skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are few quality low-risk investments right now. Most investments with decent returns require a good deal of input to achieve (e.g. the vending machine maintenance). But there are some investments where the input is primarily some form of expertise, which means you can play to the strengths you already have.

HN loves to hate on crypto. And the average crypto bagholder will get screwed when this bull run ends. At the same time there are some fairly accessible places in this space where you can make 8-10% dollar-denominated returns without taking on significant principle risk. You just need the technical understanding to wade through the pond of ponzi shit to find the opportunities that actually make sense to you. But if you’re on HN, you probably have that know-how. So play to your strengths.
Six nines is completely doable if you have the money. Availability is more limited by cost than technical difficulty.

Also consider that availability just means "the service is still running". It may be practically unusable but still available. Always read the fine print.

(Actually their math is wrong: six nines is 31.5 seconds of downtime)
maybe it's the CIA, trying to increase hostilities between the united states and some other country.
Indeed; I mentioned that, with Vinnik as an example, in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27097212
Doesn't Plaid provide their API by taking user's online banking logins and scraping the sites? Seems like a huge risk.
where did you get this understanding?
You don't let remote systems open valve 9881.

That would be like deploying the landing gear of the airliner, because someone triggered a bug while changing the channel on the in-flight entertainment system.
I think the original use-case was delivering data for use in dashboards or other business systems, not the SCADA network in general (where you’d want write access). So, places where you might want to get read-only data from a secured system, but not allow write access. These business/reporting systems might be internet connected, hence the desire for better isolation.
Just guessing, but a 72 year old farmer from Wales probably smoked most of his life.
lean on her more. Rely on her for comfort and if she reciprocates, it will make you feel better. You and her against the world, bonnie and clyde vibes got me through a dark time in my life.
Why is it criminal? No one has to work there. Amazon is hiring at $15/hr, and there's a shortage of almost every service industry job.
Working for uber is voluntary, people can just quit.
Is that the one when the CIA got wind of a Soviet industrial espionage operation, and seeded it with a legit-looking but subtly flawed schematic, which the Soviets ended up actually building to spec, and it exploded shortly after?

That wasn't an internet trojan, fyi.
Couple of notes:
You can use a DNS updater like this one: https://github.com/timothymiller/cloudflare-ddns

The bigger problem would be if your ISP implemented CGNAT.
If you had just invested all your earnings into Bitcoin since 2010, you'd be a billionaire. Why does everyone think that retrospective advice is useful? Are there universes where the S&P500 tanked while real estate market held its value? Of course, and for varying decades this is true. But to say that no one should ever invest in anything except S&P is to argue that nothing ever new should ever be created.
This is certainly a take.

My children, one of the greatest sources of pure, unadulterated, innocent joy, are the only reason I believe there is still good in the world and thankful that this floating rock continues to revolve around the sun so I get to enjoy them. The stress of the children and the hard work is so minuscule in comparison.
Modern browsers uses multi-process, a process for each tab due to security and reliability reasons. If a single tab crashes, the all other tabs will not be crashed. In addition, unlike threads, processes are isolated from each other since they do not share the same address space, which is another line of defense. This multi-process approach could not be needed if an entire web browser, such as Firefox, was written in a memory safe language like Rust.
That's where nailers come in handy. Using a hammer is kind of like coding on an Apple II.
I have no idea why you are getting down voted; you words couldn’t be more true.

I loved it when Uber was a high-end service. I was more than happy to pay extra for the knowledge that I was guaranteed a ride.

I remember using Uber to take my girlfriend to dinner, then straight to a club and then home again while it was raining on a Saturday night. An impossibility with a cab.

It’s a pity they traded quality for volume.
I'm specifically referring to a single group/gang/operator. It doesn't mean a different operator - perhaps using the exact same ransomware software as the initial attacker - won't target them. It might exist, but I'm not aware of any list-sharing between unaffiliated operators.
I don't take it hard at all, but in all fairness its not like they advertised the required hours on the job application. You start a job, its more money than you ever made, you have finally made it and then the hours start to just pour on. I have a family its not like I can just quit so I work and then finally land another job making more money but then somehow the cycle repeats. Sounds like I just have terrible luck to land 2 of these in a row.
This is a snarky way to express a valid concern of progress and ‚democratization’ of technology in general, namely that increasing capabilities of individuals can endanger an ever larger number of people. So far we have been lucky but I’m not convinced that this (increasing power of individuals, not only diy-biology) might not turn out as being the Great Filter.
My favorite response is the standard: “At [Company] we take [X] very seriously.” Where [X] is what recently catastrophically failed because they didn’t take it seriously at all.
IIRC, the 2014 transition to BBVA (from Compass) also didn't go entirely smoothly. I had to contact support in that, and ISTR they said they were really slammed because of issues with the transition. My problem ended up being that I was withdrawing money from an ATM saying it was a "Savings Account" rather then "Checking", which used to work but stopped in the transition. Took a few weeks to figure out that was the problem though, because they were having other issues as well.
This is why the “self driving is ubers end game zealots” never made any sense to me. They’re currently exploiting people and can’t figure out how to make money doing it. And exploiting people has been a sure fire business model for the entirety of human history.

Really don’t see how robots are the answer here. They have an army of people working for peanuts already!
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I dont think verbose logs must be printing on a web page when it's public. Or is it fine?
Uber is trying to own the customer and control the demand. If the default for the customer is to start looking on Uber Eats (rather than the restaurant's own website, google, yelp., etc.) Uber can then treat the food as a commodity and capture the lion's share of the profits.
If I understood it right,

force = vector under specific coordinate system with physical source

isn't a force = vector + properties in specific coordinate system produce some kind of force-like phenomenon
In principle though, handoff errors can be reduced with better procedures, training, and technology.

Making tired people less stupid would require a fundamental breakthrough in neuroscience---and it's not for want of trying that no one has found a way to do so yet.
In a country of 330 million people, with massively global interests, you're going to have to do a lot better than rare examples.

In a country so large with so many different government agencies, entities, organizations, and interests, just about anything you can think of will have happened at some point. The question is whether it's going on at large scale, whether it's the common practice or rare.

You're trying to use one example to prove that the practice is common, when in fact that's false, it's not common it's rare. It's the exception, not the rule; which is exactly why it makes for an attention getting story.
OCaml was also my first programming language. First year uni in Brazil, 2006! Thanks to a very tough French professor.

The class hated it/him. Type errors were nothing short of terrifying. `function has type (a->(b->c)->(b->d)) but should have type (a->b->(c->b)->d)` or such. If you passed the class (a big if), you'd move on to C++ and OOP and never see Ocaml/functional again.

I appreciated it for providing me so much understanding wrt mathematical thinking - functional programming, recursion, induction. Later on I took some classes/researching using SML.

Fast-forward ~12 years and I get into web dev and what I see functional programming trending!? Kinda funny... I want to get into it somehow, probably Clojure this time. It just resonates with my thinking - maybe a product of being primed for it all those years ago.
Sounds pretty ideal to me. It wasn't worth it for the drivers, so some of them left, driving up wages and decreasing demand. Supply and demand working exactly as it should. I'm sure if more people start to take Ubers again, wages will go even higher and more drivers will sign on.

As long as drivers are aware of the total costs they are incurring driving for Uber, I think it is pretty awesome how it works.
And auto makers are estimating they won’t be able to ship 1M cars this quarter because of chip shortages, but that’s less than 4% of demand. That’s no crisis.

Let’s face it, automakers not only made their own bed here, but as soon as they canceled their orders PC makers swooped in and claimed the released production because PC sales were through the roof.

Next year Pc sales aren’t likely to continue at this pace. We are less than 2 years from a semiconductor glut.
According to the story, this was some Canadian pipeline control equipment or software which the USSR purchased from some Canadians, but the CIA modified the software somehow before it was delivered. A supply-chain attack on a computer system.

I understand there's nonzero doubt as to the credibility of this story.
Some startup could do the `.status` Internet domain name TLD, plus offer an optional SaaS there.

(The SaaS could provide numerous different ways to push status to your branded `.status` domain page, plus optional watchdog/heartbeat. And the implementation could be be resilient against even a major cloud provider outage.)

Using dotStatus could be the no-brainer go-to for companies that know they should have an independent status page, or are required to have it, and don't want to spend a lot of engineering resources doing it right.
I remember they got past the Iranian air gap using a USB stick. It’s a mistake to think air gaps are safe but they are certainly better than having your network open to the internet.
There were once training courses in how to use mice. Metaphors are hard.

Nice burn though.
Gojek bags $300m from Indonesian telcom operator Telkomsel
> Good amazon opened up their stuff, there should be more competition on this front.

It was actually open-sourced ~2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21472080. Good to see the project is still active.
what is easier: committing to (over) work and let others give us a mission, OR think hard about the meaning of life, work, everything, redefine impacts and productivity to align with your values, while appear to be doing not much?

A lot of people also have this thing in which work has actually become their comfort zone and they make no effort to learn hobbies or take more responsibilities out of work. Not saying it's right or wrong, just to them "not working" isn't that easy nor enjoyable.
That functionality would be local, before the one-way isolator. A human at a terminal located near the valve could still press a button to make that happen. That system could even be running windows (most are!).

But a hacker wouldn't be able to use their access to the Timeseries database for supply chain and logistics, to pivot to the SCADA system because their attempts would be blocked by a lack of a physical layer connection in that direction.

It would significantly reduce the attack surface of the OT systems.
Couldn't a service provider use an internet backbone with a one time pad comms protocol to essentially have a secure controls channel?

Then once a year a rep could fly out a few terabytes of OTP to each location and all comms would be impenetrable.

Sure beats a parallel physical comms system cost wise.
This is not entirely true. In the early days of Lyft in the lgbt community it was seen as a much safer alternative to taxis. Anyone who was ok with wearing a giant punk mustache on their car was pretty likely to be okay with nontraditional lifestyles, plus the rating system weeded out a lot of bad apples, versus taxi drivers who were largely immigrants from more socially conservative places, likely to harass you or worse.
The NSA and CIA pay less than half of what a FAANG company pays for the same role.

Sources:
FAANG: Levels.fyi and personal experience

NSA/CIA: https://work.chron.com/nsa-pay-scale-16399.html and https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries...
Not that I'm by any means happen with the shut-down, but my transition to BBVA was super smooth. Went to Simple, it redirected to BBVA, followed the instructions to create an account, logged in, verified all my account balances were the same as before.

Now, my only desire is to come up with another solution to replace Simple's "Goals" with something. I loved being able to daily set aside money. I'm thinking I'll just make a self-hosted app for personal use and link up with Plaid, and then it won't matter what bank I use.
I'm generally on your side. Functional style and composition are better styles than inheritance since inheritance is too rigid for most things. Inheritance often results in substantially more refactors required, and possibly even worse when at some point it's impossible to refactor.

With that said, in real-world projects, the bigger problem is to find the "greatest common divider" - which are the most common skillsets people are familiar with and settle with that. For example, in many full-stack projects, people are more familiar with the backend language which is mostly OO, and it might be a good idea to settle with OO style in the front-end as well. If the functional style is desired in the future, make sure to educate everybody, have a plan, set the direction so everybody can head toward it.

Some Scala projects are struggling with this issue. It results in mixed codebases, where OO guys cannot understand half of the codebase, and the functional guys are angry at OO guys who wouldn't learn, while keep introducing new novelty every month. Operating a team is more than technology, a key part is to keep everybody aligned, and make sure everybody was well taught with the knowledge they need.
I'm some flavor of utilitarian, but I don't think that makes the argument trivial. I also believe that most people's experience of disutility in response to inequality isn't an unconditional facet of their personality, but is heavily mediated by their environment, including factors like "how salient do we make existing levels of inequality in day-to-day life" and "how much do we tell people that they should expect to experience disutility from their own positional inequality".

Also, people's experienced utility is not solely a function of positional concerns, so the claim that things increasing in absolute terms isn't an improvement (in terms of experienced utility) seems trivially wrong. To the extent that it's a useful claim you could say the same thing about reducing inequality; there's nothing inherently good about that, except to the extent that it improves experienced utility. So that circles back to the questions of "which factor(s) have a stronger effect on people's experienced utility on the margin", "what 2nd order effects (including feedback loops) might occur due to our proposed mitigation", etc, which ultimately boils down to an empirical question about whether people will gain more (long-term) from absolute improvements on the margin or from positional improvements on the margin. Economic growth compounds, so sacrificing it as a temporary band-aid (that might make the underlying issue worse!) before we've even reached "fully automated luxury space communism" levels of wealth seems like a sucker's bet.
The pictures are posted by NASA and analyzed by this paper. Are you suggesting the photos are fake or altered?

I'm also confused as to what evidence you would accept for proof of the claim that there are fungus-like things on Mars, if you don't accept pictures of them.
This looks quite interesting, thanks. I had heard of the 4% on $3,000, but not the 1% no limits (although one should certainly consider the FDIC limits). No joint accounts is a bit of a headache, but twice the interest might be worth it.
I was a child when 9/11 happened but I still remember the experts on TV assuring us that Iraq had those weapons of mass destruction.
The Unexpected Future of Bug Reporting
Both of these jobs have been fully remote. I don't want to name the companies, but the first is a publicly traded company that is currently dying as all of their engineers are quitting. They have lost ~55% of their engineers in the 6 months since I left. The current one is a booming multi unicorn. Good people at this one, just crazy deadlines. That's about as much as I want to reveal. I am currently taking the time to plan my next gig, I want to make sure its exactly what I want so I am studying and planning my exit. I need to get some sort of work / life balance going. Your post gives me hope that its possible.
Why do people buy into it? Because it's marketed heavily.

The US needs to get back to the 8 hour day, the 40 hour work, time and a half for overtime, a living minimum wage, and a union rep to push back when the boss wants to violate that.

Unions. The people who brought you the weekend.
Futures jump as much of vital pipeline remains shutdown following cyberattack
Crypto is hard, it doesn't wrongly claim its secure. Its a one man show. Isn't that where beauty of open-source lies? Some students were able to get a bug(purposeful) into linux to show how easy it was.
Or even the example of Openssl after heart bleed. Some fresh set of eyes look into the code, things get fixed. We have a log of it, developers learn something, and project moves ahead.
Oh, I was close (guessed the animal), but I was kind of expecting an article about being tired of learning new Javascript frameworks (not making that up, I honestly was expecting that).

:-D
Yea a use case would be to to persist application data when updating by pulling a newer container. Mapping to the host introduces the possibility of conflicts between the host and/or other containers.
NeRF is popping off this year. I loved the DietNeRF paper that came out earlier last month.
Your job is very different than mine. Gaming/graphics are their own domain with different priorities. When your goal is to process data on the scale of several seconds, readability matters more. When your goal is performance per frame, you will definitely have different priorities.
I'm a fan of pipeline shutdowns personally
"It's better than fossil fuels" is a valid answer for any country that's still using fossil fuels. When Germany achieves 0% fossil fuels and figure out how to undo the damage already done by fossil fuels, feel free to complain about nuclear waste.
I wrote a simple inventory program for a yachting company, after entering the inventory data into the computer it turns out a lot of expensive parts had been double ordered and even triple ordered.

But the Ontario added a luxury tax and sales tanked. It looks like they had over three million dollars in excess inventory. And soon the company went bankrupt, to this day I think the company would had pulled thru if it did not have the extra money in the bank instead of inventory they could not use.
Crypto has yet to have a killer use case. Once that comes online, all this future value speculation work will make sense. Likely will be something around payments for AI models.
That's an SLA where they expect to end up paying customers back for outages. They've done an admirable job with only a few global outages, but subsets of customers have experienced plenty of outages.

A single 5 min outage would blow through more than a decade of SLO at 6 9s. As far as I'm aware, there does not exist a service that has been up for more than a decade with fewer than 5 min of downtime, and that definitely includes route 53.
Security through obscurity is almost always a bad idea. There are exceptions: namely nuclear missiles.

There are counterarguments to this, but they're mostly academic: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/228618432.pdf.

Stuxnet, by contrast is very real
That was my experience, too. I ran one leg of the Big Sur marathon relay. My local friends were like “next year you’ll do a half!” My childhood friends were like “so you never, ever have to do that again, right?”
>and this an act of war

What an absurd statement. And what do you suggest we do? Attack them and hope they don't respond with nukes?
Maybe that'd make sense if it was the encryption that was broken. I wouldn't suggest a one-time pad for anything where modern encryption works just fine.
>Go after the financial links. If the only way the ransom can be paid is traveling to Russia with gold bars you’ll see a lot fewer ransoms paid.

>And before you say cryptocurrency there’s lots of ways Western governments could intervene if they got serious.

I was definitely gonna say "cryptocurrency". I see absolutely no feasible way that any government could enforce things such that the only way a ransom could be paid would be traveling to Russia and paying the ransomers with gold bars.

I severely doubt any Western government is going to try to ban any cryptocurrency - even Monero. And if they try, enforcement will be extremely difficult.

No matter how hard they make it for a victim to pay a ransom or obtain the assets needed to pay a ransom, a sufficiently desperate victim and a sufficiently greedy ransomer will find a way to make it work.

Perhaps it could realistically help a bit if they threatened victims with prison time for paying ransoms, but in my opinion this would be pretty draconian and wrong - like threatening to imprison someone whose child is kidnapped by a cartel if they pay a ransom to prevent the child from being killed.

Sometimes the victims can be blamed for major negligence, but not always. And even when they are negligent, I don't think they should be punished or prevented from recovering their business in such an extreme way.
> These companies are viewed as exemplars of operating at scale.

I mean we can just talk openly about the companies - like are we talking Google? Because I don't know anyone who thinks Google is organizationally functional.
> I'm not sure the outcomes are equally probable.

To be fair, the original author makes some very improbable assumptions. Several people have posted research they've done or experience in things like vending businesses. At one point the author says that even with Covid affecting the short term rental market Sam could still get a 20% return in year 1. To make that math work he needs to make $100 profit a month from the rental property during a pandemic when he would actually have a hard time just minimizing his losses.
I have no idea whether it is happening or not at a large enough scale. I did not mean to prove anything, just wished to shed light on it.

How do we know it is not happening though? Think about pre-Snowden.
The are (were) the only bank I know of in the US, that does not allow non US citizens to open an account. Even if you had a green card , a SSN , you weren’t able to open an account. I’m happy they are gone.