skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it's not really being "hard on myself." It's just a rather humorous reflection on me (and on others). One of the things that young folks do, is take themselves way too seriously. After we get some wrinkles and gray hair, we come to realize that a lot of life is paper tigers. There's plenty of stuff that needs to be taken quite seriously, but time allows us to apply a razor; cutting away the chaff.

Also, some of the best lessons I learned, were from ass-kickings.

"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment."

--Attributed to Nasrudin, but I read it from Will Rogers

Everything has worked out, the way it needed to, in order to bring me to where I am now.

I have no regrets, but I do get a chuckle or two, from reflection.
Only partially: Rejecting the request won't get you killed. You also have the option to close your company to avoid jail, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit as a good case study.

Thus, I would prefer the US to China in this regard.
My Tai Chi mentor faces us and lifts her left arm. Most of us lift our right arm. I lift my left arm. "It does not matter" She said. "Show intention" She reminds us.
"In September 2021, a spokesperson denied that the organization had conducted the research on the deadly MERS virus that was described in the NIH proposal. After documents obtained via FOIA later showed that such research had in fact been done, Daszak stated that the spokesperson had been misinformed."

I think that in the future, Daszak will be on a list of names along with Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot. I'm actually amazed he's still breathing air.
Vim Is Easy
FirmWire is a full-system baseband firmware emulation platform
Hong Kong was never really independent hence the lack of a war there. It was part of China, then a British colony, then returned to China.
> Arguably the strongest female chess player of all time

More than arguably. Judit is beyond any doubt the strongest female of all time, by a long way. Her sisters also weren't bad, Susan becoming women's world champion. Judit was so good she never bothered playing for the women's title. Hou Yifan, the second strongest female of all time, women's world champion at age 16, is ranked about #90 in the world. Judit was #8.
Well, Shackleton must have been a heck of a guy to live the life he lived.

On the Endurance expedition, however, his treatment of Harry 'Chippy' McNish [0], who performed the modifications to the lifeboat James Caird, which was then used to travel across open sea to travel to South Georgia island, and the crew's subsequent rescue, was not a proud moment for Shackleton. In particular, his lack of recommendation regarding the Polar Medal for McNish looks particularly petty in hindsight. But I wasn't there, and I suspect that both Shackleton and McNish were better men than I.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_McNish
Are you sure you aren’t just remembering fondly movies you saw when you were younger? Both those scenes are huge tropes/clichés.
What of the countless presentations that were improved by doing video content properly? I can easily think of examples in both directions.

It also depends a little on context: I had in mind and was referring to user-driven media (which is fairly clearly the context here). If you’re presenting something to an audience that is at your mercy (which seems to be more what you’re talking about), then the situation is indeed a bit different—though a pause button and scrub bar are still likely to be a good investment.
I can't understand how this can be compatible with western liberal values.

Even floating this idea in an informal not binding way will do damage to the reputation of who is criticizing an authoritarian state. How can any benefit offset an own goal of this magnitude?

If they are doing something wrong, file a formal lawsuit etc, but removing from search results? Seriously?
A perfect situation for Hanlon's razor...

Is this stuff not par for the course? Everything hardware/embedded in my experience is like a decade or two behind the current norms for c/c++ programming. What I never understood from that audit, was this code quality unusual? I didn't get the sense they audit European and American companies - so sure they looked at the source and said "lol your code sucks" but there was no baseline for comparison

But it sounds like you know the situation better - maybe you have better context. I've been curious to know from someone more familiar with the subject
I worked for a while with a guy who'd worked at the BBC for many years.

His reasoning for why movies are more boring was simple: money.

A production team is looking to distribute their movie in as many channels as possible, and with the broadest appeal possible. As a result, you see a film made with the broad strokes but lacking in subtlety. If a film might be challenging because of the subject matter, the complexity of the dialogue, the character development, or the plot then it gets dialled back.

You lose the specific cultural references that give a film it's charm and it ends up not really being a true reflection of any people anywhere - just easy Friday night cinema fodder that maximises return on investment.

A movie sucks because it isn't art any more.
Interface most of the time is going to be a dedicated modem for whatever uplink you have, unless you already get Ethernet directly. Depending on your specific situation, you might have to use whatever the ISP gives you and set it to play as dumb as possible.
IME small ARM SBCs generally have a miserably slow bus arrangement for this sort of thing (and no hardware switch chip, of course). People have had some success with routers built on x86 mini-PCs[1], but these lean towards the “flexible and performant” side, not the cheap side.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/04/the-ars-guide-to-bui...
Of course, CHERI faces very different challenges than MTE does ;)
>Is that depredation measurable in any way?

Not that I know of. It's just an observation that our group of about 15 people agreed on. These were movies that were used a lot (pr0n) and were visibly getting worse (banding, tracking, wear, etc.), not just sitting on a shelf. We would also share them with each other through the mail and use the GoVideo dubbing decks that we all had to make copies. This was for alt.binaries.movies.erotica and associated newsgroups. Probably TMI :)
This is a good point. Probably most people are not aware of the country of origin of most of the tech products (resp forna given product, how many important, modular subparts come from Chinese companies).

It would be highly interesting if there would be a website where you could type in the name of a product (e.g. sime Cisco) router and it would give you a detailed decomposition of where and by whom is parts where made.
Something like (highly simplified) :
- CPU design: Company X
- CPU manufacturing: Company
- RAM design and manufacturing: Company Z
- Overall remaining logic: Cisco
Some of mine:

* A program to monitor a webcam aimed at a bird house to see if any bird occupies it

* A program to periodically send a 10 Hz tone to prevent my speakers from falling asleep, so that I don't miss the first part of a Teams call

* A program to monitor a MiFlora humidity sensor to alert me when my plants need watering

* A program to estimate number of cars and their speed in my street from a webcam

* A program to sync a subtitle with correct timing with a subtitle in the correct language

All hacked together Python scripts; I'm not a programmer
If you're on DSL, the DLink DM200 has an integrated adsl/vdsl modem that's supported by OpenWRT, and the platform is quite powerful. You'll need a second device for wifi though but that suits my use case.

If you want a dedicated OpenWRT device Mikrotik would be my suggestion.
There's always the more modern and enlightened way of doing thing of having something like a Chinese Union like the European Union with free trade and the like but separate governments. I'm hoping the mess in Ukraine encourages the Chinese to look to more peaceful options.
I'm self-taught (for the most part, but I have taken many, many seminars, bootcamps, tech dumps, etc., over the years).

I've done OK.
I think things are too different today to make comparisons like that.

In the last 50 years, our collective knowledge has grown at a pace that is incomparable to other periods of time. Something that falls out of that is that the open problems in a particular field are much more difficult to solve.

It is also true that the knowledge is much more widespread. For instance, many CS undergrads are expected to learn game theory. What was once an advanced topic is now just part of the curriculum.

Basically the common denominator has risen in a way that is much more difficult for a single mind to seem comparatively impressive.
Readable link on mobile: https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/tbthjj/psa_newer_...
The Sun-Spot Panic of 1816
There was a lot of trope in those movies, but I think we'll look back at today's bad movies as 99% trope. It's just we don't see the tropes so clearly right now without a little distance.
Pro bono is not Latin for "free," it is Latin for "for good."

If it matters, hire a lawyer because what matters is whether you are sued, not whether the law favors your case.
With ublock origin. DNS level ad blocking is rubbish and mostly circumvented by providers now.
Do you know what fascist means? Or are we just going to use that word for everything that we find unappealing now?

Would love for you to define it, and explain how it applies to American nostalgia for older classic movies that are a foundation of our pop culture.
TP-Link became a big no-go for me as soon as ax came out and I saw that they required account registration[0] for managing a personal, local router. Probably has to do with the fact that they're not western-owned and are 'legally required' to have such a system in order to be covered from 'borrowing' your data. I expect other vendors(Huawei,etc) to do the same, and it's insane that people don't revolt against such practices, especially considering we still have such vendors being installed by default in people's homes by the ISPs.And whilst a router is replaceable by the end user, something like an ONT is harder to find in most places, and the ISP doesn't usually give config details for an ONT.

[0] Edit: An online account for the mobile application, not the web interface of the router itself.
>The BBC is the best media service in existence

Hyperbolic claim, so I will ignore it.

>it is generally more free of bias than any other available source, especially when covering international matters.

I disagree, especially when the British have an interest in the outcome of an international situation.
A more reasonable demand would be to have a warning sign for government propaganda websites, without that affecting ranking. Search engines and video hosting platforms like YouTube aren't the same. The first aims to be an index of all the information available on the internet, akin to "the eyes of the internet". When a search engine censors content, we lose sight of our surroundings. The second (e.g YT) hosts the content itself and is more akin to a hotel, in which case there is no expectation that it should host any given content.
From the article:

> End your lines at between 60 and 75 characters,
or so. (There's a reason[3] that newspapers and magazines
do not use the whole width of their page and instead create
much shorter columns.)

The author forgot that the reason is that newspapers and magazines control the medium on which their text will be read, and know how wide the reader's page is.

There's nothing more annoying in the programmer's world than the assumption that the reader will prefer to read prose in monospaced font, in an area that's 80 characters wide.
This varies by jurisdiction. In Washington State, cycling drunk is legal.
Is it wrong? I’ve only got my experiences to go by and I absolutely hate this social foreplay bollocks

ADHD inattentive for context, I just know you’re gonna come off looking like an ass if you force this sort of thing on anyone outside of a 2004 IRC channel
I’ve been very happy with my credit union. Just saying.
The problem here is that the difficulty of storing spent fuel isn't so much a function of its mass, it's a function of its heat production. The latter is what limits how much waste you can put into a geological repository. Separating out the 238U (which will still have to be handled carefully unless it is extremely clean of shorter lived isotopes) will not reduce the heat production of the remaining waste significantly.

The French have admitted their reprocessing doesn't save money vs. just disposing of spent fuel directly.
Even English doesn't fit in ASCII! English is often used as the justification for ASCII—by technical types anyway. To use “only plain ASCII text” would mean constraining oneself (no dashes or paired quotation marks, for example). Many English loanwords are accented (outré or soupçon) as are some personal names (Zoë). Some uses of italics are considered mandatory even beyond emphasis, such as when writing the title of a work (The Art of Plain Text).

Restraining the textual representation of English to ASCII due to imaginary technical limitations is ridiculous.
Consume Web and Node.js streams using async/await
With enough mistakes, why would anyone bother to install a back door? That costs money, and reduces deniability.
CNN and BBC are also debunked or misreport frequently and Russia didn't rush to ban them

If RT lied it would have gone to due process

It was a clear political decision to ban TV channel, online channels, and now search engine result. Coordinated between EU/UK/US leaders

https://observers.france24.com/en/europe/20220301-video-debu...
Almost all "independent" or not media sources reported the tank being Russian and most still do
... and I don't get your point in this useless pedantry? Sure that the data in of itself is not sent, but you seemed to imply that DNS queries don't reveal anything. In practice, you can build a good enough picture to decode what's their interests, what type of places they visit etc., which is worrying of itself. It's like saying to not worry because they didn't know you ordered a Big Mac while the fact that you went to McDonald's is being known is already creepy to a lot of people.
Congrats to everybody contributing to YCombinator and HN success :)
To be honest most "full-time" IT jobs I've held were already never full-time, effectively only requiring 15-32 hours a week.

Why take reduced pay for reduced hours when I'm already getting full pay for reduced hours.
The same goes for any platform. Inexperience is a state of mind, not a system feature.
So I had to click through a link to find out you’re ok with, but prefer not to get, naked pings. Naked pings I had to click through a further link to find the full definition assuming I didn’t know what you were talking about

And I’m not even trying to ask you a question! See how much faff this sort of thing is?

If people doing that is non-facetiously testing your sanity, don’t set yourself on fire to keep someone else warm, stop helping people!
As it happens, I was watching a foreign film (Italian) last night with english subtitles but the dialogue was also muffled and I found it just as difficult to watch.
The first time you see a huge trope or cliche, its not actually a huge trope or cliche because to you its new and you get the full impact of whatever it is.

Its only over time that you get the "I know this situation", "I've been here before" possibly reaching the point of not wanting it again because you're oversaturated with said trope/cliche and now recognise them as such.

But the first ones stick with you and you remember them differently to the others.
Just wanted to summarize the challenges faced by today’s web browser.

The only way to survive a BGP hijack intact is also a deal breaker for today’s typical common web browser.

Web browsers do not bother with DNSSEC (which remains quite very relevant despite what the article doesn’t says.

It is true that this particular BGP hijack doesn’t change your endpoints’ DNS records (such as A, AAAA, PTR, NS, MX). But this attack did not attempt to fake the DNS CAA at all, which would have protect web browsers; Faking CAA record was not needed then, but it will be leverage next. So DNSSEC, being secured as they are now however is not culpable there nor would they ever be. It is only the DNSSEC-unprotected CAA record that will be the next target.

The Culpability is the malicious PKI substitution which occurred during that event is the fault of web browser, but it is NOT the fault of the TLS protocol, nor HTTP; web browser is guilty. It is the design of using TLS function calls by the application. TLS API, while makes heavy use of PKI certificates, leaves out PKI management to the “other people’s problem” category. TLS protocol and its API is not the problem, they still work as designed.

PKI management is the problem. By direct user experience, web browser is also the problem.

However … your data still can survive a BGP hijack (DNS or not) as intact and securely so if your use case for B2B calls for a secured endpoint using HTTPS/mTLS that has the following aspects:

- use a pair of server and client PKI and its public key stored on opposite ends for use with mTLS (mutual two-way server/client TLS)

- DNSSEC resolver on both ends configured in cacheless authoritative-only lookup mode (no forwarder) with the 13 Root Server key configured/compiled in.

- Deploy the DNS CAA record for your PKI and ensure that each of the chained PKI uses CAA and ensure that all that needed CAA are secured that under DNSSEC

- your endpoint app properly use TLS/SSL function calls AND verified the PKI chains but not before verifying DNSSEC-only DNS queries needed for chain validation.

It remains arguable that given above, one can still use a 3rd party intermediate CA to sign your intermediate CA in which to deploy your needed PKIs for your endpoints. I am now asserting that if you separate your server PKI and client PKI to each of two different vendors, you should get a pretty good security provided that you figured out your own PKI distribution securely and that your own intermediate CA PKI is also imprinted into your app’s own mTLS.

That summary should help your data survive a BGP hijack in your “B2B”pipeline.

A bit safer than IPSec.

Thank you.
The original model where 1 big movie would pay for 6 break-even and 4 non-profitable movies :)

Too bad we may never return to that.
I've also seen GoT.
Netgear DM200 or one of the Fritz!Box devices if you want VDSL/DSL support.
Happy birthday, and thank you. Even though I have a bit of an HN addiction, it has helped me sound out a lot of different ideas and put them up for challenge in a way that would not been possible otherwise, and doing startup school in '18 was a significant personal and professional turning point. It's not just startups, users, and customers, you've enriched a lot of lives.

17 years seems like a long time, but looking back, it's not, and it's an example of how much all these things can grow. Cheers to another 17 years of finding and making things people want.
I use barrier daily between my two laptops it take everywhere. it's great, except I have two issues. you can it copy /paste images between the two. and you cannot select which monitor the mouse moves off of.

I find myself wanting to copy screenshots between the two constantly, and if you have two monitors stacked vertically, I can pick the bottom monitor to be the edge monitor to go to my other computer.

I wish barrier devs were more active devs but it still works great
ALL routers send my web traffic to 3rd party server I would hope. I don't have a router to access all the websites on my home network after all.

Joking ofc, this is pretty bad. Terrible coding in the best case, outright spying in the worst. Neither instills a lot of confidence in TP-link.
Russia concentrates military power for Kyiv assault
There are better distros with package managers that allow multiple variations of libc to live together.
> A perfect situation for Hanlon's razor...

I'm not at all suggesting that Huawei (or TP-Link, or anyone else) are actively attempting to subvert security systems or intentionally adding backdoors. In that sense it's probably right to conclude this is ignorance.

The problem is that an attacker, especially those with the backing of a nation state, can trivially attack those insecure supply chains and install backdoors or data exfiltration.

As for whether others are as bad, I think the sort of audit that was done on Huawei is done for other companies attempting to sell into that level. These audits are not really about looking at the code – sometimes they do, but you're never going to get a useful security audit of 10s-100s of millions of lines of code. They're more about the security posture of these companies, and in that way, Huawei failed.

I do expect that Cisco, HP, other network hardware vendors are better at this. Do they still have crap code? Sure. Do they still have security vulnerabilities? Of course. Could a nation state still get a backdoor in? Probably. But would it be significantly harder to do, easier to detect, and easier to resolve? Yes, and that makes them better suited to critical infrastructure.
All but one.
A response to your edit, I was on a zoom call with current musical editors / producers and that is 100% part of the problem. Many of today's actors /actresses almost mumble their lines and make it absolute hell for the audio people to pick them up, whereas theatre trained individuals were loud and enunciate the crap out of everything.
How much of “why modern X sucks” is attributable to survivorship bias? There were plenty of horrible movies/music/art/etc. made in years past; today, we only watch and remember the ones that were good enough to survive the test of time.
True, American Graffiti was pivotal in him getting the shot he did. What I am saying is I don't think that plays out the same way today given movie budgets, you can't just have one person like one film you made and force through the production budget of a AAA film anymore.
Agreed. The journal.ie did a very good, easy to read a analysis on the stats in terms where the headline stat comes from, but then breaks it down fairly for similar job, similar experience, etc.
https://www.thejournal.ie/gender-pay-gap-ireland-statistics-...
I setup cloudflare zero trust and started pointing my AC4000 to it, let's see what happens.
This is why for home and small office use, I usually get AVM Fritz [1] network devices. They have been around for since forever, provide regular updates for their devices and over a long period. Their web interface allows for a lot of fine-grained configuration and their devices have been rock solid for me. They are a German company and as far as I know software development is also done in Germany, so I expect that they operate within the relatively strict privacy regulations of the EU.

[1] https://en.avm.de
I agree with the box office movie theater experience, and yet movies as a whole still allow the offshoots. You cant find them in theaters, but you can fine them on streaming services.
Also remember that Hennesey is a convicted criminal, horrible person and not to be trusted with your money.
Quite often, that doesn't end up very efficient, because without "restrict", the result has to be identical to what it would be if it was copied byte by byte, for all possible overlaps of the two inputs.
Tools and Techniques for Automated Software Debugging, by Andreas Zeller
That's something that ARM explicitly use as a selling point to attract people to license their designs.

https://www.arm.com/technologies/custom-instructions
The Rise and Fall of the Management Visionary Behind Zappos
Money has always been there, I think it’s really more about connectedness. Audience sizes have exploded as population has grown and cultures have become more connected due to globalization and the Internet, so the TAM has exploded and led to the watering down of…everything, from movies to games to news & politics.
I mean, I get it, but Avira is a German company.