skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In practice, today, this is not very true.

There are three components worth looking at. Each of them is popularly secured with TLS.

Firstly, submission, sending an email you just wrote from your client to a server. This is usually done over a specifically TLS-secured "SMTP submission port" 587 although it can also be done with STARTTLS.

Second, relay, getting email from your server to somebody else's server. A large proportion of today's servers default to STARTTLS over SMTP for MX. So this means when they connect to a peer server to exchange mail they'll enquire about using TLS and do so if possible. A passive adversary can't stop this happening.

Finally, delivery. Almost all modern IMAP clients default to using TLS with IMAP, so this step will be encrypted. Even in clients that don't require TLS a passive adversary can't stop them upgrading by default if possible.
That's sort of reminiscent of the British alt-right's idea that the German car industry would be running to Merkel demanding her to pressure the EU into giving them a sweetheart deal.

As it turns out (or, more accurately: as people with a clue foretold from the beginning), this overestimated the willing ness of car executives to prioritise shareholder value at the expense of all else, the car industry's lobbying power, and Merkel's power in the EU.

Here, I'd similarly predict that Facebook is going to end up with most of the blame. People aren't entirely clueless, GDPR has quite a bit of support, and Facebook is only slightly above soggy bread in popularity.

But, in any case, a few thousand gamers, many of them under 18, in one country, wouldn't be able to get a law change. The EU also doesn't usually make small adjustments by passing new legislation as many other parliaments do. Instead, they do one huge thing like GDPR every decade or so (per sector).
I've found it enormously valuable at the beginning of projects to hash out (erm...) a glossary so we know that everybody has the same understanding of the terms we use.
Whats interesting is the Amazon got delayed for like a year on their other government contract due to IBM contesting their win [1]. While it might have been different in the past, contesting contracts is the way of the world these days. And that was only $600M contract. A $10B contract is worth fighting over even if it costs them millions. And the government knew it would be contested no matter who won. MS would have contested it had they not won. Unfortunately, the legal fees are just another part of the cost of the contract.

[1] https://www.informationweek.com/cloud/infrastructure-as-a-se...
It still exists and I use it regularly to find new stations: www.shoutcast.com

You can play streams directly from there or via WinAmp.
Everything Is Overrated
I met Bill G and had dinner with him when he published our software in the 80's. What you see is what you get with Gates. He's not a complicated guy. Smart, but uncomplicated. I liked that about him.
Layer 2 does not solve the medium of exchange problem. The cause is volatility which is rooted in Bitcoin's limited supply design. You can dig in Layer 2 adoption. It's not growing. Bitcoin only has 2 use cases: hold and speculate. Transaction is not a use case.

Layer 2 is not necessary until Layer 1 has some kind of stability. Layer 2 can also malfunction during volatility. Ethereum has demonstrated this.
Personally, I don’t care about what a computer system does with my data (to me, that’s no more bothersome than my underwear seeing my genitalia), but I do care if humans get to look at it. So overall I’m fine with what Google does, but bothered by government spooks looking through my data. I’m okay with humans looking if there’s a process with oversight limiting the search only to what is necessary. From this perspective, I don’t think Google harms my privacy much. I think the biggest privacy risk to me personally is probably from breaches/leaks (eg. if I gave my emails or messages to some dodgy service, and they end up on pastebin). To protect against that risk, I want entities that hold my data
to have strong controls, and I think Google clears that bar.
could do both too
Scientists use reinforcement learning to train quantum algorithm
The cult of JWT really bothers me.
Everything you said is absolutely true. I don't disagree with Microsoft's impact in the world is substantial.

But it is arguable that Facebook's ability to control/spread disinformation and propaganda in regards to political elections around the world is a different, but just as powerful impact.
After 30 years away from it, I can't. But others have echoed my comments. Perhaps Bitsavers has some VMS doc. One thing was clear: you could learn VMS from the manuals. That wasn't the case with any Unix manuals I've ever seen.
One of the key selling points for me is the RasPi OS and software ecosystem. Raspbian a great distro, very well aligned with the hardware. Getting a generic distro to boot on a system isn't the same as ensuring a smooth experience with things like system config, video playback, networking and peripherals.
They look a lot like fencing gloves, actually.
Intel researchers design smartphone-powered robot that costs $50 to assemble
Yes. It's poorly written and spends too much time talking about Unix without explaining VMS, which purports to be the topic.
Because it would be too tempting to shake the phone and brutally kill all your minions.
I've been working in the federal gov over 20 years. You can't paint a broad brush and say it's all a Microsoft shop. It really isn't. All my clients have been on Linux/unix or going to it (yes, leaving Microsoft).

There's a sizable market for non and anti Microsoft products.
Too bad article forgot to mention battery life. I'd expect minimal system with manufacturer supported Linux drivers to achieve really good times
A random fun note about how Peter Molyneux was able to start Bullfrog, sourced from Wikipedia[0] and mentioned in this blog's previous post[1]:

Molyneux tried to sell a game years earlier but failed so instead started a baked bean export company called Taurus Impex Limited. Commodore International mistook it for Torus, an established networking software company, and offered to provide Molyneux with ten free (still unreleased) Amiga systems. Taurus then designed a database system for the Amiga and the profits let Molyneux and Les Edgar found Bullfrog Productions.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Molyneux#Early_career

[1]: https://www.filfre.net/2016/06/peter-molyneuxs-kingdom-in-a-...
He’s reading this at the moment since it hit the top of HN, but for the last few hours it was all about Animal Crossing.
Because then you incentivize people to seek status.
Empire Earth II (and I guess one as well) - is a similar experience that I have enjoyed for many hours since retiring the Amiga.. not so modern these days sadly. I found one of the cdroms for it not long ago.

If someone would please make Empire Earth III happen, it would be greatly appreciated.
The right-voting populace just wants abortions to be illegal. Everything else that's going on is collateral damage. I know - well, not a lot, but a couple handfuls of - Trump supporters, and 100% of them vote for him because of his purported policies on abortion (and they all lamely defend him on his other actions). I think people underestimate how many voters are single-issue voters, and that this is THE issue.

I want the things you want to - and I am very very left leaning. And I strongly disagree with your "their media" statement. I think many media outlets are contributing to a widening gap between the left and the right, because sensationalism and stupid articles sell. A single example from yesterday: I just read an NPR story that 260 out of 500,000 Sturgis attendees have come down with Covid. And they're trying to pitch that this is... a lot?
Apple May Be Working on a Self-Driving Car Featuring Controlled Doors/VR System
Good old stone trick.
Yes! This "useful toolbox" approach to programming languages produces inelegant, incoherent, uncomposable, overly-complex results.
Dopamine fasting probably doesn’t work
No. And that's a strawman.
Once an attacker is inside the plant, with just some Wiki knowledge, any plant is as good as melted down. It's a much better plan to simply drain the spent fuel pool.
I would also add that the replica set concept that is based on Raft [0] allows for built-in high availability, so the individual servers can be maintained while the whole set is running and servicing clients.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raft_(computer_science)
How about right-click and choose Copy Link Address?
Such meta threads tend to be rather blah. Also, when dealing with large internet audiences you eventually come to realize that everything is "commonly misunderstood", because no matter how often or how thoroughly you explain things, the vast majority of users don't see it, and the percentage that did see it shrinks over time as new users flow in. So the idea of explaining things to the bulk of the community is sort of a fantasy. The sum of all explanations has measure zero. I'm not happy about that but it is as it is.

I'm happy to answer questions and do it every day, but it's better to stick closer to where actual examples come up. What else do you still want to know?
> Uber car crashes. NVIDIA stock crashes the next day because the public thought it had something to do with NVIDIA GPUs.

This is unlikely. More likely the stock crashes because the event can be expected to decrease public trust in and enthusiasm for ML in general.

Blame for a one-off-event in a specific market usually isn’t a big deal. Adverse consumer sentiment with long-lasting impact on your entire bottom line is.
I wonder if anyone has tried to commercialize a device that burns gas for combined heat and power and uses that power to directly drive a heat pump.

Alternatively, ground source heat pumps work decently well even in very cold places, but the installation costs can be high.
Everything is considered harmful.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
If this is real ... sign me up! I have a couple of RISC-V Arduino clones, interesting but not that useful. I've ported software to RISC-V using the Fedora RISC-V port running under QEMU. It'll be nice to finally get inexpensive Linux capable hardware in hand!

Of course, what would be really good would be a CHIP-Pro style module that is a complete Linux SBC suitable for inclusion in a IoT PCB design. Thus far, the CHIP-Pro (ARM-32) and Onion Omega2 (MIPS-32) have been the only viable reasonably priced embeddable Linux modules I've seen.
Some recent ones bundled a GPS unit, and they were not blent with smartphones until 2008? but they where good enough.

You talk as if before the iPhone we had -nothing-. And that's not true in any sense.
They allow me to see if I'm missing something (another way of looking at it they also prevent me from being totally unjust). So they are ok as an information source, but can create nasty incentives.

So you don't give them too much weight, you don't want them to influence employees too much. We used to do that and it impacted company culture negatively IMHO. Now it is under 20% of the score and so it cannot be abused, but it remains a useful tool.
This is a general response to a bunch of comments below saying they'd no awareness of ACID, that genuinely surprised me.

ACID wasn't new to me, I've been around databases since the 80's in their various forms. But I learned the solids about ACID through, believe it or not, being sent on a jolly to learn me some Oracle back in '98 and then the concept being hammered home whilst taking the SQL Server module when acquiring my MCSD (that was a jolly-free self study to earn more bucks - which paid off).

Now I know a bunch of people poo-poo corporate certifications e.g. the MCP and MCSD etc, but I've yet to encounter in any modern code-school/bootcamp type educational material that covers these important fundamentals. And that's a shame because as developers it makes you think more carefully about decisions you make when interacting with a database product such as MS SQL, MySQL, Postgres etc, especially via ORM's. i.e. proper training material that sets up the knowledge fundamentals before being let loose.

I'm not having a go at the competency of folks that aren't aware of ACID, but it's a fundamental concept you need to be aware of when dealing with databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres etc. Knowing this stuff allows you to build reliable and consistent scalable databases by balancing trade-offs around the ACID concept.
French man planning to live stream his dying days: 'death should be democratic'
Don't assume what I didn't or didn't know.
80-bit password is not the same thing as 10-ASCII-characters password. The reduced alphabet space of only using printable characters is taken into account when figuring the bit-edness of a password.
I think there may be a third option: people recognize both that the risk is low and selfishly they need not change their behaviors, but they also recognize that the socially correct behavior is to change their behavior so in aggregate we lower risk.

I do believe that the risk is fairly low right now. So low that if I'm only thinking of myself, there's not sufficient justification to change my behaviors.

However, I also believe that if no one changed their behaviors, the risk would be high enough I'd have to (as is the nature of an exponentially spreading thing).

As such, I behave how I need everyone else to: I change my behaviors in the hope everyone behaves similarly to me.

For a very similar analogy, there's no need individually to get vaccinated risk wise. Developed countries have such a high level of vaccination that there's a vanishingly small probability you're exposed in your entire life to the things you're vaccinated against. There's a higher risk of side-effects from being vaccinated.

However, if no one got vaccinated, the math doesn't work out anymore, and it's back to vaccination making sense for you as an individual. As such, most people get vaccinated since it's the socially conscious thing to do, it's what we ourselves need most other people to also do for our own health.
Having competition to x86 and ARM would be great.

China could create the economies of scale needed to drive prices down. I saw something where NVIDIA was using RISC-V in part of its GPU’s.
Don't assume what I know or dont.

Thanks
Police can and have forged evidence without having to resort to forcing a company to do so. The latter is more risky as there is a greater likelihood of a leak.
The comment was accurate, but the parenthetical came off as arrogant and condescending so that's how I responded.

Nothing posted here is necessary. Doesn't change the fact that nobody actually involved with helicopters calls them copters.

Some friendly feedback right back at you! :)
Classic Doom and Doom 2 get native widescreen, mod tools, new modes and more
Then do not talk about Classic Mac as something magical because compared to Be they were utterly ridiculous.

For its era, System 7 was good, but later, it was worse than even Windows 98.

Be tried to do things right, it was ~1995 after all.
I think it's long because writing a short letter is harder, as the joke goes.
I went ahead and broke that out into a separate page:

https://takecongress.org/methodology.html
My favorite one is when it silently removes those characters but doesn't tell you...
> It doesn't matter to them who wins the next election. If Trump stays in office they aren't getting contracts anyway,

These statements seem at odds. If Trump is elected, then Amazon doesn't get contracts, but Amazon doesn't care if Trump is elected?
bcrypt has a maximum length of 72 characters and its what Mozilla recommends for encryption. Do you think Mozilla is too "incompetent to write code which handles passwords" and "an outright liability"?
It’s stored in plain text on every server along the way. That’s where it is vulnerable.
I think they're using an alternate definition of "suffer".

> 4 : to allow especially by reason of indifference

>> the eagle suffers little birds to sing

> — William Shakespeare

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suffer

So "is suffered" would actually just be a synonym for "is permitted" in this case. So essentially "is suffered" could be removed with no change in meaning, since "is permitted" is already in the law. As for why lawmakers decided to insert what appears to be a useless and confusing synonym, I'm not sure.
But companies doing SAFe can use developer velocity to help judge individual dev productivity. That can be surprising if you aren't aware of what story points are used for.
Stupid question, but without any video support at all, how do you even install the software you need to use it as a headless server?
File recovery tips from a data recovery professional
AMD Is Selling Bikes Now
Mongo is much maligned here and I hesitate to even comment for fear of attack, but in my mind it has some compelling use cases and after Wired Tiger became the default storage engine, that pretty much solved the issues with compaction I had seen in the past while delivering a lot more performance.

I've built systems with it where we didn't own the schema - we were scraping data from other places and schemaless was a feature. And I benchmarked it against Postgres and a couple other things and I just couldn't get the same performance - note our operations were idempotent to the db, so even in a hard crash, we could just re-run the scraping job and we wouldn't really "lose" any data -- or even if the data was stale by a day, not a big deal... That system would do tens of millions of upserts per night on not crazy AWS hardware and it ran for years like this without problems.

Would I use mongo for situations where I needed transactions? Almost never - I actually like Postgres a lot and it's my default for your run of the mill CRUD apps since you can do geo, crypto, search, etc by just installing a few extensions. Do I got on HN on every mongo article and bash them constantly? No, I think they've built a pretty decent thing if you understand the implications of not confirming writes to replicas and whatnot and tune it to your needs.
> A puncture relieves stress all over the balloon very rapidly.

Actually it doesn’t. The stress relief radiates out from the puncture point at the speed of sound (in the balloon).
The examples you give are perfectly possible in any decent SQL server (mssql, postgres). If anything, database servers are made to ensure data consistency, checks like "payment not negative" are no brainers. If you don't define these constraints at the database level you are leaving its power on the table and are re-inventing the wheel by putting it in your application layer somewhere.
Revised code could help improve efficiency of fusion experiments
Much more likely than Google giving in to a dragnet warrant (of which there is no evidence to support) for anyone who conducted a search. Google has fought similar requests in the past [1].

Google has a dedicated group that investigates government backed attacks, like Russian disinformation and hacking. I never worked on that team while at Google, but I worked on a similar team at another company.

Normally nothing in a warrant will bar you from conducting your own internal investigation in support of producing relevant records. Sometimes that investigation yields results that are relevant but not within the scope of the warrant (the order you cite is only for a single Google account, not all Stone accounts). One way the legal department can handle such a situation is exactly what I laid out in my comment.

1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/12/11/googl...
2. https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/
I don't remember the math on hashing/bcrypt but isn't this the case that all passwords sort of hash to a fixed length string? Like why even have something like "your bank password must be 8-12 characters" long.

Obviously for a gigabyte long it's a bandwidth and hash-computing issue :p
I seem to recall from about 20 years ago when I got my first Marquardt Mini Ergo, that the company producing them, and the magazines testing them, referring to the world record in fastest typing at the time was made on them, several times. It is split.

So the thing to do would be to compare on which devices these records, or yearly championships have been achieved.

Maybe there are lists? I tried to find them, but got overwhelmed.
The US Government got rid of passwords starting in 2004. It's a good idea.
Sure, and claiming that NPR is an arm of the state is disingenuous at best.
it's called two factor for a reason! You're suggesting a return to one factor, but ditching the PW and using the backup means of auth. What's supposed to happen is that you combine something you know (pw) with something you have (phone) as it's generally difficult for an attacker to get both.
His Cube game was the epitome of dopamine addiction games, all that was wrong with Zynga/Facebook games, the rage at the time. Nothing at all original about that: a total cop-out of game design.

When Peter Molyneux gave his insufferably vainglorious keynote presentation of Cube at the Unity3D Unite conference at Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam, I chatted him up afterwards and attempted to troll him by guessing that the big surprise in the box was a cow.

I don't think he got the point that I was trying to make an ironic reference to Ian Bogost's Cow Clicker, which is a parody of and social commentary on dopamine games.

I tried to explain the joke to him, and he still didn't get it. At least Ian Bogost had the self awareness to design Cow Clicker in the service of making a critical statement about game design, and the capacity of shame to be embarrassed when it was an accidental run-away success.

Unite 2012 : Keynote - Founders & Peter Molyneux (The BS starts at 1h 8m 21s -- It's been 8 years since I saw this live, and it's much worse than I remembered, especially now knowing how it turned out!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24AY4fJ66xA&t=1h08m21s

>1h 48m 06s, with arms spread out like Jesus H Christ on a crucifix: "Because we can dynamically put on ANY surface of the cube ANY image we like. So THAT's how we're going to surprise the world, is by giving clues about what's in the middle later on."

http://www.cowclicker.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_Clicker

>In the wake of a controversial speech by Zynga's president at the Game Developers Choice Awards in 2010, Bogost developed Cow Clicker for a presentation at a New York University seminar on social gaming in July 2010. The game was created to demonstrate what Bogost felt were the most commonly abused mechanics of social games, such as the promotion of social interaction and monetization rather than the artistic aspects of the medium. As the game unexpectedly began to grow in popularity, Bogost also used Cow Clicker to parody other recent gaming trends, such as gamification, educational apps, and alternate reality games.

>Some critics praised Cow Clicker for its dissection of the common mechanics of social network games and viewed it as a commentary on how social games affect people.

https://qz.com/34024/life-really-is-a-game-with-a-lot-of-cli...

>Life really is a game—with a lot of clicks—and then you die

>Curiosity is just the latest in a series of social experiments that rely on user interactions with seemingly no point. Of course, Zynga is the king of this phenomenon, providing games full of sticky and addictive action that encourage more clicks for the sake of clicks. Arbitrary value becomes real value, even when it’s not meant to. Just ask Ian Bogost, who created the satirical social game Cow Clicker that went on to such absurd popularity that he felt compelled to continue developing it, trapping himself in an ironic loop that refuses to end. In Cow Clicker, you literally click one cow every six hours to collect Mooney, which lets you buy other cows to click on.
Y'all are talking like you don't have Winamp 5.666 installed on your PC right now.