skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The aggregation of power into some kind of central authority system for the good of the people always ends up bad for the people.

You will find that this sentiment is quite popular among communists these days. The idea of achieving a classless, stateless society via the use of a central state is inherently contradictory. (Though that's not to say that the alternatives are necessarily more realistic)
I sometimes wonder if sensible people tend to lose the war in politics because we will lament if something is not quite level headed and fair enough, if it is a little bit too much like propaganda. Meanwhile industries wanting to pollute will happily spend millions to scream lies and propaganda with no shame, buy politicians, create news networks that never paywall you to repeat the lies, meanwhile we bicker about whether someone was perhaps 20% sensationalist about their death accounting.
Galileo's Discovery of Scaling Laws (2002) [pdf]
They're making it all up.

There are more tactful ways of saying this, but at the end of the day, it's functionally equivalent to pulling a number out of their hat.
No ratchet protocol?

Mmmmmm.
NASA Nerds
This discussion is not very interesting from a security perspective. I tuned out at “cloud”.

If it’s not in your physical possession, it’s not your computer. If it’s not your computer, then whoever administers the computer, or whoever [points a gun at/gives enough money to] the administrator of that system can access whatever you put on that system.

If a “cloud” or “service” is involved, then you can trivially use them to move or store data that you encrypted locally on your computer with your key that was generated and stored locally and never left your system. But subject to the limits above, the administrators of the other computers will still be able to see metadata like where the data came from and is going to. And they might be able to see your data too if you ever (even once, ask Ross Ulbrecht) failed to follow the basic encryption guidelines above.

You can make metadata access harder via VPNs and Tor, but you CANNOT make it impossible- in the worst case, maybe your adversary is controlling all the Tor nodes and has compromised the software.

Which leads me to my last point, if you did not write (or at least read) the code that you’re using to do all of the above, then you’re at the mercy of whoever wrote it.

And, if you try to follow perfect operational security, you will have a stressful and unpleasant life, as it’s really really hard.
Thanks for this feedback! we'll improve the timing and I will prioritize creating the walkthrough video - in the meantime, feel free to reach out if you want to see a full demo: mauricioatdailybotdotcom
You may be looking for https://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/n258a-heartd...
Google will frequently try to sell me something unrelated when I do a specific query. It'll throw up links to local stores that match the text somehow. It's obviously about getting me to spend money.
This is so true. Another way to think about this is “nobody will tell you to your face that your baby is ugly.”

Too many products have been built because someone didn’t want to deliver bad news. Ive made this mistake myself. Having an MVP helps a lot.
How to get a decent rating without burning out, how to make it to the next level, and how to make tons of money.
I remember trying double-dos to do that as well.. DESQview was much better at multiline
Expected Value Thinking
Yeah, exactly what I did. I find that duckduckgo is much more similar to the google of the early 2000s much more than the current google.

It doesn't work too well for ambiguous keywords or vague questions, but you can always add '!g' for those queries.
That's what bootable Modula I offered on the PDP-11, over 40 years ago.
Some quick checking and Dubai is around 12,000 kwh per year per household and California is around 6000 per year per household.

My point was that A/C is really just changing the equilibrium of a small area. Making a building cooler means you have to make some other area warmer.
Nice wording with 'per core performance'. We had difficulties properly conveying this point in our product when comparing our CI runners[1] to GitHub Actions CI Runner. I will be using it in our next website update. Tack

[1]https://buildjet.com/for-github-actions
> It didn't lead to the stock market crash, but it always stuck me as the first time that the general public started to really think that the whole dot com scene was a little out of whack.

That's because the general public, and frankly even the non-general public, have never fully understood the digital computer: it's a leverage machine. It allows the exceptionally intelligent and/or insightful to leverage code to do what would have taken thousands, or even millions of workers to achieve.

That's why a billion dollar photo startup can be created by three people and sold to Facebook.

It looks like alchemy to the people without knowledge, because it's complex, difficult, requires a bit of luck (the right time / right place combination), and frankly, does require a certain level of intelligence that's well above average in order to fully exploit.
Has Apple made any public statements regarding iCloud's lack of privacy features. It takes the wind out of their privacy marketing that is effectively hurting ad tech but not truly protecting consumers from state-level actors with data access.
DevOps tips to speed up your developer workflow
The RedPanda website claims to be written in C++, and their open source github repo agrees.
𝙸̶ ̶𝚙̶𝚒̶𝚌̶𝚔̶𝚎̶𝚍̶ ̶𝟻̶𝟶̶𝟶̶𝟶̶.̶ ̶ ̶𝚃̶𝚑̶𝚎̶ ̶𝚝̶𝚛̶𝚒̶𝚌̶𝚔̶ ̶𝚍̶𝚘̶𝚎̶𝚜̶𝚗̶'̶𝚝̶ ̶𝚠̶𝚘̶𝚛̶𝚔̶ ̶𝚊̶𝚗̶𝚍̶ ̶𝚍̶𝚎̶𝚖̶𝚘̶𝚗̶𝚜̶𝚝̶𝚛̶𝚊̶𝚋̶𝚕̶𝚢̶,̶ ̶𝚝̶𝚑̶𝚎̶ ̶𝚊̶𝚞̶𝚝̶𝚘̶𝚖̶𝚊̶𝚝̶𝚎̶𝚍̶ ̶𝚟̶𝚎̶𝚛̶𝚜̶𝚒̶𝚘̶𝚗̶ ̶𝚍̶𝚘̶𝚎̶𝚜̶𝚗̶'̶𝚝̶ ̶𝚔̶𝚗̶𝚘̶𝚠̶ ̶𝚠̶𝚑̶𝚊̶𝚝̶ ̶𝚗̶𝚞̶𝚖̶𝚋̶𝚎̶𝚛̶ ̶𝙸̶ ̶𝚙̶𝚒̶𝚌̶𝚔̶𝚎̶𝚍̶.̶

A different issue by picking 2222 (anything that ends up with all 0s or 9s ofc)

Not something I would bring up at a party because people are drinking and not really interested in doing addition/subtraction and will DEFINITELY pick simple numbers. By the time you get into "it has to be non-zero digits" they have already become bored.

It feels like my little brother running up to me and screaming "What's 729 squared?" and without a beat "531,441" , "I'm smarter than you!"
How this goes in real life:

"Was your number... 3741?"

"No."

"Heh, I'm afraid that's impossible based on number theory. You must have made a mistake in the step where I asked you to choose a second 4-digit number by scrambling the four digits of the first number and subtracting the larger number from the smaller. Try it again, I'll wait."

"No."
Assume anything sent over a cellular network carrier via normal SMS can not only be retrieved, but intercepted.
Not if they want to operate in the United States or have access to our banking system.

You don’t get to pick your jurisdiction and then operate globally. You’re obligated to follow the laws where you want to operate.
Depends on whether the countries these companies exist in have agreements with the U.S for surveillance and stuff
twitter blue launched in the US on november 9. i think it's a little early to call it DOA.

super-follows launched widely around the same time, after being in private beta since september. at least in my anecdotal experience, i see quite a few high-profile twitter personalities have enabled it - no idea how many people are actually paying them though.
Oh thanks for getting me spending about an hour on Wikipedia reading about this movie, the relation to Godard movies, and so much else :-)
Will definitely watch this one soon!
It's like DMCA for people. Can't wait for for the abuse circus.

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/fifteen-years-dmca-abuse
Agreed. Maybe along with air purifiers they spent money on other new resources as well.
The article wears its editorial bias rather strongly, and to me seems to imply that the public auction was a de facto giveaway to telcos. It fits my preconception of Ajit Pai's tenure.

Is there another perspective here? Were other interests served by reallocating this spectrum? I'd love to learn that this was sound technical policy or something.
Telecommunication is highly regulated. They have to keep records for a long time and make them available to law enforcement.
Foreign travelers are currently banned altogether, but you are correct that a antibodies test was also accepted prior to the current ban.
thanks for the correction! knew an error would slip in there somewhere! apparently they have considered rust though! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25112601

it's fixed now.
If I remember correctly standard SMS has no security on it at all and is in the clear during transit. I may be wrong and never scared of being corrected.
Advice for Australians in the US: you probably call someone you don’t like a bastard and call your best mate a real bastard. Don’t learn the hard was as I did: things do not work that way in the USA.
yeah for first 10000 digits there is about a 2%-5% chance (around 20%-5% for first 2k, then falls below 2% for remaining 2/3s) of selecting one that doesn't work. obviously picking something like 1111, 2222, ... won't work either since you can't rearrange it to anything but 0s.
There's some information on Wikipedia about the company's decline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview#Decline_of_DESQview
You can test this- find a site you think is not indexed, search for the URL of Google, and then look at the cache and the date. I bet it’s been cached more recently than you expect.
You can buy Ampere Arm CPUs that are based on the same core as AWS Graviton2. And in general mobile CPUs are a generation ahead of server architecturally.
> a glyph that had literally been used once only in history by a 15-century scribe before making its way into Unicode.

Your Wikipedia article says “certain manuscripts”, not a single use. (It does say it is only ever used in one specific phrase, though,)
The important word missing in the title here (but not the original), is "detected" -The one being used has an implicit intentionality which is missing in the original: As soon as they detected it, they told everyone.
I was running a 4 line BBS on this back in the days. The multitasking abilities where unreal back then. Literally made 4 PCs running 24/7 into one.

Edit: Nevermind, i was running the older, DOS-based version
Indeed, most people talking about how different "web1.0" don't seem to have ever used it.
I used DesQview for years, and DV/X for a few minutes. It was just an unbearable resource-hog and gave no advantages I cared about. XEyes was entertaining for a minute, but so what?

DV was everything a UI should be. Incredibly fast and responsive. Keyboardable for everything. And it stayed the hell out of the way unless you asked it for something. It unlocked the potential of the 80386, and finally gave us the multitasking we'd been promised for years. Better yet, I could use all my same software; it successfully merged my single-purpose DOS applications into a multi-purpose environment that I could use for every aspect of my daily tasks.

Windows was a sorry joke in comparison. The DOS experience on Windows was second-class, and terminal software for Windows was never as good or as flexible as Telemate. I only begrudgingly installed Windows because it was required to play with all this "winsock" software I'd been hearing about, since I had no clue how to set up TCP/IP on DOS. (There might've been tutorials in places I didn't know to look, but Windows advice was everywhere.) And single-session BBSing was rapidly going the way of the dodo, so with it went DV.

The irony here is that DV/X would've allowed me to do all the things Windows was offering, probably in a better way, if only I'd realized that at the time.

More's the pity.
If i'm reading this page correctly, AMD is working on something that would allow you to run trusted code that not even someone with physical access to the hardware could read (without breaking this system).

https://www.amd.com/en/processors/epyc-confidential-computin...

And this tech is already implemented by GCP:

https://cloud.google.com/confidential-computing

> With the confidential execution environments provided by Confidential VM and AMD SEV, Google Cloud keeps customers' sensitive code and other data encrypted in memory during processing. Google does not have access to the encryption keys. In addition, Confidential VM can help alleviate concerns about risk related to either dependency on Google infrastructure or Google insiders' access to customer data in the clear.
Because the only alternative is Firefox.
> if you did not write (or at least read) the code that you’re using to do all of the above, then you’re at the mercy of whoever wrote it.

It's worse than that. Even if you read the code, you have to trust that the code you read is the code a service is actually using. Even if you deploy the code yourself, you have to trust that the infrastructure you're running on does not have some type of backdoor. Even if you run your own infrastructure, hardware can still have backdoors. Of course, the likelihood of any of these things actually becoming a problem decreases significantly as you read through the paragraph.
Helium 5G will become a large neutral host carrier for mobile using CBRS bands. Meaning that major network operators, or MVNOs, are the real customer.

The way this works is Helium hardware owner/operators deploy CBRS radios in whatever real estate assets they have at their disposal, then Helium or the Helium OEM partners with MNO/MVNO to offload data at a very cheap rate, and suddenly the carrier can grow network coverage at zero capex and low opex and the Helium node owner has a new source of revenue which was never before possible.

They also open the door to become a semi-private network infrastructure too, which would be in competition with this new Amazon product.
No application software.
Went up against Windows 3.
I'm fairly certain after most the vehicles become electric we'll see a precipitous drop in all sorts of illnesses/mortalities.

Future generations knowing that factual history will look back on the people of the combustion engines era as ridiculous, willfully self-poisoning rubes, driving around in noisy, stinky, slow, expensive to own operate and maintain turds.
Not only is there main link broken, but their silly PDF reader is broken for me.

Here's a direct link to the PDF: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/21114562/jan-2021...
Or better yet, get a dumb TV since all "smart" TV's are basically spyware at least to me and I'm sure others feel the same.
A good idea helps. A good pitch helps more than a good idea.

For me, a fair game is when players win based on abilities and effort. However, the life game depends less on that than, which is not fair; furthermore, there is no rule manual and rules are rewritten while playing.

I am not picking a fight. If you want to say that poor people get what they deserve, this is an ongoing discussion.

More on borders. You can have catholics, jews and muslims inside the US, without then openly murdering each other. I applaud how they get that done in there. Your take on borders is called Xenophobia ("islamites will be terrorists" take), which is human nature, too.

Edit: for fairness' sake. I do have a perimetral wall around my property. I learned through life that most people can't be helped, but I still think you can help some. I draw my line to allow people a chance to prove their worth, which is still difficult as people around and above us can be racist or have their kin preferred.
There's somewhat of a convention to use a dashed underline on links that have behaviour like this; perhaps that would be an improvement.
it’s in 20 countries but hasn’t been found in the United States. It seems highly improbable that it’s not already here.
Retail is basically cost-neutral at this point. I have a theory that they operate at a loss just to avoid taxes (because that delta is basically free) and spend that to stay extra competitive.

Amazon's whole MO is huge CapEx and selling it for cash flow. If they have the credit, why not finance it. They're already building satellite ground stations and a fleet to beam internet down to earth, this could easily supplement or build a market for that.

They'd probably benefit from lots of cheap and available internet for their logistics network, but its probably not expensive enough to justify alone, but maybe by leveraging AWS sales they can prop up cash flow enough to cover costs.

Not that they're doing this, of course, just that i don't think it should be ruled out.
Head of Meta's crypto project, Novi, is stepping down
Query: "Jeans"

Result: Lots of "Best quality/value jeans for 2021" SEO optimised pages with Amazon/affiliate links and not a lot of useful information.

Search engines seem to have become entirely online retail focussed. Even things like searching a location is now productised in "Top 10 hotels in location for 2021".
Maybe, but then you get all the GitHub issue clone sites and all the Stackoverflow clone sites showing up at the top of the results with the original no where to be seen.

It might be anti-spam, but how is it this shit?
The SSE example hangs indefinitely on mobile Safari, rendering fully all events that were sent only after canceling load. According to caniuse this shouldn’t be a compatibility issue, so something else might be wrong.

I’m not sure what to expect from the websocket example, but I just see “request isn't trying to upgrade to websocket.”
This would be useful in oil and gas fields that have a ton of IOT on them.
if that's your only complaint, it's very simple to fix: SpectacleApp

Source: https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle

Download: https://spectacleapp.com/
Yes but the Google algorithm circa 2003 would be much, much worse. There has been an arms race for the last 20 years.
Fair, but hardly relevant in a western context— the push is to close coal-fired power plants in favour of gas and nuclear/solar/wind. No one's talking about a wood-fired power plant, much less pitching it as renewable.

In any case, Schellenberger makes this least-harm argument vigorously in Apocalypse Never, that communities in Africa and India where people are currently burning wood, coal, or even animal dung for heat and cooking must be upgraded as quickly as possible to gas-based infrastructure, and NGOs and celebrities wringing hands about "building new pipelines" to facilitate that as a stepping stone is ridiculous and counterproductive (and ultimately just leads to maintaining the status quo).
> Containerisation already goes a way towards this, each executable is bundled with what it needs and nothing else.

Maybe in theory, but in practice most people still ship an entire OS in their containers (most of the time it's Alpine and it's not to big of a deal, but too many times it's an entire Debian!)
Attempting to paywall Twitter at this late stage is a recipe for disaster. People have become accustomed to receiving information 'for nothing'. Telling them that they must now pay for it will lead to a grand exodus elsewhere. It's not that you cannot create a paywall across a service like Twitter, but that you simply cannot do it on Twitter if for no reason other than the fact that Twitter has operated for fifteen years already without a paywall, and no one is going to start paying for what was already adequately paid for without a subscription.

TL;DR Paywalls are for new services, not Twitter.
> Could it be possible to shove the linux kernel under the Haiku userland?

One of the joys of the BeOS kernel is that it is optimised to be extremely responsive to interactive, graphical workloads.

The Linux kernel is not.
Unfortunately those claims don't translate to servers, because the IO die's power usage increased and perf/w isn't much better [1]. Do the math and you get around 14% gain in SPEC MT workloads.

[1]: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16778/amd-epyc-milan-review-p...
> The assumption that people will have consistent access to the same mobile number simply isn’t true for a lot of people.

Why does this matter, unless the only options for 2FA are insecure ones? Secure 2FA today won't depend on your phone number not changing.

> Phones cost money. So do phone plans.

Google Authenticator and FreeOTP work even without network connectivity, so no phone plan is needed.

> Phones break or get stolen.

Isn't this what backup codes are for?

> it's an act of marginalization

Is requiring that drivers carry liability insurance also "an act of marginalization" since it's a problem for people who can't afford to?

And from a reply:

> My grandfather is literally locked out of a bank account right now because he no longer has the right phone, cannot remember his secret answer, and cannot physically visit a branch of this bank.

Isn't it actually a good thing that under those circumstances, he's locked out? If he could get into his bank account without any of those things, then couldn't someone who's trying to impersonate him easily do the same?
> July 2019 we did a rolling restart to convert from self-packaged Kafka 0.10.0

Ouch, that's a lot of fixed bugs you weren't reaping the benefits of >_< What was the reason to stick on 0.10.0 for so long?

After we hit a few bad ones that finally convinced our sysop team to move past 0.11.x, life was far better - especially recovery speed after an unclean shutdown. Used to take two hours, dropped to like 10 minutes.

There was a particular bug I can't find for the life of me that we hit about four times in one year where the replicas would get confused about where the high watermark was, and refuse to fetch from the leader. Although to be fair to Kafka 0.10.x, I think that was a bug introduced in 0.11.0. Which is where I developed my personal philosophy of "never upgrade to a x.x.0 Kafka release if it can be avoided."

> The toil of handling reassigning partitions during broker replacement by hand every time one of the instances was terminated by AWS began to grate upon us

I see you like Cruise Control in the Confluent Platform, did you try it earlier?

> In October 2020, Confluent announced Confluent Platform 6.0 with Tiered Storage support

Tiered storage is slowly coming to FOSS Kafka, hopefully in 3.2.0, thanks to some very nice developers from AirBnB. Credit to the StreamNative team, that FOSS Pulsar has tiered storage (and schema registry) built-in.
it's sort of like asking whether for self driving cars whether it is prudent to have cars that strictly know to act based on what they sense (in a reactive way), or if it is better to collect maps of sensed environments and figure out how to proactively figure out the best optimal approaches in given situations conditioned against various environments and push out updates.

the answer is that _both_ are prudent. There is enough cooperation and coordination challenges that both offline and online approaches are important.
> ridiculous, willfully self-poisoning rubes, driving around in noisy, stinky, slow, expensive to own operate and maintain turds

Maybe they'll look at similarly as we look at the people of the time of the Neolithic Revolution (and perhaps a long time afterwards), with their lifespans decreased due to poorer diets and zoonotic diseases from domesticated animals.
Hey, I’ve got another feature request for you - detect when your messages sound passive aggressive, angry or sarcastic.
I’ve noticed many people who switch to remote work who were fine to work with in person have terrible online style and put people’s backs up - a way to tell those people automatically would be great.
Also onboarding checklists & guides and faq abilities would be cool.
I tried doing that but it crashed my system more often than not.

Then I got a copy of os/2 warp and never looked back, only moving on when I received an infomagic 4 cd set of linux distros.
For voice? It's hard to fake the voice of someone you know.
I had figured since it was the AEI the figures would be intended to mislead.
I've long dreamed of that. Everything becomes stateless and everything to do with GDPR/PCI/Disaster recovery/anonymisation/performance/scaling/etc/etc becomes so much easier.