skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it's not an instance of politically-motivated ransomware. It's an instance of politically-motivated disk wiping. The parent poster said that it's possible the goal is not just to make money, but in this case no money could even be made. So it's just not relevant to their point.

The question is if actual ransomware may be politically-motivated, e.g. if the big ransomware gangs are being encouraged by the Russian security services to generally disrupt other countries' businesses and infrastructure for geopolitical reasons. NotPetya doesn't help answer that question; it just shows the Russian government does sometimes disrupt other countries' infrastructure.
The main problem with the journal is how slow it is, but other than that having a structured format that can carry multi-line messages and even large blobs (eg. core dumps) is a reasonable idea. I still run rsyslog so I get real text files as well.
Thanks, would love to know how you get on, please join #boxkite-monitoring on MLOps.community slack to let us know how it works out for you :-)
I think it says a lot that there are 156 comments in this thread and introversion is only mentioned three times including this comment so far. More people need to take personality tests lol.

You can't operate indefinitely this way as an introvert, it's physically impossible. Extroverts simply can't comprehend how impossible this level of interaction on a daily basis is for an introvert. Programming is an inherently internal process which is introversion, and naturally draws people that lean more towards introversion to this field. I'm not dismissing the benefits of pairing, but to do it while completely ignoring the needs of the target audience (predominately introverts) is ludicrous and of course this burns people out.

Introverts, to varying degrees, expend energy in the presence of other people. They have to be alone to recharge. There is often a misunderstanding that introverts are just shy, this is a fundamental misunderstanding. Shyness often accompanies introversion but they are fundamentally different aspects.

Extroverts are the opposite, they gain energy when interacting with others. Most people are some form of omnivert, certain interactions can drain them and other interactions can give them energy.

No matter how beneficial pairing is it will fail if it doesn't learn to adapt more to the needs of the core user: introverts.
Here is another project based on the same idea of processing data using functions:

https://github.com/asavinov/lambdo - Feature engineering and machine learning: together at last!

Yet, here the focus is on feature engineering and rethinking how it can be combined with traditional ML. Essentially, the point is that there no big differences and it is more natural and simpler to think of them as special cases of the same concept: features can be learned and ML models are frequently are used for producing intermediate results.
Yea, that says more about you than it does about Instagram.
From literature degree to AI research
Why do you hate progress? Look at how much progress humans have made in socialization all thanks to the great Zuckerberg! Humans are now closer then ever and living meaningful, happy lives!
I used to work at a web hosting company and one of my responsibilities was managing all the VPS backups. We had a few racks for "backup servers" which were all identical boxes. We would provision CentOS on them two or three at a time and I observed the exact same thing. Some servers were always just a little faster than others. Never figured out why.
you are right, and i absolutely agree. basing any decisions that substantially affect someone on machine learning alone should be illegal (even if it is the right decision)
What are folks' favorite overviews on how these lenses work? Basic optics from my high school physics classes topped out at the telephoto lens from the article, what would be a good place to start to get a better sense of how the designs in the article help with distortion?

[Edit: Found https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2011/08/lens-geneology-part..., which looks like a promising start]
At the end, Elon Musk put Dogecoin at the right place. This crypto is completely a joke to tell how superficial it is. Why do everybody put money on that useless tech rather something real, e.g. save people lives?
Logically, any review criticism is too late, because the code was already written! Catching the issue before commitment is great, but the proper time for the feedback was during the actual writing. Now the code must be sent back for rewriting, and time has been wasted.
2.6 million different titles sold, not 2.6 million copies
I think the 2.6 mil refers to the # of titles available for sale, not the number of copies sold.
Fixing Nokia “white screen of death”
Three paragraphs into the article is a chart that includes audio book sales.
I'd argue advertising this Instagram as a "safe zone" for children while still containing ads and allowing adult predatores to sign in would be much worse.

In the normal platform at least they can be disguised as average users that seldom post anything, and there is less pressure to post anything since it's a hostile place to children in the first place.
Tell HN: Consider listing your contact details
TL;DR: Consider listing your contact details in your HN profile!

There are lots of interesting conversations happening here on HN. But sometimes people might want to continue the discussions even after threads fall of the front page.

Have you considered listing your contact details on HN so that people can get in touch with you more easily?

If you want to do that, please note that it’s not enough to fill in the email field on your profile. Only the HN admins can see that field.

If you want others to see your e-mail address etc, you need to explicitly put it in the about text area.

Some members want to keep a low profile and I certainly respect that. But please consider what you might be missing. There’s also no requirement to use your main e-mail address. One could also use an alternative e-mail in order to stay pseudonymous.

There are just so many interesting people here so I thought that one might not want to miss out on all interesting connections that could occur.

Just my ¢2 though, do what thou wilt. Peace!
OPs point is that kids are exposed to that right now, and no turning back the clock will change that. Creating a safe zone away from alcohol, guns, etc... and adding parental controls is a step in the right direction.

I'd prefer kids didn't use Instagram at all though.
Somehow I get the feeling that people are dropping qualifiers left and right. For instance the 2.6 million is books sold online. And more importantly I strongly suspect someone somewhere failed to mention this was all U.S. only. At least I suspect it is.
Release it chapter by chapter and put it up on substack/patreon or just for free in blog-style format. That's what ithare.com and some other programming books did to build an audience before (self) publishing.
I was surprised by how low the reported total number of books is. Then I realised they're only reporting online book sales. However, the number still seems quite low.
I paired at HMRC (the UK's IRS) for about four months. I quit when I was an anxious, depressed wreck who couldn't face going to work anymore. It was a completely soul destroying experience.

The emotional labour involved in managing colleagues (especially those who are less experienced) all day every day is so intense I could barely function outside of work. Steering people towards solutions when they were hung up on irrelevant stuff, explaining things to people who were themselves exhausted in the same way I was, remaining engaged when my screen share was hijacked yet again by someone who "just" wanted to show me something.

I have no idea how the author lasted so long. It took me less than 100 days of pairing (partly through a northern English winter) to quit.

Added to the above, the 'standard' Zoom caveats apply, too: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200421-why-zoom-video...
2.6 million different book titles. Not total sales of books online, which is about 500m, I believe.
It drives me crazy when people get so upset over any kind of comment too. Why not take it literally? That's a totally valid interpretation of the writing.

Also, it's entirely your perception that it is "hounding any joy and meaning out of the words". For me, the idea of myself and my body being inseparable is much more joyful than the original post, which paints the mind more like a mental prisoner trapped inside of an animals body.

I'll take the interpretation of the comment you replied to, thanks!
Making a Lego domino laying machine
Twitch has a kind of internal programme for sponsorships (as a twitch partner is basically a worker for Amazon), some streamers get approached directly but larger streamers have agencies to do the work for them which seems more effective. Some of the old school eSports teams are now also agencies for streamers.
> In most cases, abstractions can't really get rid of complexity, they just move it around.

People say this pithy truism all the time, and it's just not true. You're probably just talking about indirection and encapsulation.

Real abstractions by their very nature reduce complexity. You could say "No true Scotsman" but I deal with actual abstractions in Haskell all the time and it only simplifies code.

So maybe Java is just deficient in its abstraction capability, but parametric polymorphism and pure streams sound like a good start to me. If a steam makes you uncomfy because it's doing O(n) things "under the hood" and you "like to know what the computer is doing" that's probably just a personal comprehension issue.
Without making any statement of adherence from my part (on your perspective, or any of the below), I'll give you some possible alternative perspectives I can think of:

- "this way I can help our guys protect innocent civilians"
- "I need to sell this to to develop my baby (which I'm sure will ultimately benefit humanity); I'd prefer to sell this to Indian orphanages, too bad they have no budget or use for this"

As a anside, the product has already been sold to Argentinian mountaineering search-and-rescue teams.

To get an idea of the motivations or people in the Army, I can recommend "why I chose a gun", a 15 minute TED talk by a Dutch army officer that explains his reasoning.
https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_van_uhm_why_i_chose_a_gun/tr...

Or to give some historical perspective: Christiaan Huygens developed clocks for (military) naval navigation. Not because he was the type of gung-ho "let's kick some French ass" type of guy. In fact, he collaborated scientifically with French and English, being Dutch, even when for example France was at war with Holland. He just wanted to Make Something People Love (tm). And at the time, the only one able to foot that sort of R&D bill was the state. If the state had not invested huge sums like that, it's not at all obvious that he would have been able to perform his work.
At least on the Xbox side, I've noticed Microsoft is doing everything they can to passively discourage PC owners from buying an Xbox.

Game pass, to my pleasant surprise offers tons of PC games to download, on top of that you can cloud stream directly to your browser or to your Android device. The quality here is absurdly high. I think Microsoft is essentially testing this cloud technology on video games, before they tackle the Enterprise. Uptime requirements for a video game are absurdly low, no one's losing money if they can't play Halo for couple of days.

There are a handful of games which are console only , mostly older titles but it hasn't bothered me all that much.
Ah, I'll bet you're right! Wow, that significantly changes the meaning...
> only make sense when fresh data is significantly more valuable than historical

This is the case for basically any transactional/accounting system.

If you lose even one day's data, if often would make more sense to pay the ransom than try to reconstruct the transaction flow for that day (or portion of the day) that was lost.
I think it is a great sign of the health of the dlang community and project that the creator of the language can submit a PR and get actual honest feedback just like any other participant.
I think you need to compare it to the existing alternatives when boarding which are essentially a boat + ladder (fixed or grapple style) or a very large helicopter hovering above a static limited location (e.g a wide open space away from wires). Once people starting going down the rope, the helo is pretty much committed (albeit with covering fire most likely). Whatever happens, usually that process only then gets you on one place, e.g one level. Smarter defenders often make that harder for people assaulting - locating sentries, using barbed wire to block those places etc. You then have to fight, often through openish ground until you get to the first breaching points on that same level. Everyone is usually coming from the one location, for example where the ladder or helo rope is and doing it one by one. So it might take 30-60 seconds at least to get everyone onto the ship.

It would be much quicker to board and harder to defend if an assault team could land basically anywhere on the ship simultaneously. All of a sudden you have people assaulting from front, rear, sides, top and then downwards etc etc. You are suddenly trying to defend from 10 different assaulting positions. Plus the noise and signature of the jet packs will probably be lower than that of a helicopter, so a chance for more surprise. Anywhere with a small enough gap for the jet pack to land.

I assume also in future they will make the transition to fighting a lot faster, such as some kind of quick release mechanism to drop the jetpack stuff off you and get into the fight.

Also another side benefit is that you can use your jetpack to get back off the ship. That might not be the case if it's too tricky for the helo or assault boat to recover you.
In many organisations pairing is encouraged, but not mandated - it means that if developer is stuck with something they ask if someone is available to pair to unblock them. Usually they'll find a person who loves pairing and get things done. In rare cases the PM would tell a developer experienced in the domain, to stop what they are doing and help. That's not too bad provided the interrupted developer gets an extra time added for context switching.
If they are making a separate kids platform why would your adult ads show.

You realize that by sharing those ad topics you are probably sharing too much of your interests. I get baby products.. it depends on what you've searched for lately.
I wonder how many of that 4% are like me and only turned on the requests to see who/what apps want to track across apps.
I used to read a lot more books 10-20 years ago. Now, I mostly read books on vacation.

I think I have an unspoken budget of “words read daily” that is consumed by work and my mobile devices.
"most people’s leisure time consists of trite activities, steered by indulgent appetites"

Isn't this you "judging"?
Khan academy is absolutely fantastic. However, it's only a step above giving students free textbooks or other self-learning resources: It mostly work for students that are already self-motivating. This tends to be a minority of students, and most require some degree of a human support network to succeed.
Most people just don't read any books. Whether I buy physical or audible mainly depends on the books content. Story-heavy books (most) are great on audible, more technical stuff deserves physical.
You're late to the party. Matrix & Element do a fine job at this, and can be easily customized.
So it's a database API?
The data is also quite sparse and almost certainly missing a large chunk of the worlds population. Looking at their website, I doubt they’re covering the Chinese domestic market. I’d also be surprised if they’re covering say Bangladesh, or Indian non-English books or content. Same with Indonesia.

That right there would probably throw all the numbers off dramatically world population wise.
not sure if you want to say that such a session cookie would require consent or not, but just to make it clear, it definitely doesn't.

See 3.2 in data protection working party recommendations: https://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/documentation/opinio...
I don't think I've watched this one! Thanks!
:D

I had actual Latin on a license plate frame on a sports car that roughly translated to "eat my dust/shit/detritus." I can't remember the exact tenses of the words, but it took me a while to get it right.
Yeah, you're not wrong. There are people who are into photography for photographs, and then there are people are into it for the gear. Not that the latter is necessarily a bad hobby - no worse than any other collecting type of hobby - but it's not the same thing at all.

I do like reading Roger's work (here and at his LensRentals blog) just for curiosity about how lenses actually work, though.
@dang, this one should be merged here or vice versa:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27104125
>Rich kids who have quiet rooms and can afford tutors

I do agree that this is advantage, but nowadays there's internet and you can have cheap as fuck access to very good materials

Been there, did that.
How very early 18th century.
The 2.6 million is the choice of books available. Like baskin robins has 31 flavors but only 5 of them sold more than 100k scoops.
Well I hope this time when they work on MySQL Cluster they add auto-sharding tables so we can increase writes. Because if they don't, I don't see the point. Sure, when I had to go to a colocation and plug in wires having an auto repairing MySQL Cluster made tons of sense. Now? I can spin up a large disk db machine in 4 minutes flat. We need a way to split db writes across VMs now. GCP and AWS just gave up on this problem. Hell, GCP doesn't even have a reader endpoint. But money is just sitting there for someone to invent.
> Various chain emails over the past seven years have warned readers about the possibility of Homeland Security seizing items like gold, silver and guns from their safe deposit boxes at the bank. This isn’t possible without first obtaining a search warrant, since those boxes are private property. And banking officials told us random seizures just aren’t happening. We rate this statement Pants on Fire.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2013/jul/26/chain-emai...

Perhaps it's still just a conspiracy theory with respect to the DHS rather than the FBI. It doesn't seem to be out of line with civil asset forfeiture policy, other than it being from safe deposit boxes rather than vehicles or luggage.

> Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year (2015)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-...
> By who? People who never provide evidence for their claims?

By lots of countreies. The US charged 4 chinese military officers for hacking Equifax.

> While it's certainly possible that the FSB is playing 59-dimensional chess, here, hoping for a true butterfly-effect sequence of causality, I think the onus is on you to demonstrate that.

You seem to think that it would require multiple things to fall into place to benefit a foreign country. Say you want to manipulate the price of the fuel. Increasing the costs of transport would do that.
Read more about HOTP and TOTP here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAC-based_One-Time_Password

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_One-Time_Password

Implementations vary, but TOTP was developed on top of HOTP and presents a standardized method to expire OTP codes.
I assume this is for stealthy / assaults eg pop up at the last minute where you also have other assets that can suppress the target.

And assaulting via a small boat is going to be a larger target and slower and harder
Which is fine. Having a standardized .status domain for the pages, even if manually updated, is a big upgrade from the hodgepodge of what's out there now.
Does that accurately represent the model of audible credits? Or just actual purchases of audio books?
It’s confusing but the percentage figure means that 2.6 million individual titles were sold or available to be bought. Only 268 of those titles sold over 100k.
To a point, as there's no difference between authorized and unauthorized code, except there is, but there isn't.:)

Maybe more like wondering what the consequences are if all code is arbitrary, particularly for higher order abstractions like security and economics.

Security has always been a hall of mirrors, and a principle like this could be a fast heuristic for deciding how much risk you want to take. In all the security design work I've done, it was based on, "we've essentially made an attack cost greater than X, where X is close to the value of what they're protecting."
That's a great point, but I'm seeing an absolute explosion of transcription services which are all essentially based on AWS.

The only real innovation here is when this is combined with language learning apps to help me practice my Chinese pronunciation, but even then I know I'll have to look to hire a tutor soon.
Indeed, but the impact would be pretty limited, as you say. I'm thinking something like the Aum Shinrikyo sarin gas attacks, which potentially could've killed many more people than they did.
I develop front-end, mostly React, and I find it to be a lot of fun. The large community has resulted in some amazing tooling, and the unopinionatedness of React means I can write code in the way I like.

> I've never developed for the web out of fear of talking employers into recruiting me as a UI/UX designer.

I do think that as developers we need to help with design in some limited ways. Often designers will miss things. How is this going to look at different screen widths? Is this accessible? Does this function the way users expect websites to function? I give quite a bit of feedback to designers I work with. But nobody who ever saw me design something from the ground up would try to get me to do it full-time.
I had this happen to me as a new employee of a major company with its own private CU. I moved across states and needed a new local bank. Applied at the branch in my office and a few days later got my dollar application fee back. Their shortsightedness was astounding.
Listening to just anybody and acting on it is probably not going to end up well. But a lot of things relegated to the past are yet to be re-"discovered" by pharma and made large profits out of them because using them as natural remedies is not very profitable.
Justice Department Quietly Seized Washington Post Reporters' Phone Records
My great-grandfather smoked every day, starting at age 9. He died of heart failure at 96.
IPFS for pages like this is like a random webpage with extra steps - content on IPFS disappears if nobody has pinned it, so I don't think its benefits would be realized.
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"98 percent of the books that publishers released"

is the key phrase, and it's nothing new; the sell rate in traditional publishing has always been quite low. But this does not include books sold in all the other self-publishing ways.
Yes, pretty much. I loved my low-range Canon gear (100D, Sigma lenses). When the Sony a7R3 came out, I got it alongside an array of GM lenses. My God do they blow everything out of the water. It's an insane kit. The best part is the great autofocus of the body; even in low light, even in rapid movement, even in burst shots. Among 1000 shots, I can count focus misses on one hand.

However, the entire thing feels artificial. It's hard to describe. I don't want to go back, but getting shots is so easy now that it's less of a rewarding feeling nailing a shot. Messed up ISO? Doesn't matter, sensor is ISO-invariant, just adjust exposure in post at no cost to quality. You cannot mess up focus anymore. At 10fps, you cannot miss a shot anymore (mostly).
It might help if you format these as "domain[dot]com" to avoid misclicks.
The plural in these legal noun phrases is influenced by French grammar convention (unlike English, adjectives take a plural).