skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When it comes to pricing, though, you never know what will happen down the road. I honestly don't know who I'd like to trust more: Verisign or the government of Montenegro?

Since .me is more targetet at / suitable for individuals rather than a hipster startup domain like .io, the prices will hopefully remain lower. Or at least that's what I like to tell myself.
DeFi protocol BadgerDAO exploited for $120M in front-end attack
Seems to me like a CSP bypass bug that all implementors of svg fonts (cough, cough, webkit) should fix :)
I don't think the new policy applies to politicians[1], though of course they may still try to abuse it.

[1] https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/private-i... This policy is not applicable to media featuring public figures...
Because the youtube videos I watch / podcasts I listen to say I NEED a VPN to keep my IP safe from being spied on.

But also starbucks / any shop / cafe / restraunt / apple store - or going for a drive and finding an open WiFi. Kinda wondering now how these places all handle their wifi being abused for crimes ...
How is that relevant given these are all in MO, during the same time period?
Off topic:

What’s up with the ”[Name]” quoting style they’re using? I’ve only ever seen it when changing names/words inside quotes[1], but here it is being used outside of quotes.

[1] Which I don’t mind when used within reason.
Hence the 'slow', it's more like a fax than a TV really.
Quantinuum launches as Honeywell Quantum, Cambridge Quantum deal closes
Node apps tend to depend on a far, far wider pool of maintainers.

To illustrate: A new Ruby on Rails app has 1/10th the number of maintainers in its dependency list than a new create-react-app codebase.
I would agree that Facebook is practically dead but Instagram defeated by TikTok? In very young teens' maybe, that is not really my social bubble but Instagram is far more prevalent everywhere else. Speaking as a someone from Central Europe.
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Perfect timing, I was just looking up this topic in the last week.

But how come these are all US-exclusive. It seems both winners don't ship to EU :/
Julia vs. Python: Differences and Features
Not to knock on this, but a few years back Hipchat(now part of Atlassian) did a black & white GIF-like video wall. Smooth interpolation between the frames, at almost 1 or 2FPS & no audio unless someone requested a video call. That way at a glance you could look at your team & see if they are at their desks in case you wanted to reach out
My understanding is that a Faraday Cage, of any size, relies on a proper grounding system to work at all so these boxes and rfid blocking pockets etc all seem to be tinfoil hats parading as space age metamaterials.
Is this a thing to pitch the very same thing with different names every few months for 3 years? https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=kentich
> There's never been this many companies going after services that traditionally belonged to the cloud vendors

Interesting article.

The words 'traditional' and 'cloud' in one sentence... I can't stand that. The cloud is just marketing speak for the internet. Make it vague on purpose so you can sell the same sh!t in another package to more people. And grab all the data in the meantime.

HN is smarter than this, right!?
> Like an obligation to flee if reasonable to do so etc.

Generally speaking, that's not the law in the US, and not recommended unless you're Usain Bolt.

For example, in California, the law is you do not have to retreat. Other states have "stand your ground" laws.

However, generally speaking, parties cannot flee and then return to fight. So the best legal approach is to continue the fight if you think you can incapacitate the attacker, then retreat and call police.

I watched the Kyle videos, and he did what was prudent and legal.

Actually, I've talked to several young people and they all think they can block the path of other people or act in an aggressive manner, and always act surpised when I tell them they will get knocked out if it continues. Their expression is like, "That can't possibly happen to me." If you watch the Kyle and 2020 BLM riots, you can tell the assailants don't realize the personal danger they're in when they run at a random stranger, who could be armed or trained to defend themselves.

An overweight woman on a bicycle attacked one of Larry Elder's bodyguards earlier this year. One shove and she would have fallen sideways hard on the pavement. Luckily for her, he was a trained bodyguard and was paid to move Larry along, not get involved in the crowd scene.
So he litterally signed the attack with his PGP key.
Why look at Missouri which is a really small sample? Look at the rest of the world where mask mandates are in effect. Europe for example, isn't a COVID free haven, quite the opposite.

A colleague of mine got sick of COVID last January while he did everything by the book (masks, gel, distancing etc).

So the effectiveness of masks is probably marginal IMHO.
Yes. The tech industry has made itself look exceptionally bad here. Facebook did something deeply unethical and now it's blown up in their faces. They will not admit that's what they did, but it was. They have directly contributed to the erosion of the principles of justice for no better reason than to appease radical employees.
…and the CPU skyrockets. Uh.
Virtualbeeb: Interactive 3D model of the BBC Micro
Yes, that's what he focuses on. General intelligence, not narrow task-related intelligence. If a system uses too much experience (training samples) to learn a task then it's not intelligent. It just brute forces the problem. Intelligence requires quick learning from very little experience.
A payment application called block? Some might infer the link to blockchain. While to me it has negative connotations such as payments being blocked due to falsely triggering AML etc. Block + payments = blocked payments. I just had a payment blocked temporarily for 48hrs sending on wise.com. First time ever. If it happens again I cancel my account.
In Indonesia WhatsApp is #1.
Industry scores higher than academia for job satisfaction
No, please don't interpret it like this.

No matter what the format Nix script look like, it's still a script language designed to address something that has already been addressed (or can be addressed with light expansions). The very idea of "Hey let's build this whole new thing that does this specific old task a little bit better at the cost of learning many new concepts (and making many mistakes)" is not good at the core.

I would rather say, if the dudes there really wants to create a new language, fine, but at least make it big. By that, I mean don't just try to build a tool that preforms the old task a little bit better (at cost of learning), make a tool that does new things (in other words, "enables new possibilities") far better. Perhaps after that, the toolset could become something worth learning for.

(Currently, there are many ways to create reproducible builds. And even if you have reproducible builds, it does not mean the build will reproduce the same runtime result all the time. All factors combine, the benefit you can receive from the toolset is just not great enough at the moment. Hope you understand my point)
To me the ease of use is key. I don't want to deal with outages, hardware failures, networking issues, etc. I only want to focus on the software. That's why I don't understand why would anybody (apart from some special cases) would run their own servers.
whoa I didn’t even consider automating my answer submission, suppose it’s just a curl away
I can't speak for cmake but in autotools it's always just been "./configure --host=aarch64-linux-gnueabi" or whatever other target triplet is of relevance. It's similar in Meson.

The annoying factor is gathering the cross compiler and target dependencies, which is fortunately becoming easier with tools such as llvm/clang, and distros such as debian have always made huge efforts to facilitate it.
So I guess we will see much more of this [0] and then it won't be a "mistake" but rather "protecting these peoples privacy!"

[0] https://nypost.com/2021/03/24/twitter-censoring-detention-ce...
I think is potentially more sinister than it seems:
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/10/investigative-reports/w...
>A project of the multilateral development banking system, the Rockefeller Foundation and the New York Stock Exchange recently created a new asset class that will put, not just the natural world, but the processes underpinning all life, up for sale under the guise of promoting “sustainability.”

In and of itself a policy giving legal standing to the environment seem really promising — and no doubt in certain instances, that's probably the case. But we should be careful to distinguish between policy nuances and what tradeoffs may be at play.
Yes, nature is not a single person, it's all future people. We're outnumbered.
In a state I lived in, these kinds of camera-based enforcement of vehicle laws were ruled unconstitutional (state constitution). The argument was that traffic laws apply to the person driving the car, not the car, and it's too difficult to tell from videos who is driving the car. There were probably other arguments against them but basically the state supreme court decided there was no way a camera could establish evidence at the level of certainty needed.

It's odd now that I think of it because traffic cameras used for other reasons have been used in felony investigations (eg, murder). My guess is in those cases they have to establish that the person being charged was likely in the car?

I think it's the automatic charging aspect of it.
I appreciate what Brave are doing, but this will affect them whether they support MV2 or not. Extensions on most Chromium forks are installed through Google's Chrome Web Store, so when Google drops support browsers who do not agree will need an alternative distribution platform (like Opera's fork).

More generally, Brave's attitude towards Chromium changes has been "disable first, ask questions later", even when it hurts forward-looking developers and useful feature adoption [1]. In the case of the file system API, there's also a possible conflict of interest, given how they're pushing IPFS and the rest of the crypto web bullshit. My biggest gripe with them is that most of their development efforts go into developing the cryptocurrency features and they end up neglecting general browser usability and innovation.

[1] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/11407
ARM64 SIMD instructions perform in the same ballpark, see this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25408853
It's frustrating to see how tech is consistently unable to implement systematic yet fair solutions that are possible in law. Not that people aren't genuinely trying - but the nature of automation and the design of platforms just seem at odds with working privacy.

German law, for example, generally protects people's privacy (i.e. you are not allowed to take a photo of people without permission, even in public). But it implements fine-grained exceptions for people of national importance - either globally (i.e. politicians who remain so) or temporarily (i.e. you may take photographs of such people for a time but no longer when they have ceased to be famous).
They succeeded enough to scare zucc into war mode.
The rest of the world seems to use Twitter for this. Despite all its faults it seems to be better for this kind of stuff.

Facebook's algorithms limit the way posts can be found way too much.
> relies on a proper grounding system to work at all

does not
Climate modeling confirms historical records showing rise in hurricane activity
It is avoidable through traditions and institutionalized processes that engender neutrality.
People always focus on the big issues because they are not hypothetical at all.

We are talking about a platform that has had dubious fact check warnings attached to tweets for a year now, which mainly seem to serve to reinforce a false consensus and prevent open debate.

People being bullied, harassed, doxxed, etc are a distraction from this larger issue, and will not benefit from this, because the only ones you ever hear about are people with enough influence and clout to turn being a target into being a public victim.
> > Isn't this kind of the core of Section 230 protection?

> No, the opposite

As an illustration of this point, when Florida recently adopted a law intended to impose the kind of neutrality requirement you ascribe to § 230 on to social media providers, the federal court order preventing enforcement of that law found that it was invalid for several reasons, but the first one cited was that the the Florida law violated the protections in § 230.

https://netchoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/NetChoice-v...
I don't think it's the bolts shearing we should be concerned about. Rather, the wooden beams might be split in the middle by the torque on the four bolts.
This is awesome, congrats on making the leap! I'll be adding any of your jobs to https://4dayweek.io :)
Leapp support multiple AWS SSO
We've released v0.8.0 of our open-source access management tool Leapp (https://github.com/Noovolari/leapp).

You can now configure multiple AWS SSO endpoints and automatically import in Leapp all access methods. Here's a quick demo video: https://youtu.be/w1N7-anwmSo.

I would love to know your thoughts and feedbacks.
I think fear of missing out plays a huge role in it.
say that when a group of violent individuals are chasing you down saying they will kill you.
This paper (from 2015) seems to be saying that:

"(...) The Bε-tree has since been used
by both the high-performance, commercial TokuDB
database [4] and the BetrFS research file system [5]. (...)"

First citation from the paper links to http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/loris.marchal/docs-data-aware/broda... – is this the paper you're referring to as prior-art for Bε-trees?
Oh? Why is it trolling to say that Rust isn't as fast as C in this case?

If it were, you'd claim the prize. If you really want to hurt a troll, wouldn't you try to separate them from their $500?
Masks (the N95 kind not the loose dentist kind), gel, distancing, double Pfizer shots. Still got COVID with severe symptoms not even 4th month in after the second shot.

Why is there no good statistics over breakthrough infections, not merely how many double vaccinated are in hospital? Why not blast the non-immunity provided by supposed vaccine the same way as "infections per day" is shown everywhere?

Show "failure of vaccine to provide immunity cases per day"
> You mean if dollar would gain in value as fast as Bitcoin, people would stop using dollars?

Yes, did you not realize that?!

Are you really rallying this hard against people discarding its economic value without understanding something as basic as deflation?

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Deflation is more deadly to a currency than inflation. By far.

You reduce interest rates to 0% and then what? You can try negative interest rates, but with the kind of deflation BTC has seen you would need negative triple digit interest rates which is a complete absurdity.

You'd probably see the government outlaw physical cash to boot, forcing you to use a bank and forcing the bank to constantly siphon your money if you don't spend it quickly enough.

It would be a literal hellscape.
>This makes me happy. The order is exactly as it should be, much to the disappointment of the Rustaceans.

Why it makes you happy? it's a reminder how much we're losing performance, energy and stuff when we're writing in safe/expressive/easy to use languages like Java, C#, Python yada yada
If it’s an actual case of doxxing or canceling, as the parent comment is alluding to as a hypothetical, then dismissing this as censorship does a disservice to those who have to deal with the real censorship (of opinions) that is happening elsewhere on the internet, including on Twitter.

Taking down a Karen video shouldn’t be compared with real censorship (i.e of opinions) when these videos are weaponized to ruin lives over a bad day, and serve little other material value.
I’m talking about managing your own software on IaaS as an alternative to running off SaaS, you seem to think I’m talking about ditching the cloud entirely!
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I see one of the founders (Ulrich Rhode) of Rhode and Schwarz on amateur radio some times, and I always ask for test equipment and he always says no.
So this article is an example of what is called "science" nowadays?
Same thing - and yet still in demand from some decent names in there.

I thought it was meant to be hard out there in tech valley ?
A create-react-app app is not a node app (It has a node dev server, but it's a front-end JS app), so its a weird thing to reach for to illustrate a point about node apps.
That happens in any language with declensions. I mean, look at a table of Latin declensions, and depending of the declension and number, some cases have different endings, some cases don't.

Anyway, it's interesting that in the European languages that lost grammatical case, the pronouns are only words that keep them.
Ah okay.

Now if only the vanity fair article linked in this thread didn't mention this, which got me confused:

"Miller got his ham radio license in 1943, founded his own electronics company called Wyman Research, and helped develop slow-scan TV, a technology that transmits still images across high-frequency radio bands. In 1972, he was honored as Amateur of the Year by a ham radio convention and later helped get SSTV aboard the Mir space station, building the system that beamed back images of earth in December 1998."

It's just so strange that there's two Don Millers (both whom live in Indiana) involved in the relatively small amateur ham radio scene, one developed SSTV tech, the other traveled the world and tried to kill his wife.
How did they tested it? Is the data actually being delivered, and read, in order?
> Having people actually try to make the code runnable would make things so much worse...

I’m not sure I follow here. For me, programming is an iterative process: write a small chunk, test it out, write the next bit, and so on. Not being able to execute code seems like it would make that process harder, and force interviewee to essentially come up with the code “fully formed” all at once, which is hardly a useful or realistic skill.
It would be interesting to see if it's possible to just get Copilot to give you other people's solutions as often people upload their solutions to GitHub.

The comment to trigger Copilot would be something like the following:

# Advent day1 part1
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I’ve seen people make a mess out of SaaS offerings that are supposed to be foolproof. If we assume that we’re hiring incompetent engineers, we can make a mess out of any situation.
I still wonder how it can work with the funding. Hard tech often requires a lot of funding, and if ycombinator takes a big chunk early on, the founders will get diluted so much that they lose control and financial incentive to build the company.
Consider the Lobster (2004) [pdf]
> only one end of the political spectrum has perfected information virality?

The MSM (cnn.com, msnbc.com and abc.com) have all been captured by the left/Marxists. Virtually every major story they're reported since early 2020 has been retracted. msnbc even has an openly racist host, Joy Reid - to her every white person is a white supremacist.

What's interesting is that the only channel with a wide audience now is fox, which has the combined audience reach of both cnn and msnbc. cnn has time slots with no viewers, so show hosts are frequently cancelled. It's fascinating to study. The theory is that nobody believes the MSM any more - no journalistic integrity.

To see how blind the MSM is at following their "racial justice" narrative, watch this local news segment on record homocides in Chicago in 2021, with 96% of the 1009 deaths due to minority-on-minority violence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTLDc6VQJwk

Why isn't that reported on national MSM media outlets, since 1,009 homocides is equivalent to 30 years of police killings of blacks?

Every time the MSM says "white supremacy", ask why they don't talk about the failure of black families or black education. (The reason is that they don't care about blacks, but they do care about attacking the existing societal power structure - so ethno-Marxism.)
> They may try to use the "we're just the messenger" but it doesn't work often.

it should work - it's up to society to make this work by passing laws to that effect.
> why is the "payment processing" software written in c/c++ and not something like java in the first place?

Until recently[1] payment terminals were memory constrained devices. Even right now, a significant portion of payment terminals are constrained (128MB of RAM, slow 32-bit processors).

Even though Java was around in 2006, the payment terminals I worked on then ran on 16-bit NEC processors (8088, basically).

Even if we aren't looking payment terminals (or any of the intermediaries), there's still a large and not-insignificant class of devices for which anything but C or a reduced set of C++ is possible. Having common libraries (zip, tls, etc) written in C means that those libraries are usable on all devices from all manufacturers.

[1] The industry-wide trend right now is a move towards android-based terminals. While this does mean that you can write applications in Java and Kotlin for these terminals, it's still cheaper to port the existing C or C++ codebase to Android and interface via JNI, as that reduces the costs (of which certification is a significant minority).

Even right now, there is more portability in writing the EMV transaction logic in plain C because then it can be used from almost anywhere. A team that went ahead and wrote the core payment acquisition logic in Java would find themselves offering a smaller variety of products and will soon get beaten in the market by those manufacturers who packaged the logic up into a C library.

Don't underestimate how price-sensitive embedded consumers are. A savings of a few dollars per product can absolutely lead to a really large leg up over the competition.
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Things that I wish I new before starting with Couchbase
The technical skills alone to do this are amazing, but what I'm absolutely in love with is the full on blinkenlights/rackmount/mini computer style of the hardware.