skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But if your box gets compromised, then whatever it was using to prove to the server that it's legit is also going to be available to the attacker. I guess you're thinking of a scenario where backups are not automated and the user either unerringly knows whether their box is compromised (and doesn't type in said proof when that happens) or uses some 2FA hardware device.

Given the chance, there certainly will be people that use 2FA when making an append-only regular backup, but even among command line restic users I expect this will be the exception rather than the rule.
The last of the main patents expired a few years ago, so any consumer OS should probably support MP3s by now. (IANAL)
That one was #514 for me: https://projecteuler.net/problem=514
Google? Amazon? SEO optimizations that make any search result corrupted towards paid results?
"In the wake of the GameStop short squeeze"

Riiiiiiight.
This was an a well-written and interesting post, but the bug doesn't seem all that weird to me. I'm sure there are numerous race conditions lurking in decade+ old code that are waiting for someone to trip on them.
If this is your best evidence that this guy was an advocate of unfettered free speech, that seems very nebulous and weak.
GNOME people are intentionally braking things, and making it harder to run without GNOME. This way they want to preserve their waning userbase.
A friend got me hooked on PE by pointing me to #208 many years back. Lovely problem, recommended fun time. I wonder if folks here have favorite problems they've worked on as well.
Wow so true and yet that still doesn't make Lowtax an advocate for unfettered free speech.
Yea, I have absolutely no issues when running a mainstream distro with mostly default behavior (PopOS/Ubuntu). When I veered off into StumpWM land, I had a really strange issue that I had to debug.

My laptop is pretty much always in "Nvidia graphics" mode to power the external monitor. When I tried to install Stump I didn't have it hooked up. My laptop screen was completely blank, but everything was functional. To make a long story short, it was completely unrelated to Stump. My Nvidia output was prioritized and the internal screen wasn't activated.

I ended up learning a lot about udev, how to write udev rules (that ended up useful when trying to do something with a keyboard with a unicode symbol in its name that a program didn't like), and how to use xrandr. All in all, it was super satisfying to figure out, and I would say the frustration was worth it for me.

I know exactly zero other people in my life that would say the same thing, but I also know zero other people that would try to install StumpWM.
Lowtax isn’t an advocate for anything, he’s dead.
Getters and setters are nice, but you can’t use them to write a new solution to the diamond inheritance problem.
You cannot be serious. Where do you think all that money went?
Problem #?
The NBBO would be narrower without wholesale market makers.
borg is a fork of attic. Different authors.
These ideas aren’t exclusive, in fact they may require each other to be true.
Wishful thinking with no evidence to back up this click bait.
I don't remember really having that issue, though I don't remember the very first use. I think the only time where I remember being a bit confused, was with the 'forget' command, and I would guess that's just because of its nature rather than due to lacking docs. Testing what I thought was correct with --dry-run solved that problem.

Mostly I just use restic --help or restic subcommand --help anyhow, rather than the docs. Perhaps I'm just not doing fancy enough things with it and that's why I didn't run into edge cases yet where it lacks documentation?
In the US, they are concerned with economic impact, they do a whole in-depth economic cost/benefit analysis as part of determining if it's worth breaking up a monopolist. Whatever 'justice' means in this scenario seems highly subjective. If a monopolist was providing by far the best/cheapest goods and services, more people might prefer that scenario to an alternative competitive market with less benefit on average.

It's arguably unjust for the government to handicap specific people, but also unjust for others not to feel like they all have a fair shot to capture the market. Any time people, not fate, are in charge of handicapping some people will think they are getting the shaft.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GCC-12-A...
Oh sorry, I didn’t realize that we’re talking about “unfettered free speech” which doesn’t appear in the article. Yes, it is true that he did not advocate for your flavor of “freedom” (forcing private entities to host and serve any and all content that you can possibly barf up in perpetuity)
There is a front page?

> I just woke up after hearing a crash. There's a big-ass hole in the World Trade Center, and smoke's pouring out of it. My suitemates are freaking out! That kind of sucks . . .

9/11 as it happened http://www.truegamer.net/SA_911/911%20SATHREAD/wtc01.html

Took about 4 posts for the first joke, something about a band called "I am the World Trade Center" playing their next show while on fire. 10 minutes for the first conspiracy theory: X-files using predictive programming. 22 minutes to pin it on Bin Laden. God I love the internet.

May he forever have stairs in his house.
Just burp really loudly whenever the person is acting inappropriately, or find a zoom group that is actually supportive.
An other story (don't know if there is a nice write up) is "OpenOffice can't print on Tuesdays": https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file/+bug/248619

Edit: Here is one: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161...
(Referenced study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001002772...)

I wonder if changing the overt objective to ‘learn the rule’ would result in the adults outperforming the children?

If you’re told to maximize the number of points, then learning the point value distribution of the blocks is a secondary objective, and we could also wave the conclusion of this experiment as “children don’t follow arbitrarily-valued objectives as well as adults.” Or we can understand this result as an expression of an adult’s developed executive function suppressing the desire to learn for the sake of reaching an objective.

I’m reading the researchers’ interpretation of this experiment as “children have a higher desire to learn” when executive function could explain that while also not diminishing the desire of adults to learn.
There are a few threads in r/linguistics about this. Basically, there's no new evidence here proving Altaic (what she now wants to call transeurasian).
I do front- and back-end web development. I switch between a terminal window (ssh) and a browser window. If I have a separate design I’m working from I cheat by having it on my iPad.
> “I'm obviously not a visionary, but I predicted that the internet would be shitty back in 1999,” Kyanka told Motherboard in 2017. “Everybody was talking about how the internet was going to revolutionize everything and everything was going to be great, but nobody ever talked about how shitty the internet could also be.”

Yeah, obviously not a visionary, otherwise we would have said that about "metaverse".
> Lots of things "don't need" to be written in python, but they're written in python anyway.

This is a weak argument. Many things shouldn't be written in python, because it would the wrong tool for the job. Networking libraries that require bare metal performance, high assurance systems that are easier to write in strongly typed languages.

Block chains solve untrusted writing in the presence of byzantine faults. Not all applications require this. Most don't.

> Like... why _not_ dump Merkle roots on-chain?

Because the data isn't merkelized?
Databricks introduced an open source data sharing feature earlier this year. I don't know Databricks well enough to comment on the other two.
Uhhh, there was definitely harm...

The FBI's helpdesk # reportedly got swamped and this probably wasted hundreds if not thousands of man-hours of agents getting panicked calls from organizations they actually work with.

I'm guessing this wasted hundreds of thousands of man-hours of time at organizations around the globe as people tried to figure out WTF was going on. I'd bet a lot of people told their bosses it was obvious bullshit and were told to call a local FBI office to confirm anyway "just in case."

The person who exploited this could have done a proper vulnerability disclosure.

Or sent a genuinely funny/clever message along the lines of "We were lying about the aliens all along, press conference to be held at DoJ HQ this Sunday, 7:15AM" to a couple of news stations.

Whoever did this came across the vulnerability and decided to be an asshole about it.
Ask HN: What kind of product you want to see and use?
I am looking for ideas, do you have product ideas you want to see implemented and like to use?

Please don't include fusion, quantum machines, nuclear station like ideas, I can't ship such products, looking for ideas in software business, can be desktop app for email, calendar, video editing, web app for X,Y,Z.

Thanks!
Everything? It's like a pilot on a sim v. real life with 300+ people/"souls"...
U.S. Companies Aid China’s Bid for Chip Dominance Despite Security Concerns
Does Japan not consider something like three years professional experience to be equivalent to one year of further education study? “Equivalent experience”?
I did, it didn't lead to any success.
I love how he called people who used to give him money but stopped "idiots"
Both Ann Arbor and Detroit have special events trying to lure back expatriates. Wish East Lansing did something similar but afraid we lack the startup jobs to make it worthwhile.

What Lansing does do is have social events trying to convince junior and seniors at MSU to stay locally and they've had some success with it.

I've personally tried to get several MSU alums Valley startups to outsource customer service jobs to East Lansing. The salaries they pay for those positions make it a struggle to live in SF but would be a fair wage in Michigan. I haven't had any success yet but I won't stop trying ;<).
leibniz' project always reminded me of word2vec

ada lovelace was warned off poetry because her mom hated her dad, and pushed into science, and so she developed 'poetical science' aka general computing. (she was also inspired by embroidery card technology I think)
Just ban all forms of prime movers because all of them are bad for the environment. Let Tesla owners charge their cars with diesel generators.
I am pretty fine with people bailing out of shit jobs, more power too them.

Not sure how I feel about rebelling and just not working, sooner or later it's likely these people will need to be supported by someone.I wouldn't wish retirement age poverty on anyone.
Having rules against certain content means you are not a platform for "unfettered free speech". That's not some sort of moralistic slur it's just a fact that runs contrary to the post I was responding to.

It's not "against the concept of free speech" to run a platform with censorship/moderation, it just means your platform isn't a place to practice it.
No. The alert E-6s are normally at Travis AFB and NAS Patuxent River. There are two planes you have to take out.

Now, I have seen some evidence that this vulnerability is being more acknowledged and that they're moving around the alerts more. It's not a full roving alert because of course there are a limited number of crews, they have families, and there are not that many bases that have the working alert facilities that Pax River and Travis have.

I actually happened to be driving by a random air force base on a road trip recently and happened to see an E-4 taxiing for takeoff, which was interesting to me. They may be using those more to try to increase the alert coverage.

I saw some congressional testimony from 2019 about this issue, and the general was asked why they can't move back to continuous airborne alert like they did before '91, and the answer was that the E-6s are old and they don't have very many, and that they would only be able to do this for a couple of months before maintenance requirements precluded them from launching. Sitting on the ground puts less hours on the engines and airframes and so they can maintain that alert.
I think those are potentially the two worst examples to pick to argue for deregulation given the huge impacts on people's lives and potential of killing people (healthcare). Banks too though the risks are more from lessons learned from giant banks which you can't become overnight. But consumer protection is a big one, even if deposits are protected, predatory behavior is a big problem and profit center of small banks.

I can definitely buy into less regulation for most other businesses or small businesses though.
They just try to make their stance clear that they want competition to be more organic than whatever they are reacting to. Monopolies arent prohibited, anti-competitive practices are sanctionable.
Many animals aren't under strong pressure to increase efficiency of their brains, because these brain are small and majority of metabolism is put into very basal structures like brainstem.

Birds for example were under such evolutionary pressure and look where it got them - Corvidae have 15g brain and they are much smarter than 22g squirell or 30g cat.

Moreover, such choices have tradeoffs, improving efficiency often requires more precise regulation that can be nondesirable for small species.
That’s awful actually. If it’s actually relevant to the job that’s one thing, but if it’s about selecting for areas of extracurricular interest it’s inherently excluding qualified people and implicitly harming your team by limiting present perspectives.
yeah.. my first hypothesis i was jumping to was that reducing the ion channels reduces specialization and can work on improving distributed(across) neurons decisions/calls... It would be interesting to see a cognitive behavioural task both primates and humans can do and see if the blood flow/electromagnetic activity is more spread across the brain vs more localized in parts of the brain.
"My guess is jumping to conclusions has probably saved many a human ( and animal) energy and lives throughout history."

Exactly. EG: In 10,000BC you hear a cat hissing in a cave. You figure you shouldn't go into the cave. You wouldn't try to second guess yourself and "explore".
Yes, no one I knew wanted to be zuck.

But I'm surprised you could find much drama or political commentary through all the app spam of the late 00's in Facebook.
Ableton Live is an incredible piece of software, the people who make it deserve to be paid.
The cost of living in Michigan is so much lower they shouldn't need to match west coast salaries. How many first year first year engineers are able to buy a house for example on the West coast?
Honestly it depends. I've helped a two companies I've angel invested in wind down, it isn't fun and a lot of other investors walk away. As a founder you have a good amount of your reputation wrapped up in this company, so how you exit is how you'll be remembered. If you're the CEO, you should probably to stay on to wind it down, make sure you leave some cash to close out bills (lawyers etc). If you have revenue and a decent team you might be able to "soft land" it to a bigger co for about the amount of $ that you raised (in new co stock for investors) and retention packages for the team.

If you're not the CEO, you have less responsibility to stay (but might reduce the value in a soft landing), very situation specific. From your quick description of what you might do and what you've liked doing, you'll be a great resource to any team... but if you're technical and like spending time with customers you'll be VERY valuable to a technical company (on either the business or engineering side honestly).

If you are looking, would love for you to consider Replicated. We're 100% remote, deeply technical, recently raised a Series C and have lots of openings for technical folks: https://www.replicated.com/careers (and since our customers are other enterprise software companies, your experience is likely valuable). Feel free to email me directly: grant at replicated (same invite for other HN folks if this sounds interesting).
What is broken with hiring in tech?
I think you are referring to my comparison of age vs gpg[1]. That in no way indicates that I have anything against authenticated encryption. I just point out that age has no data recovery utility.

BTW, when used in a normal way, an offline capable, stateless system as embodied in the OpenPGP message standard uses signatures to provide integrity protection[2]. Which might bring us a bit closer to the matter at hand I suppose.

[1] https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:agevspgp

[2] https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:authenticated
I would suggest joining a big co. so that you have that on your resume; then you can go back to risky startups after a couple years. The big co. on your resume will smooth over the fact that you didn't finish college.
As a contrarian I hate it.

Naysaying fault finding and challenging norms serves to help people think through the problem and assess what might go wrong before it does.

This, while an amusing bot who poopoos every idea serves to critize without thought.

This isn't to downplay the work or amusement value, but people need to critically think through their ideas and think how will this fail, why isn't this a good idea, have we tried this before, if so how can we not fail the same way. If the bot could be taught the experience of the sage greybeards without the immediate I didn't think of it so I don't like it, this would move from novelty amusement to practical.

Extremely funny though.
In the end, the Internet made us stupid.
That's right, there have already been enough ewwwlogies written about him.
Find an early, exciting startup that's growing fast! As your post suggests, personal motivation often correlates with a startup's momentum. When the team is consistently winning, the effort feels worthwhile. :)

Plus your experience from the last few years would be really valuable to other early-stage startups, and enable you to grow quickly as a leader.

I'm the CTO at Zippity, a seed-stage SaaS business. We recently got new funding and are hiring 3 more software developers (doubling our team). https://www.getzippity.com/careers

Feel free to email me, to hear more or just to chat. Email in my profile.
The Last Personal Organizer You Will Need.

Seriously though. No TODO app has worked so well for so long for me.
What evidence or theory should lead me to believe this?
That's an apt ewwwlogy.
The Hindenburg had Daimler-Benz DB 602 engines, each with a dry weight of 1,976 kg (total 7,904 kg). With these beefy engines the ship consumed from 130-180kg of diesel pr. hour so they must have had considerable diesel tanks as well.

As you burn fuel the ship becomes lighter so the Hindenburg vented about 20% of it's hydrogen to maintain equilibrium in a North-Atlantic crossing. That's about 16,400 kg of hydrogen released in an average flight.

I'd guess the engines of the Hindenburg were probably providing much more power than needed. So a nuclear powered airship might be very much possible, especially since it does not require venting (or gas re-fueling) as it's weight does not change.
> States really have little leverage, they want competition but could really just wind up completely unserviced as a corporation says bye bye to their irrelevant market.

The state of Texas has a GDP similar to that of Canada, the state of New York to that of Russia, the state of California to that of France. Are these irrelevant markets? Even Vermont, all the way at the bottom, is beating out El Salvador, Honduras, Haiti, etc.

Also note that multiple states are joining together in the same suit.

Even if a corporation was willing to abandon an entire state over this, then all the people in that state would need something else, and that something else would become big enough for third parties to have to care about it and thereby become a viable competitor everywhere. Which might just be the best thing that could happen.
Seems that org-mode is powerful enough to not only convert vim->Emacs, but also Android->iOS
The phrase “unfettered free speech” only appears in the comments here and not in the article. I can also make up stuff he could have said but didn’t. As far as I know, he didn’t advocate for changing the name of Myanmar back to Burma, so that’s an indicator that he supported military-run governments?

That being said, if you’re not willing to host me and my friends’ tentacle porn libraries, you’re not an advocate for free speech at all, so what are we actually talking about here?
Sounds like red tape or other stupidity. Ramping up very hot yes, but matching loads like you would with a gas plant no.
That sounds rational, but it's not. There's nobody, public or private sector, nobody at all that can make a real economic assessment of the value of a service line Facebook or Google. Those who claim otherwise are stupid, lying, or selling something. Markets and economics are unpredictable systems that have nothing to do with models of rational actors behaving in their own self interest. They're fundamentally extensions of chaotic biological systems and inherently resistant to oracles as a matter of mathematical reality.

What would be rational is if we actually endeavored as a society to make sure everyone is accountable to the same rules to the same degree. By using this magical thinking / cost benefit analysis, we're simply incentivizing victory for the best storytelling middleman.
I was there in DC with Google from 2006-2012, and I think that's a fair view. We got asked if we could help, and wanted to help, so we tried where we could.
Of course now everyone just wants to paint everything with malicious and negative intent so I'm sure someone will in response, but it really was just a bunch of smart techies trying to help.

(Can't speak generally to zuck, but at least from what I saw people didn't really view Facebook and zuck the same way)
Found this:

https://www.dyspatch.io/blog/why-is-gmail-clipping-my-emails...
Check out both the Detroit New Tech and Ann Arbor New Tech. Both groups broadcast their monthly meetings.

On Facebook subscribe to Hackers and Hustlers which has Michigan entrepreneurs all over the world but primarily in state. If you're looking for jobs open check HnH Freelance and Jobs.

You can also subscribe to Crain's in Detroit which is a business paper for SE Michigan and has a lot of stories on startups.
I recommend staying in the dark on this one: a few years ago I asked "what's org mode", and now my whole life is lived inside Emacs.
The Methane Hunters Racing to Change the Course of Global Warming
It's crazy, man. I'd expect it from Microsoft, but it blows me away that Google went this route

Facebook went from ZERO firmware expertise to where they are today. They're still asking idiotic, irrelevant leetcode questions and filtering out a lot of good hardware/firmware people, but it's entirely possible that in a few years they'll actually have a world class device team up and running.

Maybe Google was just too short-sighted. They kept trying to jimmy VR into all the world's low-quality phones, and then gave up really quickly after that proved unworkable.
I guess the pusher robot got the last laugh.
Hi there,

Not the personal advice that you're looking for, but would you, your partners, and your investors be interested in selling the zombie startup? We serve enterprise customers, and think that a "couple hundred k in revenue" is quite impressive, especially for just two years with very little professional experience.

If you have current customers, they might appreciate knowing that there is continuity, and might be more open to you if you were to ever reach out to them again.

Thanks. [email in profile]