skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't smoking gun by itself, but there sure are a lot of warm guns laying around this particular topic.
But you dont need a lot of fuel for fission and you also need many other things to keep a ship/station running. Isnt fuel in the ballpark of just one of many consumables that you need?
Thanks, corrected link!
I've seen that a few times now, really intelligent people over-engineering and selling a new system, moving up in the company then out. They sell technology that doesn't age well, get a fat paycheck, and never have to live with the consequences. I'm kinda done with that.

Mind you, sometimes it's inadvertent. I'm currently the only web developer at my company building a big system in Go and React. I don't believe they are very difficult or esoteric technologies, but I'm still not sure if they will be able to find a replacement if I decided to move on.

But I don't know what the alternative would have been. Probably keep trudging on with the old PHP + Dojo bombsite, but it would have the same problem because who would want to work with that tech stack? Who would be able to be productive in a 200K LOC pile of shit? I mean even if it wasn't shit, it's still 200K LOC representing a decade of work, dozens of domains and hundreds / thousands of individual features.

Which is where technology choices come in again; use simple and few tools, the problem to be solved is difficult enough already.
I've found good use of VGA to HDMI adapters combined with the HDMI to USB dongle. I know it's not an ideal solution, but it was the quickest and dirtiest solution I could come up with in a pinch.

Walmart[1] seems to have the VGA to HDMI adapters tucked in with the video stuff. I've also noticed they now carry the HDMI-USB adapters, branded Vivitar, for roughly $20 in the camera gear.

[1] I live in rural NY where Amazon Prime is impractical (4-5 day shipping via Prime) and my only local retail is a Walmart, so I keep an eye on what's local to me if only because if I need it ASAP...
You forgot that invidious still lets you watch videos age blocked fine. Gokunaru for instance just made a q & a a few days ago and I watched it on invidious
Well, yes - the key word in that statement being "tomorrow".

Technological innovation doesn't happen overnight. Browsers don't get IPFS support overnight. User interfaces don't get created overnight. And so, yes, sometimes it is up to people who can use the command line to pave the way to, as you're calling it, the web of tomorrow.
It's not a 'myth' that the US maintains world peace, it's a most obvious reality and it's disturbing that anyone wouldn't be able to see it plainly.

The world is not a 'peaceful place' with a bunch of wars now and again.

It's held together by force.

Peace is a balance of, and righteous management of power.

The US+NATO+Allies form the basis of that power. Unfortunately, without the US, that 'Team' would basically be dysfunctional and wouldn't really work.

The Panama Canal, Suez Canal, the Gulf, S. China Sea - all of it would be controlled by various regimes if it were not for US power basically keeping it all open for everyone.

Israel and Egypt the 'lynchpin' of peace in the ME is kept that way because of US power. All of he Middle East would be like Syria were it not for US/West.

Obviously Taiwan would be in China and Korea would be vanquished by N. Korea.

It's hard to know exactly how the cards would fall, but they would definitely fall one way or another.

Unfortunately, we don't have a solution for Ukraine, but thankfully, this will be mostly contained in Ukraine thanks to NATO.
Yes. That’s why so few dare think it.
Ask HN: Google SSO or Password Manager?
Hello!

I would like to secure my accounts better, and after reading many articles I still struggle with one decision.

Context
Gmail account, with long and strong password + 2fa with security key (Yubikey).

And now, for other websites (shops, social media, etc) is it better to?:
1. Use Google SSO if available
2. Use email/password login stored in the password manager (password manager secured with Yubikey too).

What do you suggest? Why?
This depends on the specific instance and its traffic to your area. Cross-instance replication is well-supported by Peertube (the software) and if an instance is not loading well from your area you could consider using a local non-profit (or just ask some friends) to host a local peertube instance to replicate the content you find interesting and make it more easily accessible locally.
Anyone with a smart phone can now spend their life savings on crypto or sports betting with almost zero friction.

We have a trillion each in student loans, auto, and credit card debt. Those (besides student loans) have requirements for credit worthiness. So those people were screened and some weren’t allowed to take on debt.

Not handled well (or ignored because it’s not viewed as a systemic risk), it’s a non-negligible portion of the population that is financially wrecked and unable to meet their debt obligations. And we can’t just make policy that says the idiots that blew their money on gambling and crypto don’t need to pay back their debt… it gets ugly fast.
Is Android Studio safe from Russian spyware? Is Android Studio's safety assured by Google?
The whole point about ICBM is that you can send them within minutes from anywhere on the planet.

There is nothing threatening about a country joining a defense alliance.
heh, the tag names in that demo video follow a hierarchical structure - .didget.Name, .didget.SHA1, .fileSystem.Ancestor, .fileSystem.Folder, ....

So now not only do you have a hierarchical (but optional, which is worse imo) structure for files, you also have a hierarchy for tag names (which, unlike with folders, you can't really rename if they conflict because they're singular keys).
I guess the point is, the proposed system wouldn’t actually be easier to organize. The metadata that would make searching so easy is what’s missing. But a new data structure doesn’t solve for the missing metadata. And without that extra metadata, searching would not actually be improved.
This is extraordinary and irresponsible FUD
Do you? You sound like you're making apologies without bringing compelling arguments to the contrary of the person you're replying to.
Bitwarden does TOTP as well if you give them $10/yr. It's handy as with most logins it will auto-fill UN and PW then put the code in your clipboard for you to just paste and hit enter.
This is a bit of an oversimplification (read in books from Erich Fromm I think), but depression, when caused by external factors, occurs when one can neither evade the cause of stress, nor find a way to address it constructively. Depression is more likely if you're stuck with what is causing you distress. This seems to be the case of the person writing this article.

So if they feel they can't do anything to oppose Putin meaningfully, they shouldn't just stay there and become miserable, but maybe should consider getting away from Russia altogether. Other countries have their issues too, and emigrating is a bitter solution, but it's better than staying and paying taxes to such a regime.

Or maybe Russia can have its own Euromaidan moment and get rid of Putin, although this would be bloody. Other dictators have fallen though, and they all seemed to have an unbreakable grip on power, with their brutal secret police and decades of rule, until they took a plane and fled in the night.
Disable Javascript to circumvent the paywall if you want to read this.
It works if the people responsible/authorized for imposing the annoying process are the ones you can impose the burden of compliance on.

In OP's story, OP was the department head, the burden was imposed on faculty (requesting any change) and department head (approving the request), but the department head was not the one who could change the process (other than by the un-specified manner they apparently did, and described as "routing around the damage")

I still agree it's better to make noise and make it known you don't like it, but if "following the letter of the law" does not in fact impose any burden on those who could make a change, it alone is unlikely to be effective.

Of course... now that I think about it... effective "political" (one definition) organizing/action itself is basically always a means of imposing a burden on those in power that can be lifted if they do what you want. It's just a matter of finding the lever that can be used by the amount of counter-power you have managed to build, to impose a burden on those who can make the change you want.
Can I use supershields for an internal company metric to be displayed on a GitHub enterprise instance? I've tried using shields.io in the past for this and the API endpoint typically must be publicly accessible to make a metric button out of it.
> true Russians

Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
It gets annoying though when you have just single invoices or documents that don't quite fit in your structure. I eventually started throwing all received documents in one folder and used the name as tags basically. E.g. 20210214_plumber_invoice.pdf or 20181204_someshop_invoice_playstation.pdf...
(And yes I use the filename for tagging because I don't trust e.g. Windows tagging system to be there forever or be copied properly onto other operating systems.)
The lost file might not be recent and it might not even be untagged, it might just be tagged incorrectly (e.g. `vacation-2019` vs `vaccination2019`).

The nice thing with a hierarchical directory structure is that every file has a place, even if a file is misplaced or misnamed, there is a good chance it will be near where it needs to be.

With tagging you don't really have that, it's just a pile and you have to hope that you can remember a query to make the file show up again.

The biggest problem however is that I don't see how you can actually work within a tagged system. How do you extract a `.zip`? How do you copy a file? How do you deal with removable media (DVD, USB)? Finding a file and handing it over to an app is not the only way we deal with files.

Your local file system is a work environment, where you are the one creating and modifying files. Tagging seems to works best when it comes to exploring around other peoples content, but that kind of exploration is not something I do on my local machine with my own files, since I already know where I put them.
Could you elaborate on what “complement to a genuine human sequence “ means?
>Kasparov is (was?) the world's most widely deployed anti virus

Kaspersky ;)

Kasparov was a chess grand master :)
This is really exciting news. Lots of folks slam Rails for being slow and inefficient despite there being massive sites using it at scale (Shopify, GitHub, etc.) with very commendable response times and uptime.

At the same time you can still run a single $20 / month server for "smaller" apps even with Rails + Sidekiq + Action Cable + Postgres + Redis all running on the same server to power your solo developed SAAS app with thousands of customers while having a p95+ response time of <= 100ms.

PRs like this just mean things are going to get even better than they already are and is probably a precursor to converting a bunch of Rails internals to use Fibers over time. The best part about it is I as an end user don't need to know the details, I just know my CPU and memory usage will go down over time while runtime performance continues to get better than it already is.

I wonder how long it'll take before the pendulum swings so hard back into the direction of Rails that it shatters even the original growth spikes of Rails from all those years ago. With Hotwire Turbo being a thing now it's very possible to build very nice feeling apps without writing a ton of JS while leveraging good old HTML and HTTP with sprinkles of Stimulus and WebSockets.

The more I think about it, the more I talk myself into believing Ruby / Rails really are a once in a generation combination. It's truly that good for getting real shit done in a pleasant way.
Wuhan discussing "synthetically derived viruses":

https://web.archive.org/web/20200212011902/http://english.wh...

2017 conference at (Wuhan Institute of a virology) with gain of function research being top priority:

http://web.archive.org/web/20200221213643/http://english.whi...

Ecohealth Alliance partnership:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210323171425/http://english.wh...

US Gov from state department:

http://web.archive.org/web/20210116001621/https://www.state....

EcoHealth Alliance Peter Daszak discussing gene editing in coronaviruses in december 2019 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-Y843FFJvI
Same. Not knowing anyone in Ukraine to validate, I am unsure.
Look at the percentage of retail investors in the dotcom bubble. It’s much easier to make very stupid plays with money today than it was then, and a lot of “average” people are going to get burned.
By that account, passwords are exactly the same, so it's not even 1.5FA but only 1FA with each being 0.5FA.

Point of something being a second factor is for it to be something physically distinct from the first factor, and something different in the "something you know, something you are, something you have". As long as you keep your TOTP device and password manager separate, they provide all the guarantees a second factor should.

As a bonus, they also provide one-time use tokens (both HOTP and TOTP, though HOTP is more susceptible to pre-generation of tokens to be used later), thus protecting against eavesdropping and people looking over your shoulder (or recording you).

As such, I don't buy the argument for TOTP not being a second factor auth at all.
First Toyota, now Suburu and Kia: less dealership lots to visit to deal with less bullshitting.
Interestingly, the observation in this paper was surfaced on a substack several months ago.
https://arkmedic.substack.com/p/how-to-blast-your-way-to-the...

I do not see the substack author among the paper authors or references to that writeup. I wonder if there was any collaboration or if this was an independent finding?

That substack made the rounds here about 5 weeks ago. While it was heavily critiqued for being a rather poor writeup, there was a fair bit of discussion about the observation itself that should be relevant here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29938732
That's a good idea. Or you could have a grid of squares, with each person getting their own color when they click each one. Any of these ideas would work much better if you could prevent scripting of course.
my apologies then.

i'm sure there is such research, haven't read into it thou. ime no problem if you limit the exposure to video to a few minutes a day. it's basically the modern version of a sockpuppet.
What people think about active record outside of Ruby, I find that strange to couple the storage interface to the entities that you manipulate.

Is active record patern popular outside of Rails?
That's why you need your own nukes first.
It’s also not the general consensus I find by reading peoples experiences across various platforms online. I went to school for a year in Germany and greatly enjoyed it.

Of course I expect a different opinion from the top 3% income tech bro libertarian bent of the HN user base. But I haven’t seen a compelling reason here to think life for the average American is better than it is for someone in the EU.
Pixelating Text Not a Good Idea
What’s the point in comparing the number of people living in India and Norway or NZ?
Yep, I switched and got a buddy over to them as well. As far as what it's costing them, cloud hosting is a high margin business and it gets them on the map I suppose. I'm hesitant to do actual business with Oracle, but if they provide competent commodity cloud hosting for cheaper than the other guys, why not?
I wonder why Lichess doesn't use multithreading, it was working in a previous version. I mean Brave can use 2 threads but I've seen 8/16 max threads before.
What are you suggesting? That I should be patient and trust the system?

The system has failed. People are dying.

This is our Hitler.

Diplomacy was never an option.

Putin recorded his declaration of war before telling the world that diplomacy was still an option.

He will only be stopped by swift and decisive military action from the entirety of the free world.

Anything short of that, and the blood of Ukrainians is on the hands of the Western world too.
Not new kids—more like different kids. Think Biohacker News vs Hacker News.
>> Examination of SEQ ID11652 revealed that the match extends beyond the 12-nucleotide insertion to a 19-nucleotide sequence: 5′-CTACGTGCCCGCCGAGGAG-3′ (nt 2733-2751 of SEQ ID11652), such that the resulting mRNA would have 3′- GAUGCACGGGCGGCUCCUC-5′, or equivalently 5′- CU CCU CGG CGG GCA CGU AG-3′ (nucleotides 23547-23565 in the SARS-CoV-2 genome, in which the four bold codons yield PRRA, amino acids 681–684 of its spike protein). This is very rare in the NCBI BLAST database.

I don't like "this is very rare"

How rare?

It's a database. Query it, and confidently give numbers to support your statement.
Bitcoin will not be perpetually valuable. No cryptocurrency will be.

Forever is a mighty long time.
They will keep spitting out frontend frameworks that push computation out to the consumer. It’s probably cheaper to develop new frontend frameworks than it is to pay for server side rendering.
Last time I had to download an airline app was at an airport via the public wifi. You better make it small if your users are people that might be on the road in a foreign country.
I would choose a password manager.

With Google SSO you will always be dependent on their services, if they get down, they get hacked (which is very unlikely at the moment, but things might change) or someone compromises your google account you will be lost.
The goal should be write less email and more important. At least for me.
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I realize you're probably just trolling, but Peertube also has a button to delete your own video. The instance will stop serving/seeding it so even if some people hold a copy it will be hard if possible at all (even with the info hash) to access it.

Of course some people could upload it again someplace else and there's pretty much nothing you can do about it. Not that different from traditional tape media and CD/DVD.
You didn’t own a 46.5% stake in 2001 or a 30.86% stake in 2021, but in principle, yes.
I'm fine with the filesystem, but I would like each file to have a unique identifier instead of path
There's nothing stupid about this. It's fun.
> No superpower wants the enemy right at their border.

Phrase it right: no power wants a country it can't bully on its border.
Passwords and TOTP are both something you know.

And there are children comments here talking about how it's fine, they keep their TOTP keys in the same password database.
You should have a look at the linked thread to see what people had to say about a previous, similar story.
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Our collective cowardice and inability to avoid repeating mistakes of the past (Poland) will come back to bite us in the ass. "But, but he has nukes!" - sure, and he'll still have nukes if/when they invade Poland, Romania, and the rest of Europe too - so let's just give him a pass.

Next we'll give China a pass when they "take back" Taiwan.
The developers don't recommend storing your TOTP secrets in the same database as your passwords [1]. I used to do this, but now I'm using andOTP [2].

[1]: https://keepassxc.org/docs/#faq-security-totp

[2]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.shadowice.flocke.andotp/
Writing is not present in all 'complex' societies, but it can signal inequality
Avian predators taste-reject mimetic prey in relation to signal reliability
Zuckerberg is betting that the metaverse, a futuristic idea of virtual environments where users can work, socialize and play, will be the successor to the mobile internet.
You might see about volunteering for any Civil Defense type organizations you have.
Non-paywalled version: https://outline.com/pbz4uv
Because it's a lot more difficult to invade an island country.
Yes, I'm aware. I would also not call dxm a hallucinogen. It only produces hallucinations at pretty high doses, the hallucinations are secondary to the dissociative state.
It is a mistake to see Putin as mad, paranoid, or motivated by an inflated ego. His posture is that of an old-school Soviet intelligence officer.

AIUI, Ukraine cannot join NATO at the moment; it doesn't control its own borders (Crimea, Donbas).

If Russia annexes Donbas, then they're back to the previous problem: NATO on the border. Note that Russia has not annexed the part of Georgia they invaded; it is now supposedly an independent republic. My guess is that they would settle for independent republics in Donetsk and Luhansk. They don't want Global Nuclear War any more than we do. It's a shame Ukraine didn't agree to give them autonomy earlier; now it looks like Russia is determined to destroy the Ukrainian military infrastructure, and autonomy isn't any longer up for discussion.
That’s an excellent rule. I’m going to use that.
I usually point people to Authy. Nice app and alternatives are available of course. But more importantly they provide nice guides on how to set up 2FA for various websites. Including Google/gmail: https://authy.com/guides/googleandgmail/

Even so, non technical people get very confused by this stuff. As the CTO, I enforce 2FA for all of our stuff. But it continues to be a support headache when we have new people joining.

I'd love for this to be solved in a more user friendly & standardized way. So, I can understand why Google moved away from TOTP as the main way to do 2FA. It probably caused a lot of support overhead for them.

Hardware tokens have the same issue. Nice for techies but too hard to deal with for normal people.
This appears to me like a completely normal and legitimate copyright takedown notice because you reuploaded their YouTube video without permission? Or am I missing something?
If you wanted to advertise their video you should have linked the YouTube video (assuming that you reuploaded it yourself on Reddit instead).

You were costing them ad revenue.
I don’t really see any connection to NFT’s.

Edit: The original creator of the video literally commented on your Reddit post. You did in fact just rip his video. The time writing this article would have been better spent looking into copyright law for beginners. But tbh looking at the buzzwords in the title and the fact the creator commented on your post days ago it seems to me that you are simply not done milking their content yet and trying it with a blog post now.
I am a molecular biologist but not a virologist. This article is stupid. The furin cleavage site, with almost identical sequences is present in several ancestral coronaviruses to Sars cov II. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7836551/

Serious virologists went over the furin cleavage site in close detail already and none of them seemed very convinced it was anything but natural in 2020.

Also, stick any 13 bp dna sequence into BLAST and you will find some strange matches if you include the right databases. That this particular 13 base pairs matches some bit of the human genome (inverted, mind you) is not really that surprising.
It isn’t a different matter. It is the core matter. Phishing and stuffing completely dominate the actual attack space. SIM swapping and other theft of SMS messages is tiny in comparison.

The advantage of U2F is that it isn’t phishable. You can only sign the message for the pre enrolled URL.

Yes, you can still fall for more elaborate instructions but you cannot simply give the attacker your credentials through a normal looking flow.