skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with a lot of what the author is saying. But they are missing a really important point. The number of people willing to make blogs or static websites versus the number of people now on the internet is staggeringly small. My Mom will gladly converse with people on Facebook. She'd never in a million years make a blog or personal website. This holds true for most people.

So wishing it all went back to "1.0" has a gatekeeping and elitist undertone in my opinion. Back then most people had personal sites because most people on the web were the type that found html interesting. Early adopters tend to be more savvy on what they are adopting.

I also think there's plenty of "1.0" content still out there. Yeah, you gotta look for it, but it didn't all go away.
I work in a very boring industry very far away from SV and spinning up and down machines for doing calculations and analysis is a godsend. I have a 'cluster' of 6 machines with 128 GB of RAM each set up and ready that I can start up with a script and only pay for the less than 200 hours a year I actually need them. Sometimes however I need 256 GB of RAM so I just change a parameter in my script and, magic, I have 256 GB of RAM. For other workloads the optimal setup might be 100 1 core machines with 2 GB each. So I type some commands, and now I have that instead.

And since it's my 'private' cluster I don't have to worry about queuing my jobs and waiting for the machines to be free. There is no way my department would have bought me those machines as physical hardware.
We remember the fun stuff, but you had to look for it even back in the day.
Yes and the point there isn't so much that on-chain transactions are "supposed to be expensive," but that zkrollups are just as secure as on-chain transactions but scale an order of magnitude better than executable shards, so executable shards start to look a little superfluous.

The researchers have floated the possibility of incorporating zkrollup tech into L1 eventually, but with the tech advancing so quickly it's hard to say whether it will ultimately make sense.
not ok.

mid level Managers not being all that helpful since they have little understanding of our job. we are understaffed, underfunded.

high level managers, executives, continuing to push more unreasonable objective. targeting non sensual numbers such as 40% operational margin, and double digit growth.

HR more interested in us adhering to inclusive language at work and whatnot, than our mental well being and productivity.

our company threatening all employees for compliance with vaccine mandate in the US (for sure some employees will leave, causing further understaffed issues).

number of attacks on the rise, probably because more people stuck at home converting to being cyber criminals.

more politics at work, more junior engineers playing the politics game to shine rather than slowly sharpen their technical skills.

more engineers who do most of the work started to give up. simply logging in, attending meeting pretending to do all they can, but in fact do the minimum they can get away with. hence more pressure on those who haven't given up yet.

Cyber attacks have always been on the rise, and they will continue to rise in numbers as we continue to digitalise our lives, but during this last couple of years, I've seen a drastic descent into mismanagement, and increased employee pressure in order to increase profit, which led to the opposite result in absolute productivity.

I only expect things to get worse before they get better. Someone daring to make these remarks at the workplace could easily cost him his job, at least he would become ostracised by management for spreading negativity and exaggerations.

I don't think this is only happening in the cybersecurity industry, some people I know even outside of tech are telling me they witness similar trends.
I don't have aphantasia but if I never learned about the mind's eye from other people I think I would have used it almost never, just sometimes as a memory aid.
Everything I think about is done abstractly; ie words in books and conversations take on no image in my mind, only the ideas transfer.
After learning about how imagery springs to other people's minds when they're reading, conversing, etc. I've tried to do it myself and it is possible but always a conscious effort and usually tiring. The benefit for me is that images are more memorable than ideas alone so my recall of the things I try to visualize improves if I do it well, and has led me to try things like diagramming the things people say, also improving recall and understanding.
I do time zone queries for scheduling meetings. I have DuckDuckGo as the search engine for my browser.

Typing

!wa 2pm Berlin time in New Delhi

Is super useful and answered by Wolfram.
The likely explanation is that there hasn't been enough pressure put on them to improve these things. They care primarily about large customers, and they already have plenty of ways to resolve cost issues, and usually sign custom contracts. If GCP or Azure has a significantly better answer to this problem, AWS might start caring, but I don't think they do. (I work at GCP.)
where is your business based and have you registered an LLC?

do you make a separate LLC for each project?

how much did it cost to launch the business and what does is cost to keep running (lawyers/paperwork/admin)?

i'm scared of starting my own tiny projects, because of all the bureaucracy involved to even get started
I have an extreme ability to visualize, which includes all of my senses, to the ability to imagine being an animal. Smell, taste, hearing, limited visual senses, instincts, the feeling of fur on my skin, and more are all within my ability. For lack of a better term, I call it my "mental holodeck", which seems to get the point across. It's more of a virtual machine because I'm running someone else's brain on my hardware.

This ability evolved from lucid dreaming I learned in high school. After eighteen years of deliberate practice (several times per week), I can drop into this state at will. My real senses are dimmed, but not gone. If my phone beeps, I will hear it and likely lose what I'm imagining.

Despite all of this, I couldn't draw any of it. I can't draw and I lack the ability to keep a single image in for a prolonged period. But I can write it. Finding ways of describing smells or sensations in a way other people can understand is fun. (My virtual machine can also run approximations of other people.)
Edge makes built-in fully-stylable and accessible select-tags possible
This is something people who oppose EVs seem to forget (or ignore). Especially in cities, the air would be so much cleaner if only EVs were allowed. Every time someone lectures me on the CO2 cost of producing electric cars I explain this, but nobody seems to care about cleaner air.
Ask HN: Is there a search engine for investors that gives you an advantage?
I do research before investing in the stock market, but it seems hard for me to win an edge over other investors when every link in my Google search results is the popular one. What is the alternative to Google for finding investment information?
Arguably, the guardian is a tech business at this point. However fundamentally - hosting is not its core competency. If you've ever tried to pinpoint a businesses's core competency the simple test is "is this something that if we fail at, we'll keep trying". There is a big execution risk in building a private cloud, you end up paying this risk both on whether you have the right people to build, maintain, and grow a datacenter - as well as whether you have the right set of APIs to support growing your application.

Most businesses will look at the relative costs and opt for a private cloud solution, then price in the risk and go for the cloud solution. There is no reason the Guardian must control its own hardware.
They literally are not.

The Uyghur population is increasing. The birth rate is similar to that of the Han majority. Uyghur life expectancy is increasing. Incomes and literacy are increasing.

"Genocide" means a systematic attempt to physically destroy an ethnic or religious group. The 3-child policy in China (which applies to the Han majority as well) does not even come close to being anything like an attempt to physically eliminate the Uyghur people.

It's extremely cynical to call this a "genocide." It completely devalues the word.
> What’s most infectious is how deeply they care. Their goal is to get to the right answer, not to look good.

This is the difference between the revolutionary colleague and the jerk.

Some people are self-described “truth tellers” (I.e. jerks). Or the annoying ones whose motivation is to look “good”.

The ones who are genuine are hard to get upset with.

I’ve pretty much only worked at “cause” companies. I would think someone like this might be annoying at a company “revolutionizing the corporate purchasing space”
Bank of America isn’t really big tech. More like old tech.
This argument is mostly against cities though. Nowadays humans don't need to be tightly packed into pollution centres. Efforts should be made to make city living as expensive as possible since it's harmful for the environment. Internet has made cities pretty much obsolete anyway.
It's a nice summary if you read the whole thing, but the alphabetical ordering (both by category and by title) is not great for a quick skim. If there is no 'priority ordering', the most important article is on average going to be buried somewhere in the middle.

It makes it easier for the Wikipedia editors (avoids endless arguments about priority), but not great for the average reader.
I would have loved to be on whatever panel read and approved that grant. Obviously this is a brilliant methodology and a wonderful science hack, but how stoned did someone get that 'zero G cancer patients to tap their brain fluids' came out.
Shamelessly borrowing this, my god is the internet full of this
Not parent commenter, but took me maybe 20-30 seconds to come up with the answer with validating by comparing how each character stands to each other.

I can't see images in my head. But at least I can try to fold it within my imagination. I can at least rotate it like in 3D computer program. But void is all I "see" in my imagination.
It's not the commenter's theory, it's the theory proposed in the article itself and that the commenter quoted. It's somewhat possible to account for the vaccination rate, but not really for resistance due to prior exposure because there are so many unknown variables in that.
As an outsider to American politics, it makes sense to me that the party that strives to legislate against certain human rights is not considered attractive by the population it targets.

Either way, it's a moot point.

This title has been editorialized.

Where this news article says "Over 70% of young Democrats wouldn't date Republicans" and the Axios blog post "Young Dems more likely to despise the other party" the actual data says:

"Would you go on a date with someone that voted for the opposing presidential candidate?

Democrats:

Definitely 7%

Probably 22%

Probably Not 41%

Definitely Not 30%"

I would argue that this is this far from extreme polarization and does not fit under the "despise" verb. It also doesn't provide the thinking behind that answer and doesn't go into detail as to the source of that response. Do the people who responded not want to date the person who voted differently themselves, or do they think that this other person would not consider the idea in the first place? Could the expectation of what happens on a date also be different (expectation of sex vs. expectation of a casual meeting)?

It's also a matter of perception. Where is the line between a "probably" and a "probably not"? "Probably not" was counted as a no, while "probably" was counted as a yes. Could it be that people in a certain demographics are more likely to speak without restraint?

All the other parameters of this question do not take into account the political divide.

But they do consider identity and income.

When it comes to "Race ID", each demographic group gave similar responses, with the exception of "White", who have a lower rate of "Definitely not" (only 15% where "Asian" has 29%)

The "Female" demographic is also notable, coming in at 24% "Definitely Not" versus only 8% for "Male." This to me makes sense when you take into account the fact that women's rights are debated right now. I would have been curious to see metrics about LGBTQ+ issues here has it was a hot topic during the recent elections.

It is when we look at income that we get a clearer picture. All income levels are similar, with the exception of the 50k-80k bracket where the percentage of "Definitely not" is 33% (where all other brackets are close to 15%).

> If your political beliefs prevent you from associating with somebody because you have labeled them so firmly as to write them off entirely as a person, you have jumped the shark and become the problem.

It's also very important to say that the study also contains "Would you be friends with someone that voted for the opposing presidential candidate?" and "Would you work for someone that voted for the opposing presidential candidate?" where results show a similar trend but are a lot more forgiving. Asking for someone to get intimate and build a family is not the same as asking to associate with someone despite different beliefs.

The methodology is also worth mentioning: "This study was conducted Nov. 18-22 from a representative sample of 850 students nationwide from 2-year and 4-year schools".

Source for data: https://www.generationlab.org/partisanship
>The only disadvantage really is that you lose most of the benefits of zero-G. for example, long running experiments requiring zero G. You also start to need walkways and paths. The ceiling of rooms becomes dead unusable space. etc. Docking new spacecraft requires stopping the spinning, which takes many days.

For a one way trip to "elsewhere" none of that matters much.

We'll probably see this approach investigated more fully when a one way trip to elsewhere seems more likely.
Analogue Pocket Hate Story
At times in my career I have been a “pioneer”, at times a “settler”, and at other times a “town planner”. While university friends took up offers from Oracle, Microsoft, Sun, I started work at one of the first ISPs. Terrible pay, zero benefits. Funding the company partly on our own meagre personal credit limits, but the thrill of building something from scratch that we were sure would change the world and that should be built. If not us then who? We thought. It worked out well for us, but most others didn’t make it.
Anti-Vaxxers Are Terrified the Government Will ‘Enforce’ a Vaccine for Covid (2020)
Really cool plugin, although a bit sad to see how long it's taking to get approved - It makes sense to want to do a thorough review, although taking a month+ not something I like seeing in my favorite editor :(
If you think from an economic standpoint, Amazon should price AWS only a bit cheaper than the on-prem options. It's a way to maximize their profits.

Then you have competition (GCP, Azure, Alibaba) which will tend to lower the price, but for now the cloud industry grows. Their goal is to attract new customers who didn't use the cloud before.
Sure, if you're fine with

- never having a medical emergency

- driving 30 minutes to get food

- never going anywhere you can't drive home from
Except it's not debunked. Bipartisan committee concluded Russia interfered. Multiple people in the Trump admin were acting as foreign agents. We still have no indication what was actually discussed in the Trump tower meetings, but we know they lied about it. Go read the Mueller report summaries.

I'm tired of seeing this lie spouted to dismiss all this as a " Russia hoax". It is clear there is a conflict of interest within that admin. They went to bat to remove sanctions against Russia. They blackmailed Ukraine to attack a political opponent.
South Africa’s excess deaths amount to 1 out of every 200 people. The most vulnerable have already been removed from the sample set.

I’m going to wait for severity data from where I live, because that’s what matters.
Behest of ordinary citizens is easily swayed by media, which are owned by corporations. Enjoy your nuclear hysteria while important people keep visiting Climate Change Conferences in their private jets
So big tech is vampirising all the other companies and are responsible for our economic downturn?
No.
Infosec emotional climate always had a certain pessimistic, paranoid and panicky perception from the outside, but it is greatly exaggerated, I think.

FUD, bullshit, lack of skilled people, lack of budgets, lack of understanding from adjacent departments, chaos, mayhem, overtimes, incidents and creeping "I'm not sure what's going on" have always been parts of the profession. Learning to accept frustration, constant change, ill-formed perception and rejection is part of your career choice and a selection factor in the long term. Learning to look at the world from a certain angle which is hard to unlearn (especially if you're good at it) is a mental equivalent of firefighter's calluses.

If you can bear with it all - being on defensive side and being a kind of digital first responder (regardless of where exactly you are in the industry) is a fun job and calling for some.

(Edits: Typos)
How many of those mitigations would've solved the log4j misfeature? It was in Java, there is an access control to turn off JNDI lookups (that was off for some stupid reason), etc.
I didn't see anything that said that the author had to play the game. You're certainly free to post stuff to the web without SEO optimizations and Social Media headers.

It might not get the amplification that they author expected. But that would be pretty in keeping with the Web 1.0 ideals being extolled, right?
> unvaccinated without prior infection is a different story.

No it's not, the study specifically mentions "the relative reduction of risk conferred by prior proven COVID-19 infection"

https://www.discovery.co.za/corporate/news-room
I honestly never understood this argument.

Corporations don't just emit greenhouse gases for the fun of it, like some sort of villain, they do it because they produce the stuff that we, the "ordinary citizens" buy like mad every Christmas or whenever we have $200 extra in our bank accounts.

Corporations will do anything permitted by the law and that's no secret. That includes evading taxes, sub-living wages or pollution. Ordinary citizens allow this by buying the products of those corporations and by not voting for more green policies.

To assign the blame solely on corporations and remove "ordinary citizens" from the equation is short-sighted at best.
Along which dimensions?

It all depends how you look at it. For the average person, it's better than a decade ago. For the average techie, it's worsened.
Some interesting moral questions can be asked about this setup.

The most basic one, if indeed the outside is unknown to your product, are you a moral person developing it.
People are suffering, but we were not close to the end of civilization.
COVID-driven bifurcation is still uncertain in how "sticky" it will be. With much of the initial panic over and many people getting vaccinated, there's already a little backtracking to old habits, along with the people who never changed their habits much in the first place through their resistance to COVID precautions.

I'd be surprised if we ever went fully back to a pre-COVID status quo, but I think the changes will be significantly slower.
Indeed, there's no sight of log4j2 on EJBCA Community deployments
Relevance is in the eye of the beholder.

Or, to put it another way, relevance is a property of the relationship between the material and the consumer. You would have to know something about me in order to provide me with relevant (to me) news.
That's because having good security doesn't make you more money.
In some version of the game "Maniac Mansion 2: Day of the Tentacle", there was a easter egg that allowed you to play the first version of the game if you interacted with a computer stacked away in the back of the scene.

The game was difficult and looked old to me as a kid. But I somehow thought that this must have been the way people knew games before DOTT. You could run out of time, die, choose the wrong set of characters in the beginning of the game, making it impossible to win. I never finished it.

On the web today I find echoes of the "Web 1.0" on Tor-.onion-Websites (including the uncontrolled cesspool that it was in the 90s when people bought illegal guns on the "Clearweb" as we call it today). And Neocities, that is mentioned in the article as well, provides something that takes the best from the past web. The gemini protocol brings back very simple websites and SpaceHey brings back the feeling of the early "Web 2.0" when user profiles could still be heavily modified using html.

While much of what the author rightfully hates on is true, and it is the main characteristic of what the web is today, these developments also show that the web diversifies in niche corners. Whenever I discover them, it's really cool :)
SpaceHey was developed by teenagers who might be young enough not to bother creating a Facebook account for themselves anymore [1]. And yet, they came up with the idea of recreating a piece of Web history.

And if the worst becomes true and the Metaverse takes off, maybe there will be a computer stacked away somewhere in the back where you can access good old BBS boards, at least.

[1] Okay, I checked their site again and they might be a little older than teenagers, but still :)
> I don't think this geopolitical perspective constitutes xenophobia. Do you really?

Well, yeah, practically textbook:

Popular definition from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/xenophobia ("Fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners").

In more detail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophobia - " It is an expression of perceived conflict between an ingroup and an outgroup and may manifest in suspicion by the one of the other's activities, a desire to eliminate their presence, and fear of losing national, ethnic, or racial identity."
Tape is great for large-scale setups, with the cost all being in the drives and media being dirt cheap. But what if I just want a backup of my personal or small business's data to put into a safe. Even regular hard drives are far more economical than spending a couple thousand on a previous-generation LTO drive, or many hundred on an even older model.
Ah yes, superdelegates. One of many gripes with the Democratic Party that are famously equivalent to armed insurrection supported by sitting members of Congress.
> I suppose you were there with Frankl and can tell us all about it and how you managed to survive.

I wasn't around for the US Civil war either but I can still tell you that the idea that it was about states' rights is nonsense.

> or did you have a superior strategy for survival?

Frankl already had a superior strategy. He made himself useful to the Nazis running the camps and was treated better than his fellow inmates.

> Your comment is a vacuous, bald assertion that Frankl is "nonesense" and his ideas were a "schtick"

Do you really want me to explain why the idea that people died in concentration camps because they had bad attitudes is nonsensical?
TO dock you have to spin down and then spin back up again? It's a hard problem.
> You expect an average consumer to start converting base32 to binary to check what features their cable support?

Fret not, consumer! Just install the HDMI™ Companion App™* for easy parsing of the version numbers.

*HDMI™ Companion App™ and facial recognition are required for decoding of 4k HDR content on your media devices.