skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was a little kid I used to lay on my back in the garden when there was a clear night sky. I would watch numerous shooting stars and slowly moving dots (turned out to be satellites).

One night laying there, out of the blue, I heard something hit the gravel path that was next to where I was laying. I searched the area where I figured the thing had fallen, but of course I couldn't find anything out of the ordinary. There was no light, no sound and no trees from which something could have fallen. I was convinced it was a fragment of a meteorite, but seeing this chart I can only flow this childhood conviction out of existence.

Coming to realize, it was most likely just my dad playing tricks on me. Either way, it still makes me feel warm inside thinking about that moment.
Even in the US.
Just how many fucks do you think they ought to give about such an obscure edge case?
Disclaimer: I'm an employee of ExpressVPN and work on this codebase.

The specific reason for the size disparity is that we require he_conn->{username,password} to be null-terminated, whereas we do NOT require he_msg_auth->{username,password} to be null-terminated. I remember raising the same point and being convinced that we had a good reason for doing so, but I also haven't had enough coffee to remember what the good reason was!

Regardless of whether this is a "bug" or not I do think that the disparity points to something that unnecessarily causes confusion, will have a think about making it more consistent.

Regarding style -- I also ~hate if(x==0) without the space after the if but we committed to consistency instead of arguing over it via clang-format. To quote Rob Pike, "Gofmt's style is no one's favorite, yet gofmt is everyone's favorite."
> I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on that.

This is such a bizarre claim. I know Agilebits understands Mac users.

To be brutally honest, I've heard this line from a lot of software shops after they decide tailoring their apps to the native platform is too expensive or inconvenient for them. Suddenly they all find that their users don't care about their native platform - I suspect if I went looking for the discussion from back when Adobe did this, I'd see the same phrasing.

I canceled my subscription today.
> And since both app stores charge a 30% fee, I can really only see this helping consumers in the end.

My naive assumption is that these fees reduce the need for an ad/user data based revenue stream, which seems to be one of the main uses of Android.
Unfortunately, we don't support EVE Online.
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Maybe a all future models will be required to record an exact training set and methodology used to derive it which can be used to reproduce the model byte-for-byte. Sure, you don't have to publish it, but you'd better save it in case it comes up in court.

Couldn't happen soon enough imo. Models today are like compiled binaries, but instead of the source code and compilation steps being carefully tracked for attribution, nobody even knows what the source code is.
"the only information we can produce in response to a request like this is the date and time a user registered with Signal and the last date of a user’s connectivity to the Signal service"

https://signal.org/bigbrother/eastern-virginia-grand-jury/
The codespace is backed by a regular Linux VM, so we can clone the upstream repo and edit/compile/debug/etc in that just like we would locally on our laptops and workstations.
Just very minor nitpick: their first link to Codespaces is https, while the second one is http for the same page. (Was wondering why FF shows the first and second url differently.)

Hope there be an automated checker to catch these things.
How about real-time explanation what plant you are looking at, what bird just flew by, what is interesting about the building next to you, etc?

Look at the web — against all odds, it has tons of content beside ads!
A percentage of the population have been ideologically captured by the establishment. They're no longer able to entertain curious discussion. Any dissonance must be drowned out.
An unusual but significant factor in the lack of streaming rights for The Mists of Avalon may be the allegations of child sexual abuse against Marion Zimmer Bradley, the author of the source material for that series.
Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship
Was it comedian Daniel Tosh that said:

> They say money can't buy happiness, but do you know what money can buy? A jetski! And when have you ever seen someone not happy on a jetski. You'd be smiling as you ride that thing into the pier!

(paraphrased)
That's fair. My point was that Bitwarden handles a good number of people's requirements in their free tier. 1Password is not free for anyone.
This is the same way with any kind of control the state has, it is ultimately based in violence.as you say, the jurisdiction you wanna live in and use your funds in, can pretty easily abduct you for defying a court order on those funds.
Every single big company will only allow their payment method. None that can afford to change will want to pay Apple's cut if they don't have to. If this passes, for any big successful app, using Apple payment will not be an option.

Small developers will likely still use Apple because it is easy. The cut is likely less than the hassle of using a different system.

After an update took away the required login setting for a purchase, Twice I have called Apple and received a refund when my kid spent hundreds of dollars in a couple hours. What is going to happen when that is a malicious game developer? They are not giving that money back. The cable monopolies show how monopolies will make it exceedingly hard to cancel a subscription.

As a mere consumer, that is no longer developing for a living, I do not want this option. I do not really care if companies have to pay Apple a cut. I want easy. I want to trust who has my credit card.
> That's fine. YouTube doesn't want to host it, because in their view it's harmful. What's the problem?

It is perfectly rationale to say that YouTube has the freedom to make editorial choices while also pointing out that they are making bad choices.

You aren't countering any criticism by stating that YouTube has the freedom to make those choices -- you're just changing the topic and ignoring the nature of the criticism.
I don't see anyone mentioning the biggest problem with this.

Companies like Bright Data (the leading residential proxy provider) sell access to what is essentially a legal botnet.

Their IPs are indeed VPN exit points, but they also belong to some innocent family that just accidentally installed a browser extension without reading the EULA. 99% of their residential IPs belong to ordinary people who have no idea they are part of the botnet.

When Netflix bans these IPs, they are also banning this family, who are probably very confused as to why they can no longer use their Netflix subscription.

My hope is Netflix is smart enough to only block users using these IPs when the browser and system timezone and other attributes don't align with the geolocation of the IP.

Also, Bright Data's IP pool is a secret but you can just sign up as a user and make tons of requests and log them for yourself. Not exactly rocket science.
The reality of the "metaverse" as far as I'm seeing it, is literally just MMORPGs without a story/purpose, where you hang out with friends, chat, do shared activities, etc etc. Second Life done better, with the world size/style of WoW/Fortnite/Minecraft/Rust/etc (choose your graphics and fantasy genre). Plenty of people already join custom Minecraft servers just to hang out and voice-chat while messing around doing stupid stuff... it's just that taken to a new level.

Everything else is just hype by massive advertising companies to try sell you on THEIR version of that, and make it seem like a universe-changing step in humanity that will raise you to the next level in evolution, so that they can fill it with ads (direct and indirect/subliminal) to make more money.
> not feeling comfortable with the "any mask is fine" messaging.

Sure, there is a reason that in Germany they moved from "any mask" to "medical" mask to requiring FFP2/(K)N95 masks.
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> So he is right to criticize mask mandates because they aren't specific enough?

why do you think this is a legitimate comment? we're talking about medically prescriptive legislation intended to save lives. the fact that the laws arent specific enough is central to paul's problem with the federal government in the first place.

> But the fact is that n95 masks work pretty well.

as if to prove the point, you go straight to n95s. id wager the highest % of n95s worn by americans was <25. the cdc started by telling americand not to wear masks at all ffs.

> Many people that listen to Rand come away thinking masks don't work at all

...yeah thats kinda the point. limited efficacy in narrow circumstances. hardly seems worth the resources spent, including government reach.
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The between-group results are not "inconclusive" -- they found no statistically significant difference between the masked and unmasked cohorts. There's no reason to reject the null hypothesis ("masks are not protective") based on this data.

The authors say this:

> The most important limitation is that the findings are inconclusive, with CIs compatible with a 46% decrease to a 23% increase in infection.

This is not saying that that study is inconclusive. It's saying that the protective effect is inconclusive -- masks could be anything from slightly protective, to slightly harmful. The fact that the writer characterizes the entire paper as "inconclusive" is incriminating: it's an editorial bias, a complete misunderstanding of statistics, or a combination of both.

> Which sounds like their saying they can say with 95% confidence that there is between a 46% reduction and a 21% increases, which sounds pretty damn inconclusive to me.

No. They're stating the confidence interval on the point estimate. All point estimates have confidence intervals, and the existence of a confidence interval does not mean that the result is uncertain. To restate basic statistics: the top-line conclusion of the study is that the 95% confidence intervals of the two groups overlap to such a degree that you can't reject the conclusion that they're the same.
> good enough to deserve your position

What does this mean? What qualifies as "good enough"?

If you're not fired, you're good enough for your boss.

There are billions of people from poor regions who would put in way more effort than you. Many of them are smarter too. You make $100K / year to spend 35 hours / week drinking coffee and writing JavaScript, they make like $10K / year to spend 60 hours / week physical labor and getting yelled at. You'll never be good enough for them.

Also, there are 7+ billion people in the world. That means there are millions if not billions more talented than you. You're probably not even the most talented in your group.

But why does any of that matter? Literally nobody is good enough by those standards.

There's no objective "good enough". Those people from poor regions who work their asses off deserve more, you don't deserve less. In my eyes, don't be an asshole, contribute to society in some way, and you're good enough.

Except maybe one objective "good enough": if you're not fired, you're good enough for your boss. Honestly, some bosses have unrealistic standards so even that doesn't count.
Given the State of the Globe, to hell with tax credits. A serious policy would pay for half the price of a EV costing under $40,000. $20k x 1 million is $20B. Accompanied by a massive charging-station buildout.

Preference to people currently driving gas-guzzlers worth under $10000. Paid after proof of crushing. In 10 years that gets 10M offending vehicles off the road.

Do it now or do it when it's too late.
How is this different from metafy.gg who just raised a pretty large round?
Nix is a prototype-grade implementation of a very narrowly useful model of computation.
well it looks like the perp's accademic area was criminology so maybe we could ask him
I recall watching a show about a university investigating a material from marshes that may someday be used for TV screens.
If the U.S. could shift from a car centric culture then population density would go up. Of course having bus routes to every national park is not feasible in the U.S. but we can have a robust public transportation system beyond urban centers.

There is a cost to not having a good public transportation system. Overall, I think we and the world would be better off if the U.S. transitioned from a car centric culture.
Have you actually looked at the data? Take a look at this study: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261286v...

And you do realize that in the past month Florida has 3x as many deaths as California, while being a much smaller state.
You can also create a separate codespace for each package if they’re independent of each other and you don’t need to test things in the downstream repo in a way that requires your changes being available “locally”.
I work at a place with a flat structure and I can’t emphasize enough how true this is.

It’s especially noticeable when you’re not one of the in-crowd.
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well I use vi for development, this seems visual studio code only
It gives you a lot more information. Where you travel, who you travel with, what types of content you associate with different regions, how much you share with friends, how your preferences change as you hang around different areas and individuals.

Information is deceptive because it's exponential. Detectives often make or break cases on a single lucky clue. Data mining on the Internet is no different. Information goes massively further than most people realize.
>there is literally zero added value with the subscription

Hard disagree. Any security-focused software will have plenty to keep up with between OS changes, browser changes, site changes, new UI patterns, and even simple bug-fixes that you don't get from single purchases.
Do you also hate when people say 3+4i is closer to 5i than 5?
I dont know anyone that uses facebook messanger (is that different from facebook?) and I didnt know that there is smartphone client for discord. On the other hand all my contacts have whatsapp and some have signal.
I honestly think Apple might go nuclear here if this gets a serious shot at passing. I could see them removing the app store outright and instructing people to complain to their representatives, like lyft & uber did for prop 22.

In fact, the first people to complain would probably be the senators themselves.
Is that Guardian description of untidniness significant? I don't understand.
> Accepting such implants might then allow direct surveillance of thoughts so that all novel ideas which thinkers come up with are patented by private investors

With the prevalence of cleartext cloud-based workflows (Discord, Slack, Notion, Google Docs, Github, ...) many people may already be living in a similar reality.
Show HN: Discord Tickets – Open-Source Ticketing System for Discord
Sounds crazy, right? Tickets in discord, etc..

This project aims to provide an open source alternative to the very closed source and nasty-data-stuff doing competitors out there.

https://github.com/discord-tickets/bot

Description from its Discord:

“ Discord Tickets is a Discord bot for creating and managing ticket channels. It is a free and open-source alternative to the paid "premium" and "white-label" plans of popular ticketing bots, such as Ticket Tool, TicketsBot, Tickety, Helper.gg, Helper, and others.”
No, it's not. It would be great if you can provide more detail so that we can fix this problem. Thanks.
Getting audio queues for what is happening on the screen is cheating, pure and simple. "Game awareness" is one of the most difficult aspects to master in fps. I've been playing fps for a very long time, and I would point at the the death cues in particular as being absolutely unfair, you either have to defocus your perception to take in the kill feed(a very difficult thing to do during an intense fight), or move your eyes away from the reticle to read the feed. It would be trivial for the game devs to add this, or put a mini kill feed under the reticle(some games have this, like PUBG) but they don't, and that makes it "assistive software" aka cheating. Further, if you are working with teammates, they can't use a subtle queue like a beep, they likely have to speak, "1 down" or such, which is much more disruptive to your ability to hear footsteps. What further makes this egregious in the case of Valorant is that there isn't even hit markers, so if you are, say, shooting into smoke, this give you a significant advantage to know what's going on in a fight.

Likewise, counting bullets is a very difficult skill to master, and this, like the death notifier is a straight up replacement for that skill (with the caveat being you can't go pro gamer, lol, like it matters for the average cheater) the same way an aimbot is a replacement for the mechanical skill of mousing. Sorry, but training isn't an in-game assist.

If I saw a twitch streamer using this I'd be livid.
This gross, and fuels the need for invasive 0-ring anti-cheat malware.

Not to say everything about this software is cheating, I think providing detailed character/map/mechanics analysis is fine, and a great business idea, but this real-time in-game feedback is gross, at least in the fps genre that I'm familiar with.
I think Perl 6 aka Raku allows this, you can say something like `Person but $age < 18`.
You act like this is the first time in the history of the planet a country has enacted measures to stop the spread of disease. It's not, we've done it before, and the world didn't collapse because people were inconvenienced temporarily.

https://healthblog.uofmhealth.org/wellness-prevention/mask-r...
> I'm curious about how you see the attack surface increasing when using 1Password.

Someone above outlined it nicely: If you let 1Password take care of encrypting the vault, and iCloud (for example) of storing the vault securely, then a malicious actor would have to compromise both products to get your secrets.

It's why we have a pilot and copilot on planes.
This is clearly being done to specifically target Apple, I'm not sure this would hold up as being legal. I see a situtation where Apple takes this to the supreme court, wins on first amendment grounds, and then everyone is royally f*cked for eternity because it's now unconstitutional to prevent a company from lockding down their proprietary hardware/software.
But that's distinct from government spending on social issues.
You don't understand why people might want to avoid being flagged by their ISP for torrenting?
That article is more than a year old. A far newer, more complete assessment shows that mitigations do you have an impact in reducing deaths and infections:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261286v...
A Guide to User Authentication Using Supabase and Vue JavaScript
Super cool, love the landing page — though not yet able to afford to offer this to my clients in my app anytime soon.

Your security page has a little typo: "Veryfi’s is machines all the way down."

Wanted to make sure I let you know!
Sure you are, cope.
Reading comprehension must be difficult? They are VPN users.
It's fascinating to read the British account of the American Revolutionary War in their newspapers. Many people were sympathetic, and it wasn't the top story most days. Just some trouble in the colonies.

See: https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/07/03/how-did-the-british-pre...
Like the other poster said, this is all about transmitting money, which is very different than keeping it, reinvesting it, and handing you a certificate/credit for it.
Is it better to aspire for balance by chasing both, or neither? After all, what is status if you have no-one to brag to - and what good is having a lot of free time when you are just going to end up dead either way, and with work being the best chance most of us get at making a mark on the world.

Not meant as a snide/flippant remark; this shit is what keeps me up at night.
I’m still freaking out about Dioxin.
Often some variations on https://staffeng.com/guides/overview-overview
So, just like the mask studies mentioned.
Response to anti anti anti vaxx
> We do not know whether this virus is purely natural.

Actually, the origin of the virus is irrelevant to the point I was trying to make. In my experience, people opposed to vaccination are often biased against it by the fact that it is man-made, or perhaps more vaguely, that it is some sort of human intervention. I called that "a bit of a naturalistic fallacy". Maybe that's a poor choice of words, but I stand by my point. Our little discussion has multiple examples of that.

* You said previously that "I can't choose to not get the virus, but I can choose to not get the vaccine". Sure, but what if it is a better idea to get vaccinated? Vaccines are approved by government bodies (at least in Europe where I live) based on scientific evidence that the benefits outweigh the risks. In other words, it is a better idea to get the vaccine. You somehow ignore that and focus on the fact that the vaccine requires human intervention, which biases you against it.

* You talked previously of "long-term effects of modified spike protein" of the vaccine. What about the long-term effects of the unmodified spike protein? What about the delta variant? I think it is remarkable that you are not worried about the modifications in the delta variant (which happened randomly), but worried about the modifications in the vaccine (which is man-made). To me, that is again a bias. One that is all the more remarkable since the modifications to the vaccine spike protein were made to prevent it from reaching its fusion form (required to infect a cell) based on research done years ago on MERS.

* You mention that the vaccine makers required and obtained legal immunity. Nobody asked for government aproval for the introduction of the delta variant. It just happened. Nobody is responsible for it. The virus is natural here in the sense that it only submits to the laws of nature, not to human laws. Its actual origin is irrelevant.

> However yes, I cannot have a symmetric worry, because risks and available information are very different for the COVID and for the vaccine.

I don't know what you mean here.
I also like the theory that it helps Netflix collect data better. I'm sure both elements are at play.
Snark really helps your argument. More snark, please!
Tether is looking for any excuse to confiscate funds since they aren't fully backed and it would just be profit for them. They must be pissed the hacker is returning back the funds.
Yeah, hourly retail workers, famous for their non-wage benefits. Sad that on-demand work stripped all those laborers of the great healthcare coverage they were receiving before

Listen I agree low end work is fucked in the US. That's why it's my personal rule to tip 25% of GMV or $7 per order on these services (whichever is more, and I recommend every person who reads this adopt a similar rule no matter how painful it is), but please spare me with the 'Servant-as-a-Service' line - the problem is society and its participants, not the shape an individual job takes.
Which policies in particular do they find 1984-esque?

Also I'm not sure where 99.97% is coming from, I'm getting ~98.3% from the CDC's Data Tracker page. Of course unreported cases could increase that, but it still seems significantly different from whatever source that's from.
Syncthing+keepass/x/c, or pass+git if you're more techy
In that, you are still trusting that the system you have devised had not been successfully gamed or hacked by an adversary. For that matter, you may just be trusting that you don't have an adversary.

The rabbit hole runs stupid deep.
Looks like a great way to markup compute 100%. Good margin for Azure.