skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in January 2000 I set up an Atari 800 as a web server with a 3com CS-210 terminal server as the TCP interface.

The Atari had no problems keeping up with several requests per second even after being Slashdotted since all of the expensive TCP stuff was offloaded.

There was a 16-bit hit counter on the page that overflowed and the CS-210 would crash after a day or so but otherwise it worked surprisingly well.

https://kevinloch.com/atari/
Maxwell attended the Edinburgh Academy which wasn't even the best school in town <ducks>. Then he went on to attend the local university. There doesn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about his educational background. He did come from a wealthy family though.
Muons can do something similar, and it has the effect of reducing the effective radius of the atom, which can catalyze fusion.

Which makes me wonder… is antiproton catalyzed fusion a thing? Does the antiproton last long enough? Muons are inefficient to produce. Can antiprotons be made significantly more efficiently?
Tried v1 two years ago. Even purchased an year subscription. Send some bug issues, feature requests. Got reply in 3 months, at which point I was back on Sublime Text 4 and IntelliJ.
That's of course purely anecdotal, but recently I explored static site generators.

One of these was Hugo(written in go, which is pretty young ecosystem, I'm not very familiar with). Everything was pretty straight forward.

Other one was Gatsby v4 (seems like pretty mature JS project). Oh boy.

Docs suggest multiple ways to initialize new project, depending which page you open and without clear explanation of the difference. NPM will download ungodly amount of dependencies and then inform you happily, that you have 16 critical vulnerabilities. Plugins tend to create dependency hell.

In general each time I try to do something with JS I end up debugging issues that require some arcane knowledge, filtering outdated docs and dealing with general flakiness of everything.

While I get, that on frontend it might be hard to avoid, I don't get why someone does it to themselves, when having other options (purely subjective opinion - I spend most time on backend, so I'm probably biased).
In case anybody is interested, there's a very good explanation of some language-related political subtleties in https://blog.duolingo.com/ukraine-language/
I’m on the free plan at the moment, and it’s pretty neat, but I’d actually be willing to pay for a self-hosted version :P (But I guess the existence of such an option might tempt some paying enterprise customers to attempt self-hosting instead?)

(I’m aware of headscale as an open-source control plane, but the iOS client is still closed-source and hard-coded to only use the first-party control plane :( )
For me it’s the opposite: I actually don’t mind paying for a great product such as Tailscale (which I really like), but have security and privacy concerns!

Mesh VPNs have substantial control over networks that they manage (they bypass firewalls by having users instal agents from within). They could add hidden nodes to networks, which is a major security concern, and see who is taking to who, how long, what service they are running, etc, which can be a privacy concern. They are targets.

Is there a way to address these concerns, and make them “really” (not just on website) zero trust or at least minimal trust? Will Wireguard preshared keys as an option help (a maliciously added public key lacks a secret key exchanged among peers out of band)?

What are the implications of the substantial control that Tailscale has?

Or we have no way, but to trust someone? Looking at events of the past decade, I don’t have a good feeling about this!
Not much of an analysis here.

The author mentions one study.

They do not compare the health consequences of a naturally derived ingredient (nitrates from celery) vs an industrial-scale produced one (sodium nitrate-- basically, salt-peter -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_nitrate).

I'll take celery over salt peter any day.

This article is not the least bit persuasive, and I wonder if the author has any industry-tilted biases, because the article seems bias, as summarized with: "hey don't worry about salt-peter! celery-nitrates are just as bad!"
No, I was wrong.. I've looked at the code of a Linux RDP server before (to identify an issue), and it was block pushing so I assumed this was also the case on Windows. But magicalhippo above corrected me. I didn't know about the GDI calls thing.
There is actually no contradiction there. You want to be indispensable for the position you wish you have, and dispensable for any position you don't wish.

If your interests change, your dispensability should change with it. But this is very hard to achieve, so you get a complex goal of optimizing for many things at the same time.
It hasn't even launched. It just got submitted to HN by some rando, not the dev.
A great deal of Amazon's store has moved from the old "customer obsession" principle of the early years to a new principle of "revenue obsession."

Brad Stone's second book about Amazon ("Amazon Unbound") does a refreshingly candid and detailed job of explaining how this switch happened. It's tucked away in Chapter 10, I believe, and it never got as much media pickup as I would have expected.

For me, at least, grasping the extent of this transformation made it a lot easier to understand what I kept encountering.
Mataroa Just Works for Me
I'll probably have to look at this GTM3.0 ideal. I've found, that in the general case, it is fine to underprovision and just let stuff fall over, if no one is paying. I'll get around to fixing it eventually, even if no one alerts me. One of my goal projects is to have a 1U racked in Los Angeles or Dallas that's hiding 8-12 raspberry pi or intel celeron/atoms inside of it, including a pair of switches and all the redundant PSU you can shove in there. A nice "NAS" device for cold storage would be awesome, too.

I run a pastebin server using the legacy t1.micro AWS instance - or even less, i run it on lightsail now. upon reboot, it sets up ~250MB of tmpfs, unzips the actual server code - nodejs in this instance - to tmpfs, and sets the data directory in tmpfs as well. The only way it could cost me a ton of money is someone maliciously requesting the same paste from thousands of remote machines, but my understanding is amazon would reverse the charges, and i'd probably just not run the service anymore. I can almost as easily paste and link stuff using mattermost - except full-frame images from one of my cellphones, which i can't figure out! there's no setting to allow larger format images anywhere in the configs. So i'd be out a few dollars, know that someone had it out for me or one of my anonymous users, and just walk away.

I would miss being able to upload obscenely large (108MP) images and pinch zoom them forever, which is a quirk of the pastebin software i chose.
I sometimes wonder if in the near future we'd have programming historians to dig up old brilliant but forgotten ideas, which were not feasible back then, but might add value now with our new computing capabilities.
The problem with sec. 230 is it doesn't block that stuff, plus it lets people block this stuff with no consequences. That's terrible.

It's not like the problems with FOSTA weren't clearly predicted before it happened: there were many precedents (e.g. the Backpage case). It was clearly a case of the squeaky gear getting the attention.
These people's Circadian rhythm get messed, and may not follow the same patterns as those who live in more balanced geographical areas, don't they?
Subnet routers?

https://tailscale.com/kb/1019/subnets/
Exactly. Tutoring is a huge advantage for your children if you can afford it. One area where you still see it is in music lessons. Any even moderately serious student of the piano or similar instruments learns in a tutoring type arrangement.

Those individuals who have the potential for groundbreaking genius, say the 4+ sigma crowd, simply cannot practicably be adequately served by group instruction if they are to reach their potential. It's up to us as a society to decide whether we want to treat our intellectual superiors as precious gifts that should be cherished or as affronts to our notions of equality and fairness. I fear we're leaning ever more toward the latter. It's too bad, because humanity is facing a number of problems that will probably require geniuses to solve.
Is this a viable/scalable method for setting up a multi tenant DB?
Has it disappeared entirely? "The children of the aristocracy" were very few. Do a few people receive that kind of education today? Elon Musk's children? Bill Gates' children? Some Saudi prince's children?

Note also that some of the people were "tutored" by their parents; homeschooling today could fill the same role.

And,

> So, where are all the Einsteins?

> The answer must lie in education somewhere.

That's a really glib dismissal of all other possible reasons, with almost no factual reason (or even argument) behind it.
Memoizing everything might be hurting more than helping your apps performance. I’ve built a few different apps with RN, the issues here might be specific to this project
I use it for a simple use case of connecting to my home assistant server from outside my network without having to open ports.

I just installed the tailscale app on my home assistant server (ubuntu) and then installed it on my iPhone. Then once they're both logged in I can use the IP address in the tailscale app to connect to the server from anywhere.

Like mentioned in the article it just works and is perfect just the way it is, for free. I don't need any extra features or improvements.
Tailscale reminds me of Fly.io; fantastic tech that "just works", run by people who know what they're doing and know how to write about it. What other companies belong in this all-too-exclusive cohort?
Don't commit your production secrets into source code. Isn't that like the first rule of security?

Maybe more companies should open source their code then they have to think of these things.
Actually, the opposite point: once you lend/borrow with interest, you are locked into a cycle of "conventional economic growth" that is extremely difficult to escape from.

The argument/debate described in TFA is that we may or do need to escape from this cycle; my point was that if Graeber's argument is correct, this is made all the more difficult by the presence of interest-bearing debt.
lol, this got way more attention than I expected.

> But a blog post? And someone shared it here? What were they thinking?

I honestly wasn't expecting anyone to care about my opinions but shared it here on the off-chance there would be an interesting discussion about PHP/C#. Though, it mostly just to seems to be people complaining about my opinions, so maybe that was a bad idea.
Commas must've been on sale when you made that sentence since you have an extra. That only cost me a fraction of a second to parse though so I survived the experience only slightly out of phase. That extra comma is a lot like clicking the X supplied in the pop-up on that article in that it takes a short second to get past it.
I use to run an uptime server (http://uptime.openacs.org) and a tiny url server (http://myturl.com) on an old SparcStation pizza box until 2006, when the final hard drive I was going to buy for the best finally dead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Resources_Conservation...

The "No-Till planting" campaigns of the 80's were about more than just selling Roundup(tm). Though they did a lot of that too.
Or pseudo-writers who get paid a pittance for stringing the same short, flattering phrases together, again and again. With a little practice, it gets easy to spot the repetitive cadence of the shills.
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You could run your own encryption on top of Tailscale; for web properties, you can use use Tailscale's HTTPS[0] via an ACME client (thus Tailscale doesn't see your HTTPS private keys) or SSH which is inherently encrypted and verified via host identification. For anything else I don't think you can manage it much, you've always had to trust your network operator for unencrypted/unverified traffic.

0: https://tailscale.com/kb/1153/enabling-https/
I think that referring to the incident as a "scandal involving data manipulation" is unfair. An independent review stated the following:

On the same day as the retraction, an independent report written by four physicists that was commissioned by TU Delft concluded there were no instances of data fabrication. “There was some degree of data selection in what was published,” says Patrick Lee from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was one of the authors of the report. “I don’t think this was done with malice. I think they were caught up at the excitement of the moment.” Lee notes that “some mistakes” were made by the team such as a calibration error, which they discovered after the publication of the paper. “They were aware of it and they came out with it without holding back anything,” says Lee. Indeed, Lee adds that he does not think that Microsoft is in trouble given its links to TU Delft. “It is a setback, but it should not derail the whole enterprise,” adds Lee.

https://physicsworld.com/a/retraction-of-nature-paper-puts-m... (March 2021)
My favorite conspiracy theory is that they do plan to add ads in the file explorer but only in 2-3 years. They leak it now so they get some flak but they just say "oh no we won't actually do it". Then when they actually roll it out people don't get as angry as the first time and they just leave it.
Having one user isn't really that bad of a limitation for a family, just share the login. Unless you want to prevent certain family members from accessing certain devices at a network level for some reason.
Yes - you run one or more Tailscale subnet routers instead of your existing concentrators, then slowly migrate to running Tailscale directly from new deployments at your convenience.

Running a subnet router is a matter of installing the Tailscale package on a server and authorizing it to route traffic to certain subnets over Tailscale.
But the statement itself essentially proves the thesis of the report.
The last time I developed in Ionic, I stumbled into problems when actually trying to DO things in the mobile platforms: Want to use the camera? you are limited to whatever "plugin" is available. Want to read from SSD ? you also have to integrate some plugin and pray that it works for your use case.

To me, it feels that Ionic is only good for the "minimum common denominator" of apps (a webpage, maaaybe with some storage), but once you move a bit from that path, you struggle a lot with half-baked plugins and "black boxes".

Oh, and the documentation... both for Ionic (which? cordova o capacitor?) and the plugins, it is SO bad. Also, the fact that Ionic is actually a for profit endeavour, and you will pretty soon hit a wall that you only can remove by paying.
Air isn’t made by human industry nor is it for sale, except for special cases like medical care and submarines etc., where it does in fact run short, but not because it’s cheap enough for one person to buy all of it.
And, amazingly after this post, it's still up.
Why music for Mali is political (and also amazing)
In my experience it is a bit of a mixed bag. The speed and "Mac feel" are great overall. It seems to work pretty well for the natively supported languages. Unfortunately the LSP support is nowhere near as good as VSCode and they seem to be slow to add features and fix bugs for LSP. This makes it a much worse editor for most languages.
> [...] I had to stop understanding [...] This was huge. I could legit say ‘I don’t know’ to all questions, and redirect people to the correct resource. If that resource didn’t exist, it was escalated to someone other than me.

This is called learning how to delegate. It's great that the author discovered it.

An alternative tactic people follow when they still like to know the details is to apply "strategic incompetence": https://www.google.com/search?q=strategic+incompetence
Airline food is indeed living the life while feeling the thrill of being close to other human beans.
I tried it and couldn't get into it, like opening files (command-p in VScode) didn't work as expected for me, and the file explorer wasn't there yet either. I'll check again in a couple years perhaps
Yet another manifest found in es5-ext: https://github.com/medikoo/es5-ext/issues/116
its not complicated - its quite simply dishonest. i guess its complicated whether it counts as fraud or not but if someone trusts amazon reviews in 2022 theyre not making good decisions anyways. heavily gamed, paid for, etc.

i bought a wifi card on amazon and it came with a note mentioning a $20 amazon gift card if left them a good review. i reported it to amazon and nothing happened - i dont think they even responded.

i go elsewhere for reviews because amazons are so gamed and untrustworthy.
Thought this was the Nova Launcher for Android.
It is a cool idea; however, the problem with most questions are not in the questions but in the context, or the lack of it. Unless the thrower can set up the proper context with a 500 word essay, which I am afraid most won't, it would be very hard for the catchers to provide the answer that the thrower is looking for.
> may be

Well there is a decisive response, the UN getting things done as usual.

But they say:

> To outside nations, Bachelet advises placing sanctions on Myanmar that will cut off the military's arms supply, cutting relationships with businesses tied to the Tatmadaw and providing long-term assistance to those fleeing the country.

Asking for sanctions implies they believe it is and are treading lightly.

But the fact that this post only has one (1) comment 4 hours later implies that no one cares, and those that do are also likely heavily focused on UKR right now.
ATA and IDE is the same thing. Usually CF cards will just work on adapters.
Re: "it's more than likely that all the individuals currently of Beethoven's absolute talent level are thought of as merely "extremely good", not "genius", precisely because they don't break away from the pack and individually dominate the field". But doesn't that imply we should see individuals heads and shoulders above Beethoven? If we see a lot of Beethoven's at the merely "extremely good" level where is(are) the one(s) at the next "genius" level???
This is bad for Lego. The don't like selling modern warfare toys and recalled an aircraft last minute because of this.

Also minifgs are under copyright so this knight get ugly.
i dont know man.... been using zerotier quietly for like last 2 years, never i remember i have had problems or anything messed up.

if i have to add a node, i install the app on the device, open the account, copy the code and authorize it and done. no config, ever.

can anyone tell me what is the difference between free account of zerotier and tailscale? the configuration, management, setup, ease, limits?

again, zerotier is set up once and forget. oh, no login on the clients as well, they are preconfigured because they use a key and that key gets verified in the client so no login issues even
It's sad how Amazon doesn't care about its flagship product line: book sales and the kindle. Just a low margin monopoly it maintains, thinking about other growth opportunities instead I guess.
Google is losing on being the best search engine. Mozilla is no longer making a great browser.

I am actually very hopeful for the next generation of hackers building things.

Cracks are starting to show in the massive walls of these large organizations.

I have a feeling soon we are going to have the next generation of wonderful companies and technologies and they won't be Google et al.

Apple still seem to be able to pull of great things such as the M1 but I wonder how much of that is TMSC.

Great time to be a venture capitalist who understands hackers.
My experience with trying to help open-source projects with design has been quite bad. Projects that most need design help are usually not sponsored by a company, a true contributor project. Design is opinionated, and for many projects it can be hard to find consensus. Much easier to find consensus around adding features.

Two very different examples: Blender and Audacity (pre-acquisition). Blender was able to pull off something spectacular with 2.8, a full rethink of UI, controls, even app structure. But Blender is basically a company, with full-time employees, it's just that their output is open-source. Audacity, as far as I know, didn't have full-time employees. And as it grew in features, it never had any significant UI cleanup. Menus just grew, icons were tacked on. It might change now that they have been acquired.
Exactly why I always click on the comment view BEFORE clicking on titles now... It's saved me from a lot of wasted time, drama, spam, viruses, and even undesired porn bait.

Don't reward bad behavior with a click.
Speed boost achievement unlocked on Docker Desktop 4.6 for Mac
I like how they call out that you can do this with a SaaS offering as long as you keep a handle on scaling costs with the hybrid architecture. Their system architecture enables their business model!

I see the same thing with $CURJOB, which has a downloadable, self-hostable fully featured solution. The operational dynamics are different (it is harder to convince folks to run software themselves than to sign up for a SaaS, all other things being equal) but the overall dynamic is the same: offer a spectacular free product to allow for scaling customer discovery and word of mouth, then charge for things that people with money care about:

> At each level, the value proposition is different, so that users use your tech differently and benefit differently from it. And at each level, the buyer is different, so the messaging is different.

This is market segmentation 101, but it's nice to read about it from an infrastructure company perspective.

One thing they didn't mention which I would in their shoes is how powerful $0 is in terms of letting folks kick tires and self-select their solution. (Or not select it, which is fine too.) Especially for dev focused products, a $0.01/month charge is such a barrier compared to a free solution.
The issue isn't dyno (although it is their actions that obviously started it) it's that amazon does nothing to protect their customers from companies like dymo.
> I made a decision in my career to consciously level up my skills-- testing, accessibility, documentation, etc-- all without being asked.

Speaking of which... I'm intrigued by your test, in no small part because I'm not sure I'm up on accessibility (or much that's happened in the front-end world since 2015). Would you be willing to send it to me, along with any evaluation rubric you might have?

Email's in my profile.
They're equivalent. Neither is more correct. Megawatts are a bit more understandable to the layperson, for the same reason that "a million dollars" is more understandable than "a billion dollars". A megawatt is about 1000 homes[1]. A gigawatt is a city.

[1]https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=97&t=3 A US Household uses slightly more than a kilowatt on average, though obviously peaks and troughs are well off that.
Mmmm, most houses in California are two bedrooms. If you live outside of there in a cheaper area you can get 5 bedrooms if you want!
Kerfentanyl, apparently...
Nickel Is Back in Business
Most companies involved in the seedier side of business keep a low profile to avoid attention though. Tube sites were "disruptive" in that they let users upload copyrighted material and said "it's not us!" so it's even less surprising they'd not want their backers to be easily traced, just look at companies like Tether which have equally shady corporate structures designed to shield their owners because they're operating in - at best - legally grey areas.

Fascinating story about the world's largest producer of amyl nitrates, the production of which has always been super-shadowy.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/poppers-facto...