skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I had to pay $100/month for cable TV plus $100/month for various subscriptions, I would have been bankrupt 10 years ago. There are places on Earth where that money makes a difference when one is unemployed or essentially retired.
My point wasn't related to the amount of money however but rather just having to pay something since the goal is not to make a business but to discourage trolls and spammers. If email cost everywhere say 2 €cents per email sent, I would gladly pay because I know that the side effect of it would be the immediate elimination of spammers, whose existence rely on how easy is today sending bulks of hundreds of thousands posts for free.
Stirring Mac and cheese or warming a Hot Pocket is not on the same level as roasting a pig and such, but I agree with the local point you're making.
Branchless programs are also very desirable for security reasons. If you have a cryptographic function where the execution time depends on the key, it leaks information about that key. So learning how to write brancheless programs can be very useful.
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> deliberately undermine a good candidate's chances of getting a job or promotion _because of their skin colour_

I'm sorry, but I have to ask. How do you feel about affirmative action?
That’s indeed why they did it, which is silly because there’s zero evidence that paper restaurant menus are a significant risk of covid transmission. It’s pure hygiene theater.
So the attacker claims to have harvested the data via the API. Looks like you can get any user profile if you're an approved developer.

Possible the attacker slowly downloaded the whole database.
Decriminalising the use, even of hard drugs, seems to be a net negative for society (see Portugal's case [0])

They're not going to sell meth at walmart if that's what you're worried about.

People addicted to hard drugs are not going to stop because it's illegal, and people who aren't already addicted won't start shooting heroin all of a sudden because it's decriminalised

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal#Observ...
> any security-conscious GCP customers

Does that exist? In my book, if you're security conscious, you can only do self-hosting whether on premises or in your own bay in a datacenter.

Giving away your entire computing and networking to a third party such as Google is orthogonal to security.
Only in some nations.
Now we will see an increase in SIM swapping attacks via this data dump and tons of fraud happening here.

I hope they didn't use their phone number to login to their bank, crypto exchange or other social media accounts.

Using phone numbers for login should be completely discouraged.
Making something secure "less secure" (according to needs) is usually easy. Making something insecure more secure can be complicated, do wrong, easy to forget, or just something people don't know about.
Thanks. Sorry, just wanted to be completely sure.
AFAIK porous asphalt (which is often called draining asphalt here) is a very good thing (for rain) and driving (braking/adherence is excellent) but not particularly good for noise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permeable_paving#Porous_asphal...

it is largely used in highways, actually near 100% of highways in Italy are paved with this kind:

https://www.autostrade.it/en/tecnologia-sicurezza/sicurezza/...

Since several years they are experimenting in various EU cities, particularly for roads restricted to buses, a type of asphalt that incorporates (recycled) rubber which reduces effectively a part of the noise and vibrations, but is seemingly used in US too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubberized_asphalt
This is why it’s good to only share data with LinkedIn that you expect to be leaked.
I'm slightly surprised that App Clips, Instant Apps, and NFC haven't taken off more in this space.
Can the most exciting new solar material live up to its hype?
Considering that the wireguard mesh solutions seem to require static IPs, I'm now wondering whether it might be a good idea to run a wireguard mesh on top of tinc, basically just using tinc as a way to get static IPs and routing connectivity between nodes. That still leaves the issue of updating the wireguard configuration, though.
That exploit would only work once.

As soon as the first customer, who gets charged $20 or whatever, reports that they didn’t get their meal it would be checked.

And then it would be pretty easy to find out when the QR codes were replaced. Then camera footage of that person would be sent to the police and they would be up for fraud. Great exploit.
> There has to be a way of prioritizing some of these sites over others.

Those that display fewer ads and trackers? Many people would like that but somebody would really not.
I discovered a fridge in a supermarket with a very pleasant humming tone. I went there often just to hear it and even tried to record the sound with a shitty mp3-player but it was unsuccessful.

But it was just one genre, music by an artist like Stelladrone or similar.
I had never seen it in the US either before the pandemic.
What he said about the DB being in a subnet wasn't incorrect, nor what you just said about setting a password and using certs. It's defense in layers and not "network security theater". You don't do just one of them.
> It's definitely not too late, this sort of defeatist attitude is not only wrong but dismissive of the dangers.

I'm not suggesting _nothing_ be done and we carry on as usual. But there are 7.6 billion people on this planet and nearly every single one of them either has, or is working towards a modern standard of living. You can't go from 600 million people in 1700 to 7.6 billion people in 2021 without severely harming your ecosystem.

11,000% more people, and each one of them uses _far_ more resources than their 1700 equivalent. They didn't travel except by muscle or by sail, they consumed locally produced food or food imported by sail and muscle power, and the most technologically advanced good available to the average person was an oil lamp.

There isn't an electric car, reusable bag, ethically produced wool sweater, or synthetic burger that can get you back to anywhere near that kind of resource usage.

As for the dangers, I'm aware of the worst case scenarios and the best case scenarios. They're all terrible. At worst, we die out, at best we end up struggling to maintain a comfortable existence due to shortages and a fragile ecosystem while reminiscing about the good old days. But we need to look at the problem clearly and realistically and work towards feasible, realistic _mitigations_ (solutions are impossible) rather than passing nonsense populist laws like banning plastic straws or electric car subsidies and hoping the next generation figures it out.

> This is also dead wrong, a quick switch to EV will substantially reduce the amount of carbon pollution, no need for mass killings. We simply need the government too provide right incentives to switch to cleaner and less energy usage

I'm not opposed to this, and I certainly don't advocate mass killings (see above re: realistic mitigations). I do realize that the lifetime emissions of an electric car are lower than most ICE vehicles. But again, this isn't a solution. You still need a lot of infrastructure and a lot of emissions to manufacture, install, maintain, and eventually replace that infrastructure. Sticking a solar panel on every roof and a wind turbine in every neighborhood isn't going to solve the fundamental problem of "organism is using resources in an unsustainable way".

A quick, forced switch to EVs is going to win the "carbon emissions" line-graph competition so we can all virtue-signal to each other about how well our countries are doing, but it's not going to get us out of the hole we dug, even when combined with _all_ the current popular emissions reductions proposals.
Shoulds are ethereal.

>> You can't escape it.

Au contraire :) Escape from it is evident, it's clearly a hot potato. No one who should do the job would. Martyrs don't persist.
I always had the impression that Pepper was a nice looking but quite overpriced toy. Seems I'm not the only one - "Pepper did a lot to harm genuine robotics research by giving an often false impression of a bright cognitive being that could hold conversations" (this seems to be a quote by Prof. Noel Sharkey of Sheffield Uni). So this doesn't seem to be a big loss.
Clearly, this thing is designed for a leisurely jaunt across the UK, not the American road warrior long haul.
I like how he talks about Microstrategy but not Tesla's position in bitcoin and how Musk's tweets are affecting crypto prices.
We use https://prismic.io and it's been great for us.
Cold you say more about that? You seem to be saying that you don't believe that HK is the second largest export market, but that's not my analysis, that's the numbers available from pretty much any source you can find.
You must be using a very creative definition of "biggest culprits"

Those flagship super powerful sedans, trucks and SUVs you are complaining about are a drop in the bucket compared to bog standard commuter sedans, hatches and crossovers.
I embarked on a fun lockdown project retrofitting our traditional doorbell (which runs off a 12V AC transformer in the basement) to generate MQTT messages for logging and to trigger notifications (phone, pop-ups on my workstation, sonos noises, hue lighting flashes etc). I have the same problem of not hearing the front door from my office in the loft.

I ended up with an ESP-32 module connected to the house wifi, and an opto-isolated circuit to trigger it from the doorbell wiring. It sits in the basement where it's easy to give it power from a USB power adaptor.

Of course, the irony was that it was only after I'd lost a few days going down this particular rabbit hole that I discovered that almost every visitor (and especially delivery drivers) uses our door _knocker_, rather than the doorbell since it's much more obvious! The next project may be to electrify that, or mount a vibration sensor on the door!
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AFAIK, that's not necessarily GDPR, you still need to have a cookie notice for third-party cookies, even if your third-party cookies don't collect PII.

But as others have said, you don't need a cookie notice of all you're using is necessary cookies.

Plus in the UK the ICO is underfunded, has a low enforcement record and is now sending menacing, misleading, letters demanding £40 from every UK business even though 90% of them don't actually need to pay the fee.
Mockingbirds? Nuremberg 2
Genetic diversity is actually not that high in India. There have been genetic sequencing projects in Indian groups (look up Dr. Thangaraj's publications from CCMB), and Indian caste groups have low diversity due to strict endogamy.
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So in the UK is going across the countryside stop and go mostly?
Currently, the main difference is the simplicity that I offer in my app, simple and easy to start monitoring without difficulty, but as you said I don't have enough features to compete with others
I see strong similarities between language learning and gyms. The vast majority of people who sign up to gyms do not use them to become athletes. Many of them don't even go. Some of the largest gym chains are objectively rubbish gyms. They don't have the best equipment and often forbid effective exercises because they are perceived as intimidating for casual members. Their business model is in attracting new paying members. They have no interest at all in making their users fit. Ironically the presence of fit, strong and healthy people at the gym discourages unfit people from joining.

These language learning cons are all the same. They reel you in with the promise of language learning being easy. This is essentially a lie. Language learning isn't exactly "hard", but it takes dedication and persistence over a long period of time. They don't tell you that. The few who "make it" from Duolingo do so via other means in the end.
As the after-action report concludes, which is painfully obvious as you read this - should have been in a VPC.
Random duckduckgo result:

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/cheap-chocolate-candy-m...

I remember seeing stuff like this since years ago.

Mind, it's not actually cocoa less, just not chocolate. At least in this article.
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If I'm buying BTC for 2000 dollars today, will I use the lightning network?
I looked into this the last time someone posted about it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27551619

One thing I realized is how expensive Ethereum domains are. The domain price is equivalent to a regular domain and then you still have to pay the gas fee, which makes it more expensive than a casual .org or .net

The other drawback of these censorship-resistant blogs is that they all require plugins to access the non-HTTP domain, which all but rules out most non-technical people who don't even know what HTTP is.

And while it can still be accessed over HTTP, the bottlenecks become the same companies that might comply with censorship requests.
Our politicians are very old and seem to have stopped updating their world views long ago (some older people keep learning and changing but it seems most do not). Their views are consistent with public opinion 50 years ago on many issues.
I wonder if they have actually tested the last scenario:

> Targeting a VM over the internet. This requires the firewall in front of the victim VM to be fully open.

I mean, even if the firewall is non-existing, can you really carry a dhcp payload over the public internet?

EDIT: still haven't read the whole thing, but looks like they did test it
Should you answer your own questions? No.
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You are right in that it doesn’t do dead code elimination per se.

But if my understanding is correct, java classes are loaded as needed. So other than JAR size, you don’t really need it as much as in the case of JS for example.
I think what they mean is Redis' Lua scripting stuff with EVAL and such.

Also, if you have stuff like this in Redis, which will get picked up by a job runner:

{"runjob": "foojob", "params": ["one", "two"]}

Depending on how your job runner interprets this, it can be a big problem if people can write to this. At the very least it'll be a DoS in most cases, at worst (SQL) database, shell access, or leaking of passwords.
Look up the various posts praising SqlLite3. It is super easy to use. So simple I jokingly suspect conspiracy for why it is not the dominate DB solution everywhere.

I work in C++ and have made a super-butt simple wrapper for SqlLite3, available as an open source lib: https://github.com/bsenftner/kvs
There are a bunch of trucks outside my house at the moment laying fiber cabling. The email address for the company is basically 'buildingcompany.co.uk@gmail.com' and this isn't a tiny firm.

It left me wondering whether the bosses if the company just don't care or if they were told by the web design company they hired for their site that it'd add thousands to the website cost and decided against it.
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> Iterable

That’s easily achieved with plain interfaces. It’s not obvious to me at all why I would want to use inheritance instead of interfaces, especially because you elided the class bodies.

> No. To make OOP indistinguishable from "C or Go", you would also need to eliminate at least; encapsulation, composition, access control, and compiler provided dynamic dispatching.

C and Go have all of those things except that C doesn’t have “compiler provided dynamic dispatch” and I’m not sure how “access control” differs from “encapsulation” (access control is just public/private/etc, right?).

* encapsulation: in C things in the header files are “public” while things in the c files are “private”. In Go we have private/public struct members.

* composition: both C and Go have structs

* compiler-provided dynamic dispatching: Go has interfaces and closures. C doesn’t have this provided by the compiler but you can implement them yourself easily enough. You lose out on some type safety, but that’s no worse than a dynamic OOP language and if you care about safety you probably aren’t using C anyway.
I think what you should take away from this is that cooking is a skill that requires you to assess what is going on, and adjust as you go. There are too many variables for any sort of “exact” weights or temperatures. Baking can be exact because almost all your main ingredients are totally uniform (water, flour, salt, sugar, butter, milk, yeast) and even then, there is often a requirement for variability to account for things as basic as the water absorption rate for your flour. But with cooking, you are using primarily whole ingredients that are nothing but variable. It would be like trying to read a book about how to shoot a basketball. No amount of detail about newtons of force or velocity is going to help, but descriptions about how it should feel and how to stand will, and at the end of the day, you have to practice the technique and learn and improve by looking at your end state.

Most recipe books are not going to teach you how to cook in the way blueprints aren’t going to teach you how to build a house. Youtube videos that teach you techniques are going to be the fastest way, as you can see and hear what is happening with the meal as they describe what they are trying to do and hopefully why they are doing it.
Doesn't docker do that for developers? You run a container and then applications run in a defined environment.

I don't know how you wan to enforce that all developers and all production machines use the exact same environment. Maybe your production still runs RHEL 7, so all the developers need to run their desktop on CentOS 7?

Or take open source projects. Isn't it easier to put in the readme: "To start developing install docker and run 'docker-compose up'" vs. "Please install Ubuntu 18.04 into a VM, those 100 packages, but make sure this 50 packages are not installed."

In my experience virtualized desktop environments are very painful to work on, even with fast connections.

Docker (or containerization in general) is very useful for development. Much more useful than for deployment/production.
This is the difference between Duolingo created content and community created content. The Duolingo courses have a lot more to them in app form. It seems like it is a lazy implementation in the app to me.

I have a over 1000 day streak and I've seen the app change a lot over those 1000+ days. It is heading towards "why am I bothering with this?" territory to be honest. I also do Memrise, and their marketing is just as obnoxious, but the app is actually a lot better at doing the stuff DuoLingo used to focus on IMO.
I used to self host it and moved to RDS (postgres), haven't looked back since. It's one thing to just run a DB with docker, but it's much different when you are talking about version upgrades, logs management, snapshot & restore... etc'.
Most restaurants I’ve been to have their QR code link to a PDF and not an ordering website with payments.
Companies that use a disproportionate of trackers and therefore need cookie banners destroyed my web browsing experience.
I used to run on PfSense with Suricata, but my SG-3100 would frequently get rebooted by the watchdog because the load was too high.

These days i just use a Ubiquiti Dream Machine Pro. The base version works just fine as well, the pro just fit better on the shelf, and i didn't need an additional AP.
On the other hand, here in the UK I know several people who no longer carry a wallet or cards at all because Apple Pay is so ubiquitously available. I don’t know anyone without a phone.
yeah same experience in France.

GA is already approved and installable via a meta tag, so besides the warm feeling of fighting the giant, there is not too much upside and lots of questions to answer.

Upper stakeholders should connect the ideas : "Google data monopoly" and "other option for analytics should be available".

/rant's-off
I feel pretty disturbing about this.

One of the determining feature of edX is it is backed by MIT. And that's also the reason why I trust the platform to give out information.

I don't want to be machine learnt on the Internet.
You can access https version of an ENS website without plugins by using a `link` suffix:

https://pawelurbanek.eth.link/
No, I object to people trying to fix racism by wanting to implement laws, that in fact are cementing racism.
Thanks, I didn't know. I've updated my original comment
It's remarkable how much those restaurants they uncovered in Pompeii resemble modern versions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermopolium
I read the Filecoin docs and it completely fails to explain the economic incentive. Can someone fill me in? Miners receive Filecoins as reward for storing people's data, who pay Filecoin to access their files. So... the only use for Filecoin is to gain storage access? Why would a miner, who by definition has storage, want a currency that can only buy more storage? Is there something else one can buy with Filecoin? According to Coinbase, Filecoins are "worth $50", meaning they can be traded for dollars?
This is automatic in Firefox. When giving e.g. microphone permission, you can leave the 'Remember this desxision' option unchecked. This will make the permission 'Allowed temporarily' and will be reset when you close the tab or window.

As far as I can test, Chrome does not have this option.
I'm doing my Micromasters in Statistics from MIT on EDX. Enjoying the amazing content and recognition of certificate. I'm not sure what this means for enrolled students like me. Is anyone else doing MicroMaster or similar course from a university and worried what this means?

"MIT faculty may choose to continue to offer their courses through the new edX after the transaction is completed, or move them to MITx Online."
Anyone know of any commenting systems that work on IPFS? In theory how would this work? Could there be some distributed application that stores individual comments on ipfs and serves as some type of routing mechanism or lambda function to aggregate comments into a master thread which can be continuously updated as a static files stored on ipfs?
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Mysql/Mariadb because it's fast, easy to setup and featured enough for all my needs. Also because I'm used to it and storage isn't my core business, I don't need to change.
They did test that scenario

https://github.com/irsl/gcp-dhcp-takeover-code-exec#attack-3
Just in case your client has straightforward needs for straightforward UI on websites perhaps these could work well? Both offer straightforward (and somewhat fun) interfaces to make and launch quickly. https://carrd.co/ or
https://build.mmm.page/

Other than that I've had previous good experiences with:
https://forestry.io/
> The most "consistent support," in 13 of 19 independent studies, was that spanking and other forms of child punishment created more external problem behaviors over time, Gershoff said, such as "increased aggression, increased antisocial behavior, and increased disruptive behavior in school."

> Some studies in the review found physical punishment increased conduct problems and signs of oppositional defiant disorder, which is characterized by temper tantrums, argumentative and defiant behavior, active defiance and refusal to follow rules, spitefulness and vindictiveness.

But is that adaptive or not?