skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I downloaded an RPG last week and played it for 20hrs since then because it was so good.

If I can earn my wage by slaying skeletons, searching for rare flowers or hunting some virtual deers then sign me up I guess. Although I wonder how fast it would get boring, you know, because of that whole "If transform your hobby into your job it can get boring pretty quickly"-thing.
I had happen after a promotion that changed my LinkedIn title to something more prominent.

Still can’t prove what happened but someone ported my number from my carrier to Sprint and it took easily 18 hours to undo it. And it required convincing sprint, which I had no affiliation with, that the original transfer was not intended, and that yes I want to reverse it out.

Crazy painful.
It's extremely common for people to not only advertise that they have specific skills, but even to have been using those skills for years, yet be entirely unable to demonstrate those skills when requested.

C++ is a particularly badly affected language for some reason. I think there are a lot of people who learned C++ once, a long time ago, then moved to Java as quickly as they could when it came out. But nobody likes to admit that maybe they lost a skill they once had, so they keep putting it down on the CV regardless. And then when asked to write something like hello world, they don't remember how to use std::cout or whatever.
I actually enjoy them, as long as they are civil and technically correct. They are right to point out that the signal had nothing to do with the rescue, its a fair point.

I treat those comments as reality check that lets me question my own stance and views. Afterall we all have different opinions, and mine might not be right.
The public key can be derived from the private key

They then check both certificate transparency to see if the public key matches any certificates that have been generated, and to see if it's used by a github user (will this public key let me in to a github repo)

If neither, then it's not sensitive (well it might be, but only like finding a key on the floor in the street is -- won't do you much good without knowing where you can use it)

In the first case, if you have the private key, you can spoof the website

In the second case, if you have the private key, you not only have push access to the repos that user has (which could be quite wide ranging), but also you're likely able to get into many servers via SSH, as developers tend to use the same ssh key for github and for server access

What their latest software does is take your key and check it against these sources,

Now private keys have a further layer of protection - the passphrase. Turns out the majority of passphrases belonging to the leaked private keys are trivial ones.

Many leaked keys will unlikely to be used anywhere, but it turns out many more are.
The author doesn't address the biggest issue: ensuring scarcity of digital artifacts. How does a digital artist create limited editions of their digital artwork?
How critical would a load–store architecture be to making that late 70s/early 80s "pre-RISC" better than the CPUs Intel and Motorola were cranking out?

E.g. imagine a simpler 16 bit extension of the 8080 than the 8086 was, with basically just more registers and focusing on making instructions execute in fewer cycles but maintaining a register–memory architecture (potentially also removing or simplifying some instructions but I think the 8080 ISA was already pretty minimal)?
Yes, matrix is designed as a distributed database and chat is just one application. Check out https://matrix.to/#/#beyond-chat:matrix.org
Did you see Ross Douthat’s NYT piece on using EMF vibrations to cure his Lyme disease?

Using a Rife machine. He knows it doesn’t work but still thinks it works.
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We are doing double or triple ordering of goods not because of end-customer demand but because we fear our suppliers are not able to deliver.

Our competitors are doing the same.

At aggregate it may look like a “demand shock” due to too loose monetary policies but maybe it is not really what is going on.
The -x modifier in Google is basically a NOT “x” if I understand my Boolean operators correctly. The - can be combined with other operators to NOR instead of AND. Hope that helps.

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en
#include "~/memes/picard-facepalm.gif"
In Europe you find excellent normal bikes for about €300; you can also find them used, for less.

Then you can convert those to ebikes with kits that cost €500-800 depending on power of motor and range of battery.

That's what I did; I transformed a regular Btwin Rockrider bike to an ebike 3 years ago, and have now ridden about 10k km with it. Couldn't be happier. It changed my life.

I used to drive a (big) motorbike; it's now been a year since I used it; it just doesn't make any sense to use a motorbike instead of an ebike for rides under 15 km, which are most if not all rides.

I built a second ebike for travel by train. Some trains have special "seats" for bikes but most don't, and they are in very limited supply anyway. But you can put a folding bike in the luggage compartment without a problem.

So I bought a used folding bike for €50, still in excellent condition, added a (low power) hub motor and a battery for €400, and I can go almost anywhere without worrying about finding a cab at my destination. It's exhilarating.
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Correct me if I am wrong: fly's anycast has its limitations compared to Global Accelerator (GA) though:

On ocassion, it breaks UDP protocols that are "connection oriented" (like QUIC and WireGuard, though both have built-in capabilities to recover).

There is no way to pin traffic to VMs (route / client affinities) or shape traffic.

100+ locations with GA, and two Anycast IPs (in two distinct "zones").

---

Alternatives to Fly on AWS that I know of:

Anycast on AWS without global accelerator: S3 buckets with transfer acceleration); (edge optimized) API Gateway to Lamba / Fargate; S3 + CloudFront.

AWS AppRunner + Copilot (which are comparable to Fly + Flyctl) can be geo-routed to nearest instance by DNS-based load balancing with Route53 (not anycast specifically).

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Fly's killer feature (and why we are transitioning to it) is its cost-effectiveness and almost 'zero-devops' setup.

- Super cheap bandwidth ($2 per 100GB!)

- Free deploys (AppRunner charges for deploys)

- Free monitoring (versus expensive but comprehensive CloudWatch)

- Free orchestration

- Free anycast transit (expensive on aws)

- Cheaper, zero-touch, global/cross-region private-network across VMs in the same fly org (zero-muck: transit gateway, nat gateway, internet gateway, vpc private endpoints, iam policies...).

- Super cheap and fast disks ($0.15 per GB/disk!)

- Easier HA Postgres and HA Redis setups.

- GA's TCP proxy does not preserve source/client ip-ports (Fly can).
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The kernel is written in C. Ok, why does that matter? Because its interfaces and architecture are tightly intertwined with C. Remember that C was partially developed to use in building Unix.

So, kernel was written in C and therefore uses C data structures, pointers, and follows C conventions for using them (for example, kernel might return a struct of pointers). This applies to interfaces and structures, making syscalls (depending on which syscall and what is needed), checking return values or error codes.

You don’t NEED this stuff exactly to run on Unix. What and how much you need, or even just convenience, are how it boils down. If you want to use eBPF to trace things from raw network packets, syscalls, file systems, you can do some in Python but you’ll need some degree of C.

You want to run a Django or flask app in just Python? Good to go.

[This article on Linux ABI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_binary_interface) might help explain better/in more detail.

Sorry if this isn’t the best explanation, I’m on mobile and up too late.
Even if it looks like you can disable it, I wouldn't be surprised at all if they'll still let you recover access with the phone number if you fail to log in enough times. They want people using their accounts, searching and using other Google $ervices.
Hey, thanks for the link, it was a really nice read!
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A copy of digital art has (to an approximation) no value because it is infinitely reproducible. But an hour of an artist's time has value due to scarcity. The obvious answer — that the article doesn't mention for some reason — is that artists make money from commissions, not from selling copies of the art.
That's quite a good idea, actually.

I usually don't like slippery slope arguments, but I wonder how slim the margin is between "hand out blocks for time volunteering at an animal shelter" and "if you don't behave how we want you to you don't get anything" aka. some form of social credit system.

But if it truly is used for good things that sounds very promising. I also like your idea of micropayments, so just people getting paid in the background when others visit or use their creations, sounds like a thing NFTs could achieve.
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So this is basically a newer, cooler IronPython?
> The scripting languages of the future I see more in things like Unreal Blueprints.

A lot of people have an aversion for anything visual programming. Usually when someone mentions Blueprints (here or on r/gamedev on reddit) I see a whole slew of replies talking about how bad it is, how nobody makes any real things with it[1] and how visual programming is terrible. Of course, they're all programmers who forget that textual programming isn't for everyone and that visual languages are extremely successful in other fields (especially for artists and musicians).

I'm a programmer with ~20 years of textual language programming under my belt, but I spent a few months with Max/MSP and personally, I loved it. I'm a very visual thinker, I often think on paper or whiteboards with boxes and lines and I found that when using Max, I could skip this thinking step and go directly to code. Sure, its not for everyone, but for me, it was a very pleasant experience.

Yes, Max isn't a good replacement for a general purpose programming language and Blueprints apparently also has its warts, but they are extremely useful and successful and I do agree that we will see more like this in the future. I do feel that a good general purpose visual language could be created[2] Even Blender is moving that direction with its "nodes everywhere" thing.

[1] Despite projects like this being written entirely in Blueprints: https://www.youtube.com/c/RaymondCripps Also the Bloodborne PS1 demake: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaxcBWED_UhcjhoG7nUeUoA

[2] At the time, my big complaints with Max were lack of general purpose data structures (and reference types allowing you to build stuff like trees yourself -- although you could write C/C++ extensions and presumably create such things there), no tools for unit testing etc, afaik its added a bunch of data structures since so maybe its a lot closer now?
This is also the reason why a lock-down against a virus is not always the best option for healthy people. A lock-down causes stress and this weakens the immune system.

Personally I think it is obvious why the connection between stress and 'subsystems' is there.
Stress puts the body into survival mode. Heavy breathing is an example. But when the stress holds on for too long it exhausts your body causing all kinds of trouble. The most extreme example is a burnout.
Has anyone ever actually tried to fight against bloat in the workplace?

It really doesn't go down well. Most developers love it.
> Perhaps this is in reference to nested data structures

If you have nested data structures then it violates 1NF, i.e. the data isn't normalised.

Any "pure" RDBMS won't even be able to represent that denormalised data in a table, let alone query it with SQL. Normally this is worked around by straight up serialising it. Obviously some implementations have extensions, like Postgres has JSON columns.
Meat can be easily substituted, so I'd consider that discretionary spending. Furthermore, producing meat consumes many times the plants, than if humans directly consumed those plants. So in an emergency, just stop producing meat and you'll have plenty of plant-based food left.
Also relevant, the Behavioral Immune System and it's many vexing consequences.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_immune_system
You sweat a lot less (if at all) on an ebike though.
SMS are easy, you can do that with AT-Commands. Voice calls, I don't know, haven't tested that. ModemManager has support for it though, and for SMS.

https://github.com/freedesktop/ModemManager/blob/master/NEWS
Hello everyone and fellow cryptographers,

The next FHE.org meetup will be on November 23rd at 6pm Paris time. Rosario Cammarota from Intel will be talking about hardware acceleration for homomorphic encryption.

All the info are on the fhe.org website, including the link to register.

Finally, we have started a community discord to discuss about FHE, for those interested in continuing the conversation after the meetups! https://discord.gg/fvZ48443zD
Oh yes, that's an amazing reason.
> It's not like wealth-gaps will be left outside of any realistic metaverse

Unfortunately, yeah. Would've been a chance to at least make it better virtually than how we handle these issues in real life, but I think humans will take their flaws with them wherever they go and whatever they do.
>It was released last year and is indeed available.

It's confusing because the url the HN user submitted was dated "August 2, 2020" and it has a future tense sentence: "The book arrives in August. I hope you’ll check it out.

Since the book was already released, the better link (which lists the TOC) is probably: https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/the-book/
Lack of scarcity is the unique selling point of the digital. I think future generations will look back at the madness of manufacturing scarcity because society refused to adapt to abundance.
How are sidewalks "polish"?

In most of the world, they're the default thing - before a roadway suitable for cars, before piped water, before sewers, before electricity.
How does this differ from JMESPath[1] ?

[1] https://jmespath.org/
Something strange is going on with their figures that I don't understand. In Australia I got a 5kW system installed for AUD8000 before rebate (AUD3500 after rebate). So that's USD6000 for 5kW, or about $1.20 per W installed.

I think the "5kW" I'm talking here refers to kW of AC current at peak generation - whenever I walk past I tend to see about 4.5 kW give or take any time between 9am and 4pm. My system is neither the flashiest nor the cheapest components.

How can it be $3 per W installed in USA but only $1.20 per W in expensive Australia? Am I missing something?
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I disagree. It is different because showing up late effectively robs another group of people of their time. You can always say, “hey I have to duck out at a quarter til, so…”

In any case, it’s probably best to make all meetings 50 minutes long instead of scheduling in blocks of hours. I always set speedy meetings on in Google Cal.
OT: I would have gone with the 'libinux' name, just to have a cool -linux command line flag like 'libiberty'
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If claims to have good knowledge in TS, but had not played around with Prophet (which is dead simple, takes a few hours - or 15 minutes for you - to see some problems), how interested/knowledgeable are they in TS? (I assume that they look for candidates knowledgeable in that field, and just playing around with prophet dosnt make you knowledgeable)

Especially in TS is saw many PhDs, really focussed on one specific method, not looking left and right and neither are pragmatic about their choices. Which is essential to solve anything in real life. Filtering candidates out, based on criteria like "played around with different stuff" is a good indicator for open-minded people IMHO.
Yes, obviously my keys are already stored, I've already said that im lazy? =)
Nice, thank you! :) I will investigate this.
Self hosting is very very much my thing indeed.
Off-world colony simulation: Changes in human communication over time with Earth
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I noticed Bonham's are currently auctioning NFTs for soccer football trading cards

One for Ronaldo with 2days left is 180k with an expected sale of 800k-1.2m (usd)

People have gone mad
Do we know this is true? Could the loop back also be an illusion? From a cursory glance it seems like "free will" is massively exaggerated. However, the belief of free will seems to be healthy.
How many of us are spending time reducing bloat in our own (or our companies') software? We should put our money where our mouth is, when we have the power to make that decision.
That is indeed magnificent, but... $20k??!?
There are other possible interpretations of this:

1. They disagreed with you about code quality. For example: Imagine your tool highlighted duplication across tests and pushed people into using things like rspec’s shared examples. People would disagree with (their interpretation of) you that duplication was worse than the wrong abstraction.

2. They were already overwhelmed trying to follow multiple rules from multiple people (PM, CTO, manager, team lead, various staff engineers) who all have conflicting ego-driven priorities.

3. They see rules not being followed by other people and consequently feel like they lack the skill to be the unique engineer who can simultaneously jump through all the hoops and execute fast enough to avoid losing their home by being judged as “the slow one”.
At $20k apiece I don't think there are a lot of these around...
Well, I'd prefer that they could drive safely on a dangerous road without a helicopter enforcing it, but human nature is what it is.

Far too many people seem to think that their wants and needs and beliefs are so important that fuck the rest of you.

(Could also be that old chestnut about 75% of drivers considering themselves above average)
Cars are driven based on relative braking distances, i.e. it is assumed that the vehicle in front of you will never come to a sudden stop. So you only need to keep a certain smaller margin to account for your reaction time (and some drivers ignore even that). This mostly works, but sometimes that assumption breaks down and you get something like a mass pile-up for example.

Trains are held to higher safety standards, and so even modern train control system are usually based on absolute braking distance (and even when you want to space trains closer together regardless, as soon you need to throw a set of points between trains at a junction you're back to absolute braking distances, because as long as they aren't set safely towards one direction or the other, a set of points is effectively a stationary obstacle), i.e. there's always enough free space in front of the train to safely brake to a stop.

This limits how closely trains can follow each other, and on urban railways it's normally the combination of dwell times (doors opening, passengers alighting and boarding, doors closing) and platform reoccupation times (wheels starting turning on the first train leaving the station to wheels stopping turning on the next train arriving at the station) that determine your minimum headway. (And for actually usable – as opposed to merely theoretical – capacity you also need to add at least a small amount of extra margin to compensate for possible dwell time variations and other day-to-day occurrences)
How does an artist get paid?
Where scripts includes anything you can compile to wasm. That enables a lot of interesting stuff. Including, say, compiling some lisp to wasm to e.g. retrofit some emacs stuff via a vs code extension. Probably a bit redundant but it would not surprise me to see some code sharing long term between the two ecosystems via wasm.
I find it a rather disturbing phenomenon, to be honest. Governments, scientists and media insist that we place enormous faith in the outputs of medical trials and studies. Anyone who expresses doubt about these is ostracised and forced to comply regardess. Yet every single one of them has to control for this entirely mysterious, inexplicable force that magically heals people with no actual medicine. This effect is so real, large and standard that it's mandated by law to take it into account yet we understand basically nothing about it (often even what the placebo was chosen to be is opaque), it's barely researched and the total lack of ability to explain it doesn't seem to bother anyone. Least of all regulators, who are meant to ensure the effect size of trials are correctly interpreted.

It feels like there's this enormous, sophisticated scientific edifice that can draw pictures of proteins and explain how they interact, and in the centre of it all is a giant rotating question mark that everyone by convention ignores and pretends isn't there.
It's a _standalone_ headset, though... so more equivalent to spending 2k on a laptop.
Yes, this is precisely why we should have phased these out in the first world (and required the same of our business partners in the second world) decades ago. The longer we wait, the worse it will be. It’s like credit card debt—if you stop depending on it, you’ll have a little less money in the short term, but you need to or you’ll have much less money in the long term.
As far as I know China didn't announce anything. Where is the official announcement?

The source is a Bloomberg article ( https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-11-02/china-cli... ) which states that the boss of Chine General Power corp. announced his plans 200GW for 2035, nothing more. Admitting that it is an official governmental announcement (it doesn't seem so(?)) and given that China already has 50GW, that's maybe 100GW new (way less than 150 standard reactors).

Compare with renewables: 790GW already running (26% of the gridpower), and 1200GW planned for 2030. In 2020 China added 71,6GW windturbine power. Even considering the load factors the picture is pretty clear.

Complements:
https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/The-World-Nuclear-Industr...

https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/The-World-Nuclear-Industr...

(Thanks to Y. Marignac for part of the data)
I have real anxiety about being locked out from "digital self" someday due to issues like this. Sometimes I really think this just isn't worth it anymore and I'm far too invested in "the Internet".
Try using VSCode in terminal mode when you're logged into a remote machine via SSH and see how well that goes.

> It's slow (I have i7 with 4 cores and 32Gb of RAM)

Something is wrong here. I can't remember the exact specs of the machine when I first started using it but it might have been as low as a 486 with 1 core and 32Mb of RAM.
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One use case I was wondering for NFTs; would it make sense for photographers?

So if I took some "amazing" photos of stuff, whether it was art, landscape or 'stock' style photos. I could list them on a website to be sold, and sell the NFT of the photo.

Yes - anyone can "right click -> copy" the photo, but we are talking about the licensing side of the photo. This proves the person using the photo(s) in their product or website etc has the "right" to use that photo, in the same way open source projects have licences that people are expected to follow?

The person who bought the photo could on sell those rights at a later stage if they no longer wanted to use my photo (since anyone can sell the NFT).

Basically shutterstock.com or something, but with NFTs? Its about the only genuine use case I can think of...