skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a terrible proposal. People deserve the right to anonymous communication. WHOIS Privacy services are a key part of granting that anonymity. This is especially bad for activists, whistleblowers, and the politically persecuted. But it is also just bad in an 'everyday' sense, for people who simply do not want their personal information out there visible for the whole world to see.
thanks for posting this. It helped me understand ocaml algebraic effects by comparing it to React hooks and React context.
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Arrives in French Guiana After Sea Voyage
The Origins of SARS-CoV-2: A Critical Review (Preprint)
> dumb question time but what exactly makes something a micro service.

This leftpad as a service, over HTTPS
LOL. Michigan Militia of Love.
That action was pivotal and a blunder and Vitalik was not mature enough to realize it. I believe he wouldn't do it again today.
It depends on what they represent.
Most MTAs have rate-limiting out of the box. Postfix, Courier, and OpenSMTPD have rate-limiting in-built, and though I'm less familiar with Qmail, there's probably patches to make Qmail work with rate limiting.
Yeah I don't think any of these proposed attacks work without write access to the repo, at which point the game is already pretty much over already.
There appears to be between 400-600 some members and from what I’ve read, it seems like all the members are receiving a nice share of revenue.

How many would like to claim membership?

I don’t know, you tell me. It seems like their membership grew, so I would guess people have claimed membership based on their heritage and that their membership was honored.

Do you have any specific information you can provide or is it all hand-waving and rhetorical questions?
Wait didn't we get thread safe RNG a few minor releases ago? At least for the default global rng?
http://tdfx.de/ger/voodoo_volts.shtml
How does that work? Can you murder someone for a prank and say your intent was just a prank so it was fine?
This but unironically. If you can't do a simple programming task, (we can argue over what text justification is, because "left-pad" could qualify, as could a full TrueType renderer) you don't belong in SRE - Much of the point is to have cross-functional people, who can interface with developers on their level, and do the math and grunt work around operating a database cluster.
The previous president was and is extremely pro-vaccine. People claim there is a large republican cohort of anti-vax politicians, but there is not. There is a large GOP cohort of anti-vax-mandate politicians, but being against a mandate does not mean being anti vax, unless you're changing the meaning.

> If the previous president had not politicized the response to COVID and had simply told his followers to do what the CDC says we would have many millions more people getting the vaccine (and for the matter, hundreds of thousands of people would still be alive).

You are accusing Trump of politicizing COVID while ignoring Andrew Cuomo, who at the beginning of the pandemic, used COVID, and the fact he was not Trump, for his political advantage, and the media gushed and was happy to give him more airtime than Trump, despite the fact it was obvious from the very beginning that New York State's handling was much worse than Trumps.
Hyperbole how? Climate change denial contributes to inaction, which causes harm.
Looks awesome! A few data types not yet supported: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/postgresql/data-types, like interval or array, which is a shame.

Is just like to mention how awful the Google cloud docs are on a slow connection. Each link does some weird SPA bullshit that seems to take way too long, and you seem to often end up in an inconsistent state where refreshing the page takes you to a completely different article. Then pressing back seems to re-load the current page you are on whilst it does more SPA bullshit.

Small, simple HTML doc pages that are fast to load please. Copy how AWS does it.
The Future of Retail with Behavioral Data
New AI fallacy: appeal to size
The trading cards are a combination of 1) a URL on a server, 2) an on-blockchain pointer to the URL.

Presumably Coinbase will be hosting the URLs and letting users pay real money to create and trade those on-chain pointers.

(Yes, cryptocurrency is at a point where they're trying to make you believe that buying pointers to URLs is a revolution in art and finance and mankind's freedom.)
That's a New England liberal perspective on freedom. It's not a Texas small government conservative perspective on freedom.

I'm not arguing for the validity of that (or either) perspective. I'm simply describing classical Texas values.
Saw a response to this article posted, but didn't actually see the paper it was responding to. HN thread discussing a response to this paper here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28844838
A digital signature usually signs (~encrypts) a hash of the content. So asking what exactly signing a commit or tag entails is a very valid question. I would expect that signing a tag is only as strong as SHA-1, since a tag is essentially a label for a commit hash. For signing commits I have no clue, but would be quite interested as well.
Interesting article. My current household of two people consumes less power than the average one person household and this is with myself working a remote job. Where is the incentive for someone like me to get solar power if I'm already really low consumption?
However, MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) is the preferable term; the process has nothing to do with nuclear reactions or nuclear energy or nuclear material or nuclear bombs. The fact that the thing that is resonating with EM radiation are nucleic magnetic moments does not make the process nuclear in the usual sense of the word.

CT (computer tomography), on the other hand, is slightly deceptive term; it actually gives you a dose of X-rays. It should be called X-ray Computer Tomography (XRCT).
Unsolved Murdaugh Murders Expose Years of South Carolina Mysteries
Samsung's own privacy policy and those of the 3rd parties they use. It's been over a year and checking now some things have already changed, but if you click on the gear icon from within the keyboard you can select "about sumsung keyboard" which should give you a list of policies including gify and tenor (both used for gifs I guess) but i didn't even check those. The one you want is the legal info which tells you that in addition to samsung's privacy policy (which outright says it's collecting and selling everything it can get their hands on (see https://www.computerworld.com/article/3514999/samsung-sellin...) you also have to accept the policy of a 3rd party called Nuance which they use for "language data".

The wall of legal text there eventually links to their privacy privacy which opens in the browser. They collect and store things like "your choice of words, speech and writing patters, how you use your keyboard, custom words you add, the number of charters you type, your typing speed, etc. and they share (read sell) that data to affiliates, subsidiaries, vendors, subcontractors, etc (pretty much anyone they feel like). They specifically state they use this data to draw inferences reflecting your characteristics, behavior, abilities, preferences and aptitudes all of which they can sell to anyone at any time without even telling you about it because what they learn about you by going over all your data is their data and they don't have to tell you anything at all about what they do with their data.
Isn't Axie centrally upgradeable? https://github.com/axieinfinity/public-smart-contracts/blob/...
One way to increase the virulence of a virus in lab, is to let it infect cells in cell culture, and replicate for a large number of generations. This is sort of natural evolution, guided in a lab, and doesn't involve genetic modification.
What? How is warning someone that they are going to ruin their lives the same as endorsing it?
- The official website is at https://www.stateof.ai/

- The report provide a great overview of the State of AI from previous years too. See https://stateof.ai/2020

- An overview of the State of AI 2021 is at https://www.stateof.ai/2021-report-launch.html
A while ago I put a stack of early 80's AI books (~1982) on my son's desk and said "Have a look through these and tell me what you think".

About thirty minutes later he came back and said something like: "Shit! That's all the stuff we are doing now!".

To which I said: "Yeah. Computers got faster and we have lots more storage and memory. Beyond that, I don't think we moved forward very much at all."

If you look though 30 to 40 year old literature on AI you will find pretty much everything you'd expect in a modern book on AI. Sure, yes, there have been advances, of course. I would challenge anyone to find 40 years of advances when comparing AI then and now.

The best hypothesis I can put on the table is that speed and massive storage made a range of applications possible over time. With those exhausted, we hit the wall because we are essentially working with 30 to 40 year old AI technology.
I take it you didn’t read my earlier comment?

There is no engineering reason for those reactors to cost $10bln. Literally zero.

There are lots and lots of other reasons why they will probably cost even more than $10bln/ea though.

Just like there is literally zero engineering reason for the ‘high speed’ rail in California to cost the insane sums it is currently consuming, and will continue to consume.

The reason why the old ones are ‘better’ is because they already are operating under existing approvals, so the tarpits don’t work on them.
Some past threads:

SHA-1 collisions now cost $45k [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23350223 - May 2020 (62 comments)

The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21979333 - Jan 2020 (352 comments)

Abusing SHA-1 collisions for Chromium updates - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20114809 - June 2019 (36 comments)

A SHA-1 chosen-prefix collision attack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19907127 - May 2019 (71 comments)

From Collisions to Chosen-Prefix Collisions Application to Full SHA-1 [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19878917 - May 2019 (18 comments)

SHA-1 Collision Detection on GitHub.com - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13917990 - March 2017 (90 comments)

Linus' reply on Git and SHA-1 collision - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13719368 - Feb 2017 (262 comments)

When Will We See Collisions for SHA-1? (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13719079 - Feb 2017 (1 comment)

Announcing the first SHA-1 collision - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13713480 - Feb 2017 (485 comments)

How would Git handle a SHA-1 collision on a blob? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13547348 - Feb 2017 (5 comments)

Why it’s harder to forge a SHA-1 certificate than to find a SHA-1 collision - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10778773 - Dec 2015 (43 comments)

The Cost of Creating Collisions Using SHA-1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8629906 - Nov 2014 (9 comments)

When Will We See Collisions for SHA-1? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4618069 - Oct 2012 (51 comments)
I think of that kind of standardization kind of like deleting code. Stuff like, "We are deprecating support for Python in SRE, no new projects may be shipped in Python."
> Bad infrastructure is an infrastructure issue. Trying to gussy it up as a social one is going to be a really tough case to…

Last I checked infrastructure spending was mostly dictated by social policies. Either that or we’ve had generations of truly incompetent infrastructure planners who have all failed to realise that drivers in cars aren’t only people who need to get from A to B.
Using decentralized analytics.
Or simply upregulate your lymphocite T by 600%..
Since the inception of the FDA, when else have state governments independently verified drugs like this? It is clearly a signal that one ought not to trust the FDA. Is it any surprise that large cohorts of the democratic party (namely, their non-white cohorts) do not want to get the drug? I am not surprised.

> "Get the shot if you want to."

That is exactly what any sane person should say. Trump is pro-vaccine. He has unequivocally said he has had it and thinks it's a good idea. He's just anti-mandate. You can be pro-vaccine (as in you believe others should get it), while being against a mandate. This is insanity. The expectation that one must believe that the government ought to require a vaccine in order to not be anti-vax is quite the shift of goal posts.
That was underspecified, apologies. You own the vault. Everyone has a vault. The vault is your key.

Would've been clearer to say 'pocket' or something, but that doesn't imply the level of physical security I attribute to Bitcoin.
It's a very little known fact that Amazon recently lowered the internal cooldown to 3 months.
I just reinstalled my FP2 with LineageOS and microG after reading your post.
> will not be remembered as having been justified or proportionate.

Why not? Do you think there’s no chance that the majority of people _want_ these things and will remember them as justified and proportionate? Where do you get this confidence?

Do you think there’s a chance you have projected your own feelings about the pandemic restrictions onto others?

You’re surprised that there is no civil unrest. Consider the possibility there is no unrest because other people want the restrictions that you detest.
When I lived in southern California, roof tiles were very common but in the eastern US, it's mostly shingles. I hate to think of what a hailstorm would do to a roof full of tiles. Hail can cause significant damage to a shingled roof but it's much less expensive to replace.
This is a genius marketing tactic in general. Announce a new feature, artificially introduce a line to get in, move people up the line if they bring in their friends, now the friends want to move up the line as well. The MLM guide to product launches. Robinhood was I believe the first one to apply this in a major way.
Inventor builds Lego arm for eight-year-old
Given the amount of press this is receiving and the fact that the message the administration sent to them seemed a bit suspect, I wouldn't be surprised if the kids did end up catching several charges.
There is something obscenely totalitarian about this whole mindset. You're making a very pragmatic point, but take a step back and look at the whole thing.

You're warning a teenager against making a brilliant, harmless, funny and responsible prank so that they won't get their whole life fucked up forever. Think a little about what kind of political system necessitates that kind of ridiculous warning. What sort of nation does this kind of thing to its kids? If we strike the United States from the list, what sort of countries are left?

You guys really need to get your so-called justice system sorted out. Sorry to make such a blunt point, but this is depressing as hell.
I have some older plastic items that have become very fragile and brittle. They're not lasting forever.

I also left one of those clear plastic tubs where the sun shines through a window on it. After a couple years, the plastic became very brittle, lost its strength, and the tub pretty much disintegrated.
So, slightly higher than what the average artist makes for a piece of work?
All engineers have a strong math foundation in their cursus. It's easier to recycle a mathematician into a physicist than an historian or a psychologist.
I hope you have a dog to wake you up in time to save your head!
There would have been a supply shortage even if people just maintained their regular buying patterns, simply because they started to use their home toilets much more and their business toilets much less, and those are different products (sometimes literally physically incompatible with the holders) with different supply chains, so an unexpected switch from people using product A to product B is inevitably going to cause a supply shock.
Right, my statement wasn't super clear but I meant the users of present-day Ethereum which is the bailed out version.

I don't see how ethics plays into it; it's a judgement call and the existence of the forked Ethereum isn't an attack on ETC.
One past thread:

Why Birds Can Fly over Mount Everest - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23639294 - June 2020 (96 comments)
The use of the Flash logo may be a trademark violation, but it's not a copyright violation. The logo is so simple that Wikimedia Commons has it labeled "does not meet the threshold of originality needed for copyright protection, and is therefore in the public domain":

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adobe_Flash_Player_3...
What type of pillow can stop a meteorite is what I'm wondering. Sure the roof may of slowed it enough but for it to still be intact from that and at that size, it would of been dense to make it that far without breaking up or burning up and I'd of expected a more substantial roof would be needed to slow it. Then the final detail, It would still be pretty darn hot.

So I'm somewhat sceptical.
as stated elsewhere:

Samsung's own privacy policy and those of the 3rd parties they use. It's been over a year and checking now some things have already changed, but if you click on the gear icon from within the keyboard you can select "about sumsung keyboard" which should give you a list of policies including gify and tenor (both used for gifs I guess) but i didn't even check those. The one you want is the legal info which tells you that in addition to samsung's privacy policy (which outright says it's collecting and selling everything it can get their hands on (see https://www.computerworld.com/article/3514999/samsung-sellin...) you also have to accept the policy of a 3rd party called Nuance which they use for "language data".

The wall of legal text there eventually links to their privacy privacy which opens in the browser. They collect and store things like "your choice of words, speech and writing patters, how you use your keyboard, custom words you add, the number of charters you type, your typing speed, etc. and they share (read sell) that data to affiliates, subsidiaries, vendors, subcontractors, etc (pretty much anyone they feel like). They specifically state they use this data to draw inferences reflecting your characteristics, behavior, abilities, preferences and aptitudes all of which they can sell to anyone at any time without even telling you about it because what they learn about you by going over all your data is their data and they don't have to tell you anything at all about what they do with their data.
It's bizarre to me that one would NOT gauge the credibility of Ethereum today based on what the developers actually did vs what they said they would do. What exactly have they done to redeem themselves from their previous scandal?
Time to block EU IPs I guess.

Not going back to public whois.
Putin slashes Russia’s space budget and says he expects better results
Yep, I found the local leftist milita (they have antifa ideology but don't name the group antifa) on the list.
For my API SaaS I run everything non-critical (marketing website, analytics, customer dashboard) on a single server, either part of a single django monolith or using an official docker image with some command-line arguments. Only the API gets duplicated and load-balanced with Cloudflare.

Dedicated servers, specced to provide lots of capacity for spikes. A 20-node k8s cluster could fit on 2 beefy dedicated servers for about the same cost. Decreased infrastructure redundancy but massively increased operational stability through simplicity.

Everything runs in a docker-compose project: one for the API, another for the everything else monolith. I've worked for a couple of small companies that ran with docker-compose, so have a good sense of the weaknesses and footguns (breaking your firewall, log rotation, handling secrets, etc).

CI is running `make test` on my dev machine. Deployment is `git pull && docker-compose up --build`. Everything sits behind haproxy or nginx which is set to hold and retry requests while the backend is down, so there aren't any failed requests in the few seconds a deployment takes, just increased latency. I only deploy to the API once or so per week, that stability reduces headaches.

DB backups are done with cron: every hour a pgdump is encrypted then uploaded to backblaze. Customer subscription data is mirrored from stripe anyway so an out of date DB backup isn't the end of the world. Error if the backup fails after a few retries.

Sentry on everything for error alerting. All logs go into New Relic.
This is cool, but I'd appreciate it if they fixed the bug that perpetually locked my account with no way to verify my identity first.
Tour of Jupiter’s Trojans could reveal Solar System’s chaotic origin
You have to remember that the WHOIS services for EU TLDs are not public due to GDPR as least all of the ones I have tried to resolve are all unavailable now.

This is still terrible since it just raises the cost of privacy to the cost of registering a shell LLC or the EU equivalent or having a law office register in your place, etc.

Many EU cTLDs already do register using a real name but they keep the info somewhat private.
https://www.deviantart.com/team/journal/DeviantArt-Protect-H...
For what it's worth, it's considered bad etiquette to substantively edit your comments without marking that you've done so. In this case, the original post consisted entirely of:

> Same FBI that's about to start arresting "terrorist" parents for having the temerity to speak at school board meetings? That FBI?

As for the new links: they're both opinion pieces, both of which are (vague) handwringing that don't support the more outrageous claim being made (that the FBI is about to "start arresting [...] parents").

The closest thing I can find to actual reporting on this says that Garland (who's DoJ, not FBI) wrote an advisory memo[1]. The memo itself is a broad announcement to multiple federal agencies notifying them to coordinate with local agencies in cases of harassment against educators. Not exactly shocking stuff.

[1]: https://www.justice.gov/ag/page/file/1438986/download
> Why do we tolerate pranks?

Pranks can be an outlet for creativity and learning that might not otherwise happen.

The post concludes with:

> This has been one of the most remarkable experiences I ever had in high school and I thank everyone who helped support me. That's all and thanks for reading!

I'm certain this kid learned so much working through the execution of this prank, and without being criminalized by the district, he's better off for it. Likewise, the IT department is better off with a more secure system, and staff and students experienced shared moments of unexpected joy.

Call me naive, but I'd say this kid made his small slice of the world a bit better, if only for a fleeting moment.
I asked and they said it wasn't a particular issue. Hopefully they just have to dry out for you.
Yeah, those were good times indeed. I try not to think too much about just how many hours/days/weeks/months I spent writing creatively cached Flash graph drawing to get the silky smooth pan & zoom behavior the dashboard offered.

But while lord Google is amazing at indexing SEOd text content, they aren't (weren't?) very good at feeding traffic to a tool with effectively no text. How could they know it was a good way to view the forecast for San Francisco without having a dedicated weathespark.com/forecast/san_francisco page with a decent amount of text along the lines of "forecast", "ten day forecast", "temperature", "precipitation", "rain", etc?

We did try to do something like that but Google never picked it up - while many people loved the dashboard, as a fraction of overall forecast consumers it was probably quite tiny, so I can't say I blame them ;)
You can look at the garbage on OpenSea and see that we've already reached that point. Two weeks away from being made mostly on Paint.