skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know, if a whole bunch of rejection therapy and rejector therapy folks want to get in a room and work through their stuff, I am all about it because then they've all agreed to participate.
I was one of the folks kinda down on the DNS server implementation...but this, this is awesome. TLS is a serious black box to 90%+ of even veteran programmers I meet.

To break it down and write a small implementation showing the steps is seriously both impressive and extremely generous. Kudos!
GIF creator Stephen Wilhite dead at 74
Most of customer service I've ever interacted with were not much more than whipping boys for disgruntled customers to unload on.
Leaving things up to capitalism to solve has not worked.

Regulation works.

Standards works.

Consumers get rug pulled.
I shouldn't have lumped all American VC's together. This is clearly changing and this Arc initiative is proof of that.
Thanks, that makes sense. I would have imagined that most of what you describe could hit the `mysql1` replica (not primary) but certainly it's imaginable that this would not be possible or wise in all cases.

And of course it's worth applauding that I think most read traffic (whether to Packages or other services) worked just fine through these incidents, if I understand correctly.
Ah. Some people seem to be reporting much higher fees in the $10 to $25 range at times.
Depending on your definition of "burn" the noble gases might not qualify; they'll form stable compounds with fluorine as the oxidant but not oxygen
11k puts you in the top 10% el salvadorian wages?
I love self hosting but very concern about reliability, security and stability of these systems, e.g. outage, disk crash, out of memory… Looking forward to seeing more articles about these problems.
This. I think Imgur has been using "gifv" which is just WebM. Imageboards that used to accept GIF only now also accepts WebM.

Telegram's "GIF"s are actually H.264 MP4s without an audio track.

And I think Lottie or SVG may be a viable replacement to SWF movies. Sadly there is no software working with these formats that is as user-friendly as old-school Flash.
Godel's theorem and the halting problem began as having difficult and obscure proofs. Today, you can find "one page" proofs of either. And these proofs depend strongly on a variety of computation processes going from obscure to obvious for the average person.

Is it "obvious" you can produce program Y that doesn't halt if program X halts? Do you understand one program can be taken as input string of another? If so, the Halting Problem proof in Sudkamp's Languages and Machines, my undergraduate text in the 90s, can indeed take just a page.
Docker and I are not friends. The quickest way I found to fill up my limited VPS hard drive was to install Docker. All the work arounds to limit it failed. Then there's the whole lack of concrete control over iptables, where a tiny mistake can open you up to all sorts of horrors. So, it's great that Docker works for many, but I get the exact opposite of warm and fuzzy for it however.
Ask HN: DAO for Proxy Voting?
Would a DAO be more efficient for proxy voting? Would it be worth a fund or company’s time to deploy it via a SaaS based centralized GUI?
But if the result is a flipflop, where is the loop?
Governments regulate all sorts of features on all sorts of products: building codes, electrical codes, car mpg requirements, how planes work, tax requirements, how corporations are allowed to function, the rights of citizens, ...

Why should software get a free pass?
>It's extremely unlikely that github or cloudflare will ever choose to censor any content I care to share

are you absolutely certain that in 5, 10, 15 years, _all_ things you do and views you express that are widely acceptable today will continue to be so?
You know, I got back into this like 7 years ago, and gave it up.

One of the main reasons is that this hobby hit the (I do not know what to call it, so Ill throw everything here) "betabrand", "group-buy", "one offs" too dang hard.

You see an engine, its a DCC / Sound / Hyper-realistic switcher and it comes in the rail (Union Pacific, BNSF, CSX, Norfolk Southern, etc) and yard number you want. You have to join the pre-buy list, paid in full upfront. If you miss it (OH, and snipers buy all of them ahead of time to sell later on forums and ebay), well...you are going to pay a lot more later on forums and ebay.

Its nuts. What used to be in stock all the time is now a group buy, "we will never do this again in this paint scheme and road number" production run. Sure, I get it, but it costs a LOT of money to get what you want. I really thought, on my pretty middle-upper class salary that I could relive my childhood and get back into MRR. Yeah, I had to give that up after the realization hit me.. "this small layout is going to cost thousands upon thousands of dollars just in engines and cars, much less scenery".

I have no idea what those MRR companies are thinking, but everyone in it has a LOT of extra money to spend. Even in most forums the line "hard to get new people to join our hobby" is thrown around quite a bit.
drat. so it is. my bad. was supposed to go under “Start Self Hosting” OP. Please disregard. :-D
Tens of thousands of coordinated mass murderers?

Curious what the threshold is to becoming a mass murderer, and also wondering if “tens of thousands” of these people meet that criteria.

I’m not fighting in this war, but I do have family and friends on both sides of the conflict. I don’t think that dehumanizing people is the way to go.

Also where are you regurgitating this bit from and why? - “During war empathy with the attacker is critical to hunting them, but sympathy is a handicap.”
It was Kyiv ie. Kiev
“Fortunately with an autonomous system there's no logistical overhead”

It might be too early to tell.

Those telehandlers and skidsteers are almost always rentals, so they get called off and picked up at the site. Moving heavy machinery is much more difficult than moving people, and all of your equipment is unique so it’s glued to that job site until it’s complete. Owning your own equipment presents its own set of challenges - you have to store it when it isn’t being utilized, keep excess capacity in case it becomes unavailable, fix/repair on your own, etc. All of the costs in the current installer model, while perhaps higher, are tightly coupled with the cash flows from the job portfolio. This might decouple the cash going out from the cash coming in, to say nothing of the fixed costs of having having hardware/software engineers on staff.

I really want this to succeed so please keep in mind this is just food for thought.
Not anymore: https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/39307/fca-boosts-open-b...
Talking to strangers is great. Third places are great.

Contriving a way to talk to a stranger such that your goal is to force them so far outside of their comfort zone that they assertively reject you is not great.

These are not at all the same thing. I'm not saying don't talk to strangers. I'm saying don't use unwitting strangers in your contrived boundary pushing scenarios for your own psychological growth at the expense of their comfort and consent.

You wouldn't walk around putting spiders on people and tell them, "It's cool, bro, I'm just doing spider therapy."
He and Mearsheimer fall into the same trap of thinking only the Americans have free will. Everything else is just the natural reaction to what America does, the people in other countries always simply act in response to America provocation or encouragement. Or they react to other countries acting the only way they possibly can to American or provocation or encouragement
I feel the author presents a false dichotomy.

I would argue that production servers should be immutable appliances. They should not have mutable root file-systems, they should not have package managers, they should not have ssh or require direct modification. Those are security accidents waiting to happen. I do not babysit my servers in my home rack. I have a company to run and better things to do just like the author, but that is no reason to give up freedom, privacy, and security. I like my servers to be as reliable and low maintenance as a refrigerator. They are not pets or a garden.

Try container optimized appliance operating systems like Talos OS or application specific firmware-like images like Homeassistant provides and you can generally set up services with automatic updates and forget about them for extended periods of time, knowing they will auto-rollback and notify you if manual intervention is ever required. If they fully fail you can just restore a new stack in minutes from a git commit and your last backup.
I'm reminded of this video from a few years ago: What is a flame? [1]

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ymAXKXhvHI
Interesting. With search 'java lambda function equivalent' I see results different to Bing, Google and DuckDuckGo. Greater difference still for "elon musk latest news". My guess, they use Bing where they lack their own index.
Came here to read this, luckily.

OP says:
> "cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction."
> "When I read this definition, it seems like the authors are describing a managed cloud provider like AWS, GCP or some installable software like Kubernetes or one of the major hypervisors."

When I read this, I think of my good old webhosting provider. Giving me access to webservers with resources, and fully automated without any hassle. And when there is trouble, I can actually speak to a human being.
When you're an adult, you lead the syndicates that nobody knows about. I doubt there are many minors in Equation Group
Still have mine. $5/month, have all kinds of useful tools running on it. Can't get rate limited by my own IP checker.

But I don't use IRC anymore really :(
this sounds backwards. i’ve worked at multiple places with the one big legacy mysql db. all of them had blanket rule no new features live in this db. whatever this complicates you would design around it
OK there's a lot of good points on both sides of this. For one: pushing meaningful code change on day 1 may be unrealistic. For another: at least we've initiated the new team member into the full process of contributing to the product's code base, and their manager knows there are no administrative blockers (workstation, account, 2FA token, etc.). I know which I prefer. Also fixing a small (and admittedly probably low priority) defect is an achievable goal and a pretty cool way to get your toes wet. At least you're in the pool.
The hardest part is drafting a series of questions for the end-user to understand and answer before we get that “MAGIC-PRESTO-CHANGO” get those configuration files that just works.

I blame the program providers.

Some Debian maintainers are trying to do this simple querying of complex configurations (dpkg-reconfigure <`package-name>`). And I applaud their limited inroad efforts there because no else one has seem to bother.

I have made a bash script to configure for each Chronyd, named, sshd, dhcpd, dhclient, NetworkManager, systemd-networkd, /etc/resolv.conf, amongst many. They try and ask simple questions and glue appropriate settings then run their own syntax checkers (most are provided by the original stream).

Postfix, Shorewall, and Exim4 remain a nightmare to my evolving design.
CISecurity and other government hardening docs were applied as well and then some I took even further like Chrony had its file permissions/ownership even further and MitM block feature as well.

These are dangerous scripts where it can write files as root but as a user, you will instead get configuration files written out in appropriate directories under `build` subdirectory.

If these designs work across Redhat/Fedora/CentOS, Debian/Devuan, and ArchLinux well, I may forge even further.

https://github.com/egberts/easy-admin
Algolia. It is used on here on the search bar on the end of the page.
Depends what kind of subscription you have. If you take a subscription with a phone then I think it fair the phone paying plan gets marked. But if you only have a monthly sim only plan I don't think it is not needed.
Imagine being a member of a duopoly with a fairly locked-down market and then releasing the ability to pay another way as a revolutionary "feature" worthy of a press release
Seriously.

I was so on the fence as a high school senior and (as a good Indiana boy) got an offer from Rose-Hulman to major in physics. Instead, I went to a SLAC and studied philosophy, eventually convinced a neuropsychology lab in a clinical psych PhD program to take a chance on me, and now study a bunch of neurological conditions.

This video made that old pull come back, but of course life has constrained me to stick with what I've got going. At least after almost 20 years I get to geek out with the MRI physicist on a regular basis.

My new goal is to be as giddy explaining brain function as Feynman is explaining just about anything.
I have various friends who have made similar statements about food (everyone should cook meals for themselves), cars (everyone should do their own basic repairs and maintenance), homes (everyone should do their own basic home maintenance), keyboards (everyone should do basic soldering and learn a non-qwerty layout), accounting (everyone should have a budget and do their own taxes), gardening, fitness, investing, education, etc.

The number of people who can learn all of the skills that someone in the world considers essential is small. The number of people who can do all those things while having a job, kids, and a working partner is smaller still. The rest of us have to focus on a proper subset.

For me, every minute I waste learning how to configure my server is a minute I could have been playing Legos with my kids or riding my bike or sleeping.
The Only True Wisdom Is Knowing That You Can’t Draw a Bicycle
The author went from.a VPS, a VM he managed manually, to hosting everything on Netlify and GitHub, with a smattering of AWS.
Thus the title.

The author duly notes that a VPS does not belong to you in ways similar to those SaaS offering don't, so why bother.

If all you used a VPS for was hosting public static web pages, then there's indeed little point to run a VPS by hand.
> Kids from much older parents (40+) are also almost completely weird.

Yeah, I love you too.
Highlighting and annotations features for your reading workflow
Maybe next decade. I really like my various VPS.
I think we should expect this kind of thing from teenagers: there's a certain level of out of the box thinking and risk to reward inversion that comes from youth. Brazen solicitation of associates / operatives on public forums is certainly unique, and not a tactic which most other actors would pursue due to the risk involved.

I also think that things aren't as bad as we think security wise. The attacker's lack of industry experience helps with marketing to media who also lack industry experience. Somehow "Lapsus$" are "the world's most dangerous hacking syndicate", but in reality they've fully compromised several Portuguese companies with poor information security to begin with, released a treasure trove of mostly only curiosity-interesting source code from some big names, and posted some screenshots of restricted-access customer support tools. Breathless excitement about each new discovery has whipped the media into a frenzy over disclosures which sound juicy but ultimately aren't altogether that impactful - another accidental benefit of youth, I think.

To me the scariest thing in "cyberspace security terms" probably isn't that a minor has done all this - that seems reasonable to me - but what happens when an adult is inspired to adopt the same approaches? IMO this is the leading edge of something, an innovative approach pioneered by an outsider, less so than it is the trailing edge of "even a teenager could do this."

I think the biggest insight here is the power of chat tools like Slack. These tools need much more robust controls than are currently present at most companies. At most large enterprise software companies I've seen, there is little-to-no role based or level based access control applied to chat, and a vast amount of information is accidentally available in messaging logs, even to employees like contractors or low-trust employee accounts which have been locked out and just "need to Slack someone to get back in." Chat apps need much more access control from both a role and trust level point of view.
Unfortunately I can’t. If you want to try out, it’s a doc generated through Google doc’s built-in templates (which perhaps is the reason for bloated size).
Pi's are fun but they don't really have the spirit of those 8 bit machines. For starters it's way too powerful compared to those machines.

Some of the machines had communities (offline!) who flat out encouraged hardware hacking, from simple things like piggybacking EPROMs and switching them with a toggle switch (as above) right up to hacking together sound processors. Often the documentation was non-existent so curious hackers would trace all the lines on whatever expansion was available and document it themselves.

This was generally on the "also ran" computers (thinking specifically of the Australian Microbee) since expensive US things like Apple 2 or TRS-80 were mostly unaffordable here.

If you want the real deal, the closest thing would be single board kit computers based around a Z80 or a 6502.
Nah. You aren’t entitled to a sanitized story just because you died. Doubly so when you made decisions that negatively impacted millions. That’s the price of being in power.
How to improve your online reading?
They don’t. What happens in practice is that people get upset but choose not to make a big deal out of it. They recognise that we are all different and have different opinions and values. Most people are anti-fragile and can handle being a bit upset. Expecting the world to conform to your values is an example of extreme narcissism.
Obligatory Lior Pachter tweet (https://twitter.com/lpachter/status/1431325969411821572) [doesn't mention issue of initialization explictly but it's probably buried in the paper or the cited tweets]
That is true, but if nobody ever files a lawsuit then companies will just continue to run roughshod over everybody knowing that there will be no consequences.
Like what, for example?

Not cloudflare that's for sure.
I always thought it’d be fun to purchase a house somewhere and use the entire thing as a setup for a private model railway hobby. Easy to do if you have a lot of money to burn.
Perhaps, but I use plenty of other Linux distros (at least on servers) for work, so I don't imagine it being a big deal to switch. It's more the inertia stopping me from switching _at all_, rather than any concern about how big the switch would be.
That’s pretty cool. So I could use Ziti two write a client-server app where the server is only accessible/visible to clients running Ziti with appropriate keys?
I think this argument is a bit superficial and I don't find it convincing at all. The author cited the Alma-Ata Protocols as a basis for Russia being able to exercise the USSR's USNC seat. Point 1 of Annex V here: https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N91/425/70/IMG...

But he doesn't even mention in passing that Russia is now in open violation of the same Protocols. This is a new development, so invoking the laches-type "But it's been thirty years!" argument falls flat. At most it's been just shy of 8 years, and that's if new violations don't give rise to a new legal basis for objection under this bizarre laches-type analysis (they do give rise to a new cause of action in laches analysis of civil liability at common law, though that's not remotely controlling).

The author also glosses over the Republic of China / People's Republic of China issue. Under UNGAR 1668 and UNGAR 2758, the question of which government should be recognized as representing a UN member state is an "important question" and should be settled by a two-thirds vote of the General Assembly. That did happen with the ROC → PRC issue, but never happened for Russia.

Lastly, while true that the larger part of a continuing state generally gets to maintain that state's position, that is only when the same political and legal entity continues in existence. For example, if California seceded from the U.S., nothing would happen to the U.S.'s permanent seat; but if the U.S. entirely dissolved, it wouldn't automatically go to California, it would simply cease to exist. Russia is not the USSR, and in fact Russia wasn't even the last to leave the USSR (Kazakhstan seceded 4 days after Russia did), and the USSR no longer exists as a political entity.

Bottom line is that Russia's "continuance of the membership of the [USSR] in the United Nations, including permanent membership of the Security Council," is a product of an international agreement that, as of 24 February 2022, Russia has torn to shreds and set on fire. In my view, there's a strong argument that Russia has de facto withdrawn from it and should no longer benefit from it.
I've never done this hobby before but it reminds me a lot of building rail tracks in Minecraft. I have had so many hours of fun in Minecraft building crazy railway switching stations and labyrinthian rail networks spanning entire maps. It's super addicting and it's my favorite part of that game. I wonder if people who participate in this hobby get a similar kind of enjoyment.

It also makes me wonder if there any simulators or video games that cater more specifically to the impulse behind building model railways.
> Wasmer, by necessity, design, and passion lives and breathes Wasm and open source.

> As is dictated by our commitment to open source and the precedent of social alignment set by WebAssembly...

> Although all these events still do not portray Wasmer in the best light, I hope they can at least assuage the understandable concerns of our community that we had acted in a way so fundamentally contrary to the values of open source and WebAssembly in particular.

Wasmer recently recently released a closed source wasm package manager. Something doesn't seem right. Anyone feel something is off here?
Well, you’re clearly way of the mark here, since you completely missed my point.

The weirdness is in your head, mate. (Although the generalization is your responsibility.)

I mean, people like you, i.e. people who become parents at a relatively young age, literally have their brain chemistry altered to protect their offspring, WAY before you have actually experienced life as an adult.

I could make grand speculative declarations about your children based on this, but I actually realize it’s meaningless, so I won’t.
Interesting. Are there any OS’ that implement such a structure? Sounds kind of like chromeos if it was geared towards servers.
He bought and sold a doxing site and leaked all the doxers private dox so they super-doxed him in retaliation. After this, he didn't bother to change his username?
Does that make your comment free meta-meta-feedback? :P
> In the same way, I question how much "American hegemony" is pushed by America, and how much of it is "pulled" by other countries finding "American" values, perspectives, and positions to be more attractive than other alternatives.

i think the pull exists, at least a little, mainly in areas in free speech, personal wealth accumulation, etc.

but i think 99.99% is push, not pull.

for the 'push' part, you can read this by chomsky (free, online there):

https://zcomm.org/deterring-democracy/

it's not necessarily light reading, but...well, i think our reading abilities have dropped so low that it probably does qualify as complex reading now.

if you don't share chomsky's professed values -- The Golden Rule, elementary moral principles, democracy (not just formal, but actually-functional/functioning), etc. -- you'd probably pretty quickly come to hate that book and all of Chomsky's professed views.