skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not exactly happy to hear this, but I'm also not at all surprised.

After reading through some of the comments here, apparently the thing that I went to was some kind of Amazon mall "kiosk", not a proper store. Whatever it was that I went to, it was just incredibly creepy. It was just a bunch of kindles and Alexa's crammed into this little area, with no one around, hidden away in a weird area of the mall.

I imagine it was supposed to have "go" associated to it in some way? There was no information I saw anywhere indicating how any of it was supposed to work. I didn't any sort of cash register or obvious spot where an employee would be. The whole thing was really just gross. It felt like, if you were to see a purse in the middle of the street with fists full of dollar bills sticking out of it with no one around. It's like someone put it there, specifically with the intention of them wanting you to take it. It's like it's accusing you.

It was this disgusting sensation of being monitored in a way that was outright nauseating. I can't really describe it. If you've ever gone to a gas station or some other place, and are trying to pay for something, and the cashier comes out 5 to 10 minutes later from the bathroom, it was kind of like that, but without the relief of seeing a human after a few minutes. Now picture that, but in a small square space without walls, or signs of life. It's like no one's been there in months. That's what that location felt like.

Anyway, if these Amazon stores were anything like that, I'm hardly surprised they didn't do so well. I'm not a huge fan of the idea of being treated like a criminal, just by entering a store.

The names sound like they could have used some serious rethinking, too. My first assumption after hearing the term Amazon "4-star" is that it's not supposed to be very good. 5 stars is good, so if it's only 4 it's low quality products only. Was it meant to be a "high end" dollar store? If so, why wouldn't I just go to the dollar store instead?

I'm sure they have their reasons, I'm not vain enough to think I'm smarter than the people who made these decisions, but I can't imagine why they bothered, or if in doing so, why they made such weird decisions.
Show HN: I made a cloud security product that actually saves time
I have been a Cloud Security Consultant for over 13 years and all that experience I put into building ARGOS Cloud Security.

Probably the most common thing I've seen was teams spending loads of time manually investigating alerts from security products. Detecting security issues is not what it’s ever been about, but about the investigation of these detected issues. If you don’t have time to investigate everything, then what’s the point?

Organizations spend time and money on security consultants to help them investigate their environments, but these are often only point-in-time engagements, where, once done, nothing "reusable" is left behind. The cloud environment might be in slightly better shape, but maybe only for a short period, before the next contractor must come in to start the process all over again.

I, and many others I've worked with, always believed that the most difficult part of cloud security is distinguishing security issues from "just best practice violations". Using an "everything must be compliant" approach never really works and usually means things just don't get done. If everything is red, what do you do?

So, people spend immense amounts of time trying to figure out what cloud misconfigurations are actual security issues, what else is put at risk because of something that is misconfigured, and how it can be fixed. All that information is important to eventually prioritize and fix issues.

ARGOS investigates the things it finds, that's what it does. It's not about "finding more", it's about understanding what misconfiguration is exposing a cloud system to the internet and what else in your cloud environment is that misconfiguration indirectly putting at risk.

One awesome side-effect of this is that we even draw something like an architecture diagram of the environment "around the misconfigured resource". This specifically is something I know most past customers of mine lacked. Architecture diagrams were hard to come by, and never up to date.

It's easy to try out if you have access to a cloud environment like Azure or AWS, GCP is in a very early version right now. 20 minutes or less even is all it takes to get everything going, including a one-click Slack integration. First results should be in your dashboard minutes later and are continuously and automatically updated.

Really looking forward to people's feedback.
Thanks all!
Amazon's bookstores were ... odd.

They helped me realize that what I value about going to a good independent bookstore is curation. Not "highest rated" or "most popular" - but books I wouldn't get otherwise exposed to that an employee has selected to carry, and display.

That and local-interest connections to the place the bookshop is located.

Amazon's bookstores looked very much like a good independent bookstore (well, if you take away all the Ring Doorbells and stuff), but lacked that essential ingredient. Everything was just based on some "best seller" list for a specific category.

If I already know what I want, Amazon is a really easy place to get it. If I'm casually browsing, both Amazon.com and Amazon's physical bookstores were really bad at helping me discover something new that I'm interested in.

I'm physically incapable of visiting a good independent bookstore without buying something. Often far too much of something. It's an expensive disorder I have. I think the last time I walked into Elliott Bay Books with no intention of buying anything, I walked out about $300 poorer.

I've probably stopped in to Amazon's bookstore at University Village in Seattle about a dozen times since it opened. I only ever bought something once. A charging cable.
Yes, it is mathematically ensured that the coin issuer cannot link the actual coin to the account you are buying it with. No blind trust needed, check the math yourself: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_signature
For the specific implementation, you can check the taler source code.

Is is possible to trace back a gift card to the store that sold it? Maybe even the date and time? Then get the surveillance tape... If you pay with the same gift card more than once, all those transactions can be linked.
Yes, there is .mhtml but it execution plainly sucks because it didn't exactly saves everything. It would attempts to save but it won't be valiant at it, it is like using mhtml without "force (-f) argument".
This is no worse than a cellular signal which can be located just as easily, surely.
This article was fascinating and I can easily see this being the next feature that smartphone manufacturers will add to their camera apps. Most of the time I'm taking a photo I'm trying for something that will look really cool when I post it online, I'm not after a scientifically "accurate" representation of the scene.

Smartphone hardware has hit a temporary wall that might last another 5 or 10 years, software is the only battleground right now.
In fairness, Sigstore is a pretty new technology. Existing package managers haven't integrated it yet, though are working towards it. For example, I've been working with colleagues on proposing a design for RubyGems[0]. And as far as I know we're about as far ahead as anyone has gotten.

There's an informal group of software repo folks meeting with some assistance from the OpenSSF. WAPM folks, please feel free to hit me up at my work email (in profile).

[0] https://github.com/rubygems/rfcs/pull/37
I agree. My written travel journals are far more interesting than the pictures, because they show how I actually felt while I was there, with all the little stories that go with the trip.
"Never heard of this Epic Games company. "

Creators of Unreal Engine, one of the two de facto 3rd party game engines in the industry, created way back in the 90's. You very likely played some game or 6 that was made using it. Also the developers of several games themselves like Gears of War, Unreal Tournament, Infinity Blade, and Bulletstorm.

But I guess more recently people would call them "The creators of Fortnite", that free to play battle royale that usurped PUBG as "the face" of the genre. They also have a PC game store that is relatively recent and under some ire from consumers for reasons that'd take a whole essay to fully explain.

As a middleman between games and developers, the reasons to purchase a music vendor is numerous. Time will tell what they do with it, but most of their previous aquisitions are hands-off.
I'm puzzled why we haven't created something that can compete with S-300 / S-400 / S-500.

At the very least the Patriot SAM should be redesigned to allow for vertical launching to allow shooting in all directions. If you point Patriot one way and you get ambushed from behind you're basically caught with your pants down.

At the very least you'd need four Patriot missile launchers pointing in all directions to prevent this scenario.
> This war just makes 0 sense to me.

Killing one third of the population of Chechnya made zero sense. Murdering so many people in Grozny that it's still only a third of the population pre-war makes zero sense. Legalising domestic violence makes zero sense. Mass murder in Syria makes zero sense. Mass killing of gay Chechens makes zero sense. Moving to criminalise homosexuality makes zero sense.

Much of what Putin has done has made zero sense for a very long time.
Please, go learn about Remix (https://remix.run), it is the actual correct answer for this stuff.
Now everyone's gone to pseudo-XAML with react JSX.

Plus ca change...
It's like asking "do you accept bitcoin to circumvent tax law"

First of all, bitcoin does not circonvent tax law. (And linking does not circonvent GPL)
Putin literally became president under his recommendation to Yeltsin. When Putin was warring with the oligarch class and billionaires like Berezovsky, Gusinsky, and Khodorkovsky were imprisoned/killed and their assets seized, Abramovich kept hold of his wealth and influence. He was the one who hand picked Medvedev as Putin's successor in 2008. There are regular articles in the news about his meetings with Putin and exchange of lavish gifts. They are said to still maintain a close friendship.

It's hilarious that people are buying his PR transformation into some kind of philanthropist. Guy was and is rotten to the core.
If you have a limited headcount, a country invading you, and a violent bunch of nationalists who want to fight the invaders, you're going to turn them down?

Also, consider: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-stops-short-bannin...

And: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/capitol-riot-january-6-military...
If traditional distos don’t scale then perhaps we really should be looking at alternative approaches? We need systems that serve the users ahead of the maintainers.
I certainly understand being skeptical of the "nothing's going to change," which seems almost guaranteed to be wrong, but still, we don't need to lament the downfall before it actually happens, even if we think it's inevitable. If they change the amount of money going to artists, or cripple the feature set, or stop supporting a platform you like, or disable downloads... that's when we lament.

Edit: for one thing, anyone who pops up with a "bandcamp replacement" right now is going to have a very difficult time arguing that their replacement is actually better as long as bandcamp is still exactly the same thing they were emulating.
How to Elevate Your Customer Onboarding Experience
Show HN: A 1980s-arcade-style invaders game made with HTML5, Canvas, Web Audio
He was militantly anti-gay rights and anti-gay marriage. I'm not familiar with the rest of his conservative views, but I don't find much iconoclastic or libertarian in there- he was a standard-issue Republican in the GWB era
This does not fit your criteria of flacs with wide selection, however I think Resonate is the most interesting pro-artist option out there at the moment, albiet with an extremely limited catalog:

https://resonate.is/
I don't think the author of the article has yet reached the Dark Night of the Soul.
The title was taken from the abstract and then I removed words until it fit. DNA was substituted for a couple words and was the next to last change I made as it does alter the meaning slightly (though probably not meaningfully for most people).

The question here isn’t stability. The mRNA was present in the cDNA sometime within 6 hours. That isn’t some fluke, but instead points to something that happens somewhat readily.

The fact that clinical side effects seem related means we need to be replicating toes study and if that is consistent we need to start testing in other cells.

Finally, we should be on the lookout for any cancers seeing large increases in diagnosis after late December 2020
> This would result in a nuclear exchange

Possibly. But the exchange would occur on Russian soil. China is more than capable of covertly supporting separatists. Hell, it might not even have to. Just prime the pump and then let the West take over.
Those people clearly do not live in countries in which this is literally true, like Russia and many Eastern European countries.

Otherwise the difference would be blindingly obvious to them.

Think Bezos is filthy rich? Imagine the president selling Library of Congress to him for the nominal price of the building(s) and paper stored.

It's next level.
They aren't going to give your their money if you shill for them, you know.
I've been coding Java since 1.2, mainly UI. 20 years we built a really complex control system visualizing thousands of graphical states on six monitors on a Pentium, quietly ticking away at 20% CPU usage... all in Swing. Which I still find very impressive.

Swing suffered from two central weaknesses: the tutorials provided by Oracle were... often insufficient. And you could pick up some bad habits by following them. And then there were the UI builders where anybody could draw up something mediocre.

Real strength were the lightweight components where you could about change everything in your Look&Feel. Hexagonal radiobuttons? No problem. Want the drop down button of that combobox a bit larger? There you go.

SWT... wouldn't really categorize that as an UI toolkit. SWT is mainly driven by eclipse, not developed independently. All controls commonly used by eclipse run reasonably well. Using anything else, especially cross platform is risky. 2D graphics is especially slow. So it's only a reasonable choice if you want to build something that looks and behaves like eclipse. There's some styling of components via CSS, but it's not complete...
https://tigervnc.org

Does some impressive compression tricks that results in it being remarkably snappy.

You may prefer to run Xvnc directly rather than use the wrapper script, depends how you want to set everything up.

I will be honest here that my setup is not properly automated yet because it's inside a jail on a FreeBSD install and the underlying box gets good enough uptime that my current half-assed approach hasn't yet annoyed me into finishing it.

There weren't any interesting gotchas though.
The same way US/UK/EU... funded the Syrian civil war, before invading. And fueled "revolutions" in many places including Ukraine
How to make a sound wave spin? Hit it with a pipe
JetBrains literally has to ship its own fork of the JRE for things like decent font rendering: https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsRuntime

In its success it shows how badly Java has failed.
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I really wish Microsoft doesn't discontinue wsl1 and instead develops it further to make it the "Wine" equivalent (for running Linux apps on Windows without emulation or virtualization).

Wsl2 relies on a hypervisor (i.e. it has to run a Linux VM underneath) so running docker apps on Windows comes with all kinds of problems from poor performance to file permissions being messed up.

A mature wsl1 would be able to run almost any Linux app on Windows natively.
Sure but not everyone is driven strictly by profit. I prefer to stay naive to not being motivated only by profit in my life decisions. Yes, I've made decisions that turned down large sums of money to maintain my happiness and sense of being a moral human being.
You're missing the point. There is no internal network in this new model.
Have a look at Ansel Adam's photography. The sharpness is outstanding.
Looks like China is trying to invade the music industry as well.
Quite aside from all the injustices, lies and pushes for military action by the U.S. since the end of the Cold War, this article takes a blatantly one-sided view that essentially seems to state "well, you shouldn't have pushed Russia into a corner. The invasion is your fault".

As another reply below says, no mention of Russia's own military aggression with neighbors under Putin's rule or of the fact that if NATO grew closer to the country's borders, it mostly did so with the full willingness of the countries that later joined. Having Russia close to them caused a choice and that choice (fully within their rights as countries) was to become closer with the NATO alliance and western Europe because they found it preferable to possible Russian domination.

The writer describes war and military provocation as a lucrative business and insinuates that western greed motivated the expansion of NATO, but sidesteps that Russia's own military/political moves are often no less motivated by the same things where possible.
For what it's worth the most useful website I have found for tracking the conflict is liveuamap.com and it is protected by cloudflare and is very pro Ukrainian.
Is this the same approach as portable apps?
Ok, maybe one was a bit of an exaggeration.
I should have said "All it takes is one deranged individual and a handful of his his hand picked sycophants."
The need to "exit" and the obsession with "growth" that occupies the minds of SV founders significantly pre-dates the low rate environment that's dominated since 2008. The only difference is the path: IPO vs acquisition.
Not after a post. If you change the form method to get, I believe this is the behavior.

There are tons of good reasons to prefer this behavior, aside from just avoiding duplicates. Think of login forms.
> they're locked behind proprietary software that I couldn't use even if I wanted to

Hum, yes you could. The formats aren't dead.

It's like putting on a blindfold and saying you couldn't see even if you wanted. Just remove the blindfold.

Just install Windows or Mac.
I'd definitely be interested in working on getting as close as possible if the grant money were to appear.
XML is actually pretty good at declaring UI. It's the sort of thing the language was designed for - a UI is a tree of attributed nodes, and that's also what XML gives you.
Reading his speech, both the one before the invasion and the leaked one that was supposed to go up after victory confirms this. Putins objective is genocide.
It has never been likely that any government would simply decide to start a nuclear war. Putin clearly has many delusions, but he knows how MAD works. But there are three nuclear war scenarios that seem plausible.

One is an unintended escalation to a nuclear war that nobody wanted. This has almost happened several times, from the Cuban Missile Crisis to Able Archer 83. It is not impossible that Russian and NATO forces end up shooting at one another (say an aerial incursion, intentional or not, along the Polish-Ukrainian frontier) and this escalates to nukes because each side believes the other is going for it.

Another scenario is that Russia, faced with a quagmire in Ukraine without a clear path to an exit, decides to use a nuclear weapon in a “tactical” context (i.e. to achieve a limited military goal such as destroying the entrenched Ukrainian forces in the east). The possibility of tactical nuclear warfare has been debated since the Korean War, with many strategists believing this would inevitably escalate to a full strategic nuclear exchange (how can anyone know that you plan to stop after just 1-2 nukes?). How would NATO respond if Putin did this in Ukraine, which is not under the NATO nuclear umbrella? How about if he did it in, say, Poland as part of the escalation scenario described above? Again I think Putin understands MAD and that this is not very likely, but in a situation of military desperation (with Russia seeing no path to conventional victory and no way to deescalate without a dangerous loss of face), perhaps it can’t be ruled out.

The third and (in my opinion) scariest scenario is that Putin reaches a position where his political survival (and perhaps his very literal survival—there’s no retirement home for deposed dictators) is at stake and that he feels he has no way out. A combination of military quagmire and economic pain from sanctions could eventually face the regime with a loss of support from elites and masses alike. Putin could conceivably see no non-nuclear way to force an end to international sanctions and support for the Ukrainian resistance, and no way to fold his chips and end the war without making his domestic position even worse (who’s more vulnerable: a despised dictator, or a despised dictator who just made himself look weak?). If this happens, the nuclear blackmail could seriously ratchet up, as Putin could see nuclear blackmail against the West as his only lever for ending the pressure without a self-defeating show of weakness. At that point, would it be possible to deescalate? Would the West see negotiation with a nuclear hostage-taker as an invitation for further nuclear blackmail in the future? If his bluff is called, what would Putin do if he truly believes he has nothing to lose? Would the chain of command carry out his order, especially in a scenario where he may already be losing support from the military? This to me is the darkest scenario because we could no longer assume that all sides want to deescalate from all-out nuclear war.
Sort of a mute point.
I would have done the same had I not played Civ 6.
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The major risk with a Russian conflict is almost any invasion would put NATO troops near the Chinese border.

This act would probably draw China into the war. This is similar to what happened in Korea when American ground troops under MacArthur got too close to the Chinese eastern border.
The end goal of writing code isn't always a "clean and manageable" codebase.

Likewise the solution to SPAs isn't "say no to features".
I guess he could ask the admin to resign and bring back the old president but I’m not sure what the chances of short term success there would be
That thing is only really useful against static, or near static high value targets. Against insurgents dispersed across the countryside with Javelins the weapon itself is effectively useless while the aircraft delivering it is still vulnerable.