skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it depends on where you are. In Honolulu a few weeks ago it would take 15 minutes just to confirm your ride, and then another 10-20 for the driver to get there. (Granted, they are also experiencing a massive tourist surge, greater than pre-pandemic levels.)

In SF, I still see 5-10 minute driver arrivals from when I click the "request" button.
I think these hypothetical apps should be based on html embeds. The big tech companies are not going to remove the ability to do web embeds of their posts/videos/tweets, because embeds are good for bringing traffic in.

With those services that don't have RSS (Youtube does), you will still need a little scraping just to discover the URL of new tweets/posts in a given channel. But it would be just basic scraping and probably more manageable compared to something like youtube-dl.
So I'm working on a crypto derivatives trading bot... have been for a few years now... it's going alright.

I am personally situated in Ontario, Canada, and getting more and more anxious by the day as seemingly every major legitimate derivatives trading platform with any volume is banning Ontarians from trading.

Kraken, Bitmex, Okex, and Huobi all won't even look at me simply because I have a personal address inside Ontario.

I can trade on their spot markets with them, sure... but the fees are MUCH higher than that of derivatives markets and my bot isn't THAT good to swallow a 0.3% trade cost when it's essentially performing high frequency trading. A fee of 0.075% however is manageable.

Binance still allows me to trade derivatives, and I can't figure out how or why. They don't have any legal authority to allow Ontarians to trade afaik, and they're the absolute largest derivatives trading platform on the planet right now.

I tried setting up a corporation in the UK back when Bitmex originally banned Ontarians, but when I went to register that corporation as a trader with Bitmex, they demanded to know the identity of all of the owners of the corporation, and if any of them resided inside Ontario then they wouldn't work with that corporation as well.

(the bot was originally setup to trade on Bitmex as they had the most liquidity at the time, but that has dwindled significantly ever since they banned Ontarians and all of the USA from trading in October 2020)

I don't have millions of dollars in my pocket, so I don't have the money to jump through legal loopholes by registering shell corporations and paying representatives to act as proxy owners in non-banned jurisdictions.

I'm not doing anything wrong imho. I'm not risking my life savings or going to crash the cryptocurrency market with my derivatives trading ways or whatever the Ontario government is trying to protect me from?

I am just another guy trying to make a buck like everyone else on this planet. Why is my government trying to prevent me from doing so at every turn? I just don't get it?

What are my options if/when Binance decides to ban Ontarians as well?
Then what happens to the people who choose not to invest in their pension? Are we comfortable allowing these elderly people to live on the streets?
> While scary, is this really newsworthy?

It is because the strains were genetically linked yet cover a vast disconnected geographic area.

Something is bringing the bacteria in, and they're trying to find it.

In addition, when something like this appears you want medical workers to be thinking about it as an option and adjust their Bayesian probabilities.

The standard "When you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras" is fine unless the circus just came to town. At which point, horses is still more likely, but zebras are no longer out of the question.
I don’t think the miners can manipulate their energy bill, salaries, rent, hardware costs, etc…
their moat is that their app is now everywhere, which is worth something. So many other services have easy to copy apps, but it takes years for other apps to beat them. See Facebook, instagram, etc. A good app is really worth something.
What's premium about Uber ? My personal experience is that taxis are usually much more comfortable cars, they're allowed to drive in dedicated bus lanes, and they don't try to scam you by taking a longer route to rack an overcharge. The advantage and innovation of Uber is the app, but now taxi companies have one too. So what is it ?
> Oh, and one more thing: we love the communities around games as much as anyone, and have no plans to change anything about the free Parsec app. We hope creative professionals get as much joy out of creating the next great fighting game as you do playing them.

https://twitter.com/ParsecTeam/status/1425206344467034113

The Parsec folks are good people but I'm still a little worried.
Hi, something i build in the past https://insightrend.com/?page=term-trending

Try it with some keyword...

I was trying to build an Google trends alternative.

Nôt sure if its helpful.
Trillion Dollar Paint Job
As a borderline introvert, all I can say is, "wow, that looks extremely crowded and uncomfortable right outside my 'front door'."

(And I have lived in Manhattan and in a mid-sized city in Germany, although I currently live in Los Angeles.)
The Dixie Fire Is Now the Largest Single Wildfire in California History
Why wouldn't North Koeans hold hands? Most have normal lives in an abnormal place.

The best performers train there entire lives and put on shows year round. Secretly they hope the leader will show up one day.

In America people wait hoirs to get a star to sign something. In North Korea the biggest star is the leader.

From the real footage I've seen it's a crazy place with normal people who do normal things.
Not excusing their dark patterns (which don't play nice if you block double-click at DNS level, but just as an observation, googleusercontent.com itself is actually a legitimate and valid (at least IMO) security precaution.

By serving up all user generated content from a separate domain, it gives defense-in-depth against any kind of uploaded content getting script execution - it's served up from a domain that is completely separate from any authentication tokens or valuable cookies etc. That way, a user-uploaded HTML file (if someone found an endpoint that would render it) shouldn't be able to be served up from a first-party domain.
While this appears to be made in both jest and political commentary, I agree that there are bounds to human intelligence.

While we as a species have accomplished a lot, those accomplishments seem to be sparked/possible by the few of us who stop and figure things out or notice something interesting. It seems that most of us take most of the knowledge we have for granted; Even the most essential pieces of our knowledge are passed down, not figured out, by the vast majority of us.

Examples: fire, sanitary practices, what to eat (and what not to eat), language (and writing)

How I justify these examples:

It took a long time (many generations) to harness fire and still more to understand it well enough to use it as we do today. We are still pushing the limits of our understanding of fire (combustion) in microgravity to better understand how it works on Earth.

Sanitary practices are different in different cultures despite all of us having the same basic plumbing. Sure, we can all "poo in a hole" but even in modern times, we've had to re-learn to not make that hole too close to our water supply.

Food: There is no way of knowing what mushrooms will kill you without someone previously taking a hit for the tribe.

Language seems pretty self-explanatory but... there are languages we no longer know and are largely unable to decipher because we have stopped passing them down. Knowledge encoded in those languages may be lost until rediscovered in a new language.

I think the biggest bound to our perceived intelligence is the ability to pass it down. When viewed in the scope of animal intelligence, we often think animals that have learned from other animals are acting more intelligently than those that haven't. The problem is, both groups may be equally intelligent, one group is just more highly trained.
... he wrote, unironically, in the Hacker News comment section.
Anyone else have that annoying drop-down panel that I could only get rid of by nuking from orbit?
I've used Taxi apps, and have called taxis more than I've used Uber/Lyft in the past few years.

But the reason for this is because of surge pricing. The times I want a ride are when everyone else wants a ride, and we're all coming out of the same venue. Taxis offer much more affordable fares, and sometimes will even be parked outside waiting for the people exiting the venue.

Saying no one is using taxis is not true. Few people think to use them, but there are times when it is worth it.
Something not really discussed a lot, FoundationDB works well as a blob / object store.
More details and sketches of potential designs: https://newatlas.com/orion-project-atom-bomb-spaceship/49454...

One thing I'm sure I don't understand: from a material science perspective, how would you produce shock absorbers capable of repeated and sustained shockwaves at 100 second intervals from h-bombs? It seems like any material you select, as exotic as it may be, will degrade pretty quickly. Doesn't seem like 200 years will solve this problem.
Very interesting take, but there are similar tools to aid thoughts, memory, and organization.

>> One of my big takeaways from using Monocle on a daily basis for the last week has been that no single app can be my second brain.

Org-mode for Emacs fulfills this role for many people:

https://orgmode.org/

Of course, this assumes you are using Emacs as the user interface instead of a web browser.

>> If we want to build a software system that can organize information across apps, what better place to start than the one piece of software that has access to it all, where most of us live and work nearly all the time?

Maybe Emacs? (I use vim, but two developers I work with are emacs / org-mode users and they use it for everything to include staying super organized.)
TikTok is addictive; while I don't use it I saw reposted TikTok videos in YouTube Shorts, all I can see yea they are fun but they are meaningless engagement.
> I am not confident I could tell you how to publicly expose the modem provided by Comcast for non-local access

You likely couldn't. That setting is usually gated behind some sort of "technician" or "mso" account (or not present, or only accessible from the devices telnet/ssh interface). Of course, it's probably not difficult to guess Comcast's password; past experience with other companies suggests you try things like "comcast" or "C0mc4s7". (Not even joking, Suddenlink and Spectrum/TWC.)

> much less how someone without any tech experience might do this.

Easy. It's a button that their kid clicked while playing around.

> MFA is not common at all on consumer routers, which at least quite a few on the first page result are, same with rate limiting.

Are you trying to say that's a positive for exposing it on the internet...?
Well the "collaboration suite" features are now slowly being phased out or at least dont receive that much attention. Their new calendar integration and task management features are small steps but I think they are intriguing at least.
Shodan, great tool. I remember spending time looking at some misconfigured IP cams
OP. I'm posting this because I discovered a box at the hostel I'm at on Google after fat fingering the IP by mistake. (It's disconnected already.) The password was easily guessable.

Aside from the anecdata, a counter argument is that the router manufacturer has taken no steps to obscure the routers from search engines. Sure someone could simply IP scan, but you have to admit this is a little absurd.
Yeah! I’m going to deploy my app, with all my users data, to a random account controlled by someone else I’ve never met and have no relationship with. And the best bit is it will be a nightmare to switch in the future!
I woukd say it doesn't matter and the mere fact that we are discussing this here indicates that we are in a bubble.

To put things in perspective, if Apple's customer size is a football terrain, we are likely the needle in a corner making noises and complaining about a feature nobody else cares about.

The vast majority of Apple customers are captive: as long as they can take beautiful pictures and share them on IM or social networks without the need to think about their relevance in social issues, they won't care.

If you want Apple to walk back on something, first you need to convince the larger audience that they may lose something. In the case of CSAM protection, good luck :)
It won’t happen to existing home owners.
I've been curious about that as well
> Bepi

Beppe
This repo has a lot of cool material, I like the "How to Defi" book most
https://github.com/baraldor/defi
Microsoft repository for Linux goes down again (probably out of space)
The social media functionality is the secondary purpose of the app, the first being surveillance and data collection.

Of course Google, Facebook, and a million other companies do the same thing, all completely disregarding user privacy in favor of selling your information for a quick buck, thereby making the internet a more hostile environment for taking advantage of the technologically uninitiated than ever before. TikTok is just the latest in a line of the worst thing to happen to the internet.
Is there a name for this skewing?
Myself and a number of people I know have flatly said they will not return to the office. Occasional visits or team meetings are ok, but regular office time is off the table.

But the place I work has publicly announced that they surprisingly discovered overall equal or better productivity during COVID, even despite the learning curve of everyone going remote.

I believe that much of the long term success of remote work depends on upper management being open to the idea and willing to postpone judgement until adequate time (a year) has passed.

It may not really matter, though, because it's possible that COVID and other similar global problems will come up often enough to forever change how we operate as human societies.
Actually SeaweedFS already supports asynchronous backup to data sinks such as S3,GCP,Azure,etc.

I did not heard of this "kitchen" sink before. :)

But adding one more sink should be trivial.
It needs to be an entire district, not just a few buildings.
I'm not aware of any vacuum container that is strong enough to resist buckling while being light enough to be buoyant.
I've taken cabs all over the world and I have to say one of the most terrifying experiences I've had was in SF in the 90s. We were absolutely flying up and down those hills with just some measly brake pads to save us (and the pedestrians).
>Only the german languages adopted a Germanic goddess name due to the coincidental timing.

And not even one anyone actually remembered, just one whose name was still around to denote that time of year.
ATGMs are expensive per target killed and Pakistan doesn't have indigenous ability to manufacture them. Supplying such missiles would pull back the veil a bit, especially if serial numbers were recovered.
There is no good JS ORM, so it's for the best.
Siberia’s wildfires are bigger than all the world’s other blazes combined
Its so much better than taxis in even smaller cities. In Louisville to get a taxi took at least an hour uber made it minutes. I agree uber was investor subsidized but it was a good thing for a lot of people in smaller cities.
> soy milk, which additionally has gelling agents added to control mouthfeel

I'm sure all brands differ, but the box in my fridge says "Ingredients: Water, Organic Soybeans".
Or at least several hundred engineers. Does Uber really need several thousand engineers? It's kinda nuts to me, WhatsApp scaled to a billion with 50, you figure an order of magnitude more to deal with the fact that a large part of Uber is turning legal compliance into code.
Seems to me if there's a bunch of apps dependent on that legacy data, that cleanup could have been done more usefully and elegantly in the database with some views anyone could use.

Or, if for some reason views couldn't be added (lack of access) a set of generic CTE includes?
Yeah it really doesn't sound as attractive as an entire district built without cars being the first-class citizen.
Man I feel you, I wonder if it's even the same people
> Chances of an average human being being able to come up with a password with enough entropy to be called as secure is pretty low.

https://xkcd.com/936/

So you think the chance of human beings to come up with 4 random words is pretty low?

You can't brute force millions of guesses per second through a web interface. 40 bits of entropy is already plenty for internet usage especially when the password is properly hashed with something like bcrypt.

> Secure passwords is just a tiny subset of non-default passwords

Actually the exact opposite is true. Since only low entropy and publicly known (which are mostly low entropy) passwords are insecure there are much more secure than non secure passwords.

For the sake of argument, let's say all passwords with less than 40 bits of entropy are insecure. Even if we restrict the set of possible passwords to only 10 characters of lowercase a-z we have about 47 bits of entropy. So the set of insecure passwords would only be about 1/128 or less than 1% of all allowed passwords.
AlphaStudio
Windows 10 is a disaster. Not exactly something to emulate, but at least it’s going to be some vintage of windows. So copy and paste will be consistent and not change ctrl versus meta versus select & middle mouse button. Linux is all over the place. I can’t even have consistent hidpi support without manual tweaks, and even then certain apps layouts become very strange.

I’m really comparing to macOS, which clearly is what eOS is trying to be.
No, they didn’t. Apple never gets any of the content on your device. They get signatures and, at best, a visual representation like a thumbnail.
Yeah this seems more like coliving than an a european neighborhood.
The authors of this opinion piece are economists Casey B. Mulligan and Tomas J. Philipson.

Philipson served as the Acting Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Trump administration. He holds the Daniel Levin Chair in Public Policy at the University of Chicago and was previously director of the Gary Becker Milton Friedman Institute for Research in Economics. While Acting Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, Philipson downplayed the public health risk and economic threat of the coronavirus pandemic, going so far as to question the wearing of masks to slow transmission of the disease. Philipson also tested positive for COVID-19 in June of 2020 https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-economist-tested-po...

Mulligan served as chief economist for the Council of Economic Advisers in the Trump Administration from September 6, 2018 to August 2019. Mulligan opposes paid sick days, arguing that they lead workers to take sick days even when they are not sick. https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/home-sick-anot...
True about the params.
I guess I've always put the queries in as "here" strings, so they do look out of place in the sense that the structure is different. In most cases the sql was in a file with a bunch of other "lowest" level db calls, so I kind of got used to that being the look of those particular source files.

Looked at the Hangfire code and the last two methods there look a lot like what I used to do in the old C# days. Except I'd have whole files of db stuff like that, and other files for the C# code that called them.
> As for the papers not being there, I guess it is more fun to try to exploit other stuff than WebAssembly.

Yeah I guess a target with an attack surface that includes every web browser compiled in the last 5 years and ubiquitous cloud infrastructure that terminates half the web's TLS sessions is just too boring and low profile. Sure, that's why nobody's found a vulnerability yet.

> Rest assured that you will be notified when they get announced.

Certainly, I can read the HN front page just as well as anyone. But I suppose that means you don't have anything better either.
...except that 1) it hasn't happened in the real world, 2) it was proposed in December 1989 (if not earlier), about the same time as the first episode of The Simpsons aired. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1989JBIS...42..567E/abstra...
> You'd think but look at Mt. Gox.

Gox was a ridiculously amateurish affair run by a french pimply php hacker and manga lover teenager.

Bitmex is in a slightly different league.
Zucking it up?

I just put it in the category of "What's Good for Facebook is Good for Facebook."
That would also be an assumption.
My personal experience is taxis are less comfortable and I've only not been scammed by a taxi once (in the us), taxis are fantastic abroad, no idea why.

A large part of Uber is also the rating model. I don't know if taxis have that, but at least for LGBTQ passengers it makes a huge difference. You can't harass your passenger and keep a good rating.
Also disgusting.
You can create a long complicated link to share with other people, even people without Skydrive/OneDrive/Dropbox/Google Drive accounts. But sometimes people publish these links somewhere where a search engine's crawler sees it and follow it.

I remember spotting someone's URL to a Google Doc on their screen which their camera caught in their YouTube video. I manually typed it into my browser's URL bar and voila, I could read that document. Nothing juicy though.
This news hit before he resigned. I think even before the big new revelations from the AG were out.
I absolutely left California due to politics, and I will never return because of it. The bay area is full of batshit crazy whackos.
We expect middle-schoolers to address "who what where when why and how" when writing stuff. I think we should be able to expect the same from paid journalists whether or not they're professionally trained.
No, it actually was. Source: I wrote that comment.
One advantage I get from Uber is a single interface no matter where I am. I travel a lot. I won’t install an app for every city. Uber has taken away the pain of dealing with taxi companies in strange cities.

Unfortunately, it traded one kind of monopoly for another.

Ideally, Uber would have been an app and a network that taxi companies plug into.
In childhood, One of the worst advise given to me was, “knowledge is power”. Which is not only half truth, but a time consuming advise. Experienced knowledge is the key.
The load times are most likely primarily caused either by slow JS or high RTT/multiple requests, either of which could be trivially bypassed by an attacker. Or an attacker could just fire off 100 requests at the same time and saturate the bandwidth anyway, despite a high latency. And any high latency would likely be significantly lower if you happen to be in the same geographic area.

Latency is not rate-limiting.
The Sun thinks the same -

"Many have questioned the wisdom of storing such combustible materials in a country where the temperatures brush 50C." - https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15778161/worlds-biggest-gravey...

So does the Australian government - "The higher the temperature the more likely it is that a fire will start or continue to burn. This is because the fuel is closer to its ignition point at high temperatures and pre-heated fuel loads burn faster." - https://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/community-safety/bus...

I think to prove they are wrong is complicated. What they say is true. Intuition also makes people think it's true (anyone who's started a fire on a hot day knows it rips).

You have to simulate this effect is orders of magnitude lower than the other effects. Of which it's still hard to know which one that counts. Is it wind speed or the missing moisture or are they the same order of magnitude?

But one shouldn't complain about an article that thinks tires tires get executed when they are old, that's cute - "filled to the brim with executed car tires"
> What are my options

Vote with your feet.
Your sarcasm meter is likely broken I'm afraid