skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s utility for different deployments per branch and rollbacks when you’re connected to a headless CMS (Contentful, Wordpress API) and managing more complex statically-generated web sites.
The use of LaTeX should not and does not prevent the advancement of machine intelligence, just as the stubborn use of blackboards and chalk by mathematicians as prime communication devices. Now, when machines get intelligent enough they’ll figure out LaTeX and more.

Keep in mind that one goal of TeX was to make it fairly easy for a human to write it down. Another goal is for another human to be able to understand that source quite well. Now picture both tasks with semantics-rich MathML.
Put some Spectre code in a npm or RPM package, then wait to see what pops up.

This is fucking scary. If it's a package used by Wordpress you could end-up with 30% of the web open to an attack.
Ask HN: Breaking into low-level programming work with o a CS degree?
*Title should say "...without a CS degree"

When I attended college, I was undecided for a year and a half. Then I majored in Design and my career took a less artsy path as I was more drawn to making websites. I took my own "personal bootcamp"- read books and tutorials on web programming.

I now have several years of experience as a web developer, but I fear that I would pigeonhole myself in websites and mobile apps (not really interested in that) if I never have an engineering-based background. Especially because there are several fields in low-level programming I'd like to go into that emphasize math and engineering.

My first hunch was to read books on low level programing and brush up CS theory and then apply to entry level or internships (if possible) as a "self made student"- an analogue to a college student taking undergraduate classes.

But I fear that my made up credentials might not matter. This doesn't fare well for people that change their minds about their career.

As another caveat, I'm unemployed. I have all the time in the world but living like a broke college student because I've used up my severance and emergency savings. So I'm broke as a college student, but without the internship opportunities of a college student. Worst of both worlds.

I don't know if I'm asking for the impossible but I want to get at least a grip of where I should even begin looking for a trial of low-level programming work. Any ideas of where to start?

I want to make it clear I am not looking for work at Google or Facebook. AMD, ARM and NVIDIA are more my speed. Since I can't get an internship at a place like this then something as "internship-like" as possible. Something that gives you a chance to try something you haven't done before committing to a full time job.
Very nice work! Takes the best features from other routers while staying minimal.
There is actually. The US today has a CO2 emission per capita that's twice the CO2 emission per capita of Germany (not really a good example too). You'd also note that electric cars are also probably not a great solution because their total footprint is still around 15 to 30% of the footprint of a gasoline car (https://www.theicct.org/publications/EV-battery-manufacturin...) and we can't really afford that.
The 90s simpler? You try learning a new technology on YouTube in the 90s or reading blogs etc. Students have it so easy these days
> Does anyone have a curated version of PyPI?

https://python.libhunt.com/ Not exactly curation but it does have rated libs for lots of categories.
To be clear, it downloads the source code, and then “cargo doc” builds them from the source.
France made a policy decision to reduce Nuclear from 75% of 50%, largely a populist response to Fukushima, and the perception that Nuclear is dangerous, not green, etc.. It was a political decision, not practical. We'll see if they actually are able to meet that goal, but most signs point to no. Regardless, my point is France, a G7 nation got to 75% nuclear. Fear is the main reason other countries can't.
I got curious and googled "bed jumping porn" -- the phrase is a SEO hit, but I didn't find anything that matches the description in the article. So maybe David Farrier's destiny is to accidentally kindle interest in a new genre. Heisenberg's principal at its finest
Assange violated the terms of his asylum.

This is only true if you take what the government of Ecuador has claimed at face value.

The reality is that Latin American governments often make deceptive and untrue claims to support activities that benefit them.

In this case, Ecuador made several unsubstantiated claims ostensibly designed to humiliate Assange, which fall short of any reasonable attempt to prove that Assange violated the terms of his asylum.
This. I sent them some vector art that was already better than 99.9% of figures in quality review articles, and they made it better.

Nobody I know that has signed up for this service has regretted it for one second. (Contrast with Dropbox for Business, which is a horrifying overengineered pile of shit that actively subtracts value)

I get the impression that the engineer types are missing the point. Maybe it’s possible to produce a better product more cheaply and satisfy a greater segment of this market. But others have been trying that for 50 years and somehow biorender is the rising star in their market.

Perhaps, and I’m just spitballing here, perhaps the haters might benefit from reviewing a Hacker News Classic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

It’s not about the difficulty, or the effort, or the novelty of a service. It’s the value to a market that is willing to pay and underserved. Over and over again...
I think learning to give up unnecessary comforts is going to be an important part of the development of the human species. If we are every going to mature and learn to be stewards of this earth instead of stripping it for short term gain, we're going to have to change our outlooks.

So I believe mass change must be a necessity no matter how hard it is. If we don't change, we're not going to solve this problem.
Cassettes? We had CDs before the 1990s, thankyouverymuch.
I dunno, in my view this seems like the sort of thing that should show up if you are relentlessly auditing your life - surely one of the pillars you would optimize for is stability, and thinking 'hey, what happens if one of us gets laid off' or 'hey, what happens if I get pregnant' or both at the same time sort of thing. Once you've worked out what the current fires are in your life, it makes sense to work out where fires could come from and do some prevention (to torture the metaphor a bit here)
The phrase you may be looking for is “vertical market” and it’s a phrase that makes MBA types salivate. An underserved and overcapitalized vertical market can support amazing profits.
> except it was a little harder to get a hold of people

I certainly don't miss using the yellow pages to find a store or service, or looking on a paper map to find where the street is.
Make, as 'wbl mentioned, already existed; VSCode w/ Liveshare is probably new; rest of those are solutions to problems that didn't even exist in 90s, and were only introduced in the 2000s.
Next time use "Show HN:" instead of "[Show HN]" to enable a little of magic in the site, like appearing in the "show" tab.

(Wait a few days and repost. A few repost are ok here, but don't abuse the repost option.)

Make the "First million calls per month are free" more visible. It looks like a unmeaningful comment above de $29 plan, until you read it. (Don't expect users to read your text.) Perhaps use two columns, one for the "free" plan and one for the "$29" plan.
Air Force Maj. Harold Hering and the forbidden question that cost him his career
Fun fact, the need for NSA exploits to be installed on an “enemy” (target) device had nothing to do with how they were leaked in this case.

And stuff kept in vaults can be leaked too.

Sure the two things are different but the dynamics are the same. Information wants to be free, and it leaks.

Your argument can be turned around as well. The NSA tools were meant for use by a small specialized team under strict controls. Whereas key escrow has been put forward as a solution that would allow any podunk sheriff in any jurisdiction to apply for access to decrypt private information anywhere... virtually guaranteeing compromise with poor security practices, unlike what would be expected for the NSA tools.
To be honest, it is hard not to joke about the name, but I'll not do that.
Looks interesting. Thanks for sharing.
They're being downvoted for making up their own pet legal theories that go against settled American law. Sycophantically justifying the Trump administration's attack on the press isn't "nuanced." A lot of people dislike Assange because they're upset that Clinton's emails reflected badly on her and might have contributed to her loss, or because they're upset he published documents that embarrassed the US. That's no reason to suddenly start inventing novel legal interpretations that outlaw investigative journalism.
There’s so much throwaway data in there I’d be hard pressed to believe there’s much of value. They don’t even validate the users email beyond “contains @“.
There are basically zero public restrooms there. If you need to pee, what exactly else are you supposed to do?

That's largely true in Spain as well, but nobody shits all over the sidewalks there.
This story has been developing for quite some time. This is going end badly for Bermuda, which has been trying very hard to set up a legitimate environment for crypto startups.
> IMHO objectively

I don't think that's legal, my guy.
God I hope that works
Easier to get hold of a human at a corporation. Harder to get hold of your friends when they were out of the house.
Yeah, there used to be a separation of geek stuff from social stuff. Pre- or early-internet era, computing and technical stuff was done in a room at home, or work, or a computing facility at a university. When you left that place, you still had to be sociable with the rest of the world, even if just a little bit. Most of the tech nerds I knew still had downtime and social lives.

Today, people are glued to their devices and social interaction is minimal. It's like walking around a world filled with zombies. Frankly, it's getting weird, and I increasingly don't like it. I've recently been watching some of the old Friends episodes on Netflix, and looking at how they interact at home and outside: reading newspapers, playing cards, just chatting, etc. Reminds me a lot of me in that era as well. Too many people have lost the ability for simple social interaction, and every free moment is spent glued to a screen instead of using that time for... literally anything else: contemplation, idle conversation, looking around at the world, relaxing, doing a crossword, or whatever. Today, those friends would be sitting in silence all looking at small rectangles.
yes sorry, I had a brain fart when I wrote that!
And like any other learning algorithm free-play has "real-world" information, free exploration, creativity. The vast majority of which is very slowly learning what not to do. Most times, that's all that happens.

Cultivation, when perfectly executed, provides about 50-50 what to do and not to do. Cultivation results in far faster progress. In deep learning, in reinforcement leearning, and in humans. (reinforcement algorithms are worse actually, they will simply barely make any progress at all until they see a positive example)

The problem is that this is really, really not what people want to hear. Free play, freedom to explore, ... results supposedly in happier children, more fulfilling lives, creativity, ... Except ... no it doesn't. It's an empty meaningless long string of failures slowly sapping strength until you fail, with very rare example of great success. It's spending seed corn on a lottery ticket.

This is made more difficult by the observation that, yes, eventually, if you do climb to the very top of society you'll be playing the exploration game, without any cultivation, regardless of whether you got there with exploration or cultivation.
Why do you think that it's likely that someone in Intel design meetings had thought of that if literally noone outside Intel did for many years?

It obviously wasn't obvious to the very, very many people worldwide who know about execution-time attacks and other sidechannel leakage, as it took more than 10 years of almost every chip worldwide being vulnerable until it was noticed. It's not as if some 2016 design tradeoff suddenly enabled Meltdown. Engineers were carefully studying competitor's chip designs, and none of them noticed that flaw for more than a decade.
Increases in energy efficiency do not cause deaths.
Exploit or not, unpatched or not, having SMB accessible from the Internet --- which seems to be implied here --- is seriously stupid. MS has (reluctantly?) published most of their SMB protocol specs and the immense complexity is really disturbing. It's not a protocol I'd trust for use on anything other than a (wired) LAN where the communicating machines are already very trusting of each other.
I think it's in bad taste to voluntarily move somewhere and then complain about everything.

Keep in mind that heating efficiency can also be better than 1:1. Pulling heat from the outdoors (heat pump) and putting it inside is more efficient than making new heat (radiator, furnace).
the original question contained an unsupported assertion that the 90s were simpler: it's not a cop-out to challenge the assertion and to try to explain it.
More machines means more power to cool them. Electricity bills are a big chunk of the cost of running a datacenter.
Ha, indeed. Books, lots and lots and lots of books. Fond memories of going to Powell's periodically to get more, but not as fond memories of having to learn everything about the computer using a book.
I will! Thank you so much!
Ah you mean "hobbyists"
Yet every time I ask my web developer friends to ensure that functionality works online without JavaScript for basic things I am met with hostility.

If we were able to run without JavaScript and have basic use of websites again then these attack vectors wouldn’t be so scary.

Maybe it’s a personal failing of mine; but I don’t understand why people don’t consider JavaScript untrusted code when other vectors of running software on my machine come from a gpg-signed chain of custody.
From Apple?
I agree. But the point is that people who grew up with more resources, better connections, parents who helped them start off, etc do have better outcomes and think they are “self made”. The entire point of the article.
Parental alienation is a thing. If the mother was making it up you'd be denying the child's right to a family life with its father, and the father's right to a family life with his child.
How realistic are these attacks for every day desktop users?
My guess (interpolating from the acts of a person I knew who did a similar thing), is this whole thing, and all the marketing people he spoke to is simply one guy with a fetish who's willing to spend a few thousand dollars to get some C-list "influencers" to jump on beds and make videos.
For those subjects, Major Account Sales Strategy by Rackham is good.

Another Rackham book, SPIN Selling, is also a classic.
The headline is truncated in a context-reducing way.
It seems rare to me that software is carefully engineered and thought out in advance anymore. There's a "move fast and break things" and "worse is better" attitude where designing things carefully is largely seen as a waste of time. Why bother when there's a hundred "good enough" solutions that you can glue together and hardware is so powerful you figure that it won't matter.

What I'm saying is that there's an emergent complexity from bolting together a ton of things together in ways that work "well enough." Things that are working well out of the scope in which they were originally engineered... or things that just carry a ton of baggage with them. This creates complexity.
Luckily (or not) database join with the OPM hack is trivial.
I definitely think computers have gotten better since the '90s. Mostly because of the very real scarcity at the time. Unfortunately the last 5 years have been mostly a wash with cpu, memory, storage and gpus not getting better as before. And that seems largely true of phones and software as well.
they aren’t but this is actually quite easy. PD gets encrypted on a per user basis. to forget a record, throw away the key.
Am I the only one who's wondering how this technology will become something useful? Apart from some niche transactions and speculation I don't see anything that would encourage use. Are there any actual promising projects going on?
> On a platform level, we believe GTK should stop forcing a single stylesheet on all apps by default. Instead of apps having to opt out of this by hardcoding a stylesheet, they should use the platform stylesheet unless they opt in to something else.

This is what I take issue with as a user. A major reason why I prefer GTK is exactly because I can get a homogenous look without having to tweak every single app individually. There are definitely issues with the way this is handled (and I'm TBH still confused about squaring Qt and GTK styles), but let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
I know a number of Tencent engineers through college and past tech job. There's this game among employees on certain teams - find compromising pics your ex has sent through WeChat messaging, and put them side by side with the screenshot of your ex breaking up with you (as in "who's laughing now").

I don't think this is a political / trade issue, but rather a difference in cultural norms. It strikes me when people outside of China willingly send their most private info (including nudes & PII) to WeChat, Grindr, Tiktok, or any other Chinese apps.
I don't understand what we can't afford. Electric vehicles already have to be charged with carbon neutral electricity to reduce their emissions so it is not exactly a huge leap to expect that the electricity used to manufacture them is also carbon neutral.
Well your belief is dead wrong. Distributions are not subject to payroll taxes.
It's sad to read in the comments the overwhelming disbelief in the possibility of consumption reduction. I believe (want to believe) that most of us wouldn't actually mind to reduce our own consumption (even drastically), but we assume that "other" people won't. I might be naive but I tend to believe that actually most other people are less different from us than we think. So, let's start a discussion with our friends and relatives. Bring the subject up at the next dinner party.
A) Deterrents don't work very well, rarely work at all with desperate people, and far less with people who have mental issues.

B) if you end up in a conflict it's always better to run. It's safer for you than to escalate. In sane countries failing to run can invalidate any claim of self-defense. Thus, you'd find yourself on the hook for "armed assult".

Even if you state or country is crazy enough to have a "stand your ground" law, you are always better served by running away or de-escalating by other means.

Your ego might be hurt, but that is rarely fatal :)
Interesting read. Would make huge sense to juxtapose this with the Russian who also didn't turn the key, his consequences and life outcomes.

The not so hidden scary part is the sotto voice "it's still not resolved" part. I guess this is why the pugwash clock keeps up in the top left quadrant.
I don’t know enough to make a declaration. But I do know that she was renting the downstairs (it was a 2 unit apartment) for the past decade to the same people. Once this is a ghost house, no one will live there, thus one rental off the market. Is some demand artificially constrained?
Holy, what region are you in? That definitely wouldn't happen over here in the Seattle area, not at top tier companies or even startups that know what they are doing.
Either the machines are replaced by ones that run on electricity, or the fuel is synthesized from CO2 by a process that uses electricity (like the process of the Prometheus startup). Either way, more electricity will be needed.
> You suggest (by placing those two quotes together) that seeking happiness in a less expensive area will put people in financially precarious situations.

That may be true.

The Bay Area has expensive housing, but a lot of things cost the about the same everywhere in the country -- an iPhone, a Honda Civic, a lawnmower, a water heater, clothing, school supplies, etc.

The salaries in the Bay Area are also a lot higher than elsewhere. People spend a lot of money on housing, but all of the other stuff they buy costs a smaller portion of their income than it does in other places.
He didn’t get that much smarter to improve his test scores by as much as he did. I know plenty of people who took the test more than once, got help by going to “SAT prep” classes before school etc. and didn’t get any better. The entire point is that money and connections opens doors. I didn’t grow up poor but I did grow up in a relatively poor city. I saw the lack of opportunity when I was growing up. When I go back home now, it’s even worse. All of the “smart kids” who just so happened to be the teachers, doctors, lawyers kids moved away.
The civil service had grandfathered rights - that's not uncommon even today BT a former civil service department (well two actually) still has hold overs from that time - the extra privilege days annual leave for example.
I have to disagree. The current state of computing is a disgraceful state, squandering multiple GHz of compute power to give worse performance than much software from the 386 era. It might be marginally more featureful, but those gains don't account for the huge amount of bloat and waste. And in practice, much of the software I used in that era had was both more featureful and more powerful than the equivalents today, which have been progressively dumbed down pandering to mobile users.

Low tens of MHz and low memory required careful and thoughtful design to make optimal use of the available resources and provide an interface with minimal latency. Today, it's wasted with gleeful abandon.
TBC is not building hyperloop. There is no vaccuum tunnel with maglev/air-cushion propulsion.

This is just a tunnel. Not even the planned sled from before. A tunnel for just Teslas.
When I used to do conscious self improvement, I journaled. I simply answered the prompt: what did I do to achieve my goal today, and what can I do better?

This had the same effect as their quantitative approach: you start to see patterns.

I’d suggest: the profound enabler of change isn’t the quantitative aspect of it, it is that you’re logging data in the first place.

Our brains can’t log that much. Notepads and spreadsheets can.

Of course, quantitative va qualitative have some trade offs, but the low hanging fruit is data logging, not Excel.
I wonder when hydraulic energy storage [0] will become a reality to finally solve the storage problem for good.

[0] http://eduard-heindl.de/energy-storage/energy-storage-system...
True, so.... Only shoot the "homeless person assaulting you"... Hmm... I'm not sure that's a lot better, hehehe :)

Wouldn't it be easier to just help the homeless person to not be desperate, offer treatment, and home with TV..

(A room with a TV is a cheap way to prevent crime)