skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Mostly, what we need is more real competition and less focus on monopoly platforms as the only kind of "success" in this market.

Platforms are inherently monopolistic. Network effect is key.

The most popular platforms have more users that provide support, because most support for software is done for free by experts in their spare time.

The most popular platforms also are more in demand for jobs. So, future practitioners learn the most on demand platforms increasing the number of users of that platform.

And the point of the parent comment, once a small platform becomes popular it abandons its small users to move to the more profitable enterprise layer leaving many people without access to the tool that they have spend time promoting, learning and supporting.

It does not work.
> The scp protocol is outdated, inflexible and not readily fixed. We recommend the use of more modern protocols like sftp and rsync for file transfer instead. [1]

> From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]:

> deprecated
adj.

> Said of a program or feature that is considered obsolescent and in the
process of being phased out, usually in favor of a specified replacement.
[..]

[1] https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-8.0
During a hurricane ("when people are dying"), which pricing model do you think keeps fuel re-suppliers taking on the associated risk to move gas in to the areas that most need it?
That is not true. They've been working on a new OpenCL compiler. You can see commits from Jesse Natalie in here, they're one of the D3D12 engineers at MS working on mesa and contributing code. This is fully free-standing and is not related to hypervisor support at all.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/kusma/mesa/-/commits/msclc-d3...
I don’t think you’re an agent, but I do think you’re astroturfing.
How hard did google really try, though?
> with a severe flu season this year and just watch the bodies pile up.

There is no evidence of this and you are continually creating worst-case scenarios.

Please stop.
What does "adv area" mean?
Why would you need to create parallel construction when the process of finding out Ulbricht's identity was painstakingly simple after basic utilizing basic OSINT?

He posted stupid things in very public and monitored places and it only took a little research in the right places to put the pieces together. The economics of the parallel construction theory are simply untenable. Anyone can search for keywords on Shroomery and other forums. It's grunt work and loads easier than actual hacking.
Hi - we're seeing quite a bit of interest in faasd, so I was happy to do this talk and show off a bit about why we built it and who it's for.

TLDR - there are use-cases that make this more compelling - but OpenFaaS on K8s is still the premium, and recommended production stack for many users.

For the slides - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gHPPARYsXhtVYTEzUO31sXE8QKS...

For GitHub - https://github.com/openfaas/faasd
Don't oversell them. Batteries as they are today are much too expensive to cover all needs. You need a way to store weeks of power consumption for large areas. Batteries are too capital intensive for that. They can take the role of peaker plants, but they are currently unsuited for storing energy for dark, windstill winter weeks. For that other technology, for example Power-to-Gas is needed currently.
Yeah, that was my biggest challenge, since people were coming from an already free (but broken) product, they needed to see it work before they would pay for it.
Apple's calender, email client and messaging app don't generate revenue, they're loss leaders. There's no reason for them to block competitors to those apps.
If your passing through a NAT, you can whitelist your own IP.

something like:
fail2ban-client set addignoreip x.x.x.x
or
fail2ban-client set addignoreregex hostname.com
He's been talking about this a lot - the (lack of) communication and debate in the science community.

People interested in truth invite criticism: "Please give me contrary evidence! Show me I'm wrong!"
Coal plants kill more people each year during normal operation than Chernobyl, 3 Mile, and Fukushima killed over all time.

"In 2008 the World Health Organization (WHO) and other organizations calculated that coal particulates pollution cause approximately one million deaths annually across the world"

"Long-term death estimates range from up to 4,000 (per the 2005 and 2006 conclusions of a joint consortium of the United Nations) for the most exposed people of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, to 16,000 in total for all those exposed on the entire continent of Europe, with figures as high as 60,000 when including the relatively minor effects around the globe."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_and_environmental_impac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_di...
Sorry about this, as it's an old argument that everyone here knows, but I wish Nintendo would stop making systems and just focus on their games on competing platforms. They do it for the money. So if I want to have the next Zelda, Mario/MK, DK I have to pay the 300 cost for the system first, then the price of the game ($60 on release day?) I mean, I get it from their perspective. Every Nintendo I purchase the number of games I buy for it seem to drip closer and closer to Nintendo only titles, essentially making it so my favorites really cost about $135 each. (Z/M/MK/DK + 299). I suppose that price is still worth it - not really - but what's killing me is this new thing they're doing where they just kinda stretch a title out for 9 years between the AAA releases. I don't consider a bunch of ports from DS style Zelda games as one of the titles I would buy.
I don't understand how you can look at the world and honestly think the US is closer to collapse then the EU. Also what world do you live in where the EU is doing better then most of the world? Half the EU countries are in the top 20 deaths / pop.
Very cool. Just curious, if you're using this for your homelab, what method are you using to connect to upstream servers? Just forwarding ports?
Insightful. When DDG hits critical mass and investors expect greater returns, or if they ever go public, there will be immense pressure to collect/store user data. It's too valuable to pass up.
I have one from the release year and still use it so you might get ten years out of it, too. The game selection/portability/travelworthiness is hard to top.
But he did most of that work on Gear VR (Snapdragon 805 when it first came out for the Galaxy Note 4) and Go (Snapdragon 821), long before Qualcomm started sinking so much stuff into the SOC (Snapdragon 835). My understanding with his involvement on Quest 1 was that he was primarily concerned with the PC streaming. His role since November is "Consulting CTO", which I basically take to mean "on call for questions as needed". Was he even invovled with Quest 2 beyond stuff ported from Quest 1?

All I'm saying is that there is a path through which everything Carmack said could be true, and also the latest hardware doesn't really use what he built.
Then I wonder what if someone trolls Godaddy by searching many names.
We really did start NavHere as just a service to solve our own problem, and later thought it could help others after seeing all the complaints on the GoDaddy support forum.

It was quite the adrenaline rush getting our first few signups, but then it was so sad seeing it not get traction. We learned a lot though!
Are you actually trying to use an ill-informed rant by a mid-tier comedian as the primary support for your argument? Seriously?
I wonder if they have any logarithms that would attack this vulnerability? Someone could write a script to simply search several times for 1000's of names and bankrupt godaddy...
Nobody in their right mind will use `shared_ptr` in this context. It will be `string_view` in and out with lifetime management left as an exercise to the programmer.
Dont move the goal posts. We have BLM protesting police brutality using... brutality? Kinda hypocritical no?
The interview, discussion, involving Eric Weinstein and Wolfram was insightful in regards to how Wolfram dismisses and treats others.

"Stephen Wolfram & Eric Weinstein: The Nature of Mathematical Reality" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI0AZ4Y4Ip4
"Even" DS Games is not really applicable anymore really.

Games for consoles tend to follow the same cycle every time. They get cheaper as the current console gets older, then once the new Gen starts, they get really cheap and once you're about one to two generations removed, they get more expensive again.

It has been the DS's time to get more expensive for a while.
PSP has also started to get more expensive, though not remotely as much as DS games, since the DS was more popular.
When users are used to this (getting redirected to a archived copy when the site is down/not available) and when this trial baloon has been proved to work, Cloudflare will replace archive.org with their own infrastructure. This is the common game plan.
Yes, yes, and yes. Your point?
more effective contact tracing.
corporations != people

The press does it's fair share, but you're wrong. Don't be afraid of change. If something isn't working; we should fix it.
> Maybe not an issue if you trust the machine you're copying to/from.

Maybe you shouldn't. After all, the remote machine doesn't have root on your machine. Even if you are root on the remote machine, how can you know the server isn't compromised? You can't.
We actually licensed SmartSVN, which was a life saver for its version tree display. For most operations, we tended to use the command line nevertheless.
Not sure where the money would come from (other than backhand "take this content off") but yes, it would very well be seen as a move to limit the information - and keep those social media bubbles going
> I keep seeing justifications like that and it makes me want to puke. First of all: The total number of victims is unknown and it is still rising. Even for Chernobyl.

The total number of victims was unknown for Chernobyl. We didn't know what the impact on cancer rates would be. But it isn't the 1980s anymore. We can compare the rates of cancer and other radiation related illnesses among the people who experienced Chernobyl and the general population. The radiation exposure due to Fukushima and 3 Mile Island was insufficient to cause adverse health effects. Yes, we do know the impact of these failures.

3 Mile Island took $1 billion to clean up not 10 billion. The exclusion zones around Chernobyl and Fukushima represent greater economic tolls, but the latter has since been lifted. By comparison, what is your cost estimate to build 3 weeks of energy storage in the US?

Sure, wind and solar could work if there's a scientific breakthrough that makes energy storage extremely cheap and scalable by several orders of magnitude. But until that scientific breakthrough in storage happens, nuclear and renewables aren't even playing the same game.
DDG has been doing a ton of billboards in Utah. Anyone seeing that elsewhere?
How Did MTV Become the ‘Ridiculousness’ Network?
Show HN: Extra-fuzzy history searching with Mnem
It will persist until civil unrest reaches unsustainable levels. Who knows when that will be and what they may entail.
Damn capitalism is a bitch
People are afraid of having no energy, they think the sun is too weak to provide that energy and so we must burn things like coal, gas, oil, uranium whatever, see detritus reply as an example.
Note that the comment you're replying to is not talking about the dangers of nuclear power, but about the spirit of centralization vs diy hacking. I don't think the amount of vitriol in your comment is appropriate.
Words preserved against a day of fear: Remembering Joseph Brodsky
The Wii U eShop sold DS games with a variety of different display options: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCV8Y3lEPr0
That doesn’t really address my comment, at all.

These sort of strawman accusations of parroting propaganda are so bizarre. I don’t think I’ve read a single article or book by Greenpeace in my life. I genuinely have no idea what you are referring to.
Sitchin Is Wrong
> Can you imagine a successful doctor or a business owner being seriously offended because someone on the Internet called them a bad word?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Chiropractic_Associati... : a journalist questioning some of the "alternative medicine" claims of chiropractors got them so offended they tried to sue him into silence.

https://nypost.com/2019/12/31/alex-jones-to-pay-100k-in-sand... : as a father, would you describe the fathers of the Sandy Hook victims as "insecure"?
Your patience in (re-)explaining this constraint to everyone in this thread who thinks you don't know your way around standard Unix tools is impressive. :-)
That's not how natural dynamic systems work. There is a level of stability (some optimal level of forest) that the natural system wants to have, and it will naturally burn away excess if the people were not present. Much of the fires this year were caused by lightening (nature).

> Plus I don’t see how this is strictly a California problem

Indeed it is not just a California problem. Believe it or not, there are other places in the country that do more controlled burns and manage fires better. The US Southeast burns nearly 2x the acreage as California on an annual basis.
Yes, it will be impossible to change. It will prevent states from issuing national clarifications to patent law on software patents for example. And the European Parliament won't be the legislator on patent law, as the EU is not member of the EPC.
both your links actually say the following:

1. yucca mountain can not sustain a million years due to strong seismic activity

2. onkalo stores the waste in iron that is probably corrosion prone

well no matter the waste is a problem and humans can't handle it, because money is the problem. as long as somebody can make it cheaper the cheapest option is always used which probably can harm people.

nuclear technology was NEVER the problem, people were. even the safest plan is still unsafe, because people and money.
fukushima, failed because of money and people. tschernobyl failed because of money and people.

and money will be even a bigger issue when there are cheaper technologies. also no nuclear plant is emission free, even most construction emissions are already pretty high and lots of studies talk so nicely about that, but undervalue most of that by a high margin.
As a business they absolutely are not going to stay in the CDN lane as a primary.

Akamai has $3b in sales and an $18b market cap.

Cloudflare has $348m in sales and an $10.8b market cap.

Akamai is their maximum ceiling if they focus primarily on the CDN segment. Cloudflare is rapidly approaching their valuation ceiling if they stick to CDN as their core (and they'd have to start killing Akamai just to get there; the CDN business is increasingly a slower growth segment in the larger cloud industry).

Companies all around them in the cloud are growing faster, yet few are more important than Cloudflare. Zero question Cloudflare will continue to aggressively branch out, leveraging their critical positioning. In the not-so-distant future CDN will not be the center of their business. CDN is and will remain a springboard for them, a gateway drug, milk at the back of the grocery store.
It's funny, I've never seen a dev team that really deeply internalized security without someone embedded who was an expert. It's just too hard, too easy to make a mistake.

I don't think these tools are the answer though, they make it easy for CISOs to look good, driving down the number, but is it real security?

You really need experts thinking about the security of your app. Ideally someone who thinks like a hacker.
> The sun is a giant, free nuclear fusion plant in the sky. We can capture 1/5th of its output per square meter. For free!

Are going to clean solar panels/mirrors for free?

> Bahawalpur is desert terrain , having high dust count, therefore, the efficiency of panels were reduced by 40%. It required 30 people to clean panels with 15 days to restore the panels back to their full capacity, which reduced production of installed 100MW plant to below 18 MW

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaid-e-Azam_Solar_Park#Operat...
Yes. Free speech has its consequences as one can use this to suppress someone else that they don't like and completely silence them because of other reasons. It is now far worse online than ever before.

> My knee jerk reaction to defend free speech has certainly been dampened by the efficacy of disinformation campaigns in the West.

These disinformation and smear tactics is indeed mostly driven by almost every group in the political spectrum but certainly used by the extremes on both sides. In the online side of things, we shouldn't believe everything we see or hear these things on the internet because now: text, images, sound, video, livestreams and now historical archives can be faked and replaced by AI tools.

The worst part is: Everyone is now doing it, even the established media companies.
One of the specific targets of the modular reactors that are now getting approval are these cost issues. If you build one reactor a year it will be big, bespoke, and incredibly overpriced. If you build a hundred modular reactors every year the cost will drop significantly.
From the blog post, an image of the checkbox: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/J42AtNZv8xNcyQPPefVywiAGEh...
The problem is also that in order to generically define functors, one needs higher-kinded types. The Haskell/Scala code on the Wikipedia page is not translatable to say, Java.
DeTeXt – iOS 14 app that can find LaTeX commands from drawn symbols
Hey all, this is my first app, built using SwiftUI, Combine, CoreML and PencilKit. I hope some of you find this useful:)

For those curious, the symbol classifier is a Mobilenetv2 model trained on the Detexify training data.
An article by one of the parties about themselves cannot possibly be "balanced".
The fuel in fact doesn't come from the Sun, but from other stars that went super nova before the solar system was formed. Normal fusion in stars in not hot enough to produce such heavy elements.
Not a big deal but, it was actually a bug in relx that caused it to be included (accidentally copying the erts dir from the symlink/copy in the _build/<profile>/rel/<relname>/ dir instead of from the unpacked tarball generated by systools when doing the final assembly), not `include_src`, that option only applies to the Erlang applications and not the runtime.
Just to let you know, I oped a Reddit sub for solvespace:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SolveSpace/

It's fairly new, so currently has very little traffic. But if you've got good questions, can give good answers, or have interesting projects to share it would be great to have you subscribe.
This would be a lot faster and simpler using memory techniques...
Though I doubt that doing this would be improving focus.
Parasites and crooks keep pushing software patents. Why can't there be a stronger push against them?
The function may be a good example, but this blog post doesn't really do a good job at explaining it, at least not to people unfamiliar with Rust (which I assume it's aimed at). If I understood correctly, if you assign the lifetime 'a (or 'x, 'l, whatever) to all parameters, you tell the compiler that they all have the same lifetime? And if you wanted to have different lifetimes, you could use 'a and 'b? But the article doesn't explicitly mention that, so you could end up thinking that 'a is some kind of a magical constant that you have to use...
I'd love to know more about how heavy elements got from the sun into the interior of our planet and then back out to near the surface again. Where can I learn about this process?
Yes, I've noticed this too... Many people have a visceral reaction to high hourly rates and never actually compare it to the value delivered. I think it's for a couple of reasons:

1) The average person gets paid $27/hour. Even the average software dev gets only ~$50/hour. Since many people interact with people getting paid around this amount, they see high rates as greedy/outrageous. Less likely to get this reaction from clients that are used to interacting with other high pay/skilled work. If you give them a flat rate, they get imagine you’re putting in more hours.

2) If they don't have extensive experience working in the space, I think there's a belief that someone cheaper will deliver the same value.. because they don't understand the variation in skill among those in the same field. Especially in a field like software development, and the client comes from a field that's more structured and slower changing (which is most fields).

There's also a delivery risk that could increase the bill substantially.. but it seems to me that there's more to the reaction than just analyzing the risk and value.
I've read many online claims from people who have said this about their first time in VR. Some even say the effect even carried over with them into the real world after leaving VR. You should give it a whirl!
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Different article about the same book discussed here 3 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24471641
Make IoT Devices Certifiably Safe and Secure
It's certainly related. In very general terms, I would say splitting a Rails app into multiple engines is the same pattern as umbrella applications.

However, there are more interesting specifics here about things like all engines sharing a database, but having exclusive ownership of tables, as well as splitting HTTP routing over multiple engines etc.
https://www.deccanherald.com/city/top-bengaluru-stories/no-b...
What employees say about making diversity work
Making collective decisions to allocate resources to support needs that markets will not, or cannot, do is precisely why governments exist.

Governments that are democratically accountable to the people are far more likely to create outcomes that support collective social needs than are business owners who are accountable to no one.

The fact that the United States does such a poor job of this is an indictment of poor governance, and lack of democratic accountability, than a weakness of the principle of government in general. Other countries do far better at this--note the universal availability of rated masks in places like Korea and Japan from day one of the pandemic--and there is a reason the US is ranked 22nd, and falling, for public corruption.[0]

[0] https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2018/results/usa
The patient died because of bad IT. The affected software was citrix I think.
I had this happen to me with instantdomainsearch.com, which is owned by GoDaddy, I believe.
Converting people accustomed to a free service that was already integrated into their DNS wasn't very easy even with a free trial and only $9/yr cost.
They want more or less government spending ?
They accept that the structure of the family will change ? Example, families with more than two parents (that is a real possibility due to overpopulation).
They want less or more police ? Reform the prison system (even dissolve it), maybe ?
What are their views on immigration ? Multiculturalism ?
Should we tax the wealthy more or less ?

Of course, there are different political ideologies. It's not just a popularity contest.
Revng: LLVM libFuzzer for closed-source binaries
Please, add [pdf] to the title.
I am looking at https://gumroad.com/features/pricing -> how is this different from setting up my own shopify website for eBook. I am doing this today with $0.30 + 3% per transaction. Does Gumroad have any exclusivity? I am sure they have a bigger reach than my website and love their business model -- this is very fair. btw, my website is www.thenextinnings.com and the eBook is on sale at $2.99 I have enough details about the book and you can buy if you like the storyline. thanks for the tips!