skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not yet on resuming downloads. No principled reason, just haven't gotten to it yet.

LAN discovery is handled by Tailscale's network engine, a couple layers of abstraction below the file sending. We're going to add some mdns stuff in there at some point (similar to WebRTC's privacy-preserving LAN endpoint discovery), but the benefit of running this all over Tailscale's network engine is that file transfer works exactly the same whether you're on the same LAN as the target, or halfway across the internet. The only variable is how fast the file moves.
So my immediate thought was, what if I want to use Tailscale as a backend fabric for enabling a new P2P application?

It doesn’t seem like a scenario / use case envisioned in their pricing page.
Australians knew more about American politics day to day during Trumps presidency than we did our own politics. It was surreal.
For nearly a decade, they preferred to open addresses with Apple Maps instead of my preference of Google Maps. And they gave me no option to use Google Maps as the default. Apple defaulted to their own apps and I think they still do (I’m not sure if this changed)
Very sweet idea!
Huh? But that’s the whole business model of search ads. If you manipulate the organic results then shame on your whole family but sticking ads at the top is to me pretty benign as long as they’re clearly labeled — and on the App Store and Google Search they are.
Yeah, people need to believe in something - faith is part of our human nature, and that's why it's a phenomenon across the globe. As an Eastern Orthodox, I don't need any ideology other than Orthodoxy, which defines my value system and which pretty much gives me an answer for all the good and bad happening; it's unifying, not dividing. That's why I have a hard time associating myself with any secular ideology, as they all conflict with Orthodoxy in one or many ways. I always found it funny that Republicans in the States often present themselves as Christians. Still, they don't act as such - in fact, their values predate Christ and are based on the Old Testament ("An eye for an eye," etc.) and ignore the existence of the New Testament and the teachings of Christ.
Try to remember, a mother, including yours, is just a girl with her own dreams.
Is this common? I've always told folks at my previous job where I was going, and have asked people where they are headed to when they leave.
Imagine if Jessica were to tell female founders "You shouldn't be a founder" just to test whether they were determined enough.

I hope this kind of gatekeeping eventually dies.
You’re arguing semantics. For many Americans, religion implies the existence of god. Your definition of religion is too vague for debate.
Anom
And konsole

(And pretty much every Linux terminal)
I agree with the parent, you’re argument almost appears disingenuous to the point of looking like a troll or bait. This perspective is substituting any belief with a religious belief which is a false equivalency. It’s unfortunate that the grandparent is the top comment right now.
Quite.

A principle limitation is that there's no security component, so anyone with segmented knowledge will not be having a good time. But pretty much anything else.

Using dict you can specify the target dictionary using the '-d <dictionary>' option. This can of course also be aliased or written into shell functions.
There is far more to be gained via silent espionage on the internet at large. It's worth far more than all cryptocurrency.

Whoever is hoarding pcap's encrypted with ECC will have a field day. This is the reason for the urgent push by NIST/NSA to roll out qc resistant crypto.

Cryptocurrency is a sensational sideshow in comparison.
Because HIPA Law. Why do you have the right to ask me about my medical history?
Mine too. It's quite a surprise to see him show up on HN. Such a simple deed with such huge significance. It reminds me to think about what I might be able to do that could end up being life-changing for others someday.

It's a shame that he lost his career over it. I'm glad to see him finally getting the recognition he deserves.
Because of how expensive scandium is, I imagine this would be more practical for use in electronic components for use in space travel. Especially when going from cold space to hot planets.
I feel like the milk is the more likely culprit maybe?
I’m vaccinated and I would not like a bar that “requires” vaccine proof. I’m not sharing my medical file with a bar and the little card that I got with my vaccination is not meaningful proof.

There’s no public Heath guidance to check for vaccination, so this is just bars trying to be overzealous.
Was quite shocking the first time my message got blocked.

I am part of autoimmune support groups where plaqunial is a normal treatment. Pre pandemic.

Get constant warnings and fact checks about plaqunial.

Friends regularly have their post “fact checked” of course always by liberal sources.

Full blown 1984 / animal farm these days.
Same in Canada. The CBC was particularly egregious. The "World" section was just the "US Politics" section. I stopped reading; but, of course, like all Canadians, I have kept funding it.
Do you have examples of exploits in the non-sandboxed JSON parser? That code doesn't appear to have any security/memory safety related fixes in the last 2 years: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+log/refs...

It's not clear what the return would be from rewriting that code in rust.
Eh, my mom's not 60 yet - but I wouldn't be mad at her if she did something like this (not that she ever would). I think parents are entitled to be individuals, especially if they've already fulfilled the core parental duties of raising their own children. They don't owe their kids anything else after that.
Upper information bound on your brain
It's BeyondCorp done at a network layer. You have cryptographic trust that traffic from specific IP ranges are specific people, you get a flat network topology for your infra/team/etc, and it works in the most hostile network environments.

The tailscale team has gone through great lengths to handle a lot of edge cases and hacks in the infrastructure at many corporate networks.
> (see Wuhan virus lab origin issues where it was impossible to discuss this in 2020 without being silenced

Funny

The reason it cannot be discussed is because the us president decided to politicize the issue front and center. That inevitably forces the heavy hand censorship. Because any rational people see the danger of fueling the political crusade that was used purposefully by the most powerful individual on earth, at the crucial juncture when the unified national movement is critical to prevent large scale casualty.

That's exactly the right use of silencing certain topics.

As for what's happening now. I am all for root causing, as a person feeling positive to China's handling of covid 19.

But boy, once the first bad guy started this political drama. No one can proceed objectively any more. China will resit all the steps for carrying out investigation in China. Not because they know something bad would be found. But because they are feared that someone is going to manufacture the evidence one way or another regardless any findings.

In the old Chinese saying: one drop of rat dropping ruined the whole pot of porridge. (一颗老鼠屎坏了一锅粥)
It’s Time for Congress to Support Fusion Energy
What’s a better noun for “abstract resource I can use to do computations on?” Because computer is too general — literally encompassing everything, or too specific — as a synonym for a PC.
I love how poetic this sounds.
Not really an opinion when science favors the assertion unlike wanting to believe in an illogical fantasy.
The idea is to get there eventually, and taildrop is the first example/experiment in that area.

In theory a bunch of individuals on the free plan should be able to build arbitrarily complex networks by using the (also free) node sharing feature: https://tailscale.com/kb/1084/sharing/

In practice, probably needs more stuff added before that's truly realistic. But we're always looking for feedback on how to make it easier.
Object Oriented Ontology or How a machine thinks
There was a property in a neighbouring suburb to where I live that is on a main road about 500m downwind from the city wastewater plant and bordering an industrial estate with a concrete plant that sold recently for 1.4m AUD.

I'm assuming they got a permit to subdivide which made it more valuable, but still an insane price.

The land cost $38k in 1988 and it was sold a couple of times in the last five years in the 500/600k range. For the boomer generation that bought years ago, they're laughing. Not so much the millennials unless they can inherit these overpriced properties.
The really interesting idea here is that once you change the frame of reference, or start from a different technical basis, features like Taildrop become incredibly easy to build and design - it seems like it almost built itself. It seems like the same goes for interfaces or platforms… once you have a computer in your pocket capable of 11T operations per second, you get a lot of stuff “for free” right out of the box.
2020: sales 247b, gross profit 109b, tax 9b.

Based on their official numbers: 8.25% tax

But... That tax is total tax with a bunch of stuff that might be delayed, so I'd say it's not really 9b in real terms..

But even so... That gross profit of 109b, is shady. I'm sure they put a lot of IP costs and crap like that to lower that number.

Considering all this, I'd say to the real tax they pay is less than 5%.

Source: https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/AAPL/financials/annua...
If I search for something and it exists, I expect to see it. If necessary put the ad after the result I expect to see. Even with them labelled as ads. That is a better approach.

The "its just how it is" kind of narrative isn’t great either. I'd never want to hear that from anyone implying they are innovators or creative types. Especially when the "how it is" aspect is something created as a matter of deliberate choice and not some natural law.
A very different San Francisco.

I’ve had dinner at that Hilton several times.
Stealth doesn't mean invisible it's just a much reduced footprint. That canary going Mach 2 should raise suspicions.
Related article and video: “Mom who survived Mao’s China calls critical race theory America’s Cultural Revolution”
https://nypost.com/2021/06/10/mom-who-survived-maos-china-bl...
Perhaps probabilistic quantum effects offer a way to disguise deliberate runtime manipulations from internal observers.
The Argentina Paradox: microexplanations and macropuzzles
Files promotes their iCloud. How can you compete with that?

Scenario 1: you search Dropbox, but you get files. You install that. Then they bother you to use iCloud. You'll never look for Dropbox.

Scenario 2: you search Dropbox, you get to use Dropbox. I doubt you'll use iCloud.

You see who wins in each scenario?

Anyway.. I think there is no point wasting time building any apps for these giants. I doubt will provide any income for long term. Eventually will die.
Correction: Those are remains of some other font which the author modified to make the Comicmono. So "ä" and "a" look different and the size is not exactly right.
If the market is rigged, blame the market.

I don’t like many of the accounting tricks Apple pulls either, but as long as Apple’s competitors are pulling the same tricks, singling out Apple doesn’t solve the problem. Yes Apple are a huge company, but they are utterly minuscule relative to the overall economy.
I think it's necessary to criticize technical work (or any work) as long as the people involved care about achieving good results and making things work.

Agreed that we should not be excessively abrasive, and I think the facebook post is leaning that way - but I don't think a world without criticism can work - at a certain point in any field you have to face reality, in which some things work and some don't, and to protect every person involved from "emotional repercussions" is impossible because generally people's beliefs and feelings are all over the map.

At any rate I'm not sure the author of LD_PRELOAD or ELF dynamic symbol interposition is scanning this thread - and after ~30 years distance might have different opinions about them, or at least a thicker skin :)
Better in every conceivable way but make lots of people mad because of the way they deliver which is talking end-to-end control of the product?
Edward Gibbon does ascribe some positive qualities to Nero; but Domitian or Commodus after his early years, they were just plain cruel.
Bad timing to be releasing a book about the Astros cheating scandal and claiming it "nearly ruined baseball" as MLB is currently embroiled in an even bigger cheating scandal. This was published a week ago by Sports Illustrated[1]: "This Should Be the Biggest Scandal in Sports". But baseball has survived everything from a World Series being throw to the steroids scandals of the 90s. It will survive these scandals too.

[1] - https://www.si.com/mlb/2021/06/04/sticky-stuff-is-the-new-st...
Here in Canada we've had BLM protests, "defund the police" and "ACAB". I don't really understand. As far as I'm concerned Canada is about as close to a utopia as you can get on this planet. We have one of the lowest crime rates in the world. I'm pretty sure if we "defunded the police", things would only get worse.

AFAIK, the "defund the police" chant was supposed to be in response to American police forces buying army vehicles and gear. That is not a thing in Canada. I also get the general impression that whoever came up with "defund the police" has anarchist inclinations. It's basically doublespeak. They keep saying that "defund the police" only means "reform the police", but what they actually want is to dismantle the police, which is exactly what "defund the police" sounds like.
Zynga leveraging facebook messaging for viral growth before facebook banned it
Virtually all hospitalized Covid patients have one thing in common: unvaccinated
Remember when Circleci kept going down due to weirdness with their queued jobs in their database?

Read here
https://status.circleci.com/incidents/8rklh3qqckp1
JSON is just a straightforward example because it's easy to understand how it falls into Chromium's threat model. Feel free to replace it with font parsing, audio/video codecs, etc, and you'll find thousands of relevant vulns.
It seems to basically be tinc but “modernized”
No.

If you Google "Dropbox" it doesn't return Google Drive as the top result.

And if you Google "Firefox" it doesn't return Chrome at the top.

Now it might sometimes show ads for competitors, but the actual organic search results show what you're actually looking for.
I have recorded a weather radar and uploaded it to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLz0ZYw4Hdw
Had first hand experience of this. I maintain an opensource project which is popular on NPM. An issue was raised in our github about we should have a statement of support for BLM in our readme. I said no as politely and diplomatically as possible. I would rather the project remains non-political, they said that made me complicit.

The thing is I am from Europe. I think BLM is a very worthy policial movement, as do I also think there are injustices in palestine and the with Uyghurs etc, but we are going to end up with most of our Readme filed with political statements at that rate. What to me as a Euro gives extra merit to US politics than that of the rest of the world?
There will be a full writeup on this system later on, but the diskette that contained this letter of resignation was part of what remained of the author's 8" diskette library, and contained a lot of 8080/Z80 code he'd written. He's deceased now, the fellow who passed the system on to me never knew him either, but digging through that much of someone's code and notes (a banker's box of documentation), I at least sort of feel like I end up in the programmer's shoes a bit.

Unfortunately, it seems this machine had a fault in its floppy drive controller some time in late 1985 or early 1986 (files stopped being updated). The fault caused any writes at all to disk to clobber whatever was under the write heads. So, this is about the end of the information I've got w.r.t. personal correspondence, etc.
I will probably fix this issue and the "l"-issue too. And add it my to my collection of Stolen Fonts: https://github.com/timonoko/fonts
instantly tell whether an arbitrary sentence is grammatical or not

You do realize we can train a neural network to perform this task? It is a binary classification problem. When I look at a grammatically incorrect sentence I don't do much symbolic reasoning - it just feels "wrong" to me. It does not match any patterns I have in my head for grammatically correct sentences. There's a lot of pattern matching in our thinking process.

What's missing in the current generation of neural networks is efficient information storage and ability to recall that information (e.g. lookup) or update it (direct write).
> I guess this is rigorous confirmation of the slow news day = talk about anything, crisis = talk about Michael Jackson's death for six months model of news broadcasting.

Well, yes, but it is also implying "slow news is good news".
America spent more than half its life being "racially essentialist" and most of its policies went irrationally out of their way to specifically make sure that black people and Chinese immigrants had their neighborhoods destroyed. Unless you want to preserve post-Civil Rights America only.
I'll be surprised if it's still around (as in not killed by Google) in a few years. Besides, I don't see it ever becoming popular enough to be an alternative to Linux outside of Google.
My wife's grandfather and his family as well. Sugihara is an honored name in our home.
In that way we're very much like the Romans drinking from lead pipes. What, with the drinking from lead pipes and all.
I believe the funding and research conduction for fusion should be a global cooperative effort, like the International Space Station was, but it should involve more countries than the ISS ever did. If any one country cracks the code to fusion, then they can use it for undue political gains.
Yeah, I just couldn’t come up with something safer than that while also being big.

Elephants are mostly safe, except the male ones occasionally snap and hunt humans. So…
Lawsuit claims iPhone and other Apple devices infringe on wireless patents
Have you gotten a chance to use cxx in a large “production” “legacy” c++ codebase? It’s great but there’s quite a few roadblocks that I encountered even trying something I would have considered that should be “easy”. I could easily imagine that Chromium would have an even tougher time. Some highlights:

* if you’re not careful, you’ll end up with linkage issues if you link in multiple crates. This means 1 uber create that has all your Rust dependencies. This can mess with parallelism in your build since Cargo isn’t coordinating with the broader system.

* speaking of build systems, chromium probably wouldn’t use create meaning extra build system integration, especially since they don’t use Bazel/Blaze.

* cxx still can’t pass across certain types (Arc and Option being the big ones) and is missing a general story for extending it with custom types.

* cxx can frequently cause you to have to reach to unsafe anyway because the lifetime semantics you want to express cannot be done in pure Rust because the other half lives in c++.

Don’t get me wrong. Rust is fantastic and a joy to use. Dismissing the challenges a project like Chromium has as “they just want to stick to c++” isn’t a fair look at the situation. Lots of smart people work on these projects and are keenly aware of Rust. Additionally managers and executives are keenly aware of the security benefits so there’s definitely downward pressure to try to adopt these (and large efforts spent investigating how to enable this whole maintaining developer velocity).
Worked for a company doing tens or hundreds of millions in sales a year (automated metrology machinery). VP did stuff like this. It was illegal in the jurisdiction in which they operated, but it happened anyway.
Same upbringing - sugary cereals were a treat, rarely purchased.

Once after I had moved out to my own apartment, my local grocery store had a massive sale on Captain Crunch, like 50 cents a box, it was insane.

My roommate and I filled my car with them, guessing 100 boxes of cereal. It’s all we ate for about two weeks before we found ourselves stuck with about half of our purchase sitting in the storage closet for the remainder of our lease.

Still can’t touch it to this day, grosses me out.
I have stopped posting to Facebook when they would just randomly kill my posts. Just things I thought were funny or sarcastic (all before covid). Now I am just interested in peoples life events. My timeline is devoid of anything.
I’m curious, what hypothetical scenario do you imagine where Apple got any real world benefit from having files appear above Dropbox when searching for “dropbox”?

Setting aside whether Files is a competitor (which I’m honestly not sure it is) I would imagine that at least 99% of the time, a person searching for a specific product by name isn’t in a mind space to be conquered by a competitor.
It may be shocking, but this is often what happens when people discover their monastic calling in adulthood. Buddha famously abandoned his wife and infant son when he decided to pursue his path.

Furthermore, some people have little contact with their children for even weaker reasons. The fact is that we are inclined to judge women harshly for actions which would hardly seem remarkable for, say, a male rock star.
What would your occupation be if you had followed your childhood dreams?
Of course they would. It is antithetical to their business model.
The exact quote was "In fact, Dropbox wasn't even visible on the first page".
I think the idea is that he was not any nastier than the rest of Roman society, and in some cases possibly less so.
> When I've tried to predict social unrest or market volatility from the news, I've found, than news actually trailing important events and are useless for any sorts of prediction.

It might be useful though to be able to distinguish actual social unrest from the astroturf variety.
There's a duplicate of this comment below, also by a new account: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27489313

Is this account real?
What about printers/scanners? Can it make your entire LAN available over a single device?
The SQLite Amalgamation
For one, it's a completely different font. It being monospace is pretty much the only similarity.
"the little card that I got with my vaccination is not meaningful proof."

It's more meaningful than using the honor system.

And it's not your "medical file" a lot more than your driver's license is. It tells one significant detail about your medical history, and that is it.

I prefer bars where I know I am safe, and one where there are people like yourself who claim to be vaccinated but resist showing proof, don't make me feel safe.
App developers are Apple contractors, not small business owners.
I fully agree, but man, that upper-case G just looks naked. Even a small hook to the right would be a big help.
Civilisation faces 'perfect storm of ecological and social problems'
Diving is risky, whales are not.
I’m sure the First Nations people would also agree.
I've never paid 23andMe a penny after the initial test -- every new report they release is given away to past customers for free.
Assuming that every mile is essential is quite a leap.
Oh totally. There's tons of applications where some small widget needs stupendously low thermal expansion. Atomic force microscopy immediately comes to mind; lots of metrology use cases in general.