skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone I talk to hates CF and is moving to or already exclusively using Terraform.
the images checked in seem a bit bizarre

https://github.com/eu-digital-green-certificates/dgc-partici...
Meanwhile I’m using Google stuff just fine. Skip the fads and stick to the basics, and it all still works. I’m glad your setup works for you, but Google apps haven’t been all that frustrating for me.

I’ve been using Gmail and Hangouts since they were introduced, migrated from Google Talk to Hangouts which was fairly transparent except I had to stop using Pidgin and use the web app instead. Still using Hangouts all these years later until they make me switch to Chat. It works fine.

There is a chance I try to get my family and friends to switch to Element or something instead of Chat, but it’s unlikely, since Google will provide a smooth switchover and we’ll all just have to tap a button to switch, and they’ll interoperate.

I got a Google Voice number many years ago too, but only use it for forwarding, never set up Fi, and it still works fine. Never enabled the hangouts SMS integration, because I can already get texts on the computer.

I skipped out on Allo and Duo; they seemed like a lost cause from the start. Never really posted much on Google+ anyway.

My music was in Google Play and now it’s in YouTube Music, but I mostly stream anyway. I don’t love the new interface, but it mostly works fine.

I had lots of RSS feeds in Google Reader, but NewsBlur had a simple import and works just as well as Reader ever did.
I blocked Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Tik Tok, and Snapchat on my home network. Good riddance.
So now, bar/restaurant owners can reliably track their customers: age/name, how often they come in each branch. Large franchise would also be able to track where and how often their customers travel and what they eat. I think this is real privacy issue. If you what to store the data, please anonymize it first, at least when it leaks it would be a lesser privacy disaster.
Why do you need to start your project with the discovery phase
> In many cases, this software doesn't even do anything that is functionally different from 10 or 20 years ago, but it still consumes many more resources

I would argue that in most cases the choice is not between fast, optimized and slow, unoptimized software. The choice is between having a functioning program (using a universal, "reasonably" efficient stack) and not having one at all (because the amount of resources it takes to develop a customized, low-level implementation is prohibitively high).

A good example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tInaI3pU19Y
A custom 3D engine performs immensely better than a comparable Unity project, but it took the author 3 to 4 times the effort.
WTF. I thought my grandma's Laptop purely catering to her Netflix addiction was just Windows glitching and spent 4 hrs downloading and installing Ubuntu on it.
It does actually, because not all vaccines require the same amount of doses and if you were infected, that's a completely different story too. Different cities also have different timespans after infection or dose after which you can start all the fun activities (and sometimes it matters per activity). For example, the nightclub might require 7 days after the last required dose for vaccination or 14 days after the last negative test after an infection, but other venues might only require 7 days after the last negative test and 14 days after the last dose.

In addition to that, legislation may change, so your time limits and dosage limits now all change and future vaccinations might require more doses.

Either way, the bouncer doesn't get to see any of this. They only see your name, check your ID if it's the same name (which they have to do anyway to check you're 16 for alcoholic beverages and curfew) and then wave you through. The apps I've seen in use by people who check the vaccination QR code only give you an OK or NOT OK signal, once you've setup the type of limits you have to obey.
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> try to run your software on a Pentium 4

Alternatively, on Linux you can limit the maximum CPU frequency with something like

FREQ=800000 # 800 MHz
for i in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu[0-9]*; do
echo $FREQ > "$i/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq"
done
I doubt there’s actually a defense system. The only way inside from within the plane is from the cockpit and if there’s an intruder in the cockpit they can already do more damage without needing to go below.
> The goal is to be able to verify all signatures; whether we trust a signature or not is configured inside APT by specifying a list of trusted primary keys.

Why is it a goal to be able to verify signatures from untrusted primary keys? At best, this conveys zero information. At worst, it may confuse people into thinking that the signature is safe when it really isn't. It also opens your format up to JWT-style vulnerabilities.

Generally, to avoid JWT-style vulnerabilities, you should be using some sort of key ID attached to the signature to look up the key in the list of trusted keys. If the key is not known, you just ignore the signature. If it is known, you know from the key itself what kind of key it is, and thus how to parse the signature. Enforce algorithm deprecation when deciding whether to trust a key, rather than when parsing a signature.

This talk by Sophie Schmieg at Real World Crypto 2021 is extremely informative about this: https://youtu.be/CiH6iqjWpt8?t=1028
They might have different standards and I'm not a pilot, but in my opinion having multiple seconds of UI lag in vitally important interfaces is not good enough nor deserves certification.
I'm not sure what you're referring to, sorry
I want to downrank this but even more I want to ask what exactly your thesis is here
> Imagine that you are only allowed to visit certain countries based on your vaccination status.

How is this different from the uncontroversial practice of requiring yellow fever vaccinations when travelling to certain African or South American countries?
There was an interesting Defcon talk on potential threats from genetic engineering that touched on this exact scenario.

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=HKQDSgBHPfY
So it's "papers please" all over again for Austria?
Those sources of energy are both renewable and can be deconstructed with no permanent environmental impact, which makes them "clean" in my mind but I agree it's an ambiguous word.
AIS is an aide to navigational safety, but cannot and is not relied upon as a sole source of data. Not every vessel is required to have it, or have redundant systems for it.
As this article suggests it's not verifiable information and can be spoofed in various ways, or just switched off if you're up to no good. Various international bodies are keen to come up with standards to reduce the opportunity for spoofing AIS, but it will likely not go anywhere.

The Project Sandstone series from RUSI digs into various techniques smugglers and sanctions busters use to hide or mask illicit activity at sea.
> I accidentally abandoned...

It sounds like you made a conscious and intentional decision. How does one drop their preconceived judgements by accident?
"Mess" (a term from the article, I realize) might be too perjorative of a term. Coordination, hierarchy, and lack of redundancy can also have downsides.
Groan, "let me put a random name to some saying to justify my actions"...

Just because you can find a quote you think is profound and attach a name to it, doesn't justify super-paranoia. Do you get out of the house, or are you avoiding the virus? Life's about judging risks and benefits, and IMO you're way overblowing the risk of these hackers. What Andre Breton thinks is irrelevant.
Ouch. That definitely doesn't happen any more since v4 came out two years ago.
I believe you're frustrated with the world's stance towards ecology -- for good reason. I am too. Almost nobody who can make a true difference gives a f_ck. But I am looking at it historically and holistically while you seem to want to argue theoreticals that don't have basis in our current reality.

Let me be 100% clear here: I am sharing your stance in general but there are complications I am forced to consider and act accordingly with:

- Software gets slower with time, so I have to upgrade. Me upgrading only once 7-8 years is, I think, a fairly heroic effort on my side. I've seen businesses that blindly upgrade everyone's laptops every 3 years, zero questions asked.

- You and I have no recourse whatsoever against the big players who make disposable tech. You think I don't want them fined all the way to bankruptcy and even jail? I would love that. But we can't make it happen.

- My "logic" is simply of a family man with a ton of responsibilities and a pretty demanding job. Please don't make me the villain because I am doing my very best just to function and have a few precious relaxing hours per day. Most of the common folk will never be willing to sacrifice the little "me time" they have just so they free some ecological bandwidth... which will be quickly consumed and re-balanced (in the wrong direction) by those who create huge and environmentally disastrous manufacturing facilities.

- I love to indulge in a new tech but I have mostly tamed this wrong impulse. Doesn't mean I have to hold on to inadequate machines until they fall apart in my hands however.

---

Again, I get where you are coming from but please don't vent on me for doing the best that I can without sacrificing all the comfort and free time that I already don't have much of.

There are much bigger villains out there that deserve your frustration more than I do.
This is an extremely bad idea. Your chances of getting some malware are probably more likely than not, after playing around with something like this for 10+ minutes...
If you see the source output image before it was upscaled you noticed the resolution is too low and thin objects "fall between" the pixels. The upscaler then interprets it as air, it seems.
Schwarz group, the 4th largest retailer on the planet Earth, received public funding for their expansion in eastern Europe. I'm receving Lidl/Kaufland weekly paper leaflets at my doorstep anywhere I live in Germany or Poland, to be ecologically guilt tripped by various marketing materials on visiting their venues. Innocent family business, I said.
Great tools to boost the productivity of your startup team in 2021
I don’t understand either. Emacs works splendid on my Macbook Air 2013.
That’s frankly amazing that you can perceive the die-hard techno-libertarian capitalists in Silicon Valley as leftists.
Why not just promote ads based on their conversations like everyone else?
Google in EU crosshairs again with advertising antitrust inquiry
It will take a lot more than an elbow to dislodge an avionics wiring harness. These things are tough
I think the rev matching to minimize the strain on the clutch pack. The car also had standard hill hold assist to minimize the risk of wearing out the clutch over a long period of time while living in a hilly area.

The design of the VW Golf Mark VII was absolutely brilliant. The EU model got a few why-didn’t-I-think-of-that extras that the NA market didn’t get, particularly around towing. There was a hidden tow hitch that popped out when a button on in the trunk was pressed, as well as reversing assist that used the electric mirror control knob (!) as steering control.
Because OS and core upgrades these days seem more focused on features than performance, I think, and playing compatibility catch up with one another because the industry expectation is that people keep buying better hardware. Even if you do the same thing with a given piece of enterprise software, if the runtime for that software is doing all sorts of things to run features that you do not use and cannot turn off, then you pretty much have to "keep running to stay in place"
> they (understandably) just won't use git on Windows.

I'm not sure how understandable that is, especially in the age of WSL - but I just won't use Windows so what do I know :)
This is included in https://github.com/eu-digital-green-certificates/dgc-partici..., in that context as an example it does make some sense.
Use an iPad. Teams app is smooth there. And you’ll have a better camera.
Probably just referring to the fact that it is not object oriented. Not "functional" in the sense of pure functional programming.
Should be most pharmacies but they have to check your vaccination booklet (or proof of vaccination, they give you extra papers at the vaccination location). It seems to work alright considering atleast one person I know is facing charges for falsifying medical documents and falsifying signatures due to them trying to fake their vaccination and bringing that to the pharmacy.
Andrej Karpathy Details Tesla's Self Driving Car Strategy. CVPR 20th June 2021
There's not even a button. Google Chat seems to "just work" already. I am cautiously optimistic. It actually also seems better than Hangouts. https://mail.google.com/chat actually works well. Pageup/pagedown works, which is a nice change.

"Google Chat" feels a lot like they finally fixed all the bugs they introduced when they replaced GChat with Hangouts.
What if someone's work makes them subject to more diseases, like a factory worker ?
Should they pay more ?

What about people that are not as well educated as you are, and thus don't know that too much sugar is bad for them ? Should they pay more ?
What about overweight people that are from a genetic pool of people that are more subject to this issue ?

Sometimes it's hard to know if a disease comes from lifestyle or other factors.
Ah, Time Cube - instantly what I thought as well.
I don't give my name and date of birth to walk into a store or restaurant so why should this QR code force you to? Presumably all you want to know about this person is whether or not they are a toxic, contagious, diseased biohazard to you; everything else is none of your business.
> 5) All programming would be object-oriented (We are talking 90s style definition here)

During the 00s and early 10s, it felt like it is.
loose connection plane goes down sounds like a good plan :)
Economics 101 is killing coal, nothing else.

Digging rock out of the ground, lugging it across the world in massive quantities and then burning it is an expensive activity. There are cheaper alternatives, the most obvious one is natural gas, and that's similar to comparing terminal lung cancer to terminal stomach cancer. Terminal being the key word.

Forget about climate change, health issues (have you been to a country where your eyes hurt?), pro-unionism/anti-unionism and whatever else you like or dislike, coal is not economically viable. Just ask British coal miners. Oh wait, you can't thanks to Margret Thatcher (love her or hate her, she did invent soft-serve ice cream. Seriously). She saw it coming 40 years ago.

Coal is an energy source, absolutely. It works. It's just economically stupid compared to cheaper alternatives.

Just like farriers, blacksmiths, priests and who-knows-what professions are useless, coal miners are too.

Economics 101. And you don't even need to mention climate change. Coal is dead dead dead. Get used to it.
> Every time it looks like we're having a referee police the marketplace, it turns out that the seller owns the marketplace, and the buyers become the product

Do you have data for this frequency claim? (Or built-in supply-side bias?)

Regulatory capture is a phenomenon. It is not guaranteed. Even if it were, it does not follow that suppliers—versus a pet consumer political group or powerful intermediary—will accrue the benefit.
As an example, I have for work a HP ZBook with an i7-6820HQ that clocks at 2.7 GHz, and 32 Go of RAM. I have to have Outlook, Teams and Lync constantly open because of work rules. If I open a web browser, the fans start spinning and the whole system slows down. Maybe I'm just cursed with bad hardware, but in 15 years of using Windows I never had a smooth experience, I've always encountered small slowdown, stutters and things like that. Same thing on Linux.
That begs the question, doesn't it? If someone visits your project and says "shame you're so ignorant of this topic, maybe read a textbook", it doesn't matter whether that person is the world's foremost expert or the town drunk, it's useless feedback either way.

Whereas, if the feedback was rude but also pinpoint-accurate and incredibly actionable, I don't think there'd be a big subthread about it.
Show HN: Convert data exports from various services to a single SQLite database
Not sure what you have running in the background or where specifically you are editing text, i have a 2013 MacBook air and i can run intellij. Let alone simple text editor.
> And you'll have half the purchasing power for your salary.

Great, so then there's an added advantage of less consumption / waste / pollution.
My friend Alexey (@shekhirin here) and I often make small projects analyzing our personal data. For example, we counted popularity of words over time in our Telegram group chats and analyzed browsing history to determine the most productive and unproductive time for each of us.

Most of the time, loading and formatting the data takes more time than actually finding insights. Consumer services provide a machine-readable data export to comply with GDPR. However, you still have to load into memory, extract relationships and otherwise prepare data before starting to look for insights.

So, we decided to build a tool unifying export formats by various services into a single SQL schema. The tool currently supports some parts of Google, Apple Health, Spotify, Telegram, RescueTime, Instagram, Twitter and Netflix exports.

Bionic is a CLI built with Go. Under the hood, it consists of modular “exporters”, each responsible to load data from a certain service export (for example, Google Takeout zip archive) to an SQLite database. You can share one SQLite database for all exports, making it a central hub for your personal data.

One cool outcome of a single database is that you can easily join multiple data exports and produce a report like “Songs I listen [Spotify] in different locations [Google Maps]”.

Would love to hear your feedback! Also, if the project interests you, consider contributing: for example, by developing new exporters or extending the existing ones (currently, Google exporter covers data only for 3 out of 20+ Google products). Alexey and I are available to help.
My dad got Alpha-Gal a few years back and is now severely allergic to beef; recently he ordered the impossible whopper at Burger King and got the same allergic reaction, suggesting either a mix-up or some serious contamination. He was fine but it's no joke, can cause anaphylaxis, etc.

Side note, here's a free idea for a book: ecoterrorists conduct underground gain-of-function research on Alpha-Gal, making it transmit from person to person rather than from tick to person, with the goal of reducing red meat consumption and carbon emissions. Your protagonist could either be a Marion-Cotillard-in-Contagion type scientist trying to figure it out, or a Marion-Cotillard-in-Batman type zealot who truly believes that this syndrome offers mankind's salvation.

This idea was inspired, obviously, by my dad's experiences and recent speculation into Covid's origins: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-...
Since I do not serve in the US military, I don't know for sure, but I would be really surprised if it was not the case, especially for ships and planes. I'd imagine keys are rotated on regular basis. If you think that Russia has a reliable access to those keys, then USA military has FAR bigger issues than hypotetical spoofing.

And you have not adressed the second part of my comment. Not only we haven't heard about spoofing as a reason for those incidents, but also even with civilian recievers spoofing can be detected by comparing GNSS and IMU data. And even before that you can detect anomalous power of GNSS signal (since spoofing usually has to outpowr legitimate signal) or find that there are "satellites" which produce unconsistent signals.
Async/Await in SwiftUI
You way over estimate the cost of manufacturing something. This is the same argument against minimum wage… you want a hamburger to cost $50?!?! Actually labour is like $0.15 cents of it
“DARPA Awards Moderna Therapeutics a Grant for up to $25 Million to Develop Messenger RNA Therapeutics” (2013)

https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-d...
FTA:

“plus innumerable chat features built into other Google products we won’t mention here”
In China the great firewall could probably do that.
So which tech companies are monopolies? All of them have alternatives and competition.
It's amazing to me what people will put up with to avoid an attack vector that doesn't have a single known victim. I don't run untrusted programs or Javascript. I see no reason to install any of these measures on my personal desktop until people actually start being victimized by them.
out of the frying pan into the fire...
Wouldn’t it be easier to take a screenshot of the code in the app and just keep it in your photos?
I think it is not a purely functional language, but supports functions as first class citizens.

> func(x) return x*x end # Lambda/literal functions. [1]

[1] - https://thakeenathees.github.io/pocketlang/getting-started-l...
Freedom is the high ground. You can feel superior or safer in the knowledge that the government deploys strong tech to monitor and control you (in the name of public safety, of course) all you want.

I'm vaccinated, the vaccine works, and I'm living accordingly. If a business wants proof, they don't get my business.
Important information:

“By default, the apiserver does not verify the kubelet’s serving certificate, which makes the connection subject to man-in-the-middle attacks, and unsafe to run over untrusted and/or public networks.”
I have a feeling like it spiked a while ago. If I listen to my teenage daughters, they're all complaining that TikTok went downhill and it's full of creeps now.
I addressed XBox specifically. They wrote off $1.5Bn over the XBox 360 red rings of death issue. It's possible they might have recouped that since, with inflation and interest adjustment, but doubtful.

Windows and Azure are the tent poles I was thinking of when I said they had more than one now.

I tend to see Windows and Office as fundamentally the same business though, along with development tools, in the same way that I think it's unreasonable to consider Apple's applications business separately from MacOS. Split Office from Windows and I think it would struggle, certainly it wouldn't have got to where it is now. It's an add-on to the Windows business. On it's own it wouldn't be industry dominating the way Windows, AWS, Google Search, etc are. It's a good business but not industry shaping, not anymore anyway.
I lived and worked in China and have visited a very rich friend in India for a few weeks prior the pandemic.

I always thought you can compare China and India. After that trip I must say: My assumption was just so wrong.

China is cleaner, way more modern, more reliable and way more industrialised than India. I made the mistake to go out in Old Delhi after 9 PM and I was fearing for my life. People just lie down on the road and slept away, dogs followed me, people followed me. People were making open fires on the road, others were defacating. The air was terribly poluted, it is not recommended to use tap water for brushing teeth.

And yet, I liked the people there very much. It was great to be able to communicate in English, to speak to the normal taxi and uber drivers and to learn about their life.

Again, the biggest takeaway for me was: China and India are separated by 30-40 years of Chinese high-speed development, I would assume.
> ..have a large operating presence in China (including a political arm of the CCP within the company)

I've never heard of this, do you have examples? I'll be happy to read about it. Normally there will be some PR/communication office under marketing sure, but I don't know what a 'political arm' could be.