skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> storage is cheap

Sometimes. Sometimes not.

The physical HW, i.e. RAM and HDD storage is cheap but price you pay for accidental complexity is high.
E.g. when your non-tail-call recursive calculation eats away all available memory. And you need to persistently store the intermediary results - just a handful of long integers in a dbase. And that dbase must be set up and maintained. That means dealing with access rights, usernames, passwords, replication, backups etc. In every environment: prod, tests, on every development branch (separately!), etc.

In another dimension, read / write operations mean yet more side effects to deal with. And on top of that, dealing with intermediary results means yet more accidental complexity in the source code.

So no, the workaround for "the memory limitation problem" can be in fact the most expensive part of a project. And now imagine, the data grows day by day...
I use jellyfin myself but it is so incredibly slow that often it is basically non-functional. It seems that usually when I first open it after a while it is fast enough but then it rapidly slows to a crawl where it sometimes can't even start the next episode in a series. I'm not running it on fantastic hardware but it should me more than sufficient for this task, other services on the box are snappy. I would happily replace it if I could find an alternative.

The developers also have no concept of security past the very basics. Make sure you run it in a network namrspace or something otherwise it will accidently bind to random network interfaces even though you told it to use the loopback address. The devs don't seem to think this is a problem. Falling back to a public interface is a feature that prevents support requests.
Have you ever taken a 30 minute bike ride over ice-and-snow-covered roads, in -20C temperatures, in the dark, on roads with no street lights or sidewalks (the sun sets at 2:00pm)?

If so, good for you, you rugged badass! But I’m not sure we need to force everybody to do the same.
Re: 2, I see your point, but I think you've taken just an extreme view as those that would categorise firmly into goodies and baddies. It's still possible to recognise that different people's intentions may be more or less selfish, without either going for "good"/"evil" dichotomy or lumping everything into an "only human" bucket.
If you know the private key already, you just need to know which "page" it falls in, which should be documented somewhere as the pages are procedurally generated.
ADSL connection!? I had a mate who used to use flashfxp to push stuff around with a 56k modem....
Nothing wrong with that, whatever works for you!

I did have similar experiences with Kodi in the past. What I realized is that many plugins are of really poor quality and can mess up Kodi in very unexpected ways - the way issues manifest may not hint at a plugin being at fault. No sandboxing and a bunch of dubious Python modules. And that's besides all the possible security issues.

Nowadays I just have a basic skin + JellyConn and it's been very solid and smooth.

The Kodi plugin ecosystem is really alluring with all the possible features but it's a can of worms. Kodi itself is quite stable and predictable otherwise, in my experience.

EDIT: Oh, and I don't have much to say about Kodi media library organization - it seems a bit finicky so I'd do that either manually like you're already doing or with some other software more suited for it (Sonarr+Radarr/Jellyfin/any other good recommendations?)
Yes but, mining is set up to be easier/winnable because adding blocks is necessary.

The opposite is true of finding private keys.
The slightly less cynical view is that Wikileaks doesn't meet the bar for journalistic integrity and responsible disclosure.

Wikileaks takes far less care with vetting classified documents than for example Glenn Greenwald did with the documents Snowden provided.
There are a lot of "last report". Aparently vaccination helps and they want to sell more vaccines.
On a side note, I find it kind of funny how, when using the model trained on Reddit, some of the outputs contain a quite readable "The image you are requesting does not exist or is no longer available" text, and a faint "imgur.com" watermark in the lower left corner.

For the former, I guess when training the original model, a bunch of the Reddit images weren't available at crawl time. Wouldn't it make sense to somehow weed those out from the data set before the training?
Booting a PC from an 8” Floppy Disk
I've also seen Source-Nexus, that has plugins for Pro Tools as well as VST/AU, and you can make multiple named drivers. It would work pretty well with Loopback it seems.

https://www.source-elements.com/products/source-nexus/
But what about mopeds and bicycles? And motorcycles?
Cool. My dad and I have taken up film photography fairly recently, myself using a Nikon F55 which lets me use all my digital lenses, and him using an old Kodak Brownie that he grew up with. He had a heart attack about a year ago and shooting on film seems to give him a nostalgia trip that calms him down. Strangely it does the same for me too. We'll have to give this a go together!
I want to love it, but I just can't see the point. Tracing JIT's are so good at what they do.

WebGPU is a different story.
That's not human nature, since there is no abstract human nature! Human beings are social animals, it's all about “social relation!” It's all about conditions of the real material world. The slavery, feudalism or capitalism are not an arbitrary choices of human beings, they are social relations changing with class struggle! Why no powerful person or group wants to enslave, literally enslave, others? because this way, they make more profit! It is all about profit in the capitalism.
You didn’t come upon those wallets by chance. Whatever rules the site uses to order wallets isn’t unique and some other (insecure) wallet generator uses the same technique.

That or someone is actually using the site to come up with wallet keys.
Both Polaroid and Kodak were scientific powerhouses. The original integral film camera, the SX-70, utilised loads of new technology for the time, including flat flex cables and microcontroller commanded shutters. Much of it seems fairly rudimentary in comparison for what we can do now but I’m always amazed that they figured this stuff out 50+ years ago.

Edwin Land who started the company was an incredible talent and is really worth reading up on.
Pachyderm is hiring DevRel and Go Engineers to build world-class Data Versioning
> a culture of ignoring any traffic lights that exist, and it works just fine.

Does it?

How do their rates of car crashes compare to countries where people stop at red lights? How does the throughput of their urban roads compare?
I'd love to hear what that bug is! It's doing a topological sort on the audio graph, right?
Show HN: I made a tool to improve Mission Control on macOS
I am talking about default behavior of browsers and network libraries used to implement services listening to network requests.

Not whether installing an extension whose purpose is interacting between locally running IDE and locally running VM can be considered opting in it interacting with network in any way.
Quickly checking with Python...

2^265 < 10^80 > 2^266

So it's only 0.1% of the number of atoms in the universe?
I mean...btc will eventually hit the supply limit. Sort of hilarious if all mining hardware was repurposed at that point to work on brute forcing instead
The JNDI RCE attack vector was known since at least 2016
Even ∈ [0, 2 ^ 256)
First page:

Betty S. Flowers

Madman, Architect, Carpenter, Judge: Roles and the Writing Process

"What's the hardest part of writing?" I ask on the first day of class.
"Getting started," someone offers, groaning.
"No, it's not getting started," a voice in the back corrects. "It's keeping on
once you do get started. I can always write a sentence or two - but then I get stuck." "Why?" I ask.
"I don't know. I'm writing along, and all of a sudden I realize how awful it is, and I tear it up. Then I start over again, and after two sentences, the same thing happens."
"Let me suggest something which might help," I say. Turning to the board, I write four words: "madman," "architect," "carpenter," "judge." Then I explain: "What happens when you get stuck is that two competing energies are locked
horn to horn, pushing against each other. One is the energy of what I'll call your
'madman.' He's full of ideas, writes crazily and perhaps rather sloppily, gets carried
away by enthusiasm or anger, and if really let loose, could turn out ten pages an hour.
"The second is a kind of critical energy - what I'll call the 'judge.' He's been educated and knows a sentence fragment when he sees one. He peers over your shoulder and says 'That's trash!' with such authority that the madman loses his crazy confidence and shrivels up. You know the judge is right - after all, he speaks with the voice of your most imperious English teacher. But for all his sharpness of eye, he can't create anything
The concluding para from your Nature article says the opposite of what you're claiming, and supports the person you're replying to:

"the persistence of antibody production, whether elicited by vaccination or by infection, does not ensure long-lasting immunity to COVID-19. The ability of some emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants to blunt the protective effects of antibodies means that additional immunizations may be needed to restore levels, says Ellebedy. “My presumption is, we will need a booster.”"
I remember a lot of programmed games using IJKL or IJKM at the time as an alternative to arrow keys. WASD felt really weird the first time I tried it.
Also you're much more likely to benefit from someone else sharing than to have something worth sharing with others. Easy to be a Marxist when you're broke!
I've noticed that there are a few hardcoded ones on the final page, where the account exists and the key is wrong.

I'd say odds are that the website is wrong, but you can always load those keys in a wallet and see if they give you control over the actual address.

If that works, I'd assume it's the case that some people have used weak keys (for example, a popular Ethereum wallet would actually generate 256 bits of entropy but accidentally truncate it to 32 bits in an operation), and any funds in those wallets will have been snagged long ago.

Point being: generate a private key properly, and no one will ever find it.

EDIT: I realize this is another page then the one I've seen previously, but I think the same idea applies. That one had support for Ethereum, too, and on the final page was an account with a balance.
> quite unsafe.

For the occupant yes. Less so for everyone around.

> that didn't pass for some reason.

It's still a 1500kg block of steel in the hands of people with lesser developed sense of danger (still applies to some adults but that is a different discussion). I get the "people need to go places" but apparently there are no adults who can provide the "service" of driving someone somewhere in the countryside.

The tractor exception was valid in my place as well and was dealt with in a updated law, it's not european afaik simply most countries banning it.
I don't disagree with the amount, that largely depends on how useful you find the features.

I disagree with the subscription part.
Does this mean that they already are able to crack 256 bit encryption?
It's honestly stuff like this that gives a modicum of merit to the often repeated sentiment that NYT and WaPo are corrupt organizations that are just propaganda for the toads living under a volcano plotting out every passing moment (or whatever, IDK).

I remember a few years back, when NYT was really suffering a huge loss in readership, they had this mega panel to try and figure out why the paper was failing. At no point did their own editorial choices figure into the picture. (I think they decided the solution they needed was these sort of digital hybrid articles that have slick graphics, or something along these lines.)

In the big picture, I think these traditional news outlets do good, important work. However, they've really failed at times spectacularly in ways that have just given fodder to less reputable outlets, which people do listen to, and thus harmed even the notion of truth itself?

Examples would be how Iraq was covered, when the NYT had evidence similar to what Snowden leaked like 10 years later, but chose not to publish because the WH said they'd have a lot of death on their hands and stuff. Also, I think a lot of people feel that they pushed way too hard for a Clinton coronation, instead of really being objective and reporting on the phenomenon that was Bernie.

I don't bring up Bernie because I'm a Bernie Bro btw, I'm just saying that he was usually editorialized as a nuisance, perineal loser, who was a bad politician, when in the meanwhile his foil (trump) was seeing a similar populist rise that was met with similar befuddlement. The truth is, that Bernie and Trump were huge misses by media outlets and in many ways, these institutions couldn't see past their own certainty of how the world works.

So, when I read that no one is going to stand up for Assange, I just sort of shake my head and think that they really haven't learned a thing. They've missed opportunities to break huge stories, while at the same time have done very, very good reporting in the things that they excel at (I.e. Trump taxes, Panama papers, etc...) The problem is in an unfair fight, where one side isn't burdened by the truth, you can't even slip an inch. You have to follow the truth, wherever the story may take you, and a lot of these editors in my opinion have been failures for not taking this seriously.

It gives a semblance of credibility to the finger wagging from laughing stock alternative outlets, because sometimes (very rarely) they do have a point.
Not sure if you mean maintainability/ability to add future stuff. With that in mind for me it's to do some form of breaking things up so the side effects/remembering is low. Sucks to make a change and have to remember how everything works. In this case tests are nice for regression.
What insurance scheme exactly?

Public housing is a nightmare in all of Europe, and being homeless is as much a risk as in the US.
By making it "as addictive as possible" you mean "tastes good"?
The most radioactive fraction has relatively short lifetimes. (There is only so much energy that can be radiated out.) Even the Elephant's Foot in Chernobyl is much less radioactive now, mere 35 years after the accident.

The less radioactive fraction will indeed stay active for thousands of years, but its level of radiation will be closer to natural sources than to an atomic bomb.
>I have just tried to get my access back to my bank account.

This is related to tons of regulation regarding KYC. Nothing to do with "tech".
Thanks you for all that! It does look like it simplifies stuff in that there are no more config files! So that's really cool.

I will need to read the docs a bit later b/c from the landing page it's all still confusing. This is probably a function of the tech "debt". It has example commands like

caddy file-server --domain example.com

- If it's a file server.. shouldn't it be something like FTP/FTPS? Everything on the webpage keeps saying HTTPS .. which is Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.. ie HTML webpages. So is it serving files or webpages? (I guess webpages are a type of file.. but in practice the two aren't the same)

- Do I need to stick this into my .profile? Or I need to configure a systemd service?

- What is it even serving out..? Is it just serving out everything in the immediate directory I'm in where I run the command?

- How is it "hooking into" example.com? How does the registrar know to point at my IP after I run this command? (or if that's done separately - say on the registrar website, why do you need to specify the URL locally at all?)

In any case, these are just immediate questions that come up. It's all stuff that probably makes sense if you know it already :)

And again.. i need to rtfm - so I'm not complaining or shooting the messenger here haha. Thanks for the info
I think it's not that bad, I've done similar in the past and still cycle everywhere, no mtter the weather.

Just get a good bicycle light (B&M have some dynamo powered 80lux or 100lux lights) and then it's easily possible.
Supernatural explanations and superstitions are not very useful to understand the world.
I ran a bridge for a while, had no problems with anything as I was just a bridge. Had a decent connection when I did.
I think you should RTFM before jumping in and trying to code by guessing the language semantics. All of these things you dislike are easily achieved by a small change in keyword or function signature.
As a part-time pedestrian I completely agree.
Several wallets with balances here, one with more than 10 ETH, what does that mean? https://keys.lol/ethereum/9046256971665327767466483203803742...
They have to wait in line in freezing temperatures too. That might skew the numbers down a lot.
What about being from a country that's not the United States makes a developer less skilled?
Generally agree, but you can set a shortcut from the main menu to file browser.
The best quote for this is from Bruce Schneier:

"... brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space."

https://security.stackexchange.com/a/82412
UX in tech is bad for a great number of reasons.

1. Good UX is hard and even harder to get right from the start. When teams* are faced with tight deadlines to deliver functionality, they invest too little time in figuring out how to best solve a problem. Even less time and effort is expended to follow up on something that was delivered in order to see if it works (it doesn’t) and how it can be improved.

2. Developers* have their mind set on optimization. This applies to ticking off requirements on a backlog item (I refrain from using the term "User Story" on purpose; the context of features isn’t properly communicated either). With UI development, there is a myriad of details to cover that require attention from everyone and developers* won’t complain if there is no detailed spec for input constraints, form validation, error handling, responsive behavior, keyboard interaction, a11y. Works as designed, why bother.

3. UI Development (for tech, the interface to the user makes/breaks the UX) is seen as "lesser" or "a complicated mess to avoid" by senior developers*. My subjective feeling is, that the seniority in UI dev is/stays behind the mean. There are more juniors around.

4. To a degree, the product quality in tech isn't great, it's not only bad UX. Bad UX is merely more visible, despite it not making the news as much as the backend engineering blunders of not sanitizing input or exposing databases to the interwebs.

5. https://userinyerface.com

* Not all of them. There are exceptions - appreciate them and treat them nicely, they are hard to replace :)*
Extremely true. I lived in Italy for 2 years and driving there was a nightmare, I feel as if I can easily conquer any road in the US now.
>a nuclear power plant the operators can choose how much power they make every day

No. They cant.

It takes 24-48 hours for them to ramp production up or down and this is both expensive and difficult. This is far too slow to be useful. Natgas takes ~7 seconds-minutes to go from 0-100% and it's cheap and easy. Same for batteries. Hydro is slower but still in the order of minutes/seconds. This IS useful.

When nuclear plants have claimed ramp up/down speeds quicker than that they are always still producing the same amount of energy at the same cost they are just wasting some of it.

The nuclear industry tries to blur these distinctions.

>but wind is not baseload or dispatchable since it is not possible to control the wind speed.

Wind can often pull the same "trick" nuclear does where if the grid only wants 100MW but it's producing 150MW it can just let 50MW go to waste.

This isnt really "dispatchable" either but sometimes wind energy advocates pull the same trick.
Word of advice: don't go looking for your private keys. If someone was malicious they could log all fetched pages and scan those for keys with funds attached. The act of looking up a specific key is revealing information.
Only, much of the time they don't actually seem to work.

They remind me of those little fan-like gadgets people sell online that goes in your car air intake and supposedly gives you more horsepower. I've always been amazed that there is enough of a market for things, that rather obviously do not work, for companies to actually bother making and selling these things.
3+ hours in line, in freezing temperatures, on the sidewalk. There is no booking system.
Let's play a game just to visualize how unlikely this is.

Do you know our universe?

Nice, now choose a random atom. Yup, one single atom.

Randomly guessing your exact single atom is just a bit harder than guessing someone's private key in that way... considering that the number of atom in the observable universe is between 10^78 and 10^82 and not considering that there are a lot of wallets around.
> But the attention varies, youngest gets the most attention in most families.

Isn't the attention equally distributed because everybody is at one time 'youngest' ?
Do you have any thoughts on how caffenol works, and how one might optimize this developer solution while keeping it non-toxic and ideally easy to create with simple household products? Or is Caffenol already about as good as it gets? On the caffenol website they don't seem to have link that explain the chemical process, but do mention that it's all about the phenols[0]. Which that in mind, wouldn't berry juice be a lot more effective?

EDIT: the Caffenol wiki page[1] has a link to the original article from 1995 explaining how this works[2]

[0] https://www.caffenol.org/alternative-recipes/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffenol

[2] https://people.rit.edu/andpph/text-coffee.html
waiting for a response about how you can then also transcode the video into ascii by piping in an extra command :)
No, only works in Chrome
I'm curious, what would be a good reason why treating floating point numbers as byte sequences should be any harder than what is required to make it obvious (provided their binary format is well defined)?
Not nescessarily. But certainly places bounds on the budget to do so.
The transition to "everything plastic" definitely was a big jump in term of quality in general. If you look at cameras from example, "cheap" old (pre 1960s) cameras were just as reliable as expensive ones, if not more, they were just simpler in design and built with less tolerance. When they started building consumer grade cameras in the 80s they almost exclusively used cheap plastic and cheap electronics which inevitably die (LCD screens instead of mechanical displays, undersized rewind motors instead of manual advance levers, autofocus vs manual focus, &c.).

The transition from hand built to machine built and the general miniaturisation of most mechanical/electronic systems since the 80s also means it gets harder and harder to fix. I do believe stuff was made better in term of repairability and simplicity, simply because they didn't have any other ways.

That's why you can pick up virtually any pre 1960 camera and repair it but cameras from the late 80s early 90s are incredibly finicky. I just picked up a camera from 1950, opened it, cleaned its lens elements / shutter mechanism and it works just as good as when it came out of the factory. It took me an hour and two screw drivers to go from "unusable paperweight" to "fully functional", the most advanced pieces of machinery in there are metal gears and springs.
Koch: Remembering the EBR-I [pdf]
Aegis is great!
Perhaps you're correct about C++, but I was more referring to the Zig vs. Rust situation.
Building started July 2005.