skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You definitely need a source. I would not say it was anything you mentioned.

In one case it was just sheer ambition but he wasn’t poor to begin with and in the other it was practicing a religion focusses on positive thinking which she adopted that also buikt her determination.

It is interesting to juxtapose with Agassi and The William sisters.

These two people are also on the top 0.1% Of their respective disciplines.
In NYC taxis have a plexiglass separator between the driver and the passengers. I'm not saying a driver can't sexually assault or rape a passenger, but in order to do that he would need to pull over and stop the car, get out, open the door to the back seats, get inside and attack his victim, and the victim should not have the presence of mind to just exit the vehicle through the other door, and run. I'm sure this may have happened, but it certainly can't be a frequent occurrence. I never heard of any such case (I lived in NYC for the last 7 years).
Rudeness is universally frowned upon. Not just here.
Definitely something to consider, but as envisioned this company would actually greatly reduce the attack surface for this information, by eliminating it from a huge amount of third party companies with unknown security practices.

As to your direct question. there are obviously the “best practices” around security and risk tolerance. There are some times a users personal information might be necessary, but likely there’s a lot where it wouldn’t.

One could for example anonymize is the primary data graph away from the user. The key piece of information is directed data flow not the information.

Another question is whether or not that is an acceptable risk given the alternatives. For a single consumer to realistically opt-out and keep track of all the companies benefitting from their data, it’s an impossible task.

That consumer would be safer since the target vector is only themselves, but if you want to make a dent against this industry you’d have to do it at scale.
It’s not a technical limitation any more than it is for Google. You can easily create software where a chosen third party (or some 2/3 parties scheme) can recover your account.
I tried something like with a ec2 instance.

It may be easy to maintain it as all your hosted services are in one place.

Main problem I faced is that the server has become single point of failure which caused lot of issues with customers. It’s really hard to explain why all your services are down at once.
Recent and related:

Databases in 2021: A Year in Review - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29731885 - Dec 2021 (126 comments)
To put this into context [0], the US consumes 20.5 million barrels of oil per day. Two million barrels is equivalent to 2.4 hours.

The entire strategic oil reserve, as of September of this year, held 621.3 million barrels, or about 31 days at current consumption rates.

In other words, this is a failed short term strategy. It simply isn't sustainable. While I understand that lots of people want to leave petroleum and fossil fuels in the past, this simply isn't supported by our reality. Oil is part of every fiber of modern life. From plastics, to lubricants, manufacturing and, yes, transportation. My guess is we would devolve into the middle ages if we stopped using oil's myriad derivative products.

Simply stated: The strategic oil supply isn't a strategy at all and modern life has an absolute dependency for oil, even if we eliminate that which is used for transportation.

Given this reality, shutting down oil pipelines and, in general, being hostile to the oil industry is, without a doubt, nonsensical. It's a formula for mayhem at all levels. Proper long term planning would support oil while heavily investing in nontrivial research and development projects to find as many alternative paths as possible.

The timeline for replacement of a small percentage of oil's byproducts could be as long as 25 to 50 years. You can't kill oil until you replace what we use it for. And no, electric cars won't do that. In fact, pretty much everything used to make, run, charge and service an electric vehicle requires oil byproducts.

In other words, we really need to stop playing politics with oil and have a sensible hundred-year plan rooted in reality rather than fantasy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Petroleum_Reserve_(U...
The United States has been _uniquely incompetent_.

Early on when the world was in flux circa March 2020, my friend needed to get in touch with the US embassy because countries were shutting down so suddenly. He was in Brazil at the time. The US embassy decided that day to close early due to concern about the pandemic and that they needed the off-office-hours time to work (or something like this). They wouldn't reopen for about a week.

By contrast, my friends in the old country have had zero issues getting a hold of their embassies while living abroad. All very prompt. I had a passport renewal that took a month to process in the summer 2020.

Very bizarre. This whole pandemic has made me blackpilled on the US.
Yes, and therefore bad troubleshooting.

Don't blame systems for bad input; garbage in, garbage out.
I'm wondering what you think the purpose of the wall along the Rio Grande is for. It was in all the papers for the last 6 years.

Or why the Soviet Union built a wall across Europe.
This author fundamentally misunderstands PCs and HTTP, and then goes on to make bogus claims about what can be done on a blockchain. “Permissionless” is wildly misleading description of the blockchain. You can’t change anything in the ledger besides things you already own. There’s also the implicit lie that blockchain means everyone is on equal footing. If that were true, VCs would not be racing to pour billions into Coinbase, et al. If anything, blockchain makes you more reliant on the intermediaries, and everything that web3 promoters resent about web2 will return, only worse.
Its not a copyright issue. Derivative works are legal. Bored Apes even understands that and isn't embarrassing themselves over a copyright battle because the precedent is clear, they never even contacted them.

Its these two copycats fighting with each other and being silly.

For the consumer/investor, none of this matters because the technology solves the problem here. It is extremely easy to prove which one is the real Bored Ape (none of these two), and it is easy to prove that the one in the consumer's possession is a real one too (appraisers and insurance and distrust in the marketplace is disintermediated). Its all about the transaction hash which cannot be modified, it isn't about the image. Its just being in the collection.

It really is just irrelevant drama that has nothing to do with NFTs or copyright. One of the copycats made 7 figures from sales, for who knows what reason, hundreds of people paying a few hundred dollars and taking a bet. Good for them, yes this is something you can do, or you can just assume its "all wash trading" (something other non-player characters say). Doesn't really matter.
Blockchain seems like a very costly way to add transparency and auditing. Especially if the chain will be controlled by one or only a few stakeholders.
If you look at the map of that plume, you see that it was most heavily concentrated in areas miles to the east.

Ironically my neighborhood is right off of 72 and 93 and is completely white on the map.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_contamination_fr...

Note that this Wikipedia article isn't up to date and has some biased editing. For example Rocky flats refuge has been open to the public for a couple of years now. The article has the typical antinuclear activist tactic of FUD.

As a person who has to deal with climate change related incidents like the fire yesterday, I have huge animosity towards anti-nuclear activists.

The same people who have been protesting everything nuclear for decades are the ones complaining about climate change now without seeming to understand that all of the Western world would be like France now if not for them. The fire we are ringing our hands about potentially causing contamination probably would not have happened if not for these activists destroying the reputation of nuclear power over several decades.
Changing the geographic frame is the single most effective way to deal with past experiences. I’ve done it in the past from traumatic experiences and it was always a huge step forward for my mental health!
No NFT project claims that, they're pretty explicit that they own the copyright on the images and you can't use them for commercial purpose. There's only a few niche NFT collections that also sell right to the image you're buying.
Reverse Engineer ESP32 FW with GDB and Ghidra
Please reconsider recommending Rocky. If you dive in a bit you'd probably find their attitude towards the community and community participation really weird. They seem to have pushed most of their resources towards better marketing instead of making a better distribution.

Here's an example: about a half year ago the host of linuxunplugged.com (a pretty popular podcast IMO) invited representatives both from Alma Linux and from Rocky Linux. The Alma guy was happy to be on the show and showed up a few hours before it started to chat with community members. The Rocky guy asked if any other distributions will be there, and then sent a passive-aggressive email where he declined to participate because "we're not interested in being compared against other distributions", or something to that extent.

This small example pretty much sums up their entire attitude.

FWIW, I've been using https://almalinux.org for the past few months on a couple of dozen servers and it's been smooth sailing.

(I've also been using Oracle Linux and it too worked fine. If only it were not Oracle…)
I'm eager to finish adding facial recognition to my charityware project Video Hub App - a browser / organizer for videos on your computer.

https://videohubapp.com/

MIT open source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
Obviously we don’t know everything, and we may never know with 100% certainty, but I disagree that we have “no idea”. We have prior knowledge from established vaccines about when to expect side effects, and what kinds are likely. Most known vaccine side effects are triggered by the immune response itself in the first few weeks, and we already have solid evidence on that time scale.

That doesn’t mean that novel side effects or delayed side effects are not possible, but I think without a plausible hypothesis it is reasonable to believe the risk is low, especially compared to a definite risk from infection.
The article you linked refers to a centralized service being hacked to steal data - truly only related to crypto network security superficially.

SHA-1 exploits were found by researchers, if SHA-256 had the same forewarning protocols would initiate an emergency fork with a more secure hash function.
I try to remember that a job isn't the definition of my life or my self. A job is a business transaction where I do something in exchange for money. That money gives me choices and resources to pursue the rest of my life. Therefore, I put up with the crap.
> I’m a mechanical engineer - smartbolts are cool but rarely used in my experience. Much more commonly used are DTI washers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_tension_indicator

Here's an (old) video showing how DTIs work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s677UKFiRdA&t=60s
It was hard, but I got out of my own head. I took an interest in other people. What do they think? What's their story? Not to debate or argue, but just to try & understand them.

When I was a lot younger my anxiety would sometimes result in my mind going blank at a social event. To combat that, I would draft a few questions or topics on an index card & stick it in my back pocket. When it would happen, I'd excuse myself to the restroom & read it.

Once I got basic footholds on social interactions, I started to realized something: a lot of people felt the same anxiousness & stress that I did. That helped me a lot because my focus became how do I help them feel more comfortable, feel a sense of belonging. And again, by taking the focus off myself, the interactions became easier.

Carnegie's "How to Win Friends & Influence People" is also great.

Lastly, practice helps a lot. Accept you'll make mistakes, have awkward moments & everything else. So what? The worst thing it can do is keep you from trying again in the future. After a while (and I mean a long while), you learn to laugh those things off & it becomes easier. Just keep going.
CentOS Stream is a "rolling release" that's serves a specific purpose of being bleeding-edge test environment to test new changes for future integration into RedHat's stable releases.

Many high-availability workloads require a fixed operating-system baseline, where the only changes are security updates and high-priority bug fixes.

And even these changes may need to be triaged to determine if the updates are even worth risking uptime.

One example would be a hospital network with medical equipment workstations and backend servers. You don't want your ultrasound or key-hole surgery not working because a CentOS Stream update bug. Fixed operating baselines are important for many users.
Imagine you think video games are a waste of time, or that a certain food type shouldn’t be eaten because it’s unhealthy or unclean.

Those are fine opinions to hold personally, but obviously many people may disagree. The self-importance I meant is when you think your opinions are more important than those of others and try to control their behavior.

FWIW— I’ve since edited the post because I think that wording makes it seem unnecessarily negative on my part.
Build a daily routine of constructive
activities (exercise, journal, meditate, cook etc)

If anybody is struggling with this extremely positive practice, I have a suggestion: start with really small activities. Give yourself credit for every victory no matter how small.

When I was "between jobs" my daily routine checklist started with:

- Get out of bed

- Hydrate (at least 1L per day, 2L was a stretch goal)

- Take vitamins

- Brush teeth

There was more on the checklist, like actual exercise and training projects. But having "easy wins" really helped me build positive momentum IME.
Meditation. Amazing how quickly even a few deep breaths can make you aware that there really only is “now” and that past and future are illusions.
Links would be more compelling than grandstanding.
> How does it handle a relay tempering with the content of posts or altering the meta-data? Or a relay who'd be sending out fake posts?

Author signs every post with their key.
kind of incredible how since we were primed to see it as a camera/software glitch, that's how it looked, but, now that you mention it...
Ask HN: Where is your favorite place to donate to?
It's the last day of the year, which means it's the last day to get in those tax deductible donations (here in the US at least).

Where do you like to donate?
I stopped at Visual Basic 6. I inherited a little bit of VB.Net back when C# was new and I honestly don't get the point of the language.

A lot of the simplifications that were in classic Visual Basic just aren't in the .Net version. It was kind of useful if you really needed weak typing, but that's really a niche usage that duck typing in C# now handles.
Responsible thing to do from Tesla, it seems really minor problem too.
Japan is the most amazing place I've been to in my life (though I've not traveled very extensively). But I recommend Tokyo, other cities, and the countryside of Japan.
Out of the hundreds of thousands of people who saw the original accusation, only a few will see the follow-up. It will forever be known that iPhones replace people's heads with leaves. This is how urban legends are born.

This is one of the few times I'll ever feel sorry for Apple! I can only imagine the calls they're going to get from Karen's who didn't take good pictures to begin with and blame Apple for it because they saw an internet that one time that somebody's iPhone replaced a head with some leaves.
I wonder how this will effect the legalization physician-assisted suicide.
> Managers dont care about tech debt, they just want new features

Founders (technical ones anyway) likely do care about technical debt. They know it could be death to their future ambitions.

Managers have little reason to unless the organization has a sound culture. If they feel like hired guns who may be let go if there is a bad quarter, then their motivations are e.g juice their resume with cool new technology.
Irreversible transactions lower transaction costs

Blockchain transactions are not irreversible. You just need 51% of POW miners/POS stakers to agree and they can do anything they want to the blockchain.

It’s the literal reason why ETC exists. Ethereum got attacked, some people thought those transactions should be reversed. So they reversed them. Others felt the hack should stay so Ethereum Classic was born.

There will be more of this. Wait until the first court order and a bunch of regulation happens.
Original discussion for the photo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29739235
Sure Fauna are interesting with their serverless traction.

Arango is another one, seems to target Germany maybe kind of like SUSE
Is there feeless web3? If there were no taxes, how would the people running it make money?
They are suffering there where being different and not participating in a rat race is considered as the problem. Here, tell this to my support group.
This aged poorly https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29750660
Decentralization is really a spectrum. We have a set of block producers that we've vetted and have worked closely with to set up the infrastructure for our network. They are external companies (Ubisoft is one of them). The code that runs on the network gets vetted by them and only goes into production after they sign a multisig and allow it.

It's not thousands of anonymous nodes, but it is also not a single entity that controls everything.

We intend to build out a more decentralized pattern with more complex governance as things mature. It's a software project and as you all well know, you can't launch your ideal at the start. You launch what you can and you improve as you go. Decentralization is that way, too.
so Dark Souls basically
Based on my armchair understanding of how memories are recalled and stored, I can see how this might work very well for old memories associated with negative emotion. For similar, look up "Traumatic memory reactivation propanolol".
Thanks for reposting this. I recalled reading here a while ago some posts on why and how this was put into place, but I couldn't find the link.
I keep seeing comments like this all the time—discussion on some solution that is evidently not ideal, but for some reason, the commenter is also very quick to settle for and defend the solution despite its non-negligible negative tradeoffs; as if it’s impossible for something better to be done, which in this case, is not true, because it is not difficult for a social media platform to choose not to track people in coma so that it can show them ads later. Is there a term for it yet? I can only think of reductionism but it doesn’t feel enough.
Oddly enough I've been pondering the connection between Buddhism and games for a while now. The concept of "incremental games" and their fundemental pointlessness of the achievements therein brought to mind my layman's understanding of Buddhist teachings about attachment and loss.

Also - the presence in a various Buddhist traditions of "pointless tasks done with mindfulness" made me wonder where the line was between "pointless but beneficial" and "pointless and harmful". I tried to engage a Buddhist friend in this discussion but was hampered by my lack of knowledge about Buddhism itself and the partly-formed concepts I was struggling to give some shape to.
Do you mind me asking for more information on the geographical adjustment? Are you in a rural area, or just not in San Fransisco?
This whole process was a little chaotic, but I'm happy with it. I like that CentOS will be a closer downstream from Fedora. CentOS was always too far behind in Kernel and package version compared to other distros.

We tried using Fedora as our main distro, but it just moved too fast. We never got on the Ubuntu wagon, mostly because we were so comfortable in the RedHat world.
I hope that’s true :-)

I don’t have anything against the Buddha, but I don’t like the moralization throughout history of different things that people enjoy — e.g. games or certain types of books and visual art.

This is happening today with video games to some extent.
Seemed like they had some traction in MSFT shops 5-6 years ago, guessing they hit some synergies in the .NET ecosystem?
That or leaf people (similar to lizard people) can only be detected using iPhones.
'web3', like 'cloud' and many other terms before it, is a way to confuse non-programmers and convince them that computers and networking are Silicon Valley-only magic.
I have to feel sorry for the lawyers that own them.
Seems like an odd proposition for an attack vector. Maybe, just maybe if I make this look like a misconfigured server, maybe, just maybe, someone will grab the boost files from the server and compile them? I can’t imagine.
I was a math teacher for 5 years and have switched to web dev 5 years ago and have been loving it. I did have a bunch of personal web-dev experience, so it made switching careers pretty easy. But I wanted to share that it seems doable.

Since a lot of tech work is still people work (communicating clearly, managing expectations, etc), I suspect you'd be a better candidate than someone straight out of college.
We need a small website publishers union.
> leaf-head

Well now you’ve just gone and given this thing a catchy name. That’s not exactly going to help matters.

#leafhead
Woah. I hadn’t heard of the foray into love hotels! That’s pretty wild.
> Smart contracts are something that can never work, because it is predicated on our ability to write correct code.

Laws are of similarly bad quality (in my opinion of even much worse quality than software), we just have at least centuries more experience how to deal with crappy laws than with crappy software.
Look at your own motivations.

I know people who have thought their work was meaningless wherever they went.

On the other hand I know people who find a lot of meaning in humble jobs like food service because there is a very clear line between serving people food, satisfying them, making them happy, etc. It can be a very emotionally satisfying thing to do even if it is not high paid, high status, etc.

I have rarely felt bored or that my work was meaningless but I have sometimes felt work inhibition, maybe every 5 years or so. Usually I find some things I really like about my work but I also look for meaning in side projects.

For instance now I have a side project which involves a lot of coding but is basically artistic. I find it gratifying in itself, but it also "closes the circle" by strengthening skills that were weak for my work. I am a applications developer who is really strong in protocol design, databases, applications architecture and also systems programming such as compilers and debugging really strange problems. I wasn't so good at visual design and found it an uphill battle to learn how to make web sites accessible, which is an important part of my role because it is critical to our customers and thus critical to making sales. (e.g. "meaningful")

Since I've had my art project I've learned how to draw things, make images and knock down any obstacle in that area even if I "don't know how to do it" and it makes me better at my day job and more satisfied in it.
https://twitter.com/mitchcohen/status/1476951534160257026
Exposing a COM object from C is even worse than consuming one because you need to manually implement the polymorphism. I did it from Rust once in a toy project; it was certainly interesting making it work, but I would never want to do that in a production application.
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