skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you know many terrorists who use digital communication to back your claim?

What the above is talking about well known, even privacy-aware people tend to not use digital communication that much, no facebook, or other social media, no smartphones. In the post-Snowden era, I am not sure why somebody thinks otherwise.

3 letter agencies have the means, the reason, the legitimacy, and the resources to penetrate every type of telecommunication, the worst-case just trojan the entire GSM infrastructure if necessary. The USA conducted thousands of drone strikes. What do you think drives locating the target?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-drone-strikes/
The money that Mozilla makes from Google comes primarily from setting Google as the default search engine in Firefox. You can see lots more details on this here (2016 numbers): https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2016/

I think stating that Google controls Firefox is vastly overstating the degree of influence.
Newborn baby
Whoa! That sounds like an incredibly fun project. I am not questioning your plan, as you are almost certainly more knowledgable than myself, but is there any technical reason to actually keep the manual transmission? I thought one of the biggest advantages of electric drive vehicles was a relatively linear power/torque curve.
That’s a really weird conclusion to draw looking at what’s happened globally and in local pockets. Look at Singapore and South Korea — full lockdown and great control, and then outbreaks in places where the lockdown put people in close quarters (immigrant labor in Singapore) orwhen restrictions were lifted (bars in South Korea). Look at Wuhan itself, where it took time to establish a lockdown and contact tracing, then they got control of the situation and had better outcomes, then a secondary wave once they lifted restrictions. Look at Italy, where the lockdown means Northern Italy has had a very different experience from the rest of the country. Sweden has had a mostly voluntary lockdown and high death rates compared to the rest of Europe and other very similar countries (Norway, Denmark, Finland) have had stricter lockdowns and better numbers.

Also let’s look at the fundamentals. This virus is spread through contact with viral laden particles, either in an aerosol or on a surface. It is obvious that to get the disease you need to come into contact with the virus. Limit contacts and you limit exposure, this is so basic I hesitate to call it science.

You have a tough row to hoe if you’re going to try and prove no correlation between lockdowns and cases.
The exponential march of solar energy
> He seemed like an excited engineer

Is this a bad thing? I personally avoid presentations made by CEO of big corporations as it’s usually a Bingo of all the trendy buzzwords that as in fine no meaning.
That you have such a perception says more about you than him.
Didn't reddit announce/kill something like this when bitcoin first got big? This page is giving me some deja vu.
https://mrgidle.com

I've been building a silly little idle/incremental game. I've wanted to make this for years and finally found the motivation. In early access now, hoping to release soon.
There was a thread a few days ago that showed it’s trivial to de-anonymize a device based on location history.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23136612
Terrorism is violence with the intention of creating fear to further a political goal. If a kid feels victimized and wants to hurt the people they feel responsible, that's not terrorism. If a kid wants to hurt bullies with the intention that it will make other bullies afraid and so reduce the overall amount of bullying in schools then that would fit the definition.
I owned mostly Nintendo handhelds back then. Anyone looking for a bit of nostalgia try this:

http://pica-pic.com/
The link was to an uninformative marketing page. I couldn’t tell for the life of me what it actually does or how it works and I know the ins and outs of AWS pretty well.
Hi, I've been thinking for a while that I want something like Deno that has something like WireGuard built in to it.

1) I make a public / private key pair.

2) I log on to a DNS-like system, and create an account for myself, upload my public key.

3) I start up a Deno server, giving it my private key, and I give it the address of the DNS. Deno uses my private key to inform the DNS that it exists and is serving traffic. (Much like any Dynamic DNS server.)

4) My friend does the same - makes a public / private key pair, finds a DNS he likes, uploads his public key, makes a Deno server and registers it with the DNS.

5) My friend and I trade DNS+public keys. It's a URL to the DNS that has the public key in it.

6) I go to some administrator page on my Deno, it looks a lot like this [1]. I create a new Connection, and plug in the DNS+public key of my friend. He does the same on his server.

7) On my admin page, I pick an app that I want to use to communicate with my friend. I can see a list of my Connections, and I just check off a box that the app has permission to communicate with that friend.

8) This app that I've picked, it only sees the world through an incredibly narrow API. It's like WireGuard. Deno handles all of the communication and permissions, much like Sandstorm.io. The first thing I want is just queued-up JSON messaging. The app can send and receive JSON messages. I envision that I want it to be in messaging mode (rather than "streaming online"), so it has something like ZeroMQ under the hood to pub/sub, client/server, all that. But roughly it has a bi-directional pipe for sending and receiving JSON and can queue up messages when the other server is offline.

9) I now have a sandboxed app that can't talk to the rest of the world, has its own private VPN-like connection to another process. All traffic is encrypted like WireGuard. The DNS aspect lets my friend move his server if the IP changes.

I feel like if some project kind of like Sandstorm, kind of like Dynamic DNS, kind of like WireGuard, and kind of like Deno all got together, they would make a beautiful thing.

When I think about how I wish Diaspora worked, as a way to replace Facebook, this is it. I wish it was built on top of something like this. This is the atomic unit of distributed, yet safe, that I wish internet apps were made out of. I imagine that I would be setting up hosting of the Deno server nodes for my friends and family, since I'm their tech support guy. But they'd be in charge of their own connections and apps in their nodes.

So, HN, time for you to tell me that it's 1) a terrible idea, 2) already exists, 3) why don't I just make it myself. Right? =)

[1] https://alpha.sandstorm.io/demo
> DGX-A100 - The First HPC System With 140 Peta-OPs Compute Shipping Now For $199,000

Crazy pricing for a chip that basically started as a game solution. Anybody actually seen these Nvidia DGX systems in the wild?
Maybe it is just me, but I find these vehicles to be a gross blemish on an otherwise beautiful scene. Like a natural wonder that has been destroyed by humans.
Don't overestimate performance when choosing a stack for your Web project
I wonder if the bones of this language came out of the work Microsoft put into Sing# 15 years ago.
Sure, that's possible, but people at large companies can really "fly to HQ" if they feel like it and they're a manager.
I built https://www.provedore.com.au -> a way to find local producers who sell online and deliver to your door.
Tesla is famous in the US for inventing polyphase AC and induction motors, but this is really one of these stories were a bunch of people invented the same thing very closely to each other due to a precipitating reaching of understanding.

Note that Tesla's designs were IIRC two-phase which is largely inferior to three-phase. The push for three-phase and associated designs and inventions (three phase transformers on a single core etc.) came from outside the US.
Oblique Strategies: Brian Eno’s card-based creativity system
I started an accountability community for wellness and personal growth. We are up to 117 members with 50+ active weekly members.
I have started a book club software when the lockdown started, dint put much time into it. Still need to put a couple of days to make it an MVP. https://www.pustak.io if you are curious
RetailingPlatform - https://retailingplatform.com

An alternative to Shopify for

1) People who don't need all the features of Shopify and are more budget conscious

2) People from developing economies with a unique set of needs not addressed by the bigger platforms (e.g. African countries where access to credit cards is lower and where addresses are different/non-standardized)
I learned WebGL and made a virus spread simulator with it: https://lent.su
If you didn't think Reddit hadn't already jumped the shark, this is definitive proof.

And to pre-empt the replies: no, I don't want to hear a defense of whatever ponzi scheme you've sunk 10 grand into. Cryptocurrency is the MLM of tech.
Haiku, the BeOS' spiritual successor, did develop the feature further into "Stack & Tile": https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/gui.html#stack-ti...
Come here to Turkey, we have very sophisticated multilevel tracking and censorship infrastructure (deployed but not used in full potential).
I do stats for a living, and while I think it's good to back up claims with data when possible, inductive reasoning is still a validate tool for understanding the world.

The logic is that active, dedicated terrorist groups already know: "They literally get a drone strike for having called a known terrorist or for going to a wedding other terrorists with cell phones go to."

The reasoning that knowing this information you would be very careful about what you communicate over the internet is very sound to me. To convince me that this reasoning is incorrect would require an abundance of data to the contrary.
I'm making a simple onion router in TypeScript! https://github.com/seisvelas/onion-router-ts

It's not meant to be useful for anyone, just want to learn TypeScript and onion routing
Building an audio chat tool in Rust akin to a walkie-talkie. The original goal was a hardware device that's pre-programmed to work with a group of other devices where you just push a button to talk and it gets broadcast to the whole group with high quality audio.

First I'm starting with just a software version because cross-compiling for the pi-zero is kind of annoying.

Intended to be used by our team as we work remotely, but hopefully it'll be open-sourced soon after.
> Terrorism means using violence or threat of violence to influence social or political decisions.

So like the shooting of a black church by a white supremacist explicitly for the purposes of espousing white supremacy?

> Hunting or threatening people of a certain race or gender or orientation or hobby to scare them and others away is terrorism.

So like the lgbtq club shooting, or the black church, or the 1989 shooting specifically targeting women?
I am on work, so can't access my home laptop. But this problem is related to pairing functions (but those work for the whole domain of the naturals). It means you need to find a function that walks the numbers in a nice way, like seen here: http://szudzik.com/ElegantPairing.pdf

I think it isn't possible to find a function that works for arbitrary sequences. I know there is a function that works if the sets have the same size (n is size), it is trivial why those work. They have the form n^0 a + n^1 b, where a,b are in [1..n]:

f :: Integer -> (Integer,Integer) -> Integer
f n (i,j) = i + (j - 1)*n
-- For example:
f 3 <$> ((,) <$> [1..3] <*> [1..3])
[1,4,7,2,5,8,3,6,9]

Now I want to find functions like (n,m is size, n /= m):

f n m (i,j) = ..

And functions where n maybe chosen but m is between certain bounds. I have found a couple of those by mutilating pairing functions.

I know I can use a counter, but I don't like cheating :p

I need to draw your reasoning on a paper to see it or take some time for it. Little bit busy, working from home, having the kids and stuff :p
That's why Intel realized that fab technology was the true differentiator.

The only way to outcompete in a sea of clones is to secure exclusive access to a valuable resource they can't.

Intel with fabs. Dell with lean supply chains. The surviving hard drive and memory companies with scale.

I think IBM and Sun show what happens when you try to fight a stand-up brawl in a commodity space.
Fuck You, World in Java
Adding here also that the stalking in this article was of the personal harassment nature, not 'stalking' to contact them about potential COVID exposure.

It would be a nuisance to have to sign in at restaurants, especially with a physical address.
Yeah, this is what reddit needed - now bots will keep reposting content not only for Karma(and they are coping whole comment trees, not just main submission) but for real money (or at least something tradeable for $)
It is true. The eight limbs (of Ashtanga, which is the style I practice) say nothing about the absence of a mind-body connection.

You made an account just to post incorrect information about yoga?
> Dude. This is literally in Article IV:

> "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, ..."

Perhaps it’s my imperfect understanding of English here, but to me this reads more like a guarantee to the states that the federal government itself will take the form of a republican government, not that the states themselves must be republics.

It’s like a shopkeeper saying “My store shall guarantee to every shopper prices that are no higher than that of a competitor’s.” The guarantee is on the shopkeeper’s part; no obligation is required of the shoppers themselves.
MongoDB for VS Code
I have absolutely read articles, in the NY Times, comparing Sweden’s approach to other countries. Initially they were positive and then they turned negative when the death rates started climbing.
I telecommuted for years and almost never used a webcam. A shared desktop has way more potential for something really interesting and valuable being displayed.

Watching hoards of people hop on webcams to transmit choppy video information about their face and home seems like wasted bandwidth to me.

Edit: addendum, get a headset, transmitting voice clearly with some decent noise cancellation is really important. I buy the cheap logitech h390, like 25 bucks each.
Tabs are bookmarks that can keep their state. Normal bookmarks have only the URL, and any parameters that go in the URL, but discard the rest, like your position on the page, your navigation history, or what you are doing in a PWA.

Tabs don't discard data, bookmarks do. Sometimes you just want the landing page and a bookmark is fine, other times you want the extra data and a long-lived tab is needed.
Reddit is utterly useless for honest product reviews. The only place to reliably find genuine product reviews is from people you know IRL. Your friends, family, coworkers, etc.
I would be surprised if many of the common public believed that warrantless searches of anyone are reasonable, while exempting federal elected officials from the same law.

Now's a good time to call you senator (if they voted against this) and tell them that they fucked up by weakening your rights and freedoms.

Then, get a VPN or better use Tor as much as you can.
You have to take into account that Europe is much more densely and uniformly populated than the United States, and had outbreaks start earlier than the US.

WRT. "United States of Europe", thanks to the EU, you can often consider the Union as a unit in terms of trade; Europe is also more homogenous culturarly than the states. However, when talking about COVID-19, EU has almost zero influence on how the pandemic is handled (somewhat by design, definitely by vote); it's only meaningful to talk about individual nations, with their own healthcare systems, their own emergency policies, and their own sovereign, locked down borders.
Will Gartner put Particle.io into IoT Leader in Magic Quadrant anytime soon?
Lowpoly art from user uploaded photos. Just went online: https://lowpolynator.com/
released a simple RSS search engine called DatoRSS https://datorss.com.

There is also the associated API https://feedirss.com also created by me.
In most school shootings,they are not diagnosed with any mental illness. By that logic jihadist terrorists are sociopathic and mentally ill as well. You are right about their lack of interest in affecting change in governmental politics but they are many times (not always) trying to affect change in social politics. They prepare well ahead of time,plan out their actions and advertise their gripe against society.
Just don't give them anything then. What he's doing now is like handling the corporation a piece of writing on paper, letting people take pictures of it, then grabbing the paper back, ripping in up and dropping the paper thrash on the street. It doesn't serve anyone.
actually people are sitting at home getting paid more to sit than they were to work, and the government is not getting paid --- it's losing massive tax revenue.
The beauty of eryanping trail in Taiwan
None of it really matters though if the certificate authorities are compromised.
Save Yourself from Attention Deprivation
> Most traffic is over HTTPS, so VPNs aren't as useful as they once were.

Meanwhile, on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23164887

A lot of traffic is over HTTPS, and that does help a lot. But a lot of that traffic isn't doing an adequate job of protecting the domain names, there are general attacks around page size that can be used to identify static resources, and people underestimate the vocal subgroups of developers that refuse to use HTTPS in the first place.

Encrypting DNS is a good reason to use a VPN. DNS over HTTPS theoretically solves those problems, but last time I checked unless you configure it right it would fall back to normal DNS whenever it couldn't find a domain, and that still doesn't solve the problem that SNI isn't universally adopted yet.

> If you're this level of worried, you should make sure you're either signed out go Google/Gmail or have your search history turned off.

Strongly agreed. For most people, using Firefox containers and/or uMatrix would result in a bigger privacy gain than a VPN. That's not to say a VPN wouldn't help on top of that, but if you're using a VPN and not using uMatrix to block cross-site cookies from sites like Google, your priorities are probably wrong.

Have you disabled Chrome sync for your browsing history? You should be worried about stuff like that long before you consider either subscribing to or running your own VPN.
They can pin posts to the top of the subreddit though can’t they? I have to imagine that increases post traffic/upvotes/interaction.
Privacy is dead. Long live data ownership
Been working on a CLI tool for stock trading since I tried to look for one and it doesn't seem to exist. Was also a fun excuse to get more experience with Go and try out the Cobra library.

Besides that, lots of more involved cooking and baking projects to fill the time. I'll come out of this ready to be a stay at home dad!
That ("if the creator/mods haven't had had public activity in 60 days") doesn't appear to be accurate. From the sidebar:

> Note that “activity anywhere on reddit” IS NOT limited to publicly visible posts and comments.

Reddit's admins can presumably see things like last visit, use of the moderator tools, etc. that aren't in the public feed.
I'm making a web emulation of the Metal Gear Solid V emblem creator. Felt it would be a good way to learn about web components and Typescript.
Why elect representatives at all then, just pick at random.
My partner and i were laughing about making a retro community website, free of adverts, trying to recapture the spirit of the old Geocities era web. It got a bit out of hand and we came up with https://www.vistaserv.net.

I apologise if folks have already seen it, since it actually (surprisingly) got a bunch of traction here on HN over the weekend, but that has been our quarantine project, for what it's worth!
Something I made to keep me productive. I've to say, this is the most I've stuck to a todo list (definitely some bias) :)

http://usedone.today/
Not to be a debbie downer, but don't most UI designers like to specify UIs graphically rather than verbally?
"Users can hoard their points or spend them on unique features such as badges, custom emojis and GIFs in comments."

GIFs...in...comments? That will quickly lead to a worsening user experience, who thought this was a good idea?

"In the Reddit app your wallet is a full Ethereum wallet that has a private key and recovery phrase. You are able to use that wallet anywhere you would normally use an Ethereum wallet by exporting it."

Does this mean it can be converted to (or spent like) cash?
I wasn't being dismissive of their accomplishments, just was bringing up the fact that since this is out of most of our expertise areas, we will likely be less skeptical of the post from the get go.
A private invite-only social site for friends and family to keep in touch and share stuff (not everyone is on Facebook, and we're geographically dispersed). Demo version is available [1]. It includes things like photos, calendar, simple direct messages etc. Yes of course there are ready-made solutions for self-hosting like Mastodon, but this has been a good learning/portfolio exercise.

[1] https://demo.localhub.social
Intel Announces Xeon W-1200 Series: Comet Lake for Workstations, W480
Build an ARM CorteM0+ emulator and open-source it.
The answer is obvious† to somebody who knows how it works, so it's probably in a category of questions where there's not a lot of overlap between people who might ask and people who might be in a position to answer.

I remember when I answered a Stack Overflow question about how Domain Validation for certificates in the Web PKI work thinking that just a year or two earlier the answer would be hazy and probably get marked unsatisfactory even though it was true - because it was so vague and few people would be in a position to confirm it. As it happened they'd asked after the Ten Blessed Methods were formally required and so those are the answer, written down in black and white in a document I could offer as a reference for anyone to look at.

† The hostname part is less obvious than the rest it's fair to say because HTTP's Host header is just a header and thus encrypted, and you need extra insight to realise SNI needs to exist.
Someone should make a Wikipedia page of that list. Oh, wait.
I agree but I’d take it a bit further.

Trying to change the behavior of a group of people by using violence is what I’d consider to be terrorism.

By that definition, some school shooters would qualify as terrorists. When they target a category of people (like athletes) who haven’t bulled them, they’re trying to scare all people away from becoming athletes.

I’d say, if you target specific people who directly hurt you, you’re seeking revenge.

If you target a category of people, you’re saying that those people who haven’t done anything to you are targets and you’re trying to influence their behavior through fear.