skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is worrying. The only reasonable explanation for such a high infection rate is that some animals are spreading it to other animals. So even when we are able to vaccinate all humans, we will not be able to eradicate COVID because there is still a reservoir in other animals.
What are the storage and processing requirements for this functionality and how will they evolve over time? Can it be so that it is only loaded on my device if I use the relevant services? Other than impact on privacy it also has impact on property even though I know with Apple that ship has sailed a long time ago. My last Apple purchase was a couple days before I heard about this, and it will be my Last. Not like they’ll care, but I do, as I only accepted their walled garden in exchange for privacy, however naive that proves me to be…
I did not say there was a "massive surge" of cases in Gibraltar.

With regards to the open borders, most of the EEA has open borders, Gibraltar is not special in that regard.
Mine more than doubles in height and does so using a 3 part telescopic legs. Given how small some telescopic ladders can compress to and how low my desk already goes with just 3 parts, I’m reasonably confident it’s not that difficult of an engineering challenge to build a table that could compress lower than mine.
The weworks here are 90%+ vacant
Tokyo’s 7-Elevens and convenience stores
"I demand free speech with advertising!"
Theoretically you could also halt all transfers by refusing to include any transactions.
This sort of meaningless in-jargon is just as prevalent in tech circles as it ever was in a cult. And I'm not talking about shop talk, or coders talking about code. I feel like sometime between "iterate" and "agile" we all drank the Kool aid.
My theory is more that they will add the functionality to Starlink. Worst case, you just plug the RF part of the swarm cubesat on the outside of a Starlink. This way Starlink immediately supports low power devices, has a ground segment for the end-users readily available, and solves the latency/backhaul problem that all these cubesat constellations have.
They already have that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
But the 'security' services want access to what's on people's phones too.
; Echo “Shell Injection”
where can we find your vlog?
Starbase Tour with Elon Musk [Part 1]
People at Apple really think that someone who has such images would add them to iCloud Library?
Funny term, “niche cryptosystem”

It’s like a frog, which is about to beat a frog with a wand, frog says, come on, I am already a frog!
To be pedantic, and risking your country being different to what I've personally seen around the world, what you see attached to the wall of a building isn't a fire hydrant.

These are standpipes [0] which can be used to move water to parts of the the building from that external fitting. They may contain some static water or be completely dry (like a dry riser [1]) but they are not a source of water like a hydrant is.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standpipe_(firefighting)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_riser
According to the legend, they weren't allowed to publish PGP on the internet because US laws forbade exporting of cryptographic tools, so they made a book with the entire source code and shipped that overseas.
Reminds me of the cameron apple that is a guava injected with red dye and flavored artificially.

Saw on Weird Explorer YT
To me, there was something to say vs people posting shit just to meet a quota. There seems to be much less thought/research/editing of content now. It wasn't so gamefied before HTML2.0 and social.
> (...) He might have even thought it was possible on that day. In the end, he couldn't do it (...)

I don't see how claiming that you believe a few challenges would pop up along the way can refute the fact that Trump's goal was to overthrow the democratic process to force himself into staying in power in spite of the election results.

Quoting Mike Pence, on rejecting Trump's threats on Jan 6 insurrection:

> "There are those in our party who believed that in my position as presiding officer over the joint session that I possess the authority to reject or return electoral votes certified by the states," Pence said. "But the Constitution provides the vice president with no such authority."

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pence-proud-his-jan-6-actio...
Once an Addict, Always an Addict?
Google “contemplated buying some or all of Epic” to stop “contagion”
I guess it depends what you are trying to achieve by cooking an omelette. Taking the analogy to an extreme:

If you want to serve a really high-quality meal and are willing to wait a few days or weeks to get the omelette then you would probably wait for a chef from the omelette department, or hire in an external consulting chef. Note that a single omelette will take a long time to get this way, as you will probably also have to get authorisation to hire/spend money/use another teams resources.

If you needed food now, and if eggs in a pan now are better than omelettes in a few weeks, you would probably just find someone from your team to do it and you would have an omelette within the hour. It won't be as good, but it's better than waiting if you are hungry.

If you weren't cooking an omelette, and were writing a report trying to assess if the omelette team should be rolled into the frittata, you probably wouldn't ask the omelette team to write this report. Sure, they might have the most knowledge of how the team works and their capabilities, but asking the omelette team to write this report might have a pro-omelette bias because there is a conflict-of-interest in terms of job preservation.
That's what happens when you compute the displacement as velocity * total_time.
it is just a different record entirely. there is a special zone for reverse lookup on ip addresses for ip4 and ip6 respectively. the address gets transformed into DNS labels to make the lookup. i.e to do a lookup for the ip address "192.0.2.1" the actual name for which the lookup is done is "1.2.0.192.in-addr.arpa." and the delegation for these zones can be and typically is entirely different from the forward zone. if you only have access to the forward zone you wont affect the reverse zone at all...
Thank you so much for sharing this. It was hilarious and at the same time rang so damn true (like good comedy should imho).
Go back to the root cause here: boring images cause someone to become depressed. My advice is to refrain from looking at the things, your approach is to pat the person on the head. You can try to spin it into a long meandering rant about the vicariousness of life and the eternity of suffering which makes it all so much richer but when all that seems to do is cause depression it is clearly not the right path unless you consider depression to be virtuous.

Also, twitter, not tumblr. I've never been to tumblr and I try to avoid twitter but from what I've seen of the place it is full of keyboard-side vicars full of holier-than-thou attitude which they're wont to express in 140 characters or less.
Have you tried tapping the back button when it happens?

Always works on my non-updated 2012 Paperwhite, which incidentally doesn't have this bug (or any bug).
The precedent is scanning on the user's device, yes. As far as I understand they are trying to limit the stream of subpoenas for users data by encrypting everything, without being called pedo enablers or something like that. But what they are doing is in effect showing the governments and anti-freedom activists that it is in fact possible to do this on users' devices, thus building a foundation for further expansion of such scanning to all data, sent or stored, on all apps, on the operating system level, and not only of their own initiative, but as a result of a legislation. And then why would you not fight other things that are currently considered to be societal ills? It's the next logical step. There are plenty of countries where you could get real prison sentences for writing or saying things, all with "well intentioned" justifications of course. We are steadily moving towards a "digital gulag", and Apple is paving the way. All of this also shows those who value freedom as pedo enablers, forcing other companies to also implement similar processes.
"If they could improve the resolution"

What resolution improvement would you like to see?

I have a Kobo e-ink reader (the Clara HD) which has 300 PPI. For long texts, the e-ink screen is more comfortable to read than even the highest resolution tablets.

Some Kindle models also have a high resolution (e.g. Kindle Paperwhite with 300 PPI).
Very well said, and a sobering reality of the world - whenever and wherever "the few" hold the majority to ransom in a grotesque asymmetric power equilibrium.

Unfortunately, the same dynamic applies at the national/international level and can often be seen in attitudes between "developed" and "developing" nations.
I mean, that's a fair point, except that the pricing structure doesn't reflect the differences at all. Servicing a fully electric car should be cheaper, but in practice it just isn't. Servicing a PHEV should be more expensive but it also just isn't. A service of the E-Tron or the MB EQC costs the same as an equivalent ICE car even though there's hardly anything to do, and the service of my PHEV Volvo costs the same as the service of a regular ICE Volvo despite there being more to do.

So you might find that you'll get a fully electric Jeep but your servicing costs won't go down at all, it will still require an annual service to keep the warranty, and the dealer will almost certainly charge the same as for a normal one if not more(and I've seen dealers charge more, since EV cars can only be worked on by technicians trained to work on them, and there's comparatively fewer of them)
> the taboo on the use of the military for policing on American soil

Instead, the police militarized. Then there is the National Guard(?).
Did PGP did that too? I know DeCSS did this. Did they borrow the idea from PGP?
Yes, it works for all cgo programs I have tried it with, including a shared library. There were a few workarounds I needed to apply, they are in "known issues" section.
Huh? I said it was his goal.

Your edit with Pence is confirming my point. Trump wanted to overthrow the government and his own appointees wouldn't go along with it because he wasn't offering enough assurance they'd get away with it. Re-read what I wrote.
That one feature might be killer for you, but for someone else it might be something else, perhaps advanced additions for highlighting or bookmarks. There's a long tail of possible improvements.

But instead Amazon have gone for simplicity. That isn't laziness, it's a deliberate feature, and I like it.

It's tempting to jam more features in a product, but surprisingly it ends up being equivalent to removing them, because it becomes hopeless for the average user to find anything. I think it's a good thing the Kindle app hasn't fallen into that trap.
The page offers CDNs as a potential answer. Cloudflare's reverse proxying, for example, prevents this kind of analysis.

(An adversary could compromise Cloudflare's or any other CDN's network and snoop that way, but that takes more effort and is more risky than passive collection of internet traffic, which is otherwise all you need.)
We built a general purpose key value store for Facebook with ZippyDB
It's a bit ironic that devops were supposed to make the teams faster but in practice, teams end up troubleshooting why stuff is not working most of the time.

Any team I've been part of has a mile long list of technical problems they are trying to solve, caused by the complexity of the tech stack.

I think a lot of tech workers are not looking for the simplest way to do something. Because what's the fun in that.
The answers from street vendors reminded me of the stories software salespeople will tell you about how the product was created.
Perhaps that's on purpose? If a tile is being selected only sometimes, you can infer things from that.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/long-term-evoluti...
For now, yes. But people are worried that that's just the first step to get the snooping service onto your phone. Because why stop here? Soon it maybe scanning photos not just destined for iCloud.

And why draw the line at photos? Videos, music, text files, anything could be interesting for governments, film studios and record companies. Why do you have an MP4 of the latest Spider-Man movie on your phone? Did you legally buy this Miles Davis album? Is this an image of a rainbow flag on your phone, my dear Russian citizen?

It's just a small step from here to constantly scanning all your local files on iOS, padOS and macOS because someone, somewhere might want to take a look at them.
As someone who has operated an image hosting service, few more suggestions.

1. Use proper cloudfront caching. I see that all images are hitting the origin every time. Its adding more latency to the request.

2. Set proper cache headers.

3. Fix www.figmage.com. Don't put https in DNS. LOL

4. Enable IPv6 in cloudfront.
I like this approach a lot. I wonder if it's a good idea to keep the assertions in prod as well. I guess this is a trade-off between safety and convenience..

As a side note, what do people think about JSON schema? I find it quite verbose and cumbersome (compared to, say, typescript type definitions)
Yes, export regulations were heavy back then. To have proper SSL in your Netscape, you had to import this patch file from Australia. And then we had this whole Crypto Wars thing going on. Look at Steven Levy's excellent book on the subject, or search on the Wired archives.
I wouldn't call it legend, it was released via MIT press. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
From an old comment of mine on the topic:

https://youtu.be/sKOk4Y4inVY?t=518 [1]

1. "In 1995, there was a debate at Harvard Law School – four of us discussing the future of public key encryption and its control. I was on the side, I suppose, of freedom. It’s where I try to be. With me at that debate was a man called Daniel Weitzner who now works in the White House making Internet policy for the Obama administration.

On the other side was the then Deputy Attorney General of the United States and a lawyer in private practice named Stewart Baker who had been chief council to the National Security Agency, our listeners, and who was then in private life helping businesses to deal with the listeners. He then became, later on, the deputy for policy planning in the Department of Homeland Security in the United States and has much to do with what happened in our network after 2001.

At any rate, the four of us spent two pleasant hours debating the right to encrypt and at the end there was a little dinner party at the Harvard faculty club, and at the end, after all the food had been taken away and just the port and the walnuts were left on the table, Stuart said, “All right, among us now that we are all in private, just us girls, I’ll let our hair down.”

He didn’t have much hair even then, but he let it down.

“We are not going to prosecute your client, Mr. Zimmermann," he said. “Public key encryption will become available. We fought a long, losing battle against it, but it was just a delaying tactic.” And then he looked around the room and he said, ”But nobody cares about anonymity, do they?"

And a cold chill went up my spine and I thought, all right, Stuart, and now I know you’re going to spend the next twenty years trying to eliminate anonymity in human society and I am going to try to stop you and we’ll see how it goes.

And it’s going badly. We didn’t build the net with anonymity built in. That was a mistake. Now we are paying for it." -Eben Moglen
If you aren't aware of it, you should check out "Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will" by Judith Schalansky
You need to grow your network via Linkedin. Ask your bosses for referrals or folks they can connect you with. With each passing year, your Education counts less. It will be challenging for now. Also, look out for remote jobs. It is not easy but they are out there.
The National Guard are under state level control, and the police although "militarized" technologically, are nothing remotely resembling the US military - or even the Argentine military. I brought it up because in almost every country in LatAm the military has at one time or another overthrown the elected government. That hasn't happened in the US. That's a significant problem if a national military begins operating as a police force.
This is one of the things that really surprised me when I visited North America for the first time. It's less common in the rest of the world.
> “Timestamp *with* time zone” ... doesn’t actually store a time zone.

Thanks, I would never have guessed that!
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Does it need a lot of RAM for video editing? If you do not mind sharing, what are your system specs, esp if you are using windows. Thanks.
The vast majority of people looking for that are just... regular people. Awful people, yes, but no smarter than your average bear.

There are hundreds of thousands of those images being transmitted fully-encrypted on WhatsApp, a fully-legal multi-billion dollar platform, every year. And that's just what users self-report![1] Why would any crook bother with Agora when they're already using fully-encrypted platforms like WhatsApp? What would be their thought process in switching? It's not like Bitcoin is particularly difficult to track, anyway.

Agora seems completely stupid and pointless, but let's not pretend that they're doing something disastrously morally harmful. More than likely, it's just a platform that will die out in a few months. Best-case scenario, it serves as a honeypot for people with Coinbase accounts that want to break the law. It's actually easier to track than people transmitting these sorts of things over centralized, encrypted platforms.

[1] A tweet by Will Cathcart, who's the corporate head of WhatsApp at Facebook. https://twitter.com/wcathcart/status/1423701475595755524
He used to write for Byte magazine.
Zig should work like multi call binaries (i.e. busybox) so a link to it called cc or would call the compiler.
Interesting. I'd be curious how it affects sharding.
I think you're right -- if you browse from a "worse" IP, you get more grain added. I hate gCaptcha. HCaptcha is a little better but still bad...
Where’s the Accelerator?
Some people were criticizing the unspecified notebook scope semantics. It was with python, I wonder if that affects other kernels though
Cloud synced highlights and notes is exactly why I love the Kindle app. It’s as simple as it needs to be.
I'm a mod on Reddit and in a few of the subreddits I moderate I see a steady stream of accounts promoting online sex work, like onlyfans. None of these subreddits welcome promotion or advertising... or for that matter NSFW content.

However, so many of these accounts advertise their sex work by posting content that ostensibly complies with the community rules but which somehow encourages other users to look at their user profile to find the NSFW content and then become shockingly objectionable when their content is removed, that we've been obliged to implement a blanket ban on all of that sort of account and now use a bot to find it.

I can't believe I've been subjected to the level of abuse I'm getting from people who are on average making less than $145 a month.
The “more friendly” claim needs to be backed up with experience. I don’t think any of the similar products (numi, Calca, …) have reached a wider audience than Org. Excel, of course, continues to dominate the space, despite being much more complicated than all these tools combined.

The web version is not for collaboration, it’s for subscription income.
This article present some alternatives to PGP. https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html
Yikes. Your symptoms were likely caused by calcium oxalate raphides, little mineral needles present in raw agave (and several other plants). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphide
Calculist is plain text in the same way that markdown is plain text. Calculist is not WYSIWYG.
Joe Studwell has written a book called "How Asia Works" that tries to tackle the question of what economic policies help countries get wealthy. You can read a review about it here [1]. But basically he boils down to 3 policies:

1. Land reform - Forcibly buy up farms and distribute it to farmers. This forces landlords into cities to develop more productive businesses.

2. Export discipline - Encourage companies to sell overseas rather than to the domestic market. This helps them become more competitive worldwide.

3. Financial control - Encourage banks to loan to companies that export instead of real estate companies.

[1] https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/what-studwell-got-wrong
From the article: "Meanwhile, the station's automated attitude control system had also noted […]"
A spelling mistake that immediately brings to mind The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the Heart of Gold :-)

Edit: it seems that it is not a spelling mistake. "Attitude" has only one meaning to me, but "attitude control" seems to be a technical term that I've never heard of.
Reusing a complex password (especially in multiple places) is almost as bad as using a weak password, but that seems inevitable given all the accounts a person uses these days if they refuse to use a password manager. In other words, do you think you'll have better luck remembering hundreds of three-word phrases? Or will you reuse your phrase everywhere and make yourself vulnerable?
Don’t Let Legacy Code Make You Suffer. Make It Suffer
> I'm an optimist, I believe that people are smart.

Well, this is where he was wrong.
Adam.ai closed a Pre-seed round from Atlassian
Seems like traffic from a VPN hosted in a foreign hostile power to a local VPN is exactly the sort of thing that one would investigate?
I appreciate your steelmanning, and while I meant it more geopolitically than financially, of course it all boils down to financial policy and it's reasons and justifications both prior to major changes (Bretton woods, The Fed, 1968, 1971 etc) and afterwards. Your steelmanning though has helped me to understand how academics I talk to are likely to be thinking about the topic, so I know now what I need to read up on. Thanks.

Anybody know any good treatises on inflation?
Those aren't the only options. AWS could've paid to license the software.
I'm not a believer in godly stuff, but i'm sure Satan has dedicated an entire new level of hell to solving infinite CAPTCHAs loops for those who ever thought it would be a good idea to impose that on other people.
reCAPTCHA (Google's CAPTCHA) has been accessible to the blind for nearly the entirety of its existence if not the entirety outright.
proper link to the post: https://1password.community/discussion/comment/602482/#Comme...
Unfortunately, yes it is. It's a sad state of the computer industry that these technological marvels that once filled everyone with admiration and joy has been reduced to that.
How far does this go? If you boss asks someone to strip for him is that ok? It's a legal job after all. If they didn't want to do that because it's not their job would you say 'go join the plumbers union'?
Where's the mistake? Attitude is the correct term.
That is not open source. That is source available. The SSPL is not an open source license.
Can't say much but recently I stumble upon data about crypo laundering investigations. I don't know how to feel about all this.
How politics became a contest dominated by two kinds of elite
This will be an issue for anyone who hosts it. Is there a plan for your users?
To make things worse, NCMEC is not even a government agency but a non-profit lobby group. So there may lack normal government oversight to them.