it's not different from most work environments...

Fire is not something new for historical monuments.

I heard on the radio right after the collapse an architect saying at least half of fires starting on historical monuments happen during renovations. And quickly searching shows an insurance company saying it could be close to 3/4 of them (https://www.cahiers-techniques-batiment.fr/article/notre-dam...).

Sure that wouldn't have fixed everything but now instead of adding a couple of dozens or hundred millions to fund the fire warning system, we're now most likely looking at a cost of multiple billions...
Reverse engineer and replace. It turned out the green screens were pretty simple to grok where everything was either the non-editable display of a record or the editable display of record. And the transitions from screen to screen were very deterministic so a one to one mapping of screens to web pages wasn't that difficult.
Basically how the Persians used to debate:
"In Herodutus’ discussion of the Persians, he wrote (Book I, chapter 133) that they decide upon important issues by first getting drunk. Once drunk, they start the debate and then come up with a decision. The next day when they are all sober, they decide whether they want to go through with the decision made. If yes, they go through with it. If they decide against it, they drop it and go back to square one which starts by getting drunk again."

[1] https://historydaily.org/drunks-debates-ancient-persia
Wrong. The reason we do now is so that we can have our photo library accessible on our phones and synced between multiple devices.
> Accidentally hearing what tour guides tell to groups about locals and their traditions is another story.

I have a bit of an extreme-anecdote about this from the late 90s. I had a friend who was working part-time as a tourist guide while studying international relations. He normally gave people an accurate description of things, but one day, IIRC on account of being frustrated with the tourism company that hired him, the described a nice downtown square as "This is Plaza <his name>, in honor of an important 19th century artist".

On the flipside, I live in a semi-touristic district myself, and I often find people taking pictures of some architectural detail, which in turns makes me look at it, and realized I had been walking by the place without really looking at it until then.
If you use the same password with every account, sure - it's devastating.

I use a unique email address and password for each account, and 2FA where possible. I don't think the public username being consistent is too much of a risk.

That said, I do also have random non-associated accounts, just like you.
You're thinking of PGP web of trust, Signal doesn't have that
While this is true, one thing that has changed a lot is how connected all the research labs of the world are across the planet and how that rate is increasing. While it creates a lot of chaos, distraction and trust issues to work through, the scope and scale of collaboration is on the rise which means a lot of work is getting parallelized.
Think of it as a shift from single core to multicore. Dull stuff is going to happen faster than it used too.
Facebook to face more scrutiny from Congress on Libra
Saved thanks to 1) God 2) brave individual front-line firefighters.

Almost lost due to: 1) Bad UX 2) Bureaucracy 3) Insufficient drills and training for staff

Sounds like France overall.
From what I know, Kasina practice involves visualising certain simple shapes or objects such as candle flames and coloured disks.

Tibetan Buddhist practices involve visualisation of fairly complex 'deities'; supernatural beings wearing certain clothes, certain ornaments, surrounded by certain other complex objects. As the visual complexity of the imagined scene is much more than in Kasina practice, the 'phantastic' benefits might be different as well. The deities are convenient as visual object because (I suppose) Tibetans are familiar with their visual appearance. Choosing any other similarly complex familiar object should work as well.
Wow. You know it is inconsiderate of you to do that, but you are still sharing details on how you did it as if it's an achievement. Most people want the same username on all websites, but really, one month's of inactivity is a very short period of time to kidnap someone's username. There are companies that give six months (or more) of maternity/paternity leave alone.
And it has a great quote on the neural lace, from an AI whose hobby is mucking about in humans' heads: "A more exquisite and economical method of torturing creatures such as yourself has yet to be invented."
Exactly.

And what's extra sad here is that once a company like Uber or AirBnB gains large-scale success, there are only two things that happen. Some places accept it and eat the social externalities. Others try to ban the practice, but legislation is expensive, enforcement is expensive, and it also hurts the society by making illegal what was previously just fine on a small scale.

I think societies need to learn to recognize this pattern ASAP, because the best outcome is nipping such companies in the bud, before they grow and leave only two bad options on the table.

EDIT: Related is this post I read once:

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/04/03/the-locust-economy/

It calls "sharing economy" a locust economy - an economy based on making money off leading masses of people to destroy other businesses, and ultimately each other.
> I certainly do not trust someone like Elon Musk to develop it responsibly

There's probably no one we could trust with this task. The best we can do is avoid having a monopoly and lock-in.

Additionally, you'd be able to more accurately predict what new technology will do to humanity if you could calculate and process information like a computer.

We need to increase our capacity to comprehend complex systems as things become more complex.
A 'game changer': Vast, developed 9k-year-old settlement found near Jerusalem
People who are not impressed by the innovations of Musk’s companies generally aren’t involved in those fields.

I had a NASA fellow (guidance, navigation, etc, so a relevant field) who literally told me landing on a barge is impossible, just months before they accomplished it.

I personally think this will take decades. And the implications of it for humanity if it works are probably greater than anything else Elon is working on.
I agree. I was shocked that some sites only gave 48 hours notice.

What are you going to do to protect your accounts now you have that knowledge?
pg has been inactive on HN for almost four years...
This is precisely why everything has to be questioned. At the end of the day, corporations didn't give two shits how many people died in either world war and gleefully constructed all manner of weaponry, much of it which caused tremendous pain and suffering. Corporations are not friends to humans. We have constructed things that we don't even understand the true nature of.
I'm not at all for banning it. But stories like these, from a consumer standpoint, make me want to increasingly avoid Airbnb. Hosts need to be at minimum banned from the platform for having cameras in housing they're offering to guests. And "disclosing" them is not enough.
I've noticed that happening a lot lately. It's frustrating because the blog post is interesting on its own merits and doesn't need to have a click bait title inserted.
The Death of the Interaction Paradigm
How does reusing usernames put you at any more risk unless you are also reusing passwords?
For some it is too much, for others not. A lot of people work from 9-5 as developers, and when they get home they put in a couple more hours on their side projects. Others can't stand even looking at a computer afterwards.
In your case, you will have to find out, but if you're already asking and have that doubt, I believe that it MIGHT be too much.
WebAssembly doesn’t support all the things that require installation. There is no integration, the apps can’t register for extensions, they can’t hook other programs. Most of this integration is only marginally useful anyway but people did need iOS, a popular OS that just does not support that kind of thing, to see it.
Considering the relatively short response times the original owners were given in some cases, and you do not gain anything from having all those usernames I think what you did was kind of a dick move.

And because of that you'll use it to acquire even more usernames.

You opened a dispute to take someone's chat/telegram name... Not cool. What if the person was active but just didn't want to reply to you? Why would they, you don't own the rights to that username. What if they were away for personal or health reasons temporarily?

You're not a brand. You're not a product. You're someone who has those letters in your name, just like I'm sure a lot of other people.

What gives you the right to claim those usernames more than anyone else? In some cases it seems what gives you the right is just the fact that you bothered support, or opened disputes, to give you a name on another service then used that fact to get more of them.
What surprised me about LinkedIn is after I had a job for a year (first job out of school), my views went up by a factor of 10 (well, from 3 to 30 per week or whatever) and I at last started getting messages from recruiters. I felt pretty useless at first!
Websites are usually private property. The owner can reassign any names they want.

I'm sure there are some accounts which appear inactive - but have the user regularly logging in an performing invisible actions like upvoting, private messaging etc. I would not expect those accounts to be recycled.
Styling Empty Table Cells
Its nice and all, but so far it seems like a list of wishes than anything else.
There's nothing wrong with this. Public/Private keys are for sharing secrets and proving identity.

Assuming you are using a sane cipher and mode, your risks boil down to any of a myriad of methods of stealing/bruteforcing your key or grabbing the unencrypted file.
> probably Longhorn would have actually happened

Longhorn would have happened if it were feasible and AFAIK it was one of the reasons for why Windows Vista took so long.
Elon Musk’s Neuralink targets human trials for brain-machine interface in 2020
I used to get about 1 or 2 PGP-encrypted emails with security bug reports per year when I managed this for my employer. There's a dedicated team that receives security reports now, with email feeding into an automated ticketing system with automatic acknowledgements, reminders, spam filters, PagerDuty alerts, etc. There's a huge amount of tooling and workflow built around email, with a lot of integrations into all kinds of enterprise software. Often the only sane way to trigger all this stuff is to send an email.

So I think the result of removing PGP will be even more plain 'ol email than anything else.
You can use the first half of your domain name. I saw that on a business card once, the guy wrote his email and then highlighted and labeled the parts of it for Twitter and Mastodon.