skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that were the case, browser vendors would have helped push the DNSSEC chain-extensions forward, which were designed exactly to avoid doing DNS lookups to carry DANE records. Instead, the browser vendors laughed at the chain-extensions effort, and it died in committee.
Hi HN!

For the last several months, I've been working on a Chrome/Firefox extension that hides distractions on sites like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Amazon, LinkedIn, Instagram, Reddit, and Gmail.

Today's websites are designed to suck us in and keep us engaged by providing a never-ending stream of content. The longer we stay, the more ads we'll see, the more products we'll buy, and the more we'll boost their revenue and engagement metrics. Companies might claim to put their users first, but their business models provide powerful incentivizes to get people hooked.

If you care about spending your time well, you might try avoiding these sites entirely. But that's often difficult in practice because these sites offer genuinely useful services. YouTube is designed to make us spend hours falling down their recommendations rabbit hole, but it's also the best place to learn how to change a tire. How can we get the good parts while avoiding the bad?

The solution I developed mirrors how I manage my weak spot for sweets. I have a tendency to devour snacks nonstop until I feel sick and regret all my life decisions. I originally thought the answer was more self-control, and that I should be able to sit in a room full of chocolate bars and maintain the willpower to ignore them all. But no matter how hard I tried that strategy, I'd eventually succumb to temptation and go right back to binging.

Over the years, I realized that my approach was entirely misguided. And I finally found a solution that worked: I simply stopped buying sweets and bringing them home. My problem completely disappeared once there was nothing to eat. Changing my environment turned out to be much easier and more effective than developing a superhuman level of willpower. The key was not learning to resist temptations, but removing them entirely.

That's the core idea behind Hide Feed: It hides temptations on websites so that you can get things done without distractions. That means being able to respond to messages on Twitter without seeing the feed. Or find a particular email in Gmail without seeing all the unread ones. Or ordering items on Amazon without seeing advertisements for things you don't need.

I designed Hide Feed with your privacy as a top priority. Here's what that means:

- Hide Feed requests access only to the sites you select, not all sites.

- Hide Feed contains zero tracking or analytics code.

- Hide Feed makes money by offering a premium tier, not by selling your data.

- Your browsing history stays in your browser and is never transmitted.

Hide Feed is part of a suite of tools I'm developing to help people spend their time well, and I'd love to hear your feedback! Thanks so much.

DK

P.S. If you'd like to read about the process behind developing Hide Feed, I've been keeping a daily, public journal at https://roadtoramen.com
Out-of-context photos are proving powerful in spreading misinformation
I think you have it backwards.

utm parameters are generally for any time you control the url on a foreign site. You want to know that this variant of this ad on this website got this many clicks.
I don't think it's possible to fork a process? At any rate the example code is basically an infinite loop... So I think you get to do pretty much whatever for you 50 seconds of runtime..
IBM is basically the corporate equivalent of assisted living? Old corporations turn to IBM to drain their finances until they die of old age?
You managed to cut out the key word in the quote: unencrypted is secure enough.

Email is protected with TLS on all every hop if your provider is competent. My point is that this protection is sufficient for most purposes. Where it is not sufficient, email encryption doesn't actually add the protection you probably wanted (this is the what the original article is detailing).
It really seems like this article is a bit off on the reasoning they ascribe to people. The biggest objections I have heard is that Facebook / YouTube / Twitter should now be classed as "publishers" and not "providers" because of the perceived bias in their removal of individuals and content.
I'm a bit unclear on the goals for this startup. When you say "Github for Data" I'm thinking of a repository of datasets used for ML training or for more traditional research. But this:

> This so-called “synthetic data” is essentially artificial data that looks and works just like regular sensitive user data.

So its like Lorem Ipsum generator for data? Whats the use case here besides building apps with sample data? Notwithstanding potential privacy concerns, How am I confident that this is realistic if you literally say its generated?

General data repository for research with some mechanism to ensure cleanliness or integrity sounds much more useful to me.
New company BluBracket takes on software supply chain code security
Furniture movers do have that free speech right. It's completely kosher for them to chat with some friends in a bar about how weird your possessions are or how hard it was to get to your address. Maybe ISPs should have special restrictions the same way medical providers do, but there's no general principle that people who discover private things about you aren't allowed to talk about it.
> We’re all on the same side here, guys. It’s just a matter of temporary compromise.

I get that, and I actually agree with you on almost this whole comment. The problem of the temporary compromise on Signal is that I don't believe it is temporary. Signal is actually good enough to prevent the transition to the optimum. Being non-federated, Signal will always have a single point of failure, but this will get masked until it is eventually exploited.
Sweet idea. The government could provide a tax relief for the rich who do so.
IIRC J2K is about 40 MPixels/s per core. 4K60p is 498 MPixel/s :)
It's more like, these guys are offering a plan where you get treatment for stage IV cancer and you only have to pay if it works. The other options require you or someone else to pay huge amounts up front, regardless of outcome, and are no better at getting results.
UK is going from an influential partner in the EU to a US vassal state pretty quickly
My big Q is what problem they are trying to solve here. As a not entirely impartial observer, it seems like what's actually happening is that Barr wants a way to punish tech companies for declining to broadcast certain far right voices. Like, does anyone actually believe the world is going to be a better place because these companies have to defend themselves against an infinite stream of proxy libel and tort lawsuits? Is user generated content viable at all in a world where the hosting provider takes on liability? Could this site exist in a world where these rules are implemented fairly?
I'm actually curious on this: how broad is the coverage on say computers? This is HN, so would say a home server be covered?
You’d go to jail like weev did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev

AT&T put hundreds of thousands of subscriber emails on the web with no password or firewall or meaningful authentication of any kind. (They were server-sent autocompleted values in the username field
of a login form that had a sequential integer URL argument.) He and a conspirator downloaded them all and sent them to the media to run stories about AT&T’s negligence (instead of, say, selling or publishing the list, or emailing them malware, et c).

He did a few years in federal, mostly in solitary.

I witnessed the terrible effects it had on his health and psyche. He was never the same person again after he got out. Solitary confinement is torture.

sophocles is right. There are two sets of laws in America, and the bigger one applies to you and not them. If you don’t show sufficient respect for their authority and the more restrictive set of rules they apply to your lower-status group, they will stretch their own rules to the point where you will be railroaded and subsequently tortured.
This, to steal a term from Paul Graham, is a lowbrow dismissal. You could make it without having read the article; in fact, there's no evidence in this comment that you have read the article at all. And the rebuttals to this comment are all in the article, which does not talk about "stickers" or require people to run Signal.
Given how poorly their web Ui runs, I think I'll pass and save my battery.

Wonder if they are getting into the ad tracking business?
If you watch the video you can see that this is just a training and education tool. It's a simulator. Which honestly I do not think is a bad idea.The state of security in many places is horrible. People are being too harsh about this.
> sad to see the US thinking about shooting its only real growth industry in the foot.

It appears you are not from the US. Can you elaborate more on your perspective on why you think this to be the case? I am genuinely curious. (Just for full disclosure, the top 10 industries experiencing large growth at the moment are mostly related to construction or engineering in the traditional sense, not much hyper growth coming from web apps these days)
My wife and I were talking about what lamps we had that were LED vs fluorescent vs incandescent; one of the bulbs that we have that is of the latter is in our closet, and has been there since before we bought the house in 2002 (the house was built in 1973).

18 years now, maybe longer, but it still turns on and has yet to burn out. Of course, we don't use it much, and it's only something like 30 watts (clear bulb).

Someday, maybe, it'll get replaced.
"Even if death doesn’t occur, some patients survive with permanent lung damage." It's not just about dying.
https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1tasqz/e...

Here's an interesting reddit discussion about it with an image of an older style play button.

And an older more in depth discussion on the same thing

http://www.stackprinter.com/export?service=ux.stackexchange&...
... that sucks.
FAANG will need to decide if they're platforms or publishers. They currently moderate the communities, albeit selectively, while enjoying the protections granted by being a platform. This can lead to abuse of power where only select viewpoints are moderated out because unaccountable corporate leadership says so.

It's correct to be thinking about this, notwithstanding the fact that I place little faith in the federal government to produce the correct outcome.
I would imagine N.Irish users might end up being covered by GDPR -- British law also N.Irish people to declare themselves Irish under the GFA. N.Ireland could well end up with a special status post-Brexit where it's both in and out of the EU and in and out of the UK.

Given European data protection is much stronger than either British or American DP it would make sense to group N.Irish people this way rather than trying to deal with the exceptions.
"Putting cybercrime on the road to ruin". Bless whoever had to type that sentence and keep a straight face.

This is hilarious, but honestly sign me up for the job where I get to setup an computer environment in the back of a semi. I don't think it will actually lead to any good, but it should be fun.
Launching Daily.dev – a completely revamped web design
The great thing about Coursera and edX are, the certificate is optional and auditing is free. I took courses on Algorithms by Sedgewick from Princeton, courses from MIT and Harvard, and so on without ever spending a cent. In fact, this is how I self-taught CS and programming (and eventually switched careers from law).

As far as practical skills go, a Pluralsight subscription was by far the thing that helped me the most. As long as you stay with the well-reviewed courses, the information density tends to be extremely high. It's how I learned enough about desktop GUI dev via WPF to score a volunteer 'consulting'-type gig with a nonprofit, and that combined with what I learned from there about Angular got me my first job.
This looks perfect for when you need IBM to help you cyber.
I've done a bunch of research, and ended up purchasing a HPE Proliant Gen8 server. The plan is to install OpenMediaVault, and use it as a Plex server, for NextCloud, Docker and more. I will also get a Hassio server running also at some point, but probably on an Rpi so that I can leave it running 24/7 in good conscience.
> what would happen if we crowd funded a wikileaks-type organization

Hard to say with any certainty, but there is the case of the founder of a certain Wikileaks-type organization currently playing out that you might want to look at...
To rasterise your icons to fixed sizes, you need to scale the original source (possibly vector-based) image to that size. That scale operation, while one-off, has the same problem as the dynamic runtime scaling of vectors.
Dell has always felt like a financial engineering firm rather than computer firm. Even in the 80s and 90s they made their money through holding the customer’s money, putting unsold product on trucks parked in the street (counts as shipped), having suppliers hold inventory in trucks on their loading docks (supplier has to fund it as Dell hasn’t received it until they take it off the truck) and of course the last couple of decades of back and forth going private - going public
I worry with news like this that the PEF has a plan to sue some people after the buy out. I wonder if they have anything that could be used to go after groups?
Hey! Maker here. I built this because I couldn’t find a quick, easy and up-to-date source to help me pattern match IPOs.

How do you decide to invest in newly public companies?

Happy to answer any questions too.
Linux memory-management optimization with DAMON
People want to follow it closely. And after that fiasco with "new" error comparison handling proposal I cannot blame them.
Why would that be necessary?
Someone's been watching Knight Rider re-runs, amirite?

(Thinking particularly of the tractor/trailer rig they use as K.I.T.T.'s mothership.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Rider_%281982_TV_series...
Doesn't bode well for Bloomberg...
> pronounced Kuh-SAA-yuh

That's ambiguous and not helpful – particularly in English that has many varieties and also too many vowel phonemes to map onto letters. Use IPA instead.
New Feedback and Buying a Domain
Hi! I have a very simple, very simple MVP and I would appreciate feedback for improvements and next steps.

https://bubble.io/site/personalproblem/

All feedback is openly welcomed!
also is buying a domain worth it if it means receiving revenue via Google Adsense?
MWI replaces the spookiness of wave function collapse with the spookiness of quantum decoherence and adds in an equally spooky universal wave function.

Whether this is simpler than wave collapse or hidden variable interpretations is an almost purely subjective opinion.
I was born in the US, and I spend about half each year there.

I think it is tradition in the US that whenever there is a new market or opportunity, to both celebrate the early entrants (in the case of tech, the persistent “two founders in a suburban garage” meme) and then also ignore the fact that it’s routine to make it as difficult as possible to replicate the conditions that lead to new companies or new people having wealth creation opportunities. I’ve heard it described as “pulling the ladder up behind you”.

A lot of people play the game as if it’s zero-sum.

It could also just be that I’m somewhat bitter because I have about five great ideas for companies that would make the world markedly better and more useful, and they have all recently been made either de facto or de jure illegal.

I hate that we’re almost always stuck with large incumbents who rent-seek based on their position, or seek for the government to make it harder/illegal for others to use the same general wealth-creation methods that they did.

Witnessing that level of selfishness hurts my soul, especially leveled against those who are most able and willing to build new businesses, cool products and services, and jobs.
What happens to a mail-order mattress after you return it
> That, and white people can't experience racism. They may at some point in their lives be discriminated against based on their race, unlikely though it is and extremely unlikely it'll be in some massively detrimental way. But, that's not racism.

That is some insane mental gymnastics...
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism
What were those simple rules?

I'm curious of whether they really required Radar custom rules specifically or whether Radar rules would just have been more convenient than writing your own rule evaluator?
Mine is great!

https://www.udemy.com/course/create-web-apps-with-apex-5/lea...
IMHO it would also benefit from a "raw typing" mode. It's a bit silly to have to explicitly write 'type "cat"' and 'press "enter"', when you're already typing 'cat' and 'enter'.

You could simply start this raw mode with a keyboard shortcut, and everything you type is automatically transformed into this "type" and "press" commands, until you exit the mode with either the same shortcut or Esc.
i think the stronger data protection would prevail for NI
There is also possible testicular tissue damage:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.12.20022418v...

From SARS we can guess at the long-term effects, including permanent fatigue, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, necrosis, breathing problems, chronic lung and kidney problems.
We rotate them manually once every two years. It works. No need for a certbot. Simpler infrastructure

Sure about the broken, but the alternatives are worse with possible leaked private keys.
Thanks for the links, those projects look cool. I'm not a beekeeper, but one day I would like to become one. For now I'm just reading on the subject And of course I stmbled up on the mite problem.

Do you by any chance know of anyone doing something similar to this article [1] It's noted as WIP, but I didn't manage to find any follow up papers, or some open source projects doing something similar. apic.ai looks similar but I don't think it's using lasers to remove mites from them.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313808393_Basic_alg...
Show HN: Scripts to netboot 12 identical Windows machines for LAN parties
Yes absolutely. They exercise editorial control even if they attempt to disguise it behind “algorithms”. Everything posted on Facebook should be treated as if it was a newspaper article, for all legal purposes.
This is 100% intentional hype. This is designed to be deployed at a trade show or outside corp headquarters. The video states that they built a "cyber security range" in ~2016, which generated 2,000 customers. This SOC is to showcase capabilities and sell whatever IBM is bundling. It also allows them to charge for on site incident response training.

I'm sure somebody somewhere will need to call IBM and have them drive a SOC to them in an emergency. Which, I'm sure, IBM will happily charge them a small fortune for. But this is marketing.
Back to the basics. Just build something people want.
Sure. Nothing at all.
Except that Prince Walid surrendered his investment to the same people who ran moles at Twitter.
Nothing to see here.
It's just a coincidence.
Move along.
Haha, great! I thought there certainly must be other people in a similar situation like me and find this useful.

If you hit any problems or have a feature request for your use case, just let me know in the issues.
Have you looked at the rhodecode.com for svn/git?
Is an interesting question. Should we pursue criminals responsible of repeated damages by several hundred thousands dollars?

Well, maybe not.

This is expensive and makes you sweat. Policemen entering in private properties at any time... that's super annoying for the owners of the amphetamine labs.

Professional beekeepers could have a different opinion about that. Is a regulated economic activity valued in a few millions of dollars, and this people pay taxes also. The owner of the pink panther diamond is not the only one paying taxes here.

> Will the inspectors have the right to enter any private property at any time to verify there are no hives anywhere?

Lets assume that the government has a reasonable suspicion than lots of valuable stolen property are being stored in some place. What would they do currently?

Is not necessarily a blind shot. I assume that in theory you could triangulate stolen beehives if you mark the queens and some workers a few days before to move your 200 beehives to a new place just in case.
> Also "engagement" is not the same as addiction.

Agreed, but the point is that FB's algorithm optimizing for "engagement" is in fact also optimizing for addiction[0]. And so are many others of a certain type of industry that includes YouTube, FB, Instagram, etc. It's not quite social networks, but a common factor seems to be that they're ad-funded and highly automated.

[0] and I believe it is currently way beyond our state of the art to design an algorithm that does not have this unwanted property.
It'd be nice to read about your setup if you post it somewhere.

I just built a new server with a 12c/24t 3900x and bought 3x RPi4-4GB, the goal was to have the Pis and a couple of light-weight VMs run a Kubernetes cluster using K3s (I'm currently running 3 Alpine VMs as a cluster on the server, and planning to add the Alpine aarch64 on the 3 Pis. I was thinking of deploying OpenFAAS to the Pis for serverless functions and have more "heavy" services on the server. I'm a developer so it's more of an academic task than running production services (I have another home server running FreeNAS with my production services in jails).

The alternative would be the Hashi stack, and I want to work with Vault anyway as I'm looking at it for secret management in our infrastructure at work.
I got a Ko-fi Gold subscription to help build up alternatives. They're trying to get by on subscriptions, but seem to do okay. I like to think all my patrons would switch over if Patreon blew up, but I know how much it matters that they already had Patreon accounts.
> How much time do developers spend on side by side buffers?

In my case: all the time. On my desktop (which has a large display) I often tend to have 3-4 vertical buffers open. Being able to fit all my code in those buffers is a godsend.
That sounds like incredibly poor planning on your part and a series of bad decisions.

Vacationing in wildfire regions during wildfire season.

You let your fuel tank get low without knowing when or where your next fillup would be.

You didn't have hotel reservations in advance.

You waited until nightfall to find a room.

You're relying on a smartphone for navigation.

You didn't make offline maps of the whole region on everyone's devices. All of California is only around 2gb in Google Maps. That functionality has existied for a decade.
Yeah, you're right. I found the first JS file in my network tab and judged by its blurhash.js filename that it was the algorithm: https://blurha.sh/blurhash.01ae00eea611ada5e9c7.js

Of course, my first clue should have been that it was also the only Javascript file.
Well, it's a setup for LARPing (see recent encrypted email thread) cybersecurity with execs as a flashy sales pitch, so the film prop aesthetic is the main feature. It's literally a roadshow. I'm just a bit disappointed that the trailer can't deploy an autonomous Tesla Cybertruck manned by David Hasselhoff.
Each age has its snake oil vendors.

In the article it was arsenic.

In the last century it was uranium and radium revitalizing products.

Now we have thorium infused wearable ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22368960 ). Though if you want to get rid of your rich old husband it may not be as efficient.
Using my Apple Watch when traveling in Europe is very convenient because of the sig thing. Unfortunately, the max transaction is often pretty limited.
Good article where I can read more about this?
It's proving their source was false, which was the premise of their entire argument, effectively debunking it.