skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the past I've used CSV to handle files that are several GB after being compressed and encrypted. Formats such as JSON would have added a lot more to the total file size.

If you store tables as list of objects, sure, but that's comparing the JSON way of doing something CSV can’t handle at all (lists of heterogenous objects) to CSV doing a much simpler thing.

A compact, dedicated JSON table representation (list of lists with the first list as header, or a single flat list with the header length — number of columns — as the first item, then the headers, then the data) is pretty closely comparable to CSV in size.
It's not nothing - time for us to grow up a little :)

(No pain no gain)
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Exercises the Right to Bear Arm
Link here: https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=tank+man&qs=ds&form=QBI...
From some old comments, I remember that there is a "voting ring" detector. (The details are obscure, because it's part of the secret sauce or something.)

I guess there is also a "flagging brigade" detector. [If not, I upgrade this comment to a feature request.]
https://startpage.com/ uses google’s results rather than Bing.
Socrates might've disagreed. I can see why mob rule gives the illusion of consent when manufactured consent is needed. It's simpler to not have popularity contests for corrupt officials and instead have randomly-assigned professional administrators.
But why does Bing filter this?
“Angela Lansbury had me brainwashed decades ago”

Why would you mention that? It’s very suspicious!
I don't have numbers for the Midwest, but this article[1] says the numbers for the US are basically stable. (Headline says "decline", but a number that small strikes me as margin-of-error stuff given the difficulty in measuring. Even stability would be worrying to Facebook, which depends on continued growth, though if the number really is 195 million, then that's such a huge fraction of the US that I'd think it's nearly saturated).

It's possible that some regions are declining faster than others. But if the Midwest is like the rest of the US, a .5% decline isn't something that would be detectable with the naked eye. Even 2x or 3x that wouldn't really be obvious unless you were measuring.

It's not impossible that they're measuring wrong, but the source of this data is their quarterly financial report, not a marketing document.

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/90598536/facebooks-daily-active-...
That is what I am worried about. That our capitalist society is easily subverted by money, either directly or indirectly, by totalitarian regimes. You see that with sports leagues and movie studios bowing to China, and especially by soccer bowing to Arabian countries. That leads to content bordering propaganda and self-censorship of entities in democratic countries for the sake of a quick dime.
Reminds me of a Java IDE
Searching on the main page gives all kinds of results, this only happens on the image search. Why censor one and not the other?

The alternative explanation is that bing’s image search just sucks.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=Tank+man&FORM=HDRSC1
If the point of speaking in public is to be heard, speaking in front of no audience isn't really speaking.

I'm not arguing you're entitle to an audience, either, just that taking your speech from a major player to a much smaller niche player is not nearly equivalent.
> But go ahead and believe those fuzzy blobs (pictures of UFOs are somehow always fuzzy blobs) are aliens if you like.

I think you might have gotten your usernames mixed up. I said I don't think they're aliens.

I don't disagree with you, I think every case of "alien" sightings are probably either camera artifacts or experimental aircrafts or people not knowing about how plane lights work.
extra steps, that summarizes everything related to crypto
as opposed to an empire that enslaved the entire world?
> Rather than use the IDT to locate the entry point of each handler, processor hardware will simply calculate an offset from a fixed base address

So, wasn't the 8086 like this? Or at least some microprocessors that jump to $BASE + OFFSET to a point where one JMP fits more or less
> What this article is about, and what most people mean when they say you should be more opinionated is that you should not be to generic, that you should focus on your core use-case and from a companies POV that is always a good idea IMHO. At least as long as you core use-case is the use-case people by your software for.

Nowadays I think the problem isn't a lack of opinions but people's opinions chasing messy (it not outright useless) data and feedback without a vision for what the product is. They become so obsessed about whether they could [implement this feature/expand to more markets/get more big clients/earn more revenue] according to X data ("because SCIENCE!") that they never stop to think whether they should.

IMO that's how opinionated people help build great products: by stopping cargo culting, scope creep, and desperate measures of all kinds that are backed by bad data. That doesn't mean that they know exactly what their team should be working on next sprint, but they do care enough to shut down attempts from other departments that would degrade the product, even if that means passing up short term gains that look good on paper due to customer feedback or usage data.
DDG sources from bing, so if bing removes something, DDG won’t get it either.
>Taxes are then paid back out by government spending (which exceeds taxes, btw, so inflation is doubly-inevitable).

You can certainly do that under MMT, but then that would be the equivalent of not having taxes at all.
The X100T is old? So, apparently, am I. :).
The cause of dead downtowns is crime and schools. As crime came down and schools got better people flocked (and are continuing to flock) to cities.
At some point, companies can just arrange for the transfer of suitcases full of cash. The point is that increasing the friction on these crimes reduces their incidence, and that's a point the author provides evidence for.
When you see that happening, vouch for the post or the article.
Here's a good post on the topic: https://medium.com/aquarium-learning/the-unreasonable-effect...
Another approach is to penalize users (e.g. stop trusting their flags) who flagged a post which then got unflagged by a mod.
Not only government actors. It looks like
Microsoft has a whole team working this site:
https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-corp-msft-q1-201...

Quote from Satya Nadella Q1 2019 Earnings Conference Call
"...In fact, this morning, I was reading a news article in Hacker News, which is a community where we have been working hard to make sure that Azure is growing in popularity and I was pleasantly surprised to see that we have made a lot of progress in some sense that at least basically said that we are neck to neck with Amazon when it comes to even lead developers as represented in that community..."

Mentioned here before:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27293480
It's challenging in the US with a lot less but still the best system we know of
> Similarly, uranium sitting in the ground at low density is largely inoffensive, but increase its density up to the critical point and you end up with an uncontrolled chain reaction.

This is not going to happen. What is going to happen is that you're going to accidentally add a neutron moderator to uranium. Because water is a neutron moderator. Any amount of uranium denser than 1.2% will suddenly fission. It won't be a runaway reaction, so no explosion BUT anyone standing nearby or unprotected by a quite a few feet of rocks will be irradiated by slow neutrons, the worst possible way to get irradiated, and die painfully.

During the discovery of fission one of the fuckups was that it was just noticed that uranium heats up when you put several pieces next to eachother. When the experiment was done it was decided it is prudent to store the samples in water.

Well, that turned out to be anything but prudent. The container (a big metal vat) was gone and replaced by a deep hole in the ground the next day. Luckily there was no-one present for more than a few minutes. Still that researcher died of cancer (decades later, so very low dose)
I don't think thats whats going on here. This is more like highlighting that DDG is a rebranded/privacy focused Bing.
> Looking at how it turns out in Russia and middle east post-Arab Spring, I heavily doubt it

We don't have a good model for predicting the outcomes of revolutions ex ante. But if we're calling to the stage Russia and the Arab Spring, we should also make honorary mention of the United States, Taiwan, Europe, Japan and India.
> I'm a member of "no politics evar" crowd, but I feel like both deliberate digital censorship AND artificial tweaks to search results are valid topics.

Ditto.
Shame on Microsoft.
I don't think we are on the same page. My point is Google Play is the best the platform has to offer, and it sucks. It still does some vetting and cares somewhat about platform's security but it is nowhere near enough. Otherwise, I actually do want to install useful apps developed by companies that won't have to resort to snooping and ads to be sustainable - and worst case is reasonably depended by the more strict Apple vetting on the platform and OS protections. So I want those apps and be reasonably secure. I want those useful apps to exist, with an ecosystem about it. Apple provides that, is my point.
What is 2FA? How does it work?
What is required for a transgression to be forgiven? Under what theories of justice does the answer to this change?
It’s all the more impressive that he did this after a night of the army shooting, killing and grinding bodies with tanks and APCs.
That article is just describing gmail APIs, which requires explicit user consent via oauth to enable. This is no more shocking than gmail supporting IMAP.
This is the approach proposed in http://doi.org/10.1109/TPDS.2015.2492542

(preprint: https://science.raphael.poss.name/pub/poss.15.tpds.pdf )
I believe DDG uses Bing for their results
lots of image results that include "tank man", many of the photo, turn up for "tank ma", "tankman", etc. Shows clearly that it is not a lack of indexed content, but a search filter.
>once I have purchased the dishwasher i care _less_ about a dishwasher [than] at any previous point //

Ever recommended something to a friend/relative, or bought a second one of something that works/fits/performs well? Or even ever thought you should. I've definitely bought a pair of trainers (sneakers) and then thought, oh I should have bought another pair. If the shop had sent me an email, "get a second pair postage free" a few weeks later then they'd probably have made a sale.

I know people who have second homes definitely would re-buy white-goods, for example.
for me it's there for [dead] stories, but not [flagged] ones

[dead]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27397440 (has vouch)

[flagged]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27396685 (no vouch)
It is just pointing out the obvious that there exist ways to transfer money obtained via criminal actions that may not be in compliance with various nations tax laws. Talking about activities that are illegal in one's own jurisdiction without intent to break the law is not illegal...

Would posting a paper by the german federal police on a practical home heroin manufacture be doing the criminals job? https://www.unodc.org/pdf/research/Bulletin07/bulletin_on_na...

Irregardless the groups that pulled this off already know this and have machinery like that which was revealed in the panama papers and crypto mixers ready to launder the money.

What is now needed is to give real consequences to US-based companies and institutions that pay any sort of ransom to the state/non-state actors that are perpetrating these hacking events. This will remove the profit motive, and I don't care if it's Colonial Pipeline or UCSF, this behavior needs to stop and the criminals behind it need to know that there is not any money to be made.
I have a neighbor living above me, an about 80-year-old man, who needs help with his PC on a regular basis. One of the most regular cries for help is when Firefox changes its UI yet again, which seems to happen about every three months. This is deeply confusing for "normal" people just using their PC and also deeply infuriating for people like me who need to answer the whys of those changes. Looking at Chrome's main UI, it hasn't radically changed since the first version and we are currently on version 91. In Firefox' case, even running a LTS version does help in the long run, since you just postpone the pain.

I just hope this endless tinkering with things that aren't broken ends someday -- users don't need an A/B-calculated productivity increase of 2%, come back when you can increase it by 200%. But in that case, just make another product and leave existing working ones alone.
Interesting this reply and one above are from accounts that is rather new.
By the time a story needs to be vouched for, it loses the momentum it previously had gettting it to the front page. So you need a way to prevent vouching from being necessary in the first place.
Also most compilers can optimize the divide by constant to a multiply and shift which are much faster than a divide.
> Where do we draw the line?

I can't claim to have a complete answer to that question, but it seems that every time that the line is drawn too far towards the direction of slavery (i.e. away from individual liberty) there is a substantial power-imbalance.

That seems to suggest that any situation where there is a large power (information, monetary, etc.) asymmetry between two parties will lead to one side being heavily disadvantaged, almost certainly due to the intentional structure of that arrangement.

If true, that would suggest that any circumstance where there could be a large power imbalance between parties must be carefully moderated and that limiting "individual freedom" by not allowing people to sign away their rights in a way that mostly benefits someone else could be a reasonable way of approaching this problem.

Hopefully that made sense!
A sideshow is what’s happening on Wikipedia. There’s a cabal of editors that shut off any mention of a lab leak, using mis-applied content guidelines designed to protect against quack medical advice. Talk pages are constantly purged, which is a sign that someone desperately doesn’t want a consensus to form. Anti-pile-on policies are used as a way to ignore criticism.

Are these Chinese government agents? Overzealous students studying in North America? Gain-of-function grad students protecting their turf?

There were a smaller number of suspicious accounts that overzealously pushed the lab leak, possibly agents of Taiwan, but these were banned swiftly.

With the anti leak thought-policing editors, normal editors are intimidated into silence. Despite all the talk of dealing with organized manipulation around the 2020 election, the foundation hasn’t bothered intervening. Normal amateur editors don’t have the resources to push back against zealous state-actors.

This issue could pose a devastating blow to Wikipedia.
IMO this is more about affordance than about skeuomorphism. The traditional tab strip UI is already an abstraction, because it has only two levels of depth (instead of each tab having a different depth like physical tabs) and you don’t see the stack of individual edges of each tab page. (There were skeuomorphic versions that actually did this.) The new Firefox design is lacking any clear affordance that would connect the tab button to the respective tab contents.
No results found (Tank man)
the concept of a web centralized into 5-7 multinationals who get to decide what is and what is not allowed to be said, while society has shifted near all thought and communication into non-ephemeral centralized corporate platforms, is inherently capitalist, grossly authoritarian (and not even authoritarian with a pretense of democratic under-pinning), dystopian and it's completely antithetical to the entire intent of the web's early designs.

whine more about westerners as you excuse your sycophancy to corporate power.
Great, I don't have to do any Trump apologetics now. But while you were busy adjudicating what Trump did or didn't say, you forgot about what CNN was doing in its article - the most important part (and CNN isn't the only one who did this). They created an association of the WIV lab leak theory with Trump, suggested he was in disagreement with the intelligence community, and wrapped that up with denials of the lab leak theory.

Let's not go into semantics and technicalities here - journalists know how to write and they know how to clarify. They had ample opportunity on air and in writing to say something to the effect of "while Trump is a fucking idiot and mischaracterizes the lab leak theory, we can not rule it out". Instead they manufactured an association and a denial instead of separating the valid parts of the theory away from what Trump claimed.
Profit per dollar for grocery stores is about half of one cent for every dollar of revenue. Shrinkage eats into that profit very quickly.

This is why Walgreens is closing stores in SF. They cannot survive with the rampant unprosecuted shoplifting in SF.
“We’ve supported this workflow for years for multiple disk encryption packages, and now we have it for VeraCrypt, one of the most commonly used disk encryption package in the criminal world.”

Two things:

1. I’m sure FileVault and BitLocker are also commonly used by criminals. In fact probably more so in the first instance, unintentionally, it given it’s enabled by default in modern MacOS.

2. It seems to imply VeraCrypt is commonly used by criminals. That might be true I guess, but I’d bet more non-criminals than criminals use VeraCrypt.

Maybe VeraCrypt just stands out more as a red flag rather than using native LUKS/FileVault/BitLocker for Linux/MacOS/Windows accordingly.

I also don’t see what elcomsoft have to gain by writing these blogposts? Who are their target audience?
Yep. Only way this story stays on the HN homepage is if Dang specifically protects it from being flagged away.
I actually believe in dang a fair amount more than I believe in Santa Claus.
I'd love to hear stories from the other side. Behind each of these "someone else taking credit" war stories is the engineer or product owner at the other company who decided this was an ethical course of action. How did you justify this to yourself and to your boss, and what was the plan if/when you got caught? Doesn't your company have an internal process for vetting the licenses of software you use? It seems like these cases are failures at multiple levels in the company. It would make an interesting post-mortem. Use a throwaway account if you like!
Wow this is so interesting, I didn't know there were so many more photos of these events taken by this photographer. The image of the burning tank is especially striking.
If they restored from backup, how do they know the attack wouldn't hit again immediately? The ransom wasn't just to decrypt the data, but to halt the attack.

> More importantly, would the hack have happened in first place if they knew there was no chance of being paid?

Why wouldn't it? They could easily been paid by another group to perform the hack, used the hack to manipulate stock prices, sold the stolen financial data, or, most likely, the ransom would have been paid indirectly though some other means, like hiring a "cyber security consultant."
The even deeper horror is that they explored many alternate narratives, and this is the one that they collectively though would, and in reality did, resonate most strongly with viewers.

The horror isn't the film makers, it is that this is the narrative that global society prefers to hear.

For even deeper horror still I suggest reading Francis Bacon, since from square zero modern science is founded on the rape of nature.
It’s usually got a huge amount of fat or sugar compared to a healthy amount of a whole food. So chips are soaked with fat-on par with nuts. But unlike nuts, chips often come with less protein, no fiber, and fats that have been refined highly.

Additives/preservatives/artificial colors can be of dubious safety as the standards for “safe to eat” are very lax.
First ever Gleam programming running in the browser
> defaulting to dynamic and making static opt-in undermines a lot of the potential benefit of static typing. I don't think that it works the other way around

Yes, there's certainly truth to this. However, I write a lot of TypeScript and it provides an _exquisite_ on ramp in that you can add types gradually and telling the compiler not to worry about it can be super useful, especially if you're dealing with poorly behaved third party stubs that may have diverged from the actual implementation. The fact that you can use TypeScript as a super-duper linter _or_ try to maximally leverage its powerful type system is a huge strength. It's also very helpful for adoption. As frustrated as I get sometimes with TypeScript's unsoundness and the lack of pattern matching, the fact that I get to use it instead of JavaScript (and have also got half the company using it!) is a huge win.
Not sure if there is a single resource, but check these links. As you can see, some frameworks mixed layouts and extended size allocation ideas to better fit a given job. (Web has never done this, we're literally stuck with a tree of MSWords)

Constraints-based:

https://blog.gtk.org/2019/07/02/constraint-layouts/
https://ebassi.github.io/emeus/
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AutolayoutPG/AnatomyofaConstraint.html
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AutolayoutPG/VisualFormatLanguage.html

Boxing:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Building_blocks/The_box_model#examples_of_different_display_types

Alignment/anchor-based:

$subj
https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Autosize_/_Layout
A biologist told me "it doesn't really matter, the virus is there anyways", and she is right.

I don't think learning how the virus appeared will help. It will only allow countries to put responsibility on china, which is only a geopolitical concern.
I formerly worked in AWS on a team that had occasional minor need to deploy and make changes to the GovCloud. I was the only US Citizen on my team and was required for every single deployment.
I have a flag on my platform that flags users who reported things I agreed with the removal of, as "trusted" and their reports are given more weight in the algorithm next time. Sort of the inverse of what you propose where everyone is somewhat untrusted by default. (But not entirely untrusted.)
Why is this surprising? When people leave the military, they still need jobs. My brother is a veteran, now he's a SWE at Facebook. All large companies have veteran recruiting efforts: https://www.facebook.com/careers/facebook-life/veterans
> “I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen,” Trump said.

No he was not.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/24/disinfectan...
Thanks, that's actually why I wrote "European" rather than "in Europe", both in the blog post and in my previous comment.

I'm glad to know that you agree with that distinction.
Wait the tank man photo was taken after the first night of massacres!? Man I thought it was before
> There is nothing gross in my comment, tptacek

“Gross” is subjective, so that’s a legitimate viewpoint.

Your comment is overtly, expressly, racist though. For those who find racism gross, its also gross. Obviously, YMMV.

> Your comment, by contrast, amounts to a slanderous innuendo.

I don't think you understand either slander or innuendo if you believe that.
Google doesn't have a search engine in China, and Bing does have a search engine in China.