skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's not just a straight list of chatrooms like ... every other chat app on the planet.

Yes, it's odd. For those who haven't used Teams, it defaults to showing you a team's channels you use most frequently (I guess? I never quite understood the logic) and then you have to click to see the full list. Maddening.
We don't have _less_ staff due to migrating from Exchange Server to EXO -- quite the opposite (and the remainder of the M365 stack has significantly grown IT, as well).
Who do you think the customers of ZDI, Zerodium, Azimuth and others are?
I've done a small bit of dabbling on solidity. Is there a place to get started on this new proposal? Or still too raw for the less experienced? I'll check your links but in case they don't cover that question.
It wasn’t that informative from a technical perspective but he talked about the motivation behind it and it helped me understand why the project exists, which is the reason I posted it under this post.

Unfortunately I’m not aware of any other similar series. I’d love to find more content like this though.
My needs were different and the EC2 vs Lambda different was state vs stateless.

This won’t save me a ton of money; but at least I won’t have to guess on if bumping up to the next CPU+MEM tier will get me from 101ms to 99ms
So true. I had to block their entire address space on our mailservers.
As a primarily Linux developer I'm super jealous of COM. It reminds me a lot of dbus with more legacy cruft but also a lot better designed.
I have a lot of hang-ups about gifts, largely because of the way this cultural ideal of the "thoughtful gift" plays against a personality more preoccupied with ideas rather than people and relationships. And so, rather than merely "fulfill a social obligation", I largely found ways to avoid it altogether.

But now I think that was a foolish dismissal of social obligation. It really is the act itself that has the most significance, less so the content. To wit, the article's advice that in most cases, cash is fine.
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Eliminating Bias in the Ideation Process: The Power of Anonymity
When running locally, you can use whatever you like, pandas or anything else, which is fun (we've experimented with some options for Jupyter integration ourselves). In our hosted service, for security we have a locked down python sandbox with white-listed libraries. Definitely on our roadmap to liberate the full power of python libraries in hosted!
Amazon pays under market for acquisitions while sf pays above market. Unclear if slack would ever grow revenue to the level sf is offering at, nor if shrinking set of alternative high-payers like cisco/google/other will, so cashing out while they can at such a high level makes sense.
In case there's ambiguity here, I think GP means "core to the ideals" of Bitcoin, not the core of its implementation.

GP is correct. The Bitcoin community is fiercely conservative, and a proposal to switch from PoW to PoS would be met with about as much scorn as a proposal to increase the total supply.

Ethereum, on the other hand, has never had any strong attachment to PoW -- quite the opposite, really. Switching to PoS has been a major goal since the early days of the project.
Exactly. At companies that are large customers, employees don't get to choose. You get Google Chat integrated into your email inbox, and connections to Slack are blocked.
The latest open source project that caught my eye in terms of the chosen chat technology was Servo, which has chosen Zulip [0]. Hopefully, in a not too distant future, we'll start seeing more communities opting for Matrix?

[0]: https://blog.servo.org/2020/11/17/servo-home/
I have used ora2pg with great success.
I like charity gifts!

For many years, I've made enough money that the the things I want are either easily affordable (rock climbing equipment, a gaming console, etc.) or completely unrealistic as gifts (two round trip first class tickets to Taiwan). And this is compounded by the fact that I'm the most expert person among my friends and family on most of my interests.

So for many years I've asked people not to buy me gifts for birthdays or other occasions, but to instead donate to an animal advocacy nonprofit (and I'll suggest some to them). I'm _much_ happier to see them spend some of their money improving the state of the world, as opposed to getting me stuff that I don't need or could purchase for myself any time I wanted it.

That said, some relatives still get me gifts, but at least they're very usable, like gift cards to my favorite restaurants or book store.
In the video he shows a screenshot from facebook while mentioning the earthquake. I dug it up, seems to be this post: https://www.facebook.com/redsismicadepuertorico/photos/a.101...

> The Puerto Rico Seismic Network (PRSN) is saddened to learn about the collapse at the Arecibo Radiotelescope Observatory this morning of December 1st, 2020. PRSN’s seismic station AOPR, located within the premises of the observatory, detected the timing of the failure. This seismic station has been a long collaboration between PRSN and the Arecibo Observatory. Here we publish the seismic record of AOPR at the time of collapse, which coincidentally occurred during the passage of seismic waves through Puerto Rico from a Dominican Republic earthquake of M4.0 that occurred at 07:51 AM AST. The figure below shows 07:52:42 AM AST (11:52:42 UTC) as the exact time of collapse at the AOPR seismic station, denoted by a sharp impulsive signal, right after the arrival of the S wave of the earthquake. It is a sad day for Science and a tragedy to lose such an important, iconic, valuable, and unique scientific instrument and allowed so many scientific advances and discoveries to humanity.

That facebook post is waaaay better than what I as a layman was able to come up in the post above. We made both posts at the same time though, so I couldn't know any better.

Also thanks for posting the link to the video, it's precisely the kind of breakdown I like :).
Google "NSA TAO" -- Tailored Access Operations. AIUI, among other things they're responsible for developing, discovering, and weaponizing exploits used to access high value targets -- sometimes through fun techniques like "Quantum Insert", a sort of faster-man-in-the-middle attack. The wealth of exploits released in the equation group hack should put all doubts to rest.
I tried to test this and discovered that my Wyze Cam thinks there isn't even an SD card installed (there is). In the cloud, it showed there was an event just before it was unplugged, but it won't let me download the footage. I would be pretty upset if I discovered these issues when I was trying to get footage from a break-in or other important event.

EDIT: After a firmware update, it's now recognizing the SD card, but just as parent said, there is no video of me walking up, standing in front of the camera, and unplugging it. It's not missing 4 minutes, but definitely at least 20 seconds.

This means a thief could just walk up to any Wyze cam, yank the power cord, and be certain that he wouldn't be caught on camera. Maybe there's a way for Wyze to grab the data from their cloud if the police asked for it, but it seems impossible for an end-user. Really disappointing.
What If Earth Got Kicked Out of the Solar System?
I can confirm that vanous is helping users :)

Hi vanous!
There are warm and cold runs. If it’s really important you can pre-heat by calling the lambda every so often. It would be nice if they had some option for this.
Isn't transfer a huge cost for AWS? I know of some people who have gone with Oracle because it supposedly has much lower pricing on that.
This would be even greater news if it would not be vaporware "Babelfish for PostgreSQL will be available on Github in 2021."
https://babelfish-for-postgresql.github.io/babelfish-for-pos...
I looked at all the high-end smart watches, decided they pretty much all sucked, and went with Withing's Steel HR Sport.

I love it- Like you said, it's a smart-enough watch. I get text notifications on the small screen, which is surprisingly useful, and it does things like step tracking, heart rate, sleep tracking, etc. But it also has a multi-week battery life, and looks like, and is sized like, a normal watch. Highly recommended.
- talking async is a lot less friction than sending emails

- you have your info pre separated in channels instead of needing to sort your emails into folders

- you can pin important data to the channel for future reference

- even sending small files is less complicated via a chat app

- you can get up to date just by scrolling up a bit

That's all I could think of in 2 minutes.
I was under the impression Tesla has only made profit selling cars for one quarter since existence. Most of their revenue is from the weird money pump/merger with Solar city and carbon credits. I'm with everyone else with the confusion on the valuation. Investors seem to love TSLA even though they lose their money every car they sell. I guess they're banking on the Uber/Lyft strategy which is to dominate the market hoping that the competitors will not last(?). Equally confused with the self driving fleet strategy too. Even if Tesla figures out how to get cameras to provide as meaningful data as LiDAR, they will still be years behind. All the big players have been spending the past couple years trying to figure out how to create a robust "driver" while Tesla is spending all this time figuring out how to get useful sensor data.

Disclaimer, I work in the Autonomous vehicle industry and my opinion are of my own and not of my employer.

Edit: I would love to hear if any part of my comment was wrong rather than just being down-voted. I even double checked the profits from TSLA earning and they have had 6 (barely) profitable quarters in the past five years. None of those would of been possible without EV and/or solar credits...
They probably got bit by scammers placing orders with stolen credit cards from protonmail accounts. It's an unfortunate problem with trying to be private online. You end up being profiled.
My company has a similar size, and we have a self-hosted Mattermost instance. We're switching away because the executives bought into another product but that's a different story, Mattermost works well at that size.
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Clearly we just need to get Zulip talking Matrix and we can all live together in one big {Zulip, Element, Gitter, IRC, XMPP} happy family :D

Edit: not forgetting XMPP via the actually-usable-these-days bifrost bridge! https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-bifrost
Wow that dirty cow exploit affects Linux too? My server was at risk...

Although none of those are recent like daily security flaws we see on HN.
While this sounds nice and good, the removal of generational living was completely intentional. Why? Because of the one thing you left out: it is the women who disproportionately end up taking care of the home and the children.

There is no real feminism with this traditional system in place. Even with the modern setup, women take care of children more _even if they don't want to_, simply because nursing takes a lot of time.
And write in any language, and have no OS/patches/updates/hardware to look after, have built in logging, a complex but robust authentication system, etc etc.
DLLHell
That's great, but when you're a startup and your only option is Comcast, outages are a very real thing.

Our first real office also had internet access run by these 2 dudes in the basement and outages every few weeks for a couple hours.
I have a nasty scar down my finger from opening a bottle with a knife, I’d advise against using knives like this.
Is the price difference that great? I paid ~$150 for mine a few months ago, and checking Amazon here in the US, they're still going for about that.
The first setup to get started can be a bit rough, especially with server based key fetch + pairing. Gadgetbridge's issue tracker will help if you get stuck.
The technologies are not just for large deployments IMO, it's the next logical step of leveraging OSS software: composition at the service layer instead of binary interfaces. You can pull down an ElasticSearch image, for instance, to provide search for your application, and write against their REST API. It then gets rolled into an orchestration with your app. You can debug locally against the rest of the orchestration, then package the whole thing using a script and/or some config files and deploy it to a stand-alone server, the cloud, whatever. Set it up once and deploy anywhere without (too much) extra hassle.

What Amazon has done is take these workflows and make them very developer friendly. You can save some time and energy (and money) using EKS over managing your own kubernetes nodes on EC2, for example. Or you can use their native services that provide other niceties. Welcome to the latest form of vendor lock-in!
It was in an almost exactly similar situation to yours where I learned to do this and I've been able to scale it up to companies with 1000x more demanding infrastructure.

The funnier thing in my case was that three years after I left, the infrastructure was humming along fine with nobody actively looking at it. They never hired anyone to look after it because it never gave them any problems and they would have been fine to keep paying me to be there and do little/nothing.

I've staked my whole career on this way of doing things and I'm never looking back.
In lots of telescope designs, the sensor is behind the dish. The part in front of the dish is only a reflector. Done that way, weight of a transmitter doesn't matter.
Until I read comments there I did not even know what Forex market is (though now it is obvious in hindsight from the name).

So at least the comments thread is useful.
> Sounds like they’re open sourcing it to get some help on it.

My take is that they are open sourcing it because they don't just want to use it to compete with Microsoft to host SQL Server workloads on a better basis than Microsoft's licensing policy has let them in the past, but also to just undercut Microsoft's SQL Server licensing revenue generally.

As a business strategy, sure, but given the way everyone I've heard from AWS talks about Microsoft and SQL Server licensing, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a good deal of spite involved, too.
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Short of paying many thousands of dollars in prototype engineering fees, you either buy an existing device and strip out the guts, or one of these for $20 https://serpac.com/bw-series.aspx
Anything outside I include the kiddos but I'm playing DOOM and Sekiro right now so I can't exactly have a toddler watch me decapitate demons/samurais and I'd rather have a beer etc. after the kids are sleeping. When they get older we'll probably play some Mario Kart/Minecraft style stuff together.
My 'me' time is exclusively after the kids are sleeping anyway.
$27.7 Billion. Really impressive.
Well, RIP Slack. Salesforce is a cancer that ruins everything they touch as far as I'm concerned.
That's totally fair and this is a hard one I'll admit. I've done it for when I know there is a new book coming out that they might not have on their radar or I will ask friends/family of the person if they have the book. Not a perfect system and probably not the best example.
What Is ML Optimization?
See a dentist regularly. Even if you're fit and wealthy, bad teeth will make you miserable.
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My 63yo uncle, whose only marketing insight in his catastrophically unsuccessful lifelong sales career is that "sex sells," gives better domain naming advice than this software.
I know it’s not necessarily a container related thing, but one I thing that frustrates me a lot, and why deploying takes longer than I expect is because zipping up and uploading a package is a bunch of unnecessary clicks. I just want to “npm install” a few third party libraries in the online IDE. (repl.it has a nice experience here). It’s frustrating to shuffle between my desktop, AWS and back again.
This is exactly my point. There is something rotten in the research labs where society is not getting return on investment for basic research.

If the goal is to just produce researchers that can work at corporate research labs, then I feel we could get more bang for the buck.

If the goal is to do move research in the public good, something needs to change. Maybe it’s the fact there’s too little money out there, and it causes everyone to chase meager grant money. Or that there’s too much competition between groups. Or a million other reasons.

But I’d love to see it fixed and have more faith in public investment in basic science.
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Less is more.

What distinguishes Bitcoin from most cryptocurrencies is that a) It has a (relatively) simple goal -- sound money -- and thus less attack surface; and b) Its community is fiercely conservative, to the point that major changes to Bitcoin (e.g. increasing the total supply) are completely off the table. These properties inspire confidence, making Bitcoin a much safer bet than any other cryptocurrency.
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Ugh, I have almost the same issue. I think I'll regift it to someone who understands but doesnt care. Have you looked into the genetic squencing offered at education places/third party businesses? They are a little more expensive (starting at $500, I think.)
I do something similar with my wife. She likes various asian sauces for stirfry, how about 15 different sauces!

I go a bit crazy when I can spend 20 dollars and be absurd with quantity. My cousins love getting 20 hershey bars or a variety.
My wife hates this. Everything I want that I can afford, I already own. Anything I want that I can't afford, I shouldn't be receiving as a gift from someone else. That leaves the only remaining case of "things I don't want". So duplicate gifts, expensive gifts, or bad gifts.

This puts us into the category that the article states you don't want to be in: guessing for things the other person wants (but doesn't know they want). this works great for me and my wife. it becomes an adventure of learning about each other. Not so much for aunts/uncles/etc. Cash, or nothing is fine. I feel worse about getting some knick knack that gets thrown out than just getting nothing.
As for books, The Art of Software Security Assessment is frequently recommended, including by members of Project Zero.
Has Paris been able to monetize this valuable Intellectual Property?
I currently support the following products named "Integrity":

- Law firm management software
- Document management software
- A DVR appliance

Previously I supported HPE Integrity hardware. Certain names just seem way overused.
Same opinion - I have mostly used Slack as a chat tool and it works very nicely for that
The two dialects are very different today
Slightly off topic, but are there microcontrollers that run Linux?
> The research would've been much shorter if Apple would actually provide researchers with debug symbols.

I believe they're about to do this: https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/8/20756629/apple-iphone-secu...
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I'm pretty sure that AirDrop works when you turn on Wi-Fi and Bluetooth while using airplane mode.
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