skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Private.sh is run by IFC and Gigablast.

That being said, the system is designed so as to not require trust in the front end. The JavaScript code is easy to read and ensures that queries are encrypted at the front end before passing thru a proxy to have its IP scrubbed. The engine then performs the query, encrypts the results and sends it back thru the proxy to the front end which decrypts and displays the results.
If you're doing it on a company machine, haven't you implicitly given you permission to see that data?

You don't have privacy on company equipment.
One of my favorite sea shanties: Jack was Every Inch a Sailor [0]

I play this on my ukulele while my kids dance and sing along. For an endless supply of sea shanties, look up Newfoundland folk music. Also an honorable mention: Heave Away [1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLeGXzZki-s

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdhdC0Mbqak
Is that even necessary? From my experience, if you're a tech journalist and you're on twitter then you follow the same politics as the rest.
This is an absolutely bonkers amount of resources for the functionality and audience they have. We got our first 5 million users on 4 used PowerEdge nodes and our first 30 million with 2 bare-metal DB servers.

Good god what is Parler doing?
I've seen a few text editor pros who just weren't aware of what modern ides are capable of, particularly with strongly typed languages. They thought grep, regex and keyboard shortcuts were impressive.
What Parler was, was bad for business. It's not a good look for AWS to be hosting websites with violent content linked to the Capitol insurrection, and apparently doing nothing about it. So they pulled the plug.
The Concorde never burned as much fuel as a small country. You could argue that crypto will always have to burn a lot of fuel (electricity) because it needs to be bound to a computationally hard problem to be secure. https://www.statista.com/statistics/881472/worldwide-bitcoin...
Big Tech's De-Platforming Binge Highlights the Need for Web 3.0
Feedly tagged this with keywords "GitHub Jewish Nazis" without commas.
I never said that the targeting was any good. I said it was a mess, just that it was supposed to be good. Believe me, advertisers are very aware of the problem of showing you ads for things you just bought and would love to stop doing it.
Another good one: Barrett's Privateers [2]

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIwzRkjn86w
Try voice aloud (using it on android)
It’s a looooong jump from “don’t steal from the company” to “Christ is your savior”.
The most popular web extensions are those that deprive sites of direct and indirect revenue, which necessarily means they can’t charge for the service or their userbase would revolt and steal their rule sets (which is easy to do for a web extension). Having to pay money for such things goes against the grain of those users, and the sort of breakage that people think is acceptable for content blockers isn’t quite as acceptable in the wider Safari userbase as it is for the pi-hole folks. Imagine pi-hole charging a monthly subscription or else it allows ads through, and you can see immediately why this category is dead on arrival in revenue terms.

And, for the content blocker extensions market, there’s essentially no point in releasing it as a paid web extension for iOS/macOS users, because there’s already better paid app competitors that do this, like 1Blocker or Guardian VPN or etc, that are full native apps on the platform with the appropriate hooks to be performant and such.

Therefore: What valuable browser extension ideas other than content blockers exist, that could have any significant user base and value, that isn’t already met by better and more capable native apps on macOS and iOS, and somehow could charge people money for the extension with their willing cooperation? They’d obviously have to use a subscription model, so factor that into consideration when assessing the market.

I’m unable to come up with anything that would make this segment of the App Store market worth my time to invest code into, and I already have a developer account for other reasons, so I don’t even have the annual fee barrier to consider. I remain hopeful that I’m wrong, but no one’s made a convincing argument yet. Prove me wrong, HN.

(I see most people taking the “wrap WebKit” route instead, which makes more sense since it provides the capabilities an extension can’t offer, and is dead simple by virtue of the platform’s capabilities. Makes more sense to me, anyways, and then too. So: now what?)
All this stuff sounds pretty interesting. Any beginner-friendly pointers on any of them? Especially the last one (how to get started, minimum amount of money for it to be worth doing, etc.).
Yes!

uBlock origin is the biggest thing keeping me from going to Safari, that and the Stylus extension(or something like it).
I wouldn't even call it "mass" delusion. Who really supports it? Surely not inland or eastern states, that are very orthodox, and I doubt it's Indian or Chinese immigrants who have their own and rather sophisticated philosophy (I mean hinduism and such) and I doubt it's high-tech whites who at most politely ignore slurs in their address. This draws a rather depressing picture of our "culture" if I may use this word. The said delusion is really just a policy enforced at the very top, i.e. in places like DoD and WH. Twitter creates an illusion of majority, but I bet that if this majority were to organise a picnic, they would fit on a smallish park.
So essentially you want an open-source, mainstream free to use service that operates at a large scale and doesn't monetize through ads?

Yeah, I wouldn't hold my breath.
Although they don't give a number, they do actually mention refresh time in the penultimate paragraph: "it is rumored that E INK was able to integrate their Regal Waveform controllers in ACEP 2, resulting in faster page refresh speed and no ghosting."
I think we there is a much simpler explanation in this case: Signal just had an outage affecting millions of people, many of whom don't have HN accounts. Some of them have found this thread.
Markets and Communities
There are also a lot of people who would really like to improve upon existing products but are prevented from doing so due to patents. So patents promote some kinds of innovation while severely restricting other kinds. It may well be true that there is more potential innovation being blocked due to IP restrictions than there is being promoted by IP rights. People seem to take it as a given that the latter outweighs the former, but rarely have I encountered evidence for this claim. The implications of getting this wrong are staggering, and I worry that people rarely critique this idea.
That was my question; glad you saw it; it's still unanswered; providing testable evidence for a claim is another basic principle of science; if the article or the reviewers are wrong, the top commenter has to give them a chance to recognise that by providing evidence for review.
Agreed. If all you need is glorified SMS replacement, Signal is the way to go.
I don't think it's that bad. The SpaceX Starship should be able to carry ~125 metric tons to Mars, and there will be cargo-only variants. You could ship ultralight flexible solar panels in each Starship. Even if it's 40% less energy than on earth, I would say that's still not bad. You could easily fit enough panels to get a 100KW array in 10 metric tons of payload. You use the batteries from the ship itself to store the power for night time. If each cargo Starship can bring one such array, then you will pretty quickly have a megawatt of power generation. It's not huge, but if you pay attention to energy efficiency, it's enough to power tools to dig, lighting, heating, rovers, etc.

As for dust, the Mars rovers have shown it's not a real issue, wind removes most of it, and if we actually have people there, we can occasionally clean the arrays too.

Would I rather bring a nuclear reactor to Mars? Sure, but I also think we can make it work with just solar if we have to.
You might be interested in Lstiburek's Perfect Wall.
That's a great version of it. I'm also pretty partial to the Stan Rogers one.
For an esoteric term that I tried, the results are about same for the top half of the page, but then were quite different for bottom half. Which leads me to believe they use Bing but do not completely rely on it (at least not to order the results).
> Are you saying you don't believe that sentiment is in line

> with Nazis?

If that is a photo from the capitol protests, sure, the sentiment is in line with that of the Nazis on the topic of Jewish people. But I might expect many Palestinians to share the same ideas, but they are not by definition Nazis, despite overlapping ideas about Jewish people.

That shirt is black and yellow, the colors for the 'Proud Boys' [1]. Whilst the group is described as 'far-right', I don't believe they support Nazis. I believe the leader is of mixed ethnicity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proud_Boys
> whether the solution is to “leave everything up and let everybody kind of just duke it out in the town square of ideas,”

Most solutions I see often assume that the humans involved are intelligent, open to discussion, and peaceful. This works in the town of theory.

What solution for the rest of the world, where hate speech incites violence, societal harm and instills fear?

I don't have solutions to either side of the problem, but I do know that they are often discussed in isolation, or at least there's a lot of pretending that they exist in isolation.
I've only heard of the fediverse and mastodon on HN. I can't help but think it's one of those things that ONLY has traction with HN types and that the mass of people and community that makes regular social media what it is today will never be seen over there.
1. Misleading headline. Glasser says that there’s no clear definition of „hate speech“ so you won’t know what you’ll get when you ask government to ban it. Just because something is ambiguous doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist (e.g. definition of freedom is also ambiguous, doesn’t mean „no such thing as freedom exists“). What are words even?
2. Shady website. Unclear who runs it. Seems to have been popular on Parler according to Google index.
Plastic molding of different types (injection, extrusion, blow molding, etc) enables massive quantities of physical objects to be produced at a staggeringly low cost and high rate of speed. This has of course enabled the production of many things that are beneficial to our lives. It has also increased the amount of waste that humans produce, to say the least.
You had to press reset or ctrl-Reset to get to the Applesoft prompt.
But are you willing to part with $720 to play with it?
These requirements are insane. By comparison, Stack Overflow had 25 servers in 2016 [1]:

- 2 database servers (with half that RAM and 24 cores each)
- 2 redis servers
- 3 elasticsearch servers
- 11 web servers
- 4 load balancers
- 3 service workers

[1]https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/03/29/stack-overflow-the-ha...
The guiding hand of Satoshi continues to rub one out while sitting in some corner.
Author here - I don't underestimate the complexity of the task that Google Safe Browsing tries to accomplish.

But: Do you believe there is no room for improvement in an automated, opaque system with clear evidence of malfunction, that quite succinctly decides if hundreds of people go unemployed when their company tanks for nothing other than an incorrectly set threshold on some algorithm?

That is the real question to ask. Google is nowhere near its limits in terms of capability, as is made abundantly clear by its extremely comfortable financial position.
Agreed. In fact, as I also said here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25802021) I consider the lack of backups to be a huge security flaw that is conveniently left out in such promotions.
Yeah. It is mostly about integrating and standards. Private keys in the secure enclave already does everything Yubikey does. All phones already have it. The OSes just need to support FIDO and then we don't need passwords anymore (assuming a passcode lock on device). Essentially everyone would have 3FA (something you know, something you have and something you are)
My DOS boxes in the 80's and 90's certainly never looked like that. Quite impressive, although I bet he has a bit more hardware than I did...
Agreed, maybe I'm not understanding something about how service meshes are run but shouldn't they be transparent to the app?
Cascadea is a decent Stylus stand-in for Safari, though it isn't free (currently costs US$2.99).
Emacs is my “favourite Emacs package”
> It’s like how a bar doesn’t need to have 100% of its customers be bikers to be known as a biker bar.

Reminds me of this bartender tale: https://twitter.com/IamRageSparkle/status/128089153745134387...
They're probably intending on selling their own services as an AWS replacement for people whom are 'censored'.
Or you have both. For example, I have work equipment and personal equipment on my same home desk.

My home network blocks a lot of traffic, but I’d be really surprised if my personal device provided any telemetry to work.
> I once commented as such in their fB page and I was crucified #LOL

What did you think your comment was adding to the conversation?
There are plenty of mechanisms to tackle this problem. But you have to want to care.
Bezos is just letting everyone else spend money on the R&D and he'll copy whatever works best
First, I would think that research would be more distributed - more smaller investments rather than centralized large developments. Second, I am not just advocating for abolishing intellectual property restrictions but also for promoting a culture of sharing. If we actually care about advancing human society, we should be willing to look at how to truly maximize innovation. It seems to be quite plausible that if we abandon IP restrictions as a notion and embrace sharing while also permitting reverse engineering of those who don't share, we would see a much higher rate of innovation. That has HUGE implications for society and I can't accept the idea that patents are good simply because most people believe it.
Yes eventually. We are currently laser focused on getting the hardest part of the work done. The webextensions API layer is pretty substantial and had to be rebuilt from scratch on top of Webkit core which is a giant project on its own. It has been two years in the making and we are at about 70% webextensions api coverage with a small but passionate team.
But how would you know to use that particular distribution, before becoming an expert first and know exactly what pre-configuration to look for? Knowing this pre-configuration is as difficult as knowing how to make such pre-configurations imho.

On windows, there's no choice. On mac osx, there's no choice (unless you try to mod it yourself after the fact).
The amount of energy wasted depends on how high the block reward and the transaction fees are. The block reward is going down over time and transaction fees are unlikely to grow beyond a practical maximum.
^^^ This is Github’s official statement which is absolutely worth reading.

However, the title is rather unfortunate: “Update on an employee matter.” That title is extraordinarily biased. While I didn’t really anticipate how this submission would get flagged, I don’t think the corporate-speak title is at all fair to the situation. That said, duly noted how the mods treated that story versus this one.
>It’s a looooong jump from “don’t steal from the company” to “Christ is your savior”.

Almost as long of a jump as "I'm scared for your safety for a riot that occurred a week ago, so I need to retroactively warn you about Nazis"
Sadly, not in the states I’ve worked. There’s a login banner on work machines letting them see everything.

Fortunately, my org doesn’t actually mitm bank sites.

I tried looking for cases where this was tried and haven’t found any. I would like to see this prosecuted as it seems wrong.
Cyngor Gwynedd Council – extraordinary, ill-conceived, and emphatically wrong
It isn’t much. I will take another look
> legacy OSes like Linux and Windows

Since when did the most advanced and widely used OSes in the world become legacy?

> legacy Ones ... more and more irrelevant as it matures

And what will Kubernetes run on, bare metal? Thin air?
Oh no, nobody depends on linking up an ad impression with an actual purchase. Not only is that incredibly hard to do, with few exceptions, the conversion rate is abysmal.

Money changes hands at the time the advertiser agrees to buy the space on the publisher, based on the CPM of the offer. A publisher that can more reliably link ad impression with sales can charge a higher CPM, but nobody in their right mind would buy and sell ads based only on conversion.
It's Windows NT 4.0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_4.0

http://toastytech.com/guis/nt4.html
Upon the isle of Newfoundland there lived a sailor boy
He was a handsome sailor lad, his father's pride and joy
He was born on board his father's ship on a dark and stormy morn
And he helped the crew harpoon a whale on the day that he was born
As a member of the group of people who were imprisoned, tortured and exterminated by the “real” Nazis, I'd much rather not see words "Nazi" and "terrorist" used for protesters (or even rioters) whose intentions had nothing to do with extermination, torture, or serious attempts of coup or terrorism (cf. actual terrorist attacks by actual terrorists in Europe).
This is what happens when you don't allow the true freedom of speech. People that are censored end up going to a digital echo-chamber where bad ideas thrive instead of being brought to light in a public forum and dismissed.

The masks are now off for the Liberals in our government and in big tech. They don't try to hide their authoritarian views any longer. Those of us paying attention have been seeing this going on for the past 4 years. Covid and the lockdowns only added to their power and authority.

I'm shocked at all of the 'hackers' in the tech community that started out as rebels trying to get their voices heard now using their money and power to crush all dissenting opinion.

There truly is a civil war going on in the United States, but it's not being fought with bombs and guns. It's the fight for the freedom of speech and the right to express yourself without persecution. Many will say that this only applies to the government, but what good is that when a handful of large corporations can control your entire life.

We now have banks, insurance companies, social media companies, and many other groups discriminating against a group of people because of their political beliefs and personal opinions. To me, this is no different than discrimination based on skin color, sexual identity, or religion and should be protected.
The thing you're missing here is that big upsides are low probability, and reduced downsides are high probability. Swing big, and you might be the guy that knocks it out of the park, but you'll probably be the guy that gets struck out, whereas the guy hitting the ground ball might not get a grand slam, but he's got a good shot of getting on base.

I suspect that the expectation value of cutting costs is going to be higher, but with a much lower variance.
Curious if anyone will use this to more capably fuzz the 802.11 stack in commodity equipment.
A proprietary DB? Do you know which one? I saw a tweet that I thought said they were using Postgres. Just curious.
> Google's engineers would have to have an unbelievable level of contempt for users to propose a feature that claims to improve privacy by signing in to Google.

I, for one, find that level of contempt totally believable.
Perhaps this might be interesting to anyone which wants to give Emacs a try: https://emacs.zeef.com
It's hard to "own your infrastructure" when you needs are so extreme. Part of the job of tech workers is to make things efficient so that the company doesn't end up with an outsized OpEx or CapEx. With all this hardware required, they have made it impossible to own their own hardware.
> Ah, I see your point. But it could just as easily be made in nearly any language, the difference at the level of “is abstract-able” is meters rather than kilometers.

True, most languages could do it, but there are some hard stops to how easy it is to abstract in golang, and performance also knocks some languages out.

> The problem is that as soon as you need something more than a command line call the engineering burden explodes relative to languages that natively support greater abstraction at the lexical and logical level.

Agreed, once you're off the happy path things can be many times more painful in Rust than Go. I personally think Go will replace Java in most enterprise-y software shops within 5-10 years. Unless there's a specific reason to use the JVM, Go is more than good enough and it's goals align with industry very well.
Man... we're about to have a metric sh*t ton of stuff in orbit ready to become debris at any time.
Simple is closing. Lets build something
Hi,

As many of us know, Simple Bank is closing and we are being moved over to BBVA Compass.

The main primary reason I'm using Simple is for the "simplicity" of the envelope system. I enjoy the UI and think it's one of the best user experiences.

I've built iOS apps and web apps before and because I'm losing something I absolutely love, I think I am going to rebuild this app myself.

The major difference is that this will be able to work with any bank account by using Plaid (http://plaid.com).

If you think about, the "proof of concept" and the storyboards are pretty much done since we just need to reference the Simple Bank app.

I'm writing this post because I would love to work with some people on this app!

If you are using Simple currently, or just want to work on a budgeting app for fun, reach out to me!

ethanbonin@gmail.com
I understand there is a tradition in papers to put the primary author first but in the end, it is the letter Z almost became synonymous with compression.

.Z, .zip, .7z, .gz, .xz, .bz2. Of course, many use LZ77 or LZMA, LZ stands for Lempel–Ziv, but only the Z remained in the format.
Former AWS employee after being employed for <3 months.
this post doesn't deserve downvotes. Googles size also makes them accountable. Decentralisation is useless if you end up in the wild west with 100 companies, none of which can secure your data.

I'd rather be on a well-regulated network that has the resources to have proper security in place rather than on fifty tiny ones who scrape very detail of my life and serve me crappy ads, this is basically how porn-sites work.
Tribes are how humans survive. What we think of as "survivalism"-- a single person getting by alone in the woods-- wouldn't work in any era with any technology.
As the article points out, this guy is the Z in LZ- which also forms the compression portion of the Deflate algorithm (zip/gzip). A huge portion of the lossless compression algorithms of today are generationally based on Ziv's work.

This is extremely well deserved.
To get around Twitter's character limit, someone invented a way of encoding machine code into a BASIC listing.

https://twitter.com/deater78/status/1348143447333597185

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...and really bad eggs
When was that, for you?
Yes, advertisers would love to stop showing you ads for things you just bought. If you see a wildly off base ad, it's likely not targeted, it's just part of an ad buy.

Targeting only by the demographic of the publication is not so great because publishers usually only have a vague idea who their actual demographic is. Take for example the TV show Golden Girls. It was supposedly all about the 50+ demographic, but it was a huge with with queer people of all ages right from the start.