skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's found a startup, wsgeorge...

Unreal Engine is popular because it removes the effort of designing and building a 3D engine from game creation (and it's my understanding that because it has fairly reasonable licensing agreement).

PRATTLE, or Persistent Realistic AI for Talk and Text Language & Engagement, could be the Unreal Engine of procedurally generated NPC speech in games! And it already has a name... all we have to do is, you know... the hard work...
> the people who seem to be promoted are the 'climbers' - the ones who are looking for opportunities to get ahead,

That makes sense to me. They want to actually be the manager. I'm above average developer and could make a decent manager but fundamentally I dont want to do it.
> One way to do this is to hash the file and store that hash somewhere you trust, which i think is what the person is suggesting. This approach has somewhat limited applicability, because if you already have a trusted channel, why are you using cryptography? (Yes there are lots of exceptions to that where crrypto still makes sense, but in general the point stands)

Yup. In my case my system is content addressed, so everything is a hash. So one one hand, sign-less encryption will work fine if i know the HEAD hash, as you mentioned. However i also want these backups to work from no local store. Ie i don't know the HEAD, and in that case someone could tamper with my pointer.

Kinda surprising that Age doesn't have a way to handle this. Shame, but good to learn.

Cryptopals is interesting, appreciate the link! I'll also look into that book, thank you! Did you find the book a bit deep? I have no intention of writing my own crypto, i just want to use it reliably and correctly.
I mean, its not like Biden didn't make the statement that he'd do exactly this. If him admitting that it was a plan isn't enough for you, I don't think your myopia is going to be altered by any further discussion.
This is one of my favorite stories ever. I have never seen it as particularly anti socialism per se. Through most of KVs parables, there is a satire of what happens when we use forced constraint and compulsion to achieve a desired behavior. History has examples of how things go pear shaped when religious/right movements force people to behave a certain way, from the crusades to the current arguments about women’s rights in both the US and Iran at the moment. I’ve always seen KV’s tales as a warning to lefter leaning ideologies, that if you use the same compulsory means to achieve your left leaning goals, you’ll end up with equally wonky results as using the same means to achieve right leaning goals. You can’t _make_ people good. The people of a society have to choose to be good (for whatever arbitrary measure of morality your society has created).
au contraire, i watch his videos because not a lot of people talk about asia in non-confrontational terms
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You need to read for five minutes about AirTags and how they work, and how Apple addressed any stalking issues already, before casually tossing around accusations like this with vagaries like "I think these tags are opt out" attached to them.
Oh I agree it looks great, at least to me. I imagine those content producers like LTT and SavageGeese hate it only because they're seeing the original files in something like uncompressed 8k on color accurate monitors.

But stuff like this intro just look incredibly good to me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yeh4rsXhsUg
That was then, this is now. CPMs fell through the floor years ago.

Personal Blogs aren't discoverable on the web anymore because corporate blogspam knows how to do SEO much better and in much greater volume.
Interestingly, that site is the only one I can find that records that seismic event. All of the others (which mainly use USGS data) do not show it.
*oops, "...+IF+ it is not constantly and actively maintained."
Those of you that review resumes. Do you like seeing a summary at the top? What do you look for in a summary?
This answer to your question is more about scaling out (many machines) than scaling up (big machines).

Many budget hosting providers supporting CMSs like WordPress and Joomla run very large multitenant MySQL or MariaDB instances. These instances often get into performance trouble when one or more of the customer sites on them grow large or get traffic spikes. The CMSs offer elaborate caching strategies (based on redis, memcache/d) to help mitigate this. But of course the multitenant nature of these instances means that individual customers must configure the caching. And the lowest-end hosting providers don't offer redis or memcache/d.

It's possible to monitor various operational parameters (via `SHOW GLOBAL STATUS` and similar SQL statements) to detect problems. It's very hard for customers to mitigate configuration problems (like insufficient buffer pool sizes or too few maximum connections). But customers can change table indexes.

Other hosting providers operate large numbers of small separate MariaDB and MySQL instances, one per customer. Considering that WordPress powers something like 30 - 40% of the sites on the internet, the total number of instances is vast.

WordPress.org, a vast site, uses multiple read replicas.

Version upgrade inertia is a big problem for hosting providers. One provider (whom I will not name) runs a MySQL version that reached end-of-life well over a year ago. New-start MySQL / MariaDB project designs should make provisions for DBMS version updates. Updates are worth applying because the development teams do lots of performance-enhancement work.
> Would some special forces with diving equipment and a fishing boat be enough?

Sections are shallow. (No clue about the blast sites.) With zero information on the extent of the damage beyond measured pressure drops, folks dropping weighted dry bags of dynamite from kayaks is in scope.
I didn't mean leetcode-ability when I was talking about technical competence.

Why I think leetcode has its place (in interviewing), I think there are far better measures to determine ones technical contributions inside the company, like if someone writes a tool or script to automate a major hurdle saving tons of hours, or is capable of consistently providing high quality insight or elegant solutions, that is a very good benchmark for technical ability.
The people are the vlue
The topic is about Apple knowing your data, please do not shift goals.
For me it's a question of incentives. Apple makes the vast majority of its income selling hardware to people. That makes me the customer. Google makes the vast majority of its income selling user data to advertisers. That makes me the product and advertisers the customer. Which company has more of an incentive to compromise my privacy by accessing my data in a dishonest way?
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They are in fact basically never used for clandestine violence in places where they are legal (which is most of the US). On the other hand, there is a clear legitimate use of them: protection of hearing when you are shooting your own guns for fun, which is a legitimate activity that millions of Americans engage in every day.

Banning suppressors is kinda like as if European countries today banned possession of English longbows. These very much can be effectively used for violence, as Agincourt has shown. However, nowadays, they emphatically are not used for that, and if modern European government loudly declared a war on longbows, and went after the owners, one would think that they went crazy: shooting longbows is a pastime of medieval reenacters, not criminals.
how many note taking apps do you have? without even going on my phone, I think 70% of my apps need internet access (for a reason).
"I'm glad life isn't fair. If it were, it means we deserve everything that happens to us." -- paraphrasing a quote from Babylon 5

Principles are superior to rules, but the best we can do in government is making rules. Best they be few, and of high quality.
It could be an independent ideological rogue actor —although honestly I don’t know if small private organizations have the necessary tools to sabotage this thing.
Cloudflare is quietly becoming the only pure-play cloud infrastructure company with meaningful market penetration. Excited to see them grow!
> Meanwhile European powers don't seem to have an incentive

Depends who. I could very well imagine a few countries (my own, France, for example) forcing a situation where energy-driven complacency isn't on the table. But it does make more sense for this being something that comes from the US.
This would probably be helped by some kind of citation, or at least an explanation of what is meant here.
Interesting. I've always felt the story to be a bit of a straw man. Don't we always celebrate and idolize ability, beauty etc?
The one that instantly puts you through to a real person, and just collects your name and email.
Shopify, during the interview , pretty crazy stuff
Yes. But the median person who is as smart and motivated as the author of Asionometry makes a lot more.
It’s not a conspiracy theory. Some group conspired to sabotage the pipelines. It’s a conspiracy fact. The only theoretical aspect is who did it and that’s more of a hypothesis at this point. It’s a conspiracy hypothesis.
No its not. It was damaged like Nordstream 1.
Even if the answer is yes, I still think it's a good thing.
So, nowhere in this article or in any of the discussion so far, by any participant - in a completely unrelated article on Al Jazeera .. got it ..
I have only had experiences like this on rather critical services like my banking app and my google account where I can appreciate the scrutiny.

What are more popular but casual apps where this is happening out of curiosity?
> Meanwhile European powers don't seem to have an incentive.

I don't think that's what happened, but I do see an incentive. If you can turn "we're going to increase the conflict by refusing trade" into "we'd buy, but you can't deliver", that's a potentially politically useful change. Also internally "we're taking a stance and sacrificing your comfort during the winter" is worse optics than "we need to deal with the situation where even if we wanted to buy from Russia, we can't; sorry for the inconvenience".
Not too deep because you know what's there.
I don't mean the balrog, rather infrastructure for water, sewage, etc. Granted that might not be the case on private property, and in India, but still. Where I live people sometimes cut underground power cables, water or nat gas.
"MySQL for storage, because it doesn't scale"

haha.
The place where Apple is the most dishonest is in their scaremongering popup dialogs that constantly prompt me to re-authorize Google Maps, which I use daily, to access my location. They exempt themselves from this authorization by laundering Apple Maps location access through "System Services". iOS will never, ever pop up a dialog asking if you were aware that "System Services" has accessed your location on behalf of Apple 10000 times in the last month for the purposes of improving maps and providing traffic data to other Apple Maps users. Even if you, like me, never intentionally use Apple Maps, Apple silently accesses your location for these purposes. And even if you, like me, have been an intentional and fully-informed user of Google Maps for 15 years, Apple will still regularly urge you to revoke location data access from Google Maps.

To me, this seems really dishonest.
Vint Cerf is often referred to as "the Father of the Internet"; I suspect at his insentience.

Really tho it was Jon Postel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel
I feel that GrapheneOS is a good compromise. It's significantly more private than an iPhone and after 2 years of using it I really don't feel like I'm missing out on anything.
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Bots will need to decrypt the link, which makes the process more expensive. Known crawlers will get a "No bots allowed" message.
MP3 player. I love my FiiO X3 dearly, and it has physical buttons.
Why did Cloudflare say "encryption" but not "end-to-end encryption"?

Should we be reading deeper into this?
Since there is no direct effect (the pipelines has been out of use for a long time), the effect must be indirect. As such we can't know and will likely never know for sure why it happened or by whom.

It could be Russia. Russia is the prime suspect in 99% of the cases when there is a hostile military operation on Swedish/Danish water. It isn't like Russia were using the pipelines, and it possible that spinning this as an attack on Russia will result in popularity gains for Putin.
Turn off location, buy a secondhand iPhone with a gift card, create an apple account with a throwaway email, move to a cabin in the woods to work on your manifesto. Easy peasy.
Of course they have, now they have a reason to escalate
> The broader point is, whether designed that way or not, it’s evidence of incompetence.

Yet you went for the "aha funny egg cartons how can they be so dumb" narrative instead of the "look they have a shitty army"

> Those claims also have zero history before photos of the egg cartons emerged,

Besides the literal tank specs and the tweets/websites I linked to from 2017 which was like 5 years before the picture emerged.

It's free to admit you were wrong and propagating false information, I'm not attacking you personally you don't have to be so triggered: they have a decrepit army: yes, they have egg carton tanks: no, as simple as that
Yeah, like they have much to gain in Ukraine either. It's not like they are a rational actor at this stage.
What is good "at scale" without a team dedicated to it?
By default the WiFi system is turned off, but you can turn it back on individually. If you want to connect to an in-flight system for watching shows, as an example.
I dont understand why some people still go by brute force memorization when there are better methods. Those that our brain naturally uses. You won't see memory champions using Anki for competitions as their main memorization tool that's for sure.

I've studied a few languages, and by far the easiest, fastest and most long-term proof way to memorize words is by free association.

It takes some initial effort to be able to create these associations, but when done, it's done. There are some words I now basically can't forget, because the association is just too strong.

Example:

Waarschuwing = dutch word for warning. With free association i did it like this.

the "waar" part of the word immediately made me think of english word "war"

schu, shoe

wing, wing

So i vividly imagined a flying shoe with a trompet warning about an upcoming war. Done. Unforgettable for me. The more ridiculous, emotional (funny, stupid, ...) and obvious the better.

Some words are easier than others, and the ones that don't have a quick association jump out quickly are at a higher risk of being forgotten, but even then, they will stay way longer and without much less effort than with brute force, which is basically just creating memories out of nowhere, with no associations to anything on your brain. Our brain loves to relate things to others. Unrelated things = useless things. Everything that is useful has a relationship to something else.

So when you try to memorize by a way that is not based on association, indeed, only brute force works, which is a way to tell your brain "welp i can't really tell you what's the usefulness of knowing this, but somehow it keeps coming back into consciousness, so i guess i need to keep it in here somewhere. A self sustaining island, a dot of knowledge with no connection to anything else i know or care about."
Could it be because the line was underused because of russia lately and the pressure went down? It could be sabotage, but russia can always just turn the tap off. In fact, why would they want to sabotage their instrument of blackmail ?
I'm not sure I should like it until I learn what side of the current cultural/political war it's on.
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What exactly broke? With migrations there might be stuff like httpd.conf or mysqld.conf that don't get properly copied. But if everything stays on the aame machine, thinks rarely break by themselves, even when upgrading the OS, database, PHP version or web server.
Ah yes. In non-corrupt countries those plants and pipelines and distribution grids appear out of thin air.

It's just amazing how "we need to build huge ass plants and all the infrastructure" is just dismissed as insignificant (also in a similar discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32992808).
> i am afraid to like, or even publicly discuss, the story because of what it might say about me.

I really hope this is just well-written meta satire, and not actually how you feel.
Bear with me, I'm going to start with an analogous situation, and then tie it to this one.

I play Go (the board game) at a fairly high level and have been participating in clubs and teaching Go for the better part of 15 years.
The simplest and easiest way to get better is to play the game a lot, hopefully against someone a little bit better than you are. You don't even have to spend a ton of time on it, just play and once you're done think about the moves you made and maybe a place or two where you could have done better.
There's several websites where you can make a free account and just click up button to say "hey, I'd like to play now!" and within minutes (or longer, this depends on the server and the level that you're playing at) you'll have a game you can get done in 30minutes.

It's crazy how hard it is to get people to play other people.

Most recently I've taught 5 people at my current workplace how to play. I've gotten them to play me, and, sometimes, each other. They've all made accounts on various sites to play, I've played them on those sites! They'll even sometimes play a robot on those sites (playing a bot isn't the best, but it is a little helpful).

Not a single one of them are willing to start a game with a stranger.

I'm sure nerves are part of it. But the reasoning I've heard time and time again, and not just with these 5, but with the dozens of people I've taught over the years, is some variation of "I don't want to waste their(my opponents) time".

They seriously feel like because they are still so new to the game, and still so unskilled that they would not be worth playing, that they would be "wasting" their opponent's time.

Take this to language learners, a lot of people do feel like as a beginner, talking to someone who is fluent is wasting the time of the fluent person. You're not paying them in the language exchange, you're just babbling to them like a 3 year old, a grown up who can't even carry on a whole conversation beyond "donde esta la biblioteca?".

You are right, language exchanges and just speaking with someone _is_ the best way to learn! It's super hard to break through the fear, embarrassment, and feelings of wasting another person's time with your own drivel.

Something like this, like the bots that play Go, are a way to bridge the gap.
I regret that I have one upvote to give to this comment. That being said, Moms Against Liberty (deliberate typo) can suck my nuts regardless.
The US has long considered itself immune to criticism when it comes to crimes against humanity, such as this.

Watching Americans fall over themselves to deny this fact is not fun, at all. It seems we are indeed destined for further fallout as a result ..
The author's equipment isn't all that expensive.

Taiwan (where the author lives) has lower cost of living than the US, but 1000 USD per month isn't quite luxury even there.
EA uses MySQL for a lot of things, largest game like FIFA / FUT, they have thousands of servers.
Privacy wise, I'd argue that GrapheneOS and the like are not at all worse than an IPhone. You have a significant level of control with one of these rooted phones that have stock android.
Yes, to be honest even at my level (also A2) it's pretty useful, thanks to the integrated translator. And it already kind of adapts by default, in the sense that if I talk about easy topics (daily schedule, and things like that) it will talk about easy topics as well, so it's not like it's coming up with quantum mechanic terms.

It's a suggestion for improvement but it's already very good and I think I'm going to use it a lot.

By the way, just in case you don't know and you find it interesting, in the case of Chinese there was a crowdfunding campaign about a hardware speaker that would do something like this (https://webmarketkings.com/lily-chinese-scam/). It never delivered. I was one of the backers... but well, that's life with Kickstarter and the like, sometimes.
The reason airplane mode exists is a radio 30000 feet above the ground violates assumptions baked into the terrestrial cellular architecture. If iPhones were regularly flying around with their radios enabled we would have heard about it by now.
> They know that Germany is off Russian gas and they want to give them as much pain as possible so they come begging back.

Okay, but how would this particular act accomplish that? Those pipes are the means Russia would be serving the german market after "they come begging back". If Russia wants to starve Germany of gas they can just simply not pump it in the pipe. That simple. No need to blow up their own infra for that.
What's the AI engine behind the scenes? I would love to see Arabic or Urdu on there!
I don’t think the answer is so clear for the universe as a whole. The energy of the photons decreases due to the expansion - but the expansion can have other additional effects.
Got it, so the pitch is to provide a building block to help others build knowledge graphs. Do you see substantial uptake of knowledge graphs in industry? many of the examples I've seen historically either propose building a knowledge graph for the sake of a knowledge graph. Or work on a particular product which lends itself to knowledge graphs such as Question and Answering.

Coming from someone who's worked in NLP for a number of years.
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Would you have access to broadband internet to upload HD video? Clean water? Sewage? Healthcare? Education?

Supposedly, median household income in Peru is $17k, and that is skewed higher to urban residents, so let’s say two earners earning $24k total in rural Peru would be 2x median income of the surrounding families. Maybe it can be “luxurious”, but I would want more proof that you can get access to reliably energy, high quality network connectivity, and access to other goods/services one would normally associate with luxury.
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Nebula perhaps? Or self-hosted?

I'm not sure that makes YouTube a monopoly. Just like some games work best on the Nintendo Switch doesn't mean Nintendo has a monopoly on console gaming.
> The only one I agree on is the image scanning for CSAM. The idea of a device I own acting as a state informer using AI to detect what it thinks is a crime is not my idea of a step forward.

There's also a convenient place to turn it off: CSAM scanning doesn't happen if you don't use iCloud photos/files syncing.
US neocons are already celebrating it:

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/who-will-rid-me-of-thi...
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