skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost all nearby players had motives.

Russia benefits if they can spin it as US action, as the damage to US alliance and trust relationships are huge and definitely strategic goals and gains for them. For a while in the beginning, when it wasn't clear that a functioning (but unused) pipeline remained, Russia was off the suspect list. But it turned out the sabotage missed a pipe and that fact keeps Russia high on the suspect list.

As for US, Germany had already given in to the US pressure and nixed the pipeline and made the gas deals. Why would US go and blow it up? It is possible, but makes little sense.

Whoever did this did so knowing that US will ultimately be blamed. Biden kinda set US up for that with veiled threats regarding NS before the Russian invasion. It's either Russia or UK/Ukraine, is my guess.
Texas is so insane. SO INSANE
I don't see any need for state management in these requirements. You have form that performs a calculation and prints out an html table in the results or a single value. All of this can be done with dead simple html and js, and it would probably be 10000x faster than a react hello world page.

I have made little tools like this in pure html and JS before. Its really quite straight forward and using a framework is overkill.
> it's technically decentralized, but they've then built a centralized service through social coordination on top of that

Can you describe that? Mastodon is Federated, much like any other decentralized service you have the right to reject or block content from certain users or sites. That's your privilege as a paying administrator of a Mastodon instance. If you disagree with the way a particular server is being run, you can find others who agree with you or host you own instance for less than the price of Twitter Blue.

This is the case with IRC, Matrix, I2P, even Bittorrent. None of these protocols are living in "the worst of both worlds", they're merely taking their architecture seriously and deliberately choosing not to build their software like a product. If you take issue with the social coordination layer of Mastodon... maybe social media isn't for you?
Somebody had a bad experience with BOFH.
Clickbait perhaps, but I don't think The Register is especially right wing and they did put spyware in inverted commas, just like you did. The case also alleges that the app uploads emails and contact databases and doesn't provide any notification, which if true hardly sounds like best practice.
It’s rather unavoidable nowadays to build webapps without a build pipeline of sorts.

Certainly you can achieve it but I’d argue it’s more work to avoid build tools than to adopt one.
I don't know much about what where specific gains come from. Generally avoiding copies and syscalls go a long way. I suspect in many cases WireGuard performance isn't going to be your bottleneck, but in those cases you're still reducing power consumption.
This is a silly analysis. I reject the premise that 10% of people are the hard workers, held back by the 90%.

This is someone who believes they are part of the 10% failing to see the value of the 90%, arrogantly mistaking their own ignorance for insight.
Is that a problem with the browsers not providing functionality that should be standard or is it a problem of custom components that need the JS for the dev to specify how they work?
Great, how do writers get paid?
Honestly the only FAANG companies that feel safe for the next 10 years are Apple and Microsoft.

Google has a high chance of being disrupted by AI-assisted search agents.

Amazon is now mostly a cloud business with a grocery store attached. Cloud will get increasingly commoditized and margins will likely erode.

Facebook is a 50-50 bet on the metaverse being the next big thing.

Netflix depends entirely on lucking out on a successful show/franchise.

Apple and Microsoft’s moats seem way more defensible.
Sorry, but that very real economic harm is an existential threat. When people’s jobs disappear because energy is too expensive for German industry (highly dependent on exports) to be competitive, that’s an existential threat on a personal level, which ripples out to the greater society. And let’s not forget that economic harm inflicted from abroad is precisely what gave rise to WWII.
I want to study Bioinformatics at McGill for a Masters or Grad school. I was doing some cheminformatics related work and basically was working along Bio students and grad students literally before the pandemic hit. Heck, even Boston University would be a good fit for me because I was helping students at hackathons build their solutions or mentoring them right before the pandemic hit for AstraZenacs challenge, and the team I was helping out created a hardware prototype that would give you your daily meds (great for seniors that forget to take pills or what). But honestly I feel like there is a lot of gatekeeping in this community, I would have to spend approximately 7 years before I could get taken seriously in this domain. In that 7 years you can do a lot of other meaningful work than being stuck in grad school. I dunno.
It does not collect private information
"From my experience, what works incredibly well is a partnership between biologists and software engineers: the biologists first come up with the first concept of the tool, which is purely focused on ensuring good results. After this first iteration is completed, engineers then come in and rewrite the tool using modern engineering practices with things like speed and reliability in mind."

Like others have pointed out, this really makes the engineer's end of the bargain sound like janitorial work. There's no lack of fields where researchers and engineers both sit at the table from the beginning to pick which projects to pursue and how to implement them.
I find that a lot of what I read coming out of modern journalism is indistinguishable from what one would expect a GPT-3 language model only trained on, say, the top 50 editorial news sites would produce. As opposed to an actual human performing deep research on a subject and distilling key points into a coherent precis, sans opinion.
Oh hell he is going to do this, isn’t he. Guess I’d better give up on ever getting that beta.
> How would the plaintiff know the exact method used?

This is not exactly difficult. They are alleging that this was installed on a million phones, I'm sure doing some straightforward technical forensics would make it clearly apparent what was going on.

> Why would the fillings _not_ be biased to the side being represented?

You've misunderstood my point, though I don't understand yours. Of course the filings are biased, that is exactly what I'm saying. I've just seen numerous cases (myself included) where people get out their pitchforks when they've only read one side's version of events, well before a complete picture emerges of what actually happened.
It would be somewhat lengthy to explain its meaning exactly here. You can read about its exact meaning and its context here: https://doi.org/10.47757/pal.2

In short what it usually means (the exact meaning depends on the model under consideration) is that there is a binary operation "=", such that "x = x" is a theorem, that is evaluating "x = x" will evaluate to "true" for any object x in the mathematical universe. Furthermore, for any unary proper operator "P", and any two objects x and y of the mathematical universe, the expression "(x = y) => (P[x] => P[y])" will also evaluate to "true". Here "=>" is another binary operation called implication, which has some special properties outlined in the link. P[x] denotes the application of the operator P to the object x.

Edit: Oh, forgot to add the third axiom for equality (it is actually more an axiom about "true", but uses equality):

3) A => (A = true)

What this means is that for any object A of the mathematical universe, if you evaluate "A => (A = true)", you obtain the value "true".
Russia didn't want to sell to Europe once Europe said that they are going to wind down purchases anyway.
> the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had invested $1.6 million into Wickr via the CIA's shell company In-Q-Tel (…) Wickr markets itself to government agencies (…) On June 25, 2021, Wickr was acquired by Amazon (…) the founder of the controversial private security firm Blackwater, is one of the principal investors.

Checks out lol
Computing Arccos
> Current state of autonomous driving is not sophisticated enough to predict cars crossing lanes that's turning and crossing your lane from oncoming traffic.

This is just completely false. AV software stacks absolutely can and do predict off-nominal behavior like you describe. In general they predict better than humans, too.
https://www.givewell.org/impact-estimates#:~:text=on%20this%....
if the amount of FUD that gets levelled against Matrix was converted into work on other solutions, Matrix wouldn’t need to exist.
For a very high price.
Those of us who value privacy and want to protect it have to find ways of convincingly demonstrating its value to others.

Merely calling it a "right" is just too hand-wavy, and doesn't convince anyone who doesn't already agree with you.
The computer sees cars that are going to run red lights, at great distances, with complete certainty, and without overlooking any of them. The example you have chosen is one in which the self-driving system is indisputably superior.
As a young person living with your parents and having "0" expenses, you probably should keep most of your income liquid because at some point you are likely to move out and have both ongoing expenses, but also start up expenses (deposits, furnishing, household equipment, etc)

If you can put together a rough plan for the budget for that, you might cap your liquid savings at 6-12 months of ongoing expenses plus an estimate of your one time expenses. After that, responsible long term investments. Of course, it's not a bad idea to put some amount into long term responsible investing now.

Not knowing what country you're in makes it hard to recommend specifics. For your short term savings, you want something safe (government guaranteed if you live in a stable economy) but shop around to different banks and see if any give better interest than others. For your long term savings, you want some sort of brokerage and investing in a broad index fund of some sort; if you have access to Vanguard funds in a tax appropriate way, their index funds are more or less the benchmark for low cost index funds. Depending on your local tax laws, it may be better to have a locally domiciled fund, or an Ireland or a US domiciled fund. Ideally, you're able to use a brokerage that is low cost, but established. The US benchmark is zero fees for the brokerage account and near zero fees for trading ETFs, and a broad stock index expense ratio should be around 0.1% or less. That's not available in all countries, but look around and see. There's also plenty of US options with more fees and bigger expense ratios, but IMHO, those expenses don't get you anything worthwhile.
Korea isn't in a war (their northern neighbor notwithstanding). They are still ostensibly abiding by the rule of law, so of course they're not going to merely give the finger to anybody who tries to fine them.

Or maybe those courts which could somehow force Russia to pay fines for turning off gas should force Russia to pay fines for invading Ukraine.
I bought this, it works. cant wait for whatever the Tumblr team comes up with next
Expecting every historical great person to have zero skeletons in the closet based on todays political perspectives is unrealistic and irrational anyway.

Of course there are degrees of malice but social media loves this sort of zero-effort cultural gatekeeping where they get to pearl clutch and feel like they are improving the world from the keyboard.

Renaming JWT (even before it was found to be mostly baseless) is just another slacktivist exercise with little real value to society.
I get honey from jars at the grocery store and, every once in awhile, from a local farm who supplies my local butcher shop (because I'm lazy, at the butcher, and realize I'm out of honey). The local farm honey is definitely real honey (the butcher shop people have been to the farm). Apart from the floral quality of the farm honey, I've never noticed a difference from the orange or blossom honey I get at the supermarket. I don't think most supermarket honey is fake. Maybe the bear honey is?
I don’t see how it’s any different than a smoke-filled back room, or the local grange where people meet together and try to convince one another of what’s important. The scale is substantially different, but just because it’s a different mode of communication doesn’t mean it’s less meaningful.
That's a thoughtful response, but I think you're being misguided by your kindness. I get it, I would vouch for the 90% in my workplace.

This is why most of us could never be in the kind of position like Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. They see things for what they are and make the cold calculations. They still make mistakes but are directionally correct.

Power laws like the Pareto principle assert themselves unless you actively push against them. Twitter was not. Everyone knew they were overstaffed for years. The 50% cut when Elon took over had little effect. They were not a lean machine where the 90% were pulling the weight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
THERE was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and even a child could climb it. Where it crossed the roadway, instead of having a gate it degenerated into mere geometry, a line, an idea of boundary. But the idea was real. It was important. For seven generations there had been nothing in the world more important than that wall.

Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on.
This accident is reminiscent of Singapore airlines Flight 006. The 747-412 took off on an inactive runway during a typhoon and crashed into a vehicle, killing 83 of 179 onboard.

An initial investigation placed blame heavily on the flight crew, but other factors emerged in later reports.

There was construction equipment on an adjacent parallel closed runway. Along with the taxiway, it was fully illuminated with no barriers. The signs and markings were deficient and not readable in a typhoon at night.

The 747 was cleared for takeoff and crashed into a parked vehicle they could not see until V1.

When the final 30 minutes are played backward from mass casualties, the aircrew appears criminally negligent. But a 2 year investigation revealed an incredibly subtle drift into failure of the safety envelope.

A lack of ground radar, schedule pressure, and split second decisions contributed to a near certainty of tragedy at the sharp end.

Unlike with road deaths, these tragedies lead to safety improvements all over the world. We will all be a little safer because the victims paid with their lives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_Airlines_Flight_006
Close. Seems to me more like he didn’t realize that Piped is an alternative front end to YouTube, and assumed that someone had actually reuploaded his YouTube content elsewhere.
Traits that are not beneficial to the individual will die out, the kind of group selection this process would require is implausible at best.

I would assume that the kind of personality your are referring to is adaptive for the individual as well, especially the mild variants.
From the article, because the title is purposefully vague:

> The Massachusetts Department of Public Health conspired with Google to secretly install a COVID-19 tracing app onto more than 1 million Android users' devices without their knowledge and without obtaining warrants...
If you do, let use know at hn@ycombinator.com and we'll put it in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), so it will get a random placement on HN's front page.
That's just the average, and it's hard to stop it from being warmer inside. A quarter of days are at least 5 degrees hotter and that's well into too hot.

If it was properly unimportant then the majority of stores and offices wouldn't have it.
> Sorry, you mean some of the same countries who are extraditing Uyghurs to China?

Yeah, the same countries who extradite known terrorists to the country they committed their terrorist acts at. Much better than CIA's rendition flights that kidnapped whomever CIA wanted without even asking that country's government.

> I realize I'm inconvenient for you and your party line.

I should have apologized for disturbing your US State Dept. propaganda first...
And the true ’murican solution is making this car a 8-ton tank, not removing the monster trucks from our roads :(
Desperate could mean they just hire someone off the street OR when someone meets the minimum bar throw a bunch of money at them.
You can fill the pipes to the server(s) you're targeting, it doesn't have to be application layer.
Well there was some discussion (even here on HN) if this was initially just an accident caused by them shutting down the pipeline too quickly. Apparently this can cause an ice blob to form which races down the pipe as the pressure differential builds. This blob could easily blow up a pipe.
The original comment by questime literally said we should discuss the general topic even though it's controversial.
do you consider an unrooted device with at least 1 goog account synced - but with goog play disabled - a safe de-googled phone?
Won't happen. $44B total. $14B in debt. Twitter worth under $10B, probably between $0-5B. Creditors get paid first. Elon's money is gone forever. The hole is too deep.

The likeliest outcome is Elon hands it to the banks and says "Oops. Uh... good luck?"
Op writes his request like he wants to help people. Doing it the simple html and files download way would help people quite a bit and very quickly. After all, it's the way he choses to do it, so it must be pretty good. It has all those properties he asked for and people don't even have to depend on a third party staying up.

But you and many others picked up on the implicit premise of this request: to make it in a form that ranks highly on search. A form that is monetizable even if it doesn't help as much. To be clear, I realized this too but I still wanted to point out the more helpful way to cut this for-profit gordion knot.

Maximize help instead of monetization and it's suddenly simple. And you can even work on making a JS/CSS web application after the 15 minutes the simple html+files way takes. Maybe someone else will even make it for you using the spreadsheets you put out. That'd save a lot of time and help everyone the same amount.
For those who started following the events in 2005, there is no causation.
Yeah, if you don't factor in needing the government to build trains.
Can you stop the hyperbole?! Yes they definitely care about contracts, if they don't honour contracts even in the situation of sanctions confidence in doing business with them would plummet, also in Asia etc.. This is how the modern world works.

You notice that when Russia turned off the gas before, they never said, "because we want to screw you", but instead cited maintanance. If they could just turn off the tap without reason and contracts be damned, why would they do that?
I just want to say I find it very enlightening to see my previous post have dual interpretations because I wasn't precise. It really explains why ancient literature can cause so much grief!

To clear it up, I did mean that despite the massive increase in workers, with today's layoffs most of them have not yet reverted back to their pre-pandemic 2019 headcounts.

Where did all of these workers come from? Overall as an industry we did not actually substantially increase our headcount. We're about at par. Why?

- People did retire/leave the industry due to 2020 layoffs/Covid
- Big tech, who had the largest "influx" actually just vacuumed people from other non-big tech (e.g. banks, mid-size, startups, etc.)
- Much of the headcount growth was actually in non-technology positions, especially HR, marketing, sales etc. because many companies wanted to capitalize on pandemic growth
Wait, wasn't the covid19 contact tracing app (the "spyware" in question) installed as a part of the android (and also iOS) system and was disabled by default?

Or did they turn it on by default in US?
If you want to build an offline calculator that doesn't require dynamic content or multiplayer, you can use webassembly and embed it into a website like I do here: https://dublog.net/blog/rust-2/index.html

I'm not sure what the best tool for a calculator app is, but there are probably many options
Germany's economy will suffer significantly, but Germany will survive.

The language "trouble surviving the winter" plainly suggests massive numbers of Germans freezing to death, which isn't going to happen. Even if I grant that this claim is talking about damage to the German economy (I don't) it is unlikely that the German economy will collapse during this winter. The economic ramifications will be felt for many years to come but there is no chance of Germany ceasing to exist this winter as claimed above.

> And let’s not forget that economic harm inflicted from abroad is precisely what gave rise to WWII.

Fear of that sort of scenario should mostly be focused on Russia, who are going to lose a war as Germany lost WW1, and will be looking for scapegoats. Besides Russia, I can think of other countries which have suffered far more economic damage due to this war than Germany. Particularly, the one that actually got invaded. Germany's economy is still strong and healthy compared to Ukraine's.
I think looking for a 'least friction' route to create these custom components is probably how the other examples you have found ended up looking wonky and slapped together.

If you have some front-end developers that you are close with, I would ask for some guidance and an occasional push in the right direction once you get started. If you really do dislike front end, I would try to reframe how you approach this problem, because it will just end up being a slog for you :(
Cryptocurrency is the blockchain's image, though. It's the posterchild, the most dead-simple distributed system to implement. You don't need variable-width ledger entries or complicated typing schemes, you just need numbers and a distributed CSV file. All of the successful distributed technologies (I2P, Matrix, Bittorrent) have proven that blockchains are totally unnecessary for modern distributed systems.
Cal Newport's Article Writing System [video]
Show HN: Run unsafe user generated JavaScript in the browser
I needed a way to let users write JavaScript to create plugins for a site I'm building.

I couldn't find a solution I was happy with, so ended up building one that run's it in a web worker on a separate domain from your main site.

Hopefully I haven't missed anything. If so, please let me know!

My website has an interactive demo you can write code in the browser textarea, and see the output on the right.

Interactive Demo: https://workerbox.net/

Github: https://github.com/markwylde/workerbox
That's from 10 days ago. The Eli Lily account which kicked off the ad exodus was 5 days ago.
Our sense of taste is wonderfully varied: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-20640337

I imagine what’s happening is that the signal of bitterness overrides any other tastes and flavors. Sort of like trying to listen for whispers in the midst of a concert.

I enjoy coffee for example and savor it like wine at times; chewing and getting the aroma into my nostrils.

However it took a very long time for me to get used to and ignore the bitter and toasted flavors to even notice the complex flavors in a cup of quality black coffee.
dude literally watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJD5R_yQ9aw where a car is stopping in busy road trying to merge into the next lane. are you serious?
The code is bad because transient Phds and Post-docs are writing it. If there was money in it then the best software developer would already be working on it. Sadly there is none.