skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure - from the job req boilerplate - "At Barracuda, we make the world a safer place. We believe every business deserves access to cloud-enabled, enterprise-grade security solutions that are easy to buy, deploy, and use. We protect email, networks, data and applications with innovative solutions that grow and adapt with our customers’ journey. More than 220,000 organizations worldwide trust Barracuda to protect them"

The products my team work on are award-winning email security products - protecting customers from phishing, account takeover, ransomware and other security threats - or providing archiving for compliance/regulatory purposes. The architectures behind these products leverage sophisticated machine learning algorithms and high-performance distributed systems processing the data in near real-time (of obvious importance when threats are lurking).
But given a globally connected quantum AI, where's the science that says that that's enough to continue to improve exponentially? To actually get smarter?
If you are using https/TLS it doesn’t really matter what inner protocol you use, because it’s encrypted so third parties can’t validate it.
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It's tough to know absolutely everything about a complex dynamic system, even if it's built by humans. Take the economy, for instance. Invented by humans, made up of humans and human technologies and concepts, and yet people only have vague ideas about how to control it.

Or take computers for that matter. People designed and built them from scratch. Someone had to design and lay out the transistors on the CPU, and presumably they know everything about how to do that. And yet we are currently trying to figure whether there's an ordering to switching the transistors on and off that would imbue the CPU with human-level intelligence. There are plenty of people who know computers inside and out, yet there are still questions that need answers. We have a whole discipline called Computer Science that performs experiments on computers for the purpose of answering these questions.
FusionAuth Releases SimplePass
I opted for pfizer just because they let you get the second shot a week earlier
And the project manager made the mistake of taking an estimate and interpreting it as a deadline.
Android is still horrible until you can control background activity or at least background network traffic. There is no way to shut those off completely. I assume this is an intentional decision by google as it would severely limit the platform for analytics and marketing.
What does "happily live without it" even mean?

Fact is that Bitcoin is used a whole lot for laundering and transferring money in illegal businesses or across borders without taxation. The "legal" part of Bitcoin transactions which aren't just for investment or speculation, like "Pizza sales" or something, are, for one thing not that practical, for another not that popular or significant.

So it does stand to reason that most of the speculation is around the use of Bitcoin for laundering money. And even those with the best intentions are helping the money launderers by keeping the network alive and secure.
CMake is marketed heavily, but not all things which are said about autotools are accurate. Here is a video from somebody from KitWare who compares autotools to CMake:

https://youtu.be/8Ut9o4OdSC0?t=459

In this section, he kind of complains about the number of files which are needed to use an autoconf install. But the thing is, almost all of these are generated files. So, one does not have to create them - they are created by autoconf, once, by the developer, and stored together with the rest of the source distribution for installation.

Then, in the seconds after, at

https://youtu.be/8Ut9o4OdSC0?t=582

he compares the speed of autoconf to CMake, and CMake comes out faster. But, well, this time, he also adds to the total time the time which is needed to run autoconf for the first time, which generates the above files. So, in practice, a developer which changes source files, or a user which installs a package, does not need to run the autoconf generation of the configure script, and a developer which does imporovements and testing in the source code also does not need to build the configure script each time. To sum up, at the one hand side, he counts the generated autoconf files into the number of files needed for a package, but then he counts again the generation time into the run time to use autoconf regularly. And this is a bit weird, because the configure script and the other files only have to be generated once when a change to the build system is made, not for install builds and not for normal development builds.

I agree that autoconf could run a tad faster and that generated files could be organized a bit tidier (it is possible to configure it so that it puts them into a subfolder). But I think the comparisonn in the video is a little bit biased.

And of course, a company needs to make money and sell its products, but if a presentation of a core product starts with such a biased comparison, it is not very convincing to me. Well, we'll see where CMake is in five years time - build systems are extremely complex and large things and need to account for a lot of stuff which is rarely used to work robustly, and then it is perhaps coming to an age where things like good architecture, good design, and clean code mattes. I am not worried that CMake does not manage to do highly automated builds for simple projects and happy paths in the most popular platforms, but how it copes with the hard stuff on which a lot of computing infrastructure depends. There is a good reason why most of this infrastructure stuff, be it the kernel, or things like glibc, or OpenSSL, is not made by companies.
I know a person who runs a bot on a social media app that does the follow / unfollow routine to boost an account. They've had this running for a few years.

At first I assumed it was conservative enough to fly under the radar. However, now that this network is so big, the pattern of this fraudulent behavior must be unmistakable. It is so simple.

The only conclusion I can draw is that the network is well aware of these bots, and so long as they don't draw negative attention, they are actually boosting "engagement" as the likes / follows do cause events that trigger people into revisiting the product--and ultimately reaching goals.
I'd suggest to get rid of the custom mouse pointer on your site, it's pretty annoying to have it lagging behind actual movement.
> Therefore, a 91% effective metric for vaccines means that 91% of those who receive that vaccine are expected to NOT contract COVID 'at all'. Thing is though, many vaccines broadly do not prevent disease but shift the severity upon contraction.

But I was just reading about another study of medical personnel who were taking periodic COVID tests so as to catch asymptomatic transmission, and I believe this study (or maybe merely the media about it) also used "effectiveness".
Not only that, J&J is also doing a trial for 2nd shot, as well as some places such as UK ended up doing Pfizer/Moderna with one shot only with delayed 2nd shot (3-4 months later). So we'll see how that works out, there may be the possibility of getting a 2nd shot of J&J later down the line to increase your immunity.

I believe Pfizer has even started doing 3rd shot boosters for very early phase 1-2 people from last year.
Do you refer to SARS-CoV-2 as the Chinese virus?

The actual name for the variant in question is 501.V2.
Efficacy of AstraZeneca vaccine against B.1.1.7. (British) variant
> But frequently, that is not possible…

And that is where we disagree. Aggression is often an easier path to achieving your goals—maybe the only viable path in some cases—but it's never "unavoidable". You just have to accept that you won't always get what you want.

> … it's better if 60% benefit at the expense of 40% than vice versa.

Maybe, if you had to choose one or the other. If you're of a utilitarian mindset (I'm not, so this 60%-vs-40% argument carries no weight with me) it would depend on exactly how much benefit vs. how much expense. And it seems to me that democracy more commonly results in a vocal, activist, well-motivated minority receiving concentrated benefits at the expense of the majority. The expense is just more widely distributed, making it hard to get the people on the losing side worked up about it. Example: If I can get $1000 in benefits in exchange for 5,000 other people paying $1 each, I have a strong incentive to lobby and vote for that arrangement. The 5,000 other people would each probably expend more effort fighting the measure (each time it's introduced!) than it would cost them to just let it pass. Not to mention that it makes them look petty and/or greedy, fighting over a mere $1 bill. Yet if the measure passes it would result in a net $4,000 loss to the group. Now repeat that for 1,000 other special-interest proposals… the group that benefits from each proposal varies, but in the end everyone loses.

> Sometimes you are on the winning side, sometimes on the losing one so it somewhat (not perfectly) cancels out.

While it would obviously be a very rare individual indeed who was always on the losing side, I wouldn't say it "cancels out" (even imperfectly). Some see a significant net benefit while others can expect a significant net loss. And then you have the net loss to society as a whole, both in terms of economic overhead (the transfers are not perfectly efficient, and also result in a less productive allocation of resources) as well as morally in terms of normalizing the use of aggression as a "legitimate" means of achieving policy goals.

> And democracy isn't just majority rule.

On that we agree, but in my opinion the "catalog of fundamental rights" recognized by all democracies which fit the definition of "government" (i.e. democracies which do not treat group membership as voluntary and subject to secession, or which fail to recognize and respect the natural personal and property rights of non-members) leaves out certain inconvenient rights which are equally or more fundamental.
Yea, like is 20H/501Y.V2 or B.1.1.7 that hard to remember?
It's speculation as I stated. But it's really not a "leap".

The whistleblower's claim:

> They were able to get cryptographic secrets for single sign-on cookies and remote access, full source code control contents, and signing keys exfiltration

And what Ubiquiti has further stated:

> we have well-developed evidence that the perpetrator is an individual with intricate knowledge of our cloud infrastructure.

So someone with intricate knowledge of their infrastructure and access to their source code + signing keys, is doing what exactly with those VMs?

I'm not trying to 'prove' that the firmware is compromised. We can't do that with the information we have. I'm just highlighting strong evidence that the possibility needs to be thoroughly investigated.
How long until Magisk Hide doesn't work anymore though.
I'm talking about doing this:
https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/secret/#us...
Certainly you couldn't replicate what we have now without the internet. But you could read some books and automate all kinds of things for a company still.
> We had rockets that landed with Apollo

Correction: We had rockets that could land on the moon. There was no orbital-class rocket that could launch from Earth and land back at launch site (or further downrange). The difference in gravity + lack of atmosphere is a big factor.

It is like saying that the Apollo ascent module could get to orbit and therefore we can clearly make practical SSTO vehicles.

> We had rockets that were reused with the shuttle.

If you consider throwing away the massive external tank and external SRBs (without which it couldn't fly) and completely re-building the three engines after every flight.
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Use the evolutionary lineage nomenclature. If people can memorize street addresses and telephone numbers they can learn to identify viruses by some other pattern.

The other problem with naming a variant after a country or state is what happens when the locale identifies a subsequent variant?
I'm sure they'll be reused at some point. Maybe there will be a market for used celebrity SSNs.
>A lot of Americans don’t even have one.

Citation?
Be *very skeptical* of any future articles on the long run effectiveness of these vaccines.

I was paid to work specifically on COVID, so was monitoring the vaccine data very closely. It was *very* promising, but there were a few things that puzzled me in where comparing results in placebo/control group vs vaccine groups, for both Pfizer and Moderna.

So I would check near daily for new results.

And then after Christmas break, when I went to check, found out both control groups had been effectively destroyed. (https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/covid-2020-12-17/card/Pc6LV...)

I'm not kidding, there are no longer any control/placebo groups for these vaccines. These were studies that were approved to run for 2 years!

I had to sit through hours of boring mandatory training from NIH on importance of control groups. In these cases they just threw that away.

It reaks to high heaven to me.

(Note: I've seen nothing to indicate these vaccines are dangerous. Effective? Looks very likely, at least in the short run. Long run effective? HIGHLY skeptical. Total contribution to ending the pandemic from the vaccines? I'm highly skeptical that it will actually be high, when an honest accounting comes out). Would I personally take the vaccine had I not had COVID already? Yes. Though not if I were a kid or teenager (very little risk from COVID).

If you are in medical research, please don't look to these people as role models. Please do things openly, on git, and don't sweep uncomfortable truths under the rug.
Last year, I installed an Orbi Wifi 6 system in my parent's three-storey house. And I'm using the older RBK50 version myself with an ethernet backhaul. For consumer products, both are pretty good and offer fast and stable wifi. I'm not running a complex home network so consumer-grade hardware is good enough for me. That said, I've no idea if Netgear is better than Ubiquiti at a company level. I've noticed that many people here are usually fairly critical of Netgear.
Tell that to Volts.. err, i mean Volkswagen... :S
If curious, past threads:

Show HN: A Mashup to find LineageOS supported phones that are repairable - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25592066 - Dec 2020 (48 comments)

IodéOS = LineageOS 17.1 and MicroG and adblocker - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25405552 - Dec 2020 (5 comments)

LineageOS with F-Droid and no Google Apps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25253091 - Nov 2020 (5 comments)

Hello, LineageOS 17.1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22756346 - April 2020 (106 comments)

LineageOS Android Distribution - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21490849 - Nov 2019 (99 comments)

LineageOS 16.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19277910 - March 2019 (107 comments)

Introducing the LineageOS SDK - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16638732 - March 2018 (105 comments)

LineageOS for microG – Access Google services without closed software - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15617615 - Nov 2017 (198 comments)

Update and Build Prep - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13454472 - Jan 2017 (19 comments)

LineageOS: Infrastructure Status and Official Builds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13305081 - Jan 2017 (11 comments)

LineageOS will be a continuation of what CyanogenMod was - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13254520 - Dec 2016 (114 comments)

Other interesting ones?
I'd include personal freedom and democracy in the definition of success.
This right here. 2 parts and no OS.

I recently got the parts but haven't tried it yet. I have vinatge machines that otherwise need a real floppy controller and not a modern one (nothing found on any motherboards newer than 486's), or a catweasel (also no longer made) or a KryoFlux (the nuclear option and not open source).

Greaseweasel (https://github.com/keirf/Greaseweazle) has come along recently as an open source catweasel. (the pcb design files are there too, just buried away in a zip file in one of the wiki pages, not directly in git, so both hardware and software source is aclvailable. Follow Hardware Assembly -> F7 Lightning Plus, scroll to bottom)

But that's more complicated.

I love how the FluxEngine is really just a single off-the-shelf part. You don't even need so much as a wiring/pinout adapter pcb for the 34-pin connector. You can just solder it directly to the dev board.
This seems like the only remotely plausible outcome. Everyone would reinvent the internet on a smaller scale, then eventually reconnect them.
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>They need your SS# if they are paying you and need to withhold taxes.

They also need it for the 1098-T (Tuition Statement). That's not to say they couldn't design better systems and not use SSN as an identifier, but there is a legitimate need for it.
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You should search for potential customers/clients where they usually are.

I see many people advise Discord, LinkedIn, YouTube, etc. They're all right! But it works for them.

If your potential customers are devs, use Hacker News. However, HN won't work if your potential clients are non-devs.

The only right answer (in my opinion) is: "it depends"
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I believe the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Personally I very much share your purist view here, BUT i also find barely formatted plain text marketing emails highly suspicious and tend to filter them out as scam subconsciously.

Don't overload your communication, that is right. But also don't neglect your design and branding.

It's easy to think plain text is better when coming from a technical background with probably well maintained inbox, but your average customer has likely an inbox overflowing with marketing stuff already and will need visual hooks, proper presentation and coherence in appearance to decide if something is trustworthy and worth being read.
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I think Zig is really interesting and has a lot of great ideas, some of which I hope Rust takes inspiration from. They've also done some difficult engineering work to make parts of the development experience feel amazing, like bundling clang and libc implementations for a variety of platforms so that cross-compiling works out-of-the-box. The Zig cross-compiling story is the best I've ever seen of any language, bar none.

That being said, I do think Rust's memory safety story is a game-changer for systems programming. We seem to be in a programming language boom, with lots of new and interesting languages being developed. I hope some of them iterate on the concepts that Rust has developed so we can do even better in the future! I don't think anyone involved in Rust would claim that it's the best we can do, or it solves every problem perfectly.