skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The timing of this is just almost too coincidental to be frank. There were already cyber security XO in action and in play. How much cash will this company get now from uncle Sam to fix their negligence?
Sure, there's always the tyrrany of the need to follow rules even when they make no sense, and if it were this in isolation then it would not raise eyebrows.
I don't see us getting a massive innovation in search on the internet now that Google has such a massive foothold, and companies like Cloudflare stop innovation from happening.

How are we "stopping search innovation"?
Don't a lot of those employees have options?
I love the idea! But I agree here. It only clicked for me when I read “ (e.g. a dentist website builder!)”.
Software patents should require the source of the implementation to be published. That's the whole idea behind patents in the first place.
Irc is banned on Brazillian servers, most ISPs will insta-cancel your contract if they detect you are running a IRC server.

Reason for that is that Irc drama attracts brazillian hackers and script kiddies like flies, having an irc server is like having a huge DDoS magnet, having a irc server is an excellent way to make a whole ISP crumble under attack.

Last major irc network we had went bankrupt because of their DDoS protection costs rising and rising and rising until they went in debt to stay online and until they couldn't pay the debts.
I agree with that. For me this part is about doing something I never did while programming, but I did as an amateur actor for a couple of years. That is: what happens on the page needs to surprise you, like if events and words flow as you are only the tool, but happen independently of your will. It's a complex state to achieve, but I think that if you fail to do it, the reader can tell.
This model gives government the power of choosing who is and is not a “trusted source” and depends on a relationship where those sources report uncritically about the information they are being given. It is also prioritizing which (for-profit) business gets favorable access.

From a practicality perspective it makes sense. From a propaganda perspective it’s chilling.
It was interesting to listen to! By the way, sometimes I also make nites. But I don't keep a podcast, I have a blog, so I often transcribe all my entries into text using https://audext.com/
Maybe not just lifeforms, civilizations?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_hypothesis
Having written a lot of parsers, I really loved how you put a newline in a "keyword"-type thing, just to keep it interesting :-)
The existence of the autocommit feature in DB drivers is something I never really understood: why an application developer would want to relinquish the direct control of one of the most powerful features of a relational DB?

Unless one's interaction with the database are really basic (i.e. a single SELECT statement), one would want to be as explicit as possible regarding where transaction boundaries are.

Having a default that hides this aspect from my code always seemed a false convenience to me.

edit: this is just a tangential reflection inspired by your comment, not an answer / nor I wanted to detract from your fact statement.
Yachtspotting: OSINT Methods in Navalny's Corruption Investigation
It makes me think of the Laputans in Gulliver's Travels, the race of scientists that are so caught up in their theories they can't do anything practical.
I visited one with my partner and a few friends - luckily they were on a timetable or we would have been lost in there for eons. My favorite part of the haul was frozen durian, some great earthy oolong, and 8 pommelos.

This article prompted me to discover that there are also several H Marts within NYC!
> Even tech communities with tech people are now all on slack etc

True, but I'd rewind the clock back a little farther. Even in the early 00's, AIM was more popular than IRC.
I'm shocked - shocked - that a shady VPN company would ruin a community resource like that.
what freenode needs here is for users and projects to roundly reject andrew lee. If the userbase pulls together and stays the course, the network can survive, or at least remain whole enough to move to their new IRC network as soon as it's available.

Best of luck.
What do you mean by ‘new’ though?
How does my startup crawl Cloudflare sites without paying a hefty fee to Cloudflare?
I can't see the video, but if it's the same idea could you give some details on what you used as a suspension fluid and how you dealt with the smearing on the container?
Why the coordinates from your $65k GPS receiver have an implicit inaccuracy
You're absolutely right, I misremembered that.
I don't think the rise of products like slack have anything to do with what people want vs what investors want.
The link you provided doesn't even mention the GDP effect of those recessions, but if you look it up you'll find that none had as severe an effect on GDP as the great depression.

The Cantillon effect is how the financial industry profits from inflation in its current format, which you'd know if you read the link. This incentivises it to produce FUD against deflation.
Or even on earth:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_hypothesis

Granted it is just a hypothesis but it is an interesting idea.
I love podcasts. And I really love interesting interviews. By the way, for better ranking, you can transcribe them into text using https://audext.com/.
This comment shows a gross misunderstanding of the technical differences between 1) basically breaking encryption for all iPhones on the market simultaneously, and 2) copying a file.
Why Fintech Startups Fail and How to Avoid These Failures?
I modified miniircd to work with the iPhone (including push notifications and message replay) but no volunteer maintained client will ever be able to support that because the person holding the keys used to publish the app is the only one Apple will allow to run the push notification relay server.

This makes maintaining chat clients on iOS prohibitively expensive for volunteers which is why all of them are centralized and either expensive or data hoarders.

It's not "just the way the world works" Apple has directly distorted the world with their policies.
I would like to also add: A system to lower privileges based on last use.

Companies often have IAM/ssh/keys all over the place. If you centralize things to IAM you can lower permissions based on their last use. EG. A frontend dev needs access to GCP to configure things in firebase. This frontend developer hasn't used these IAM permissions in 3 months. This persons IAM permissions should automatically have these permissions removed.

Probably one of the easiest yet most powerful thing to implement in cloud sec ops AND probably never done.

https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/recommender-managing

Example script to automate it: https://github.com/james-ransom/auto-apply-gcp-iam-recommend...
This is rational behavior. Voters cannot distinguish proactive spending from embezzlement. Politicians need to allow the problem to occur to prove that the money is actually needed.
> GMG plans to bring graphene aluminum-ion coin cells to market late this year or early next year, with automotive pouch cells planned to roll out in early 2024

Well, that's pleasantly surprising if true. I was expecting the standard caveat of it only being in research so far.
I'm curious if you use Nvidia or AMD because for me (a rx 390 owner), Doom Eternal not only runs flawlessly on Linux, it's performance is out of the box better than on Windows. As for stuff like PUBG and Apex Legends, that's a crapshoot thanks to anti-cheat software frequently being hostile to Linux.

Thankfully, there is work being done and at least the situation with Battle Eye has improved in recent years.
Sadly that means pretty much only locked gardens all around - Since anything else is by definition too complicated.
Just about every internet community I've been involved in has been taken offline or taken over by corporate interests and ruined in one way or another. I feel like some kind of vagrant as I move from place to place just trying to find people like me. So many friends have been lost over the years.
That may be. Yet, you see it.
Yeah, I think the post author may be confused. I've migrated several high traffic gRPC services (basically TensorFlow Serving) from AWS NLBs to ALBs for the improved load balancing. It worked pretty much as desired (although a little expensive).
For those like me who weren’t aware of the context, the third party referred to in the article appears to be Private Internet Access (PIA)
Get involved in your local startup and meetup scenes. Especially the meetup one. Good for making connections.
Funny that you enumerated all the crap that I absolutely detest in slack. I think there are really two populations, those who should be considered definitely lost by having had their brain washed by UI vendors ruining user experience, and those who are still trying to get their work done through this ocean of horrors.
https://xuwei-k.hatenablog.com/entry/2021/05/14/210911

Someone did some tests on Scalaz codebase and Scala 3 is around 2.5x faster. While Scalaz (and Cats) isn't exactly like your typical Scala production code base, I think we should see noticeable improvement across all kinds of Scala code.
An Ode to My Flip Phone
It's not that everything just happens to be a locked garden, Apple's App Store policies prevent community maintained chat clients like the ones used for IRC.
"anti-mask hysteria by authorities"?

People were having difficulty providing evidence that Fauci admitted to telling a white lie elsewhere in these comments, yet it's widely believed by certain people that he did so.

There's a link to a factcheck in the comments that quotes what he actually said and it's not at all what many people in this thread seem to sincerely, but mistakenly, think he said.

So allow me to doubt that "anti-mask hysteria" was ever coming from the medical and scientific community unless I see exactly what you're talking about and evaluate it with my own eyes.

But I guess if we disagree on the facts, that helps explain why we draw different conclusions.
What about OCaml? Soon it'll finally have multicore (and an effect system!).
Mangadesk: Terminal Client for Downloading Manga
There was once cs professor who claimed that the internet does not scale around 2000. Either things choke up or you need huge investments into networks.

It turns out that he was right, sort of. The vanilla attach server into the internet, server-to-client IP-network is pretty much dead. It has been replaced with CDN's , private delivery networks, cache on top of cache. Cloudfare, Amazon, Google and MS are the connection points for the IP. Their internal network infrastructure transfer most of the data.
If you don't watch tv , you wouldn't have any trauma. Save for the odd people appearing in your neighborhood, who cover their face.
We're in full agreement on the businesses + ruthlessness part. And yep, this place isn't just about hacker culture for a while now, that is true.
If you can only talk to other people on your own server, then the application is limited to just team chat.

Matrix clients have the potential to be much more. You can use the same account for various team chats and still use it like a messaging app for your friends and arbitrary personal groups.

Maybe most importantly, federation provides resilience against bad server operators. If Signal had allowed federation, it wouldn't have been a big deal to ditch its servers when they introduced a sketchy cryptocurrency onto the platform. Because they don't allow it, everyone was locked in.
Bitcoin Climate Crisis
Crawling a Cloudflare powered website is basically impossible without needing to do some bodges as to how to crawl it.

How can you expect someone to crawl a bunch of websites if they are actively blocked from accessing it? Now, you might say users can whitelist bots in their robots.txt file but then again will the person creating the engine individually ask companies to allow them to crawl?

Also, slightly unrelated but Cloudflare protected websites are almost impossible to access via tor, the captcha never succeeds.
Yeah, the problem is that the US Government is trying to hire developers in at GS11 positions (~$72k salary in high cost of living area).

Never going to get good junior devs at that price point. Don't get me started on security clearance requirements in addition to low wages...

The fix is to provide competitive wages, but the politics of it is difficult.
HMart's great. Good food court with a variety of cusines. Nice prepackaged take home food. Tons of free samples pre-covid. Huge section of dumplings. Lots of niche asian things you have trouble finding elsewhere, like dashi and what not. Check it out if you have one nearby. To those unfamiliar with asian cuisines, try grabbing some kimbap (~korean sushi), korean bbq sauce, dashi (~umami soup base), hot sesame oil, gochujang paste, a fuck ton of noodles, etc.

This article puts a large emphasis on race relations but honestly I think the anti-asian voice is very small. Certainly an order of magnitude smaller than what arabs a decade prior. Casually looking up stats on the FBI hate crime database (2019 https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2019/topic-pages/tables/table...), asian hate crimes are an order magnitude less than black/african american hate crimes. I've seen stats suggestings a 100%+ increase in rates for asian americans in the past year, but that still puts it at a relatively lower number than other groups.

Idk. As an aggressively liberal asian american living in a heavily blue area full of BLM and other progressive movements, this one doesn't resonate with me as the cultural emergency it's being shaped as. This could be local bias, but I don't believe the sentiment towards asians for the median, or even 90th percentile individual has changed that much. I don't know if I believe the local experience of the median asian has changed all that much either.

As a non-chinese, I'm also annoyed at the lack of differentiation between Asian and Chinese- and then further from Chinese descent vs. CCP supporter. If there is any growing anti asian sentiment, it's almost entirely due to the actions of the CCP. If trends continue in this direction, I foresee a push to stop using the term Asian. Many (most?) Asian cultures consider the CCP to be a hostile nation and likely won't tolerate being lumped in with them.
And apparently the request to Apple happened in Feb 2019.

So, not a recent change?
I don't really follow. Who cares about copyright of their blog post when a recipe can't be copyrighted (ergo the valuable asset is not protected)?

My understanding is that it's Google PageRank's "fault".

Because every one of these websites has a google tracker embedded in it, google knows how long you spend on a website. If you load a page then don't interact with it or leave quickly, it assumes you didn't find what you were looking for. The longer you're fumbling around looking for the valuable part of the page (the recipe) the higher the site ranks amongst recipe sites for PageRank, the more hits they'll get in the future.

So - Slowing the current reader down will produce bonus readers later.
I also know very good transcription service -https://audext.com/. I have been using it for more than a year now and I am very satisfied.
Of course the whole point of a search engine is to try and surface useful websites and filter out the obvious crap. And the objective of an ad is to subvert that process. And even in ideal situations they give almost no information to the user about what they actually are clicking.
They speak about 95+% efficiency, I'd hope they included this wireless connection in the calculation.
I’d prefer plaintext chat, but most of the teams I work in would never move from slack to IRC. Probably the biggest issue I have with slack is that it’s entirely centralised, but guess that’s market power.
At the altitude at which you can reasonably fly at Mach 9, destroying the aerodynamics of the vehicle means that you have low-speed parts of a formerly high-speed missile flying in your direction. And unless the interception happens in the zenith, whence they could just fall down on you, they won't keep flying in your direction for long.
Not in my experience. At my workplace, dev teams started setting up their own Slack workspaces by themselves, sometimes funded by private credit cards. After more than a year, the company gave in and purchased an enterprise subscription to get integration with our internal SSO and so forth.
Only if the file contents are accessible. Why isn't end-to-end encryption utilized for storage of email on Apple's servers, the same way they do for iMessaging?
> Electric drills are used for an _average_ of 8 minutes over their lifetime.

I did see that somewhere, and I think it was in the context that every home has an electric drill, but most might only get used for 1 or 2 projects a year.

You would hope though that this might be only a design guide for one of those $30 stocking stuffers.

I'm an owner builder and I am pretty sure my drills and impact drivers have racked up many tens of hours.
Is PIA shady? Or is it VPNs that are shady? Where's the shadiness here?
Elon should just help ETH 2.0 by staking.
> “It charges so fast it’s basically a super capacitor,” Nicol claimed. “It charges an iPhone coin cell in less than 10 seconds.”

> The new battery cells are claimed to deliver far more energy density than current lithium-ion batteries, without the cooling, heating or rare-earth problems they face.

> “So far there are no temperature problems. Twenty percent of a lithium-ion battery pack (in a vehicle) is to do with cooling them. There is a very high chance that we won’t need that cooling or heating at all,” Nicol claimed.

Am I off base by saying, this is potentially world changing if true?
Also for some reason, they're the only large grocer I can find that carries guava.
Apple has always been subject to US law, and as such, was always required to provide information that they do have access to. If it's in iCloud, most of it can be extracted by the law enforcement with court order.

Nothing changed between now and the San Bernardino case. The difference was that FBI wanted Apple to compromise device encryption, which capability does _not_ exist now.
Easy Flask File Uploads with Flask-File-Upload (Python)
If you require an easy to use Flask library to upload files and store them on your server

and database then please try out

https://github.com/joegasewicz/flask-file-upload

The current version is 0.2.0-rc.1 (See the repo for install instructions). There are a few changes that make using the library a bit more straight forward and follow best practises when using Sqlalchemy.

If anyone can try out the release candidate, it would be great to get any feedback / bugs / suggestions.

Thanks for taking the time to look and if you can star the library it would be much appreciated!

Joe
Hmm, you're probably right, that's a better definition of opinionated.

That said, I think it'd be really difficult to work around Elder.js' opinions.
Mattermost CEO here, thanks for the mention and the feedback!

Just curious, have you enabled the GitLab-Mattermost plugin? https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-plugin-gitlab#confi...

If it wasn't easy to find, that's on us, and we need to do a better job in making things more discoverable.
You can ask 5-why questions and get to root of this?
In this case, you’re the courtier of King Cnut. I just did the search and the first correct result is the sixth and the first five are incorrect, including the seemingly definitive answer at the top of the search.
Billionaires Are Selling Mega-Sized Stock Blocks After Surge
My first calculation using entirely imperial units didn't go well... I think I'll stick to metric!
There are just a ton of messaging alternatives including SMS. I don't even really use Slack but I also don't think I've sent a message on IRC for years.
> But I don't see that he has any special insights into VM performance, let alone the low-level intricacies JIT design.

The guy had no insights into language design before creating python.

He also has Mark Shannon, has the entire MS team available on the phone if needed (including the .net team, with stellar JIT), time and a good brain.

> As mentioned elsewhere in the thread he really has egg on his face after denying Python's performance problems for so many years.

He spent 20 years maintaining a project with minimal resources, so you have to make hard choices on what to work with. Perfs were not the objective of Python, and for the majority of the use cases of the time, it didn't matter much.

Now that more important things are sorted out, like unicode handling, and that Python 3 is a smooth running project, he is been given the opportunity and resources to work on the problem, so he does.

Good for us.

Honestly, for me perfs are still NOT a priority, I'd rather him work on bootstraping, but I'm glad and excited that something good will come out of this.
The bigger IMO problem with ransomware attacks isn't necessarily that they're holding your data hostage, it's that they can and will publish it. You might be able to tell them to kiss your ass because you have backups, but then they'll publish that information. It's a bit more of a rock-and-a-hard-place situation than most people realize.
Doesn't the Match Group own the majority of dating sites/apps used in the west? Why are we still allowing these monopolies to gobble up any and all possible competitors?
So Tenet actually may have made sense? After multiple rewatchings I just thought the mechanics were completely nonsensical.
If you are building a search engine and getting blocked you can always contact me and I'll make sure that the teams that work on bot detection and DDoS are aware. We would like to know because we should not be blocking a legit crawler like this.
This article is not very well written.. “security keys are quiet fast”
Apple has always bragged about iMessage content being end-to-end encrypted, and thus inaccessible even to Apple. Why aren't they doing the same with email and other files, like other providers? (ProtonMail, to name one example)
Sorry, I don't debate with throwaway accounts, they are usually trolls.
How will you prosecute them? Not only most scammers are nameless, but most are from countries where government needs to fix lot of things before they are effective against scammers.
Interesting observation. In Bangladesh we have blunter conversations about how people look. On meeting my wife, my mom’s first reaction was “she’s pretty. And not fat!” On a recent birthday, she said of me: “you’ve aged. And not well!”
Wouldn't reducing batch sizes make privacy even more of a problem? Now instead of a 1/100000 chance of the user being the same person on another website there would be a 1/1000 chance.
It's the HSE no one's going to be held accountable; in fact someone will probably get a nice bonus this year for 'managing' the situation
The batch size requirement is imposed by the FIDO spec, to ensure that batch IDs are not so high entropy as to pose a privacy problem.

"In this Full Basic Attestation model, a large number of authenticators must share the same Attestation certificate and Attestation Private Key in order to provide non-linkability (see Protocol Core Design Considerations). Authenticators can only be identified on a production batch level or an AAID level by their Attestation Certificate, and not individually. A large number of authenticators sharing the same Attestation Certificate provides better privacy, but also makes the related private key a more attractive attack target."
I haven’t seen even one relatively large open source project without politics involved.
My First Week with Substack
I wrote up a few notes about my first week with Substack. All in all, I really enjoy writing there. I hope this is helpful to some.

https://www.mediumfocus.com/p/my-first-week-with-substack
The breadth and depth of the fresh produce section definitely surprised me.