skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
War is [often] a racket. - Smedley Butler

On the defensive-side: Weakness invites aggression. Prepare for war so you don't have to. MAD is that and has prevented untold world wars and potentially billions of deaths for 70 years by making large-scale war too costly.

On the other hand: Over-preparing, over-extending, and over-spending on unnecessary wars is evidence of MIC corruption.
The state of Russia's space program on the ground is not good. It's kind of shocking that they've managed to maintain the reliability of their Soyuz and ISS-related operations to date, more or less, but it was always just a matter of time until those things started unraveling too.
Global maps of every wireless access point
Tangentially related, but I found this article on positions that humans understand better than engines fascinating: https://www.chess.com/article/view/10-positions-chess-engine...

Especially Hikaru's game where he "outsmarted" an engine.

At the very least, it shows by proof of existence that humans can augment engines in some corner cases.
From my understanding, mining is generally pretty difficult to do profitably.
Alibaba gains spotlight due to female employee alleging sex harassment from boss
It's possible, but it may or may not require exotic things like negative mass.
I read this article elsewhere. I don't quite get why it says no one know's, then it's genetically and visually matched to a type of agave, and then they go back to not knowing? It seems some of the counter argument is assuming that "Agave" are all the same when specific types will have specific traits. Otherwise it's an interesting read.
Very cool. I use plaintext lists for virtually everything. But generally, they're on my phone. I use Safe Notes, which allows you to encrypt individual notes. I wouldn't want to keep them in the cloud, and I use DDG browser so I'm not keeping a lot of local storage hanging around.

I would absolutely purchase this if it were packaged as an Android app.
coke secret recipe, KFC secret herbs and spices
Thank you so much! This appears to be exactly what I am looking for, and then some.

This is exactly why I keep coming back to HN.
If you read the article they say the specific Agave that they linked to using DNA analysis.
Apple's New CSAM Protections May Make iCloud Photos Bruteforceable
Sorry about that! Updated.
They might not have had the amount of budget necessary to observe them from a drone for months
Kind Letter to Mozilla's Management
> A few years ago, AWS basically forked ElasticSearch to offer it as a service, much to the open source community’s dismay. In response, and after some time, Elastic decided to change the licensing on ElasticSearch earlier this year to restrict its downstream use, again, much to the open source community’s dismay

I get annoyed a little when people try to ascribe a feeling to a large group. I don’t think “the open source community” was dismayed about either of these actions.
It's probably the same guy who was trying to mount sensors upside-down, and they didn't fit, so he had to take out an old trusty drill
I think for that last part, you could go into education.

I've thought about the homeless part. Why is it so difficult to eradicate? There's enough homes for everyone, and we can build a lot more. I know the state should do it, but is it that expensive to build some sort of permanent refuge where people can get support, and also housing for as long as they like?
Much easier than dating in Antarctica when you’re rich
The Google logo links to this game today
I think one of the best arguments for using PGP is how long it's been around and is still in use, for two reasons:

The encryption mechanisms have been tested many times by many people.

And the tooling exists for just about platform and language.
one's sugar water, one is at least identifiable chicken!
it would be closer to KFC secret herbs and spices on bushmeat
if a groundbreaking science happened on the ISS, but some guy on the internet isn't aware of it, did it actually happen?..
> Do you understand that they make fentanyl patches for absorbing it through your skin?

Yes. A Duragesic patch (aided by it's delivery compounds) begins to take effect after continuous contact of one to two hours.

> If stuck your finger in a bag of scraped fentanyl residue, I'm sure that it could cause a person to collapse.

I accept that you are sure of that but it isn't true.

First, the evidence is that acquiring bulk fentanyl powder from China is much, much easier than domestically acquiring stacks of heavily controlled patches.

Second there's a reason why actual medical experts repeatedly call bunk on LEO claims of instant topical OD. It's because instantaneous effect from momentary contact isn't how fentanyl works. Nor is 'sudden, unheralded collapse' the likely first symptom of a fentanyl OD.

What is more likely is that blaming fentanyl (against expert medial wisdom) for collapsing deputies is a symptom of an overly heightened LEO imagination.

> Remember when they found out George Floyd had fentanyl in his system when he died?

I suspect that 11 ng/ml of fentanyl (a non-lethal amount) in Floyd's blood is not what caused a cop to spend several minutes suffocating him.
Richard Feynman
Can you serve images directly from S3 static website hosting? You’ll avoid any cold start (and Lambda costs) that way. You could also put CloudFront or Cloudflare in front for caching after the first request.
From the paper

> The similarity search showed 89% identity with the partial sequence of the plastid locus maturase of Agave sisalana
It takes me 20 seconds just to be sure I've accounted for any possible metal in my pockets.
Turns out there's a third option I wasn't thinking about: private set intersection.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28097683
The HN style guide lowercases acronyms like PSI to Psi, unfortunately.
The government thinks it still is.
"It’s the most tedious part of making websites and writing blog posts."

This is great in that it is exactly the opposite for me. Manipulating images is what I enjoy. Writing text is like pulling teeth only after getting the root canal. I'd rather manipulate pixels any day!

>Updating your design in Figma, and publishing, will update the images everywhere they're referenced. That means no re-uploads, and re-deploys.

This is very intriguing. Link rot scares me, but I guess it's no more of any issue than any other 3rd party image hosting. Nice one!
But nobody knows which agave, and at least one botanist insists that neither of the 2 likely agave candidates are quite right. Maybe some special selectively-bred version?

It seems like we will get more answers after Covid when field research (eating parts of various agaves) can recommence.
I experienced it few times too. With the slower and slower fading pictures. And the button submit that stays active but doesn't work.
Discord used Cassandra: https://blog.discord.com/how-discord-stores-billions-of-mess...
Looks great. But when solving a multi-step calculation problem, what is the unique selling point of your product vs jupyter notebook or google colab? Thanks
I think in long run AWS will just lost their momentum or community support and people will realize AWS won't be able to deliver.

I had used AWS hosted Elasticsearch and it's subpar even at fundamental level. That signal to me they just don't care at all about search and this whole opensearch thing is just they want to be look like a good guy.

If AWS doesn't even care about their own UI/UX of the dashboard or the UX of their API, how can I expect them to do a good job at Elasticsearch? They right now still ride on the high and stay close to ES, but the further into the future, when they drift from ES, expect to have a crappy API from them.

In fact, looking at the Github Opensearch repo for Es and dashboard(Kibana equivalent) they are clearly less active than ES. So how can we expect them to keep the pace in next few year?
Good suggestion. I definitely could! I haven’t had a bunch of demand to really optimize that right now. It would also save any time spent for the lambda function executing.
Being installed as default on every device.

Signal is awesome but I don’t know many people that use it. Right now I can SMS absolutely everyone I have a phone number for, no other service can say that. RCS is aiming to become the new SMS.
Since this project is not really active, if you are looking for a modern take on fully local WYSIWYG note taking where you own the files, I highly recommend checking out my project https://bangle.io.

- It is fully local web app .. no servers no data hoarding.

- No proprietary format, it saves your notes in markdown in your computer.

- It is WYSIWYG editor so that you don't have to switch context.
They at least have to be generally regarded safe. I will say that as a vegetarian, "natural flavors" can be pretty annoying.
Don’t you see some major risks in choosing a Facebook product as your main messaging app?
Zero interest loans. Not that I have any, but that would go a long way.
Yes, that's correct, but if you get similar visualization for similar hashes, then you've got a much larger target to hit in your search space if you're trying to produce a value whose hash has a visualization that's close enough to pass manual inspection, which would circumvent the purpose of this hash visualization.
I’ve probably watched this one 50 times over the years.
The whole business sounds very shady. It's likely that the plant is sourced from the side of roads, untended fields, forests, construction companies (selling anything they find for coffee money), etc. It's a completely black area, outside of food regulations, so they can't expose the actual source, no matter what.

This can also explain the confusing reports from multiple researchers, because academic "species" don't matter in places like this. The vendors simply sell what looks similar to what they used to sell.
And in the parable of the broken window fallacy, the glassmaker does benefit from the broken window, but the broken window is bad for the economy overall. It's a similar situation here, at least in the short term GPU makers are profitting from increased demand, as well as scalpers and people selling secondhand GPUs, but for the economy (and in this case the environment) as a whole it is probably unhealthy.

So, the broken window fallacy is definitely relevant but doesn't really refute my claim that someone is benefitting from it
Lots of wasted time. Makes me happy every time I use it
The encryption mechanisms were tested, found wanting, and replaced in subsequent systems. PGP's installed base prevented them from keeping up. As a result, the constructions used in PGP today are essentially reviled by cryptography engineers.
According to the article, the vendors might not know the full story, since they get it from distributors.
Damn, was it some sort of nail gun accident?
Start buying ETH and donate it once the beacon chain merges with ETH1. Transaction fees will go to validators instead of miners.
I have sooooo many lost emails due to lost pgp configurations. Encrypted blobs in my mail spools.
By restricting their clients to only talk ES instances, they are shooting themselves in the foot. This gives AWS opensearch clients a great opportunity to enhance their clients SDKS that can support both.

ES should focus on competing be with DDOG/App Dynamics and other incumbents in SIEM space. I dont understand, why would they get into petty fights with AWS.
seems like palm tree https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkSeFP5Jjt8
> The purest forms of evil that we know about predate the internet.

Correct, but they didn't say that it was only available through that means.

This is a difficult and complex topic. I've been thinking about it for years.

Going from Plato's The Republic and the dialog about the Ring of Gyges, I don't think pure untrammelled anonymity is worth the possibility of the evil that can be done. Look at Twitter, psyops and the power of a hand full of people with programming chops, a chip on their shoulder and time on their hands. Empires will fall and millions will die because of the apparent mob of opinion that's really only a thin shell.
The jetliner proved to be a “22.5 kg and 3-meter wide-scale model” in the non-headline part of the article
You probably could, does your CDN have an API? Or is imgix a CDN. I could check if it’s doable.
Such a terrible loss. Hope he'd appreciate sharing some absolute classic skits of his:

Call of Duty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhufrnT4818

Teachers Union: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_YEPx1Jrfw

Aspiring Politician: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsWLBOyEv6o

Gallon of PCP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFUvmZWf4hI

Leg Peeing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWQoK506xkQ

Homeschooling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFkIJBVZ4_w

We Buy Drugs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2AQ6FwpSrc

Sniper Business: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpC_hO15IoA

My friends and I still laugh at references to many of these and more over a decade later.
Making an NES Game in 2020
I'm still waiting on them to say which TLD this was. The big operators don't randomly make drastic price changes like that. This bizarre incident is getting outsized attention that I don't think it merits. Frankly, a premium price of hundreds of thousands per year sounds like an out-and-out mistake somewhere; no one is paying that, certainly not on a random first name on a random nTLD. That's simply not a successful business strategy; you'd lose all your registrations by doing it.

Which TLD went from $10 to $30/yr? There's a lot of missing info in these comments!

On the other hand, first year discounting is (as you're seeing) quite common. So just treat the 2nd year price as the actual price for the purpose of deciding whether you're willing to pay it. The key difference here is that you know the price schedule up front.
Mod_md
Tire pressure is measured in PSI, or Pounds per Square Inch.
Calculist is very much active.
Ask the employer to take liability for any adverse effects that you might suffer and see if changes anything.

I wonder why insurance companies are not offering any offers when coming to vaccine injuries. It seems that it would be a very profitable enterprise when there are so many people who are worried about adverse effects and when "science" says
that the vaccines are "overwhelmingly safe". People should be willing to pay large premiums for it, right?

If someone ask you to take it "for the community" show them this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mxqC9SiRh8 and ask them about these people who took the risk "for the community" and ask them what the community is doing to help them in return..
The sad thing is if the clipper chip was ubiquitous today that could have killed the ability for spammers to spoof numbers. Some days I can get a dozen robo calls, each with a different spoofed number. People that want non-backdoored crypto could still do so.

I'm still blown away at how hard it is to get people to use any encryption, even people who work in infosec/etc. If nothing else, 2020 was a great year for the uptick in using crypto to communicate with non-technical fam and friends.
Medical crowdfunding has become essential in India, but it’s leaving many behind
Deltron 3030 meets MC 900ft Jesus. Nice.
This is just a consequence of feminization of society.

I used to work on Wall St, and it’s a rite of passage there for senior people to send juniors to fetch cigars or lunchboxes. I’ve seen execs angrily bang on glass walls of their cabins so hard, hundreds on the open-floor outside would notice.

Two quotes from Camille Paglia:

“There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack-the-Ripper.”

You have to tolerate deviance if you want to accommodate world-class talent. Mozart himself would’ve been cancelled by today’s standards for being a boor and a creep.

“If civilization was left in female hands, we’d still be living in grass huts.”

I hope the adults in the business world can step up and stem this tide, or else we are on our way back to grass huts.
> But while technology infrastructures can persist for generations, laws and policies can change overnight. Once a communications infrastructure optimized for surveillance becomes entrenched, a shift in political conditions may lead to abuse of this new-found power. Political conditions may shift with the election of a new government, or perhaps more abruptly from the bombing of a federal building.

Prescient.
> else we may be left with a very White & western hegemony.

I think it's a bit too late to worry about that.
I think Mozilla should build an alternative cloud infrastructure and phone platform by assembling the various pieces they already have or that others have already built. These pieces need to be assembled correctly by a trustworthy organization.

Without this there is no real value proposition. What's the point of using a privacy-focused browser to log onto websites owned by megacorps?

I realize they killed off a lot of such projects like Firefox Send and Firefox OS.

But they still have Firefox Sync, Mozilla Location Services, VPN, and so on.

If they also offered a hosted OwnCloud instance that one could log into using one's Firefox account, an ActivityPub social network, and an email service, all with a single sign on, that would be amazing. Then they could dust off Firefox OS and actually succeed.

They don't need market dominance. Bing is obscenely profitable with a tiny market share.

They need sustainable revenue and a value proposition. They can't compete with the megacorps if they don't offer a similar suite of features.
PGP's biggest weakness was that it was too early. There was no normal user accessible software available. No regular person was going to establish the web of trust or use command line utilities.

So now we have easy, strong encryption and the keys are controlled by...someone. Definitely not the user, though.

Funny story - even Phil Zimmerman can't use PGP: https://twitter.com/josephbonneau/status/638772283713060864
So maybe it is just a hard problem.
Can you share a photo of your setup? I'm running a ~similar setup (laptop screen instead for the foreground monitor), would like to see how others are doing it.
I skimmed the article and I guess it’s about a vulnerability that was patched in April so the title is a bit clickbait.

I love Kindle and it’s ecosystem.

I wish it wasn’t proprietary, but the convenience is unbeatable if you read a lot. Especially the progress syncing so if I’m out and about and open the Kindle app on my phone.

My biggest wish honestly would be improvements in the screen technology and USB-C charging. If they could improve the resolution and refresh rate, it’d be so nice.
Species doesn't mean as much in the plant world. Cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, collard greens, kohlrabi, and gai lan are all Brassica oleracea. You can have specimens that are even technically the same cultivar but wildly different alimentary character.
For discussing his article and disproving his claims.
How to learn enough crypto to understand this paper?
Who even programs like this? If I saw that expression in code I think I’d have a fit.

I love Ruby for lots of things, and even with its duck typing system I’d never see someone plop down stuff like that. Ruby’s got quo, fdiv, divmod etc for good reason!

So is this contrived, or do people encounter programmers who do this stuff on a regular basis (not newbies, like experienced people… this feels like programming 101 to me)
KFC recipe is out there. Saw it on Reddit a few years ago. Followed it. Damn good chicken.
Why did they change it?
A Memoir of Pretending to See
World Famous Hotboys
Calculist is more lightweight than Jupyter or Google Colab, and it's more note-taking oriented than data processing oriented. It's more of a handy thinking tool than a complete computing environment.
Not sure why this was voted down (not entirely surprised though).

Perhaps an uncomfortable truth? That said, it would have been useful, if you provided a few (of the numerous) citations supporting your statement.
Don't they have to follow strict regulations and pass various tests?
Captcha: prove you’re not a robot by teaching robots how to prove they’re not robots.
That's a lot of middle seats.
It's called a flying wing, pretty old design actually. They've been talking about passenger planes with this design for a while. This particular one was just a model though, nothing too ground breaking to see here.
Energy storage by lifting and lowering heavy objects might be more appealing than batteries. (Similar to this:https://www.power-technology.com/features/gravity-based-stor...)

One motor can lift a very large number of heavy blocks, and the mass of the blocks does not need to be sent from earth.
I know, I thought that was funny. But does anyone really know what's in a Dodger dog?
Yeah, this story doesn’t seem to really explain much, because the person receiving the dirty money and returning it is literally just performing the act of money laundering. It’s not clear what about art auctions specifically makes this easier or less risky.
That looks very futuristic, but also seems like it would have much higher surface area—perhaps not ideal for airlines' bottom lines.
The total area burned annually in Australia is down massively over the past century and the trend is decreasing.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ev4P6DIWQAUXTKh?format=jpg&name=...

A fantastic example of my point is in the animal deaths that occured on account of the fires in Australia. It received a stunning amount of media coverage. Yet the total number of animals killed by the fires was much lower than in previous years. To the casual uninformed reader (99% of them) this would seem like some extraordinary and unprecedented event.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwMh7dSXYAIeM7p?format=jpg&name=...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwMSJh8WUAAdLHF?format=jpg&name=...
Total area burned annually in the US. Down by a huge amount over the past century.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7nujQWXsAISEKs?format=jpg&name=...
Incredibly talented. I always felt like WKUK was just a few years too early -- had they launched in the YouTube era I bet they would have been 100x bigger.

Rest in peace.
Robo calls should be filtered at the network level. The Clipper Chip would have done nothing to prevent this.

There is actually encryption technology[1] available that would solve this or at least make it traceable and blockable. But here we are.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIR/SHAKEN

Edit: Also the political situation at the time was that if Clipper was adopted, all other encryption technology would be outlawed. It was a very scary time.
The local sexpot, right? RIP.

https://twitter.com/itrevormoore/status/1413167188886786049?...
IIRC, Microsoft apps can use a UUID. Which seems clever and future proof, so long its v4.
It would presumably need to be something that is both wildly popular in its time but also toward the beginning of a huge cultural change. Any old copy of a Call of Duty game is wildly popular, but probably fairly late to become symbolic of the huge cultural change that was video games.
I have to admire your arrogance. You know better than Hassabis about Suleyman’s value?

You want to judge the founders of the top AI group in the universe?

I am at loss for words.

FYI: Keynes is considered to be the most influential economist of the 20th century, and he had about a year’s worth of training in economics.
I do not have my kindle signed in to any account. I use calibre to get data in and out and it works fine
The total burn area is affected by how effective we have gotten at fighting and managing the fire risks. The number of actual fires that start is the relevant metric here.
> Society doesn't benefit from segregating ...

You might want to reevaluate what you wrote. The last 500 years or so (of American especially, but also most Western European - Spain, France, UK etc.) history wouldn't exist if your statement was remotely true.