skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, let's reverse it: most "courts" in medieval/renaissance times were at least as brutal (but possibly more) as the inquisition*. This is purely based on (non-Christian) historians' views, not mine. See for example [1,2]
So I guess we can say that "the popular image that the medieval/renaissance trials is mostly untrue", then? I assumed not everyone knew/thought that these two things were mostly on par, but maybe it's just my ignorance.
For sure I met people that thought that Galileo was burned at the stake, or at least tortured, when neither of that has happened.

Were the other secret police services as brutally murderous as the NKVD? Maybe yes, then I'd argue that the popular image of the other secret police services are mostly untrue.

Funny enough, you named this "Christian whitewashing" but historically the violence of the Inquisition was also exaggerated by protestants, who are also Christians, so... a case of Christian blackwashing? :)

* as the comment from Bayart points out, I was referring (like the OP) to the medieval/Roman Inquisition, which is a different entity from the Spanish one

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Inquisition#Torture

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Inquisition#Historiograp...
There are plenty of absolute rules spelled out perfectly in black and white with zero room for interpretation that explicitly state such, the trouble is that if you follow them you end up with something that looks pretty much like Saudi Arabia.
If you are willing to take proactive action then don't settle for anything less than getting your email on your own domain.
There's a lot of worthwhile stuff there, so I'm not complaining! I always feel a bit guilty submitting things because I see a lot of "Why is this on HN!?" comments and that puts me off. But maybe I should worry less about those.
> - They use Trac?! I loved Trac circa 2008 but had no idea it was still a thing. I can't even login to it without it timing out.

Oh wow! I totally forgot about Trac. That was the first ticket management software I used and I completely forgot about it's existence. Thanks for the impromptu trip down memory lane.
The backup and store service is cheap, general outgoing bandwidth is very non-trivial as it also applies to every other service in AWS; It's designed to keep your data in and heavily discourage multi-cloud
In that scenario, your local copy is the backup!
This is Google, and I say this out of familiarity with the recent history of AI, not to stir up culture war: it's because they've painted themselves into a corner on "what is the skin color of a person+role" and won't publish until it looks like a Benetton ad.
What you describe is probably the least efficient way to learn math - or anything else for that matter - because you’re trying to learn things you can’t, at that point and for a while afterwards, reason about. They don’t have connection to anything else. Compare that with the opposite - learning stuff you can already mentally associate with parts of known reality.
Can you decipher PED, TRT, SARM, ostaribe, PJ Brain for the rest of us?
No one is winning economic wars. Not even the rich who get to play both sides. They’re just avoiding losses, if you’re in the position to do war profiteering you would have made money anyway.

I don’t understand why money is being funnelled into an economic war rather than, aham, attempts at speeding up the dictators transition into a different state of consciousness ( or lack there of).

I genuinely believe that would be the most effective use of money. Get someone to, you know, do the thing, blame it on one of the countless possible usual suspects and cut a deal with whoever emerges victorious from the ensuing power struggle.

People will say “you don’t know if the next one will be worse”. Sure, but, my argument would be Stalin. Stalin was repudiated after his death. People went along just because they were terrified of him. I don’t think the situation would be much different now.

I don’t know. Just my two cents. I don’t like war, economic or otherwise. The sooner it stops the better it will be for everyone.
That’s a great analogy. Thank you.
their food is an injustice to society

anyway, I don't think they're "weaponizing disinformation" this seems like hyperbole (but I'm not sure if this is satire either)
Do you really want to spend 10 months retrieving that data? I don’t think there's a single real-life scenario where you do need data, just not this year. So $2.56/TiB is unattainable.
No reason a hypothetical recursive mtime needs to be atomic. The kernel could just stick it in a buffer somewhere and deal with that sort of think out-of-band and in batches. You'd probably need some filesystem journaling trickery if you want to make sure the recursive mtime always updates eventually when a file is modified.
There are also several DIY 3d printed microscope options in case that's easier/cheaper for you.
Microsoft clearly cares about their brand, and cares _a lot_ about making MS Edge a success. They're evidently willing to spend about 10 billion dollars on it or so at least (given that their relentless pushing it is risking the EU slapping them down for this at the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars and the risk of that happening is at least 10%. They've done it before, and since then the EU has become more annoyed at such practices, especially from USA companies), that's some easy math.

So, either Taboola's dump truck had more than 10 billion dollars in it, or whomever made this call is an idiot, and the management above them is asleep at the wheel (seems like occam's answer here), or I'm missing something.
Breakfast makes me drowsy and less productive and it has always been this way. When I forced myself to eat in the mornings and/or five times a day, it was horrible. Brain fog, overall laziness and I felt like shit all the time.

Then I moved to not eating in the morning. Just water and coffee with no additions. Ate mostly in the evening and all was good. Then I read that the last meal should be about 2 hours before sleep. Ok.

And then I read about intermittent fasting which... I've already been on unknowingly. And so am to this day. The feeling of hunger only exists after I eat something. If I don't eat before evening, I'm not hungry and could go to sleep without eating. But if I eat some snack during the day, I'm hungry since the first dish.
Jeff is that you??
I personally know a few at Mozilla who used to be regular contributors to Firefox.

And I know a somebody else who used to contribute to the Linux kernel before they eventually ended up at RedHat.

I don't know if it's because of the contribution that they got hired, but it could have been a factor.

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Also there's that tangentially related story about Homebrew creator not getting a job at Google, so there's that. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15981338
You don't have to be a master in math or a phenomenal software engineer to use common sense and logic. And common sense is more than enough to deal with crypto.
Revolut – Information on a recent cyber security incident
Just got this through email. Being a fintech company I found it to be slim on the details:

We recently experienced a highly targeted cyber attack by an unauthorised third party who may have obtained access to some of your customer details for a very short period of time. You don’t need to take any action but we wanted to let you know, as well as offer our sincere apologies that this has happened.

We immediately identified and isolated the attack.

As you were one of a very small percentage of customers affected, we wanted to reassure you that your data is now secure, but we understand that you may have questions about the incident.

To be clear, no funds have been accessed or stolen. Your money is safe - as it has always been. You can continue to use your card and account as normal.

As a precaution, we’ve put in place a special team to oversee your account and ensure your money and data remain secure.

Although your money is safe, you may be at heightened risk of fraud. As a result, we recommend you be especially vigilant against suspicious activity, including suspicious emails, phone calls or text messages.

We will be in contact shortly with further details, if necessary. See below for our dedicated Q&A on this issue.

While our chat support agents are available to talk through any further questions you have, we may be unable to address all your queries at this time, as our investigations are still ongoing.

This was an isolated incident and our customers' account security remains our top priority. While cyber attacks are an unfortunate reality for many businesses, we have taken swift action to handle this incident appropriately and protect our customers.

Thanks,

Team Revolut

Q&A
Is my money safe?

Yes it is. No funds have been accessed or stolen. Your money is safe - as it has always been.

No full card numbers, PIN or passcodes have been accessed.

What personal data may have been compromised?

The data varied for different customers. If necessary, we’ll follow up with you individually.

How many Revolut customers have been affected?

0.16% of our total customers.

What do I need to do?

We take incidents such as these incredibly seriously, and while you don’t need to take any action, we advise you to be especially vigilant as there may be heightened risk of identity theft or fraud.

How can I keep my account safe?

You should always be vigilant when it comes to your account security. You can read our advice on protecting yourself from fraud on our website.

What else do I need to know?

Revolut will not call you or send an SMS relating to this incident - please remain highly suspicious of any attempt to contact you. We will never ask you for your log-in details or access codes.
War and Peace aside, most of those are pretty breezy reads, so if you’re laid-up sick for a couple weeks with nothing else to do it would be easy to blow through them all.
Just a single drive can be more than 16TB nowadays, having just a couple of those makes $90/TB seem quite high.
It is for me too, but that's why I have to mantra my way to eating less!
Advanced maths adds layers of boring bookkeeping you have to wade through before you get to anything interesting.
What's the difference between a backend team and a backend-for-frontend team?
Name some concrete examples where the value of using crypto is obvious, is successful at scale, and isn’t about financial speculation.
UHaul Data Breach
I just received this email a few days ago:

We are writing to inform you of an incident that involved some of your information. We are providing this notice to explain the incident and measures we have taken, and also to provide some steps you can take in response.

What Happened?
We detected a compromise of two unique passwords that were used to access a customer contract search tool that allows access to rental contracts for U-Haul customers. The search tool cannot access payment card information; no credit card information was accessed or acquired. Upon identifying the compromised passwords, we promptly changed the passwords to prevent any further unauthorized access to the search tool and started an investigation. Cybersecurity experts were engaged to identify the contracts and data that were involved. The investigation determined an unauthorized person accessed the customer contract search tool and some customer contracts. None of our financial, payment processing or U-Haul email systems were involved; the access was limited to the customer contract search tool.

What Information Was Involved?
On August 1, 2022, our investigation determined some rental contracts were accessed between November 5, 2021, and April 5, 2022. After an in-depth analysis, our investigation determined on September 7, 2022, the accessed information includes your name and driver's license or state identification number

Well its a nice email to wake up to.
The first time I ever rent a uHaul and my DL is leaked.
Would you accept the answer "no" with no additional context or replies without feeling put off? Chat is asynchronous. Just ask your question. This isn't a phone call or a desk-side visit. The act of initiating a chat already contains the idea that you are asking the other person for an interaction. If they have time to chat, they will chat. If you need a response right away, then chat isn't the place to do it.
Ask HN: Have you taken action regarding the Uber hack?
Either personal (like asking your bank to revoke all cards you used with Uber) or work-related (recheck your security posture so that you won't have a Uber-level catastrophe)?
Glacier's primary business use is not as a backup solution but as a regulatory compliance tool. The idea is that you can guarantee regulatory bodies that whatever historical data that needed by law to be kept for x years has been preserved based on AWS' own claims of persistence.
i lost 30kg within a year and tried different things before and after, and eating a lot of calories in the morning was the only thing I could stick to.

and it wasn't a particularly good diet either. I started almost every morning with a donut and a chocolate croissant, along with a coffee, picked up from my favorite bakery. In case you're wondering how I lost any weight at all: I exercised about an hour 6 days a week. I would have no or only a small lunch, and then a decent sized (though still less calories than the breakfast) dinner.

It seems the exercise was the key here, but I tried the same thing with different eating schedules after, and it just doesn't work.

currently for example I'm arguably doing more exercise hours, just less intense (because I picked up climbing), but because there's free lunch at work and it's sort of a social pressure thing to take part, I can't seem to lose weight (I gained back about 10kg due to moving countries and being lazy). In particular I am very hungry in the morning and towards lunch, making me eat more than I probably would otherwise, and then I get absolutely insane cravings that disable any sort of objective reasoning apparatus in my head towards the end of the night.

These studies probably have a hard time controlling for psychological aspects. Just being watched in your diet and knowing you took part in a study is bound to have some effect on how people stick to it.
Can you add 'Ask HN: ', and maybe a questionmark, to the title? That will get more exposure on the https://news.ycombinator.com/ask page.
Doesn’t this have to pass anti-competition regulations before it goes anywhere? And if it does, is it likely that it will pass?
Mostly. See this for five examples using Google Translate:
https://www.datasecretslox.com/index.php/topic,7588.msg30007...
Precisely what I was curious for. Thank you.
I'd really like to see this. And after that I'd like to see a jury hit Facebook with 12 figures in punitive damages in a class action case.
Here’s a proposition:
- Gold got dethroned from its 5k year rule as the global store of value because of globalisation & speed of commerce. FDR ban & dollar being taken off the gold standard sealed its fate.
- Gold is replaced by the fiat currency of the global economic & military hegemon.
- Central banking & MMT is deeply corrupt & dysfunctional to the core.
- Digital alternatives were attempted but failed because of the double spend problem which in turn required private centralisation
- Satoshi invented bitcoin which solves double spend problem. Through the invention of Proof of Work and the use of supply limit, Satoshi puts bitcoin up as a contender for global store of value.
- A decade later, Bitcoin is in the zeitgeist. 100s billion in market cap. Best investors in the world are hedging for/against bitcoin (Paul Tudor Jones). Countries are banning/integrating bitcoin.
- Basically the bet is on.

Now we have a game theoretic situation where the early adopters take the most risk but are going to reap the most benefits.

To call this a "base jump without parachute" is asinine and completely unwarranted. There is a clear bet going on with the smartest people in the world on both sides.

Some believe the “rulers” of the current system will never allow this to happen therefore we will get CBDC’s instead. Others believe, the collapse of the current debt passed system is inevitable therefore bitcoin is a lifeboat.

Either way, china isn’t using the same technology invented by satoshi (without the PoS & decentralisation) for no reason. The US isn’t thinking about thinking about creating a FedCoin for no reason. India isn’t building one for no reason.

The race is on. Its a bet. There is risks on both side but its definitely not a one sided thing to say the least.
His point that the test as described - with multiple statistical issues piled on top of each other - does not allow much of a meaningful inference in any direction is completely valid and independent of what hypotheses were being tested.
I ran into this problem one time. I had some android that was absolutely not my primary phone that I logged into, and it was sitting plugged in, in my basement for diagnostic reasons (I just needed an android running with a linux shell for testing). About a year after forgetting about it I was trying to log into Google and they prompted me for my 2FA, which I happily provided since I use Google authenticator.

Then, when trying to access my passwords stored on my google account (passwords.google.com) I was prompted with a message saying that there was suspicious activity on my account, and I needed to approve a pop up on this android phone. Google would not let me access the password manager until I could physically drive back to that phone to approve it. They refused to provide me with any alternative options despite having a yubikey and sms. Finally, I navigated to my inbox (everything else would load except for that password manager) and went into details at the bottom of the page, then forcibly signed out of that android phone. Bear in mind this was the same device that it refused to let me access the password manager on.

Anyway, after removing the device from my account it let me access passwords.google.com
I don't understand what this is. I read the explanation but didn't fully understand it.

It's an OS one can load onto a smart TV, replacing whatever is there? Like, if I had a Samsung TV that began advertising at me, this could overwrite the UI?

If so, I looked for a hardware compatibility list and saw only Raspberry Pi, which confused me.
I don’t care to find it but a journal entry from Art Garfunkel’s web site crossed my radar many years ago. I recall thinking “wow, this is some next-level narcissism here.”

This list (and the royal we!) produce a similar reaction.
Edit: was wrong.

Original:

0-40 GiB, due to the minimum and assuming value means "$ to store all my X GiB" as opposed to "$/GiB"
I remember reading a blog post about starting all your scripts names with a comma, so that you can do ,<TAB> and get a list. I've been doing it and it works well. However, I like the namespacing, --help and autocompletion of sd. And I like the idea of hoarding more.
this is all over AWS documentation; you get the durability via erasure encoding / replication over multiple AZs in one region. Regional blast radius protects again one AZ going down. You don't run a service like S3 across AZs in different regions because of speed of light. if you are paranoid about a region going down you use replication.
It's not my claim, here's the link to the AWS page:

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/#____

You could upload to multiple regions just to be sure.
Also those are not just the 2 bets btw. El Salvador still supports the dollar.

There are those who envision a world full of privacy coins, CBDC's, bitcoin, company coins etc..

In this world, bitcoin will be the ruler of rulers. As in, Bitcoin will reward disciplined countries and punish undisciplined countries. Just like gold did in the past.
Ask HN: Google Flights for Trains?
Google Flights is really good and my go to service to find the best flights for my situation.

Do you know any service that is just as good but for trains? I know Google Flights integrates trains somehow but just not to the same extent.

If there isn't any similar service, why do you think Google doesn't build the same service for trains? What could convince them to do it?
These issues are why I’ve paid the pain to migrate myself onto Linux. I’m still not half as productive as I am on my company windows machine but I see far fewer adds day to day
But you get 100 GiB/month free download :)
Ask HN: Why are there so many data breaches?
No one cares about Security except the security team?
I think people who use Windows don't even realize how the OS slowly get more distracting over time, making people used to all this.

I am always amazed on how passively and non annoyed people click away all these virus scanner and whatever popups popping up whatever you are doing.

Sure I may be biased, I get aggressions when YouTube forces a second ad. And my brain was turned upside down when I realized smart TVs introduced smart ads that may take 20% of the screen, whenever and people still don't seem to care.

I am so glad I live behind a pihole in a Linux only network, without 'normal' TV. I am sure I see at least 95% less ads than my average peers.
Libcurses in rust, what a perfect idea!
> Have something important in the morning to do? I don't need to put the alarm anymore

This doesn't depend on the age. Though it might depend on a person.

For a fun experiment try saying in your head "I need to wake up at 6:55" before going to sleep. No need to look at the watch, no need to repeat it, just make sure you actually want this to happen. At 6:55 you will get a slight nudge that wakes you up just enough to realize it's time and to give an opportunity to wake up fully or to keep on sleeping. Seems like magic, but it works very reliably unless I'm dead tired.
I did this while working on an OSS project. I used slack starting with just 3 people including myself. It eventually reached 4k members. At that scale it's no longer community but instead a support channel. Keeping groups small or interconnected is really important. Each person joining really needs to be an invite from someone else already in the group.

Community also implies each member adds value. Again if you use invites it's reputation based. If any random person can join that's a dilutive effect.

Long term if a community stays small or private it maintains what it always had but people might outgrow it or it may no longer serve the same purpose. If you want to grow and evolve then there really needs to be some shared values, goals, beliefs that continue to be the core pillars of why the community exists and what new members look to when they arrive.
PED = Performance enhancing drug. Used by athletes for a competitive edge.

TRT = Testosterone Replacement Therapy. Used by older men to restore youthful levels.

SARM = Selective Androgen Receptor Modulator. Non-steroid drug with steroid like effects. The term "steroid" refers to the shape of the molecule. Steroids have four linked carbon rings as a backbone.
Appetite is more complex than an on-off switch or a scalar variable can describe. You can be painfully full but still "hungry" for some nutrient your body needs. This was me, driving from one fast food place to another to another. But when I instead filled my belly with dense nutrition, the need to binge went away. It was not, as I had been told over and over, just psychological. For me it was about curing the malnutrition that was making me continually unsatiated.
I'm curious what's the alternative if the script must have those credentials to do its job.
Les might not agree.
Lack of quality control in programming, weak passwords, not updating the server software quick enough, holes in the firewall.
The difference is the cause, not the effect.
I think it is meant as an open-source product OEMs can put on their TVs instead of some in-house Android TV derivative.

Sadly it's a non-starter without widevine certification.
I use zim-wiki with the graph plug-in, along with external scripts that edit the underlying pages to both add and remove links.

I've emailed and tweeted.