skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! I'd never seen them. The only minor catches that I've seen are that they want you to start the account with $50 or more added, it's $6 per TB per month (rounded up to the nearest TB) with a 90 day minimum duration, and you're allowed 1TB egress per day for each TB you have stored.

They were also acquired very recently[2] though no clue how that might impact things.

I'm fine with all those except the pre-loading $50 just to test, though that's as I want to test it personally. If I were using a business account that's not as much an issue.

[1]: https://console.rstor.space/pricing

[2]: https://www.yahoo.com/now/packetfabric-announces-acquisition...
It's not really call centers, it's any business. When someone makes an outbound call, you usually want it to show the main business number, not the extension of whatever phone they used to make the call.
>It's possible that this first leak was just to establish trust so they can random or auction password hashes later.

Password hashes are relatively useless though? Once the leak is announced I imagine most of the big targets will rotate their credentials. Then the next thing you need to do is spend possibly thousands in CPU time bruteforcing bcrypt hashes. Then I'm not sure what you can even do with those.

I'm not criminally creative but I imagine you could make more by abusing trust with payment processors or fraudulent invoices.
Yes.

I don't know which protocols they use (obviously), but if they use WebAuthn, everything is public-key signatures. Even if you leak everything from the server, public keys buy you nothing.

https://webauthn.guide/
How would you tell the difference between that book and a similar book with a plausible but flawed escape plan?

To paraphrase The Incredibles: when every book is there, no book is there.
Cue monorepo discussion
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Why should people in position of power get to choose what others should and shouldn't be offended by? Both with physical and verbal abuse, minorities and women have been told by people in positions of power to toughen up. All we're seeing now is the repercussions of those marginalized folks getting their voice. I'm sorry you don't like it when they complain about being abused, but telling them to just toughen up is absolutely the losing position to take here.
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Shouldn't that be discreet devices? Or do they make a really high pitched whine with a big flashing light when they start transferring data?
> Even an employee shouldn't be able to download 125GB of stuff without flipping a safety switch somewhere.

I am trying to recall, but I am pretty sure when I worked in Microsoft Office that a build would pull down many tens of gigabytes of data.

125GB in one day from the build system wouldn't be uncommon!
No database should lack an unsynchronized replica in general. A kubernetes admin could accidentally drain the host, but we run in AWS and AWS can kill nodes a lot faster than we can haha. We have enough servers in AWS that at least 5 fail per day. If some database is not replicated, someone is getting paged for it. We run MySQL with semi-sync replication for example: if a primary has two replicas, one replica must ack a write before the primary commits it, so you can lose the primary at any time and not lose data. That said, kubernetes has prevention mechanisms for this.

PodDisruptionBudgets allow you to specify the minimum number of replicas. The drain command calls evict instead of delete and evict honors these restrictions. This is helpful for node draining, but not necessarily helpful if someone accidentally deletes a StatefulSet. However, nothing in kubernetes deletes PVC objects automatically, so if you delete the pod, the volume remains bound to the PVC until you delete it.

preStop hooks are used in all the database pods to ensure that if the current pod is the primary, leadership is correctly changed to a replica before proceeding with the delete. We combine this with extremely long termination grace periods and alerting if termination is taking too long so that an ops team can look into the issue.

preStop hooks are great, but they also are somewhat of a time bomb if not careful, so some of our database operators make use of finalizers instead. With finalizers, nothing happens when a pod enters the terminating state until an operator marks the pod's finalizer as completed. This flow is really nice because you end up with behavior where the kubernetes cluster admins or built in controllers effectively are really gently requesting that a pod terminate, and it's up to the operator of that pod to decide exactly how and when that occurs.

For non-local volumes, like EBS PVCs, once the PVC is deleted an operator will snapshot the volume during a finalizer before allowing the volume to be fully deleted so that we can recover data if this ever accidentally occurs. This was the first protection we ever implemented when initially adopting kubernetes back when we had no idea what we were doing so that we could always recover data in the event of admin mistakes. We can't do this for local volumes, however, any team making use of local volumes truly needs to stay on top of replication when running in the cloud, whether on kubernetes or not or else you absolutely will lose data. AWS local nvme volumes have limited write cycles just like the ones in on-prem servers. So ideally all databses are configured to not accept writes that cannot be replicated. And even with EBS, at scale we end up with something like 20 unrecoverable volume failures per year
It's opinion, from 2004, and mostly references 'big city' centric coverage. Call out to anti-gay marriage lol ;)

Which I guess I understand. If I tried to view from the perspective that I lived in Missouri, reading fashion reports like that piece illustrates would seem foreign to my world view and maybe scary like it's pushing some comical 'fly over state' vs the elites worldview.

But I don't know if I would concede that's liberal it's not my issue, like I know it's outdated but you can draw a line from gay rights as mentioned to trans rights today. I hate that some view this as 'political' to score points endangering people, versus I see it as basic human rights.

But thank you I do see more this viewpoint that culture has become very political today and that does help explain the strong reaction from the right.
Seems like if the referrer is hacker news the site responds with a very pleasing image to get around hacker news hug of death?

Strange
5% back on Whole Foods purchases too. If you don’t go to Whole Foods then I agree there’s no point to keeping it in the Apple Wallet.
Very refreshing to see this. It is so much fucking easy to grok bare metal C compared to the <flavour of the year>-script junk that floats around these days.
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Making them understand work = money is great and I'd add making them understand the concept of not being able to afford something.

So many people in tech have reached a level of TC where the things they can afford on a whim are things the average household would wring their hands over.

And that ends up applying to the kids' wants even if you're not trying to spoil them.

It's just reality that, while you might deny them big things, "small things" on these salaries are not small for most people.

Learning that sometimes you just can't afford something is an important lesson. That there's no shame in that, that there'll always be something else, etc.

That ends up implicitly discouraging the trap of building up debt when you're young to keep up a certain standard you're used to, which I think is a common problem when kids of high earners go out on their own.

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Also an important corollary to your point about work = money: making them understand your money is not their money. Sounds harsh, but even if they're going to inherit it, it's still money that you worked for. It's a dangerous mentality to start assuming your parents' successes are your own without having experienced what it took to achieve.
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What do you think of the above comment which indicates you overcounted B2's costs by a factor of 10,000?
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Insertion sort with unnecessary comparisons.
> So instead of improving it, you suggest to automate it?

I said no such thing. Read the whole thing again, take the upset level down a few notches and get back to us.
Depends who you are turning your homework in to. :- )
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/power.html

The website is powered entirely by solar and is currently consuming 2.44 watts. With that massive power consumption they are probably mining bitcoin too.
Here is the actual proposal that corresponds with the story. (Page 94)

https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/131/General-Explanati...
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I kinda think people will use the S3 proxy feature of R2 for that, which doesn’t really move customers over.
The Lottery in Babylon is the same essential idea as the Library of Babel. The Lottery becomes so sophisticated, it becomes indistinguishable from the “random” events of reality, and therefore is there really any lottery at all?
A lot of the secret sauce of such things are not that secret but just take a lot of work.

Building and maintaining infrastructure simply takes a lot of people, time, relationships and whatnot.

They get good at it over time which I guess could consider some secret sauce but there isn't like some secret code that makes the whole thing way better that now you'll see tons of competitors.
>they will not enable a feature only for Android users

Can I ask why not? Seems a shame to leave such a large user base on the table.
> After writing a few lines of code (3 to 6 lines, a short block within a function), re-read them. That habit will save you more time than any other simple change you can make.

Except maybe one: write a test which somehow exercises those 3 to 6 lines, guided by the cases that occur therein.
No thanks. They would lose even more users if that were to happen.
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It somewhere between "paying to not see ads" (mechanical) to "being a fan and wanting to contribute to them" (parasocial). I don't think most people care if they're a fan of a millionaire - see sports and entertainment celebrities. Looking at things reflexively through a wealth-inequality perspective is done only by a minority of people.
And it might be disguised as a video stream coming out of the video streaming servers.

But it could also be a 128GB thumb drive plugged into the system somewhere.
In the office today with my copy of Literate Programming (which contains the essay in question) I can confirm that the sentence does appear in "Structured Programming with goto Statements" (it appears on page 28 of my copy). Here it is in a general context, not pertaining to a single particular example.

In support of your overall point, though, having just said "[w]e should forget about small efficiencies, about 97% of the time", the next paragraph opens: "Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%."
I agree if it is a slick ecommerce site. But I recently went to siteoly.com to check out the Google Sheet to website capability. The chat popped up and I was talking to the creator. In a minute we were on a video call and two days later he had taken my Sheet of 2,650 vendors and turned it into a website.
> We need 5000 professional news outlets competing for the public's trust.

The target has been stated. Are you in or are you happy with the social-media era status quo? If you are in, at least in principle, then constructive comments help. If you are out, and happy with FB+Twt+YtB running the show, perhaps with a politically appointed bureaucratic hypercentralized 'oversight board' on top, then enjoy the brave new world. No amount of specific proposals are going to change your mind.
Considering who owns it? There's conversations with government agencies asking "are we okay?" To the world's richest man.
It’s a lot more work to massage bubble sort into the other sorting algorithms they need to learn without scraping the code and starting from scratch.
To paraphrase The Incredibles: when every book is there, no book is there.
> and according to other comments Apple Pay has some special hardware access (to be able to work faster?).

Actually it's to store the payment credentials. Basically, you need a SE (secure element) that's physically tied to the NFC chip to handle payments if you want to be able to get banks to issue permanent keys you can use to sign. Some Android phones may support this (not sure), but Android Pay works a bit differently in that they're issued some small fixed number of single use tokens for payments that expire every 30 days and have to do a network attestation that they've kept the tokens secure to refresh them. Part of the attestation is a confirmation that the device isn't root kitted (this is done via complex fingerprinting that Google Play Services performs to try to detect running on a root kitted phone).

It wouldn't surprise me in this case that bank requirements aren't a part of how Apple structured this system as a lot of this was developed before the banks had their shit together (Apple had to use a third party to manage some crypto keys whereas newer iterations of the standard remove the trusted partner). That being said, it also wouldn't surprise me if Apple did this to retain a monopoly over the payment infrastructure in their ecosystem as that's extremely strategic for them in the long term (e.g. Apple Card). There are also UX reasons why it makes sense to do the way they did (at least initially) but maybe there are ways to design out of it to allow for 3p partners.
Then we got nothing because it isn't hard to find a number from a different network to spoof.
You complain to the authorities about your (poor) neighbor because he beats his children in the front yard.

He complains to the authorities that you fly on a jet a few times a year, contributing to climate change. He never flies, you see (because he can't afford it).

He promises to stop beating his children once you stop flying.

The authorities are forced to admit that this is a fair proposal, as both beating children and flying on jets are violations of human rights. No deal is struck, you continue flying on jets, he continues beating his children, knowing that what little leverage the neighborhood had over him has been lost.
Alternatively inject some javascript to mine crypto :-)
First, read "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" by David Graeber so you understand money better in the first place.
This is honestly just normal HN whenever people talk about doing literally anything to push people to get the covid vaccine or trying to stop people from falling down the conspiracy rabbit hole. Apparently people dying is totally fine as long as there is there's some contrived narrative that it's their own fault.

HN, and more broadly the liberal-tarian crowd, is really really individualist which comes through in issues like these.

"We can't make a rule that toys meant for and sold to children should have to meet basic safety standards, it should be the individual parent's responsibility... rabble rabble something education"
Hah. This is like when reddit does something people don't like and there is a huge thread about it ... on reddit.
False positives always exist in these systems along with the false negatives. There's no avoiding every case of false conviction if you rely on imprecise methods. That's admittedly already a problem without facial recog, but is a problem when using it, too.
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Just co-locate your stuff, please.
I do wonder with the massive reduction in physical cash this is going to be harder.

My parents opened a building society (mutual ) account for me when I was in my early teens (this is in the UK)
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True audits are really good way to keep companies in check but what about a company like TikTok or companies in other countries where you are not sure if the audits are not compromised.

Regarding the solution I was talking about check out Solid by Tim Berners Lee
Coal and oil, when not burned for energy, are raw materials for making a lot of essential chemicals.
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Surprised how wrong the shape of Italy is. I guess those wealthy northern Italians never went south.
There aren't any good Android watches really. Perhaps this will change with Google and Samsung pairing up but right now as Android user you're pretty much out of luck
https://doesmysiteneedhttps.com/ as well
Generators do usually start up very quickly. Under a minute.
sounds like you should have given up risk takeing toward the end of your 20s
Her kid was given magnets and almost died, that makes it a valid source of mockery, if the kid actually died the mother would instead be a valid target of manslaughter charges
why woukd you need so many cards?

I just need one debit card and thats it.

I have also a credit card that is needed by car rentals. And use it only there.

And I don't carry around my card because it is something I can forget. And I always carry a phone, so why have two if I need only one. Not to mention limits on pinless payments are higher in Google/Apple pay.
Is there something like this for adults? .....asking for a friend
People have already used my ideas, like https://www.lipreading.org/ or a bunch of things derived from my anime GAN work https://www.gwern.net/Faces (Admittedly, no unicorns, but how many people can say that?)

I've never asked a cent, because ideas are cheap, and timing/implementation everything: https://www.gwern.net/Timing
HN can be a bit West Coast oriented where there are virtually no bricks due to earthquakes
You'd need to cleverly narrow down the definition of "encrypted" you're operating under. The broad definition allows me to take your message and essentially turn it into any sequence of bits of sufficient length, and there's no way for you to then layer any further restrictions on top of that sequence because of the near-arbitrary power I have in selecting my encryption scheme. You'd need to reduce that power in some way to then create even a subset of messages that could survive the encryption.

Such a result would probably be of no practical use but it could be interesting in a recreational mathematics sort of way.
This is a great idea, but I can't square that kind of project with WSL and brew instead of actual linux or macports.

If it's meant for the youths and neophites where you don't want to scare them with strange not-windows things, perfectly fine, but then aarch64 assembly is already out of scope.

If you don't know what's wrong with brew (as an os developer not a casual user) then I can't take you seriously as a system architect or os developer.
What is that link?
8 cards is not many?? I'm doing just fine with 2 and that's because I'm from one country and live in another :) most people I know have just one
> It also seems likely that more surveillance will result in fewer innocent people convicted, not more.

+1 – my gut instinct tells me this is the case. I don't have any data to back it up though, but I have a feeling this is true.
I didn't mention or didn't know what ingress is.

The full excerpt [0]

> Most leading cloud providers allow their customers to input data into the cloud for free. However, when that data is retrieved from the cloud, these providers will then charge large fees; this is what’s known as a data egress.

Here is what I found out about ingress [1]

> Egress in the world of networking implies traffic that exits an entity or a network boundary, while Ingress is traffic that enters the boundary of a network.

[0] https://wasabi.com/help/glossary-of-terms/egress-charges-def...

[1] https://aviatrix.com/learn-center/cloud-security/egress-and-...
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But perhaps the noise is just a language you haven’t recognized? Perhaps the noise contains True information when decoded using a scheme described in one of the other books?
Plus, this stuff likely has to go into a database. Now we have polymorphic OOP stuff needing to be connected to records and fields in a table.

Maybe just have a generic "taxblob" fields which is a serialized object which indicates its type and all the properties by name.
It’s not unlimited power, it’s unlimited fuel.

The hype is coming from REBCO tape magnets which aren’t in ITER. Many consider ITER to already be obsolete.

This is like how computers used to take up whole rooms in the 50s but later could sit in the corner. Fusion takes up whole buildings (ITER) but the MIT ppl proved a magnet so that it can fit in just a room.

As our magnets get stronger the tokamaks can get smaller. Room sized tokamak is manageable for commercialization. Commonwealth Fusion Systems has a pretty clear path it seems.
I still use Firefox, and I don’t like that they’re setting money on fire while revenue is declining.
Bookmarks work, but I find them cumbersome. The outdated part for me is having to put them into folders manually, which doesn't have the best interfaces for this. I think that's why so many people load so many tabs at once, if you close the window getting them back is difficult unless you want to hand-sort hundreds of tabs in some cases.

I'd like to see them stored in a database where you can get the data out by running filters. Those filters should be able to search meta data about currently opened tabs, browser history, saved tabs or sets of tabs, and some data from the web pages themselves. It should be simple to search all my currently opened tabs for a list of terms (like sql, select, from, where, etc) and have them be moved from my current window to a new window. I should be able to save these as a set of tabs labeled "sql". If that set already exists, it should combine them, throwing out duplicates. Ideally, web browsers should have the ability to save keywords from pages you have visited in your own little web data store. If I ran across a reference to a particular subject in the past few days, I should be able to search my history and my store of keywords for pages that mention that subject, and load them all into a new window that can be saved as a set of tabs. I should be able to search for web pages in a set of sets of tabs that have been modified in the last hour. Or open all images I've seen on webpages in the last couple of days or that have a keyword in the image name.

Manually sorting bookmarks does work, but I'd like to see something a lot more robust. I can, for example, bring up the history sidebar and see if I can figure out which site I was on that mentioned a particular game or physics term or whatever, but it should be a lot easier to do these things. In Firefox I can search page titles for a specific page, but it won't search through the page contents.

On a related note, it seems to me that all browsers should be able to act as web spiders so that every page you come across through daily operation goes into your own search terms database and that searches should start there before going to one of the search providers. Maybe have them spider links on each page a level or two down so you can find related items easier even if you didn't actually go to the page in question. You would also be able to search the parts of walled gardens you've visited lately, which normal web search won't see.

Anyway, I'm just spit-balling here, but it seems like there is a lot of room for innovation in how we select, save, group, and access web pages.
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Its still more secure. Rubber hose cryptanalysis applies to both equally, but that doesn't mean there aren't other attacks that apply to totp which don't to yubikeys.

More secure != perfectly secure.