skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin would be an utter failure if it sacrificed security in order to gain speed and efficiency.

And make sure to compare how much energy (including the entire military, police forces, FBI, etc.) is used to secure US dollars.
Cats are known to like fatty and salty foods, and not have a "sweet tooth". Olives are oily, and preserved in salt
I'm happily paying for youtube premium because it allows me to watch youtube on my iPad without ads, and to download the videos to watch offline. Totally worth it.

I don't know how many youtube users are paying for it, but youtube premium is still a thing, and I hope it continues to be. Seems like they're making it work somehow.
I'm starting what could be thought of as a DNA cloning company. So sort of automation service, but for one specific application.

> Are you doing some kind of mineral oil top layer to prevent evaporation

The opposite: the process is pretty much based off of dessication (plus a little bit of tube opening by the bots for important chemicals). For thermocycling stuff, I'm planning on just using Opentrons module with the reusable seals. I really wanted to find a way to use reusable seals everywhere, but I just couldn't think of a way to do it well robotically. Thankfully, I don't need to convince the regulatory bodies of anything, since I'm just doing DNA cloning.

> We have an opentrons that we bought couple years ago
If you need to do multichannel stuff, do yourself a favor and go buy Gen2 multichannels and toss your old Gen1. The Gen1 multichannels are hilariously unreliable, but the Gen2 are pretty solid. Love those bots overall though - I got two of em so I can work in parallel!
Sounds like the same restrictions can apply to covid. People die from flu and numerous other diseases, but I've never worked anywhere that has mandated such vaccinations. The only exception I know of is meningitis in Texas, and that is really bad, a person can be infected and dead in hours and it is quite infectious. Not at all comparable to covid.
So how could you use these private keys now? Considering they're not seeds.

EDIT: downvoted for asking a question
Every snowflake is unique [1]. That doesn't mean you study every snowflake that means you study the system that makes snowflakes.

[1] https://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/climate-weather/atm...
> So, do you know people who prefer web apps over native apps for their Android, where "other browsers" are not disallowed, and Chrome is available?

I do. Twitter's PWA is superior to its native app, and I can customize it with extensions. I prefer mobile Firefox over mobile Chrome though.
These have gotten some attention recently probably because of Big Clive's great video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klaJqofCsu4
I don't think it is. I got approached by consulting companies and recruiters to work on embedded development for Intel, including on-site work in Santa Clara, CA and travel to Asia. The hourly rate was 60 and days in Asia were 250 each plus accommodations. I've never done a trip to Asia were I was working less than 10 hours per day.
UTF-8 has been in the standard since the mid 2000s. You're just as much out of date with the other assertions.
Don't recall the source, but it has stuck with me since my assembler days...

There are only 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.
Sir, I tip my fedora in your general direction.

It seems there are quite a bit of mEth heads here as well.

/u/jstolfi has many disciples
Much appreciated! The terminology and notation seemed backwards to me, and I basically never use it except when discussing Djikstra on HN ;-)

Visually, it looks like ) has more "room" than ], if that makes sense, and that "closed" would mean that the element defines the 'lid' of the range, while "open" means it defines the final extent.

But you can't argue with nomenclature, and extending the definition to the reals helped make it click for me, so I'm unlikely to screw it up again. Thanks!
Is this just one of the hundreds of variants that have been found so far but do not spread widely, or is there some reason to believe this variant is more easily spread and will become common?
Super Bowl 2021 won't stream in 4k, because of Covid
Malicious applications and internet malware weren't raging problems in the late 90s, but they were known and predicted dangers.

You really don't need "user accounts" per se, but a way to restrict process privileges, of which user accounts is just a decent abstraction. On WinNT, user accounts and groups are just abstractions for providing SIDs for your access token -- there are SIDs like NT SYSTEM which don't have a correlated user account.

The important bit is you can create a process that can't accidentally fandango on core and overwrite all the system files. You have to elevate privileges -- even if there's no prompt for the user, the application dev still has to intentionally request admin rights to touch sensitive files.

All that aside, though, it's a lot easier to fake "no user accounts" like Windows did and just have no password, than to genuinely have no privilege separation and try to retrofit it on later. If you're trying to market a brand new OS with new APIs that has no compatibility with anything, even in the 90s, I'd expect some kind of plan for at least optional security. Anything at all!
Amazing! Excited for the launch!
I don't think he is Satoshi but what evidence is in your comment?
The federal inmate locator lists him as not in BOP Custody. Did he get extradited somewhere? House arrest for covid?
From what I've heard, Intel has started throwing out some really strong offers lately. Hope they're able to be successful; they sure have a lot of work to do.
For context: These are ultra-efficient LED light bulbs that are currently exclusive to the UAE.

LED efficiency is non-linear with increasing power input. LEDs are most efficient at lower currents. The harder an LED is driven, the less marginal increase in light output.

The Dubai Lamp gets higher efficiency by using more LEDs and driving them in the more efficient part of their operating curve. More parts cost, but lower energy costs long-term.
this some one is part of that chips' engineering team :-)
Pulling directly from TFA,

> Here we show that this lineage exhibits complete escape from three classes of therapeutically relevant monoclonal antibodies. Furthermore 501Y.V2 shows substantial or complete escape from neutralizing antibodies in COVID-19 convalescent plasma. These data highlight the prospect of reinfection with antigenically distinct variants and may foreshadow reduced efficacy of current spike-based vaccines.

Ugh; this hurts to read.
The callouts there are "complete escape [from] convalescent plasma" (prior exposure won't help you), and "reduced efficacy of current spike-based vaccines" (which is all of the ones deployed, I believe).
Maintaining a fork becomes progressively harder as upstream adds features or does code cleanup. And with the pace of modern standard development, this happens sooner rather than later. So in practice, all major Blink-based browsers seem to use codebase that closely tracks upstream, if not upstream itself.
SSH-MitM – File Manipulation
SSH-MITM proxy server (https://github.com/ssh-mitm/ssh-mitm) is able to replace files in scp and sftp file transfers.

This feature was improved in version 0.3.17. So you have to update your installation (and requirements).

To replace a file with sftp you can start ssh-mitm with: ssh-mitm --sftp-handler replace_file --sftp-replace /bin/bash

To replace a file with scp: ssh-mitm --scp-interface replace_file --scp-replace /bin/bash
This sort of generalization is entirely in the eye of the beholder. HN is divided on divisive topics the same way that any large-enough population sample would be. Also, HN's community is only about 50% in the U.S. Your comment is already false about that half, but it would certainly be even more false about the international half, since people in other countries have totally different perspectives on guns.
(All those commands have good man pages.)
I got to build a driver once, making an NDIS LWF encap/decap driver for Windows. I found it extremely soothing, and kind of old school - I had to use a real machine in my office with firewire debugging, and use windbg like a greybeard.

But not having the right documentation was a challenge. MSDN is okay, but the weird mechanics of MDL chains don't really get discussed on Stack Overflow.
Great, now I have 3 problems.
This sounds very weak. It's like saying "Ideas that makes sense to the lower class don't always make sense to the top 1% net-worth people. For example taxing the rich more. For the top 1% net-worth individuals, _everyone_ meets the criteria and therefore they are unfairly taxed".

How you cluster people is irrelevant for a policy to be fair or not. It's petty to chose what gives you an advantage. You should stick to a set of values and agree on policies that better express those values.
> "Such practices deprive European consumers of the benefits of the EU Digital Single Market and of the opportunity to shop around for the most suitable offer in the EU."

Sigh

> Of course, while this money will come directly out of pocket from the convicted companies, what this does in practice is that these companies will likely no longer provide videogames at discounted prices for countries with lower purchasing power

Yup.

Yet again, European lawmakers show that they don't understand the online market.

The idea that you can tell a company "You need to allow your consumers of any country to buy as if they were in any other country, so that they can shop around and buy at the lowest price you offer no matter where they are" and still expect that company to offer region-based discounts is so ridiculous I struggle to put words on it.

Either the commission had a beef against Valve for some other reason, or the members are dumb old bureaucrats who don't understand that a virtual product doesn't work like a physical product.
Thank you! looks cool. Hope I’ll figure it out, considering I’m pretty clueless about VSCode
That's a pretty typical score progression (it's very rare for a baby to be a 10 right right out of the gate).
What If You Never Get Better from Covid-19?
Just put your mouth diaper back on.
As reported in the famous Daily WTF post:

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/What_Is_Truth_0x3f_
SSH-MitM Version 0.3.17 with scp/sftp file replacement available
Why haven't crypto smart contracts satisfied this yet? They've been talking about it for years, but I have yet to see substance for it...
Now you've created a new problem of bureaucrats that are just as susceptible to incompetence, incentives, and malfeasance as the dentists.

This is going to be the problem with every system of mandatory funding. Doesn't matter if it's housing, dentistry, food stamps, etc. People were abusing the disability program, so we made a bunch of hurdles to get funding. Now there's companies who train you how to get over those hurdles: what to write on the forms, what to say to your doctor, etc. And guess what? The companies that train you what to say to get disability then get to bill the government for this new service they provided you. I'm sure it's easy to imagine their incentives.
Google gets recursion:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2013/12/google-gets-recursion.ht...
And you quit on the spot, right?
RHEL major releases are every 3 years now.

Matthew Miller (@mattdm) tweeted out the "Fedora->RHEL formula": https://twitter.com/mattdm/status/1349037318200561665
I'm guessing someone out there's thinking: Why aren't they hosting in the cloud? The cloud being either Amazon or Azure. Surely nothing else exists. Is it really possible to host your own PHYSICAL machine? Does that count as the cloud?!
You just made me feel a little sorry for all those millions of ants who get back to their colonies and get ostracized for wild stories of giant aliens stomping on their brothers and lighting them on fire with concentrated beams of light.

On the bright side, their version of "Ancient Aliens" is probably a lot more factual and based in reality.
As someone unfamiliar with db management, is it really less operational overhead to have to physically scale your hardware than using a distributed option with more elastic scalability capabilities?
Migrating Puppeteer to TypeScript
Yes, a carefully selected set of 64 symbols would be much more sensible from that point of view. This project, though, apparently uses "the first 1024 emojis from [https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/13.1/emoji-test.txt]", which is an entirely different matter.
There hasn't been a comment or status change to this bug in three years.

I've been giving Brave a shot due to their recent addition of first-class support for IPFS, and the numerous positive HN comments. It's... So much faster. However, it does a poor job of blocking advertisements and trackers. I'll be going back to Firefox for that reason, I can suffer the slowness.

One common response regarding performance woes on Firefox is that common addons, particularly uBlock, process a large amount of data through complex rules during page load. What I haven't heard is any plans on the part of Mozilla to support that level of ad-blocking and privacy protection at the product level, rather than the extension level, which may provide much needed performance enhancements.

uBlock Origin, HTTPS Everwhere, Decentraleyes, Privacy Badger, au-revoir-utm et al should be native features at this point.
RxR: A Multilingual Benchmark for Navigation Instruction Following
What are they storing on this server that requires 150Tb of storage and millions of IOPS?
This is one of the first variants that avoids our current plan of defense: antibody plasma.

At a minimum, it means that treating COVDID19 may require further tests to see if we have COVID19, or... what probably will be called COVID20 or COVID21 (for 2020 or 2021, depending on when we want to pin the "origin date" of this virus variant). I'm assuming COVID20 in my ignorance...

If COVID19 treatment doesn't work, doctors will then have to try COVID20 treatment.

--------------

It really depends on how much COVID20 has mutated compared to COVID19, as well as how effective Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZenica, and Johnson & Johnson's vaccines are against COVID20.

They've only been tested against COVID19 (the 2019 variant). We'll have to run tests to see if our defenses are good enough for COVID20, or if we have to start the vaccine race all over again.
Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25808959
Previous HN discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25808959
Malware reportedly found on laptops given to children in England
One place where Cassandra doesn't work but gets used anyway
Exactly: I have CI produce a Docker image from my dotfiles repo https://bergie.iki.fi/blog/docker-developer-shell/
Bitcoin Slumps to $31K on Sell-Off in US and Europe
That makes a ton of sense. Thank you.
Cool, I'm curious about the manufacturing part. Would you mind sharing that process?

How did you find a manufacturer willing to build your product? Did you negotiate the price per unit?

Do they require a minimum purchase amount (ie, like 1000 units)?

If you do not have enough backers, are you planning on using your own money to buy up to the minimum purchase number, or cancel the entire project?

How do you plan on validating the build quality before settling on a specific manufacturer to build your product?
Retiring Tucows Downloads
A review of the ecosystem around protocols for social media
It's interesting to notice my own mental bias here. When Trump was censored, I was quite perturbed. Who made Twitter the arbiter of what's appropriate for a sitting president to say?

But now that it's the Chinese government being censored for their treatment of the Uighurs, I'm almost gleeful. Those scoundrels deserve it for their inhumane treatment of human beings!

I just realized that I'm a hypocrite.
This one is spreading more widely in South Africa and has also been found in other countries already. It has an advantage in populations that have prior immunity from natural infection.
CS undergrad
> And make sure to compare how much energy (including the entire military, police forces, FBI, etc.) is used to secure US dollars.

Those aren't to secure the US dollar, those are to secure the US. Switching to Bitcoin would not change the expenditure in those areas one iota. Not. One. Iota.

If anything the US dollar is freeloading on the expenditure there.

However, setting that aside, it's pretty trivial to disprove your argument. If you linearly scaled the energy usage of Bitcoin to the number of transactions per second currently handled by just Visa alone, Bitcoin would require more energy than the entire world generates a few times over, and generate more e-waste than the entire world generates today. 7 transactions per second is enough for a decently flea market or a Costco, not a global economy.

> Bitcoin would be an utter failure if it sacrificed security in order to gain speed and efficiency.

Which is why it shouldn't exist. We can do better. We are doing better already.
crunchy-proxy: PostgreSQL Connection Proxy
Please don't post flamewar comments like this. You've done it repeatedly in the past, and that's not ok here. Fortunately most of your comments are much better.

Obviously you can disagree with the GP, but please do so within the site guidelines. If you'd review and follow them from now on, we'd be grateful: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Note these ones:

"Don't be snarky."

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
non-paywall: https://outline.com/gED8WD
I seriously doubt the human condition seems complex to a species that went through this stage a billion years ago.

Or even a million years ago.

If we ever invent a time machine I doubt we'd learn much from humans of 10,000 years ago. There would be some surprises for historians and archaeologists, but we certainly wouldn't treat them as cultural or technological equals.

So the horizon of interest where an encounter would be fascinating and worth the time and effort but not devastatingly disruptive to either side is probably only a few millennia.

But let's call it +/- 10k years, to be generous.

Compare with the age of the universe, or even of the galaxy. It's really not a big proportion of the available time.
Rust for Windows
Media trust hits new low
> My problem is that this is a decision for the state department, not a blogging platform to make.

I disagree with that strongly. If it was the State Department's decision, I'd have to host the CCP's propaganda in my yard until State Department told me to take it down.

Twitter isn't interfering with government-to-government diplomacy, so there's no diplomatic issue here.
Satoshi was a mathematical and programming genius who did not take backups. LOL.
Deep dive into Solorigate second-stage: From SUNBURST to TEARDROP and Raindrop
Reallocated sectors is pretty good, but I'd also look at pending and offline uncorrectables to get a potential earlier warning.

I've seen some drives that were apparently working fine with about 1000 reallocated sectors; and the smart firmware usually indicates a maximum of quite a few more than that, so if you replace at 100 problem sectors, I would consider that 'predictive' replacement. It's debatable of course; something that predicted failure based on changes in data transfer (that presumably precede sectors being flagged), would be a bigger predictive step, but I never got that far in modeling; using flagged sector counts was enough to turn unscheduled drive failures into scheduled drive replacements for me.
MyISAM days are gone, no one will seriously consider it as suitable engine in MySQL.
Called the german ministry of environment. They weren't even aware, these LEDs exist. One good option would be to move this into legislation. This would be a great addition to the "Ökodesign-Richtlinie" (https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/themen/wirtschaft-konsum/prod...) regulating product design for better sustainability and repairability.
Baoshan was supposed to be a pure R&D facility. So they're literally building a production fab for Intel Xe there.
I think that it is intentional to underscore that "more perfect" != "perfect". The founders that wrote that document did not believe the Constitution was perfect, they knew it a part of process towards perfect, while it might imply perfect is an end goal it also doesn't necessarily say that.
> What exactly are we doing with these servers?
Our CA software, Boulder, uses MySQL-style schemas and queries to manage subscriber accounts and the entire certificate issuance process.
Super exciting!!
Somewhat related: From Cody's Lab "First “Into Public Activity” in 43 Days" (April 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iwxyzXcP7k
BitCoin’s short history seems to have quite a lot of drama. Every once in a while I pop in to get an idea of what’s happening in the world of BitCoin but it’s not something I really pay much attention to so I’ve definitely missed out on quite a lot of “big” news stories.

If anyone knows of good books or podcasts about the history of BitCoin and the various characters/motivations involved I would be most interested in recommendations. Especially from the governance or legal perspective.
I'm curious, is this headline (which differs significantly from the one on the paper itself) making the common mistake of conflating "immunity" with "antibodies"? Just wondering if there is a difference between showing that the new strain is resistant to the antibodies as opposed to showing that it is likely to reinfect people who recovered from a previous strain.
There are lots of very interesting and useful protocols, from ipfs to gopher, hyper to i2p, from freenet to zeronet, etc. - I think it would be cool if browsers added an extensible framework for adding new protocols.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has proposed legislation to that effect: https://www.vox.com/2018/8/15/17683022/elizabeth-warren-acco...
CockroachDB vs. ScyllaDB
Explore every gravitational wave event spotted so far
Lots of "they" in there and very little substantive evidence of who "they" actually are and what actions were connected to other "theys" involved. I'm not saying there isn't a group that is in tighter control of the codebase, but given the code they produce is independent of the actual data (the blockchain) I'm ok with that as long as others audit their work and then talk about it publicly (which they do): https://twitter.com/BitMEXResearch/status/135185541410371584.... Keep in mind that some developers who disagreed
with other developers ends up creating a fork.

Bitcoin's "fiat" value is pretty much a speculative/opinionated/consensus of belief thing, by nature. This is really no different than the fed saying these 100,000 things are worth this much in dollars. It's an opinion based in observation, but still an opinion, albeit a collective one.

The value of the Bitcoin network itself to provide a wide range of authentication and payment integrations is quite high and a technology potential for changing markets. That is only valuable if it is found long term to be a secure store of integer values.
Worth noting that this study isn't peer reviewed yet.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN. If another comment is wrong, the thing to do is respond respectfully with correct information. Then everybody can learn something. Please don't respond by fulminating about the community. HN is an internet forum and the internet is replete with people speaking confidently about things they don't know about I'm not saying that was true of the GP but it's certainly true in general—and frankly that's just human nature.

The internet, including HN, is also a frustrating and activating place which triggers all sorts of untrue overgeneralizations after encountering things one dislikes: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25862346 downthread also.)