skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I know all that, and that's fine. I'm not looking to solve the problem of authenticating so I can launch nukes, I just want people to not steal my Twitter account.

A random thief stealing my laptop would have to:

1) Bother

2) Break my hard disk encryption/know the password

3) Break my password manager encryption/know the password

I think that's hard enough for someone wanting to get into my email. I use a separate hardware key to secure my domains, and that's about it.
This is a post hoc justification for why executives make 1,000,000x more than the people who do the actual work.
The author would be more credible if they revealed their identity and showed some credentials, otherwise it's just another voice on the internet; it could be a subject matter expert, it could be an armchair expert, could be part of the Russian propaganda machine, or it could be a troll.
Why is it that Google and the tech giants would rather that you use highly insecure HTTP than a possibly insecure self signed certificate?

You use self signed certificates all the time with SSH. If you haven't seen an SSH key before, you don't fall back to telnet.

If you stop to think about it, is incredible how much effort they put into forcing you to use the latest browser, and not trust self signed certificates. It is far easier to root your device and patch your kernel than it is to use an older browser.

Yes, it is a highly effective but clumsy heuristic to detect abuse. But I am convinced that they may have other incentives as well.
I think phishing is an entirely different matter.

Any access is easily "phished" with pliable people (which is not necessarily a set of people, but also a question of timing and circumstances: everyone is sometimes more or less pliable): "please log in with your U2F device, download that document and upload it to this URL https://your-company-confidential.s3.amazonaws.myurl.com/, before we can reinstate your access to company systems".
How was "strobe warning" not enough warning for you? Just chill.
"Tucker Carlson and the rest of the Republican party's support for Russia boils down to "we need Russian support against China"."

No, it's definitely not that.

It's just use Russian talking points to 'Blame Democrats' and get ratings. That's it. It's just a wedge issue.

For Trump it's different. He sees everything in terms of personal relationships, and this sounds odd but I actually believe he thinks being on 'good personal terms' with Putin would be good for the countries. Like two Dynastic builders in NYC, getting on each other's 'good side'. Putin however is not like that at all, he's thinking about the legacy of his nation of himself, and of course, both men are representing states, and Trump's 'personal relationships' have nothing to do with real diplomacy or strategic issues.

Secondarily, Trump sucks up to powerful people, Trump was trying to build a tower in Moscow before becoming president, he offered Putin the Penthouse for free as a brand building exercise but also to smooth the permits and attract buyers. Much of Trumps properties take investments from rich people from around the world, aka 'ill gotten money' much of it Russian.

Warming up to Putin in such a personal way and defending him in the press was a novel thing for America and a lot of the populist movement with with him on it. Fox, some GOP and a lot of pundits used the opportunity to flip the narrative as well.

So unfortunately, no, Carlson and the Russian-appeasers in the GOP are not thinking geostrategically. It's just cynical politics.
I doubt I'll ever feel the wonder I felt from those first months of classic WOW. I started as a NElf, and those environments still feel kind of homey to me, even all these years later.

I played off and on for about 9 or 10 years, and then stopped. The game evolved past what I enjoyed, which was mostly in-world advancement with friends. I was never much of an endgame player.
>> what do you use as a discovery platform

> I randomly happen upon them

It answers the question but likely not the answer they were looking for.

Personally I find that YouTube recommends decent content to me based on what I like to watch.

But it’ll recommend garbage to my kids. The problem is that the kids like the garbage.

Beyond that often YouTubers in a certain niche will mention / promote others doing similar stuff.

I do subscribe to premium just to avoid the Prager U and other ads that have no business being targeted at kids in the first place.
Sure, it could happen. There were hospitals that got knocked out for weeks with as simple ransomware attack.

If you have a dedicated hacker with means to acquire exploits, security is probably almost impossible. This is why effective mitigation is very likely the safer approach. Manual overrides or air gapped systems would help too.

But it is wrong to panic about it. The best mitigation is boring, but yes, some investment in IT could really help.
It depends on the host's policy. In the peertube model, your server is responsible for hosting the video so unless it closes down there's no reason for it to be unavailable. This has interesting consequences because it means you should not trust a random service provider to host your videos, but rather find a dedicated community on a specific topic, or an existing network (such as a local non-profit host) which is sustainable.

There is currently no incentives for seeding and that's a good thing. Seeding (replication) is achieved as a community-to-community service between consenting sysadmins/communities. So if people from kolektiva.media find conf.tube content/concept interesting, the admins can setup say 1TB (or unlimited quota) of replicated content from conf.tube, and both sources will be listed as webseeds when you watch the video on either instance.
PeerTube has a much stronger privacy and security than any other.
> - or: follow the rules to a t. Not necessarily malicious compliance, just don't care that you overload the system. At some point someone will sit down and look at it and corners will be cut.

Also hope that you are not a corner. Because "someones" can decide that you are the problem not biurocracy.
I don't find that calculation convincing as it ignores that these viruses already have a furin cleavage site that by definition must be pretty similar to the sequence here. So the probablity would have to be calculated as "how likely is it that a virus with a related furin cleavage site accumulates the number of mutations necessary to arrive at this particular optimized one". And even then as this sequence provides a fitness advantage a naive calculation could be seriously off as well.
They didn't have 200k troops and tons of military gear amassed around their borders for 8 years. It's hard to believe anyone who's been paying attention to the buildup would've thought they're there just to chill out.
Will browsers that natively support IPFS automatically become distribution nodes? Or is cached-but-not-pinned data not served to other peers?
I wonder how companies like Jetbrains will function. HQ in Czech Republic but majority of developers in Russia, I believe. Might be hard to pay developers without SWIFT access.
While I agree, I’m afraid all your comment did was pull the anti-US Russian trolls out into the open.
I guess you have think of the cost savings vs an actual fire too. $1.6B worth of property destroyed and a $55m cleanup project after the Boulder fires just now. That can justify a whole lot of $100 fire extinguishers even if they’re only marginally more effective (which it’s not clear that these are, just saying this is a problem you could justifiably throw some serious money at)
It only sounds like Star Trek gibberish because it's not IT jargon. It's some new kids on the block out there, our time has peaked.
> Evidently, sanctions do jack shit.

The THREAT of sanctions hasn't had the desired effect, and if they are enacted, they will take a while before their effect can be felt by the people involved - weeks, months, I don't know. And if they maintain a good relationship with China they may be able to avoid it entirely - although China may then risk its relationship with the rest of the world, if it's found out they're funneling money to Russia.
> The presence in SARS-CoV-2 of a 19-nucleotide RNA sequence encoding an FCS at amino acid 681 of its spike protein with 100% identity to the reverse complement of a proprietary MSH3 mRNA sequence is highly unusual. Potential explanations for this correlation should be further investigated.
Imagine that a virus is detected in your body and then you get sued by a patent troll for having unlicensed genetic sequences in your body.
I think the lack of unicorns in Europe has a lot more to do with the regulation culture and lack of ecosystem around starting new companies than with the US or China acquiring them away before they have the chance to fully bloom. You can see this even within Europe. Lots more unicorns in the UK than in Italy for exmaple.
The solution should be a combination of folders and tags. E.g. imagine a folder that just contains all your photos without any substructures. It would be easy to just select e.g. all "2018 photos", "birthday photos" or "photos of your parents" in there without needing specific subfolders for those things (especially since those subfolders would conflict with eachother).

But I agree that I wouldn't want those pictures to be mixed with e.g. other random screenshots or drawings that I made, even if they could be separated by tags somehow. So folders as a hard separation would still make sense.
it'd be cool to see an information theoretical explanation of the complexity of hierarchical -vs- non-hierarchical file systems, and why human beings have such an initially easy time with hierarchies.

there's the obvious inheritance factor: the parent of a child in a hierarchy can provide a _heuristic_ about properties of the child. you sort of get this with a tagging system, but the inheritance can really only go one level (unless you make a hierarchy of tags, which brings you back to tree structures)
US very recently threatened decisive action if Russia would station troops/missiles in Venezuela or Cuba.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/14/russia-threatens-la...
GDP PPP is a more accurate measure. It factors in what things cost locally. The scales start to balance out more when looked from that angle.

Even then, some places like Afghanistan don't change much--and they're still completely unbeaten by modern militaries.
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Absolutely wealth is critical and way, way beyond funding. You don't play at a serious level as a kid if you're genuinely poor for so many reasons. A poorer, more populous, country with higher density living has relatively much more expensive access to playing fields. In chess it's more likely to be a function of tradition, interest, free time & resource availability (computers seem like they might be important but wtf would I know about it or how many in India have readily available access to play games?) Potentially health & nutrition of pregnant mothers could play some part in some of it for some individuals and may not be equivalent across all national borders. Domestic culture and whatever class and or caste system is influential in getting access to playing in the best competitions as a junior really matters.

New Zealand is wealthy, has more playing fields than they can use, anyone who wants to can afford to play and is welcomed - even more so if they can join in and help /us/ beat those bastards from across town for whatever value of across town is most relevant to the particular team. There's a metric fudge-tonne of old cranky bastards who want to tell you what to do to do it better, not all of them are useless either. At least that's my read as a foreigner who visited once. The proportion of New Zealanders who trace their heritage to the sub-continent is likely pretty small (wikipedia says 5%). The proportion of the New Zealand national cricket team who trace their heritage to the sub-continent is quite large in comparison (~30% depending on who is selected this week?) There was a test match recently between India and NZ where all the wickets in the match were taken by people tracing their heritage to India. Cultural tradition might have something to say about that too.

Likewise Norway is close to the richest country per capita in the world. Hard to think of anywhere you'd rather be if you were bringing up kids and in the bottom 10% of wealth & income. If your kid takes an interest in chess they are likely to be able to pursue it, is my guess (Norwegians can pipe up to say how ignorant I am if necessary). Not true everywhere in the world.
Google / Apple Pay would no longer be allowed to operate there, like how iirc a lot of US businesses were not allowed to operate in Iran (I'm not sure what the current status of that is). People got in trouble for that, too.
Aegis, available in F-droid as well, is an open source solution that allows you to easily backup and restore your TOTP "devices" (or rather, keys). You'd have to transfer that backup manually between your old and new phone.

A more user friendly cloud solution might be Authy that others have recommended.
Headline here on HN seems somewhat misleading, and I fear for how this is likely to be spun. In this context "patented" does not mean "engineered" or "artificial". This is the complement to a genuine human sequence we all have. It's 19 nucleotides (28 bits) long, so unlikely (but not impossible in a cryptographic sense) to have arisen randomly. We do know viruses will pick up these sequences from their hosts though, so by itself this doesn't actually say much absent some statistics about how common that is.

Basically: please be careful here, a lot of people are going to want to treat this as a smoking gun, and it's not. It sure is interesting though.
I think it worse, as “I want my house back” is worse than “could you unfreeze my bank account”…
Directories of links.

And yes, even with a layer on top of the FS to provide an abstraction (as an API, for instance) so you can build shells and applications, a tag + search based system would quite possibly be tedious to use.

I also don't think 64 bit ints provide a good way to definitively name things. Most people can't make sense of a list of 10 ints, but they will be able to remember at least where to look if you give them full paths.
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And tags don't help with that, when you just tagged everything with "Plumber".
Boeing is ultimately responsible for every part that goes into their planes. They didn't manufacture the equipment, of course, but they signed off on it meeting their standards.
This is why Russia has been quietly funding all the anti-nuclear movements in the west. ...to keep the west addicted to his oil and gas.
Why would Putin think his life is over? He's 10 years younger than Biden. And, have you ever heard the expressions, "better dead than Red" and "give me liberty or give me death"? People often believe that deeply held principles are more important than mere survival. Similarly Putin might believe that establishing Russia's strength and border security is more important than any short term pain Russia endures. In other words, there's other ways to look at this than as just a pure boss move for his own ego and pleasure.
Stock markets hate geopolitical instability of any kind.

Productivity of the entire world was almost destroyed with COVID lockdowns (and still has not recovered), but stock markets have been hitting record highs since.
Are all FPS games DOOM ripoffs?
Rama Works Thermal.

I love it. I got the original, I think there’s second version. It’s one of those small run mechanical keyboards that you’ve gotta find out about at the right time to get in on the preorder.

What’s good?

So it’s heavy. About 1.5kg. When typing on it, it doesn’t move. At all.

It has this pretty neat metal plate that the keys are attached to that flexes when pressed and helps to provide a nice feeling of feedback.

I’ve got it in the HHKB layout. Which means my arrow keys are on another layer and require a fn button to use. Some people will hate that, I found it means my hands need to move around less.

I also pair it with a Magic Trackpad. Which combined is smaller than a standard full size keyboard.

Now, should you get one — or something similar?

When fully built this could be one of those $~1000 keyboards. But if you want one, you’ve gotta follow a maker or foundry that’s producing them. You’ve gotta work out if they’re legit and can actually deliver (rama has been doing this for year).

Then you’ve gotta get switches, and there’s lots of options. Then keycaps. For each you could spend more than a decent off the shelf keyboard.

If you’ve read this far you probably know already know the answer. It’s a lot of work, costs a decent amount of money, with a huge payoff — if you get it right.

If you’ve never built one before, find a well reviewed but cheap board with hot swap sockets. Try some switches, find what feels good. And go from there. Don’t drop big money straight away.

I think everyone who works closely with computers should build their own keyboard. It’s you most personal, direct interface with the computer.

With a great keyboard, as you switch computers you keyboard comes with you.
Not sure if this has been shared, but Yuval Harari, eloquently explains why everyone should care about this, the first invasion of a democratic peaceful country in my memory

https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/02/09/yuval-noa...
I mean, Nato does have a real, physical border.... So if you have to draw a hard line somewhere, I guess it's already been done.
What's your proposal? Let Putin eat Ukraine? Baltic states next? Sit tight, run for the west and hope Putin stops at sooner than we run out of places to run to?
That would be amazing. Why support only Youtube though? It could be useful for many other sources/kinds of content!

> Would this be vulnerable to a legal attack from Google?

Not really, no. Rehosting the video could be fragile legally, depending on the actual use-case (eg. education/accessibility exceptions to copyright). But a free-software gathering links to existing 3rd party content is just a standard web page, nothing challenging legally. RSS feed readers are not illegal. [0]

[0] The notable exception being if you're setting up a centralized for-profit service out of it like Google News is doing. In this specific case they're making profit from content created by 3rd parties, which is definitely a copyright infringement.
And Russias GDP is as big as Italy

Russia’s GDP is 25% smaller than the U.S. State of Texas.

It sounds like a joke but it isn’t.

Texas GDP is $2.0 trillion.

Russia GDP is $1.48 trillion.

Most of Russia’s GDP is selling oil and gas which is one of the reasons Putin is able to do this now. Through higher oil prices he’s amassed a war chest of $631 billion in foreign currency reserves that will enable him to weather sanctions. That along with the friendship treaty with China giving them a market to sell their oil and gas and sanctions will prove fairly toothless.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/russia-counts-reserve...
I soldier could have choosen to reject the concept of „enemy“ by not being a soldier and not letting a gouvernment define distinct groups of people as „enemies“
Define organic and payment. We still have successful indie games exploding in success, mostly on its quality. It's just that the threshold for "quality" is higher with more competition around. So not any little crappy project becomes automatically successful, nor does the hundred clone of something gains any attention just because it makes something different.
There's a NewPipe fork with SponsorBlock support

https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe
Was it a bad idea because she said "buy gas from Russia" or was it a bad idea because they only listened then ignored her advice?
Does that make them any less accurate or valid? (Sincere question not rhetorical)
Chrome has been marking HTTP URLs as "not secure" in the URL bar for like three years.
FYI - the version you linked to is the “Slower fallback versions of Stockfish for browsers (C++, WebAssembly, JavaScript)” according to Lichess.

https://lichess.org/source

EDIT: nevermind, looks like you changed the link.
> Why is it that Google and the tech giants would rather that you use highly insecure HTTP than a possibly insecure self signed certificate?

There are legacy concerns that factor in here, where HTTP was the default, and HTTPS was a costly alternative.

Changing defaults can be expensive.
Indirectly. I know Jacques. I'm also on the Calcite PMC :) Thanks for the pointer though!
There were probably outflows already in progress, this is just accelerating the outflow.
Sure, the implication is that you can be sued for catching COVID, for patent infringement.
where do you have that from? you can obviously predict human behaviour very accurately, so you must base that on something. this is a serious situation after all. are you a psychologist?
> ‘What the fuck? These guys did this shit?’

Pretty much my reaction to it the first time I saw it - as depicted in Hot Dog. Now if they made an Olympic event out of Chinese Downhill... that'll bring in the eyeballs.
Yeah. Si monocrystalline PV modules fell in price by a factor of 4 from 2015 to 2020.

So many people talking about energy seem to be stuck in an obsolete past.
That would not be necessary, they'd just have to change it for that specific scanner.

Even the example shows how easy that is (just prepend `LANG=en_US ` to the command of the malware)
Could part of it have existed naturally in the past, and the patent captured this part? Surely nobody is writing the entire organism from scratch; they're still making tweaks to natural sequences?
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The West has failed at what, though? All wars are tragedies, but nobody promised they were going to protect Ukraine in the first place, and it’s a long standing international precedent that two countries can go to war without everyone on the planet sending troops.
Here are my reasons.

Putin's move here is like what you do when your character is about to die in CK3 so you just throw all your armies at a neighboring territory while you still have a claim you can press, even if your casus belli isn't accepted by the neighbors.

The strongest reason for me to believe his thinking is rational in terms of the Russian interest is that there is very little that could make Russia worse after his rule, and there are many reasons to suspect he's facing his own mortality. So here he's making a high-price choice which will dent his bank account and possibly his short-term popularity. As the richest man in the world and the most popular man in Russia, he must be dying and trying to make one last push. Otherwise there's no reason for him not to rest on his laurels: His massive wealth and the total ownership of Russia he has already. The man should retire. But he wants to make himself Peter the Great or Ivan the Terrible; to put himself into the annals of the Orthodox Church, he must conquer the cradle of the Rus'.

My theory on Putin is that he may be suffering from cancer. It would explain his terror of close contact with people, and this extreme move --

My fear about him is that he may want to take the rest of the world with him when he dies, including Russia.
This depends on the specific instance. Some have better connectivity to certain places than others.

What's interesting about Peertube is you are not tied to a single (commercial) CDN to distribute content to your area. If your local community is poorly-served by existing instances, consider setting up a local instances with some likeminded people and setting up replication (part of Peertube admin UI) for other instances/channels you find interesting and would like to be available locally.
AFAIK they get paid by including the sponsored segment in their videos, not by how many viewers specifically watched that segments.