skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using nextdns since I saw it posted on Twitter a few weeks ago. It's been great.

I used to run something like PiHole on my home network but ultimately dnsmasq is not a good DNS server so I ditched it. I've been running CoreDNS for a while, forwarding to Google DNS and Cloudflare DNS (both using DNS over TLS) for a while and that worked fine. I'd augmented CoreDNS to serve a hosts file as a blocklist, similar to PiHole.

Nextdns has replaced Google and Cloudflare as forwarders in CoreDNS and it's working really well. I've been liking the proper network-level ad-blocking and being able to use the analytics to figure out what was blocked when something doesn't work.

The nextdns guys are also really responsive and helpful. One of them spent a couple of hours on live-chat with me debugging an analytics issue.
KDE Usability and Productivity: Week 72
The best way to reduce population growth is spreading wealth (where that is defined as safe and secure food, shelter, education etc).

People who don't think they need to breed to have a number of descendants survive childhood mortality to look after them in their old age don't have lots of kids.
You can edit your posts, you know. Or delete them.
Thanks for replying! That was very helpful!
I used to do that. But people are dangerous, they just want to take benefit of others. So in some cases, if you self-distant, you won't see what could affect you, as outsiders are just outsiders.

A balance is needed, self-distant is not enough to deal with people.
I love this model. Get people in for free, let them discover how fabulous it is, then by the time they need a pro-grade thing they're happy to throw money at you.

See also: Netlify.

Best of luck! Looks great.
That is a deep philosophical quest and I find myself attached to it for my whole life. Now I would share some recent observations.

A LISP program with one entry function without side effects is the closest bridge between the conventional computation and conventional math.

If such a program would consist from only a well known set of math functions (sin, cos etc) then it would be immediately ready for typical math instruments like differentiation, integration etc. Let's call such malleable functions as ones to be in _analytical_ form.

Now add some Boolean logic. It's binary so you cannot apply the "analog" analytical math rules. But there is a trick. It is called Rvachev functions. They allow to represent Boolean functions in malleable analytical form.

Having math and logic is very close to generic computation, but not enough. You also need a notion of conditional jump (sometimes called goto or branch) for it to be a Turing-complete.

But functional languages like LISP provide a treasure trove here too. They often use jumps/gotos and functional recursion interchangeably. So, if a program is represented in malleable analytical form and uses recursion for control flow without side effects... it is not different from your typical math formula. So you can differentiate, integrate and do whatever a conventional math can do. Really intriguing.

>To this day we have intuition about why deep networks work, but backing that intuition up with rigorous mathematical analysis has been very challenging and is quite incomplete. But when it works, it works far better than ideas rooted in automata.

There were folks who translated trained networks to automata in order to squeeze them into smaller microcontrollers/FPGAs. Quite a result if you ask me. It shows that the trained AI and automata are interchangeable forms of the very same thing - computation.
Brilliantly put.

Thank you
I can discuss here or there-- being blunt, I probably won't say anything over email I wouldn't say here. Up to you if you'd prefer to take it private.
keepalived is never the answer; if you can run it, your services are by definition crash-only share-nothing or inconsistent by design, or else you wouldn't let keepalived choose when to move the "primary flag" to the other service (as there'd be no way of sending the last ACKed data from the previous primary). Since this is the case, you could just load balance across the services and have them both active.

From a networking perspective, getting VRRP working on anything but physical equipment (e.g. in the cloud) is a fool's errand; it's L7/API-based and not on the ethernet level. Similarly with keepalived, which will get isolated from the monitored instances (thereby failing to the other, also "down" instance) — except it might have access to the API gateway of the cloud provider thereby disassociating the V-IP from both your instances; so you'll end up with more downtime with keepalived than you gain by it.

Since DNS is by default inconsistent, but eventually consistent and thereby possible to load-balance, you could run one instance of this stack on your static home IP and another instance on GCP/DO/AWS and configure multiple DNS servers in your DHCP options and on your phone, to get higher availability.
> The problem is that energy isnt like technology, its about fundamental physics

Do you realize that technically, this sentence doesn't make sense ?
One of the best technical and easily digestible articles I've read in years
Dungeons and Back Alleys: The Fate of the Mentally Ill in America
Blaming the victims is insulting.

Cars are broken into without even without any valuables in view. There is a common technique for breaking into Teslas, for example, such that the rear side window is broken to gain immediate access to the trunk release. Teslas get broken into on sheer speculation.
To me the issue is proportionality and scale - for example if one person a year out of 100M is suspected of plotting to introduce a killer virus to the general population then (provided the suspicion is reasonable based on evidence) I feel that very few people would object to this kind of surveillance. No more than they would object to the idea that you might be talking directly to someone who has decided to become a federal witness in order to stop you.

On the other hand if the government turns on all connections and starts to bulk process all of them to find "interesting" discussions, and then complies dossiers based on these which are then used to determine probabilities of behaviours... and issue sanctions, constraints and awards based on these.. Well. My bet is that almost everyone would object.

Somewhere between these two extremes, absolute surveillance and extremely limited state power lies the correct position. My own view is that it should be much closer to the limited position than state omniscience, the core question is do you want freedom, or do you want safety. In the modern world you (I, anyone) can't have an absolute of both. Absolute freedom would result in the dominance of lunatics with assault rifles (cf. anywhere in the modern world where state power collapses). Absolute safety means that your neighbours and family will regularly face state sanction - even if by some chance you don't.

The fly in the ointment is that I fear that state omniscience is stable in that a society run in that way could continue indefinitely. On the other hand the extreme of liberty (given assault rifles) is clearly not sustainable (in that school, hospital, roads, power, water, cannot be delivered). So we may see a world in which a core territory (China) is run by big brother and a periphery (to steal William Gibson's term) is allowed to seethe and boil in anarchy.

To avoid this we need to develop civil society and generally learn to get along with each other, and we need to punctuate this with action to lock up lunatics and psychos who are taking advantage of us. We also need to find a way to neutralise a core that is seeking to actively destabilise the periphery. Interestingly I think that HN is one of the very few places where this kind of action can be developed.
They did not specify the place or the items in the warrant. That's a big deal. On an electronic device you can be very specific as to what you're looking for not an open ended everything on this nonspecific device.

Please read the link I posted if you blindly trust our Justice system to always do what's right. There are counter examples to your anecdote.
I don't understand how it would be similar to VC. What is the upside for the bank?
Proof of concept: user-defined themes in web applications
I've used QuietComfort (25) in past, I've never heard of any app that was available to configure it.
With most engineering there are standards and math is the main constant. Software is more akin to baking you know what to make but how you make it will differ (largely because of different programing languages) as does the taste of the intended customer.
In the UK at least, lending on accounts receivable is one way businesses, especially those with large, slow-paying clients, can obtain financing. This can be called “factoring” or “invoice discounting” - there are technical distinctions between the two terms, but basically you get, say, £80K now, and the lender later collects your £85K invoice from the customer, keeping the difference as the cost of credit. This can be structured as a one-off, like the example I just gave, or an ongoing line of credit, if you have recurring invoices that you discount consistently. MarketInvoice is one company I know that provides this service.
If I understand this correctly, Von Neumann is saying that, in the real world, computation will have to be efficient and robust, and so techniques will have to be developed to ensure their efficiency and robustness and that such techniques will necessarily have to be continuous in nature - because combinatorics is too hard to be used for the job.

It's important to remember that this was written in 1947. So, a year before Shannon's paper on information theory and several years before the beginnings of complexity theory [1]. These are both discrete forms of analysis and they both go a long way towards addressing Von Neumann's 1947 concerns.

I don't know to what extent Von Neumann considered his 1947 criticism addressed by the subsequent advances. I'm going to go out on a limb though and say the he would probably have found at least some satisfaction in them.

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[1] Shannon's A Mathematical Theory of Communication paper was published in 1948. Wikipedia tells me that the foundations of complexity theory were laid down in 1965 in a paper titled On the Computational Complexity of Algorithms, by Juris Hartmanis and Richard E. Stearns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_complexity_theor...
Do you have somewhere I can read on the Shadow Brokers' compromised staging server? I was under the impression that actual source code was released (implying a much deeper break) but seems I was wrong, as no article I could find through Google mentions a source code leak -- but none mention a staging server either.
Where did you get that crazy idea? Hyperloop has lost to maglev. Trains that go 372mph already exist in Japan and China. The hard part is to deploy the technology as part of the rail network. Meanwhile Hyperloop companies are just trying to fleece dumb money with fake prototypes.
U.S. Military to Trawl Through 350B Social Media Messages
Well, he himself said as an explanation that he couldn't audit the user data he received to ensure deletion or to ensure that it didn't fall into the wrong hands.
It felt exactly the same way to me.

> Before it's grown to your whole arm, you've vanished

I wonder about this bit though - I wasn't sure if I really had gone out that quickly, or if I talked for more time but just don't remember it.

After my operation I apparently woke in the recovery room and said some things (I heard the nurses talking about it afterwards) - but I have no recollection of it at all.

Also, you're spot on about the passage of time - when I finally woke and was actually lucid (well, fairly!), it really felt like no time had passed.
It definitely shows: in my uni I had a professor (pupil of Dijkstra) who we thought was very elitist (not so weird considering his pedigree) ; he said the world will be a bad place if we continue the bad software practices and was all for allowing (!) non engineers to make games and ‘fun things’ but not anything that actually does anything that could lose money or health if done badly. I have not spoken with him
for a while but he must be crying every night about the JS uprising.

20+ years further, I am starting to agree with many of his points.
While there is flexibility in V, there is simply not enough leeway there for hyperinflation -- in hyperinflation you typically get an increase of prices by a factor of 1000000 or more. There's no way V can increase by that much. Consider salaries, for example. You can pay people daily instead of every two or four weeks, but that only gives you a factor 10 or ~20 (depending on what your baseline is). To get a factor of 1000 in the velocity of money, you'd have to give people their paycheck every 5 minutes or so and they'd have to immediately spend it. Getting to 1000000 is physically impossible.

So hyperinflation can only happen when there's something that keeps injecting more money into the system, typically a combination of bank loans and government spending.

Of course, the root cause of the hyperinflation isn't either of those things but some underlying economic problem (e.g. war reparations and Ruhr occupation in the case of the Weimar republic hyperinflation, a totally botched land reform in the case of the Zimbabwe hyperinflation).

But the point is that if there's nothing that keeps injecting money into the system, the hyperinflation necessarily comes to a screeching halt.

Edit: Of course there's a psychological aspect to it as well. Most cases of hyperinflation have a runup of very high inflation, and them some inflection point where things really take off. I've never read a really good study of what precisely causes these inflection points. I imagine it's some kind of policy change that is enabled by those psychological aspects. Whatever it is, the hyperinflation doesn't last long after those inflection points because that's when it becomes really obvious that things can't continue that way and the injection of money must stop.
id argue that the bose app was only really useful for updating firmware, noise cancellation level could be adjusted on the device and it didnt really do much of anything else last time i used it

the mobius is different though but only slightly, all the sound modes etc are switchable on the device its only the head tracking setup that really needs the app

(by the way im not complaining, anyone with my spotify username can know what ive been listening to and it doesnt bother me one bit)
The bank would be paid interest on the loan. By VC I was just trying to put it in analogous terms. Basically, rather than judging whether the loan will be paid off based on the company’s past income/assets/etc the lender tries to determine whether it would be paid off by judging the company’s future chances of success.
whoa

Wasn't this the plot of the podcast turned TV series Homecoming?

activate a memory, take medicine, suppress memory

rinse and repeat and having cured your PTSD the army can send you back to the war.
I'd be lying if I said "no". My clients were all plaintiffs' firms, and sometimes paying me wasn't a top priority. But after a while, I learned the best times to invoice. Such as, not within a month before the end of a quarter.

Edit: That being when partners got their distributions.
I’ve seen another report that said children reduce happiness if you are poor and increase it if you are rich. I guess the rich can afford to outsource some of the parental responsibilities.
I used to buy it half for the adds - this was one of the few places you could find that stuff.

Edit: Actually, I remember buying the digital logic books on page 144, probably not from this issue.
Public understanding of maternal death is wrong
Indians can refer to spiced tea as "masala chai", but I almost always just heard "chai" - I guess that's the way it's so often prepared that the spices are implied?
>> We tested whether deep sedation could impair emotional memory reconsolidation in 50 human participants.

A study on 50 people doesn't sound like it has the statistical power to predict anything in the general population.
> Humans are actually very adaptable to all sorts of climates. They've lived in the arctic and in the Saharah.

Lived? Yes. Thrived? Not so much.
Rental cars are frequent targets, so much so that rental car companies remove exterior distinguishing characteristics like labels and license plate frames.
Table Inheritance: What's It Good For?
Engineering is not about building robust structures. It can be applied towards that goal but that's it; an engineer takes specifications and constraints and solves the problem within these bounds.

An important part of an engineer that the article fails to mention is the use of the tools of applied mathematics.
If you use an RDBMS and you normalize your database, you are closer to an engineer than someone who can only handle NoSQL.
Well, it didn't work closer to the places where coffee is grown in India. ;)

Coffee is still the default choice in those parts in most cases, though it's a rather different form usually made with Robusta beans (as well as Arabica) and chicory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_filter_coffee
> Enthalpy is basically the relationship between volume, pressure and temperature

I appreciate the non-technical approach to the subject, but this is false. Enthalpy is an energy, it accounts for both internal energy (heat) and work.
i was using an iphone app at the time that didn't provide the functionality.
When I was running my own software business, we needed one pervasively for cashflow management. They're rather difficult for small businesses to secure from traditional financial institutions in the US, especially post financial crisis, and the international character of my business didn't make access easier.

The initial limit most banks floated to me was 10% of top-line revenue, but once they heard what topline revenue was (low to mid 6 figures), they generally suggested withdrawing the application and getting a credit card issued instead. I believe this is primarily because they thought it was unprofitable to underwrite the line of credit rather than an early denial for probable credit risk.

I ended up with ~$200k available on credit cards but couldn't get a line of credit through a traditional lender. Since I needed one, I ended up getting it through OnDeck, which charged 36% APRs. While I was not thrilled about that number, at all, it protected me from having to raid family finances to support the business several times.

(This product theoretically exists in Japan, too, but is extremely hard to access for SMBs without hard collateral like real estate to lend against.)
“Even at the peak of the bear market, exchanges attempted to charge anywhere between $20,000 and $250,000; and those were the low-level ones.” (listing fees)
Do you think you would benefit from having a low fee/interest line of credit available where you could get funds if necessary when clients don’t pay/pay late?
I had the same experience. I was really surprised about my 4 month+ patterns. I am quite self reflective, but I didn’t see any of those patterns by simply observing my mind.
Factoring is the way to not die when doing consultancy for gov clients in my country; they pay so slow (we had invoices unpaid for over 6 months). So credit and factoring together kept us successful over the years.
For a property thief to net $84 would require taking $400+ worth of property and creating as much worth of damage in the process.
> The thousands of companies that just block EU citizens rather than comply seems to suggest that they feel the cost is prohibitive.

They block EU because they deem compliance not worth the effort (now), usually because they get more than enough from their US markets. This doesn't mean the costs are prohibitive. Thousands more companies didn't block EU citizens. Some companies (notably news sites) even started to offer a superior product to EU citizens (e.g. plaintext news).

Also, even with those blocking EU or shutting down, nothing of importance is lost. These companies have competitors that are less abusive, who do fine.
The PRC is just the current government of China, and Taiwan does claim to be part of a single China including the mainland.
Very practical move!

I think few other legacy platforms Java(JDK), JS(NodeJS), Ruby etc. also in need of this kind of refactoring exercise and removing the old cruft.
* Above all else we need energy innovation:

https://www.reddit.com/user/thisisbillgates/comments/auosel/...
I've only been under once, and it was the strangest thing: I had an out-of-body experience. When I woke up, it was like I had two sets of "memories" (for lack of a better word): one was nothing (like you describe), and the other was the OBE. I presume that I wouldn't have been able to notice the span "nothing" (because it didn't contain any time or space references as I can tell) at all if there wasn't a sort of parallel overlay of the OBE.

By the way, this hasn't led to me drawing any particular conclusions about the nature of reality or consciousness. I didn't find it useful to hold a particular set of beliefs about these things before the event, and that didn't change afterwards. If anything, it just presents more questions.
Less death is attributable to software engineering, but certainly more harm could be attributed to it. What happens to our species if you engineer the perfect algorithm for controlling the attention of a whole people group, then use it to stimulate their most base emotions?
By your definition, anyone who is a full stack developer is actually a software engineer.

To be honest any decent dev is interchangeable between positions in a corporation, its simply better for your career.

I can create whole systems from ground to top, from design through backend and frontend with infrastructure and orchestration. Can i call myself an Engineer then ?..
An embedded web server would take care of that. And you'd not need an App, besides it would also work for people without smartphones.
I guess I'm not really understanding your question.

In order to legally do business and report on your taxes (in washington state for example) you need to register your entity as a business with the state -- in the form of a business license.

I only used the phrase "web based business" assuming you have no physical property (retail) or employees which add additional licensing requirements and more complexity.
I used it for both. I also had a couple business credit cards, as backup. The interest rates were much higher, however. For me, business growth mainly meant buying more gear, and improving my server room, network, and so on.
Depends on how random the group is and how much confidence you want out of such study.
Oh yes, such a "great" model :

- Overly complex fuel chain that actually makes the waste issue worse.

- Inability to keep the know-how for more than a few decades and corruption resulting in the loss of ability to build new reactors without big flaws (note that Japan seems to have the same issue).

- Inability of planning ahead for even a few decades resulting in new reactors not being built fast enough to compensate for the planned retirement of old reactors, with the most likely consequence : keeping old reactors running until one of them melts down.

- Inability to set up long term waste storage.
I’d expect that it’s less about outsourcing responsibility and more to do with the financial pressure caused by having children.
As money finances is the factor used to separate the two groups.