skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you're looking for durable long term backup solution - it's either high TBW values for NVMe drives or, practically, hard drives.

Paying about $1000 for 20TB of fault tolerant extra long term storage isn't a problem. I'm even starting to consider magnetic tapes for archives.

What's the price of a TB of high TBW NVMe storage?
The entire Kubernetes secret space is a bit immature with no standard solutions. Many of the larger solutions are vendor specific and don't solve the problem in a generic way, see AWS[1] or Vault[2][3].

I've been discussing the problem-space with the Godaddy External Secret maintainers and they seem a bit burnt-out. There is work on standardization here
https://github.com/godaddy/kubernetes-external-secrets/pull/..., but this more covers creating Kubernetes Secrets from external sources, work still remains around a generic pod injector solution.

A few of us have started work on what the implementation of this would look like over at https://github.com/itscontained/secret-manager.

[1] https://github.com/mumoshu/aws-secret-operator

[2] https://github.com/hashicorp/vault-k8s

[3] https://banzaicloud.com/blog/inject-secrets-into-pods-vault-...
These things are nowhere near as good as you think, and HN fetishizes them a bit too much. Trying to cycle or scoot on slush filled roads or in 90 degree plus temperatures is a tedious chore; being unable to simply go out and bring home a 75 pound piece of unassembled furniture, or buying frozen foods in bulk sucks too.

Being 50 or older and having even the slightest health problem will teach you why cars are good. My own mother is 70 and is starting to have knee issues; cars are the only way for her to even survive. A lot of ebikes and scooters aren't even able to support a weight limit over 200-250 pounds, limiting cargo usage. Many struggle to go up hills.

And we aren't even getting into things like how bicycles and scooters are much easier to steal or steal from, or how unsafe walking can be at certain times of the day especially if you are a woman. Or having to ride a bus next to someone who smells like shit and is possibly deranged.

Cars are freedom and power. There is way too much idolizing a sort of serf mindset here; have nothing, do what government tells you, be part of a crowd dependent on others to sustain you.
This seems to be completely implausible. Whatever email is tied to this account would have been instantly notified about a "suspicious login".

There is absolutely no evidence in the article (not even links or screenshots of his tweet reaching out to the White House).

Furthermore I can't believe Trump's account is even going through regular authentication mechanisms. It should be trivial to restrict access to an account to certain address ranges of a government VPN.
I love this approach: clean, accessible, shareable.

I have an old Nikon D1h SLR which I loved, but it used horrible Ni-MH battery packs that didn't last long--both in terms of shots per charge, and total lifetime. They're all dead and I can't bring myself to order another one, now that I'm used to li-ion packs in modern cameras. There's one German company that makes a compatible li-ion pack but they don't sell to the U.S. for some reason.

There's a bunch of blog posts about how to take one of these old battery packs and jerry-rig it to accept a couple of rechargeable li-ion cells. But it looks like a pain--cutting open the old pack with a razor blade, gluing in battery tabs, etc. Maybe 3D printing would offer a better way to do the same thing...
I made a Tesla Accessory brand
I acquired my Tesla Model 3 in early 2019. At the time, it felt so uniquely different! But the meteoric rise in Tesla sales has led to an endless sea of the same cars in superchargers, parking lots, or just on the road. Tesla only offers 4 exterior color options, 2 interior options, and 3 types of rims – reducing options to optimize production lines given the ambitious sales targets they have. As much as I loved my new car, I started to feel frustrated by my lack of differentiation and that's when I decided to come up with a solution .
IIUC at the beginning of Trump's term he refused to agree to the arrangements that the Secret Service made for Obama and insisted on continuing to use his regular phone instead. And there wasn't a whole lot they could do about it. After all, he's the boss.
Any cheaper HW for people who want to roll up their sleeves? I like the blink(1) but $30 seems a little high given the actual functionality. I do understand the time/development that went it into so it "just works".
We reported this issue back in 2018 to AWS! In our case it was exacerbated because of a NAT through which traffic to the cross-AZ loadbalancer would flow. As mentioned in the article, the client side is free to reuse ports as long as the destination in the tuple is different - as would be the case for cross-AZ NLB.

We reduced the severity of this by randomizing port mappings on the NAT but that just reduces the probability. They claimed that it was a high priority issue for them back then but seems this is still in the wild - insane!
> I mean who knows how many intelligence agencies are reading his DM's

I'd be surprised if Twitter didn't have access logs. Anyway if his campaign team had the password, there may be nothing of value in those dms.
>You're scared of living in the present because your brain living in the past.

Huh? Because I don't want to see that again, I'm living in the past?

Should I ignore previous experience as unimportant?

I'd point out that because NYC took strong action back then, we are now mostly open. And I'm glad we are.

I don't think we should lock back down. Rather I think it's important to do the myriad other things (social distancing, mask wearing, basic hygiene, widespread testing/tracing, etc.) that will keep the number of cases at a relatively low level (cf. https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page ) to avoid such unwanted draconian measures.

Ignoring the risk posed by not doing the things that will limit the spread just increases the likelihood that the virus will be uncontrolled and make "lockdowns" more and not less likely.

I remember what happened in March-May precisely because I want to avoid further lockdowns, not because I support them.
> When plug-and-play, drivers, and power management work correctly. When business software is compatible. When you don't have to search through obscure forums or jump on FreeNode to figure out why your wireless card doesn't work. When your filesystem corrupts and won't boot because you didn't shut it down correctly.

GP did say "in 2020"; I haven't had any of those issues for years
But other EVs also improve in that time so kinda irrelevant.
And just by the look of it it aerodynamically simply cant compete with a car and no one should expect that.
Given my anecdotal experience with the parking abilities of the average hummer owner, I would say that isolationist individualism manifests itself as 'screw everyone, I've got mine, and I don't think we live in a society.'

So, at least part of that isn't too radically different from the politics a large number of folks working in IT profess.
It's not happening independently, it's cargo-culted. There's lots of "security advice" out there recommending doing exactly this.

Plus, if you're missing a requirement when trying to set your password, the easiest thing to do is just append the missing requirement at the end. Especially if it's punctuation, which naturally goes at the end of words/sentences anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...

france,germany and uk are all at about the same amount spent on military as russia.

Sure, sweden alone couldn't hold back the russians, but it's not like we need america, a quarter of the union would do it.
How the Coronavirus will reshape architecture
I thought Twitter required all “checkmarks” to have 2FA
enabled, but apparently that's not the case? Sounds rather…
careless.
It's a myth that the lack of government services are solely due to lack of funding or budget deficit. One of the original complaints in the thread was about government-provided healthcare and education. Government schools & hospitals exist, but they aren't exactly known for their quality apart from a few niche ones like IITs, IIMs, AIIMs. So is the issue that lack of funding is preventing these public services from being effective? We could look at any independent report to find the problems. A search on this issue brings up https://yourstory.com/2017/09/india-public-education-system?..., it's not thorough report but it's a start.

This brings to light another problem - unlike the developed countries, in India the average citizen doesn't even know the specifics of things that can be improved because there are hardly any independent organizations which raise awareness about specific policies, or which publish easy to digest reports for the general public to become better informed.
Even off the shelf 9v batteries are typically 6x1.5v AAAA cells in series. (i.e. they actually are batteries)

They can also be stacks of plates though, so buy a sample of a particular brand before you decide bulk-buying them is a great/cheap source of cells!
I find the hacker mischievously hilarious :
"The question remains why Trump was using such a weak and simple password. Gevers has a possible explanation: ‘Trump is over 70 – elderly people often switch off two-step verification because they find it too complicated."
Argentinians do go to Chile to get electronics. We just hear more often about them going to the US. Perhaps more go to the US for tourism, with a side benefit of cheaper electronics.
Thought Musk said they stopped counting after half a million pre-sales of the Cybertruck.

Of course since most of these trucks won't see the light of day until sometime in 2022, it really doesn't make too much difference at this point. If Riviian or Tesla starts shipping in volume before the Hummer (or Cybertruck if Riviian is out the door first) is out, what is a refundable presale deposit worth?
No capital letters, though. It is important to follow all security rules. Weakest link and such. If only his password was Maga2020!, it would be impossible to hack.
I've found that for RDS, a writer instance and a hot standby reader instance with automatic failover work pretty well. When a failover happens, you're usually looking at about 30 seconds of downtime, which is "good enough" for most purposes.
I seriously doubt Secret Service would be thanking this guy - if anything the DoJ would be up his ass

Also you are going to tell me that his password was "maga2020!" and the millions of wannabe script kiddies and nation-states with massive computing power couldn't crack it but suddenly this guy does in five guesses?
XYZ was a title of some early drafts. The current working title is GNAT. It might stay with that name, it might be decided that it'll be called "OAuth 3", it might be abandoned
The Twilight of Ethical Consumerism
Particle physicists continue empty promises [video]
Oh interesting, the latest version of the Wim Hoff app (on Android at least) has that same type of visualization for the breathing coaching!
My speculation - Facebook might mine the conversation data & sell that to third party/show targeted ads on Facebook.
As mentioned in the article, a Twitter spokesperson says: “We’ve seen no evidence to corroborate this claim, including from the article published in the Netherlands today”

White House also denying this story.
FAst encoding and NAS are not synonyms. You need a compute system for that, so you're already in the realm of storage server. NAS is not a "storage server", it's function is primitive.
A Bitcoin address for people to send Bitcoin to fund the wall. I'd have my mixers and Monero transfer capability ready to rock.

Either that or if I wanted pure lulz: "THE STORM IS UPON US! WWG1WGA!" On second thought that could get people killed, so no... Bitcoin it is.
Whatsapp didn't have end-to-end encryption until April 2016.

The app used to cost €0.89 per year (which I guess was $1 at the time).

I'd be surprised if Facebook had bought WhatsApp looking for revenue. Even if the service is operating at a loss, it's still providing FB the messages (at the very least, their metadata) and personal data of two billion people.
charging time is an issue wherever it takes longer than the vehicle is expected to park.

i genearally agree that people overvalue fast charging, but if the parent comment is accurate and it will take 22hrs to charge on a home charger, that's longer than overnight charging. that's really not acceptable.
Spandrel
Or using popular quotes and phrases because they are long, they must be more secure.
I believe much of the salary is an effect on the institutions that need the programmers.

Governments are often the organizations needing COBOL programmers, but government salaries are not commensurate with the tech industry (often due to bureaucratic limits), especially when compared to the consumer tech industry. In that context, pay caps out at around $170k no matter how in demand the skill is
Conversely, I've been using quite a bit of Jsonnet in different projects for a few years now, and it's a life changer.

Here's a public example - using Jsonnet to parametrize all core resources of a bare metal Kubernetes cluster: [1]. This in turn uses cluster.libsonnet [2], which sets up Calico, Metallb, Rook, Nginx-Ingress-Controller, Cert-Manager, CoreDNS, ...

Note that this top-level file aims to be the _entire_ source of truth for that particular cluster. I know of people who are reusing some of the dependent lib/*libsonnet code in their own deployments, which shows that this is not just abstraction for the sake of abstraction.

Jsonnet isn't perfect, but it allows for actual building of abstraction layers in configuration, guaranteed pure evaluation, and not a single line of text templated or repeated YAML.

[1] - https://cs.hackerspace.pl/hscloud/-/blob/cluster/kube/k0.lib...

[2] - https://cs.hackerspace.pl/hscloud/-/blob/cluster/kube/cluste...
YES! I have been toying around with this concept and there are no good solutions right now.

There are few providers doing something similar (Vruzend off the top of my head), but they all have huge downsides.

What I would love is:
1.) Integrated high quality BMS.
2.) Modular design so that I can add capacity or voltage simply without welding.
3.) High amp discharge capability.
4.) SAFETY! Can be used in electric mountain bikes, eFoils, electric paramotors, whatever. Vibration, drops, etc. do not disturb the cells or the pack.

If you could accomplish this then you would unlock so many cool features.
1.) Construct your own packs regardless of voltage or size requirements.
2.) Travel on airplanes with your batteries! Deconstruct the pack simply and store in <100Wh battery blocks or as 18650 cells and you can take theoretically an unlimited amount of lithium across oceans (likely limited somehow).
3.) No vendor lock in.
4.) When your BMS tells you that a certain subpack has failed just pop the cells out easily and replace the one that is busted.
5.) Because of #4 far better for the environment and cheaper.

Does anybody have any thoughts about how to bring this to fruition?

The Vruzend thing works but is clunky, has low amperage capacity because of the bus bars, and the BMS is not integrated.

If anybody has thoughts I would VERY much appreciate it.
Yes, it certainly is. And as far as I can tell, we've been here for around 30 years. Longer, really, though the early 90s seem to me to mark an inflection point in nastiness.

From there it has all proceeded methodically to take advantage of new technologies and expand it to its logical conclusion. What's changed recently isn't the nastiness but that people have been forced to recognize that it's not just the discourse but that it has become national policy.

Unfortunately, by that point, it's almost certainly too late.
St Louis, MO is putting approval voting on the ballot.
Generating Rock Climbing Route Descriptions with ML (GPT-2)
My anecdotal experience:

I felt trapped in an awful PhD program (a well-known physics dept in the US) with an extremely toxic advisor. After years of getting yelled at for small mistakes with little or no feedback, insane hours (weekend/holiday meetings and deadlines) and zero growth I had completely lost any confidence. I became depressed, overweight, afraid to talk to people, etc.

I'm weary of drugs, even caffeine, but microdosing helped me regain some sense of direction and a bit of confidence to move forward. It is like simulated annealing as gwern describes. My mind was trapped in a minima and I needed a chemical shock to move it elsewhere.

As a side-note, I finished my PhD and am job hunting. Now, I'm exponentially happier around friends and family. I'm still rebuilding my confidence but I've stopped microdosing because I don't feel the need.
The previous celebrity president already did that one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kifJ_mQdpZA
Currently on the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24855750
That was my first thought, too. The student who "hacked" Sarah Palin's email account (he reset her password by answering her security questions using publicly available information) was convicted of a felony and spent a year and a day in jail.
If you follow the references they provide, you'll see that the person responsible is a respected security researcher with a history of similar discoveries. He also posted screenshots, and suggests that he was responsible for Trump's recent tweet praising a satirical Babylon Bee article.

https://www.vn.nl/trump-twitter-hacked-again/:

Gevers comes up with a plan to make sure that this time the White House responds. He refuses to say what he did exactly, but in a tweet that has now been removed, he alludes to the fact that he was the one to post the Babylon Bee tweet in Trump’s name. Shortly after, he posted a tweet in his own name, tagging Trump and Team Trump, saying the Babylon Bee-tweet could now be removed, as it had served its purpose.

“I am not saying I did it. But what if I was the one to post the tweet? Then Trump will need to either admit to never having read the Babylon Bee article and posting this bullshit tweet, OR he will need to acknowledge that someone else posted the tweet.”

Breaking into a Twitter account to prove it is poorly secured is one thing, posting a tweet is another. “I took things further this time because our previous report obviously didn’t have any effect”, says Gevers. “I hope that everything will now be resolved soon, and that mister Trump sends us a message. ‘Thank you for your work/report.’ That should suffice and will round up things for both cases.”
ho shit, didn't think it would be so common
Intelligence agencies don't need his password to read his DMs on twitter.
Posting this because it's one of my favorite words / concepts.

For example, code "that is a byproduct of the evolution of some other characteristic, rather than a direct product of adaptive selection."
Can you give an example?

I'm not saying math practice isn't useful -- after all, that's what homework problems are for, to figure out which concepts apply and use them. Repetition itself is useful.

But in my experience, this doesn't benefit from being spaced over time, and it's more about achieving full understanding of the concept.

You seem to be describing pattern recognition, but pattern recognition is conceptual -- you need time/experience to build that up, but it can be done in a day and doesn't need to be revisited days/weeks later in order to not be forgotten.

What kind of math content do you think benefits from repetition that is necessarily spaced over time?
What are they going to do, kick him off? This man's account has been the singular reason for Twitter's relevance over the past four years.
The TechCrunch article has a screenshot from the profile editor:
https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/trump-acce...
You can compile your Python code using Nuitka, the resulting binary has much better startup time. I do this for a couple of command line tools.
Only if bitonicSort is something that you'd written and would test elsewhere, or it reaches out to resources outside of the immediate software in which its used.
Anecdotally (sorry), my resting heart rate was sitting around 72-ish for a long time, according to my fitbit. I'm a pretty fit guy in my mid 30's, so I wasn't really happy with that number. I started working on trying to improve my breathing a bit, and after a couple months it's now sitting around 58 or so.

I mostly just tried to breathe through my nose as much as possible, with a lesser focus on breathing slower. At first it was difficult because it always felt like my nose was stuffy and hard to breathe through, but there are some techniques to clear it temporarily [0]. And over time my nasal passages became clearer to where I very rarely have trouble breathing through my nose.

Of course I don't know for sure if that was actually what brought my heart rate down, but the timeline fits pretty well. Plus I figure the cost and risks of just trying to improve your breathing are pretty much nil, so it's worth a shot.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBqGS-vEIs0
I would not know what to do with this power had it been me guessing the password.

Another “covfefe” perhaps? An innocent “ALL CAPS DAY” maybe? Or just a simple “;)”? And these are harmless examples. A targeted reference to certain prophets or Winnie the Pooh would have vast consequences.

I could have set the world alight for laughs.

And to think no extra measures were put in place by Twitter is shocking.
It's the preinstalled default but you've been able to remove Safari from iOS for a couple years now.
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It's from The Guardian, of course you should take it with a grain of salt.
>Is there a reason for that other than just tradition/history?

Probably not. Just like the Japanese number system (as distinct from counters for objects) where 1000/10000 are special units.

Even in English, the counting was not consistent. Isn't billion supposed to be 1 million million in the UK ?

Lots of the urban population in India is adopting US millions and billions in everyday language too, so I'm sure the global American monoculture will eventually overwhelm the local counters at some point.
> Do we ignore traffic fatalities by ripping seat belts and air bags out of vehicles?

Some preventive measures are clearly justified. Wearing a mask requires little more effort than wearing a seat belt and refusing to wear one is pretty childish at this point.

Losing precious time with family is a lot harder and a sacrifice few people would consider making in the face of traffic fatalities.
Haha yeah. I had this cool horizontal micro ATX case that housed a full computer and still looked like a media device. Had to use risers to mount the GPU horizontal.

Then a few years later a single Raspberry Pi did the trick.
Sharing isn't built into the app yet, but you can export decks and share them.
Reschedule YC Interview
Me and my co-founder just got invited for an interview with Y Combinator but at a later date. Is there any way to request to do the interview a bit early since we have a deadline with another great accelerator.
> Please select a password:

azalea

> Your password needs to contain a number and a special character.

azalea1!