skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in a shitty area of NYC now. I walk past people like Andre every single day, and you can call me cynical, but I'm unconvinced that the problems they face are outside of their control to stop. These are guys with a new blanket of merch, often hundreds of dollars worth, every single day on my corner. This is merchandise usually stolen from Mom & Pop pharmacies without any security, so there's quite literally 0 repercussions from walking in and taking as much as you can carry. I see that happen at least once a week, as well. You can make at least $100/day selling stolen crap on the sidewalk. For perspective, a shelter (with beds and a shower) is $20/night.

There are also countless places in this city you can get clean for either free or a couple dollars [1]. As I mentioned in my post, there are quite literally thousands of restaurants, warehouses, cleanup crews in the city you can work under the table for if you show up sober and willing to work. I say this because I personally know individuals that do this. Don't believe me? Go to /r/homeless and look up cash jobs. Thousands of other people have figured it out, why can't Andre?

I'm all for societal change which ensures that individuals like Andre don't end up in that situation in the first place, but I'm of the opinion those changes start in the classroom and with ones parents, not by the state giving away free apartments. The fact of the matter is that if Andre's already been stealing from Target's and selling the goods on the sidewalk for fifteen years, maybe he doesn't want a minimum wage job in the first place?

I don't doubt that a free place to live would help Andre, I mean hell, not having to pay rent would help me as well. But surely there's a better strategy than housing life-long criminals for free, indefinitely?

There's a program in New York called ACE [2] which guides homeless people from the street to a job to eventually subsidized rent or a temporary free place to live. Every year they move a couple thousand individuals out of poverty. It's worth watching some of their success stories. All it will do is resonate the point I've been making this entire time - homelessness is an incredibly complex problem and the strategy of 'free houses for anyone who asks' is misguided, expensive, and ultimately fruitless. I don't doubt it works for some, but for others, it's at best an incredibly expensive band-aid, and at worst a point of enablement of their already destructive behaviour.

I've seen it remarked before on this site that the real solution to the Fermi Paradox is that every other intelligent civilization in the universe is forever held back because of its need to provide for its members that have collectively decided they no longer feel like contributing. In the words of Ned Flanders, "taxes pay for trees, sunshine, policemen, and the folks who just don't feel like working - god bless 'em!"

[1] https://www.dare2bnyc.org/showers
[2] https://acenewyork.org/
Cats isn’t opera of course. And when you do see pop culture musicals in opera houses that part of the operation is almost certainly profitable and helping to subsidize the rest.
Yikes. I can't believe this and the responses all agree.

There are two things at play here:

The reality of what happens is that devs with limited experience are asked to do things far outside their comfort zone because they aren't staffed enough. This isn't on the dev, it's on the company and a reality when it comes to growth. People make mistakes.

The second thing is that the databases themselves should be secure by default but are not. That's on the developers of that software. DBs should require setting strong passwords on creation.

Aws should also warn users about exposing these services directly to the outside world instead of just within the vpc.
I agree too! I also love Remix! These use React under the hood.
New Secret Service report details growing incel terrorism threat
CIA is basically an "economic interests" vector, right? This really meshes, your statement about using the big corporates as state instruments on the sly. (I guess that's not all that different to Chinese 'state owned' enterprises. They're just more overt. West operates more covert and deceptive. A continuation of a trend, heh :))

What's your thinking about the second-order effects, larger ramifications of this?
It's likely because that's where "Wordle" used to be hosted before it moved to NYT
JavaFx is dead?
Not to mention so far most causes of Russian armor loss was not caused by motolovs but by actual AT weaponry. Not one case of Molotov damaged tank that I am aware of. Related to statistical armor, it only woks on RPG fired and I picked off of some subreddit the following article that explains how it is supposed to work: https://www.tanknology.co.uk/post/statistical-armour
My guess is that people who juggle multiple browsers and who want actively want a null default are nonexistent but the people who are confused when opening links after installing a second app that works as a http handler changing the flow are.
This comment clearly written by someone who has never tried a hallucinogen.

There are drugs that could render people docile enough to be "gently shepherded"... But not these ones.

A high dose administered in a war zone could lead to permanent psychosis in thousands of people, however.

Overall, using these kind of drugs in war would be wildly unpredictable, probably very ineffective, and would be considered a chemical attack, probably.
Well, it's a great way to try to force web developers (who must make it work on Android Chrome) to either buy extra devices or be unable to use the default of their choice. And if you can get the developers to default to Chrome, that's good for reinforcing "chrome first" development.

Edit: Apparently I misunderstood the imposition (see the response chain below). Seems benign but annoying for power users.
Are you putting Haskell and Rust in the same category when it comes to likely future adoption? They seem very different to me - Haskell being unlikely to get much more traction, and the opposite for Rust.
Sure, if you compare it to some of the worst decades on record. But I don't think our standard of success for public safety should be, "Well, it could be worse".
I like this. We also strongly suggest that engineers do PRs first thing in the day. This has the benefit of minimizing interruptions, and a daily cadence to PRs is typically pretty good. Basically, interrupting your work to do PRs is generally bad. So that basically leaves the beginning of the day, right after a big interruption. (we try to not be religious about this though)
This is great for people who have early Ryzen CPUs and want a straight forward upgrade.

I am currently on x370 so I have to jump to AM5 whenever I upgrade.
If China starts trading with Russia using the Yuan it's going to have to buy a ton of USD and other currencies to keep the artificially low Yuan peg[1] going. I don't think the USD is going to lose power in this scenario.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex/030616/why-chine...
Did you see the NFL's settlement with the Rams over that move? It was something like $1 billion. You may have been screwed with the football Cardinals but I think St. Louis got a nice return on investment from that settlement with the Rams.
That only applied to the browser, calendar (and maybe the mail app, but I think that was always overridable), but this has changed now so you can choose default apps for all Apple built-ins.

Most Apps seem to implement their own in-app browser (LinkedIn, Apollo) too.
Pretty much. People are gonna find ways to write atrocious Rust code just like they have with any other language, and no-one is gonna bother to check all the unsafe blocks. Severe bugs may be less prevalent, but life as a a developer will suck just as much. :)
This is highly dependent on where you live. For example there are pretty much no bootlocked phones in Finland
And here's what the inside looks like: https://twitter.com/CAT_UXO/status/1502936526346465280
AND have started the mechanisms to bring bitcoin transactions under these laws. It started (in the US) with the IRS taxing bitcoins as they would material wealth.

And why wouldn't they?
In the last ten years (ever since The Incident) I can think of exactly one problem that seemed to require an arrows-and-boxes picture. It's the dependency graph for a project. I generate the picture from a Makefile.

Nobody actually uses the picture. We only work on one program in that system at a time, and all we need to know are its local inputs and outputs. The Makefile ensures there are no cycles.

It is admittedly somewhat unsatisfying to be unable to grok the whole thing at once. But that's the nature of almost everything in life.
> Arm is planning to cut up to 15% of its workforce, the UK computer chipmaker has said, just over a month after the collapse of its $40bn (£30bn) sale to its US rival Nvidia.

But then below:

> SoftBank said at the time it would revert to its backup plan of an initial public offering to cash in on Arm, and was to receive a $1.25bn break-up fee from Nvidia.

So SoftBank got $1.25 billion because nothing happened, and then they lay off 1,000 people. Classy.
They're small, unobtrusive, silent, low power, useful and fun.

I use a OrangePi Zero with 512MB of RAM [0] as a local DNS, webserver, torrent client and download box. It provides hostnames for devices at home, downloads my LibreOffice and Linux images, allows me to test small static webpages in a package no bigger than a literal match box.

It runs Debian based Armbian and is rock solid after updating it to Debian 11. It makes my life easier and helps me learn working with constrained systems which allows me to be better at my day job.

[0]: http://www.orangepi.org/orangepizero/
Well done! Has been an invaluable resource for front-end web development for at least a decade.
As a (casual) reader of several of the newsletters you maintain: Peter, hang in there, don't sell! :-D

For those who are not familiar (if that's possible), check out https://cooperpress.com/publications/

To your (& Balaji's) point - one of tried and true methods of customer acquisition for SaaS is content marketing, but it's a very long game and you need to have quality content. Acquiring a blog or a media company that already has that has clear ROI.

DO already has a solid knowledge base of articles ("How to ... on Ubuntu Server" almost always leads to DO) but mostly for the back-end part of the stack. From that perspective, buying CSS-Tricks is not too surprising.
Arh... Thank You. I keep thinking about all the PR disaster with Mac and completely forgotten about iPhone CSAM.

Imagine what Russia would do with CSAM now.
Tanks with cages come from the southern districts. They are not intended against Javelins or NLAW. They are against UAV launched weapons and loitering munitions like Harop used in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and they probably work against those.

Slat armor is effective against HEAT rounds when the slat is the right size and right distance (slat must be hit before the warhead explodes). Those cages are too low for Javelins and probably against NLAW (top attack)
I have RGB memory that is really bright and light the whole room when lights are off. It was cheaper than a similar non-RGB when I purchased. Guess I will put same electric tape on it as I already did with everything else.
I think the defense from porn sites would be that you could apply this to a whole range of destructive behaviors, from self-harm, to stealing, to causing trauma in others (in fact this is considered an important factor in essentially all forms of abuse). Yes, people can use porn to destroy themselves. It's not the worst thing people do, by far. There's the occasional story of porn actually helping (you know, because money).

Why should you need to prove that you're doing porn shoots for the right reasons ... and not when buying anything even remotely sharp (which may be used for self-harm), or for private sex acts (so why shouldn't there be limits on buying condoms or lube or ...)?

And yet when we put it in ways that would really make a difference, like requiring when a teacher buys a "barely 18" magazine, the police gets notified. Or, in Europe, when buying or surfing to anything extreme-right (a BIG no-no for anyone in public office in many WW2 participant countries, Germany, France, Belgium, ...). That would be totally unacceptable, and yet would probably protect more people than porn regulations.

And, lastly, porn (and ...) is a way people survive. If you take it away you are taking away people's livelihoods, which will have strong negative consequences for them. Is homelessness better or worse than porn? Because all these "protect women" efforts are a bit like youth care: any careful look at the alternative will make you question if these people have the good of those women at heart.
My wife and I are planning for retirement and one of the super helpful things we started is using a budgeting app and diligently planning and then tracking every penny. I suspect you'll find a few areas you can cut back and also start putting away some amount each month.
Css-Tricks is an amazing site and its awesome that Chris and digital ocean were able to come together on this. Congrats to chris and their team
The performance would be bad because of no JIT, but the main issue it is that Apple requires WebKit usage:

> 2.5.6 Apps that browse the web must use the appropriate WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript.

> 4.7 HTML5 Games, Bots, etc. -> only use capabilities available in a standard WebKit view (e.g. it must open and run natively in Safari without modifications or additional software); and use WebKit and JavaScript Core to run third-party software and should not attempt to extend or expose native platform APIs to third-party software;

Now, I get their reasoning - if you did parse regular javascript and JIT was allowed (which would be required to prevent any anticompetitive remarks in terms of performance for these other engines), random pages could exploit those 3p browsers and extract information from the APIs they have access to.

But computers are complicated enough to where you probably couldn't explain to a layperson/congressperson the difference between iOS forcing developers to use their Window management APIs and iOS forcing developers to use their javascript APIs, so this is unlikely to change with regulatory force or anything of the sort.
They can sprinkle some tasteful adverts on the Flexbox article and make their money back in < 03 years.
Who said "less with USA". Do you think USA will cut trade with china/india just in spite? Without imports &cheap labour from there, USA'd be back in progress by a few decades as we do not manufacture much here anymore.
IMO we probably would be better off not funding any of it. Entertainment talent would be better allocated according to ticket sales than political prestige.
Genuinely, I wish there was unbiased reports. I know it's a war, so troop movements and outcomes from skirmishes and battles are not going to be a thing, but.

I want an overview of what is happening and how it's going. Again, so do they, and I get that. But the propaganda is hard to sift through.

That being said, the 'Russians are so incompetent' memes are very amusing.
Show HN: Cryptography Puzzle Game for Geeks
TLDR: I'm building a cryptography puzzle game. Try it out at: https://clujhunt.com/ciphers

Hey, HN!

I'm Tudor and I'm working on a puzzle game where you solve increasingly difficult ciphers using a custom coded decryption tool that should make the process more enjoyable.
After you solve each puzzle, you are rewarded with pieces of a story about a cryptography enthusiast, set in 1930s Germany.

The hardest part of this project was building the accompanying decryption tool. I wanted it to be mobile-friendly and it’s the part I iterated on the most, after receiving feedback from friends and early testers.

You can play the game here: https://clujhunt.com/ciphers

For those who don’t feel like playing the game, I made a 2-minute video demo of the decryption tool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vENHCt25P4M

Disclaimer: There is a $5 paywall after you finish the second puzzle. I don't expect to make money off it at this early stage. Instead, I use the paywall to measure what percentage of people are actually interested in this type of game.

Any feedback would be much appreciated and valuable, just leave a comment, I'll be happy to chat . If you prefer email, my address is: sendtudor@gmail.com

Thanks :)
Tudor
This comment is clearly written by someone who has never admitted to being wrong, or never encountered someone who had a different experience to what they understood or assumed ;).

I've done psyilocybin. Multiple times (where it's 'legal', in Amsterdam). And majored in Chemistry XD

I agree, the, er, details (heh) would need to be worked out. You sound like you like to sound like you know what you talk about with hallucinogens, care to suggest a good compound, huh? :)

edit: I love how I'm pushing back against the arrogant counter factual mis assumption / ad hominem in the parent, but I'm the one who gets downvoted. Anyone want to share a view on why?
Well you just forced me into old Reddit. Why do people like that clunky interface?
Worth mentioning that other than a few tax subsidies the Inglewood stadium was built with private money.
Scotch.io redirects to Digital Ocean Community site when I checked just now. I imagine a big reason it was acquired for the sweet domain authority for SEO.

You can see that Scotch.io was dying off in traffic [1] - I would assume it wasn't getting new content regularly enough. The domain is pretty powerful, so even pushing some traffic to Better.dev [2] via 301's would have helped both sites out.

I imagine better.dev would have agreed to promote DO and put some links on their top pages to give the DigitalOcean domain even more SEO power.

[1] - https://imgur.com/a/ashZPDa
[2] - https://imgur.com/a/Wd9kzJt
That would be against the Geneva convention, probably under poisonous gas.
You don't really end up fighting the borrow checker after a while. At that point it approaches the ergonomics of managed languages, and particularly it's ML roots really shine.
not aware of anything universal. There are SMS-based services for lots of things, but less in the context of "UI for my own things".

in lots of ways, it's console UI with additional length limits I guess? Or chatbot-UI.
A lot of outsourcing decisions seem to be made on the premise of "what if it breaks?" It's a terrible fallacy.

Your wafer saw (or server) that is utilized 1% of the time is going to need a lot less maintenance than a shared wafer saw that is used 16 hours a day. You will actually experience a lot less downtime by investing in your own wafer saw (or your own servers) rather than outsourcing (to a foundry or a cloud provider).

I think the real draw of outsourcing is diffusion of responsibility: when it breaks, you can blame someone else.
You need to make more than you spend. Your comp is very low so you need to change jobs to get your comp closer to where it should be. Not much else to say on this. Start leetcoding and polish your resume.

Edit: Yes, $110k for a tech employee with 12 YOE in a HCOL area is very very low. You don't need to work at FAANG to make significantly more than this (see levels.fyi for many examples). The existence of poor people living on less does not change this fact or mean the OP shouldn't strive to be compensated at a level appropriate to their experience.
I read the part that was viewable without a subscription, which we can fairly safely guess is all that most people will read. I realize that they have limited space for content in the "free" part of the article, but to leave it as one-sided as that doesn't give me a lot of faith that the rest of the reporting is any more substantive.
> For most things that you can do with Nix, there's a quicker + dirtier approach already.

If you do very typical things that are within the sweet spot of the quick and dirty solutions, you'll likely see nix as redundant.

If for some reason, the quick and dirty solutions always seem to break for you you'll grow to love nix and likely NixOS.
Backstory:

Initially, I built a 2-hour treasure hunt with physical puzzles and real locations throughout my home city. Similar to an escape room, but outside. I had about 30 teams of 4-5 people that tried that, and most of them enjoyed the experience.

After the pandemic hit, I wanted to see which part of the experience was the most important: puzzles, story, physical objects, real locations or the social aspect. So this game is an experiment to see if people enjoy only a subset of those.

The cryptography puzzles came as an idea after rereading Simon Singh’s: “The Code Book”. Decrypting ciphers is super fun, but solving them on paper is a bit tedious.
I read somewhere, and this guy was talking about how if you want your house to sell for more, invest in everything you physically touch. High quality doorknobs, faucets, and light switches have a marked impact on our unconscious valuation of a house.
Yes, tickets with no context are trouble waiting to happen, as everyone will come out of the meeting with their own understanding of what needs to be done.

The real problem is not having documented the necessary context to understand the ticket.
I'm not saying they aren't being called "cope cages", I'm saying it sounds, eh, sophomoric to put that in the leading paragraphs of an article.
In theory yes, in practice, no. Here in New York people aren't reprimanded for petty theft anymore, and even if they are, they're not usually charged.

The Yonkers man who brutally beat a 67yo Asian woman [1] had already been arrested 14 times. Only now, after they beat a harmless elder half to death for no reason, will they see any level of punishment.

[1] https://pix11.com/news/local-news/northern-suburbs/yonkers-m...
Your advice is great for fairly financially savvy individuals, but most of us are not especially financially savvy. For the vast majority of people simple, albeit less than perfect, advice is much better than really good, but complex, advice.
> you often have to have your own experts anyway.

+1 on this

IME the most successful outsourcing arrangements revolve around scale of work, not substituting an entire department. Keeping the amount of in-house experts lean and having them manage outsourced resources. So it is more of a tool for someone internal who has the needs organized rather than a dependency on a 3rd party to know what is best for you
Great reference, thanks!!! :) I bet the CIA FOIA reading room may have some other interesting data, asides from the shameful MK*** stuff. But perhaps not as relevant as military applications...if only DIA (or the competent authority) had a FOIA reading room that was as good...
I was convinced these guys were really going to change the world. Still bummed they couldn't pull it off. Seems like they forgot that people don't like to smell bad smells.
arkenfox advises against NoScript.
Because you can't control who gets hit. Sometimes the wind will blow it back in your face and so you do no harm the the enemy, and your own people (anyone who didn't have a gas mask properly on - note that this can be people miles away that you didn't inform) are hit. When you need to wear protection and the enemy doesn't is a big advantage for the enemy.

Have you ever worn a gas mask? They are worse than the n95 masks people object to wearing for COVID. They really are hard to breath in.

No modern army wants to use chemical weapons because they don't get enough control. The times when it backfires are common enough that you can always find a better tool for war.