skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using AWS WAF;
https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/implementations/aws-waf-sec...

Some bespoke WAF automation setups. You can mix in ML in this to add anomaly detection.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/automatically-updating...
Becoming more so agreeable, I wish people wouldnt rally behind reductive character philosophies like Myers Briggs or sun signs
You are either out of disk space or something is using all swap space (~64GB).
> in general the properties of being generative and recursive are considered to be unique to human language.

For a scholar to make that claim, he or she would have to have studied the bulk of other languages. Since there are more than 70,000 species of vertebrates alone, none of whose language has been deciphered by humans, and we know that other types of animals e.g. honeybees rely on language to function, it is difficult to imagine any scholar qualified to make the claim.

Moreover, 99% of humans wouldn't even understand the statement, even after you'd explained what you mean by "generative" and "recursive". So I'm not sure what your statement is, other than yet another example of a human giving himself or herself a justification for the belief that humans are superior to animals, achieved through the mental gymnastic of a truism wrapped up in an academic paper.
What I will write probably wont be a popular opinion, but I completly disagree that we enter post scarcity.

Post scarcity perhaps exists in some richest parts of selected countries (California? Hamburg?), but even in those places it is often just an illusion. Roads still have potholes and there are homeless on streets. Schools still struggle with supplies. There are also people who work, but whose work does not allow them to get a real place to live, or health services. Then there are other things that are difficult to measure: for example overworking, or drug addiction, which perhaps dont mean scarcity of goods, but seem to be connected with scarcity of services or scarcity of quality of life.

People from the rich countries consume more natural resources than the few billion in developing, or third world countries. What happens now is already completely unsustainable and causes multiple problems: global warming, loss of natural habitats, dying species...

There are billions of people in Africa or India, who dont consume even 10% of the resources that an average American consumes - but they sure as hell would prefer to get to that level.

I imagine that it is easy to make comments about post scarcity when you live in some mega-rich bubble in California, but this is not true even for USA, not to mention the rest of the world.

People in poor countries dont have cars YET and they sure want to drive those big trucks that drink a lot of fuel per mile. But where will this fuel come from? And where does the CO2 go?

And in my opinion inflation is a result of incompetence, of planned policy by central banks to make the rich richer, while the rest to gets poorer. As much as I dont like bitcoin (multiple reasons, economical, unsustainable in real use..), it is right with one thing: the supply is known in advance and finite. We currently live in a time where money is printed out of thin air to save the too-big-to-fail banks and to pump the stockmarket prices, so rich dont lose anything. All of this at the expense of the middle class. The poor already dont have anything. And the middle class is shrinking: from one side those are the only ones who pay taxes, from other, those are the only ones who dont have real tools to defend against inflation.

I mean, of course you will write that one can gamble on the stockmarket, but weren't saving accounts supposed to be the thing for those who are risk averse? I mean, if someone from middle class gambles and loses you will write that it is their own fault. If they dont gamble - and put money on a savings account (so lose money) - also their own fault.

Currently the central banks create inflation higher than interest on saving accounts, what in my opinion is a very big problem. Since the central banks entered the cycle of bailing out bubbles, more and more money will be created: new and new bubbles will have to be bailed out.. and as I said, at expense of the middle class. Who just get screwed by inflation.
>I think it's a side-effect of the desire to create a name for your project that is both short and unique.

Wheel Of Fortune has taught us that vowels are expensive, so best not have any in your name.
Twitter and TikTok Are Losing the War Against Covid Disinformation
Artwork Spans Fifty Years of Display Technology
https://archive.is/pCc2S
They created a place where people who value the food can get it at a price less than the value they place on it. So, first, they created consumer surplus. That is real wealth creation. Second, we know that it cost them less to produce the pizza than the price they charge. That is, they created producer surplus. Both are wealth created when none existed before.

This is why free transactions in a market economy make everyone wealthier.

PS: Please spare me a lecture about externalities. Formally, an externality exists when Bob's preferences are decreasing in Alice's consumption. Since economics does not place any restrictions on preferences other than being complete, non-satiated, and convex, they are a possibility. But, a society in which everyone is able to veto anyone's consumption on the basis of some externality is a nightmare (e.g., can't allow other people to eat meat, can't allow other people to have children, can't allow other people to enjoy the sunshine etc).
Sigh. Criminal penalties for copyright.

I love how ridiculous our IP laws are.
> So what about tech, where workers seem to have high leverage?

Do they?

In my experience, most software engineers do experience a better work/life balance, especially at startups where they have more leverage. Even so, we can do better.
You can also buy TIPS and Series I Savings Bonds.
What would you propose it be?

The copyright holder needs to prove that the other party is breaking the law.
I don't share all values with people I have as companions and dont screen for that either, its an adaptation to never bring it up as well

But I’ll probably be knowledgeable about the value system

We’re on to love languages now too right
Message received... time to mortgage my house to buy more Doge! :-P
> whether the Mars thing happens

Plus $2.9B for the moon contract doesn't hurt either. It will go back into developing more starship features.
What do the Court of Claims cases say? Were those cases dismissed?
Let me offer another aspect to this kind of thinking.

The poor is having increased living standard overtime: toilets, electricity, AC, refrigerator, TV, etc. etc. Why? Because the rich invests in technology and the poor takes benefit from technical improvements and successful business.

We are living in a sad state where everyone is benefiting from technical progress but people think only the rich is benefiting.
This is a thing offered by some banks, they will pay you straight away and take a cut for the convenience/risk.
>> You don't need to go read the novels to try to find it.

There was one novel, by Robert A. Heinlein. I once declared to a circle of fellow Warhammer players that it's one of my favourite Sci Fi books ever and someone accused me of being a fascist (and Ted). Years later I related the story on HN and I was taken to task by an HN user who accused me of lying about how much I like Starship Troopers because I misremembered a detail in it, I think about voting rights.

Morale of the story: sometimes I think the internet is stupid.
"If they have more money, they are willing to pay more."

That's like totally wrong. Goods provide some value to the customer, and that determines what they are willing to pay for it. If I wake up a millionaire tomorrow, that doesn't mean I am suddenly willing to spend $500 the same haircut that was $50 yesterday.
PBS Eons has a great video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvfR3XLXPvw

Convergent evolution is very useful.
Here is the text in question:

> "The ACIC will use the new powers outlined in the Bill to focus efforts on understanding and gathering
intelligence on TSOC groups who are using encrypted communication platforms to conceal their
criminal activities . These platforms are used almost exclusively by SOC groups and are developed
specifically to obscure the identities of the involved criminal entities and enable avoidance of
detection by law enforcement. They enable the user to communicate within closed networks to
facilitate highly sophisticated criminal activity. ACIC observation shows there is no legitimate reason
for a law-abiding member of the community to own or use an encrypted communication platform."

[Note: SOC is Serious and Organized Crime]
I guess they could alternatively bet on Gnome; they certainly don't have a history of arbitrarily deprecating large swaths of API and functionality while spending most of their time chasing the dream of replicating whatever "new shiny" Microsoft has come up with. /s ;P

As for Qt, they have continuously pushed their OSS branch down on their priorities over time, with the latest (that I know of) round of changes from last year being that if you want to download official Qt binaries--ones that are at all supported by them--you have to have a Qt account; offline installers and LTS access are now commercial-only.

This is way worse than Flutter; and, as much as I hate hate hate Google in general and am a very big complainer about their shut downs of everything, Flutter feels more like Android or Chrome--both of which I feel will be safe for quite a while, at least as supported products if not ones that are mostly open source--than like all the other long list of things Google has killed (which certainly has included developer tooling).
Some of the issues pointed out with the fanciful scenario described are why I enjoy investing in an income focused portfolio aside from my tax advantaged accounts (401k/IRA). Lots of great monthly payers on the market now. Over time you can build a diversified and steady income stream that doesn’t have the hassle of owning property or doing a side hustle such as vending machines.
Your body really isn't meant to stay horizontal 23+ hours/day, and that's what many elderly people are reduced to after a bad fall.

Bed sores develop very quickly, and an elderly immune system often simply isn't equipped to fight them. Gangrene and amputations are extremely common in end-of-life care.
Some past threads:

The Wrong Abstraction (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23739596 - July 2020 (240 comments)

The Wrong Abstraction (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17578714 - July 2018 (207 comments)

The Wrong Abstraction - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11032296 - Feb 2016 (119 comments)

Recovering from the wrong abstraction (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10127289 - Aug 2015 (11 comments)
We're have never worked less on average, but that average is heavily skewed by a small percentage of workers.
The default text communication application on the phone silently converts messages into a proprietary format, and it only barely interoperates with SMS. If it came with some kind of proprietary voice system that only barely worked with Android phones, people would be out with pitchforks.

I don't have a problem with apps doing proprietary things. I do have a problem with the default app pushing you and everyone you know to buy an iPhone so you don't have to deal with the screwed up SMS integration. They're abusing their prevalence in the marketplace by making their messaging incompatible with others.

What if Facebook made a phone OS and made the default messaging app WhatsAppPlus, which can only be accessed from a Facebook phone, would that not be an issue?
Thanks for the link. I'm thinking along the same lines and might derive some inspiration from Haxe on how to evolve python syntax to support features like GADT and FP that can be easily transpiled to other languages.

It looks like Haxe was designed from day 1 to be transpiler friendly, whereas I'm trying to leverage python's popularity and language ecosystem to achieve similar goals.

Sticking to a strict subset of python has the advantage that all the scripts are directly executable by the python interpreter. If we add some features (say implemented pattern matching similar to OCaml), we lose that.

Perhaps some macros/library features can bridge that gap. Or over time, python evolves to be more like OCaml.
There are level effects though, a non rich person will have way more struggle on just about anything and less time to find solutions, and also a lot less slack given to her to deal with the problems. CK made a nice bit about that, poor people get fined for being at negative $5 while rich people gather nice returns on savings.
Well, for one thing, those prices can't be serious.
“The O(logn)ion is a growing, highly efficient, exquisite technology news source” might not be entirely serious.
This is exactly what the Pytest framework in Python does. It's very, very convenient.
Humanity needs to put a few hundred billion dollars a year into basic medical research, and in particular, in anti-aging research.

It could lead to advances that save orders of magnitude more lives, and add orders of magnitude more disability-free life years, than everything that is achieved by all the spending on healthcare taking place right now worldwide.
PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) is the standard procedure for duplicating DNA, which is a critical step to many different protocols, including COVID tests (real-time PCR) and DNA sequencing. This device is a miniaturized thermo cycler, which heats up and cools down a sample in a small test tube according to a pre-programmed sequence. Heating/cooling cycles are necessary for the enzymes involved in PCR to do their jobs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22107260 (WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines, Jan 2020, 96 comments)
The better way to think about this is how much a CPU costs.

To build a modern CPU takes a factory and supply chain that costs multiple billions of dollars. It is a piece of cutting edge technology, sitting at the pinnacle of human engineering achievement. No matter how you rich you get individually, it's not actually possible to through individual effort to buy a CPU which is substantially better then the same thing any consumer can buy.

...so as a result, we sell them to everyone for less then cost of a few weeks groceries.
Can you elaborate on "the guy" I'm making up? Because the Birds Aren't Real movement is quite far-reaching; I've seen posters around Canadian and U.S. cities; their cult seems to extend throughout Canada and the U.S. at least.

Their posters typically just say "Birds aren't real" with a link to the website - https://birdsarentreal.com/

A cash grab no doubt (the merch is front-and-centre after all), but their claims are presented with the closest thing to a "straight face" one can muster online.
I've been working for 30 years, at a dozen companies. There is a difference in the intensity of the workers that roughly correlates to the size of the company. The larger the company, the lower the intensity overall. But in all cases, I seldom if ever saw employees who weren't actually working a full day's work or more. These were all technology companies, ranging from 5 - 3,000 employees, and it was a fact that if people didn't pull their weight overall, the company wouldn't last long.

I am certain the apocryphal slacker is out there, otherwise we'd not have the parody. From my perspective at least, people had to produce, regardless of what they were expected to deliver. If they didn't, they eventually got moved out.
it does not have to be either/or. some people can live a low-impact, low-cost post-scarcity lifestyle, while others can aim/aspire for more abundance
The people who do have the power to decide that, the FBI in the case of live children and the Department of the Treasury in the case of ransomware, have in fact decided that these payments are illegal for precisely these reasons. Kidnap for ransom is effectively no more in the states, due to the FBI's high rate of solving these cases. If crimes using computers were taken seriously, we might have a chance at actually reducing their rate as well.
The US medical residency was mostly created by William Halsted, a very influential surgeon. He was partly responsible for this culture of sleep deprivation, insisting that residents be on-call 24/7.

He also was a serious cocaine addict who injected it every day. It's of course an oversimplified historical narrative, but at least part of the reason medicine does things this way is the traditions were set up by someone out of his mind on coke.
they can't enforce that if the employer is in another country, unless there are agreements between those countries.

the employer can't employ you in their country, and they can't be forced to set up a business entity in yours.

the only thing your country could do is to prevent you from doing business with foreign companies as an individual contractor, but that would be counterproductive as it would not get you the employment they want you to have
At the risk of being pedantic, some used cars have appreciated (mildly) over the past year due to shortages of new cars. Also, some older enthusiast cars can appreciate if you know what to look for, have a place to store them, and know enough about them to either work on them yourself or not get ripped off.
Not Latin, or Sanskrit?

Actually, more like Akkadian (the dialect that the /Code of Hammurabi/ is written in) - it isn't the first, but is the best-preserved set of rules and instructions - while not a program (as the Law isn't exactly a monoid[1] of linear instructions that mutate state) it could be used the basis for one.

[1] I hope I'm using the term correctly...
Of all of the personality traits I have attempted to change over the years, my introversion has remained the most stubborn. It's a shame, too. I can briefly emulate extraversion, at an enormous cost of mental energy and feel like a dog walking on its hind legs. Nor do I seem to be able to extract the purported benefits of it. And the list of approaches I have exhausted is, in retrospect, more than a little shocking. It's the one area where "fake it until you make it" seems to have failed me utterly.
There really should have been some kind of SLA clause in the contract that specifies the university gets back X% of their quarterly/yearly payment for each false positive they catch.

Gives the vendor a good reason to avoid false positives, and the university a good reason to look for them.
Only if you're using "proper tired" to mean exhausted. Restlessness does not only come from not being tired yet. It's entirely possible to be very very tired and yet restless. It happens to toddlers, it happens to older people, it happens to people with all sorts of medical conditions. Trying to keep going until exhaustion outweighs all those other issues is really hard on the body and mind. Waking up with tingling extremities, stressed muscles and joints, or even permanent nerve damage because you slept in a bad position isn't so great either.

Maybe tiredness, relaxation, and ability to sleep are all in sync for you. Good for you. I remember when I could have said the same, but I never made the mistake of assuming that my experience was everyone else's.
There's also no tech union. And even though many tech workers are at the top of the working class bubble, it's still working class. You have more in common with someone working minimum wage than the executive who writes himself a bonus and hoards equity.
Biden declares state of emergency over fuel cyber-attack
It's a lot better than traditional encyclopedias on these matters though, as there's revision history and talk pages readily available. Go look up native American history/history of the US in a pre 80s encyclopedia for example.
Back when I was there, DO was the best of both world. I'd work remotely 95% of the time, with most of my teammates remote. Then I could visit the NYC office multiple times a year and hangout in the random desks of the offices, or just hangout with the "onsite" people (who were also very much almost remote and showing up in the office for fun, it seems). Never had a problem with feeling out of touch due to being remote: everything that gets done is online, from my experience. It was maybe 55% remote but the _experience_ was more like if the company was fully remote.
A very fair point. It was my impression that the bloating of the court eunech population was considered a sign of imperial decline. If the empire wasn't expanding, advancement was mostly available through court intrigue, and drama was internal to the class that was jockeying for the emperor's favour.

In one sense, it's like the bloating of university administrations over the last couple decades in the U.S. as Pell grants unleashed a torrent of money at post-secondary education. The easiest way to soak up the excess was to bloat the bureaucracy trying to spend it.
I’m not a lawyer or a scholar on these matters, so can you help point me to the Court of Claims you mean? The only one I can find no longer exists:
“The Court of Claims was a federal court that heard claims against the United States government. It was established in 1855, renamed in 1948 to the United States Court of Claims (67 Stat. 226), and abolished in 1982.”
It's not easy to find income streams that A) don't require a lot of sweat equity and b) have a decent cap rate (or whatever metric you want to use). If you hunt MLS for months you might find a property in an area that makes sense for you that you can renovate and maybe cash flow as a rental or AirBnB but there are a lot of people doing that as their full time job and there non-zero risk to leveraging yourself to take advantage these sort of opportunities. Also if you do it now you'll face record housing prices and construction costs.
> "Oh, sure, he was killed, but he was walking down the wrong street at the wrong time of day. He should have known better! Let's start an educational initiative to make sure other people know what streets they shouldn't walk down at night!"

There's nothing inherently wrong with that. It is a fact that violence often can be avoided. This doesn't absolve the criminals of their guilt but it does mean people can learn to recognize danger signs and avoid many instances of violence. When faced with warning signs that a situation is developing, a lot of people feel like something is a bit off but they proceed anyway because they think they're just being paranoid.

Punishing people after the fact does nearly nothing to help victims. It doesn't undo any trauma, it doesn't bring the dead back. Avoiding violence is always the best option if possible.
> that avoids known "gotchas" like aforementioned raw spinach

Serious question: what is wrong with raw spinach because I eat it all the time
There’s a lot more to it than that. Amsterdam has a very large local port and a ton of tourism. This part of southern Italy has been subsidized for at least a decade. If this was Venice or Cinque Terre I’d be all over it but it’s unlikely that these areas will succeed in the same way unless something huge changes.
The submitted article was "EFF questions methodology behind Dartmouth cheating allegations [pdf]" (https://www.eff.org/files/2021/04/14/fire_and_eff_letter_to_...). It is worth reading, but since this story hadn't had a significant discussion on HN yet, we changed the URL to an article that gives more background.
Ironic how they are criticizing Google on an AMP page
I've changed the URL to that article. Thanks!
I agree that tabs initially addressed the problem of bad window managers. But nowadays I use Tree Style Tab which incorporates hierarchy and the context of related tabs in a way that I don't think an external window manager could handle anywhere near as well.