skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's quite possible in pentesting to end up hitting the wrong target unless you're careful.

Not as extreme as this case but, I've had cases where customers gave me the wrong IP address range for external work in the past, or where the customer had been told they had a dedicated server, when their web hosting company had actually put them on a shared host.
The decades of middle then old age, tired, first from scrambling to establish ourselves, then raise children, and then as they come to adulthood, we find ourselves an exhausted hollow shadow of what we had hoped to be. It’s not that people need to die so culture can evolve, it’s that we spend so much of our lifetime in decline, what we need is to give people decades or centuries of vitality. It takes so long for us to learn the basics of what others have done before us, decades in school for a short window in which to add to the frontier, its a heartbreaking waste, Longer healthy lives might mean, decades or centuries of flexible open minded thinking, centuries to learn more and become wiser, longer lives, and more robust repairable bodies put the stars and back in reach in a lifetime
If it consoles you I feel the same, daily, with how anglophones refuse to write even basic Italian, Spanish, French, or Portuguese sentences.

No matter how hard me and other non-anglophones work to pronounce and spell English words correctly, double checking and investing money in getting the right pronunciation.
The point is not to always choose boring technology. The useful concept are the innovation tokens. If you spent your innovation tokens on other stuff (org change, process change, new customer, new product), then you should at least keep the tech stable. Otherwise, feel free to invest some innovation tokens into exciting technology.
In articles where such emotional topics, e.g. the health of your baby, are discussed, I think it would be especially important to improve the reporting of statistics. Here, a scary sounding odds ratio is mentioned (children of mothers with high urine values of the plastic softeners had three times the odds to develop ADHD). Because it is directed at the general public, it seems important to also report the estimated probabilities, which are likely low for both groups of mothers. I'm not saying this because I have any form of beliefs regarding the chemicals in question, which sound awful. But I do know from experience that few people are parsing odds ratios differently from probabilities, which seems important. For both of these reasons, this should be part of the job of authors/journalists.
> which temporarily disrupted a legislative assembly

No what it did is to disrupt the certification of Biden's win, attempting to change the election results with violence, ie a coup.

> What was the potential sequence of events that could have resulted in the rioters seizing control of the government?

I didn't say it was a smart attempted coup, but even a dumb one killing the Vice President or having a massive hostage situation could do a ton of damage to the stability of our democracy.
Mushroom bags that have additives to biodegrade the plastic - https://www.shroomsupply.com/mushroom-grow-bags/biodegradabl...

Plastic like bags that are made from cassava and dissolve in water - https://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/company-makes-cassava-ba...

And also, cellophane is biodegradable too.
Those on social media are more powerful than those off it. The most obvious example is that large Twitter audiences can be monetized, whether by selling a book or asking for Patreon subscribers. That seems to imply social media is here to stay, in one form or another.

It's a bit of a "rules for rulers" paradox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs&ab_channel=CGPGr... in the sense that power structures exist independently of whether we like them or not.
Trustless prediction markets and gambling.

Trustless exchanges and lending (including tokens pegged to real world assets like the dollar or stocks).

NFTs as digital proof of ownership.
"Choose boring tech" doesn't mean you should never try something new and fun. It means you limit those new things to a few. The original article speaks of innovation tokens.
Plenty of youtube videos of a blade-off test - here's a short one [0] of an A380 Rolls Royce engine testing. That's about £9,000,000 of engine being destroyed in this (successful) test.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-8_Gnbp2JA
Duckduckgo is a competitor to Google. Its based on Yandex and Bing, two other competitors to Google.

Noone needs Facebook, it serves no valid purpose for the human race. Same with Twitter. We don't need them, and we don't need competition for them. They should go away with no replacement.

Source: was Facebook engineer. Listened to Fuckerberg make one too many all-hands speeches about engagement. Resigned several years ago.
-Current works fine.
Texas has DC ties to other grids, much like the UK does. The UK also has its own independent grid that isn't synchronized with anyone else, much like Texas (though smaller-scale because UK industry is basically dead and we generally use gas for heating).
Aaaaaah always mixing this and QF-32 :-( sorry. The book by Richard de Crespigny is a must read if you can find it. Great.
Whole site is broken, hugged to death I presume.
Surely the author of the article knows that too. But they need to sell an emotion evoking clickbait article, and quoting a few big irrelevant numbers helps with that.
> Exciting & Boring is not mutually exclusive

Yeah the confusion is caused by people meaning stable & tested when they say boring, as they find most of the stuff that excites people not suitable for production use. There's still a lot remaining though, when you filter out the unstable and untested stuff.

I strongly agree with this.
I believe the key is to solve the problems that are getting between you and your goals, not potential issues you think one day will be yours.

You can use boring tech to solve exciting problems, or use exciting tech to solve boring problems.

Personally, I find joy in just shipping stuff, so I use what I know best.

I do try out new stuff every once in a while. Some new tools stick, others don’t. But that’s just updating my tool belt, not fixing my problems.
Can Data Fix Healthcare?
Have you considered a postdoc or masters degree? It's just one year, plus they're flexible on time schedules.

Also, formal employers like public service usually consider your postdoc subject as equivalent to degree subject. And I have colleagues with chemistry and physics degrees who got the job just because they did a computer science subject.
How do you compare the value of gaming to trustless decentralised gambling or prediction markets? What about to NFT based trading cards? How about decentralised exchanges?
It would need to be many, many orders of magnitude bigger. Chicxulub was approximately 10E6 more energetic than Tsar Bomba, and it didn't even manage to kill off all life. And that barely left a dent in the surface of the planet.

Also worth noting is that bigger bombs don't scale particularly well in terms of damage. Double a bomb's size, and much of it immediately just goes to outer space. Another large part of it is reflected from the surface of the planet to go, again, to outer space. Damage at radius r ~ E^(1/5).
On the Front Page, a Wall of Grief
Reading this, my mind went straight to Donnie Darko

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/donnie_darko
Was lucky enough as a kid to receive an answer by this extremely kind person when asking for permission to modify Tux for a local LAN party flyer
Texas isn't connected to either of the two national power grids (east and west half of lower 48 states, roughly) so that their power system isn't subject to federal regulation.
I'm surprised one guy can bring in gitlab, openshift, and istio all by himself. They're not small things to setup and to migrate existing software to.

Typically how this goes, few of the existing software migrate to the new stack (it's too much work to migrate and it doesn't work as well). After the guy is gone, you can deprecate the new stack immediately and don't bother supporting it. I've seen it happen a lot.

What you don't say is how large the company is. For startups and small companies, my experience is that every generation of developers (couple years) will rewrite most of everything. That's just how things go in startup, filled by eager young folks who have no experience and build their resume. That's only possible because there isn't that much code in the first place.

Larger companies can be stuck with multiple stacks because there's too many software to migrate and no sucker to do it. Older projects are stable and have no active developers working on them, they're not going to be rearchitectured. Other departments/developers know that they can't trust the shiny new tool from your department, that's going to be deprecated next year, they don't adopt in the first place (a great example of why large companies resist changes).

It's just the state of the industry I guess.

IMO it's crazy how few people working on tools/frameworks can inflict migrations on a hundred developers/projects (thousands in larger companies), often for no benefits.

I realize this doesn't answer your question, how to help?

No idea. Would be nice to cancel projects early before they reach that stage. It's probably too late now.

What you can improve is your perception. If it makes you feel better, one pro of all this churn is that there are many more jobs, doing rewrites over and over again. It's nice to have a job in the current climate.
>The real question is does the spot price being able to go to $9,000 produce a useful market signal?

If electricity was like gas the pump would refuse to operate since your wallet is too light.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210220133950/https://mythaxis....
I'm getting what appears to be a WP error; looks like a botched update?
> Wouldn't smart businesses have done the risk analysis and done the work?

That is complicated. How do you validate costly infrastructure changes that are only testable or necessary once about every 10 to 20 years? Proving winterization for Canada or Wisconsin weather is challenging if you rarely have Canadian weather extremes.
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I think ofsted now do (at least some) inspections with no notice or one day of notice
Rust Ownership from the Hard Way
Ask HN: API layer (e.g., GraphQL) over Markdown files
Been trying to figure this out for two days and must be thinking about it incorrectly. I'd like to support the following workflow:

- write in markdown with YAML frontmatter (or similar)

- query files and frontmatter from different apps & sites through an API (ideally GraphQL)

It seems this word is divided into two segments:

1. Git-based CMS like Forestry, Grav, Netlify which allows you to source from git flat files, modify and deploy in their ecosystem as a static site

2. Headless CMS's like Contentful, Strapi, etc that expose an API layer atop their CMS database (or in the case of Hasura, atop Postgres, MySQL, etc)

There are many examples of sourcing content from a headless CMS to a static site or git-based CMS, but not vice-versa. For example, you can have a Gatsby + Contentful site deployed on Netlify, but in this case, you're sourcing front Contentful to Gatsby (which can also source from flat files / git), but you can't then fetch them from a third party app.

I already maintain my content in git as markdown, and my aim is to fetch that content (paginate, filter by frontmatter, etc) in a Nuxt app, in Webflow, on a blog (e.g., static site). I could potentially fetch the various repository's files through Git's API, but then I'd have a ton of client-side logic in each app or place I'd like to use that content.

Effectively I'm looking for how to set up a thin API layer over flat files (hosted on Git or otherwise). Like a Hasura with markdown as the source. Like a Headless CMS that can source and/or sync with flat files. (Or to set this up myself.)
>and I was never asked back to that clients site ever again.

Award for excellence in pentesting.
There's certainly more than one person involved.
Having to pay less is pretty major if you are the one doing the paying.
The party controlling Texas’s government openly opposes the use of government to solve issues like this.
The practical reality is that sharing photos of some group event with the other people at that event is easy in Facebook, and hard to imagine how to do that without some analogous service. I'm aware that many people use Facebook for other odd things but this was Facebook's original use case, and the literal source of its name, and it is still useful for that.

Even if you could come up with some alternative or even decentralised way of doing that, this doesn't change the fact that you're addressing the purpose of Facebook, rather than proving your claim that "it serves no purpose". At university (pre-Facebook) I had a friend who ran a Facebook-like server for sharing photos amongst our group of friends. That need was already there and strong enough he wrote code for it.
Intel encrypts their microcode, for example.
Data Resources for Materials Science
As a self-taught programmer, I think the level of skill doesn't matter as such. I remember gobbling up a book I found on Unix commands when I was learning shell scripting eons ago. It was a rough start as the whole thing was totally new to me. I was mainly driven by being able to accomplish what I wanted using code (I am very lazy and hated the daily manual execution of the steps). Once I had a poorly setup script working, things that propelled me forward were my need to continuously find ways to refine the code in terms of elegance, performance and brevity - the satisfaction/high of accomplishing these things was enough feedback to get me hooked.
Back then, needing to smartly manage RAM (i.e. reserve space for what you REALLY needed; manage your own requests otherwise) was done.

Now, not so much. Dev machines rarely run out of RAM anyway.
NVM Not Found?
Reminds me of the dev who deleted the production DB and all its backups thinking it was dev just to save space and lower the monthly spending.
Sorry, right, always mixing up those two. Best lessons from the book for me are:

1- meet the designers, understand the "why"s and not only the descriptive posthoc documentation

2- when you don't trust your instruments, keep following the procedures, checklists, (for this you need an excellent, trained, cold-headed team), and eventually try to reconstruct 'what aircraft you have'

3- trust the automated checklists but not too much! Crosscheck what's asked of you, with what you know of the aircraft. Since you know the 'why's you know the automated checklist system's designers probably never expected an aircraft with that much damage to keep flying...

4- there are no hall-passes for heroes. At the end De Crespigny fails his evaluation (the flight was an evaluation flight, with an instructor on board).

All around a great, great book for systems people.
Yeah but isn't one point of updating to get UI improvements?

If you install a new theme, I expect the UI of apps to change. I recall there were updates that allowed you to drag a window from the titlebar, add overlay scrollbars, get a macOS-like menu and so on.

(I might be showing my age here but I recall how excited everybody was when Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP came out, just because they looked fresher. You didn't need to force updates on people, people were excited to pay $200 to run the same apps on a fancier OS. I wonder when that changed.)
Well if you’re having a bad week or teaching a harder/slower/weirder part of the curriculum at the time or otherwise feel like you’re not on your best form it could be stressful. I don’t know how important inspections are to eg teachers’ pay or promotions but if they do matter then I think teachers would be stressed by a random inspection having an outsize impact on their careers compared to every other day
Exciting has different meanings for everyone. Do what delivers value to someone. In the end it is a people thing, not a technology thing.
I try to understand how this decision came to be and I have no idea? A standardised set of rules would surely lead to many many more pages being taking down. And why now and not last week?
Ironically, Elixir is a great example of a success largely due to being based on “boring” technology
>Is it just difficult to aggregate them?

I bookmark resources that I find interesting on reddit, HN, twitter, etc. I maintain resource lists for a few topics [0] (which includes vim). To explore blogs, see if you can find blogrolls by someone whose work you are familiar with. For example, I have this post [1] from Julia Evans bookmarked.

[0] https://learnbyexample.github.io/curated_resources/

[1] https://jvns.ca/blogroll/
Yes but if you go from 99% to 90% you increase your number of enemies 10x.
>What’s more, having for-profit prisons is a nice boost to the economy.

No, they are economically inefficient the same way slavery is inefficient or how tying HIB to employers is inefficient. By putting a "leash" on people you prevent them from doing the most productive work they could have done without the leash. Paying a ward to reduce the economic output of an individual who merely needs rehabilitation is a pure waste of money. It's a net loss for the economy.
it's not a PaaS per say but Hashicorp new product waypoint looks promising at least when it comes to deployments. A common deployment interface over several of the tools we love/and hate(docker, k8s, nomad,...) making them feel like good old heroku. The operators are probably going to keep wrestling with the underlying complexity but at least the developers won't need to add yaml dev to their CV anymore(HCL is much better in my opinion).
Try buying some FDs on the stock market for an actual lottery ticket that might pay better than startup equity ever will.
Isn't this more or less the "container ship" metaphor? Forcing everything into containers means the ship carries overhead weight and some unused space, but that overhead is offset by the standardization of everything else in the logistics process.

A plane change can be expensive, but if there's a space station that can supply all the required fuel, who cares?
So it seems it took a boring technology and made it exciting. Way to go!
i have seen airports where the security check is per gate. you don't get spikes on those because only the passengers for that particular flight will be in the queue
I agree 100%, but you also need to know which tech is going to get mainstream later on. Nobody wants to use tech which was once exciting, and now deprecated.

I took several bets with frameworks, libraries, databases and even languages during my career. Most of them worked out great. Only one time I needed to rewrite stuff because some library got deprecated. Overall it was well worth it.
Because Myanmar people lobbied for it.

The military is shooting its own people, kidnapping them in the middle of the night, and torturing them.

Over 10 protestors dead and 50+ injured, as they are using live rounds on protestors. Over 500+ disappeared or kidnapped. Protestors killed include two teenagers shot in the head, one of them a medic. They also shot at ambulance. They’ve threatened to kill doctors. Stole the covid vaccination after beating doctors trying to stop them.

Last night they shot a neighborhood watchman in my neighborhood.
Not all laptops. Regular stock Intel components, for example, have solid Linux support because Intel nowadays hire kernel developers to support them. Some even have upstream drivers before the hardware is even commercially available.
> Is this really good news, or is this just Nvidia playing both sides? To be clear, these CMP cards are still the same exact silicon that goes into GeForce and Quadro graphics cards. They don't have video outputs, cooling should be improved (for large-scale data center mining operations), and they're better tuned for efficiency. But every single GPU sold as a CMP card means one less GPU sold as a graphics card. What's perhaps worse is that while miners can still use consumer cards for mining (maybe not the upcoming RTX 3060, depending on how well Nvidia's throttling works), gamers can't use these mining cards for gaming.

> Nvidia does state that these GPUs "don't meet the specifications required of a GeForce GPU and, thus, don't impact the availability of GeForce GPUs to gamers." Frankly, that doesn't mean much. What does Nvidia do with a GPU that normally can't be sold as an RTX 3090? They bin it as a 3080, and GA102 chips that can't meet the 3080 requirements can end up in a future 3070 (or maybe a 3070 Ti). The same goes for the rest of the line. Make no mistake: These are GPUs that could have gone into a graphics card. Maybe not a reference 3060 Ti, 3070, 3080, or 3090, but we've seen TU104 chips in RTX 2060 cards, so anything is possible.

Nivida isn't risking anything.

They boost their sales now by selling mining cards knowing they won't enter the seccond hand market to compete with their new products.

They gain good PR with their mining locked 3060 cards. Gamers praise them without internalising that a number of mining cards would have been binned lower and sold, but instead an artificial restriction allows Nivida to allocate behind the scenes.
David Lynch: you don't need to suffer
Facebook runs a huge amount of different services. Some of them have value, but they are ones that people had and have other alternatives for. This doesn't mean that Facebook as a whole has value, as the whole is more evil than the sum of its parts. Anything of value will not be lost as we de-Facebook the planet.

Also, the original use case of Facebook was for Mark and his buddies to rate the attractiveness of their female classmates and share inside information on them. Despicable.
Intent is important in law and in most people's moral principles (acknowledged or not). It seems to me that going out of your way to make the things you sell easier to repair is supererogatory, but going out of your way to make the things you sell harder to repair is bad and wrong, even if two companies did those two different things and reached the same end result.
Corporations engaged in antisocial activities have a long history of feigning self-regulation and ending those efforts if they don't align. (Looking at you pharma / fossil fuels) Imo the meager achievements of these people google has been shedding, indicate that their business purpose was to whitewash google's AI ethics. It seems like they didn't expect that was what their job, and were doing it wrong.
The narrating is really annoying. Just let the guy talk, goddamn.
Smart Sticky Note Printer
Smarter, GPT-3 powered NPCs in video games
More powerful in some ways. When I deleted my Facebook account, I certainly lost a platform for communication with a few thousand friends. But I gained so much time. I regained mental energy and focus. I basically immediately gained time to study and doubled my income (which is a more useful form of power in my opinion).

From another perspective, I also think the benefits of Facebook are ephemeral. Yes, many people use these platforms right now for turning themselves into commodities; but other platforms and methods certainly exist, are longer lasting, and you don’t have to worry about a sudden ban.
Hardly any women in India are in paid employment
Love this quote: "Conceptual integrity in turn dictates that the design must proceed from one mind, or from a very small number of agreeing resonant minds"

That notion of resonant minds seems very important
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I thought this was about the Matz project at first.
The bridge between polarizing views is in the comments. Comments are the last bastion of honest discussion, and it’s why people don’t bother reading articles. A good article is one that spawns good comments, and sometimes all you need is a good headline to spur the discussion.

That’s why we have these kind of titles.