skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's probably late for you to see this but here's an attempt to clarify... my complaint is with wearing a mask as a statement _while_ complaining about the other side being overly aggressive in making their statement.

Essentially 6 months ago you somewhat had the moral high ground because science was on your side, but now it's just personal preference.

If you feel safer with a mask, that's fine (it might do some miniscule good). If you wear a mask to show everyone where you fall on the political spectrum, than just own up to the fact that you're being divisive.
weight. the wing (plane) is exerting itself on the air and the heavier the plane the stronger the force.
It struck me in college that CS departments are getting away with assuming a lot of background familiarity with computers from their incoming freshmen, picked up on those freshmen's own time, in a way that I don't think any other departments do.

I don't know how people coming in not having sunk thousands of hours into computer crap before entering a CS major don't drown in a hurry. It'd be like starting a creative writing degree in a world where reading & writing aren't taught in school, except maybe as a one-semester high school elective, and you're just expected to have picked them up on your own time by age 18, if you're going to be a creative writing major. "OK, you're familiar with stories from watching TV, but now you're going to need to read and write them. If you can't read them here's a book(!) to help you learn to read, in you own time. Good luck anyone who wasn't already a long-time reading-and-writing nerd before choosing this major".
How we added merge-on-refresh to Apache Lucene
The quoted parent says that if Adam sends a message to Bob, and Adam has backups off, but Bob has backups on, that Bob's copy of the message Adam sent is accessible to authorities.
People are not _always_ rational nor _never_ rational.

We probably fundamentally agree: in my opinion one should not concede to a blackmail, in order to destroy blackmailing. However the associated cost, for the victim, may be very high, roughly a sacrifice.

Such blackmailing works because there are known cases of ransoms paid, leading to recovery without any known after-shock (in 2020, as far as I understand: Tillamook and also Delaware County, Florence, Utah Univ, CWT...).

Not sticking to this behavior would be a threat to the ransomware "business", and people gaining from it are probably rational to the point of trying to preserve it. Most, even quite dumb, don't kill the goose that lays golden eggs.

Moreover in some cases the victim lost access to at least part of data vital to its operations, and pays in order to survive.

Releasing data stolen to a victim plainly refusing to pay or even simply trying to play for time sends a powerful signal to future victims.
Why should I believe this? They can shut down their servers, move their crypto to different wallets, and pop up again in a few weeks, right?
Distributed credit card powered by trust between people, written in Rust
Why is fbi interested? Can anyone explain
IMO, not legal advice, the investigators are human beings. Good faith efforts to comply with the law will net you better results than avoidance. This is also reflected in the tax code which is replete with examples of higher fines for, say, undeclared income as against under-declared income.
Oil shortages and long lines make for good/bad TV. Fear of bad media coverage energized the Govt. to act.
I get the H Mart strategy. What I don’t quite understand is the feeling of “cultural intrusion”.

Ok I can feel cramped. Where or how does cultural intrusion enter the picture?

Is that like trying to sit with the jocks at the lunch table in high school and they look at you weird like you’re intruding their culture?
Endtime: Time as a Countdown
I thought that was a peculiar choice of words as well. I would understand these things under the banner of "Build Engineering", or even just "Tooling". I couldn't figure out the distinction they wanted to make by calling it "Metaprogramming".
I am wondering about this too. After playing around with all of this, to me it seems this is what people actually want.
What have you seen in that space so far?
Michael Mann on His Book 'The New Climate War'
Zstandard v1.5.0
Kubernetes automates and standardizes some of the best practices around building reliable systems in a platform agnostic way. We never got there with VMs: Amazon ec2 instances are not the same as GCE instances are not the same as VMware VMs but a kubernetes api is the same everywhere (and providers are incentivized to standardize their offerings). Whatever comes next would have to be something that can standardize even more.

For the next 10 years, I don’t see kubernetes going away but rather evolving into something that’s dead simple for anyone to setup and use easily. It’s flexibility in being a platform capable of easily running whatever you want to is somewhat unmatched.

Honestly the only way I see k8s being replaced is by a fork if there is some Governance dispute. I don’t see the platform changing for at least 10-20 years.
The only component is an editor that runs some code automatically.

A python plugin for an editor would have the same problem - if it imports a python module for any reason, like code completion. Same problem of arbitrary code execution.

I think we should work on solutions. Sandboxing both for editor plugins and for regular rust builds, should become the norm.
Because even though the transactions can be traced, the accounts holding them are arbitrary. You can observe a Bitcoin transaction propagate through the blockchain, but you'll never really see any personal identifiers besides the address.
why not just do a layer 4 tcp connection hash on the client source ip?

I don't see anything difficult here...
The lack of check-marks is because it's a blank form to be printed out and filled, before handing it over to sensationalist news websites.
I very much hope to see Hashicorp Nomad getting more traction, as a simpler, yet feature rich solution to probably most use cases in our industry. Pretty interesting to see the adoption of podman and also micro-vms (like fly.io does it), and other Nomad providers that does not nessasarly need to be docker.

I know there are great terraform modules out there already, but i wonder if many of Hashicorp's products soon will be available as "managed" services as well, allowing people to try something new with less maintenance cost.
Why wouldn't they? They exist primarily online.
Monero for transactions, then change back to BTC for value storage.
Sorry about that. We've a RC build that we are testing a new feature with at the moment on that cluster, and unfortunately this demo is hosted on that :-/
Seems like they should invest more into cybersecurity, if someone was able to “steal” their Bitcoin and take over their infrastructure ;).

But honestly, this only shows that IT systems are nowadays so complex that you cannot get them right and be able to truly protect you, no matter if you’re good or bad guy.
You can usually push server changes faster then client changes.
Look, I have two objects in a locked room. They are in fact very similar objects. They have the same weight, same visual presentations, same physical composition, up to reasonable limits of measurement. In short they are very similar objects. Your approach says, the object is only similar iff someone has the key to the room and observes the two objects. Sure, the only way to tell that they are similar is to for someone or something to make the observation. But its quite something different to say that they are similar only because someone observed the two objects. Maybe that's true, but that's a pretty wild claim.
I did argue exactly this, one hour before you commented. See my peer post down the thread.
That's an interesting take, as someone that's used Scala for a while I feel like there actually isn't that much syntax.

I guess my perception is warped :-)
The subject of this HN thread is the CDC lifting the masking requirement, and some folks choosing individually to still wear them at times; an act that causes no one any harm.

A debate on mask mandates in general over the last year is probably off topic, but I'm inclined to see them as quite justifiable.
I majored in Chemistry, and we had a similar course on how to use library resources and tools to research. Since it was not directly Chemistry, the advisor said you could wait until your senior year to take it as an easy final semester credit, and that is when I took it.

I should have taken it first semester, freshman year. It was full of invaluable meta information which would have made my four years not only easier, but more productive. I may have even stayed in Chemistry if I had the correct tools from the start.

I am largely self taught when it comes to CS, and so I learned these tools first from a practical application. I didn't have anyone to set up a dev environment for me; I had to do it myself. I am always shocked when I work with new grads from top CS schools who have almost no knowledge of basic tools like grep or how to use an interactive debugger.

Theories and academia are nice, but are a fair stretch from the real world in any field. If we really want to require an advanced degree to enter the work force, then we should abandon the idea that most students attend college for a liberal education and accept they reality that students attend college for workforce preparation.
" The all-video format often put off viewers; would a Bon Jovi fan sit through a Run-DMC video, and vice versa? MTV decided they needed their programming to be stickier, which meant actual shows, not just videos "

This is when MTV died. Yes, a "Bon Jovi fan" will maybe sit through a Run DMC video but when instead of the video he will get a reality show , he will not sit anymore.
This seems to still rely on (or at least, describes) the client making the determination of what to talk to, not the mesh / service discovery.
What Great Mentorship Looks Like in a Hybrid Workplace
1Blocker is amazing and absolutely isn’t just a domain blocker. I’d check it out if I were you.
Thanks for the feedback!

We know this is a real UX problem, and we're working on it.

Before Zulip 4.0, there was a "Saved as draft" notice that appeared on closing the compose box, but empirically, that was invisible to some users, who had the terrible experience of fearing their message was lost.

The 4.0 release replaces the notification with a darker and better located notification, which will likely help some users. But we'll only know for sure whether it's still invisible to some users with time.

In any case, we're planning several more changes to improve the drafts user experience that didn't make it into this release.

https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/17396 is one current issue on the topic.
I was looking at health insurance in WA state, and the sites that imitate the official government site do a pretty good job at everything except having decent, non-scammy insurance offerings.
Ironically the success of unix/linux is that it is a very effective and uniform abstraction to accessing network, compute, storage and memory resources.

The big win of kubernetes is not that it lets you get access to computational resources easier (yaml rather than systemd scripts) but that it is a temporary escape on the "file a ticket to get new compute resources" (temporary because just like picking up hardware for the data center goes from just buy it to get it approved; VM creation goes from just click a button to what's your cost center and VP signoff; new namespace creation hasn't had time to get put into service now, but it will be). Like Docker let developers bypass restrictive OS imaging, k8s lets developers spin up more resources with less constraint. It's not really about the technical abstractions, running a go binary on bare metal is not different (only faster) than running it in a k8s cluster except I have no way to get permission to run it on bare metal.

And my skills are shifting from "maximizing the product value delivered by this heap of hardware" to "minimizing the cost of the MVP in this cloud billing environment." Before if we had unused compute, we'd stick a cache in or precompute something that will reduce latency for customers down the line. Now, we are like, don't do that computation, it mightn't be needed.
USSR was a Communist expansionist, militaristic authoritarian tyranny. Russian Federation is a oligopoly market-based, expansionist, militaristic authoritarian tyranny composed of largely the same people.

The current President of Russia (and now dictator for life) dislikes communism because it was an economic failure that didn't sustain his dictatorship.
I'm spending about 18% of my salary on rent, which is well below the national average.

I'm hoping to buy a house soon which will be more of a challenge.
Can crypto actually be non-traceable? I remember currencies like Monero or ZCash advertising privacy from the last crypto craze.

I mean if you have 100M in some account, can you actually run it trough "private" currencies to remove traces? BTC, ETH etc. all seems super traceable, even more so than in regular banking.

Also how are criminals getting their money out with no one noticing, does Panama/Malta etc. have Kraken/Bittrex equivalents with no questions asked?
I have to disagree with you, but you get your own opinion.

I give away my recent eBooks for free (and also provide a link where people can pay if they want). Because I am an author, I have met many interesting people and have had job opportunities appear without my having to search for them. Also, I love the process of writing. BTW, I started out writing for conventional publishers (10 books) and transitioned to this Creative Common self publishing approach.

The same comment may apply to my open source projects - not sure.
I don't know why people keep bringing this up every time, tulip mania lasted from 1634 to 1637 (just 3 years), Bitcoin has been in existence since 2009 and it's pretty clear it's here to stay now.

Bitcoin's goal is to offer an alternative to government controlled currencies that's dependent on the whims of a few central bankers/politicians. It's not even remotely close.
people want to go back to monoliths, but don't want to lose the upsides of microservices. once you get a taste of serverless, it's really hard to go back to overprovisioning. at the same time, distributed state and logic that crosses service boundaries is hard. I don't know what comes next, but what I _want_ to come next is powerful static analysis that works across languages and services, that can "compile down" to serveless services
https://temporal.io

if the lesson from k8s is that after containers we needed container orchestration - the business logic analog is that services will need service orchestration.

(disclaimer: i work here so i'm both biased and have skin in the game)
Good catch :) We're testing a new feature on a RC build that the demo is using. It has some quirks that we are working on: thanks for the feedback!
Tulip bulbs aren't programmable.
New York's Elise Stefanik Replaces Cheney in Republican Leadership Spot
Hardly, they regularly take much more than this. This is an organized criminal enterprise, I just read through a chatlog where they got $12 million and this is just one of many.

$5m was 100% a lowball because of the geopolitical implications of this attack.
I remember Brandon Sanderson also outlined that these jobs are similar, and explicitly mentioned that usually it is difficult to do them at the same time. Both programming and writing activate the same thought routines and therefore do not feel like one of them helps you rest from the other.
^ This. I'm working around the edges of the SoC in the Pi, the BCM2711, which has some implementation quirks.
It is the same. If I'd like to share a draft letter with someone over IRC's DM or some internal IRC channel, I'd upload it to my HTTP server's "stuff" folder with file listing disabled and paste the link.
Ease of access for the victims, I imagine. Going from owning 0 bitcoin to hundreds of thousands seems easier giving it's popularity than say, monero (or whatever the anonymous centric coin of the day is). And the ransomware guys can still wash it later by passing it through intermediate exchanges/selling it for a different crypto.
Gitlab CLI (GLab) v1.17.0 released
The `glab auth login` flow now includes a step to authenticate git as well when "HTTPS" is selected as the default git protocol. This enables git operations like clone, push, etc to automatically work with GitLab on a spotless system after the user has authenticated to `glab`

Check out the new features available in [v1.17.0](https://github.com/profclems/glab/releases/tag/v1.17.0)
This should be one of the FIRST classes for anyone in the sciences, not just CS. Biology, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, etc.

A couple areas I would add

* How to ask questions [1]
* How to debug problems, control, hypothesis, baseline
* Reproducible research [3]
* The Art of Doing Science and Engineering - Learning to Learn, Richard Hamming [4]
* How to Solve It, George Polya [5]
* How to work in teams, collaborate?

[1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html https://wiki.c2.com/?HowToAskQuestionsTheSmartWay

[3] https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2FF649D0C4407B30

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It
Have there been any must-have office tools (ie. staplers, post-it notes) that have been invented in the past 25 years? Similarly, are 3M and Georgia Pacific and whoever's R&D testing new products or just optimizing already established ones?
I felt very out of place in my college CS classes. I picked up programming my freshman year and switched to CS from my original major. I was completely green while so many other students - what felt like a majority - had been programming for years and were already extremely familiar with many of the concepts and tools that I was just being introduced to. It was rough for me to feel like I was starting out at such a disadvantage.
I think this is what you say when the heat is on you too badly. They’re trying to shed the target on their back.
What are some left-centrist sources then?
For small to medium sized applications; Edge workers like Cloudflare workers. Complexity and cost are much lower.

And perhaps geographical regulations will become so demanding that you need something like durable objects to store & process data in country of origin.
The problem is that it's hard to draw a clear line between legitimate consulting, and fraud.

If the government forms are byzantine and you go to a lawyer and pay them $250 to fill them for you, you aren't being scammed.

If you visit a web site that clearly tells you that it's a third party website, you can waste your time with the horrible government site, or you can pay 10 bucks and use their optimized form, you're not being scammed.

If the web site now shrinks their disclosure a bit, maybe moves it below the fold, jacks up the price... at some point 90% of the people would agree that they're "scamming" people, in the colloquial sense, but this lack of a clear line makes it hard to charge them criminally.

The way to handle this would be to

1. require clear disclosure for any kind of "online 'government bureaucracy help' service", with everything (font size, contrast, cannot be showing anything else at the same time to avoid drowning the disclosure out)

2. Make providing such "services" without the disclosure punishable by serious jail time, confiscation of any earnings, etc.

3. Actually enforce it, including through international arrest warrants, going after credit card providers when the scammers are abroad, etc.

4. Follow up to see if the problem went away and adjust the requirements until it does.

Omit any of these, and the problem will stay. And right now, none of these seems to happen.
Wired is a magazine, not a newspaper: it doesn't exist to quickly present information every day, but to provide entertaining writing once a month; insisting it use an inverted pyramid is as strange as arguing that if only movies and books just led with the resolution, it would save you a lot of time.
Sash windows are lovely because they are an enabling technology for upstairs window boxes. Nothing wron with modern, well-made sashes.
I can't keep the titles straight, but yeah, I think it was Children Of The Sky. I just remember the story wandered away from scifi into political intrigue and didn't really move on from that.

There was also a lot of discussion about bootstrapping technological advancement in the first book published, which was interesting.
A declarative solution that combines terraform + k8s + hardware management, that elegantly partitions between stateful and stateless resources. Stateful resources will have well defined, easy to understand modes of behavior, explicitly describing caching policies and persistence layers.
https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/reference/expressions/retur...

They’re always expressions in Rust, though they are often written with ; to make an expression statement.
Kamil we agree with you there is a significant amount of positive activity in this market and those are great companies. What is a great outcome of this is that the entrepreneurs and e-commerce sellers and operators have more options. Moonshot is excited to provide great options for e-commerce company operators as we are we are cut from the same cloth.
Moonshot is unique in that we are very excited to have the entrepreneurs join us and bring their companies to the next level while we also offering an option of a traditional acquisition, both great options.
Cost of living most likely. A retirement goes further in some countries.
>>> It gets more affordable if you go elsewhere in Greater London. I was able to find a two-bedroom flat for under £1,300

The rest of the article seems quite on point, but that rent, I just can't quite put my finger on it.

There is no way you're getting a 2 bedroom for anywhere near that. It's not even in the right ballpark.

What you could afford for £1300 is a 1 bedroom, at a fair distance from central, thanks to the sharp drop in rent from coronavirus last year.

I'm certainly curious to know what he is renting. Either he's not living in London or I missed a second wave of rent drop from coronavirus.