skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> They are of course dangerous and deadly when misused, but so can be a lot of other recreational tools.

>Sorry to nitpick, but I strongly disapprove of this sentence because it hides the fact that guns are weapons, and generally speaking most "other recreational tools" are not.

It is the nature of humans that we are good at repurpose things.
Exactly the same can be said about about almost anything like cars/bikes/boats.
Initial design was not for recreation and fun but we repurpose them and even start to build exactly for that.
Te same goes for firearms - race guns exist and they are design from ground up to shoot paper and steel :)
Looking at recent stories about the CIA; there's this one, then one about how a report saying the CIA warned Germany about oil pipeline attacks in the summer somehow leaked, and one of then recreating a terrorists hideout they bombed. They seem to enjoy bragging.
They go up as flying bullets. They come down as falling rocks. A falling rock can be deadly. Dont throw pennies off of skyscrapers. But my takeaway from this article is that the danger from falling bullets pales in comparison to the danger of just being near someone firing a gun. Lots of people are killed every day in accidental discharges. Compared to that, a billion-to-one risk of a falling bulllet isnt a big deal.

How many are killed by lightening falling from the sky? At least with these falling bullets one has time enough to get under cover, or even just cover one's head, both of which would protect well enough.
https://twitter.com/GoogleStadia/status/1552989433590214656

"Stadia is not shutting down. Rest assured we're always working on bringing more great games to the platform and Stadia Pro. Let us know if you have other questions."

July 29, 2022.
My problem is that it's not challenging its audience's assumption that the activities in question are childish. It tacitly grants that they're childish, and then tries to defend them by looking for a positive side. The corollary is that if that positive side didn't exist the reader would be justified in being outraged at what young people are doing.
Well apparently they won’t let me use it. They censored me for not having views that aligned with theirs.

But also yes, I’m not a fan of white supremacists and I won’t voluntarily use a platform that caters to them. Just like I wouldn’t eat at a “Hitler was great”-themed cafe.
I wonder if this ties into the quiet quitting and anti-work sentiment we're seeing post COVID too.

People are stressed, wages lower than we deserve and no sign of changing, competition is now global with benefits going to a fraction of society, economic news which just gets darker.

I don't blame people for regressing and "lying flat".

My escape is watching people fishing and diving on deserted Indonesian islands on YT.

Then I remember I have to cover my kid's £100 per day nursery and private school fees..... I need a heavy blanket.
wow. that's a great insight! indeed, pushing the PWA adoption forward is one of the main goals of Red Goose and its sub-tooling.
I'm all for spreading out but prudent stellar husbandry[1] is another potential solution to the problem.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_lifting.
We can look back to the now public records of the early days of the agency and see that they were fuck ups from the start. We can see glimpses from KGB records exposed in the mitrokhin archives. There are leaks, and exposed diplomatic cables. Nothing paints a positive picture. Moreover, the constant embarrassment is very real.
> Distinct bit vectors vs integer type

This. I always find bitwise operations an unneeded exercise in mental gymnastics.

On the other hand, I wonder if a lot of the other quirks about numbers could be handled via a library?
If large businesses owned a huge number of rental properties, it would be politically easier to regulate them -- limiting rent increases, requiring insulation etc.
I think there are (at least) two failure modes for this kind of agencies:

1- They fail to stop state-level enemies, they fail to predict attacks, they fail to assist friendly troops.

2- They break the laws of their own country, commit torture, treason or what can be considered crimes against humanity in the pursuit of their mission.

What we are seeing belongs in the second category. Whether it's also the first is harder to assess (though like others have mentioned, their historical track record is less than stellar).
Playstation’s new loyalty program launches in the US next week
It's 2-14% offset potentially by whatever the cost is of the other mitigations that it replaces, for whatever that's worth.
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31115642 ("GitHub: Private Profiles beta", April 2022, 125 comments)
Brave is super shady by default due to their cryptocurrency associations, and also has made several questionable decisions in the past (see: hijacking your URL bar and replacing it with an affiliate link).

Firefox is the superior browser, but if you must use Chromium I strongly suggest ungoogled-chromium over Brave.
You're proving my point for me:

"At age ten, he stumbled across a Latin copy of Euclid; and at twelve he studied Newton's Arithmetica Universalis. He moved on to read the Principia, and by age 16 he had covered much of it, as well as some more recent works on analytic geometry and the differential calculus." (from the Wikipedia article about Hamilton).
Arming thousands of people who genuinely live in war zones and have an active reason to have guns for safety. Which is very different from the average EU gun owner.
Boy are you in for a rude awakening
Thank dog.
Windows already does this for a number of years.

Drivers which run in kernel space are not allowed anymore to access whatever they want, and Windows own kernel space data structures are protected against modifications by other kernel mode running code (kernel patch protection).
The Learn More button in the cookie banner goes straight to Google's site.

Also, the copyright notice at the bottom of their help center is Google:
https://support.getoutline.org/s/article/Data-collection?lan...

A tiny bit more digging and it is actually Google in sheep's clothing:
https://jigsaw.google.com/

That's gonna be a no for me, dawg.
Would a Xilinx-based equivalent to MiSTer hardware have a better price-to-performance ratio?
Underwater camera operates wirelessly without batteries
> Google has added ads on both its search page

Google Search has had ads since the beginning. What do you mean?
If I want to do bitwise operations on an integer, and I want to set/mask the MSB (maybe it's just a bitfield for me), I mask with INT_NAN? That also sounds very weird
"living off a spouse working" is not exactly "broke as f*ck". If that disappears, then yes, is mostly about money.
> By "windows keyboards" you likely mean the very common IBM PC Keyboard layout.

The Windows keyboard is a 27+ year old design made for Windows PCs. "IBM PC" is like talking about Greek antiquity and has no relevance.

Your Linux laptop came with a Winkey because the manufacturer was lazy. Maybe tell them to try harder?

> Unless of course you say "all non-Apple personal computers are exclusively Windows PCs" which feels a bit grotesque to cede control in such a way.

Windows sits at 87% market share. This is "I use Bing to Google things" levels of silliness.

I say this as an exclusive Linux user of 20+ years, btw.
> His most influential work was a mistake.

Why? I think you're referring to Principia, which is a predecessor to Coq and Lean. While Coq and Lean don't use Principia's formalism, they do try and tackle the same problem. What did Principia fail at?

[edit]

Or are you referring to the programme of using formal logic to understand language and reliable everyday reasoning?
I don't like the term, as it seems to imply a zero-sum solution of educating less people, but I thought it was accepted that "revolutions" are generally led by the ones who will gain most from the new regime.

Like the Magna Carta limiting the King so the nobles have more power, US Independence where "all men are equal" but rich white men are top of the tree and so on.
I use Vivaldi because about a year ago I realized Firefox Android had an issue with smooth scrolling. It would stutter a lot. Also, it would reload tabs every time I left and came back to one, which is awful.

So I'm using Vivaldi in mobile, and decided to try it on desktop too. I like the reading list feature, basically a twist on bookmarks.
If the behavior they're focusing on is just a veiled proxy for a protected class then it would not be legal.
The Elephant in the room is that Musk is pretty much the perfect example of what makes Twitter terrible, and Dorsey had more than enough opportunity to fix it because he was literally in charge of the company for years and did nothing. All the shit Musk is throwing at Twitter now is stuff Dorsey was responsible for.
Amazon launches QVC-style livestream shopping in India
I saw a paper just a few years ago about how to shift the Earth to a higher orbit to mitigate solar brightening/expansion. It involved a large asteroid in a careful orbit that could gradually pull the whole Earth to a higher orbit.

Probably couldn't do it tomorrow, but sounded like something we might be able to do in a few hundred years instead of tens of thousands.
An honest analysis that seeks to understand the best level of regulation for testing of new drugs must consider both the people that will die due to inadequate testing and the people that will die from drugs never being developed (or being developed much later) due to overbearing testing requirements.
Journey inside Pakistan’s flood zone reveals how poorest were hit hardest
Or we need money they can’t be created via debt.

Issuing debt to buy back shares is a strategy that works great when interest rates are very very low.

But when the money supply is scarce, only so much leverage can exist, so issuing debt to buy shares would be far far riskier.
We absolutely should, but it seems unlikely that we will anytime soon. And to reduce Bitcoin's emissions it would have to be a global tax, which seems even more unlikely. For most products, a country can tax imports when other countries don't have corresponding taxes, but that's not really possible with Bitcoin.
I hate using my Android phone (especially its web browser) for this very reason. It frustrates me to no end. Sometimes, even when I think that the content is loaded (because the image is static for a few seconds), it's actually not - and tapping on the screen creates a UI event that is parsed a couple seconds later, after the screen scrolls because of a previous scroll that I thought was ignored.

I believe it's built this way because of modularity - the input drivers know nothing about the content of the screen, and once the event is finally registered, it cannot "go back in time" to figure out where the click is supposed to go - it can only send the event and let the user application handle it. The solution, it seems, would require some serious integration of the system with the UI toolkit.
Yea, mergers and acquisitions is a hard table to incorporate.
> The random segment about transgenders felt really out of place

It's really something that we actively discuss in these parts of the world (Eastern Europe), it's a "civilisational" topic that most of us (the majority, I would say) actively care about. Yes, many of us (the majority, I would say) are not ok with "parent 1/parent 2" instead of "mother" and "father", we are also not ok with kids as young as 7 or 8 years of age being taught about gender change, we are not ok with kids younger than 18 being allowed to take irreversible hormonal meds in order to transition.

And seeing as this is also a "civilisational" war I don't see how that statement was out of place, quite the contrary.
It isn't slower. Not measurably, nor in feeling. Where do you get this?

It's also not faster, if that is what you read in my comment: Chrome/ium and Firefox keep improving. And depending on what month and what benchmark, one will outperform the other. Slightly.

It could be anecdotal? For any of both browsers, though. E.g. some plugins/addons will slow down the browser significant. Or usage specific? Maybe one handles having 2000 tabs open better than the other? Or page-specific?
I read the show notes but didn't listen to the podcast. Is this really true? The linked New York Times article by Weiner never names the subject, but instead reports on a "retired terrorist" [1]. I don't see this an "outing."

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/21/world/cia-re-examines-hir...
>you are still lying

That was my first comment in this discussion thread, you have evidently confused me with the other. Read the usernames if you're going to throw around shade like that. And "build more gas" is a claim you introduced to this discussion, not me. Solar+Wind necessitates gas, that is a fact. Whether it's building new gas turbines or using existing ones, Germany needs those gas turbines either way. Germany cannot run off solar and wind alone.
People are working too hard for too little gain. It's a mass burnout all over the society. And now, everyone will have to face another boom bust cycle. At some point, people just stop caring. The society wasn't working for them anyway. It might as well collapse.
We upgraded Cloudflare’s dashboard to adhere to accessibility standards
By ads you mean the popular articles from Pocket?

That is an ad for Pocket ?
We Love and Hate Meetings (2009)
Yes, attaining a more complex/serious personality is just a social construct.
> Windows sits at 87% market share.

Only in 1 Market Segment; and in 1994 they didn't even have that.

So what's your point exactly?
Maybe it took not 4 months of work, but 4 months of back and forth with Google? Like the devs sent a build, Google takes 2 or more weeks to make a list of issues, send those, the devs take 2 weeks to fix them, rinse and repeat until four months are gone and Stadia is dead.
Do journalists have a duty to report information that kills innocent people?

In some countries it’s a dangerous thing to be gay, do journalists have a right to out gay people?
There's also the fact that he's on the board of directors of Twitter while he's sending these text messages conspiring against the shareholders he represents!
Most likely it would have been abbreviated as Apl, similar to how the windows key is Win when shown in menus of keyboard shortcuts
We're all going to be gone at some point regardless. We shouldn't make the effort to spread out if it's going to make the average person's life worse over the course of humanity's existence.
Radek Sikorski, MEP who previously served as Marshall of the Sejm and Minister of Foregin Affairs, thanked America in response to Nordstream being sabatoged.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220928201734/https://twitter.c...
What a manipulative article. All that is needed is a sob story about a dying child or something. Oh wait there it is.
Windows key is super-useful on Windows, and it gets better every version.

Aside from the Win+Arrow combinations, which are probably among the most useful, other ones that I use daily are Win+. to bring up emoji keyboard, Win+V to bring up clipboard history, Win+T to navigate the quicklaunch/taskbar apps and (less frequently) Win+Plus and Win+Minus to zoom the display. There are some new settings shortcuts too like Win+A for mini-settings (like Android swipe from top), Win+I for proper settings and Win+P for projector settings.

Plus there are all the old keypresses that have been around forever like Win+R run, Win+L lock workstation, Win+M minimize everything, Win+D for show desktop toggle, Win+S for search (used to be Win+F/find), Win+E explore... I think nowadays I use Windows button as much as I do Control and Shift.

Alt is less useful since applications stopped having menus, but AltGr is great for international input. I suppose Win+Space is important to know too, if you switch keyboards a lot (I do).
"Page not found"

Apparently the Uber site noticed I'm not in the USA and automatically redirects to a localized version, which doesn't exist. If their web-development capabilities are any indication I'll skip their development tips.
This is very cool! I didn’t know this was a thing. Thank you.
It sounds that Jack is aligned with Fred Wilson's thinking and what Fred has been advocating for years.

Fred Wilson was an early investor and Board member at Twitter.

https://twitter.com/fredwilson/status/1204800971211063296
"I'm actually not a big gamer" - Sundar Pichai on the Stadia reveal event https://youtu.be/nUih5C5rOrA?t=120

The whole industry is there and this is how you start a keynote. Not surprised that most people weren't confident about Stadia.

But it's also baffling when there were so many running services and standalone products already. Steam Link, Nvidia Geforce Now, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Playstation Remote Play, Parsec etc. It's not like Google had a brand new open field ahead of them and no idea what to do
Original CLP Paper: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/osdi21-rodrigues.pdf

Github project for CLP: https://github.com/y-scope/clp

The interesting part about the article isn't that structured data is easier to compress and store, its that there's a relatively new way to efficiently transform unstructured logs to structured data. For those shipping unstructured logs to an observability backend this could be a way to save significant money
This is an educated, albeit only a speculation of mine that I never confirmed: in the past (medieval times) people used to describe inferior things by comparing them to dogs like "dog's weather", "you will die like a dog" and many other sayings. It's wrong to think that your mother is being insulted by being called the "son of a bitch" (it's also pointless to censor the word as you did). What it means, or at least what it originally meant, is that you came out of a womb of a dog.

In other words, if you're with your mom in a room, and someone calls you a son of a bitch, the claim is not that the woman you take for your mom is a bitch, rather, that you're wrong and your mom is actually not in the room (unless there's also a female dog in that room).
Yes, it launches instantly, but depending on the dev env and plugins you have it may take a while before it is fully usable
> You think "legitimate", political-backed power is would be better?

No, but that's not an argument against the thing you're arguing against. It's a false dichotomy. "Three or four unelected rich white dudes should not have this power" does not mean three or four elected rich white dudes should either.
I mean the actual tech than enables financial markets (fintech) - high frequency trading, matching engines, market data, order execution, etc.
In this case though, Weiner did not "literally name" the informant in The New York Times article [1]. He referred to the informant as a "retired terrorist" without giving a name.

In general, you're right about the principle of keeping sources anonymous to avoid harm. One principle in journalism ethics [2] is to "identify sources clearly" so the public can better understand a source's motives. But the other is to minimize harm ("Balance the public’s need for information against potential harm or discomfort.") to both the sources and the public, motivating anonymity in certain cases.

However, in this instance, Weiner didn't name the informant in the article.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/21/world/cia-re-examines-hir...

[2] This is just one ethical code, but many ethical codes are essentially very similar: https://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp
Is the "tax cut" justification the real cause though? The Euro and Yen plunged in lockstep with GBP, which suggests a more fundamental issue beyond just the UK market. I have to wonder if the mini-budget was just used as justification.
Well traders do provide liquidity which saves pensioners enormous sums compared to selling retirement assets at will into illiquid markets

Granted traders can play other games, but their primary benefit to others is significant
> your app is still an overly complex .html page, doing things the DOM was never meant to do or programmed for

I mean, maybe it was true when browsers were hypertext-only applications, but now they are performant app-delivery toolkits.

Native might get higher performance, but at a fairly steep cost of coupling and distribution difficulty. I can deliver insanely powerful apps to many OSs and form factors on a 512kB bundle, meanwhile native mobile apps come in at 60-500MB for 1 platform. It's also not really that hard to have smooth 60fps display on big datasets & visualizations, which means I contest what "slow" really means for DOM traversal.

Seems to me like you're hell bent on discounting this one platform instead of arguing the tradeoffs are not worth it, which is a shallow take from my view.
Never mind that the most prominent group of gun wielders, law enforcement officers, get themselves exempted from every gun control law. If we reform the police to where the average traffic or patrol cop is reliably not armed with a gun, only then would it make sense to talk about introducing restrictions on the wider civilian population. Such reform would be a mere condition of employment, and thus not involve constitutionality issues.

For what it's worth, taking a gun safety course made me realize I am not the type of person that will ever strap one to my hip to go about my daily business. And I'm an avid DIYer for basically everything, but calling the police after a break-in made me understand that clearing a building is a job I will never want to do myself. It's a nuanced issue, but I know that governments must ultimately be subservient to the people, and therefore the onus is on domestic-facing institutions to disarm before asking the people as a whole to do the same.
Ask HN: Is OT or CRDT better for real time collaboration on rich text?
... considering working offline and merging the document later is not a requirement
I believe you are asking about theoretical machine learning used to identify encrypted traffic patterns.

SSH can be used for file transfers via sftp so it is not uncommon to have long transfers of data. In this edge case however one could set up a simple rate limited rsync over ssh and then rate limit ssh slightly higher so that the browsing shares the bandwidth creating a relatively smooth data stream. Data streams are not expected to be perfectly constant across the internet so a little fluctuation would be fine.

If Multiplexing is being used via ControlMaster ControlPath in the client then the people browsing will be riding the extra SSH channels without having to re-authenticate after their first authentication. The first SSH channel would be used for the SFTP transfer.

rsync -aq --bwlimit=600 /some/dir/big-file ssh-first-hop:/dev/null

Then rate limit SSH just above 600KB/s using `tc`. On a modern kernel this is one line.

tc qdisc add dev eth0 handle 101: root cake diffserv3 bandwidth 6mbit internet nat egress ack-filter triple-isolate ethernet memlimit 32M

One could use HTB bucket rules with tc on older kernels.

All of this said, I do not believe this step is required unless a datacenter's SSH traffic patterns were already being traffic profiled and I would theorize that for this to be the case Iran's intelligence agency would have been watching them for other reasons.
Putin annexes four regions of Ukraine in major escalation of Russia’s war
We added WebAuthn (Face ID, fingerprint, etc.) as a sign-in method with Hasura
John le Carré (the late novelist who was a British intelligence officer in the 1960s) was once asked why states have intelligence agencies when investigative journalists often do the same sorts of things and often report the same information spies do, and he responded that while this is often the case, the problem is that governments tend not to listen to journalists.
I agree, and it is one of those things where buying the printed version makes so much sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_in_the_Valley
Goodbye, Alexa. Hello, Cloudflare Radar Domain Rankings
Government bonds are not perfectly safe.
Literally what mastodon and activitypub is