skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), Polish Military Counterintelligence Service (SKW), CERT Polska (CERT.PL), and the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) assess Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) cyber actors—also known as Advanced Persistent Threat 29 (APT 29), the Dukes, CozyBear, and NOBELIUM/Midnight Blizzard

https://www.cisa.gov/topics/cyber-threats-and-advisories/adv...

So, they're "Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) cyber actors"
TransferWise was a better name. Easier to remember.
Haven't used Sirius in a long time. But back in the day, if you cancelled, they would follow up quickly with a lower offer.
If you went to all the trouble of running a post office for years - would you mind ‘losing’ a package or two every once
in awhile to pad your retirement?
DoubleDOS [0] did this before VM86 mode was a thing and worked on 8086 CPUs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoubleDOS
So is their entire value add that instead of the fees being hidden they’re now visible? Like is it actually cheaper and if so how were they beating bigger banks? Or was it a VC play to “disrupt” forex by funneling money into a single tech company that could then undercut traditional businesses quickly, gain market share, and then switch to profitability?
Nationalism hasn’t stopped DJI.
Likely was one of the only available ones and they felt it was edgy? in terms of cleverness, perhaps "so" as in "so much"
Remember, random IOPs without latency is a meaningless figure.
This is really not true in natural Southwestern US desert, because the worst thing you can do is trample the biotic crust, which takes years (even decades) to regenerate. It is an established biosystem, with its own birds and insects and arthropods and mammals. Trucks driving on it and earth movers leveling it will do nothing good. TBH I’d rather see us put panels on existing buildings before we trample some of the last undeveloped space in North America.
Indeed, they want to be a digital wallet, not just transfers. Bigger TAM.
Not sure why you didn't include the remainder of that section:

> As part of the bargain, however, the Crown cannot use that evidence to incriminate the witness in another proceeding.

It seems important since it still prevents one from self-incrimination in the context of the courts. Maybe there are other legal ramifications caused by this distinction but it sounds functionally equivalent.
It's worst than that : the 40% are bigger that the 60% of the previous year in absolute value (100 => 160 => 224). It's not even slowing down.
this is a open source web application for browse and listen podcasts from ivoox.com in a very easy and clean way
This app is only available in the US. Any other similar app you’d recommend? Maybe one you tried before using copilot?
> in javascript supporting async and sync is smooth as a Swiss watch.

Ha! Integrating async I/O sources, namely the OPFS API, has been the single biggest development-time hit and runtime performance hit in sqlite.org's JS/WASM build of sqlite.

As soon as a single method is async, it cannot be hidden behind a synchronous interface because the async attribute is "viral," requiring the whole API above it to be async (which sqlite is not). We instead have to move all of the async I/O into its own worker and "fake" synchronous access to it using a complex proxy built from SharedArrayBuffer and the Atomics API. It's an abomination but it's the only(?) approach for making async functions behave fully synchronously which doesn't require third-party voodoo like Asyncify.

PS: the opposite - hiding sync stuff behind an async interface - is trivial. Hiding async behind a synchronous interface, however, is a tremendous pain in the bottom in JS.
I aggressively track my recurring subscriptions, but I still feel like sometimes my primary credit card balance is rising more rapidly than I can account for. And the data we get on our statements seems purposefully crafted to confuse and bewilder instead of inform. Part of it is the difference between the "balance" and the "available credit", the latter of which includes things like invisible holds and unprocessed payments. The two numbers are never the same, and I have no clear way of tracking the relationship between those two numbers.

That's a long way of saying that $100/year might not be such a bad deal to get some genuine visibility about my own spending. Especially since the companies currently providing me the information about my spending are, essentially, my enemies.
One example --

> Last week, HOPE sent out an email blast to their subscribers telling them the news. They expected to sell 500 tickets in the first 24 hours. They didn't even come close

It turns out that Google and the other major mail providers don't like emails with the word "hacker" in them. The cartel that decides which email gets delivered, and which messages go to spam, or get blocked altogether, mass-blocked the HOPE 2024 announcement.

For Emmanuel Goldstein, founder of 2600 and tireless toiler for this community, the deafening silence following from that initial email volley was terrifying: "like some kind of a "Twilight Zone" episode where everyone has disappeared."
The White House press secretary is a political appointee who works as a press secretary for the most prominent political figure in the country, so slagging off the president after hours necessarily and directly impacts the job. The military has its own body of law, as well as separate judicial and prison systems, and federal courts have repeatedly given the armed forces wide latitude in how they treat their "employees." Also, those people are all working on national defense.

Those are weird examples to pick, considering how entirely different they are to the circumstances of an SWE at 37 Signals possibly doing other work after hours. And also weird is suggesting that such control is a form of discipline that help keep chaos at bay, and is in fact part of making everyone more free.
For annual services, I think they should always remind you before charging you. Even if you've selected auto-renew. I always appreciate the services that do that.
spoiled gaslighters
> There are no extensions on Chrome on Android

Surprised to hear that. But still they compare it to Firefox, which is untrue.
Sure, but it's like saying "not dying of dehydration in a desert is easy. Just drink water!". Where do you find the water?

The clarify my terrible analogy, where do you find a curriculum that tells you exactly what to learn in what order? When you don't know math, you can't even tell if you ladder is missing steps.
> How do you make something like this right?

You can't make it fully right, since you can't give people back the time they spent wrongfully imprisoned. But you can at least throw a truckload of cash at them to make things a little less awful.

But yeah... these people will never get their lives back, and it will never be right. This is mainly why I am against capital punishment. Even if we do believe we should have the right to say who lives and who dies (I'm not convinced of that, but many people are), we do not have the ability to say with any certainty that anyone is actually guilty. While the state can later recognize a mistake and let someone out of prison, they can't bring someone back who they executed.
There's a thriving US artisanal cheese scene, but yeah, it's not France. In the PNW there are quite a few creameries. Rogue River Blue is the best blue I've had anywhere though.
¡Olé Olestra! https://web.archive.org/web/19981201183830/http://www.zug.co...
This is actually just a small fraction of federal lands; about 3.4% of the 640 million federally owned acres.

Most of what is today the United States was at one point or another purchased by the federal government, either willingly or forcefully, from its prior owner.
One acre can produce 250 - 300 kwhrs of electricity, enough for 10 houses. 22 million acres would mean it could produce enough power for every home in the US.

Where do you think that power should be coming from to stop the cactus, brush and grasses from getting more shade?
If you want decent performance, you need a lot of OSDs especially if you use HDD. But a lot of consumer SDDs will suffer terrible performance degradation with writes depending on the circumstances and workloads.
> in javascript supporting async and sync is smooth as a Swiss watch

How would you solve the problem described in the article in JavaScript? I know `XMLHttpRequest` technically can be used to make synchronus requests, but the behavior is deprecated and is actively being hobbled by browsers.
the fighting banana slugs
No. One example of many: https://www.nps.gov/jotr/learn/nature/cryptocrusts.htm
My understanding is that different people react differently to the same foods. For example, some people's glucose spikes after eating bananas, other people's doesn't. It would be great to know this, and other things, about one's self. I've considered doing a trial for a couple days with the foods I normally eat, just to know if any of my common foods are especially bad or good for my particular body.
One problem is that experts can’t even agree on what a “healthy” diet is. See Vegan vs. Low-Carb/Carnivore. For every documentary “proving” that one is better than the other, there is another one “proving” the opposite. There are doctors, professors of nutrition, corruption, paid for research results, and people who have dramatically improved their health on both sides of the battle line. Nutritional science nowadays reminds me more of politics or religion than science. With people screaming at each other from different camps.
So when are the major credit bureaus going to get charged?
The recurring phrase in physics was "deriving this is left as an exercise to the reader."
They’re painful in all contexts because of function coloring. They’re slightly less painful in Go and JS because there’s a single opinionated async runtime built in. In Rust they have yet to standardize a bunch of stuff that would remove the pain:

async traits in std instead of each runtime having their own,

a pluggable interface so that async in code doesn’t have to specify what runtime it’s being built against

potentially an effect system to make different effects composable more easily (eg error effects + async effects) without needing to duplicate code to accomplish composition

Keyword generics as the current thing being explored instead of an effect system to support composition of effects

With these fixes async rust will get less annoying but it’s slow difficult work.
> She acted just like a person with Christian ideals.

How so?
Interesting text.
The industrial revolution was a disaster for the human race.
Thanks for letting me know! That's an awesome feature.
Definitely hope to read more of his writing.
Not long ago 'how can birds fly' was a subject of fiendish complexity.

Then the human race spent a few centuries studying physics.

Sociology may be running in circles now (i.e. replication crisis), but imagine what it can discover in a similar timeframe.

Meanwhile, our best course is educating ourselves, no matter how futile, because inaction is not a good way to live with other people on the same planet.
How much?? How many dollar you want??
Every HP printer is the last HP printer you will ever buy.
it increases the click rate of the article by 3%
The distinction probably matters to a lot of people at the scale that Microsoft is operating at. They likely worked with some sort of MS US government liaison on the wording.

Operating with tacit approval is not the same as being a government entity. Even you admit there is a small chance that this group is not tacitly approved ("for long"). I mean yeah, we all know the score, but a it's really bad idea to levy heavy charges without knowing the answer 100%.

This statement does pretty heavily implicate the Russian Govt though, yeah :)
That's a very good question. I heard it from Nate Lawson, and this would have been right around the time I wrote the [A-E-S "doing it wrong"] (just Google that) blog post. It's bugged me for years, too. I pretty sure he didn't make it up!

The big shift I perceived from him was from generic composition of authenticators and ciphers and such, and long sprawling discussions about E-t-M and M-t-E and "the Horton Principle" and stuff, to the AEAD ciphers pretty much everybody uses now.
> Women of Jewish descent who identify as secular in Israel still have a high fertility rate.

Above average compared to Germany but still exceptionally low compared to most middle and lower income countries. However the Haredim would give Nigeria a run for its money.

> Religiosity works well statistically in the US but it really breaks down in Europe, where it’s hard to see any substantial correlation in the interstate data.

I think this is proving the point that there are many of the factors listed in the parent that matter and it’s a continuum.
Minibase run. The opposite of mega base.
Maybe I lucked out, but I found perhaps one or two psychopaths in two decades working tech, before big tech, and both were VP-level and non technical. But yes, I guess corporate ladders tend to reward psychopaths and narcissists by design
Discussion with an ultrafinitist:

-Do you believe in 1?

-Yes.

-Do you believe in 2?

-Yes.

-Do you believe in 4?

-[slight pause] Yes.

-Do you believe in 8?

-[slightly longer pause] Yes.

Eventually you realize each question takes him twice as long to answer as the last.
Sure they impact it, but are they the cause? Are they the entire story? Are cultural differences to just be ignored?
Anyone can bring a private prosecution in the UK and I don't believe the Post Office has any specific additional powers in this regard.
Firstly, thank you for the collection of links. Believe it or not, I've been researching this on the side, and there are a few interesting discussions in there I had missed!

>I've softened my position on this and have a grudging respect for where Rust wound up

>I never would have imagined it could even work -- and still don't know that I think the result quite pays for itself.

I concur. There are at least two big reasons to love Rust: type-checking and low overhead. I happen to work in a field where I don't need the latter, but would probably benefit from the former.

(And, I am critically dependent on preemptive concurrency, which not only means that it has to work well, but also that I'm sensitive to ergonomics in this domain.)
For the limited case of data-parallel computations as you're describing, you don't need async.

However, many real-world programs are inherently complicated state machines, where each individual state waits on one or more nested state machines to progress and/or complete -- async is often the most reasonable way to express that.

I wrote a post detailing a non-trivial production example use of async that might be interesting, regarding the cargo-nextest test runner that I wrote and maintain: https://sunshowers.io/posts/nextest-and-tokio/.

Nextest is not "web-scale" (c10k), since the number of tests one is concurrently running is usually bounded by the number of processor hyperthreads. So the fact that async tasks are more lightweight than OS threads doesn't have much bearing in this case. But even beyond that, being able to express state machines via async makes life so much simpler.

Over a year after switching nextest to using async, I have no regrets. The state machine has gotten around twice as complicated since then--for example, nextest now handles SIGTSTP and SIGCONT carefully--and async has coped admirably with it.

(There are currently somewhat serious issues with Rust async, such as a really messy cancellation story. But that's generally not what gets talked about on places like HN.)
If using an aggregator remember you need to check Southwest (and perhaps others) directly.
I am in favor of a LOT of pro-consumer, anti-business regulations, like dramatically expanded food labeling, mandatory event ticket refunds, standardized brake lights and turn signals... the list is a long one.

But I still don't think a company should cancel my subscription without my knowledge to protect me from myself. One click cancel? Hell yes. But auto expiration? That's a bridge too far.
Couldn’t this be an app or a web app? It’s just vision based?

Edit. I read the article. It actually needs the device. My bad. I’ll leave this comment up.
That was quoted from the article. I think they mistook the words
His idea to keep interfaces small and powerful bothered me - I don’t think it expresses any truth about programming despite being a good rule of thumb. I kept feeling frustrated while reading. The lambda calculus has the best interface to functionality ratio possible but you don’t see humans using it to program. This objection led me to the conclusion that a better heuristic would be: programs should try to communicate intent primarily to another reader, and then to the computer. He does touch on this a little by saying aim for ease of reading over ease of writing, but I don’t think it was a main point. I agreed with almost everything else he had to say including the “taking it too far” chapter (I don’t actually think we should be using lambda calculus to program lol). Curious to know which parts you disagreed with. I am only 2yoe
You’re exactly right. It matters only for one thing: peddling trash rage bait thinly disguised class warfare bullshit, with the only concern being clicks. More of the same:

> Chen and Yu purchased their house last April for $2.05 million, according to property records.

More of the same indeed. No relevance whatsoever. Stoking outrage so they can get those clicks.

> Written by Kevin Truong, Michael Barba, and Joshua Bote

These people are garbage. They should be ashamed.
> If you’re a normal person you’re better off just going offline and seeking actual connections.

The majority of US folks find relationship partners via apps these days. It's nearly the only actively-looking place remaining.
Rule number one: never emulate anything google does
to me, there nothing really wrong with the concept of private prosecutions

whats happened here is a total fuck up of justice, with many many people lying

and the fact people/ judges have believed computer printouts as fact - ffs
Not sure how common the use-case is, but we're using Ceph to effectively roll our own EBS inside AWS on top of i3en EC2 instances. For us it's about 30% cheaper than the base EBS cost, but provides access to 10x the IOPS of base gp3 volumes.

The downside is durability and operations - we have to keep Ceph alive and are responsible for making sure the data is persistent. That said, we're storing cache from container builds, so in the worst-case where we lose the storage cluster, we can run builds without cache while we restore.
> [Richard Hamming's] You and Your Research

Add Edsger Dijkstra's The Humble Programmer (1972 Turing Lecture) as a companion read for software engs: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340... / https://archive.is/U8GwX
Drew's second mention on Security Now, for what it's worth. Gibson quoted one of his blog posts back in September. https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-941.htm
Genome study of humans and great apes provides insight into gut microbiome
To be honest, I seen many systems, which have hardware smoothing of pixels, some monitors have this tech and some notebooks. And I don't know, why now this tech is become so rare - Shaders do smoothing of pixels very well and it is easy to implement, and usually, have enough spare hardware.

It is looking strange in cases of GUI with many details, but in old games it work mostly ok.

And unfortunately it was unavoidable, because many old games don't accept modern "wide" resolutions, in best case just cut screen, so wide "ears" remain unused.

But with hardware smoothing, it is possible to run with top strip cut, which is sometimes better than with black "ears" and with unused screen space.
Erhn… you’re saying the government of Vietnam has more psychopaths than a big corporation? I sincerely doubt it. No upside for them.
> For example you can attach a task to stdout of another process and read and process it.

How max many processes you handled in this fashion? The catch is: if you need thousands than asyncio has too much overhead and you need manual epoll. If less threads are much easier to use and acceptable performance wise.
This is my wheelhouse (mining engineer) and sorry to say this is bunk from what i can see.

Its not 15M Tonnes of Lithium. Its 15M Tonnes of lithium containing ore, with an average grade of 0.4% (which i also question without seening core results).

Also terms such as "resource" and "reserve" have very specific meaning in mining (to do with economic viability of deposity/ level of confidence) and this is by no way a "reserve".

Most likely overzealous government minister/media hyper. (sorry to rain on parade!)
I am not very familiar with Raindrop. It does seem to be a good product especially considering it is built and maintained by one engineer.

From what I can tell Raindrop is targeted more at technical and power users. Our product is more the Notion of bookmarking and screenshot management. Zlinky is targeted at a more general user base and we will also continue to expand beyond bookmarking. We also have the benefit of a full team and investors behind the product - providing risk mitigation around continuity. I feel the market is more than big enough to support both products.

Interesting how you use your bookmarks. I also use some of my Zlinky folders as a todo list. For example, I have a "Social to Review" Zlinky folder. As I see a FB event, or receive an email relating to a potential social event, I share the link into the Social to Review folder, then once I week I go through the folder, and make whatever bookings I need to etc. I also have a folder called "Conference Insights" where I stumble upon videos from tech conferences, work related, and I put the link into the "Conference Insights" folder - I make sure I listen to the videos on my walks etc.
Seems right. https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/regii-average-...

Many consumers prefer durbin-exempt cards since they have more favorable terms. Average fee on durbin-exempt cards is 1.41%, and they are 38% of transactions.

Average fee on covered cards is 0.45%, and they are 62% of transactions.

Seems reasonable to me that Wise wants to make a profit on every single transaction. Probably would have issues with abuse from 1% debit cashback cards otherwise.
Florman's _The Existential Pleasures of Engineering_.
You no longer believe that we're conversing in good faith?

> At the moment, climate projections are that within the next few centuries we will reach temperatures not seen since the eocene.

That seems about right, see e.g.: https://www.marum.de/en/Dr.-thomas-westerhold/CENOGRID.html

> The mammals of the eocene were quite small, because larger mammals had trouble surviving the hot climate.

What makes you think mammal size was limited by the temperature differences we're discussing?

I think the predominant theory is that the asteroid impact killed off the larger ones, and it took a while for larger mammals to evolve. See e.g.: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7645244/

In any case, even if the Earth as a whole was much warmer on average that just means that you'd get the average temperatures that now occur closer to the equator (where some of the largest land mammals presently live) closer to the poles.

So higher average surface temperatures shouldn't preclude the existence of larger mammals.

> Given current trends, the majority of animals of today will be unable to adapt to the new climate, and will die off.

I think this has less to do with climate change per-se, and more to do with the widespread ecological destruction that's followed industrialization, and the reduction in wild habitats.

Although there's surely some species that'll go extinct mainly due to temperature changes, e.g. ones confined to a small atoll that'll get overrun by sea levels rising.