skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. This happens via random.c's add_hwgenerator_randomness() hook, which the hwrng framework calls from a kthread.
That’s interesting. How do you find your current job as a solution?
Software (some made by HN contributors) ate the world.
>The FED ruined young peoples ability to afford a home.

House prices have certainly risen substantially in the last few years [1]. But if the FED is to blame, why has the same thing happened in the UK [2], Germany [3] and Australia [4] ?

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/QUSR628BIS

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/QGBN628BIS

[3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/QDER628BIS

[4] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/QAUR628BIS
> e.g. support for dot-notation has been added

I just lost a big block of time because of this, please contextualize correctly that claim when you make it.

Support for dot-notation like it's documented at the proposals has been partially added. Field fetching is complete, field updates isn't released at all. It is being actively developed, and both bring very interesting features that you can't get in most languages - after all, it's Haskell - but it was only partially released up to now.
There’s another post on the front page today talking about how the author’s wordle clone wasn’t approved for the App Store.

All I could think the entire time reading it was that the web was the ideal place for their app, and then this manifested itself almost immediately.

So thanks to whoever created this for keeping the web unique, interesting, and aligned with its original principles.
Am I the only one alarmed that WD maintains a public registry (via DNS) of MyCloud device UUIDs, their public IP, and their private IP? How many of those are on networks with exploitable routers?

Like, you have an external entrypoint and a target internal IP that you know will contain a trove of potentially interesting data.
Yeah take this post down and contact a lawyer who specializes in financial crimes. You shouldnt be taking legal advice from the internet.
This is really neat and polished!
I think the proportions are more like an olympic swimming pool of "normal" content and a single turd.

And you know what? I don't know many people who want to swim in even a 100m pool with a turd floating in it.
If it were built today you could expect all of the security features of the best phones on the market and of course far more powerful processors allowing for stronger crypto.

Essentially you'd be looking at a cryptophone.
> I "think", most of those debate ties with technology one way or another.

Nah. Yesterday's political topic (there's almost always at least one per day) was about the WWII Tokyo firebombing.

I think the real answer is even simpler: I think dang (or whoever is on duty that day) asks themselves "is this topic going to lead to an interesting conversation, or will it devolve into a shitshow?" Shitshows generally get canned, no matter the subject. It's benign dictatorship at work.
I dont disagree, there might-should be clawback provisions for those legacy allocations.

But how do you define 'use' they could easily 'use' them by simply announcing them via BGP and null routing the traffic to the IP's they don't want exposed?

The end answer is still IPv6, where everyone can have as much or as little IP space as they want.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jeffrey_Epstein (or other pages about his case)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
In the end, maybe. As you noted, corporations spend money on employees but also goods and services, so it doesn't all end up in a corporation's warchest account just sitting under a mattress as cash. In the interim however, it went to things like food and gas to survive, among other things. The fact that, due to shutdowns (whatever your opinion of them) that the money was needed by some of the countries' poorest members to not go hungry (and I'm sure some did anyway), but we had no good way of determining exactly who needed that and who didn't.

What it comes down to, is really which inflation numbers you believe, as the numbers really run the gamut as well as their causes if you really dig into the reports and the details. If inflation only looks high due to used cars being wildly expensive these days due to the chip shortage vs inflation causing cheap staple goods to increase in price, then that'll change your conclusion of inflation's effects.

Still, if we want a stimulus to go places other than corporations and CEOs then we need to dramatically rework how the economy works, including food distribution, and de-corporatization and strict limits on CEO pay.
I think the news is less "13 year old revolutionized medicine" and more "13 year old used ingenuity to create cool thing". Or at least, that's how I think it should be read. Focusing too much on the end result is likely not the best outcome because, while its a working prototype, many interesting prototypes never make it to fully end user capable system and there are a lot of hurdles to overcome to get it there.

But that doesn't take away from the fact that its a cool project and the kid did a great job in coming up with it and executing on it! Its definitely far beyond what most people achieve, nevermind 13 year olds.
I just realized that the way I phrased it was misleading.

It's not that I think TCP/IP is inherently secure. It's that, because TCP/IP is not inherently secure, I don't think raw TCP/IP addresses should be exposed to end-users. In other words, the right way to phrase it would have been.

> If you get the TOR address from a trusted source, like the Azure dashboard, then you’re connecting to the correct machine. No need to rely on people being meticulous enough to compare hex addresses.
But the ratio doesnt take into many factors such as inflation and actual wage-buying-power

So while the maths ratio sounds small... the Human ratio is much greater based on the buying power of a dollar-vs-salary of the avg buyer...

so while it may seem one-way, the reality for the buyer is much different...

Here is an anecdote:

My GF has worked at The French Laundry for several years...

The top rest in the world according to some...

She lives in Sonoma Ca and it costs her $5.19 per gallon of gas. She drives an modern car with good gas mileage.

She pays $70 to 3/4 fill her car and travels ~30 miles one way to commute to a job at the top restaurant in the world which pays her $12/hour.

The bill says "Service Included" which leads guests to believe that "TIP IS INCLUDED" -- and so people that pay $75,000 for a meal (including wine) often DONT TIP...

Because they believe that "Service" == "Tip" NOPE.

The point is, that her commute costs her ~half a weeks actual pay to pay for fuel.

The point being that we THINK that the ratio --> relation to buying power has been constant, or even better these days with higher wages, the reality in the wallet is not such.

Even with a great job, at one of the best companies in the world (supposedly) -- She still struggles with just filling her car with gas.

Fuck big oil.
Lol - I never noticed the parent/prev/next links.

That parent one is super useful! Sometimes I go too deep in a discussion and realize I don't want to be there but can't find my way back easily by eyeballing the indent depth of the comments.

Thanks for the lesson!
There is also a pretty severe housing shortage in most urban areas. I'm not so sure prices are going to be that sensitive to interest rates, however they could be sensitive to purchasing power. But historically, US housing is so much cheaper to buy than say, any country in Europe, it can sustain quite some rise.
Yeah, absolutely true.

A high interest rate with high wealth inequality just means that the wealthy suck wealth from the middle classes by lending out money instead of renting out property.

Either way you're still getting screwed it's just the delivery method that changes.
> does it get handled like an asset -- auctioned off, etc?

Who would buy that? I guess if this happened enough then people would start "data salvager" companies that specialize in going through data they have no schema for looking for a way to sell something of it to someone else. I have to imagine the margins in a business like that would be abysmal, and all the while you'd be in a pretty dark place ethically going through data that users never wanted you to have in the first place.

Of course, all these questions are moot because if this happened the GDPR would nuke the cloud provider from orbit.
Profit not revenue. Costs (or lackthereof) are irrelevant as the amount of profit is the amount of profit regardless of what factors led to that final profit number.

The point is you'll never make more than a couple dollars even doing it at massive scale so nobody bothers whereas before there was enough incentive to actually do it.
> A wealth tax would be hard / impossible to implement.

What do you think property taxes are?

I agree it would be really hard to tax all forms of wealth. But I'm fine with rich people hiding their wealth in artwork or stamps or whatever to save it from taxation. Keeps the money out of useful assets like stocks and houses.
Because it creates customer confusion and anger when they hit the genius bar with a phone that is bricked because the customer used a non-apple appstore to install software that resulted in a bricked phone. It further causes apple support increased support costs when they have to prove that it wasn't their fault.

Perhaps if apple had approval on those third-party appstores and held them to a standard and charged pushed those support charges onto them..
> Blaming inflation on corporate greed is a tale as old as time. And it's largely debunked economic pseudo science.

That wasn't a claim.

> Companies and people are greedy all the time, that's the fundamental basis of capitalism.

Oversimplification.

> An opt in moralism based economy will never work and has been tried and failed many times.

This wasn't suggested.

Your comment is vapid, in case you're wondering.
Why look to China when we can look to Japan? They had the worst housing bubble in world history, now housing is affordable. All thanks to a streamlined national zoning code that took power out of the hands of local government. There are twelve nuisance levels and you can build anything that falls below the maximum allowed nuisance level for a lot, no community approval process necessary.
Honestly this is when most folks move to using their own dashboards, metrics, and tooling. The AWS GUIs were designed for small to moderate use cases.

You don't peer into a bucket with a billion objects and ask for a complete listing, or accounting of bytes. There are tools and APIs for that.

That's what I do with my thousands of buckets and billions of files (dashboards).
Yup. This is the answer. If something political is posted its one of many items on the front page. Ignore it and upvote content you find interesting. Even better browse new posts instead of only the front or first few pages.
Remix (which uses React as the UI library) is server side rendered
The Moon is the ultimate high ground in the Earth-Moon system. A mass driver that can fling rocks at the Earth is an extremely potent and easily maintained weapon. Much simpler than nukes. Could be remotely operated.
> I think the more likely scenario is that some smaller App developers break away from the store for one reason or another, and then users are asked to install yet more app stores/use yet more payment providers when it provides no benefit to them, or risk losing their Apps/data.

I think that there would be as much friction against smaller developers doing that, as against the big players. Same headache for users of having to set up and deal with multiple memberships and payment methods would still apply. The smaller indie devs would be disinclined to do that for the most part. What will end up happening is that there might be one or two major alternative app stores at most, and probably well-curated by the most dedicated and motivated of volunteers. On Android, that exists with F-Droid, which is a useful case study of how an independent third party App store for hobbyists can arise. These niches will exist for those who choose to pursue them but users will not be “forced” to go to them as they will not need those stores.

Your point about streaming/TV apps make sense, like the major gaming publishers, they both have unique content that might be the most compelling reason for users to pursue them, and the most motivation to get away from the 30% cut.
Their CFO said this, not CEO. Are you suggesting their CFO committed securities fraud by lying to shareholders?
I am not sure now which series you have in mind here. But in many shows, actual evidence is super flimsy, if you think about it. Obvious issue is that such analysis tend to kill the fun, so we don't do it. This is supposed to be entertainment.

The prime example is Sherlock Holmes who points at murder based on bit of dust caught of hat or some such. Any show where capture is based on subtle clues or manipulative trics would likely lead to a lot of false convictions. Or the ones where detectives mistreat suspects until they admit guilt - false guilt of admission from mistreated prisoner is actually a thing (especially when they are also sleep deprived or mentally challenged).
> But in the end, I get that this specific case mainly just concerns me.

Pragmatic, but this defeatist attitude for app stores should be reserved for 2012, ten years ago.

Many people know of this problem by now, and its time to end their reign.
well yeah. the premise of the show is not to discover the perp or their method. i dare say, you’ve missed the point.

in real life, we know that crimes are often “solved” not by evidence at hand but by confession of accomplices. i mean that’s why “snitches get stitches” is a thing. columbo takes that to the next level, extracting the suspects own admission through his apparent bumbling. in every single episode, if the perp had only just kept their mouth shut …
The Seven Habits That Lead to Happiness in Old Age
Thanks for the links, I added Wolfram.

I think SNOBOL might count, but it's a bit different in that I think it's a "dead" language now? e.g. it doesn't appear to have a user base or implementations. But feel free to add it or anything else if there are good links.

There's definitely a fuzzy line between things like LPeg or Rosie and YACC/ANTLR ... it's less about the power of the language and what kind of tasks people use it for, I suppose. If it's "scripting friendly".
Just make sure you actually test your backups. Two months of unusable backups are just as useful as no backups.
Keep your notes on it handy. Contact your legal rep or team.

When something similar happened to me I was eventually contacted by the California computer crimes task force, IIRC. Very simple phone call, asking for notes I kept on the situation. Polite.

Then I got looped into the prosecution's long and kind of annoying email chain to everybody involved before there was an eventual going-nowhere of it all. Surprising but that's what happened. So you never know but some basic diligence is typically a good idea. This is not legal advice.
I agree too. I am able to comment and add to a thread without feeling like I have to then defend my opinion or go back and answer replies. There's no responsibility, in a way, with commenting. I can add an anecdote, or ask a rhetorical question, or even crack a joke, and then move on with my curiosity. It's a good system, and makes it feel very calm here.
Greatly agreed this is a better way to think about it.

Self service documentation is definitely one way. Writing great documentation to help others come up to speed. But you also need a culture of actually looking for answers in documentation yourself. Also realize that some people don't learn that way. I made trainings in video and wiki form for a group a started, I did the same documentation in a video. For 70% of the people in my group the video clicked better. They use the wiki more as a rubric. So having both works well, however the video was quite time intensive to make.

Another way is what people talk about for Amazon, which you may be referring to. While plenty of communication happens verbally or in hallways, the important communication happens in writing and then discussion of that writing. And you are correct it is all about a culture of reading to understand that idea. And then writing again to update it.
I'd argue that the language of the dictionary is far more critical for a word game than just the UI language of a random app.
Humans Find AI-Generated Faces More Trustworthy Than the Real Thing
I also have a very similar experience with App Store.. The app review process is BROKEN (sharing my experience in the video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOtbjOw7Dwo
IIUC that's because Franklin cloned the hardware successfully, but couldn't clone the BASIC. But I think you could still run Apple's BASIC from a disk. Do you still have it?
Suggestion: I play and share Dordles via screenshots. I'd like to do the same with this but I don't want to use two screenshots (have to scroll down). Can you have an option to sit these side by side?
Apple deserves the inevitable government intervention that it seems to be begging for with its arbitrariness and blatant anti competitive behavior.
Seems like a no-brainer to me; as I understand, this effectively make urandom “always secure”, which is a very good thing; makes for an even more convincing argument when some colleague insists on using /dev/random “because it’s more secure”.

Do I understand correctly that with this patch, the only drawback is for weird architectures that do not have an instruction counter or another instruction to gather random data? And in those cases, the old behavior (“urandom may be insecure shortly after boot”) may even be worse than the new behavior (“may block while waiting for entropy”) ?
The only thing I noticed on SO is sometimes having question titled in a more general way, with details being actually focused on a specific new framework, then discussion and answer showing how amazing the framework is for this use case. Which is also the only thing I can reasonably imagine being promoted, but incentives here are so closely aligned I can't even be mad honestly.

I don't know what happens on 'front page'/'trending' of SO and other other stackexchanges.

EDIT: I checked stats and SO has <15mln users. Part of it being the way it is comes from being relatively tiny and I honestly can't guess how expensive moderation on SO is.
Writing "@dang" does not notify dang, though he sometimes stumbles across these questions. Email hn@ycombinator.com. I have always received a response to my emails in a day or less.
I would assume that the most likely issue you would face is malware running on your own computer that captures the master key or sends passwords back to an attacker. Not someone gaining access to the encrypted password vault and then cracking it - unless you have a very week key.
If you choose values that have viable, realistic alternatives that a sane organization could reasonably target then you don't need anti-values explicitly stated. If this is not the case you have a bunch of platitudes. Your company values should often be interpreted (negatively) as strong opinions or even "an attitude". I think Basecamp does a good job of this, regardless if you agree with them.
I don't believe so. How do you find it self-contradictory?
Nice, but seems to use a fairly restrictive word list compared to other games; might make it more attractive to some people as I have friends who say that "ZA" sums up everything wrong with scrabble in one word...
My default search engine changed after updating Firefox to version 98
> Can't housing still be an investment for owner-occupants while investment companies are disincentivized from buying every available property in competitive housing markets?

Not really effectively. There are two big problems.

The most fundamental is: If you have a good return on your house (outstrips inflation by a decent amount) and wages stay flat (actually it's been worse than that recently) - who do you think is going to be your buyer 20,30 years on?

The other: You can't effectively keep rich people and institutions out if the ROI is good enough. If their money doesn't have a better place to go, it will end up here some how.
Outside of wordle and other VERY POPULAR apps (a very narrow scope) it's impossible to expect that apple has a way to tell if any given submission is a copycat of anything.
Homebrew is not Apple so you're just reinforcing OP's point: you need to go to a 3rd party to get a CLI that's worth a damn.

Nor is Homebrew supported by Apple which is totally outrageous, given that without it, you might as well buy an iPad for how useful MacOS is.
I built one of those Wordle clones that made it into the app store. Built it mostly to see how long it would take me to do it with flutter (it didn't take long). The app doesn't collect any data or connect to the interwebs.

Not really sure how I made it through the review process, but once it got through I was subsequently blocked from updating it, with the same policy cited as the OP.

So now it's up there with a double letter bug, the stock flutter icon, and 80k downloads :)

Side note: I did get a takedown notice, which I was expecting, but it wasn't from the NYT. It was from a company purporting to hold trademarks for lingo for both look and feel and game mechanics. I tried to contact them but nobody has responded, and it actually looks like the trademark was abandoned. Plus, you can't trademark a game mechanic afaik.
I missed it, thanks for the heads-up.

I love you, Hacker News, but you’re toxic

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30349222 2022-02-15
"the possible durability gain is slim to none. This also makes OS X behave similar
to other platforms."

You didn't report the full reasoning.
> Water cooler talk, coffee walks, after-work drinks with the team, and work sports are no longer a thing.

I would take HN over the water cooler talk, after work drinks and work sports.

Coffee walks ... probably worth keeping. Possibly an occasional workplace lunch too.

But then again, I've worked "alone" at home for more than 20 years, and so the social side of working life has felt fairly foreign to me forever.
A decade later, it still remains the case that most of the users who are willing to spend money are on the Apple platform.

On the question of whether Apple should be more like Google, the answer has again and again, from Apple, from pundits, from financial analysis been 'oh hell no'.

You are free not to use Apple. The fact that people keep talking about how they aren't using apple isn't the freedom flag waving you think it is. If you all have to keep bringing it up then it's living rent-free in your head. I don't know if it's jealousy, or wanting to have your cake and eat it to, or what else is going on. I don't use Facebook, but you don't hear me talking about it all the time (talking about having to deal with Facebook users is another matter).

In retail 'customers' who don't buy anything aren't customers. They are 'loitering' and many companies have a policy for encouraging people who are not actually shopping to leave. Traffic that does not result in revenue is overhead at best, opportunity cost at worst. A certain amount of overhead has always been tolerated as goodwill or advertising, but in any arena of life there is always someone who tries to take advantage of goodwill efforts.

Customers who don't use apps at all are fine. They aren't costing us anything. Customers that buy lots of apps are great. Customers who just want free stuff all the time are bad news. Especially because they become more expensive when the free stuff ends up causing them problems, which they feel entitled to complain about. Tech support calls are more expensive than most of us realize.