skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Outline (getoutline.org) is a super easy to use you run on a cloud server. No logging and it works everywhere there's censorship, and it's easy to share access to your server with as many or as few people as you like. The only cost is the cost of running the cloud server, a few dollars a month if you use LightSail or DigitalOcean. Disclaimer: I used to work on it.
> Literally every argument against image NFTs is also an argument against art.

It is not. It's an argument against capitalism. Don't conflate them, there's art outside of capitalism, too.
Eh, it's more common than that. I worked for a roboinvestor tech company that paid an artist to draw a bunch of this crap. The deal was that it was supposed to appeal to Gen-Zers, with diverse racial cartoon characters doing their best not to look like they were at work. It seemed super cringey to me at the time
That Is Not How Your Brain Works
I think that depends upon the number of children and interval between each child.
That was very difficult to read for some reason. The author quotes a lot of other peoples definitions of wilderness, online, offline, digit escapism, etc, but I’m struggling to understand the authors intentions. Does she recommend that I not view excessive time spent online as negative or escaping to spaces that remove it as positive? Should I view my own preferences for the outdoors as an extension of my white-male-ness instead of a pursuit of individual happiness?
> I always like to ask for what kind of task one needs GILless python?

> CPU bound? If you are using native python code for CPU bound tasks you are already in a bad place.

While I think you may have misread my comment for a value judgement on Python's GIL, I don't see as particularly useful dismissing major potential (multithreaded) performance gains for a slow language just because there's faster languages. Languages that are better in some way - like speed - should stand as a benchmark and a goal, not a reason to give up improvements.
It is pretty harsh regulation and not so effective building methods. There is another more normal size nuclear powerplant project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanhikivi_Nuclear_Power_Plant on the way and it is already late.
Common Causes of Flaky Tests in Elixir
you only need few thing to have a immersive experience in metaverse.
first i would say a super light weight VR headset is a must. next to a photorealistic environment, which thanks to unreal engine 5 we are literally there! also the most important part in my opinion is Elon Musk's neuralink.
being able to put your VR headset on, lay back on your couch and telepathically control your character's movement, is as immersive as you can get.

sadly we're probably 5-10 maybe 15 years away from a solid experience.
I wouldn't want a teenager driving on ice and snow covered roads in the dark on roads with no street lights.
They started building it before detailed design was done which is always the case with construction projects but they really misjudged how early they could start. As a result, whenever they had to stop to review an element of the construction plan or detailed design, they had to idle the entire trained workforce. Since you can't just hire nuclear trained welders etc off the street in Finland, these people were paid but doing nothing during that time. Contrast with China where this happened with their EPRs, they are building lots of other nuclear plants to they just put the labour force on buses and moved them to other projects for a few months. Obviously that makes a big difference.
Law of No Evidence
SV luminary Jordan Hall spends some time answering your query in this interview on Rebel Wisdom:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o32x9qx3Umo
Natural and innate != good. Deception and tribalism, for example, are innate. You need to make the case for something on its own merits, otherwise it's just the naturalistic fallacy.

I also take issue with your caricature of 'greed is good'. The non-strawman version just says that people following their own self-interest can often lead to more overall output, because people are more motivated if they're pursuing something in their own interest rather than someone else's. That works amazingly well when the price accounts for all the costs and benefits - you get lots and lots of output of a good thing - and less well when it does not.
What is the expected speed up if using quantum techniques?

Can quantum techniques allow one to more effectively search for a specific private key to a BTC account?
That's really interesting! That's what appears if you HTTP Toolkit receives a request, proxies to the provided destination, and then finds itself on the other end of its own outgoing socket. This avoids the simplest infinite proxy loops.

That'll make if you try to proxy a request to `127.0.0.1:8000` via HTTP Toolkit for example. That shouldn't be happening here though - there's no way Go should be using the proxy address as its target URL. I.e. to see this result, it must be sending a request like:

GET /golang.org/x/oauth2/@v/list
Host: 127.0.0.1:8000

You can probably see the full details in HTTP Toolkit's request data.

Any chance you've added a rule in HTTP Toolkit that's redirecting traffic back to itself? That could do this, and would show up as two identical requests in HTTP Toolkit. If not (you can reset the rules by hitting the trash icon on the mock page) then this means something in your Go setup is either configured very strangely or its interpreting HTTP Toolkit's configuration incorrectly.

Sorry I can't be more helpful, I have no idea why `go get` would send a request like that! If you can pin it down to something I can reproduce (e.g. a specific Go version or config setting or something) than I'm happy to investigate further, but it seems to work correctly everywhere I've tested so far.
It depends on future interest rates and electricity prices.

Assuming a fixed interest rate of 5%, construction costs including interest is about $16 billion = €14 billion. Assuming an availability of 95% (maybe unrealistic for a brand new reactor) it will generate 13TWh/year. Assuming an electricity cost of €100/MWh (higher than usual but lower than current extreme prices) and a marginal cost of €26/MWh, the income/year is €0.99 billion. From this you have to deduct the interest of the loan of about €0.70 billion. So for the first year you have €0.29 billion in profit that you can use to amortize the loan.

So when the plant becomes profitable is highly dependent on what future interest rates are and how high future electricity prices will be. While current interest rates have been very low for the past few years, it may be very hard to get an investor to lend you money for a nuclear plant for only 5%. A discount rate of 7% or even 9% is often used for many commercial projects. Using those rates Olkiluoto 3 will never generate any return (barring insane electricity prices).
Spend $30 on vastly overpriced Blu-Ray discs to get the "digital edition"
I live in Russia. Our country still hasn't adapted vision zero policy in street planning, the ministry of interior love cars and high speed. So the technocratic govt is trying to fight with traffic accidents (though it did reduce by x2 in the last decade) by ever harsher surveliance and exams.

If you're curious whether road police is corrupted, as many believe, the industrial approach to fighting this actually works and gradually decreases corruption. In 2000-2008 you could literally pay for a licence and get it without any effort. In 2010 more rules were introduced, and the risk for the bureaucrats for doing this increased drammatically, so you had to go to driving school, but could bribe the exam inspector. Since then, inspectors would try extorting bribes by making you fail. The federal govt is fighting this as well: couple of years ago, the exams started to be videotaped. The video is kept for some months. Any case of incidents or if bribery is reported, a team of investigators starts analyzing videos, and they may take away the issued licenses as well as make criminal charges against the exam inspectors. (When I was driving, the instructor was talking on the phone discussing that our local road police was being under such inspection right in those days, and everyone there were scared.) Stakes for bribery increased dramatically.

I personally would prefer less industrial approach and more social capital, trust and honesty among people, but that's another story.

You have compulsory 50 hours of lectures (though it's up to each driving school whether to enforce it or not), 27 compulsory driving lessons 1.5 hours each. Theory test is standardized for the entire country, to be exact it's 800 same questions for the whole country issued every year. The exam is done on computers, over internet, so that local police can't help the examinees. The exam is also videotaped to catch those who cheat.

Our driving school made preliminary test of 40 questions, and I think the success rate was 80%.

At driving test, roughly half of people failed.
Bitcoin is not decentralized [video]
There is a ton of information on the internet but it’s a pretty straightforward chemical reaction process that you need to optimize:

- film has a silver halide emulsion in it

- silver halide converts to silver when exposed to light

- once you’ve taken your picture, you need to: 1) remove remaining silver halide that wasn’t exposed to light, 2) “fix” the remaining silver so it’s stable

The neat thing about chemistry is it’s very empirical. What your process is either works or not.

So would berry juice be better? Maybe? The only way you’d know is to try.
Certainly not 2km down. Water table extends a few hundred meters at most.
Maybe have a look at Java’s new Vector API. It may be strange to get inspiration from a managed language, but I do think that it is a very sane API with safe fallbacks on non-supported CPUs (though it is possible only due to the JIT that way)
Private key of the 10 ETH wallet isn't accepted in MyEtherWallet. Other ones are pretty much empty, so maybe the site is caching the balances.

Same thing if you check page 1.
As a youngling I fell for this a couple times in my video games. Then I caught on and played along, seeing it as an in joke. Later I realized doing this provides social proof for the scammer. I still play video games and I call it out when I see it.
Car safety ratings in the USA do not test for safety of people outside of the car. Otherwise the vast majority of modern pickups and SUVs would not pass those tests, primarily due to the increased hood heights. See NHTSA[0] for info.

Andrew Gounardes, a NYS senator, attempted to push through a bill that would require additional ‘pedestrian safety’ ratings be posted for vehicles for sale in the state[1]. But otherwise, I don’t know any other state that has any safety ratings for people outside of the vehicles in the US

[0] https://www.nhtsa.gov/ratings

[1] https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S4307
Somewhat of a counterpoint: the CDC has tracked the flu through the flusurv network for almost 20 years now (starting 2003/4 season). Popular reporting on how the flu season was going has been pretty common, though obviously with much less intensity and ubiquity.

Especially in severe outbreaks it’s been normal to have this kind of warning publication, see https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/01/12/5776320...

Anyway I agree that we collectively at some point have to stop over-reporting on Covid, but I don’t think it makes sense to drop it back to zero. At this point even with vaccines and developing therapeutics it doesn’t seem likely to become less of a health concern than the flu any time soon
I've only been using VSC for about 6 months. During my the first week of use, I noted how insecure all the plugins and their communications with the main application were set up. Dismayed, I moving the workstation to an airgapped portion of my environment, and the piece of shit would not work without a net connection. So I use VCE inside a VM now. My career includes working for security companies with sensitive information and documents... VSC needs some serious redesigning with multiple experienced security engineers on the team.
YouTube account with 7M subs hacked and running ETH scam
Just letting you know that I downvoted you not because of the advice - which is pretty good - but because of the link to Jordan Peterson, who is generally a pretty nasty pseudo-intellectual piece of work.
Sorry, a car can go slow for many good reasons not visible to the following traffic (and be it only, that something in front of that car is slow, but you cannot see it). You have to be prepared to that. A car can even be entirely stopped and you should be able to stop without hitting it. Failing to do so is entirely the fault of the following traffic.

It is an entirely different matter, that one isn't allowed to drive unnecessarily slow to not block the following traffic. This is about the traffic flow, not of safety.
I never understood the appeal of Angular.

The first time I heard about it was on a JavaScript meetup, where a guy praised it as the best that ever happened to JS.

He said multiple times "Yes, and we had some issues... but they came from the fact that we didn't do it like Angular intended, when we rewrote as the maintainers explained, it worked!"

I never touched it.

Went from ExtJS4, to Ember.js, to React and then I stayed there.
They're fine if you have the right infrastructure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU
How difficult would it be to make this extension android-for-firefox compatible? What about a standalone client?
And then, when you "hit the jackpot", will you become a thief? Or will you just feel like you picked a lock, smile and pull the door back shut.
My interpretation as someone who is not an expert on cryptography:

The final cyphertext of an encryption system should be indistinguishable from noise - the less random the output looks, the more information an attacker gains.

The output of your 512-bit encryption should therefore look like noise already. Converting noise to noise should therefore result, predictably, in more noise. So I'm going to say "no, you can't tell".
Pre-commit doesn’t commit if it makes any changes, it just leaves the changed files for you to either add to the index or re-commit skipping the checks.
Perhaps not the best of the 44th boyes. I'm sure yours ranks highly elsewhere.
> Should developers who are writing code that involves cryptography know better?

but cryptography is just one small use case of RNGs. Grepping through my home for e.g. random_engine, less than 1% seems to be related to crypto use cases, the bulk are being taken by noise generation for various artistic use cases, games, compilers, schedulers, and tests. Stuff like shuffling a playlist, making particles move in random directions, randomness in paint brushes, etc.

If I want to generate a white noise texture for a video game do you think I care more about cryptographically-secureness or the operation not taking 10 seconds for a 4k texture ?
Good thing you didn't invest all your money in developing a hardware accelerated Text Editing And Correcting machine, right before the Text Editor Winter!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWzmNquPUBo
Sold-out supplies, serving public need, adventures of science during a pandemic
Those Dreaded Microservices
it's a cute little project that probably more people need/would like to have as one might think. Well Done. My solution for a long time was a shortcut to a blank screensaver. Nowadays, I have a shortcut for a screensaver that actually powers the monitor off - someone made that via AutoHotKey for Windows: https://www.dcmembers.com/skrommel/download/monitoroffsaver/

(although I'd wish Windows screensavers wouldn't go off through mouse movements.)
Well the 3x was entirely pulled out of my ass, so yes, it’s a stretch.

But just based off the entirely different approaches I’d think BC is at least 2x it’s reported numbers?

But you’re right, you could dig into number of tests, how tests were triggered, etc and come up with a much better estimate.
So... in other words, encryption with a key greater than 256 bits is forbidden unless you use one of the state-sanctioned (read: backdoored) algorithms. Neat.
Some say China is recording encrypted traffic today, to decrypt it in the future when quantum computers will be a thing.

https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/report-china-to-target-encr...
Show HN: Dictations for Teachers Made Easier
I'm not against faster interpreter also. It's history now, but IMHO super slow GILless python with Java-esk data races in 199x would not gain such broad community and ecosystem.
Rebuilding the Oroville Dam Spillways
I would be happy to complete your Doctor Who collection. It's definitely worth watching all of it.
To avoid attracting their attention in the first place. They are not going to bother breaking every 256-bit-encrypted thing they see but as soon as they notice something obviously 512-bit-encrypted they go beat the key out of you.
A Journey from JNDI/LDAP Manipulation to Remote Code Execution Dream Land
Thank you for these comments. Won’t shoot the messenger, that is a valid viewpoint.

As one of the makers of Tact, I’ll say that we have mountains of writing on the site on this, which we haven’t really condensed into short bulletproof messaging yet. I’ll say this as a short version:

It’s my opinion or world view that choosing your digital platform these days comes with very long strings attached, privacy and business model being the most relevant ones. I believe in the “Apple way” more than I belive in the “Android way”. (Also add desktop to the mix.)

Tact intends to appeal to the people who share the same world view. I don’t plan to appeal to everyone.

I recognize it’s all just that: an opinion. I don’t claim mine is the only one, or even the right one. I’m not really going to argue or fight about it. I’m glad there’s a lot of choice. I want to provide more choice in the communications space, and provide an option that perhaps some like-minded people have been missing.
What effect would this have on transaction fees, has this been modelled somewhere?
I could simply* be a 256bit LFSR so guaranteed to cycle through every possibility.

* As far as I'm aware there are not taps published for a 256 LFSR.
This is really easy to do and I'd imagine very profitable.

* Get a reasonable looking website and domain (in this case ethceo.pro

* Hack a YouTube account with 1M plus followers

* Go "live" on YT with an old interview with someone reputable

* YT ranks you in the algorithm

* Profit
Also, perceived and actual fairness can have quite a gap between them. People often feel like they're being treated unfairly when an outcome is not favorable to them, even when they're being treated by exactly same rules as anyone else.
Dear Microsoft, please fix your WebDAV client
Thanks!

Some info:

WebDAV allows having a 'OneDrive' like storage so you can share documents and pictures with your family and friends, but this time with privacy and free.

With WebDAV your family would see your folder as a network drive, it would be a no brainer to use it!

Unfortunately Microsoft's WebDAV doesn't follow the specs because bananas(?) or because OneDrive(?)

Please Microsoft, help keep the internet open and private and fix your WebDAV client.

Thanks.
Weird use of the term "computational". More like "visual", maybe.
Mesh networks that don't operate as an overlay network could in theory be pretty effective to avoid large-scale traffic correlation attacks. If we assume that the US has effective control over the whole backbone network, and enough control inside the network of most commercial available ISP's, then there isn't much mixing networks can do. An adversary can always observe, inject, throttle, speed up, block and otherwise disturb the network flow in order to determine who is talking to whom.
Why it cant be imported anywhere?
No, absolutely not. Going from a beeing an expert into a new management role is almost a different career, and there’s no predisposition for « technical people » to succeed at it.
well, the nested try: ... finally: gave you something to think about:
why do you have a "sock" object that you need to explicitly close "manually"?

I didn't look at the source, it can be for a number of reasons. But I suspect some long lived sock object shared between functions.

Something that could be wrapped in a context manager.

like

with MyCtxMgr() as my_ctx_mgr: # open the socket, init, etc...
my_ctx_mgr.do_stuff() # internally it has access
my_ctx_mgr.do_another_stuff() # to the opened socket
external_function(my_ctx_mgr.get_sock()) # and can pass it

# in the __exit__ actually close the socket, dealing with the OSError

calling a barebone "obj.close()" is a code smell IMHO
My quality of life is improved by heating that can be turned on remotely (while im on my way home) or on a timer (before i wake up).

Lightbulbs not so much.
What if browsers learned to connect to Unix sockets? And windows named pipes? And users could control these endpoints by the usual filesystem permissions?

One can dream.
Most Fascinating IPOs of 2021
Looks like the book is being review bombed on Amazon.com probably in part because of this news (and probably in part because it's a rubbish book).
Related tangent: despite its age this "SVG Can Do That?" preso by the inimitable Sarah Drasner still floors me every time:

https://slides.com/sdrasner/svg-can-do-that
> only turned a profit once

I don’t understand - what do you think is the problem with this? What exactly is wrong there?

They aren’t spending your money, or tax payer money. They’re doing nothing but pumping money into workers’ hands and the economy, creating thousands of skilled jobs. It’s currently a massive wealth-redistribution system.

Why are you sarcastically turning your nose up at it, based on some accounting metric, that doesn’t even involve or effect you? Why don’t we want this in Europe?
Depends on the local context. Here in France the legislation is already very clear that the right to housing is just as important as the right to private property, and there's legal provisions for "requisition" of empty dwellings. If you reside in a place that was one someone else's home (domicile) for more than 48h hours, it's supposedly your home and you can only be evicted by court order. The problem is the armed psychopaths (cops) will often evict you illegally, and judges will prioritize private property over human life.

There's many legal approaches to the problem: fine landlords huge amounts when they have unused space (or when they don't have enough people per square meters, such as when they employ "anti-squat" security agencies), requisition without compensation all empty dwellings in order to house everyone (with public money paying for repairs if needed), forcing by law landlords to lease their empty dwellings for a reasonable price... Or simply decriminalize squatting uninhabited dwellings: if the police stops hunting down people looking for a house in order to jail them, there will be considerably less homeless people from one month to the next.

It takes quite a lot of resources (security doors, guards, alarms, police) in order to ensure people stay homeless. The problem is by framing housing as a "crisis" (which is an invention, as the statistics show), we're shooting tons of money at not fixing the problem: homeless shelters are famously unsafe and indecent, and don't even get me started on government subsidies for hotel owners (via the 115 programs) to make business out of misery while providing terrible living conditions. In this case, i believe "less is more".
Quick question, if encrypted data looks like noise, how can you tell apart 256-bit encrypted noise and 512-bit encrypted noise?
“ My subjective feeling is, that the seniority in UI dev is/stays behind the mean”

With regard to quality/competency or organizational influence?