skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can already stream games from a Linux machine with Steam and then get to the desktop. It's baked in, but I'm not sure you can directly stream the desktop without launching a game before, but it works pretty well. I managed to play a game running on my Linux desktop in the UK while being in mainland Europe ! Wasn't a bad experience at all.
It definitely doesn’t happen on the client. If it did then the server’s password file would effectively be plaintext.
I don’t use Word at all, there are many other pieces of software in the Office suite, many which simply did not exist 20 years ago. If you think nothing has changed then it is very likely you don’t need Office.
NATO is a defense alliance. If RF will directly attack a NATO country, then a nuclear war will begin. When a NATO country attacks another country, NATO will not be involved.

EDIT: I'm wrong about Afghanistan.
> The second this changes, and we have a cryptocurrency that is actually used as money and not a plaything, I'll happily stop complaining about it.

I won't: we still have proof-of-work to get rid of (and generally, the unreasonable energy consumption and chip usage).
I had a rooted android and still found it hard to get around it. The only way was with the xposed framework thing and you have to install a module that disables the secure flag thing. It wasn't compatible with my device so I couldn't see any way to do it.
There’s really no connection (no pun intended) between this and TLS. With signal the same criticism applies.
I'd guess it just uses the same iOS framework parts that are used already for Netflix and other streaming services to blank out the content. In that case screen recording would also be taken care of.
I least expected such a response here on HN. I can understand if this appeared on other communities but here we are.

We all know how open source Software moves forward. It's us who can put up with little inconveniences of an open source app and maybe even improve it by identifying, reporting and implementing fixes. Those polished apps are polished because they have dedicated teams that get paid hefty $$$ to ensure they do not loose existing user base. In matrix case the user base is very little but I think they have achieved something remarkable: a thriving community that is developing client and server Software required for matrix to work.

I wonder if we had this kind of attitude in starting days of Internet, we probably would not have Internet today. By the way, when did you last use any matrix client?
Why /s?
Rust is a mess. This effort will just result in yet-another "zero cost abstraction" where the real cost is developer time and sanity.

Rust governance seems to have become Lord Of The Flies...and I don't think the author of this piece is holding the Conch. At least C++ has a standard that everyone accepts even if they disagree with it.

Unfortunately the Rust hype machine is so overwhelming that many orgs will be forced to waste months trying to adopt it just to satisfy one alpha dev who "fell for it" and suddenly believes system memory is more expensive than developer time.

It is serious and risky work saying "no" to devs who want to rewrite everything in Rust, but you have to be brave

Rust is not the future. The future will indeed be garbage-collected, and the true innovation will be to optimize GC runtimes to make them useful in more and more scenarios.
They can block recordings or mirrors for DRM video. Telegram blocks screenshots of secret chats on android but on iOS it sends a message to the other side saying a screenshot was taken which makes me suspect it isn't possible to block screenshots.
Isn’t it sensational to say all of our infrastructure is falling apart when the emphasis is just on bridges?
Dark Web – Justice League
Not open source !!!
Implementing boringcc as a new flag of GCC
Interesting, wasn't that one of the objectives of the F-35? Penetrate (or come close enough) enemy airspace, then orchestrate a squadron of smaller, simpler unmanned aircraft and weapons that are sent in through other means with no particular expectation of returning after combat?
In my ideal world. You would get one hour to delete the message. I think it is genuinely useful to be able to "undo" a send and redact stuff accidentally sent to the wrong person as this is so trivial to mess up. But after you leave it for an hour, it becomes archived history for the other person. This is actually how telegram used to work from memory before they let you delete both sides whenever you want.
> You can't do that with a bar of gold, or a bundle of banknotes.

I think especially this has been done for decades, if not centuries, and is probably one of the core definitions of smuggling.
The Kremlin-backed hacking outfit's toolbox seems to grow by the month
Came here to read exactly this comment, thanx for not letting me down.
This seems an incredible an incredible resource for rare diseases patients.
Many thanks for making this public.
Better.com CEO's Apology for Laying Off 900 People in a Mass Zoom Call
How Qwik addresses JavaScript reactivity challenges
Australia is considering to create its own cryptocurrency
The inner lives of cats: what cats think about happiness and humans
Why is this called DRM?
> was able to disable your vocal cords just in time

Or make you forget instantly!
Hmmm does my version have a presence monitor? I don't remember being bothered by this (using it on Linux desktop, android phone and android tablet)
I'll be honest, CockroachDB looks fishy.

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/learn-cockroachdb-sql.html

CockroachDB SQL? Isn't it supposed to be 100% PostgreSQL compatible?

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/pricing/
CockroachDB Core - Open-source with foundational features.

Uff... Let's go give a look at the licenses: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/LICENSE

So many licenses, including the Business Source License which is non-free license.

Also there's this CockroachDB Community License (CCL), which I guess is a made-up license that's going to include some whatever terms.

I might still accept this mix of licenses however I can't find the definition of "foundational features" -- what do I "lose" by using the OSS version instead of one of their managed offerings?

From a quick overview, it's soft-no from me (in the sense that it probably wouldn't be my first choice).
An underrated idea: the priority view
Not discount your assertion, but wasn't the $20K cost of the hammer due to the material it was made from? Something about having to work in a spark free environment?
The trend is to stop "the masses" who only use their phones. It's an interesting trend, wonder what will be the side effects
Aren't they supposed to let them dry and provide fuel for the forest fires? Isn't that the government approved path of maximum suffering, minimal utility, and least effort?
If I call Israel an Apartheit state I would need to extend that classifier to a lot of other countries. There are problems in Israel but they are dwarfed by those common in the region. Which is not an excuse, of course, but it provides perspective how conflicts materialize in the middle east.

Of course Israel does serve a special function to provide shelter from prosecution and this specifically but not exclusively for Jews. I could call the prosecution of Jews in Arab and other countries and ethnic cleansing too, but this does not provide anything constructive to any dialogue.

I think a lot of people want to see Israel purged from the region. It is an irrational hatred against Jews that fails to hide behind pretexts.

Jews from Europe that happen to be white or not are very rarely those that settle in the Westbank and I don't disagree that these settlements are illegal. But that doesn't invalidate Israels right to exist. Accepting this as a fact would leave the opposition to these policies with more options.
I assume the Polish attack on Russian or Belarusian forces would come in reaction to a Russian or Belarusian attack, in which case NATO should already have come to the aid of Poland. Things can get muddled in the light of the alternative ways of "waging war" which Belarus seems to be engaged in - e.g. inviting thousands of migrants with promises of an easy passage into the EU, providing them with simple armaments [1] and positioning them on the Polish border with no way of retreat back in to Belarus - which has led to both NATO as well as Russian forces to converge on the scene [2], a situation in which the question of "who fired the first shot" is hard to answer.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/11/16/belarus-ar...

[2] https://www.itv.com/news/2021-11-12/russia-sends-paratrooper...
ToroDB founder here.

Thank you for mentioning this. Unfortunately, yes, ToroDB is no longer being developed. I still believe it's a fantastic idea, and provides significant value. But when it was being built, 5 years ago, the NoSQL (as in "abandon SQL") state of mind was too strong, and the value proposition was not well understood.

I moved to work on what's always been my passion and preference: Postgres, Postgres, Postgres. For those interested, StackGres[1] is what's now my company's focus.

Things may be different today with ToroDB. The technical foundations and ideas are still there. If there would be significant interest by entities that would like to contribute to its development, it could be considered.

I wish good luck to FerretDB. The task ahead is not easy: MongoDB protocol is very simple, but the API is terribly complex and full of nuances. Getting up and running a simple PoC is very simple. Getting from there to a production quality state with notable compatibility is very hard.

[1]: https://stackgres.io
> Of course the first-5-minute title is hyperbolic

I don't think it is. I've managed a server directly connected to the internet with a US government IP, and it was being port scanned from a Chinese IP within minutes of being turned on. If you are a target, then there is an adversary out there that is patiently waiting for the opportunity to exploit an unpatched vulnerability in new installs, as if your security is otherwise good it might be how they get their foot in the door on your network.

(In our case I really did have a "5 minute plan" to login as soon as the fresh install was booted, setup a firewall, lockdown the ssh server, and install fail2ban ASAP. I'd then check system logs to see if anyone got in before proceeding. Time was of the essence.)
A Covid vaccine grown in plants measures up
A nice idea in the opposite direction I saw recently was watermarking images, why create a fake felling of privacy when you can create legal liability ?

https://community.signalusers.org/t/watermark-photos-videos/...
1 - Do trainings teach actually exclusive content?
- No not really, they do teach best practices and give you a paper that says "this person knows this"

2 - Do certifications actually boost my portfolio?
- If you want to work in the Enterprise space yes it does.
- It helps if you are a freelancer or a boutique security shop to show that you have the skills you claim.
- It helps if you are already employed in an enterprise and want to have leverage for a salary negotiation.

Which leads to the precarious situation you might find your self in a position where your manager does not approve of your certification costs if the company has a policy that managers have to approve your spendings.

THis is a common powerplay to keep salaries down and to deny promotions by certain managers in certain types of compnanies.

And yea don't get all of the certs, get the ones that matter. use Linkedin and hackernews to find out which certs are a must for the position you want to achieve
Ask HN: Covid Vaccination Tourism for Children
I know some adults can go on and were already going on vaccination tourism due to their countries' limitations for whatever reason but is it known which countries are confirmed to be offering free vaccination to foreigners children, e.g. children traveling with vaccinated parents but who didn't get vaccinated themselves yet and could take advantage of the trip to get immunized?
Well the state is not that promising on that website which crashed my browser.The amusing thing is that it is from the most risk averse VC in Europe (or the world). Atomico is in effect a PE shop masquerading as a VC. The European risk averse tech landscape described by the most risk averse VC in the world. Seems very fitting.
I suppose that depends on what you think of as an "login attempt". Is opening a connection a login attempt? I would say it isn't. Is sending some random protocol header a login attempt? Doubtful. Is failing to negotiate a login attempt? Again, I'd say no (most likely a port scanner looking for old/vulnerable servers). Is SSH-1.5-Nmap a login attempt? I don't think so. As we have disabled password authentication, a client can't actually try to do a user/pass login, so what can't happen, isn't.

These things show up, but are completely irrelevant to security.
Pretotype. Interesting word; preto means dark so it fits really well.
There's been quite a few reports of unused coal burning power stations being revived and dedicated to mining crypto.
Shutting down availability zones I could almost see, since it's not that much more difficult or expensive to architect to handle that gracefully.

But an entire region? I've never worked anywhere that decided being multi-region was a good tradeoff. At best we've replicated data to another region and had some of our management services there, so in the absolute worst case (which would need to be much worse than yesterday) we could rebuild our product's infrastructure there.

Do I agree with this approach? Not in all possible cases of course, but for my employers? Overall, yes. It mitigates the highest impact risks. Going further would have significant complexity and costs. Those companies success or failure haven't been impacted by their multi-region strategy AFAICT.
I typically agree but this is based on Postgres which is nearly always a solid bet.

Postgres jsonb works well enough for me - but this looks like a good alternative for Mongo people.
But how will the taxpayers ever see any of the profits? It's not like enterprises funded by grants from the government send any of their profits back, unless the government takes actual ownership, which I don't think is very common, at least not anymore.

Of course, a successful business will pay taxes and increase economic activity etc. etc., but I don't think that's much of an argument. It absolutely is strange to see government-funded research ending up locked down like this, if that's what it is.
The humor is strong in you fellow Jedi
Only in the most liberal sense of the phrase "DRM" (which IMO would be a useless definition as many platforms/apps have analogous intentional and unintentional barriers, but they're not called "DRM"), but not DRM as we know it. While the decision is on the sender's side, a crucial distinction is that the sender enjoys the same power as the recipient in the conversation - very similar to information sharing between friends IRL. Calling it "DRM" is just pedantic.
Also, I didn't think "In microStudio, the core language is JavaScript and JavaScript in the browser is insanely fast." statements like this were true, but hey.
I spend around 12 (sometimes 48) hours a day on the Internet.

8.04 hours per week is nothing... ~1 hour per day. That is nothing.
Thanks for this. "A New Hope was saved by Lucas' wife!" had become one of those phrases that everyone parroted but couldn't explain the how/why behind it. The excessive shitting on Lucas has become unbearable.
Thank you for this. I was frustrated to scan the linked page and still not know what it was.

But I will give them credit: Clicking the top-left icon immediately brings you to a page with that clear tagline and some nice images.
Anyone know if there are any open-source libraries which wrap this all into a usable `get_{tcp,udp}_connection(peer_id)` API, preferably with fallback to a relay server? I feel like there really should be, but nearly all the tools I’ve seen with this functionality are closed source, and the few open-source things all do their own custom logic rather than a shared library :/
Bitcoin 'founder' wins right to keep billions of dollars
PostgreSQL isn't a "newly created database"
A status page properly done is just a link to HN.
you can use scrcpy for android screenshots
Yes, efficiency matters, permissionlessness matters. Future us will be talking about today as the early days of robotic money.
I have been giving a lot of thoughts into this for quite a few years now. A few years ago I went on a trip and ended up staying at a friend's house where he didn't any internet connection. There was Mobile Data available but where I was it was very expensive due to the data cap being 1GB at the time.

Anyhow, being disconnected for like 3 days in a row felt like a drug user without their "fix". There was no way to connect to the internet so I could watch either news or talk to my loved ones via Skype (now you can see how many years ago this was) or just play some online game.

It was a weird experience because after those 3 days it felt like I was in a coma, I was completely disconnected of everything that was going around having only the local newspaper in the nearby town to what was happening, and since it was just local/national news I had no idea what was happening in my home country.

At the end of those holidays I ended up taking away that it's odd having your personal life and work life (I work remote) relying always on being "connected". Not just odd but it does feel like people who are used to it feel different once we don't have it anymore.
Is sequencing 'hard' computational work? Could we use it for proof-of-work?
I didn't say I'd put you in a box car, just that I wouldn't extend my neck or burn my political capital vouching for someone like you to keep you out. There's a big difference.
Cars are gonna suck worse? I stepped off the "new car" notion a while back when they made screens mandatory; the future value of the antique car market just keeps looking brighter.

How are they gonna avoid anyone with any sense just avoiding the problem entirely? outlaw older cars? Just tax them highly enough that you have to be rich to run one?

Gotta go sing along to "Red Barchetta" again.
Some subset of people do some subset of drugs in order to have an exciting/fun/heightened experience (e.g. cocaine on a night out to feel more confident and energised)

Some subset of people do some subset of drugs in order to settle addictive pressure (e.g. popping one’s codeine pills for the day)

Some subset of people do some subset of drugs in order to gain psychological or insight or have spiritual experience (e.g. taking psilocybin with an appropriate setting)

While the lines can be blurry, these are distinct use cases each with their own risks and considerations so they’re worth separating out.
I think it would be more along the lines of the Panoply security mechanisms in Reynolds’ Revelation Space universe, where a (short-lived synthetic virus?) induces something akin to reverse-dyslexia so you can read things normal eyes cannot (keywords for search: “pangolin” or “manticore” security clearance).
Zoom thinks about content moderation
This is exactly the issue with telemetry, it's a vicious cycle. Most power users will turn it off because it's "spyware", so the only telemetry they get is from average users who don't even know the feature exists, which leads to them removing useful features, so in its current state it's practically useless for actual measurements and only ends up hurting things.

That's why I don't like when there's a blind hate mob against telemetry, because it can be legitimately useful for developers. People should focus on voicing actual privacy concerns and trying to get them addressed rather than completely rejecting any form of telemetry no matter how anonymous they try to make it.

But on the other hand, Mozilla should be well aware that a large majority of their user base probably turns off telemetry (I'm not sure if there's any telemetry sent back that says "user turned off telemetry", maybe not because some people are outraged even by that, but regardless they should know that) and not arbitrarily remove features that are "unused" when their sample is not representative. I highly doubt a feature like this causes a huge maintainance burden that necessitates removing it.

I'm not entirely sure what kind of data Mozilla's telemetry collects, so I'm just more talking in general and not claiming that it's fully anonymous and there's no reason to be concerned at all. You should definitely be allowed to opt out (or maybe even make it opt-in - that does reduce the sample size even further but maybe if they showed trustworthiness then more people would be inclined to opt in), but IMO we need to find some solution that benefits both sides.

The only other alternative I see is having some sort of forum where they make discussions/polls to ask users about how much they use certain features. But that requires active user effort and I imagine a lot of people couldn't be bothered to do it. Shoving surveys in users' faces would just annoy them, but not advertising it would result in a lot of people not knowing about it and missing out on an opportunity to vouch for their favorite feature because they weren't part of the discussion.
Absolutely love the AirPods family of devices I have own every single one of them but sadly the AirPods Pro are not compatible with me because of the tips which hurt my ears.

Currently using the new Gen 3 and they are amazing! I do have a full life inside Apple ecosystem besides my Gaming Rig and Gaming Laptop.
Sounds like they don't have a status page, but just a placebo.
[citation needed] - I mean, it sounds plausible, but there's also a lot of genuine poverty out there, such as the explosion in foodbank use, so it would be good to have something a bit more investigative.
Why would you want censorship in a P2P remote desktop software?
Well, as I said, it hinders you from redistribution – it doesn't need to shut it down completely to fullfill its goal.

Also I assume it's working in a the way intended. It may be a stupid thing to do from your or my perspective because it doesn't work towards our benefit – but the rational behind it is sane. That's what I meant with „not stupid”.

I just realize I sound like this sickening utilitarian tone you find in HN discussions so often. Sorry for going that way. Basically I'm with you, it's stupid when you take a step back.
The principal behind it is nothing revolutionary

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_plasmon_resonance

This is an undergraduate optics project.
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Free for projects with up to 100 content pages. Pro pricing will be available for 5-10x lower than GitBook. Self hosting of the generated website, which isn't possible with GitBook. Ability to remove `Powered by` branding, which again isn't possible with GitBook. I guess those are the high level features. Hope this helps.
Understanding the low-code vs no-code debate
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DRM does not mean "tons of cryptography" and never did. It means anything restricting users' freedom to do what they want with the data.
You know about surrogate models being run in simulations (physics informed neural network and all that stuff) the US is investing a lot in this. Maybe then it makes sense why bfloat16 exist in SPR.
That's what I said. It is because Apple.
Sweet point.
"Inconvenience as a feature" perfectly sums up the state of the tech world right now.
It was annoying to people in Europe for a while, since we were (and to some extent still are) locked out of the US internet by their disagreement with our laws. Imagine, though, how much less annoying the same thing will be for the US. Who's going to lock you our, the Chinese internet? Europe is already in the game, American lose nothing but the dark veils that their data is hidden behind.