skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get that it's hard but it's hard because security is hard. What's the alternative? How else can you verify the signature on Tor browser?
> People that don't present well in interviews

Those are the worst. There was this one candidate who gave all the interviewers mousepads with his picture and aol email address on it. Who even wants that kind of stuff? The best ones give some candy, like there was someone who gave us gum with a custom printed wrapper “Hope I ‘stick’ in your mind!”
Your thinking like a lifestyle business criminal enterprise when you should be thinking like a hungry startup. If you go slow and steady someone will try and eat your lunch. Big criminal enterprises have all the same scaling issues that regular companies do.
>I think it's funny that Android users are so angry with Apple for not releasing iMessage and FaceTime for Android.

I don't get the impression that Android users are angry at all. It's me as an iPhone user who is pissed about never being able to use any of these supposedly fantastic services.

I have never used FaceTime and probably never will if it is true that Android/Linux/Windows users cannot initiate FaceTime calls on this new FaceTime web app.
Ask HN: Why there is no gRPC public APIs?
I have been playing around with gRPC and gRPC Web and wanted to use some ready API. Besides the Google Cloud, it is tough to find anything on the internet. Even when there is a gRPC API, it is often hidden behind some SDK or CLI. Why there no gRPC APIs?
I'll be honest, I'm not a huge fan of the 3d virtual office. I find they often require a greater number of clicks to perform a task I'd otherwise complete "the old way". I'd be more likely to use an app that delivers "always on" virtual connections if they legitimately made my life easier. Maybe consider adding some desktop/keyboard shortcuts that are available when minimized/off?

<a bit of a plug coming up> We've been working on solving similar problems but going about it differently. Rather than a shared virtual environment, we're looking for better ways to connect real, distributed environments. We created https://sharetheboard.com because we simply didn't want to give up the whiteboard sessions. Reading here though I wonder if some kind of mashup wouldn't be interesting? A real whiteboard session could easily be displayed on the wall of your virtual office, allowing for serendipitous participation... Let me know if you're interested and we can discuss.
the game doesn't change ... only the players
>Apple can read all of your iMessages and texts out of your non-e2e iCloud Backups

You are conflating iMessage in iCloud with iCloud Backup. If you have iMessage enabled in iCloud, your message history is no longer under your sole control.

If you have iMessage in iCloud disabled, and iCloud Backup disabled, nobody has your messages except you and the recipient. (If they have it enabled then your messages with them will be stored that way.)

I personally use iMazing for automated local backups to my own equipment, and have iCloud Backup disabled.
Even though it provides an interesting take on some flavours of historical timekeeping it disregards many others - water clocks, candle clocks and hourglasses were (imperfect) manmade constructions to fix timeframes.
Evolutions in accuracy of these tools mostly just map societal needs, and humans tend to structure their environment to help focus their energy on what matters by eliminating waste.
Furthermore the author mixes the concepts of time on a clock scale vs calendars.
That said, reading and thinking about time and our relation with it is always interesting, and imo part of a more general self reflection that could help one grow.
Unlikely, that'd be a very weird restriction. I think they meant Apple users would just use the FaceTime app
It sounds like you are speaking to the author. I think it’s obvious they know how to do marketing (see how popular their blog post is proving). Scaling a platform to 100,000 isn’t hard, especially with millions in funding.

HN isn’t odd at all. Replit is YC funded after all.
I worry that my contacts could feel insulted if they find out I'm contacting them via this sort of "don't call me" communications channel.
I went to the site, felt puzzled, watched the video, decided it was probably satire, then went to the comments here, and now I'm not sure what to believe anymore.

It seems to be a fast way to create Celery Man[1]-type GUIs. You can put gifs, mspaint clones and clocks into windows and move them around. Thats... neat, I guess. Does anyone have some more context of why this exists? Real-world use cases? Is it actually in use somewhere, or is it a tech demo? Or is it satire after all, and they just managed to balance it exactly at the point where I couldn't tell?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHWBEK8w_YY
> I wonder how long until we collectively decide to banish things like ASN.1 to the past

Indeed, in the security community there is a trend to get rid of ASN.1. E.g. TLS uses a custom ad-hoc format:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5246#section-4

And this is used by e.g. certificate transparency:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6962#section-1.2

Maybe it's just a question of tooling, but personally I haven't found a binary format that is as nicely debugable as ASN.1. In many other instances I have to stare at hexdumps while for ASN.1, the lapo.it viewer exists. E.g. I still haven't been able to parse the extra_data of a certificate transparency log entry. In the case of ASN.1, you can dump it to lapo.it. How can you debug data in the ad hoc TLS format? There is literally no information in the binary format, you must know the schema.

That being said, it's indeed more difficult to write parsers for ASN.1 formatted data without using ASN.1 libraries. The ad hoc TLS format definitely has an advantage here. But IMO ASN.1 has way too much of a bad name.
Not really, there is a lot of projects doing this as an anonymous statistic, for example InfluxDB sends anonymous statistics about your InfluxDB instance to their server. This way they have overview/statistic of usage (they are visualize it on word map, looks amazing), together with data like OS, version you use etc...
You can disable this in config
https://influxdbcom.readthedocs.io/en/latest/content/docs/v0...
ZGC is a very compelling option for applications that get periodic restart opportunities (or are of the cruise missile guidance computer variety).

In places where you have to use reference types, sometimes you can allocate everything you should ever need up-front and then pull from that pool of pinned instances throughout the day. Pre-allocating all of your required memory can provide more deterministic outcomes.
The Great Recession and the Crapification of Products
Install Cilium and Linkerd on a Kubernetes Cluster
Range matters. My current Volvo V40 can, at highway speeds, go for 1100km on a full tank of diesel.

There is no electric car at a similar price that can go farther than 500km, in practice I'd be shocked if it went more than 400km.

I'd want range to be at least 80% of that of the diesel before I switch.
Could you explain why did you choose to write your own implementation of DAG instead of using something like petgraph?

At first glance I get the feeling that it is really nice! Any elaboration on that would be really appreciated.

Good luck with this project. For sure you are on to something. Time will tell. Don’t forget to research industry leaders like Ted Nelson :)
yeah i mean same argument about why they shot harambe because some kid wanted to climb the fence into the gorilla exhibit.

i actually agree that corporations have too much power versus individuals in society. but it's a bit much to jump into the gorilla exhibit and then write a clickbait post about whether it was unethical.
Studying maths beyond GCSEs (age 16) helps brain development, say scientists
I guess Apple realized that the PR damage here was going to be significant as well. If they settle then can put an NDA in there, if they take it all the way to court and loose at a lower amount they have saved maybe a million compared to the settlement but now the other party isn't under NDA and can cause huge reputational damage by appearing on a few talkshows.
My immediate thought was "This looks like GEM" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEM_(desktop_environment)]

But your example works too - loved GEOS back in the day ;)
Less than half? lol. Thanks for sharing
AMD have their own "IME" called PSP.
i mean thats actually fine, i think it's the copying + victimization thats irking me
ARM has something similar (I forgot what it's called).
Planet Money had an episode where they used the metric "minutes of light per day's wages". Here's the transcript: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/503769949

But there are qualitative changes that aren't captured by this -- street lights are brighter and whiter now than they were in the 1990s for example, and those were brighter than oil lamps before them.
I recently launched a Reddit clone and I'd say about 10% of sign-ups are from troublemakers. However, I haven't told many people about the site, it's text only, and it uses an uncommon moderation system (whitelists). Here is the project if you are curious:

https://www.peachesnstink.com
The T480 was the last T-series model with dual batteries. The newer ones all have only the embedded battery.
I got the 13 and am really happy with it compared to my 2018 16". I was going to wait but I figure if I sell and upgrade within several months I'm not going to be out by that much.
If every industry thinks like that ...
Serenity Prime Review, Legit or a Scam?
i mean he doesn't seem like he's gonna launch this as a startup so cynically why else would he go to all the trouble?
And boats!
What causes the "spikes" in the trace on all the lines? First They're regular but in different positions - first I thought it was a grid pattern. If my math works out, it is a ~53kHz pulse.
FileVault is enabled by default. Have you been disabling it?
Is anybody aware of any interesting projects built on Microsoft's or IMB's blockchain tech?
Probably the most confusing naming scheme in computing history.

Don't get me wrong, I love .net. But if you're not familiar with the technology, it's very (very) confusing.
Getting your money's worth out of your liberal arts education today? :)
This made me think of a post by Philip Kaplan (Pud) called 'Fucking Sue Me" back in 2011, which was controversial at the time.

The original post is long-gone, but there are a few copies out there [1], and there was a HN thread at the time [2].

He runs DistroKid now. He famously (infamously?) created the site Fucked Company way-back-when chronicling the dotcom bust [3].

[1] https://archive.vn/QHkz8

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15155068

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company
Serverless and gRPC Web = easy deployment
Very likely. If someone is more interested in the current state of AI on a national level a very good book is AI Superpowers by Kai Fu Lee.

Data is the new Oil and USA is still clinging to the old oil while China has AI as number 1 priority.
It looks like diesel holds ~10,700 Wh/kg[1]. That’s over 40 times the volumetric energy density.

I hope people find an electrical energy storage system (ie a battery) that’s cheap, and with high mass and volumetric energy density, soon. That would be huge for solving the impending climate (and pollution) crisis.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#In_chemical_r...
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If batteries do not make progress fast enough, synthetic fuels might be a temporary(?) solution. With these we can have the advantage of the high energy-density of hydrocarbon fuels for use cases like airplanes without having the climate effect of fossil fuels. Remember that the problem with fossil fuels is that they increase the amount of carbon in (short term) circulation which is what leads to further accumulation in the atmosphere or oceans. Producing synthetic fuels would remove carbon from the environment before releasing it on use again, leading to a net-zero effect.
> Enrique Piñeyro (born 1956 in Genoa, Italy) is an Argentine-Italian ex air line pilot turned film actor, producer, crash analyst, aeronautical physician, film director, and screenplay writer, working partly in Argentina.

That's quite a career!
I have Youtube Music (through Premium) and it's still annoying. Especially when it decides some cover version on Youtube is "for Kids" and then refuses to play in the background. Which is one of the few features actually essential for a music player.
You are blurring the lines now though so we end up with a discussion of where the red line is at. Intellectual property laws are national,so if a South Korean company copy the design of the iPhone they aren't breaking any US IP law (as of course you cannot break a US law outside the US as a non-US citizen). So novel, recent, and specific doesn't really matter unless we are lawyers. But it still gets HN'ers up in arms.
Here is the actual single C-code file: https://sqlite.org/althttpd/file?name=althttpd.c

Something I absolutely love about text based protocols such as HTTP/1 is how easy you can implement it in any virtually programming language. Sure, the implementation is not top-of-the-notch, but it just damned works, it is portable, it is understandable by humans. That's something what's got lost with HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, respectively.
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So, uh, it's competing with vim, which is free, but they want me to pay a monthly subscription fee?

It's actually copying vim's keyboard mappings, so you know it'll be strictly worse than vim, which, again, is free.

Also I can't take its "zero lag" claim seriously if it says vim is fast. Try opening a 10 MB XML file in vim with syntax highlighting on and see if you can spot the lag.

I'm not convinced why I should even spend time investigating this.
You cannot achieve true E2E encryption on Firefox as it doesn't support insertable streams, so I guess this is where the limitation is.

EDIT: bug on bugzilla https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1631263
Just because China hoards more data doesn't guarantee any success.

If just data collection would be enough then all crime should have been eradicated in the US by how much data NSA has.
Yeah I also don't really remember this extra-internet thing. Perhaps the author is talking about a very early period of the internet (which I don't know)? What I rememeber was that before 'real' search it was indeed what you describe, just endless chain of links of one site to the other and sites aggregating links.
DARAP, CIA, FBI, NSA -- they are all against that.

A computer is a to dangerous tool to leave it to the public without state control.
<plugarino> https://sharetheboard.com -- It doesn't solve all of the problems you've listed but it does help with remote white boarding! Try it and share feedback, please!
This is just a modern version of Crypto AG which was an encrypted phone operated by the CIA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG

Somehow Eastern European & Russian criminals just run their own tech. I think it is because coders and engineers have lower prospects in those parts of the world and are thus readily accessible.
> Is one’s sense of right and wrong for all things driven by the amount of money involved? Are there some things money can’t buy?

Sleeping with someone isn't exactly in the realm of moral repugnancy. It's not about right and wrong, the implication is that she is a whore. But she's not, because she wouldn't take money for sex as her job.

> Would you elaborate on this assertion? I don’t quite understand.

The article you linked is claiming that "the very real possibility of being killed" should disqualify the job, no matter what the pay. But that's an extremely myopic way of evaluating risk. Would he refuse on principle to commute an extra 15 minutes, even if it adds up to the same risk after 20 years? It doesn't look like it. But to take that risk all at once in exchange for 20 years of pay or even 50 years of pay means you've been "corrupted".

He's decided that some risks to yourself are fine and some risks to yourself are unacceptable based on arbitrary measures and not what actually keeps you safest.

Overly hard stances for risk mitigation lead to a lot of really bad conclusions and contradictions.
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Yeah, but building my own is something I'm hesitant to do given the time investment involved. Also, case design will need to factor in the battery, etc.
How does ahrefs.com get the information of any websites backlinks? This is more interesting than the original article itself
I'm all for SQLite and I am a fan of the author of the project but for a webserver I have turned my back away from Nginx for https://caddyserver.com/ because of the simplicity.

Caddy is just really awesome as a reverse proxy (2 line config!!) and I am in the processes of moving all my projects to it. It is fast enough as well since other things will be the bottle neck way before that.

I am not affiliated with Caddy in any way, just blown away by the quality of it.
Interesting but why? There’s a bazillion web servers out there, surely one of them can do the job?

What have I missed?
I think main mechanical innovation in this, the heddle selector, is really cool. But I think it can be utilized even without the computer.

I can imagine a periodic warp pattern could be encoded on a pin wheel, with pins selecting which warps need to be lowered. Then this wheel would have a pinion gear, which would interlock with a gear rack on the heddle frame. So you could just manually move the pin wheel across the heddle frame, and as it would rotate, the protruding pins would push the heddle selectors to create the warp pattern. At the end, there could be some mechanism to reset the wheel to offset position, so you could run with it again.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27431691
Why? The only other branch of IT that pays as good as Data Science/Engineering is Blockchain Developer. The field of AI applications will only grow and thus career opportunities as well.

Are people in serious finance bothered that there are a bazzilion of scams every day, including aforementioned blockchains? No. Why should competent AI practitioners care as well?
The rest of the world uses overhead lines for powering trains (I'm a bit shocked to learn that this is not the norm in the US, actually)
You're not wrong, but I get a different feeling from "dark and stormy" than just "[i]t was a stormy night". The former is almost foreboding, and maybe suggests a particularly long night - perhaps winter? I don't get that from the latter.

You can convey the same feeling in a more effective way, but I don't think it's awful.
Evidence for what?

Literally no one serious says that there aren't strong existing cultural influences on how people view, interpret, and experience gender.

The PNAS paper you point to doesn't change that viewpoint, that I can tell.

Now, I haven't read the paper, only the abstract and supplementary information. Perhaps the paper does say something about gender essentialism? If you've read it, perhaps you can correct me?

I think it's unlikely because the PNAS paper citation #64 is Gneezy, et al. "Gender differences in competition: Evidence from a matrilineal and a patriarchal society" at https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w13727/w137... comparing the patriarchal Maasai in Tanzania and the matrilineal Khasiin in India:

> Similar to the extant evidence drawn from experiments executed in Western cultures, Maasai men opt to compete at roughly twice the rate as Maasai women. Interestingly, this result is reversed amongst the Khasi, where women choose the competitive environment more often than Khasi men, and even choose to compete weakly more often than Maasai men

This means that if the underlying papers in the meta-study primarily cover patriarchal cultures then it will primarily highlight cultural effects on gender, and not something essential to gender independent of culture.

Indeed, the SI shows 19 studies from the US, 11 from Germany, 22 from elsewhere in western Europe, and 2 from Australia.

By comparison there's 4 from China, 3 from India, 2 from each of Uganda, Turkey, and Tanzania, and 1 from each of Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, and Paraguay. Those combined are still fewer than the US.

The Gneezy et al. paper is cited for both India and Tanzania. Gneezy et al. write the Maasai "represent a textbook example of a patriarchal society", and were chosen for that reason, so this is hardly a random sample.

And Malawi is particularly known for its gender inequality, says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malawi .

The PNAS paper's one study from Indonesia concerns "1700 students destined for the private and public sectors in Indonesia", and not the Minangkabau people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minangkabau_culture#Matrilinea... comments the their matrilineal "traditions have allowed Minangkabau women to hold a relatively advantageous position in their society compared to most patriarchal societies."

Thus, this paper doesn't seem to have been constructed to disentangle culture from gender.

What evidence do you think this meta-analysis paper is giving, and why?
Dangly bits are something I'd prefer to avoid (have enough dongles in my life).
Lawyers, even in the United States, are bound by rules of conduct, and will stop being lawyers very quickly if the overstep the rules of ethical conduct.

The standards of ethics they are checked against are not yours or mine, they are the rules they agreed to. To pretend like ethics aren't a thing for lawyers is surprisingly uninformed for HN.
I'm from Europe and I don't care about US sensibilities, but I find your post petty and the idea behind it doesn't make sense.

There is basically no place on the entire planet that has never changed its name. Big Sur, Catalina, Mavericks, those places used to be called something else, too.
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> separate process is started for each incoming connection

wow. Thanks also for elaborating the xinetd & stunnel4 configs.
And the key on the silicon would auto-destroy if a fraudulent attempt is recognized.
<plug / request for feedback from targeted, experienced user>

Please check out https://sharetheboard.com -- we too didn't want to give up markers (on paint or boards or anywhere else). We're working on a number of integrations at the moment. Hadn't considered Whereby yet (Miro is on the short list) but open to suggestions.
A friend of mine once got rejected from a big name company after a few months of interviews. Reason was that he did not have a PhD. It's hard to get into the business.

You could try to start-up and then plan to get acquihired. Or go and do a PhD. It's never too late for more schooling.
The thing I love most about caddy is it automatically does all the ssl certificate garbage which is so painful in every other web server ever. Yes certbot makes it less painful but it’s still a big PITA, unlike caddy where SSL is just like magic.
As soon as you make civil rights selective and for only certain people, it’s a political view. Either it’s civil rights for everyone or you are taking some sort of political stance.
Whether that’s repressing a minority (past) or repressing a majority (current trend), it’s basically treating people unequally and it’s just as bad.
I know that it's being done, but I don't know if it's necessary. I frequently find good old unstyled HTML pages from the 90's internet (the ones with Prev/Next/Up links, like this: https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/here-docs.html) at the top of Google results.