skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Whereas Samuel Hopkins of the City of Philadelphia and State of Pensylvania hath discovered an Improvement, not known or used before, such Discovery, in the making of Pot ash and Pearl ash by a new Apparatus and Proceſs; that is to say, in the making of Pearl ash 1st. by burning the raw Ashes in a Furnace, 2d. by disſolving and boiling them when so burnt in Water, 3rd. by drawing off and settling the Ley, and 4th. by boiling the Ley into Salts which then are the true Pearl ash; and also in the making of Pot ash by fluxing the Pearl ash so made as aforesaid; which Operation of burning the raw Ashes in a Furnace, preparatory to their Diſsolution and boiling in Water, is new, leaves little Residuum; and produces a much greater Quantity of Salt: These are therefore in pursuance of the Act, entituled “An Act to promote the Progreſs of useful Arts”, to grant to the said Samuel Hopkins, his Heirs, Administrators and Aſsigns, for the Term of fourteen Years, the sole and exclusive Right and Liberty of using, and vending to others the said Discovery, of burning the raw Ashes previous to their being diſsolved and boiled in Water, according to the true Intent and Meaning, of the Act aforesaid. In Testimony whereof I have caused these Letters to be made patent, and the Seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed. Given under my Hand at the City of New York this thirty first Day of July in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & Ninety.
I bet they put profit over security. They considered lost ad revenue.
> How many people saw the tweets and transferred bitcoins during the period in which twitter likely could have turned off everthing, but not yet blocked access to the respective accounts

At most 475 greedy idiots, average $266 each

https://www.coindesk.com/chainalysis-says-bitcoin-scammed-fr...

"The most prevalent address received $120,000 in bitcoin from 375 transactions. Secondary addresses received $6,700 in bitcoin from 100 transactions. An XRP wallet netted nothing."
around 3-4 months on AWS would equal buying hardware on the spot.
You simply need to pay above the market. My company does that quite often when we need someone senior quickly to fill in a gap after some other senior left and you'd be surprised of the caliber of people that come out of the woodwork.
They used to say about a well known Irish politician that he always took the bribe but never did what he was bribed to do. But people kept bribing him anyway.
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Twitter weighs about a MB, a tweet is at most 280 characters, and typically of negative utility to the user and society. So yes.
Can I ask, what’s the reason for using the keyword “initial”? As I understand it it could be any string that doesn’t accidentally create a valid value?
firejail?
When Google Cloud went down a few years ago, they were unable to access internal monitoring because the bad bgp change overloaded their networks if i remember correctly.
>If you choose to ignore your own health that's your deal, but if you make choices that negatively impact the lives of millions I think the ethics are different.

The impact of any individual unit of meat consumption by an individual is incredibly marginal. The standard society generally uses to determine whether an individual has harmed another is way higher than that. The satisfaction an individual gets from eating meat might well be greater than the dissatisfaction that instance causes others, and indeed since there's no objective standard it's impossible to measure exactly.
Can you do that even with metrics? I really doubt that.
Rethinking event loop integration for libraries
Yes, classic noise suppression sounds very poor very quickly. Noisy or poor audio is like blurred photos or videos, very hard to fix, while noisy or shaky videos are easily fixed (especially temporal de-noising on videos is akin to magic, it can extend the performance of the camera by multiple stops with very low IQ impact).

That's why these ML tools are potentially huge, good ol' noise suppression just isn't good.
“We did it Reddit” is quoting a Reddit comment made when the Reddit hive mind found a bunch of “evidence” that a certain guy was the Boston bomber, but he turned out to be someone totally innocent
Well, yes and no. Caste is a lot more than racism based on class. It is hard to explain how much an Indian is normalised to racism. If you ask a "high caste" brahmin, they (we, I come from one such family) will say casteism doesn't exist.

It does.

I've seen it and it is horrible. I loathe the caste system. I loathe almost everything to do with hinduism. I loathe how deeply astrology is rooted in our systems, I loathe how I can tell what sub-caste of brahmin someone is by the way they dress during ceremonies or by the marks on their forehead. It disgusts how I have been raised in a way that I prefer my castle's cooking to another's.

The caste system is definitely disgusting. If you're very interested in knowing more, contact me on twitter. I use the same handle everywhere. I'll send you some resources about how it has damaged this society more than helped it.
And if I were to make a bioweapon, I would think about long-term impact.

(1) Millions disabled is far worse than millions dead.

(2) Attacks can come in multiple pieces. The first virus might do damage to make people especially vulnerable to the second virus. If I can protect my population against the first one /or/ the second, my people are safe.

My opinion is it's just a matter of time before we see bioweapons, and we should be ready. If not before COVID19, then now. Our vulnerability is very obvious.

We should treat this as an emergency prep drill, and make sure businesses can operate remotely, kids can learn remotely, we have PPE, and the infrastructure is in place for essential work. That also wouldn't collapse the economy.
Actually, it’s good that they’re communicating proactively. It’s not supposed to be a postmortem. This post sucks
Yes! I’m confused at what the automated attack was about. Possibly botnets tweeting it to distract from the real account access or to make the attack look worse than it was?
https://thesquareplanet.com/blog/livestream-tips/ this is great resource.
I fully agree, the distinction is split between fear and farce.
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Personally, I take my proteins in lentils. And yeast.

I completely cut my soya some times ago on health considerations: phytoestrogens and poor fat quality of soya.
Do vegetarians have lower health costs? Is that a fact?
I've seen pulseeffects mentioned a few times, I must admit that I don't know exactly what it is and will need to research it first.
How do you make sure this doesn't lull you into a false sense of trust?

Here's a discussion about a paper by respected scientists working in a respected organisation. The paper is probably bad science. https://twitter.com/DiseaseEcology/status/128386841036377702...
I agree, frameworks can be beneficial to productivity.

I think my feelings about them mostly have to do with a lack of control over your own creations on multiple levels. Personally I'm a bit slow and I can't hold a lot of things in my head at once, so all of these nice-to-have code quality principles are actually pretty important to me.

I can deal with a library being a bit of a black box, as long as I can make some basic assertions about it such as which parts are thread-safe, what sorts of exceptions to expect and so on. Usually it doesn't take too long to learn how to use it well enough.

With a framework, the learning part is much more convoluted. The tutorials and documentation are usually written for "task-based" learning, i.e. you have a specific goal and the documentation just tells you which buttons to push, which levers to pull in that case. And stack overflow will fill in the blanks. When your (preferably very small) app is covered by that, you're golden.

But when you're doing something more complex or have a specific issue, you need the "model-based" approach. You need to understand the architecture behind the framework, and usually that means you'll have to read most of the source code with zero guidance. And you'll probably have to wade through lots of code that is only there to avoid some boilerplate in "hello world"-level projects. Most people won't do that, and then they're stuck with an incomplete mental model based on a patchwork of experiences. It can get pretty cargo-cultish sometimes when you end up configuring something you don't understand because in your experience it makes things run better.

I admit that I'm oversimplifying/overgeneralizing and frameworks are popular because they tend to help people meet deadlines. And I use them too. But it feels wrong, like I don't really know what I'm doing.
Mullvad allows you to mail them cash.
Large portion of some network is down? Oh, right, it's BGP. It's always BGP.
Wow, I had no idea that Microsoft bought npm. What's the endgame there?
this is old news. what's more relevant is the question of why ICANN is still in place and why the original transaction giving them control hasn't been rolled back.
I think part of the question is: why try so hard to save the company at all? If 90% of the people working there ends up out on the street anyway, what's so special about the company itself that warrants showering money on the remaining 10% to try to keep it afloat? Why not let it fail, and those 50 people -- if they really are so high-performing -- will quickly find jobs with other firms. Some of them might even opt to start a new business instead of finding a new gig, taking with them knowledge and potential customers.

Instead of using the last of the money to keep the 10% around on a hail-mary, spread that money around to 100% of the company so their crash landing is a little softer.
Bats are not really eaten as food in China. Maybe eaten as part of traditional medicines or rarely in specific rural areas but that's about it.

The videos of people eating bats that surfaced following the beginning of Covid-19 were from Indonesia.

The way this misinformation has spread is indeed based on racism (Chinese are 'barbarians' who have 'barbarian' eating habits and they should change them and eat like 'normal' people).

Now, (fruit) bats eaten as food in West Africa is a major vector of the spread of Ebola.
Problem is that the category of users who can be tricked over the phone to tell someone OTP are people who just won't be bothered to use external devices like yubikeys - they're a hassle, you need to carry it around, can loose it, costs money, etc. 2FA is a middle ground, it's free, it's already with you as you carry the phone anyway. Most of ordinary people can be talked into actually using it, and while not perfect it provides a lot more security than just passwords...

Security always goes against user's convenience, just like the privacy... and in real life, as a rule of thumb people tend to almost always choose convenience, first of anything else...
A while ago (18 June) former biology professor Bret Weinstein said the same in a Joe Rogan podcast [0], that there are several indications that seem to point out the virus is engineered.

One of the most interesting point he brings up, at least from my perspective, was the following:

- Bats are outdoor animals

- As such a corona virus that mainly targets bats should have little trouble spreading outside

- However if a virus has been studied in a lab, so perhaps the virus has mutated to spread more easily indoors and "forgot" how to spread outdoors

- Hence this could be the reason why at the moment this corona virus seems to have trouble spreading outside

- The virus originated very closely to a lab that is known to study virusus

But Bret also brings up other points.

Also, what I found very interesting about this podcast and related to the development of vaccines, is his statement on lab mice and the possibility that laboratoria currently use mice that might have been (perhaps unknowingly) conditioned to produce desirable results in tests [1].

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[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRCzZp1J0v0&t=6770s

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRCzZp1J0v0&t=9597s
Interesting, thanks. I wonder how such an app would go if it only supported ad-free viewing for Youtube Premium accounts. So that the point would be additional features, not blocking ads.
With the White House issuing orders for hospitals to report directly to them instead of the CDC, I'm not sure how long we'll be able to trust the US numbers.
> Attackers were able to view personal information including email addresses and phone numbers, which are displayed to some users of our internal support tools.

Can anyone explain to me why the phone number is stored in plain text for them to see?
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It has ALWAYS been like it is right now. The only difference is the current administration doesn't care as much about hiding it.
Cool thanks.

Just a suggestion if you do it, please include realistic room noises in some of the samples.

I looked at the RNNoise examples and it was pretty bad. I mean, the audio quality of the speaker got completely mangled but the background noise was also comically high. It sounded like the person just sat down in the middle of the street in NYC or was inside of a busy train terminal.
Is the cow for the burger you eat in California grown in California?

It's a good idea to be aware in general, but local under-supply isn't necessarily a helpful metric, I think. We've had the argument in Northern Germany that we should use less water, and it often went along with reports about droughts in Spain. But we're not Spain, we have plenty of rain (though it's not always equally distributed over the year).

Needless to say that we're not building a pipeline to transport the saved water to Spain. At the same time, we now have to regularly flush the sewers because we don't have enough "natural" flow and we have more issues with rising ground water damaging building foundations.
Would you also like me to prove to you that <insert diety here> didn’t make the human eye?

Nature in general creates amazing things on its own. Viruses are constantly mutating in animals, people are closer to these animals, and travel is ubiquitous. There’s a reason that many smart people have been warning and preparing for this to happen. No matter how unlikely, lotteries are won.
This is not what he/she wanted to imply. This is what was written there.
it is unlikely but not inconceivable that a bunch of accounts would tweet a similar solicitation, so obviously they needed enough data before knowing for sure twitter was under attack.So that meant the attacker probably had a solid 30-60 minutes of being undeterred. Even if a considerable number of people get scammed, the lost ad revenue would from shutting down the site would vastly exceed the cost of some users leaving twitter. Twitter knows its verified users are forgiving and loyal and will not leave the site if occasionally hacked. Twitter is a for-profit business. People need to keep this in mind, so their actions will be motivated to some degree by what is profitable for them. They are not a public service, even if they play a major role un public discource and politics.
Interesting, thank you. It seems the calculation becomes very different when you factor in the cost of a child (especially if he goes to college).
Technically GitHub bought NPM, GitHub operates almost entirely separate from Microsoft
It is very easy to find out whether someone is an expert, as long as you really want to and don't just fool around. For example, an expert on viral diseases will have a long track record of publications in highly acclaimed journals for the past 30 years or longer.

For the purpose of validation or expert testimony, there is no need to consider everyone who has a PhD and got tenure an expert. It is reasonable to set the bar very high.

The expert on catholicism example is a needless distraction. Of course, there are such experts on catholicism, and they can tell you best what catholic doctrine says. Their opinions about virology are obviously irrelevant, though.
Just looking at it from an effect perspective, it’s clear that the much more virulent variant was much easier to keep under control.
If total shutdown you suggest was done, I'd consider it a successful DoS attack.
This broke VLC launching for me, though i think the regression is actually from the previous release:

https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent-desktop/issues/1807

In-case anyone has the same issue... downgrading alone is not sufficient to fix, as the issue seems to be with the configuration stored in .config/WebTorrent Once you remove this and install 0.21 or less VLC will launch again.
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Take care of who? From the parent's tale, it sounds like 90% of the company got laid off anyway. They didn't get taken care of. Even if they did get some kind of severance package, they could have gotten more if the executives weren't paid retention bonuses and the company was just allowed to fail.

The bottom line is that most of the people who got hurt by a company's decline get zero say in how things go during that period, and obviously the people with the power are going to try to save the thing that signs their paychecks, even at the expense of the replaceable workers.
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Looking at the lens of "who will clean this up", future generations.

Looking at "who was there before and will be after my visit", then human civilization outlives each and every one of us.
Investors would probably do well to find executives to run their companies who know about market value/comps, know that $X is greater than $X/2 for all positive values of $X, and make decisions based on that knowledge.

If their market value elsewhere and their replacement’s demand here is $X and the company’s current projected comp is $X/2, that’s only tenable for a very short time.
Would you say what of any other political position? Probably not.
Is it a really unpopular opinion? Pretty sure it's the most popular one since most people eat lots of meat.
Was it this theorem of Lagrange's that you had in mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange%27s_theorem_(group_th... ?
If you want to implement an OpenFX [1] effect properly you have to write its core four times:

- A CUDA implementation, if the host uses CUDA

- A Metal implementation, for Apple

- An OpenCL implementation

- A fallback CPU-based implementation

- You don't need a DirectCompute implementation, because thankfully no one is idiotic enough to use it.

- You don't need a Vulkan implementation, because no one is doing compute on Vulkan (afaik).

The state of graphics and compute APIs is utter insanity. Especially Apple can go fuck off and die with their extremely moronic move of introducing OpenCL as an open standard in '09 and then presenting Metal as their closed API in '14, moving against OpenCL, OpenGL and Vulkan. nVidia at least has the excuse they were first to market with CUDA (and it's easier to program), and they stuck to it.

[1] THE standard for video effects, think "VST, but better and for video".
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Yes. It depends on what you want to show. Your version shows how to define functions and some simple pattern matching.
> This should be tested periodically to ensure that your backends are able to scale & take the load without shedding due to the lack of CDN.

Are you thinking of a cloud-computing context here? Seems to me a lot hinges on this, but perhaps I'm misunderstanding you.

If so, this would answer the scale question, and would presumably translate into increased prices until the incident is over. (I'm assuming CloudFlare offer a cheaper solution than doing it yourself on a cloud.)

If not, and you own the physical capacity yourself, wouldn't you do away with CloudFlare entirely?
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What if the 8 non-verified accounts are alt-accounts used by celebs/VIPs for personal communication?

Let us imagine that I am Jeff Bezos, why would I use my official account to DM people? I would rather use one where I look like everybody so that it is less likely to be the target of an attack.
Trying to gain trust against something you have no control over is the very definition of security theatre.
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Reduce virulence compared to what? SARS-1? But they are not talking about SARS-1, they actually were talking about some other random bat viruses, which have zero virulence in humans.
Shootings per day in the US doesn't count. To be a Party To A Conflict, not only does there have be some organisation to the violence, but the organised party has to agree to certain things, including renouncing physical or mental torture, or cruel or degrading treatment, as well as attacks on civilian population as such or civilian persons. Attacks shall be directed solely against military objectives.

(These are probably the reasons the cartels have for not becoming recognised belligerents: they likely see themselves as having unbundled the profitable aspects of violence from the unprofitable parts of governance.)

to switch references from the Geneva Conventions, consider the formal definition provided by Dr. Linebarger: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48612/48612-h/48612-h.htm

> Formally, war may be defined as the "reciprocal application of violence by public, armed bodies."

> If it is not reciprocal, it is not war, the killing of persons who do not defend themselves is not war, but slaughter, massacre, or punishment.

> If the bodies involved are not public, their violence is not war. Even our enemies in World War II were relatively careful about this distinction, because they did not know how soon or easily a violation of the rules might be scored against them. To be public, the combatants need not be legal—that is, constitutionally set up; it suffices, according to international usage, for the fighters to have a reasonable minimum of numbers, some kind of identification, and a purpose which is political. If you shoot your neighbor, you will be committing mere murder; but if you gather twenty or thirty friends, together, tie a red handkerchief around the left arm of each man, announce that you are out to overthrow the government of the United States, and then shoot your neighbor as a counterrevolutionary impediment to the new order of things, you can have the satisfaction of having waged war. (In practical terms, this means that you will be put to death for treason and rebellion, not merely for murder.)

> Finally, war must be violent. According to the law of modern states, all the way from Iceland to the Yemen, economic, political, or moral pressure is not war; war is the legalization, in behalf of the state, of things which no individual may lawfully do in time of peace. As a matter of fact, even in time of war you cannot kill the enemy unless you do so on behalf of the state; if you had shot a Japanese creditor of yours privately, or even shot a Japanese soldier when you yourself were out of uniform, you might properly and lawfully have been put to death for murder—either by our courts or by the enemies'. (This is among the charges which recur in the war trials. The Germans and Japanese killed persons whom even war did not entitle them to kill.)
When I started working on Krita 2003, it was already using Qt, of course, so I didn't have much of a choice -- if I wanted to work on Krita. But then, in a nice piece of circular reasoning, I choose to work on Krita because it was using Qt. Back then, I only knew Java, and Qt made C++ look like Java. One of the big problems I see in Qt is how the Qt developers are somehow ashamed of that heritage and want to make Qt steadily less Java-y and more Boosty or std-y.

Over the years, we've had a lot of pain, of course... But then again, a lot of fun, too, and without Qt we wouldn't have been able to create an application like Krita. Every alternative just is worse, much worse.