skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at the same company as the banned individual (Peter) some years ago. We were even on the same team for a time. Smart guy, but his caustic snark and condescension frankly overshadowed the technical and organizational impact of his work. I got a distinct sense of an unhealthy degree of hipster vanity for a lack of a better way of framing it. I have no axe to grind, but I'd have thought twice about hiring him for a team I was running (no place for toxicity in the workplace).

To this specific incident here, I'm a bit taken aback by the level of immaturity documented in the writeup, as even this seems beneath what I observed from him in the workplace. Nevertheless, his poor attitude makes the episode seem plausible.

A dose of humility would benefit him. And believe me, I don't like writing any of the above.
Dept of labor probably has something to say about that.
I was more asking whether you could provide an example of reverb on the ambient sound or some app that actually uses this.

I'm just playing around with adding reverb on some of the clips (using Tone.js) and it doesn't sound all that dramatic to me. Is this really a feature that you think is noticeable and/or that you would want?
> Some silly people think this isn't possible, but if large providers are forced to do it, then they can easily tell smaller ones they'll be blocked if they don't also do this, and so on, and we'd have a slightly more responsible Internet again.

> Too bad we have shitty, huge companies that don't care about doing the right thing :(

There's no call to be dismissive of anyone who disagrees with you; maybe you're "silly" for believing that companies will threaten each other for no reason (that they care about).
Unfortunately, there’s no info here about why it fell out of favor. Only up to the rename.
My favourite memory of Cinepaint was being at a SIGGRAPH exhibition booth (Silicon Grail's I presume) and seeing how they were using GIMP/Cinepaint for wire removal in the X-Files movie. I asked Yosh how the layers dialog looked and he popped it up. It started loading all of the full-def movie frames to make thumbnails, then the machine ran out of memory and IRIX crashed!
Sure, but that goes to show that "state ownership" simply means very different things in a democratic state vs a non-democratic state. Democratic state ownership is a kind of public ownership - the voters have some amount of control over the state, and through the state, over the owned resource. Non-democratic state ownership is a kind of private ownership - the dictator(s) have direct control of the resource, and the voters have no more rights to control state-owned property than corporate-owned property.
By default, PostgreSQL will not perform verification of the server certificate
I wonder if this will continue with Apple (and my guess is other similarly sized tech companies) offering VPN. In other words, shutting out Apple's VPN might mean losing 5-10% of your market? Probably not but it will certainly be a new situation for so many non-tech people to have easy access to a VPN and Apple likely pushing it as "good for your privacy"
It’s the zombie-botnet-machine owners who need to be running more secure software, not the botnet victims.
Go look at pictures of actual marines in combat fatigues, and look for differences in how male and female soldiers dress. Then look for differences in how male and female soldiers dress in video games.
Mossad assassinated Iran’s chief nuke scientist with remote AI gun – report
Immigration Judges Have an Asylum Backlog of 1.3M and Rising
Real life isn't like American movies and the conversation is between adults.

Most adults are reasonable enough not to pick on others even when they've been bullied, and the ones that do, the Go team doesn't want them.
Good Design vs. Great Design
Seems nice but it gets slow with long lists. Should lazy-load
I was just playing with EasyLang the other day! Here are my initial thoughts after playing with it for half an hour or so. An intermediate to experienced programmer will have no problem understanding it. But more documentation may be in order for the complete beginner who may not understand syntactic sugars such as '+=, -=, *=... My 13-year old son is learning Python and Lua and he could make out most of the syntax. Of course, he's not used to seeing 'end' to delineate blocks of code like in Basic (eg. if end, while end (wend) as well as periods '.'

EasyLang feels like a blend between Basic and Python. It appears to be indentation-based like Python or at least the 'IDE' autocorrects any whitespaces I added to the sample code. So it appears EasyLang uses both indentation to define blocks of code as well as keywords/chars like 'end' and '.'

I really like the look of EasyLang, the syntax is terse (like replacing 'print' with 'pr', but unfortunately it also appears to lack one feature that was noticeable right away to my son and that's the input-prompt function found in both Python and most Basic variations.

age = input("How old are you? ") # Python

input "How old are you?", age # Basic

It appears I have to create two statements in EasyLang. I know some languages will allow you to place two statements on one line using a delimiter such as a colon ':' or such, but I could not find one that would work. So two separate statements it is:

pr "How old are you? "

age = number input

pr "So you are " & age & " years old."

Possible future features I might like to see:
String interpolation such as:
pr $"So you are {age} years old."

And it would be helpful if the 'IDE" could display vertical lines to delineate blocks of code, especially when periods '.' are employed.

Otherwise, Great work! I'm always amazed at the talent required to create a new programming language. I will continue to explore EasyLang with my son. :)

Cheers,

Gary
Actually gremlins are a bit different creatures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_fighter
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> an IPv6 subnet that routes by using a portion of the IP address as lat/long coordinates

That seems like a rather large privacy problem.
>... the reality was that the coffee was exceptionally hot for decontamination convenience

It sounds like that might not be accurate:

>...In 1994, a spokesman for the National Coffee Association said that the temperature of McDonald's coffee conformed to industry standards.[2] An "admittedly unscientific" survey by the Los Angeles Times that year found that coffee was served between 157 and 182 °F (69 and 83 °C), and that two coffee outlets tested, one Burger King and one Starbucks, served hotter coffee than McDonald's.[37]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restau...
> someone who just has a lot of domain knowledge

... is called product owner.
Might also be of interest, an interview with the head designer of the 6502:

The Amp Hour Podcast #241
An Interview With Chuck Peddle – Charismatic Chipmaking Coryphaeus

https://theamphour.com/241-an-interview-with-chuck-peddle-ch...
Put more concretely, how many can front 100+ Gbps? E.g. 2-3, or dozens, hundreds, any teenager, etc.
"Secure enough" depends on your threat model. Many VPNs were poorly configured in the past and were leaking information. Only a few (like IVPN) were doing a proper job and had that verified by a third-party audit.

The next big question is jurisdiction. I would never trust a VPN that is based in the US, UK or a similar country where government access is virtually a given.
The way our society is set up right now, it is.

Our society right now is an outlier. Throughout most of history, people lived much more communally than we do now, and there is good reason to be trying to move back toward that; however, that's a pretty major shift, and it's not going to happen overnight. It's also probably outside of the scope of this discussion.
>minuscule anecdata: a few aussies are apologizing on france subreddit

/r/cringe
I love this approach. I think looking at the FAQ for a programming language's tag is also an amazing way to dive into a programming language. Lots of detail, different approaches and people discussing best practices on even the simplest of programming tasks.
It’s not abandoned. It’s an incredibly heavily used park. People skate and kite board on the old runways. The are community gardens. Portions of the fields are breeding sides for locally threatened bird species. The list of things that happen there goes on and on.

Tempelhofer field is one of the jewels of the city.
Exactly: what counterintuitively changes the overall probability of picking the correct door is Monty’s introduction of new information that biases the contestant to the right choice. Many years ago I was in such disbelief about this result that I wrote a little Monte Carlo simulation to “prove” I was right. In fact, it proved I was wrong!
It may be mistaken but to be clear, I don't mean it critically. Most FOSS projects have very limited resources - most FAANG projects have limited resources (and skip the security to invest in addictive user experiences and data collection). If security is the aim, it's wise to spend the resources there.

An example? Signal. I love it but performance isn't more than sufficient IME. I'm glad Moxie and crew are spending their time inventing new security technology for the world.
You don’t AirDrop cat photos to people at mass gatherings?
This may work for you

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=LittleFo...
> We very much believe Workers can be a stand-alone alternative to other cloud providers.

Time for Durable Workers: Run one Worker (per Durable Object instance) with higher RAM and wall-time ceiling, capable of serving WebSockets and WebRTC data-channels (and gRPC, if we are being ambitious)?

> The "memory limit" on a single worker instance is 128MB, but Cloudflare runs many instances of the worker around the world, so across the network you're really getting many gigabytes of memory.

Throw-in the zonal Cloudflare cache (which is free upto 500MB per cached-object) and some clever workarounds, a lot could be done. May be Cloudflare dev-rel could to add it in a "Workers SDK" of sorts to make this easier, or the eng team can work towards seamlessly exposing it to Workers instances as swap space? :D
overselling
My wife and I were in the market for an EV and checked out a Mach-E at the dealership down the street. Horrible experience with the sales team and they were charging 10k over MSRP.

Went home and bought a Tesla Model Y online. Absolutely love it and happy to not have dealt with that dealership.
> Here’s the convo that got him banned.

Rightly so by looking at this “conversation”.
You don't even need to do that. Gitlab has repository configuration option to take CI config from another place. So you can have code only repo being built by a CI pipeline described elsewhere.
Not to mention, implementation of new protocols is one thing, adoption of such protocols is another - I would dare say the harder part of the two.
If you are required to serve a population that won't keep up, its an uphill battle.
Just because everyone has 1Gbps doesn't mean if everyone tried downloading something they'd get it. The internet is tunneled through a system where the more people are on it, the more likely that the bandwidth entirely gets used up. It's literally like the phone systems back in the day where if everyone picked up the phone, not everyone would get a dial tone.
> I think performance is just a top priority as security ...

That's my impression too. Nothing wrong with it, but I wonder what their thinking is.
That should toast OpenVPN in term of performance. I never managed to get more than 5MB/s on OpenVPN on windows, I understand precisely because it wasn't implemented in kernel. I ended up running a pfsense gateway in a VM.
You think so, too, does that mean we are the same person? I don't think so. The same holds for the copy.
I’ve enjoyed wood turning/wood working in the past. Most people here build things on computers everyday, it’s fun to build something with your hands and touch and feel it. It’s quite meditative in a way.

Cooking is a great way to relax as well. Take up a complicated recipe. It can take you hours to cook but I enjoy researching, shopping and trying to make the best version of something.
I remember when the story of this assassination broke a few months ago, it mentioned all the conflicting witness reports: e.g. firefights between opposing soldiers, explosives, killer unmanned robot placed by Iranian moles who fled long before the assassination. And as it turns out, the least believable story turned out to be true. A very fascinating and terrifying read.

Their use of "AI" stems from the need to aim/re-aim/track a moving target (possibly with facial recognition) due to ~2sec camera delay from Iran to Israel. As someone who works in ML research I'm morbidly curious if they use the same models/frameworks that we see in our day-to-day. Do they use conv nets and recurrent nets to do the tracking? Or do they use pre-deep-learning computer vision methods and something like Kalman filtering?

A (perhaps naive) realization on my part: but it's a little eerie to picture people out there using the same tools as we do for research (e.g. PyTorch, TF, etc.), reading the same papers as us, but with the ultimate intent of building tools for state-sponsored killing.
> The source code of this quine does not end with a newline

That is undefined behaviour! (https://port70.net/~nsz/c/c11/n1570.html#J.2)
Sorry, yes, that is poorly worded on my part. I meant to say that there is a class of privacy discussion that essentially did not exist prior to the widespread adoption of social media.
The correctly described monty hall problem has 2/3 chance if you switch. This isn't the correctly described monty hall problem, so there is no way to know what the chance is if you switch. It doesn't even say it is the monty hall show, so you can't even patch it up using external knowledge. Instead these are just some loose meme bits that perpetuates a lie because the author didn't fully understand the Monty Hall problem.
Your two paragraphs are confusing me. If you make no fundamental disctinction between Earth nautilus and Mars nautilus, doesn't that make them "the same person"? How can you say both "nautilus died" and "nautilus goes on living, but nautilus has nothing to do with it"? If one is alive and one is dead, that seems like a fundamental distinction, doesn't it? If the person on Mars is nautilus, then you have everything to do with that life, don't you?

I agree with your first paragraph: I don't think there is a "self" separate from the arrangement of matter and energy, no magic is needed, there is no hive mind, body on Earth cannot see through Martian's eyes. I agree with the end of your second paragraph, a consistent answer is that each copy has their own mind and thinks they are the original, but moreso - each copy is the original. Then, I must disagree with the middle bit - you step out on Mars and you have everything to do with that life. A copy of nautilus and nautilus himself step out on Mars, no fundamental distinction between them. Not in a hive-mind way, just as a necessary conclusion of your position.
Nobody wants new apartments in their neighborhood because the fear is that those would drive rent prices up.
You could for example protect all networked computers with single packet authorization. They will ignore all network traffic unless a signed packet is sent first. To the unauthorized it's like the computer is not even there.
This almost sounds like it's about the NVIDIA's trouble with the ARM deal.
treasure trove of data about the berlin housing market: https://guthmann.estate/de/marktreport/berlin/
Here are a few examples:

- Japan and Korea were historically enemies. But they've been at peace since WWII, mainly because both have US troops stationed there. Any time tensions flare up, the US does a little diplomacy and they make nice. That will probably continue for a while, even without US troops because both countries value the alliance with the US and don't want to be dominated by China.

- With the US withdrawing from the Middle East, Saudi Arabia is arming its self and allying with Israel (!) to deal with the threat from Iran. Iran, meanwhile is emboldened to attack Saudi oil fields and threaten shipping through the Persian Gulf. Meanwhile Yemen has destabilized, leaving Saudi Arabi to worry about whether it will be able to get access to the Arabian Sea. Hard to predict how this shakes out, but I can't see it being peaceful and stable.

- As soon as the US showed signs of disinterest in Europe, Russia annexed Crimea. With that experiment having been successful, they'll be looking for more opportunities to take back bits of the USSR. Now Europe is arming up to protect themselves from that threat. The catch is that Europe needs oil and natural gas, and that's mainly coming from Russia right now. We may see internal conflict in Europe over whether to be friendlier to Russia to secure that supply, and perhaps increased European presence in the Middle East. Either way, stability in that part of the world has decreased without US willingness to commit troops and money to maintaining it.
BundleWrap looks very cool. I have a number of potential uses for that in mind already.
Do you have a source for this? The Virginia shares many more features with the Seawolf that the LA class. The Virginia is basically a scaled down Seawolf hull with a different weapons arrangement.
I feel compelled to point out that hand lotion and hand sanitizer are not the same thing. However excessive use of hand sanitizer might have a similar effect on our fingerprints, for all I know.
Yeah, the shouldn’t have allowed rampant corporate ownership. Now is a great time to remedy that. Given the city’s continued growth, in ten years that real estate will look like a great investment.
VPN is just another "man in middle". If you need anonymity, use TOR.
BCP 38 would stop SYN flooding if it is using source address spoofing. It won't stop any attack not based on IP spoofing though.
Since when does multi-billion dollar opportunity corelate with safety?
They defined those categories, revolutionized them. When was the last product release as revolutionary as the iPhone or iPad?
PowerPC has been settling on powerpc64le lately for that reason. Is be surprised if little endian isn't at least an option, if not the default.
Boston Dynamics's Spot now a watchdog in factories
Back then the general sentiment was that Berlin was going to shrink. A lot of high-rises were razed in the eastern districts, others were converted into low-rise buildings as part of the "Stadtumbau Ost" program.
1 minute intro:

Wasm is a high-level assembly language that has both a textual and binary format. It can be interpreted or compiled to a native representation, and has tight integration with modern JS engines (though JS is not required to run Wasm).

WASI (WebAssembly System Interface) is a runtime environment standard for Wasm that allows Wasm applications to integrate with 'standard' Unix APIs. These can be forwarded to the host system or emulated.

For more info, honestly just going to the Wasm site, the standard, or one of the runtime implementations and exploring from there is the way to go.

It's best to learn by doing, so if you know a language that can compile to Wasm, it's always a fun project to try to write something using it. Rust, D, C, Zig, and AssemblyScript all have pretty good tooling.

Hope this helps!
only CI related feature previously available on bronze, but not on free anymore is branch protection. Rest of bronze CI should work just fine.
My point exactly.

These things are easy to do in principle (most readers here can write that evil payload, or learn how to do it quickly) but there are real practical challenges to getting the code to run on millions of strangers' computers/phones/dsl routers, so most of the code that's actually deployed that widely is beneficial. Happily.
Nope, they are basically right and it's a source of endless frustration to security researchers that these very simple problems are still thinks that have to be dealt with in 2021.
VPNs are cheap to run snake oil that you can sell to people who don’t really understand security. Snake oil in general is a great business.
Alpine Linux: Proposal to move Rust to main
That's what I was thinking. On top of that, if it's only a menubar app, why wouldn't you write it in some platform-agnostic language? I have a similar "toolbar sitter" app I wrote with a couple Rust crates and a free afternoon, and that compiles to Windows/Mac/Linux fine. I guess it's more of a Swift exercise than a full-fledged program.
Considering moment.js says[0] you should actively consider alternatives instead of it, I can't disagree. But I do like the breakdown of what to use when instead!

[0] https://momentjs.com/docs/#/-project-status/
Oh well, I figured that a PowerPC Notebook was for hobbyists.

What I would find fascinating is to think about languages and OSs for FPGA and try to break loose from the utterly boring C/Unix/68k,x86,MIPS,blah paradigm. Having something turnkey with attachment to various ports and a display would be kind of cool. Maybe that exists already.

I worked on a project with a processor-on-an-FPGA and while it wasn't fast, the video codec in FPGA made it useful. Kind of a neat thing I think.
I don't see how that context changes anything. It's not a quote from a character or, apparently, an intentionally unreliable narrator, and there's nothing to indicate that it's not a sincerely held belief by the author.
Yeah, the shouldn’t have allowed rampant corporate ownership. Now is a great time to remedy that. Given the city’s continued growth, those purchases are a solid investment.
Tired of dating apps, Vancouver man launches social experiment to find companion
Constant buzzing would presumably make the batteries run out.
This isn't the Monty Hall problem though. The comic doesn't mention the show. It just has a similar setup so people just jump to the same solution even though it is wrong in this case. The correct answer is that it is impossible to know what the chances are if you switch since the problem lacks enough information to tell.
Even for pulling I fail to see why having the deploy key sitting on the machine is supposed to be more secure than having it in your agent.
Why buy rather than expropriate? Berlin has lots of people with no apartments, and the commercial corporations have apartments without permanent residents. Instead, Berlin is funneling ~200K EUR of public funds x 14,750 to partially rectify an allocation anomaly of Capitalism.

(If you're against expropriation - it could just be a massively high tax on apartments owned besides the one you physically live in; or a strong de-criminalization of squatting of such apartments, including allowing for registering as the resident based on actual residence etc.)
This is similar to being annoyed at the disabled folks who are hired to bag groceries at supermarkets; it’s not a lot to ask for us to deal with suboptimal retail experiences if it gives the disabled earning/buying power, which has a net positive effect on society in general.

You have agency here; you could choose to shop somewhere else, where they would prioritize your retail experience by not hiring the disabled. By the way this would also make you a giant knob :)
I'm assuming that eBPF would be a potent tool for dealing with this, and it looks like CloudFlare agrees: https://blog.cloudflare.com/l4drop-xdp-ebpf-based-ddos-mitig...
AdGuard's VPN isn't IPSec? IIRC, to evade censorship, they tunnel through HTTP (or something that looks like HTTP): https://archive.is/HxZG5
'round these parts (which is hilly and has wet snow), the limiting factor (given decent snow tires) doesn't tend to be traction, it's high centering.