skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure I agree with your fatalistic take on (1). As an example, the proof-of-concept proc macro attack from the article could be addressed by running proc macros in a wasm sandbox. I know there’s been some exploratory work done towards that.

Similarly, all of the attacks that execute code at compile time are mostly addressed currently by building code in a Docker container. It’s not a perfect security measure, but it greatly increases the probability that a build.rs or proc macro attack will fail.

Your (1) strikes me as something that can never be solved to provide 100% safety, but that there are partial solutions which, in practice, can significantly reduce the attack surface. And hiding behind “fundamentally unsolvable problem” will get in the way pushing for the meaningful half-measures that offer some degree of real-world protection.
> For me I tend to fall down on self-hosting as much as I can of critical infrastructure

IMO actually self-hosting isn't as important as using technology that is open-source with the option to self-host.
You could also spend a bit of time learning about structuring a business to reduce taxes. In a moderate US state, and a bit of up-front planning, on $200k in gross receipts you can likely pay 10-15% in combined taxes (state/federal income, fica, etc).

It would still mean you should not spend more than you earn, be moderately frugal, and sock away and invest what you can. But being able to put away $50k-$100k for a few years in a row is a gigantic leg up for most people in most areas.
Individualism is a very young phenomenon i think.
Slackware Linux 15.0 RC2
Author here, sorry, I didn't post this (but it is the paper's title). Hopefully it gets corrected.
So... your solution is to force every child to suffer equally in the same disadvantaged position??
Cool tech. Too bad about the paper title. One should never use a novel acronym in an academic title IMHO.
The NFT is detached from the actual object it represents, it has perceived value only with the people that accept that it represents some kind of ownership. An NFT of the Mona Lisa would be worthless if anyone could get their own original Mona Lisa, sans NFT, just by asking.

Any object that is post-scarcity (like digital images) is incompatible with the business model of NFTs... except in its circle of believers.
You can bill several times that amount both in the US and Europe. Companies think nothing of it if you have the right skill sets.
Developer Spotlight: Automating Workflows with Airtable and Cloudflare Workers
From what I heard - anecdotes from my online friends' parents and grandparents - in the mid-20th century it used to be ridiculously easy to get a job, for all social classes.

One anecdote that stuck in my mind was someone's grandfather in the 1950s quitting and going to work to a different factory only because they gave one week's pay in advance and they needed the money to take a girl on a date that weekend.

Nowadays I hear things have changed a tiny little bit. But if you're a software engineer who reads Hacker News, you probably still don't need to worry much about finding a job at all, only about finding an enjoyable job in the right place that ensures a sufficiently upper-class salary.
My bad, I didn't know that about PHP build in server

I only host one PHP app now (Nextcloud) and it has definitely been a bit of a pain in comparison with other things I self host.
The "secret" is doing it consistently, through good times and bad. You need to consistently save and invest, month after month, year after year, at least 30% of your income. When your account drops 10 - 20%, you need to suck it up and invest more.

A friend of mine is on the FIRE path. The first million took him 15 years (this covered the dot-com boom, bust, great recession, and the recovery that followed.) The 2nd, 6 years. The third, less than 2 years (thanks QE / money printing.)
I like that they offer an ad-free experience for 2€ a month. I would like more of the internet to offer this type of alternative.
>...family tree of Semitic languages, which also includes...Maltese

Okay. I did NOT see that one coming. In retrospect they're not exactly far from other Arabic-speaking countries, but I'm curious what the history is. I've also heard that Sicilian retains some features that differentiates it from Italian and suggests different roots, so I wonder if there's a connection there with Maltese.
What I'm particularly interested in here is stuff that proposes to use NFTs as avatars or something similar - if I go mint my own counterfeit ape and make it my avatar, are those apps going to happily display that I have "verified ownership" of it? Is there any recourse there aside from every app locking down to an explicitly allowed list of keys from "verified NFT producers," or every app playing whack-a-mole with the keys of known bad actors, or establishing some sort of off-chain database of content hashes and the keys that are supposed to own them?
In this case of action, and I can't believe Neumann didn't let you in on the sillyness of his plan(if he was even aware at all), the first nation with nukes would have done everyone else a favor and minimized future 'wipe outs' by nuking themselves off. Sadly, he fooled you, or didn't see his hypocracy. Doesn't sound too bright imo. 2ez to idolize celebrities though.
See also: Scientology

It's not hard to find creative, talented people who will work a gig for a buck and not ask too many questions.

It's not that they are inherently willing to assist in fraud or deception, it's that they simply have bills to pay and there is an oversupply of skill to choose from.
Disneyland With the Death Penalty [1] and revisited [2]

[1] https://www.wired.com/1993/04/gibson-2/
[2] https://www.wired.com/2012/04/opinion-jeyaretnam-disneyland-...
China's WeRide to launch robotaxis on GAC's Ontime ride-hailing app
> The country has 56 years of independent existence.

Independence isn't binary. Despots in these countries are often directly chosen by colonial powers, but even when chosen by local processes, they enter into a relationship with those well-resourced colonial powers that maintains their dictatorship. These countries end up run by local elites with western education and relationships (and multi-million dollar London/New York apartments), with help from those nations to put down any local resistance, up to and including intelligence agencies giving the despots lists of names to help solve their political or labor problems.

The US, UK, French, and Chinese sell weapons to them to put down their own populations, and US, UK, French, and Chinese companies are allowed to build infrastructure for resource extraction for export. This makes it in their interest for friendly despot #294 to maintain his position. The populations of these countries can't compete with that.

The usual process is that the colonial power helps the despot (or the series of despots if a few show a little defiance or get a little greedy) exterminate all of the country's secular resistance as "communists," leaving the religious opposition as the only uncorrupted institution left. Support for it grows to a majority of the population, you have a revolution, and now you have a theocracy. Then the colonial powers try their best to immiserate the population through sanctions and annoyance attacks against civilians to turn that theocracy back into a dictatorship.

Vaguely related prediction: the US will soon be, if we are not already, paying and arming "ISIS" to attack the Taliban. There will be fawning profiles of "The Warlord Who Turned Away From ISIS - Afghan Women's Only Hope?" about somebody who supports decapitating women for adultery but also has kids at US and UK grad schools.
I couldn't find it anywhere in their data statement, nor in their about page or terms and conditions, where the results were coming from. Finally at the bottom of the SERP there's the indication that results come from Microsoft (Bing). However, all links to Bing seem to happen in the backend, including linking to images. Would like to know how much data they share with Bing, but so far as it's visible from the client side it looks pretty solid. And they have podcast search, which is cute.
All you've done is restate the original claim without providing evidence that intelligence "doesn't match up" (as you claim) across ethnicities.

Generally when pressed, folks who dress up their racism in pseudoscientific language rely on the same small handful of talking points which largely haven't changed since "scientific racism" was mainstream in the 19th century. This started with phrenology, a widespread mainstream pseudoscience not only focused on dehumanizing black people, but also explicitly targeting natives as an apparent attempt to justify otherwise unconscionable public policies of the day. [1]

It's bad enough to hold pseudoscientific beliefs; it's worse if those beliefs originate in a blantant attempt to dehumanize others.

[1] https://pages.vassar.edu/realarchaeology/2017/03/05/phrenolo...
120/hr? Rates are lower now, at least the ones on the open market. And 2000 hours a year is a stretch, you need to take some holidays. But all in all, still better than..
The ZIL is not a write-back cache. The ZIL is for maintaining integrity. The SLOG is for speeding up the ZIL.

As such it can behave a bit like a write-back cache as I mentioned in the linked post.

A crucial difference is that the ZIL is limited by the available memory regardless (and tunables, by default 5 seconds worth of data), which would not be the case for a write-back cache device.
Do people here like working? That's a thing that often seems missing from these wealth optimization conversations. I love working. I don't love working all day. But I got into programming because I love programming and then I found that I also love what I can build through programming and what people do with the things I build.

I spent a lot of my career leveling up my situation so that it was more of doing those things I loved and less meetings and other BS. But overall, I didn't optimize for speed to retirement. In our financial planning what we have is an earnings cliff where for "safety" reasons we assume we are still working but that our max earning potential went away.
Can you imagine what a dystopian sci-fi hell hole the metaverse could be with facebook at the helm? They can't even moderate a website.. the hubris is pretty amazing.
Can confirm, have used MachXO chips in that space before. Despite the marketing literature, they're full FPGAs, not CPLDs.
Not ashamed for being richer—ashamed for mindlessly buying products that directly destroy the rainforest. Most wealthy people don’t want their leather from the rain forest, they’d rather get it from Italy. I found it super informative because I had no idea.
so, tribalism?
So your entire system relies on a single consumer grade laptop without any redundancy or ECC. Nice.
Sounds like a business opportunity.

Federated software vendor: we do the dirty work so you can start a new instance with one click.
Google makes like 50$ per month from you and Facebook makes 30$ per month (or something in this ballpark), things are way beyond what most people are willing to pay.
DataStax Adds gRPC to Stargate for Performant Microservices
If you look at the front page of any newspaper there's quite a bit of doom and gloom and bad stuff. I'm not sure upbeat sells.
Ten Reasons CEOs told me they budgeted a line item for the narrative
> Often here in HN I see comments saying that you must hop from job to job in order to get raises

That's because it's a pretty easy way to get a significant raise. If staying at one job, the raises are likely to be less significant due to them only being able to raise it a certain percent a year due to policy (unless there is a significant title or role change).

Now if you get another job for a higher rate and then ask your current employer to match it, and you are valuable enough that they agree, that is another way.
Do you mean testing if someone can break in or testing that our system can handle disaster recovery?
I'd like to see a better GUI before forcing that switch.

Is there something more simple than the Gnome GUI that ships by default with Ubuntu? I've been playing with Gnome/KDE since the late 90's and they still are behind IMHO. Is there something more like iOS-simplicity for Linux distros? That would be key.
another consideration is that the "cheap" 4TB SSDs are things like quad-level cells, such as the samsung 870 QVO, which are slightly better in a $ per GB ratio, but also suffer in ultimate GB written lifespan for cell endurance wear-out. Thus the reason why the samsung "pro" are almost double the cost.

if you needed to write a LOT (let's say something like a sustained 70MB per second all the time) but the data rate was not particularly high, you might easily wear out a RAIDZ2 composed of 2TB-4TB sized cheap SSDs and kill them in a fairly short period of time, when the same RAIDZ2 composed of 2.5" 15mm height 5TB spinning drives, or 3.5" 14-16TB drives would successfully run for many years.

also re: cheap SSDs, the quad level cell tech and write cache is a big limitation in sustained write speeds:

https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/samsung-870-qvo...
You could let the system ask the characters of the passwords in random order. It would be a bit of a hassle, but gives some added protection for largish passwords.
How else would you interpret this sentence?

"Please stop this onslaught of taking down the history for some axe to grind."

To me that sounds precisely like telling someone to "stop saying something about a historical figure because they'd "rather focus on their positive sides""

And yet you claim that isn't at all what you said.

Quite an unusual claim.
I'd imagine that targeting Shopify makes the process much easier for evaluation and migration.
I think the minicomputers of the 70s well-represent the halfway point between there and what we have today.

At Basic Four Corporation I worked on systems built from 8"x11" circuit boards. A CPU might consist of two such cards joined on the front by a couple flat 50-pin cables and to the other components by a backplane.

Disk Controller: 1 board
Terminal controller: 1 board
etc

https://www.ricomputermuseum.org/collections-gallery/equipme...

Would be interesting to see some enterprising soul recreate a modern computer in such a form factor.
Some people's idea of free speech is really about their freedom to punch down, and they suddenly become very anti-free speech when criticized. Then they double down, and people set boundaries, and they complain about those boundaries...

Much of the noise about cancel culture looks a lot like DARVO.
Yes, we do! There are a couple of user-facing annoyances at the moment, one of which I mentioned in another comment (hacks to align the color and ToF images). Hopefully these API limitations are removed soon, or we find better workarounds.
I work in a bigger creative agency and we use a OpenAI based tool to give our creatives something to help generate ideas and write boring copy like press releases. It's good for what it is but finetuning it per few shot learning is still really hard and sadly nothing non techy people can do.
It comes down to who gets to be their guardians and "speak for them to the Law" and we have recent highly covered cases showing how bad we are at that when the "incompetent" being protected is a human being.
Haven Protocol (XHV) 2.0 launches today – Private Money
> I don't want to hang out much with people who see the world very differently from me

That sounds like a perfect way to become a closed-minded bigot, using the original definition of the word.

I have friends and family that see the world quite differently than me. And I still take time to visit them, listen to them, and care for them.

When I was cancelled, I was actively attacked, sometimes literally having my life threatened, lost some jobs and memberships in different organizations. Mostly for failing to be offended by things the group told me I was required to be offended by.
Do the letters in Jam stand for anything like they do in e.g. LAMP? There was no acronym expansion or mention of the name's origin on jamstack.org's top-level page.

Edit: eventually found an original definition on Wikipedia: "Javascript, API and Markup (generated by a static site generator)"
Grammarly raises $200M at a $13B valuation
I think it's pretty much choice-supportive bias, thanks!

The more costly it is to make the wrong choice, the more is invested into rationalising the decision, the stronger the bias.
I could see this happening to alot of small businesses.

Since public platform companies are selling at upto 30 times revenue. There's a Huge difference 3-5 times profit and 30 times revenue. as long as you show growth not sure the market can differentiate.
I miss Textile.
Many people do not realize that if you put a file named README.org in top directory of github project, github web UI will render it and show it when project page is displayed.
How would we know ? Should we stop investing because of uncertainty ?

There are plenty of people that lived through this bull market and didn’t come out of it as millionaires
No, I'm sparticles.
"Hard working elementary school teacher inherits millions from inspired student who became a billionaire and dies young."

Maybe some amount of good luck could do the trick...
> It's a great example of the trade-off between personal freedoms and economic security.

Umm, no this isn't a trade-off you need to make. Look at Scandinavia and the rest of Europe. In Sweden, we have complete economic security and personal freedoms. I don't know why you'd think authoritarianism is a necessary trade off for even less economic security than here.
This is an interesting phenomenon. Perhaps I will write a story about this as a love story, 'Kisses for Ivy girl, As If'
I think either the blog post is worded wrong (sorry) or you've misread if you think that, I talked a bit about the laptop precautions here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29266521

And why it's just a laptop here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29267685

To be super clear, the actual private keys only ever exist on HSMs
They list their data sources here: https://hilfe.nona.de/features/datenquellen

Bing for Web+Image (and I assume News+Video) Search, ListenNotes for Podcast, OpenWeatherMap for their Instant Answer weather results, etc.

I like their UI, and as far as I can tell then their icons are custom made, at least I can't find them anywhere.
As mentioned elsewhere, I'm an idiot not a physicist, but as I understand it dark matter is favored over modified gravity theories because all such theories are considered to be lacking in parsimony. Essentially, instead of showing how the behavior we observe arises from a fundamental simplicity, they are adding and tuning parameters to fit. With enough parameters one can fit any arbitrary shape, but this doesn't give the model any predictive power.

I also get the impression that while dark matter is popularly accepted as "actually existing", that is much less the case for dark energy.
A few years ago I started writing a few pages of tech specs in libre office, then it crashed and lost all my work. Being used to google docs I forgot that software from the 90s doesn't autosave my work.
Like everything else in physics, Newton got there first.
A fairer comparison would be the failure of San Francisco and success of Singapore. I think comparing a city essentially that is Singapore to a giant landmass of 330M people that is USA - is sort of meaningless IMO.
How is saving your and other people's time "rude"? For example, a framing shop I frequent uses a Calendly widget on their homepage for self-service scheduling of consultations. Efficiency advances without externalities shouldn't be considered rude, they should be considered brilliant.
Hi. We list every source in our help-section: https://hilfe.nona.de/features/datenquellen
He talks about getting contracts through agencies that exist for remote jobs. Not anyone has to self-promote their brand like he has.
Yes and a few other data sources for weather, stocks and so on (https://hilfe.nona.de/features/datenquellen). And it's made with Symfony (https://hilfe.nona.de/ueber-nona/technik-tools).
Whoa, look at Hackerman over here! The Governor of Minnesota would like to have a word with you.
Good. Also Christmas markets are so cool.
When users aren't happy with moderation they go to different subs. I think that's equivalent to community appoint moderation.
> AI21 Studio

They fell into the common trap of "signed up, quite liked it but could never remember the name of it to find it again."

Does anyone else suffer from this? (and bookmarks don't help - I've got thousands of them)
The last time I checked - maybe 3-4 months ago - the ktls implementation in openssl still seemed, um, somewhat fragile. Undocumented behaviour changes, missing error handling, ...
If they're anything like me, they've always wanted the ivermectin thing to be worms-at-best-crap-at-worst, but have refused to accept "shut up and stop listening to the wrong science" as evidence in favor of that proposition. From that perspective their behavior is not only rational, it's far more rational and pro-science than the mainstream. Not surprising given who the audience is.
And yet, in the majority of cases, the flow is not as easy. Yet nothing is done.

Jaywalking is illegal in many places too. It's an enforcement problem, not a legislative one.
Yeah, that's fair. If someone really wanted to do this though, they could also just use existing products like this one: https://www.amazon.com/Worldoor-Multi-Detector-Full-Range-Al....
Nicky's work is a joy and a blessing - one of a small number of great artists and creators online playing with systems and simulations in attempt to educate people through experimentation and play.

Other people worth checking out:

- Bret Victor (worrydream.com)

- Kevin Simler (https://meltingasphalt.com/)

- the "explorables" subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/explorables/)

If anyone else can recommend other writers or makers in this area, I'd love to hear about them! It's an area that I really enjoy and I hope to contribute to when I have a bit more free time.

[edit] also I'm happy about the fact that Nicky's work often has to do with systems theory, which is one of the biggest remaining frontiers of human understanding in the universe.
Crypto bid to buy US constitution print raises over $40m
57 points to the article as I write. Remind me why that doesn't qualify for its showing up on the HN front page?
Recovery Trial: Randomised Evaluation of Covid-19 Therapy
Sorry, yes that's what I had in mind. Thank you for clarifying.
Yes, that's exactly the problem. And in at least some cases it is strategic and intentional.

Anti-trans hate groups know that most people will respond with understanding rather than hate when hearing answers to certain types of questions. They know that, like the racists and homophobes before them, they are on the losing side of a rational and polite discourse.

The only hope for trans hate groups is to shut down that rational and polite discourse. One strategy for doing so is to identify questions that people have and then prime trans people/trans allies to respond emotionally to those questions.

The goal of the "just asking questions" routine is (1) make trans people uncomfortable but also (2) make sure that people who actually do have questions always feel attacked by the trans community instead of empathetic with the trans community. It's a strategy.

By shutting down possibilities for education we play directly into their hand.

I wrote more in a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29267480
> In the example I saw some people had sex and then took their clothes off at the end.

I mean - that is technically feasible.
Given that LibreSSL is natively developed for OpenBSD (and that searches turned up nothing), I strongly doubt it does.

edit: Maybe the developers would be amenable to a patch, but it sounds like a substantial undertaking.