skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Five hours is a gross underestimate for the time it takes to build a robust and scalable webhooks delivery system, and even that is just for the delivery system itself. You also need to build the UI for your users, libraries for verifying signatures and etc.

All of this assumes you know what you are doing and can just write the code. It doesn't even take into account the research you need to do to make sure you cover all of the security (and other) consideration that GP seemed to have already known about and took care of.
I used a bookmarklet on chrome

> javascript:(function(){console.log("monitor event"); window.addEventListener('message', (e) => {console.log(e);});})();

that way I can click the bookmark and start monitoring events whenever I want
> But when looking at who got Covid, the numbers are tiny.

True, of a sample size of 40,000 a small number got COVID. Thankfully it is big enough as the efficacy numbers have proven very accurate in real world measurements.
Paperwork is the national sport of Japan.
China successfully launches mission sending astronauts to new space station
I wonder if CureVac can come back from this, or are they toast?
In Germany the accident or health insurance company can (and sometimes will) sue the owner of the playground for the cost of treatment, and the parents of the child can sue the owner of the playground for the copay and pain and suffering. So there is still liability of a similar amount, just the parties suing are somewhat different. There are just no punitive damages.

That is why every playground will only buy certified safe devices or get an overall certification by a known certification body. That usually cuts the lawsuit risk down to negligent maintenance. Also, there is liability insurance which everyone in their right minds has (of course you need to check if running a playground is covered).
If I weren't so annoyed at the whole thing I would find it deeply amusing in a sort of absurdist way.
Another argument: text-based protocols often admit too many degrees of freedom in constructing messages, the handling of which is left underspecified and completely overlooked during implementation. (What happens if you separate lines with LF instead of CRLF in HTTP headers? What if the opening and closing HTML tags don't match? I know this should not usually happen, but how should I handle it when it does anyway?)

It's not by any means exclusive to text-based protocols, but there's this tendency to assume everything about a text-based protocols is ‘obvious’, ‘self-documenting’ and doesn't need specifying, and to think that just because the individual elements of the protocol are human-readable, this will somehow magically make the computers using the protocol follow the Gricean maxims (if it doesn't make sense, nobody will ever say that, therefore I don't need to think about it).
Discussion about the original announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27520496
Microsoft Ubuntu repositories are broken because of space issues
Well, the roads are safe (for cars). For pedestrians, it's mostly barely adequate.
This is tangential but you seems really knowledgeable about the payments industry. Can you perhaps recommend some sources to understand how the payments infrastructure works (POS but also web/online/mobile)? I only seem to have a broad idea and would love to understand the nitty-gritty of it all!
Good question!
These are the main reasons:

Fastly has much faster cache purging - it can purge any content globally in about 150ms. Purging is one of THE crucial parts which make GraphCDN work. With such a fast purging, we can deliver Read-after-write consistency .
In our tests with Cloudflare that took a few seconds.

Additionally, in our tests, Fastly was in general just a bit faster.

While we're also JavaScript and V8 fans, our edge layer on Fastly is written in Rust - which is a pleasure to use, especially for a product as ours. Fastly runs it as WASM on the edge - they can load the worker in about 40 microseconds.

Fastly Compute@Edge is still in limited availability, but if you get a chance, I highly recommend checking it out!
OK, I see where the difference comes from. What happened in the Eastern block is very different from the events in Russia. In the bloc, most people were anti-communist to the core, and the anti-Russian sentiment was very vivid, because they were the occupants. In the end people were marching shouting "Ivan go home". These things obviously couldn't happen in Russia. In the bloc, it was double liberation: from communism and from Russian influence. In the end some people got rich, some got poor, but for the first time we saw the middle class, people who were able to spend a bit more than they earn. Also the value of freedom is something you can't appreciate unless it's taken from you.

In Russia, things were vastly different. What happened in the 90s is very often compared to treason. People, normal people were left to themselves; the state was unable (or unwilling) to deal with poverty and rising crime. Not just ordinary crime but organized on an enormous scale. The satellite countries drifted off. Now Putin is feeding on the longing of some for the imperial past.

I'm sorry to say that the Russian people have had very bad luck with their leaders over centuries. Sure, this happened in other countries too, and the French Revolution shows clearly how the poor masses felt about their rulers. The Russian Revolution did the same, albeit later, also killing a lot more folks on the way. When Stalin rose to power, the terror was even worse. You'd think that after Stalin's death people will finally start living in a relaxed way, but the communist system was still suffocating people, in this way or another. The Gorbachev/Yeltsin moment was a great chance to finally break this bad chain and have a truly free country. Russian people are wonderful, they also have many extremely smart personalities, some of them completely unknown in the West, some - like Grigori Perelman - known only in a small part and only because living in our times. I believe that through common effort Russians could construct an excellent form of government bringing benefit to everyone. But of course, with the current oligarchy system, it's way too late.
After spending countless hours researching, trying (and then abandoning) notetaking apps such as OneNote, Evernote, Zimwiki, plain markdown files, and more, I ended up writing notes in Docx and then putting them on Onedrive.
While Docx might be clunky, I could edit it from my phone, on the web, and on my desktop. I could put images in them. The file format has enough momentum that I am sure I could still open it 20 years from now.

Most importantly, I could store the Docx file next to my other project resources, and when I am done, I could archive the whole folder away.
Mostly crazy people.

edit: but it's sad how little attention people pay. Ghaddafi predicted the mass-immigration problems that Europe now faces. Libya, for all it's faults, was the place to go for anyone born in Africa looking to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Not just free education - salaried education. Free electricity. Free farmland and equipment. He did plenty of wrong in his life, but he also did some things right as a political leader.
Isn't that just 35 bits?
Swift TensorFlow wasn't an Apple thing, I think. And it never made sense in the first place ...
FYI: there's an average of 400 small airplane (GA) crashes per year. So finding one is not surprising, and unless a passenger died, the NTSB simply doesn't care.
Which also encodes information - https://new-order.fandom.com/wiki/Peter_Saville%27s_Code
Attestations, but I believe no true audits.
> Short of war, there’s absolutely nothing that can be done.

Embargo them to the neck, like Japan before WW2.
Thanks a lot benjamoon ! It probably is the main animation on the landing page. We'll look into it - maybe we'll just disable the animation on mobile.
> The China envisioned in Made in China 2025 already has access to a large population of consumers: the Chinese population.

Not for long. The Chinese population is aging incredibly rapidly. Younger Chinese who could contribute to a stable consumer base will instead be crushed attempting to support the accelerating number in older generations retiring.
I've been down this rabbit hole too many times. My advice is take notes - it is good and fun. There are lots of ways to take notes, pick one you like and stay happy. While there are differences between approaches, the big thing is notes or no notes. Also remember, what works well for you might not be the same as what is hip at the moment...
I did a lot of research on the topic when I started my university studies in microengineering. At the start of uni, there's a lot of money and time being spent by students to set up the "best note taking environment" to ensure their success, usually resulting in expensive iPad Pros with Apple Pencils or the Windows Surface equivilent. In the end I chose a simple piece of software for my 2012 Thinkpad: OneNote. Why? Equation support. There are so many problems with it, but after trialing it against paper and pen, I never looked back, just for the ability to quickly flip back to last-year's lecture/exercices on-the-go. We each have our own journey and find our preferred solution, but here are a few reasons why I chose OneNote over the plethora of other available solutions.

It's free. I wouldn't mind paying for something, but this gives you peace of mind that it will stay yours without restrictions, like Google Docs/Sheets/etc. Secondly, it's fast. It's an optimized Windows app that starts in the blink of an eye and uses few system resources. It's visually simple, doens't distract you and has nice smooth animations, it's easier to read/write formatted text with equations than muck around with Markdown/LaTeX. Instant sync, in fact, real-time like Google Docs between devices. The equation support is great once you learn it, it's almost as good as LaTeX. It has pretty decent spell check (although I wish I could set a preferred writing language and not have it deduce from my active keyboard). Good organisation into books, sections and pages. Students get unlimited storage with OneDrive, so no problem there, and trust me, it will be a while until you exhaust your free storage with note taking. Paste images/screen captures, tables. I've never used the pen mode because I don't have any device with a stylus, but I prefer text anyway for it's searchability and typing speed. It takes a little while to really understand the formatting engine, but once you get a feel for the markdown-like underlying invisible structure, it makes it easier to format and move things around. You create your own style and organisation that you can understand and navigate quickly.

It's one of the things keeping me on Windows, sadly. Encryption is absolutely not important for me for lecture note-taking, anything remotly important I'll stick in 1password or on a locally encrypted drive. The day I want to migrate, I'll export it as PDF and archive it in the fairly unlikely event I will want to refer back to something. Over time I've learnt that what's in your head is more important than having a perfectly organised personal wiki of knowledge. I would reconsider it for the long-term, but it's fantastic to use something that feels polished and backed by a large company, like GMail vs settings up your own VPS/email software and client. I'm not a fan of big-tech endorsed products, but I can't seem to keep myself away from this one.
I think the head wound itself would cause pain, but I'm not sure the bone scraping would cause more than some slight discomfort.
Please look at the VAERS data yourself: https://vaers.hhs.gov/data.html. The combined number of adverse reactions for all vaccines under the sun in 2019 is 48,444. The same number in '21 is 316,929. The difference is due to COVID-19 vaccines. I'm getting it, because the benefits outweigh the risks, but let's be real about both sides of the equation.
I do 8:45 to 7 and I dont even understand your point. I worked in France and in Hong Kong, I never heard of 9 to 5, and we re supposed to do 35 hours :D

Or no lunch break ?
Saddam Hussein was contained regarding neighboring states. As to atrocities towards the Iraqi people, sanctions and loosing the wars just put those into full gear, because Hussein had to quell the brewing rebellion. So you are right, sanctions may work in preventing a war. But they do nothing beneficial for the internal workings of a country, like executing teens for protesting in the OP.
Joplin doesn't appear to support syncing via iCloud though.
Tell HN: Stop your emails from being tracked by disabling auto images download
This matches the experience I had during my university studies. I saw that professors are often highly "educated" but lack very basic emotional intelligence. This is really sad to see, as it shows how our education system lacks when we can only teach people to do rational thinking to solve rational problems in the outside world but do not provide them means to conduct themselves and others in a graceful manner. This is so poor, made me really sad. When I saw this more in more in my professors I became more and more despised when I saw the blind awe that my fellow students had towards these professors when I saw them more and more like pitiful "rational intelligence" heaps that have never learned methods to become peaceful, joyful and loving on the inside...

Not saying that all professors are like that though, I also had two professors whom I greatly appreciated for their philanthropy!
If you have ADHD, what's the value of getting it diagnosed? How much wasted time would be needed to get it diagnosed? And how much wasted time would be needed until a doctor hits on the right prescription for you?
Nushell is a new shell. In a nutshell, nushell handles pipes like powershell in a structured data type instead of a string/stream based pipe.
Older Chinese are still consumers, they'll bog down younger Chinese no more than US consumers will. It's not like US consumers are providing anything other than capital and a market as it stands. And a transition to higher end products and associated manufacturing means less low end workers (and less workers overall) needed to make that happen.
I understand your point about being able to write proper bash scripts. On the one hand, I never use Java as my shell, but I am able to write proper Java programs just fine; why should bash be different?

On the other hand, I've been using Bourne-ish shells (mostly bash with short bouts of zsh) for twenty-plus years and I have no clue about arrays. (I know the difference between "$@" and "$*" (including the quotes), but that's it.) Now I have been using fish for a year or so, and I also have no clue about arrays in fish... :-)
Sun at some point built a CPU that could run java bytecode "natively". That sounds nicer than it actually is when you realize that most practical optimizations happen at run time in Java.

WASM is very similar in that it typically gets executed by a jit and that compilers don't try to optimize too much ahead of time. WASM is optimized for loading quickly in a JIT. It also shares the issue that it needs to run on a very wide variety of hardware architectures. So it is not optimized for any particular one.
It's been so long since I delved into this I can't remember what I used to call it - but people should have the ability to opt out of types of ads and opt in to other types with fine grain control.. this would make the ads delivered more valuable too.

give people the option to turn off moving ads, turn off ads for alcohol, gambling.. opt in to 'cat ads' or opt in to getting amazon ads on pages - or something -

this way there are options and control and no longer have to say 'no one likes ads'.

I've written longer and more detail with similar in the past.
> war, terrorism, cyber attacks, disinformation campaigns, corporate or political espionage, releasing state secrets, stoking geopolitical tensions, creating anti-US coalitions, etc.

You just listed every thing what The New Axis has done in the previous decade.
CDN outage brings down bank and airline systems
Could be interesting to see comparative studies of vaccines.

Right now the efficacy numbers seem be affected by when and where the studies were done.
Do you have a particular use case in mind?

I think that the WebAssembly world needs more programming languages that produce short byte code to be useful in browsers (and that's why I thing Go with its stdlib is not an appropriate source language for the browser environment). Do you think that Stabel could fit that area?
You don't even have to look to geopolitical analogies. It's an everyday thing, all the way down to basic "exclusive club" gatekeeping.

There's a longstanding tendency across financial systems historically to use the law to bar access to the "real" products for various reasons that happen to favor the incumbent elite. Instead, if you get any access, it's the version mediated by a middleman of some kind. There is often a rationalization in play, but the effective control over societal outcomes is the same.

Want to found a disruptive company in 16th century Europe? You had better have a royal charter.

Maybe it's the 19th century and you have a great invention: "Patent fees for England alone amounted to £100-£120 ($585) or approximately four times per capita income in 1860." [0]

You're a laborer in 1900, and you've pooled a little nest egg you want to use to trade stocks? You can't afford the real stuff, so you will have to play in a bucket shop.

You're a middle-class Black person in the 1950's US and you want to own a home or start a business? Redlining ensures that you won't get a good deal or your neighborhood of choice, neither will you get a loan from the major banks(at least, not one on reasonable terms).

And so I have to conclude that the whole basis of the debt system is always subject to some form of gatekeeping, at some point, and that's what has drawn people back to precious metal exchange over centuries, despite its limits. We've been through a long period where debt worked really well, because our economies experienced industrial growth patterns and could coexist within a stable framework(some world wars and interventions notwithstanding). That does not mean it's better or forever.

The same kind of framework is in the process of being enforced in cryptocurrency; cypherpunk-friendly privacy coins that have some adherence to Bitcoin's original spirit like Monero or ZCash have been delisted from most exchanges through regulatory pressure, while defanged "blockchain economy" tokens have stones-throw availability and heavy promotion. Meanwhile a substantial number of token exchange services will play games with your ability to withdraw to keys you own.

But I think that's going to be about as hopeless an endeavor as stopping music piracy was; it's abundantly clear that we're headed towards a long term trend of breakdown in "trust me" debt economies and their model of operation, even if some of the leaks get plugged in the near term in the way that Spotify "solved" piracy[1]; what "trust me" now results in at Internet scale is increasingly sophisticated ransomware hacking. So, while debt and lending itself could still exist and be a rewarding venture, tokens lacking credible mechanisms to back their fundamental value and consensus are going to wash out.

(I also think the El Salvador plan is a stunt - a way of marketing the country with a side of personal benefit - albeit one that could become consequential in surprising, unpredictable ways, in the way Bitcoin has been generally.)

[0] https://eh.net/encyclopedia/an-economic-history-of-patent-in...
[1] https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2018/03/22/music-piracy-spo...
I got some flack giving a presentation that mentioned civilian participation in my organisations business by Chinese companies. The US Admiral that I was talking to (the topic was innovation - so no secrets) railed about us collaborating with entities that were alien to our core values. I could not reply - without unemployment - but all the time I thought about US support for Saudi - where the Admiral undoubtedly had served, and what kind of core values does that demonstrate?
That blanket statement is unwarranted. Due to various signal limitations, newer protocol can have fewer retransmissions and may use less transmit power.

Especially later revisions of 4G and all 5G due to MIMO and signal power estimates for roaming. Also may allow the use of local WiFi to save power.

It would be nice to use newer protocols on lower frequencies for range but regulation is what it is.

Trust the phone to do the right thing.
Si Das ist richtig Google’s reportedly building a Duolingo competitor
We had a bully at school and he beat me up 2 times. After that i always had a stone in my pocket, long story short, he had a hole in his skull and never did it again, no consequences for me (apart from a some explanations). But i was 9.
There’s not a strong definition and most attempts end up defining regular games as well. So it’s more a self label of intent by the creators.
I think they raised a lot of money an IPO last year.
> The web was just fine before ads and it would readjust if they were gone.

Ah the halcyon days between 1991 and 1994 ....
Google adds encrypted messaging to its Android app
“housing regulations that impoverish California’s working class while enriching landowners.”

Unsubstantiated opinion.
Why cyber gangs won't worry about US-Russia talks
So it blocks "Malware and Adult Content", but that has never caused trouble in my family. What about the online games that distract from schoolwork, chores, and sleep? YouTube is full of stupid videos. You can even find games on Khan Academy!
I don't see any mention of support for subscriptions on your website. Is that currently supported or is it on the roadmap?

Also to seed an idea for you, it'd be great if you were somehow able to provide subscriptions dynamically based upon queries and mutations being performed.

Acting as the middleman, you can see the freshest data and so therefore know when something updates. If I could hook that up to my existing GraphQL API and not have to worry about eventing and subscription services for every single object that would be a huge value add for me.
There were also ARM variants that could run a bunch of JVM bytecode natively - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle
Terminal is not a new product - only Stripe Reader is. The other readers are made by third parties.
You can give me the private key to a wallet, but if I'm not connected to the network to see how much money it controls, that's not much good. Even if I trust you temporarily, at some point a network connection is required. Otherwise, it doesn't have anything to do with BTC.

Edit: Additionally, as someone else pointed out, you could have kept your own copy of the key and could empty the wallet before me.
Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi faces probe ahead of market debut, says report
Like everyone else on this tread I built a note-taking system!

Mine is called MindPalace and its special feature is that it is focused on spaced repetition and remembering the notes after they were written.

For me, whenever I would take notes, they would become stale and forgotten. Despite Emerson's quote “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”, I felt that there is a lot more to be gained from remembering them.

For instance, I can remember meetings past and insights gained by following up on meeting notes, or insights I got from reading books. I have almost a 1000 notes in my personal notebook.

BTW, the app is self-hosted and avilable here if anyone is interested: https://github.com/msipos/mind-palace

I'd be curious if anyone else does "spaced repetition note taking" and if anyone can share cool tools for that (my tool is not particularly good)