skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin revolutionized the drug trade, there’s huge value there.

People living in repressive societies like Russia are now able to safely buy weed thanks to cryptocurrencies enabling Hydra.

Before these people would risk prison to get a little stoned, but now they can just buy GPS coordinates on the internet and pick up their drugs without ever interacting with anyone.

It’s not a coincidence that most of the users come from such countries, not the west https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/darknet-markets-2021-ge...
Finnish diplomats’ phones infected with NSO Group Pegasus spyware
To be fair, the authentication for Microsoft is far more complex than any other comparable system. They have to deal with their own Microsoft accounts (Outlook, Live, Hotmail...), federated domains (via ADFS or third parties) and domains hosted in 365 too - Some of those being synced passwords from AD, some of those using pass through authentication from local servers...

Google just has to deal with accounts with Gmail domains and third party domains that they host.
We need an eco friendly lada and peugeot 404.
Great job! You get a gold star.
What a nice-looking vehicle - both inside and out! Compare it to the lackluster Teslas!

Funny I had exactly the opposite reaction. This looks like literally every other chunky pseudo-SUV 'crossover' on the road. Going purely on looks I would definitely choose a Model S over this car every day. On the other hand if I was spending my own money buying a practical car for daily use, I would easily buy the Kia.

edit: I agree that the interior of the Kia is one of the nicer ones I've seen in recent cars
Do you think there is a stock play here?
> Think of it as jumping into a new codebase you have never worked with before. It is full of strange functions calling each other for unknown reasons. It takes a while to get a good intuition for why.

Having done consulting, I frankly disagree. Except pathological cases most of the codebases I've been involved in it's possible to open a file at random at quickly make sense of what happens even without prior exposure. With math papers my experience is that you have to go 3/4 references deep before startit to understand where the notation comes from which wastes hours and hours. They should provide normalized names that could be searched for in e.g. a coq-based database of math concepts or something like that.
Caddy it's the best thing ever. Having SSL out of the box it's amazing. I tried ngnix etc and was a pain.

I can have a dedicated server and host a ton of stuff with docker and use caddy to direct to each domain. I know nothing new, but config is easy compared to rest. And again, I can't stress enough how easy is to setup the SSL.

I'm going to donate some money because it really saved me a ton of time.

For static files the best setup I think it's cloudflare workers with kv and fallback on s3 bucket for huge files. S3 is much cheaper compared to kv storage. (Backblaze + cloudflare bandwidth it's also free. Caveat: if you host non website stuff like 3d assets or raw images you might be banned by cloudflare)

I'm hosting many websites for clients with this setup and it's very very reliable and can reach around 99 on Google page speed.
Yes the broad enablement of crime and criminality is regressive.
Even Dacia, which was the only one making really dumb cars a few years ago stopped doing the electronic-less cars. It’s a shame.

There apparently isn’t much of a market for dumb cars.
The Awk state machine parser pattern (2018)
High-Impact Climate Philanthropy
Rehydration feels „free“ because the site is rendered before that. So there more might be a danger of excusing „bunch of unnecessary stuff“ with it. I think one still has to be reasonably frugal with client side dependencies regardless.
I grew up in Germany in the cold war, around 80 km west of the iron curtain. Prime target for nukes from both sides as it would be the place where Nato and Warshaw Pact would collide. In fact there were even nuclear "landmines" near bridges or other tactical points for making areas impassable by soviet tanks.

During the 80s I was fully aware that - if WW3 would have broken out, even in a limited way - it would have meant game over for me. You'll learn just not to worry about that.
Fabless reduces the barrier to entry. If you want there to be only three or four IC companies in the world ever, sure, you can insist that they each have their own fab.
For my professional stuff I’ve actually dumped O365 and Google.

I’m using Apple stuff only (pages, numbers, keynote, mail, calendar, reminders, icloud). It’s completely different to anything else and there are a few small compatibility issues but it works really really well and doesn’t stab you in the face with complex problems. Add zoom and slack and you have enough interoperability.

I set three simple standards that I will not budge on which ensures this solution will remain working. Documents via PDF only. Copy via cut and paste on slack. Data via CSV and JSON only.

I also only use spreadsheets internally to my “partition”. They are shitty for everything else.

I’m not going into the long time rants with my extensive experience with O365 and GSuite and LibreOffice here but this feels like I’m being shafted the least hard at the moment.
Branching out: is communication possible between trees and people? (2021)
Also, the company behind Traefik.

Containous.

It doesn't sound bad in your head, but then you say it out loud. (Yes even the CEO pronounces it that way in videos too)
You are not alone at least. The only reason I've used windows in the last 10 years was to compile some release codes.

I have zero joy using any of their products. I even stopped using GitHub when they brought it.

I don't get the hype for VScode either when we already have Atom with a bigger eco system and sublime with a better editor. Except several windows specific things it does nothing better or especially great.

I couldn't care less about WSL it doesn't feel like a real Linux, which is all I want. I don't game so meh Xbox, meh flight simulator.

Everything that's left is horrible either way. Comparingly at least.

The main reason I hear people using Windows is because they want to run Photoshop but don't like the apple ecosystem.
Get yourself a standing desk and alternate between sitting and standing.If you want to take it to next level get a underdesk treadmill
I'm telling people not to use a private key they found to log into servers. It's tempting to see how far the rabbit hole goes but it can be very problematic.
Ask HN: How do Instagram pages get hacked / taken down?
Hi HN,

My friend has a business page on Instagram with a very large following over the years and all of a sudden it keeps getting taken down.

I have no idea how people are able to take Instagram pages down at will, I told him to contact Facebook / Meta to reinstate this but he hasn't heard back from them.

Any thoughts on this and has this happened to you? What should I do in this situation?
You are a terrible person.

How can you genuinely suggest that it is progressive for some guy to prison in Russia because of a joint?

Your position is simply indefensible.
> dynamically listed the speed limit in two places, but often it was completely wrong and sometimes it didn't even agree with itself

I had a rental car last year that did this. One speed limit is the (often outdated) speed limit it picks up from the navigation system's maps, and the second in the most recent speed limit sign the cameras OCR'd.

The speed limit from the maps is invariably wrong as soon as you turn off a major road, and the cameras seem to miss about every 3rd speed limit sign...
A lot of parts are modular, if you'll accept "standard packages and pinouts" as "modular". And this helps a lot!

The problem is that the parts themselves aren't standardized. So often a very careful selection process followed by a requalification is required.
Why would you need "many threads which call accept on it" and then "epoll". With epoll you dont need more threads than the available CPU cores.
Touch-based buttons feels like a huge step backwards. Have we learned nothing from having to use touch phones for the last 12 years, either that or everyone is much better than me at not missing touch inputs
Relevant: buckets.grayhatwarfare.com

Public, as in unsecured, not with intent.
Kubernetes: The Documentary
I think 90% of the time I use MS products, I am happy enough but there are some things that definitely would make them suck less:

* Sort out the single-sign on thing as others have said. Why do I have to tell you whether my account is work or personal? Why do you let me have 2 accounts for the same email address anyway?

* Endless tinkering with things like menus, control-panel settings (usually takes me 10 seconds to find the "Apps option", mostly pointless eye candy like in Windows 11 when most people would rather you just fixed the myriad of minor bugs that have never been fixed

* A proper support system, not just 1000s of call-centre types telling you to trying re-installing windows

* As a dev, not always making massive changed in .Net before sorting out the bugs they introduce far to easily. An example, I recently updated an MS extensions library and because they had added a load more constructors to a class, my dependency injection started failing but, of course, there were no obvious helpful errors.

* They have never sorted out the licensing. It is horrifically complicated and very expensive and would be easy enough to fix if they cared. Yes, we get that you are trying to make sure we don't avoid licensing by purchasing large multi-core machines or using VMs but you could do a better job

* Harmonising their hundreds of customer-facing sites like MSDN, Bizspark, Outlook, Office 365, Product Feedback etc. Even the design is all over the place but in some places you can login with the "wrong" account and it still lets you into a new account. Not cool. If I used the wrong login, tell me it isn't registered so I can find the correct one.

On the other hand, I do like their more open culture and you are more likely now to have a conversation on github with real devs who can explain some of those crazy choices they might have made.
You're acting like 'doctors' are a commodity. Researchers with their names on patents that are frequently published are worth more than a thousand GPs.
> Let's applaud the achievements that saved lives, regardless of the administration that promulgated them.

While I wholeheartedly applaud this amazing achievement of technology, I think that it's an open question as to if this was a political "noteworthy achievement" that differentiates the previous US administration from any other past, future or hypothetical alternate administration.

i.e. Yes, they signed off on "operation warp-speed", but who wouldn't? Isn't this the bare minimum, easy decision that any administration would affirm? It's throwing money at big private company, and that is how the US government under any administration likes to tackle big problems, rather than than the messy details and "big-government" stigma of co-ordinating a response in house?

In normal times, there is the potential for reputational damage from a Solyndra-style failure, but this was clearly not normal times.
This is an honest question - totally non rhetorical. What would be the difference between this, and consumers just using F-Droid?
Whilst I imagine the final line "I cannot get a discrete GPU at a reasonable price" is more a frustration, never underestimate the importance of working with restraints. If you develop against a terrible GPU you're forced to fix issues like this quickly.

Although I'll of course agree a better computer helps the iterative dev cycle.
People complaining about cryptocurrency rarely have internally consistent values, instead they’re just chasing the flavor of the month to virtue signal.

It would be fallacious to suggest that someone is wrong because of this, but it works as a standalone observation.
It's super easy to convert an average user to libre office tho.

Just wait for the next major office update and tell them that there is a piece of software that has a UI that still reflects what these people are used to.
There are sooo many no brainers, that bureaucratic monstrosities also known as Big Corps just can’t get right. I work for one and more than half of the daily problems are home made and were simple no brainers elsewhere.

I got all my electronic parts on time for my private development and first small manufacturing run. It is indeed no brainer.
The translation is not idiot, but misfortune, damage or pity (Schade for German friends). Funny name for sure.
Ramanujan always amazes me. Remembering my visit to the Ramanujan Museum in India, which treasures the pictures, letters, and documents focusing the greatest mathematician of the 20th Century:

https://casualwalker.com/museum-for-the-man-who-knew-infinit...
Some more:

> Not to mention the privacy and security concerns. I was dubious the first time I saw a GPS in a car, my mom’s old RX300, about 20 years ago. “Yeah… that’s how they get you,” I thought

Well, that reasoning was flawed 20 years ago - GPS means YOU know where you are, not the other way around. There has to be other communication channel for that data to "escape". If your car is data-enabled with SIM card, only then it is a concern.
Yeah, I studied CS, so my background in algebra beyond elementary concepts is very limited. As you said in another comment this is very math heavy.

I don't doubt that what you're saying is true, it's just something far outside what I personally am familiar with.
Glad i'm not the only one who thinks this is insane. I could maybe see a yolk, but dear god get me AWAY from touch screen style buttons in any serious process, let alone ones that can wind up in different orientations.

And why in the hell does a yolk need to have the horn on a button rather than the center of the yolk as anyone would expect? Maybe there's some technical reason i'm unaware of, but this seems actively dangerous for no gain. I can think of several better ways to do this that aren't actively confusing and hostile to the driver.
From the posted stats, the Stalemate=win rule does result in more decisive games (fewer draws). But it has an even bigger effect in giving white a further advantage over black.
On that page, I clicked on your name (http://dario.im/) for what I suppose was going to get me to a page generated by zas. You may want to take another look at it :-)
Skype for Business was "Lync" rebranded, not Skype right? It was so terrible I think they wrecked Skypes reputation.
Just like toilet paper, hoarding is just game theory in action. If you don't take part in the madness, you're at a disadvantage as the "sucker".

For toilet paper, the cost of that disadvantage is having to wash your backside with the shower head and the benefit is the warm fuzzies of doing the right thing. For a business with no chips, it could be an existential threat. Warm fuzzies don't pay salaries.

The only way to avoid it is to have every company in the world to agree to not hoard, and harshly punish "defectors" somehow. Or have the supplier strictly ration supply, which doesn't work if the supply is coming from existing stock in the hands of distributors unless they also cooperate (or collude, depending on how you look at it).

None of that is remotely possible in the global industrial system. JIT is often blamed, but to avoid it, trillions of dollars worth of material would need to be hoarded constantly, which is its own problem: storage costs money, logistics and space, and its a substantial risk if you end up not needing it or the goods expire or become obsolete on a shelf and overproduction is a waste of resources. Going bust because you hoarded 5 million components that you never actually needed and couldn't offload is still going bust.
I picked up a Dacia Sandero a year back, seems pretty well-made. Very low-tech too, even has crank windows in back.
But they are guarded by someone?
No, I wouldn't expect so.

I've used Squire closed shackle locks in the past with my Almax chain for locking up motorbikes. The nice thing a 19mm chain with the Squire lock is that the shackle is locked into position on the inside of the chain link and the profile of the link prevents the lock from being rotated to attack the shackle easily.

These days I use an Abloy PL 342. It doesn't fit the chain as well, but I can see from marks on the shackle that it has resisted bolt cutters.
This could give us a foundation for exploiting change blindness in stage magic, optical illusions, and visual media. It could also be used for acquiring neural baselines for diagnostics - differences in neurotransmitter levels and ratios should register differences in function.

Any direct tap into basic brain function presents opportunities for hacks. I wonder if visualization can be practiced and improved, or used in conjunction with memory enhancement or calculation?
Article says it's part of "Kubernetes logs for the entire production clusters (gathered through log collectors)", not that the author actually found private keys and used them.
Just putting forward a case for something or case against something misses out a lot. Don't get me wrong, it can be used as a provocation to stimulate discussion. But that is only part of the benefit.

If one were to use an approach like Six Thinking Hats, one could use a hat sequence such as 1.Blue -> 2.White -> 3.Green -> 4.Yellow -> 5.Black -> 6.Green -> 7.Red -> 8.Blue. Each colored hat represents a specific thinking mode. We assign a predetermined time for each stage and use the thinking mode exclusively related to the hat color.

1.Blue: Establish a focus (for eg: building an app that does X)

2.White: What information do we have (for eg: addressable market size, MVP scope, any research/data available on prospective customers etc.,)

3.Green: The creative details (for eg: We will do Y1, Y2, Y3, ...)

4.Yellow: List the benefits

5.Black: List the drawbacks, pitfalls, challenges, risks etc.,

6.Green: Address the drawbacks, pitfalls and challenges creatively and try to mitigate risks

7.Red: Get a gut check from the team if the proposed idea/solution is trending in the right direction

8.Blue: Setup a follow-up action plan (for eg: Next steps on xx/xx/xxxx, task owner ABC).

The article's main point on putting forward the case against is only the #5.Black hat thinking. We are all natural black hat thinkers. But that is just one of the modes and focusing on that alone doesn't lead to a robust solution.

More on Six Thinking Hats in this book here: https://www.amazon.com/Six-Thinking-Hats-Edward-Bono/dp/0316...
If people stopped using their weird OS (which definitly isn't one of their strengths) most tech would render irrelevant as well.

However not even Windows 8, or ads in a paid OS made that change happen.
Seriously ?
Why not just create an open database which would contain important comments, critique and known cases of misinterpretation/misuse for every scientific paper (uniquely identified by a DOI)?
Re Elasticsearch. It used to be much worse.

Even basic authentication was only available to those with an xpack subscription, it didnt have any security unless you paid money or used Nginx or another server to apply the auth and proxy the connection.

That didn't stop people from making instances available publicly, and it was only until Elasticsearch started hitting the news about all the open instances did they make it available in the free tier from May 2019 (6.8.0 / 7.1.0)
Caddy looks great. I'm used to:

1. generate html from markdown
2. copy the generated html to /var/www
3. Let nginx serve (and cache) it

Would caddy fulfil these requirements as well? Is it as performant as nginx?
>go to the dealer and they’ll fix it for you, for free, by installing a mirror on the dash that will reflect your instruments in the proper orientation.

cheap and easy fix

>I’m kidding!

:(

>They’ll replace the whole LCD dash unit, which should fix this.

>Even weirder, some reports have suggested that it only happens at really low temperatures, which makes no sense at all: why would a low temperature affect the orientation of how the instrument cluster computer is rendering its images?

Car uses universal buffered LCD module with configuration pins setting initial orientation.

>The instrument panel (“IP”) cluster liquid-crystal display (“LCD”) in the subject vehicles may have been produced with incorrect resistors resulting in the possibility of an inverted image of associated controls, gauges, and telltale indicators upon startup of the vehicle at extremely low temperatures.

Solid strap resistors set initial orientation, but badly matched values result in marginal logic levels. Judging by very low number of affected vehicles someone screwed up loading P&P machine with correct value part/misread a zero or two? :)
I meant consensus among developers. Using external _static_ resources has been a normal thing for very long and generally hasn’t been discussed under the light of GDPR.

In fact I would argue that most devs don’t assume that this is a problem at first glance. The general awareness and education should be better here.
I guess the probability theory and statistics is the field with most false beliefs. It's because human intuition doesn't really work, but everyone is trying to use it anyway.

For example, the answers mention the belief that if 3 distributions are pairwise independent then they're jointly independent. Another false belief is that if 2 distributions are independent then they are conditionally independent. Also, people might think that you can pick a real number from R uniformly.
Many major operating system updates to computers of mobile phones are also "opt in" while not providing a way of downgrading—granted in the case of computers you can often "just" reinstall from scratch, possibly factory reset in many mobile phones has achieve the same?

Granted Tesla is pretty naggy about the updates should you choose to hold off. But as far as I know, it's not limiting any functionality should you choose to do that.

For example the Polar watch app simply says you need to update the app firmware to keep using the app: that's not opt-in.
Your last comment is the reason for the massive gap between list price versus net price in the US system.

The US has a rule about “usual & customary price”. That’s a legal definition and providers can’t charge any customer more than that.

If you’re looking to price discriminate, you set your U&C price as high as possible, maybe 2-5x what you’d accept. That way if you find a customer willing to pay 4X, you’re not running afoul of the law.

For everyone else, you negotiate a much more reasonable net price, typically through insurance.

The people who get screwed in the end are ones without insurance. They get billed the imaginary number nobody ever intended anyone to pay.
When did you listen? They used to be OK but then went completely down the conspiracy rabbit hole.
... and at the restaurant, cinema, etc.?
Often gets down to profit sadly and if a company is unable to copyright or patent such technology due to prior art, then the incentives as a company are not there.

Sad I know, but the whole drug industry is primarily based around making money first. Which however coldhearted that sounds, is how business works.

This is all something touched upon recently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30007863