skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like I said, the 'good guys' propaganda is good :)

If you track down some of the claims you're making, you'll find that most of them originate with this guy Adrian Zenz who is literally a paid propagandist for his job at the "Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation".

Not that anybody who claims to be 'liberating the muslims' is ever up to any good. But some more objective measures might be things like, what is the body count associated with either nation, or has the population been going up or down in a given region.
The boundaries of legal speech are pretty well sorted out.

Web and email hosting companies don't have an issue figuring it out. Twitter shouldn't either.
Ha, sadly my measly k32 plot is saying I'll win a block in 8 months. Still, it's a promising alternative to the Bitcoin blockchain. I think this might actually go somewhere. Their GUI is wonderful and dead simple to use.
Low-dose aspirin can reduce the risk of ICU admission and death of Covid-19
As a non-Brit, I'm using the dictionary to look up words often, sometimes multiple times per page. So reading Le Carre's books as ebooks is better for me just for that reason.

I'm reading them in order. I found the first two enjoyable enough, but it took getting to the ending of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold for me to really "get" Le Carre. That floored me. Taking a break before starting the next one.

I also got a hint of that feeling from the "A Most Wanted Man" movie.

I didn't really like the Gary Oldman Tinker Tailor movie, so I'm not sure how much I'm looking forward to that book.
Compsci prof emits tool to weaponize Python's insecure pickle files
What, in some region? Better to say in almost all regions :)
The capitol hill thing was planned on Facebook, not Twitter (or Gab for that matter).

Twitter has an inflated sense of its own importance.
Not in core Python, but in a widely-used library, yes. https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/5771
Also

A Mind Is Born - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22642527 - March 2020 (1 comment)

There are a few other threads with 1 comment but not an interesting 1 comment.
If you think that maintaining 3 completely separate stacks for 3 different services within the same company is making all of them more reliable, I don't think you ever worked on a big scale services.
These are also really helpful in GitLab, where comments on issues and PRs support slash commands.
Curious if anyone knows why they would use xx instead of the number?
Pretty much. My main preference for Signal is that it's a charitable organisation. That and a few other bits. Phone number IDs are on the way out hopefully. The dream would be some kind of federated layer, but the charitable org thing is a good start for me.
Coastal states is a hell of a lot more misleading than "coastal counties"

The people of Bangor Maine and Buffalo NY have a hell of a lot more in common with the people of Cincinnati Ohio than they do with the people of Portland Maine and NYC.

On the west coast the "wealthy urban and suburban areas on the coast" vs "literally everywhere else" difference is even more stark. And I'm not talking about just the urban vs rural divide. The people of secondary cities resent being ruled by the interests of the major metropolitan areas as much as the rural folks do.
Did you tried across several POSIX platforms?
It's not necessarily the legality but the requirement, for access to some tiers of classified information, to be drug free for a certain period. The background check required for this access asks, "Have you used [insert contraband] at any time 5/3/2/1 years prior to this application?" The period of prior required abstinence may differ from agency to agency. If I recall, it was 5 years for my IC agency. Of course untruthful answers in the background check, if discovered, would prohibit future federal employment.
Same for instagram
Does the Origin of the Cells Used for Developing Vaccines Make a Difference?
That has nothing to do with punycode...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ek3QIIFXYAcApkg?format=jpg&name=...

It was pretty apparent Hunter Biden was engaging in foreign lobbying work.

You can pay a lobbyist to influence politicians but paying a politician directly is bribery. The question is if giving money to a politician's son is bribery since they indirectly benefit.

Then there is also the allegation that Joe Biden was taking a percentage of Hunter Biden's lobbying fees ("10% to the big guy"). Which if true is Ron Blagojevich level of corruption.
We'd love to! Reach out to us!
If curious, past threads:

A Mind Is Born - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22642527 - March 2020 (1 comment)

A Mind is Born - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14164907 - April 2017 (53 comments)
I see it as a trust issue. Do I trust a journalist/activist to give me all the facts about an issue, or just those that support their cause? Do I trust them to give a reasonable inference about the facts they report, or do I expect them to exaggerate?

That's a concern irrespective of what cause they support or where they fall politically. Perhaps they are needed more now, I don't know. But if we're looking to increase trust in journalism specifically, we'd be better off just leaving politics out of it as much as possible. In my opinion, of course.
It does indeed solve a part of the problem.

> There is no single point of control or failure in a Matrix conversation which spans multiple servers: the act of communication with someone elsewhere in Matrix shares ownership of the conversation equally with them. Even if your server goes offline, the conversation can continue uninterrupted elsewhere until it returns.

https://matrix.org/

So right now, if you're trying to message someone via either whatsapp, facebook or instagram they will all fail, most likely because of the same issue as they are run by the same company. If you were on Matrix, you would for sure be able to find a way of reaching this person even if servers go down, that's the entire point of federation in the first place.
Why is a reload annoying? All of your files are saved and reopened to exactly where you left them
Can you not make this an "blablabla ad hominem blabla"? It is absolutely obvious why this is terrible behaviour: the url that's previewed simply doesn't match the one you'd type in the address bar. The encoding is messed up despite Umlaute being part of utf8, and if you're parsing HN with your own code, you're in trouble because you need to account for encoding, which simply shouldn't be a thing in 2021. "HN should be about ideas, so instead I'll make this about you" is not just wasting every readers energy, it's blatant projection and beyond embarassing. PLEASE don't do this here.
Overall, this is an underserved market, and saving smart people time on security questionnaires is a goal we both have.

Here's what I know about our product - we can ensure that the quality of the responses are exceptionally high - our customers tell us that they're at or better than the responses that their teams would be providing.

Ultimately, what I think that translates to is more time saved on our customers' end and less back-and-forth with their prospect's infosec team to get the deal closed.
I had a phenomenal time with Ludlum's novels when I was in high school. Less fun with Clancy. I remember with one book, there was one character's perspective that bored me and so I'd just skip it every time, just turned right past 20-30 pages each time. Didn't feel like I missed anything. :)
You shouldn't need to top-up that late in the evening - friendly credit should be applied in most cases after 8pm, caveat elec only and it will shutoff at 8am

Although some older models don't have this

Ref https://help.bulb.co.uk/hc/en-us/articles/360019836271-If-yo...
This was posted in a sibling comment:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1372766463556083715.html
Ugh, I can so relate to this right now. I followed their Node embedded app tutorial closely, submitted my app, then found out they no longer allow embedded apps to use cookies like their tutorial does. Finding up to date documentation is a struggle and some of the components they suggest you use are closed source and completely undocumented.
No, I'm hinting at that have one company running these three services in the first place is wrong. Should be three independent companies as they are really three different services, but lord knows governments does nothing to prevent monopolies these days.
Oh wow, I don't think I've seen a real IDNA/Punycode domain in the wild before.
Does Screen Addiction Come into Existence Due to Internet Addiction?
Even Telegram is suffering from a slightly degraded service, likely from the load of everyone jumping to it at once as a backup IM.
Well said. I’m productive at work 9 hours a day. I sleep 8 hours a day. I do household work 2 hours a day. I raise kids 2-3 hours a day.

The remaining 2-3 hours are mine, I don’t want to spend them being productive. I just want to take a shower, read a book, browse Reddit or watch old episodes of Top Gear.
>In-person doesn't mean that paper forms are required.

Agreed. All I am really advocating for is that we don't expect people to have sign into a website from a computer/phone at home. Some people don't have that luxury.

> Self-service kiosks are a perfectly reasonable way to support in-person needs

That isn't true. A very significant portion of the population needs help with these systems.

Hell, I had to order a hamburger from a fast food restaurant one time, and I was intimidated and confused, (I at least got my food eventually). Most the customers who came in tried to avoid the system and went straight to the cashier.
Give me a break.

The M1 migration is less than a year old and it’s already the single best/ most successful CPU migration in my memory. Far better than Apple’s PPC -> Intel Migration and massively better than whatever half-steps Microsoft has done to port over to ARM.

Apple absolutely should invest in much of what you suggest. In 6-12 months, after the platform is complete and mature enough to identify where the big problems are.

Most of us understand that you exercise caution when migrating mission critical work onto a 6 month old platform.

In the mean time, Apple has been hiring top Docker talent like Michael Crosby.

https://www.protocol.com/apple-hires-cloud-open-source-engin...

It’s possible they are hiring top container developers just to improve their internal cloud infrastructure. But what kind of hardware do you expect these guys will be running?

EDIT: Trimemd some repetitive stuff.
I am specifically referencing it in the porn fetish context which is accurate, especially when identifying the logical evolution of faceapp.

I would not use this word in any other context, and in fact, cannot use another word in the porn fetish context because there are no non-offensive words to describe the fetish which I am aware of at the current time. Apologies to anyone who may have felt offended, this was not my wish and there is a very clear difference between a person and a fetish.
To your point, I think that you could generate the duplicate geometry pretty easily but the issue would be making sure no overlapping sectors were visible at the same time, as that would cause glitches in the Build engine.

You might be able to subdivide the build engine's sectors into visleaves (borrowing terminology from Source) and clip all sectors in the mirror-verse according to the aperture + view-frustrum. To work correctly you'd need to do this every frame, probably an unthinkably huge task for the hardware at the time.
The GUI is shockingly competent for a 1.0 crypto client. Everything is clear and easy to find. No lag. And it looks pretty to boot. This feels like a product made by people who may have actually known what they were doing. That said, well-designed products fail all the time. Time will tell.
Agreed, I just don't see the problem here.

Even from the perspective of, "he's just doing this to get more clicks," who cares? I just don't see how it's a problem for him to present himself however he wants to present himself.

At some point for some people "digital avatar" became a dirty word, and I don't understand it. I don't think he owes anyone online his real-world face. He doesn't owe them some kind of disclaimer either. If people online are following him because they think they have some kind of parasocial relationship to a girl, that's a personal issue they should think about on their end. And in any case, everyone online already has a persona they project; I have a persona and a set of characteristics and attitudes I project when I post on HN even though I don't hide my real name or identity. Knowing me on HN is not the same thing as knowing me in real life; if I'm allowed to do that, why can't he?

So he extends that to his face. Maybe he(she) is a woman but hasn't chosen to let people know yet. Maybe he's genderfluid in different places. Or maybe he just wants to have a woman avatar on social accounts for whatever reason. None of that is a problem.

This is fine even though he seems to identify as a man outside of the Internet; he doesn't have to identify as a woman to do this. Unless he's running around doing something genuinely harmful or trying to troll women, then let him choose how he presents himself online regardless of whether or not it matches his normal day-to-day gender identity.

"Getting more clicks on Instagram" isn't a horrible crime or deception that we should be concerned about.
I wanted to do the same with hardware synthesizers, and was planning on calling the service SynthCloud but that name was already taken by someone else doing something else, and that’s my excuse :p
WhatsApp is down in some regions in Asia
Whatsapp is down in some regions in Asia
Nobody cares about what young people think now either. We are talking about a very small subset of model-like stylish youngsters (mostly women). 99.99% continue to be ignored as usual.
5G (cell service) and 5.8Ghz wifi dont even use the same frequencies (on purpose)....the only common denominator is the number 5...

Heck i think Sprint is trying to roll out 5G on the 2.5 GHz band...And the frequncies used are licensed and vary greatly (from 850 MHz which 3G and 4G use, to 28 & 39 GHz)
I just heard the creators on the launch livestream say that hey, even if you win one XCH a year that might be enough to pay for a new computer depending on how the market ends up pricing chia so that's not so bad!
All very valuable and extremely on point for the person/team who will be taking over the process after the OP.

I've had my own very small share of experience delving into existing workflows and teasing out the early/simple cases and only getting into further processing once the basic conditions are met. It can be an interesting challenge to get those who do the current processing to see where efficiencies can be teased out.

The level of legal/higher management mandates for significant process changes is something I've never had to deal with, but I've seen the edges of just how crazy the complications can get. (I once did an implementation of Form 1040 handling via spreadsheet... I was surprised to find that proper math REQUIRED a circular reference and iterating to correct numbers.)
Mesa descriptor caching may yield 80-100% performance increase on CPU-bound apps
Be glad they don't allow emailing important documents, they certainly wouldn't encrypt them if they did.
Facebook took $85 billion in revenue last year and has thousands of developers on the payroll. They could absolutely maintain 3 separate services.

Bear in mind WhatsApp used to maintain a userbase of 200 million with 50 total employees (not even just developers).
Down in London.
Not sure if it does mobile payments natively. Depending on your content, Ghost [1] might be another option with a more palatable cost.

[1] https://ghost.org/
This isn't the panacea you think it is. For example, on iOS all server notifications for an app must be proxied via Apple and have to come from the app developer's push certificate.

This means that even with Element (the matrix client) all of your notifications when your phone is locked are going from your server to the centralized dev push system run by the Element devs, then to another centralized system run by Apple.

Either could have an outage, although I think APNS (the apple side) has close to 100% uptime since launch, which is quite a feat.
Resilient three-dimensional architectures assembled from nanoparticles by DNA
Same thing for water. You had to create 2 different rooms. When you passed the water you essentially got teleported to the other room.
If I remember correctly the programmer was like 14 years old when he created the build engine.
I'm with you. Every time I see articles like this, it gives me the impression that Ethereum is just a giant distributed poker game where players are just trying to get as many chips from their opponent as they can without producing any meaningful value to the world outside of the table.

Maybe it has value as a honeypot to keep these amoral win-maximizers out of industries where they could do greater harm by targeting opponents that are not like themselves.
Assuming that neither FTL travel nor communication are possible, and that other intelligent species have life times similar in length to ours (ok, maybe twice as long as ours), how does a society spanning dozens of light years work? It would take more than a generation for information, never mind things, to get from one end of the bubble to the other. How would culture work? How would the economy work? Is it really the same society at both ends of the bubble?
Terminal windows get messed up. Oddly sometimes they resume, but most times they don't. Example docker-compose will still run in the background but if Im coming back over a weekend I might not remember and running a different project will error since another docker is using the ports.

I know not a big issue and I could use tmux, but I'm lazy.
The HTTP response says 503, so the text is just generic for any 5xx error.
What would we do without nerds to type commands into an editor?

When you don’t understand what another persons value really entails, it’s easy to make fun of. Warren Buffett is in finance, has never used a spreadsheet, and built a business that employs over 400,000 people.
Nobody cares about the fact pictures are fake. 90% of instagram pictures are fake.

The only problem is he/she is not "real" woman. This person is clearly presenting themselves under different gender, and here is large number of people harassing them/her/him.
Slowly instagram is coming back? seems like progress is being made

edit: push notifs came through. inbox not loading however

edit 2: seems to be fully restored. all my homies are responding to messages
Create a simple news site with PHP and MySQL using PDO
Curious to hear why this exists when Zig is further along (and more promising imho)
Wouldn't stuff like this make it less likely for people to be shocked by gender nonconforming folks?
WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger Down
This is the only thing I've read so far on this issue that I completely agree with. Being fundamental about an ideal of "freedom" that's ultimately beneficial to Microsoft and Amazon is not a priority for me at all.

The old reasons for why software freedom matters are what's important. The practical effect of the freedom, not the moniker "free" itself.
All twisted knickers are the same and it gets old fast, especially to the bystanders (a.k.a. the rest of us) who have no stake in the titillation. So please don't.

When it comes to trolling, effects matter more than intent: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....
Visualizing the Fastest Trains in the World
How do CodeTours handle drift as the code base changes?
The desert part can be a positive. I lived in Jordan when I was a kid and the coast (Aqaba) weather was worse than the desert: at Aqaba the humidity made the heat much harder to support, while in the north (Amman) it was dry and more pleasant and my skin and t-shirt were always dry.

Also in the desert solar energy is plenty and cheap, with many sunny days. That energy powers the AC that is needed in that region no matter what.
In the long run, it wouldn't make sense for so much finished chocolate to be from places like France and Switzerland, where cocoa doesn't grow.

There is a parallel with tea. At one time, people thought in terms of "English tea" or "French tea". In recent decades, western people are much more acquainted with Japanese and Chinese tea directly. It is no coincidence that this stuff is fresher, more varied, more affordable...
Global Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp outage according to multiple sources
6 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26444321
Conspiracy theorists can see whatever they want mixed in the noise.
Love this project. We’ve used it in a few repositories. The feedback from new hires was positive! Can recommend giving it a try
You probably have and didn't realize it.
Conveniently forgetting the other 18 capitols in ancient times, that lasted just a Pharaoh or two (including Thebes 3 times). And then the 4 'modern' capitols.
This is what makes paper forms so hard to crack. Paper and PDF is a predictable price that will be about the same in 10 years, 20 years, whatever.

Not knowing what SeamlessDocs charges (or will even be around) is hard to plan around. They do call out a new contract that I think is meant to help with this.
> It just limits the potential blast radius

True, but it makes a difference between a single Homeserver not working any more and the entire global service.
This likely won't ever happen.

> matrix.org went down Matrix might as well be down for most people.

not really (afaik less than a third of public(!) users use matrix.org)

Also consider ongoing developments of distributing accounts on multiple servers (which may also reside on your device) for P2P Matrix. This gives additional redundancy.
Don't panic. It is just the usual NSA backdoor upgrade.

Last week it was Azure.

Next week Apple services will be upgraded to the latest version.

Stay tuned!
And no. The same people won't flock to Signal after all of this, even though it is much more friendlier than Element.

On the other hand, at least Element is decentralised thanks to Matrix, but unfortunately suffers from a naming dilemma and is unfriendlier than the rest of the chat alternatives.

We need an alternative that is a mixture of both: Open source, Decentralised (Likely uses Matrix underneath) and is extremely user friendly and competes on security and features.
That's a good point, so maybe it's a HN display issue.
The financial system did that already, hundreds of years ago. And it turned out that the most efficient way to iron out these bugs was through trust and regulation.

To an outsider, the entire crypocurrency world just looks like a giant exhorbitantly expensive not-invented-here syndrome recapitulating the entire early history of finance.
So you would prefer them to work only 40 hours per week, and pay Goldman Sachs the difference in value they are accruing?
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Agreed , it's not a bad idea to always have an offline backup system just in case. Like if you're filing for unemployment, you can only do that via the government, you can't just go to a different unemployment office. So having a way to send in the form manually is always a surefire thing. Even if it just gets digitized later, that's more than enough to prevent something like an oracle system's downtime stopping hundreds of thousands of people filing for benefits
> the url that's previewed simply doesn't match the one you'd type in the address bar

Thanks, finally an actual argument against it.

Well, to be fair, you have three representations of it that happens. What you see in the addressbar is not actually what goes over the wire anyways, so the current implementation (in your words) is actually better as that is what being transmitted.

If you were rendering the actual unicode characters there is a risk for "IDN homograph attacks" which basically is what you are hinting at to prevent as well, but your solution would make things worse, not actually better.