skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The KZ government PKI has had quite the history:

- Kazakhstan man-in-the-middle attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan_man-in-the-middle_a...

- "Certificate cannot be trusted" warning in Kazakhstan https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/certificate-cannot-be-t...

- Kazakhstan Attempts to MITM Its Citizens https://www.f5.com/labs/articles/threat-intelligence/kazakhs...
Here I am preferring the base plotting. To each their own. I read words like "aes" "geom" "grammer of graphics" and my eyes glaze over. plot(data, main="title" etc.) is easy enough for me.
My friends Instagram was hacked and deep-fake videos posted in less than 6 hours
Today has been wild. I am quite shocked at how quickly the whole thing happened and how difficult it is to report the hacked account to instagram and try recover the account. The docs seem to take you in a loop without ever being able to resolve the problem...

My friends instagram account has only ~2,000 followers, so not even a huge amount, and her email and password was reset about 6pm to a gmail account, and by midnight the account had already posted deep-faked AI videos of her promoting cryptocurrency scams.

The deepfake videos are very realistic too, if I hadn't know her better or know about the hacking it would be very easy to believe it was real...

It's possible they deep-faked her videos ahead of time but it seems like something you'd only spend resources on only if you knew the attack was successful.

And there doesn't seem to be that much news or content online about this happening or it seems very targeted... but for such an account with such a small following it seems like it must be quite widespread problem.

Have you had this happen to someone you know personally and what do you think about how prepared we are to deal with scams this sophisticated or what effect they might have?
His opinion on this matter is not of any importance, as confirmed by a great many people who have found an unlikely fame. Just ask mrs. Streisand.
> Politicians are corrupt

Politicians maybe corrupt, but our NHS (here in Blighty) most certainly is not.

Here, the NHS doctors keep asking the politicians for more money to combat Covid, and the current government whistles. (Something you will acknowledge regardless of where you sit on the political spectrum.)
Well that's obvious. No country plans to remain isolated forever; only until a significant population has been vaccinated. Fiji are opening up to the world on December first now that 90% of the eligible population are vaccinated. New Zealand will remain closed until April because their vaccination was delayed by letting less developed nations get first dibs to the vaccine.
> To date, I'm aware of no study that has quantified a difference in infection, hospitalization or death that is attributable to travel bans.

You have got to be joking, because NZ, Taiwan, and Australia all achieved COVID zero by effectively quarantining their countries, i.e. travel bans. It's basic logic that viruses cross borders and oceans via infected people, not by wafting magically through the air.

That said, travel bans are only effective in the very early phase, when infections are near zero. The US, Europe, and most of Asia are highly connected and by the time COVID infections were spreading, it was pretty much too late. Also, the US's travel bans were not particularly ineffective. Like the US's entire response, haphazard, half-hearted, and actively opposed by lots of weaponized ignorance.
You can make any argument if you invent your own facts.
Range absolutely is an issue for people who have owned an EV. More importantly, it is an issue for people who haven't owned an EV. Claiming it isn't a problem because current EV owners are OK with it is preaching to the choir.

But even if range really isn't a problem, a PHEV makes more sense to me because they are cheaper and make better use of our limited battery supply. A PHEV with 50 miles range will be just about as efficient as a BEV for the vast majority of driving, but it gets by with a much smaller battery pack. We have the battery supply to make nearly every new car a PHEV, but we could only make a small fraction of them BEVs.
Fine. Do that then.
I think now they can extract $120 in subscription fees, back then they might have been able to extract $120 in each person buying 4 CD's a year for $30.

My gut feeling (that might be completely wrong) is that the total value extracted probably stays roughly the same or goes up with an increase in disposable income.
The beauty of saving that much is I don't depend on it.
As a side note, this can be a good thing. When a certain amount of change aversion isn't maintained, you get change for change's sake. Organizationally, you get every new manager trying to "make their mark" on things. Individually, you get developers trying to add "migrated product to $X shiny new framework" to their resume for their next job hop in 2-3 years.

But many/most of us have probably also worked in environments that were far too conservative about changes, so that may be the more common problem.
What scam companies are worth trillions?
Same thing with physical art - even if it lacks monetary value, you still have something beautiful that you can hang on your wall.

A physical painting could also have attractive qualities (texture/depth, color, reflectivity/diffusion/sparkle, etc.) that a flat print might not have. (On the other hand, a print might correct some deficiencies in the original such as damage, cracks, or fading.)
Where do you get this 48 month number?
I have no idea if this has any relationship with reality but it wouldn't surprise me if it does. Assembly has some things that languages like Python and Javascript don't and can't by design: smallness, stability, a relative lack of bullshit garbage and bullshit garbage peddlers
It seems natural for our generations who grew up with 3D worlds (from games or online communities) to be able to navigate the mind's eye version of it, the same way you can mentally walk in a familiar store in order to plan your route ahead of time.
Oh and you haven’t even started looking at the hardware below all that!

But on a serious note, this complexity is not all useless. A significant part of it is essential complexity that can’t be reduced. And frankly, these layered abstractions allow us to do any real work. Just understand your stack very well and one or possibly two layers below — that is what makes you a great developer.
This didn't work for me at all. Of 8 or so recommendations it included "Red" "Blue" and "White". Huh? It's also pretty useless without including a year or link to an imbd page.
You indeed can if there are nuisance neighbors and I believe that is considered a material fact in most states. However, most documents, I believe contain a Real Estate Transfer Disclosure Statement which would have had a line indicating a "yes" if there were nuisance neighbors and it would have been up to you to ask for more details.
A zoom recording with a witness involved maybe?
Not a lot of those around at age 16, which is the last time anyone cares to check.
“The way Fethullah Gülen got red-carpet immigration treatment in the US stinks to high heaven”
I just watch Malcolm Reed and get a bird the same size as his.
> And no, troff is neither elegant nor capable ;)

I accurately guessed that this essay/screed(?) was typeset in troff, given the abundance of minor formatting and typesetting errors.

This particular kind of "return to tradition" OS zealotry has always deeply bewildered me: our own dear author can't complete an essay in troff without scattering errors all over the place, so why in the world are they encouraging professional users to give up all of the functionality that prevents these errors?
The instance failed at mere DOZENS of simultaneous users. Clients kept retrying and then there were thousands of requests of users who were unable to interact with the instance. I went though the logs in detail. It was a clusterfuck.
I don't know what's legally binding in your jurisdiction, but in the US, scribbling on a PDF will suffice for most purposes. xournal++ is a free tool that will support this.
Italy and France sign agreement on space launchers – CNA
I paid for DocuSign's annual fee the year I bought my house because it was just that much easier to sign everything electronically. The only documents I signed in person were at the closing. Everything else was done electronically, which was beautiful.

I have to admit, over the past two years I've run into two pieces of professional software that made me think, dang, this thing actually works and is a material improvement on the old state of affairs. One was Fusion 360 and one was DocuSign. (I say this as a casual user of both relevant categories of software.)

I don't know if this makes it worth $50B, but they have a happy customer in me.
Going a bit off topic here, but there's no reason you couldn't use a garbage collector to manage heap memory for your assembly language program.

On the NES, such a memory management approach would be particularly insane.
The US has had an Electronic Signature law since 2000:
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-106publ229/pdf/PLAW...

tl dr;
Typed signatures are legal in a digital form if the form states this is a signature block. There is no need for a third party such as docusign.

Further verification standards have been adopted, but not required, to identify typed signatures. The most common is the leading "//". So my legal signature would look like this:

//William Hagan
It's not a space cadet keyboard. It's a 'copy' of the Symbolics Lisp Machine keyboard from the mid 80s.

https://keymacs.com/img/gh/symbolics-vs-keymacs-720px.jpg

It's a newer version of the early 80s keyboard from Symbolics:

https://webwit.nl/input/misc/symbolics1.jpg

The Symbolics computers used an editor called Zmacs.
It is 2019-new https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06709
This data is completely useless to draw any conclusions.
All the west coast cities (what you mentioned + Vancouver BC) have roughly the same boom town problems, and, to be honest, have always had them. Hobos hopping trains for LA or SF in the 1920s, skid row being a term invented somewhere in either Seattle, Vancouver, or Portland circa the late 1800s as a place where the logs were skid up to the saw mill, and the muddiest ickiest place for someone (only the destitute) to live, etc...

> My hope is that west coast will become better in next decade after some self-introspection. I love the west coast and it is sad to see the decline :-(

The west coast is the way it is because they've always been boom towns. You could say "I hope Seattle learns it lessons!" when it has grown 25% in the last decade, there just isn't the feedback for that. And from this perspective, the west coast has been in decline since the mid 19th century. I'm actually glad it isn't perfect, or it would attract even more people!
This is my favourite lifehack. I don't own a scanner and signing docs can be a pain without it.

A very few places will reject the Preview-signed copy, wanting a hand signature, but you can filter the pages a bit (tilt slightly, add noise) and they won't know the difference.
I very regularly do stuff in containers of which I've disconnected the network...
It's amazing how bad most error messages are when something depends on the Internet and yet it's not reachable. If you're trying to connect to the net and it fails, you may as well then try a ping or something (you were going to use the net anyway) and tell your user that the machine apparently cannot connect to the Internet.

Heck, maybe have some helper when outputting error message doing something like:

log.error("Could not download fizbulator v3.21.4", ping-btw)

Where "ping-btw" would try a ping and add the message: "by the way ping to 4.2.2.1 didn't answer after 300 ms, maybe your connection is down?".

Something like that.
That's not me. You can tell by the way the letters in the username are arranged. My point is that the guy behind the coup has known ties to the CIA and in my opinion that stinks. Of course I wouldn't know if or what role CIA had in the coup but I find it fair to ask the questions due to the established links.
I’ll wait for this technology to get over the hump
As the article says, lots of content that was previously accessible is now a lot more difficult to track down.

Channel 9 hosted much more than Microsoft-related stuff.

For example, if you try searching for this[1] 2009 interview with Lars Bak about V8, Google will point you to where it should be (the previously working URL), but in typical fashion, actually trying to hit that page dumps you out at a completely useless (and breathless) announcement about—a sort of "our incredible journey to come".

It doesn't help that many of the pages in the Wayback Machine are broken because of JS skulduggery on the Channel 9 site, or—I've found—returning pages localized in Thai.

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20120220094116/http://channel9.m...
The same applies to "lockdowns don't work." That is obviously complete BS considering there are plenty of examples of lockdowns that did work (e.g. the Aug 2020 lockdown of Victoria, NZ lockdowns, Taiwan, South Korea). But lockdowns can fail easily with noncompliance and inability to effectively quarantine the infected.

It's like saying boats don't work after trying to build one out of grocery bags or untreated plywood. Yeah, crappy boats are going to have leaks. Lockdowns are hard; it's not something we really practice (and worse, there are malicious defectors who want lockdowns to fail). A lot of people, we have learned, are selfish and unwilling or unable to make any sacrifice, even in the face of severe collective consequences, and worse, will sabotage efforts either for political gain or just the sheer pleasure of watching everyone else fail (and die!). I really don't know how we can expect global society to continue given how craven some people are.
> what "semantics" means

An almost Clintonian phrase! :-)
That actually does sound like fun! Live that dream!
The ones using GOPROXY=direct will fail, although it’s used rarely.
You can also get 3 month long certificate based on positive antibody test that is an improvement upon EU side where you can only get 6 month long certificate based on previous positive PCR test result.
The same people are -- well, the same person is -- on the Rust core team.
I make the screen as dim as possible without being straining / hard to read. I also have "night mode" (reduces blue light) set to very high.

This is all very anecdotal and I think much of eyesight is caused by genetics. But my eyesight is pretty good and hasn't deteriorated much in the past few years. My optometrist also said using a dim screen is good although idk why.
I've tried that a gazillion times over the years. It works like a charm.
Isn't this what every fiction writer does? (Which doesn't make it any less fascinating)
This is a good reminder that HN is a horrible place for investment advice.

Rarely, very very rarely, does the tech being differentiated ever matter. At Docusign’s level, it’s much more about sales and marketing. They’ve been the market leader for years, and even if they slip to 2nd or 3rd place, they’re still a massive multibillion dollar company.

I think engineers and technical people often have a hard time truly grasping how absolutely gigantic certain markets are (I struggled with this for years). Docusign’s market is unimaginably large.
I wonder if you could pay for it in NFTs

/me ducks
Typora is bad. It avoid the GPLv2+ from pandoc by writing their own HTML writer and the menu has additional export options that requires the user to install pandoc to be functional. It would have been much better if it is GPL and contribute back to pandoc in the first place (charging is not a problem, I’d bet people would like to pay support for pandoc GUI.)

Edit: Not to mention it confused users and so some of the users ask in the pandoc community for Typora support.
Has anyone fact checked the numbers about excessive deaths ?
NY Ninja
At some point I was taught that in English (not my first language) short sentences are the norm. Now you tell me that short sentences convey a harsh tone. What is one to do?!

I use semi-colons as a sort of conjunction, not unlike the example you gave, in part to give me a way to lengthen sentences that would otherwise seem much too short.
It's $50B because lots of people trust it to do something that is easy to understand and lots of the people trading have used it.
The difficulty with replacing it by something open is that you need to host it somewhere securely, and you need to make it externally visible to have 3rd parties sign stuff
And you need to get all your auditing spot on so that in 5 years time you can show that 'yes, Bob did sign that contract, so can we have $... from him'; which probably means it can't be hosted by you, but needs to be something an external party can audit.
And the signing process has to be simple enough that managers/lawyers/CEOs can use.
Aren’t you afraid that three years from now somebody is going to decide that getting to the computer 50 feet in the air is unnecessarily dangerous and decide to add a Wi-Fi card?
Over 38 years working full time as an anesthesiologist – 18 years in academic medical centers (UCLA and the University of Virginia), the rest in private practice — on average I knew of about 1 case/year. I'm sure there were many more.
It sounds like you're trying to make me aware that I might be the one to blame, here. That maybe this "serial interrupter" was just trying to get a word in while I railroaded the conversation. And that's fair. I didn't give you a lot of information to go on, so I appreciate you trying to make me at least consider the possibility that I might be the one at fault. Your points are valid -- I'm not going to argue with any of them -- but I don't think they apply to me in this particular scenario.

Also, not that it's very important, but if you can read out that passage of yours in under 10 seconds I'll give you a prize!
> Whose goal?

My goal. I assume also your goal. And I assume people who try to "prevent spread" do so because spread of Covid-19 causes death and serious illness.

There have been 799,276 Covid-deaths in the US during the short period it's been around. Almost 800k people dead. Dead. If there was no "Covid spread" those people would not have caught Covid and thus would not have died because of it.

To reduce Covid deaths and serious Covid illness you must try to reduce its spread. If you stop it from spreading you stop it from killing people.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
I don’t wanna die making modals and rest apis.
The surveillance by foreign governments will happen either way.

What they Indian government is upset about is that they don't also get a chance to implement surveillance over their own people.

That, and bribes. They want their fair share.
All right then. Where's yours?
i think the progressive are less 'pro shop-lifting' and more about 'how can we stop our police from murdering our brown citizens'.

i dont see this is going anyplace good, but at least dont misrepresent the intent
Yeah, when most people talk about vacant homes, they don't understand that almost all of those homes are just between tenants. They are not actually being left vacant.
Building a Unicorn Engineering Org at Grin
There's more to python plotting than matplotlib. Check out plotnine for example

I do agree though that pandas can be a pain sometimes...
Protection offered by booster shot beats 'natural immunity,' study suggests
I have absolutely horrible memory, which I hold has served me fairly well academically. The need to occasionally re-derive basic formulae serves as a nice refresher -- at least in engineering (probably the weight of redoing everything would get too heavy if I'd ended up as a mathematician). Remembering too many rules makes math feel arcane. I tutored math for a bit, and as far as I can tell the quadratic formula serves as significant marker along the path of math as an exercise in just remembering things, unfortunately.
He thinks Tesla is a complete scam for one thing... Probably not a good idea to spend time on any of his comments.
Hundreds of Contestants Compete for $456,000 in MrBeast's 'Squid Game'
Conway is rolling in his grave
I know this is meant more for backend applications than software meant to run on end user hardware, but...

>able to change logging level without code changes

The folks at Suckless would like a word. ;-)

Personally, I think having to recompile software just to change settings is a royal pain in the butt.
My mistake, I was browsing through the user page so I didn’t see the name of the user I originally replied to.

Sorry.

However, I bet someone like Gülen would get red carpet immigration treatment even if the CIA wasn’t involved. I don’t necessarily doubt CIA involvement, I just doubt that his immigration treatment is indicative of anything.
I taught it this way in homeschooling with heavy support of graph-geometric intuition, drawing and looking at various parabolas. Works great.
My favourite use of the semicolon is in its function as a "supercomma". It just makes sense.

E.g.

"We were joined by three families: John, his wife, Mary, and their son, George; the Middletons; and our neighbours, Jim and Sally from next door."

Alas, whenever I use it, invariably someone who's never seen it used this way will simply have a tantrum until I completely rewrite the whole thing in the most tedious way possible; it's almost not worth using it, for this reason alone.
Isn’t the whole point that it’s the same thing with a slightly different derivation?

When I saw the title I was expecting some kind of geometric approach which was worrying to me because I think people are even worse at understanding geometric proofs of anything like this than they are at understanding algebraic proofs.
Indeed, completing the square is a geometric technique originally and that is, I think, why it has that name (which makes no sense to the high school students who are taught it).

I’m also struggling to see the innovation in the article, or rather why it is any better, but I think a lot of my problem is that I’m basically fine at all the abstract manipulation of symbols required for school algebra and was when learning about completing the square yet I think it is one of the fundamentals that people really struggle with. When you look at the derivation of the quadratic formula, you need relatively complex expressions and I think only the strongest high school students at algebra (at least from my school) will be able to cope with the derivation. But I think this new method doesn’t help with what I think are the most common confusions: not understanding what a variable is (or variable notation) and not understanding what a function is (or function notation; though I think in this case it maybe doesn’t help that the function is implicit). I feel like I’m just a bad person to judge this method (but I think most people capable of talking about it would be poor judges). I’d be interested in the results of an experiment that tried different methods of teaching but the problem with such experiments is that the teacher in the experiment is likely to understand the method much better than a random teacher outside of the experiment.
> it doesn't output videos as files

Er, might I ask why not? Be a lot cooler if it did...
The demo here is underwhelming compared to old-school winamp visualizers.

But I think that with deep learning, there is now a real opportunity to make a kickass visualizer. Take a GAN and set the latent vector according to the DFT of the audio stream -- it would be super trippy. You could even use WaveNet and CLIP to make the visuals match the lyrics.
Even if you were to find the data somewhere, GitHub grew a lot after MS and added a lot of features, including the now most popular CI, so it's not a great comparison.