dgudkov

Of course, a supply-chain software company must have strong security and bear full responsibility for not having one.

However, in general I wouldn't be so fast to blame victims. Strong security isn't cheap nowadays and adds to cost of doing business. To make things worse, cyber-attacks become increasingly more sophisticated, so the "security tax" will only grow and fewer organizations will be able to afford it. That's why consolidation is inevitable - it will just become more economically reasonable to share the cost of cyber-defense.

So far events like this one only confirm my theory that sooner or later elected governments will start treating internet security similarly to offline security. Offline security is managed using the army, guarded borders, and internal policing. Expect similar measures in the cyberspace. The damage from cyber-attacks will only grow. When the damage they cause will start being non-trivial (and it absolutely will at some point), governments will start creating safe internet zones with heavy policing.

Wow, Snowflake can do incident notification via webhooks! Pretty cool.

>New lives are not inherently more valuable than old lives.

From an evolutionary standpoint, they absolutely are. The whole idea of life is to produce a variety of mutations in the hopes that at least some of them will be able to overcome hostilities that their predecessors couldn't win against.

>A lot of the suffering inherent to human life is caused by moral compromises made for the sake of future generations' well-being

Well, future generations' well-being is exactly the goal of life and evolution. Any species that fail at ensuring future generations' well-being get wiped out. Whether they like it or not.

Life is hard.

Reading news is an addictive habit with the downside of strong political indoctrination. I could see it in some of my family members, unfortunately.

I really would like to have a tool that can automatically put labels on news headers: clickbait, drama, speculation, she-said-he-said, or rumor. It's pretty easy to detect such headlines when reading, so training an ML model shouldn't be a problem. Removing tagged articles automatically would've made my news feed so much better.

>China, Russia, US, India or some such because those few countries have more than 50% of Earth's population

It's interesting that Russia is frequently perceived as a high-population country while in reality by population it's only slightly bigger than Japan and is smaller then Bangladesh, Pakistan, or Nigeria.

>After all, we invented the whole idea of Big Data.

Really?

Belarusians had a good chance to overthrow these maniacs just a few months ago. Instead, they chose to protest softly and not make it a fierce standoff "like it was in Ukraine". Now they pay a price. I'm not judging Belarusians. Freedom is hard.

It's not about brains. The typical mindset of public performers and entertainers (a.k.a. influencers) is they earn money because of who they are. And since their selves usually don't change drastically from year to year, the thinking is the earnings won't change drastically too.

Exactly. That tells me everything I need to know about adequacy of this list :)

The moral dilemma of automated killings is not new. To remind you, lethal devices that kill people autonomously without operator's direct control have long existed. They have killed probably millions of people and keep killing every day. They are called landmines. Landmines are not as cool as flying drones for sure, but they are way more dangerous because they are dirt cheap, produced en masse, and widely available to unsophisticated combatants. If you're terrified by autonomous drones, maybe you should be even more terrified by landmines despite they are not as intellectually stimulating as drones.

This could bring fax machines back too. Draw something on a piece of paper, put it into the receptacle, and voila - it's instantly printed on the other side.

>Google wants more control over their stuff. The web is becoming less open.

That's because the old problem "web-document vs web-application" hasn't been solved properly. HTML was designed for documents. It wasn't designed for applications. No wonder as applications become more sophisticated they try to squeeze out HTML/DOM where possible.

From a quick look I didn't notice any mention of columnar storage. I would be very skeptical about any claim that a DB without columnar storage "can work extremely well as a data warehouse".

>Is Tesla not far ahead of the competitors?

Depends on region. "Renault's Zoe was the best-selling electric car in Europe in 2020, beating the Tesla Model 3 to second place." [1]

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/972845/electric-vehicles...

Comparing UML and No-code is apples to oranges. UML is about generic abstraction without actual implementation. No-code is about domain-specific implementation done using simplified high-level visual constructs instead of general-purpose programming languages. In other words, No-code is programming (just not text-based), while UML is modelling.

Can we have a GUI for that?

>...doing nothing

This is unfair. There is nothing wrong with passive income. Owning shares or bonds, or having a bank deposit is also "doing nothing" yet no one would blame anyone for it.

A small claims court for the internet. I like that.

The West is on the rise technologically and in decline socially. But I wouldn't be too quick to call the decline irreversible. The democracy is still in a good shape despite some challenges.

The West went through many crises. This is not the first one, and not the last one. So far, nothing indicates that the social crisis is irreversible and the West won't be able to bounce back.

Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26692573

> it seems they are now pushing ads to local controllers

The pervasiveness of adtech doesn't cease to impress me.

This is actually good news. It means people are still capable of distinguishing between propaganda and real journalism even when the former disguises as the latter. Which means the market forces will soon do their job. The rapid rise of Substack only confirms that.

In order to predict a crash of the Canadian real estate market one should understand the root cause of the bubble. However, there is no consensus on that.

There is a degree of exaggeration, I won't argue. Although, it's not that big as it may appear. It's hard to deny that censorship, self-censorship, and cancel culture are on the rise nowadays. Not just on Reddit, but also in many aspects of online and offline social life especially when it comes to colleagues, acquaintances, neighbors and relatives. From that perspective, it's not that far from the everyday life in the Soviet era when people had to pick very carefully what they say and to whom they say it. In certain aspects, it's even worse now because every online communication can be recorded forever and used against the author at any moment for the rest of the author's life. KGB would only dream about such capability.

You probably never lived in a Soviet country. Deaths and repression of millions of people weren't the everyday reality. Censorship and self-censorship were.

That kind of driving wouldn't pass a driving test.

The internet has broken the old model of trust and information propagation (similarly to how books broke it in the middle ages). A new model will eventually arrive and settle, but boy it's going to be painful for the society until then.

@tasn, do you have a client library?

PS. On a side note, it would be very nice to have a standard for webhooks similarly to OAuth. We're designing a solution for accepting various webhooks and the variety of negotiation schemes required by various cloud services is absolutely counter-productive.

Another great example of BYOC is SQL. Even despite popular relational databases have slightly different SQL dialects, it's still possible to use different clients to query/view/design/update a relational database.