skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He is also actually in jail, where he is being tortured.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23788147/
So uBlock Origin is capable of blocking first party trackers? Amazing!
Perhaps you’re thinking of single quotes? I believe the ones used here are double quotes which are used to convey reported speech.

Source: was a professional writer.
I really think it makes the site worse. I’m already an avid Twitter user, I come to Hacker News for discussions and content that I couldn’t find anywhere else. The political discourse on here is just lower-quality and less interesting than on Twitter.
Yeah, and not for any mysterious or secret reason either - new is sorted by time, and front by .. ok that's a bit mysterious and secret, but some function of points, comments, time, views, clicks, etc.

So, roughly speaking, you have until another full page's worth of new comes in to get enough engagement to rank in the front two or three pages.
Nuclear security helicopter scours Boston Marathon route for radiation
I did not know this. What crime has he been convicted of?
Python and Lua (2019)
Does it help if you add /.compact to the end of the URL? The reddit website constantly kicks you back into the desktop version these days but it mostly works
This is absolute nonsense. There is only a shortage if you think having 6 types of ketchup rather than 7 is an issue
The Coding Secrets Hidden in “Sonic the Hedgehog” [video]
The article basically says that Satoshi went for secp256k1 because for secp256r1 the constants were defined by the NIST under the possible influence of the NSA.

I don't think it is a good argument, I invite every one to take a look at the DES S-Box constants.
Many people believed that those were backdoor constants that the NSA planted into the algorithm as there was no explanation on how and why they were chosen.
Many years later it turned out that they were picked carefully to protect against differential-linear attacks. An attack only the NSA knew back then.
So they gave out safe S-Box constants, and all those who distrusted them and picked random/other S-Boxes were actually screwed, this is really ironic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-box
Growing up in the mountains, I remember seeing a curious kind of antenna up on a mountain nearby. It didn't look like the others; from one angle it looked like a three-petal flower and across town, it looked like a giant robot with two antennae. Wondered what it was for years since it looked so unusual. Only a few years ago I learned it was a long-decommissioned AT&T Long Lines tower: an urban explorer had filmed it.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=MvXxNheLATw
SpaceX is at the moment the only feasible enabler of humanity as an interplanetary species. Their deeds can open up a new economic growth regime that has no practical upper limit, we can expand to trillions of people in the solar system. You really cannot price this properly. No single company was so pivotal in the history of humanity.
>There's no shortcuts for those who refuse masks and vaccines.

Just urns and gravestones.
Looks like its own website is built with Soupault: https://github.com/dmbaturin/soupault-website

The main repository also has directories called 'sample-site' and 'examples': https://github.com/dmbaturin/soupault
"air is the new poop" is what public health dr David Fisman says... Which is hyperbolic but succinct.
> there is just no consistent way to block "tracking calls" vs. blocking requests needed for particular pieces of functionality and data

At some point, browsers will gain firewalls and packet inspection and filtering capabilities.

We should be able to inspect the data sites are sending and receiving asynchronously via Javascript. We should be able to automatically delete or redact private information from JSON payloads. What if uBlock Origin could automatically anonymize unique identifiers that some Javascript code is trying to exfiltrate?
Yeah this is unacceptable.
Ooh good recommendation, lobste.rs is cool. I've been looking for someone with a potential invite for a while too if anyone here is offering :).
Drilling for and transporting energy in the form of liquid fuel has been cheaper and more scalable than transporting it in the form of electrons since the industrial revolution. It's part of why we pipe oil and gas across continents: because a pipeline is delivering continental-scale power that a HVDC line just can't compete with, for a number of reasons. Electricity is generally last-mile delivery by comparison.

This is changing with cheap solar and higher capacity HVDC lines, but in order to truly compete with fossil fuels, renewables need a scalable storage medium, because a fundamental weakness of electricity is that it has to be consumed when it's generated. Batteries just don't scale to this level, in my opinion. Sure, gigafactories exist, but it doesn't really compete with being able to add hundreds of GWh of storage at a time in the form of salt cavern hydrogen storage, of which the US has more than 330GWh already in operation. They're just different scales.
that would be a shame

the hardware TPM is considerably harder to tamper with than the software "fTPM" that come built-in with the CPU

though I suppose once it gets cracked that may turn out to be a blessing for software freedom
If you are in countries that have the institutional capacity to protect it and your ownership of it, sure, lay network infrastructure.

Despite the growth of the large cities, most African urbanization is due to villages growing past a threshold where they are statistically counted as towns (IIRC 10 000 inhabitants), and therefore as urban, though. "Greater Lagos", the coastal-urban strip running from Abidjan in the west to Port Harcourt/Douala in the east, is mostly like this: villages that grew.

* Most African population growth is still going to be outside these megacities, and even within them, only the centres will have much infrastructure, unless there is massive social change leading to institutional reform.

Edit: clarifying this, which I should have done first: The majority of the population for at least the next 40 years will be in areas with population density below about 1000 people per square km, where Starlink is viable but laid cable is expensive.[1]

1. https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2019/11/02/starlink-is-a-... under the heading "Architecture".
This is one where it's worth reading the whole article, since the impression I got from the first line (the government made people kill their pets) turned out not to be the real story.
That's interesting. Do you have a reference?
Interesting. I get the "fuck you, download our app" pop-up on Firefox Mobile but not Chrome mobile.
Check out Home Assistant. I use Home Assistant to control about 35 TP-Link Kasa devices via local control. Home Assistant supports both local and cloud control of Kasa devices.

I use a mix of ESPHome (using ESP8266 devices) and BLE sensors (feeding back through ESPHome ESP32 based gateways) to gather home air quality data.
Ludvig Strigeus, the creator of ScummVM, also made µTorrent and was an early employee of Spotify after Daniel Ek, one of Spotify's founders and CEO, bought µTorrent as an acqui-hire. He got 5% of the shares before their IPO and still works there.

So that's three impactful programs from the same person.
Makes me want to party like it’s 9999.
The USB-C iPhone Mod
10/10 update: Looks like the poster was able to fit the entire type-c adapter into his iphone, exciting stuff!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAekbJf4Gsw
I've never heard of performance being one of Alpine's benefits - in fact quite the opposite. There are many blogposts talking about run-time perf being dramatically slower. Also, you lose some security benefits with Alpine as well because of the use of musl.

As for tooling this might've been true 4-5 years ago but I don't think it's the case anymore, but being someone that works at a unikernel company I'm clearly 100% biased.

As for the scripting languages that you might be alluding to here, you are quite correct that performance has never been a strong suit with them as they are inherently shackled to single process/single thread execution. The reason why is that you could write a 2000 line ruby class named Dog and instantly rename it in one fell swoop to an integer with the value of 42. However, this is the same thing with unikernels and lots of languages such as python/ruby/node/etc. work out of the box - scaling is done differently though. Instead of firing up X app workers behind a reverse proxy you fire up X vms and put that behind a load balancer.
No. I was directly pointed to the quote. Because is a common narrative "if you have problems in a RDBMs, get out of a RDBMS and use nosql".

The previous post kinda say the same, but is weird because call the quote great?
If only business news.
A few months ago HN was flooded with articles about Navalny.
There is quite a lot of this kind of political spam, from different countries.
> It probably made it that far out of necessity as that happened to be the shortest distance between the two nearest hydrogen fueling stations.

Not so long ago the same argument was made regarding EVs and charging stations, and hydrogen refueling is far less disruptive than plugging a EV to a socket.
I wasn't counting changes to project metadata like gitignore
"Projects" are "something that advances someone's career"? I thought projects were "something which our client actually paid for and we're contractually obligated to fullfil"
I would assume it falls under the same rules regarding the ROM itself: legal to do yourself from a purchased copy but not legal to send to others.
> Lets say he is. He is not a US citizen, and he didn't do the leaking on US soil - what duty does he have to keep US secrets secret?

Should someone in another country be able to publish your personal secrets? Sure if its North Korea you can't do much but a organization in a friendly country should not be allowed to do so esp if they're important nationally classified material.
I don't include holidays in that total.
"oh no, he said mean things about windows, better downvote" - average shill news user in 2021
Always lying to achieve agenda...Machiavelli would be proud

Openvaers.com
He hasn't even been tried for any major crime.

He's been in jail (Belmarsh) over two years now (11th April 2019).

They're holding him while the US tries to extradite him. The UN has called for the end of his torture at Belmarsh, but the UK and US seem uninterested.

From Wikipedia:

> On 13 September 2019, District Judge Vanessa Baraitser (UK) ruled that Assange would not be released on 22 September when his prison term ended, because he was a flight risk and his lawyer had not applied for bail. She said when his sentence came to an end, his status would change from a serving prisoner to a person facing extradition.
Then it is well those countries lack the power or will to use their power to enforce those laws on you. I mean, I prefer what you prefer in this case as well, although I prefer it because I think those laws are wrong, not because I believe something about national borders by moral right ought to render me immune to prosecution from the next nation over.
They made him a "martyr" in a way, and martyrs have a tendency to have a long shelf-life. Plus, it brought a lot of questionable US practices into light and on public mind. At this point, I do not think we saw the end of it all yet.
I'm retired as flying fuck because I'm not working under communist medical tyranny unless fat women are banned from grocery stores.
It’s a real shame that μTorrent became adware, but qBitTorrent became a high quality alternative.
>The Introduction to Atari Graphics was a pretty damn nice article.

The entirety of De Re Atari (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Re_Atari>), the first substantial technical information for Atari 8-bit, was excerpted in BYTE. This article is part of the series.
That's awesome. Sometime I'd also love to see a file tree rundown of the USBs that were airdropped too. I'm curious about the contents but also how much was translated or even published directly for recipients.
They copy anything. They don't have a legal concept of copyright in North Korea, so why wouldn't they?

And their CS majors supposedly have monitored but uncensored access to general internet. I'm sure they know that the A in ANSI means American.
An interesting thing about this application is that it's written in OCaml.
There’s a switch to un-defeat the copy protection, if you want full nostalgia.

You can even use a virtual code wheel here: https://www.oldgames.sk/codewheel/secret-of-monkey-island-di...
I work with a decent group of academic and industry cryptographers, and I’ve never heard any of them use the term (even as a joke.)

My main familiarity with it is from imageboard culture, where (mostly) reactionaries use it to accuse each other of being feds.
Those networks will still be there. Their ads will simply be proxied through first party servers.

Nothing wrong with simply not wanting to see ads either. They're noise, to be filtered out.
The user entitle software when they install it & give privileges. The issue has to be solved upstream. Instead of blaming software vendors, we have to build the systems to take back control.
i.reddit.com? Is that what you mean/are looking for?
> You’ll have a hell of a good time exercising this conviction when China starts doing the same.

It would be truly upsetting if that ever happened, but mainly because so many of China's laws are bad, not because of something inherent about national borders. Fortunately I doubt China will ever have the will to use its power to bother me.
You , me , our descendants 50 generations down the road will all be dead before anything like that even begins to happen. Like 0.01% of the progress towards the trillions of humans vision you , Musk and Bezos are talking about.

Being early = being wrong.
Your example will only resonate with a small minority since most of us here
are web and CRUD jockeys. Also, your claim to have "seen this sort of thing
again and again, in diverse fields," is patently disingenuous. Even the most
maths-intensive groups in tech deal largely with discrete methods.
Yes it's great, I can spin up WSL to get a full Linux environment for web development, mimicking my production environments. I can use Windows IDEs to edit and browsers to test. Even tools like Browsersync work seamlessly running on Linux and syncing on Windows browsers. When I'm finished work, I can shut down the dev environment and play my favorite Windows games without having to dual boot :)
There's a lot of stuff here about software that doesn't make the front page. I tend to scan the front page first and then go look at what's in the "new" section. There's a lot of good stuff there that doesn't generate a lot of comments that I follow the links provided.

I'll come back and leave a comment on some of those. But by the time I do they may be a page or two deeper and not much makes the front page if they haven't already by that point. A later post on the same subject might make the front page though. I've seen that happen a lot here.

That said, there's still a lot here about "software, hardware, computer science". As far as "hacker culture" goes I'm not really sure what that is.
Completely agree. I saw someone here describe ads as mindhacking and I loved it. These advertisers are attempting to literally hack our minds, modify our thoughts and behavior patterns, create associations between brands, images, ideas. They present zero information to the reader, you can't trust anything they say due to conflicts of interest.

I don't want them to succeed. I want them gone.
"I can't help but fear for the young people who will take them as gospel and act like a robot, moving through them as a checklist."

Why?
Yes. Posts like "How to make $1 million with embarrassingly little work" are always going to make it to the HN frontpage.

Which makes me wonder. Are we here to discuss technology? Or are we here to daydream how we get rich while sleeping?

Also the "hackers" on HN are increasingly buying systems that are built to resist hacking and that have a target audience that can be described as "mom, dad and grandparents". Something feels not right.
Most of the non-microwave only sites were converted to fiber, so they're out there quietly humming in the night, soldiering on, just passing traffic, their facilities which were designed to be manned 24/7, might see an engineer once a week, or even once a month.

I've often dreamed about building a private national microwave network to sell capacity on. They're not expensive to build or operate with modern hardware, which doesnt need much power or servicing.

Wanna see something truly wild?

https://archive.org/details/bstj56-10-1829

Buried waveguide! a path not taken, as fast as microwave, with more controlled path characteristics. Had fiber not worked out to be practical, this would have been the replacement for the L-5 Coax network, as fiber proved to be.
> Why aren't the Atom people working on VSC instead?

https://github.com/atom/atom/graphs/contributors

Looks like the original contributors have mostly moved on to other projects, and activity is significantly diminished, but it's an open source project and they've not gone out of their way to block the community from continuing.
> If the Nazis won WWII, don’t you think it would be worth at least considering using nuclear weapons in a war to destroy their regime before they developed a competitive nuclear arsenal of their own? Or would you have argued for coexistence with them?

That's a fascinating question. I'm not sure what to say.

EDIT: Ah, my response is "That's an unfair comparison." The context was that Von Neumann was advocating the extermination of the Russian population, not their regime. I agree that it would be worth considering the strategic options at the time, but that the strategic options should not include the extermination of the entire German population.
You can secure boot Linux with UEFI. For a laugh I do it on my Arch lappie but my Home Assistant Debians do it out of the box and so do my Ubuntu LTS servers. I gather that SuSE does too and probably many others.

You can domain join via Winbind or SSSD. Exchange via Evolution or Kmail and other work arounds exist. TPM 2.0 has been supported for quite a while so all good for encryption and other attestation tasks. We have rather a lot of host based firewalls (sore point 8) but it looks like the latest effort might stick for a while longer than the past ones.

...

Oh, you use that ... vendor ... SSL VPN. OK, can't do that and that's generally where it falls apart. We do have several.

I can and do operate solely on Linux but I have the benefit of owning the company. Some of my customers insist on their gear/setup for their environment and that's fine: they get to buy it too.
And even with those things being in-band, we now have authentication for BGP and the IGPs to try and constrain the ability to send control signals. SS5/CCITT5 would probably have played out a lot differently had they hand the ability to do that sort of thing like we do now.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydW2J-8fdhQ
Hero Helps Chocking Police Man During Arrest
That’s good for the consumer. Awesome
I had an Amiga 3000 in 1991 (low-end, 16 mhz version.) I upgraded from an A500. It was amazing! Installing extra RAM was a bit of a pain, however (it used "ZIP" chips, not SIMMs) I taught myself C on that machine (Lattice, later SAS), a skill that served me for decades.
Don't forget, before the last step, they'll first subsidise universities and schools to explicitly train their students to have a dependence on WSL, so that they can maximally exploit their users when they introduce a fee.
They do. E-mail: hn@ycombinator.com
Graph of Keybase commits pre and post Zoom acquisition
If you live somewhere like the US west coast you can even use an $8 digital shortwave radio (V-111 is a good reference model of this type) and it's very easy to pick them up in the morning, just go for a walk and hit scan. Same with Cuban numbers stations.

When you're tired of inscrutable audio you can switch over to RNZ or BBC Pacifica and there's often good programming.
Why do you consider the criticism of these advertising features irrational?
>The second impact of Firefox Suggest is that the web browser will now collect your keystrokes and send them back to Mozilla

This appears to be incorrect.[0] The suggestions are offline, based on a list downloaded beforehand. There will be online ads in the future, but it will be opt-in and gated behind a dialog.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/q4f92r/remain_calm...
Learned advanced calculus in college in my CS program, never used it in professional life writing code. It was just to weed people out. Just an IQ test.
Trying to render them in code, or with Desmos, is quite enlightening. Cryptographic tools are also helpful for testing it out in practise, such as OpenSSH. Then read up on the various forums and the Bitcoin Wiki, and try to make your own implementation to generate an address. Next step is trying out other cryptos and their algos, if that's the route you want to take.
Microsoft tries to make you think it’s not, but VSCode is proprietary if you download the official builds. Don’t use it!

The Vscodium project [0] exists and provides builds directly from the source.

This version has none of the user-hostile behavior! It also makes you realize Microsoft’s new round of EEE overreach when you see that the maintainers have to provide the extensions through their own repository and the default C# debugger doesn’t work for licensing reasons (everything else works perfectly).

Don’t trust Microsoft. Use the code they give you (which is generally fine), not their proprietary products (which are generally very much not fine).

[0]: https://vscodium.com
Bikeśhed.
Interesting! Thank you for the information. Does the trans Canada microwave go along the coquilhalla highway? I notice that there are point to point links along the side of the highway.

Were the microwave links to Nanaimo and the Sunshine Coast replaced by fiber?
It looks as if it's been in maintenance mode since the acquisition. Why is that?
Crash, Croft, and a couple other games I'm forgetting competed in mind share as the mascot of the original PlayStation, but there was never an official mascot.

I used to love reading the gaming magazines while my parents shopped and it seemed like every other month there was an article asking why Sony doesn't have a mascot yet and who it should be.
Bizarre that the nonprofit’s browser has more advertising built in than the advertising company’s browser.
Why that camera has lines like this? Was it 3D printed?
If it was molded it doesn't make sense to have those lines + paint.

Interesting nevertheless that it survived all this time.
As long as the CEO salary keeps increasing, it'll be fine!

https://itdm.com/wp-content/uploads/Mozilla.png
> By imposing your laws on the people of a different country, you are robbing them of that same democracy you so cherish.

That would be true only if the US were handling this process extrajudicially. I'm still not sure that would be morally bad, per se, but it would certainly require the exercise of much more power and will.

But in this case, the process is being handled judicially. The people of the United Kingdom elected representatives, who through various means constructed the judicial system and entered into agreements with other countries, including the United States, concerning many things, including extradition. The process they set up to handle that is what is being followed today. This is why I don't really agree that the current situation is undemocratic. It may be that the UK's representatives didn't do exactly what the people would prefer in aggregate, but that is always a danger in representative democracy.