skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something like this happened to a friend of mine. He was using a work-allocated phone. He didn't directly get contacted by authorities, but someone at the company tipped him off that they had been contacted.

Turns out the phone number he was assigned had previously belonged to a drug kingpin's burner phone or something like that. When my friend got a new phone and ended up with the number, he made calls from the US to Pakistan because he was going to attend a friend's wedding there. The authorities saw these things and at some point contacted the owner of the phone (the company) to try to figure out what was going on.
Do you mean completely from scratch?

If so, why would one want to do that versus taking an existing cell and injecting custom DNA?
Simple answer: its enough.

Long answer: Its good enough
When you stake, you are still processing transactions and creating blocks/forming consensus similar to what mining did. This isn't really comparable to investing in a security.

Just because you can join a staking pool which often takes a cut and makes it easy doesn't invalidate what is actually going on.
How are you certain that you can survive a night's sleep?
Twitter pranksters derail GPT-3 bot with newly discovered “prompt injection” ha
True, but there's an opportunity cost to having worked at Company X on the assumption that your RSUs would appreciate in value, when in fact they decreased and you could have worked at Company Y instead.
So you're making big assumptions that the database's table names map to important concepts in the user's vocabulary, and that a thorough understanding of the data model can be ascertained from the schema alone? To be brutally honest: that's a silly assumption and likely a dead-end.

(One thing I want to emphasize here is how abysmally, unbelievably, depressingly god-awful the vast majority of database schemas are.)

You wouldn't expect any user-friendly feature to be automatically stamped on top of a database without the involvement of a programmer, and this is no different. You need some sort of descriptive layer between the database and the query engine (or beside it, helping out) that programmers are involved in building. AI is not going to magically solve this problem for you. Figure out what you need described to you and turn that into a meta language that application developers can write to help your engine out.

Frankly I'm wary of any direct link between the user and the database. How do you deal with constraints like "users should only be able to see data associated with their organization in tables X, Y, and Z" if the programmer doesn't tell you? How could you possibly prevent exploits and security problems? Another reason to focus on querying an intermediate layer or relying on a programmer-provided description of what's available.

(Or am I assuming way too much, and "hypotheses on the schema" is already this meta-language?)
In Spain all old craiglist equivalents are mostly gone or full of spam. We've got Wallapop though, and it's fine. It feels modern, not too clunky, and IMO it's a right balance.

Until someone decides it needs to be more flashy.
its called "talking your book"
That's what I assumed as well, but it's still... off somehow.

The same product is carried at the other stores, each has it at a price of $20 exact...then this one bounces between $30 and $50 all day.

I mean, maybe they are getting suckers to buy it at the inflated prices for both, but I'd be shocked if so. They also carry other products from the same line, and they are all priced normally at $20.
> Even if you are a person who will never in your life end up as any kind of person of interest for the government

Literally no way to ensure that.
Adobe has a history of using dark patterns to keep people subscribed to their products such as hidden fees for cancelling.
I doubt if he’s typical of people working at Craigslist.
The fee makes using an Airbnb only worthwhile if you are staying there for many days. For a single night, the cleaning fees make them much more expensive than a hotel.
More Self-Checkout Is Coming, No Matter How Much You Hate It
> We're here for the technology, not for the murder-porn.

Morally impoverished to pretend you can separate them in this way. You're here for the technology despite the murder-porn, so have the spine to stand up and admit that about yourself.

> and we'd all be poorer without them.

You can literally spin up youtube and find videos of children being killed by these tools. Do that, watch a couple. Watch children die, you owe them that at least if you're going to find value and entertainment in these weapons. Would they be poorer? their families? Be honest about whose lives are enriched by these tools and whose aren't, please. You and I might be poorer without them, sure, but that's not a "we all" that I can understand.
Robyn is a python package written in rust, so they're not entirely separate things here.

This also appears to be "constant requests" in Robyn, which seem to cache the results of routes that are static.

It's neat though
If found this talk super interesting.
The author also made a nice blog post that summarises all the content:
https://www.storj.io/blog/production-concurrency
Im genuinely interested in this. Which aspect of reality? And when you say “positive”, from whose perspective or within which frame are you defining it?
https://archive.ph/wA88M
Can I ask how long it takes to 'copy' someone's phone data?

The mid-level consumer tech I have access to takes a most of a work day to copy my wife's 80GB of iphone 7+ data to a flash drive.

Based on this, I doubt they have some sort of magic thing that will just copy everything on your phone as you pass through a checkpoint.

Do they hold you until the copy is done?

Or do they have some super fast thing that works on every device?

Honestly curious.
Which would you consider the Taliban?

Is the Islamic State a state-level organization? How big and well organized does the state need to be?
>Apple kill flash by never supporting it on iOS

Apple tried very hard to support Flash on the iPhone. Apple flew out Adobe engineers to help them get it work on mobile. It was a tire fire and that's why Apple killed it. The dysfunction with Flash started before the iPhone, and arguably started with the acquisition of Macromedia.
> One way, often used regarding so-called food deserts, is to drop pins on the map representing consequential retail locations, draw a circle around them, and count who is and is not within one of the circles using census data. This is fairly naive and therefore is much beloved of social scientists, who can get grad students to do it for them.

> Some people in society have to actually be right about what they publish, and they have developed an important novel insight into human behavior: people cannot fly.

Haha savage.

I really love this article - it's a love letter to understanding all of the minutiae that goes behind something simple.
HTTP 3? Oh, you mean the thing that used to be HTTP-over-QUIC, another “standard” unilaterally declared by Google :-)
A bit off tangent, what would be the best bang for the buck GTX GPU to buy nowadays if I want to use it for machine learning (like running stable diffusion locally)?
I don't think I'm qualified to comment about their actual contents, but it seems that these (soldiers and victims of the war) graveyards were described in Russian telegram war channels in spring already.
Great. Now I can build my next rig with 4x RTX 3080 and, well...who cares about the rest of the parts?

Also, I hope every GPU miner's fireproof safe fails and all their money burns up.
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That sounds like a regression to me. A more visual experience isn't necessarily better - I and most people on this site probably prefer the compact list of text titles, since the information is easier to parse.

Filtering also limits search, not enhances it, as you are prevented from generically finding things, and now have to sort by filter.
I took this opportunity to look at Sketch again and I'm shocked they still don't have a desktop version for Windows. They are stubbornly wed to their focus on a "truly native" mac app despite Figma proving over and over that cross-platform is what users actually want and need. Seems like another huge opportunity missed with Figma users scrambling for alternatives.
The largest challenge was tuning the cards for best efficiency.

Next up is just tracking inventory, making changes to the system, etc... this is over 8k individual computers in multiple data centers.

We also added a different class of hardware which was blade based... which increased the individual computers significantly. Ended up with a very cool iPXE boot solution for that.

I also built some pretty cool software to manage it all. It runs on the concept that each machine is an individual worker that knows how to self-heal itself. Even just distributing the software to so many machines reliably, is a challenge.

It has been a fun few years.
Great question!

Focusmate is a great product centered around virtual co-working and work productivity, whereas Double will not be centered around co-working, but for everyday tasks (which can include co-working). As a result, we are designing the experience to be tailored towards the everyday experiences rather than a co-working product used for everyday task.

Essentially, we want to expand the scope of tasks you can double up to do together and provide a better UX for those diverse tasks.
We're working on those, but at some point Godot Engine 4.0 needs to ship..

* https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/4435 (spatial audio)

* https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/3904 (network interest management)

* I can't find the proposal, but we, V-Sekai, call those physical materials or sound materials. Like a piece of concrete has different friction and a different sound. The worst part is it requires the Godot Engine 4 artists to conform to like 300 materials.
I agree with your point, however there has been plenty of 70-80% (or worse) destruction as well.

Fiverr -88%, Fastly -92%, Pinterest -72%, Zoom -87%, Shopify -82%, Roku -85%, DocuSign -82%, Twilio -84%, Virgin Galactic -91%, DraftKings -75%, Palantir -82%, Coinbase -80%, Robinhood -88%, Rivian -78%, Roblox -72%, Unity -83%, Nikola -94%, Peloton -94%, Snap -86%, Square/Block -73%, Zillow -84%, Teladoc -90%, UiPath -84%, Affirm -83%, SoFi -75%, DigitalOcean -70%, Asana -83%, Okta -80%

That's in the realm of a dotcom bubble style implosion. There are plenty of other prominent names to add to that list. Having lived through the dotcom destruction, this rhymes, even if it's not exactly the same.
> There is so much interesting stuff going on in GPU compute that isn't crypto.

There's a lot of stuff that isn't any better than crypto either, deepfakes, producing hundreds of thousands stable diffusion pics of the same scene.

Much of this is still a garbage fire of greenhouse gases and e-waste, used GPU prices won't change that. Many ml advances are simply more compute and bigger models in the end.
Second the support for vectorscan. And FWIW, I have posted issues in both hyperscan and vectorscan repos, and the only responses came from vectorscan (and quite quickly).
It doesn’t follow that an open border policy is an appropriate palliative to compensate for that historical injustice. A much more logical solution might be, for example, providing security assistance to impacted countries.
I remember trying to write something ambitious on a Commodore 64. When faced with BASIC I tried to come up with some way of organizing my design. I really tried. But there was so little there I couldn't get traction and gave up.

Thank god for our tools and abstractions today.
This is addressed in the article:

> Bank branches are not destinations. Like Starbucks and cell phone shops, they rely on capturing your day-to-day custom when you’re out and about. In the U.S., that mostly means being maximally accessible by cars. (In Japan, and other places with different transit behavior, bank branches are among the most likely user for large parcels directly adjacent to hub train stations, with smaller light branches and ATM-only locations being deployed close to far-from-station workplaces.)
> Your analogy with tangible goods doesn't work. Shoplifting, or stealing, could be a felony and is heavily frown upon morally. The risk of getting caught up is much higher, and the consequence is more serious.

> I won't be angry about "thieves getting them for free" despite I paid for the TV, because I knew they will end up in jails eventually, if not already.

So whether you get angry about it or not depends solely on the thieves getting punished, not on the act itself? Seems like a very narrow way to view it.

> And yes, I feel salty when I paid full price for X game while someone is getting it free.

Why? That has no effect on how you enjoy the game. Why would you get salty about that, considering it doesn't affect you in any way? Especially since you said yourself earlier that piracy doesn't "necessarily hurt dev in term of income", so you wouldn't even worry about the dev(s) not making any more games because of piracy.

What's the damage for you then?
Many websites have taken such an adversarial relationship to the EU's GDPR that I suspect that those same websites will block access to Californians.

That said, I wonder if any VPNs will let me pretend to be inside California?
TLDR: "Nginx will fail by refusing or dropping connections, Caddy will fail by slowing everything down"

To me it seem that Caddy suffer from BufferBloat.
Under heavy congestion the goodput (useful throughput) will drop to 0 because client will start timing-out before the server get a chance to respond.

Caddy should use an algorithm similar to : https://github.com/Netflix/concurrency-limits

Basically check what was the best request latency, and decrease concurrency limit until latency stop improving.
Nuclear bombs have very few uses other than blowing up cities or threatening to do so. DNA synthesis is both of considerable use outside of bioweapons production and not really a critical bottleneck in bioweapons, which is why I'd consider it more like laptops or chairs than like, say ICBM guidance systems or weapons grade enrichment programs.
Careful what you whish for. That sounds exactly as one of those fuzzy algorithms that will hide posts randomly due to stupid reasons. Eg. some address has a glitched road and Google Maps believes it is only reachable by boat or helicopter.
When reading along: Keep in mind that I'm not a core developer and thus are not directly involved in development, design decisions, or roadmap. I have some understanding of the internals and the associated challenges based on my contributions and discussions on the mailing list, but the following might not be entirely correct.

> I wonder if a disk-writing process could be spun out before dropping privileges?

I mean … it sure can and that appears the plan based on the last comment in that issue. However the “no disk access” policy is also useful for security. HAProxy can chroot itself to an empty directory to reduce the blast radius and that is done in the default configuration on at least Debian.

> but I don't see why disk accesses need to block requests

My understanding is that historically Linux disk IO was inherently blocking. A non-blocking interface (io_uring) only became available fairly recently: https://stackoverflow.com/a/57451551/782822. And even then it's a operating system specific interface. For the BSD's you need a different solution.

If your process is blocked for even one millisecond when handling two million of requests per second (https://www.haproxy.com/de/blog/haproxy-forwards-over-2-mill...) then you drop 2k requests or increase latency.

> or why they have to occur in the same thread as requests?

“have” is a strong word, of course nothing “has” to be. One thing to keep in mind is that HAProxy is 20 years old and apart from possibly doing Let's Encrypt there was no real need for it to have disk access. HAProxy is a reverse proxy / load balancer, not a web server.

Inter-thread communication comes with its own set of challenges and building something reliable for a narrow use case is not necessarily worth it, because you likely need to sacrifice something else.

As an example at scale you can't even let your operating system schedule out one of the worker threads to schedule in the “disk writer” thread, because that will effectively result in a reduced processing capacity for some fractions of a second which will result in dropped requests or increased latency. This becomes even worse if the worker holds an important lock.
What's "Terf"? A name?
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> There is so much interesting stuff going on in GPU compute that isn't crypto.

For sure, but there were many crypto operations with data centers that had hundreds or thousands of GPUs. For example, a report from JPR estimates that crypto miners bought 25% of all GPUs produced in 1H'2021.¹

¹ https://www.jonpeddie.com/blog/crypto-minings-half-a-billion...
There's a form response for why choose gdscript here. https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/about/faq.html
this reminds me a bit of Cockatrice - hope your version ends up cooler though!
Your age is off just a bit - I almost thought you might be the founder of a trio of C64 (and C Pet) programmers with the same idea. It was an exciting time to be 'into' computers!
I know but come on. "They're just so cool though" isn't a very solid defense of finding entertainment in large scale death-dealing machinery. Like truly think of yourself in the shoes of someone who for example had a child killed by one of these things. What would you think about someone "just liking the tech" with no thought given to the intended or actual use?
Yeah, craigslist never really had any marketshare (at least not for the past decade) in Montréal. Kijiji was king, and honestly I prefer it to CL but even then it is getting dominated by Fb marketplace.

I'm not often on Facebook, so I sometimes miss kijiji but honestly the fact that you can at least know a little bit about the seller on Facebook is a huge plus, even if I fully understand how that can also be a huge problem for some. The seller ratings, plus the ability to see what else they are selling/sold can be super helpful to make sure you aren't getting scammed or buying a stolen item.
Not sure to understand what you mean here, can you explain?

Docusaurus is a static site generator, a bit similar to Gatsby. It's opinionated toward docs/blog/pages but you can also use it in a more generic way.
Was that the case here? Was antiracism racism in Twilio's layoffs? If you have evidence of this, then I'm happy to concede.
We've been building this design tool (https://uizard.io/) for developers and non-designers alike.
Defo not meant to replace Figma — it's built as an easier / quicker alternative for folks that need to iterate fast.
Do you have a source on this claim of misrepresentation? I thought that at the time of the publication, there was no reason for the Google team to believe that their estimate of the classical difficulty was incorrect. The initial IBM response showed that a novel approach could work, and the reference in this article is novel without a doubt.

The question I'm interested in is that now that we can mimic the computation on a classical computer, it should be possible to see if the Google quantum computer was correct -- previously they had used cross-validation in an attempt to give evidence, if not proof, for the correctness of the QC output, but with this it should be possible to test it directly. That would at least give us an idea of how noisy the qbits were, and whether the noise cancellation actually worked at scale.
How do endpoints find each other?
I don't understand why, if it really worked, the org holding the patent didn't do anything of it.
As for certifying whether your business needed it or not you had to make a statement saying it was necessary for you to continue the business on the loan app. But it was an honor system. It will be up to the government to search out & prosecute fraudsters.
But not today!

And consider: if I can upload, perhaps I can download. Perhaps my digital copy can live life 'faster'? In that case I live 1000 lives digitally and download that.

Now I'm essentially immortal, in my physical body, because I've lived for millennia!

At the very, very least its no worse than living this one life and dying anyway.
You’d rather the tech industry work like industries where only founders and executives reap windfalls of exit events? If your reply is that the company can offer bonuses when the exit event happens, (1) most companies don’t do this after the fact but stock is a way to force it to happen and (2) this doesn’t help employees who stayed for many years but didn’t happen to be there at the moment of the exit.
You just need a computer with TB3 and above. Get an eGPU box like Razer Core X [1]. Caveat is that chances are, these GPU are probably Nvidia because of CUDA. Therefore, it will not work with Mac (will work on Linux or Windows though).

[1] https://www.razer.com/gaming-egpus/razer-core-x
All my kids love books, don't worry. But in the "one page per week" statement above, I excluded children's books. ;-)
The killer feature that Facebook marketplace has is the fact that you can do some basic verification of the person you are selling or buying an item from.
They have to pay somebody to do the social engineering too.
So to be clear, you would say that China's standing and general compliance to perceived hostile action against it is the same as Lebanon or Thailand? IMHO, that is very naïve.
> and actively goes after any competition to his site

What do you mean by this? Is he acquiring the competition or is there another way he's going after them?
"Catch 22" was also presumably read for work, he played Nately in the film version that was in production in 1969: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065528/
You aren't allowed to do this in the US. Lot of regulations on your RSUs and when you can sell etc. including derivatives on your vested and unvested stock.
I'm with ya, but it wasn't just google. Google easily convinced the other megacorps like Microsoft that QUIC was good for their use cases and together they managed to whitewash it through the IETF. It wasn't just google. But it is just mega-corps. QUIC is a bad standard for human persons but excellent for corporate persons.

As for webtransport, this is the first time I'm hearing of it. My browsers definitely don't support it.
I don't often see the term narcissism misapplied that way. Regardless in this case I admire Art Garfunkel, the singer. But he clearly has delusions of grandeur. Not my opinion alone, to wit this Washington Post review of one of his memoirs:

"The subtitle of Art Garfunkel's new memoir, " Notes From an Underground Man," echoes Dostoyevsky's "Notes From Underground" and Richard Wright's story "The Man Who Lived Underground" — both serious works of literature.

Garfunkel’s book, however, is a splattering of 30-plus years of handwritten thoughts, lists, travel notes, bad poetry, confessions, snarky digs, platitudes and prayers gussied up for publication in different fonts and sizes.

Reading it is like rummaging through a huge junk drawer of the mind."