skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our experience in the Web PKI is pretty stark. Assuming well-meaning, basically competent people, all you can hope for is that they can enforce some simple easy-to-follow rules and you will need to check their work to keep them on the straight and narrow. To the extent they screw up and you miss it, the screw-ups will continue, to the extent the rules are too hard for them to follow they just won't.

But I don't see how that regime is useful here because the rules they would need to follow are anything but simple and easy-to-follow. To be effective they need to be more or less reverse engineering complicated drivers day in and day out. So I am not surprised the result is ineffective.

Actually I'd say the practical alternative, which you should indeed prefer in real life, is Class Drivers. Notice how that webcam you bought just plugs in and works? Same for your wireless mouse, the no-name USB headset and the 2TB USB hard disk you bought. Because those are standard classes of device, they don't need custom drivers.

This current practice is security theatre. There's the big show with the "certification process" and then actually they'll just ship whatever malware somebody pays for.
I do 7 but 7.5 is my sweet spot. I pose the opposite: How do so many on this site need so much sleep?
Pragmatically this is why I stick to consulting now. Had my heart broken a few times and it's good to have a level of separation from the core product and company. From the client's side it's also good to have impartial eyes.
This is a peak HN comment (the one you are replying to)! The other day on the Wikipedia thread, there was a data scientist who said he could run a website like Wikipedia all by himself. "How hard it is?". And here we have the same thing for Amazon..
Witness testimony is evidence, these are respectable and accomplished people. You are wrong about the needs of the public. Public does need to be able to communicate about this. There are levels of evidence, not everything is presented through medical journals. However, there are papers in those journals too, see the article that this discussion is associated with.
You like to speak for other people, huh?
Heavily-utilized websites are like icebergs. You see the homepage, but what about the constant ongoing work to ensure sellers don't game your review system? What about emergent product categories? What about integration with your competitor's new smart home device? Amazon doesn't pay most of its engineers to sit around.
That's been crossed long ago...
There's absolutely nothing preventing you from building your IIAB into precisely such an enclosure with such a power supply. IIAB is a set of scripts to load the software onto such a box, and they also have a cheap hardware recipe that'll get you going for the 99.9994% of situations where being sandproof is not important.

But you can use those very same scripts to install the content on your sandproof ultramachine. What's the gripe?
Indeed, and you could also sell the certificate without the bag, at a discount. For instance, you could buy the bag and certificate for $100, and sell the certificate for $50 to someone who wants it for a fake bag. In fact the only distinction a real and fake bag is that the maker was somehow peripherally involved in the supply chain for the real one, for instance ordering it from a manufacturer and having it drop shipped to a retailer.

In fact I would want to unload my certificate before the proliferation of fakes lowered its value.
Are you serious about this? They charge 400 USD for a plastic keyboard. I have a hard time believing these are subsidized prices, Apple has some of the highest profit margins in tech, some say only the drug cartels generate more profit per dollar of revenue.
In a liberal country that is. I am sure certain single party dictatorships can regulate any company of any size within a day.
Elixir doesn't have an array/vector implementation. Instead it has to borrow Eralng's ugly offering or hack Map with numeric keys as in PHP.
Too many assumptions here.

You need to consider the number of the tech products and the number of markets.

The resulting number would be vast.
> Perhaps there is a mere observer, but you are not it.

Sure, because I am not anything. I told this all is a simplification. And yes, this contradicts the statement that I am the observer. Whatever I could express in words is doomed to be just a simplified and corrupted model which can just give a hint but not tell "the truth" as it is. In fact the observer also can be pointed to and has a word for it in the Buddhist languages but actually (rather than epistemologically) dissociating from it is a particularly advanced step.

> A Lego house is still a Lego house

This is Zen. Of course everything is what it is but to truly realize this you have to go through the weird place of "nothing is what it seems" first. I believe a Zen master described his experience this way and that is quoted somewhere in Alan Watts' "The Way of Zen", more close to the end of the book than to its beginning. Albeit not a Zen master, I can confirm from my own experience, this actually is a path worth going rather than a simple truism hardly worth even saying as it seems first.
What I don't get is usually the poorest part of the population is the biggest recipient of financial aid - which means. The government has a direct incentive of going after these people, why don't they do it?
Why are you downvoting this? I also know people like this, however I personally need at least 7-8.

The last weeks I have practised to not focus too much on if Ive had a sleep deprived night and that helps and works for a few days.
"Matz is nice and so we are nice"
The purpose of NFT's is money laundering. When minted off chain (see Beeple's headline sale/ad). Moreover, Financial Nihlism is a rich philosophical subject reduced and fixed here in a way that kills understanding. What response should a population or group do when the written rules say you are free but the unwritten rules, that say you are to accept the caste position you were born in with zero wage growth or chance at middle class because you are to blame as an individual? If you break the unwritten rules you are dismissed as nihilist. Perhaps nihilism is the only way to break the religious thinking of our economic system where we dare not speak the devils name aka any kind of economic system that is not capitalism. I am very serious here, what should we do? Just accept what appears to me to be closer to feudalism in practice but we desperately keep trying to reclaim it. Capitalism stopped in 2007, didn't it?
Listen if you can't run 33% of the internet with 50 engineers what are you even doing?
> It is quite worrying that the powers-that-be at YouTube are taking this radically anti-speech approach.

Where you see "radical anti-sperch approach" I see a vestigial amount of false positives within a constant stream of crackpot and outright insane, anti-infellectual fearmongering-fueled conspiracy theories.

And let's face it: since when do appeals to authority pass off as a reliable indicator that the author is not a crackpot conspiracy theorist? I mean, during the past year the world had to endure a good share of people abusing their medical licenses to peddle bullshit conspiracy theories.
You can install anything on your hardware you want, assuming you find a way to do that - apple doesn’t have an obligation to make it easy, but they can’t go after you legally for using https://projectsandcastle.org/ on a supported device.

That’s the thing - I bought a completely locked down device where a central authority dictates what can be installed since I trust them to verify the app’s capabilities and the source’s identity. I know the software isn’t impenetrable nor apple infallible, but it reduces my threat model a lot compared to if I were running Android.
Since when did iOS support the full PWA spec? Did I miss something?
it took me five minutes of reading these comments to realize we were talking about a hair dryer and not a colthes dryer.
Background from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27560438
Fud. More union trickery.
The logical conclusion of this thought process is a question of what to do with laggards and I do not see it being addressed. Ignoring it is not a real option.
Consider this metaphor:

You go on vacation. You stay at a hotel, not a “B&B.” Your vacation, your money, so you find a place close to the things you want to see, with plenty of free amenities like free continental breakfast and free WiFi.

It’s somewhat reasonably priced, too.

Now you go on a business trip financed by your employer, who books you into a “business class” hotel. It’s also close to things you want to see, and it has a few nicer finishes than your vacation hotel.

But the service is worse! You have to order WiFi, and they have some annoying provider that puts roadblocks between you and their slow WiFi. There’s free coffee in the room, but if you want breakfast, you pay nosebleed prices for room service or you have to line up for a table in their brunch restaurant.

And their “rack rate” for rooms is double what you paid on vacation! How could your employer be so stupid as to book you into this expensive hotel and force you to suffer worse service?

Makes no sense. Ok, what’s the connection?

———

Well, WHY does your employer prefer the expensive place with bad service? The answer is that it provides good service for your employer, but not for you. YOU AREN’T THEIR CUSTOMER.

The business-class hotel integrates with your employer’s billing and expense systems. Your company can easily book dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of rooms when they’re putting on a conference. They have incentive pricing that appeals to companies, not people.

They have GREAT customer service when you’re calling about a billing code, but not when you’re calling about an extra pot of hot water for your tea.

We don’t see that as guests of the hotel. So if we were to discover that the big hotel chain has hundreds or even thousands of programmers, we’d ask, “What do they need so many engineers for? All they have is a crappy web site that can take a reservation, in a crappy way.”

We don’t see the people putting in the work to integrate with systems we can’t see, serving the needs of people and companies we don’t even know exist.

I betcha it’s the same at Amazon. We can’t judge the complexity of their operations looking at the page they serve us when we buy a book online. We have no idea what’s involved integrating with the corporations that provide them with music, TV shows, and movies to stream.

We have no idea how complicated it is to integrate with all the logistics systems around shipping products around the world, in real time.

There’s a massive machine we can’t see. That’s what all those programmers are building and maintaining.
Thanks for the insight! So I think the "local" here is more about spreading it out across more data center providers than doing it at home.

I've been looking into running validators a bit and haven't quite wrapped my head around all the trade offs. The problem with ethereum is that it requires a huge amount of money to stake, which I can't really justify. It seems possible to run a to run a Cardano stake pool at home, but I'm not sure the incentives work, because stakers seem much more incentivized to choose professionally run pools. It seems somewhat reasonable to run a Polkadot validator, but only really in a data center, either in the cloud or with dedicated hardware. So in short I haven't really figured out a good way to get involved in validating as an amateur. And maybe that's ok, but the comment about "local" validating made me curious.
I really don't like product design through antitrust. Consumers had a choice in more than half a dozen smartphone operating systems, and iOS (alongside Android) won, with its locked down (Apple would say safe and secure) nature being a cornerstone feature of the platform.

That said, I think this hack is really cool. I don't think an Apple sanctioned sideloading method would be the worst thing in the world, so long as its cumbersome enough to prevent companies like Facebook from circumventing the App Store to avoid Apple's pesky rules.
This could be useful in the semiconductor industry, for example. We are currently battling with marginally performing chips that were sold out the back door to brokers. A traceable ledger inform us whether a lot we purchased from a broker had a chain of ownership back to the front door. This evidence would do a lot to ease our customer's concerns, and having the data public would be a plus.
Just because other animals don’t consider the suffering of their prey isn’t an excuse for humans to do the same. Animals do what is instinctive. Humans (should) have empathy for others, including animals, and are able to make choices about their behaviour. Just because “in nature” animals are eaten alive doesn’t mean we shouldn’t strive to do better.
Yes was coming here to comment. Went to root directory and was able to access Wordpress installation.
Evaporative cooling became "cool" (pun intended) some time ago.

And it's extra capable in dry climates.
What? There's a button to include those sites. I configured mine to include raspberrypi.stackoverflow and a few others.

All the StackOverflow sites are available as Kiwix ZIM files, so if you select the ZIM server to be installed, you can check boxes for whatever content packs you want.
Some of us have always been like this. Others have been doing it for so long that we don’t even know what it feels to be fully rested anymore either. The mental fog of being continuously sleep deprived is all they remember.
I think a society must first define their values before trying to align to them.

Elimination of pain and suffering as a primary value, changes everything. A superintelligent overlord given that objective would simply eliminate all life on earth. If preservation of life was a value, it would sterilize everything and put all existing life in a coma. If the objective was happiness, it would drug us during the coma.

But it would not be so dumb as to choose those things. I don’t know what it would choose exactly, but, I think it would have something to do with the purpose of life itself in this universe, which can be seen as a fundamental force to fight entropy at the mesoscale between electromagnetism and gravity.
"Pre-installed software" is a thing.

Not saying that I think it's OK to just ignore what is the STANDARD WAY of specifying my desired language, just saying this type of crap is what they're going to argue when trying to justify it.
> Code quality was atrocious. We had one enormous Java method (>1000 lines) which would take care of nearly every single request coming into our service... With only about 7-8 unit tests

AWS is pretty reliable for the most part so I am pretty surprise that the code quality is that bad.
Off topic, but the correct plural of octopus is octopodes (or octopuses). From the classical Greek word for foot (πούς, plural πόδες). Only Latin 2nd declension nouns turn -us into -i. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/octopus#Noun
We should be doing the opposite. We should investigate how the ransomware occurred and then fine the business depending on how preventable the attack vector was and how much it effected public interest.
Most IIAB installations are single server, but some have indeed implemented a mesh network including long distance links using wifi extenders. Of course this is no longer a low cost project.
Ask HN: Best practices for organizing geospatial data from different sources?
I am working on a project for fun using GeoTIFF, NetCDF, geojson, and satellite imagery as all part of the analysis. My ETL process for using this is basically a bunch of scripts to get the data to a place where I can actually run the analyses I'm interested in.

I'd like to make it easier on myself by using a system that can query these different sources, e.g., give me the data within a bounding box (or polygon) for these variables and in the year 2018.

Does such a system exist? Would dumping everything I can to a PostGIS database get me most of the way there? Hoping someone that works with this type of data at scale can provide some insight into best practices.
Used to pull a lot of all-nighters coding in my teens and twenties. Being twice as old now I'll regularly clock 8 hours sleep and doing an all-nighter never crosses my mind.
At no point did I say you should give up income.
Yeah... that doesn't work how you think it does.. you're body and mind don't "catch up" on sleep. you had 6 terrible sleep days detrimentally effecting your brain and one "good" nights sleep. you do not biologically make up for lost sleep, you just walked around with poor mental function and toxic built-in up neurochemicals then probably masked it all by doing further damage and guzzling down some coffee and caffeine and sugar to force your body to stay awake.
Good! Colorado sucks. Too many soy boys.
The money quote:

This lawsuit is merely a first battle, and where the war is going to be fought is in Congress and in the EU anti-trust committees. What epic did with this lawsuit was bring a lot of things out into the open -- it's a full theatrical release of the video from inside the sausage factory -- and this will really hurt Apple's attempt to convince people it doesn't need outside supervision. that supervision is coming, whether it's new laws through Congress or new regulations through the EU or other governmental bodies, and Apple is well beyond the time it needed to improve it's policies to stop these legislative processes from starting.

I used the word "arrogance" above to describe Apple's attitude towards developers. In looking at the material released in the Epic trial from inside Apple, another word also seems to define Apple's attitude: Entitlement

Somewhere along the way, Apple convinced itself it's entitled to take all of this revenue from all of the places it's taking it.
I have both QY-70 and QY-100. Both great portable pieces to write full songs and arrangements.
QY-700 is a studio powerhouse more like an MPC with way better music theory support. I think you can even have your custom groove templates and the live reharmonization is very cool.
They are all very cheap I regularly see them in the 1-200 USD range.
Note that this is also completely at Apple's whims, so if they ever decide to lock down their signing process or cut off non-developer IDs, the whole concept would fall through.

It's a hack with a nice UI, really - which doesn't mean that it doesn't work quite well, just that it's unsustainable and annoying, especially with non-developer ID limitations.
> yes, trees/plants probably also feel some kind of pain

Are you kidding? How do you suppose one can feel pain without a nervous system? Magic?
Personally, I care very little about the technical angle (yes, Stream is probably a fine product) and very much about Red Hat reneging (yanking CentOS 8 from 2029 to 2021).
The author doesn’t understand why people buy GME. It’s not to push the price up in a coordinated way or something else like that. It’s because it is understood that Citadel never covered it’s short position from January, after doing massive naked shorting to drive the price of GME down to zero. There is a belief that they are kicking the can further down the alley by creating more and more synthetic shorts, hidden in deep ITM long or other mechanisms, because they cannot actually cover their current position. And that eventually something will force them to cover, resulting in a massive short squeeze.

It’s not nihilistic at all, people who participate in this because they actually believe their analysis is correct and a short squeeze is imminent. That’s why in this framework buying at a cost below the floor (currently discussed at $20mio per share, seriously) is considered cheap.

The research people discuss on this topic on r/superstonk is interesting to read just to get an idea of what they are doing. Not that I’m saying a short squeeze will happen or not, I personally have no idea, but it’s a fascinating niche to become familiar with.
Virtually anywhere around the coast of Australia (at least from Cairns clockwise to Perth) is accessible by public transport. The point they're making is that the outback is very much not.
I’m of the same opinion, and I wouldn’t be looking to install a different OS personally. But I think it would be a good general rule that that you can run whatever software you want on your own hardware, but not expect the manufacturing to help you, just not actively hinder you.
That’s a very postmodernist framing… the difference is that some narratives are better models of reality than others. I agree that earnings reports are so stage-managed as to be almost completely devoid of real information content, but what if you had unrestricted access to the company’s books? What if you could look into their sales database? Equities are a fairly standardized legal claim to quantifiable value, and this may not seem to factor into the market price much nowadays, but it is a qualitatively different kind of narrative than “sentiment”.
This. I have recently gone back to the Apple walled garden and it's a next gen experience that transcends platforms. Now I only have to worry about what I want to do, never about how it should get done. I never 'see' the actual technology: hard- and software are designed together so well, it just works. There is no other platform in a position to offer that.
Do they "only" need 5 hours of sleep or do they say they need it? Are they as productive as they could be when fully rested, or will they "sleep when they are dead".

Arianna Huffington also thought she was being greatly productive at no sleep, until her body told her to fuck off and she collapsed in her office from exhaustion.
This is really about money. Big business is ramping up artificial meat and big farming is also shifting to growing vegetarian food crops. Real meat will be only for the rich. Just the way they like it.
> There's no intrinsic reason for earnings to be directly related to stock price.

Yes there absolutely is. If you are the owner of a company you may divert the future earnings to your own bank account, which has a precisely defined value.

Your counterargument may be that minority shareholders never have the power to affect distributions of earnings, but that is also false. Minority shareholders at minimum hold the power of arbitrage between majority shareholders.
I care why because it is a complete and ideologically rationalized tax dodge: LET US NOT tax the rich because they are morally superior (proven by their meritocratic rise) so we can count on them to donate some of their money and that redistributes wealth! Which is to say, that which you call cynical, is merely resisting western ideological assumptions that pull our subconscious strings.
i hate that parable. they realy spent 8million and 20 dollars on a solution. would that worker have used a fan if the alarms were not there?
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I think one thing I learned from AWS is that there's so much hidden away from the customer. There definitely were (and probably still are) many issues which the customers won't actively experience. Reliability doesn't necessarily equate to good standards and good practice.

But yes, from a customer point of view, AWS is pretty nice.
They are both Korea. Is that so hard to grasp?
That's the use-case I set mine up for, just for fun. Unplug my cable modem and see how long I can still be productive.

With a local copy of most StackOverflow sites and Wikipedia, I'm pretty well equipped for a certain set of problems.

Next up, I need to figure out how to wield the various github-mirror-an-entire-org scripts I've found, to keep a local copy of Adafruit's github, since their code and libraries power a lot of the hardware I have sitting around. And then maybe a mirror of Seeed Studio's wiki and whatever else I can find.

then this: https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2018/01/off-grid-raspbian-... but I'll need to add more disk space.