skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a stupid question. It's just that macroeconomics is not a scientific field. You can always override a historic precedent with another - and have no way of testing hypotheses in a controlled manner
I also live near Ukraine (Poland):

- IIUC even if a tactical nuke were to hit Ukraine, if you stay inside for couple days, cover and stay away from windows, use your own water, use air filter - the amount of radiation is going to be small enough to not be a health hazard.

- Firearm license is not that hard to get. It's just an excuse.
Self hosting seemed so very daunting up until a year or so ago. I decided to give it a shot while struggling to find a way to keep my notes. OneNote isn't good (no Linux support), wasn't a fan of Evernote, Nuclino was crawling on my old laptop and I ended up finding BookStackApp.

This led me to find a cheap VPS, install it using the install script and then figure stuff out from there. It led me to setting up a home server and working my way through the entire setup - format and mount drives, automate backups, automate hdd health checks, setup smb, docker, traefik, emby and so on.

At this point I'm looking at experimenting with Proxmox as my server is overkill (it also made me realize how few resources are used in these setups... we end up needing 2-3000$ systems to just run an OS... which is absolutely ridiculous). Linux showed me that in order to do any meaningful work you don't need a 3k machine. In any case, I'm in the process of arranging ALL my notes in order and I plan on publishing a guide that walks a user through the setup step by step.

I know people are talking about a lot of the complexities, but you can always share your knowledge. Help someone setup an old linux box to use as an smb nas... get them to install jellyfin or emby or plex on it and even there you have already massively helped them in the right direction. I think it's our responsibility to share our knowledge and empower people to migrate or at least understand what's involved.
That was excellent, it just kept building!
Also a good reason: We as a society decided indentured servitude is not a concept we'd like to pursue.
Right, best would be if rich people adopt poor kids
Ask HN: Decryption with Pen and Paper
Is there any secure method for symmetric or asymmetric encryption that can be performed by hand, and is still resilient to computing resources? Suppose I want to record a secret on paper and decrypt it only with a passphrase that I know, or a private key that I have tattooed on my body. Is this feasible?
People in the balkans were actually rooting for Trump both times, because they (we) were afraid that another clinton in the white house will cause another war in the balkans.

Now you guys have biden, but luckily (for us), the war is in ukraine and not here again.
Just pointing out that your data has a pretty clear confounder. “Wfh” and “wfh during the initial stages of a global pandemic” are very different things.
I think it has come the time where the society starts to advance without caring about laypeople, if some folks can learn it, if there is documentation, then we can just go on without caring about who doesn't know how to use it, because that's fixable. And I speak considering the German government who had to pull back from Linux because employee didn't know how to use it

Let's start treating tech as the world treats everything else: Ignorance is not a justification
I assume you have one with a home button? On newer ones the lower-right icon can be long-pressed to launch the camera very very fast.
Tbh I have never interpreted “slowing down” as necessarily less work.

In fact, yeah, just the opposite. Mowing my lawn with an expensive gas powered sit down lawn mower is fast… doing it with a manual push or scythe is slow, and more work.

I’m interpreting “slow” from more a macro perspective in relation to our worlds “2 day shipping” and groceries stores with anything imaginable.

Honestly, I think most people interpret it this way too.
Russian here. No, I'm not prepping in the traditional sense of the word (e.g. a bunker, a stockpile of canned food and ammo, iodine, books on survival etc.).

All my prepping is Russia-specific: making sure that my commercial VPN is paid for 3 years in advance, my self-hosted VPN is up and running, a European friend's credit card is added everywhere as the billing method, etc. My next work PC will run on Linux (normally I'm a Windows guy), and we had a lot of discussions about what we can do if our Internet "suddenly" becomes "sovereign".

No idea what to do about bricked iOS and Android phones yet.
Obituaries are also a short way of white-washing the incredible number of bad things that their subject has done.

It's convention that they don't speak ill of the dead. A convention that overwhelmingly benefits the legacies of people who have inflicted disproportionate amounts of misery and suffering in life.
Depends where you draw your boundaries. Physical access is always going to be complicated, but on larger scales (and increasingly as you can make things smaller) you can have a cap tank that must accumulate enough charge to do reliable brownout detection before device powers on.
Ensuring government help for others instead of only looking out for yourself is still helpful.
Maybe all we need for education is a room and a minimum wage employee making sure we are actually studying. After all, education happens in the students head, not the teachers.

I'm just thinking out loud. Lambda school obviously failed to deliver on its promise but what if we can deliver the same service for very little money?
> But they are also free of runaway interest and lifelong debt

Federal student loans with an income based based repayment plan are free of both those things (fixed maximum repayment period and fixed interest rates at origination.)
It's not my space, so I don't often read his articles or necessarily recognize his name when it comes up. For me it's the writing style and fear of flourine that I end up recognizing.
Just put your scripts in bash functions and then all of them in a scripts file, with enhanced $PATH at the top, or use make. In fact most of the more sophisticated projects use this approach.

package.json is such a sloppy and arbitrary place for your scripts. I don't know how the creator of node looks at the mountain of things that are all in package.json and thinks that's a fine design. You are a package manager, stick to it.
>I don't think it should be anyone's duty to accept widespread, severe adversity based on the mistakes of world leaders

I think this is a worldview that's very centered on humanity and civilization as it stands today, and not reflective of the wider human experience across space and time. Adversity and conflict has historically been the norm, and "The Long Peace" is a true anomaly in world history. What we're likely to see is more a "regression to the mean", so to speak.

>It'd be a difficult, long grind back to normality with no guarantee of reaching a better or more equal world than today

I would posit there would be zero way back to where we are today. Ever. The easy to access hydrocarbons that were available to be exploited initially are no longer available and the ones we exploit today require tools, and techniques that would no longer be operable or reproducible given their complexity. I think that's true for an astounding amount of technology. I recently took my car for a warrant of fitness and it passed, but I was told I will need to replace the tires at some point in the near future. I was also told no tires were in stock. I assumed this was just due to Covid related shipping delays, but then I recently learned there was a rubber shortage. Digging into it I found that Thailand produces a remarkable portion of the worlds rubber. There are all sorts of these linkages in the supply chain that if one were to completely give out would lead to everything else being on a pretty limited timeline.

>If unrest really becomes that widespread, I'm off on the road with some books, the most-reliable, widely-compatible electronics available, whatever's left of my sense of humour, and a few stories.

Looting is the obvious thing in the short term you sort of expect to occur, so having supplies enough to put you out of the craziness of that would damp down risks there. I guess one hopes that the population density reduces to the point where pockets of people that band together stop facing immediate security threats and resources once used by people who are no longer around can be utilized by those that remain and at some point in that equation an equilibrium will be found.
Ah, that explains why I can so rarely fit my fingers though the handle of mugs.

Not sure if my coffee gourd will go in the dishwasher or not, though.
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Google thought about that and made it as inconvenient as possible and crippled the update
Yes but the power difference here isn't 1kW, so over an hour it's not 36 cents. At peak usage the difference is 100 watts, so 3.6 cents difference per hour if you're running at benchmark level performance constantly. Realistically even at 0.36EUR/kWh the idle power difference means you're probably spending 1-2 cents per hour. That's really nothing. We're talking about saving about as much as replacing 1 halogen light bulb with an LED bulb.
Trippy!
Google also makes Pixel phones, arguably this is a tiny fraction of Android market.
It gets even worse. MS can't open source Windows because there's licensed third party components. A lot of silicon vendors can't open source their design for the same reason.
Open Source Coding Curriculums
I'm asked a lot about teaching resources and I've decided to tweet some I like. Please add more if you know any other.
Wow, this is... awesome!

I was looking for something like this for a while, OneNote works but it's quite tedious. Just a canvas for mindmaps/diagrams/ideas.

This is one of the reasons I keep coming here, to discover new, useful software. Google is rather bad for that these days.

Thank you very much!

I'll see if I can contribute anything.
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> tlslite

"PEP 543 – A Unified TLS API for Python" #interfaces (-2016)
https://peps.python.org/pep-0543/#interfaces
Everyone can attend college in Europe, just that you might need to retake some high school courses if you didn't take them. It is exactly the same system as in USA where some students have to do 4 years of college while others can use AP credits to skip a year and finish in 3. In Europe we just make those AP credits mandatory and students have to take them at separate schools before they attend, which is also why students in Europe finish college in 3 years.
I feel like only the one processing the transaction should be paid to process the transaction. The usage part is no different than if you used a free app on every device, they make nothing.
Web3's model involves users actually paying for stuff. Even with all the tracking, the ad model is a win for accessibility to the poor. I'd rather be completely tracked everywhere I go then left out of all the important conversations.

Web3 kind of IS just blockchain at this point. Some are even calling for a Web4, as a non blockchain more performant version of web3 not focused on financial features.

I suspect if any P2P tech gets big without a token, people won't actually call it web3.
Learn some history. This is about par for Russian performance for large scale wars for past 100s of years. They're a huge land power with chronically underfunded military where corruption cause initial stumbling but they tend to hammer through and win.
Imagine if AWS, Azure, Gcloud were charging for your VMs a % of your business revenue… AppStores are services, they should have a fixed price like any other service, and that can cover also variable costs like cents per download, cents per review, etc
> four years is a long time to spend treading water wrt employable skills

Internships during school can be a massive salary increase for many people. Even 25+$/hour is quite a large pay bump for a large chunk of the population, and many internships go well past that.
The Insanity of War (1935) [pdf]
So, Spotify is allowed to charge 30% for access to the market it has created, but Google and Apple are not?

An app store costs money too - the creation and maintenance of the billing platform/API, bandwidth, human curation, cross-device storage of saved configurations, user acquisition, etc.

What makes musicians so different from software developers that it's perfectly acceptable for Spotify to take such a large share of the revenue their music has earned?

(To make my own position clear, I don't think any of them deserve 30%)
I'm going to include this in my plan. Got any recipes?
I'm not familar with Fed notes, is there an actual published study behind that Fed note?

The amount of data and studies out there to correlate income level and credit rating is surprisingly low. The data set used by the Fed seems surprisingly weak, a self-reported survey sent out with credit card offers:

We use the Mintel/Comperemedia data (the Mintel data henceforth) that provide a unique combination of credit scores and survey-based income data for the same consumers. The Mintel data set is a monthly proprietary survey of credit card offers, with about 2,500 consumers selected to participate in the survey each month. Participants of the Mintel survey have very similar educational attainments and income to other nationwide representative household surveys, such as the Survey of Consumer Finances. The Mintel sample, however, has a somewhat higher average age and greater share of white consumers.
I emailed Lincoln for advice, following[1], on a whim.

He emailed me back with a thoughtful reply. I appreciated it (he told me my idea is bad, which I appreciate, sting as it does).

[1] https://www.lincolnquirk.com/2021/11/18/advice.html
We are discussing not what IS the law but what in some people's opinion ought to be the law. The comment that started this thread

> I believe we need new laws declaring that consumers can run whatever versions of software they want on devices they OWN.

To which you said

> The reason it’s not that easy is that platform holders have contractual obligations with content providers about their content being secure.

I pointed ought that if the law were modified as requested that such contractual obligations would be mooted because they cannot be obligated to implement restrictions that would fall afoul of the prospective law that commenter proposed and I agree ought to be implemented.
Blame her or all the corporations which gladly moved business there for cheaper labor?
Why on earth would Spotify be getting a discount on GCP?
> The universe will never know of us.

If there is anything out there with the capacity to "know", perhaps one day they'll find our ruins and compose some art along the lines of Shelley's poem Ozymandias. As I've been enjoyed the sci-fi of Adrian Tchaikovsky of late[0], I hope that it's sentient octupuses who can express the tragedy and mystery of our downfall in a dance of colour and movement.

[0]: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/we-are-going-on-an-adven...
You'd probably enjoy work as a software pentester, where the docket --- at least for non-web-applications, which admittedly are the most common project if you don't specialize --- is almost entirely building tooling-grade implementations of random protocols so you can test for vulnerabilities.
> The “perpetuals” this industry has seemingly invented charge high rates to keep a position open, daily.

There is a funding charge to keep the perpetual in line with spot, but note: one side (typically longs) pays, the other side (typically shorts) receive.

This is akin to the good old spot/future arbitrage.
You should read better modren scifi. For example, Greg Egan or Cixin Lui write modern scifi novels that lean heavily into getting the science right.
"2. And when they take the deal, they often behave poorly 3. And when they behave poorly, you don't have great recourse"

Yes. As it turns out when you invest in people with no skill, background or money - your investment goes to zero (excluding outliers). For companies like ycombinator the outliers are everything. But in this horrendous business model they can't capture the outliers' profits without being exploitative.

If you honestly sat me down for 4 hours I couldn't think of a worse idea. Uber for cats? Rating people with a general global score? Selling loans to people out of rehab. I can't do it.

First 15 minutes you learn in any loan business is: Income, Debt-to-income Ratio, Collateral. If those are out the window - you are either better than a trillion dollar loan system - or completely insane.
This halting problem animation proof would work perfectly here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92WHN-pAFCs
When has BGP caused a serious outage at a website?
There’s a documentary on Keith Richards on Netflix. He has so many vintage guitars he doesn’t even know what he has.
And from what I can tell, the root of the most-students-don't-find-jobs problem is that as much as people love to promote coding as being something for everyone, the reality is that it is not. It is actually really hard to become (and stay) a good software engineer. You have to really want it AND work really hard at it. And a lot of the people attracted to these ISA bootcamps are people who don't like their current career/job/trajectory and have heard that software pays well, and maybe they've done some Hello World tutorials that give you a bit of a rush but don't scratch the surface of what this career actually entails. Then when these people get 2 months in the bootcamp they realize that software engineering is difficult, and requires possibly more strenuous mental work than they've ever done before, but now they're on the hook and it's not easy to reverse course, so they finish the bootcamp with a half-hearted desire and poor-to-mediocre skills that hundreds of thousands of other wannabe devs from all over the world already have, and then they get smacked in the face with 6 rounds of technical interviews that they can't pass. It's not a good scenario.
Yea, I admit I was being slightly hyperbolic. Historically they have been better at cooperation than Microsoft.
In a separate news report [1] about this study, a cognitive biologist cautioned that altruism is not the only possible explanation: “It could just be that the birds themselves - they are attracted of the object. And so they try to go for it. They go after the harness. They pick around, and then they manage to get rid of the harness. And it has nothing to do that they really want to help the other individual.”

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2022/02/28/1083581139/magpies-unexpected...
Science requires good hypotheses to contruct good experiments to learn new things.

Math is absract, but it can have implications that are testable in the real world.
Hopefully, he also patched some portion of the bug that let him rewrite the bootloader signature verification code... or someone else only has to look at your update to have their own keys to the kingdom.

One should also be sure that the signature verification is not based on simply an obscured symmetric key that easily allows key extraction and any code to be rewritten to those devices in the future once it is extracted. One assumes from his solution this isn't the case (or he'd only need one sample to get the key). You don't HAVE to do public/private keys, but it's the most convenient.
But he’s trying to build credibility in legitimate way. To push it forward, build that community, and make key usability decisions that massively improved things over Mac Ports, these are not things that are easily done and he absolutely deserves credit for it.
And an example of clever UX: On Coinbase, a crypto to crypto conversion has no fees. However, in that conversion the market price of the target coin is higher than the spot market price. So a hidden fee.

Clever UX is quite an optimistic term for such a pattern.
> Proxy wars have been a thing since the Roman empire. It's just that Russia forgot to do it by proxy this time, but NATO certainly seems to be regarding it as such.

Many things described as modern “proxy wars” between major powers have been direct wars between a major power and an ally of an opposed major power (and many have involved direct conflict between major powers, though usually with at least one major power having deniability.) This was true of several of the major USA/USSR “proxy” conflicts (Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan).
Rule of Silence
Why do you ground your car?
I think this sentence misstates the viewpoint:

"Therefore you should work in the office, to avoid that competition."

The problem here is the word "you". That's a misleading word, in this context.

What I wrote was instead from the point of view of entrepreneurs and managers. Consider the situation from their point of view and the argument makes sense. Also, the economist Coase was trying to answer the question "Why do corporations exist?" so his point of view was very much from that of the corporation.

I could have made that more clear, hopefully this clarifies it:

From the point of view of the corporation, if work doesn't need to be done at the office, then the corporation can ask "Can we outsource this to Vietnam, India, Romania, or Brazil?"

About this:

"Are you just hoping that being in an office is some kind of protective camouflage?"

Let's assume some computer work where what is needed is absolutely clear and easy to define and easy to check, such that a manager can easily state what they need, and the same manager can also easily see if the work was done at a high level of quality. Coase would say that all such work will eventually be outsourced, because it is easy to outsource, and outsourcing is often cheaper.

But according to Coase, there is a large category of work that is somewhat difficult to define, perhaps because the work involves a creative or spontaneous element. Or possibly because the work is multi-variate such that it is impossible to achieve quality on every variable, and so the evolution of quality in particular variables both limits and opens the door to the future of the company (in other words, Google cannot outsource the creation of the algorithm of its search engine, as that algorithm defines the future of Google). In such cases, the manager cannot easily define the work, nor can the manager easily check if the work is being done, nor can the manager easily evaluate the quality of the work. In such cases, the corporation will want to in-source the work. For such work, it is important to build long-term, trustful relationships with those doing the work.

That much is I think a straight re-statement of Coase.

I'd add, the arguments that apply to outsourcing and in-sourcing apply, to a lesser extent, to the question of "work from office" versus "work from home." We can see this in the pay being offered -- in New York City I'm seeing companies offer large pay increases to get people back into the office. The companies clearly place more value on the work done in the office, in contrast to the work being done at home.

About this:

"But if the job can be done at home"

The argument is that the vague intangible aspects of the job are probably not happening when the work is done at home.
Isn't the fraud risk still generally born by credit card companies at the end of the day?

I think we can legitimately talk about the costs of maintaining the app-store as a marketplace, and we can talk about the future costs of providing updates free of charge in perpetuity and orchestrating the infrastructure to host those various downloads... but that's about where their service offering ends. App review is a joke, the rating systems on both platforms as absolute trash and often gamed by publishers (remember Uber's in app prompt about how many stars you'd give them that forwarded you to the app-store if you gave them 5 and otherwise just offered you an internal complaint form if you gave them anything else? Everyone does that).

I'd question whether Apple and Google are really providing a service or just exploiting a captive market.