skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand your point.

If it's the "instant delivery" you propose to replace by local storage, what is the link with solar? You could as well store energy received from the grid.

Solar is particularly inefficient, both because of the volume it requires per unit of energy produced, and because storing energy incurs a huge loss (also, since this post discusses security risks, I guess storing large amounts of energy at home is definitely not the safest of options)
You can see this in action on Twitch sometimes in the chat. People ask why the subscription for a streamer via mobile app is $5.99 when it's $4.99 via the web app when there is no difference in what is being provided.

It is noticed and often people actively avoid the higher price once they are aware. Some are frustrated and unsubscribe.

This is understandable since they realize they've been paying an on-going 20% premium every month for a one-time convenience by originally pressing the subscribe button from the mobile version. And none of the extra 20% goes to the streamer they wanted to support.
I can see (drunk and/or irresponsible) persons wanting to shoot at the insulators to make them spark and blow up - you get some pretty nice fireworks that way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCzdPFJ4tog
Longevity ≠ immortality. Death is inevitable, but maximizing (quality) existence should be a priority for humanity.
I agree with this partially. I have had very good feedback from the reviewers when my app was rejected. I could find and fix their issues, I may not agree with it, but the terms were clear.

Also... I've submitted a minor bug fix and got flagged on something I did not change that was previously approved and their terms did not change. That gets frustrating. I feel like every update is a gamble. Some parts of it seem pretty vague. Sometimes I just resubmit and get a new reviewer and he approves on the iffy ones. But with people in the loop interpretation is always a thing and I can't get too mad over it.
What percentage of income do you think young people should be saving? Because from what I see, this is the age of freely available personal finance advice, and more people seem to be following it at whichever age they stumble into stable income. Sure, there would be splurges here and there, but as far as I can tell, people are saving well.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/20/why-young-people-are-saving-...

https://www.vox.com/sponsored/13219620/chase-newsroom-genera...
why "cryptbe"? It sounds like you're from belgium
The handful of (tech) billionaires I’ve met all seemed to genuinely enjoy the work that made them rich. People have different utility functions (which is a good thing!)
Yeah but the implication is you should never pay more than 99 cents or whatever. Coke did the same thing, running advertisements about 5 cent Coke even though they couldn't control the actual price of a bottle of Coke. Worked really well apparently.

Also, I've never paid above 99 cents for Arizona. So it seems that worked as well.
Considering the business partner angle, i wonder how expensive it was, 20 years ago, to market, securely deliver to consumers, and process payments from customers for small developers selling in CompUSA or BestBuy, while providing analytics on sales.

I wonder if it gave rise or "justification" to the 30% thing, but don't know.
Except it's not the "same" software. If I have to make native iOS and Android apps, I have to essentially create two separate pieces of code.

If I was selling my software at Walmart, I have to change nothing to sell it at Target.
There are reasonable arguments against significantly increased lifespans, although I strongly disagree. There are no reasonable arguments against preventing or repairing the damage caused by aging, which is both a humanitarian and economic disaster.
Yeah I don't know what he's talking about. A lot of places I've been to will give cash discounts. Or have minimum credit card orders
I remember talking to someone in Cuba in 2014 and learning that it's common for folks to buy black-market DVDs containing scraped copies of major news outlets and parts of Wikipedia.

I wonder what the spectrum of weird hacks of that nature are going on in China beyond just a VPN solution.
Nintendo and Microsoft/Xbox have low margin on each device sold [1] [2].
For Valve, Steam is the only real source of income.
Apple on the other hand has a lot of source of incomes.
They have a margin of 60 percent just for the iPhone! [3]

[1] https://www.polygon.com/2017/4/5/15195638/nintendo-switch-co...

[2] https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-not-making-any-money-on...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-iphone/apples-iphon...
Thanks!

I remember being in that very room and attending some talks a few years ago. Good times.
> If tired after an intercontinental flight, go to the gym for some exertion instead of resting.

Personally, I think I’d rather take a 20 minute nap and then go to the gym.
You mean astronauts shouldn’t have iPads they need to put in “airplane” mode when the cached data gets corrupted? cough cough
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Whoa, that map on page 2 reminds me of some 1990s tabletop RPGs. Right down to the naming style.
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I think people who feel this way should be perfectly free to, but not everyone does, and they should be free not to die as per their preference.

I think of it as, if my loved one (or me) were in the hospital with a fatal disease, but there was a cure, I would want the cure. I can't really see myself saying "Yeah, but death is so beautiful..."

I see aging the same way, as another fatal disease and I'd cure it if I could. I don't hope for an indefinite period of old age, but an indefinite period of good health, like 20-30s.
For the very example-driven people, can you give a couple of examples of some of those non-obvious, subtle implementation details that completely destroy crypto schemes?
This should be an individual decision.
Because Apple cripples their browser on iOS, so you cannot make a web app. Basic app features like push notification are not implemented on iOS Safari.
Loved watching this. The home-made heat sink is pretty sweet.

From the get-go, the sketchiest part of this was watching him wiring the power supplies in series, and lo and behold, that’s what failed.

Power electronics are super dangerous and I wouldn’t DIY any of this stuff myself. That being said, I’d probably simplify the power setup. Wall voltage AC to 30V DC can be done with a single component (quick search on Digikey makes it clear), but that’s not a super common transformation, so it’s kinda niche.

High power is tough. I’d be really interested to understand how an AC ago DC converter works will handle high wattage without frying —- AC to DC has some loss (call it 20%) and you could still have a few hundred watts in your converter. That’s probably why the power supplies fried, that loss. I wonder if he could get a AC to DC converter and mount it on an expanded heat sink, safely.

Again all this is super dangerous, but I ain’t the one with a YouTube channel.
I’d be interested to see your source for him instigating the altercation of the men chasing him.
I actually have a sticker of ECB Tux[1] on my laptop to serve as a fun reminder :P

[1] https://filippo.io/images/Tux-ECB.png
>But when it was founded 4 decades ago...there weren't any products like it on the market.

Nonsense.

There have been vitamins and protein drinks sold in stores for over 50 years. Every drug store and most grocery stores carried vitamins since the 1940s. The One-A-Day multivitamin brand appeared in 1943. My parents were born in the 1940s and they took vitamins as children. I was born in the 1960s and I took Flintstones Kids vitamins, which ere introduced in 1968.

Protein powders started showing up in drug and health food stores in the 1950s with the advent of body building becoming popular. GNC was started in the 1930s and was in every major mall across America in the 1970s, and they sold protein drinks, both liquid and powder. Remember Charles Atlas? Probably not. There have been multiple health food fads throughout American history.

Herbalife stays in business because people are gullible. The multi-level marketing business model appeals to our greed and fear of missing a good deal. None of the products offered by Tupperware, Avon, Mary Kay, Fuller Brush, Amway, and Primerica are unique in anyway and the only people getting rich are towards the top of the pyramid.
Thank you for that context. Do you have recommendations for good resources to read more about this?
You don't think stores should be able to decide what products they sell? If I had a product that on the box said "Target is a shitty company" you really think Target should be forced to stock it?
What Sendgrid offers here (and this is fairly typical) goes like this:

* To use their APIs or SMTP submission servers you need a bearer token, which is basically a random blob of data.

* To get a new bearer token (good for any number of API calls or SMTP submissions) you log into a web site and request a new token. This site is also where you can de-authorize existing tokens. The site is protected with 2FA

Today, Sendgrid offers this, only with Authy for 2FA and it's optional. If you decide bearer tokens are too complicated for your 15 year old PHP mail sending code, you can just use a username and self-selected password for SMTP or the API instead.

Authy has an obligatory SMS bypass. So even though you can use an app to generate codes, bad guys who can SIM swap their way to your phone number can do 2FA and get into the web site to issue their own bearer tokens.

So, today if you can guess a company's username and password on Sendgrid there's a good chance that's enough to have Sendgrid help you send spam as that company.

With the 2FA world they want to get to, you would need to either SIM-swap, trick their customer service agents, or most likely just pinch a bearer token they wrote to a Pastebin or whatever.

They could do much better in 2020, but there's no sign Sendgrid has any interest in doing more than the very bare minimum.
This is sort of contradictory but at the same time as expected speed up on "realistic" code isn't as big it's also easier for JIT compiling VMs to optimize high level abstractions than something like C.

JIT compilers have different optimizations available like:

Fast inlined heap allocation (normally much faster than malloc/free). V8 even does allocation combining

Transparent ropes for strings

High level alias analysis for hash tables and objects

Inlining dynamic dispatched functions and dynamically loaded functions
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The proper solution is to get a bigger hard drive.
If people were dying in troves of a disease (...) every effort would be put on saving them, right? How come some deaths are considered "fine", but others aren't?

No. Just No.

Let longevity come. Let immortality come. Let us live forever, sail the heavens, and travel to every world, every star, every galaxy, everywhere.
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> Scammers sent the wiring instructions a few hours before the legit closing attorney sent the real instructions.

In my view, this mess is temporary. It's caused by a partial transition from an old system (manual via solicitors, cheques, and bank managers) to a new one. The old one was pretty reliable, but involved a lot of expensive people. The new one is like operating in the matrix. When communications happens electronically, the checks built into the old system break down and it's near impossible for a human to know if a electronic message is real.

It is not near impossible for a computer to know of course. A computer validate a series of cryptographic assertions anchored at the titles office relaying what bank to credit, and it can do with far greater accuracy than the old "human relationship" system, and it can do it in factions of second. But right now we use the new system to communicate because it self evidently more efficient to do so, and still use the checks from the old system to validate those communications.

You see this all the time. Phishing fraud, where accounts are sent fake invoices from what appears to be a valid supplier is essentially the same thing - humans using eyeballs to verify an electronic document is valid (which is essentially impossible), as opposed the supplier just signing it and the bank account details it contains.

It's almost comically bad. I was asked by the accounting section of one of the top computer contracting organisations to verify I controlled another bank account. They demanded a bank statement to prove it. Problem: the details on the bank statement were inaccurate. I raised a ticket with the bank to get it fixed, but as seems to happen depressingly often the bank screwed it up. So in the I downloaded PDF, edited it, rendered it to TIFF, added noise, and sent it. It was accepted of course.

Right now most organisations are wide to being exploited because they are communicating electronically, and using eyeballs to validate the result. They seem oblivious to the idea The Matrix wasn't just a move, it was a prophecy. And now the future it prophecised has arrived.

It will change, but only after quite a few companies have been ripped a new one.
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Related, 2 months ago my sendgrid account gets hacked and a stolen (I presume) credit card gets added. They buy a plan, then proceed to send spam/phishing. I of course contact their support within minutes of receiving an email that $750 was spent on my account. They've now spent $1500 through my account on these spam emails, yet sendgrid finally dealt with the issue yesterday by deleting my account.

https://mobile.twitter.com/PaulBGD/status/129591880033708441...
> Would you say the same thing to someone building all their software to compile on Intel?

If they’re targeting Intel processors only and not x86 more generally? Yes, I would.

Otherwise, there’s at least one credible competitor (AMD) that’ll gladly sell you compatible processors, who I’m sure would be happy to see the increased sales if Intel jacked up their prices.
He "deployed code" that caused the deletions. I can definitely come up with many scenarios where something automatically removes VMs.

Edit: And https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24320495 provides a terraform command that is claimed to be potentially very destructive.
I can definitely relate to being disappointed with myself after wasting too much time online (YouTube is usually my addiction).

Problem is, even when I am productive, I usually don't feel much better for it. At least I don't feel guilty, but I don't really feel satisfied either. Feeling satisfied at the end of the day just seems to be random.
Global warming at it again
It's not a duplicate, people are just trying to create a Streisand effect by reposting this news every day.
Given how long side channels and timing attacks have been causing problems why haven't compilers tried to meet the requirements of crypto authors and implementors?

Feels like people are fighting against compiler optimisations more than ever.
>I found youth will overcome a lot of bad ergonomic habits.

So true. You can sit on anything with any awkward position you want, sleep 3 hours a day, and don't feel a thing.

Then you turn 30...
Compared with other publishers of software 30% was probably pretty reasonable.

Now it's just simply not.
Do you mean the hosted or enterprise versions? The enterprise version is a behemoth (in a good way). Tuning an open source redis to be able to do what it does is nearly impossible.
How to improve my employees' productivity?
looks like they cracked them? no rate limits?
Why isn't IO free?
Mind sharing what uncomfortable truths you discovered?
I have sat many hours in an Aeron (and am sitting in one right now), but am not sure why I don't hear more about the Herman Miller Sayl Chair. I find it vastly more comfortable.
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It really speaks to how badly innovation has slowed in chip design that a 10+ year old budget laptop is still comptitive hardware
That's kind of selfish. You're ignoring the impact on parking availability for the rest of the universe.
> Plenty of people exercise their religious faith, Hinduism and otherwise, without adopting an aggressive posture against anyone else. They don't get called out for right wing extremism.

Do you know in India - only Hindu land. Every year 140-160 Hindus are killed by Muslims, for religious reasons.
Can you answer me why ??

> This is whataboutism.

Not Whereaboutism, hypocracy if you are fair.

Some more Info.

1. Muslims were the original rich people and rulers in India for about 500 years on and off.

2. Muslims always killed, forcefully converted and humiliated Hindus, but never apologized or reconciled not even today, and they keep on humiliating Hindus and killing and raping minor 8-10 year old Hindu girls. Muslims are disgusting people.

3. Western white colonial and racist people have distorted and lied about these current events and historical events. So, if you are white colonial legacy person you do not have any right to say anything on India or Hindus.

4. If you say anything, I will expose the white racist pigs and their activities against Hindus. So, better shutup.
I notice at the end you imply that a senior software engineer claiming they weren’t rolling their own crypto because they used OpenSSL was doing so in error. What sorts of issues could arise if they were using OpenSSL to handle cryptography? Or was it that they were trying to use low level APIs in OpenSSL to create some higher-level cryptosystem they perhaps didn’t fully understand?
I've seen plenty of stories about being almost out of beds but I have yet to see one where anywhere in the world has run out of them and had to turn positive patients away from hospitals.

Has anyone seen stories about people being turned away?
The past year sprouted a lot of the+"location"+times.com in Eastern Europe and many of them had pro-Russia and anti-local government content, especially when the local governments were supported by the EU.
Okay fair, now that you mention it I think the last time I had to deal with it it was actually Montana State DOJ and not federal DOJ.
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I watched a documentary on Fred Beckey and then Valley Uprising. For a group that took a lot of risk, many of them seem to live or have lived till the age of 75. Fred Beckey himself lived till the age of 94. His entire lifestyle is a list of things to not to live long except for the exercise.
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IBM has built a new drug-making lab in the cloud
> If you write an app that you can sell on the app store to 860 people for $5

fwiw, that's an incredibly hard feat that most people don't ever accomplish. Even "it's just 16 work-weeks at minimum wage" would have been a better demo.
At some point it'll just become lucrative to mine old dumps. Until that point, it's probably not worth it.
Atleast apple’s surplus is not only taken by its employees, and a reasonable chunk passes to shareholders. So people paying the fee can just buy apple shares and get back some of the fee.
This was depressing
It's value that they created only by preventing business from servicing themselves. It's more like demanding payment for not torching your shop than by offering a unique value generating service.

If the app store were really so incredibly great for app developers then Apple should have no trouble allowing alternate app stores.
What's stopping anyone from banning all of that right now?
Why so little interest and activities?
> Okay Q is a wacky conspiracy theory. What's the headline real-world event here though? Some kid walked into a pizza joint with a rifle. That's pretty much it. He didn't shoot anyone, didn't explicitly threaten anyone, didn't break anything. But that makes this cult a massive danger?

People are red-pilling. Once they are awake, they cannot be put back asleep. This is what makes this cult dangerous.

And its not just conservative America that's red-pilling:

https://www.mesabitribune.com/news/6-greater-minnesota-mayor...

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4852367/user-clip-democrat-ca...
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Man, you are so awesome. See everything through.
Oh wow, that's my local area and I had never heard of this. Thanks for posting. Makes you wonder what happens that doesn't get discovered.
These people are the really weird ones to me. They think they are more experts than the people who have studied this stuff for years. I don't understand the arrogance.
The [Trans Bay Cable](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_Bay_Cable) is a 53mi-long cable carrying 400MW at 200kV DC (so that's 2000A). It's capable of supplying 40% of San Francisco's electricity needs.

According to [this web-page](https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Overview-of-the-Trans-Ba...), the cable is 10 inches in diameter, and [according to this briefing](http://www.caiso.com/Documents/070418_BriefingonTransBayCabl...) there's an inch-thick armour layer over another 2 inches of lead (wat?!) and PE. According to that same briefing, the cable seems to not be buried and is instead just layed directly onto the sea-bed.

So dragging an anchor probably would do more damage to your boat and the anchor than the cable itself - but I imagine a diamond-tipped cutting blade could probably make its way through the armor layer eventually - perhaps some carefully placed underwater explosives would help weaken it too. Just hope you have protection against the extreme current going through the cable travelling up your anchor...

So yes, it's within the realm of possibility for an individual to sabotage the SF Bay Area's electrical power system.

...that's scary.

But the thing about disrupting public utility infrastructure is that it doesn't fill people with fear - it just inconveniences them. If there was a news headline about some incel/qanon idiot dropping underwater explosives into the bay around this cable from a rowboat to shut-down SF's power supply it just seems... underwhelming and non-threatening: quite the opposite of a macho-masculine power-fantasy - and they'd probably get laughed out of the communities they claim to represent.
That's not really a barrier. It's "can't be parsed without ambiguity", not "can't be parsed". You compile cases like that by compiling a check for the relevant condition, then compile the possible versions in the if/else branches. Unless you can prove which case it will be from other code - then you can simplify anyway.
Yeah it's pretty well known. For some larger transformers they used the world's largest plane, An 225, to transport them half way across the globe because otherwise it would be a months long delay.
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Multiple gunmen shot at the transformers for 19 minutes...what about that sounds professional to anyone?

That's not a quick attack, accurate shooting, nor the proper ammo to do real damage. Terrorists can't get a .50? The only impressive part is cutting the phone lines.

Anyone with basic knowledge of a substation could inflict more damage faster than that.

If I were to take a random guess, at best it was a cartel prepping to rob someone, and Telco operations aren't exactly new for them
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And it's not the title of the video.
Well, it's easy: just develop your own mobile phone and operating system, make it popular, and then you don't have to pay the 30%.

Anti-free speech advocates use this argument when they say it's okay that Facebook, Twitter and Visa ban you - they are private companies and you can just create your own social media and payment systems. It's that easy!