skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These private publishers are scamming US tax payers. Taxes pay for the research to be conducted and then in order for anyone to read it thousands of dollars must be paid to politically connected monopolies. The fact that this system is still operating 8 years after Aaron Schwartz's suicide is an indictment of American society.
They author makes a few good points, but I find the author's critique of Yubikey weak:

>Cost. The average YubiKey is £50...

If that's too expensive for ensuring your internet security, then either you underestimate the risks, or undervalue your information. If a Yubikey cost 10 times more it would still be a bargain.

>Usability. Buy a device, register it, install the app, configure it, find the setting in the website, enable it, hope your machine has the right sort of USB ports, press the button at the right time.

Pressing the button at the right tight was a joke, right? Although, I admit it may be challenging for people with disabilities. Websites making it hard to find 2FA settings is not a Yubikey's problem, it's a website problem. Setting up a Yubikey is rather straight forward too. The main issue is the inability to clone a Yubikey programmatically, but that's the price of security.

>Convenience. My YubiKey is on my keyring. My keys are in my coat...

That's can't be serious too. I won't even elaborate on this.

>Risk. YubiKeys have no password lock of their own. At least my crumby Android has a fingerprint lock to prevent people getting my 2FA tokens. But if you’ve stolen my laptop and the YubiKey is plugged in, then you’ve got the keys to my kingdom.

That's actually the only valid point I somewhat agree with. Again, this is largely mitigated by developing the right habits. You don't leave your car keys hanging in your car's lock after leaving the car in a parking lot, right? Then why do it with Yubikey? If developing a new minor habit represents a problem, then either you underestimate the risks, or undervalue your information.

An additional password/fingerprint protection would be nice though. I agree on that.

>Support. WebAuthn is a great standard – but only a few sites support it...

Again, this is not a Yubikey's problem. It's a website problem.
It shows that it’s bad when we are even trying to compare it to the Cold War, and the conclusion is that at least the Cold War had some positives!
LOL

This song reached Poland in the early 20 century, and it is known here by the title "Morskie opowieści" (Marine Tales) - we've got creative, so there are something like 500 different verses recorded. I remember singing that a lot on my high school/college parties :)
git gui is way to go.
I think that's a weird realization. Those other people don't use those port so they want everyone to have a MacBook without them. You want those port so you want everyone to have a MacBook without them.

Or wanting either of those tings is selfish, and you should've realized that what you want is selfish, or both aren't.
> It's about making desktop-class applications more accessible via the web.

The problem I see is folks unnecessarily turning their websites into desktop-class applications. It's especially popular on ecommerce sites -- today I tried to look at some lumber prices and the website had input latency measured in seconds before my phone's browser just crashed.
In other words: the Nazis are telling the French Résistance that they are criminals. This is 100 % true, a good number were an unsavoury bunch, and them blowing things up and killing enemy soldiers and collaborators is illegal under any code of law, but they had good reasons.
Well, we can hope, can't we?
You were downvoted because you are tooting your coin, your argument is weak, and your examples meaningless.

Your argument boils down to: not enough TPS, because bad technology. It's good enough for now and can always be changed later. Changing the distribution of the mempool to miners is trivial. But the game theory consequences (MEV for flash lending) are not. So no one wants to change what is not yet broken until the implications become clear.

> The ability to send or loan arbitrarily large amounts for a fixed fee is a symptom of centralization. In a fully distributed network, transaction fees would have to be proportional to transaction size

With UTXO, there is no correlation between amount and transaction size (cf "dust")
> PS if he was breaking rules of the platform for so long why ban him only after they know he lost the election? Seems to go along with my “powerful people make the rules” complaint.

If you ban him before the election and he wins, then he has 4 years to retaliate against you.
Bad yes. But that makes improvements even more important!

Especially linked with partial refresh could make this really feasible for stuff with small text updates happening etc.
I lived in a age when sunday was holiday for postoffice & letters took forever. The false sense of urgency created by emails & instant messaging are human creation (if we agree on that) by organizations that have self-interests to protect. I fully understand availability of service. Most of package/mail carriers told us how deliveries will be delayed due to cyclone in Florida or increasing load due to holiday+covid in recent days? Let us translate all of this to internet traffic as well. Hell didnt break loose or sky didnt fall on our head when it happened. Hoping we are in agreement till now, what worries me is not messaging or availability of that service. But the commercial interests that will use such services for their data mining. As soon as one agrees to new terms & conditions, what if WhatsApp roles out updates that suck in more info about me from my phone to build their dark profile & strong social connectivity maps? I think some of us are opposing that. It comes at cost of, lets say half day of service outage once in a while. How did we spend our childhood days when there were lengthy blackouts?
To be fair cryptocurrency has subsidized a fair bit of interesting cryptography research, but holy crap could that have been done so much more cheaply by just paying some universities to staff up with cryptographers and giving them some challenges.

You could probably have founded and fully endowed dozens of top tier universities for what we have wasted on this.

Another good thing to look at for perspective: how many startups could we have seeded and venture funded for the money literally burned by cryptocurrency?

Cancer. Pure cancer.
Yes, but the purpose of this was not to train how to recover stalls. It was to show to the pilot how the aircraft reacts when flown way out of the envelope and which things happen in which order.

I guess the training was actually positively intended to be flown VFR, to give the pilot the least things to worry about and to allow them to focus on what exactly is happening.
>> Those 200 million Muslims who live in India and are part of the Indian nation, yet they're not Indian enough for the nationalists

What's the difference between that and a religious war then? Nationalism in the US originally meant that American Protestants were going to be Americans first and Protestants second, and American Catholics were going to be Americans first and Catholics second.

Nationalism was about putting national identity above other forms of identity. White nationalism isn't nationalism, it's just racism. Nationalism means that those people who you have nothing in common with? Well, now you have this one thing.

Not to be sound all pro-nationalist here, I'm more of a city-state guy, most problems don't need national solutions. But nationalism, at its best, is a way to combat the bigotry you are talking about, not to exacerbate it.
Power supplies... Phone chargers, ebike battery charger, laptop chargers... So many switching power supplies tend to whistle it's a major pain. Even worse when you're the only one hearing it... Even even worse is that unshakeable feeling that the thing is shit and is going to blow up soon (I played the 'blowing up electronic components' game when a teenager instead of sports or dating or studying).

I can also hear some GPUs around me, and I'm not sure whether it's the draw of the power supply that makes the PC sing or something within the GPU itself.
That seems perfectly reasonable; it’s very common for a change in administration to result in the killing off of various weapons programmes, especially those on the more exotic end of the spectrum. These are often political projects as much as military ones; the progenitor administration may be attached to them, but they’ll be reevaluated with a change of administration and if they’re not much good they may be cut.
I think the underlying question is, "Can Pleione be observed with the naked eye today?"

> And I've never, in decades of observing under many different conditions from different latitudes, ever seen seven stars.

This really only tells us about you. Even if your vision is 20/20, your experience doesn't preclude the possibility of someone else discerning Pleione. And if they can, that ability can definitely be determined by time of year; which affects not only where the Pleiades are in the sky (e.g. how much air mass you're looking through), but also things like turbulence and humidity.
I think a better comparison would be a networked 'enterprise' app. Think SAP or Sage or something.
For the record, it's 2021 and the cheapest 16tb hard drive on pcpartpicker is $335. For $80 you can get a cheap 4tb hard drive.
Is that really true? I suspect there is a lot more to it than that. Is there someone here with direct experience in the matter?
Cannot comment on the audiobook contents as I am hardly put off by the website.
It doesn't work on my phone as it is loading tons of stuff and on my PC it loads but is very slow, doesn't cache anything. Thats a pitty as I really like having DRM free audiobooks. Will therefore look into the other site metioned already.
I very much doubt they’d shrink 65,536 to 40,000, even if some of the values were indistinguishable from others. That’s not how marketing works! If you have a 3×9 gear combination on a bicycle, you call it 27 gears, never mind that a lot of it is overlap and that it’s even possible for some ratios to be identical (e.g. 26:9 and 52:18 is conceivable).
Waveshare have them for really small prices. https://www.waveshare.com

Also, this is really cool: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/inky-impression
You mean that irrelevant point:

>making your Doctor with emphasis on data science, has nothing todo with understanding simple data like covid-cases right?
I strongly disagree about patents. This is the patent system working as designed. It incentivized a company to invent a new thing, and gave them a monopoly for a reasonable amount of time (20 years). When it ends, others can operate in the space.

I agree about copyright, though. Copyright has been expanded to cover software and even APIs. Copyright is a giant drag on innovation. A single company can tie up a space for life of the author plus 70 years, which is absurd. Copyright should never have applied to most forms of software, which clearly fall into the exceptions of 17 USC § 102(b). But we are where we are.
The trouble is knowing what patents are "big". There are few good signals for patents that are holding back innovation.
>I am using Jupyter Notebooks for what they are normally used for: machine learning experiments.

I'm interested to know what kind of problems you may be having doing machine learning. Are you doing that as part of a team or for fun?

We're making something in that space[0]. It's our machine learning platform because we've been doing ML projects for many years and are building this to help us. Does the description in that post solve some/all/none of your problems?

- [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25802764
From Protein Amino Acid Sequence to Sound
Given that amino acids, which make up proteins, often occur in certain patterns, I wanted to see how these translate into music. To this end, I ordered the amino acids in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and assigned them to different musical scales. Here is the result that is based on the JavaScript synthesizer Tone.js.
Absolutely echo this. You need to really start with the basics, and focus on understanding (i.e. asking yourself) *how* and *why* everything works and happens.

In order to find vulnerabilities, you need to understand how a system works, and how all the parts that lead up to it work. You'll ultimately want to understand how $high_level_language ends up as bytecode that executes on the CPU, and if/how you can modify/manipulate that. And a bit about the underlying hardware and electronics never does any harm for some rowhammer type attacks.

If you want to defend and secure a system, you need to understand it, and all its dependencies, and the assumptions it makes. You'll want to understand the hardware, and how it's secured etc.

For networked systems, get a really good understanding of TCP, UDP and IP. Learn how firewalls work.

The aim is to get to a point where you know the fundamentals and how things work to the point there's no "magic" in how the computer works - you know enough to explain a PC from reset vector through to UEFI, bootloader, OS load, software load, network exchanges, etc. And similar for an IP network - you want to know everything about subnets, how VLANs work, how tagging works, how 802.1x works, how WiFi works, etc. And this is just the start!

You'll struggle to secure something you don't understand - this is why $bigcompany can't secure their basic IT network - those responsible didn't understand the basic principles, or how the moving parts worked (either on their own or as part of the bigger system), and it ends up compromised by someone who does understand those principles.
> In ~1997 this level of compute power would have been enough to get on the TOPS500 list of the fastest computers our civilization is capable of creating.... now something that consumes only 54 sq mm of silicon that gets put into a $15.00 gadget.

... and it's incapable of doing anything useful without even bigger computers somewhere else.

Progress is so odd sometimes.
> Ultimately, you are probably stuck in the cloud until you can hit that point of being able to dedicate 2+ full-time engineers to the task of managing your infrastructure

This is the exact reason people stay on AWS. You need to be big and decently profitable to afford 2+ full time people managing the server hardware purchases, maintenance, updates - same with network.

These people need to be 24/7 on-call unless you can somehow make your system so fault-tolerant, that it can handle up to 16 hours of downtime without intervention (breaks the second the engineer clocks out, needs to hold its own until they clock back in).

Even the two people are a stretch when you need to be 24/7, that's at least 3 shifts and even then you're one flu away from being short-staffed again.

So now we're at a point where you need to make enough profit to pay 4 competent server engineer's salaries just to get out of AWS. Add to that the one-time costs of buying your own servers, setting them up and colocation costs.

That's a lot.
Not really a setback, because there was no place for that technology. Lack of space reactors wasn't and isn't a roadblock. Had that development continued it would have been largely wasted, and the knowledge gained would have decayed away.
Low level programming isn’t like some disused area of mathematics that was popular in the early 20th century; it underpins everything we do. Your OS, your network stack, your graphical desktop, your browser, probably your favorite language’s interpreter, all depend on writing high performance code. At any point you’re probably a single step away from some C.

Languages like Python made it much easier to program but didn’t put as much thought into performance. I think the future of computing will be in languages that manage to be pleasant to write like Python while still exploiting low level hardware features. Rust, which is like C++ that doesn’t suck, and Julia, which is like Python with cleaned up semantics to allow easier compilation, come to mind. The economics of a few people developing high performance languages that everyone can use just makes too much sense. More cloud computing may be cheaper than more devs, but it still isn’t cheap in the absolute sense.
But it's not reliable at all. Particularly when you consider the longer and longer time to exit, the greater dilution due to those huge late rounds, the fact that you get hit with the tax burden when you exercise (which can easily be a decade before that stock is liquid), the fact that the late rounds have significantly raised the bar on what a 'successful exit' is.

Now that startups tend to stay private so long, the value of employee equity has absolutely tanked.
A Chef's Ambitious Quest to Harvest Rice from the Sea
It's already here, they speak of the current-generation ACeP: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/inky-impression

Saturation, contrast and refresh are still the main weaknesses though. Especially because a full-color display uses numerous full-page refreshes to achieve all colours which are really jarring.
I think it will get traction because there are tonnes of low end windows tablets out there that only have 2 gb ram and 32 gb storage that can barely even run windows and jing os which is using a modified plasma mobile will be way faster on these low end windows tablets
Likely the GPU itself, which has it's own powerful switching converters (to get from the voltage it gets from the PSU to core voltage for the GPU chips)
send a google referrer
Study finds that most therapists say they sometimes Google their patients
The current fb/messenger interface is a disaster. Transitions are slow and they still didn't get the local state right and coordinated different parts of the UI. I've stopped using messenger because of this, managed to send messages to the wrong recipient more than once because of latency in the UI.
It was the unsustainable expense of the Apollo architecture that did that. The decision to cancel was driven by that, not by a "lack of will".

It would have made some sense to incrementally improve some parts of that architecture (like the Saturn 1B, for example) rather than going down the Shuttle rabbit hole.
Having stricter data privacy regulation in the EU is good.

But I'm getting the impression that the authorities prefer to look into local companies where "easy wins" can be had - like in this article.

Let's get this straight: I think the video surveillance here was not okay.

But - shouldn't the authorities rather pursue things which matter more, i.e. maximising the impact of (number of humans affected * magnitude of effect)? The WhatsApp <> Facebook data sharing situation comes to mind. Or the recent change of their privacy policy.

There's lots more. I feel that big (SV) tech companies have much more leeway than local companies, simply because their probability of being fined is lower.
I’d argue that most people absolutely should not account for it. There’s enough to stress out about when trying to get your startup off the ground. The idea that your “spending” 2Ok a month due to opportunity cost is not helpful and probably likely to lead to burnout. On the other hand, saving a little money and knowing you’ve extended your runway an extra 3 months can be very helpful.
I found jails kind of accidentally. A few years back I built a NAS at home and wanted to run ZFS on it, so FreeBSD was an obvious choice. I soon found out how easy it is to create and manage jails: you just start a new one from a template, get an ip address, ssh into it and `pkg install` whatever you need. I now run over 10 jails, having home automation, media player, grafana, few different databases, unifi controller and so on all in their own jails.

I like the simplicity and how straightforward it is to add new servers to our home. I have long history with docker, but kind of prefer the way of being able to ssh into the jail and manage it like a normal server distro. Docker again is much nicer in the daily development flow, where I want nine different databases in a clean state every morning.
Nobody knows the real average salary in Poland. The government's statistics office is calculating average only based on reports from businesses with >10 employees (IIRC). This excludes a couple millions of microbusinesses and of course the biggest employer in the country, aka the state itself (millions of teachers, policemen, soldiers, all the paper-pushers in various parts of bureaucracy etc. etc. are not included). The computed national averages are good for comparing year-to-year salary growths, but they're not informative w.r.t. absolute salary levels.
Me three.

DI and IoC are for people ignorant of or hostile towards composition.

Further, aspects and reflection are for those unwilling or unable to make reasonable architectural assumptions.

Said another way, meta programming is for personal projects. And maybe for small, disciplined, high trust teams.

Most devs are average (axiomatically) and most projects are CRUD or scraping. So choice of these tools is self soothing to mitigate inferiority complexes. Like Mensa.
Spacex and Tesla come to mind.
I love stuff like this as it brings a smile to my face.

Reminds me of the time I was writing ESP/ESC software for car ECUs back in the days before Simulink models and automatic code generation where we had the vehicle dynamics books with all the physics of the car, and had to convert the math functions from continuous to discrete, then implement them in fixed point C, along with trigonometric functions (the CPU had no HW SIN/COS), optimized enough to run 100 times/second on a 16bit chip while keeping CPU load under 85%.

Test drivers were in awe and thought it's voodoo. No, it's just basic math implemented in C, similar to what Carmack was doing for the Doom/Quake 3D engines ;)
when did I mention "medical doctor"?
This is uncanny - I was just now going through some historic code snippets for holy grail, and was thinking of Tantek and his box model hack[1]. I come here, and see this.

Coincidence? Or, is the world of technology really that small? :)

[1] http://tantek.com/CSS/Examples/boxmodelhack.html
Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C: study from 2018
All that coal burnt to mine Bitcoin literally causes cancer, birth defects, neurological issues, pollution, and global warming, not to mention widespread cult-like stupidity, fraudulent shilling, shady business practices, irresponsible gambling, and other personally and environmentally self-destructive behavior.
While the sequence of the spike protein sounds quite strange, the (beginning of) the sequence of the protein Tmc1, which is suspected to play a role in the translation of the mechanical movements of hairs in our ears into electric current, sounds quite pleasing, you may copy paste it from here: MSPKKVQIKVEEKEDETEESSSEEEEEVEDKLPRRESLRPKRKRTRDVINEDDPEPEPEDEETRKAREKERRRRLKRGAEEEEIDEEELERLKAELDEKR.
Things the SR-71 Blackbird did the day before its retirement
I think e-ink requires a side-light rather than backlight, as the little spheres are opaque, with a dark side and a light side that physically reorient, meaning illumination from a backlight would have to somehow shine through the dark side, when the dark side faced the backlight, but be blocked by the dark side when it faced outward.

Maybe someone can up with a UV transparent dark side and a fluorescing light side or something.
I'd argue if you don't have the work the time would be better spent getting the best client than saving three dollars.
No direct experience, but if you want tenure you have to have papers in "top journals" and if those are all proprietary then it is what it is.
I think their point is that these companies gave us cheap memory in the first place. Which is an important thing to remember. The distruptors of days past are the monopolists of today. And they themselves will be disrupted one day.
https://forum.jingos.com/t/jingos-roadmap-v1-0-published-on-... shows it is based on Ubuntu 20.04 and Plasma Mobile if you want a source for "jing os which is using a modified plasma mobile"