skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
0. zardari inherits power after his wife's assassination

1. PPP-led coalition government ousted in scandal of zardari's corruption. "mister ten percent", etc

2. nawaz sharif government ousted in scandal of nawaz sharif corruption (maybe that choice of microsoft word fonts in the faked documents for luxury UK real estate was not the best idea ever).

3. people finally "elected" khan

4. khan loses power in parliamentary no confidence vote

none of those are exactly what an outsider would consider to be the normal and orderly transfer of power in an electoral system
> They fixed it with an update this month, but CrowdStrike was hooking /every/ single call to NtCreateUserProcess on my work machine last month, and you /know/ how electron-based apps work. VSCode took so long to launch its sub processes it would pop up a crash reporter. "Hello World" compiled from C++ would take a minute to launch sometimes. WSL straight up could not be started because the TTY timed out waiting for it.

There's nothing wrong in hooking ~EvErY~ call to NtCreateUserProcess or even a thousand other functions in and of itself. The issue is what they're doing inside those hooks.

We have installed another product that also hooks +@EvErY sInglE@+ call to NtCreateUserProcess and to couple dozen other functions and you know what? VSCode works just fine. WSL too. Edge and Chrome too.

Sure there's a measurable effect on performance but nothing like you're describing.
It's disingenuous to report "partial degradation" as "uptime" when some customers are unable to process any payments.
Because I think we need to continue sanctioning Russia for their invasion of Ukraine.
https://cdn-lfs.huggingface.co/repos/4c/37/4c372b4ebb57bbd02...

Here's the direct link.
Yup, my mum asked if I could generate an image of her cat riding a horse on a pirate ship.

Problem was that her cat is a Maine Coon cat and DALL-E doesn't like the word "coon".

When I finally got an image of a Maine long haired cat on a horse when I tried to expand the image it was giving me another error.

I think the cat was sitting on the backside of the horses back, and I guess it thought it was too close to a doggy style position...
I've also hit this too when I visit the main page for Kubeflow. There is a Lastpass community issue but it doesn't look like there is much movement on it:

https://community.logmein.com/t5/LastPass-Support-Discussion...
Not knowing anything about cryptocurrencies or running distributed systems on the wilds of the internet, I will ask a dumb question:

Is it possible to design an algorithm that comes to a consensus on what new address to use faster than the legal system can sanction them?
Yeah that's correct! It's a valid workaround, and we end up doing that occasionally. (In Python 3.5 and newer it's `if TYPE_CHECKING` instead of `if False`.)
"Agency" is one of the main differences here
Except the extra cost here is on the wrong side of the equation: it's on the variable side.

So yes, CTO's should "pay real money to get real support," but that only makes sense if the costs don't scale with every dollar of revenue.

A 5% fee is basically impossible to pay for anything that's not software (90%+) margins. Ecommerce, for example, has about 5%-10% net margins. 2%, net, extra payment processing fees is huge.
Humans have done a lot of things for thousands of years that modern sensibilities now find unsavory. Slavery, human sacrifice, purchasing a bride, and to a lesser extent religion in general.
Doesn't glass.... melt?
You're better off with Adyen.
" you do conveniently leave out that it was the US toppling the Shah of Iran that resulted in a religious wave taking over the whole region. A"

The USA supported the Shah, and that's not 'what caused something else'.

Topping Mossadegh was not exactly a democratic move, but the Shah was, and still would be, better than any alternative.

The US supports worse people in Kuwait and Qatar - and at least from a geo/p perspective, it works.

Afghanistan is 100% the 'fault' of Communists. By the 1960's they were a poor backwards country, but not overrun with insanity. This '100's of years of occupation' is rubbish. The British left a long time ago. Young Communists failed in their democratic efforts but were stopped. They tried to overthrow government and failed, and then invited the Soviets in. American intervention during the 1970's was decisive, yes, but very limited. They didn't 'train' zillions of soldiers. It was a few soldiers and a few stinger missiles.

So after mass political chaos, yes, 'thugs' took over, like anywhere else.

As we can see from US 2003 intervention, which didn't result in an ongoing functioning state, what power on earth is going to change that equation? Afghanistan was a bit more like the other 'stans' around it until the Global Communist Insurrections of the 20th century.

The same thing in Chile. A fairy radical communist took over, was popular at the start, introduced some arguably needed reforms but then went way, way overboard. With only 30% of the vote he tried to overule parliament and the judiciary, crashed the economy and was well on his way to being a dictator. Western forces intervened and supported the 'other side' aka Pinochet, who was 'bad'. But on the whole probably not as bad as the alternative. Given the choice between Allende (Stalin-ish) and Pinochet (Putin-ish) the later was probably preferable, and 50 years later it's working out really well.

Arguably the same can even be said about the Shah vs. Mossadegh.

US supported not exactly the nicest people in both S. Korea and in S. Vietnam. We know how S. Korea worked out, and we know how S. Vietnam worked out: thousands executed, 100's of thousands in concentration camps many of whom died. Ruthless (albeit peaceful) authoritarianism to this day.

And with Egypt. US props up the secular Army, which keeps mostly 'hands off' with politics but is the ultimate power there, and that means Egypt is at least 'coherent' and not fully at war with Israel etc..

This assessment of a 'single country stirring the shitstorms' is glib. The world would be a complete shitstorm - or - have been taken over by absolutely ruthless players, were not for US/West, now include S. Korea and Japan in there. It's not all 'hunky dory' obviously, but in 50 years, Saudi Women will have many more rights and it won't come at the cost of total regional war between Israel/Egypt, Saudi/Iran etc. etc..
a.k.a. "my probed availability ignores user journeys that are actually an important part of my product"
I once had an idea for a project where I would roughly attempt to translate personal information into a value amount. For example, how much is it worth to companies to know your gender, on average? You could probably figure this out with some rough ideas of CPC for various segments. Obviously the economics don't work quite the same as money, but there's something to it.

This is all to say I don't think it's "bad" in the way malware is bad or a security breach is bad, but there's a dollar amount attached to these things, and you may be giving a company more money than you're willing to pay.
Thank you for sharing this. You've opened me up to a whole new world of experiences! Do you typically buy the hatch chile in the grocery store, then have them roasted outside? Or will it be available for sale in the parking lot already roasted? Thank you again!
how much code do you think some stats functions would add?
We're switching ACH to Dwolla since it's far cheaper. The 1.25% for the new ACH 2.0 for faster payouts (which we require) is outrageously priced. It basically cut our revenue in half overnight once we got out of the beta for it.
We have an API for Stable Diffusion on Replicate: https://replicate.com/stability-ai/stable-diffusion
Close, I think it has to be in a list , so requires `- [ ]`, which always trips me up because I forget.
My history books tell a different story.
Depends who the "you" is; someone just getting started with Cloud, or a savvy enterprise operator?

GCP has sided with an "easy out of the box experience". For example, a new project has a "default" network with some permissive firewall rules. A savvy operator wouldn't build things this way, but for a first time user, the cloud is daunting and a JustWorks™ experience gets them moving quickly (e.g. so they can SSH into their VMs easily).

Now, once you've gotten your feet under you, and want to build a solid cloud setup, you'll add Organization Policies [1] like "Skip default network creation", and all new Projects will be completely closed off from the web by default, at the cost of all networking being more complex. Once you're ready for this, turn it on.

So, how should a SaaS database work? Should you have to learn all the intricacies of sharding, partitioning, indexing, SELECT, FROM, HAVING, FULL/INNER/OUTER JOIN, WHERE, GROUP BY, LIMIT, before you write your first query? This is a long standing yin/yang question of product UX. What user persona and UX do you design for on the experience and complexity spectrum.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/organization-...
I missed a plane flight once because an admin for the company I was working with booked a midnight flight accidentally and I thought it was at noon (I think she thought so as well). I think it was in the 90s sometime.
I often use SQLite for data analysis. Put all my raw data in, query out parts, and graph them, etc. It's quite annoying to have to dig up another tool just to get some common functions.
Clearly ISO 8601 didn't win in the time hat wars.
Is Microsoft Buying Activision Market Share?
The most oblate planet is Jupiter. Being large, rotating rapidly, and being kind of squishy[1]... it's about 6% wider than it is tall, which is around 9,000 kilometers. Enough to be noticeable to the eye.

[1] Ok, squishiness doesn't really factor into it.
Personally, I like type hints at any program size. I do understand the benefit isn’t as obvious in small programs. But the value skyrockets when you have a large codebase that you can’t keep in your head.

All that said, Mypy is far worse than TypeScript. I think Mypy would be so much better if it improved support around dict inference. It shouldn’t just say “I dunno, it’s a dict of strings?” but rather infer an anonymous TypedDict
Does one really need to teach zero knowledge proofs in the context of money laundering?
I don't really blame them if they are. The risk:reward for offering essentially a free service to take legal heat on something this "hot" seems like a bad tradeoff for github. Seems like the kind of thing better hosted on some financially fire-walled shell company's website where any losses from a protracted legal battle can fall off into oblivion.
What a backwards rationale. Instead of growing the user base of the app and try to allure people to office 365, they chose to pester potential future clients.
First amendment? It is similar to this in many ways:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_i...
Not the op but the point was for the benefit of the site dev. I'm sure you can understand that I would rather keep uBlock on than diagnose why it may have broken on your site.

While you may be completely trustworthy, there is simply no way to know; I'll just click through.
So this seems feasible for site that you visit frequently. But how would you handle the random one off articles? There are plenty of domains in my history that I’ve only visited like 1-2 times.
You can run it with Cog: https://github.com/replicate/cog

cog predict r8.im/stability-ai/stable-diffusion -i prompt="cow flying in space"

Or you can run the Docker image directly. More details under "run on your own computer" here: https://replicate.com/stability-ai/stable-diffusion
We tried to use Paddle for our company but back when we were trialling them they didn't even have a dev environment (their suggestion was to create free products in production mode and use those to test dev/staging).

At that point I nope'd out of there and moved to Stripe.
This is nonsense, Germany is militarily very weak and only makes up 20% of the EU economy. You make it seem like they own Europe and are some scheming superpower in disguise. There's not much they could do in terms of military aid the US couldn't do 20 times over in half the time. France is like twice the size as an arms producer, what are they doing? What about Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Austria and Belgium? None of these countries needed an excuse to do nothing.

Germans might not have enough gas to heat their homes which would cause the government to fall and you see this as some sort of genius chess move.
Never had a smart TV.

I have gone the computer monitor route for all my TV needs.

No need for more vulnerable IoTs in my home.

By denying them Smart TV manufacturers a piece of my mind (viewing habits), I now have a peace of my mind.
I’m sorry for your losses.
I am moving all my open source projects to `mypy --strict`. Here's the diff of adding basic / --strict mypy types:

libvcs: https://github.com/vcs-python/libvcs/pull/362/files, https://github.com/vcs-python/libvcs/pull/390/files

libtmux: https://github.com/tmux-python/libtmux/pull/382/files, https://github.com/tmux-python/libtmux/pull/383/files

unihan-etl: https://github.com/cihai/unihan-etl/pull/255/files, https://github.com/cihai/unihan-etl/pull/257/files

Perks:

- code completions (through annotating)

- typings can be used downstream (since the above are all now typed python libraries)

- maintainability, bug finding + Easy to wire into CI and run locally

Longterm, unsure of the return on investment. I do promise to report back if I find it's not worth the effort.
> I'm guessing that's just typical Intel behavior requiring constant motherboard updates with almost every tik/tok CPU release?

Yep, but even within the same tik/tok cycle there are different sockets/chipset combinations.

>And... when was the last time Xeon had a 2/4 core?

My point is that most people probably have a desktop motherboard, presumably with a 2/4 core CPU. Upgrading to a used 8 core xeon on ebay is not an option because xeon chips use a different chipset/socket. Therefore the highest available option for most people are 4 core desktop CPUs.
The wall wart is 12V 2A, which would at least tell you the max draw.
am/pm users have lost their sanity.
>The Tauri app is using more modern staff

Probably meant “stack”, right?
Freedom of Speech is a principle, a concept, a philosophy. Not a Law

In the US, the 1st amendment prohibits the US government from infringing on a persons natural right to free speech.

"Freedom of speech" is not a law, or provision. Pointing out that a platform "has the right" to violate peoples freedom of speech (and yes it is an infringement of the principle) is both obvious and pointless. People that actually support the principle also have the right to express their deep disappointment that GH would abuse their position of power, abuse the privilege bestowed upon them by the community of open source developers by cowering to the US government and refusing to stand up for the principle of Free speech
I would love to pay my local sports team or NBC or something money directly for broadcasts of all their games but it's impossible because the exclusive streaming rights are split out across at least 3 different services that I'd need to pay far too much for on top of my season tickets.
Same here. Depending on the type of application being built, this can be a huge downside. E.g., if you want to store data locally using IndexedDB getting it to work properly on Safari (and to some extent Firefox) can be a soul destroying experience. See here for some examples: https://gist.github.com/pesterhazy/4de96193af89a6dd5ce682ce2...

Unless I'm building an app that also needs to work on the web, I'm choosing Electron.
> 3. The severity of an incident is measured by the number of rules broken in resolving it.

We got around this general truth by enumerating the list of people (some by name, some by role) who could declare that a prod issue was emergent enough to authorize any action.

We based it on the concept in the aviation law 14 CFR 91.3, in relevant part: “In an in-flight emergency requiring immediate action, the pilot in command may deviate from any rule of this part to the extent required to meet that emergency.“

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/91.3

The intent of adding our own version of part a and b of this law (including their origin) was to drive home the sense of responsibility and trust we placed in those employees.

It also allows us to pass SOX control audits because our stated policies have a “these people can authorize anything they think is needed”, which means when we do that, we’re still following our controls.
Monorepos require static typing as a first class citizen of the language.

"And there is nothing wrong with using a type checker for your Python type annotations."

There is a lot wrong with that. Python is a dynamically typed language. If you are using a static type checker on a dynamically typed language, you are not taking advantage of the dynamic nature of the language.

You are basically not writing Python code at all. This means you get all the disadvantages of using a dynamically typed language with none of the benefits.

In summary, you have a made a very poor engineering decision.
The cat's out of the bag already, NSFW: https://reddit.com/r/unstablediffusion
Is the fact that their cards tend to have lower limits a business "code smell" for lack of a better term? Does it say anything about Stripe's own financial standing, or perhaps they are just conservative compared to other creditors.
Dude what are you talking about? Fresh water supply in India mainly comes from twelve river system that are to be interlinked. Not from Kashmir.
> free riding on our military

Small minded.

The purpose of NATO is to serve as a force multiplier. It's not that Europe benefits at the cost of the USA. Both benefit.
No, you would need 1/8000 if you want to have an aperture that's wider than, say, 5.6. When harsh light forces you to close the aperture too much, you lose any chance to create bokeh, and thus lose a lot of artistic options. Plus you get more diffraction.
Here's a thought: treat your customers better so you don't have to do damage control when one of your customers finds a big enough audience.

For every person who gets an HN post/comment with traction, there's a thousand people with no voice or platform just as fucked over or more.
Yes, you either need to have a per-customer uptime number (that is visible to those customers) or you have one unified uptime number that takes a hit if any customers experience downtime. You can't have it both ways.
Yesterday: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/a-dad-took-photos-...
Imagine not getting people are free to do what they want. Life isn’t a perpetual college campus. At least not for 99% of us.
All allocation of property, including maintaining the status quo, involves the use of social convention backed by force. There are many people who would happily not live on the streets if a massive gun-pointing programme on behalf of property owners didn't evict them and deter them from finding another nice presently-unoccupied property.

(Smarter conservative arguments focus on utilitarian claims that [forms of] redistribution reduce incentives to grow the economy and build houses, rather than dubious moral claims that Uncle Sam pointing his tax collectors at Steve is somehow more immoral than Steve pointing his bailiffs at tenants)
I agree with your last point, no, sorry, reverse engineering machine code back to actual, re-compilable source is not at all straightforward. Hex-rays has been trying to do this for ages and still doesn't get things right
Is this like going after the frackers supplying natural gas to the power companies that heat the homes of nazis?
I hope so. QUIC gives us so much of what SCTP should have given us. But we'll see how the middleboxes deal with things. If they want to block QUIC, like they block UDP, they can.
Is your thinking that more ads would convince people who don’t currently care about privacy to care about it? Or that there’s a contingent of privacy advocates with enough tech skills to navigate these issues that aren’t aware of VPNs yet?
How the Internet of the 2000s Shaped an Entire Generation of Developers
Just because someone is a private entity and they are not required to host something doesn't mean that they shouldn't be a good example.
How does this make sense? There is only one iOS alternative. There are 1.2 million other places these people can go work.
Does anyone know why I get a SIGSEGV on Ubuntu on a 6 GB VRAM 1060? I even used the optimized script, which needs less VRAM.
Crystalis was the first game that got me hooked on RPGs.
It has nothing to do with partisanship when a President pressures a foreign aid recipient to announce an investigation into his political rival. It was just plain wrong.

That the outcome of the Senate trial was partisan has more to do with party politics. Republican Senators weren't on the floor arguing that Trump did the right thing. They intentionally worked to minimize how much of the trial was able to reach the news cycle because they also knew what occurred was wrong. The whole thing was over in 4 days and it was run on a weekend to minimize exposure. You might recall the upset over how the Senate even voted to not call witnesses.
"Software Defined Ethernet"
Money laundering: the concealment of the origins of illegally obtained money, typically by means of transfers involving foreign banks or legitimate businesses.

Tornado Cash isn't for laundering money, it's for breaking the chain of public transactions on block explorers. It doesn't make withdrawn fees look "legitimate".

Tired of these goal posts getting moved.
Using a computer may be a somewhat better form of being sedentary
https://www.google.com/search?q=timer+1+century
“Ken acknowledged that it’s not feasible to build a tower and field of heliostats just for roasting foods like green chile, coffee or grains. However, he and his colleagues are exploring a much smaller and more modular solar-roasting system that conceivably could be transported to farmers’ markets, grocery stores and chile festivals for roasting small batches of green chile, like the propane-burning steel-drum chile roasters currently use.”
Nothing you mentioned on the plus side is actually increasing security. It's really just compliance and potentially containment. Some things that could be done to increase security:

- penetration tests paired with employee security training incorporating those results

- updating every piece of software and IOT device as frequently as possible

- don't use products that execute macros when you open documents and train users to click the allow button

- have a functioning SSO system in place and don't rely on something being on the "internal network" as a security measure. Don't have credentials shared between employees, use SSO instead.

- universal usage of MFA and password managers
Hm, we respond to emails, so I wonder what broke here. If you're still interested in narrowing down what happened to that transaction, could you email me at edwin@stripe.com?
Why blame technology? I'd say it's the opposite problem, we've not correctly leveraged technology we have to stop climate change.

We have the technology, we chose not to apply it.
You wouldn't be as jealous if you knew how hard it is to find batteries these days.
From 2000 and before I still enjoy Doom and Quake with mods and some 16-bit emulated games sometimes. I play pretty much all the popular retro-inspired shooters too: Dusk, Amid Evil, Ion Fury, HROT, Project Warlock, etc.
I actually agree with this. And I like your second point around LOC as a yellow-flag around poor domain understanding.

I tried to acknowledge the deficiencies in LOC in the second paragraph... but it felt like a useful shorthand for conveying a sense of scale and complexity (at least to an order-of-magnitude) in a domain-agnostic way.

Outside of Mypy, we use: black, isort, flake8, docformatter, and autoflake (to remove unused imports) -- all on pre-commit + enforced on CI. I'd like to see Black cannibalize more of that toolchain :)