skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It feels like the author didn't like tree based file structures? The provided software in the screencast remembers me of iTunes. Which I dismiss because it doesn't provide a logical *tree like structure*. And it is not a filesystem replacement either, it is a database which adds a lot complexity and hides actually data. Furthermore this assumes someone is maintaining the metadata (remember the MP3-Taggers?) instead of the files. Metadata itself is useful but the creator of the file should add it not the user. Regarding file manipulation the proven answer are file permissions but I think CGROUPs are the flexibel, modern approach.

Because I'm seeing "Windows Explorer" in background:

Windows Explorer has degraded in recent years, it is even hard to open your "home directory" and the UI is confusing. Look at the one from NT 4.0 which was much more close the fulfill the task.

And Apple:

I think the regret nowadays the howl iTunes? But instead the pushing hard on apps which contain the data. Now you have to look always into a single app and uses it facilities to retrieve a file. Android failed here, too. But using iOS is hard.
My imagination has a lot of ideas about what this means. But I also dropped biology in high school and went into computers, so I'm very poorly armed to assess this.

Can someone tell me what the real implications of this are, and what the totally reasonable explanations might be?
WTF. Plug it in and it works. How do you macros? You go to https://www.duckychannel.com.tw/en/Keyboards and get the manual.
The thing I don't understand about these sanctions is - aren't they meaningless when it comes to shaping policy? Russia is not a democracy - Putin doesn't need the support of the targets of sanctions to act however he wants; Russia controls the energy supplies in Europe and sits on a huge pile of currency - hitting them economically will hurt Europe much more than Russia.
Yep, I remember the real excitement in Russia about US around 1990+ and Kosovo was like a cold shower for many believers there.
Yeah I do almost all of my HN reading on my phone - so if stuff isn't readable on mobile it's hard for me to evaluate it.
It will only flicker once every 10 minutes, and the toggler will be the one winning the auction with the highest transaction fee.
It's not every end-user, it's every operator. And that's a good thing: it creates a positive feedback loop where i'm incited to share my patches because others are too. I'm not going to be at a disadvantage sharing code/ideas, because it's the standard within that community and it will benefit everyone equally.

Copyleft is is not hostile to innovation, it's the only sustainable path to innovation and was the standard way of developing arts/sciences for millennia before the copyright industry was born and fucked up everything.
Hey, wasn't this the EXACT argument Democrats made about removing Trump from office before the election? Floating the idea he'd risk WW3 instead of losing an election?

Turns out Trump's general hard line on everything was useful for something.
That looks interesting. I'm installing Cairo right now - a bit of a beast though. I'll test it but might try to port the anafanafo functionality anyway. It'd be very nice to just have 100 lines of Go code and a JSON data file to deal with.
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It is said that dictatorships like Russia and China will use any of their very large corporations that provides services to foreigners to help them reach their own goals. This is logical and probably true.

Kasppersky is (was?) the world's most widely deployed anti virus. It was founded by a former KGB officer and is closely tied to the Russian government.

It was found to be uploading files to Russia when their algo figured it was good docs for the Russians to have.

JB is probably in the same boat. (So is Zoom and lots of other software, but that's for another day)

If you are writing software for the Ukrainian army, don't use JetBrains. If you are a small time dev in the U.S. it is likely within your risk profile.

If you just want to punish Putin, and therefore you would stop using Russian software, that's another story, and one that I have a harder time justifying.
I agree it’s across the spectrum and because that’s what voters vote for.

But I think about Joseph Lieberman. A Democrat but not unwilling to split with the Democrats. Nobody loved him (maybe his own constituency?) but nobody really hated him either.

I’m on a movie quote spree:

”Ordained by blood, there are those who would have been better suited to harvest cow dung than to rule the greatest empire on earth. There are those who were as silver, a lesser metal, but worthy of coinage. And then there are those, like cold stone, who force their strength and fury and win the title by fear and intimidation. Blood is nothing. Heart and spirit make the sage”
"I for one welcome our new robot overlords" [0]

More seriously, does this article mean that the societal decline caused by misinformation is stronger because it's showing up on a computer screen (e.g. Facebook?)

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGxdgNJ_lZM
> As it becomes easier to emulate hardware tokens[1], Google may start limiting which ones it accepts.

Why? I hope they don't, as I'm relying on my password manager to emulate a hardware token so I can finally log in to websites without needing a username/password.

At its core, FIDO2 is an authentication API, so the site can ask your browser to authenticate you (in whatever way the browser wants). If that's "talk to the password manager to authenticate the user using some fancy cryptography", why does the authenticating site care?

I'm looking forward to the day when my password manager only has one credential in it, my soft-FIDO2 private key.
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Back then it was assumed that the management could be held accountable.
All that might be true for consumer products, but it’s absolutely not true for weapons systems and cutting edge technologies. Their J-20 fighter jet has a cost between 30-120 million, whereas the F-35 costs 78 million. It’s also worth mentioning that the high speed rail in China only exists because of strict control over airways making trains artificially competitive. Despite this state rail system holds 850B in debt alone (with some numbers I’ve seen online indicating a total system debt of 1.8 trillion), and is losing money daily. Regardless of the rumored numbers, a debt level that high indicates that they have to pay near-western prices for advanced technology. Tanks, jets and high speed rail are considerably more challenging to produce cheaply than sandwiches or obsolete smart phones.

[1] https://amp.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3127644/c...
The storage of the secret on the server side isn't really relevant to the major wins that TOTP provides. A well-done implementation stops keyloggers and shoulder surfers, and for many people that aren't using password managers, it does add a significant level of security, without greatly inconveniencing the user.

Honestly, the alternatives are worse. For U2F keys, you need to remember to bring your dongle with you, it has bad support on phones/mobile devices, some machines lock down ports, and there's a not-insignificant cost to buy.
You'd be surprised how much code editing I get done on my phone these days - I ship small changes to my projects (including things like adding new badges to my READMEs) through the GitHub web interface quite often.
> So, to match power out, it has to be big. Really, really big.

Fusion has all of the characteristics of something you'll want to do if you are in space. Add to that the fact that its fuel is much easier to acquire than fission and that solar isn't available everywhere and you have a winner.

Meanwhile down to Earth, yes, most likely it will never be an important energy source.
damn they are going to build a babelfish (or at least aiming for it)
I did some research on the aesthetic properties of WOW. one conclisoon I came to…

An aesthetic image such as a painting tends to be either low saturation/high lightness contrast or high saturation/low lightness contrast. One reason this is true is that nature tends to follow the same rules.

WoW was one of the first games to feature regularly high saturation plus high lightness contrast. This combination is difficult to maintain but has a particular appeal.
JetBrains is not offically russian company (but founded by russian citizens). They have headquaters and are registered in Czech Republic, so company is in european legislation area. They have R&D centers around a world but mostly in Russia. The reason why they are registered in CZ are that they do not trust russian goverment and businness in Russia. I don't think that it's security risk to use JetBrains products, but I expect that delivering new versions and support will be postponed or cancelled for some time.
The interesting thing is that this wouldn’t have happened if the US hadn’t gotten rid of Ukraine’s nukes and promised to protect them after they got rid of them.
I replaced long ago the Google Authenticator by Aegis on Android.

You can actually do backup of your keys (encrypted).

Also they reverse engineered the steam Authenticator, so one less app to have on my phone.
Had to look it up and you're correct. Why on earth isn't it based on public key cryptography?
> (confirmed by President Zelensky today -- said we will not be fighting Russia head-on). Therefore no more Ukrainian body bags, which is great news, though not the ending we wanted.

Oops. Your comment aged really poorly in one day. It turns out Russia wanted all of Ukraine and you are fighting them head-on.
I've always been of the opinion that the only way out is nuclear proliferation. Ukraine gave up their nukes. See where that got them.
- maximum asshole. If you are politically powerful, escalate immediately and intensely. Theatrically demand, via your boss, their boss and in the name of the CEO and quarterly profitability that your project must be bureaucratically unblocked.

(Not an endorsement)
What would happen if the western tech giants decide to shutdown every service in russia? No AWS, no GCP, no peering, etc. I am pretty sure, that most companies in russia rely on western infrastructur in some way. Also it would be pretty hard for russia to keep spreading fake news.

I guess that Putin would loose his remaining following if the smartphones of the population became useless.
I'm not going to give her any video before she's 2 years old. And after that we'll try to not do it for as long as we can and it makes sense. Because in the end, I watch movies and series and whatever. But she'll want to watch stuff as we're part of the society. And when that time comes, I'll be prepared with a Jellyfin instance to at least curb some of the attention grabbing feed and ads of current systems :)
I grew up in a dictatorship and spent 12 years in school being taught people carrying certain labels are really really bad and subhuman. From that point it was very easy to fill up the prisons and execute almost 60,000 people just by applying those labels to anyone they wanted.

Anti-revolutionary, infidel, morally corrupt and other words.

I am very scared of the Nazis (I also have other reasons to be scared of them because of the color of my skin, etc), but I am more scared of labels and people who apply those labels without a proper legal process.

Trust me!
This is a solid way to support open source maintainers. Another way I have seen companies support open source is by hiring these maintainers as employees or paying an employee to work on the open source project.

Of course, right now this is happening at popular open source projects like Kubernetes and is only followed by big tech companies.

But, giving some time for internal developers to contribute back to the open source project directly can have a huge positive impact as well.

This is not an alternate solution to actually sponsoring money but something that could complement it.
This is great, thank you. I haven't though about many of these things.
Is it in the realm of science fiction because nobody has pulled the trigger yet? Or is it because the gun doesn’t exist?

Ukraine has been subjected to Russian cyberattacks for nearly a decade now. They’ve accomplished knocking the power off multiple times. It would seem the gun exists.

I don’t think it’s a stretch to imagine they could have some success with cyberattacks against the US. How impactful that would be to disrupting day to day life though is a question that remains to be answered. When the power was out in Texas recently, there was quite an impact. Imagine millions losing power in the rust belt in the winter. There would no doubt be loss of life and significant physical damage.
Word! The backyard of a sad Mafia of outdated old Russian men still stuck in the 20th century. As things stand my guess is this lasts about five years and ends with some nuclear exchange over Europe, assassinations across the West and East, and prude dove China slowwwwly crawling east, then south, north, west.
"Of course, the prospect of personal enrichment is more important than millions of people losing their homes, homelands, loved ones and lives."

Which is why you stopped using any product coming from a country engaged with war, murder and torture?

I think that is hard to do.

It is also hard to punish a company for the actions of their government.
This. Since XV days, X's 2D rendering has been accelerated by GPU's.
> I'm sorry but what makes you think Authenticator can not be used while getting 2FA in use with your google account?

The fact that Google doesn't give him the option, presumably.
but so far with no military. That might change in the future though, after brexit and this.
If you read HN you will know Youtube and Google randomly shuts down people's accounts. It's not safe to use Youtube. Please use Twitch instead.
Maybe I was too!
> "You are right about large majority of Russians being complicit"

Honest question. How do you know a large majority of Russian citizens are being complicit in supporting these acts of war? This is such a broad, generalizing statement. It's not like they were asked to vote on it?
> no one does that on mobile devices.

Because you don't really have valuabe data on a mobile phone. It's mainly just photos, and they are all in one folder ordered by date. So adding tags to that is a feasible strategy.

Everything else on the phone most people don't consider as permanent data, so it's not worth organizing it. You contacts are in the cloud, so are your chat logs,... And app configuration data can always be recreated with some effort.
> You now need to pay if you wanna be heard.

Citation needed. Plenty of games get picked up and become popular organically. How much did they spend on Minecraft's marketing? Fortnite? Factorio? KSP?
France does. Not surprising though, maintaining nukes and nuclear missile submarines ain't cheap.
I find it interesting that the 2FA methods it gives you are non-anonymous: SMS has a phone number, security key has a hardware ID, and Google Prompt has your IMEI/phone ID (and maybe number?) too.
What an awful system! What happens if you refuse to participate?

I would give up my phone and go back to landlines.
TIL, Apparently yes: Article 42.7 of the Lisbon Treaty. Obvious in retrospect.
I suspect that it is a common practice for military sites to block foreign IPs. When I google "Join the army," I cannot find any recruitment pages for any non-US armies. Even when I explicitly google something like "Join Mexican army," I see nothing. Seems like this is a behavior that was deliberately designed.
Russia can't even get a gas pipeline to all of its cities
I think that for any JB product you can find better and free alternatives.
I have read that some developers deliberately omitted sidewalks in order to produce the impression of being out in the country--though given the closeness of the houses, the impression must have been pretty vague.

There is a little wedge of Washington, DC, bounded by Oregon Avenue, Western Avenue, and Chestnut St, called "Hawthorne". I used to run through and see signs reading "No Sidewalks in Hawthorne", after a while varied by signs says "Yes, Sidewalks in Hawthorne", but probably fewer. I suppose that this is six miles from the White House by air line, probably seven by road.

(And now there are sidewalks in Hawthorne, at least a few.)
Never heard of it. Does that work on a child’s iPad and expose videos via an interface that they can navigate?
How likely is it that I wouldn't be access MullvadVPN for example? Should I roll out my own private VPN server via DigitalOcean or smth?
> Conventional biostatistical analysis indicates that the probability of this sequence randomly being present in a 30,000-nucleotide viral genome is 3.21 ×10−11

That seems like a pretty small number.
Because that's snake oil. I had accelerated 2D since XV days (XVideo extension for X) back in 2003.
Those interconnects take a long time to build, mostly due to political opposition, and aren't that cheap either. For example, the 2GW 400-mile Southern Cross has turned out to be a 17-year project, costing $2 billion. https://www.eenews.net/articles/what-a-2b-texas-project-says...

They're not the only ones:

> the 732-mile TransWest Express high voltage transmission line filed its first permit application in 2007, but did not receive all of the approvals until 2020. The Environmental Impact Statement alone took eight years to complete.

Local landowners tend to object to these projects. On average, they take over a decade to complete and that includes much shorter lines, which are quicker. Building underground can help with political resistance but multiplies cost by 5X to 10X.

As of 2020, over 750 GW of proposed generation, most of it wind and solar, were waiting for transmission to be built.

https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/challenges-decarbon...

China builds transmission a lot faster, and we might be able to speed things up with the SITE Act, which gives the federal government authority to override local and state resistance: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/07/america-...

But if our solution set can include unpopular new laws to override NIMBYism, then we can make nuclear a lot faster and cheaper, too.
It is well worth the 2 hours. I've seen that man talk about Fifty Shades of Grey for 3 hours and I was not bored
If this occurred naturally, shouldn’t that automatically invalidate the patent?
Russia Invasion of Ukraine Ignites European Security Crisis
Install Kiwix, preferably on an airgapped device, and download the data you may need now.
It's both in every case so far. Machines are made and operated to discover empirical data, but we invent the engineering along the way.

Computation is woefully insufficient for particle level simulation. If we had a proper model of turbulence that issue would be lessened. We don't have a full grasp on plasma physics. If we did we could point to a single stellarator geometry and say "that one".

The physics and engineering also interplay at many levels. Optimal decisions at every level take both the plasma physics and engineering into account.
How is an iPhone (or other mobile OS) better?
You run into the touchpad not detecting swipes accurately long before you get to anywhere near instant.
We issue security keys to staff who don't want to use a personal phone for work.

(I.e. they have the option: use their personal phone, or carry this Yubikey.)
I agree with everything you listed, except the political quip in point (D). Most of these large projects are funded with federal dollars, and both parties have no shame in clamoring for that money. The comment you're responding to was concerning a bloated project in a blue state. The issue isn't red vs blue- it's organizational. Politicians don't see the intrinsic value of such projects so much as they see the value of money intended for such projects. Unfortunately, grifting has become such an issue that people are opposed to the undertaking of infrastructure projects, but usually their objections only extend so far as their own state lines.
Would it be good if profit was their only motivation? IMO the main problem with this is precisely that it ends up sending control of profits abroad. Of course, that's true with any multinational company. Anything else beyond profiteering can always be reversed by simply taking back control of the company in the worst case. Ownership is always with the grace of governments.
Last I've had to do this (last November): for Google itself, you need to set up SMS 2FA, and then you can add an additional TOTP device and remove the SMS 2FA. A bit annoying, but worked for me for my work account.
USA, UK and Russia - those were the parties of the Budapest memorandum.
My immediate thoughts: it could be lacking because it's not at all clear what you're marketing here... it seems like random text?
I don't think any of those were account freezes, though, mostly civil asset forfeiture. Civil asset forfeiture is an abhorrent practice, but it is different than freezing someone's bank account.
Files give you ownership of the data. Tags make you slave to an intermediate layer between the data and you.

Let me jnow when you have replaced your filing cabinet with just tags.
I think the point is that it might not have occurred naturally in this case.
To be fair, any competent data team would have done the same analysis first, before attempting to build complicated models.

As I keep saying to people, sometimes the best model is a well chosen graph.
Doesn't the crypto enthusiasm from inside the US underscore the parent's point?
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That feeling goes away with "practice". Starting IF it can feel like that for a while. I think it's your body getting more efficient at switching away from glucose and to ketones for energy production.
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Theory: any conversation on Hacker News that can boil down to WFH discussion, will.
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I really disagree with this idea. It reminds me of how developers try to prevent you from pasting passwords into password fields.

The benefit of using TOTP at all far outweighs the insecurity of storing it on the same computer. And it is so low effort, I use it everywhere possible.

I have a simple script that takes a screenshot, uses zbarimg to extract the single line otpauth:// string, and appends it to my pass password database[1], which then hooks back into my browser. I somehow don't think I would bother with a hardware key for my BestBuy.com account.

Besides, my password db is itself is encrypted with GPG, and GPG can use a hardware token to be unlocked, thereby giving you more flexibility and transparency, while still benefiting from a token.

Developers can't know what configuration users have.

[1]: https://www.passwordstore.org/
You could jump. :)
I'm only half-serious.
Sequence is here:

https://seqdata.uspto.gov/?pageRequest=viewSequence&DocID=US...
It's definitely a rip off (or, 'inspired by' to put it more kindly), but Stardew managed to make it much more enjoyable and feature-rich than the long Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons lines - and by just the one guy.

But there's a lot of others like that. Hollow Knight is a better Metroid / Castlevania. Shadow of Tsushima is a better Assassin's Creed. Final Fantasy XIV is a better World of Warcraft. Dwarf Fortress is a better Rogue/Nethack. I will go into hiding now.
Security keys hardware IDs are either not accessible to applications, or non-unique, for this reason.

A bigger security/privacy issue with U2F is that you cannot use it with javascript disabled.
> And you are right where you started: paths.

A big difference is that one can naturally have multiple tags, and an entity could share tags with other entities.

Sure you can use hardlinking when it comes to files, but it's tedious and you can't have multiple files hardlinked to the same path.
The UI is nice !
The same prediction is made in Dugin's Foundations of Geopolitics. Many of his recommendations have come to pass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics#Con...