skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pro-blockchain (but not POW) ... and not really as they currently exist. I see a future with UBI, and better taxation of wealthy baked INTO the crypto so that equality is a bit more fair, and everything functions more "automated" so less bureacracy.

However, I've been wondering lately what happens in a future where the grid is destroyed by a sun storm? Say the power grids get knocked off for 21 months (I read this is a very possible scenario with a big sun flare), as well as a lot of satellites.

If we move a lot of the world's monetary systems/value to blockchain, how do we use blockchain with no internet or electricity?
Actually it's because the valuation is insane. They pull like $140MM per year and someone values that at $5B.
The funny thing is Telegram just ran in to the issue where the 32bit user id column was about to overflow but overnight it went from 32bit to 64bit. No decades of waiting and hacks. Just goes to show how hard it is to make any kind of change without a central authority.
Vulnerablities in Microsoft DNS server [pdf]
Should a news source be optimizing for engagement, or for accuracy in communicating facts? I understand it's a business, but it's analogous to a bakery that labels all its goods as its best-selling items, only to confuse and disappoint the buyer when they open the box and find something different inside. It may sell that product that time, but it goes against the purpose of the organization as a whole, and doesn't seem like a sustainable practice.
I’ve been hearing for decades about how great and cheap prefab homes are, so when I recently started looking I to adding a second home on my lot (~800sq ft or so), I looked into it.

What I found was very disappointing - costs were the same or higher when compared to a custom unit built in-place, and the options for style, layout, and size were much less.

There is some advantage in speed, but at this size it’s a matter of a few months difference- not enough for the trade offs.
I think the comma made it sound sarcastic where a period would’ve made it clearer you were agreeing.
Well, one thing to keep in mind while reading this is that in Japan, house turnover is unusually high. In the sense that often (or at least much more than in US), a family will tear down and construct a new home when buying a property.

So in such an environment, innovative / different construction techniques are much more testable and able to be experimented with. And when the costs are being compared against full build, the cost of an even expensive prefab unit is not so bad.
Sigstore: Non-profit software signing and transparency
Cyberdeck Running on Apple Silicon, Though an A12 Not an M1
Let's Build a Graphics Card
Why, though? No one signs up for GCP because they want to be completely independent of Google products. Judging it based on non-Google DBs is (IMO, anyway) judging it on criteria that are irrelevant to its actual value proposition.
> Everyone else sloppily copied the Toyota manufacturing system without understanding the fundamental mindset is what makes it work not the secondary processes that enable that mindset. So they got a bunch of technical jargon and bs and none of the benifits because they failed to incorporate the culture that made it successful.

Not true, just because they cannot deliver on the same results as Toyota has doesn't mean its been a failure on their part. Having spent a large part of my career in the Auto Industry, QA/QC is very hard and most FAANG types will never understand the difficulty of shipping Hardware and assume eveything is as easy as software while negating that most apps that shipped are buggy pieces of crap, that also end up in Hardware in cars-- I personally handled the BMW ECU recall and then went back to VW to handle DieselGate, both which were software related issues with DIRE consequences. Prior to that my role was focused on the TAKATA at BMW for their airbag recall, which was way more straight forward as it was hardware only.

With that said, Toyota isn't perfect by any stretch of imagination, just look at Prius chat to get an idea of what their hybrid program (designed in California) resulted when it met with the older exec Japanese bigwig class. It's quite abysmal in certain ways, luckily just like Tesla the owners are true diehards and love their cars and have made repairs and modifications to keep them on the road. And CA is once again facing a massive catalytic converter thefts, especially in the bay area, that may take more off the road and itno junk yards.

With that said, I can sum up Toyota with the following: they're (by thier own admission) a boring and reliable car company that got gets more right than wrong, but are hardly perfect despite what Six Sigma-Lean course on Kaizen may have forced you/me/anyone in the Industry else to believe.

I'm a fan and own(ed) several Toyotas throughout the years, but mainly due to their work in the 90s and early 2000s, modern Toyota is showing its age and arrogance with its refusal to jump onboard with EV and cling to ICE designs which is already causing a great deal of issues; hybrid technology has already been max capacity and with less design inputs due to forced standardization across all platforms they won't have a radical improvement to compete with EV. They can't seem the break the ~50 MPG mark they did in 2004 with their 2nd gen Prius, which was ground breaking at the time but is entirely absurd in market shifting more and more toward EV, specifically Tesla due to their Supercharger networks.

Also, a part of them died when they put a Supra bade on a Z3 chassis, I don't care about it much as I think the LFA was what the Supra was supposed to be but never delivered that single F1 race win, but it was a sad day to see how far the mighty had fallen.
Twitch started from Justin.tv, so it was not really about videogames originally.

But, if you think about how professional sports is and could foresee the rise of e-sports...
Go to settings, all settings, program tuning and on the first option there press 11111 and a diagnostic screen will show HDMI settings.
Yeah, vim is the exact opposite of user-friendly-app [1] but it pays off in the long term with efficiency dividends.

[1] http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads...
> What complexity?

What is a wl_registry_listener and why do I need it? What is a simple XGetImage() equivalent on Wayland? On Xlib function names at least give you an idea about what they are supposed to be doing.

> Also, how often do you write gui apps without any framework?

As soon as you have a Toolkit you don't need Wayland anymore. Windows then are just additional nodes in the object tree. There was even a demonstration of GTK applications running in a framebuffer without X11 way before Wayland even existed. If Wayland can only be used sanely with toolkits it indeed is completely pointless.
From other comments previously, apparently your phone will only connect over ipv6 and then the ISP will manage forwarding your request over a shared ipv4 address. So yeah, it would look like many people on the same address. Thats pretty common globally. When ever I use my phone internet to connect to sites that use IP bans I find my self banned from most irc channels and other sites that I have never visited before.
Why would I pay someone hundreds of dollars to build something that I don’t know how to maintain, when Zapier can do the same thing for free or $20/mo?
It's never ipv6 only. There is an ipv4 address too. Not sure how that works, but ipv6-test.com shows both versions of addresses.
Ask HN: How do you handle contractor email addresses?
We've had to scale pretty quickly and have brought onboard outsourced contractors for support.

Right now we've just used their personal email accounts for invitations to Slack, Zendesk etc.

It's showing some pretty serious limitations. Hard to make services like Zendesk not spew data to email no matter how many settings you frob, etc.

We'd like to have email accounts that we manage for the contractors, but we don't really want them to be able to send email from our domain.

How does your company handle this? Dedicated subdomain for contractors? Completely separate Google Apps domain for contractors? Something else I'm missing? Thanks!
Out of interest, how do you compare/store in a map? Do you convert to a string, or a [4]byte array (for IPv4), or some other comparable/hashable type?
TIL Azure bought out Citus, missed the HN headline on that one...
This is my takeaway. There is a huge incentive for the media to make things more sensational or dramatic because it drives clicks and views.

I might also argue that online news drives this more so than print - with print you tend to buy the paper based on the totality of their reporting and reputation versus a zero-cost click of a headline on your screen.
Yep. Terraform + Ansible or Puppet is the way to go.
What do you mean by major issue? You still have to do those things, but not sure what the issue is you're thinking of.
Agreed, GCP EOL is one of the few things that would piss me off enough to leave Gsuite and the rest of Google's services.
Meh. This is the narrative of Marx and Foucault, and one I think is demonstrably false.

For multiple counter-examples, see pretty much everything on https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news
Unfortunately, the more people comment without having read the articles, simply reading into the title, the more of a dumpster fire the threads themselves become. I wish we could replace the rule against accusing people of not having read the article with a rule not to comment in a thread unless you have read the article.
It’s fundamentally possible to have both. Although, yes, it’s very tempting to sacrifice one for the other, once you start to optimize.
They have one time payments now
We could pay Zapier a few hundred dollars per month or hire 5 full-time devs, it is an easy choice.
Aluminum planes also bend visibly if you're sitting in a rear aisle.
In the modern era, your LIRs request address blocks from the RIR and your RIR requests them from IANA. The LIRs are local to you, ISPs, data centre companies, outfits like that, and they might be for-profit companies, government agencies, anything. The RIR is for your entire region (so in your case ARIN is for roughly North America, which means the US, Canada, Mexico, a bunch of small places in the Atlantic or Carribean) and in most cases these are some sort of non-profit where all the LIRs for the region pay a membership fee and agree its policies in their mutual interest.

For IPv4 IANA eventually exhausted its supply of address blocks in 2011, when APNIC requested two more. That triggered their planned final distribution of one block to each of the five RIRs.

So, this chart is a distortion in the sense that nobody said "OK, Timor-Leste gets 4096 addresses" in some smoke filled room - at some point an LIR in Timor-Leste asked for a /20 maybe they're an ISP there or something, they got that from APNIC (the RIR for Asia Pacific) and APNIC in turn got their addresses from IANA as I explained above.

Each RIR gets to decide its own policies, most of them have a policy which says if you require IPv4 addresses today (a) you may just not get any, because they are exhausted and (b) if you can get addresses you might have to pay somebody else to release them and meet some qualifications to get those now-free addresses (but you can cut a deal so you're not paying for addresses somebody else ends up getting). They also tend to have a policy which demands you take IPv6 addresses, just to underscore that your correct way forward is not to hope that mathematicians discover more integers that were down the back of the sofa, but to just use IPv6 which has enough addresses for everybody.

IPv6 addresses are distributed exactly the same way, except they are of course very far from being exhausted because there are so many more of them and we've understood the "shape" of networks better this time.
This surprised me.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_...
Everything is ok as per latest status https://ocistatus.oraclecloud.com
Or a modern hdmi cable as they have ethernet?
Shower + bathtub style is unacceptable for traditional Japanese lifestyle. All people on family take a bath everyday after a shower. They shares same bath water on a day because replacing water on a bath every time is huge waste of water and energy.

It's fine for single person who don't take a bath but just a shower, but it seems to not majority.

Most Japanese hates shower/bathtub + toilet style because it seems to completely nonsense, small space is relatively not a problem. While bathing, why should we see toilet and sniff toilet smell? Also toilet paper and cloths wets by bath. It's more problem for a family because Japanese house very rarely has multiple shower rooms.
>>> My school basically expected you’d double major in math or CS, so they often didn’t teach a lot of the fundamental techniques you needed, assuming you knew it already.

Indeed, it was some decades ago, but at my college, there was substantial overlap between the requirements for the math and physics majors, to the point where just a few additional credits got you both. And it was a time when CS was still being taught in math departments at some colleges, so there were courses that you could take for either CS or math credit.

I actually came from the other direction, started as a math major and added physics, which I then studied in grad school.

In my view the affinity between physics and programming (and electronics) is no accident. Physics was computational before the computer age. We ran out of problems that could be solved in "closed" form, early in the 20th century. The Manhattan Project employed a staff of "computers" who performed calculations on mechanical calculators and punch card machines. Scientific programming predates the software industry. Today, virtually every scientific instrument is computerized, every experiment is automated. My PhD thesis experiment ran on thousands of lines of code.

Every physics student learned to program. What they didn't do is pay attention to turning us necessarily into good programmers. Since I didn't take any CS courses, I had to pick that stuff up on my own, and have continued working on improving my programming technique to this day.
I totally agree with the views of the author. That is basically why I started to build an ORM that does not include a query builder. Best of both worlds.

Now the design was far from easy, and keeping things reasonably simple without abstracting the SQL part was my biggest challenge. And this would not have been possible without the template-string tagging feature of modern JS, so it wouldn't be doable for many other languages.

https://github.com/Seb-C/kiss-orm
Technically that's not twitter's fault. The OP link points to the fourth tweet in the thread, so twitter loads the page with that tweet centered.

This is the actual start of the thread:
https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1369705219110498304
17K isn't a whole lot when you have to assign one to the pope and every single cardinal (jk)
I now know at least 6 people including someone I work with who got banned for this exact reason even though they absolutely did not do what the automated systems are claiming.

The appeals process had the same result for them and there is no clear route/method to try and even remotely figure out what's going on. I totally get this guys frustration. Short of legal action, I do not know what anyone can legitimately do to appeal an accusation that they are not being given any clarity about.

I would say Google needs to sort this stuff out but like I'm pretty sure a ton of people already said that and it's clear the kafkaesque system has no reason to fix itself.
I do running GraalVM, Node.JS projects on OCI and Digital Assistant for chatbot
Windows does it, but "too far" is actually closer to 500 pixels, not "a few". You'll certainly never run into it in normal use. I actually find it useful because I can refer to two places in the same document without losing my scroll position (I don't think that's its intended purpose, but it works).
Understood, this helped me a lot, thank you. I definitely had confusion around DFA/NFA being a _type of regex engine implementation_ and see now why that is incorrect.

I updated the article[0] so as to hopefully not confuse others, really appreciate you taking the time to respond to me again, and sorry for not understanding your earlier comment :)

[0] https://github.com/hexops/devlog/commit/0159b510556c2943cbca...
I've been saying this for years. The government should actively be hacking corporations, state, and local governments. Then disclosing the vulnerability privately to these organizations. This levels up our offensive capabilities while securing us at the same time.
> Recycling for electronics rate is like 30%.
Do you imagine it's 100% for iPhones because Apple is such a special snowflake?

No.

The rate is vastly higher than the 30% for other electronics, not because Apple is a snowflake, but because they have a recycling program.

1. Apple themselves recycle the phones, unlike most electronics manufacturers. You can just drop off your old devices when you buy a new one.

2. Apple gives credit, even for devices that are at the end of their life and going to be recycled.

It turns out that if you invest in making something very easy, and worth people’s while, they will do it.
Octoprint was my printer interface until I accidentally destroyed my serial interface. Now I’m using the Ethernet interface. It’s not as nice but I can print still.
I wouldn't discard a more traditional error like memory corruption or some buffer overflow
That is a very, very different situation - it's highly likely that the values from that column are generally being read out into numeric-ish typed variables that default to using 64 bits of storage anyways. Additionally, they can actually see and potentially review all of the code using that value and adjust it as necessary.

The central authority doesn't hurt but this is really an apples to elephants comparison.
https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/text-summarization-using...
Acknowledging reality isn’t the same as acceptance.
> RSS as a Facebook alternative

You mean that you stopped using facebook as an RSS alternative, right?
Google puts them at only 57%

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-...
Does anyone have an example in the wild of a news site that injects something in to the clipboard on copy?
Your objection is nonsensical.

Seahorses have an unusual strategy for gestation, but they have a gender binary. As indeed they must, to reproduce through meiosis.
and free databases too forever
You wouldn't accept a TV that just took 15 seconds to respond to a button push. Why accept this?
Don't even buy a TV. Monitors are strictly better.
I wish more website can support ipv6 natively, but there's not a lot of pressure to do that in US as there are just so many ipv4 addresses lying around.
I've never used MS Office for more than a few minutes at a time, but I always thought the ribbon was great design for discoverability. The part that seems like a fail to me is that it takes up a lot of vertical space and came out at a time when the screens many users had were getting shorter. A 14" 16:9 laptop needs every bit of vertical space optimized.

On a 9:16 or 10:16 portrait display, it would be perfect, but an element like that should probably be on the side for a newer laptop. A very quick google image search suggests that isn't a configuration option.
Ask HN: What is your email aliases strategy/purpose?
I have recently created a fastmail account at "mydomain.dev" with the goal of transitioning from Gmail to a domain that I can control in case of lockout. I would like to use aliases to help with privacy and email management.

What is your strategy and reasons for creating aliases for different places you have to share your email? Or is this an attractive nuisance and not worth the mental effort of keeping track?

I considered creating a few aliases, e.g. med@mydomain for medical interactions, shopping@mydomain for e.g. walmart/amazon, social@domain for twitter/fb etc, but I don't quite see how this will help me though, beyond complicating things. But I am still intuitively hesitant to share my primary alias (name@domain) with just anyone.

I also can't quite see how to use it to reduce spam unless I create a unique alias for every website, which is not reasonable.

So have you used email aliases/subdomains and if so how did you use it and how did it help you?
If your keyboard doesn't have a way to send Home and End then it's broken.
Is it not the goal of a headline to engage?
And far worse in privacy.
If I can, I'll read the article... unless it's paywalled (ugh, Medium, NYT, Bloomberg) and the other comments (not always in that order) before commenting.

I try not to just post hot-takes, sometimes I let emotions get the better of me.

If it's a security disaster of the day... I'll do my standard reminder that it doesn't have to be this way, a clue about capability based security, and keep it all in one comment/reply. Sometimes others agree with me, like its obvious, which gives me hope... other times... no hope.

Then I watch the threads, reply in the tree, because that's how I learn when it turns out I was wrong.
UniFi: https://store.ui.com/collections/unifi-network-routing-switc...

Microtik has several small switches with 2, 4, or 8 SFP+ 10Gbps ports for slightly less than the Ubiquiti gear, but I’ve also been happy with Ubiquiti in general so I’d go that route.

You can use copper DAC cables directly for short runs (in a rack or on a desk) which are cheap on EBay or for a little more money get SFP+ twisted pair or fiber adapters (and fiber is a lot cheaper than you probably worry as well).
It's useful, in some limited cases, to consider sex as binary.

But this,

> If sex is "Mostly" binary, it isn't binary.

is still true.
The other way of looking at it is that the companies haven't entrenched a monopoly yet.
I don't quite understand why you need the messy/unsafe string interning, instead of a simple (mutex-protected) map with the m[string(b)] optimization that avoids allocations, or josharian's sync.Pool approach? https://commaok.xyz/post/intern-strings/
I never liked (or even understood) the concept of a smart tv.

“Do I want to replace my player hardware every time I get a new display?”

The answer was a definite no.

I ended up buying shiny new 65” 4K HDR Smart TV only because they didn’t sell it in dumb version.

I duct taped it’s Ethernet port, and shielded it from wifi. (Just an image... but never let it connect).

It’s only a display for Kodi and a gaming pc.

... And they lived happily ever after, without ever thinking about updates. End of story.

(Pre-answers for the usual questions: I banished TV from my life in 1998. This “display” never seen an antenna. I read news papers, actual physical copies arriving in mail. And hacker news, ofc. I’m only ~30 years old. And yes it is a way, and I don’t see how TV is missing from my life)
This doesn't always work. Some devices use a hardcoded DNS IP. Like Chromecast. Luckily LG doesn't do this.
Cause you could never have exploits in functional...ever.
> Another point is that you can’t expect to get that caliber of TV for that price without ads.

Just want to understand the argument. Not using any smart tv at the moment, maybe in the future, we'll see.

So we should expect ads on expensive TVs now? USD 1500 is very expensive for me at least. I was expecting something good but cheaper to be subsidized by ads, not the really expensive ones.
Killing the SAT Means Hurting Minorities
I wonder if you're approaching him from the other culture of mathematics.

https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/2cultures.pdf
Would you be more trusting of NYT (or other news sites) if they pledged not to look at engagement stats?