skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What we need is ... blah blah blah ... technology" is rarely what you want when you start on this path.

In my company (I'm the MD), salary info is pretty open and I believe income is proudly and publicly published in Sweden for all individuals but I do understand your reticence.

Do you actually need encryption or even a computer to get the message across? What about whispering?

If you want to ensure confidentiality then you need to agree on your standards with your partners. You have no choice in this matter. Rapidly you are in a technical debate on standards. Apart from the channel, are you sure you are safely getting the data in and out? Think about things like side channel attacks eg someone listening to your keyboard. Get the tin foil out!

I'll give you this for free, right now: TLS is a very decent way of creating a tunnel between you and your partner. So is IPSEC and probably WireGuard, also a SSL tunnel.

There is no such thing as a simple way to do confidential comms, just like there is no simple way to build a suspension bridge. I studied Civil Engineering at Plymouth Polytechnic in Devon and the building industry collapsed in the UK as I graduated in 1991. Building a bridge is quite complicated but for the end user it is a piece of piss to drive their car across it.

You say that self-signed is broken but all browsers and modern OS's allow you to import CA certs. You can generate a CA cert with a one liner with openssl and if you are careful you can be pretty sure things are secure. I trust my own CAs far more than anyone else's.

You cannot have simple solutions for confidential comms. If there was such a thing then James Bond would use it too, and he doesn't.
So considering they say that customer costs more than 2k dollars, that means that the average must be ~1/1.5TB for them to be profitable. That's a lot and not much at the same time.
Ding, ding, ding.

Go to a convention. ask people about why we don't make software im a way that empowers users without a crippling dependence being created, or inflicting on users a leaky or otherwise insecire experience, and watch the room clam up.
I know it's possible that some time in the future I might realize that I have been a fool all this time. However, it is also possible that alternatively, you might realize the same. That moment has yet to come for either of us. So here we stand.
I want a VCS that treats code as an AST not as text
because:
That way meaningless white-space changes, wouldn't cause a diff.
Renaming a function would be just that a rename, not a 100 lines with + and -.
Where every commit is recorded (ala Fossil)... but where a set of commits can be seen as if was just one. (So that a meaningful set can be seen as what it was).
Time(1) and CPU Frequency Scaling
Long story short, I don’t call my parents precisely because I’m childless. Failing my love life has everything to do with them.

It’s not like I were divorced. I’m precisely never married, never had a long girlfriend, despite not being ugly nor totally stupid, and my loneliness drove me crazy (in the literal sense – since Covid I’ve honestly snapped a few neurons, so it’s quite over for me). But before that, I used to be a fine person, but they didn’t give me any lead on the love life. EVERY father would be happy if the kid plays with girls at school, just not mine because they don’t want me to pump-and-dump - well they don’t have to worry about this for sure. I really don’t get how people succeed at the love life, it’s totally not working for me.

I’m now workaholic and if I stop working, I’ll go insane with ruminations in a few hours only. I’m quite fortunate my worklife offers me the opportunity of working more, I’m a programmer-entrepreneur.

Anyway, if I were successful at life, I’d certainly be happy to call my parents more. It’s just that their opinion led me to a general failure, so I can’t hear more.
You're describing the difference between treating them like a life-long friend and treating them like a dementia patient. Yeah, I can just nod and ignore them, but mentally I have to acknowledge that the person I once knew and understood so well is fading away or completely gone. This is not an easy acknowledgement to make.
> The lack of innovation at Twitter, Instagram and Facebook is utterly baffling and points to a serious culture problem.

Yes, and the befuddling long time it takes them to implement obvious features that smaller teams delivery within days, like support for dark mode, or an auto-repeat button on YouTube (seriously wtf is up with that, they have auto-play but not repeat? w. t. f. Google)
Thanks, glad to hear that! :)
Spying and Smearing Is “Un-American,” Not Tucker Carlson
Between learning Android and actually getting it built, I created a social fitness app that never really took off after an initial influx of users:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andrelashl...

I'm getting a second wind and might re-build it soon, as something that is more similar to tiktok. I may also need to put much more effort into advertising/marketing this time.
I'm seeing fewer round doorknobs in public buildings and multifamily housing in the US because of codes and standards around accessibility.
First we had stretching yoga shorts, then we had hot tubs/kiddy pools indoors, then we had ear-licking. There'll always be something for the twitch crowd to keep them coming back and pretending the strimmers care about em.
Consumer Product Safety Commission sues Amazon to recall hazardous products
Well… as anyone in intelligence will point out, the novels, while genre-defining, are ludicrously unrealistic.

In fact, being unremarkable is the hallmark of excellence in intelligence ops, therefore, I assume Mr Fleming was very good at his day job.
Disclaimer: Did some work on a FutureCar/FutureTruck team back in the day.

GM: throwing shade on EVs since the EV1.
Covid(4) – NetBSD Manual Pages
Yeah I grew up in a Catholic church that was probably 30% vietnamese, 30% hispanic, and 40% white / everyone else. I guess my views are heavily influenced by that.
This cannot be accurate in any absolute sense. How is wealth defined in this context?

25 years ago, the median car and house didn't have (central) A/C. Cell phones and the Internet were expensive and not widely available. Truly portable laptops, usable tablets, and smartphones didn’t exist. Health food options were limited. The world was not mapped for all to access at street level. Translation was far more difficult. Information was less accessible—Wikipedia and Google didn’t exist. Free public preschool (4K) was uncommon. The death rates and crime rates were higher, life expectancy lower. Cash and checks were the primary payment methods. The list goes on and on.

Does wealth here refer to an individual’s relative share of contemporaneous wealth? Should the generation that built all of the great technology and systems of the past 25 years not reap the benefits of their work?

I’m in my 30s, btw, in case I come across as defensive in this comment. It sounds like my parents’ generation did a better job of building lasting wealth than their parents did (though not my parents lol). Should we find fault in that?
> This is not a free solution

FWIW I use letsencrypt for this, for free. The only downside is having a central set of HTTPS routers (e.g. nginx) that hold the wildcart certs to terminate TLS. If you spread your hosts across sites it can be annoying.
WASM is supposed to be 'assembly' level a little bit like java bytecodes. So it's lower level than 'strings'.

But as you have pointed out, the missing layer on top i.e. the 'thing we can practically use' is a big gaping hole and it's a little bit diabolical.

The fact that JS has gotten so much faster and the lack of both higher-level abstractions and notably a really good 'bridge' to JS means it's lagged in terms of material applicability.
I mean not all atheists believe in probability as the definer of someone's life. Even if you pray to God and think he said yes or you shake a magic 8 ball and it says yes, the decision is still the same.
Americans also root for things. It seems there's a plethora of directions to go when it comes to advocacy.
Why single out HR4681? The IETF's Best Common Practice #188 "Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack" is months earlier in terms of reactions to Snowden and is a direct trigger for this work which doesn't involve stoner thinking ("What if, like, the government snooping is actually reverse psychology to trick us into hiding stuff from them")
I think in urllib.request’s case (urllib.parse is fine albeit arguably with a cluncky API) it’s not they need to work very hard to fix it, but the task is impossible. My understanding is that bundling SSL validation in the Python stdlib is a lost cause since Python is updated way too infrequently and the stdlib cannot be easily changed once a Python minor version goes EOL, so they just gave up. If there’s anything Hynum in here, it’s they have their hands tied from removing the module entirely.
How about corrosion resistant enclosure? And even it will be damaged (probability is probably low) you can have a sensor to detect that and replace the enclosure.
Batteries burning underground should be less a concern compared to them burning on a wood wall of a house.
In case of an incident circuit breaker will turn them off, and batteries will burn themself w/o damaging anything else.
Talking about rigged arcades, the worst rubber banding offender out there, NBA Jam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyk2s4HTPpk
Interesting.

What happens when one country requires removing content while another country requires it to stay?
Aesthetic Multiplayer Voxel Engine!!!
If that were true, they would report the 18x larger number of people who are no longer dying from cold annually since 2000.

My numbers are from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27827053
"Abusable" is an interesting word choice.
why people with no money so bad at having no money.

probably lazy and dumb, yeah, that's it.

i feel better already.
> The dual of this is that many more millennials have living parents than their parents did at the same age.

I dug into some demographics data and I'm almost certain this is false.

OP said millennials in their 30s. Life expectancy hasn't increased in the USA that much since the 70s. Even if the deaths were completely distributed among adults, you'd expect people in the 30s now and the 70s to have about the same number of parents alive/dead. More importantly, almost all of the increase is due to improved child mortality.

There's a much simpler explanation: Boomers were once-in-a-country's-history lucky. They inherited the spoils of two world wars.
Fortunately not, and we definitely don't want to increase the amount of PFAS getting into the environment and poisoning our water supplies.
It’s the wrong analogy. Phone service is the correct one. It’s something basically everyone uses. You should be able to call or group call anyone you want. The phone company can’t claim they own the phone lines so they decide which content can be discussed or who is allowed to make a phone call. It’s that simple.
Who said anything about consistent effort alone?
I agree, and LIDAR would be the obvious best choice here. For whatever reasons the Autopilot team is choosing to go down the route of mimicking human driving, which means trying to replicate the pipeline of human eye to brain-object recognition. To that end, it's not unlikely that a human eye could mis-classify something on the road and ram a car into it at full speed. In fact, it probably happens every day.
Netflix poaches Oculus executive in clear metaverse ambitions
I know nothing about music genres... but such organized "mini-magazines" in PDFs that cover the outlines and basics seems quite appealing and interesting.
I went to an arcade this month for the first time in years and it shocked me just how many games of “luck” they had. It was easily the majority of games there. Felt like I was in a kids casino with no regulations. Also felt like a sucker because you had to pre-pay for a card with credits, and there wasn’t any games that took more than a minute to play so I ended up playing them.
Netflix Plans to Offer Video Games in Push Beyond Films, TV
This reminds me of this wonderful blog series that examines the psychology of estranged parents' forums: http://www.issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/index.html

There's lots of discussion of the generational gaps that cause a lot of this friction (many of which I see discussed in this thread):

- Is emotional abuse "real abuse"? Does it "count" for estrangement?

- Do parents owe an apology for mistakes they made?

- Do children own a relationship to their parents?

- Do children owe respect to their parents, regardless of anything the parents have done?

- Is the parent/child relationship one-sided?
Hell is other people: a monk’s guide to office life
This is proof Gizmodo hates conservatives.

Ben Shapiro is a moderate, mainstream commentator on the right of center. So much so that lots of conservatives hate him. He spends millions and millions of dollars on Facebook ads and grows his audience.

He does it by censoring himself to some degree, so he doesn't run afoul of the demonitizors.

I want to live in a world where Ben doesn't censor himself for profit.

So I'm all for Facebook and the other major censorship platforms dying. And if Ben goes down as well, no big deal. He's a smart guy, but a little little bit of a pussy. I know because Facebook still takes his money.
Yes in this sense we would define it as "professionally high-achieving and or rich" rather than in an ascetic sense of "coming to peace with the existence of suffering."
I am bad with money. I’m also not abnormal. A 2017 survey by CareerBuilder found that 78 percent of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, while a 2019 survey by Bankrate found that 60 percent of us couldn’t cover a $1,000 emergency.

For most in this predicament, it has nothing to do with being bad with money. It has everything to do with their income being 80% of their essential bills.
The house I grew up in had a switch like that on just one of the bathrooms, the tiny one. From everything I have been able to gather, it had to do with electrical codes and requirements that switches had to be a certain distance from water.

Take that with a grain of salt because this bathroom also had the light fixture over the sink with a socket for a razor or hair dryer plug, and it seems way more hazardous to me.
I have had similar experiences. Thank you for sharing and good luck.
Yeah. I wouldn’t be surprised to see cloud auth (AD) so you can pay every month to use the capabilities of your local PC that you already paid for.

Buy a PC so you can remote into a crappier cloud PC? Pass. Lol.
Blueberry Earth (2018)
It was actually a decent power supply, maybe 5-7 years old, good ratings etc. Cleaned dust and hair out every season or so with compressed air.

Might leave my home computers powered off from now on when I’m not using them.

…my brand new smoke detectors didn’t go off
Though small, isn't convenience a benefit? I think a lot of new developers especially find it marginally easier to copy a script-tag.
Didn't it start as a hotornot clone using girls pictures without their approval?

Never understood why anyone would trust this guy if that was the case. Pervs are some of the most reliably untrustables on the planet.
It seems as though it is increasingly hard to make sufficient money in the first place.
My guess is $10-20 / month for an anemic VM that runs like a raspberry pi.
I had pretty much the exact same experience recently.

What also annoyed me when our child was much younger was how many of the toys people bought him were cheap plastic with flashing lights and sounds and how much these reminded me of slot machines.
yup, even though this has been done forever, you could always setup a computer at home and RDP to it. Most products I have seen have targeted corporations with IT departments that could set stuff up. This seems more like a easy to use personal/small company product based on their Azure infrastructure. Niche imo. And not that bad tbh, I've have had a couple of instances where I've had to use a Windows for something, and having a quick deploy VM would have been nice. Setting up VMs locally is a pain, so is deploying VMs on many cloud providers.
Yeah that's fair. I was more thinking about the natural mapping of set operations to boolean logic operations (e.g. OR equivalence to union for given sets, de Morgan's laws applied to sets and boolean operations, etc.).
Its not what it spends now specifically that is haunting it, it's the decades where it didn't educate the majority of its citizens. It's an effect that lags multiple generations.
Does Wayland even have a good remoting solution today?
It’s also totally possible to be to the left of MSNBC ;)
In a 2014 study, he found that 58 percent of affluent people are first-generation wealth, not trust-fund babies.

I've heard that idea before, that the notion of inherited unearned wealth as explaining the bulk of the wealthy population is actually misleading. Same thing was said in that old book The Millionaire Mind I think.
This. I hear some people talk about how they find a trusted friend to share their personal thoughts with, and who can hold them accountable.

I take the opposite approach: I trust strangers more! Especially those who are about to leave the country (e.g. CouchSurfing meetup back in the day, hopefully BeWelcome when COVID ends).

Even if they gossip those secrets, who cares if they're half the world away?
Two things I noted

1. The terrible doors get "fixed" with exactly the wrong patch.

2. Norman worked for Apple but the video specifically references tapping/double tapping and trackpads, illustrated by is clearly an Apple macbook trackpad. I guess that's less of a hardware problem than it is a software one, but the trackpad is remarkably free of affordances and discoverability on its own.
> We don't need to verify the identity of the server because that's typically not a problem on the intranet.

Casual snooping with wireshark isn't typically a problem on an intranet either. The difficulty of both attacks are a somewhat similar level, it really doesn't make sense to care about one but not the other imo.
Forsure getting harder to keep it !
Most dystopian shit I've seen in a while.
> Doesn't not wanting kids for X reason mean that you consider the moral worth of a new person to be less than X.

What? No.

Most people who do have children are not doing in order to fulfill some dispassionate abstract moral commitment to the inherent moral worth of human life.

And there are all sorts of examples of people who clearly value human life but choose not to have children. Or are all nuns terrible people?

Whether someone chooses to have children or not has very little to do with your underlying moral commitments or -- more importantly -- behavior. Sociopaths and abusers have children. Mother Teresa didn't have children.
Can you have a sealed enclosure with some air presure valve?
But here's the thing. I have $80 and need to pay $100 in bills. There aren't any money skills that can overpower math.
I'm not a particularly outdoorsy person, but being a frugal person, I have noticed that a lot of outdoors activities really do "require" an investment. Equipment can be expensive, as can ski passes or trips. Once you hang out in those circles (as the article states), you don't want to have cheap gear. It's as with anything, I suppose, but with gear, there's always more and better things, which never interested me.

I remember talking with coworkers about bikes and one was recommend bikes to another coworker who wanted to get into cycling and he was recommending some pricey options. I remember thinking that if you want to get into cycling, you really don't have to spend a lot. Cycling shouldn't be about the gear itself. It should be about, well, getting out there and cycling. But for some people, half the fun is spending money on the toys. That same coworker admitted a few weeks later that he bought himself yet another bike, one that was several thousand dollars. Meanwhile I was stressing with my $1200 bike purchase as that felt like a lot of money.
On relatively modern browsers, this is obviated if the DNS name you type into the browser has HSTS preload.

As well as preloading your corporate web site, HSTS preloading can be done hierarchically. For example all of .google, .dev, and .foo is HSTS preloaded, sites in those TLDs don't have plaintext HTTP in modern browsers. Perhaps some day the US government will preload .gov

(Plaintext HTTP still works for these names, a tool like curl doesn't obey HSTS -- it just can't be done in your web browser because it'll get upgraded to an HTTPS request)
I guess I think of myself as genx when I'm actually geny.
A couple problems off the top of my head:

1. Everything is harder to work with: you have to deal with less reliable networks and storage, computers which aren't on all of the time, very slow uplinks, etc. Since these aren't professionally managed systems, too, you have less visibility — did that node just drop offline because the hard drive failed, losing everything, Comcast is having a bad day, the owner just bought a new one and wiped the old one without unenrolling it, or because it rebooted and is almost back up?

2. People are selfish: I don't want Netflix getting slow because you decided to retrieve your data, I'll complain if I hit a storage limit on my computer due to your stored backup data, etc. This forces you do deal with things like traffic shaping and storage rebalancing more aggressively and those are hard problems to get a popular balance on. Consider, for example, what happens when someone uses your service and it goes well but then they run out of space and need to clear some up in a hurry (_especially_ if they put on their cowboy hat and just delete a bunch of large files because they know they aren't the only ones with a copy).

3. The solutions to the previous problems make the cost problem worse: storing more copies can avoid some of the problems but then you need to figure out how to get the network to support, say, 5 copies instead of 2-3.

4. Consider what happens the first time the police bust someone for a major crime and their data is backed up on your computer. Not many people are enthusiastic about going into court to prove the negative assertion that they didn't have a decryption key.

Only peering with trusted systems avoids some of these issues but not all and the _big_ problem is that the upper bound for how much this service is worth is basically the cost of iCloud/Dropbox/S3/Backblaze/etc. The savings you can get between the fixed operational costs and what those services charge is probably not enough to support development.
> but I can tell you that there were $60 rounds of drinks purchased without a second thought and $25 cab rides to the bars. There were $1,500 ski-season cabin shares in Lake Tahoe and a $150-a-month membership at Equinox. There were multiple Starbucks lattes per day and $18 organic steak salads eaten at my desk.

I don't think this is someone who can't cover essential bills with their salary. This is the trap kids fall into (my early 20's self included) when they first start making real money and it feels endless.

It's not endless. It's very easy to fritter away.
One dynamic I think gets overlooked is that parents chose to have the children, even if just in the heat of a moment. Children have little to no say about much of their lives for the first 18 years. So even relatively benign parents may struggle to understand their children's perspective when the children choose to reduce or cut off contact.

Perhaps I'm an outlier but I've gone months without contact and no regrets. And I hope I'll continue to expect nothing back from my children. After all, their existence was our choice as parents. And anything the kids chose to share or give back is an entirely voluntarily gift.
>I have no idea where all my money went.

I can so relate to that.

Fortunately my natural instincts appear to leave me with cash at end of month which I move to savings...but that is about the extent of my control over things.