skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This all comes down to two things:

- keytool and openssh absolutely suck from a usability standpoint

- testing the pipeline of generation of keys/files/certs/stores and importing/generating/signing etc is difficult

- error messages, if you get them, are completely unhelpful, and often the errors are superficially not even ssl/security related.

Every time I do SSL, it is a 1-4 day job, and that's with StackOverflow saving my ass on translating "why this weird error means this failure".

Between the above two issues, SSL on every platform, application, database, operating system (or version of OS) has different errors.

If you have a non-mainstream language, I have NO IDEA how you would get SSL up. Python, JVM, javascript, C/C++ there's a lot of eyeballs on this.
> cryptocurrency fails to address any of the concerns with fiat

This comment coming from a libertarian is a head-scratcher.

The biggest concern about fiat currencies from a libertarian perspective is that the government can inflate the currency at will with no real transparency possible.

Crypto generally eliminates this concern, either by having a fixed quantity of coins or a known inflation amount, and basically perfect transparency being possible through looking at the blockchain.
The skill displayed with the "eyes closed while the arc is hot" welding technique is both impressive and concerning.
Composting toilets usually divert the urine and drain it separately (gray water? Garden?) because it makes the rest too wet for good aeration and decomposition.
I can't believe I'm seeing junk like this on HN. I thought this forum was populated by people who actually work in tech?
Which Q? Qtotal or Qplasma?
You do understand, you just called out the "Right" (one of the 'two' affiliations) as .. "anti-intellectual for a long time"

I also wish everyone told me their favorite color was the one I like.. Since we only have two colors in the world! It has just turned into such a reductionist petty immeasurably false set of talking points. We need to stop this, we need it to stop immediately!
Are there any mainstream distros (not things like OpenWRT) that have / as not-your-main-hard-disk though? If / were some abstract place then sure it would make sense, but that isn't usually the case.
> For an essay with that tone to really make its point it needs to be crystalline in its clarity and feel a real depth of reasoning, otherwise it will lose the reader.

This has a lot to do with the community he's part of and still implicitly writes for. He's blown up in recent years, but the blog still has a strong core readerbase of people with significantly longer attention spans than the average person, among other things. In all the years I've read his work, the meandering, often-humorous examples are half the fun, which makes the discovery of the thesis more enjoyable as well.
I can tell you from experience that 10°C with the right clothing and context and weather conditions can be plenty.

Example: right now, here.
Yeah at one point (probably still) didn't all data just go to the NSA.
Exactly.

Surveillance is one of the methods of control, but it's really about oppressing the way people think, shaping it to suit the needs of The Party.
This is a pretty typical deck for an activist investor where they cherry pick all kinds of problems from a high growth company and make them look incompetent. If Peloton had kept its growth curve, we would all be taking about how amazing John Foley was as a leader in building the Apple of fitness or something.

But it goes without saying that Peloton did not maintain its growth curve, so a reckoning is due. But WHY did it not maintain the curve? You won't really find that answer in this deck.

Instead, the deck has an agenda: convince the shareholders to force the company to sell. Presumably Blackwells bought a lot of shares recently and would see a nice return if someone bought Peloton at a premium of the current price. Heck, their shares are already up just based on the management changes.

So all in all, I'm going to be contrarian and disagree that this is a good deck. It's good for a single agenda, and it's good if you share that agenda. But it's not good if you want to understand how Peloton really got into this mess or how they could have actually avoided it. Those insights would be far more interesting for figuring out whether Peloton has a future alone or should sell.
Yeah but that's not counted in "waste" statistics.
as a roadie occasionally stuck inside, I have no issues hopping on a peloton
This phenomenon is called "The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation": https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/exped...
Tab groups are super reliable. It's strange that device syncing broke right around the same time that tab groups came out.
Japanese anime is dubbed, compared to western animated content which isn't
The only hyper local paper in my region that seems have worked out a stable model, delivers to everyone free and is the only outlet that covers local events.
Why Is This Rippling Alaskan Glacier a Research Hotbed?
It won’t pass.

People love to target Pelosi for her and her husband’s trading, but she’s far from the only one.

Still good press though right?
I'm really impressed by how lean this code base is. Is PgBouncer also this lean? Looks like auth is the only thing left here then, aside from maybe some more testing? Very cool to see!
> Infographic is outdated and borderline propaganda.

> Taiwan is expected to fall next.

You'll do everyone a favor by not exaggerating that much. You make it seem like there is consensus around the expectation that Taiwan will "fall next" while there is no such thing. You're also making claims about fabs being set on fire or being hacked by foreign entities without any sort of evidence.
It's also on a 5 year supply chain cycle. That brand new touch screen was spec'd and designed 5 years before the finished car was made.
One thing that I found very interesting when I looked into what TikTok does: it's scary good at aggregating data about you. I live in a foreign country, my phone's network is behind a VPN to a different foreign country and I gave the app no extra permissions, yet somehow I still got recommended content from the country where I was born. Since it's a small country there's no way that's a coincidence. I'm both intrigued and spooked as to how they figured that connection out.
The "Chinese data harvesting software" has less trackers than the site reporting about it (CNBC.com).
You should be aware that she also worked for politics a long time unpaid ( 20 years) because of her husband, who was earning enough.

Some suggestions of "she would only backoff because of ..." don't take that into account.

She's not rich because of stock trading. He/she was already plenty of rich/successful before anything happened that people now accuse her of.

Like: they already had plenty of successful investments before Pelozi even went into politics.

That's a really important variable to take into consideration.
The problem is press/marketing. When you read about this stuff 1.0 is claimed to be break-even, the threshold where fusion start to become practical. So in one piece of writing they will talk about this important number and (deliberately) conflate it with fusion being practical. Yes, getting Q plasma above 1 is necessary, but it's about an order of magnitude too low in reality. Sure everyone in the field know that. Her criticism is thats not how its presented to the outside world.
Show HN: Open Policy Registry: a Docker-inspired workflow for OPA policies
I often wish they were _less_ configurable. Even Black's handful of config options are too many... Each one is a chance to pick a whole new color for the bikeshed.
It's even more fun as a pocket universe thread.
Some mostly off-topic textbook stories:

My dad used to be dept chair at the college where he worked. Because of his title, textbook publishers would send him copies of their books for consideration. He would give them to me and I would sell them on half.com.

He was also able to order the answer books for my calculus textbook. I could do all the practice problems and look up the answers (not just the odd # questions which were in the back of the student book). At the end of the semester, I gave the answer book to the chair of the math dept to keep in the student math lab.

Also, one day in my physics class, some textbook sales reps came to demo this new RF remote with numbered buttons like a TV remote. Each student in class would get one. Their sales pitch was that it would allow our teacher to put a daily quiz up on the projector screen, and each student would use the remote to submit their answer, and then his TA wouldn't have to grade 150 quizzes. Also it would track attendance (which I thought should be optional for college classes). Students were expected to pay for their own remote, and I think there was a license fee per semester. Yuck.
> I could not call mask requirement a restriction

This comment is a real head-scratcher for me.

Government forcing somebody to wear a mask against their will is not some kind of restriction?
Now _that_ is how you ELI5.
I never understood their continued push with hardware. CapEx for new factories is high. It seems Foley just believed demand would still be high after the pandemic was over.

Their Peloton digital app has a bunch of bootcamp/strength/yoga etc style classes. Especially with the demand and growth during the pandemic I wondered why the messaging was still on the bikes.

Peloton Digital as being a Netflix for fitness type thing where the focus is to increase subscription count and content. Plus with Peloton digital it’s still complementary when you’re able to go to the gym.

Apple Fitness+ seems like it’s focused on being this. However you need to have a watch in order to subscribe :$
I've never understood the Von Neumann probe conjecture. Why would anyone design a probe that uses all of the available resources within a system to produce new probes that are sent to the N nearest systems? Surely it's more efficient to use a smaller number of more capable probes than to use a larger number of less capable ones when you consider the fuel mass necessary to get them to the next star. Ideally, you need one foolproof probe that can bootstrap a manufacturing facility in the next system. More likely you would send a few backup probes but you wouldn't send billions of them.

I think multiple Von Neumann probes could have come and gone from our system using little more than a few asteroids and a sip of the Jovian atmosphere.

It's also worth repeating that Von Neumann probes are only useful for information gathering. It would be highly impractical to pre-build all of the colonization infrastructure ahead of time and then mothball it for millions more years while the biologicals caught up, assuming they ever did. So these devices would be limited to scientific exploration or monitoring.

The only thing that I think Star Trek got right about the future is that many people will live in space full time aboard starships. All the planet hopping they do is just to further the plot and provide a familiar backdrop to the audience. Once a species transitions to living in space they will most likely stay there and have little use for planets. Depending on their mastery of fusion or other energy sources they may not even bother hanging around stars anymore. If we want to talk about anthropocentric perspectives the whole concept of visiting other worlds is probably as progressive as vacationing in natural caves, an entertaining novelty done once but never repeated by people who enjoy a roof over their heads, modern conveniences and climate control.
At this point I do my best to avoid exposure to software / hardware / services from 'non-free' countries.

It's not easy at all to do, there's a lot of grey area, and sometimes I just don't know. But I try.

It's not about the individuals in those countries, I suspect just making their way through life they may have the best of intentions but still could be forced to participate.

(Having said al that, that google research page seems pretty suspect to me.)
I don’t see much criticism about that video in the linked submission.
I've seen this a few times. The key limit is that once drawn the characters are set, you can't move the drawn objects around.

What I'd like is something like drawio for ASCII/Unicode. I've been thinking of writing my own for years, but that'll probably never happen so I'll just keep mentioning the idea when similar apps come up in the hope I inspire someone else!
Source? Because the Axios article says she changed her tune on supporting a ban. If the quote is from a year ago maybe it’s no longer accurate.
> being the greatest criminal ever

I think you are tad exaggerating here. not the dumbest but not certainly anything close to being competent. leaving keys in a cloud storage and not using OTC crypto exchanges outside US.

It's unbelievable stupid to use mixers on a public ledger because its all traceable and immutable. The really smart "criminals" DO NOT live in the US, especially NEW YORK out of all places, they DO NOT leave stupid social media posts or spend time chasing the vapid social media fame, they DO NOT use mixers because they are all points of surveillance.

I won't detail how one could've gotten away with this loot but there is an obvious hint here, blockchain is simply a means of temporary storage to move dirty money. Tether is largely considered a pipeline for illicit funds from China to move out to the West. They absolutely do not do any of the transactions on the blockchain, it is all done through highly organized criminal networks involving banks, shells, casinos.
Ben, it appears you've become emotionally invested in my comments. While I appreciate the attention it does signal that you're going off the deep end judging by you replying to all of my posts in and out of this thread within the same hour.

Feels aside, I get the impression that your knowledge of monero, zero knowledge proofs, and anonymized transaction outputs is lacking.
By virtue of the way that monero burns and creates unlinkable transaction outputs with concealed amounts, you cannot discern the amount of any transaction or output unless you're a key party to the transaction. As always the sender is also concealed. Tumblers would be a different and weaker concept all together.

The equation group admits this themselves, and it is proven time and time again every time monero is seized or analyzed.

I do hope you eventually get out of your feelings and get your proverbial shit together, because idolizing your detractors is no way to live. I assure you my ramblings are nowhere near as interesting as the conversations you'll have with your therapist about them.

Also lmao, nobody in this space uses banks, stop it.
It exists, but unlike, say, Twitter, it's extremely easy to remove from your attention.

TikTok's recommendation algorithm is really second to none.
When we first started using OPA [1], we were impressed with how flexible it is as a general-purpose decision engine. One thing we missed, though, is the ability to interact with policy bundles in the same way that we interact with docker images.

We created the policy CLI [2] to replicate the docker workflow for OPA policies, and the open policy registry [3] as a place where the OPA community can store and share policy images.

[1] https://www.openpolicyagent.org

[2] https://github.com/opcr-io/policy

[3] https://openpolicyregistry.io
I agree with you.

I had a brief stint in hardware design, and an FPGA is almost always going to be worse than dedicated hardware for a task, but it's extraordinarily flexible.

Most workflows I saw - you design the hardware on the FPGA (hugely useful for quickly testing and prototyping) then you outsource and actually build a custom chip if you really want speed.

It's also a great polyfill tool - since it can take the place of a lot of other hardware peripherals at a moment's notice.
I think this is part of it, "iPhones are cool, and this is like a giant iPhone!", but I think a larger part of it is that it's easier to design/program for and actually possible to update after the fact if that's required. There's probably something here for using the same parts across a whole line of cars, too vs testing and fitting buttons.
CVE-2022–22718: Windows Print Spooler Privilege Escalation
That's not what happened in my country. Slavery was actually seen as unethical and unchristian until someone started to do the math that there was money in it.
Public attitudes changed after that.
Greed is not always good.
Despite red-hot labor demand, a majority of the roughly 2.5M Ameri (cont)
I found a study recently that points to the Mississippi river as one of the main contributors to the red tide. The extra nutrients that are coming down the river and going into the gulf is the problem.
> I think it might provide some benefits to teach problem solving with code then. E.g. modelling some concepts from maths or physics in Python or something even simpler.

That's what Logo offered starting back in the 60s. Exploring different problem domains with programs. Converting some kinds of math/geometry problems into computational problems with the turtle (and, later, turtle graphics on the screen). Language problems were similarly addressed, but most people just remember the graphical parts.
Does that imply that there are some 256 bit patterns that aren't valid private keys, or does the 2^255 - 19 not describe the private key space?
I distinctly remember the author of my Linear Algebra courses textbook was the professor himself. He only assigned homework out of that book and you had to buy the book through his website/preferred publisher. It was not available in print at all so you couldn't even buy it in the bookstore.

The cherry on top, was that his book was chock full of errors. We were constantly receiving emails from the professor letting us know which problems HE HAD ASSIGNED had errors and which numbers to change in his own book, etc. How this is allowed to happen is beyond me and was beyond frustrating for all of us as students.

Worst experience I ever had with a teacher and textbooks.

This wasn't even advanced linear algebra, just the basics. You could literally assign/use any book published in the last 20-30 years and nothing would change about our learning experience. Math doesn't fucking change so often that a new book is needed every 6 months and everybody knows it.
The link between high serotonin and some forms of migraines is well established.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4117050/

It either means your re making too much, cannot metabolize it, or you are too sensitive to serotonin.

High does riboflavin has also been shown over and over to prevent some types of migraines. It will not cure one if you take it when you get it, but curing a functional deficiency looks like it would prevent them. It takes a while for the riboflavin to turn into FAD, the cofactor for MAOA.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15257686/

The Phenylethylamine in chocolate stimulates the release of serotonin.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17105921/

Speaking of histamine, most people do not know that mast cells, when they degranulate, not only release a ton of histamine, but also a lot of serotonin.
Something tells me this wouldn't survive much rain. Lack of close-ups makes me suspicious how good this build really is.
Couple charged with laundering proceeds from $4.5bn Bitfinex cryptocurrency hack
The people running the Y Combinator accelerator can be contacted at https://www.ycombinator.com/contact/
I don't see any criticism of her video in the link you provided.
Beaver dams help ecosystems recover from fire damage
I still pay for wildcard certs on a few domains; it's crazy - I know, I just haven't bothered to jump over to LE and add it to the list of things to mind.

For some services I'll put them behind those domains and simply use the appropriate certificate.

Generally though if this is strictly internal, my domain can issue internally trusted certificates.
We use “coding” and “programming” and “computer science” in these contexts and sell the domain short.

Computational thinking and systems thinking are applicable to all aspects of life. The things taught in early coding activities are the building blocks of those domains.
That sounds perfect, do you know of one that works on iOS?
Very creative, but quality control of a Tesla model 3. /s
You misunderstand. The subscriptions are not the key to revenue. The dollar even per article would be even less so. They are qualifiers for the ad demographic.
They've been replaced with nouveaux riches who want to show off to their poor friends (and enemies) that they've "made it".

The "millionaire next door" also has low time preference, which is how they made their money. They don't spend extravagantly but reinvest that money into their business, stocks, real estate, etc. That's also why they're stealth rich.
This is certainly one of the more beautiful threads on HN.
How to Grow Your Own Wondrous Fruits
I recently ran across twtxt[0], which appears to be fully distributed, in the same way .plan files were.

[0]: https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/twtxtfile.html
There is red tape, yes, but there are upsides to doing contract work for them too. The sheer scale of impact is daunting. Millions of people looking for work and you help them figure out the areas their recommender system needs improvement? That's tens of thousands of homes that now have employment where they wouldn't have. Just think of the cascading impact.

I don't know how to do it in the US, but in Canada you should be able to get these types of short-term gigs if you do a bit of networking in Ottawa and mention that you're a specialist in X, and that you want to help out here and there to give back. Wont take long. People want to bring in experts that will take occasional lower pay for impact.

Edit:

Also, the servers are BEEEEFY, haha. They might be cloud first these days, but when I was there it was still all on-premises and man alive are those machines huge.
But this is not a matter of UTF-8 in the code, rather a matter of UTF-8 in the input or output. How does compiling a program ensure that it is robust on a range of inputs?
My wife has a 2019 Subaru Crosstrek that gets this exactly right, IMO.

There is a touchscreen. IMO, you want that for Apple CarPlay / Android Auto. Mostly for nav.

But for everything else, there are big grippy analog controls. There are also analog volume and prev/next controls for the touchscreen. I believe the interior was designed with the concept of, "everything should be operable, even if the driver is wearing gloves."
I don't believe that is true. This famous chart shows funding levels versus requested since the 1970s:

https://images.app.goo.gl/58YdLFt7R9uY8dyR6

The much maligned prediction that fusion is 30 years away was always anticipating stronger financial support.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you but this tool expressly has a select and move tool.
What is sad and pathetic exactly?
This is the first time I’ve seen “a web app” used as a shining beacon of stability.

In short, you can’t test a negative. It’s easy to test “when the car receives a transmission in X format, Y happens”, but not “there does not exist a transmission format X such that when the car receives it, Y happens”.

Memory safe languages can help here, as would fuzzing. But the only true test would be a formal verification, which is a real pain (and even then you’re only testing against a single Y).

What you really want is “there does not exist any transmission that could result in any bad behavior”, which can only really be tested in that large scale fuzzer we call Production.
There was a great documentary[0] on this a few years ago. They specifically talked about the energy requirements and how they solved them.

[0] https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0133093