skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the government setup their own Silk Road and busted a bunch of drug dealers it wouldn’t be any different than starting a bank.

Silk road was e-commerce. The laws & regulations of e-commerce and banking are very different, so yes they would different. Doubly so as it's in two nations. Thirdly so, because now international laws and regulations apply
Yeah, CloudFormation is workable in this regard (I've created a neat generator for Python), although it has lots of its own problems (e.g., if you want to create a new resource, you have to run it as its own lambda--your infra-as-code needs its own infra which needs its own infra-as-code).
I did both send mails over SMTP as well as downloading files from FTP using Telnet.
If you purposely set it on fire, thats arson. But actually yes, in many cases accidents are catalyst needed to make change happen for the benefit of the public.

A dangerous intersection gets a traffic light after a horrible car crash.

A dangerous building design code gets corrected after the doors wont open outward during a fire.

Problems need to first come to light to be fixed.
TL;DR: An ecumenical and conservative religious journal has stopped hiring Ivy League graduates as they "[can] make inflammatory accusations at the drop of a hat".

I had never heard of this journal before, but I can't say that I'm quite surprised by this statement given the unprecedented left/right schism in the US. Not arguing for/against it, I just don't think it's newsworthy enough to make HN front page.
Capillary-driven desalination in a synthetic mangrove (2020)
They obviously considered the ethics of this and decided to share for “the public interest” and not “a political purpose” as you say. What politicians do with this information is another matter. They’re simply telling the story like journalists are supposed to do!
Little self-driving boat is changing the way we search for shipwrecks (2020)
I'm not sure how leadership or institutional knowledge in the KDE developer community has changed, but since KDE4, KDE developers have gotten very good at non-destructive refinement. The transition from KDE4 to Plasma 5 was much, much smoother than the previous leap. Since then, it feels like efficiency and stability have steadily improved along with feature-completeness.

I guess Qt 6 is out now, and so Qt 5 will soon be unsupported if it isn't already. I wonder how the balance of rewriting and breaking API changes will work out for the Plasma 5 to Plasma 6 transition! Here's hoping the KDE devs figure out how take advantage of the opportunity for helpful/necessary API changes without having to cut or reimplement too many features. What users have got at present is really, really nice
Were the bank activities themselves illegal? It would only be entrapment if they were soliciting the illegal activity. It sounds like they were just soliciting banking services in a way that was attractive to illegal actors. Even if the banking services themselves were not legal, it would seem like entrapment if they used that to charge them with banking crimes.

If NYPD operated a Limousine service in hopes that criminals would discuss their crimes while being overheard by an undercover officer, it would not be entrapment.
Almost all ideas are copied in some way. Even if an idea is original, not all of it is. Most successful companies aren’t the first one to offer whatever product they’re offering. Everyone is working with what came before them and building on it. Very few things are wholly unique. There is nothing unethical about it in itself.

The problem is when a large company muscles small ones out unfairly (using their clout, money or lawyers to push competition out).
Bingo, I think the author forgot how university is, but it's not like you are confronted with the toxic wokeness everyday (or ever really). It's similar to Twitter, you have a fringe of students that like to host "marches" and are legitimate narcissist and you learn about it in the news like everyone else.
Works on firefox mobile with my extensions
pg did not talk about riches in this essay, and especially in this paragraph. He talked about doing interesting work.

Yeah it make sense to focus on interesting projects when you are already rich.
What do we gain by separating the button from the content it's connected to?

I'm not a fan of the new Safari style either, but in that case it's at least because they are trying to let the pages bleed into the full window.
Tracking and tracing it from procurement as it's flowing (transported) through containers and vehicles. There are multiple companies involved and prior to this, trust issues have made any kind of automated, efficient and consistent end-to-end tracking system difficult to introduce.

Whose servers would a non-blockchain solution run on and how could all stakeholders trust the design, implementation and operations? Blockchain makes this transparent, trustless, and auditable for everyone involved.

With the new system, feedback times goes from weeks to minutes.

I mean, technically, the industry got by fine prior to IT as well, relying on pen and paper and telephone. Real problems are being solved, though.

You seem a bit antagonistic/skeptic; I'm just answering the question for some examples of use-cases the technology is applied to today.

Consider distributed databases - unless you hit a certain scale or availability requirements, you could argue that a single centralized Postgres can solve anything and that they provide no value. You could have a successful and advanced career as a data engineer never having to touch one. Yet, in certain organizations and scenarios they are a game-changer and enabler. Just because you don't see value in them does not mean that the people who do are deluded.
Genius! Cheap, effective, and low-maintenance.
Extraordinary Open-Source Projects Initiated by Individuals
It's a good start for an essay, and there was even a paragraph getting close to the crux of the matter (about projects of the kind that doesn't necessarily make money). The problem is that of the starving artist, and a solution, or a big step towards a solution, is universal basic income. This kind of safety net would let us at least partially revert back to the carefree ways of the child and give us the freedom to work on our own projects without the fear of and actual possibility of falling into destitution.
Websites begin to work again after major Fastly outage
Extension support was probably the biggest mistake Google made. Ads mean a lot to them, I dont think they'd want to repeat that.
What caused the internet outage that brought down Amazon, Reddit and Gov.uk?
It may say incident report, but as of writing it is just their status page. Look forward to a full report once the dust settles.
Show HN: NetflixLingo, my attempt at a passive language learning tool
The European Union’s troubled Covid-19 vaccine rollout
How does Nettu compare to https://bigbluebutton.org/, which is more directly in the educational space?

I notice Nettu has a built-in graphing calculator, and BBB doesn't.

Will you also be offering a turn-key service? I use BBB though https://meet.coop.

Having more open source options with corresponding hosting services would be great.
I don't care what the app does, at some point the extension might have forced me to install it but I don't use it and don't care about it.
It is not horizontally scalable right now, but that is not hard to implement either. You can have a look at the dogehouse project: https://github.com/benawad/dogehouse if you want to see how to horizontally scale mediasoup which is the media handler and stateful process within the servers.

I think vertical scaling will be more than enough for most of the users that are going to self-host this.
Internet outage illustrates lack of resilience at heart of critical services
I overlooked that I was looking at the chart from 2015 sorry about that. I was reporting the number on the chart I was seeing, which is why I specified discretionary and also said that discretionary was about a third of total spending, so it was clear. I just didn't have the exact number.

So I did look up actual numbers and the numbers I saw were different to yours. In 2020 the percentage was 15% (721.5 billion for military of 4.79 trillion budget).

But the exact percentage isn't that important. I still don't get the 'not a great deal' part. It's not some good you could either buy from retailer X or brand Y. If no money is spent on military than the country is ripe for invasion, so it's either secure or it isn't. And it's not like we want the percent to be higher. Like we don't want to spend MORE than the Department of Defense thinks we need to secure the country. That's an even worse deal.

Even if you choose to move your assets/business to a country that spends a lot less on military, you're likely benefitting indirectly from how much the US spends on military (assuming it's an ally and the world is stable, that might not stay true in the next couple of decades).

Unless you're arguing to pay for a private security firm to secure your assets, then maybe you can pray we get to a Mad Max style future where it makes sense to do that.

Or you're suggesting it can be bypassed by buying cryptocurrency, which is secured by other means than government might. If that's the case then I'm on board with that thinking.

If your main argument is 'I want all of the money I spend in taxes to solely be spent on securing my assets, so reduce my taxes!' then that's ignoring the other government services those taxes provide.
The v1 guarantee is they will break your code at anytime just like before v1.
Well past a certain scale you almost certainly have infrastructure that isn’t an iOS app.
NHS plan to share GP patient data in England delayed to September
I was wondering the same thing. How scalable is it? Any recommendations for deployment/production use?
> most people use touchscreens (phones / tablets) but there is still a group of people who have bigger screens and would love to see more data than empty space.

They do/might but adding all that empty space in the desktop version of Firefox is quite pointless, considering that it has a mobile version.

I get that there are people with Surfaces and whatever. There are also people with 30" screens. A mobile UI that fits a phone's screen but not a tablet's is considered poorly-designed. It's high time we acknowledge the same thing is true on non-mobile systems.

That being said, things are not as easy to fix as they seem. Paddings have been getting bigger as the use of contrast in UI designs has decreased, and as UI elements have gone increasingly fatter. Without either of these visual cues, the only way to "isolate" pieces of information is by keeping it apart from other pieces of information -- i.e. by whitespace. If you just took one of these interfaces and reduced all padding values by 50%, you would get sane spacing, but the whole thing would be a jumbled, unreadable mess.

(Edit: obviously, adding some visual cues like borders, if not full-on 3D frames, or at least using colours that people over 30 can differentiate on a cheap monitor in a well-lit room, does fix the readability issues, but it also gets you burnt at the design stake for being a heretic so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
That's just the way it works. There's numerous alternative arrangements and arguments in favour and against.

You could think about if the owner of a business generously decides to give all his employees a pay rise - the government now receives less money because the employees pay a lower marginal tax rate than what the owner would have paid if he kept the money for his own higher salary. Should the government get involved here and claw back that lost tax?
I feel there’s a rhetorical trick where detractors of the current US system are expected to create the perfect system, when the US one is very very far from ideal (e.g. generates little revenue, burdens the wrong people, any everyone hates it). No matter what we have to make arbitrary decisions just to have a workable decision.

(This isn’t really a direct comment against your post, it just got me thinking.)

That’s all to say, I’m dead curious how we could simulate the effect of the Netherlands tax system here and how much better/worse off the median family would be under it.

Simple but too easy answer is “much better” by skipping the simulation and looking at the actual stats in the Netherlands and other Nordics.
Thank you.

I have very little interest at all about GMOs, but I realize that it's good to know things about things I don't really care about. It's not curiosity that will carry me through the paper but more obligation that I should know more about these things.

Some times you have to read through long articles because it might change your mind on current events even if what you really want to do is stick it all in a drawer and never open it again.
You can totally provision using ansible too, on most cloud vendors.

The reason to use ansible over a shell script is that the ansible playbook will be idempotent. That is to say you can run/rerun the playbook from any point without having to wipe any previous work, or worry about double applying your config changes.
Aside: I thought one of the big features of this release was Native menus. I was most looking forward to "look up" being an option in FF on Mac now. Do I have some weird setting that is stopping that, or is that still not possible?
Mostly nonsense, written in Twitter style. The argument for HTTP-only is to preserve the free web and not being dependent on yet another middleman.
New insights into how Covid-19 can lead to diabetes
Also, with respect to your comment "Terraform is not exactly obscure tech": you're right. Google estimates there are "About 14,200,000 results". My desire for context is not only to address obscurity, but also disambiguation. Perhaps Terraform is not the best example. That said, without checking, did you know what FizzyGum is? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27421401 Kindly note the top comment and responses.
You never heard of the Wall Street Journal? Not saying it's always high quality but it's definitely considered a legitimate news source.

EDIT: Parent meant the writer affiliated journal and not WSJ.
Thanks. Yes, that does seem to be the case. I found this old design doc [1] and discussion. Nifty feature for IoT to have more responsive alerts.

[1] https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/4355#issuecomment-...
S3 automatic object versioning is useful for that.
Global sting: FBI-run messaging app tricks organized crime
We don't know how Ross and other dark web folks were caught, despite all the official stories. We know what the FBI _tells_ us was the security issue. However, the Snowden doc's reveal that they are instructed to construct other legitimate stories for how to implicate a criminal after the have compromised him in order to not reveal their tactics. The exact term they used in the docs escapes my memory, but we only know that Ross _was_ captured, but we have no clue how. Perhaps he had perfect op-sec, but the real security issue was a raft of 0-day attacks and then they signed up something in his name, later legally gagging him. We really have no clue.
Thank you for sharing, I think what I'm also worried about is lack of sharing, for example the black squares on instagram. I was called out for not posting one (I had 1 picture on IG from 3 years ago). Although I imagine that wouldn't have happened had I deleted IG prior. I just can see "I don't fully understand" when asked about something will become willful ignorance to people that deem the context unavoidable.
For use cases like this, the automation needed to get the data into and out of a blockchain may make it a better solution than spreadsheets.
Dang, your solution sound so much like kubernetes I'm not sure if you are joking or not.
I was educated and worked as an organic chemist and did some organic electrochemistry and I have no freaking clue what this is about based on the press release. The attempt at putting it in plain English appears to have completely butchered any understanding of the science.

It appears that by coating carbon nanotubes with telfon on one side (after ground into a film), they can create a potential gradient with an oxidizing solvent on one side? But so many pieces are missing - where do the electrons come from? What’s on the Teflon side of the membrane? An electron donor?
One of the Daily Show's greatest strengths was their ability to quickly compile relevant clips. I always wondered if they had a service like this. I assumed that they were scraping CC text themselves. Maybe they just had a phenomenal research dept.
Have you used it since they introduced HCL2? It supports other data structures much better than it used to. Maps, lists, sets, etc. are much easier to work with.
So... is Terraform the Wordpress app or the rails app? :D
>Because the jobs it will eliminate are the ones that need to verify the system works correctly.

I don't understand how you recognize that, but still blame them.

I don't ever want to trust pure algorithms or "machine learning" for my health. I believe there is just too much variability in humans, and the costs for outliers is going to be immense.
How to use CloudFront Functions to change the origin request path
Unfortunately, in terms of staying in the Overton window, that advice is useless. You give good advice at how not to annoy one particular person, but the entire problem is that when speaking in public, everyone gets a crack at accusing you. It doesn't even have to be based on truth; they can accuse based on misunderstandings. They can accuse based on deliberate misunderstandings, because they have other reasons to take you down, or just simply see a chance to be a hero at your expense. As weezin also shares in a sibling post, you can be attacked for not doing something. It doesn't matter how kind you are to one person, you can't do that for hundreds at a time, let alone to the millions that a wrong tweet can reach.

In modern parlance, your post amounts to victim blaming. You can't simultaneously engage with thousands of people in any manner that all of those thousands will find acceptable. That's always been true; the change is the belief in a large number of powerful subcultures that they have a right to be engaged with in manners they find acceptable, by people they've never heard of, in interactions they aren't really a part of except that they happened to be within broadcast range, in the worst cases that they possibly even actively sought out precisely because it would give them something to be angry about. (I'm not accusing everybody of doing that. I think it's rare, most people have better things to do with their time. But there only has to be a few to be a problem.) In the long term, this is an impossible standard.
How Universal Control on macOS Monterey Works
Cut the middleman:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000437022...
Performance is really bad. This is good for running a small HTTP server on an embedded device but if plan is to use it for HTTP server to serve production web traffic performance is really bad. Below is report of running the server and hitting a minimal index.html page and hitting it with artillery.

All virtual users finished
Summary report @ 09:39:57(-0400) 2021-06-08
Scenarios launched: 33645
Scenarios completed: 2573
Requests completed: 2573
Mean response/sec: 42.57
Response time (msec):
min: 0
max: 9029
median: 2
p95: 6027.7
p99: 8778.8
Scenario counts:
Get index.html: 33645 (100%)
Codes:
200: 2573
Errors:
ETIMEDOUT: 31008
EPIPE: 48
ECONNRESET: 16
Ford unveils Maverick, a compact hybrid pickup truck for under $20k
Today’s version would be a crypto exchange with its own USD stable coin.
Secretive Israeli Cyber Firm Selling Spy-Tech to Saudi Arabia
PGP Marks 30th Anniversary – Philip Zimmermann
I think it is the other way around, most shops I work with would be more than happy with such tooling, they don't want to pay for DevOps experts nor deal with stuff like TerraForm or ARM Templates.

Apple is coming from the IDE as main tool, as they always have done since Mac Classic.
> When done site doesn’t work for some reason I go and use some other site."

That may or may not be an option.
They are hard for sure. Docker did make some fundamental mistakes early on, especially on community engagement and open stable APIs.

It is a shame since I rooted hard for them in the early days.
Here's the link to the Nat. Comm. paper since I couldn't find it in the press release: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23038-7
I do respect the technical chops around sqlite. However, I think a "fork for every single http request" server isn't really useful in many situations.

That the sqlite website is able to run this way is more a testament to Linux's work on a lightweight/fast fork() than anything else. This would perform terribly on a more traditional Unix.
If an employee does something actively malicious, you should absolute remove them. This is very rare though - incompetence /broken systems is much more likely.

Otherwise you develop internal process that's entirely scar tissue, and only stops your teams doing their jobs.
> Unfortunately you are speaking of ideals. In reality a person's right to privacy is dependent on many factors including their country, race, etc.

I disagree. A right is a human right. Human rights are not granted by a country, they can only be violated. My right to free thought and expression doesn't cease being a right if I'm in an oppressive state. A state can violate my rights but human rights are universal. You can disagree that privacy is a human right, and that's fine if you do.

In regards to paparazzi, if you're in a public space, you don't have the same right. It's balance by the right of another person taking photos in that same public space. There is no expectation of privacy, so I'm free to snap your picture, same as I have a right to record a police interaction (despite what some legislation might have you believe). But that doesn't mean I have the right to break into your home and record you sleeping.
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Good to know but I do it with a script in the Shortcuts on iOS. The app seems to be working exactly the same as the script I use.

On my script and on the Pipifier, YouTube would stop playback when you lock the device but you can resume it through tapping the play button in the control center.
I run i3/tmux/xterm wherever I can (also back when I was doing frontend). I definitely prefer this over anything Apple has been able to offer me in terms of user experience.

My comment above was just a reflection of a connection I hadn't made before. :)
It's legal because the law doesn't explicitly forbid it, I guess? Legality is a very flexible thing. Morality is another, but not necessarily the same.

Anyway, generally speaking, law enforcement is granted things that citizens do not, e.g. visibly wearing weapons, owning and transporting narcotics, etc. But those things are obvious.

Your last bit is very totalitarian, and I would have hoped we had intellectually grown beyond that.