skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [Russia] Against: It looks a lot like a glass cannon to me. Meaning, Europe will now change their behavior to remove dependence on Russian energy.

Europe was _already_ working about as hard as they could on removing their dependence on Russia though.

Another way to see this would be that around now might be the last chance for something like this to hurt Europe and still have time to put political pressure on afterwards.

If this had been done in the middle of winter, Europe would treat it as an attack and would be on their guard, but now Russia can play political games in the background to destabilize Europe or at least reduce Europe's will to help Ukraine.
Thanks for your reply. Can you disclose what web application this is you work on?
Wait are you saying any authenticator app works for all services?

Because whenever I'd sign up or they'd add it as a requirement, they'd always link to a specific authenticator app to use.

Is that just a suggestion rather than a requirement?
> Against: Doesn't seem like they could pull it off

This is very wrong. My brother is a technical diver, and after the blast I had a long chat with him about what it would do to achieve this. After going over the location, the estimated amount of explosives needed to break the pipes, and the depth, he came to the conclusion that he could have done it with 2 friends and a budget of ~10k€.

This was before these new pictures that paint a picture of a more powerful blast than he assumed, but it is still well within the capability of a bunch of very determined activists. This absolutely didn't need to be a state actor.

I came out of the discussion with a newfound appreciation just how fragile a lot of our billion-euro infrastructure is, and how easy it would be to disrupt.
Firefox does offer an HTTPS only-mode, which tries to upgrade HTTP to HTTPS and warns you before connecting if it's not enabled.

Settings > Privacy & Security > HTTPS-Only Mode

As far as I know, there are still no practical attacks against TLS 1.2.
A good solution might be to add a new license clause stipulating whether the owner is okay with their code being used to train AI models.

Part of the clause would explain that if you are okay with your code being trained on, then you're also accepting being okay with it being copied verbatim at some point down the line during code completion.

You do get a bit of tragedy of the commons where everybody wants to use the AI model but nobody wants their own code trained on.

I don't like the idea of a world where licensing and copyright law prevents us from enjoying the progress of AI. Caveat: I am not an expert on open source.
Check out GitHub scientist if you are doing a migration with a ruby based system: https://github.com/github/scientist

Great support and functionality for testing differences between two systems of record.
It causes a lot of uncertainty, which does benefit Russia. And it did not elinimate their capacity to sell gas to Germany. Of course there is much less capacity now in total, but NS2 was never even used so far and there is no way that Germany would buy that much gas from Russia again that the reduced capacity would be an issue.

If Russia were able to break the coalition of countries supporting Ukraine it would benefit enormously. I'm not seeing them succeeding in that, but that doesn't mean they're not trying it.
Biology research gives me nightmares. For the low price a an undergraduate degree and a few tens of thousands of dollars you can build a garage lab which can make something like covid in your spare time.

In physics and chemistry you at least have to work hard for your WMD. In biology you get them for free because you're not careful enough.
Germany's interior minister has fired the country's cybersecurity head Arne Schönbohm. The sacking follows reports that had contacts with Russian intelligence services.
https://p.dw.com/p/4IM0M
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German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser on Tuesday dismissed the head of the BSI national cyber security agency, Arne Schönbohm.

Schönbohm was removed from his role as head of the BSI national cyber security agency after media report that he had links with people involved with Russian intelligence services.
What do we know about the dismissal?

The sacking was first reported by the news magazine, Spiegel, and later confirmed by an interior ministry spokesperson.

"The background to this is not least the allegations, which are well known and widely discussed in the media, and which have permanently damaged the necessary public confidence in the neutrality and impartiality of the conduct of his office as president of Germany's most important cybersecurity authority," the spokesperson said.

There was no initial indication on who would succeed the 53-year-old, who was head of the BSI since February 2016.

Faeser was reportedly concerned about Schönbohm's continued contact with an association called the Cyber Security Council of Germany. A scheduled joint appearance by Schönbohm and the interior minister — to report on the German cyber security in 2022 — was last week canceled while the ministry sought the clarify the allegations.
NAFO turns the tables on Russian propaganda
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It's thought that the attendance of Schönbohm at the group's anniversary celebrations last month brought matters to a head.

The cyber chief helped set up the group — which brings together experts from public institutions and the private sector — just over 10 years ago. It advises companies, politicians and authorities on cybersecurity and describes itself as politically neutral. However, the organization came under fire after Russia launched its war in Ukraine over the connection of one of its members to the Kremlin.

The cybersecurity company, Protelion, which was the major focus of concern, was ejected from the Council last weekend.

Until March, the firm was named Infotecs and was a subsidiary to its Russian namesake. It was reportedly established by a former member of the Russian intelligence services who was honored by President Vladimir Putin.

rc/wmr (dpa, Reuters)
Though possible, the damage to the US if found responsible would be unfathomable. I can't imagine Joe approving that.
The linked article mentions a BU response via email. There’s also one via the web [0]. The preprint is way outside of my field of expertise so I can’t confidently evaluate the news stories against the preprint. But if journalists misinterpreted scientific research it would certainly not be the first time.

[0] https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/neidl-researchers-refute-uk...
That is if GitHub doesn't let a big organization with a lot of money take it from you.
But did the lockdown cause more overdose deaths?
people can hardly connect with each other in real life anymore
At this point I feel like using a stripped down fork of firefox is basically a requirement. There's nothing left of the Mozilla that cared it seems.
Before you go for something like HBOT, try these for frequent headaches:

1. Cutting out coffee for a few weeks completely - it's not necessarily the caffeine but can be hormones or other in the coffee.
2. Try and get a prescription for amitriptyline - I had severe migraines for months and was prescribed it as it can "turn them off". It did, and as a side effect made me way less grumpy and anxious. In the meantime, I stopped drinking coffee, I then came off amitriptyline and then about 6 months later started drinking coffee again and the migraines came back.

I've also done HBOT as I had Bell's Palsy and it worked amazingly well in helping me recover from that. For anything else, do your research on NIH, not here.

Good luck.
Orchestrated by Ernst Stavro Blofeld and the SPECTRE. Why not?
I wonder about your sedentary comment. You said during the pandemic, when we were encouraged to stay home, but what about after? At first it feels true because a lot of people WFH now. But before Covid, most people drove to work, which isn't really any better than WFH and it's arguably worse due to the stress of driving.

Covid also strongly encouraged outdoor activities over indoor ones. In my area, many indoor events were converted to outdoor events and we found that even with the relaxation of precautions, people prefer we keep them outdoors as it was more enjoyable.

I suppose my experience doesn't match up with people who live in more disagreeable climates, like the South or Southwest.
The Xbox 720? I haven't heard that name in something like a decade. Are you referring to the console that eventually became the Xbox One?
The 1918 flu involved no lab leak and killed [edit]: 50 million people.

I don't care for the game of fatality calculus, but if one is going to play it, that's the enemy humanity is up against.
That seems like an odd offer from a nation that allegedly attempted to destroy the pipeline.
It does matter when people believe and think (out of nationalism, ethnocentrism) that they’re in the paragon of virtue and civilization while everyone else is some backwards people entrapped in darkness…

Anyways you can be critical of a place without being arrogant of your own position. Most people writing here about Qatar act as if their own countrymen are amazing when they probably haven’t even visited the middle East!

Pure pontification, and no open-mindedness to seeing a holistic view. It dilutes the valid criticisms when people speak out of ignorance.
It is quite common still to go virtual e.g. in the academic community and in any place where there are no commercial consideration or loss of money associated. (Just had the discussion today to move virtual because everyone else does as well)
Show HN: Watchdle, Like Wordle but Watches
>It's to Eisenhower's credit that he didn't back their immoral attack. And one of the big wins for the morality of US foreign policy in the 20th century.

Oh wait, you're seriously using a moral argument about the cold war. Let me laugh harder.
I need help to improve the release process
Hi everyone,
I recently took a position as a CTO and I've been enjoying my time while improving the work the team has been making.
My biggest struggle right now is how to better release features in production, the team doesn't have a standardized way of releasing features into production and the sales and marketing teams never find out when things are release.
I tried to implement release notes but I'm still struggling with the releases because I never know what's ready to be released and what's still on QA process.
I've asked the team for their help but I don't think they know what to do.
Could someone point me towards the right direction of improving this process?
Thanks!
Defensive Coding for C/C++/Java/Python/Bash/Go/Vala
I also like that Aegis has folders so I can separate my work and personal stuff. Most of the others are just a flat list.
Thanks for sharing! Except for Kong, Apache APISIX community users ask about differences between APISIX and NGINX as well. The main difference is that: APISIX is behind the onlt one location of NGINX, all traffic hit that location and use lua to rewrite or modify the request in different phases. For more information, can check https://apisix.apache.org/blog/
Maybe I'm wrong but I thought netavark already replaced slirp4netns
> people using Firefox just to 'stick it to the big bad corpo' is getting us nowhere.

Don't underestimate the power of small contributions. You could say the same about people using konqueror 20 years ago, it brought KHTML which brought us webkit. You could say the same about people using firefox at the same time. You could say the same about people using linux in middle 90's, the same about GCC... I could go on showing more examples.

Simply using a software is a form of contribution: at the least it improves statistics. People making small contributions are important; small donations to wikipedia, bug reports, translations, fixing a small bug, improving a feature you need, talking with devs to guarantee a device works... I personally made many of these small contributions and although most of them didn't ended up on the "market leader project", it certainly made them good enough for people to keep using them and to encourage other people to contribute too.
What is this, a browser? Why do I need a new browser?
Seems risky to think you'd be able to get away with this without someone developing some reasonable suspicions. Which makes me lean towards one of the Western parties. Don't think Russia would be able to pull this off without getting caught and if caught you'd think the US would be trumpeting the proof from the roof tops.
This was indeed hard to describe. When people say they "use Webkit", people seem to take away some kind of direct incorporation of Webkit code. That's not the case here in that we haven't forked anything.
> See my point?

No.

Because your point only works if you make (at least) two prior assumptions which are not always true.

Number one you assume everyone has high-speed broadband and "unlimited" 5G on mobile. This might well be the case in many parts of the Western world. But I can point you to a number of rural areas in the Western world and beyond that, in Africa and Asia where this assumption falls flat.

Number two, given most developers use JS to outsource the processing duties, you assume everyone has a half-decent computer. Many people use cheap laptops with lousy Celeron processors and a minuscule amount of RAM, likely also with an ancient browser that has not been updated for ages. Their experience of a browser-app will likely be very different to the cool-kid developer sitting on his bean-bag in a fancy office coding on a spec'd out beast of a machine.
What people fail to see is that this is an opportunity (albeit forced) to accelerate the shift away from fossil fuels to renewables. To slow and hopefully reverse the effects of carbon emissions we need to massively invest in new wind and hydro projects, energy storage technologies, and tighten energy efficiency rules.
Indeed it's enough! Thanks a lot! It's excatly what I was searching for. I missed in the Show HN of the past weeks.
That only works if you have a short commute. I've charged my Tesla 3 maybe 3 times on 110 and it's a dumpster fire. One time parked at an AirBnB hoping to gather enough juice over the course of a weekend to get useful range heading home while we carpooled with friends.

3 miles per hour of charging is simply not enough. 12h x 3mph = 36mi range added, and that's not enough to reliably expect even a 30 mile roundtrip, let alone any errands you might run. I'd say we go through easily 55-60 miles of range for a 42mi commute. Plus, you're charging at peak hours for part of that.

Obviously I'm not saying you're lying, you did it, that's great, but you sure weren't driving many miles in both cars.
What steps did your friend take thus far? Did they try any of the steps here? [1][2]

Should your friend recover their data, encourage them to get a few external USB SSD drives and back their files up to them and unplug them. Even if they are unable to decrypt their files, they may wish to archive the .zaqi files to external drives in the event that the malware author is busted and a master key is obtained. This has happened with a few other malware tools.

[1] - https://www.pcrisk.com/removal-guides/22751-zaqi-ransomware

[2] - https://howtofix.guide/zaqi-virus-file/
There is a very large gap in degree of barbarism between Qatar and Sweden, for example. It's a false equivalence to say that because barbaric attitudes exist everywhere that they are equivalent.

Also, in 2022 with so much information available about most things I shouldn't be required to travel to every single country to have an actual informed opinion about the place. I definitely don't need to visit Russia to have a basic grasp on its society. I can just read some books, essays, articles and have at least a basic understanding of it, which will then inform me to visit it or not.

Or do I need to visit North Korea to be able to say it's a fucked up place and recommend someone to not consider visiting it?
We have no real choice. Natural gas has to be phased out as soon as possible.

The plant designs I’m describing are new, but marching to commercialization. They are not in wide-scale production yet.

They are optimized for a world where solar and wind have taken over most of the production.
In almost every case of "corporate welfare" the taxpayers would have been better off supporting the workers instead.

This idea of corporate welfare to help the company out rarely works long term and is getting worse and worse.

We now have companies shopping around for welfare packages and putting one province/state against another to see who will come up with the most tax incentives.

Businesses are supposed to bring jobs and taxes to an area, not using taxes to bring businesses to an area. Look at when the company receives massive rebates/tax incentives for job commitments, yet fails to make the commitments, what punishment do they face?
No one is 3d printing ballistic nuclear weapons. Scale matter?
>> Treating political and military leaders as rational entities is dangerous.

I would think the opposite to be true.

How do you attempt to apply to game theory to a situation where the other party is completely irrational? It seems impossible to me.
Key sharing isnt fine but how many web services will let me enroll multiple totp tokens simultaneously? I havent encountered any, personally. yall designed this reality, now you have to live in it.
I bet they’d be even happier if they were paid the same as American workers, seeing as they’re doing the same job.

If a minimum wage worker happens to enjoy what they do, that doesn’t mean that we should all settle for minimum wage. Your argument is toothless and blatantly anti-worker.
Libcamera does work with gstreamer.

Libcamera is a glue framework between proprietary IPA-packaged code and v4l2 subsystem. Many of the tasks you'd want to use libcamera for are outside the scope of v4l2.

API glue:
https://libcamera.org/api-html/namespacelibcamera.html
This story sounded plausible as well...

https://thelawdogfiles.com/2022/09/nordstream.html
Ask HN: Is there a good Java course for absolute beginners?
My girlfriend is in the field of genetics and cardiovascular sciences. She's considering a career change into programming. I've spent some time looking at free and some paid courses online, I've checked content on coursera/udemy/linkedin learning/o'reilly. It seems to me that all these courses are either someone trying to make a quick $ with minimum effort or they are targeted at people with some CS knowledge who just want to pick-up a new language.

Is there a free or paid course that is designed for a complete beginner programmers and teaches them using Java specifically. A course which gives enough exercises at each small step and support.
Another thing for Russia, showing that they can and are not afraid to attack such infrastructure of EU countries. It's safe because it's "their" pipeline and cheap if they don't think they would've resumed operation in the future anyway.
Chrome isn't the most common browser on the planet because of its identity politics. It's actually addressing real needs(i.e. a default browser on common computing device - used to be reason for antitrust but w/e), rather than a loud vocal subsection of a handful of societies, so I don't think that that growth strategy works.

Given that a huge number of Chrome users probably come from societies that actively despise this kind of stuff, it might actually backfire.

Lucky for them I guess most people outside of HN probably never even read that marketing material, so I think it's more of a circle jerk for the marketing dpt.
Chrome's Manifest V3 Push Signals a Changing of the Guard
It’s a gif maker..fretting about anti-trust in this case seems a little bizarre to me.
the hateful comments about them having mental illnesses and so on are also terrible (i.e. noduerme in this thread)
I'm not sure if I understand your wording: "a crate for seeding random number generators"? Do you mean, "is there a RNG that you can seed in Rust"?

There's a `rand` crate[0] which I believe was written by folks in the Rust project, though it's not part of std. You can seed the RNG[1].

[0] https://crates.io/crates/rand, https://github.com/rust-random/rand

[1] https://docs.rs/rand/latest/rand/rngs/struct.StdRng.html#met...
That's bs btw. You don't have to install any of these 2.

Unlike many of you here with strict opinions, I'm actually going to the world cup.
Years ago, I was responsible for a small scale migration (thousands of records) and it was really painful. All the edge cases, datatype mismatches, and undocumented functionality really made it a sticky problem.

Especially as I was a consultant, billing hourly and trying to provide a reasonable estimate and visibility for the client.

Wrote up some more here: https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/876
I writing more generally in response to the previous commenter’s statement about being surprised.
So who's managing the kafka cluster? are you running scheduled backups of it? what happens if the system is down while ingesting data? I can only imagine you have someone thats already veery experienced in kafka if you find that easier to manage than an rdbms which already has established hosted services available.
Jq Implementation of Jq
> Why don’t you give power users at the very least in about:config an option to disable ALL phoning home by Firefox upon launch and exit.

Biggest reason I refuse to use Firefox no matter how bad Chromium is. I sometimes use Firefox Focus for doing searches on my phone and the thing is always pinging mozilla services. Some of them location related. No way to turn any of these off on what is supposed to be an incognito browser.
195 countries in the world. I want to become president of one just to force FB to acquire Giphy again
"Chinese law" - an oxymoron ;)

They said they will retake Taiwan and they can and few will really care. So of course they will.
People got so bought into the "Russia always bad, NATO always good" propaganda line that they have to perform Olympics level mental gymnastic to try and put the square peg into the round hole.
PBS SpaceTime notes the fine structure constant (~1/137) is dimensionless and ubiquitous in physics. As a result, transmitting that ratio would be a good and clear indication we are intelligent enough to have at least that much physics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCSSgxV9qNw&t=564s

This might be better than mathematical constructs which conceivably do not require technology, "just" thought to discover.
> Why care what the UK has to say about US matters?

Because US regulators are too lazy/corrupt/starved to do the job they exist to do. Someone has to reign in oligopolies amassing even more power and dominance, and it obviously isn't going to be the US, so whoever wants to step in, be our collective guest. This time it was the UK, next up is the EU Digital Markets and Digital Services Acts.

And yes, there are much more pressing matters, which others are dealing with. A competition comission doesn't have other duties than to block such obvious abuses.