skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it hard to imagine Google being leaked, though. The sheer amount of data (drive files, gmail data, etc) Google has in its silos makes it almost impossible to copy anywhere else other than on Google's own servers or another giant's DCs. Even just the metadata of every GMail message is probably a few dozen exabytes at the least. Any sort of Google data leak that would allow for you to find a random person would require a persistent backdoor into their systems.

The only realistic attack on Google would be some targeted/filtered dump of celebrities or perhaps entire GSuite organizations' emails and files - and even then it would only make headlines, not cause any real trouble for Google outside of <1% of their regular user base ditching for protonmail or what have you.
Easier said than done.

The goods are usually exchanged via post and cryptocurrency. The seller generally drops off the goods in random post boxes using prepaid [express] envelopes and usually disguising the packages in some form such as by masquerading as an ebay seller or with a real/fake company as the source address. This is very difficult to track, especially if the seller does a good job distributing the drop offs over a wide area and by using a large set of random source addresses.

Of course, if the packages are detected in the postal system the recipient can be unmasked, but small time buyers are of little interest to authorities. There's nothing that the authorities can do to unmask the sellers even with all the information a buyer is able to provide them.
Parameterized Equation Solver in Go
Wow this is cool since I was thinking of this exact problem a couple days back. My thought process was inspired by Loom videos where I thought a round head of the instructor in front of an interactive IDE would be a great way to reach.

My idea was to try to create a VS Code plugin for this when instructor videos, stitched with a Git repository would "play" inside the IDE.

Edit:
The homepage of Loom has a good enough example to get the idea I had, just imagine the instructor head and the video controls inside your Editor.
https://www.loom.com/
Also, here's another comment you made in this article:

> It’s kind of like how everyone thinks that they would have opposed the Nazis because they grew up being taught that Nazis were bad. The truth is, this experiment in mass collective delusion has made it very clear which among us would have spoken out.

> The ones reporting their neighbors for having a gathering or not wearing a mask while watering their lawn would have happily helped participate in genocide. Don’t doubt it.

So yes, you're acting paranoid and not contributing meaningfully to the conversation.
This is quite insane because there is a cumulative risk of cancer from successful xrays. Not huge but non zero.
Didn't realize this was a thing: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/submit-URLs

Although I'm not sure if this is what stack exchange actually uses or if there's some private API for big partners.
Thanks for the link. I played around with it for about 10 minutes (just enough to run the Go example) and it's really neat.

The general premise is great and I've wanted something like that for years. One thing I don't like is the Dockerfile that lives alongside the .devcontainer file. Using that to install a portion of the dev environment is a mistake IMO because things like 'apt-get install something' are non-deterministic.

I think it would be amazing if that Dockerfile were hooked into CI and used to build an official dev container for a project every day or every week and if that were the container that's used for development. I already try to do something similar for an official project build container (ie: this container can build the project and is used for all CI builds) and the dev container would perfectly double up on responsibility for that.

The big win with having an immutable container for dev / building is that it could be kept around if it's used to do a production build. Ex: When building v1.0.1, pull the current dev / build container, tag it or label it, push it into a special registry, and use that container for the production build. That way anyone could check out the 1.0.1 dev container and have the exact, old environment that was used to build the production artifact(s) for that version.

I honestly think using this type of setup will become an expectation at some point. It's just too awesome to not use which is part of what scares me about it. While it's not tied to Azure and I can run it locally it's amazing. If it ever becomes exclusive to some type of "run on Azure" play by MS it'll be terrible because it's so compelling you won't be able to ignore it.
I grew up in an area with huge ranches and open range. Cattle were frequently turned out in the spring and would sometimes go weeks if not months without interacting with humans. Fencing riparian areas is hard, and cattle can be hard on them. Collars to keep them out of the creek would be really helpful, I think. It could also alert you if a cow has been injured or has been separated from the rest of the herd. It would also make round-up a lot more efficient. This strikes me as great tech. The only challenge would be their resilience and proclivity to getting hung up.
Yeah, "voluntarily."

Okay, let me explain that one. I know he says that, and I know Mozilla says that, but "I've decided to leave of my own accord" has simply become such a cliche that it can no longer be distinguished from firing.

In any case, this mostly just supports my view that people don't understand liberalism and why we need it. When an atheist and a christian can sit down together and have a peaceful family dinner without talking about politics, despite the fact that at least one of them thinks that it's a matter of utmost moral importance that the other change his mind, this is a miracle of social cohesion that is crucial to keeping society together. And we're losing it.
I hated standups until we eventually got a great PM who moved to something like this, and now I try hard and make standup run like this on any project I'm on. Jira has this nice feature where it puts a little dot on something for each day it's in a column. Standups largely turned into scanning for things that had > 2 dots on a ticket from right to left, and discussing what we needed to do to keep things moving through the system. Love it!
Sometimes someone can also just be reasonable without it being legally mandated, methinks
It means the public lost 2.34B and DEA gained 2.34B
ya, its almost like the doctor doesn't have his patients best interest in mind.
Flywaydb https://flywaydb.org/getstarted/how does pretty much that using plain sql files.
> mostly for marketing purposes, the fact that they can be abused by authorities for dragnet surveillance without (adequate) due process is just a "bonus".

It's not just a bonus, it's a selling point. Not for normal consumers, but for law enforcement, and Amazon would like to keep the police surveillance use case secret[1].

From The Secret Scripts Amazon Gives to Cops to Promote Ring Surveillance Cameras[2]:

> Documents obtained by Motherboard reveal that Ring provides 46 standardized comments that cops can post on social media, and several documents with scripted responses to possible questions from the public.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-ring-wants-police-to-keep-t...

[2] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwea4/revealed-the-secre...
This is inaccurate.

The pro license compiles to Android, IOS, Windows, and OSX. You can connect to SQLite and IBlite. Additionally, you can connect to MySQL or other DBs on localhost for example. Lastly, you can connect to remote databases with third party solutions (though against the spirit of the license).

The enterprise license allows connecting to over 20 different remote databases.

The architect license (the most expensive) has additional features not related to connecting to remote databases.
The "salt" in salty licorice isn't table salt like you'd use on popcorn, FYI. It's ammonium chloride. Literally tastes like ammonia. I'm sure it's an acquired taste (I had my first experience with it early this year), but it's frankly awful to my palate.
Quoth the raven, "mornin' bud".
In learning git years ago, it took visual representations of branches for me to fully get (g)it. Sourcetree was the tool that showed me this, and really helped. This tool looks like a great intro to git for beginners, but also for more advanced users too.
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I wish there was a way to define your own directory structure within calibre(i.e. tag>topic>bookname vs author>bookname) as I like to sync my calibre with drop box and browse the files from my e-reader. Right now you need calibre to browse the library the way it's setup which is a bummer for organizing everything.
My goodness - I'd heard about trasmitting data using sound, but I also didn't realize its serious security implications.

From the repo description:

> SoniControl is a novel technology for the recognition and masking of acoustic tracking information. The technology helps end-users to protect their privacy.

> Technologies like Google Nearby and Silverpush build upon ultrasonic sounds to exchange information. More and more of our devices communicate via this inaudible communication channel. Every device with a microphone and a speaker is able to send and receive ultrasonic information. The user is usually not aware of this inaudible and hidden data transfer.

> To overcome this gap SoniControl detects ultrasonic activity, notifies the user and blocks the information on demand. Thereby, we want to raise the awareness for this novel technology.
+1...I was going to say that the author apparently has never tasted bacon....everything becomes much simpler after that :). If we judged our behavior based on how intelligent the species is that we are doing something to...I believe war would be a non-starter, no?
websites that host the leaked celebrity nudes are torn down constantly

That is true, yet surely most live on as torrents (and discoverable via hundreds of sketchy torrent websites that pop up and fizzle away)? Even before most people had broadband, nerds traded collections of pirated software via "sneaker net"

internet access will eventually be completely de-anonymized. Social security or gov. ID to sign on.

That scenario seems possible to me, too, and I agree its outcome would make what I envisioned less likely. It's not guaranteed to happen though.
I live in Singapore, and whenever I bring some salty liquorice back from Sweden, my Indian friends are the ones who really enjoy it. I'm guessing that it's because it is a bit similar to Mukhwas.

So it's definitely not just Europe.
The Windows XP source code was allegedly leaked online
Using BitTorrent to retrieve objects stored in Amazon S3
Reminds a little bit of SlickLogin which provided user authentication via sound. Google bought, killed it and the concept completely disappeared.

I’m wondering if it was unreliable from a security perspective, but it was a super cool concept.

https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/16/google-acquires-slicklogin...
This project doesn't quite have the layers on top as some open source projects[1] but it is sort of amusing to see how much of Calibre is built on the back of one guy (funded via Patreon![2]) and a handful of volunteers.

[1] https://xkcd.com/2347/

[2] https://www.patreon.com/kovidgoyal
Who knew?!
Why is this useful? for what? did anyone ever use this?
There is no irony here. It's simply someone changing their views.
At first I thought the file sharing itself was over sound, but the sound is just to negotiate details of the WebRTC session which is then actually used to transmit the data. Neat and handy.

I was thinking they had made something similar to the Fldigi suite, software kind of common in the ham radio universe. You can use it to encode arbitrary binary data into a lot of different modulations which exist in the audible range. Send files between computers without any IP networking at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fldigi#The_Fldigi_Suite
Google does not have insight into page views. They can only know if you clicked through to the site, not how many times you loaded that page.
It isn't feasible. The secret common to every balanced, healthy full-time creative I've met is that they need to fill up the hours with a bit of technical study to stay up to date, plus things that give them creative energy - not strict time-on-task to a project goal(which can happen in spurts). These are neither strictly productive nor consumptive things, and mundane effort on housekeeping, long walks or journaling can be as restorative as anything else.

So if your day job is using what you've got, I'd say, hang in there. Sometimes you can make it work by switching mediums in the off-hours. A habit I've gotten into recently is to use the voice recording on my phone to journal as I take a walk. Those recordings, usually 10-20 minutes in length, are less technical, less polished and reviewable by their nature, which puts them in that "first draft mode" that is good for pushing forward with a creative goal and to have an intense, vulnerable conversation with myself without putting on the filters as I might by tapping it out on the screen.
That’s probably the argument that the Wolf of Wall Street used to defend his boiler room schemes. “The penny stock company issued 100M new shares for free, no one lost anything, we sold them to people who had a coincidence of wants.”
Wow, you really like dealing with absolutes...
In the 35th anniversary talk on the 4004 at the Computer History Museum in 2006, Ted Hoff mentioned that one of the applications of the 4004 was for computerized cow collars for tracking feed and water ingestion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j00AULJLCNo

So this is one of the first uses of a microprocessor. To paraphrase Jaron Lanier, calling tracking collars "smart" is an insult to human intelligence.
Within the CIA, they call themselves "Officers". It's everyone else in the US that calls them "agents".
Don't shrug it off, shame and peer pressure those around you who continue to use it, like smoking or drunk driving. Network effects work in reverse too
The mistake is the assumption that the stock market reflects the (expectation of) economical output of a country. European GDP has doubled since 2000, but the stock market is on average flat (see for example Stoxx50). Some member states' stock markets grew, but most of them either stayed stagnant or plummeted completely.
Not to take sides, but that was the basis of the whole flatten the curve thing — or how it was presented to most people atleast.
Celery (Distributed Task Queue for Python) 5.0 Released
Why? - I don't understand how Calibre's move from Python 2 to Python 3 should impact you as an end-user. The user experience should be identical.

If anything, the user experience has been diminished in the move to Python 3, as the maintainer mentions some 3rd party plugins won't work as they need to be ported over.
We've gone full circle. This is basically dial-up, but using mic/speakers instead of a phone.
Probably because we give all of our money to our govs to manage, so no free cash for us to play in the "predict the most profitable company" casino.
Ecclesiastes is one of the finest existential works ever. It’s so heavy and emotional to get through. A lot of Kafkas work generated the same emotions in me the first time I read them, despite being more ironic.
Tips to follow if you want to make your artist website work perfectly
It's going to take more than 12 hours to actually become proficient in the material.
The ability to highlight and browse the highlights is HUGE. It makes Calibre really useful for language learning (e.g. by reading novels). I can now highlight new vocabulary or idioms and see them in context when I need to, without me having to copy and paste into some separate file!

Couple that with the fact that Calibre supports custom dictionary sources and it's just amazing.

The one missing feature to make Calibre perfect for me is proper support for rendering PDF. Calibre currently absolutely sucks at rendering PDFs, but some ebooks are sadly only available as PDFs.
Someone should confirm, but 'de listing' is not technically the same thing as 'going private'.

'Not on the exchange' means you don't have to follow exchange rules, but if you meet certain criteria, you're still a 'public company' and therefore subject to the same public disclosure filings etc..

Usually that has something to do with the number of shareholders, in which case, if many do actually 'hold out' it may still be de-facto a public company.

Another way of saying: 'you can't just go private because you have 50%'.

But it's also Germany/Lux/EU so it's different 'over there'.
I’m an American under 40 who likes licorice.

Won’t touch it again after reading this thread though.
1988 Mexican General Election
If this happened with Red Vines I'd be dead already
Absolutely, I really appreciate this take. Calibre has been amazing for me for years, nothing else comes close. The guy is a hell of a hard worker.
FYI Nootripicsdepot standardises melatonin at 300ug if ur interested
> I don't see how it isn't against the 1st amendment right to peaceably assemble.

I assume that there are a number of factors here, most notably that the assembling, while peaceful, poses a considerable danger to the public. Certainly it would be nice to see some sort of carve out for explicit protesting but there you go.

All allowed activities are government approved activities.
This is a surprisingly well-documented phenomena: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/10/151003-anima...
I think the core ideas are actually rather simple. In my opinion, the bulk of time studying calculus is memorizing _algorithms_ for conducting differentials and integrations and which algorithms to apply, say, to find the area of a solid; which is arguably a great fault in mathematics pedagogy.
I remember there being a working implementation from chirp.io, with mobile apps and everything. They eventually axed it some years ago and tried selling some sdk to... people? Before getting bought by Sonos. I always missed their service because I used to use it to transfer stuff between my phone and my work computer. I'd be really cool if this could replace chirp for that cause.
Indeed, Portugal did this and it's working [1], it's time to face the fact that the War On Drugs is a waste of time and money.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radic...
Vietnam busts factory that washed and resold used condoms
Since they can't build companies, what they should do is build clones to grab market share and sell them quickly to entities that actually do know how to scale.

Germany is actually quite different than everywhere else, but ultimately subject to the same trends.

So ... like 'German Ebay' - copy the other types of up-and-coming trends, and then sell them off to the actual global player.

That would actually make sense and be a value add: get the German market 'going' with 'something' and then let it scale with others who know how to do it. It's kind of a win-win-win.

But otherwise, it seems they're taking the very shortsighted view with everything without any material real product/customer/market authenticity ... meaning no long run way to make money.
I tried to upload a mp3 file and clicked on Export button. Nothing happened.
I find it hard to imagine Google being leaked

Not all their data, and not all at once, but a little here, a little there.

The sheer amount of data

It won't be possible to collect all of Google's data. It will get easier to collect more and more of it though (as storage grows larger and the net becomes faster). I wouldn't be surprised if all the email Hotmail handled in the 90s could fit on a consumer 20TB drive from today.
First, you have people who are "real" gamers. Whatever that means, but we'll define it as owning some piece of hardware that was bought for the purpose of gaming (PS4, Xbox, Switch, PC). This number is between 250-500 million people.

Yes. Its that high. PS4 sold ~115M units. XB1 ~50M. Switch ~70M. Steam has ~100M MAUs. There's overlap in those, and those numbers also really under-represent China and the huge PC gaming scene there, but I think we're in the right magnitude.

By and large, this group's interest in cloud gaming would only significantly extend to being able to access the games they already play on the hardware they have, when out and about. Xbox, Nvidia, PlayStation, and whatever Valve releases will own this group. They're not re-buying games on Stadia or Luna and locking themselves into that platform, nor dealing with locked cross-saves, cross-achievements, cross-social, its just not happening.

Second group: Lets say iOS users. Representing 1.5 billion people worldwide, significant overlap with the previous group. These users probably wont get too heavily invested into any cloud streaming service, because they are all inaccessible on their mobile device. Yeah, there's a Luna web app: I'm sure it'll be horrible.

Third group: People with bad or no internet. 160 million Americans lack broadband. Some of them still buy game consoles and suffer through weeks of downloading updates. Most don't. Online play sucks, but 150 ping is manageable. You learn to play with the ping. These people will never use any cloud streaming service.

We could go on, but the point I'm reaching is: I, too, have no clue who will be signing up for these services. It really feels like these cloud companies just have graphics cards laying around and are supremely uncreative with how to get value from them. Or, they want to own the world and its taken them thirty fucking years to recognize that, hey, gaming is a thing and boy are they late to the party.

Gaming hardware is not expensive. A Switch costs $200; a brand spanking new Xbox Series S, $300. You don't need a two thousand dollar PC to play all the great games out there. Stadia and Luna want you to buy their controllers and their dongles, the upfront cost is not zero, and consumers are not blind to the ongoing cost and expensive games (Game Pass anyone?! Its a fucking steal! And it practically comes with xCloud! Why do people still think Amazon and Google can compete with this?)

If there was some investment vehicle which allowed me to specifically short Stadia and Luna, I would put every cent in my savings and retirement into it, down to the last penny. Cloud streaming has a future, but it won't be via these two products.
Not in terms of lives lost. The war on drugs is a waste of money, time, and lives.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radic...
If as a dev you know their code base will have issues based on what you know about the ecosystem why would that not be a reason to hold off on the product.
If they prove themselves despite the issues you choose them, if they realize the issues with their response and adapt you choose them, and if the product blows up because of foreseen issues you predicted you didn't waste your time on a product you suspected was doomed and probably found an alternative in the meantime.
Behaviors and outcomes rarely change, but history is driven by surprising events...? I admit that this juxtaposition of the listed rules confuses me. The first part/rule would seem to indicate that history is driven by predictable, probable, or otherwise bell-curvy events.