skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Attack Surface Analyzer (ASA) is a Microsoft-developed Security tool that analyzes the attack surface of a Windows, Linux or MacOS system and reports on system changes that may have potential security implications that are introduced by the installation of software or by system misconfiguration.“

https://github.com/Microsoft/AttackSurfaceAnalyzer/wiki
They just need to move the Great Barrier Reef 'beyond the environment'

https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM
I think their investment in DARPA has a positive externality for society. If we account for this externality, perhaps taxpayers enjoy a positive ROI?
Goldbug phase? You mean they literally start hoarding gold?
Is the motivation similar to shoe retailers that intentionally slash unsold stock apart with knives — they don't want to discount too much?
I won’t write code demos, articles or new talks in your interview process
check out these guys: https://www.luminaremed.com ; started because of the false alarms
I used to sell physical products on Amazon. They told me once some of my products were damaged “in shipment” and unsellable. I had to pay to return them to me, or they could just trash them.
I can invest in a lot more rental markets and manage idiosyncratic risk. Plus I don't have to deal with maintenance issues with physical property upkeep.

I have also invested in vehicles (private offerings) that fund residential construction especially in housing constrained markets. Very nice reliable returns
No HW involve though?
We've tested it extensively and, on modern hardware it's very easy to scan from a screen.

The paper version is less good as paper bends..
Wikipedia[1] has footnotes for this quote: “If a tick feeds on another mammal, the alpha-gal remains in its alimentary tract. The tick then injects the alpha-gal into a person's skin, which causes the immune system to release a flood of IgE antibodies to fight the foreign carbohydrate. Researchers still do not know which specific component of tick saliva causes the reaction.”

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-gal_allergy?wprov=sfti1
The best performing assets used to be Lego:

https://www.cnet.com/news/lego-bricks-outshine-gold-bars-as-...
One of my prouder possessions is the Southwest Bell CO badge they issued me to let me go into their phone switching buildings. I was pretty happy to have survived my teens without ending up on their bad list.
I was expecting open source to take over. I was also expecting something like a decentralized form of cloud computing, similar to Plan 9 where you can just attach remote resources to your local PC and get instant access to their CPU, storage, etc. I was expecting the internet to turn into decentralized peer-to-peer "fabric" where everyone could publish or subscribe to whatever they wanted from their own machine. (When you consider that in the 90s a large server had a tenth or a hundredth of the CPU/RAM resources of even a rinky-dink HP Stream laptop from Wal-Mart of today, there's no reason this shouldn't be the case.) I was expecting diversified CPU architectures that could run architecture-agnostic "mobile code" like Java or Inferno, or even NeWS. A remote resource could send my machine code to run to present an interface, etc. We kind of got it, in the form of web apps but it's not quite the same. What we got was a corporate hellscape of siloed data and siloed user interaction.

I was expecting Guile to supplant Perl and Python, and for us all to benefit from the greater reach a Lisp could give us. What we got was motherfucking JavaScript as far as the eye can see, and development processes that hobble productivity so that companies can keep hiring programmer-clerks in legion strength and the executives remain unthreatened.
No employer is wondering anything. It's plainly evident when you spend a year pat ng people more to stay at home than work that this would be a consequence.
Pear Therapeutics to Go Public in Roughly $1.6B SPAC Deal
That's true if one only talks about one person using an extra 200W.
But it matters when it's about millions of people using an additional 200W.
The tow charge was registering 65 kw. In a Model 3 or Y, this would be over 200mph.
> The bite transmits a sugar molecule called alpha-gal into the person's body

Is this similar to a prion disease, but a malicious sugar instead of protein?
How exactly do you think we get data to the cloud if not for airplanes with server rooms to take it there?
I got one, at 1:01pm. I explicitly enabled the two "test" options in Emergency alerts on my Android phone beforehand, however I don't know if that is why I saw it.
The following is as I understand it, but I’m no expert. In Australia where house prices are at very high levels, a lot of that price is driven by the availability of cheap loans. Lower interest rates have increased the ability of people to service larger loans, so we Australians have borrowed and paid more for a home.

Presumably an increase in inflation reduces how much money people can affordably borrow, and therefore also directly slows or even reverses real estate growth. Conversely, if wages also increase in an inflationary era, that increases affordability of loans.

Overall, I have no idea what real estate would do with inflation and wage growth, but in the absence of wage growth I’d guess real estate values would plummet, at least in Australia.
Elon Musk is a lot of things, but stupid isn't one of them. I'd be willing to bet that Tesla continuously looks at the state of LIDAR tech and evaluates whether it's at the point where it will be feasible to put it in a mass-market car in two years.

People keep getting hung up on their vision strategy because it sharply diverges from that of all other players, but it's really just tackling the "no one knows how to do this and no one really tries" part of the problem first.

No level 5 autonomous driving system will ever ship without really good computer vision.
Now do the same for the US which was the subject of the study.

And regardless it is less whether people's lives are truly better or not. It is more regarding how people feel about how their life might improve in the future. In my peer group, very few people are optimistic about the future of American society. Combine the previously mentioned inequality with the looming threat of climate change and top it off with a dysfunctional government that seems unwilling or unable to address those concerns and the future doesn't look that exciting. The iPhone 18 being better than the iPhone 12 isn't exactly going to inspire hope in a better tomorrow.
"I've always had a hard time understanding the benefits of supervision trees in today's world.... What am i missing ?"

I've retained the principle even as I've left the Erlang ecosystem because it turns out to be a fairly convenient way of structuring a lot of concurrent network problems. Reifying servers as explicit things in your codebase is really helpful; at that point you might as well have them restart and all that jazz, but to me the real virtue is just the utility of the organizational scheme to my code. That they are composable is also pretty useful.

I am literally taking a brief break just now from taking one server that I was writing that was maintaining a connection to an authorization service and translating that into local actions and splitting it into two servers, one that maintains and manages the connection and one that is solely responsible for the logic of dealing with what's coming in and out from that server, turning what was becoming rather nasty intermingled code into two separated bits of code that each make their own sense. Because the server abstraction is composable, the entire rest of the program doesn't notice; previously I had one "service", and now I've replaced that service with a (sub-)supervisor that starts the two services up. The interface to the rest of the program is identical; the same "start" and "stop" operations are done, and the "tree"-ness is automatic. The rest of the program doesn't care that what used to be one running server is now two cooperating servers because the composability of the concept of "server" hides that away cleanly.

With the servers reified, the process of starting the system is also clean and easy to explain to other people, rather than bespoke processes for starting each one. I've got fairly granular services here compared to some people, but it's still pretty easy to end up with 5-10 distinct types of "servers" in my programs providing internal services. It's nice that they don't all have their own code for handling errors, getting restarted, managing shutdowns, etc.

It is not night and day. I don't want to oversell this, either. It's not like you'd be crazy to not be using this as an organization technique. You can certainly make large programs without this technique. But it is quite convenient to reify the concept of a "manageable tree of services" as explicit objects in your code, and then be able to deal with them as reified objects, just like anything else that we've found convenient to reify as explicit objects over the years rather than leaving implicit, with bespoke unique interfaces for dealing with each individual object. It's one of those things where, individually, each individual such concept isn't a huge deal, but one of the reasons why 2020s programming can be more effective than 1980s programming is precisely that we've done this to some many things and reduced the number of bespoke one-offs we have to deal with. Explicit service trees aren't going to change your life forever but it's one more incremental improvement that's worth adding to the stack.
Cool-doesn't mean it's right.
The negative aspect is that it's a distracting time suck and causes addictive tendencies in young people that don't have fully matured brains yet.

>I also don't think it's data collection is any worse then any other social media's. I don't see why I should care that China has my data. I'm more scared of my own government having my data.

Because China is an authoritarian regime that commits genocide against its own citizens and has done multiple other atrocious inhumane things. You should be scared.
That would depend on how easy their return process is. I can’t imagine it’s easy to ship back.
I don't get the downvotes here - these are two good observations.
>(several computers running in a setup somewhat similar to statically assigned kubernetes)

This description of a server room makes me feel old.
Agreed this is an overly simplified model. Another thing to keep in mind would be population dynamics. Are people moving out of the area the home is in (Chicago) or are people moving in (Nashville).
I think its about the build quality, the service, the instructors, and the integration. I mean maybe you can get a separate bike with a resistance knob that matches peloton's numbers, and track your workouts with an Apple watch, Fitbit, or something similar, then rig up a tablet to follow along with the instructor, but that's a lot of hassle and while maybe you already have the tablet and fitness tracker, if you bought them specifically you aren't too far off from the price of a bike. I am not sure if you could get the competitive aspect of getting a real time update on the leaderboard as well- which while isn't strictly necessary, it does motivate me at least a bit, and watching it keeps me from getting bored.

I don't know how widely spread this is, but even before the pandemic my company had a gym benefit and it can be applied to Peloton. I didn't know that going in though, I just had a discussion with a coworker after we got it where they told me that.

And yeah, when I was in my younger years when I had more time than money, I might have cobbled together some solution like you are suggesting, but these days, I can pay for the nicely integrated solution that I don't have to debug or worry about.
> but immediately discovered I needed to create a provider

That doesn't make any sense to me, if you're coming from CloudFormation. What for?
Something like "Look at this new tech! It allows you to run your own local cloud. We call it 'fog computing' and works even when you're offline"

Edit: OMG! the term exists! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_computing
Highly recommend the book “When Money Dies” about hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic. It digs into how the inflation grew and its effects on real people. Those who illegally transferred their savings to foreign currency early did the best, but many long term savers had their entire life savings wiped out.

Early in the process people were exuberant since the markets were rising and their paper net worth was increasing, so they were selling valuable assets like pianos for money that would quickly become worthless. Eventually the farmers became extremely powerful since they had the one thing everyone needed.

Also worth mentioning that Bitcoin’s volatility makes it a poor inflation hedge, but this is for different reasons than the author of the article suggests. It’s more because the Bitcoin ecosystem is highly manipulated and it’s still unclear what a fair price for Bitcoin looks like.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1586489941/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm...
Great question! Since traversing the entire collection may take a while, it's definitely possible that a new doc has been added in the meantime. Whether that new doc will be traversed or not depends on its order/index within the collection. It definitely won’t be traversed twice.

If it's positioned before all the docs in the current batch then it won't be traversed. If it's positioned after the current batch then it will be. So obviously that also depends on whether you’re traversing a plain collection or a Query.

Catching all the new docs that were added requires implementing a different strategy like adding a temporary field to all the traversed docs and then querying the ones that don’t have that field. It’s definitely something that we can implement soon!
Not all government bonds are worthless against inflation!

You can purchase up to $10k in Series I bonds every year that carry a fixed rate (currently 0) + a variable rate set by inflation (CPI) that is adjusted semi-annually. I bonds purchased right now are yielding 3.5% (due to recent CPI data) for the next 6 months. They are an excellent place to park some cash/emergency fund with some caveats (no redemption for 12 months, lose 3 months of interest if you redeem before holding for 5 years)
It's about as thin as it can be, given the requirements for offline validation, and the environment it's designed for (airports / other national borders etc).

Nobody wants every verification resulting in a ping back to some central server doing who knows what.
Ah, it looks like they fixed it since, thought you were referring to the revised version (:
But then there's:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190116-a-high-carb-diet...
Certain asset classes have inflated dramatically and may continue to do so. Further, we may indeed have a "blow off top" in inflation across all asset classes as policy makers desperately attempt to stave off deflation.

For that reason it is very difficult to hedge properly against short and medium term inflation rates.

Make no mistake, however - the world is in a massively deflationary state. Birth rates across the rich, global north have crashed - including the US, ex-immigration. The population of China will shrink by hundreds of millions over the next few decades. Further, it is the imperative of youth, globally, to pursue a "modern" life script of delaying and minimizing childbirth, etc.

In addition to these very long term, basic drivers of inflation there are now new and interesting factors like work-from-home that serve to further minimize resource use. When people stay home to netflix instead of going out to a movie, that's not inflationary.

Again, very difficult to gauge near-term (Don't Fight the Fed, etc.) but on a longer horizon (but within my own lifetime) I would expect to see significant deflation and/or wild economic gyrations stemming from desperate attempts to stave off said deflation.
I'm not clear on the terms of the contract. If your inventory is stranded, then does Amazon have the right to donate it or resell it themselves? It seems plausible they wouldn't have that. If it's a product they don't list, would Amazon even want to assume the extra liability for selling it directly?
When I worked at a water utility we would occasionally have people breaking into our remote sites like water towers either to vandalise them or climb the assets for the view.

When you just want people off your site ASAP we found providing the operators with remote loudspeakers and allowing them to say "Hey we can see you, we've called the police" was a very effective way to convince anyone that was trespassing to leave.

Though we did lose a few cameras when kids decided to throw rocks at the CCTV system before they left...
I don't think Windows will change much. They will reskin it, add more ways to change settings (especially remote admin), but what else is there to do? A lot of it is still plain old win32 and I don't think that's a particularly bad thing. Windows has been good enough for a long time now.

Microsoft's problem is that nobody cares about Windows anymore. Businesses are moving to web apps which I think makes a lot of sense for businesses. Gamers use it because that's where games run best. Who runs Windows because they are a Windows enthusiast? I know they exist, but not in the same numbers that exist for the Mac even though the Mac's market share is relatively small. (for the record, the only Apple computer I own is an iPad).

So Microsoft mostly wants to keep their users. There really isn't a path for growth which means there's not a lot of reason for investment.

I'm bummed about this and have been thinking about it a lot lately because I've been reading Ellen Ullman's Life in Code. In it she laments the fade out of the PC era (20 years ago!) and the loss of privacy and security and power that users had for a brief moment between mainframes and web apps.
Nothing to add, but want to validate all your thoughts. I'm in the exact same position.
This video gives a good intuition for that question

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S9JGmA5_unY
The debt to gdp ratio is higher than it’s ever been.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S

I don’t see us cutting back spending any time soon, so it doesn’t seem crazy to me that we inflate our way out of this, especially since after this pandemic a lot of countries are in a similar situation, making inflation more politically viable
Writing so called "smart contracts"[1] in Solidity isn't a full-time job, it's mostly for part-time employees, freelancers or consulting companies.

They're an important, but fairly small component of the entire system. If you want a full-time job in crypto , you will also need to handle security audits, frontend, backend, DevOps, Oracles/price datafeeds, KYC/AML, data engineering, integrations with exchanges and other chains, cryptoeconomic simulations, token sale websites, marketing websites, telegram chatbots, etc.

Not sure what's the current status of the Enterprise Ethereum (EEA), but I see real companies learned to avoid this stuff, i.e. MS Azure winded down their managed blockchain services. Not sure whether banks and Big 4 accounting firms are still doing permissioned blockchain pilots. But if they do, it's either an in-house blockchain enthusiasts from internal innovation labs or outside consulting companies.

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[1] IMO the correct term is "Agents", or "Agents with the wallet"
Should be shipping only, container is just the box that is used to ship your cargo in and you don't directly pay for its usage
What an absolutely incredible (and completely relevant!) headline.
It's curious to me that used items in amazon Warehouse sell for very high prices...

For example, I randomly picked a 24V power supply:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/dp/B07P4N3H1F/

Cost: GBP 16.99, non-new + GBP 4.99 shipping.

Yet From ebay an equivilent item, inc shipping, is [1] costing GBP 4.43 (brand new). From Aliexpress the item costs GBP 4.87. On Google, there are 10+ companies all offering this device for similar prices.

There is some kind of market failure going on that is allowing Amazon to be substantially higher priced for the same items even when the item is in non-new condition.

[1]: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/191620564194
Usage is explicitly limited by the EU law:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...

Article 10

Protection of personal data

1. Regulation (EU) 2016/679 shall apply to the processing of personal data carried out when implementing this Regulation.

2. For the purpose of this Regulation, the personal data contained in the certificates issued pursuant to this Regulation shall be processed only for the purpose of accessing and verifying the information included in the certificate in order to facilitate the exercise of the right of free movement within the Union during the COVID-19 pandemic. After the end of period of the application of this Regulation, no further processing shall occur.

3. The personal data included in the certificates referred to in Article 3(1) shall be processed by the competent authorities of the Member State of destination or transit, or by the cross-border passenger transport services operators required by national law to implement certain public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic, only to verify and confirm the holder’s vaccination, test result or recovery. To that end, the personal data shall be limited to what is strictly necessary. The personal data accessed pursuant to this paragraph shall not be retained.
Most people do not understand anything about economics-in fact most economics is a work in progress.
Not true, now you can also do those same things on a cell phone! Seriously though, some things are new but disappointingly few. Voice recognition and machine translation actually work now. VR has gotten pretty good but not many use it. Virtualization has improved a lot. More-or-less functional cryptocurrencies exist. Things like lane keeping and adaptive cruise control are almost standard on new cars. What else am I missing?

I agree that for a tech-savvy consumer end-user, not that much has changed. But endless porting and migrations aside, there are still plenty of businesses and industries that need new software for new ideas. For example most every new concept in medicine or finance needs software.
Publishing relevant and hard to discover information is kind of the whole point of journalism...
Well for Americans it actually matters at 15%. And China at 28%.

But for Australia it’s a joke.
Points for mentioning one of the few videos that actually work out the cost of growing things without the sun -

https://blogs.cornell.edu/hort/2014/02/15/seminar-video-skys...

The largest human made solar collectors in the world are agricultural fields and clear glasshouses.
> the company he works for has bought into a convenience store chain and he achieves his dream, going to the U.S and working in the convenience store there

Cute, but US immigration law means this person has no chance of immigration through this kind of work and they’re also ineligible for the green card lottery.
I believe that word is in the title
Unless I was doing something really stupid with null_resources, a rollback for me has always been achievable either over a terraform destroy, or a new terraform apply after reverting a commit.
Thanks for sharing this lovely anecdote, and for the positive sentiment. Unfortunately I do agree with the person you're replying to - these days, it is vanishingly unlikely to find a partner past your early 30s.

Only a tiny proportion of the adult population in most western countries is single, and asymmetries in the dating pool induced by modern modes of meeting people (ie: apps) have radically upended traditional ideals about coupling and compatibility. Respectfully, if you met your partner 16 years ago (congrats by the way!), that might as well be a completely different world than the one we live in now. I sympathise with the GP's expression of urgency.
Probably Vegetables like all other Fruits that are Vegetables...