skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, I recently purchased maybe 21U worth of servers for less than $2000. Mostly IBM 2U servers (all dual 6-cores / 12-threads Xeon, most for spare parts), NAS (enough for triple >12TB redundancy), and LTO-4 loaders and drives to go in a rack I picked up for free locally which also came Cisco switches.

I'm gonna run my private cloud merging 3 different un-backed up physical computers, and migrate services off Google.

That's my second free 42U track, but the other was mostly used as shelf space. I've got a third rack rusting in my backyard which I bought for locally for $200, originally intended to run my former employer test infra, that I brought back home after they laid us off.
didn’t Solana have an outage this weekend?
> Could you please explain what this means? Googling didn't reveal much.

An classic UNIX /etc/passwd file is readable by all local users and in the past used to contain the password hashes. One can download these hashes and crack the passwords offline. At some point the problem was recognized and password hashes were moved to special /etc/shadow file which is accessible only to root and members of shadow group making /etc/passwd useless for extracting passwords.
I have 2 such FBI records and every time I do a background check for a job they don't know what it's for and neither do I. I wish there was a way I could find out if it was computer related or not.
We're far less intelligent than we think, as a species.
The only blockchain I'll ever accept is one with a guaranteed 1:1 identity/wallet as in you can only ever have one bank account. That has mechanisms for reversals in case of fraud, like the system collects insurance fees and maybe if there's verified fraud accepted by an elected board then you get like 50% paid back... or something at least not a total loss.

Furthermore your account can never hold more than 10 million dollars (or 50, ...but something reasonable) ... if this became the default currency it would basically outlaw billionaires from the start. It'd also stop money laundering since you can't have fake accounts, etc.

Finally it'd need to have progressive taxes baked in, or simply you pay a transaction fee which is determined by your average daily holdings / avg monthly transactions or something...(needs tweaked) but someone hodling hordes of cash would essentially pay monthly hodling taxes (storage fees), and larger transaction fees, of which this gets divied back to those who maybe never have more than 10k in their account and spend most of their money each month..

The currency would also have some UBI worked into it.

Essentially it'd make it so people could get the bear minimums, are rewarded for utilizing the currency as a normal currency, and penalized for using just as a store of value, and it ensures whales don't control everything, in fact I think the more you hodl the weaker your vote should be.
The use of "conservative" here doesn't seem to refer to political alignment. It is common to talk about "conservative business culture" and "conservative dress" to refer to cultural factors — exactly around things like expecting suits and ties. The parent post does not appear to be talking about politics.
And flight from debased fiat. A lot of currencies are inflating due to governments and central banks editing the money database. They can't edit the decentralized ledger and print more Bitcoin or lock you out. That aspect is increasingly appreciated.
Netflix is shit. Apple is shit. Google is shit. Facebook is shit. For various reasons, but all from a consumer perspective.

At least Amazon Prime does what it says it will. Amazon works for the consumer. I don't buy from them physically anymore, but they are the only FAANG that still seems to offer some value.

I think they're all going to crash. Oh, and Tesla too XD
Larry Gonick did western equivalents of these; Cartoon History of the Universe is either the best book I've ever read or the best comic book.

It's rather 70s though, so the art can get psychadelic and it covers several different religions as if they're literally true. But it has to be the only kids' history book written in the US that treats China and India's history as just as important as ours.
I’ve picked up a second hand Dell R720 last year. Best purchase in years. It cost me €1500 for 48 cores and 192GB RAM.
Ask HN: Is SoC{1,2} a racket?
I've worked at several companies that were going through SOC1 or SOC2 compliance. My main impression of it is that after a long period of talking about compliance at every standup, at the end, almost nothing is observably different, yet now the product is SOC2 certified.

What even is this certification about? Does it provide any actual security, or is it just a scheme to make money for auditors? Would be interested to hear HN's take on it.
But even with the presidency it seems not much legislating gets done thanks to the senate filibuster.
Some of them are. Both the Electricity and Microprocessors books have lengthy sections that are mostly text with a few diagrams, as opposed to the normal manga format.
I agree. Here in Toronto (Canada) we try to build the kinds of playground toys that children enjoy. They even have a pseudo rock climbing feature (It's PVC instead of rock) at the townhouse complex across the road from me. It has a few twists and turns, too. Not just a wall.

They might even get hurt a little sometimes, but kids find life boring without some sort of risk factor. Thankfully they're bouncier than us older folks.
Yes, sort of. Thing is, many modern speech models actually learn an internal language model, so we're already kind of doing that. In languages and domains where massive amounts of training data is available (say, grammatically correct English), this internal language understanding is so good you don't need the external model[1].

On the other hand, throwing an additional language model like GPT and BERT into the mix can help if you don't have a ton of voice data. In my attempt to do this, a large portion of the improvement came from letting the language model read the previous sentences in the conversation[2]. AFAIK most commercial systems are blissfully unaware of your previous sentences, leading to conversations like "set an alarm"/"sure when?"/"eightam"/"your nearest ATM is...".

A word of caution though: letting BERT/GPT edit the outputs also gives a (potentially) much more dangerous failure mode: if the speech signal is difficult to understand, the resulting transcript will be difficult for humans to identify as transcription failures.

For example, "yeah, I dunno I haven't..." (read on a noisy phone line in an obscure dialect) was transcribed as "yeah yeah not that is I I am then" by the baseline speech system. After we let BERT edit the outputs, the transcript became "yeah that's not what I was saying...". Which, ironically, was definitely not what the person was saying.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08460, page 9

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.02267

edit: clarify why previous sentences matter
You really like the idea of a company controlling property you own after you bought it??? Like if its optional don’t change the defaults.

The issue is starting from the boot-rom and up apple is effectively using cryptography to retain the property right of exclusion when it comes to what code can run on that ARM cpu. Effectively you have to ask apple for approval of any code that will run on your own hardware. If they sign the code they allow it run if they don’t its excluded from running. If you have to keep asking a 3rd party to do something with something you bought you don't fully own it.

The thing is normally a seller wishing to retain some rights to real or tangible property would normally require a legal contract between the buyer. Here however apple is using cryptography to bypass traditional legal means. You can buy an iPhone, iPad without signing any contract. Yet this effectively retained control of the hardware still exists. You can’t just buy the hardware and throw linux or android on it short of finding a weakness in how code is loaded.
*32 Year old niche internet empire for sale. And no way to understand what the empire is, or how niche it really is, since there are no real details on the page.
There are a frustrating number of fundamental corner cases due variance to floating point text formats, and slightly more in the descriptor if you also need that. It's simple to implement an expositor for a limited set of cases. As usual, it's much more difficult to parse what you actually find in the world.
It reminds me of the democratic bus analogy. A bus with no driver and everyone with a steering wheel. All the input gets averaged out. Such a bus would get nowhere.
Good to see that despite all the crypto skepticism the market is maturing and seasoned veterans of the sector are stepping into key roles. It's reassuring to see someone with deep and varied experience in the core crypto skillset of creating and scaling effective financial fraud. A welcome change from the inexperienced first generation.
Are you sure you're thinking this through?

The Fed is actually about to hit the brakes, people are expecting 7 rate increases this year and more next year. The current 30 year mortgage rate is around 3.5%, the median sale price for a house in the bay area is $1.5 million. With 20% down that's $3500 a month for principal and interest. If the Fed follows through and raises rates say 2%, it turns into $5500 a month.

Doesn't do much for affordability.

And if you're thinking prices will fall when rates rise, that's not what has happened in the past. Over the last 50 years, every time there has been an environment with rising interest rates, housing prices have gone up, not down: https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2022/01/will-higher-mortgag.... So you will be paying a much higher rate on a more expensive house.
A lot of shit will be flung but the fact that the core team is on board with you to create Outcaste, a Dgraph fork, is a strong enough signal for many. Hopefully, you folks make it work!
How is that any different from an artificial neural network taking inputs and making decisions. Are you saying the ANN has free will as well?
Yeah, he's for real, and I heard him tell this story (and a number of others) about 40 years ago, for what that's worth. In addition to his other info on the web mentioned elsewhere here, there are also quite a selection of his files from the Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) system, that have been pulled off of old backup tapes, and with permission appear at https://www.saildart.org/LES (note the 3-letter account name, and 3-letter, single-level subdirectory names that you can click down into).
It's an excellent point. Whatever else, Amazon delivers to the consumer what they promise to deliver. Pretty rare trait.
> If there are regular expressions in the language syntax, or the library, it's a feature of the UTM.

By "the library" do you mean the core library of the language?

If a language didn't have regular expressions as part of its core library, does that mean regular expressions would not be a feature of that language?

> Some features are simply not expressible in the target language of the rewriting, other than by using the syntax to create an inefficient, interpreted language.

Why inefficient? Why interpreted? What if the syntax was efficiently compiled?
This might be a good way to explain my discomfort with online tracking.

Machines categorising you based on your behaviour, without your knowledge nor your consent. It's not so bad when it serves you ads (unless it sells alcohol to alcoholics), but there's no telling what similar algorithms would say about you in the hands of a rogue government. They can find vulnerable people, people who hate certain people [0], people who talk to certain people or hold certain ideas.

What makes it even more terrifying is that machines can categorise people much faster, based on a much broader set of information. It's not just informants and paper reports, but computers processing and connection millions of data points.

I'm bringing all of my data together[1], and the result is a graph of every place I've visited, every conversation I've had, everything I looked up, every book I've read, every transaction I've made, every video I've watched and everyone I've talked to. There's even more data about me in the wild, and if you combined it with other people's data, you could figure out even more about my every move.

It's a good thing that the Stasi was a few decades early.

[0] https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-enabled-advertis...

[1] https://nicolasbouliane.com/projects/timeline
I assume you meant 2.x; Compose 2.x is only ~4 months old. I believe the intention of the Podman team is to abandon their podman-compose and work on compatibility with docker-compose 2.x going forward.
For those wondering this appears to be a new offering that sits between their enterprise offerings and app store accounts. Right now if you want to offer your internal app you need to host the IPA's, implement your own update mechanism, and get people to accept your developer deep in the Settings app. I'm guessing this lets you take advantage of Apple's update and hosting which makes sense for some apps I'm sure. One of the nicer things with enterprise is you don't need to go through app review (mainly the time savings, we can push a fix as quick as we can code it). This isn't something my company will use but it makes total sense for an internal app that doesn't need rapid release ability and saves you from a lot of management stuff you'd otherwise be on the hook for.

Now all I want is Apple to have a better story for "template apps". I know we don't want more spam in the store but getting a company to setup and maintain an Apple Dev account when they are not a tech company can be rough. I've run into this issue both professionally and for side projects. I'd gladly give Apple $100 per app and/or be unlisted if I could publish multiple builds of the same base "template app" on the same account. Maybe they will relax that restriction for unlisted apps, it still wouldn't cut it for some cases but for at least one of my side projects it would be perfect.
You see this behavior in many communities; fantasizing. Visit www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning and you will find a group of people who discuss about "language learning" and few people learning a foreign language.

The topics are always similar; "which book", "which audio course", "which foreign language", et cetera. They seek perfect conditions, and they do not exist. They fantasize about how great their life will be once they obtain these perfect conditions. Eventually, they may move on to another subject, as their interest wanes, and repeat this cycle.
Linux (or openbsd?). Hire current critical open source contributors. Give them a general direction and some freedom, with 6 and 12 month goals.

Do this also with security researchers and developers.

DO NOT CONTRACT typical approved suppliers. Those are the non-technical leeches bleeding the public coffers.
I already acknowledged the misguided Python 3 split made this into a problem. But that is not the reasoning offered by the GP - they were claiming that Python was only an implementation detail of the OS and shouldn't have been exposed in the first place, which makes no sense to me.
The word 'believe' is doing a _lot_ of heavy lifting there, however.
Well said. These POW/ energy waste arguments are getting really old. They act as if there aren't existing solutions. Take Algorand for an example, which is carbon negative and (Pure) Proof of Stake...
I'm not a VIM expert, but I do use it as my primary editor. Visual Studio Code is my secondary editor and I flip between them, but tend to be in vim most often.

I don't think that the utility of VIM comes from squeezing out wpm, but in it's navigational and editing capabilities. Particularly when paired with a relevant language server, code navigation is a breeze. Additionally, being able to run it on a remote server, in a tmux session, means I can drop off and pick up my work from basically any machine without any effort.

My vim config is pretty barebones, its primarily just language server support and git fugitive.

Now, modern vscode setup with a remote plugin, language plugin (and vim keybinding plugin) gets you basically the same benefits. For me personally though, I find a few things more clunky in that setup than the vim version of it, mostly around code navigation.
every exceptionally talented person/group is unlikely to show up in the exact circumstances that they do. In a thunderstorm, each individual tree has a very low chance of being struck by lightning, but nobody is surprised that some tree is struck by lightning.

Of course, to realize their potential they also had to work hard, and collaborating with other exceptionally talented artists also no doubt helped.

I would also push back on the idea that the music they created as a group was much better than what came after. George, in particular, released arguably his best work (all things must pass) after the breakup, and both john and paul released great albums afterward (imagine, ram)
Nice! Keep in mind that this is beta, so there are some usability issues, and features missing. Please let me know what works and what's a pain. I'll dig into the Airtable API right now to see if that should work well.

I only have a handful of users right now, so I can change the tool quite a lot and fairly quickly based on what people say.

Oh, and I am happy to do early adopter program. I'll give the pro version (whatever that may be) and upgrades free forever to the people who help me out in the early stages.

I haven't started on licensing / payment yet anyways...
Not necessarily. If property taxes were 0%, that would make housing a very desirable investment, pushing prices up out of reach of average people.

On the other hand if property taxes get high enough, they basically act like rent, and the purchase price drops because it's no longer a good investment.
>Well for some alternative app store named f-droid, you expect them to be the home of all the rejections of the Play Store.

That is a strong misunderstanding on your end, then. F-Droid is a free software client to a repository of free software apps, for people who prefer free software and maybe even contributing to the possibility of running free software only on your android phone.

It has nothing to do with being a home of rejected apps from the Play Store.
Server World: How to configure servers
Satoshi Nakamoto Leaked IP Address in Van Nuys, CA, Frequented by Elon Musk
I doubt they have actually disappeared at all. Marijuana legalization spreading throughout the world has surely brought them back again.

Lately news has said there's been a backlash against vaping as well.

So this particular item maybe sits on the fence.
I thought I was searching weird things. But yes, I've seen this. Often starting from page 1 and every page after that. It seems to be 'normal' CPA links as far as I can tell.

Edit:// they are localized! I just checked on my phone which uses German Google and it says 'Ohne Titel' (so without title)
> While there is no one event

The fall of Constantinople to Ottoman cannons in 1453 drew a line under the Roman polity, Politeia tōn Rhōmaiōn for good.

You can debate how Roman the empire was at that point, but it was still officially Basileía Rhōmaíōn, known informally as Rhōmania, and the people still called themselves Romaioi.
What a terrible death that would be.
I got a VPS from Hetzner last year but they decided to block my home IP. After reading some anecdotes on the internet, I had to conclude they're exactly the kind of company I want to avoid (large, opaque, they employ weird algorithms/heuristics to flat out reject customers or suddenly take down their servers, no warning, you can't get an explanation, you're just fucked, just like when Google decides to arbitrarily block you; I've been there).

IMO the point of a hosting provider is supposed to be that you can have some peace of mind and not worry about your shit breaking (that's still a worry as I continue to host everything at home). Instead with providers like this, you worry about them breaking your shit.
Ask HN: How do serverless/cloud functions work underneath?
I've been curious about this for a while, anyone willing to shed some light even at a higher level!
https://whoissatoshi.wordpress.com/2016/02/20/satoshi-in-cal...

https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Aelonjet%20van%20nuys&src...

https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/management/musks-2018-1...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRszZH7Fvaw&ab_channel=LAXSP...
The one thing I would like to see fixed is better cross-device verification. Discord solves this in an elegant and painless way with QR codes. Element has users manually compare emoji or codes and perform steps. Anecdotal: my last experience was less than good. For some reason it tried to verify twice, but even after I verified both times, it was still showing device listings as unverified.

I don't know what went wrong, but it still needs work. I'm glad to see that it's easier than last time I tried that.
to be fair, if they really failed you wouldn't know of them
> installations by default

No, you basically have to click on ok once (or change a setting, depending on phone), either way it doesn't require root, and doesn't really change the attack scenario as it's based one someone intentionally installing an app from an arbitrary not-trusted source.

> root is required

Yeah, like privilege escalation attacks. As you will likely find in many compromised apps. And which on many Android phones work due to vendors not providing updates after some time. And many other reasons.

> What exactly are you referring to when you say "pretending to have proper 2FA"?

EU law says they need to provide 2FA for only banking.

Banks often don't do that for banking apps as it's inconvenient. Instead they "split the banking app in two parts" and maybe throw some finger pint based auth mechanism in and claim they have proper 2FA auth. (Because it's two app processes running and requires the fingerprint.) Through repeatedly security researchers have shown that its not a good idea.

Additionally they then require you to only use your fingerprint, not an additional password....

Either way, the point is that secure online banking doesn't requires locked down devices in general.
yes so this, and 4k but what bitrate, 1080p but at what bitrate
Thank you for the warning. Are scooters common? In Thailand and Bali that is the easy answer in most cases, and I imagine Malta weather is usually reasonable for this mode of transport.
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” This fatigue cannot be cured by decades of not hearing it.”

But it also can. I caught myself enjoying old one hit wonders that I hated at the time due to listening to it so much. Then decades later, I could enjoy them.
Sounds like traffic cameras might be easier to use.

What are they protesting for?