skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AFAIK, the CIA never admitted anything. Any admissions by high-level government officials seem to have been off-the-record and remain unnamed.
I will be happy if someone from Fauna team helps me to improve my code.
https://github.com/upstash/latency-comparison

Upstash is not non-durable. It is based on multitier storage (memory + EBS) implementing Redis API. In a few weeks, I will add upstash premium which replicates data to multiple zones, to the benchmark app.

In the blog post, I mentioned the qualities where Fauna is stronger than the others: https://blog.upstash.com/latency-comparison#why-is-faunadb-s...
I think your over-generalization in the first paragraph doesn’t work for most situations. This can apply to a small messaging app in which there are many alternatives, but you can surely participate in something while still pointing out its flaws. https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
But it works
>Sovereign nations not at war aren’t supposed to conduct hostile ops against each other.

Says who?

When was that ever true in the history of civilization?

The only peace humanity every knew was within the border of some empire. Otherwise it was constant war.
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make here since the article references cryptocurrency once. And you do know that there are regulated cryptocurrency exchanges, right?
> Its peak revenue, disclosed by Facebook at the time of acquisition, was ~$1.5 million/year

Not sure where you got that number, but in 2013 (before aquisition) they reported ~$10 million in revenue. (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680114...)

They brought in $15 million in the first half of 2014. (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680114...)

They only had 55 employees at acquisition.

They might not have become a unicorn... but there most definitely was a path to profitability.
Looking at statistics as it is used in published papers overall, it seems the the most important statistical idea of the last 50 years is p-hacking.

Being able to do multiple analysis of the same data, and find one where p < 0.05 has revolutionized academia.

Entire careers have been built around p-hacking.

Of all the statistical idea, it is the one which arguably has had the most influence in the life of the academician.
Steak-Umm Starts Bizarre Twitter Beef with Neil DeGrasse Tyson
I agree that there's a lot of advanced data structures not worth memorizing and testing for rote knowledge is lame. and yet:

while there's a lot of other things I value in coworkers, and I want a diverse mix, I really trust a coworker much more who I know can reason through, can see how the code will execute, and understand what that implies, can find & state the significance.

there's a lot of here & now tests of ability in programming, to understand syntax, language, side effects, &c. but bring able to reason about runtimes, about this then that then that... it's the bigger picture. we have some pretty basic promise questions in our interviews, & it's so remarkable how many people get cut for now being able to understand sequencing, how a little async behavior trips so many up. not quite the classic algorithm test, but to me, they seem extremely similar in that they want the dev to be able to order & comprehend how things work.

I agree that a lot of pushback against algorithms is deserved. they are misused as a hiring bar frequently. but there is also things I value a lot, & they help elaborate whether a dev grasps coding situations or no.
There is also threema.

https://threema.ch/en/
Cypress PSOC chips have a bunch of software modules you can load into them to implement various functionality, and each piece of such software includes a datasheet, just as if it was a standalone chip. It's glorious.
It does exist. Or at least it should. We bought a treadmill that connects to Zwift, and it does so seamlessly without any of the usual Bluetooth bullshit (Horizon Fitness, if anyone cares). A quick glance says their bike should work just as well:

https://www.horizonfitness.com/ic79-indoor-cycle

Zwift used to have a list of compatible treadmills, and I assume the same for bikes. I'd go poke around on their site for that list.

Apple Fitness+, OTOH, is more of a trick. I think the machine needs to connect to the Apple Watch with GymKit. Yeah, good luck finding something and even better luck finding something for less than ten grand (US$). Apple's either going to have to come up with some dead-simple API, or companies are going to have to catch up to Fitness+. But as of six months ago, I couldn't find anything at a reasonable price (or much at all, really).
The 6 are only those we know of. There could be others, because these cerebral blood clots can happen two weeks after receiving the vaccine.

As we analyze the data, and see if more data comes in the next two weeks, we'll have a better sense of the risk.
There was an old late-90s adventure game called "The Longest Journey", set in a near-future, and at one point the main character laments how seemingly everything has a screen attached to it now.

She was a bit over 20 years early with her prediction. But by god it is true and I fucking hate it.

Screens are everywhere they don't belong now.... gas station pumps, on the subway, in our cars, even on our fitness equipment.

Is this really "innovation", or is this just a bunch wantrepreneurs looking to cash out on a sweet exit in a few years time?

Like are people really so weak as to not be able to be alone with their thoughts for an hour while they ride a fitness bike? A pumped-up playlist on Spotify (gag) isn't enough?

At this rate society is going to be those fatasses on Wall-E, fitness bikes be damned

"But with a screen attached" is becoming the new "but do it on a computer!"
I really like Pop!_OS' tiling feature but the one thing that really bugs me is you can't disable windows always raising on hover. You're meant to be able to tweak it using Gnome Tweaks however disabling the option and enabling tiling means flinging your mousing anywhere causes all the windows in its track to raise to the front. If you've got a floating window it just disappears behind the stack.

Theres an open issue[1] but it hasn't been solved yet.

[1]: https://github.com/pop-os/shell/issues/627
There is already plenty of evidence some people who survive the virus end up with lasting lung damage.

While this is not cancer, for those poor souls, a lifetime spent struggling to breathe is not much better.
I think smooth locomotion is an unfortunate reality of current VR hardware; If most of your userbase gets uncomfortable from non-smooth locomotion, it makes sense to design for the smooth locomotion as a first-class experience.
Please read the blog post: https://fauna.com/blog/comparing-fauna-and-dynamodb-pricing-...
Signal is still not a good way for phishing/ransom anyways.

Users would either have to already have the attacker in their contacts list or enable sealed sender. Enabling and funding a cryptocurrency wallet is going to be difficult. Even for WeChat who's payment service is popular it only captures 40% market share and as a result generally people are more educated about the risks.
> A good example of how the internet is not compareable to real life. Whenever someone handwaves "but that's always happened"

> In person, the chance of a local person traveling to your house to photograph a cheque is non-existent.

This is the digital version of an open house. The same mitigation that prevents this behavior from happening in real life (i.e. setting up the house in a way where guests can't see your personal info) would have fixed the problem here.

I can personally guarantee that criminals target physical "real life" open houses too, as it happened to someone I know. I suppose the internet does make it lower effort to exploit (especially from across the world), but it's at least 'comparable' in my opinion.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26800481

didn't see that coming... did you?

:)))
It would be quite challenging to make such a business model work with collaboration-centric features. Features such as multiplayer editing, in addition to requiring some carefully designed technology, require the two clients to be running the same version of the code. As soon as you introduce a new feature -- e.g. a new type of object that you can insert into the document, you need all clients connected to the same file to be able to understand that object.

This is just one of many types of edge cases that can crop up. It's kind of like database migrations except a lot of work happens client-side too.

You could put the onus on the user to deal with making sure everyone you're sharing a file with has the same version (or whatever asset is involved in a particular tool, this is not design-tool specific). But the friction to sharing raises considerably. Even if your whole team is on the same version, what happens if you try to share a file with an external client, etc. You'll be making tons of tradeoffs in engineering time and feature design to deal with the fact that users don't get the latest version of your app just by loading the page. Your tool, though it might still be excellent in other regards, probably won't end up having collaboration as a central selling point.
Doing that is worth a lot! Many will see something like that and give it thought. If they do, that is halfway there, maybe more.
https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface
Like the SeaBees but for tech-infrastructure.
It amazes me more people don't see this. Virgin in the UK looked into the data and found a bad candidate experience was significantly impacting their bottom line, just in actual candidates cancelling their service within 30 days of a bad candidate experience.

They didn't even need to look at word of mouth impact to see a material hit on their customer retention, in a sector where churn is costly. They went on a crusade to improve, and now find candidates for jobs are net promoters, and their customer acquisition cost via candidates is lower than normal advertising(!)

I think some of the big tech companies simply don't care about their reputation at either micro or macro level, and nobody wants to call out that kind of toxic behaviour as they're all "part of the club".
People weren't saying we are doomed, but were saying are doomed if we don't do anything about an issue. For example, if the birds are dying out because of ddt, we eliminate ddt. If the ozone layer is disappearing from the atmosphere, then we try to eliminate certain gases that destroy the the ozone layer. If we find out certain chemicals cause cancer then we try to clean up the chemicals and reduce the creation of those chemicals. And there are always people that say these obvious issues aren't a problem even with overwhelming evidence to the contrary. People don't want to understand science.

But we are still here because there are enough people that can recognize and fix out mistakes.

And global climate change is one of the biggest mistakes humankind has made.

As a side note, do people think Russian trolls have invaded this site to foster dissension? If any group of people could figure this out the people on this site could.
> it just looked like a deposit.

Kind of like finding a suitcase of cash in your backyard.

But if you read the article, it seems she got into trouble by spending the money, while being hard to contact.

It could be innocent, I rarely answer the phone. But if I see 1M deposit I'm not going to spend the money before I have a clue where it's coming from.

Lol, even if it was a legitimate deposit through some extreme luck, you might want to workout the taxes before you spend it.
This appears to be spending a lot of effort to concentrate uranium into a tidy, enriched package in order to provoke Israel into transforming that package into a significantly less concentrated and much less usable form.
Interesting, I just noticed today Glassdoor changed the Negative Experience chart color from red to a more neutral bluish color.

Maybe it's a recent trend in the industry to distance themselves from negative traits? Amazon doesn't want you to think they're bad, Glassdor doesn't want their customers (corporations) to be seen in a bad light?
Right, and signal has a good track record balancing privacy and usability for it's default settings.
> I'll never understand why the CIA didn't just come out and say they did this attack

Probably because it was Mossad.
The API absolutely does not "abstract away all that complexity" though. Which is fine. Any massive distributed system like Kubernetes is either complex or useless.

My problem is that in today's "devops" world developers are more and more just expected to be familiar with Kubernetes as another tool in their belt. Speaking from experience at my own workspace, that is a recipe for disaster.

As long as the learning curve (which could be weeks or even months) is acknowledged and factored in, Kubernetes can be a very powerful weapon to wield.
They also do not like being questioned. That factor is as significant as the cost is.
Telegram dude
This Hackernews comment is up there with the classic Dropbox comment[0].

You just listed two setups of 3+ connected devices that need to be configured to work together and possibly wired together. Compared to a single plug-and-play object.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Says international law, including the United Nations charter (reciting the Westphalian doctrine), which every member state signs onto.

Of course, there are large grey areas in international relations, and nobody can reasonably expect perfect compliance, anyhow. But beyond any specific practical, tactical, or strategic reasons for maintaining plausible deniability, refusing to openly admit to a violation still reflects a degree of obeyance to the law. When large nations start openly flouting norms w/ a giant "F-U", that's when you know the international order and world peace is in trouble.

Plausible deniability of military ops is the nation-state equivalent of the polite fiction in cultural anthropology--an important, useful tool providing resilience to the normative system.
And the “Convert to login” button is hidden away now for some reason.
They attempted to force people to pay $1/yr. but that backfired hard because they couldn't figure out how to do the rollout, offered nothing in return, and suffered the backlash of their mismanagement.

Even just giving paid users some small extra features or a little icon by their name or something small would have been enough to get people willingly give a dollar rather than their approach of trying to charge people.
> Clubhouse is not just private phone calls.

Yes, you can have a private chat on Clubhouse. You can also have a private chat on Facebook or Twitter. They are all social networks.

I don't think trying to find edge cases for what constitutes a social network is helpful to this conversation.
>> the idea of being able to leave whatsapp seems to be much tougher than I thought.

Network lock-in is real. I think a lot of people who disconnect from fb also disregard the difficulty. Even if you don't like the barman, your local is wherever your buddies hang out.
There are user land tools to manage dependencies for you. I cannot comment on the specifics because I haven't used them extensively but one example is deno-udd.

It updates your dependencies.
https://github.com/hayd/deno-udd

There are one or two more feature rich ones. The need for deps.ts can be eliminated with management tools which work with your imports directly.
> I wonder how people feel about displaying the contents of their bookshelf online while onscreen? I'm guessing for most people it's not a concern.

While many people don't go around advertising their interests, political affiliation, etc - I doubt they would be too worried if you could guess it from their bookcase. Most people don't consider it particularly private information in my experience.
FWIW this attack is more commonly being attributed to Israel, partly because it endangers the deal (sanction relief for enrichment limits/inspections) the US is trying to reestablish.
And everyone who has played Russian roulette will tell you that it's perfectly harmless. Every time.

Strange that you consider advocacy to be both "whining into the ether" and also "coercion". Do you outsource all your personal decisions to whoever happens to be waving a sign outside city hall? If you don't have the strength to make your own choices in the face of a few eco-friendly Chevron commercials or people sharing memes on Facebook, then they aren't your real problem.

Many of the people "whining into the ether" are already doing those "genuinely meaningful" things. They're calling for you to come join them.
There are other entities that have issues with Iran besides the CIA though.
I think the first submission they get is going to be a molotov cocktail at their office.
I think it’s called “practice what you preach”.

No one cares for the sound and fury of the idiotic hypocrite.
This won't work.

Because it's incredibly vulnerable in an adversarial world. (Human readable has a human in the loop, and so can adjust for the worst adversarial attacks. Machine readable can't)
I love pixels. Seeing them reminds me that I am in front of a computer and not a TV. Same as a car that smells a bit of oil/gasoline. Feels like a real car.
I have thought that we might have a good a grasp on an existential problem slime AI safety, as earlier hominids did on the problem of preventing a fitter out-competing species dominating the landscape.

It might have a couple of things in common: a vague sense of danger without a specific grasp on containing it using out rudimentary tools. And once the cat is out of the bag it's near impossible to get back in.
Yes!

Termux[0] does supports gpg and pass but no yubikey by default, but okc-agent[1] is a third party binding of OpenKeyChain, providing barebones gpg via yubikey. I use this to decrypt passwords via NFC:

[0]: https://termux.org
[1]: https://github.com/DDoSolitary/OkcAgent

Simple password decrypt: okc-gpg -d ~/.password-store/mypass.gpg

I made a termux shortcut (button on homescreen) to emulate pass-dmenu via this ( store in ~/.shortcuts):

#!/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/env bash

# Lists passwords in termux dialog, decrypting selection to clipboard for 45s

# http://redsymbol.net/articles/unofficial-bash-strict-mode/
set -euo pipefail

# Inspired by https://git.zx2c4.com/password-store/tree/contrib/dmenu/passmenu
shopt -s nullglob globstar

prefix=${PASSWORD_STORE_DIR-~/.password-store}
password_files=( "$prefix"/**/*.gpg )
password_files=( "${password_files[@]#"$prefix"/}" )
password_files=( "${password_files[@]%.gpg}" )

password_files_csv=$(printf '%s,' "${password_files[@]}")
choice_json=$(termux-dialog sheet -t "Select password" -v "$password_files_csv")

choice_exit=$(echo "$choice_json" | jq .code)
[[ "$choice_exit" == 0 ]] || exit

password=$(echo "$choice_json" | jq .text | tr -d '"')

okc-gpg -d ~/.password-store/"$password".gpg 2>/dev/null | head -n 1 | termux-clipboard-set
# pass show -c "$password" 2>/dev/null
termux-toast -s "Password copied to clipboard"
sleep 46
termux-clipboard-set ""
termux-toast -s "Password remove from clipboard"
Diet, exercise, and sleep are important to health but they are not emergency measures and neither are these.
>Besides, banks have less and less walls, guards, and vaults, because they keep less and less cash on premise.

What then guarantees the security of the financial system and of our money?
I was unable to return and edit this inside the edit window.

Sorry, it is incomplete.
Good to know, thanks! Hasn't bit me yet, but my config is fairly light.
I'm not sure what your friends skill sets are, but if they are hard up for money, and have a stable internet connection, they could try usertesting.com. They would get paid to user test software. All they need other than a good internet connection is to be able to articulate their thoughts in a coherent manner. Hope that helps!
This is a very thoughtful comment and you are correct about the screens and the wantrepreneurs.

But, for some people, using an indoor bike is the only way that they can safely cycle. This includes people like me, who have multiple health conditions that make traditional cycling unsafe.

Also, there are some people who want to cycle while simultaneously working from home, which is totally possible. That is why a lot of people have such setups. A lot of people who are endurance athletes are from the socioeconomic bracket that allows them to work from home.
Isn't this line of thinking sort of excusing the thing that the very program is supposed to address though?

More concretely, the need for this program is described as a welcoming environment for black girls to get into STEM, because black girls are discouraged being that they are "outsiders".

Why would a white girl not feel like an "outsider" as a program specifically for black girls?
> from my understanding the vaccines do reduce the transmissibility of the virus

Yeah, but once vaccinated you can start to worry less. And surely we'll see things open up to those who are vaccinated.

The fact that it's possibly still transmissible by vaccinated people is probably the reason why we all need to get vaccinated, and there is no hurd immunity to be gained :/
Haha, same here.

Last week I watched a review of the LG gram and the reviewer said he liked the new 16:10 screens more, because they are higher and this new [sic] trend was promising.

Meanwhile I'm using one of the last reasonably priced 16:10 screens I could get 10 years ago before the whole industry decided people only want 16:9.

Same goes with glare and non-glare

It's like display creators lost their minds in 2005.
This was announced following an attack on their primary nuclear facility (in Natanz, Iran), but given the clear disparity between the necessary level of enrichment for weapons production and 60%, this comes off as "we won't stand idly by while being attacked" versus "we are preparing to enter the global nuclear arena".

I am no nuclear arms expert, but based off their nuclear history, I surmise they intended this statement to be somewhat of a scare tactic that rings hollow at the end of the day.
Ohhh, now that's a really clever way to do it! Never ceases to amaze me how flexible xdotool can be.
There actually are several good reasons to run in us-east-1.

Something I hear a good lot is the latency argument - if you're a startup based in Boston, and your roundtrip to us-west-2 is 80ms (this is actually my roundtrip to us-west 2 right now), it doesn't matter - your customers on the west coast will see 80ms if you go into us-east-1, too. That's true, but your first customers will probably be local, and you almost certainly don't have the resources to be doing true multi-region deployments right out of the gate. So my personal feeling is - deploy into us-east-1 to give your first customers a good experience - _fully understanding that you are taking on some extra risk_, and pay it down as tech debt in time.

Another plays off this, but in a very different way: a hybrid cloud deployment, where the public cloud is used as an on-demand extension of the datacenter. Something I once saw was that the 80ms round trip from a Boston datacenter to us-west-2 actually expanded to massive connection latencies: 80ms for a DNS lookup, and then another 500+ms (!) for the round-trips for TCP and TLS handshakes to take place, all before a SQL query or REST call actually started. That was a complete non-starter.
That's just a package manager!

If something like that is needed, then I think deno should attempt to come with something for managing dependencies.

Eventually, developer convinience will win, and everyone will settle on some sort of package manager for deno. It'd probably be for the best if deno made it official as, personally, I think this is heading towards a second NPM.
Ask HN: Does JIT Decrease Security?
Recently I have a feel that security vulns often mess with JIT, how valid is suggestion that JIT affects security negatively?