skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technologists tend to underappreciated relative utility as a driving popularity metric -- does it accomplish a job I need, better / cheaper / faster?

My thought is that ransomware is seeing a resurgence because corporations are increasingly internetworked and hybridized with the global internet, because they have to be. So ransomware has begun to outweigh espionage as a method for extracting money from corporations.

Drones (as used so far, in the remote suicide version) solve a key problem many states have: lack of effective tactical ISR. The US and major powers do not have this problem.

Autonomous drones solve... what problem?

My inclination is that they'll deliver the same value as current-gen ML systems: mass, automated intelligence collection & basic analysis. As well as continuous monitoring and triggering on a pre-configured event (e.g. truck leaves this building, launch missile).

Killing something, once you know what and where it is, is not a problem most militaries have.

Training and paying and allocating large numbers of soldiers to do basic intelligence trawling is absolutely a problem most militaries have.

I think you see this in the US drone approach evolution. Shifting from a single vehicle approach to a survivable system with attritable assets communicating back through stealth communication hubs. Because persistence is the real value.
Mind reading technology: helmet aims to unlock brain's secrets
Of course. That’s because they’re a VC!

In fact the first large VC who realized that having an own media outlet would benefit their startups immensely.

https://fortune.com/2021/01/20/tech-and-crypto-funder-andree...
What I don’t get is why people don’t regard Onion Routers as a form of VPN. It’s still uses a virtual private network, just more of them. a network of networks.

Surely TOR is a type of VPN?

Maybe there’s some details I’m missing. I’m no expert
Why Buy America Is Bad Law
Early bird gets the worm.
The RAF's Brimstone missile is in big demand for airstrikes because it has much lower collateral damage than the bigger Hellfire and Maverick missiles that allies use. This has actually spurred its use; the number of strikes actually went up.
Some ideas:

One question per email?

Something like Trello, using each card as a question, and three columns (unanswer? re-ask? finished?)

--

In case the questions need to be in a block because they are related and need some background, try to make each question easy to distinguish. Like

* First question?

* Second question?

* Third question?

(I think that in some case I number them so it's 100% clear, but I use this with coworkers that can't fire me :) .)
Because they are programs used to do industrial design and general aesthetic 3D modeling, they aren't CAD programs.
And then I guess the shell itself has mechanisms to easily attach or register new commandlets, to allow for easily add custom object processing?

I really like the consistency that those commands have: ConvertFrom-<ConverterFormat>.

No built in converter for the format you need? I'm just speculating here, but I guess you just need to implement this or that Interface and there you go.
The way humans treat other life is one of the best examples of how egoistic the human race is, and how at the end of the day our only real value is ourselves. Eat your meats if you want, I'm not trying to evangelize veganism or anything, just pointing out that humans will believe what's convenient, and it's very convenient to believe that we're special. I would say instead that we overestimate how special we are and underestimate everything else. Humans and our consciousness are not that special, nor are the consciousness and sapience of other organisms that different or far from our own.

Reading the Secret Life of Trees is intriguing and makes you wonder whether we assume that other organisms are not conscious just because their consciousness doesn't look like ours. Funnily similar to how some people assume other organisms are inferior just because of superficial differences like skin color or age. Here are some great examples.

> 1. Like humans, trees give preferential treatment to family and friends.

> 2. Trees communicate with one another through scent.

> In addition to communicating chemical messages via scent, trees also use electrical signals to send messages to their compatriots via the fungi. This style of communication has been dubbed the “wood wide web” by many who’ve written about it, but the term was first used in the journal Nature.

> Wohlleben writes that deciduous trees plan reproductive cycles a year in advance. They must choose whether to bloom or hold off a year or two for the best possible results. By delaying their bloom during some years, the trees deprive herbivores that would feast on acorns over the winter from some of their food source. This shortage cuts down the herbivore population, ensuring greater likelihood of survival the next year for the seeds.

https://www.gardeningchannel.com/7-things-i-learned-from-the...
I don't fall for environmental sensationalism

The world is in it's most "livable" state ever
The difference is that the banking industry programmer is still unaware about their wrong-doings.

The article is there to raise awareness about the problems in the advertising industry, and one effect is that no one can claim they didn't know.
Yes, I think I don't even remember seeing a piece with wood bits not seconded by the metal thingies (I love the mechanism btw, it's weirdly satisfying)
Unverifiable privacy claims aside, I quite like that DDG is suitable for most (80%+) things I need to look up. Having !bangs to jump to wiki (or google) has been great too. That said, it is not without faults, even functionally.

- Local search is naturally very poor, to the point that 100% of my local search traffic is still on Google.

- Image search is nothing to write home about.

- I'm not pleased that looking up something contentious/political more often than not brings up reactionary or false content. It's either bad news sources or low quality blogs.

The last one might not be a problem to people whose opinions the results align with better but it is what it is. It's hard to say whether this is what the web would be without Google "censorship"/filter bubble stuff, or whether these are just the kinds of content the DDG (bing + other sources) algorithms have decided to rank ahead of them.

Either way, it is an invaluable resource and an important one to have. Search is already extremely concentrated towards Google but ideally there should always be usable alternatives.
Looks like new people quit right away.

I wonder if they have a ramp up time to allow their new associates body's to adapt to the very physical demands of the job. Same as you don´ t start hiking 20 miles a day, you need to start small and let your body adapt over a few weeks.
Legislators and agencies are antagonists. Based on my participation in politics. Local, county, state, but not federal, so YMMV.

Think bureaucracy, the Deep State, ambitious climbers, technocrats, whatever.

Observing agency heads run circles around elected officials completely flipped me from "yay term limits" to "pay electeds more, give them more staff."

FWIW, I think everyone should run for office at least once. Folk understanding of politics isn't even wrong. Becoming and serving as an elected really sucks. Least of which is serving as arrow catchers for all of govts faults.
We call it stalking when an individual does it.

It should be, flatly, illegal to collect that sort of data about people without a business need to do so, and illegal to use it for any other purpose, transfer it to any other entity without the same restrictions on its use, et c., when it's needed (like: credit card companies and banks obviously need to know where & when you spend money, but they shouldn't be able to use those data for anything else at all—no aggregating and re-selling to others, no mining spending trends for investment intelligence, no targeting ads at you based on it, none of that).
In the real world, both government grants and VC funding create great things.

If your political views make you want to diminish the importance of either, then perhaps it's time to update those views.
Something similar actually happened, seemingly as an experiment [0]:

> DAN BARRY | Stranded in the middle of the room

> STS-96

> Entering the space station from the orbiter for the first time in 1999 was an exhilarating experience. Even with just two modules-Unity and Zarya-in place, the station's volume was 10 times that of Discovery's flight deck and mid-deck combined. I floated exactly to the center of Unity, where I could not reach the walls, and got stranded in the middle of the room. It's not easy to get stranded-I had to have my friends help me get perfectly still. Once I was stationary, my brain remained convinced that I could somehow maneuver or kick myself over to the wall. But when I reached out an arm, my body moved back and my center remained in the middle of the room. I instinctively tried moving fast, then slow, then bicycled my legs. None of it helped. I just had to wait for the air currents to drift me to the wall. Sneezing and spitting didn't do much good either. On the other hand, throwing clothing as fast as I could produced enough reaction to send me to the opposite wall.

[0]: https://space.stackexchange.com/a/18485
Yep this. The actual nose to the grindstone basic research work is often publicly funded but the VC fundraising bragging is often things like jets and swanky offices. The un-sexy work of doing basic research is not something capitalism handles well at all and we expect the government to subsidize it so the VCs can walk in, claim the work of their own, claim it was done via capitalism and the VC process, and then sell themselves as our saviors by creating media outlets that serve them. This is very dystopian and anti-government.
They'd have to get their hands on "hundreds of autonomous drones" and deploy them on site. Seems unlikely for any of the current terrorist organisations.
I found it all first and claim it as my own.
man free for me shows the BSD library functions manual, maybe it's different in Linux
> How many times can you source a 350k person workforce before you exhaust the local supply of willing laborers? Not that many, I imagine.

IIRC, there are quite a few people who work at these Amazon warehouses who are essentially nomadic (e.g. living out of camper or van), but I don't it's enough to really change that equation.

Honestly, the next step Amazon needs to do is get serfdom legalized. Then they could purchase a fief in these areas and require a customary amount of labor from each household per year.
Boston Dynamics builds thinly disguised military robots that are meant to be very flexible and can operate in rough terrain (for 15 min or whatever until the battery runs out, but that's another story). They're hugely expensive literal overkill for a highly predictable and controlled environment like a warehouse, which is why the Kiva robots that Amazon actually uses are basically boxes on wheels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UxZDJ1HiPE
"we thought the world was gonna end, it didn't because we saved us!" ... or, possibly, the world wasn't going to end in the first place, and y'all selling fear caused much of the harm you're so proud to have mitigated now...
The philosophy section is the most important aspect, in my opinion, because I want to know why I should switch. In other words, show me a better future, and then I'm more likely to try it out.

> Philosophy

> Nu draws inspiration from projects like PowerShell, functional programming languages, and modern CLI tools. Rather than thinking of files and services as raw streams of text, Nu looks at each input as something with structure. For example, when you list the contents of a directory, what you get back is a table of rows, where each row represents an item in that directory. These values can be piped through a series of steps, in a series of commands called a 'pipeline'.
Yes, as I tried to imply, I never really used it enough to feel the pain of it's idiosyncratic implementation. Before I even posted the earlier comment I checked Wikipedia about VisualAge (to ensure I hadn't missed later releases) and learned, I think for the first time, that VisualAge Java was apparently implemented by extending a Smalltalk VM and presumably used the standard Smalltalk image model. I have been a Smalltalk aficionado and see some value in the image based model and think I might not feel the pain as much as the average user.
"In a woooorld, where EVERYone watches movies, one person is narrating their own life. This june: one person, one hn, one narration. Toxik!"
Yes.

We should all consider the consequences of what we work on shouldn't we?

The fact that other people don't isn't a counter argument...
>Killing something, once you know what and where it is, is not a problem most militaries have.

It would be if there was a real war with a lot of things at once. That statement is only true for peacetime "executive action" wars with a 100:1 force ratio. It is an auxiliary role that has little to do with how things would go if there was a war between somewhat equal powers.

The lessons of enforcing foreign policy on ten people who live in a country with neutral diplomatic status will probably not apply if you change the number ten or the neutral diplomatic status.
Every time a DDG article pops up on HN people start praising it and how it's 95% as good as Google, etc. DDG uses Google's and other search engines' data. DDG does not do their own crawling. Please do a quick search here on HN and read up on all the previous conversations about privacy and security implications of that before selling the narrative that DDG is somehow more awesome than more established search engines.
They have to keep up all the computing infrastructure running the simulation, and deal with long-term threats like geological activity and asteroids. That requires having and maintaining considerable technology out in the real world, and if only a mere 10% refuse to enter the simulation, then that minority may not get to benefit from spacefaring technology, or have the capital or industrial base to develop their own.

In fact, since spacefaring presents a threat (kinetic bombardment) to any planetary-bound species, then that majority who choose to enter the simulation may want to expressly prevent the minority from leaving the planet.
Part of what problem exactly? Do you think modern society would even exist without economic growth being the main driving factor?

The idea that people would just sit around creating things for altruistic reasons is a utopian pipe dream.

Constantly seeking material growth isn't perfect but it provides more positive aspects than negative ones.
It may be worth looking at the AAISP L2TP Service[1].

They are a domestic ISP, so I guess iplayer should work over the service.

[1]: https://www.aa.net.uk/broadband/l2tp-service/
The assumption there is that advanced civilizations only do things that they "need" to do. That's not true of any civilization at any point in history.

Would an advanced civilization find value in colonization? Very likely -- colonization (biological or machine) is likely the cheapest way to explore another stellar system in detail, with explorers manufactured or born in situ.
if you disable from quick menu, it turns back on. if you disable from settings, it doesn’t
Let's be really frank about it - no large company is going to offer end-to-end encryption of photos because of what kind of photos might end up on their infrastructure if they do. And honestly I don't blame them at all.

I'd just like to see Apple be more transparent with this one particular issue because it undermines so much of what they're advertising to the consumer.

A transparency label for iCloud backup showing what is and is not E2E before enabling would do. Most people (myself included) would be quite happy with photos being encrypted by an Apple-held key (I'm not worried about the police seeing my boring lunch pics, I just don't want photos of my kids being readily accessible to everyone else).

It should be made clear if they're offering E2E for some features that other settings will render it pointless is all I'm saying.
Shame we didn’t just have a president who was trying to bring back manufacturing.
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"Juneteenth" has been used for the celebration for over a century, and the name by which various sub-federal governments have recognized it, and I think a law recognizing a particular holiday probably should not rename the holiday while it does so.

That said, "Emancipation Day" has also been historically used.
Ah, thanks, I did not realise that.
> If they were fired for not hitting metrics and not for misconduct, they're probably willing to rehire.

My understanding is that "hitting metrics" in these warehouses is so exhausting that most people can't do it indefinitely.
You're taking a pretty pessimistic view of the funding and R&D process. A good idea with initial funding by the government is useless if the VC funding doesn't bring the idea to the finish line. The government can't afford to (and shouldn't) fund every good idea to their finish line.
Apple in a few months to VPN's: give us 30% share if you want to serve as exit node to Apple iCloud+ VPN.

Two part strategy as always:

1. Get yourself in-between of an already functioning system, by force if needed
2. Abuse your market position to gain millions of users, make it super easy to use this as default, and make existing players compete for their 70% share of what they already were earning.

- Enjoy new billions on top of existing trillions
If you think you know exactly what's going on with a strange cap and want to take that risk, go for it. Me, I like my forearms unscarred.
Clean-up + open-source side projects you don't want to monetize, they'll be your portfolio.

Apply to jobs, show your GH, get hired.
Strong statistical evidence that major mobile crypto algorithm was backdoored
Which vpn do you use?
> the best one can do is throw the ball directly backwards

What if you had a really good pitch, do this, and then waited until it comes around the Earth (several months, I guess) hurling back at you, and threw another ball against it? They would collide and fall?
Main arguments I saw (from the left, at least) against Yang's UBI proposals were how he planned to gut social programs to pay for it. I think there will definitely be more discussions about UBI in the US political sphere in the coming years.
This is something Apple is increasingly working on. For example, in Fall 2020 they actually revised their CPU designs (including older CPUs) with a new Secure Enclave design that uses mailboxes to more securely store the number authentication attempts inside the secure enclave.

The goal of this is to make it so that even if the FBI had an incident similar to 2016, Apple would not be able to fulfill their request to make a backdoor, and the FBI wouldn't be able to make a backdoor even if they had the power to sign and run any code they wanted on the phone.

That's how you make a secure system these days. You can't just make it secure to everyone but yourself and fight the government - you need to secure it from yourself as well.
NIST Seeks Input on Removing Barriers to Voting for People with Disabilities
Your example seems too C++-specific. Not all languages are defined in the same way.
It's potentially a bit different from normal queues in that while you scale up your own queue processing, you can't scale up the webhook receiver. And unike something like newsletter emailing, you probably care very much about latency.

This means that in a naive implementation, unless you run as many parallel workers as there are messages in the queue, someone will block someone else from delivering. Depending on your latency requirements, this might not be acceptable.

Making delivery truly parallel — that is, each distinct receiver should not block anyone else, no matter how slow or failure-prone they are — and low latency is a bit more tricky, essentially requiring one logical queue per webhook.

You can solve it in various ways, depending on what solution (Kafka, NATS/JetStream, Pulsar, Google Pub/Sub, etc.) you choose, but as far as I know, nobody provides this out of the box. In particular, one-queue-per-webhook requires worker coordination in a way that classical pub/sub doesn't — after all, you don't want to run one worker per webhook if they're not all full of pending messages — and some systems don't scale to many queues very well (e.g. Google Pub/Sub has a hard limit of 10,000 topics per project).

Retrying can also pose some challenges. What if the webhook has been down for days? Do you still keep messages in the queue, or do you throw them away? If the webhook comes up, do you prioritize new deliveries or do you mix in the old ones? How do keep track of this so that you can alert the webhook owner about the flakiness?

As the other poster says, the devil is in the details. It's all solveable, but nine times out of then, I personally prefer having something off-the-shelf that's been built once, rather than building it from scratch every time.
I am having a hard time conceptualizing that (maybe I need caffeine). Could you post an example?
I actually like that it's chronological and mixed up. It's a nice little time machine. Mine have meeting notes next to drawings of birds and measurements from the garage.
I Taught Online School This Year. It Was a Disgrace
> > Permanently divorcing physical location from economic opportunity gives us a real shot at radically expanding the number of good jobs in the world while also dramatically improving quality of life for millions, or billions, of people.

> This doesn't seem consistent with what is happening in A16Z's own backyard. Either Marc knows something we don't or this is unwarranted hyperbole.

Well, let's run that through the VC->English converter:

"We hope to lay off all the first world engineers living in Silicon Valley and hire exclusively the cheapest possible people living in the cheapest countries. We can hire twice as many bodies (double the good jobs, just not in the USA!) for one-tenth as much money, pocket all the profits, and if anyone complains (perhaps all the laid off engineers) we can talk about how we're raising people out of poverty, how dare they complain."

My version is admittedly not as flowery as the original.
if the lab-leak hypothesis turns out to be correct than technology is undoubtedly the very thing that put the world in peril in the first place

Whatever lessons we might learn if it were to turn out that COVID is a human-made experiment are lessons we should be taking heed of even if it isn't.
Is what a chimpanzee might think of the white house.
The greatest feature of DDG in my opinion is that it does not put you into a bubble. Results are the same regardless of what I have been searching lately. Does neeva allow you to toggle features like that?
For me it was Hash of canvas fingerprint

Bits of identifying information: 17.84

One in x browsers have this value: 233841.0
Wealthfront puts decision-making power with retail investors
Because in the US, chiropractors have been elevated to near-MD-level and can even pursue MD residencies. Which has to be the greatest scandal in the history of medicine. And then americans come and tell you that their docs are the best on the planet... Go figure.

They can be good surgeons, though.