skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right about that. So it might look like this

static.domain.com (CDN subdomain with auto provisioned TLS)

static-uncached.domain.com (private pass-through subdomain when CDN is missing a file)

www.domain.com (app server hosted wherever)

You're right that you could do something similar with other CDNs including Cloudflare (you can just set the www subdomain to "bypass Cloudflare" to accomplish a similar result), but I'm not aware of any way to use Cloudflare on a domain without forwarding your nameservers to them, effectively giving them complete control over the domain. At least with Stackpath I can host DNS wherever and simply point the subdomains I want at them.

Also, by the time you do the work to split static files into separate subdomains you might as well go with a dedicated CDN. One of the selling points of Cloudflare is for sites serving everything on one subdomain that they can forward to Cloudflare and get caching without any work.
I thought this only applies to their free accounts, and that they have no issues with serving any size files as long as you pay them.
A little trick to remember long things like a diceware passphrase for example is to develop the muscle memory for it starting with the first three words. When those three words have been ingrained/burned into memory, you add another two words, and over time increase the amount of words until the whole phrase is memorized. It seems obvious, but you would be surprised about how many people try to remember the whole phrase on the spot without developing it in small parts, over time.
Six distinct 'types' of Covid-19 identified
Something like the usual sense of the word.
> ChAdOx1 nCoV-19

If I didn't have the context of 2020 and this article, I would swear that was an auto-generated random password.
I was recently talking with someone who manages seismic data, and using fiber optics to collect seismic data is really taking off. The amount of data you get is orders of magnitude more than a traditional station. They had a problem, as custodians of seismic data, of someone trying to give them a new data set that represented 10% of all their historic data.

It’s kind of crazy how easy it is to drown in data.
Citations can give data, though. If your ideas are based on more than just your own experience, you need external data.
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Off-topic, but what is the current state of tor onion (hidden) services? Are they easy to de-anonymize?
This is actually really ironic.

When the government wants to charge you for the "non-tax" obligatory TV fee they get your data automatically from your local citizens' office. You cannot protect your data from that.

But when you want to claim unemployment, suddenly you need to physically pass printed pages of paper between different offices because they cannot exchange data due to data protection rules.

These sort of idiosyncrasies are a commonplace in the Federal Republic.
Is this GPT-3 or a real comment?
I read the spec (column "FULL REFRESH TIME (S)") as saying 15 seconds per refresh not 15 refreshes per second. So 4 frames per minute which falls well within your calculation.

edit: Fixed to be 4 frames per minute not 4 frames per second.
The Chinese Health Code app has been extremely widely deployed and has probably contributed significantly to containment. I’m not sure how much has been written about exactly how it works though.
You can avoid the branch at the end by computing your iteration count beforehand and using switch statement jump table where each case is a step in the search, and you iterate by falling through.
I did something like this to autogenerate host names. Then a colleague pointed out he'd done the same using dict words and got in some hot water due to politically incorrect combinations. I punted and used the output of ls /etc, /bin and /usr/bin, so hostnames end up like ifconfig-du-passwd instead. This is just temporary to make them slightly easier to read and parse as a human until we map serial number to asset name and then use that.
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The start screen is just an image with some distortion.
Soon to be followed by similar posts about DDG and Firefox.
I quickly checked for the Netherlands and it seems there's no big practical difference.

The 2017 Act on Intelligence and Security Services allows Dutch intelligence and security services to tap into internet traffic without giving clear reasons or oversight.

Doesn't sound all that "people friendly" to me.

There's a difference between privacy laws concerning companies and public institutions (where the countries you mentioned score indeed very high) and access to internet traffic by certain government agencies.

The latter is legally possible (often without requiring strict legitimisation) in all of them. Officially there might be differences when it comes to legal requirements, but in practise government intelligence and security services have full access to internet traffic anyway.
I think its actually 15 seconds per frame, not frames per second
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Taguchi Designs Differ from Factorial Designs
Likewise many DDoS-for-hire services, un-ironically.

Dosninja.com for example (there are dozens, though not all Cloudflare protected).

Unlike "free speech" sites, the entire point of a DDoS-for-hire site is to suppress speech.

Nice to be able to get it both ways!
It does look there's ripples in it, but I suspect that it's a pattern made from the winds and the angle of the light causing the smooth effect
I think it's more about public trust in the app than anything else. Nearform, and the government, were quite effective in establishing public trust; I think it helped that it was open source.
I did not mean religious beliefs in general, just particular 'man in the sky' beliefs, which are as absurd as flat earth.
But somehow a bunch people who have such beliefs are smart and productive.
They also have an inherent information theoretic advantage over non-outrageous claims when consumed by someone who is unable to discern their veracity.
Got to New York for the first time, had awful jet lag, found a place for breakfast at 5:30 in the morning. Asked for Americano coffee. The whole diner made big eyes, like "what do you mean?!".
I like powdered instant coffee with condensed milk, now kill me.
Wirecard, Gazprom, McKinsey scandals. Not gonna name names.
If those attacks are completely negligable, was it the progressiveness and open mindedness of politicians that brought us to this point in history in terms of civil rights etc?
It's seven color, not 7-bit. Also there might be just a "set color" command followed by 1-bit pixel data instead of a 4-bit pixel representation, or something.
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> mass application of vaccine

Is anyone optimistic about that?
> I don't like Twitter either, so I don't use it. It's a really effective solution!

Schneier's point is the threat of a malicious actor starting a war by hijacking a politician's Twitter is non-zero. People like you and me opting out of Twitter is not an effective solution to that.
Good Enough Theory
may be in 10 years this will become our new correct horse battery staple
Don't a lot of networks block torrent traffic? I'm thinking about educational or work networks where one might watch a tutorial
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Foreword: I believe masks help.

It doesn’t help that leading Health organizations have changed their point of view over time. It also doesn’t help that mask manufacturers place a disclaimer regarding effectiveness of the masks. That and very few people wear them right —which decreases their effectiveness such that they might as well be a good luck charm.

Hygiene, distancing, minimizing contact time as well as wearing a mask and goggles help. But a mask by itself is of limited effectiveness though not useless.
I mean, they literally contributed computing power towards enjoying a video game. That's pretty much the advertised purpose of a consumer GPU.
My favorite theory around this is that deepfake panic is being stoked so that if the Epstein tapes (or other video evidence of power elite malfeasance) ever leak, the people in them can just cry "deepfake!"
Why would firing someone make you feel like reparative measures have been taken?
The irony is we're talking about Good vs Evil of potential AI systems. It could be a nuclear arms race but I suspect we would be better for it. When information has been free it has nearly always been of benefit to humanity.
It's probably because you're still young. More specifically (and here I'm guessing something about you), romantically unattached. Dating is a tough road to hoe if you can't or won't fund about half of a wedding and at least one of kids-and-a-house or traveling-the-world. Well, not dating exactly - you can get laid and even start relationships but in my experience the relationships will have a half-life and eventually fall apart in the face of increasingly unpleasant conversations about your lack of interest in the expensive stuff mentioned above.

Especially as a software engineer, I think, because ... hippies don't really like us that much, so there just aren't that many would-be ascetics out there willing to date us, and the people who do date us tend to pretty good at pegging their lifestyle expectations to a "leveled-up" career progression.
> where if a law is unconstitutional it's struck down immediately

What? Cases take years or decades to make their way through the court system. You might be thinking of the fact that some laws get an injunction on their enforcement until they are ruled on, but that is not mandatory. More important, they are not struck down, only enjoined. And of course if the legislature changes the law, the case becomes moot by the time it reaches the court (this happens semi-regularly, where the court refuses to rule on the constitutionality of a law that is no longer on the books).
Not sure what you mean.

Without government help there wouldn't be any airlines left. Would you prefer that?
Ceph.

Random fact of the day, co-founder of Dreamhost created Ceph. Which is the filesystem for nearly all block object storage (AWS S3, etc) these days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sage_Weil
Perhaps someone more familiar with the technology can help me understand. Why are e-ink displays either tiny (tablet-sized or smaller) or huge (for digital signage)? I always thought it would be cool to have an x-teen or 20 something inch e-ink monitor to make reading docs, specs, etc. much easier. I realize the refresh rate on these things is pretty low, but I've read accounts of some screens being clocked to around 20hz which may not be enough to watch videos or play games, but it would be ok for reading and scrolling.

OTOH I did see a 30 something inch e-ink development board for sale once and wondered if I could hack one together. It was expensive, but that didn't particularly matter because the company made it clear they wouldn't sell to consumers or hobbyists.
Thanks, I’ll add that to my to-read list.

I suppose rather than asking for a “good” author (subjective, for example I’ve met an Oxbridge English Literature graduate who thought Shakespeare was overrated), I should have asked for a “famous” author from the same era.

The sort of author whose works a current-day Indian politician would have on their shelves, or perhaps quote from, to signal how cultured they are — in the same sort of way UK PM Johnson tried to show how cultured he was by quoting Kipling.
Around 2 weeks I think
Anyone know how tolerant these are of UV, how long will it survive in frequent direct sunlight?
Beyond Meat founder: Our plant-based meat to be cheaper than animal protein
The page says 15s.
Raspberry Pi Shuffler Is Computerized Card Shark
Health insurance is standard high deductible provided by my company. I don't care about retirement and emergency funds. 3 years ago I cleaned out my 401 and donated it and it actually wasn't so bad. I'm doing the max for tax deductible so that I get some company matching and no taxes but after I quit my job I plan to clean it out again and donate them like I did 3 years ago.

Imo, if you are truly happy, you can find happiness no matter how bad your situation is. So I don't care about the distant future. I optimize for the impact I can make today.
Most companies refuse to handle the accounts/sites cloudflare handles.
There's certainly a profile of relatively high end, readily faked, mass-market products that I would never buy on Amazon. Apple iPhone chargers are the classic example, but most name-brand fashion qualifies too.
I also came up with the same analogy after reading both posts. Wasn't just lurking and when I later had a moment to post my brilliant analogy it was already posted. So if many of us thought of this independently, does that make it a better or worse analogy?
I really like TiddlyWiki for note taking. 2-way links and transclusion are important features for me. It's not Xanadu, but it's an easy to use alternative that strikes the right balance for me.
There are certainly plenty of black markets thriving on onion services. Some have been online and serving for quite a few years. They seem fine.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23818727
or Lean
There's a HTTP status code for pages which were deleted: 410 Gone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes#4xx_...

This was famously used by Mark Pilgrim:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pilgrim#%22Disappearance%...
NetFlix is a heavy FreeBSD shop, so I'd assume FreeBSD.
This is why I've always felt Robinhood is evil.

It is trading platform that combines 1.) user engagement/gamification with 2.) targeting a core userbase of young adults that are both financially unstable and inexperienced. It's disgusting and immoral.

This is the epitome of late-stage capitalism. Extract as much money as possible from gullible users. Except we're not maximizing screentime anymore to leverage ad revenue and micro transactions. We're maximizing screen time to drive trade volume while letting people make financial decisions that can literally ruin the rest of their lives.

Well, at least Robinhood's platform hasn't directly led to young adults committing suicide. Oh, it has? Nevermind...
Fusion! We know it's possible. We have some half working proof of concept projects. I was shocked when I learned that research spending on fusion energy worldwide is something like $1.5B. Thats basically a rounding error compared to the gains of solving it.

Room temperature superconductors also come to mind but I think that venture is somewhat better funded than Fusion.
This is a nice write up, but don't forget that YouTube isn't just about hosting. It's about distribution. If you host your own videos, you are 100% relying on your own means of getting people to watch it. In the use-case that is state here, that's probably just what the author ordered. But not everyone has that luxury.
I found this 10.3 inch monitor on their site, it's quite expensive though https://www.waveshare.com/product/displays/e-paper/eink-disp...
I think the answer is much simpler: at the time Windows was created, no one in their most sadistic totalitarian dream could have imagined such evil as an app store.
The Left Is Now the Right
Germany doesn't "give itself as many powers as it can". Just recently, the courts affirmed that even foreigners have a right to privacy that intelligence agencies have to respect.

Privacy regulation in Europe is the mot stringent anywhere, and contrary to popular myth it applies to governments just as it does to corporations and citizens.

Conservatives have been clamoring for metadata retention requirements afor communication companies for about a decade or so, but all of their ideas failed either in parliament or in the courts.

Video surveillance is illegal by default, and is only done in sensitive areas such as airports. Even as a private citizen, you can get fined for installing a camera that points at public spaces. Some landlord was even fined for installing a fake camera in the public staircase, because the possiblity of surveillance was considered harmful.
Not everything needs to be B2C. There are a ton of problems to solve for B2B - for example reconciling buy side transactions to the street. In this space though usually a bank/fund will spin off a product they developed in house but there are a few companies that have started from scratch.
Axioms can also be mutually contradictory and this may not be obvious initially. Then you can prove and disprove everything at the same time.
I have a three color model from waveshare, and the way it works for it is you have to send a black and white bitmap, followed by a color and white bitmap. It's possible for these guys you need to repeat that five times.
Notebook Interfaces Are the Future
I bought two pairs of sunglasses from Amazon recently. Different brands, different pictures, different price. Ended up with two pairs of the exact same glasses...
What would you think about a deep fake depicting secret video footage (from a cell phone) of real climate scientists at at a real conference discussing how they are manipulating the data to convince the public and the lawmakers that climate change is a real phenomena. This deep fake would contain real people who really are climate scientists who really did attend a conference together. Its just that this discussion never took place. It was created by deep fake technology.

This type of scenario seems like a very real concern to me. You can extend this example into practically any hot button issue.
Initial versions, and the review comments that led to their abandonment, can be saved in your code review system.
> But we do realize that sooner or later a model even more powerful will be released to the public, right?

And at that time, we can equally criticize whomever releases it.

> And as far as protecting democracy, I assure you that the geopolitical enemies of your nation either have similar models, or will have them very soon. There is very significant investment on ML models for text manipulation going on behind closed doors, funded by States.

True, but it's a good idea to keep a high bar for developing and using it. There's a large difference between the resources of a nation state and various criminal enterprises.

Per [0], GPT-3 took $12 million to train. That does not include the people with the relevant skills need to train it, and access to the compute hardware.

[0]: https://venturebeat.com/2020/06/01/ai-machine-learning-opena...
Question: is it even possible to have DDoS protection without using a provider of it which becomes a single point of failure? Or is it maybe possible to decouple this single feature from everything else that Cloudflare provides that could take out all the sites in the future from an unrelated misconfiguration?

I don't see the centralization as a positive, but I'm wondering what percentage of the websites that were taken offline see themselves as having no choice but to use Cloudflare in order to prevent themselves from being taken down anyway from malicious actors instead of by accident.
that's not bad as one-line critiques go, but few people are narrowly techno-optimist. few would say that only technology will fix our ills, with no other structural changes.

but certainly technology as solution can be misguided. UBI for instance (applying the term 'technology' broadly), as a path to labor and leisure utopia that actually further entrenches power/wealth in the hands of the few, thereby making no meaningful structural change addressing unproductivity or unfairness.
Where does that immutability come from? If you have a centralized service controlling the flow of knowledge, this could have its own consequences.

Maybe some sort of CRDT + gossip network? But at that point you are quite close to a blockchain.

(Not that I'm confident such a thing is a good idea, but I do think that a decent portion of the blockchain stack makes sense given the idea)
Trading for regular people isn't supposed to be some thrill seeking sport. Millions of dollars are spent on wall street to get "an edge". You really think you can do better ?
> "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." - Carl Sagan

At what point would you call it self-hosting? Keeping it on his own servers? Rolling his own CDN? Bare-metal in a server farm?
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This has so far been bootstrapped and an implementation of the back-end with minimal capabilities already exists.

The need is for an individual with demonstrable entrepreneurial drive and experience with business and/or commercial banking and/or the financial function in corporations.

There is no salary in this role until we have raised investor funds.

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> because the company made it clear they wouldn't sell to consumers or hobbyists.

But if you have a business address it always allowed to request a sample.
Garbage in, garbage out, is unfortunately a fairly major problem with all of these things. If you train them on the public internet, they're going to become quite racist.

I think I prefer the related but much more benign phenomenon where they tend to write unexpected Harry Potter fanfiction: https://aiweirdness.com/post/189313008792/finest-pies
You say "There are no shades of grey here" but then you contradict it by saying "You can make things harder by encrypting your traffic", so obviously you don't mean it.

By dismissing the imperfect possiblities of making yourself safer, you seem to be saying "there only needs to be one gunner to shoot you when you look out the window, so either you never leave your bunker or may as well live in a war zone", while dismissing those who ask "which country is the most peaceful and stable, so that I can settle there?".

People can be well aware of weak crypto, compromised CPUs, TEMPEST, Tor compromises, state actors and legal problems, and yet still choose which of those to defend against, and to what extent. In real life, people take tradeoffs, because it's almost never an all-or-nothing situation.
> FULL REFRESH TIME 15s

That's 15 seconds per frame, or 0.067 fps.

That refresh rate is fine if you're using it to show the price of a rack of clothing, or various sensors - but you're not going to get smooth-scrolling text with it. The low-power interface is for those same battery-backed retail signage applications, where you're driving this, the microcontroller, and the wireless receiver with 3.7v from a coin cell.

Glad to see these becoming available for consumers and hackers! They've been hard to come by for years.
This is the exact point. Rarely has controlling information and science ever benefit humanity.
Working exclusively from home since mid-March has certainly made some aspects of pregnancy easier - if I was tired, I could cross the hall and take a short nap in a proper bed, and had my whole house of food to choose from at any time, the quality of which is more under my control than what happens to be in the company canteen or vending machines that day, and wasn’t killing 1.5-2 hours a day getting to and from the office.

Also, I wasn’t exposed to all the other random illnesses besides Covid-19.

If this wasn’t our first kid, I probably would have been more stressed due to childcare problems, though.

This being Germany, I’ve been off work since I hit week 34, pandemic or no pandemic.
I wish your reply was more clear about the argument and reasoning to support your view that it’s unreasonable “for the rest of the planet”.

Your position is theoretically an interesting viewpoint, but without any context or explanation it is meaningless to the rest of us here.

I hope that you’ll take the time to explain further, so that we can all comprehend your reasoning.