skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the interests of accuracy:

Yes, a woman, Kazak by birth, though AFAIK she's been residing in Russia of late. Her precise whereabouts are generally kept vague.

Sources:

My name is Alexandra Elbakyan, I'm a web developer who created this website. I was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan and I'm 32 years old. I'm a native speaker of Russian, know English very well, and some German and ancient languages.

https://sci-hub.st/alexandra

Her academic work has been at Satbayev University (in Almaty, Kazakhstan), internships and work in Italy and Germany, from 2005--2010.

She returned to Kazakhstan in 2011:

I was 23 and I returned to Kazakhstan and started working as a freelance programmer.

... and has since done academic work in Russia.

2017 started a masters program in Linguistics · Biblical Languages Saint-Petersburg State University in Russia

2019 graduated from masters program · with huge troubles suspected for being Russian spy by US authorities

Applied for Russian citizenship but was rejected (in 2016).

See: https://sci-hub.st/alexandra#bio

Elbakyan identifies as multiracial with armenian, slavic, and asian roots:

https://nitter.cc/ringo_ring/status/700626318124134400#m
>Give it time.

Yes. Bernie Madoff's scam lasted at least 16 years (1992-2008) and some suspect it could have started as far back as the 1970s.
The idea to replace CAPTCHA with FIDO doesn't seem sound, isn't it trivial to imitate it with DevTools in Chrome or some other software?

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/webauthn/
Yes, I agree.

The point is, how much does this new public health guidance depend on the assumption that people will accept the responsibility to either mask up or get vaccinated?
The attestation process is capable of cryptographically checking the device manufacturer etc

(although practically I'm unsure as to whether that's really a good idea or would work well)
"Opinionated" means the software has made very deliberate design tradeoffs and is very inflexible/resistant to changing that. This is done to optimize certain objectives like software scope or increasing productivity by enforcing certain methods.

So in this case they cited "no client-side routing wiz-bang" -- that's one of their opinions and won't be introducing any support for that sort of thing.

The classic example is Python's motto "There's Only One Way To Do It", which was in a response to Perl's "There's more than one way to do it."

Another example is Ruby On Rails...it has a strong opinion on how the application should be structured -- must be MVC, most of your code should be in a model, convention over configuration, etc.
If it's heading at you at Mach 9, just dump a load of BB pellets against it.
That is also the impression we got when we tried Mattermost. It came as a big surprise because we are using a selfhosted Gitlab instance and Mattermost is supposed to have great integration with Gitlab but it really didn't work well. Maybe it is due to us having set up Gitlab within Docker, I don't know. In the end we got it working but it still didn't recognize a user from Gitlab. It really felt like they had some good start and ideas but then something changed and came to a halt.
Similarly, "startup.com" is what every startup founder wannabe must watch.
I was just surveying the terrain for an SEO-dependent static site with headless CMS, so it's nice to have a framework with that particular focus to consider as part of that mix. Thanks!
Interesting, I sync many Git repos, and they all work just fine. I even shared some with other people (to co-author). It all worked splendidly.
This project is dead already. Lua is 4x faster out of the box compared to Python (without LuaJIT!). Lua got fast by having ints and floats at the local side of values, not as a reference. That's in, the int and float value is in the variable itself, not as a reference with a pointer indirection. In Python, every time you do a=a+1 new memory allocation is made for the a+1 object. Java has the same performance issue with boxed types (new Integer), and this is why C# is faster in many benchmarks. (C# cheated with the hindsight advantage of knowing which were Java mistakes)
I believe the idea here is you need to buy actual FIDO U2F keys and they could then be revoked on a per-key basis if you're caught abusing them as they're signed by a 3rd party so can't just be emulated.

Meaning you need to buy more. Makes it expensive at least.
After suffering with this myself, I started using the psycopg2-binary package exclusively: https://pypi.org/project/psycopg2-binary/

Haven't had any issues since!
> People have memories.

And sometimes they have false memories. For example, regarding:

> 8 Months ago Kamala Harris herself said she would NOT get Trump's Vaccine.

What she said was that she would take the vaccine if the professionals said it was safe, not if Trump told her to take it [1]. A rather understandable level of skepticism given Trump's peddling of miracle cures such as hydroxychloroquine.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dAjCeMuXR0
Can syncthing scale up to a couple petabytes? So far I'm using rsync, that scales, but is sloooow.
Here’s a discussion with how it all works and relevant links (edit: though I wish there were more sources there. Reader will have to do some work themselves): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27125871

There’s some positing that the vaccine could help or totally stop so-called long covid symptoms. My mom had some long covid symptoms and hasn’t since she got the vaccine.

Also from the link, second exposures to infectious diseases seriously boost the immune systems ability to fight the disease.

It’s like training your immune system once with the exposure and original infection then a second (and third time for Moderna and pfizer) time with the vaccines. In the mRNA vaccine case, they train on a particularly optimal characteristic.
> Which organizations might those be? State and local governments?

No, thankfully I think they're probably making mostly good recommendations there. I'm thinking of stuff like outdoor soccer - parents are asked to wear masks in a big open field with no crowds.
Graphic design yes - that covers print design, print, digitla and television advertising and many other mediums - but among those designing software applications Figma seems to be kicking ass: https://uxtools.co/survey-2020/
Why would you use Apple software/services for anything like this? You know it's backdoored.
How can you revoke on a per-key basis without at the same time being able to track keys uniquely?
Understanding ADA vs. Algo
NeRF: Facebook Co-Research Develops Mixed Static/Dynamic Video Synthesis
Personally I'm looking forward to scala native 1.0 more than anything else. We'll have a strong Haskell competitor. I dont like jvm.
It gets boring really fast.
Damn. This doesn't seem good, at all!
I’d rather take these tradeoffs than doing 5 steps of Recaptcha because I’m using a VPN to work, which as Cloudflares announcement said, is very localized to North America and likely extra complicated for those outside the region.

In theory, couldn’t Yubikey begin reducing batch sizes to 1,000 and Cloudflare mark specific batch numbers as requiring one extra step to verify? The vast majority of Yubikey sales will be for real people in any case.
Hilariously, many of these people were repeatedly saying that this would never ever happen.

Not really a huge surprise after the network was sold to a VPN company
Yeah, obviously the difference in price. I can go Manchester-London on a bus for 3£ (which I've already done a couple times overnight), whereas the train would have cost anything from 40£ to >100£.

But yeah, it's bad.
Not sure what a TRS-80 is as I don't think we had them here, but I had an old Spectrum and did the same :)

But there are tools on mobile/web to create those things also. I've been researching and trying to get something that is intuitive to work on tables to program web apps (it started web based, but now moving it to mobile as I think it matches the visual paradigm better).

There are various tools for kids to learn to program creating games (Scratch is probably the most well known) but other visual programming apps also.
> And whatever happened to Apple who refused to work with FBI on the San Bernardino shooter but here is only happy to comply in a much less interesting case?

Nothing.
It's just a matter of technical means.
They had no means of unlocking that phone without potentially compromising all the rest of the phones they've made before that point.
But Apple account / emails are "in the cloud", so Apple has full access to it.
It looks like this is just a draft so far. Most of the links are dead and one explains that it's also just a draft: https://fuchsnet.ch/privat/fn-resign-letter.txt.
tl;dr - Audible incentivized author/narrator collaboration by only paying narrators when audiobooks sold, but instantly "paying" authors with 200 promo codes for any book successfully narrated. Those promo codes could then be sold to anyone.

So...

1. baddies write programs to randomly generate content
2. baddies post it to Audible's ACX (Audiobook Creation Exchange) platform
3. Some bored guy with no standards on what he's reading narrates the gibberish for free
4. baddie gets 200 promo codes
5. and... baddie presumably sells the codes somehow.
The large number of incompatible desktop Linux configurations have underrated security benefits.
The suggested 2GB Nano doesn't have the M.2 slot, instead it has 802.11ac wireless.
But i'm specifically asking about software. I know Touch ID can be used with WebAuthn and also see the DevTools in chrome WebAuthn debugger. Just seems easy to fool when I regenerate a key on every visit unless there is additional step I don't get.
Unless you dump a significant amount of BB pellets, you’ll still have high-speed missile parts flying in your direction.
How does this so called 'CAPTCHA replacement' idea compare to Sign In With Apple? which also does not use any CAPTCHAs and aims to prevent bot sign ups.
There's always CAPTCHA bypasses if you're willing to pay, there've been sites operating for decades that will take a captcha URL and spit out the appropriate response by just feeding it to humans. This is just a different way to make you pay - and arguably to something of less ill-repute, buying more U2F keys once yours get banned.

This provides effective rate limiting and you can still get every key you automate banned very easily.
Tax prep services have taken this game plan and gone major league by lobbying the government to prevent free, simple tax filing: https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-fre...
Apple killed IRC. If you still think what Apple does for software is good you're not paying attention.
And if Yubikey could reduce batch sizes - could they require bulk non-wholesale orders to retain the same batch ID to reduce likelihood of abuse?
Cloudflare is both a great thing and a terrible thing that has happened to the internet in recent years.

Great in that they have a fantastic UI to add your site in, basically shielding the average user from attacks.

Bad from a standpoint of that now only Google, Bing, and maybe other big search engines have the capabilities to actually crawl the internet now.

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.
Yeah it's indeed the 2015 edition because while compiletest watches for // edition:something comments [0] (like this [1]), it doesn't pass any edition flag to the compiler if no such comment is present, and the rust compiler defaults to the 2015 edition if none was specified.

[0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/69b352ef7749825abde2d...

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/69b352ef7749825abde2d...
Poor analogy. The public at large has a vested interest in high vaccination rates.
If the email is genuine, then we are officially lost. Apple has gone from the company that refused to break into the San Bernadino shooter's phone (Anyone remember the feature by Last Week Tonight and Tim Cook talking about writing "the software equivalent of cancer"?) to the company that dutifully does what the authorities demand when they bring down the hammer over copyright claims.
My first guess would be because what you're looking for isn't tagged with unique keywords (maybe just a vague idea of a date), or because pulling up a single message may not pull in it's context "grep -A/B/C" style.
I mean there are people making $1 for 1000s of recaptcha solved. So not sure how a $40 device is not an improvement if your goal is to enforce some rate-limiting against scripts using these services.
Scala 3 + VS code + worksheets is my favourite exploratory programming environment. Its has:

* Powerful functional features

* Powerful OO features

* Imperative features

* Powerful type system

* Great stdlib

* Great syntax

* Very fast write/test cycle with worksheets, way better than a REPL

* Great IDE features such as autocomplete

Scala may not be the best on any one axis, but the combination is unparalleled.
I hope she will be OK, Kazakhstan isn't safe to hide from the US and made deals to resettle[1][2] former gitmo inmates now under surveillance 24/7 (payrolled by the US). If the charges are spun as working with Russian intelligence to “steal U.S. military secrets...” she will remain vulnerable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotfi_Bin_Ali#Transfer_to_Kaza...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Lotfi+Bin+Ali+k...
>Tether doesn't appear to just be printing Tether with absolutely no backing.

Is there a difference between just printing them for the exchange you also own and just printing them for the exchange you also own in exchange for an IOU from that exchange that you call Commercial Paper?
as I said, it makes sense to expect more from governmental bodies but that still does not mean an expectation of infallibility. High standards and impossible standards are worlds apart.
You can probably use icloudpd [1] to consolidate that on just a Linux machine, as I'm (more or less) doing now. I'm saying more or less because we ran out of iCloud space, I still don't want to delte forever old photos from iCloud but I should probably do it.

[1] https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...
Probably not going to work for 25 year old junior developers at the more senior levels you need to be aware of the political side.

But its is a problem your not going to attract many B+ candidates if your so far behind industry.

About 3 years ago one uk org (I wont say which one) tried pitching people on linked in I got the pitch and so did a mate who's ex military he laughed and said "not on those poverty wages"
It helps that is has good smart-casting, you can do with an if where other languages need pattern matching

const x: { t: 'A', foo: string } | { t: 'B', bar: string } = /*...*/
return x.t === 'A' ? x.foo : x.bar
You can't generate an attested key with the devtools. It won't be signed by a 3rd party that CloudFlare has approved.
If you know where your target will be, you don’t need to manoeuvre too much. If you are getting there on Mach 9, the target will very much be wherever it was when you launched.
10 air changes per hour is a lot; I believe the current recommendations for average climates is 3.

And we're looking at the margins; 1 air change per hour can do wonders for preventing the spread of disease and improving air quality, compared to 0 air changes per hour.

Nevertheless, I redid your math, and found that your hypothetical home has 26,728 more BTUs of energy in its air, compared to the outside air[-1][0][1], and that the recommended furnace for such a climate should be 160,000 BTU/hr [2].

Using those numbers as a base, I find that, with an efficiency of 95%, it would require 120 (that's one hundred and twenty) air changes per hour to double heating costs.

With 60% efficiency, it would require 15 air changes per hour to double heating costs.

And it only takes a few air changes per hour to increase comfort and prevent illness.

[-1] I suddenly realized that the google search links that I used for these calculations are messy and unwieldy, so I'll summarize my calculations: (2600 ft^2) * (8 ft) represent the volume of the house; (1.225 kg / m^3) represents the density of air, (1.005 kJ/(kg * Kelvin)) represents the specific heat of air, (70 * (5/9)) represents the temperature difference you gave me, in Kelvin. Multiplying everything together, and letting Google automatically take care of unit conversions, gives me 28.2 MegaJoules of energy in the house.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=%282600+ft%5E2%29*%288+ft%29...

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=convert+28199142.9+joules+to...

[2] https://www.pickhvac.com/calculator/heating-btu/
I was acquaintances with Rob Levin before he perished in a bicycle accident. I think it’s safe to say that his presence has been missed, and this is just one more way in which it is missed.
history repeats itself.

wish the entire staff godspeed with the new network.
Privacy seems like a bad argument considering CF already has the technical ability to easily track you across all of the sites they front if they so desire.
Zar in Balkan languages – it exists in e.g. Romanian and Albanian as well – is an Ottoman-era loanword from Turkish, which in turn borrowed it from Perso-Arabic (i.e. possibly directly from Arabic, but more likely through Persian mediation).
Wine has gotten incredibly good over the past few years.
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This is all true, but it's a truth that omits the things that really matter. You can write a perfectly "functioning" novel that is dead upon the table. This is because a good novel has something beyond both its form and its content, an epi-phenomenon so to speak, which we can call "magic" or which we might say is the sum of the observations and feelings it gathers together from the total life experience of an individual and what they have managed to free from the deepest parts of their mind.

This can be as true of a Science Fiction novel as of any other. It doesn't mean the work has to appear "elevated", but it is the heart of the thing even in a fairly generic work.
You realize all this thread etiquette you say your teammate doesn't "get" are preferences you have that you've built up?

The problem is Slack, not your coworker. Slack's threads are conversation killers. Your coworker doesn't want to get siloed into a discussion in a thread with only the people who saw the first message, but Slack encourages that.

Sorry you're mad. Zulip does solve this problem one way.
Those are only the commits between 3.0.0-RC2 and 3.0.0
Not the point of the article, but I literally laughed out loud when I read the first line: "There are dozens of programming languages out there..."
Ask HN: Is there a space for another JavaScript framework?
Recently working on my own framework https://github.com/DanielMazurkiewicz/hussar. (this is at the stage of "working concept" of "work in progress" and when there will come a time, I'll do "Show HN" instead of "Ask HN" :-) )

Took a bit different approach to the topic of Javascript frameworks. First of all want to keep a final code close to smallest possible and second of all wanted to do everything in javascript itself (no separate CSS nor HTML) - which is also partially a result of first requirement. That way minifier can also mangle names of html tags, attributes, events and with some additional tweaks also object properties. I'm also avoiding using "classes" as it is hard for tree shaking based minification optimizations.

I do it in general for my own purposes, but there is also a main question (in the title), and couple of side ones that I want to ask here:

1. Money - is there any money I can get from it (project is open source and MIT licensed) and if so then how and how much potentially?

2. How to attract potential contributors/how to find them?

Thx in advance for help/and or discussion!
I'm not terribly familiar with U2F itself, but I assume the site has a way to identify you're using the right key that can be reused for this purpose?
See also the original announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27141593
H-Mart is cool. Food court has a lot of interesting inexpensive food.
How Coal Pollution Dismantled a Town
Ok, you're right. I did miss a step!
So visiting cloudflare sites with TOR requires you to identify yourself? That's not great.
This is why we can't have nice things.

IRC is a constant drama, all the way back to The Great Split[0]

Been involved with IRC a good 25 years, running a pretty popular blog about it "back in the days", i just couldn't be bothered keeping it up and updated because of all the constant fighting, arguing, bickering and people outright attacking each other all the damn time.

I'm not entirely sure what it is, but something about IRC gives people big egos, omnipotence fantasies which, again, leads to drama - i, myself, just concluded it wasn't worth my time anymore and moved on.

Mind you, this comes from someone who met his (former) wife on IRC, made great friendships with people all over the world - something i'm still grateful for to this very day.

But it wasn't made to last, sadly.

[0] http://www.irc.org/history_docs/TheGreatSplit.html
How did Apple kill IRC or play into this announcement?
It's good that not everybody has such flagrant disregard for human rights; I'm guessing you're a Democrat?
I don't work in C or C++ but I'm inferring from the context and other comments that it's actually because .c (lower case) is used to indicate C language code and .C (upper case) means C++ code. This then fails on windows because the OS is not case-sensitive wrt filenames.

So to make the implied answer to the question explicit: no, it's because someone who knew the difference between C and C++ sought to distinguish between their source code files using a filename extension convention that becomes invisible on a different OS.
I think the times killed IRC. People wanted an easier way to communicate with a lower barrier to entry. Even tech communities with tech people are now all on slack etc, it's just the way the world works now :-(.
You have 5k karma and have never noticed moderation here being a little bit trigger happy with the downvotes? Or is there something else you would like me to understand?

I don't think HN is exclusively business owners and shareholders, but I do believe that there is a lot more of it here than in hacker culture in general. I'd like to own a business myself one day, but I'm not sure I can extend myself to the ruthlessness required to survive as one.
Yes, only today I noticed a fine free domain recording of a work by Rudyard Kipling has been appropriated by audible with the Librivox blurb removed and the narrator misattributed.
Note that the attackers can also threaten to release data. Backups are no protection against that. They could also corrupt data and not tell you which part was corrupted and when, so even if you have backups you don't know which ones are corrupted unless you have some way of verifying all the data. One example of this would be to plant a backdoor, leave it in place and unused for months, then trigger the ransomeware encryption. The company decides not to pay, they restore from backup, and the attackers use the backdoor to encrypt it all again and demand even more. They could also use access to destroy hardware, say on a timer that triggers after the payment deadline. Backups won't protect against that if you can't get all your systems offline fast enough, or if taking them offline triggers the destruction.
Why are all the gist.* urls returning 404, they seem accessible through the wayback machine though.