skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> owner of a domain registered at a central authority which can be compelled to turn over the domain and an anonymous contributor to a codebase

Agreed. But imagine that there is no normie accessible place on the web to get non-malicious Bitcoin software. And anyone running a site distributing it is at risk if their identity is leaked. What effect is that going to have in the long run?

"There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept." -- Bitcoin would survive in such a state, but I don't think it would be a great outcome.

> The default judgment to me is a flaw in the legal system, if an anonymous party cannot defend themselves, how can an anonymous party be sued? This default judgment is a shame.

Fully agreed.

> He can't demand coins he doesn't even know exist, he can't even prove the coins exist to a court without keys to show that they exist.

He's actually argued that he could just demand the developers issue more coins too. And he doesn't have keys, but that isn't slowing him down!

The big legal flaw he exploits is that if you go to trial it can be extremely expensive (esp in the UK where you pay the other sides legal costs for every failed motion, and wright sticks a whole firm on his case). ... normally the expense of trial is protected against by preliminary motions like summary judgements. But in a summary judgement the court assumes all disputed facts favor the non-movant, and wright fills his cases with forgeries to makeup whatever disputed fact he needs to keep the case going. The huge volume of forgeries which require expert analysis and debunking also add massively to the cost of being in litigation with him. His goal isn't to win (though I'm sure he'd be happy if he did)-- his goal is to burn time and the opponents resources.
> Tired of awkward silences at the beginning of your remote meetings? Bored of the forced small talk about other participant’s virtual backgrounds?

This is a symptom of a few things
1) Meetings not starting on time causing dead space of time where there is an implicit hierarchy of power & games -- those who arrive latest w/o getting a negative consequence have the power, those who arrive latest "win" by wasting the least amount of their time

2) People feeling like coworkers == friends . This is a current axiomatic cultural thing in the US, but has proven toxic/abusive (would you fire your friends, should you promote the highest performer, or your friend?) ...

Author is probably a really nice person, but this is bad advice.
Wow, 4 days to export (partial) data, and that too during the holiday season. If a system admin is out for the week say goodbye to your business.
Disrupting the Glupteba Operation
This is your regularly scheduled reminder: https://www.whoownsmyavailability.com/
I was looking at the CORS issue just today, you could add a Transformation Rule that will match any /cdn-cgi/ requests and add a static CORS headers
I’d add Radio Paradise to the list of good discovery tools.
OVH does have great value, but they recently lost an entire DC to a fire: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-ovh-fire/millions-...
Here's a list of her other interesting papers.

https://lilianweng.github.io/lil-log/archive.html
Sure, but some of its questions are frequently asked. That’s what the parent was referring to: real questions by real users that sometimes are upvoted by thousands of users.

You can even get a FAQ in a standard format by visiting the “Popular” tab.
>> The blockchain facilities standardised transfer across a decentralised medium.

>It hasn't. It standardised the transfer of otherwise meaningless numbers, that's true.

Sure, but that alone can have value. The idea being that people have already built entire trading platforms around tokens, fungible or not. Somebody who wants to enable easy trading of some asset (or futures contract or whatever), hoping for improved liquidity, could see using the platforms built for crypto token trading as much easier than trying to build their own exchange. Especially if it is anticipated that physical settlement demands will not be especially common.

To be more concrete: It might be simpler to get your single-vineyard wine futures up and running on crypto than trying to get it listed as a new contract type in a traditional futures exchange.

Now sure, nothing about getting your weird futures contract into some form of widely used exchange requires blockchain technology. It is merely leveraging the existing infrastructure others have already built around crypto.

This is not too dissimilar from the various ways people have found to get say precious metals as listed items on stock exchanges, despite traditional commodity exchanges or brokered OTC trades also existing. Obviously nothing about speculating on (or maintaining market liquidity for) precious metals requires a stock exchange, since we have those other ways of trading. However people have found getting access to the stock trading market to be worthwhile.

Obviously settlement for physical goods is a centralized processes (or possibly a somewhat decentralized process relying on courts and contracts). This is equally true for any exchange, crypto-based or not. The actual order matching process somewhat separate from the settlement process in traditional exchanges too.

I certainly would not argue that similar platforms could be set up not reliant on crypto in any way, and those could be superior (although network effect problem tend to plague attempts to set such things up if any sort of scale is desired). Most crypto stuff is still extremely overhyped, and a lot of interest in crypto seems to stem from crazy speculation, or people trying to avoid their government in some manner. (The latter is not just things like drugs, arm sales, or money laundering. It also includes more innocent reasons like people in countries with failing economies being terrified that their government can just seize the contents of forex accounts, stock exchanges etc, making their attempts to hedge against local economic collapse potentially futile. But governments cannot readily seize crypto wallets the same way, at least not unless you leave your holdings at some exchange.)
I think your assumptions are wrong. Python is still pragmatic and trendy and companies still do scrum (not really, but whatever). It's easy to be intimidated when viewing from a distance. Most job descriptions/requirements are "aspirational". Don't be afraid, just do it.
I am unsure if this precise problem needed a better solution, but even if not, this is not how math research works. Finding better solutions to random / useless problems can lead to a better solution to a problem which needs solving. The relevance of the problem is not a consideration.
Wright finances his activities and lifestyle by getting loans secured by promises of future delivery of this fictional trove. As long as he keeps the con going the money keeps flowing.
That's really great to hear, thank you for letting us know!
People who're familiar with Newton's method might be surprised at the convergence rate. 1/k^2 is slower than the textbook rate for Newton's method with line search, which is 2^{-2^k}, basically implying convergence in a constant number of steps. The rate in this paper seems to be no faster than plain gradient descent on a strongly convex function! So why go through the trouble of the much more complicated update?

Because the textbook proof of the fast convergence of Newton's method make additional assumptions on the objective function, for example that it is strongly convex, or it is self concordant. This paper only assumes Lipschitz continuous Hessians.

The idea of dampening the Hessian is old (it's sometimes called "damped newton method", or "trust region newton method", or "levenberg-marquardt", though the latter two refer to more specific ideas). This paper offers a view to how much dampening to apply.
Two of the thefts reported here:

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/122291004/bonsai-bandit...

https://i.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/garden/127076937/mans...
> I linked an example of such a drone up-thread; $5k

So that's what? 150 CIWS bullets per drone for cost-equivalency? ($30 bucks per CIWS bullet). Seems like a good trade, the CIWS can shoot down 500mph missiles, it will take out the much slower drone with far less ammo and far cheaper.

You also know that warships would be stationed 1000km away, with an E-2 Hawkeye looking over the horizon (300km range radars). So the first thing the drone will see is the E-2 Hawkeye. The drones wont even know where the ships are, and the Carrier is already deploying a mass of fighters at the drone swarm.

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Once the numbers are figured out by the E-2 hawkeye, the Carrier probably will deploy F18, which will use a 20mm Gatling gun to kill all the drones and return home.

The drones won't even see where the ships are in practice. The best they'll ever discover is the E-2 Hawkeye through line of sight. All the ships would be "too low" and hidden away by the horizon itself. The CIWS won't even get a chance to shoot because the drones never even made it to the horizon (ie: 50km) of the ships. All the drones are killed 300km out.

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There's a reason why China is mass-producing Destroyers. Because Destroyers work. Mass drones aren't really a strategy.
My payment processor Paddle also stopped working.
if I were a black hat I would absolutely love GitHub and all the various language-specific package systems out there. giving me sooooo many ways to sneak arbitrary tailored malicious code into millions of installs around the world 24x7. sure, some of my attempts might get caught, or not but not lead to a valuable outcome for me. but that percentage that does? can make it worth it. its about scale and a massive parallelization of infiltration attempts. logic similar to the folks blasting out phishing emails or scam calls.

I love the ubiquity of thirdparty software from strangers, and the lack of bureaucratic gatekeepers. but I also hate it in ways. and not enough people know about the dangers of this second thing.
Okay, but its not very useful is it? Sure, you can propagate the state vectors directly, but even tiny amount of noise may be amplified and can make the results useless. Also, read up on why Euler Method is bad for solving ODEs numericaly.

This is exactly why we use Kalman filters.
Time of day matters in antibody response to Covid-19 vaccine
They just added a banner. My guess is they don't know enough yet to update the respective service statuses.
I think "scale-down" is the closest to what you're after. If you have a 400x600 original, and request 512x512, you'll be served a 341x512 image. This maintains the original image's aspect ratio, and a fits within the requested (512x512) size.

Original: https://via.placeholder.com/400x600
Resized: https://gregbrimble.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,w=512,h...
There are quite a lot of apps that do a JS frontend and Django backend these days, I myself have done quite a few.
When I saw the URL I assumed the article was going to reveal that modern submarines are still running VMS on DEC Alphas (or a VAX!). Honestly I was surprised when that wasn't the case.
> I linked an example of such a drone up-thread

You didn't. You linked to a drone that could never threaten a destroyer, doesn't do anything like zerg'ing, a drone that could never likely reach a destroyer in the first place, and in the large sizes doesn't cost a few thousand dollars. You linked to a drone that can kill soldiers nearby, that's all; and the slightly bigger version can maybe disable armored vehicles nearby.

> You build the drones before the war, not during.

Which is an admission that you can't stay in the war once it begins. You'll quickly get wiped out. And the toy drones never reach the destroyers, because you have no ports, no transport, no manufacturing, no electricity, no boats, no ships.

> Doesn't have to be too far.

The toy drones you linked to can't threaten a destroyer at meaningful distances (and would be unlikely to severely damage a destroyer in the first place). And if the US is at war with eg Iran, the US is not going to sail its ships right up to Iran's shoreline and invite them to launch hundreds of poorly aimed, weak toy drones at them.
Yep I can confirm that. The process when the outage is caused by you is called COE (correction of errors). I was oncall once for two teams because I was switching teams and I got 11 escalations in 2 hours. 10 of these were caused by an overly sensitive monitoring setting. The 11th was a real one. Guess which one I ignored. :)
There is no problem that cannot be solved with a trusted central body that could be solved by using a blockchain. People fundamentally misunderstand - a blockchain doesn't mean you don't have trust, it just means you're trusting something else.

A hypothetical, un-compromisable entity would be more effective than any blockchain simply because the entity wouldn't be beholden by the inherent inefficiency of maintaining decentralized consensus.
Your #1 is full of problems about users not being capable of using their names or taking over system pages. So, whatever you do, avoid it, it's a bad one.

The `@` has a special meaning in URLs, but I think all browsers are smart enough to not break on it.
Also Hetzner offers pure Load Balancers.
We went with https://bunny.net/optimizer/transform-api
Companies Plan Big Raises for Workers in 2022
Before Ubiquiti turned into a garbage fire my go to recommendation for power/performance/budget was used Ruckus APs and pfSense router.
Well, the narrative is sort of what Amazon is asking for, heh?

The whole us-east-1 management console is gone, what is Amazon posting for the management console on their website?

"Service degradation"

It's not a degradation if it's outright down. Use the red status a little bit more often, this is a "disruption", not a "degradation".
Do you not patch your kernel?
Anyone understand why these services go down for so long?

That's the part I find interesting.
"some" as in "not all". I'm sure there are some tiny tiny sites that were unaffected because no one went to them during the outage.
In the world of web 2.0, that's probably true. Paying people in hearts rarely translates to a viable business model.

In the world of Web 3.0. It might not be true. Smart contracts builds a way for creators to realize a larger share of the value they create, and for listeners who discover them early to be rewarded as well. In web 3.0, you're not rewarded with hearts, but tokens which can be traded for dollars.

This is a really cool project
https://mirror.xyz/davidgreenstein.eth/3_TAJe4y8iJsO0JoVbXYw...
I live on a hill, and the driveway ends below the house, so when we need to haul up materials (gravel, lumber, etc) for various projects, it's walking up a bunch of steps and slippery/muddy hills. I don't mind slopes on their own, and in fact quite like the exercise for every day use, but when you're hauling buckets of gravel or a cord of firewood, it sure would be nice if you could just load up a utility cart and walk it over to where it needs to be (or hell, drive your truck across the yard). It's not possible where we live because of the hill. So I can absolutely relate to why people don't like to live on a hill. And for hanging out outside with friends, you can't beat flat areas.

That said, the view is really incredible (we live in the woods) and we don't get water pooling in our place or flooding or anything like that thanks to some well-designed drainage, so, you know, pros and cons.
Is it? The intent is to give the user access to data the company holds on them - it's not to make companies retain data indefinitely.
I often use Bunny CDN where it's $10 a month for UNLIMITED image alterations. They charge half a cent per gigabyte on traffic of the post processed image (in their bulk tier) along with 1 cent per gigabyte for storage.

The nearest competitor is likely over 10x more (Caveat: For the workloads I've applied this on).
Anyone know why dedicated is just not a thing in the US? I looked for a Hetzner alternative in the US and it's just crazy to me that it doesn't exist.

I think Hetzner's dedicated servers product started from the consumer demand for Counter-Strike servers, maybe it's because Counter-Strike wasn't as popular in the US? Not 100% that's why Hetzner has been succesful with dedicated servers but I don't have another explanation.
Because system fonts are pretty horrible for readability.
us-east-1 is a cursed region. It's old, full of one-off patches to work and tends to be the first big region released to.
Thank you. If there's any other feedback you could take from this, please know that I've submitted a similar feature request for point #6, so that I could know the ID of the image from the direct creator upload. Without that, a malicious user of mine could possibly create many millions of images, and I would have no way of knowing who it was that created the image, and no way of knowing which images to delete or track.
A yield above the risk free rate implies that risk does in fact exist for stablecoins.
> explanation about why the outage was someone else's fault

In my experience, it's rarely clear who was at fault for any sort of non-trivial outage. The issue tends to be at interfaces and involve multiple owners.
The most thorough explanation of Kalman filter as recursive least square coupled with linear state-space models is
"Linear Estimation" by Thomas Kailath, Ali H. Sayed, Babak Hassibi.
It covers robust numerical algorithms such as square-root Kalman filter.
Unfortunately, it is a big book and reading it is going to be a big time investment, but I believe it will be a worthwhile investment. It develops in depth various linear algebra concepts and demonstrates profound application to linear least square. This book is what people mean when they say learn from masters.

It is also the only technical book I have read that aptly quotes Shakespeare:
"Age cannot whither her,
nor custom stale
her infinite variety."
I do want to build better software for DoD, but I can't figure out how to sell in. I'd start by tackling VMS! No clue how I'd go about it though.
Ask HN: What do you call a non-Docker Dockerfile?
Is there a convention for naming an OCI file with commands for building the container image?
Why would you use the iPad version? I’m using the desktop one on a m1 and it’s fine..
> If the Chinese story is true

It is not “the Chinese story”; were it the actual official Chinese story we wouldn't be getting it by this circuitous route, we’d get it from Chinese state media, both in Chinese for domestic consumption and English (etc.) for international consumption.

There are many criticisms you can make of the PRC, but “they are incapable of assuring that their official position is heard clearly and loudly” is...not among them.
An Apple Keynote is marketing fluff. Nobody should be taking that at face value in the first place.
But just because it's valuable doesn't mean that there are straightforward and reliable business models available for profiting from its creation/curation/maintenance/whatever.

Air is that way too.
That's fine - and in the late 90's someone could have said the same about the internet. But there were already a bunch of real companies doing real things (like amazon, ebay, yahoo). They were new companies.

The post is asking - what are the real things being done. They will likely be done by new companies to be sure, but it doesn't change the question.
Using Cloudflare Workers to prime Fastly's cache
At the rates startups should be growing, customer pricing lockins are rounding error. You want to have many times more customers moving forward. If this year’s customers are getting a 10-% discount a few years from now, either that’s a < 1-2% revenue hit for your startup, or you’re going out of business anyway.
"Negative curvature" isn't quite the right term. (For one thing, curvature in 4-dimensional spacetime cannot be described by a single number.) The Alcubierre drive requires "exotic matter", i.e., matter that violates the weak energy condition. One way of phrasing that condition is that the matter will have negative average energy density as measured by certain observers.
> > > The US is in the awkward period between upgrading existing systems and designing next generation weapons.

> Like the F35? Pretty sure that failure has nothing to do with "bad timing" and everything to do with the corrupt state of Washington and the Pentagon.

IIRC this concern is mainly about attack sub capabilities, and the US navy will in fact enter a period of exceptionally poor preparedness for operating in the waters around Taiwan in the event that war breaks out, for a few years between about 2025 and 2030. This is due to procurement decisions made years and years ago, since there's huge lead-time on building new ships.

Whether this actually means anything—I don't know.
Which is made all the more difficult when people react violently to your attempts to connect with them, because they perceive your political stance as a threat (usually through misunderstanding). No wonder we clam up and brace for war.
I do but it's not a good enough solution:

- it is a GNUism so not available on all UNIX-like systems

- it is something you pro-actively have to remember to put in

- you cannot simply add `--` to every command because those that do not support it would fail (or worse, not fail in unexpected ways)

In an ideal world operators should be out of band from data (murex does this with `config` https://murex.rocks/docs/commands/config.html whereas other commands might solve this with environmental variables. Neither are as convenient as flags though).

In a less ideal world data should be encapsulated inside operators (see below), but this breaks globbing.

command --flag1 --flag2 --data=file1 --data=file2 --data=file3

In my perfect world arguments would be typed so you could denote whether a parameter was an operator or data. However this doesn't translate well with the terse input of strings (as one does on the command line).

Maybe if `--` was a standard from the beginning to act as a separator between operators and data (and enforced too, ie commands would fail if `--` wasn't present) then I'd be more forgiving for `--` as a solution.
> The issue in this case is the avowed principle, on which they have two distinct positions, while pretending they're the same.

There's no "avowed principle"--and conservatism is more of a temperament than a principled framework anyway. Yeah, there's a lot of rhetoric about "freedom" and "small government"--but the conservative audience understands that that means and doesn't mean. Put differently, you're not dunking on a conservative when you say "you say you're for 'limited government' but you support a big department of defense!" The answer is, "well yes, defense is one of the enumerated functions of the federal government in the Constitution, but healthcare isn't."

> Just look at housing in California. You could make housing cheaper, drastically benefiting the poor and working class, through either zoning deregulation or massive public housing investment or both, but the Dems there choose largely to do neither.

Dems believe that government regulation of the economy produces better results. The fact that the principle doesn't really work in the specific case of housing isn't hypocrisy, it's a limitation of the principle.
Yeah, I'm with you. Sorry for the defensive response!

I confess I replied something through a lens of personal irritation: For years the Bitcoin ecosystem has treated wright like a troll "he just wants attention, ignore him" -- but in doing so it's really enabled his fraud to grow and become a big problem.

So you triggered thought of people switching to a "oh it's good if he obliterates these people, it'll prove Bitcoin is anti-fragile!" ... well, sorry for being cynical. :)

Bitcoin absolutely would survive his attack here, whatever happens. Though it may be a setback, e.g. if it creates a big incentive against people of high capability, integrity, and experience to contributing to maintaining the software.