skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YAGNI.

If it's interesting, bookmark, if you need something, Ctrl-F in your bookmarks.

If it's immediately related to your work in a way that can be applied right now, don't bookmark it or make a note or anything.

Just... apply that to your work.
“empty, patronizing, virtue signaling” is basically why all office jobs used to expect employees to wear ties.
Best practices for REST API security: Authentication and authorization
There's a fairly active community of folks gaming on the major public cloud providers, which only provide images for Windows Server, but games work just fine. In fact, NVIDIA provides an official gaming AMI based on Windows Server: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-xrrke4dwueqv6
It doesn't look like hackers are necessarily the intended audience, but it would have been interesting to read about some of the failsafes preventing this system from causing overdoses or other dangerous conditions.
Thanks, tell that to Gov. Newsom: https://old.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/qr34sz/...
Boomers? I'm getting tired of reading this. Youre being manipulated by partisan politics.
Unfortunately, my enterprise scale employer forced me onto ECS on EC2 for some of my apps for a very specific reason: Reserved instance pricing. I think there’s reserved instance-like pricing for Fargate now. For one particular set of containers (Java application we license from a vendor and then customize with plugins somewhat), the CPU and RAM requirements are fairly large so the savings of ECS on EC2 with the longest Reserved Instance Contract means that I will forever be dealing with the idiocy of ASG based Capacity Providers.

For those not in the know, ASG based Capacity Providers are hard to work with because they are very immutable so you end up having to create-then-delete any changes that touch the capacity provider. A capacity provider cannot be deleted if the ASG has any instances. Many tools like terraform’s AWS provider will refuse to delete the ASG till the capacity provider is deleted. The terraform provider just cannot properly reason about the process of discovering and scaling in the ECS tasks on the provider, scaling in the ASG, waiting for 0 instances, and then deleting the Capacity Provider. It’s honestly beyond how providers are supposed to work.

TL;DR: The flow chart is somewhat correct: Do everything in your power to run on ECS Fargate. It’s mature enough and has excellent VPC and IAM support these days. Stay as far away from ECS on EC2 as you can.

As for EKS, I like it but this company runs on the whole “everyone can do whatever” so each team would have to run its own EKS cluster. If we had a centralized team providing a base k8s cluster with monitoring and what not built in for us to deploy on, I’d be more amenable to it. As it stands, I would have to learn both the development and ops AND security sides of running EKS for a handful of apps. ECS while seeming similar on the surface is much simpler and externalizes concepts like ingresses and load balancing and persistence into the AWS concepts and tooling (CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform) you already know (one hopes).
They say it is ‘technology agnostic’ which is shorthand for it is going to get stolen for fixed wireless that will fail to reach people.

Then 8 or 12 years from now when the Democrats get elected again they will do it all over again and it will be a lot more money but only for unaffordable and unworkable technology, not fiber.
This more akin to Booking.com placing ads for hotels in an area. The hotel gets revenue and Booking.com gets commission, and sometime advertising recovery fees on top.

Developers of apps should be allowed to opt out of this, or really should be an opt in feature.
Not OP but I’m interested in this subject as well. I took a look at this book and others that are similar and I’ve realized my foundations on math are really lacking to even understand the given examples. Since I only had the opportunity to finish my high school diploma and this was several years ago I wonder if you could have any suggestion to brush my math knowledge up in order to properly understand the examples of these books. The thing for me is that I’m not sure where I should start. Would you know any resource to introduce me to the math foundations in order to understand such texts? Or maybe math concepts that I should study before I dig in. I really appreciate it. Thanks.
You're correct, I realized subscription details aren't available on 'HN to Kindle' to those who haven't logged in It's 5 USD(parity adjusted for other countries) one time payment for lifetime subscription.

Edit: I have added a sentence about the subscription details now.
Ah yes, the "honest authenticity" of only hiring white and asian males. Those were the days.
Keyless Signatures with GitHub Actions
I'm a hardcore leftie. so I agree with the sentiment behind these initiatives, and also agree with you that the current treatment is somewhat facile and annoying.

but really? if being offended by this is the most important thing about your choice of employment - maybe your priorities are a little skewed?
Everybody compensating like FAANG does will find new hires. The question is: are they the best?
That's just not true (well the clusterfuck part is). Big tech dominates the top of the list for most well regarded brands.

https://fortune.com/worlds-most-admired-companies/

https://morningconsult.com/most-loved-brands-2020/
If I don't want vendor lock-in, or a minimal amount, how should I run containers on AWS?
Effectively this is done as a POC, don't expect any security on a machine running Windows 2000 nowadays.

Regarding legality, I hope that Microsoft doesn't claim any rights, since the Windows 2000 image has been published in WinWorld for years without issues.
The success of NFTs remind me of fart and flash light apps when the app stores first came online.
Bodies don't pile up on the streets in an advanced first world country. That's kinda the problem: everyone is entitled to the best medical care.
A 100 years ago nobody would have even blinked at a cholera epidemic in Stockholm's slums causing deaths.

In the Netherlands less than one thousand patients on the ICU is able to bring a healthcare system to a grinding halt.
Removing all unnecessary bloatware from Xiaomi MIUI without root
I think the parent means "heavier" as "more metal" for a band name (like "Cannibal Corpse").
I think a lot of politicians lacked and still lack the moral courage to say “we don’t know yet” or “we’re acting out of caution as the science isn’t clear”. I’m not sure how we can devise a system of politics where moral courage doesn’t conflict with career progression, perhaps a nonpartisan democracy would be better for this but that may have issues of its own.
Effect Sizes: Why Significance Alone Is Not Enough (2018)
Perhaps we don't agree on certain terminology.

I would opine that a debugger in the usual sense is a software that interacts with both the end user (frontend) and the debugee program (debugging/tracing engine), allowing the user to study, analyze, and manipulate the dynamic execution of said program.

The debugger stacks on e.g. Linux and Windows are as follows:

- Linux: GDB, LLDB (frontend + debugging framework); libbfd, libdwarf (object file/symbol engine); ptrace (debugging/tracing engine)

- Windows: WinDbg, cdb, ntsd, kd (frontend); DbgEng.dll (debugging framework); DbgHelp.dll (object file/symbol engine); DbgUi*, Nt* syscalls, kd stubs (debugging/tracing engine)

I have a question: would you call gdbserver a debugger?
Ask HN: Is there an Chrome extension highlighting new posts?
I was using the "hckr news" extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hckr-news/mnlaodleonmmfkdhfofamacceeikgecp) to get a highlight of the new posts in a thread but it has recently stopped working.

Anyone knows of another extension that can highlight new posts?
why drm?

drm will always get broken.
In case you want to go for something aimed at competitive programming have a look at the "Competitive Programmer’s Handbook"
https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf
FWIW, I think it’s probably appropriate to disclose that you’re the CTO of a reactionary social media competitor when you make a post like this.
Well, to be fair, your does a bit more than the simple solution above. If you backup system configs and stuff with restic it wouldn't be much shorter than what you do here.
Is there more information about the changing definition of free speech? How did modern activists get it so wrong?
Does Mutually Assured Destruction still work?
I’ve never shared this story publicly, but this comment made my hope that others can glean some insight from it, however small it may be.

One of my best friends committed suicide whilst I was in college. My friends and I figured it out from a FB post and ended up finding him before he had passed, but early enough to believe we could have saved him.

After years of therapy and discussion with my friends that were there with me. My friend made a decision extremely privately to take his own life.

There was no way that any of us could have ever done anything substantive to have altered the course of his life. I wish he had spoken to any of us and told us what he was experiencing. But he didn’t.

For years, I felt like I had done something wrong. I _must_ have forgotten to include his PoV or consider his pain.

But now, I realize, he made his decision without us. He wanted to die, and he wanted to spare us the pain of finding him in the half dead state we did.

You didn’t ever do anything wrong. And I hope you can convince yourself that you didn’t have any role to play in this tragedy.

Please DM me if you have any concerns. I will always be available to talk about this with anyone struggling on this topic. <3 No matter how far in the future you find this message.
I agree completely. Sorry that I didn't include other prominent examples.

It's true what you say: we're witnessing the endgame of capitalism. What was a cyberpunk dystopia before and was meet with laughter -- "crazy fantasy, man" -- is now the reality of tens or hundreds of millions of people.

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My post was mostly just expressing skepticism about the seemingly benevolent nature of this research. People who are as strongly set in their ways as the elderly Japanese wealth-holders are, will IMO first launch a nuclear strike before they give their employees better working conditions. So putting my tinfoil hat on, I'd theorize this research has been funded by Japanese big business owners.
"everything you need to know is right there in those pages" - Hannibal Lector
How about helping people looking for ideas?
The name is a reference to 1980s PC graphics: 0xA000 is the segment register location for VGA video memory.
Thanks for the comment, appreciated. That's definitely not the intention. It started as a collection of resources I used for my own understanding, which I then decided to share more widely, as many friends started to want to learn about the space too.

What do you think would make it better if included?
Docker or kubernetes or any other orchestration software of your choice on EC2
Way back in the day I played Max Payne on a Win2k server and it worked great. Couldn't make the OS crash even if I tried. Best MS OS ever.
Yes, I use the upvote feature (or Like on other platforms) or email a link to myself, to keep track of useful information.

Especially in HN comments or Twitter treads (careful who you follow!)
My prediction—-when this point in time is measured 20 years from now, I suspect we are going to see that the excess deaths measured 2020-2025 are not going to be dramatically higher compared to 2014-2019 (at least as high as people today anticipate. There will be some, but Covid seems to be extremely skillful at killing people early who were statistically likely to die in the coming 5 years.
That's a funny comment not everyone is entitled to living a life like you. There are a lot of places in africa, eastern europe and asia where you can't decide on what you spend your money because there isn't any choice. The same goes for lower income families in the US. In rural and even suburban communities there is only one choice of ISP. In a lot of communites there is only one energy provider and it goes on and on. You are insanely tone deaf.

Here is a nice sociology paper that goes into the depth of it:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233466460_Freedom_o...

Flagging comments because you don't like them is also really mature way to handle criticism.
An interview with Medusa – an open-source, dev-centric alternative to Shopify
Simple rules can lead to complex results. Given almost infinitely powerful computing and a lifetime of hacking, you might figure out the secrets of the universe, or not.

It's a very interesting rabbit hole that Stephen has dug. I'm not sure I want to get stuck down there. ;-)
I am not qualified to judge the seriousness of your comment, but it comes off as flippant, over confident hooey to know-nothing me.
Best advice! I would add kayaking to that. You get to see nature from another perspective, and use your arms for a complete workout. Sunsets on a lake are amazing.
Great work and a good reference. I wish I had this to read when I went through a similar process after growing tired of storing a couple hundred miniDV tapes I had recorded as a teenager. Unfortunately I was not yet skilled enough to dive into the command line and so was using premiere pro and Lifeflix with great frustration. The endless problems (scene detection splitting clips on every glitch, wearing out player heads in multiple miniDV cameras and having to buy more, the ridiculous amount of time required capturing at 1x and being unable to really do it passively because of these issues) caused me to give up and send the whole lot into a digitizing service. For a few hundred bucks I got back DVDs and downloadable files of each tape and was done. I didn’t have as much granular control over the capturing method or codec used etc, but honestly it was a major weight off my shoulders that I had been continuously starting and then putting off for a decade so I consider it money extremely well spent.
Got any links where we can read about this? Shit like this is the root of all evil
> The amount of flickering windows gets away with is astonishing to me, and I say that as someone coming from linux.

I have noticed a little flickering on my Lumia 950 that runs Windows 10, but I'm ready to give a pass to 5 years old hardware running an experimental build of ARM64 Windows.

Maybe we have different hardware? I'm mostly using Lenovo laptops with one Microsoft and one Dells tablet.

> Also, what about audio that likes to update in the background and can simply fail until I reboot?

You mean driver updates? It depends on your Windows Update settings.

If you mean the audio getting rerouted, I like that when I plug a new device it gets the audio sink priority without fiddling.

And I like I can control that behavior with AutoHotKey scripts to do precisely what I want if I need to.

> The thing is, OSs are goddamn complex and thus they have plenty of bugs all around.

That is an absolutely fair comment! I'm just surprised linux geeks especially in a specific age group (over 25) seem to believe Windows is evil and anyone using it must not be a techie / must have a horrible experience and would find immediate enlightenment and satisfaction if installing Ubuntu.

All kind of nuance seems to be lost when you explain that it works fine for you, and give practical examples of advanced things that would be extremely complicated and sometimes totally impossible to do in Linux
TAOCP is too detailed and too deep as a beginner's book; you first want something lighter that you can worth through end-to-end before taking on a 7-volume book that is still not even finished (volume 4b of 7 in progress at the time of writing).

Note I am _not_ saying TAOCP isn't readable, I consider it very well written. But it's terse, hard, too deep and too detailed for a beginner, IMHO.
Counting in Base 12
I would guess people evaluate their job on money/work/stink axes.

All of FAANG pays well, so what's left is whether the work is interesting/important/fulfilling and whether the company has integrity/evil issues. Eg you might think F1 has interesting problems despite glorifying fossil fuel cars, or you might think drones are technically challenging despite being used to kill people. Loads of people become nurses and teachers because they want to help people, even though they don't get paid much.

What you're less likely to do is work in an area where your work isn't interesting, contributes nothing significant, and rots people's minds.

I found it interesting that only half their job offers are taken up, that's super surprising to me. I suppose it's possible that people with one FAANG offer have more than one? If that's the case, all the rest of FAANG would likely have less stink than FB at the moment, and also wins on the work axis.
> Facebook is in more legal trouble than it can handle and that the company no longer has much good standing in society (which, for a "social" media company, is a bit of a problem).

Is it? I've always liked the perspective that Facebook's product, to governments, beyond mass surveillance, is societal stability (or lack there of).

If there's one company that could almost single-handedly cause an actual insurrection in the United States, it's Facebook. That sort of power doesn't have to be stated explicitly and the mainstream Liberal media spent 4 years stating it quite openly. Nancy Pelosi is a well known Facebook investor.

Any major issue from the government can just result in a "bug" that accidentally amplifies the opposition and just like that, the cause of the issue is voted out.
I have scaled DRM to 50 million active users in previous company. Not worried about making DRM work for millions of users
Many of the things listed in the article burn me out, though. Any additional expectations about team building or water cooler talk only extend the amount of time I'm ignoring my family and shackled to the screen. My employer or coworkers are not who I look to for improvements with mental health as I feel it is a very personal topic. I wish there was more respecting boundaries. A tech manager is not equipped to deal with the mental struggles people may have and so this just comes across as a cheap way to increase productivity (or to prevent a decrease).

Some of the passive suggestions are better, such as making time off or other resources available. Trying to force anything or intervene even with games or other interruptions is wrong imo. Even an invite "that the whole team is doing" feels like pressure. At a minimum it's an interruption and another context switch. I'd personally rather take that hour to walk and get some fresh air, so I'm not focusing on my screen for an unrelated thing.

I know everyone's different but this is how I feel when I hear or read about this kind of thing. It reminds me of something I heard a long time ago "you may have the right message but be the wrong person to deliver it". Let work be work and let people recharge with family and friends if they prefer.
They remind me of Half Life: Full Life Consequences[1], which wasn't written by a bot but pretty much has all the qualities of a 'written by bot style video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHxyZaZlaOs
4chan was influential in many other ways, from all of Anonymous’s ops, to playing a role at Occupy and other protests. SA led to the rise of the Dirtbag Left, to Brown Moses and bellingcat, to r/wallstreetbets culture.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29185381
I needed to upgrade my Mom's MacBook (a 2017, bad keyboard and all) to Catalina to make sure she could still get updates for Office 2016.

This has since been replaced by an M1 Air and Office 2021, but the migration was easier this way. Old versions of macOS are listed at this URL, which is how I got a link for the latest 10.15 installer.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211683
My personal favourite is Sedgewick & Wayne's _Algorithms_.

https://algs4.cs.princeton.edu/home/

You can even find an excellent two-part MOOC on Coursera:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/algorithms-part1

https://www.coursera.org/learn/algorithms-part2

Maybe it's not the "purest" class or book, but it's engaging and it lets you understand how algos work AND how to use them in practice.
Perhaps expanding his hiring pool might lead to his site getting pwned less.
You yourself can always put the "quit" in "equity" if your skin color is the wrong shade.
Sure. I also worked at Facebook for 7.5 years first, and witnessed this performative cancer growing in real-time.
Like most AI companies, it is just people.

Don't mind the man behind the curtain.
/dev/random – A New Approach
I'm stuck in the trap of there being one or two programs my kids want to watch and having to keep the subscription
i use instapaper which covers pretty much what you do here except it works for any webpage/link not just HN, also hooks into readwise a spaced reptition app on my phone, though this feature is not free. Also hooks into a Notion page for anytime reviewing of highlights.

instapaper, readwise and Notion are not perfect (standalone or in conjuction). But they do work pretty well for now. I eagerly await a future where these tools become more robust.
Ask HN: How do you scan K8s in offline mode (e.g. air-gapped environment)?
I could not agree more. I don't get why they keep pumping out the same strange SciFi movies they do.
Yes!

The problem with all these systems that certain people lose focus by using them. And focus is the key to success.

Yes, some successful people use these systems. But there is a single variable that is common for all successful people: focus.

When I was using Evernote I was not able to finish a single thing... blog posts, call for coffee, read something, etc.
I know one of the reasons for this (as an outsider). Over the years, the security patch codebase included other bugs that had been fixed in later code. Apple ios particularly when they are getting ready to launch a new iphone fork their code and try to keep security patches in sync, but by doing so "unfix" a lot of bugs. This has been an observed pattern for 6 or 7 major upgrades now. The bottom line, software used by tens of millions of people is hard.
> If there's one company that could almost single-handedly cause an actual insurrection in the United States, it's Facebook

Why not Twitter?