skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"Censored" is definitely the wrong word here; it implies that there is some objective pool of information that we could all be getting to if it weren't for the search engines getting it wrong, and that's just not it.

1. I think that when it comes to "search engine censorship", most people know it's about search engines downranking/hiding certain results, not them literally going around burning books or blocking/taking down websites.

2. The definition for "censorship" is "The use of state or group power to control freedom of expression or press, such as passing laws to prevent media from being published or propagated". When it comes to the internet, getting downranked/hidden from search engines does a pretty good job at preventing such information from being "propagated", even though you could still access it via the deep web. As a thought experiment, suppose the government banned 1984 from being sold/read anywhere, save for you going to the library of congress in person. You can theoretically still read it, but at great difficulty. It's certainly more work than reading harry potter or whatever. Would you say such measures are not "censorship"?
I read an incredibly thorough book about Putin a year or so ago, and what stuck with me is how political his career in the KGB was. In those final years of the USSR, everything was in shambles, and any position of power became so through-and-through political. That makes his rise so interesting and frightening. He has been forged in a dark web of covert slush funds, power projection and kompramat. He was obviously very good at that game, and it continues today.

EDIT: The book was "Putin's People" by Catherine Belton
random sample but i try this every couple of years - both tidal and apple music do not have 10 songs in today's release radar list available.

the tidal client is nearly as bad as spotifys too
I spy: Masses flock to open-source intelligence for news about war in Ukraine
I think they misused "state of matter" to mean "fundamental property".
I actually remember checking that exact book out from the library as a kid! The section in programming in BASIC included a code snippet which had your computer beep, which I could never get to work in QBASIC from what I remember.

https://archive.org/details/videogames0000erlb/page/32/mode/...
So your company doesn't have certain functions where someone has said "this is really critical so we'll force a sign-in even if the SSO token is already there" because that happens to me 10 times a day at my work.
> Sounds a lot like organized crime, is it supposed to have that undertone?

As does "Department of Homeland Security". That was the first federal agency named that way, and prior to that people would have thought that sort of naming to be associated with the Stassi or a totalitarian regime. I suppose it is commonplace now.
If you are talking about mine, it never did. I haven't edited it, it refers to 30 years ago or 200. The one I was replying to didn't either, at least when I read it.

Perhaps you meant something upstream or a sibling comment?
Business, despite all its press and media to the contrary, isn't war. People are not dying and suffering and you don't really face any repercussions from your actions. War is a totally different thing so asking people to "move fast and break things" doesn't really make sense in that context especially when there are actual physical repercussions.

Also why should the people on this site really care? Honestly I get it is not great but in the grand scheme of things I don't care. I am tired of war, I have watched my friends and family members server in wars for this country since the early 90's. I don't recall Ukraine sending f*ck all for them. As such I just don't have it in me to give a sh*t at this point in time.
> The purpose of saying “hi” is to check for presence in order to initiate a live conversation. It sends a message that the person wishes to speak live whenever that is convenient.

No, it does not. If the person wants to do a call, you either call directly or - more polite these days - you send a message along the lines of "Can I call you about <x>?" or "Please call me whenever you're ready to talk about <x>". If you want to engage in synchronous (i.e. live) conversation, you don't engage it by just sending "hi" over a text chat, which is a very asynchronous medium.
I’ve been a paid subscriber of FT for years. It’s horrifically expensive and worth every penny.
> The magazine actively denounced all religions, hence, rabbis and priests were a basic target for attacking. Often accusing them of collaborating with the rich, as well as the counter-revolutionaries, they were blamed for corruption, laziness, and as a tool used by the rich to control the masses.

I'm reminded of the throwaway joke in The IT Crowd: "I've fallen to the reds", "Well, they do have some strong arguments".
No way. They only seem cheaper because of people doing free labor to produce their own children. Even just the cost to get someone else to produce a newborn for you is almost enough to buy a Bentley.
This is nothing new. Israeli law distinguishes between different religion groups and has done so since the formation of the country. Israeli Arabs, for example, are not forced to serve in the military. So are the Haredim (i.e. the strict Jewish sect). I'm part of the majority in Israel, but in many ways, I am getting screwed over more than other groups. In other ways, they get screwed over more than me.
> Who cares?

Anyone that realizes these cars are a security nightmare? Wifi and cellular on a car! Brilliant!

The fact that ransomware hasn't yet hit cars is as shocking as it is inevitable. Russia literally disabled all ViaSat phones before invading. Telsas literally download firmware at will when a centralized server tells them to!

Edit: actually, looks like the attacks are already underway!
https://fortune.com/2021/03/19/russian-pleads-guilty-ransomw...
Unconscious bias at work. Russians aren't mostly mobsters wearing Adidas track suits, despite what you see on TV and in movies.
> The supposedly 4K remaster available on Amazon Prime Video is criminally badly encoded. During the raid on the castle, you literally can't see the smoke because macroblocks are popping so hard on every keyframe

This is such a widespread issue, especially in dark scenes. Netflix is bad, but Prime Video seems by far the worst. I watched Mr Robot through a few months ago, and at times it was like watching 2009-era YouTube, despite being 4K on paper.

I'll take a 1080p Blu-Ray over a 4K stream any day. UHD Blu-Ray is nice, but it's a shame it's still 1.5-2x the price of regular BD. Then again you can still buy DVDs for some reason, so I guess high quality physical media is starting to be considered an enthusiast option..
> While it’s possible to create cookie with credentials, this should be avoided due to all the possibilities of CSRF Attacks

This is no longer an issue, if you use SameSite=Strict, Secure, HttpOnly cookies.
In many cases asking forgiveness is easier. In this case, I'm not so sure.
Being the next Go Pro seems like a good goal for a company. Their stock crashed when it became clear that they weren't going to sustain crazy exponential growth indefinitely, but they didn't overinvest in trying to sustain their growth rate and have spent the last five years operating at a comfortable profit while still growing a bit.
Yes, source for anyone interested in (re)watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-trd_f6j3eI
What should we do? What have you done?
> No, wait...I know the answer to this one because our Nissan Leaf quit getting updates when the 3G was shut off, and I've not taken it back to the dealer in several years. And the answer is...nothing happens.

With your specific example, nothing happened, which is the best case scenario, yes?

The problem is the potential for inconvenience and disaster is there. I do not look forward to the day when my auto manufacturer forgets to renew a domain name and all of a sudden every single car by that maker cannot start its engine because it can't connect to HQ.

It's a contrived example, sure, but it's not out of the realm of possibility.
Got an H64 a few months ago as an alternative to a RPi. Definitely much easier to get the H64 than a pi.

Bit disapointed by the support in general though. I expected the Pine stuff to be better than "random boards from no name companies on Aliexpress" in terms of HW documentation and software support, but it wasn't that great. Software support is totally left in the hands of the community, and I couldn't get the spec for the uFL-like on-board antenna connector anywhere, total silence on their forums for months.

I mean, it works well overall (running Armbian), but I also had random aliexpress boards that had to be fully reverse engineered work pretty well.
If you can consistently tell the difference between Spotify Premium's 320kbps and Apple Music's lossless, I am very impressed. Most folks reading this won't be able to.

Having used both, I'm now happily paying for Spotify to avoid using the train wreck that is the Apple Music app. It is a true shame what Apple has done to iTunes.
Article does a decent job of calling out some usability issues with SSO, but doesn't investigate the impact of these usability issues on security. Security and usability are often in tension - if we're going to improve usability, our proposed changes also need to improve security, or they're dead on arrival. (which is incidentally how we got to this place of horrendous usability)

Indeed, there are some material security issues with the real life corporate SSO experience described in the article. For example, users habituate to frequent authentication requests, so they click through them blindly, which opens the door for phishing.
A huge benefit of many (most?) chat apps is that communication can be async. If it requires a live conversation, then respectfully it probably warrants scheduling time.

The author is arguing that the “udp approach” to these conversations is less intrusive, and also alleviates doubt/anxiety about the nature of the conversation.
Please drink verification can...
Moving to a field theoretic model is precisely what allows you to abstract away at least some of those questions.

Space-time is distorted by energy, rather than just mass, which reduces the number of things the universe has to be prescient to. We can further eliminate some more prescience, by thinking in terms of density rather than mass: The laws of physics stated locally require only (say) a number and a field, rather than a pesky integral.

"Space tells matter how to move,
Matter tells space how to curve"

And asking these questions is a good thing. I've been sitting down and really thinking about special relativity recently, it's fun going through old papers and seeing about how to
derive the algebra in the most smugly experiment-less way.
It is, although both Chrome and Safari obviously have their own, non-user interests.

But browsers in 2022 are second class citizens, for business models that can generate positive ROI from developer time. They are at best dissuaded (e.g. Reddit, TikTok), and at worse actively crippled or prohibited.

The majority of users are on apps, and more users are moving to devices (e.g. Chromebooks, Portal). All of which are explicitly not user agents.
I don't think you are disagreeing at all: you are merely stating the result of not having principles. Yes: if you take a principled stance, sometimes you make "negative" headlines... but the honest reality here is that Facebook makes tons of negative headlines anyway, so they not only have to bear that cost but they additionally come off as, well, unprincipled.
All I want to know about this is what the pinout of the connector is. I want to know how it was done and the limits of what it can do. The author has provided very little information about it[0], which makes me a little suspicious.

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ta85ql/my_small_modu...
Stop eating carbohydrates for 60 days. You're body will very likely hate you for it for a week or two so you got to get past that (you're basically breaking an addiction and suffering a withdrawal). Then the weight will magically melt off. After 60 days, don't start with the carbs again. I'm at 10 years now.
My grief is having a plethora of phone authenticor apps and now the loss of my phone (even being out of power or just switched off) is catastrophic.
What I find is that a total lack of clouds can make the sunlight feel overly bright and intense. The dryness can also lead to a bit of dust in the air.

This is pretty minor nitpicking overall, but the middle of the day can feel a little harsh for these reasons. The landscapes also get dried out.

This is more noticeable in the south bay than SF and thereabouts
I switched to Apple Music from Spotify just because I don't like podcasts mixed in with my music, and UI that constantly advertises their podcasts side.

The improved sound quality on Apple Music is a major benefit, and I was able to add all my music that isn't in their library (and sync across devices).

I also love that upcoming albums that drip feed new tracks aren't categorized as EPs like Spotify does it. I can view the track in the upcoming album on Apple Music, add the album to my library, and then get notifications as they add more tracks or release the album.

Apple Music's macOS app UI is terrible, no way around that. They're supposedly making some parts of it native in a future macOS release though.
Why don't people just use webauthn?
And aren’t the lambdas that evaluate the information information as well?
Borlando Turbos included amazing docs accessible within the IDE, with useful code examples one could quickly copy+paste and try.
Great time to learn, before msdn collection, or the web as we know it now.
> nothing about DNSSEC prevents a DNS server (or middlebox) from denying results to a disfavored domain

But at least it is detectable thanks to NSEC and NSEC3 records.
Well, here I am on the Internet playing geo-politics expert, but... I don't see what Putin's exit strategy is, and if he can't exit looking like a winner, we're in for a shit show, because he has nukes.

The way I see it, at the moment, if he can't turn Ukraine to Belarus, he can only retreat looking like a winner if Ukraine gives him Donbass and Crimea. If he retreats without even gaining anything, then 1) the informed Russians will know their leader lost a war, 2) NATO, etc. also knows what it takes to defeat him; and 3) he'll be paranoid as hell that NATO knows his army is beatable and that they'll invade Russia.

Regardless, with a Ukraine occupation or a retreat, the economic sanctions won't be lifted, because he can't just say "Oops, I messed up, can we get back together?". Even if the European governments want to do that, their voters would topple them at the next elections (this might be a too simplistic model, some of the EU dictatorships might be able to do what they want and stay in power, but e.g. Polish voters will probably never accept normalizing relationships). IMO, lifting of sanctions is only palatable to US/EU-voters if there's a humiliating armistice (like Germany after WW2), but in Putin's eyes that would be equal to a defacto occupation of Russia anyway, and he'd probably launch nukes before accepting such a thing.

Regime change would be an answer, but it seems like the entire Russian state is a Mafia organization, and the next guy, who'd be from this Mafia, would also need to be a strongman to keep it under control, and that would still mean an anti-West stance. It'd be amazing to see someone like Navalny be elected to replace him, but in my view (and remember, I don't know what I'm talking about) the Mafia is too strong for that to ever happen. Unless of course there are foreign "peace keeping" forces, which again, IMO, will only happen after nukes.
Why are you frustrated? Have you mentioned here what you are doing to help Ukraine? If you haven't done things or have helped but not mentioned that here, why should others mention what they may be doing?
I had to check pricing after reading your comment. $375/year! That sounds crazy.
NYT has history of not being objective. 1930s New York Times purposefully lied about famine in Ukraine which purposefully starved millions. Walter Duranty got a Pulitzer Prize for that fake journalism.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/10/re...
Yes, agreed, although a lot of storage modalities naturally map to key/value in some way.

Ironically FDB uses SQLite for the storage servers. Abstractions all the way down.
Yeah, the manifestation of "LDAP Integrated" still means you have to sign into every single service, it just uses the same credentials.
Keep an Eye on WebSockets – Used by Malware
I know this is a selfish perspective but the Ukraine/Russia news cycle has been hitting my mental health pretty hard. Its nice to come here and see the usual interesting techy stuff and get a break from the horror.

Not that I disagree with your point. This is a place of intelligent discussion which could perhaps benefit Ukrainians better.
And all behind paywall, as if they didn't want you to see what they are writing.

In time of crisis like this you should expect FT to do at least a token contribution to spread true information. Other commercial news outlets like say New York Times let the casual reader read a few articles for free, but not FT it seems.
That's a very useful and important article. So that's who Putin talks to. A very small group who share his worldview: It is the manifest destiny of Mother Russia to have an empire in Eastern Europe.

A key point that has emerged from a number of sources is that Putin's crowd has no plan B.
This isn't considered by Russia's leadership to be just a military adventure - if it works, great, if it doesn't work, pull back and try something else. It's a must-win operation.

Historically, this sort of thing ends only when the leader is killed.
The book 'The Toyota Way' and a book by Shigeo Shingo (helped develop the TPS) - 'Kaizen and the art of creative thinking' changed the way I think about completing tasks or achieving goals. While they are more based on manufacturing the lessons hold up well for any discipline.
Basically, once you realise that everything has room for improvement (nothing is ever perfect!) and it's consistent small changes/improvements that make things better, it takes the pressure off trying to do things exactly right the first time.
Treat tasks/projects as experiments, come up with a few hypothesis, pick one, do it and asses how it went and what can be improved or throw it away. At least you're getting stuff done and you might just end up with something better than you would by trying to force a perfect job/product from start to finish.
As an atheist from a post religious society I always found it amusing the gods in D&D unarguably exist.
D&D is propaganda making religion look cool.
Different codecs. Regular Blu-Rays are largely H.264 (though some of the original releases are MPEG-2 like DVDs); UHD is H.265 which is way more space efficient.
I agree with what you're saying as far as framing it around "don't say hello": it's really saying "don't just say hello and wait", but that's not as catchy.

If you ignore the literal "no hello" part and focus on the bigger point, it is really about teaching people chat etiquette. I think the "hello" message happens when people think of chat as just a text-based equivalent to a voice call. The trouble is chat is something new: email and forums are fully asynchronous, voice and face-to-face are fully synchronous, but chat is a kind of hybrid. Just as sync vs async demand different styles and etiquette, so does chat.

"Hello, hope today is going well and the family is all good. I was wondering if you can help me with figuring out the data on a report?" is fine, if you really need to include the small talk, but it's perfectly polite to say "hey, do you have some time to help me debug a report?"

In either case you're being clear about what you need and the recipient has some idea what they're getting into.

You know what's awful? A conversation like this, spread over several minutes:

"Hello"

"Hi.."

"How are you today? How is the family?"

"Uh, good. What's up?"

"I am trying to get together a report but the data makes no sense to me, and I don't know what's wrong."

"Oh. Sorry I'm about to join a meeting and have a few more this morning so I won't be available for a few hours"

This is what "no hello" seeks to avoid.
I thought my signin woes were finally solved after moving everything over to 1Password. It works great and auto-fills usernames/passwords and TOTPs with a shortcut.

But Github recently rolled out a default 2FA that uses their app on my phone instead of the 2FA code. Luckily they support switching back to TOTPs for now. But now that passwordless is the new sign-in meme, i can look forward to having to migrate everything all over again to a different broken solution like client certificates or biometric auth again in a few years.

In 5 years, someones OS is compromised and their client certificates are hacked. Or some kind of centralized storage for client certificates is hacked, or a certificate authority is hacked. Industry will then decide "omg client certificates are insecure" and we can migrate to some other crap again.

Or we can all move to SSO. Even if we had perfect once a day SSO, what if an employee leaves their laptop unattended? One day that will happen, some company will get hacked, and then "once a day SSO is insecure"..
Yet for many people, where they live isnt a choice, or their method of transport. Most of the US undeniably has poor public transport, and the only realistic means of travel for a day to day work schedule is via automobile.
The most interesting part is that they made a very strong silk that is golden and can even be collected and knitted. Ecologically is a problem. One more.
I would be interested in something like this, whenever I next look for work. I can't see giving up the sailboat-cruising lifestyle for another full-time office job anytime soon, but I'm too young to retire. I feel like I'll probably be looking for consulting gigs next year, but an ongoing situation with a specific team and product would certainly be preferable to gig work.

I've had a couple of ostensibly full-time jobs which worked this way in practice - smaller shops, who couldn't compete with big-tech salaries, but happily paid their full-time rate for my expertise and availability, even though they only had a couple days of actual work for me to do each week.
Don’t feel bad. I had exactly the same reaction. “Who uses fahrenheit for something like this?”, “Oh, it’s US only.”
To elaborate a bit on what someone else said -- some cars with TPMS systems do not have pressure sensors at all. It is possible to add TMPS to a vehicle entirely via software by analyzing other data from existing sensors. For example, it might be looking at sensor data that looks like:

Steering angle: 0 degrees

LF wheel speed: 305 rpm

RF wheel speed: 293 rpm

LR wheel speed: 302 rpm

RR wheel speed: 285 rpm

In this case, it may be possible for the car to determine that you probably have some incorrect pressures, but it may not know exactly which tire(s) is/are wrong. Nor does it know what the pressures are.
Because humans have not adapted to online, emotionless, body language-less chat, and it's cumbersome and unnecessary to emulate this behavior. It's burdening the same way I have to smile and say thanks to the pizza delivery guy instead of slamming the door in his face.
A Nuclear exchange is not really to make the other side concede. Both sides know if they fire nukes the other side will respond in minutes with their own massive salvo. The initial strike is essentially to render as much of the enemies military ineffective especially their nukes. Surviving for a second strike is not a given. In the event of a nuclear strike I think both sides understand that there wont be very many people or leadership to concede. Hence the term Mutually Assured Destruction.