skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting viewpoint from the UK's privacy and data protection regulator:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-60072191

Stephen Bonner, the ICO's executive director for innovation and technology, said end-to-end encryption helped keep children safe online by not allowing "criminals and abusers to send them harmful content or access their pictures or location".

"The discussion on end-to-end encryption use is too unbalanced to make a wise and informed choice. There is too much focus on the costs without also weighing up the significant benefits," he said.
Admittedly this is armchair architecture talk, but it seems like either consul or Roblox's use of Consul is falling into a CAP-trap: they are using a CP system when what they need is an eventually-consistent AP system. Granted, the use of consul seems heterogenous, but it seems like the main root cause was service discovery. And service discovery loves stale data.

Service discovery largely doesn't change that often. Especially in an outage where a lot of things that churn service discovery are disabled (e.g. deploys), returning stale responses should work fine. There's a reason DNS works this way - it prioritizes having any response, even if stale, since most DNS entries don't change that frequently. That said, DNS is not a great service discovery mechanism for other reasons. Not sure if there's an off-the-shelf solution that relies more on fast invalidation rather than distributed consistent stores.
I work at a company that’s been fully remote for 2 years but they keep trying to target a Return to Office date that keeps getting pushed back.

Likewise, and it's maddening, because I don't have any sense of long term stability to invest in my home as I'll have to move if the Return to Office actually happens.
> there's no real positive benefit to society to frequent business flying (at pre-pandemic levels).

I'm sorry but I don't buy that. Business flying has obvious benefits including, perhaps obviously, enabling businesses to be run efficiently.
I'd say quality of life is a way better measure - but its so subjective it makes it difficult.

I'm a sociable person, and in my(western) experience there are more good times when alcohol is involved, even with people who does not drink often.
I get that it may have an adverse effect on health and longevity. But in the end, we are all going to die - to grow old just to be old doesn't sit right either.
Can you elaborate please.

Why does FTL produce time travel?

Why go back and build Dyson spheres?
Yeah but Netflix is better than most (possibly not better than the NSA but likely on a par with them) at determining which users are coming in via VPN.
> I.e. , at it's best, anarchist thought tries to find ways of ensuring welfare and ensuring that the "private charity and philanthropy" often cited as the solution to poverty will manifest as a feature of the system, without needing to rely on (soft) coercion, scarcity and centralization, to the point of considering ways on how to structure meetings so that the shy and slow will also be allowed to contribute their perspective and thoughts against the brash and bold.

Maybe it's just me, but the anarchist writing I've skimmed seems to fetishize the mechanisms they think will achieve the world they want to see.

I mean, suppose you beamed some pre-digital anarchists to the early 2000s and showed them how Python development was done over the internet. Are they going to be able to grasp the essence of what's happening? E.g., "Oh, I see there's a trap door under that so-called benevolent dictator. So anyone in the world with access to the internet could pull the lever to fork his kingdom and do with it as they see fit with their new copy of it. I suppose that's a playfully clever end-run around decentralization. Great job!"

Something tells me they are going to say, "A benevolent dictator is centralized. That's bad and so we must work to obliterate the hierarchy." I think that because there seem to have been a number of bright digital-era anarchists who wasted reams of time trying to decentralize a design that could have been done much more easily as a centralized project with a free software license.
Are there data to support this? The original article cited Scandinavian experience, but I'm having trouble finding a reliable source.
You don't know that you consume propaganda, but you obviously do. We all do.

You're missing the point and making this a moralistic debate, rather than one based on the best outcome. Yes, people shouldn't shoplift. They shouldn't speed either.

I'm also not suggesting that we don't punish minor crimes, only that we don't put people in prison for doing them. The punishment simply doesn't fit the crime. Prison is a life ender for most people. If you have a felony on your record, you can't get most jobs. It can make it harder to find good apartments. It makes it more likely they're commit more serious crimes later, because we're effectively forcing people into lifelong poverty.

In terms of turnstyles: get rid of them. Make public transportation free. No more turnstyle jumpers. A lot of shoplifting is due to people not having enough money to buy things: increase minimum wage and make education free so that people can get better jobs.

You're advocating for more punishment, which makes you feel better, but doesn't improve society. I'm advocating for improving society, which will reduce crime.
Sounds incredible. I will surely read this one!
Wow, these guys actually made a pro-surveillance campaign with the slogan "no place to hide". I guess they should also use the URL of miniluv.gov.uk if they're already going all in.
Yes! Going to start by converting my Airgradient sensors.
> We've had a free tier since we launched ten years ago (in 2020).

I’m not a Fly.io customer (although more and more I am thinking I should be), but I eagerly read every new blog post because I’m so entertained by their tone. These people are clearly having fun at work.
What type of breathing exercise are you doing?
Compared to whose?

Come to Washington, DC, and explain to me the glories of K Street NW or of L'Enfant Plaza. Drive through Los Angeles and see how much rises above "inoffensive".
Aww, thanks.
Even if you disagree with Hobbes's thesis, his book is worth reading for its own sake: the prose is beautiful, and Hobbes's step by step description of how people form a personal, and then a political consciousness, is exquisite.
I'm fairly confident that the UK isn't campaigning against encryption to make multi device sync work better
I do not think that it is obviously false, I think it is not obvious that it is true.
Good, ETFs mess lots up.

But...is this a bad trend?
There's a lot of subthreshold research done over the last 20 years, a lot of it not by Ambiq, and I imagine that Ambiq has avoided patenting a lot of the stuff they've discovered in hopes of being able to protect it for longer as a trade secret. And I think subthreshold isn't really relevant to sleep-mode power consumption except in the sense that it might lower the consumption of your RTC or PWM or whatever.

There have been a couple of experimental processors on which professors have published papers claiming an order of magnitude lower power consumption than Ambiq claims for their chips. Assuming that's true, I don't know how much of that is a question of process variability (e.g., maybe 5% of Ambiq's chips also get such low power consumption) and how much is a question of other engineering compromises (e.g., maybe ARM is a particularly power-hungry architecture, as the lower power consumption of the GD32VF chips suggests, or maybe the experimental chips only worked between 47° and 47.5° and even then they crashed once an hour).

By "really low" do you mean active power more like 1 microwatt, 10 microwatts, 100 microwatts, or a milliwatt?
Yes, it's a portion of the stock market that's going down a lot. The money is going from technology companies into other companies like healthcare and energy companies. So while the overall market may not be down that much, the technology market is going down a bit. In relative terms, it's gone down to the same levels is about 2 years ago. So there's no disaster scenario here, but there is a pretty significant drop in price from a high level.
I've always been lead to believe the intent of a law or regulation is what matters in the eyes of a court.

The Subaru case probably violates the intent as well but maybe that would be a lot harder to prove. But the Ford case they clearly conspired to violate the intent. Which, if "intent" really is the important thing, I suppose should have lead to criminal charges too.

I suppose intent probably matters a bit more when it's the little guy on the receiving end of it.
Where is the evidence for these teenagers? I mean, there's no evidence at all from what I can tell, except for the op saying it's "a real thing I totally didn't make up to give you FOMO".
That's a fair and measured answer. I sit corrected. Hadn't considered it from that point of view.
it's also hard to work with people across hemispheres because of daylight saving time. I'm used to the hour difference I have with people I work with in Europe but I have no idea how many hours I'm separated from Australians because it changes 4 times through the year.
Abuse prevention has a cost, otherwise we can't have nice things.
Benjamin Graham is the best
Switching to reading a weekly physical paper news source has been really nice. It limits my time reading the news while still allowing me to be up to date on big stories. Plus a physical paper encourages me to read outside my usual areas.
It doesn't mean they're wrong, but it means there is no reason to believe they're right either. Doubly so when there are a lot of other plausible systematic reasons for companies to do something!
Seems somewhat less impactful than that, but analogous, yes.
> to hear people complain that walking near a smoker on a sidewalk outside is a risk to their health

Doesn't have to be the smoke itself that's harmful. Presumably, if you can smell someone's second-hand smoke, you're also inhaling the bacterial spray contained in their breath, no? Something I think about if I'm walking outside without a mask on and end up stuck walking for a while behind a smoker. I tend to put my mask back on.
Just FYI, folks…

Make sure your adblockers are set to “11,” before hitting thst site.
JavaScript Rule Engines
Does anyone have any suggestions for rule engines that can be used to validate js objects. Other than ‘json-rule-engine’ and preferable something that works well with react via hooks?
Thanks
Are you talking about trace amounts though. Or something that might add up to say a unit per week?
Same reason governments got rid of gun rights in most countries: to protect themselves from the people.
> I can see a need to encrypt privileged communications, like with your lawyer, your health care provider, etc, but chats, for example? Can someone please change my mind?

Most normal people share those kind of legal or health conversations with their parents/partners/close friends as well. If you were spying on an opposition politician (say) or social activist, being able to read their personal private chats with their mother or husband would probably tell you just as much as reading their "professional" chats or medical chats - perhaps more, since you'd know what they were actually worrying about.

> I seriously doubt the Government wants me to put it out in the clear (oh, and also, banks are so heavily regulated, e.g. Anti-Money-Laundering, that if the Government wants to find anything about anything, they probably already can, regardless of how encrypted your communication with the bank is).

You've contradicted yourself. The Government absolutely does want a backdoor that lets them read your communications with your bank, the AML laws are proof of that.
The best feature from Android 12 is being able to update quick setting within the status bar. But that was a feature from Android 9 or 10 that they removed in Android 11.
Jack Dorsey and Marc Andreessen's crypto feud puts Web3 at risk
Great comment. Way too much of HN is invested in "nanny state bad and corrupt" justified with FUD-like narratives. There's always this low-simmering culture war here. And really, air travel radiation is the hill these types of people want to die on?

The problem with conservative forums like HN is eventually you get on this treadmill of "and so and so isn't so bad" be it alcohol, smoking, Hitler, etc that's a mix of ignorant and purposely dishonest to push agendas. This takes people down some strange and often ignorant and hateful roads, which then helps craft their personalities and core beliefs into something very negative.

The reality is, alcohol is pretty toxic and a health organization really shouldn't recommend a daily allowance of it. I think the cognitive dissonance with people who want to be "right with the science" but also want to drink needs to come out somehow and it often comes out, at least with health issues, with these overly-broad and just weird attacks on groups like the CDC or WHO or whatever. Instead, these people could just admit that "Yes, I do this very unhealthy thing for pleasure and its as unhealthy as the experts say it is." Instead, they'd rather nitpick at random things and reach an irrational conclusion than accept the truth of it all.

On the healthcare end it works the other way like "Here's some unwarranted nitpicking about vaccines," that terminates to a crazed anti-vaxxer position. Its the same kind of dishonesty and leads to the same types of irrational conclusions.

For a lot of people, not only is this how they often think, its the default mode of how they think. They sling mud, project, and attack at any perceived slight against their personal beliefs and the culture war they're always fighting. Its a sign of an emotionally immature mind and these people are everywhere and they build powerful echo chambers. When we see them die of covid as they post facebook memes denying its existence, we then know the fruits of this kind of mental labor. Its dishonestly all the way down.
I am curious. I guess it also depends on the company, but endless meaningless meetings is pretty popular. With online teams, do you feel like there is the performance advantage?
Unifi gear with pfsense router, cat5/6 everywhere. 6 aps on wifi6. Dhcp to everything except nas, switches, dns (2x pihole) and aps.
Education and enlightenment are not about appealing to the least common denominator and status quo.

JavaScript lacks several features that make it apt to translate this book.
> It makes capitalist sense to do disaster planning.

Then explain the recurring failure of the Texas energy sector to do so.
Agree with you, but a semantic point of correction is that, while the nifty fifty did include many emerging tech stocks AND were mostly focused on growth industries, the index included lots of non-tech, like JCPenny, McDonalds, Sears, Walmart, Gillette, and many others.
He had a copy of SICP on his shelf.
95% on Desktop being Chrome, CEF, or forks of Chrome is quite a bit higher than your number.

Only on mobile is it less, and only because of iOS Safari
Reddit claims that if I block a user, that user cannot see my content. But that's not true, the other user has private browser tabs, and alternate accounts, and maybe even a Reddit client that works around the block. All of this means the user I blocked can still see my content.
> The most accessible runtime on the planet.

In what sense?
https://k8s.af
With over a billion smokers on the planet, or ~20% of the population, it’s not that absurd to worry about urban smoke outdoors contributing to urban pollution. Nor wood burning house & backyard fires either, nor cars, but that’s a different debate… We aren’t around smokers once in a while, we’re around them constantly. Even urban outdoor second hand smoke really is a higher risk than air travel radiation.

Yes I want the language to be specific about the levels of risk. I would agree that “no safe levels” is vague and less helpful than one or two percentile data points. That said, I completely agree with the CDC’s stance and language on both second hand smoke and air travel radiation.
I take it to mean people like my dad will end up with some “virus scanner” sideloaded app that he thinks he needs on his iPhone because he saw a pop up on one of the NRA related conspiracy websites he visits.

Having just reinstalled everything because he had a ransomware attack on his computer, I can understand the argument…
“Good for you” doesn’t make sense. As an analogy for a startup “sales people considered good for the organisation”. Or “meetings shown to be bad for the organisation”. Makes as much sense as “avocado is good for you”. Although a holistic diet, exercise, toxin avoidance, danger avoidance but balancing life goals and mental health regime is probably good for you.
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And no tail-call recursion.
Fly is great.

They’ve got Chris McCord there, who has already improved their Elixir deployment story. I tweeted a few weeks ago about improving the default Rails deployment experience to not require DB provisioning and configuration of env vars like SECRET_BASE_KEY and they said it would likely ship within the next 3 months.

My hot take is they’re setting themselves up to ride the server-side rendered HTML renaissance we are experiencing with LiveView and Hotwire. It will become much more important to deploy applications geographically closer to customers to lower latency, which Fly makes sane for the rest of us.
The government is scared of encryption being used against them, but I think we should also be just as scared of companies using encryption against us. Sadly, there doesn't seem to be much of a PR campaign against that.
I dont know how it is in other European countries, but at least in Spain, the slightest change in dialect+ some geographical distance will make people call their dialect a different language, and they may even not be wrong. And it is funny because that guy has a very marked Catalan accent, but they say it is the French side that brought French phonology to Occitan making it very difficult to understand.
OKOK, I'm going to add archaeologynewsnetwork to my rss reader.
> Samsung File Manager

With SFTP and SMB support built in, I would say Samsung's File Manager (called My Files now) is objectively superior.
I took the CS1101S course taught by Martin Henz (who did the adaptation), where this JavaScript adaptation of SICP was the textbook. I enjoyed writing JavaScript and functional programming.

Here is an old screenshot of the interpreter that I was able to build:

https://paradite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/interpreter....
> In fact I'm mystified as to why Samsung devices remain so popular.

What's the alternative? They're pretty much the last premium android manufacturer left. (I would've maybe switched to a Pixel if they hadn't removed the headphone jack)

> All those Samsung-specific apps are (or at least were) objectively worse than the stock Android alternatives.

That's a very strong claim. I'm not a big fan of the Samsung apps (and I'd prefer if they focused on the hardware and supplied stock android), but they often have new features ahead of mainline Android.
Indeed, that is one of the more practical problems with any kind of approach like this. But the general point is that even if you could hypothetically "ban encryption" it still wouldn't achieve the goals the politicians pushing this crap are claiming to want to achieve.

I mean, even if you hypothetically made it impossible for computers to carry out encryption (bake into CPUs some heuristic for what encryption looks like and block it or something), folks could be taught to use ElsieFour[1] which is probably secure enough to make things about as hard as they are today. I'm sure if this hypothetical ban actually happened folks would find ways of making it easy to do ChaCha20 by hand.

And as evidence that history repeats, you can always tattoo a Perl program that implements AES on your arm like some hackers in the US did in the 90s.

[1]: https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/339
> No doubt he built a sensational business focused on cash flows.

Look at the largest companies across all of the holdings in $VGT - the story is all the same - DCF rules everything.

> A lot of the software companies generate significant cash flows because they start to collect multi-year upfront payments for their software.

Sure, SaaS B2B software may do this (like many of the companies you invest in), but this doesn't explain GOOGL/FB though? AFAIK, most of their ad payments (which are their cash cows) are monthly payments (i.e. even for a $1M annual google ad spend which I managed years ago followed a monthly payment schedule).

> Maybe at some point in the future though

I'd argue this is already happening. VC revenue multiples and revenue trajectories are just a proxy for DCF. As long as the company's unit economics can support ~80% GM and growth rates are high the company has a strong DCF potential.
Or when you're writing a thumbnail generator bot that's supposed to generate previews of webpages, but you want to ensure domains aren't resolved relative to your local search domain.

The "fix" seems to be modifying the client you use to trim suffixed dots from the Host header and SNI. But it'd be much simpler if Caddy & Traefik would juat comply with the standards.
You seem to define poverty as lacking the ability or willingness to earn enough money to meet ones' needs. That is actually "some causes of poverty", not 'poverty'.

"Poverty is a state or condition in which a person or community lacks the financial resources and essentials for a minimum standard of living." [0]

Your non-apology and speculation about my beliefs are boring reading. Also, you listed some reasons why white-collar and blue-collar crime may be similar, but you ignored the many ways that they are different. You can do better. It might be a good time to review [1].

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/poverty.asp

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Recently, I gave Fly an honest go for a new multi-container project that seemed like a good fit. After digging in, I found that the pg clusters had some sort of system wide bug and couldn’t be attached to any of my apps.

It was a bummer. Everything seemed great, I just literally couldn’t use it.

I’d love to hear others experiences with the PG features. I could see it replacing Digital ocean for my use cases (if it works reliably)
Here's a mini rant. Samsung Galaxy Buds. Bluetooth Headphones. I had to accept/enable like 10+ permissions just so I could turn off the default equalizer that makes everything sound bassy. That is annoying.

I can't deny that my $300 Android phone I'm using now would run circles around Pinephone Pro but I still look forward to that idea one day.
Someone not paying, using the free tier is by definition not a "customer". At least not yet, they are a potential customer at best.
Tangentially related: I really dig this “soft” serif font that seems to be making the rounds (including on fly.io). I can't figure out if I like it because it is making the rounds, or if it's just easy on the eyes. Either way, I dig it.