skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russian oligarch is very specific term[1], due to his age, Durov is missed time frame by 20 years to become one. Durov is Internet entrepreneur that is forced to become political expat, that's on the opposite spectrum from russian oligarch, like self made tech entrepreneur vs oil magnate trough inheritance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_oligarch
I remember there was a multiboot USB written by a French dude, but it was freeware IIRC. Glad that this one is opensource!
The average iphone owner (and average android owner) would ask why you are asking them about their backyard.
MIPS and SPARC to name a few. Almost all routers are on MIPS and most of them are running some form of Linux or BSD.

AFAIK, rust is still marked as "guaranteed to build" on these platforms, but assume only Linux. BSDs, not so much.
+1 for the powerful yet minimalistic nnn where concise help is only a question mark away and the default mnemonics make sense. Wonderful piece of software.
Because they “magically” updated and improved tons of stuff in the last four years. So I think it’s not unreasonable to consider whether their encryption improved too.

But yes, not having encryption on by default speaks poorly of them. OTOH it’s not concrete proof that the encryption still sucks as of now.
Agreed. The tech is there, but gatekeepers have set up shop around the last mile. Onerous regulations like KYC surround exchanges in the first world. In regions with tight capital controls, it can be even more difficult. The people who stand to benefit the most have the biggest hurdles to adoption.
Hmm... if your process keeps grabbing new memory from the OS, even though 70% of the memory it had already allocated is free to use then that's a sure sign of rampant memory fragmentation though. Because even though there is a lot of free mapped memory in the process overall, there are no continuous ranges of free memory that are big enough to fulfill at least some of the new allocations (so the allocator needs to grab fresh memory pages from the OS).

This means there's a wave of new allocations moving through your address space, and it's leaving behind a fragmented mess. Calling malloc_trim() won't help with the address space fragmentation, it will only free memory pages caught up in the mess. At some point the allocation wave will hit the top of the address space and allocations will start to fail. Usually this is not a problem in 64-bit processes of course, because it will take a very long time to run out of 64-bits, but on 32-bit processes this was a real problem.
90% of everything is famously trash!
qt and wxwidgets are cross platform.
I also did this once in early high school, but I personally didn't feel it was worth the time. I had already used Gentoo for a year when I did LFS though, so that probably affected the learning potential. (I do believe that most of what I know about Linux, I know from the year I used Gentoo.)
There's crap, and there's crap where the design is affected by the need to nudge (or force) people towards buying IAPs.
There were more arguments than just productivity.

The article supplied an telephone analogy. Put yourself into the situation of the recipient. Would you or would you not mind being put on hold immediately after being called?

> I find that [doing something that does not affect me adversely, but does for the other party] is more practical.

That kind of reasoning for the benefit of oneself without consideration for the other side causes bad blood.
If you use brew or macports you can install the coreutils package and then you're good to go with gnu find.

I also use MacOS and I have setup the gnu userland on my local so it matches the linux environment on our servers and containers.
Because nobody knew about it. I was never aware of this and 2018 was my most active year of web development.
I'm advocating for a disjoint function in terms of penalties, disjoint on net worth. I am not saying we apply a scalar factor based on a person's net worth; but I do think we do need to acknowledge that people who hold hundreds of millions or billions of dollars in wealth operate in different worlds from the rest of us. The justice system is different for them, and unless you completely get rid of money and its influence, that won't change. As such, there needs to be _some_ cutoff where we can largely all agree someone holds a disproportionate amount of wealth and power, and thus should be held to a higher standard.

I do take offense to this being called 'Tumblr communism'. Yes, Western justice systems should strive towards impartiality, but part and parcel of that is making punishments appropriate. If you fine someone making $35,000 a year $1000 dollars, you will do a lot of harm to them. If you fine someone making $35,000,000 a year $1000, they probably won't even notice. For a more practical example from my own backyard: carpool lane violators in the Bay Area. Before this pandemic, when traffic was still a thing, there would be a lot of BMWs, Audis and Mercedes violating the carpool lane. The common factor was that these were luxury cars and the owners were more likely to be able to slough off a carpool violation fine. They would rarely get ticketed, but for a lot of such drivers, even if they did, a ticket was just the price of business. On the other hand, if you were driving a '98 corolla that you could barely maintain and put the gas into, you would likely not risk a carpool violation just to save a couple of minutes, because if you did get the fine, it would be a serious impact on your finances. Because the law punished both these people the same, it made it financially viable for the wealthier people to ignore the rules, while poorer people had to follow them because they couldn't afford doing otherwise. If in this contrived scenario the punishment was scaled based on income, the fine would be sufficiently punitive for all strata of wealth, and thus no longer incentivize the more well off to break the rules.

I was somewhat haughty with my earlier words, and I don't think we should judge people differently based on net worth. After all, if you murder 10,000 people, does it matter much if you live in a palace or a cardboard box? But I do think the punishment should fit not only the crime but the person, and that the very rich should be penalized more harshly than the average person, for the same crime.

(As an aside, I'd also like to say that the username definitely does not check out. 'genocidic' is not a word, but it is meant to trip up people thinking it is and that it relates to 'genocide'. It's high school me being clever after watching Monty Python)
Nobody was “proved to be correct”, because the winner of a poll does not by itself show anything about the probability of that particular candidate having won.
A lot of key SF books in the cannon are dystopias 1984, We , Brave New World, Gulliver's travels could possibly be considered SF as well.
Experts Predict the Next Roadblocks in AI
I emailed them about each and every flaw of their API that I detailed, and some other details I didn't reveal about it.

Their developers and public relationships people are good professionals but I can't stop feeling they are overworked.

Moreover, I detailed those flaws not as empty criticism but rather as instances of software being problematic not because of undocumented behavior but actually because of "undocumented design".
Why isn't Lenovo banned then?
Sorry for not supporting Windows yet. As I'm less familiar with the Windows toolchain, it takes me a little longer to port to Windows.
If you don't mind, please feel free to shoot me an email (in my profile), so I can notify you once it's released.
Was pretty surprised no mac option or even a timeline for mac availability but looking at the resolution supported which isn’t even HD seems we are not missing out on much and more just a feature that want to be able to say they have like the competitors even if not useable.
FWIW, Steam allows you to return any game if you have played less than two hours of it.
Even windows
Ask HN: Best free mind map software online? Limited use is ok
> Here's a problem that blockchain solves - financial censorship.

Cash is still better

This argument comes up everytime blockchain are discussed, but I don't believe it is true

I could theoretically pay 4chan using crypto money,but I argue this is not a solution

First of all, it's not the straightforward, very few people on average can do that on their own

It requires a computer with a connection, they are ubiquitous I understand it, but it's still a very hard requirement

But most of all, what do I do with the crypto if the baker doesn't accept them?

I have to change them into a fiat currency valid in my country and I have to do it in my name (or the company name) because it's illegal to do it in some other people name it's also illegal in many countries if you are a company use a third party to shelter the origin of the money (you pay X who then donates to WikiLeaks)

at that point we are back at square one
I’m running a 9900K and a 2080ti in a Ghost S1 with a few top hats custom loop and 2 240 rads, the Corsair isn’t a worse deal at that point.

That build cost quite a bit more than a Corsair One at similar specs.

It’s possible to build an SFF build for cheaper, it will be very hard to do so for the same spec as the One.
>I think the point is more that in e.g. the US, nearly half the population has an iPhone [1]

Oh, no, I was absolutely aware that he was referring to the Android-iPhone pairing, as in "it's Android-only as opposed to available on both Android and iOS, as every major messaging app"; I just wanted to specify that it is not only available on Android, but also on Linux (PC and phones--I guess you can use it on the Pinephone, too, besides the Librem 5).
BS! The JVM from Oracle/Sun is called "Java HotSpot Performance Engine" in short HotSpot:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotSpot
Turkey's Erdogan hails natural gas find
AngelCAD: Script-based 3D solid modeller
Everyone dismissed warnings. Individuals, enterprises, governments.

Stop whining. Move on.
If you don’t want to send your data to Google, you can’t use an Android phone period. They don’t need you to sign into the Play Store to track you.
honestly these are my favorite posts, free information, love it
Thanks for the insight, and had completely missed the blog!

On dendrite: What's your impression of friction needed to migrate an existing synapse home server to dendrite? Would bridges like the mautrix family be API compatible or would they have to add additional support for dendrite? And how far away would you say you feel it is until dendrite is stable and ready for individuals as personal production server?

Not looking for dates, just a feeling for how worth it is to invest getting deeper into synapse if one intends to migrate to dendrite eventually.
Road to Genius: Smart No.20
They pulled the Dropbox app for this very reason, a few years back. It’s a troubling, but widely known limitation.
Pretty specific stereotype you got there with the homeless schitzophrenic.

I don't think anyone is worried about stereotypes being applied when determining how far to get away from someone with a knife, though I imagine black people experience more roads crossings than normal, knife or not.
> I couldn't imagine that type of argument not getting absolutely destroyed if it was a thread about the US, the UK or Canada.

I think it's what I was trying to say with my initial comment. The occasional discussions involving US politics seem to be moderated more effectively.
For 70 years all this stuff was deliberately suppressed. But of late the corruption and raw incompetence has become too much.
The Debian ripgrep binary is 5.1MB. That would consume over 15% of a 32MB flash, which is the common constraint you have to work with in many (actually, discounting Android, it might even be most) Linux deployments.
Learn Data Structure and Algorithm in JavaScript – Part 14
Didn't know, thanks. I was on an enterprise account.
https://whimsical.com/

https://www.mindmeister.com/
The probability of winning is based on the popular support for a candidate. The poll directly measures that support. How can it possibly not 'show anything about the probability of that particular candidate having won'?
You can feel the sluggishness of every Unity game instantly, not saing it's C# fault, but its not a good engine for fast games.
Winning the election != winning the popular vote. There are plenty of qualitative reasons to believe the popular vote distribution matches the Economist model. He isn't arguing about how they came up with distribution. He is arguing that the particular kind of distribution is unreasonable in all instances. Which I disagree with. There are plenty of places in statistical modeling where a narrow head makes absolute sense.
I think Nate's _interpretation_ was proved correct, and in the vein of "all models are wrong, some were useful," his proved useful (or would have if people were taking it more seriously) in both forecasting a more uncertain result as well as ancillary things like showing which states were"tipping point states" e.g. where should you put your money if you want to win.
Accused Spy Peter Debbins Evidently Beat the Polygraph to Penetrate the NSA, DIA
A little bit of marketing wording I must confess, but it is as real time as you can get with this kind of datasets.

The API that I used for this project along the other APIs by GFW power an app called Forest Watcher that it's pretty real-time.
> Furthermore, there were significant revisions in Unicode's implementation of Burmese script up until Unicode 5.1 in 2008.

So they didn’t have full Burmese support anyway until as recent as 2008?
Where is the fundamental problem in doing that?

Would saying that genocide is bad be political? What about if a country's government and people believed in genocide of a specific race -- would saying that said country is committing genocide be political? If it is political, is it bad to be politically against that?

What is the actual problem with being political, especially when being 'political' means being on the right side of morality?
> The IAPs are vetted by Apple

> some IAP scams get by review

Schrodinger's Vetting
Or rather, his interpretation was supported by the results, not proved
Andrew Gelman weighs into this much more thoughtfully here: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/08/14/new-fiveth....
Telemetry removal won't be too hard I hope? For smaller changes, Debian has ways to patch packages already.
Some good answers already, but to answer directly; I like distro hopping to see what’s what. Plus Kali for pen testing occasionally.
Looks like he was having fun to me.
> Mozilla executives don't really deserve to be the custodians of MDN anymore

Whatever financial/operational reasons there were for the recent cutbacks, the current situation of MDN (and Firefox) confirms my doubt and distrust of the leadership and management. It's been terrible for their reputation.

Of course, as a for-profit, they're free to prioritize business and financial sustainability. But the decisions they implemented - and how they went about it - seemed to have no respect for what makes Mozilla actually valuable (not just in terms of profit, but in social good and long-term role in the market).

They should have started by eliminating the bloat from the top, instead of laying off hard-working teams, experts and specialists that produced the real value.

In the end, if these projects can adapt and survive, it might turn out to be a good thing, to become more community-supported and independent of Mozilla. On the other hand, it seems natural for Google or Microsoft to swoop in as "evangelists of the open web" and take these projects under their (massively funded) wings.
That's scanning for private APIs, not scanning for malicious behavior. Use of private APIs is not inherently malicious and the security framework can not rely on private APIs not being used.
Yes, I meant "why are you scared?" It's a huge problem I've encountered where a very large percentage of the population get freaked out about things like black holes, rogue planets, gamma ray bursts, the sun eventually going nova, etc. As someone whose background is astrophysics and planetary science, I find it totally bizarre.

Like, we just found out the universe is a way, way bigger place--full of planets between the stars. Maybe humans will visit these worlds someday as we planet-hop between the stars. What civilization could we make near these cold, but resource-rich worlds? What if they had tidally-heated moons with liquid oceans... what sort of life would evolve without the energy of a star?

But no, people's first reaction is "OMG is this going to kill me?!" I've even had someone get angry at me for bringing up the topic (that the sun will go nova billions of years from now) and making them depressed. I just don't get it.

> That said, there is a problematic selection bias in your statement about our solar system. Only stable systems can produce observers, so of course we find ourselves in a stable system. For now ;-)

That's why I mentioned other exosolar systems. So far as we can see, basically every stellar object that we look at has stable planetary system. We mostly find planets by periodic transit events, which requires the plane of formation to be aligned with us. You can calculate the statistical chance that this is the case, and sure enough when we look we find roughly that percentage of stable planetary systems. If there were rogue planets or primordial black holes out there likely to encounter us, then those other systems would be just as vulnerable and we would expect to see fewer percentage of visible stable planetary systems than predicted. That is not the case.

We would also expect consistent groups of long-period comets from the interactions of these passing objects with the Kuiper belt and Oort cloud, but there is no consistent grouping.

We would expect a history of random heavy bombardment periods in the crater history of the moon, mars, mercury, and other datable planetary bodies in the solar system. Instead we see just one period, the late heavy bombardment which coincides with the synchronization of the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn in the late stages of solar system formation.

Etc. etc. When I first saw the headline I thought "wait a minute, that cannot be right." And sure enough, it's not. There aren't 100's of rogue planets in our particular stellar neighborhood, but rather scattered around the nearby region.
Wordpress iOS app isn't used for buying domains. It's simply helps manage your website. Apple is going crazy and in a rush to reach the next trillion landmark.
JPK is a statist busybody. Please ignore his ramblings.

(And as far as various ideas from his blog are concerned, over the years not one made any sense.)
Email exchange between Epic and Apple shows Epic demanded special privileges
Why do they tell us about this process in schools only with an apple fall? Actually, there is a lot of effort behind it and we ignore it.
> using the XML-RPC API included in core WP since WP 2.6 was released in 2008.

Wow this is the first time I think I've heard of a real use of XML-RPC
It varies by model, check out Johnny Guru's reviews, they dismantle them and figure out who the OEM is.
I never said that it is. Did you only read the first line of what I wrote?
Not having a squishy human in the machine makes doing a lot of crazy maneuvers a lot more doable.
This is only fast because it hits C underneath, isn't it?
I think me and you agree to a large degree :-)

> Firstly, there is no proof of this happening. I've been looking for the documentation and/or source code for this for more than five years now, and it's never been published.

I haven't found anything more either. See also below.

> Secondly, even IF it was happening, the server that strips the in-transit encryption has access to the plaintext, and can copy the message to anywhere it damn pleases. It can write it to "plaintext-messages.txt" for all it cares, that's like two lines of Python in the backend.

Theoretically, couldn't the client send the message to one server and the keys to a different set of servers? Clients would request the encrypted messages from one server and the keys from another?

It is still not nearly as good security as proper E2E-encryption but should still be possible to set up so that a single rogue sysadmin cannot get hold of messages.

> Also, the servers creating database entries must by definition have the full database encryption key in its RAM, from where privileged processes can exfiltrate it (computer organization 101).
The thing is, there isn't technology out there that allows Telegram to do what it claims as securely as it claims. If they are indeed innovating on this, why aren't they publishing their research and proving their worth?

See above. As long as they don't do serverside search or anything this should be possible?

> "they seem remarkable competent at certain aspects of what they do"
Yeah, you can be great at UX design and shitty at cryptography. That's perfectly fine.

Definitely.

As mentioned before I prefer Signal. I actually like your answer.

We need more of these answers and less:

- X is definitely in the pocket of FSB.

- E2E or nothing!

- Use WhatsApp or nothing!

Hey, even tptacek went as far as admitting this at some point:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22371316
what's the alternative to handling a giant dump then?
+1 for ag (the_silver_searcher)
US intermodal traffic higher for second consecutive week
>Keep in mind that you don't need to necessarily "prove" things that can be checked later. The insurance company is happy to take your word that there's no PCI card data on your network and cash your premiums. If there is and it gets stolen in a hack they simply won't pay out.

Yep, this is exactly what I expect, similar to the original car theft example:

"Ahh, you left the car unlocked, sorry, you cannot be reimbursed as you didn't exercise the expected diligence"
Reaction Commerce – Getting Started
I was just highlighting that ReMarkable isn’t a charity and they don’t need to be.
Show HN: DocTemple – My first SaaS startup after 6 months of solo development
Hello HN,

I’m Jan, creator of DocTemple.

The idea came from doing much more advanced version for one of my customers where he needed a tool to fill repetitive templates with data from the database. Employee enters database id and based on the data it filled it accordingly (with loops and conditional statements within document).

After working on it I was like „Wait a minute, there has to be more companies that are underserved in that specific area of filling templates manually.” So I created a completely new app based on the same idea - to let people fill thousands of templates in minutes instead of hours. And to let them do it in simple fashion. I truly hope I achieved that.

After long 6 months of developing my own product (there where months that I had only 2 days to work on it because day job and life + never implemented payments before) and making sure everything works as I wanted I can finally say it’s ready to show it to the world.

For sure the biggest challenge here will be to find the companies that actually need it.

I hope you will like this little tool! If anything you can reach me out here and on the chat on the site as well.

Thanks and looking forward to your thoughts and feedback!
Probably a follow up on this one[0]. Also related to cxx's[1] (mentioned in chromium's original post[2])

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24211691
[1]: https://github.com/dtolnay/cxx
[2]: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...
Did I offend you when I noted that they make a profit on the stylus? Your comment looks very defensive.
I recall it being fairly easy to miss!
Liu Cixin Writes Science Fiction Epics That Transcend the Moment
https://archive.vn/ducSA
You just improved my life. Thank you.
It doesn't matter. Obviously, Epic would like to pay 0% royalties on everything and be able to publish unlicensed games on consoles.

The problem is that Atari already failed in court against Nintendo back in the eighties, so the chances of winning that suit appear slim.