skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The landing page looks nice. I feel like, based on your comments, you really are trying to build a product for customers - and not building towards some esoteric sales figure. Some comments from someone who's worked for a number of "enterprise" security vendors over the last decade...

Your product is competing in the CNAPP (Cloud Native Application Protection Platform) space. I'm sure you already knew this, but you may want to look at how companies have merged CSPM/CIEM/IaC/etc tooling to get to this "Gartnerized" name and just know who's who in the competitive landscape.

14 days isn't long enough to make a decision for most organizations unless they are really small. I'd suggest leaving that in place but also extending that to 30-45 days (1 month workflow) for prospects that will, in turn, go through additional resistance to validate they're truly viable customer candidates. Those things could be a 15 minute qualification call where you have a list of things you want to review with them to understand the fit (good feedback loop for you in features).

Standardize on your pricing - you need to understand this so you're both not losing money and so that you don't turn customers away because of the unknown. You can always have a custom pricing tier or an "Ask Us" option. If you don't know what your baseline cost for a customer is - then figure it out quickly.

Demos can go a long way - since you're a small shop you need something that won't soak your time, so I'd suggest taking your customer's top couple pain points and recording a nice looking demo that won't cost them more than 10 minutes to watch. People in this space want to see the product. There are so many security tools that a lot of buyers already have too many - so they want to see what it is and many customers are also looking for ways that new tooling can be integrated into existing workflows. There is no "single pane of glass" anymore for customers and instead it's morphed into, as I like to refer to it: "single pain of glass", because every vendor claims you only need them. Right.

If you have any questions I'd be happy to chat - [my_hn_name] at counterbrea dot ch. Best of luck!
Is this a solution to global warming?
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One potential scenario that's not being discussed much yet is the possibility of Putin going "Full Stalin" and having his own generals executed. Once the generals consider this a real risk, they might decide to try to move first.
A useful tactic in this situation is to not reward the colleague for interrupting you like that.

e.g. you could answer, but state you are in the middle of something, can't focus now, and please send you an email. If you are politely obstinate enough they will soon learn they are wasting their time with the interruptions and will be trained to send an email straight away instead.
Kid complains stomach or anything hurts at school. We are required to get a test.
Kids are also required to be tested weekly.
Don't know about the USA, but yeah, in the UK parents were routinely asked to administer tests for their kids; there's a specific page in the instructions for it.

I've done only six of these (on myself) but I know parents who've administered more than a dozen to each child.

I would rather receive vaccines via a harpoon than do the test on myself -- it's uncomfortable.

Most kids are braver than I am though.
Seems like a good local news fluff piece. "The last Hitler in England"
I think you’re overestimating how strong that inventive is. There’s a lot that I’d change about the current copyright model but it’s not just rent-seeking keeping P2P from mainstream use: most people do not have high uplink capacity and congestion is a real issue. Companies like Netflix have built a consistent user experience where video plays quickly and smoothly, and the price is low enough that most people aren’t jumping for alternatives — I would bet that if you surveyed the average person the biggest copyright reform they’d want is blocking exclusivity so they could use a single service for everything.

From a business perspective, a big problem is trust and safety. Torrents were also notorious for having mislabeled content or malware, and users are not going to use a system which serves arbitrary content from their IPs, so you have challenges keeping the experience good while building a large enough peer network to provide a competitive experience.
The Soviet Union had Pepsi.
I loved my commute
No, you were saying it's inherently dubious without either statistical or physical evidence.

I'm replying, no, there's nothing dubious about it. Which doesn't mean it's accurate. Biology has always prominently featured observation from life, and this is, in general, how the field first starts to suspect that, say, bees can sense electric fields.

Experiments on crabs might and should follow, but your skepticism isn't grounded in anything here.
What is interesting is that revoking your US citizenship (or Green Card permanent residency) isn't sufficient to stop you being subject to IRS law.

It actually costs you money, $2,350, to give up your citizenship.

The filings to give up a Green Card is equally byzantine.
This one looks like a graphical Markov chain generator.

At this level of detail it's hard to tell if the generated city is implausible, because cities are shaped by many factors that aren't visible on the map (history, soil, location within larger region, economic and social policies, etc.) So a clump of buildings near a river avoiding mountains is a good guess every time.
> reparations paid to Ukraine.

Member Germany after WW1?
Crypto can be stolen. But fiat can be frozen
This is of course true.

OTOH, WFH people living alone can go many days without any human interaction.

There is no arrangement that is "best" for everyone.
> Russians are entitled to what the west decides to give them unless they want to do a better job themselves.

Please get off your high horse, that's just disgusting. Yikes.
I believe Windows had a screensaver that did that decades ago...
> you want your agenda, your propaganda be heard by your enemies but you dont want your people to know the enemies agenda

Huh? The comment you are replying to literally argues for less restrictions on information.
I agree. Do you want to commit to the cause?
I wouldn't put much confidence in that. I know of a friend that applied for a job with a $100k-$149k total compensation stated. He ended with a total comp of $360k. When he asked about it, the company said "we could never advertise above a range seen as normal, but we pay above our states ranges pretty regularly ".
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My name is common enough that it's basically this: https://xkcd.com/1138/
The terms cold war and proxy war have been around for a long time and are understood very well.
There aren't any in Germany...
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> I have no way of making progress

This is how you make "progress", by disturbing people who are working?

It's probably for the best that we work different places :-)
The URL is broken for me, seems the trailing ".html" is missing. This link works:
https://phys.org/news/2022-03-space-junk-mph-collision-moon....
This war wouldn't happen if Ukraine still had nukes.
> Because checking off features matter more than usability when a manager is the one buying it instead of the person using it

As someone that buys a lot of enterprise software and runs a lot of software tenders (particularly for enterprise ERP and WMS) - I would say picking software which matches user/organisational requirements is actually the most important thing (which is checking off the right features).

Absolutely this is more important than usability, which comes secondary to meeting the requirements (what good is usability if I can't get it to do what I want?).

Most botched software tenders I have seen happened because the company purchasing the software wasn't clear on their requirements (i.e. the features they needed) and then bought a software which did not match what they required and then need to somehow just 'make it work'.

Big ticklists of generic features aren't useful though, but ultimately if you are purchasing an ERP and need to be able to put stock into bins within it, and it doesn't have this feature but it is really usable and built with really great architecture, it's still not going to work.
> Even when doing it "right," these rapid at-home tests instill horror, social and mental problems, and all sorts of insane power hierarchies that confuse young, growing minds. The testing itself is toxic.

Kids, it turns out, are hugely resilient. I reckon the covid generation kids are going to be much better at dealing with the anxieties of medicine.
"He is literally Hitler"
>What could have changed it is if the Dutch, the Belgians and most of all the Germans had acted like adults in the world. Instead they have been dancing on the edge of a disaster.

Vague and weird words that could mean almost anything.

Speak plainly.
> Putin and his cronies are the elite. And by extension the children and other extended family of those cronies are the elite. That's what the oligarchy system is.

Yes, but within that elite, he may have felt that his cronies and minions had too much freedom: They have homes, bank accounts, and yachts abroad to retreat to whenever they need a break from him, and worst case -- if any one of them starts to to fear he's made Putler too angry with him, or suspicious of his loyalties -- they could just stay abroad indefinitely. Sure, at some risk from FSB assassins, if they've really annoyed him, but they can afford high walls around their mansions, CCTV to monitor those walls, and security services / mercenaries of their own to patrol them.

The GP's thesis (as I understood it) was that by more or less deliberately provoking the West into targeting the oligarchs, he'd weaken that option for them and thereby at least partly confining them to Russia, where he has more direct power over them.

(Dunno if I buy that this was his main goal with the whole thing, but certainly not claiming that it can't have occurred -- and counted as a plus -- to him.)
There have been instances of terminal vulnerabilities via terminal escape codes, as bad as an RCE in iterm2: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/10/09/iterm2-critical.... I suppose the OP is thinking of something like that.
Russia set laws to do this, Russia is not actively doing this, Roskomnadzor is capable of doing this at any time.

All of the above are true.

I guess I’m the only one of us that actually works with this stuff in Russia on a regular basis.

Removing root nameservers from RF would have zero real-world impact unless the RF government decided to take additional actions after that.
They also have profile photo rules, notably, that it must include your face.

I later found out that you cannot remove your profile photo, even upon request. Nor can I replace it with something other than my face.

Can’t say I’m a fan of that policy, for privacy reasons.
If a meeting is a 10 minute walk and must be attended in person, then attendees are forced to walk 10 minutes. This seems like a waste to me.

At the same time, I think walking is great. It’s good exercise and good for the brain. But it has nothing to do with being a requirement for a successful meeting.

So I’m not against walking. I’m for it.

I’m against forced, unnecessary tasks.
Huh, yeah that is disappointing.

I think the stale bot in Hugo repo is overly aggressive. I have had to "fight" the stalebot in the past by posting update messages.
since all their records are in Apple Music, I think the barcode restriction is not "any object that resembles a barcode" but actual product barcodes. At least one hopes.
This analogy isn't necessarily a good one. Especially since we've seen that the Russian army is way less capable than the Wehrmacht. Kraków felt 5 days after the invasion started, and the Germans controlled roughly two third of Poland by day 15, and so with vehicles two times slower than modern ones.

Unlike Hitler, Putin cannot realistically contemplate the conquest of the entire Europe with the army he has, even without NATO intervention…
I'm collecting a bit of a benchmark for rust bitstream libraries inside my own library[1], and I wasn't aware of yours, so I'll add it to the list this afternoon!

[1]: https://github.com/nickbabcock/bitter
All you say is true, although here a "leak" was meant as a leak of information to foreign government to be used as intelligence.
One only needs to look at the language he suggested, Javascript, to see an example of incredible bloat with the 5gib of modules it brings it to do print "hello, world"... but despite that, I don't think that's the root cause.

It has to do everything with poor management of features and lack of leadership. Software _should_ be developed as features are needed. Average humans are absolute crap at predicting things like markets or what will actually be used in production. The translates to developers wasting tons of time on features that provide little value. Lack of leadership and communication of a clear business vision contributes to a panic mentality "if we don't do it now, we'll never get the chance to do it!" and edge cases are chased down, delaying the move to production.
>Dr Alastair Lyndon, from Heriot-Watt University, said: “Underwater cables emit an electromagnetic field. When it’s at a strength of 500 microTeslas and above, which is about five percent of the strength of a fridge door magnet, the crabs seem to be attracted to it and just sit still.

For reference, this is the magnitude of Earth's magnetic field.

What's the strength of magnetic fields around undersea cables?

https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/9/7/776/htm#B15-jmse-09-00776

From the paper:
>EMF strengths predicted around subsea power cables, as reported in the literature, vary from 140–8000 µT [15,17,18]. A commonly utilised cable operating at 1600 A is expected to produce an EMF of 3200 µT in a perfect wire, at the cable surface [17]. As with all EMF, the values will decrease with distance from the source, resulting in a field strength of 320 µT and 110 µT at 1 m and 4 m respectively [17].

15:
https://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1826/778...

426 pages sheesh. Page 25 (37 in the pdf) discusses the magnetic field strength model. No math but references. I'm getting more nervous because the references are all related to modeling power lines in air.

Table B-1 shows a list of submarine power lines and Table B-2 contains their simulated magnetic field strengths.

Medium does affect magnetic field geometry. It'd be nice if someone took some actual measurements if they're not going to use a decent model.
Would love to see some indie stuff on Bandcamp or one’s own artist website that explicitly break all of these rules then show an alt cover on Apple Music or iTunes.
Stupid date-revelation message automated
I have a four month old and was inspired to buy one outfit with magnets because of this tweet. It works fairly well, but is no better than a single zipper outfit and is much more expensive.
> It’s relatively easy for us in the West to call balls and strikes for some actors, but much more tricky when it comes to other third parties (like Armenia).

Along the same lines I think it’s easy to forget that imposing sanctions and voting against the interests of a major power is, in a way, a privilege because it always has a cost. Even among some of the major European countries like Germany you can see that the economic realities of sanctioning Putin ran the risk of being too burdensome. If a country as wealthy and influential as Germany needs to coordinate among all of their allies (and still be prepared to bear a significant cost at home!) in order to make sanctions against Russia feasible I’m not sure how Russia’s smaller, non-EU neighbors could possibly be expected to do the same.
Java ain’t having many more features. Besides primitives, everything is a class with fields and methods. The static keyword decides whether the field/method is per-class or per-instance, and you can create instances with the new keyword. Sure, there is some play here with OOP-features, but java is a really concise language. Feel free to compare it to C#, Python for example. Good luck explaining why an empty list as a default argument is problematic in the latter’s case. Let alone OOP features in Python.

Java, the language is on the order of complexity of C.
I thought the example was convincing until I got a child myself. The hard part is getting the legs and arms in. The 10 buttons are easy.
I think this is quite unfair to Enterprise development. There are several business reasons to not use off the shelf scripts or libraries, namely licensing, governance, security, and support, all of which add perpetual costs and further 3rd party governance to any project, specially those in large Enterprises.
Very rarely does any business prepare for this at the planning stage, even more so when the software is siloed within a business unit.

In terms of using "bloated platforms" like Javascript and Python, I get a whiff of superiority from OP as there simply is no reason to build for size or speed unless it is part of the deliverable feature set. Nobody in their right mind would be writing serverless functions in C++/Rust or a Windows form to enter timesheet information (UX is about design, not platform, and is always seen as a secondary cost). If you are determined to use C++/Rust before a project has started then you're under the spell/threat of rockstar employees without a care for long term support.

The problematic Enterprise Applications I've worked on all had the same things in common, a bad maintenance plan or an expectation that the software will last decades without change. It was never, "this should have been written in xyz", its almost always that the domain knowledge has gone, and alongside it, the source code.

If you're in a business, expecting to exist in decades time, using a moving target to host your systems, like any OS, you better look at the long game, as well as the short, and factor in versioning, source control and inevitable bit rot. Its not about how old it looks, or how fast it could be.

Ultimately, there is a massive desire for businesses to offload development entirely via no-code platforms like PowerApps and absolutely no desire to make code that requires more expensive technical hires to maintain, or add more process to manage.

Finally, I've been coming across a lot of developers pining for the "old days" where you could change change things willy nilly and release it, without writing tests or having code reviews. These were the bad old days, and they're long gone. They got away with it because software was not as ubiquitous, and the internet wasn't around to spread 0-day vulnerabilities, and had very little oversight.
They learned to do their jobs, by doing their jobs.

Second point: Your examples aren't really people who rose on their programming skills, are they? They rose on directing the work of others, not just programmers; they had to be able to speak the language in depth but the actual skills leading to their successes are the political and people skills that cooperative enterprises require.
> ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia from the internet

Isn't that headline patently false clickbait? The second paragraph:

"You have asked that ICANN target Russia’s access to the Internet by revoking specific countrycode top-level domains operated from within Russia, arranging the revocation of SSL certificates issued within those domains, and shutting down a subset of root servers located in Russia."
A fairly large amount of the Russian space program was designed (and maybe built) by Ukrainians in Ukraine. Russia doesn’t have much capability to update their designs anymore.
Agreed with the above comments about Putin definitively not having established himself as a competent military leader so far (and especially at the present time with this fiasco of a military invasion, again, so far).

But that aside, my original comment, despite having been downvoted, doesn't seem at all off base: Why in the world even bother to mention Trump except out of pure kneejerk emotional need in the context of unsound military leadership on the world stage. Poor invasion planning certainly existed long before he became president of the U.S. and the current disaster essentially has nothing to do with him or his lack/presence of military leadership skills.
Nice! Macroexpanded:

Is every game of Slay the Spire winnable? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23910006 - July 2020 (139 comments)
And what is worse, if the ground is starting to thaw from below, if you get a foot or two of snow on top, it insulates the ground from the freezing air, and the ground temps will drive upward from below, turn the soil into a muddy mess. The same happens with rivers. A frozen river, with a heavy snowfall, will quickly thaw from below.
That is indeed sad. I, on the other hand, was pleasantly surprised that the site makes a distinction between "ß" and "ss".

This usually presents a problem online, and I've sometimes considered changing my last name because of that. I had never thought about the fact that this must be even harder for French and Spanish speakers, with the high amount of accents compared to Umlauts and the "sharp s" in German.
That's not right: electric and magnetic fields are used to alter brain activity, even non-invasively.

Transcranial magnetic stimulation uses pulsed magnetic fields produced by a strong electromagnet. It's currently an FDA-approved treatment for depression and a pretty common research tool. The fact that it has (some) biological effect is pretty clear: aim it at motor cortex and you can make someone's finger (leg, etc) twitch!

Transcranial electrical stimulation (tES) is a family of techniques that apply weak electric current to the scalp to affect brain activity. These include tDCS (with Direct Current) and tACS (Alternating Current). While their effectiveness has been debated, my group has collected data demonstrating robust effects on the activity of neurons, even deep in the brain. Check out Figure 1 of this paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1815958116 It's not always that simple, and it interacts in complicated ways with ongoing brain activity, but it does do something too.

You can get much strong effects if the electrodes are inserted directly into the brain (or muscle) too but it's not all the case that EMFs are biologically "inert".
> Just so you know, this is not legal.

Your blanket statement is wrong. If you’d said “likely not legal”, you’d be correct. Someone could very well get work visas and have their employer approve the travel and accept the likely required nexus in said country.
Assuming you mean the artist with albums titled "Trap Lord 2" and "Life Is Fair 4 Me II", yes, they are.
It's quite remarkable that he is being allowed to sell Chelsea and his extensive property assets in Londongrad without the proceeds being frozen. Perhaps sanctions will be levied on him after he has finished leisurely sheltering his assets offshore.

The British government and establishment is truly rotten to the core.
> It doesn't work.
> Look at Trump, no? pack of lies from start to finish and half of the USA believes him.

And they're entitled to that. If anything, we're to blame for not being able to make a convincing enough argument against Trump.
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