skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firefox can require more bandwidth for WebRTC calls I think, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1600698

I also have some memory of asking all participants in Jitsi meetings to not use firefox, because the call would start to lag for all participants if bandwidth was an issue for the firefox users in the call. Don't know if that is still the case or not though.
I am familiar with US decentralized command doctrine, which pushed a lot of decision making to the very front lines. But that's a Cold War-era American invention, and 'theshrike79 quoted a Finnish lieutenant general, who fought before and led through World War II. Back then, soldiers had much less autonomy.

And even if somebody ported the US doctrine 100 years into the past, so that LtGen Airo could've learned it in France, it probably wouldn't hold, because there was only so much a front line soldier could do with their decision making capacity. Tanks were a fresh invention, most of the world probably haven't seen them. Cavalry was the pinnacle of agility. Artillery was big, bulky, and hard to reposition. Planes were still laughed at. Portable radios weren't a thing yet. Where your modern American grunt is entrusted with the capability to direct howitzers and call down air strikes, the soldiers of Airo's era were just discovering automated weapons, and modes of transport other than "by foot" and "by horse". There was little they could really decide about.

In other words: soldiers gained greater autonomy and more sophisticated training when their tools became more sophisticated and powerful. As it should be - as it is, in any sane industry. If there was any officer that said things like, "those Stingers and Javelins are too complex, they'll confuse our new privates", or "why waste your time learning to use night vision gear when you could run with a flashlight and shoot the enemy", or "giving front line soldiers keys to artillery strikes, that's crazy!" - that officer was ignored, as others recognized that people can be trained in doctrine, tactics and operating complex equipment.

> The difference between a decent developer and a great developer is the latter understand how their work fits into the larger picture.

Strongly agreed. But 'theshrike79 wasn't talking about that. They were talking about managing men who weren't given the insight into larger picture, because there was nothing useful they could do with it anyway. That was true for the military then. It isn't now. It also isn't true for software development - but there's this persistent trend to make it true, to turn us from modern fighting force into a 17th century line infantry.
I assume it will be a public-private keypair with some challange-response mechanism, so no amount of reverse engineering could extract the key from a CPU.

Intel probably have the master private key on a hardware security module, and have set up some API so their engineers can do the challange-response dance to get into RED mode. But after poweroff, it'll need to be done again.

If that's the setup, the key won't leak. There are probably only 5 hardware cards in the world with the key, and they're probably set to not allow key extraction.

To get the key, you would need to physically steal the card, and have an exploit for silicon designed to be key storage...

Not going to happen.
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Say you interned for Twitter for a while - and you decided to create a small open-source self-hosted microblogging site for you to play around with.

Bad taste? Unethical? I think that's going too far.

Since the open-source project here doesn't seem to be running at scale nor having support for user-accounts or anything as such. Is working on an open-source toy for the sake of it - somehow unethical because it's related to a previous employer's product?

I work for a financial institution, and if i create a small bit of opensource code in the future (after leaving my current job) that relates to banking, is it unethical or wrong?

Quoting the blogpost,

>there were 38 visits to Riju during the month of February. (Half of those were probably me.)

>the architecture was limited to running on a single server

>Riju categorically lacked all of these features, including: having a user account, saving your work, sharing your work, publishing webapps, persistent workspaces, discussion forums, integration with GitHub, etc. etc.
it's weird that the nazis have distributed almost as much heroin as they've taken in. the united states flooded afghanistan with heroin in the 70's and 80's, so much that it's still such a large regional issue. but why was the united states never prosecuted? hell, for fucking 50 years people called it a conspiracy
No disagreement here from my part, but I wouldn't be surprised if imaging artifacts could be detected/fixed by ML. E.g., there has been quite a bit of research in MRI boundary effects, although I wouldn't know if that turned out any practical solutions.
Not true, you can get penalized and you may be noticed about it in the google search console.
On the other hand, Google over the years has tweaked their algorithms and recommendations to match up with what makes a good site, in terms of content and markup.
I made [1] to index ergonomic keyboards with sufficiently many/few keys (depending on preference). The issue seems fairly divisive, many people have strong preferences one way or the other.

Setting it to a minimum of ~76-80 keys shows there really aren't many options.

[1] https://aposymbiont.github.io/split-keyboards/
Especially VPN services that got acquired, like Private Internet Access, acquired by what many people describe to be a malware company.
The way Android users complain about the lack of Apple iMessage and Apple FaceTime on their phones, you'd be forgiven for questioning whether Android had any messaging or video calling features.
And as long as you're happy with never going outside Russia yourself - I seem to recall a situation some years ago where one culprit was offered a good tech job in the west, and was arrested when arriving at the airport for some scam they did many years ago.
Presumably it would’ve come out during legal proceedings anyway.
How would this solve anything? Competing for what? If a bunch of people are competing on say, price, then what's stopping them putting any number they want into the system, or similarly just rejecting every number anyone else puts into the system? They have no aligned interests in the blockchain, and outside of it the legal system already defines their responsibility (i.e. prices must be advertised accurately).

"Blockchain" aka a Git repository is only useful when multiple trusted parties are trying to coordinate a central source of truth without inadvertently removing each others changes.

At which point we can dispense with anything that sounds like cryptocurrency because it's all just signed commits.
Yes, we are seeing precisely this in action. The short term guided organization has gone down and the long term stable strategy remains uncaught and now has one less competitor.
West (Finnish) TV was only visible in Tallinn and, maybe, north/west bits of St. Petersburg/Leningrad. Southern Lithuania and Kaliningrad had access to Polish TV, but that wasn't exactly "foreign". That's a pretty small part of population.

Foreign radio was somewhat better. But even that was accessible mostly in Baltic States and was worse and worse going east towards biggest population centers. Those who listened were mostly listening to political programmes (Radio Free Europe and Voice of America) at night hiding from their neighbours.

The biggest exposure was sailors bringing stuff from West. Plastic bags with West brands were a fashion item. If we count seeing those bags as exposure, then yes, most people would see such bag once in a while.
> it's ethically wrong to copy an idea

Who says this? Certainly we have intellectual property laws to protect novel, recent, and specific ideas. However, “Running code on another machine” doesn’t seem to meet any of those criteria.
He might not have used his newspaper, but AWS was instrumental in de-platforming Parler after the Jan 6 mutiny.
Caffeine content labelling would be a big one. Could also be applied to things like cola.
Finnish TV was easily accessible in Tallinn. Not sure if they broadcasted special SECAM version or if PAL adapters were widely available in black market.
I think it's less about the xkcd (I had similar thoughts but hadn't looked at the linked standard so don't know if it's justified), and more that simply linking the xkcd is not really enough discussion to justify it as a neat summary.

Linked in context with other response points and it's a worthy reference, but dropped without much further discussion and the onus feels like it remains on you to justify it.
But if source code was copied repl.it could have said "this is our code and their code side to side, spot the difference". Especially given the current (negative) mood that would have won them the public opinion. The fact that they didn't do such a thing suggests to me that they know they don't have a true case. Because if they had, it would be a entirely different discussion by now
I would really like to get a job in medical ML, but without a related degree it seems impossible. I'm "only" a Veterinarian and I don't even get interviews...
First-order strategy (do something that works as long as the other side hasn't also thought of it) only works until the other side thinks of it. My guess is that the intelligence complex (CIA +) thought of this around 1995, and the domestic law enforcement complex (FBI +) around 2005.
Microsoft announced that they are retiring their blockchain project about two weeks before they announced Azure SQL Database ledger. So a centralised solution where parties are trusted - I think.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sql/announcing-...
The AFP says that this Mr Ayik should turn himself in for his own safety, but surely the one with an enormous target on their back is this person. It can’t be too difficult for these criminal organizations to piece together who that is.
As a developer that works in the fintech space, I work a LOT with the Plaid API and their competitors like Finicity, Akoya, TrueLayer, SaltEdge and Yodlee.

This industry has basically been the Wild West in the United States for the past decade or so. Europe has regulated open banking where banks are required to provide APIs with enforced limits and restrictions on data usage. The US has no such thing, most banks don't have APIs, these aggregators pull data by screen scraping, which is horrendous for security AND reliability (Plaid/Finicity calls fail about 10% of the time in my experience.)

Fortunately the industry is now rapidly moving away from this mess towards more sane OAuth authentication with contracts between Aggregators like Plaid, and apps like mine, enforcing legal limitations on how the data can be used and providing some standard of security. The big US banks have formed a consortium (Akoya) which both provides a unified API without requiring credentials and scraping, and guidelines on how to protect the data, both legally and technically. Exciting times!
Medical ML is not about making decisions but about informing decisions. It is a tool for the doctor, not a replacement.
The issue with that is that misclassifying something in an image can have serious consequences. So unless ML is 100% accurate, you'll always want an alternative way to check if it's really an artifact or something serious, so, why bother making an accurate model when you'll still double check the results?
I don't blame DDG, but I argue that fallback into Google (self operated search engine, and not operated in China) somewhat makes sense for this.
You’re talking to much sense. Fact is, a portion of the people advocating for not enforcing immigration laws profit from the off-the-books labor. The greater portion are useful idealists. The difference between the two is that the latter imagine a world that concurrently has an endless supply of low skill laborers and a meaningfully high minimum wage law that would be respected. Perhaps there’s another fraction that believe in growing minimum wage for citizens and (as today) no such law for black market labor pools of non-citizens, but I like to think that level of maliciousness is not as common as hapless idealism.
> average person cannot afford a modest living

the concept of a modest living is a forever changing goal-post, because people compare themselves with others.

What is modest today, is rich 100 yrs ago, and like a king 1000 years ago!
> "homicide rate ... is up to 7 times higher [than outside]"

This is based on assumption that a regular "free" person has not made thousands of criminals at the same time.
That link traces the word to the early 15th century. It says that the meaning "to govern by restriction" dates back to the 1620s, which is the early 17th century.

But I wouldn't conclude that there was a 200-odd year period during which the word was in use, but had no meaning.
Thanks for the heads up, I haven't jumped to Big Sur yet because it simply does not play well with some virtualization tools.
IBM's implementation is open source. They had a SaaS offering for this open source project on their cloud, which is what they're shutting down.
Thanks Bill and all who have donated. Great to see this!
Strange, I always thought the greatest fools are the people who fear the titles they wear.
Nice that the cost has come down. Unfortunately, that which makes electric cars and planes feasible, namely energy density (Wh/litre) and specific energy (Wh/kg), has not improved that rapidly. The article mentions a factor of 3.4 over 30 years for energy density, ie 4% p.a., or doubling every 17 years. I think electric aircraft need another doubling or two in specific energy to become feasible, so another few decades :-/
If you're with the big US banks (Chase, US Bank, Capital One, and others) they provide OAuth connections which, if implemented correctly by finance apps, don't require bank ID and password, and have legal agreements enforced with everyone on the supply chain which restrict how they can use or sell your data.

Shameless plug: my finance app (Fintable.io) provides OAuth-based connections to many large US banks via Finicity.
Why not build something on your spare time and try to create your own job then?
It depends on the wireless mouse, but some of them are effectively indistinguishable from wired mice. LinusTechTips tested a few a couple of years ago and that's what they found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orhb7Njj3h8
Why are they so expensive? In particular Energizer and Duracell? Is there a recycling fee included in there or is Energizer and Duracell just gauging the public and not doing anything regarding recycling?
That's not entirely true, capacity greatly depends on current draw and there is significant variability between brands (e.g. https://www.powerstream.com/AA-tests.htm)

Long time ago I stumbled upon a great website with a Wh/€ (the metric that really counts) for almost all brands, but I couldn't find it right now
TPB is not a good example since they're allowing everything except pedo content, thus drastically shrinking their moderation workload.

A site that wants to be compliant to the law in the major jurisdictions (US, EU) can't operate that way, not with NetzDG, copyright and other laws in play.
I didn't write this blog post, but helped Carlos with some editing. It was great chatting to him about how he planned it out and got it up and running in a short period of time.

If you're wanting to keep your infrastructure lean, you can use OpenFaaS on a single VM with "faasd" instead of K3s/K8s.

https://github.com/openfaas/faasd
Fur industry used to be subsidized but don't know anymore. I guess with end of subsidies in the west, production moved to China.

I don't know anyone who flaunts fur nowadays...
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I don't follow. Why would anything need to be 100% accurate? Humans aren't 100% accurate, and there's no reason ML would need to be 100% accurate either.
Configuration manager for Rollup for easy package bundling
I've been leading one small project in my company a year ago. We thought that it would be a great chance to test some new things out, so we started using Rollup us a package bundler for our Yarn Workspace mono-repo. It was so good at it that I thought of making a configuration manager that would make it much easier to use rollup for other developers. After some time and testing it, we've made a stable release and planning on adding more features.
Since ASN.1 is not a proper TLV format (because you can change tag by using [tag] construct), you cannot fully decode it without up-to-date schema. It's much saner to parse it using a validating parser combinator than to go through an AST.
What happens when you are accused of a heinous crime, the evidence points at you, and yet you are innocent?

I bet you change your mind about the ethics of having a lawyer represent you.
In Europe at least, I'm very unhappy that neither Google or Apple has managed to create any form of standard communications platform, because now instead of one of those two, everyone uses WhatsApp from Facebook, which I personally hate using but am obliged to if I want any kind of social life. If Apple had created Android versions of their messaging products, their own users wouldn't be forced into Facebook's arms.

Before you say, "just don't use it", here are some examples. My kids parents/school group uses WhatsApp, same as my kids sports club to organize matches/training. I'm a volunteer for a local association -- WhatsApp group. I really have little choice in using it.
This isn't the only website which is ranking on first position using such blackhat SEO tactics but if everyone mention them like you do, then they will surely not going to remain at top for long.
You might want to try Actualbudget.com which has local native apps and the option for E2E encryption, but does not automatically import transactions (though I believe CSV import is supported).
I've considered getting my stool tested for microbiome. Another curiosity is Virscan (1) with perhaps the intent on getting the virome tested as well. A lot of my interest comes from the perspective that I have ulcerative colitis. I have read everything about the disease since diagnosis. I don't want to go into everything, but it got to the point where the gastro wanted to prescribe humira and if that failed to move onto pouch surgery. Always being prone to a gamble, I tried drinking raw bovine milk and making enemas from it. To my surprise things began to clear up within a few weeks. This was 6 years ago. I'm symptom free and my most recent colonoscopy was clear. I have attempted to talk to doctors at the local teaching hospital that have a microbiome research initiative but got turned away. The interest was to let them study me, however I get it in that they have other priorities. Either or.. I have the op article printed out as perhaps genome will aide in some home research. No idea. One of the things I suspect is that I've had uc for longer than when it became an issue. Have read it can be present in childhood without much symptoms. So the curiosity is just trying to figure out if it is genetics, environment.. what not.

(1) https://science.sciencemag.org/content/348/6239/aaa0698
Seeing CO2: blending data visualization, teaching tools and game worlds
That's what it should be, that's not how it's being sold, and how it's going to be used.

Just like for wikipedia.
This is pretty much my understanding too. We have not progressed one iota in civilization and everything comes down to torture and murder when the going gets tough.

My only hope for a future for humankind lies with this socialist software ideal I have been musing about...
The Misanthrope Society: A Taipei bar for people who dislike humankind (2020)
It seems like GEOS from C64. I like it!
There are only a few countries which don't extradite cybercriminals to the west and don't prosecute them for foreign attacks - so these few countries are very attractive from which to run such operations; and even for international crime organizations it's good to have the "dirty work" done from such places, where the grunts won't get arrested and be motivated to sell you out for a plea deal.
I don’t know about the resentment part but it is more challenging to have and raise quality kids than it should be.
Depends where and when, in late 80's it was different, at least here in Czechoslovakia. No jamming and color TV's made here had both SECAM and PAL decoders. Probably they wanted to export them. We got one in 1988 and watched austrian TV in vivid PAL colors, it was noticeable difference from czechoslovak SECAM broadcast.

Listening/watching itself was probably okay, but if you carelessly spread the information you would Have Problems.
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> I'm a little concerned about the new Safari interface

Having used it for a few hours, I'm hoping someone sees sense and gives this a good UX going over before release because it's currently unpleasant to use. The motion at the top with the tabs swiffing[1] about is distracting; some sites colour the whole top which is another huge motion flash; and finding the address bar requires scanning because it's not in a fixed position.

There's also an optical effect where switching between a site that's coloured the top and one that hasn't makes it look like the whole browser is jumping up at down due to the contrast boundary at the top of the page. All of this is going to make motion sensitive people even more unhappy.

[1] best way I can describe it.
Reminds me of people who switch to D and first thing they look for is how to escape the GC
How is the rest of the CPU not proprietary?
One of the benefits of the JSON standard being pretty simple is that it makes JSON is pretty efficient to parse. We're not talking ProtoBuf efficient here, but I've easily parsed files containing gigabytes of JSON.
They started taking off when you could load them from a windows machine.
>You say that as if organizing and running a beneficent and just government is a trivial matter.

Not really. The things this country has done since its inception are deplorable, and yet we have people in this country that want to prevent people from learning more accurate history to keep fake, nationalist "patriotism" at an all time high. They want the system to be cruel and hurtful. What is there in America to even be proud of nowadays?
From the Vice Motherboard article:
https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/akgkwj/operation-trojan-...

"This data comprises the encrypted messages of all of the users of Anoms with a few exceptions (e.g., the messages of approximately 15 Anom users in the U.S. sent to any other Anom device are not reviewed by the FBI),"

Any ideas as to why?
Is there any research into long term eye health in the context of VR?
Even (or rather, especially) if every SEO advice is correct, it still means that Google effectively has a lot of control over the shape of the modern web, alone through indirect pressure via SEO.
This: As an electronic engineer I would often search for component data sheets. Usually the sheet I wanted would be the first hit. These days however I get pages and pages of crap sites that want to sell me the data sheet. Or even pages that say that they don't actually have it.