skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe the reason why people don’t want or like PGP is because it needs strong human processes to work properly and keep its integrity, and that breaks the illusion that you can easily solve everything with tech.

What you've got here is pretty much the mirror of the argument you've dismissed a paragraph earlier. Now you're desperate to rely on humans instead.

This makes me think about Snowpiercer, for two reasons. One is that Snowpiercer has this ludicrous conceit about replacing unavailable engine components with humans but the other is that we've really been here with the actual railway trains in the nineteenth century.

There was a pattern. One of these new-fangled railway trains crashes, often killing many people, the company directs public blame toward the driver, who will be portrayed as incompetent, drunk or worse and so fully responsible for the accident. Nothing changes, rinse, repeat. How was this cycle broken?

We did not find some species of super-human train driver, instead we invented technology such as the Absolute Block system, Interlocking railway signals, the Dead Man's Handle. Even apparently trivial technologies like the Driver's Reminder Appliance (it's just a switch!) are still technology.

PGP isn't very good technology. Like one of those early mechanical signals that might seem to indicate "clear" but it's actually just weighed down by snow and frozen in place so that it can't indicate "danger" instead, the way forward isn't "We need to rely on super-humans to compensate for the short-comings of the technology" but "We need a technology that sucks less so the humans don't need to be super-human to succeed".
LiteIDE struggles with scrolling on a top-of-the-line MacBook, even for short files. I guess it's using QT or some other non-native UI toolkit which is not ideal.
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Founder here,

Starting Mooncamp with 3 amazing technical founders, we were able to pour a lot of great tech into Mooncamp, which in my opinion led to the best OKR software out there. At the very least we are the only OKR software with a graph database (Dgraph) powering the platform. Going the rather unconvetional route of choosing a graph database as Mooncamp's core was the best technical decision we have made, as it allows us to develop the platform in warp speed!

You may notice that Mooncamp has a Notion-like interface, which is not at all coincidental. We are huge Notion nerds over here at Mooncamp and love its timeless and minimalist design. Mooncamp tries to strip away any distracting visuals to create a "peace of mind" interface that is pleasant and fun to work with.
>To be honest, it is more a F-U to your competitors' customers than to your own.

Why? As an iPhone user, I am the one who paid for the development of FaceTime, but I can't use it because communications tools require network effects that FaceTime doesn't have. I can't even use it with my wife.

I'm not saying it's somehow illegitimate or even illegal for Apple to do this, but what it tells me is that Apple cares more about hurting competitors than about providing a useful service to its own paying customers.
How the AFP and FBI cooked up the idea of AN0M over a 'couple of beers'
Kraken Crypto Exchange Is Going to Extreme Lengths on Cybersecurity
A cockroach with AI-enabled search and rescue equipment
I used DDG as primary engine for a while and it was more like 30% effective
One file of 2600 lines, guess if you give up common sense and follow this approach you can even create a kernel in one file
Not just the lawyers, but future employers as well.

It doesn't matter what the value proposition was, this will be a stain on his name "the guy who open sources the stuff he likes in our design/projects"
The implausibility of all these scenarios is making me increasingly nervous regarding the other possible ones.

If SHA256 and asymmetric crypto are compromised to this extent, we have a far bigger problem to worry about.
Is there a federal sales tax on cars?
The goal of 144fps is laudable, but unfortunately pointless here. Keyboard latency is rarely under 20ms so 60fps is enough for smooth animations on everything. Anything beyond that will simply be wasting cycles, especially using immediate mode rendering.
Funny, when I was young my father who was a geophyisicst (now retired) took me to seismological surveys, where we hit with a hammer on a plate to generate shock waves and measure velocity (mostly for building tunnels through montains). After a hard day of physical work, my father was drawing these lines at specific points of the recorded dataset (sorry I lack the proper terms and vocabulary because it was like 20 years ago) and there are some patterns you can use to identifiy those spots but most of it was based on his intuition and years of experience.
Sometimes he let me do the interpretation and all I had was the those patterns, but many times he had to correct it because of what you describe (experience, terrain, environment, etc)
seems like the engineers were allowed into the decision room
If you're an expert in X, you're gonna be building several Xs in your career. That's how the economy works. An employer suing you for building another X is ridiculous. If you're not funded for legal defense, your best way forward is going public. He did everything right.
That’s a question for courts to decide. It hangs on what interpretation courts assign to “derivative work”.

There are claims both for and against this being a derivative work; for “standalone” use, the test is usually something like “if you didn’t use ffmpeg, would the product be significantly less useful?”

MySQL used to claim that including MySQL.exe in a product, even if you don’t link to it, makes that product a derivative work. The generally accepted wisdom is that it’s not.

I don’t know if this was ever tested in court.
FBI created backdoored chat app, told crims it was secure,snooped 9k users plots
This is closer to forward compatibility: your program written for Windows 10 will work as expected on Windows 1.0! Well, at least the OutputDebugString parts.
https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-masks-fewer-positive-tests...

Wore mask at all times: 11% got infected
Wore mask never: 23% got infected

Mask mandate doesn't mean people actually wore them. Maybe in shops they did cause it was illegal not to. If people kept having gatherings with friends & family then a mask mandate is meaningless.

And honestly, you should be ashamed to link to these type of websites. They don't hold up to any kind of scrutiny.
Or just an eunuch saying: "Don't worry, I'll run your kingdom in your best interest."

Historically eunuchs had the reputation of playing the political game of power and influence with the best of them.
Well, what energy where and at what cost? It's possible that there will be renewable overbuild to the extent that there are enough times of cheap or negative energy prices, especially in sunny locations, that can be used for fuel creation.

(The downside I must mention is that high capital cost low utilization low running cost => still high cost)

The USN have a solution in their back pocket: https://www.zmescience.com/research/us-navy-synthetic-jet-fu... , presumably for at-sea refuelling using surplus energy from the reactors of carriers.
I think people should have more humility. Yes, he was wrong to be a jerk over email and threaten his former intern. However, apologizing for bad behavior and stating what you will do to correct it is what we should hope people who act inappropriately do. When they do act this way, it's wrong to heap more scorn on them, even if it does feel good.

Have you ever been obnoxious to anyone? How would you hope others would treat your apologies for poor behavior?
Have you checked piston?https://github.com/engineer-man/piston
>[...] the relay service will not be available in Belarus, Colombia, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkmenistan, Uganda and the Philippines as well as China.
For H.264, it's a question of patents IIRC. Cisco granted a free of charge decoder, but not necessarily an encoder.
Lessons from History's Greatest Criminal Entrepreneurs
Yes, but it feels like an approach that would not allow you to do anon searches. I guess pseud searches may be good enough.

I suspect this is actually one of those fundamentally hard problems.
thats a different discussion. Parents point is that because CCP runs things the way they do, the access to otherwise hard to find datasets in the west, they will be better able to train their AIs. Not saying whether i agree or not just clarifying the argument being made.
I have only ever heard about Duo on HN. Nobody I know uses it, people outside the US use WhatsApp or Facebook and people inside the US use FaceTime.

Even Hangouts which is abandonware is better promoted than Duo and takes a prominent place in the Gmail UI along with Meet.
How do you know this? I don't know anyone using it so I've honestly been assuming it's the next to go. I've been using Meet with all my groups as it feels like a corporate solution and thus maybe more stable.
Isn't this just CGI again?
That seems like a high risk of http desync attacks, if you're only implementing a subset of http/1.1.
> I have a feeling they won't do this because they want developers to make ipad native apps designed for the smaller screen sizes and touch.

This is a part that I don't understand. It is a size and quality of panel that is fine for pro-level (maybe not Professional™ level) work. I would buy an iPad Pro in a hot minute if it was possible to hook my mouse and keyboard up and use the same Photoshop etc that I'm used to using on my Mac.

PS I'm not against touch apps, but not every app needs touch in my opinion. I'd like to have both.
As far as I've read about Duo it seems to be AV1:

https://www.xda-developers.com/google-duo-lyra-codec-better-...

...though I'm not sure whether they use it consistently.
This whole things makes me wonder why the criminals don't just put their communications in an envelope and wack a 50c stamp on it.
Synthetic fuels scale up even worse than battery density.
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It guarantees more access to training data which is crucial for development of any superiority when it comes to applied AI. The US still have a better academic culture but the chinese are catching up. Nothing is inevitable.
> you let me do whatever I wanted and didn't warn me that this wouldn't fly at some far-off point in the distant future

It's not possible to anticipate every need, nor is it practical. You do the best you can to build something useful with the resources you have, ship it, and know that something will go wrong at some point. When something breaks, and it will, you fix it as best you can. If suspending your account for 5 days is the best you can do, it's the best you can do.
AI has been breaking its pick at this coalface for at least 50 years, with negligible success. I don’t know why such a difficult field has been so popular.

It seems like the only result of consequence has been Zork, developed on the DM machine at the MIT AI lab in the 70s. No, it was not developed as a medical application but I believe that machine was owned by the medical decision making group.

Stanford’s Knowledge Systems Lab (Ed Feigenbaum’s lab) was next to and affiliated with the Medical School too.
How would one person bootstrap a venture in medical ML without initial funding or datasets?
The FBI can't inspect data about Americans without a warrant, which they presumably don't have. The other countries who were in on this have no such restrictions and will read the messages by American citizens just fine. They may or may not decide to tip off the FBI if there is evidence of crime in the messages, and the FBI at that point would have "reasonable suspicion" and could acquire a warrant based on that.
Why would this take a week? i(phone)OS was originally a cut-down low-resource fork of MacOS with support for touch screens and a somewhat different driver model.

It's still that, but hardware has moved on and the super-low-resource constraints have been relaxed a little.

But it still lacks many of the features available in full-fat MacOS. And there are still significant differences in the GUI APIs.

This isn't a trade secret - it's very, very obvious from the docs.
Back when uploading Warez to unintentionally open FTP servers was still a thing this was quite handy. Apparently some server software used some low level API to create directories, so you could create folders named LPT1, AUX etc. and put your stuff in there. Many server admins who would usually delete your uploads quickly weren't able to access or delete these folders, and your stuff was up longer.
When you place a tangible value on trust, trust becomes a commodity to be bought and sold. See:

1. Old domain names bought solely for their old SEO rank.

2. Apps on mobile app stores are sold, and updates begin to include shady privacy-invading malware.

3. Old free software projects on various registries (npm etc.) are sold, with the same result as (2).
Oil is free? Not sure where the Saudis got there riches from then.

Otoh sitting in the sun for a few hours to charge some battery via rays from the sun is itself free.
I meant more day to day. If we can get people thinking YYYY-MM-DD, then at the presentation level people will stop naming things any other way.
I think you severely overestimate how many C++ professional developers exist in the real world. You're likely outnumbered 3:1 by Web Developers or Python Developers already.

According to the StackOverflow survey, C++ is at 25% popularity (which btw means C++ barely misses being in the Top 10 and fails to outdo PHP) and Rust is at 5%. If you restrict this to professional coders, then C++ falls to 20% popularity and Rust is at 4%, so roughly the same difference; 5 coders saying they use C++, 1 coder saying they use Rust.

Now in the same survey, people could also rank languages into loved/wanted/dreaded. In this section Rust has been the top loved language for 5 years straight (80%~), and C++ usually only breaks the top 10 in the dreaded category.

That means that for every coder that says they love C++, there is two coders saying the love Rust more.

That there is hundreds picking up C++ over everyone picking up Rust is a dream fantasy of someone stuck in the 2010s.
You can still buy SIM cards in Sweden in stores without presenting an ID.
Human readable Urls don't sound that bad.
I hate to tell you but half the internet runs on C. You can't type ".com" without passing through C code
/*
** Test procedure for ParseRfc822Date
*/
void TestParseRfc822Date(void){
time_t t1, t2;
for(t1=0; t1<0x7fffffff; t1 += 127){
t2 = ParseRfc822Date(Rfc822Date(t1));
assert( t1==t2 );
}
}

There's only two billion integers, guess we can test them all. Well, substantially fewer than two billion with that skip. I wonder if that completes in a few seconds.
I'm happy they are catching criminals, but now I wonder how many of my encryption and privacy software is actually an FBI front.
No I hadn't, I had looked at Amazon's Firecracker (used for Lambda) and some of the early work Shopify has been doing to run untrusted code by using web assembly.[2]

Thank you for the tip on Piston!

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/firecracker-lightweight-virtualization-for-serverless-computing/
[2] https://shopify.engineering/shopify-webassembly
You need to have some kind of vision and conviction. When it comes to personal computing vision, MS lost it, so they’re more reactionary to what’s happening on the market.
Defining CET as UTC+01:00 makes sense, because you get the local time by adding an hour to UTC. And then you extend that convention to timestamps, where you include a timezone indicator, not an arithmetic expression.
Similar is thttpd.

I was not familiar with darkhttpd. Both of these are similar to the sqlite server in security design (chroot capability), but unlike in that a single process serves all requests and does not fork.

I have used stunnel in front of thttpd, and chrome has no complaints.

https://acme.com/software/thttpd/
I personally think that SEO is kinda a waste of time. Because why would we have to adapt to a bot, a program. When the program should have to adapt to us.

The problem is that people will always try to game the system :/
The oldest encodings didn't always have both upper and lower case letters. So you picked one. For reasons of backwards compatibility similar to the one discussed here, DOS and Windows then decided to treat upper and lower case interchangeably in most contexts. FAT is a case-insensitive file system.

As for why default to uppercase instead of lower case, I think just a matter of style. Unix and C favour lower case, FORTRAN and COBOL and your keyboard keycaps favour upper case.
Anything I own that's discharging at 2 Amps (!) no longer uses AA batteries. All those devices now have built in li-ion batteries.

AA batteries are relegated to clocks, TV remotes, doorbells, and other low drain devices.

In that scenario, all alkaline are pretty much the same.
Thank you for your thoughtful advice Arthur! I agree with the impressiveness of Colab :)
Samsung shows off stretchable OLED screen in prototype heart rate monitor
Computers are insanely fast
Bitcoin (BTC), the Next GME Stock?
BTC slid under $33,000 on a mix of open interest in short positions and low trading volumes. The interest in long-term holding is getting tested at those prices.
have you ever looked at the source of sqlite?
The main difference is that by building their own honey pot, they did not have to rely on an external actor to maintain any secrecy.

If they dug their claws into wikr, they'd have to worry about leaks from every single person involved with wikr on top of all potential leaks from law enforcement personnel.

Also, I suspect it's easier to get the warrants needed to create a sting from the ground up than it is for several different law enforcement agencies around the world to each get separate warrants to access wikr/slack/discord/whatever's data.

Once the data legally exists in a law enforcement database, it is relatively simple bureaucracy to share it with allied organizations.
This is already the third or fourth such app that was either infiltrated by the police, taken over by the police or outright constructed by them. Criminals have a vested interest in getting access to encrypted communications and they know that all of the common phone OSes and chat apps are compromised, so they will be looking to join such secure networks. This need for security is what makes the continued use of these operations by law enforcement viable, since criminals have no choice but to seek out these encrypted apps.
And now they're locked into an implementation that is order-preserving, even if an optimization tomorrow could eke out another 10%, if ordering was not guaranteed.
About biofuels... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpEB6hCpIGM
I'd be surprised if there were more than a tiny tiny minority of people who even know what you're talking about
Hi ow can I pay to get the encoder into my FF? Like I paid to get some en/decoding in my raspberry pi’s.
I don't know of any other well-known web server with the same featureset. For instance, it has no configuration file, it's run from xinetd statelessly/single-threaded, it runs itself in a chroot and it's short enough to be readable without specific effort.

It also isn't brand new: it's been around since 2004. So that probably narrows the range of possible competitors even more.

If you can find a webserver that meets all of those constraints, please let us know.
Damn that's useful. Thank you!
This is such an unrealistically pessimistic assessment.

You just need to count the number of rooftop solar installations there are in the world to get an idea of the market size. Another $2k investment to get significantly more value out of an existing multithousand outlay would be a no brainer for most of them.
It is a thin line, most of these groups are in contact with lawyer teams before they start the operations and the lawyers are in the know.
These groups do risk assessment before going ahead.
althttpd has CGI, sometimes interesting.
As part of my summer internship, I had to sign a similar "anti-competion clause", stating I couldn't work in any similar company or compete in the same domain for the next 5 years. I'm a 20-year-old student, I'll be working on the marketing team to assist with web design and photography for a few weeks in a bio-medical start-up. Is it really necessary? I feel that it does more damage to me than the company by limiting my employment choices in the near future, I'm there to promote the company, not steal years of research.
The big blow isn't the amount of drugs or cash taken, it's the grabbing of relatively high ranking people in the organization, and the absolute shattering of their communication.

I bet a bunch of them will go back to in-person communication only for a long while after this, slowing things down considerably.
Do factories require batteries?
I yelled "WOW!"

XVim2 is getting more unstable for each new iteration of XCode. I am putting my trust in Apple for this one.
The same architect made series similar systems that were slightly more practical. Especially the CF-10 kiosk.

These things suffer from the typical fault of the 60's and 70's architecture. Architects were experimenting with new materials and techniques they didn't know well. Some of them ignored basics like good ventilation or where the dew point is inside the house wall.

Old pictures from the era don't convey the formaldehyde smell and electric shocks from your clothes, rugs, and furniture. Or black mold in a 5-year-old building.

Venturo:

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

https://www.iconichouses.org/news/venturo-house-complements-...
Sweden just announced 155 arrests: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/europol-berattar-om-det-o...
The perfect setup would be an M1 iPad that runs something iOS-like when it is in tablet mode and then switches to macOS when in laptop mode, keeping the apps running. At least, one can dream…
Trains can already be electrified without the need for batteries.

For the case of buses, I think there is an elegant solution that they have begun to use in my city. Historically, they already have been electric cables around the city for pantograph buses. However, it is expensive to run electric cables around the city, so they are only a handfull of lines using this technology.

Now they are introducing hybrid battery / pantographs buses. Which I think a good compromise because you only need to equip a fraction of the line with electric cables, and the battery takes care of the rest. Because of that, you don't need a huge battery for the bus to be able to run all day. It can recharge periodically on the line with the pantograph.

Concerning trucks and cars, yes that shit needs to be electrified ASAP.
This was specifically seeded into the criminal world. It's not like they cracked Signal, or whatever.

It's not an infiltration of the app, it's an infiltration of the criminal organizations, using an app they made.
AFAIK FreeRTOS is a kernel and distributed as a single file.
Is that book worth reading ? I am half-way through and I still don't see the point ;)
> Producing synthetic fuels would remove carbon from the environment before releasing it on use again, leading to a net-zero effect.

Unfortunately, that assumes producing those synthetic fuels has no carbon output other than the fuel itself.
When I was deciding on which country to immigrate to in 2006 I had three job offers: one from Canada, one from the US and from the UK so those were the potential targets. The CFAA and the Sklyarov case were among the major reasons I decided against the USA.
how many bugs may the 1000 layers bring. If each layer has 3 LOC it's more than the webserver in the first place.
This loop doesn’t test them all - it tests every 1/127th integer, so it only runs about 16 million times.