skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Argentina (Latin America, even probably) if you searched for Paramount+ (right when the streaming service launched here) the top result was a Google ad with a spoof domain (that could have been legit) pointing to a credit card stealing phishing site.
Batching up writes means greater risk if data loss compared to immediate writes.
You mean they are all old now .....
Sorry couldn't help it.
> Netflix: destroyed attention spans by encouraging binging behaviours

I’m sure you’re really pleased with your “X: destroyed Y” template, but isn’t binging the exact opposite of short attention span?

If you want to blame short attention span on big tech, Netflix with its focus on long format shows hardly seems to be the right target.
Why are you taking this so personally? If it were normal, I would be very hesitant to click a link that looked like yours. I've already stipulated that a bit of benefit of the doubt on another HN viewer would be less likely to post suspect links, but bots are a plenty.

I've already listed my reasons, and I really don't think there was fault in any of the reasons for my personal "keeping safe on the intwebs". You may find that in your day to day life, you are much more cavalier about links you click. You do you, I'll do me.

However, it's 2022 now, and to not be using HTTPS is pretty much just a whole level of not trying very hard. So much so, the browser warned against it.
Which has to be covered by the $99 / year developer program fee, in aggregate.

Sure, a few apps will cost them massively more than that, but most will take five minutes of reviewer time every six months and a few gigs per month (or year) in download bandwidth.
That's not quite accurate. Wonderland (TIME/MEMO) began as the first OHM-fork, however it was shifting into an actively managed investment fund. For example, there was a proposal for Dani to use Wonderland to takeover operational control of SushiSwap -- which recently had its own drama.

Wonderland was shifting to a VC fund model, where Dani and Sifu would get early access to newly launching tokens and buy up seed rounds. Wonderland was just one of Dani's projects that all played into each other, including Popsicle Finance, Abracadabra, and the stablecoin project MIM. Dani is a charismatic, semi-anonymous founder who moves fast.

Furthermore, the issue isn't so black and white. At its peak, Wonderland had a market cap of $2 billion. And it appears that Sifu was rather skilled at managing the funds. Apparently without him, there's no one else to manage the funds so the project will likely be wound down.
Databases have the same problems when disks fail, power goes out etc.
Shojo = romantic affairs.

Shonen = fight, fight, fight.
This is one of the strangest and most amazing art pieces I've experienced. Perfectly captures our time, both in technology used to produce the song and the meaning of all the words
Just to explain the last three paragraphs of that article, what happens in town after town is that the anti-tax folks decide that there's no need to fund a local police department when the PA State Police is obligated to take over policing. There's currently no mechanism for the state to charge these towns for this service and their state reps fight any effort to put one in place. So year after year the State Police's budget grows out of control and infrastructure funds and fuel taxes are an easy way to cover the costs.
I worked for a company last year that chose Dgraph as its primary data store.

Thanks to Dgraph's query language, we were able to implement a GraphQL API server that had no resolvers and no need for dataloader—the n+1 problem simply couldn't occur! It was like magic.

Interestingly enough, we had been working with a salesperson from Dgraph Labs who was affected by the June layoff—along with the rest of the sales staff and CEO—right as we were about to pay for Dgraph Cloud! For a solid week we seriously debated switching to another database, but eventually decided to go with Dgraph Cloud anyway—telling ourselves we would self-host if Dgraph Labs folded.

I ended up leaving in November, but I think I know what my former team will be doing over the next few sprints!

I wish Manish and crew all the best, and hope they succeed in their new endeavor. Dgraph is pretty dang cool.
I think the headline sounds like the police took all the money, but that's not quite the case.

> The department’s overall budget is $10.2 billion, and it allocates $2.5 billion to construction projects annually. Richards said, last year, $802 million went to state police.

And regular reminder that dollars are fungible, and despite theoretical earmarks, it's really hard to say that this dollar was supposed to pay for that. If the budget didn't work, they'd just push it around in other ways. But still, fixing bridges before collapsing would be nice.
I occasionally have the same feelings. Like it seems like people have basically figured out everything in biology. Most papers are written with that kind of authoritative tone, which is understandable given the pressure of the publishing process.

So occasionally I have to remind myself that 600k people a year die from cancer, which is what I’m studying. It’s quite dark but it’s also the truth. We have absolutely no idea how biology works. There is so much left to understand.

Also if you feel like you’re being scooped by already published papers, that is good. You’re having the same ideas that researchers had just a few years before. You’ll find the gaps eventually.
Two big differences I see:

1. Most people who learn to read start from a young age. It's rare to teach programming at 6 or incedently practice it everyday.

2. Reading is almost the same as listening, like a 1:1 mapping. So it's evolved with spoken language.
It’s become a fancy place for rich people with no taste or ethics.
Right, and so existing owners will be driven out of their properties by a rent they cannot afford being imposed on them. Their wealth will be decimated for the reasons you have already stated, and of course new buyers will be purchasing an option to rent rather than own.

What you are proposing is expropriation and state ownership of residential property.
Blockchain: a replicating dataset that spreads like a virus and grows in size exponentially using energy to sustain itself.

Sounds a little concerning.
Let's say the world's banking is running on blockchain. The US Congress is basically a veto on world banking, and I don't see how blockchain technologies can change any of that. The US Congress can pass a law saying any US bank and anyone transacting with them must use a specific version of the blockchain code, decided by the Department of Commerce.

If it's illegal to transact with the US under a previous version of this hypothetical blockchain banking technology, that's your 51% right there.

How could blockchain allow legal banking institutions to refuse to follow the law?
When I was around 8 to 10, I got REALLY into computers through this book my parents got: https://bashny.net/t/en/34007 (Энциклопедия профессора Фортрана / Professor Fortran's Encyclopedia). It laid out all the fundamental concepts like algorithms, storage, memory, etc. I didn't even have a computer at the time, but this book I think pretty much laid the path for me.

My dad also had these ones, which I also loved: https://archive.org/details/worldofcomputers/page/n17/mode/2... (Мир компьютеров в вопросах и ответах / World of Computers in Questions and Answers). It's probably got an original Japanese version, but I can only find the Russian ones. These books are more advanced, and go into computer basics all the way to telephone and packet networks.
There’s people who think using a database as a queue is bad, but if you keep pressing then for tangible reasons, it usually turns out to be emotional …… they just don’t like the idea.

Next time someone says it’s a bad idea, keep pressing for real answers, not emotion.
Well tossaway’s account was created 66 days ago so clearly not, and anyway I’m not going to be baited into your holy war.
Can't tell if trolling or if you genuinely believe north = up = closer to the day star
Maybe this was a case of user error but I know I was not the only person who had difficulty joining Mozilla's riot with their existing riot username when Mozilla first opened their server.
> I felt I could rewrite it in Rust within two hours.

I'm not sure what to conclude given the title of this post. Rewrites often improve things greatly. But a 2 hour time investment is not what anyone is talking about when they repeat mottos like "never rewrite."
I'm using it right now and it's the best on I've found. But it doesn't support the up-arrow-to-edit feature, which drives me crazy. There's an open issue for it, so I'm hoping it gets resolved (or I might try to do it myself somehow).

Other than that, Cinny doesn't address the problem of Element on mobile not working very well. FluffyChat's UI isn't very nice either.
As I recall the phrase was originally a comment from a new employee who had previously worked in the hardware industry.

Still baffled by the ambiguous name given to this secretive, exploitive set of companies, "tech". What the heck is it. Its everything and nothing, IMO. A cover.

The company is an intermediary, what many in other industries refer to as a "middleman". HN commenters have tried to attack this term in the past, but I just saw it a few months ago being used in a marketing slogan on the side of a company van. People outside of HN know what it means. Perhaps those who argue it is ambiguous on HN are "tech" workers who are aware of its accepted connotation in the real world. Otherwise why be concerned with the term.
I love tomorrow never knows, the bass and drums are just unbelievably tight, and I don't have any idea how they were able to do all that creative sampling stuff using magnetic tape.
I don't think I really understand what you're getting at. What I'm hearing is that the culture is different, but I'm not sure how that fits into product vs project.

It kinda sounds like you're saying that the work isn't organized. That people just jump in and tackle problems as they come up.
And it already happened a bunch of times. Bitcoin has been forked a bunch of times, and one could argue the fork that gave birth to Bitcoin Cash was a successful 51% attack on Bitcoin itself.
> ..like terrorist attacks or earthquakes or tornadoes... they would be able to increase capacity by 20%

They can, for brief periods. You start by overflowing to nearby hospitals, you can't do that for covid though, because its global. So you try to drop non-urgent care, but they've already done that. You can't stop treating non-urgent care forever, it's only a temporary approach.

So you're left with, well, reducing serious covid case rates. This can absolutely be done, by the way, with a combination of vaccination and varying masking policies as necessary. Because that's the only tool left after all of the others have been exhausted.

> and they still haven't figured out a way to handle the ICU load?

There is actually a really easy solution, it's just ethically terrible. You refuse (or triage last) unvaccinated covid patients. This solves most of the problems. It is however ethically unconscionable.

> the problem is not covid patients, the problem is either a poorly planned system or news media sensationalism

Yes, we all recognize that the global healthcare system is not able to handle a sustained 10-20% increase in demand. That doesn't make it "poorly planned" (are you willing to pay 20% extra in healthcare costs to cover the increased slack?)
What hypervisor do you use? Do you run graphical apps in the VM, and if so is there any noticeable lag?
> Shonen = fight, fight, fight.

Train, train, fight.
Every time I've tried using typescript (sorry not using untyped JS) on the server and client, the mismatch between client and server libraries made it very hard to re-use the objects, frameworks or libraries. So much so that it felt like two different languages, or at least as different as writing react and writing CDK. I very quickly reached for any other server language and an IDL like GQL for the communications. This let me re-use code for the transport which was the max I was able to get from typescript/js only.

The other big issue is the things I was working on actually needed high parallelism, and node really provides concurrency, so I quickly hit issues there as well. I'm currently working in a GQL based world and the golang based one we use is massively parallel and very performant, and I'd be worried about the speed loss writing in node.

This makes me very sad because I really do like Typescript as a language, and writing everything in one language seems like it'd be great. But it's really brought down by all the typing issues with legacy javascript, node, and other tools.

But then again, I'm not writing crud apps at work or for fun so your mileage may vary.
Assembling Accountability, from the Ground Up (2021)
The CEO's statements come across as insulting to anyone who isn't blinded by founder worship. I'm saying this as someone who did not even know about dgraph before today.

Presuming the GP must be a disgruntled employee because he can read a Glassdoor review is just naive.
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You're confusing two different things:

- Apple giving a shit about app curation versus Google Play being a trash heap

- Android having the ability to install third-party-signed apps

Nothing about having the ability to install software outside of Google Play necessitates Google Play itself being a tire fire. Same with Apple: if they tomorrow decided to open up iOS to non-App-Store apps, it wouldn't impact the quality of curation on the iOS App Store.

For the record, I daily drive both an Android phone and an iPad, and don't really worry about malware on either of them. My main gripe is not having any good virtualization options to really stretch the iPad's legs on more developer-centric workflows. That's a particular category of app where App Review has ranged from somewhat hostile to extremely hostile. The end result is that not a lot of people actually bother working on such tools because the chances of actually getting into the App Store and being useful to a wide swath of people is marginal.
The sophistication of individual exploits is largely uninteresting, a bullet and a cruise missile both go through a piece of cardboard. Even quantity per target is largely uninteresting past the first couple in much the same way that having 23 snipers trained on a person is not so different than 8. It is the breadth of attacks in the Vault 7 leak that make the NSO group look like nothing. Maybe the NSO group could redirect their ~$250M/yr revenue and equalize in breadth with the CIA, but currently, from a strategic perspective, the CIA's programs are far more terrifying from a "what can they do" perspective. And, with high probability, there are at least a half dozen equivalent programs running in parallel just in the US government. That is how absurdly easy this all is, they do not even need to band together, each and every one can individually exploit a significant fraction of devices.

You are correct, I do not work in exploit development. My numbers are based on quotes vulnerability brokers have given for their inventory of zero-click iOS vulnerabilities (and other OS and application vulnerabilities) to some of my coworkers over the years. I have heard they have increased in price recently, though due to increased demand rather than increased difficulty of discovery, but I doubt the price of a raw exploit has breached the $10M mark yet. I have no knowledge as to the pricing on a final packaged consumer-friendly UI product.
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I dropped off when he starts saying this will work great when we get to brain interfaces.

I’ve read this kind of article so many times. Great if you have insomnia.
> I'm not sure what "eat section 13 of Mongo's license" means

Buncha weeks ago I had a paranoid fit about the legalities of this app I wanna try to launch. I read some conserning things about the MongoDB license, mainly that the open source initiative didn't approve it bc Mongo pulled out. I read the controvertial paragraph and now I am 80% convinced that I'm not allowed to self-host a MongoDB server for my own profit.. I'd have to pay.. which why should I when SQL is free. BUT I DON'T WANNA USE SQL. And frankly MongoDB wasn't living up to the stresses I wanted from it but Dgraph does.

Asking for help on stackexchange didn't do me any better https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/74510/can-i-use-mong...

I was planning on self-hosting my Dgraph database anyways, and if this app actually ends up being something, I would beable to calculate milestones that I'd need to reach before considering upgrading to Dgraph Enterprise. Now I'm more worried about future support. Is Dgraph going to be sunsetted, and will I have the features I might need in the future. IDK I think I just freaked out about something I didn't understand, sry guys.
Diversity of code bases limits the impact of bugs and implementation quirks.

For example I used to be part of a team that ran an important DNS service. We purpously used several different server softwares on different nodes to increase resiliency.
New Zealand isn't far at all from the British center of the universe, other than in miles. Jackson's movies did pretty well in the UK; they weren't shown in the art house theatres with the subtitled movies.
The performance itself is haunting as well, all a capella harmony. Give it a listen.
Honestly an excellent rule of thumb.
I don't generally think it's a good idea to enforce that every road user have to follow rules that were designed for cars.

Someone on a bike (or skates or...) is slower and has better use of their hearing and is less deadly to others, but has to work harder to get going again from a dead stop.

Cyclists and cars have different "superpowers", like how bikes can share a footpath with pedestrians and cars get to go 80mph down a freeway. It's reasonable.
DuckDuckGo has lots of ads actually, even on the radio (!) which is pretty interesting.
You forget people have families and non tech salaries.
> Equity markets are tied to the performance of the business in the full course of time which is tied to labor.

They're not though, and they haven't been for centuries. I gave you 3 examples off the top of my head. Markets are tied to sentiment; let me refer you to the Keynesian beauty contest[1]. This is very basic economic theory.

> Crypto like futures and options are zero-sum or negative-sum instruments if you include the rake. Every dollar in appreciation comes from a new investor. Every, single, one. That's the difference.

There is no "rake" in crypto, so I'm not even sure what you mean by that. Second, every dollar in appreciation on a decentralized exchange (say, SushiSwap) is a result of the automated market maker's supply and demand response. This is functionally exactly the same as what happens with order books (like on the stock market) but it just happens to use liquidity pools to facilitate this (because volume is much lower). For every seller, there's a buyer, and for every buyer, there's a seller: that's how markets work. Third, crypto is actually not at all like options because whereas option contracts can expire worthless (e.g. they run out of time and can no longer be exercised), if you buy some poopcoin, even if it tanks, you'll still own said coin (kind of like a penny stock).

> It's just trading bags of air back and forth.

This might be true, but people trade all kinds of things I personally find dumb (Pokémon cards, rare sneakers, etc.). Looks like a lot of people see value in cryptocurrency, who am I to judge.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest
Sometimes, not every word written is naively earnest.
The transistor was invented in 1947. By 1960, 13 years later, transistors had replaced vacuum tubes as the dominant technology for electronics.
I'm not talking about people snooping your data, I'm talking about a configuration error or exploit which gives people access to your information.

Maybe I am naive, but I think the chances of this happening on a cloud based service like Dropbox are going to be a lot lower.
uBlock Origin will block most of the redirect/traffic selling pages and put up a big warning screen.
Also, this is especially funny since I found the change for the Julia version that makes it 5x faster in approximately the time it took me to read the code.
Well, I'm right on the Latin grammar, too, but that's an irrelevancy (lol -- I'm a particular kind of fool, if not full-stack). In fact, I think the deeper idea of the essay really is about our own historicity seen through the ephemera of the things that populate our own lives.

If you're writing at a desk, look about you -- what do you see? How much of that would be recognizable in 1, 2, 5 generations (about a century) hence? How much would be intelligible, but quaint (or benighted)? Ultimately the little essay is about ourselves, our own mortality: it is about us as ephemera.
The company I work for is hiring devs in Mexico City and considering "off-shoring" multiple teams there. In this case getting rid of the US based devs.
Is it not spam generated by sites infected with malware? I'm sure the owners of a WordPress site for a some random company are not doing this on purpose. I've personally cleaned the malware from WordPress sites infected with javascript injections that produced pages similar to this.
Hi physicles, member of the InfluxDB team here. What version of 1.x are you running? Also curious to know if you've tried 2.x.
How would this work, when something like Windows Security Policy (Group Policy) can prevent or allow apps based on its hash?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/sof...
The reason these rules exist is because otherwise there will be abuse.

I worked at a large retail store before. And they also forbid taking anything home even if it’s broken. Because there are of course cases of people purposely breaking things to take home.
True, but there's also the tendency of people to look at a fairly rich period of change and wrongly attribute the new ideas to just one or two popular people/groups. This happens a lot with the Beatles (you even get extreme ideas like the Beatles creating the genre of rock) but it's not uncommon with other bands from the 60's either (Velvet Underground, to name one prominent example).

If you listen to a lot of 60's music, you find a ton of interesting ideas coming from all over the place, and coming fast. It's interesting how something that sounds so out of place one year sounds pretty normal two or three years later. The Beatles did interesting stuff, but I haven't found a lot that seems ahead of it's time the way, say, the Kinks using power chords in '64 does.
But they are increasingly attacking boats:

https://www.yachtingworld.com/cruising/orca-attacks-rudder-l...