skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (NEW YORK) -- Some of the nation's largest airports have been targeted for cyberattacks Monday by an attacker within the Russian Federation, a senior official briefed confirmed to ABC News.

Senior official from what agency / organization are making those claims?

> The attacks have resulted in targeted "denial of public access" to public-facing web domains that report airport wait times and congestion

Why would they be doing DDoS on this service?

> Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport reported around 10:30 a.m. ET that its site is back up and running and that "at no time were operations at the airport impacted."

And operations are not being impacted...

I hear "Russia" is doing X and at this point I don't believe it without evidence being presented. Anonymous sources are equivalent to saying "some random person says X". Also why would they do anything with not negative impacts.

This isn't much of a story IMO
It seems like the big bad boogeyman of Russian cyberwarfare has also turned out to be a paper tiger. They are grasping at straws.
Part of how they were able to do this is that they have independent kids (reading age, able to self-care/entertain) so there is a possibility for a day off with little preparation. This isn’t the case for most parents I know, including myself.
Regulation is better than leaving it up to the black markets.
The government would also want such a system to conform to anti-money-laundering and sanctions regulations.
Lots of people use it just for messaging (maybe not now since everyone NEED it for covid related mini-apps to enter places), but I get your point
So basically we can assume that a lot of airports use the same service for hosting?
All the big players seem to be striving for this "everything app".

The only reason I use Twitter and HN is because of their focused nature.

No Twitter map, Twitter Mail, TwitterOS, Twitter Games etc. I don't want them, and I will actively move away from any products exhibiting this kind of unification strategy.
us baby boomers own one of the largest asset classes in the world. so much wealth tied up in ~70 million people. i wonder if any of the children of this class are stepping off the gas knowing the windfall that eventually is passed on to them.
> It would be very difficult to guage my recipes if the concentration of sugar I bought varied per bag

The US government sets the purity for sodium nitrite for use in food. You can't buy food-grade sodium nitrite at other concentrations. And using too much sucrose or salt in your recipe doesn't make your cupcakes lethal.

Comparing salt to the toxicity of sodium nitrite is an absolutely bonkers argument. You'd need about 225g of salt (about 3/4 cup) to be lethal for a 75kg person. Good luck eating that much salt. By comparison, you need 5g of sodium nitrite.
Why limit yourself to a Chromebook? Macs and Windows PCs have a browser plus everything else. If all you want to do is browse the web a tablet is a better choice.
Surprised there's no mention of Boost Mobile's bullshit venture with DraftKings.
https://www.sporttechie.com/boost-mobile-makes-fantasy-bet-w...

They even have everything down to suggesting they could use SMS marketing to make microbets during events, and putting cash on your books at a brick and mortar Boost Mobile dealer. Who else is up for putting money on their books at their prepaid wireless dealer?

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What makes this worse is Boost Mobile's statements to the press when T-Mobile announced the shutdown of the CDMA network:
https://www.fiercewireless.com/operators/t-mobile-s-cdma-shu...

“The bottom line is this: T-Mobile’s anticompetitive Grinch-like decision to accelerate the shutdown of its CDMA network will likely harm millions of Boost customers that depend on access to this network for wireless connectivity, disproportionately impacting low-income consumers who over-index in communities of color.”

Dish and Boost Mobile KNOWS their client base and still thinks partnering with DraftKings is a great idea, especially when they weren't helping their "low-income consumers" easily upgrade to a new LTE phone during the network shutdown - instead, spending even more millions to partner with AT&T for roaming/coverage?
This is likely just a warning or nuisance (but intentionally not destructive). An actual cyberattack which disrupts air traffic will likely be considered an act of war.
I assumed it would be about mobile games.
Ask HN: Why is Japan so insular?
The country is very self-contained and seems uninterested mostly in integrating culturally with others, as if it's unnecessary. Famously they were isolated for hundreds of years by force. Sure they have regional differences within their nation, and sure folks from other cultures live, work, integrate and become part of Japan, sort of...but... homogenous monoculture comes to mind, too. I don't think this aspect of the Japanese psyche is in dispute...what I'm curious about is: why is Japan like that?

"We don't need anyone else, we are complete unto ourselves, we are better than others"-- is it ? "It's just how we do things? No one will understand us?" -- is it? Is this a unique thing or are other cultures very much the same in their insularity just less well known for it?

Strangely I don't think Japanese people will take offence at my question.

I've lived in East Asia (but mostly the Sinosphere) for 10 years, so I have a fair understanding of that culture, but pretty much zero in-depth about other East Asian cultures. I'm very curious
Just to clarify NCG is not a distributor but an overarching organization which helps Grocery Co-ops nationwide to run their business.

A generally used distributer would be UNFI along with using local distributers.
I remember working at a place where the local IT guy’s office was covered in trinkets and swag.

It certainly gave off a kinda wonky vibe, even if he was operating on the up and up.
Yep. I forgot to add that on this imaginary blind test, the ai images would have to be hand selected to avoid these "transitory" frames where things get blurred and joined.
> in the event of economic downturns, the company was much more accommodating and tried its best to take care of the employee.

Is this accurate, or nostalgia?
Did you get the COVID-19 vaccine? ;)
No? Of course people learn in different ways, but it's the people have already learned in those different ways who are in a position to discuss the merits of those different ways (obviously taking into account the understanding that different things work for different people).

The people who haven't learned it and are complaining about how daunting it seems can certainly have opinions but their opinions aren't very useful and interesting.
Is it just me or is everything in society has to revolve around enabling liberal democracy? As another example, lots of immigration in kingdoms is fine because newcomers can not change the rules everyone has to live by, but in democracy the fight is not over how immigrants would help or hurt society but over how they are going to vote. And I get it that decentralized decision making is a safeguard against corruption and tyranny. But at least in America it has become like cryptocurrency, consuming all the energy to solve one potential future problem. Maybe one out of thousand citizens can be randomly chosen to travel to an election convention and hear directly from candidates / have time to research issues properly rather than relying on tweets from everything app? And then politicking on traditional or social media would become useless.
Much of it was deliberately destroyed and obscured. Large parts of Cahokia were destroyed by highway and suburban development, and it wasn't that city planners and officials didn't know it was there. They often suppressed discoveries and tried to cut archaeologists out of the loop, because the artifacts and etc were in the way of development goals.

Many North American cities were built on top of or near where native settlements were. It was in the best interests of colonials and moderns to suppress or diminish findings.

That and North Americans were engaged in a long running cultural genocide based on a mission of Christianizing a 'primitive' people, which would have been undermined by recognizing this area as previously occupied by a settled agricultural societies.

https://www.amazon.ca/Cahokia-Ancient-Americas-Great-Mississ... is a great book on this topic written by an archaeologist who spent much of his life working around Cahokia. And he gets into this issue at length.
> How do you prevent fraud?

By principle, you want the government doing this.
Not all that's to the Future are negative expected value. The difficulty and nuances figuring out which are and which are not
It's possible, and one candidate explanation for how they were able to produce multiple identical immense statues at widely separated locations, but as far as I know nobody has found such a pantograph or turntable, nor drawings of it or writings about it, nor any other kind of evidence that this was the method they used.
I see lots of these "wrongful conviction" articles that are not very convincing. Claiming that we somehow know better decades later with less than 1% of the evidence still available that the original judge and jury had seems egotistical and foolish.
Resolution on the Quest 2 is significantly higher than on the Valve Index or Vive Pro. It also has inside out tracking, so its much simpler to setup and you can play with it anywhere. Besides being standalone or PC tethered. It's an amazing device. Not perfect, but quite a step from a $600 device that needs to be plugged into a gaming PC to do anything, and needs base tracking to be fun.
More likely, this isn't a Russian operation. Could be someone from within Russia's borders (could also just be routing there).

This just just some random "senior official" from an unknown organization saying "must be russia"
> How can we use HN to make real positive change in the world?

People already try to do that via comments. Comments give context to a URL and discuss the finer details of a site, and give it some 'story time' / narrative. If you wanted to, you could email users if they provided an address in their bio, and help out with projects.
Given what the article says, this seems like a bit of fearmongering on ABC's part.
So it is constantly sending text to the opened notepad, won't he eventually run out of memory and slow down the whole system? (or hang up)
I fully expected to click the link and hit the FT paywall. Very amusing, though, and fitting for FT.
This feedback is coming from someone that wants to discover new / unknown bands in specific genres. I have a playlist of new / unknown bands I've discovered over the years, but searching with your tool didn't give back anything.

The playlist in case you want to use it for testing later: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5DcbwcCkBde68RgsxO2Sn2

Ideas for improvement:

* autocomplete

* autocomplete with song, artist and album image

* allow for search by track & artist name

* match up one of my playlists with a playlist you have in your DB
Yeah, most of that is backend issues. Part of them dictated by product requirements eg. We require serving 5 year old, <4MB photos with 99th percentile latency of 1 second.

Product and UI has its own complexities, but it seems clear each product is unique and would require different logic.
I really love these points as a North Star, but these would be mostly aspirational for teams I've been on.

I work on a team now where we get huge scopes of work and a couple people will tear that work down and would answer these questions as they do so. However, most teams I've been on deal with far more interrupts than the team I'm on now does. Those interrupts are lemented but justified by the business and definitely impact an engineers dedication to a given projects. Interrupt driven work is a sort of split brain problem that I think gets in the way of answering these kinds of questions because it removes the time that an engineer would otherwise spend entrenching themselves enough to know the answers and problemscape.
Really cool, with already a lot of features!

Given the raise of CI/CD, I really think these kind of tools (CLI tests on HTTP requests), based on a simple format, will be really important. We've build Hurl (https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl), that shares a lot of similarities with Step CI (plain text instead of yaml, captures, jsonpath, xpath etc...). I will shamelessly take inspiration for some new features (like GraphQL for instance)!
You can not outlaw greed.

So this list is a good case for holding your own Keys. Not your keys, not your coins.
> This is likely just a warning or nuisance (but intentionally not destructive). An actual cyberattack which disrupts air traffic will likely be considered an act of war.

That theory sounds a lot like the argument of “why not just shoot their legs” applied to escalation of force.

That’s not how it works. When you make the decision to shoot, you shoot to kill. And similarly, revealing your cyberattack capabilities through a “warning” attack is highly unlikely from a state based actor.
Missing the Point of VR
Then what was the problem with cities piping their sewage directly into the ocean?
that makes it sound like a natural law, an inevitable process. is it, though?
This is a great resource, thank you! Gives me a lot of actionable concrete issues to work on. Maybe I'm just very early in my career or it has to with the subfield I am in (bioinformatics, machine learning) but I should have been fired 20 times over by these standards.
Yes, exactly, thank you. Framing every mention of the paradox of intolerance as some kind of slippery slope to totalitarianism isn't constructive or realistic, and basically misses the point of it being called a paradox in the first place.
it's interesting seeing our intentional or subconscious goal of "dominating" nature disconnect us further from the planetary systems that we are a part of. The economy and money was invented by us. Putting the economy's well-being in front of the human's or the earth's was very plainly a mistake.
Why is Japan so different?
In Seattle we have PCC, which is at least successful enough to have a bunch of different locations since my childhood. https://www.pccmarkets.com/about/
What Is a Web Crawler? and How Web Crawler Works?
>Aljazeera is a model of journalism excellence and integrity!

There are really two versions of Aljazeera. The Western-facing one is pretty good (although it sometimes has Russia Today vibes on certain topics). The non-Western version is tabloid nonsense.
those are not four options i can choose from. each one has a monopoly to some aspect in our lives.

there are no viable alternatives to facebook.

there are no alternatives to apple if i want to reach a significant amount of people (all iphone users)

likewise there are no viable alternatives to google play or youtube if i want to reach a lot of people with my apps or videos.

ok, there probably are some alternatives to paypal, so that one is weak.
Indeed speaking in the past tense about indigenous Americans is a long standing artifact of colonial ideology which has the effect of diminishing the present day reality of natives on this land. I was fairly recently shocked upon a trip to the Museum of Natural History in NY where plaque upon plaque in the section about pacific NW peoples spoke about the Haida and related people in the past tense and proudly displayed what were in all likelihood stolen artifacts.

My son was sent home with homework a couple years ago that spoke about the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe etc) all in past tense grammar. Meanwhile we have close family friends who are Ojibwe.

In Canada at least there has been a bit of a reversal in this trend, with more recognition of the present day nations. And in fact there's actually demographic growth among many first nations here, while the broader European settler derived society is in a demographic decline (solved only by immigration).
This is an often held view. Just for fun. Let me play devils advocate. Yes, currency hoarding (saving) is incentivized. This raises the bar for investing to investing that is needed / has clear value. Similarly, with an inflationary currency, it is real things that are incentivized to be hoarded. Is it not better to save currency and let real things circulate more freely to those who actually need them, as opposed to speculators.
To add to this, it's poisonous because it makes increasing "engagement" a primary goal for these platforms.
I think oculus is scaring people away from vr due to its appaling graphics. I mean how many beat sabers and vr chats can people play before they realise oculus has no capability whatsoever for an immersive experience. The oculus is a glorified mobile device with attached lenses and as such it suffers from its limitation.

VR is precisely meant to isolate you from the environment, its right in the name - virtual reality. Not real reality. The whole idea is to interact with objects and people that exist outside your reality.
As others have mentioned, ftp that ships with OpenBSD is a bit more robust then its name suggests. https://man.openbsd.org/ftp
It has no brand recognition. You’re not even on the market first of all.
I dont think you really can compare the Whole PC market to a tiny player like Apple.

Yes Apple is a tiny player in the laptop market.
I think it reflects a concern, less so a “must enable”.

We have concerns about infinite scrolling on our well being too.
Scientists are finding fungi in cancerous tumors
On one hand, well yes, everything mostly makes sense.

On the other, I can easily imagine the reaction from most project managers if they'd asked me put together an estimate for fully achieving all of these on any given project. Some of them would involve sitting in on business strategy meetings, which is a pretty far cry from the level of involvement I generally get! It's sometimes hard to even get hold of representative hardware to test on.
I use bigwords.com myself which has been around for a while and has quite a bit more features.
Take a look at the latest crazyness cash grab from Wizards the creators of Magic:
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/celebrate...

$999 for 4 packs of 15 cards in which 2 are rare. Not real magic cards - not valid for tournament play.
This is a very pro-business victim mentality trying to explain why businesses act heavy handed. This is no different than the welfare queen argument.
In unrelated news, helium/nitrogen sales increase to all time highs..!
So you are basically proving OPs point. If a human has to hand curate computer generated images then the computer isn’t taking the place of a designer/general contractor/architect anytime soon.
> "more like this", "less like that"

I wonder if those could be implemented as vector addition in the latent space.
I don't think New Zealand has stopped calculating GDP. They do both now
Russian largest bank's website not opening without Russia-issued certificate
You go to the cinema, point to its location, purchase tickets for 5 of your friends, you give them their tickets and they pay you back, all within the same app.

Adding payment processing to a chat app is just really, really convenient. I'm Spanish and we have a thing called "Bizum" here, you can send and receive money from and to anyone in your contact list instantly and free of charge. It's hugely popular even with no chat implementations.
> Something like bike helmets positively correlated with more dangerous behavior / more accidents.

IIRC that "study" consisted entirely of the author's anecdotal observations.
> - native desktop/iOS (not currently released): https://crates.io/crates/clap

I hope you didn't use a command line parser to stream audio...
And responded back to you.

I really feel as if it can be said that I "didn't read the manual," but that also begs the question "Why does this need a manual"?

Thanks!
> The only real difference with China is that there, the state actors sit at a higher real-power level than the corporate actors,

And China has it right here. It's as important for corporations and the wealthy not to be above the law as it is to have civilian control of the military.
I don't know how to win at Civ without destroying all the AIs better than me militarily.
Personally - I don't see a lot of value in this list (I read all 50 items and watched the video and I regret wasting the time).

There are certainly some valuable concepts - but the presentation is fairly incoherent (including the video of the talk he gives) and not particularly helpful.

Many of these items are utterly unrelated: Some are fairly specific to gaming (profiling/memory layout/timing) some are basic professional expectations (I can schedule my time well). In neither case is there real advice for people who actually struggle with some of these areas.

My item number 51 would be... "I can articulate my point in a more compelling manner than an incoherent collection of 50 things I don't like"
Initially thought this would be about apps like Robinhood or Coinbase.
Uffizi Galleries Sue Jean Paul Gaultier over Use of Botticelli Images
This is good to hear, I'm looking forward to trying it out.

Off topic, but has anyone noticed Firefox on iOS has gotten quite slow? It happens when I switch from another app to Firefox, and then tap the URL bar to highlight the text in preparation to type either a URL or a search query, the whole app will stop responding for anywhere from 1-5 seconds. This happens even on a fresh restart of the phone or after killing the app.

I'm using an iPhone 12 Mini on the latest iOS but I've noticed it for a few months now. It might sound minor but when everything else on the phone (including Safari) is so snappy, it's very noticeable.
This has the whiff of someone discovering the basics of high-performance locking. For e.g. other long-standing mutex implementations have spin/pause,sleep strategies. See Go's mutex, absl::Mutex, and others.

One problem with the x86 pause instruction is the number of cycles spent paused has varied dramatically from one CPU to another. Some CPU models ignore it. On others it is very short, a few or ten cycles, and on some it is hundreds of cycles. So you need a startup calibration that measures it, otherwise it will have a random outcome.
Great article, lots of food for thought. The only thing that seems to be left out is agricultural productivity, which is fairly closely related to ecological productivity.

Economics would be a more reliable field if it incorporated the work of people like the founder of ecological studies, G. Evelyn Hutchinson:

https://yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/4200-the-founder-of-...

This becomes even more relevant as the global human population starts running up against basic resource constraints in many places.
No offense OP, but that’s a lot of money for a website with poor UX and no users. Take the money offered.
Agree. I use dvorak on my laptop, and tried it on my iPhone for a couple weeks but it just didn't work. Your explanation makes sense!
LibGPU seems to load the soft GPU, doesn't seem to do all that much. Which is perfectly understandable, GPUs are their own special part of operating system programming (messing with firmware, boot timings, etc.).

If it'll ever get GPU support, I'd expect it to be based on QEMU/libvirt GPU acceleration rather than any direct hardware support.

Unless someone knowledgeable and motivated enough has a crack at it and writes a driver forttheir GPU, of course That's an immense task, though, so I wouldn't expect it any time soon. Maybe an Intel engineer will get bored or something.
it's ridiculous that the propaganda arm of a totalitarian illiberal petrostate claims to "give a voice to the voiceless" or "promote truth and transparency". i also really dislike them because their "aj+" brand puts out heavily left biased faux-intellectual junk similar to vox or buzzfeed which makes me want to punch through a wall regardless of who puts it out.
Not OP, but I'd say GDPR is a step in the right direction for the average consumer.