skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter is social media. It exists so that people can express their feelings in a way that lets them pretend that others might care what they feel. Objective reality just gets in the way and should be ignored in such an environment. There is no point in, say, getting outraged that people are acting without careful consideration on Twitter.
Really it's just a souped-up Python interactive shell. When you give it bash commands, it forks to bash. When you give it python it evaluates like a REPL
I see. That wasn't clear to me earlier.
You mean they aren’t stupid by necessity or that there isn’t a correlation on the population level?
The original intent was "peer to peer digital cash". When that failed we got "decentralised digital gold". I can only wonder what the next iteration will be
I don't think the article is balanced. Lam chau was their catchcry.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_chau_(doctrine)
It is believed that those snakes you see in the logo for medical services (caduceus) are actually Guinea worms as physicians used to advertise their services that way. See for example

https://medium.com/@DrWink/what-does-the-caduceus-represent-...
Founding Engineer or Founder/CTO? (2017)
Which one(s) of these would you want me to explain?
Headline is misleading. Creation of wrapped ETH tokens on Optimism, thereby allowing _theft_ of ETH from contract escrowed funds.
Isn’t this something that Windows and MacOS have done repeatedly, and managed via compatibility layers?
If you join an open source project's slack server, you really hope that the information you want is in the most recent 10,000 messages.
This is a nice graph from the Modern Age (mid-1500s to late 1900s) in England.

https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/data/13030/tf/ft0...

Basically, until the 19th century, between 25-35 % of people lived to be 60 or more. In the 20th century, this grew rapidly up to 90 per cent.

80 y.o.-s would be very rare even in the 19th century, while now about half of the population lives to be eighty.

Note that this is the Modern Age. In the Middle Ages, survival would have been worse. A more primitive agriculture, less developed long distance trade and fewer staple foods (no potatoes etc. in Europe prior to the Columbian exchange) would result in frequent famines that took the infirm first.

Things would be yet worse in the Early Middle Ages, the period of frequent nomadic incursions and warfare in most of Europe. At least the High Middle Ages were relatively peaceful compared to the period before.
Why disregard someone simply because they own a piece of a company that also supports the goal? I think any rational person would do the same - you believe in something so you start, invest in, or advise a company.
> Certainly, if you have other requests in flight, you could have head-of-line blocking because of a packet that was dropped in a response stream that isn’t related to your SSE stream, but this only applies if there’s packet loss, and the packets that were lost could just as easily be SSE’s or websocket’s.

That was what I meant. Yes, head-of-line blocking can occur everywhere there is TCP, but with HTTP2, the impact is larger due to the (otherwise very reasonable) multiplexing: When a HTTP2 packet is lost, this will stall all requests that are multiplexed into this connection, whereas with websocket, it will only stall the websocket connection itself.
Do you notice all the different components on this page? https://beyondcorp.com/ There are a lot more components and concepts than just an OAuth proxy. A web developer may think it's all very simple from their perspective, but it goes much deeper.
We agree on that much!

Self-awareness is another quality that may come with age.
I find it funny that there’s also a competing camp: https://yeshello.org
> least historically it's been reliable to get a fixed income

"Fixed Income" is more about structurally reliable and consistent returns, rather than historical average returns.

An outlier bad year can easily wipe a huge percentage of capital invested in stock--but the younger you are, and the more buffer you have, the less likely this is to be a problem. But don't mistake that for fixed income!

Fixed income usually refers to interest rate products, and as mentioned above in this thread, the inflation-adjusted rates have been pretty bad. Pretty much since the start of Quantitative Easing, I believe.
I remember walking down the main street in my hometown on my way to drink at a bar and seeing saurik and some friends at a bars all with their laptops out and hacking on something. What caught my eye was a terminal open and a Vim session. I walked up and we all chatted for a bit. Back in the day you didn't run into that very often where we lived so it was pretty cool to see. That boosted my conviction for my choice of IDE and I started bringing my laptop out to the bars in the evenings as well. Years later my friend and I built a business and pretty much all the code was written in the evenings at one of those bars. You can be social and code at the same time it turns out, and coding prevented me from drinking too much while I was out. No real morale to the story, just an anecdote I wanted to share. That said, congrats on the bounty saurik!
dropping out is so fun. no more taking orders from anyone.
PHP Everywhere Bugs Put 30K+ WordPress Sites at Risk of RCE
Unless you live in the sticks, you probably aren’t “wasting” your money by using rentals and Lyft.

The problem with a car is for most people it’s their most expensive or second most expensive capital asset, yet has a very low utilization rate (often less than 5%). If interest rates rise their op ex in servicing it (fuel, insurance, loan interest) will exceed that!

A few years ago I sold all my cars. I found I only drove at all a few times a week at most (walk/bike instead). Like you I switched to ridershare/rent and it was fine. My motivation wasn’t really to save money but just eliminate the hassle of having all those cars.
cool. so, would xmpp run on a 512mb vps?
what about your average storage required?
20gb? 40?

could we say, define 2-3 days attachment retention rule to save on space?
Bitcoin has found product market fit with the correct privacy needed for regulators to be happy with it. A few examples of bitcoin privacy shortcomings, doesn’t mean the system isn’t wildly successful. One of the best electric car company in the world, Tesla, holds $2 billion worth of bitcoin today. A lot of bitcoin is bad and centralized and whatever narratives are missing the big picture.
Apple Patches Actively Exploited WebKit Zero Day
Strictly speaking you are correct, but is there any actual harm in people using the word CORS as a shorthand for the whole system of Same Origin Policy + Cross Origin Resource Sharing?

If there's some kind of dangerous misunderstanding that stems from this, I can understand emphasizing it, but otherwise it just feels pedantic.
Library to send and receive using infra-red signals on an Arduino
I think it might be trying to explain the difference between a format for use when building ASICs and one that targets fpga architecture. With an fpga, there is a structure (the tile) that contains some ram some, luts and other blocks. The luts are reconfigurable, and so is the wiring, but otherwise the fpga is mostly fixed. So this is quite different than an asic, where there are more cell types (flip flops, logic gates, or fets, etc) and they can be freely placed in the design.
These scammers went to impressive lengths. They say that often the secret of a magic trick is to put in far more prep work than anyone thinks is reasonable. Con games work the same way. In this case, the effort is worth since the target has something like $175 million in a wallet. The payoff is massive.

Worth noting, though, that for all the fancy footwork the point of failure for the scam is him being willing to work with his main wallet rather than a one-off, and when he showed hesitation, they got too impatient. Good security practices were still the answer.
Generalizing, anytime someone is giving you a “gift” but is putting expectations on how you receive it (in this case the wallet destination) that should be a huge red flag.

Whether that’s cryptocurrency or a sandwich.
There's two major versions of Dishy (and two variants of the first with the same cabling). The first round Dishy has what looks like an ordinary Ethernet cable. But there's a surprise inside! 100W of PoE with a wiring incompatible with every other PoE standards. The second square Dishy has a proprietary connector. But the cable itself is just a Cat5E cable. Again with unusual PoE wiring and a lot of power.

The square Dishy v2 ships with no ethernet ports btw; you're supposed to use the proprietary cable between their router and Dishy, then use WiFi to the router. Yes, everyone hates it. You can buy an ethernet adapter for cheap but it's a few weeks to get it shipped. Speculation is this is all related to a parts shortage.

Details on the proprietary cable: https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/s0rih3/gen2_dishy...
People are not finite. They change addresses, have kids, get different jobs, etc. The flows of people shift around over time, and the transportation infrastructure is one factor that influences those flow patterns.
As a data point, the Mozilla "SSL Configuration Generator" seems to be well regarded:

https://ssl-config.mozilla.org

I tend to use it for generating config's for static Nginx sites, though it can do much more. :)
The only way I would use a graph system is if it had named relations. I remember being baffled at systems like Roam and Obsidian because the relations on the graph just conveyed no information... How is a bulldozer related to Wittgenstein...

Now if you can name the relations, that allows you to (1) create shorter notes and push more information into the edges and (2) it makes the graph into a true "mind map".

When you can't name relations, you're forced to make "nodes" for Topics or Tags. And this is where the difficulty comes in with "where do I put this?" Not only that but you're forced to write notes for basic concepts like "programming language" and then you find yourself re-making wikipedia altogether. It becomes absurd.
Just imagine for a second if there was a bug in the US Treasury that let anybody order the treasury to print new money and deliver it to their bank account. That would rightly be seen as total incompetence by the treasury and cast doubts on the soundness of the entire monetary system.

But with ETH we have the community patting themselves on the back for it. It’s madness.

You are making a false equivalency when you compare crypto with usd.
One thing not noted here, and that I'd love to see some numerate analysis on, is the fact that the KYC requirements among the major exchanges have effectively bifurcated crypto assets. There is "clean" BTC and "dirty" BTC now. One is clearly worth more than another by dint of its greater flexibility (i.e. if you're offered 3 clean ETH or whatever for your Pondering Lemur NFT, or 5 dirty ETH that you can't convert via Coinbase, which offer do you pick? It seems to me that many people might prefer the former).

Yet... no one anywhere is trying to track that price discrepancy? This seems like it would be an important bit of data!
I went and looked up the citation in the post. It's interesting:

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w23408/w234...

The thesis of the paper is that fracking increases the incomes of less-educated men, which increases both the marital and non-marital birth rate, but not the marriage rate. They also contrasted with the Appalachian coal boom of the 70s and 80s, which increased marital birth rate and marriage rate but not non-marital birth rate.

There's a wide body of research behind that paper linking economic conditions with birth rates, including studies in rodents about early-pregnancy abortions (in most mammals, the mother's body will spontaneously abort a fetus if food & survival conditions are poor); research into sex ratios (more boys than girls are born in times of plenty, while the reverse is true in times of starvation, consistent with males' greater variance of reproductive success); the "hem line hypothesis" (women wear more revealing clothing in boom times, and then more modest clothing in depression); and falling frequency of sex across all age groups and marital statuses in poor economic times. My takeaway is that humans and other mammals are biologically programmed to want to reproduce more when times are good but lose interest and focus on survival when times are bad, but the particular expression of this is culturally mediated and depends a lot on local social mores.
Yep, makes sense
I am currently developing exactly this - a notetaking system similar to Roam/Obsidian/etc. which, instead of explicit links automatically searches for related notes. My approach was to utilize some sort of automatic semantic-aware keyword extraction and try to link other notes not only to the current note as a whole, but to its specific terms/sections. For example, if note is containing a recipe, ingredients would have other recepies which use them linked.

I was not aware that such a system already exists. Can you point me to some references? Is it a private system you developed? Are you willing to share more details? Thanks!
"Let's take the hardest thing in programming: factoring your system correctly, and place a network connection in the middle of it."

-t.thoughtLeadersInTech
Hah. I wonder what of experts you have in mind
A Real-time collaborative Wordle clone? Or maybe a turn-based one where you can see the other players keystrokes in real-time but can’t alter them?
> The central tenant of Protestantism is Sola Scripture

No, it's not. There were from very early on many different Protestant traditions, and sola scriptura isn't even part of all of them, much less the primary and universal foundation of Protestantism (Anglicans and Methodists, for instance, are Protestants, but have only ever held prima scriptura, not sola scriptura.)

> Protestants have a Bible that differs from Catholics/Orthodox - it excludes the Deuterocanonical books

Many mainline Protestants include the Deuterocanonical books in their Bibles, and in their lectionary, but give them lesser theological roles.

Anyhow, some Protestants hold to strict literalism as fundamental despite direct contradictions in the Bible. I think you misunderestimate the ability of people to maintain a religious tradition in the face of even flat logical contradictions in fundamental doctrine, much less a lack of clear justification for doctrine.
"One of the best electric car company in the world, Tesla, holds $2 billion worth of bitcoin today."

I don't think that's what bitcoin is for, it's a bit like saying a speaker is great because is makes a great footrest
Just had one of these myself for a CTO position
I strongly bet that the government instead wants to control the beast to their own benefit. Imagine the power if you could more precisely shape the public discussion. China has demonstrated this quite well.

Edit: i mean political parties and not just a single supposed monolith that is government. The two aren’t quite separate though.
SOP should primarily be understood as a restriction on reading responses, not making requests.
Sorry to hear your bad news, and yes we regularly see these asks for help on all the corporate controlled platforms. There is no solution to this censorship other than switching.

Reddit has had a great run, but they are preparing to IPO. We can expect it to get more controlled by its customers(the advertisers and financiers). I am planning to spin up an instance of Lemmy on my Yunohost. This is the federated free and open source alternative to Reddit. You can check out one instance at https://lemmy.ml/. The challenge will be getting more people to participate in the alternative that is designed to be free of such censorship.
A good rule of thumb is if somebody you've just met introduces you to someone with an exciting new NFT project that they want your help testing, you're probably being scammed.

While NFTs probably have some useful purpose that will emerge eventually, for now you should consider any proposal or offer that involves the term 'NFT' as having about the same value as any offer involving the term 'Nigerian prince'.
16 billion people stacked on earth?It's a pointless hypothetical because violence would have prevented that scenario long before. And what grand violence it would be! So much easier sending great-great-grandsons into battle than sons and grandsons.
I would just add Neil Postman's Technopoly as a much easier read.

I have never been able to get through either of those Ellul books and have tried several times. I am not even sure if it is Ellul himself or translated French thought in general I find so painful.
It's pretty intuitive to also consider limits on lifespan as a function of conserving resources on a family or tribal level. At a certain point, the utility a population could gain from labor or knowledge of older members is outweighed by the burden of taking care of them and providing for them.
My parents are like that in their 80s. They now respond to things like, "time is short, if there's anything you wanted to do, do it" with "that time has passed for us." It struck me as characteristic of their accidental lifelong stoicism.

It's sobering and makes it really hard to continue working in middle age.
Please don't take HN threads on generic flamewar tangents. They're tedious and repetitive. They also usually turn nasty. They're also against the site guidelines:

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

Note this one also:

"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Everyone was brilliant in True Romance.
No, money laundering is never this easy...I see people on internet forums always suggesting stuff like this; Swap to monero >> NFT (or whatever else) >> clean money...Sounds good in theory but in execution, you'll likely make a mistake along the way and get caught
Thousands of years is plenty of time for trial and error!
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If only he did.

Many people took a lot of advice from him, but nobody took the advice on Lisp. That was exactly what I realized in 2007, when I started reading his essays, that the opportunity here was to take excellent advice that nobody else was going to take.

Now, some people do learn Lisp on his recommendation, the thing is too only a very few--perhaps only one--will actually also be able to turn that into the other thing he speaks of at length, becoming a great founder. I would say the two things pull away from each other. And technologic fashions have pulled in a direction diametrically opposite to his vision until only three years ago, to the point he announced in an interview Viaweb's technology "was a lot more sophisticated than it needed to be."
What I've heard is that there's a lot of malicious reporting going on these days. The global moderators don't necessarily bother to check if a comment or submission has been flagged/reported in good faith, so lots of unwarranted bans can be the result.
Thanks for this idea. Made a big difference.
If you get large amounts of money in short periods of time, you might receive calls from your bank's or government's anti-money-laundering office regardless.
(I also think it'll seem equally ridiculous supplier-side too: "why did we sell closed source software and prevent our users from more accurately identifying and reporting bugs and providing potential fixes, reducing our support and development costs?")
Don't Wake Up the Programmer
That sounds like such a fun project!
That's most likely from the RES tagging feature. They may have had you tagged beforehand, or they may have downloaded one of the dozens of taglists floating around, after which they can simply click the tag and arrive at one of your most egregious posts.
To explain your error a bit less facetiously, the point my sibling is making is that SOP is the default policy, which is maximally restrictive. CORS is a technology used to relax SOP, to make it less restrictive.

So it is not CORS that protects, since it restricts nothing, but SOP (potentially relaxed by CORS).
Fair enough, but it speaks to the level of hate he inspires in a certain kind of person
Well, sorry, my context is Uni by the way.
RBOC history is so crazy when you read about it.
All these companies were broken up to eventually reform into huge corporate behemoths again, only decades later ("new" AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen / Century Link) It makes me wonder if we weren't better off just keeping the original AT&T together.
Update on the ongoing DDoS attacks and blocking Tor exit nodes
That does occasionally happen, but there must be thousands of people clicking the up or down arrows for every person willing to do chilling effect e-stalking e-blackmail type stuff to intimidate people.

I'm just saying public participation in conversation moderating is much like public participation in voting where its a pretty extreme power law where most people lurk or barely themselves to click a button, but a very small minority will put in huge efforts for their cause.
Right, some languages guarantee tail-call optimisation in the language spec itself. The C standard doesn't do this.
What is Bitcoin for then?
On the contrary — the decisions you have to make to avoid negative consequences are often the best test of your ethics. Consider how many people would’ve been punished for speaking out against what plantation owners were doing in the 1800’s, for example.

The illusion that they feel different is extremely powerful. It’s worth resisting. It helps uncover all kinds of ways that we contribute to unethical behavior, if only through inaction.

The concept of having a price attached to your ethics is essential. Without it, people fool themselves into believing they’re above temptation. In my experience those same people tend to be the most vulnerable to it.
>I like to use the phrase "practice makes permanent" - not "practice make perfect", cause every instructor disagrees, and not "perfect practice makes perfect" because perfection is subjective and a fool's errand. In a nutshell, whatever you do in practice will be what you do in application.

This is a great view. To add to this from a learner's perspective, though I'm not a professional educator (thanks for sharing your perspective as one): I've found that the ideas about worrying about "perfect practice" to be intimidating, especially as I've struggled with a 'perfectionist' tendency that causes procrastination and hesitation to attempt any practice at all.

People are wary of learning something wrong, then having to re-learn it, but I think that's a far better problem than delaying or avoiding learning something at all (with quality instruction, it's unlikely one can practice too far from the ideal; and even if that happens, it's not the end of the world. When attempting to learn, I try to remember the following quote from a webpage shared on HN a while back [0]: "Stay calm. Remember, you can’t become worse off than when you started."

[0] https://devjac.dev/posts/2021-05-29-my-personal-creed-of-emp...
Can you elaborate on how CORS provides an alternative? Responding with a CORS policy to your own client’s preflight requests is not going to do anything for a malicious client’s form POST.