skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They did this to Rudy Guilliani too. FBI was going into his iCloud for over a year. What makes it more egregious was that Guilliani was Trump's lawyer during the impeachment. So the government was both prosecuting him, and spying on his defence's lawyers private emails with his client. If they can do it to a presidents lawyer with no consequences. They can do it to anyone.
Have you read Weir's Project Hail Mary yet? If so, did you like it as much as The Martian?
Which is trivially traceable back to you and therefore defeats the purpose of providing anonymity. Much of the value of one of these VPN services is they effectively launder your traffic by mixing it with that of their other clients.
I agree. That comment is a sad but common result of people who seek vengeance under the facade of justice.
Circonus’ Irondb is the only histogram db available outside of google that I know of.

They have a self hosted option but it’s not free or open source.
Digital Ocean, Hetzner, Scaleway, Linode, Vultr, kimsufi.ie all seem to be dependable and solid options. Cost effective too.
I've never been able to "reach a human" at Google, Facebook and other web giants and I'm skeptical that you can at a place like Cloudflare. In fact, I'd be really astonished it was possible, because otherwise their business isn't scalable.
Install irssi! Newlines magically appear on their own, and it's really nice to not need to scroll left/right to read long messages.
Uh, WEIRD.

Why would someone who wrote that email draft now say his own email was "rumours and hearsay"?

That just makes the whole thing sound even sketchier.

Also, geez, how can anyone who's an IT professional in 2021 think they can put something on the public internet without auth and keep it private? Really?
Nice way of taking both quotes out of context. The link I provided has the full quote. He was essentially saying what I said above: it is unclear if it makes public health sense for everyone to wear a mask, in particular we have a shortage of masks so we should prioritise health workers, there is nothing wrong with wearing a mask though.
It wasn't a "misspeak" it was a lie. He admitted it was a lie, and that he knew it was lie. If he wanted to give the Gov and CDC any credibility then he should have been honest about the need to reserve masks for health care professionals and urged people not to buy them and make home-made one instead. There is no valid excuse "I was lying for the greater good", that is bullshit.
Even if we ignore the technical reasons, for me CloudFlare's proposal fails at their "Associate a unique ID to your key" property, where they say CloudFlare could, but won't do it. If they implement this scheme they start normalising this approach. Once it gets to FB and Google implementation, their answer will be: we could, but we... look! a squirrel!
I just checked with the current freenode staff (as I'm sure a bunch of you have). I'm not sure what is going on; but the freenode staff are all in the usual place and most assuredly have not resigned.

(edit: At least, they certainly haven't resigned as of yet.)
You say that like politics is a bad thing. The whole point of OS is to change the balance of power into the hands of the majority. OS fans have little respect for a forceful takeover by a rich entity. This is how it should be.

Do something, or vote.
Wholeheartedly agree with the above.

Also remembering IRC's netsplits resulting in IRC Services being split off and resultant and inevitable chaos when the netsplits end.
I like to use wheregoes.com to probe links. I'm surprised at how many redirects some of them have. I get that an ad link might go through an ad channel, but clicking one non-spam link from a reputable company can plant cookies from a whole bunch of websites.
Disclaimer: I dont really beleive this, however...

The information surrounding the current pandemic within Ireland is heavily scewed in one direction, there is no room for any questions, without being labled as something. What if, someone decided to check the information for themselves. Just a thought, [removes crazy hat made from tinfoil]
>1) Penetration testers relentlessly scanned my IP address every time I connected.

You probably mean the very boring automated open proxy scan that every IRC network runs.
Astrophysics should invent their own terminology instead of repurposing ours.
It means you invoice and they pay after 270 days of receiving the invoice.

Basically the large oil firms know they hold all the cards so they regularly delay payment as long as possible.
If you are in Brooklyn/Queens, Food Bazaar carries it.
No, they can't do this. It's the U2F key vendor that promises not to release a device-unique key to someone like CF.
Interesting Things #3 (Newsletter)
I grabbed some page that claimed 7 transactions per second and also did the math wrong. Not sure how that happened.

This is the big reason why I don't buy the lightning network. It won't be possible for people to have a wallet that connects to some lightning hub, since opening and closing a connection requires an on-chain transaction. So it will be impossible for anybody other than the richest few to even possess a useful wallet. Everybody else will have bits in a database they don't control.
Apple's chip shortage warning echoed by Foxconn; worsening
I just run irslackd + znc. I get persistent text chat over an IRC client. The team gets their animated gifs. Everyone wins. :)
True in regards to Rust.

For Zig I really don't get what it offers over Modula-2 other than a more C like syntax and compile time metaprogramming.

Maybe I will be proven wrong.
Lambda coding school accused of deceiving students out of thousands
Exactly this - it's a remarketing of normal working class concepts to upper middle class hipsters so they can pretend to be authentic and salt-of-the-earth. All of the labels the parent listed are associated with hipsters for a reason.
> Discord is probably the closest spiritual successor to irc

Uh, some locked down corporate please-read-your-terms-of-service closed-source crapware?

That's pretty much the exact opposite.
Or healthcare?
If you do end to end encryption, you can't persist the mails. So when you logout or clear cache or change browser or email client your past mails will be lost, which drastically reduces the purpose of mail as a long term thing.
Looking at the new features. Can anyone say what dependent function types are good for? In the example (https://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/reference/new-types/dependent-fun...), what's the difference between:

def extractKey(e: Entry): e.Key = e.key

and:

def extractKey(e: Entry): Entry.Key = e.key // the way I'd normally think of it
> since you can’t refuse to receive a transaction.

Yeah I think this break your hypothesis.

Every single major account will just end up poisoned. Easily done by finding the addresses with most coins and sending them fractions of coins from tainted account. Tesla will be the first.
Social Networking
Any place to hangout and meet likemided people?
I'm in need of a functional language for a small part of my system and I'm considering Scala and Purescript[0] (mostly because of their ecosystems). Maybe Scala 3 is a good time to be boarding Scala's ship.

I'd appreciate if anyone has any advices of one vs the other.

[0]https://www.purescript.org/
So I live in a pretty rural area in the US (closest town (population 600) is ~30-45 minutes away, closest 'city' (population 40k or so is even further). We lose power when it's windy, sunny, rainy, stormy, or just because it's Tuesday.

Often, it takes them 3-4 days to figure it out. That happens 2-3 times a year, at a minimum. The worst was two years ago - we went about 6 weeks total all year without power. We have a lot of meat and produce in the freezers. It makes me uncomfortable to have that much food without a backup.
You don't have to do anything on a phone!
My view is that iteration of the core design is equally important to the the iteration that's done on the rest of it. The difference is that each 'product' in a field is a new iteration on the core design. This is what makes experienced engineers so valuable over inexperienced ones - the experienced ones know the history and know the previous iterations so that they can make the 'right' next step.
Possibly threatened with legal action?
> Do you know why they were looking to replace Stubby?

Likely to maintain less code long term. It's nice to have a primative like this open source so you can use it everywhere (even on mobile). I'm not sure about the claim that gRPC isn't customizable enough, I think there are a lot of hooks in place. For example Open Census does a lot of the instrumentation that you get for free at Google with Stubby, but for gRPC: https://opencensus.io/zpages/

> How stubby went about it:
Stubby is a lot closer to the experimental callback API talked about here: https://github.com/grpc/proposal/pull/180
What are you basing “upper management has generally not” on — personal experience, media accounts, etc.? From what I've seen in the public discourse, it's looked like fatalistic acceptance of very limited congressional support.
Anticheat will never work on anything other than the official OS for which it is designed. A cornerstone of anticheat is to prevent the user from running non-approved software in the same space as the game. Any attempt to emulate an OS or fiddle wit memory will be attacked as possible cheating.

On a higher level, anticheat is about locking down user behavior, confining it to acceptable corners of the machine. It is there to enforce the content creator's wish. It is just the latest incarnation of DRM. I expect that many in control of linux are quietly happy to hear that it doesn't work properly on linux systems.
I can see your point, but isn't the WHO tweeting “FACT: #COVID19 is NOT airborne.” an example of the opposite? They made a hard assertion without any clear proof to back it up.
Like the GP of this thread you might want to reread the actual post rather than skim the title. (see my other comment).

Your parties sound like a blast!
difference in life expectancy between Bangladesh and the US at age 60 is just 4 years.

Which just means the deaths are front-loaded even more towards younger people. It doesn't matter how likely you are to live to X age once you're Y age when there are significant hurdles just to get to Y age. In 1850 in the US, the life expectancy of someone who made it to age 70 was to live another 10 years ~80 or so. Which sounds positive but this sort of thing is a completely useless statistic for evaluating the overall health challenges faced by any population. You can't just choose a later starting point in life, it only tells you one small part of the picture.

A big part of this is the differences in socioeconomic status: Poorer people, especially in less developed societies, can't reach those hurdles: It was pretty hard in those times to live past 50 when you spend 12 hours a day 6 days a week underground in a coal mine, especially compared to someone from an affluent family with better access to healthcare and a job that isn't manual labor.
Are we sure this actually happened? The only source I'm finding on this is Giuliani himself.
https://yacy.net/ for example. Each interested node does indexing and serving some chunk of the results.

Or in practice - each node quickly runs into a CloudFlare captcha preventing it from indexing content for a few hours/days. Since CF fronts a lot of the useful internet these days, it means it's effectively working against distributed indexing with its current captcha solution.
I went to the Freenode site and read the description and I still don’t know what Freenode is. Sometimes trying to understand the tech world is like zooming into the Mandelbrot set.

But what I like about this feed is that I am constantly being exposed to new things.
Can anyone look up that case number?
But the Mueller team was good at covering their own ass.

At Least 27 Phones from Special Counsel’s Office Were Wiped before DOJ Inspector General Could Review Them https://news.yahoo.com/least-27-phones-special-counsel-21293...
Wouldn't it be time to create a International Obfuscated Rust Code Contest (IORCC)?
You don’t perform anything it’s just a statement. You’re conflating mathematics and computation.
A search engine which is not run centrally by one organization on infrastructure in a known network, but rather something like YaCy where individual users run crawler nodes on networks that vary over time.

Which makes "contact us for an exception" a no-go, as the relevant source IPs will constantly be changing.
I believe that's the ISP of the initial reaction that makes a hydrogen rich gas that you feed into your air breathing thing. That's how it reads to me anyhow. You'll likely get extra ISP from the hydrogen/air combustion too.
No one cares who you debate with. People are just correcting your misinformation.
So... only that part of the soil that gets picked up by the famous Martian dust storms then? Aka the entire surface?
Building a Key-value database in Python
21st century lava lamp. In that, it 100% has the chance to become an iconic consumer product.
Redis: Exploring Redis as Serverless Database to Solve Idempotence in APIs
General rule of thumb with databases is to reduce the number of queries. Fetch large batches of information. This can be difficult to arrange with how such systems are commonly built and/or coded; some sort of intermediary between the consumer and the database can be warranted, which you can tell, “oh btw, these are the items that I’m going to want, d’you mind just fetching them all now so you can hand them directly to the consumers when they ask for them rather than issuing a new query for each?” In a well-done system like this, the database will be a minor component in the performance—templating and other JS-side transformations are much more expensive than fetching easily-identified rows from a database that’s been designed to handle zillions of requests per surprisingly-small-unit-of-time.

I’m curious what fraction of the 1m22s it now takes is waiting for the database.

Building performance tracking into the product? Good job! That shows me that you’re genuine in caring about it, which is still more encouraging. I’m going to investigate Elder.js.
My co-founder and fiancée is a veterinarian and we met on a dating app. I never had pets before meeting her. I knew nothing about the importance of pets in their owner's lives. I turned out to be a crazy cat lover as she is lol but I always wondered why there is no filter on dating apps for pets. So, that's how the idea for this app came to me. Seeing other niche apps for specially dog lovers made me realize this app needs to be broader for any type of animal lover. The pet adoption section was added to attract shelters to use the app so that they can then help us by spreading the word to their network of individuals. We also have donation programs to shelters. I think a lost/found pet alert section is a must though. An app to only have that feature is probably too small. Anyways, that's how this app has become what it is today. It started as a simple dating app idea.

Your pivoting idea and B2B niche is something I have been thinking about as well. Very good example you mentioned. I will be thinking more about it. Thanks for your honest opinion
None of you resigned, but all of you had a letter ready to go. On your personal domain.

Don’t tell me nothing is going on and everything is alright.

Seriously, wtf?
Seems like something direct democracy or requiring referendums for such actions would solve...
We don't usually get those details published in the case of events, but as someone who's seen more ransomware than I want to admit to, nearly every case comes down to either a word macro, or a .js file inside a zip file. Both of which are easily blocked with a GPO.

These guys do a lot of honeypot writeups that are pretty consistent with my experience: https://thedfirreport.com/
The cerebellum may have played an important role in the evolution of the brain
"Ok I love productivity tools but if you're seriously feeling sluggish in the afternoon you probably need to check your diet vs installing new software" – this 100%. Crazy how proper diet is a productivity hack nowadays.
Both are dealing with the “magic” of transformation. Programs transform data. Fiction transforms desire.
Thanks for sharing your experience.

Always good to hear from someone who's actually used software rather than second or third hand perspectives.
> the lie will be exposed and then your credibility is (rightly!) done for.

The wording here is good because we _should_ be skeptical towards any organization that is supposed to protect our citizenry, but unflinchingly lied to the entire population/world. Government has powers so that that it can control society. Why did the CDC need to lie and mislead people instead of finding a way to restrict the flow and supply of masks? The sad thing is that it would even be more forgivable if they were just completely incompetent and made a wildly incorrect guess. But they knowingly and deliberately lied in possibly the worst scenario to lie during.
The sad thing about this is I understand many people disliked Trump and were pleased by this, but, unfortunately that sword is double edged and all candidates have to dance to their tune, meaning they have to let them go beyond their purview or mission and maintain inertial agendas —which should not be the case. They are supposed to look at interstate crime among some other things.
I've been thinking to create a desktop app for family uses. Like, family photo albums, notes, precious documents, and more ambitious projects, maybe passwords? My relatively big families are scattered throughout a few different countries and homes.

I am a fullstack web dev so creating web app or electron app is right up my alley, but not in distributed databases or peer to peer stuffs.

I was looking at OrbitDB the other day, but I'm curious can it be programmed to just connect peer to peer to my family computers ip addresses?

Also, as far as I know, I can't upload blob data to OrbitDB, and has to use IPFS instead. Can this syncthing solves this problem?

Or more generally, is there any OSS software that already solves this problem? I'd love to learn how to build it.

The whole system doesn't need to be high performance, it is just for family uses.
There are no Turing machines in the “temporal world” at all. We compute using devices much closer to some kind of bounded automata.

An arbitrarily large, even growable, tape has more limited computational power than an infinite tape.
Thanks. I'll bring this to the attention of the bots and DDoS teams.
The issue here, though, is not that there was an arbitrary cutoff of 5 µm, but that the beliefs about how the disease actually spread between humans were flawed - not just simplified - and that the mistake led to bad public health measures during a deadly pandemic.
Resigned multiple times?
Sure netsplits happen, but at least I can still communicate with people that are on the same side of the split (and know exactly who they are). I never had the same issues as with Slack, Matrix, etc. where I just couldn't communicate at all for > 10 minutes.

And frankly I don't really care about it magically back filling the log later on, since the moment has passed. I value "Availability" above all else. And here IRC is unparalleled.

And improving upon the netsplits without breaking this aspect is really quite difficult.
Cloudflare Wants to Kill the Captcha
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What makes a web crawler "legit?"

When I had a site that had millions of pages, I found that sites like Baidu would crawl my site as often, if not more often than Google.

I already felt the relationship with Google was parasitic, but I looked through my logs and never found a single hit that came from Baidu and many of the other search engines that would overload my site.

I was looking at a substantial part of the site running costs going to supporting web crawlers that were not doing anything (1) to help me, or (2) to help end users (if they don't want to send Chinese users to an English-speaking web site, why crawl the site?)

So like it or not I am inclined to only allow Google and Bing in the robots.txt because Google is the only site that sends a significant amount of traffic and because Bing sends some, and Google needs some competition.

There are web crawler behaviors that are annoying: harvesting email addresses, overloading your site, etc. But how do you know who is doing something wrong with the data and who is just collecting it do do nothing with it? (Probably 95% of web crawling ex. Google.)
You should probably read more sources if you think that news aggregators (and Hacker News in particular) are left of centre.
There was a period in time where it was disclosed that the vaccines might have an efficacy of 40% or 50%.

In this case, the combination of masks and vaccines might have been required for a long time.

(hacker news analogy: "just in case Rust doesn't remove all defects, we are still going to need to debug"
modeless wrote here in Feb, 2021 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25778758) :

> It's also important to realize that the backup includes your encrypted iMessage messages, and the key required to decrypt them. Meaning that if you have backups enabled, all the "end-to-end" encryption in iMessage is defeated. Apple and by extension the FBI can read your messages. This is documented by Apple here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

> Even if you disable backups, whenever you correspond with someone that has backups enabled those messages are still accessible to Apple.
Syncthing's most awesome features are speed, decentralization, security, reliability and easy firewall traversal.

I've heard several mentions of it being used in place of services like Dropbox, OneDrive, Drive, Box. For the features above, I agree.

What Syncthing is missing is usability for folks that use the proprietary services because they are easy to set up and maintain and share files from. For that I recommend Nextcloud. It is centralized, so perhaps a different use case. But certainly a more complete replacement if you (or people you support) are used to Dropbox.

Also, just curious, but why is this on hacker news today? Was there a new announcement or release for Syncthing?
As long as you're quoting Life of Brian:

"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
Should match.com get the anti-trust treatment? They seem to buy most new dating sites/apps. Match Group owns Tinder, Match.com, Meetic, OkCupid, Hinge, PlentyOfFish, Ship, OurTime, Azar, and another 35+ dating sites it bought.
Your not wrong, but not really right either. Interstate highways do allow tighter curves and do have them. However most of the interstate is straight or a gentle curve. Thus you can limit your land takings to near the curves and then rejoin the interstate. There is a good chance that the highway department will be interested in your new right of way to make the curve better too - a lot of interstates have curves that are too tight for highway use without slowing down. Many of the tight curves are also near places where you would want to slow down for a station anyway.

The above isn't a perfect answer to all situations, but it helps a lot.
I personally love CloudFlare and (just like with e.g DigitalOcean) I always found a way to contact human there. Unfortunately it's doesn't fix fundamental issue of how they make internet much more centralized and easy to MiTM or apply censorship.
The Spanish pronunciation of orthographic z as /θ/ is rather late, post-16th-century. So, I would presume that French could have borrowed the word earlier than that.