skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Understand that and you understand a lot about how the world works.

'Everything is Different'.

Imagine in Spain 25 years ago people didn't use debit/credit for much at all, that buying a car with consumer credit was a big deal, and home ownership is new. Getting credit scores is hard. Opening bank accounts might be difficult. In Indonesia perhaps most people are 'unbanked' in the way we understand it. Maybe there were/are few proper internet connections to do transactions. The major local banks are controlled by a cabal that you need to bribe. Or it's an oligarchy that will not let you in. Or there's a custom 'national system' i.e. 'Carte Bleue' in France that everyone uses and it's pointless to do anything around that. Privacy regulations, localized data, risk, banking regulations, ambiguity, lawyers, fiduciary requirements, reporting requirements.

Or literally 'employees don't show up' or 'electricity is not constant' or 'the Local Magistrate takes 10% cut' or 'The local warlord wants a cut' or 'nobody is qualified to do anything' or 'the employees got upset and shot/beat a manager' or 'sanctions shut down a key component'.

And that's the short list.
Because some computers are a 10c part in a 50c device.
The linked article from Microsoft goes into some detail about the vulnerability in Mikrotik that was being used, and there are many other examples of this happening. Weak creds are also an issue, but their software is pretty buggy from a security standpoint. If you run Mikrotik gear exposed to the public internet, I hope you have good logging and are keeping a sharp eye on it.
Are these for the Azov Nazis to burn?
Krebs is a sleazy underhanded journo, too fond of doxxing his targets without any notion of 'due process' and buying leaks on the black market. I was tricked into reading his scoops and it took a couple of years for the truth to trickle down into my coffee-addled brain.
This is dope! Wondering how you determine the number of blog points a certain post gets? Is there a blog quality score that's programmatically determined? How so?

It seems you are planning to introduce automation instead of manually reviewing every submission, would be interesting if you could crawl via links from blog to blog.

I also feel you could likely just type in a url and postfix /blog to it to get a niche blog on some topic. Not sure if that's too simple but seems like it might work as a v0 for your automation.
FedEx Says Fred Smith to Step Aside as CEO, Remain Executive Chairman
FedEx Corp. founder Fred Smith is stepping down as chief executive of the company he started more than 50 years ago with a few planes and built into a global delivery network that moves millions of packages a day.

Mr. Smith, 77 years old, is handing the CEO role to President and Chief Operating Officer Raj Subramaniam.
Someone wearing a uniform turns up on your doorstep with a piece of paper that they claim is a search warrant. You say you want to talk to your lawyer. They say they're in a hurry and this is really important. At this point you decide to google the name of the person who signed the warrant, you phone the number you find on the internet, "Judge" Smith answers, so you let the "officer" into your house.

Really?
Cyrillic Numerals
If your 'prototype' does something materially useful wherein there's some kind of clear revenue opportunity, then it doesn't hurt to apply. And you can always apply again.
Looks cool but Zee is a registered trademark and it operates TV channels, OTT platform in India. May be check this again because you shouldn't get into any troubles in the future. :)
I can see the inspiration here but the execution could be more refined i think. Great job putting something into the wild though!
I’ve been in computing a long time. In the early days I made build systems to take apart and deliver DOS 5 and Windows 3.1 to student labs based on what they needed in that session. I ran Windows servers by the thousand. I administered thousands of users and thing client terminals. I ran SharePoint farms and used PowerShell scripts to build large farms on the fly. In my day job now I’m a cloud consultant, and I script migrations of users and I install telephony systems.

And nowadays I hate computers.

I can’t bear to use one when I’m relaxing at the end of the day. Now I use an iPad Pro to either consume content or creatively to draw and make videos. Yes it has limitations and restrictions. But I cant bear to use a desktop OS in any shape. It just grinds my gears and feels like work. Automate my house? Hell no. IOT fridge? Please. You have to know when to stop. Plus I’ve been burned by every OS and idiom in computing that you can think of, and I’ve had enough. Just let me browse the web (yes I use adblockers) and watch some vids. Ive gone through everything and now only use ‘computing’ devices creatively to improve my life.
That's exactly the kind of tenant they don't want! So from the landlords perspective whether you won or lost is irrelevant, if you lost you were a 'bad renter' and if you won then you are apparently savvy enough to beat a landlord in court which has to be like kryptonite to them, they are lying awake in bed at night worrying about the existence of such tenants.
I like how the content and actions/buttons are in the opposite order too.
To disable the build-in one. Windows defender acts wild randomly during you do serious work is a huge pain for many people. Can you imagine. You play FPS happily at 120fps and windows defender suddenly kick in and you got 10fps, shoot down by the enemy team. It happens all the time.
«This is exactly why crypto is such a disaster.»

Correction: this is exactly why MONEY is such a disaster.

There has always been scams involving money since, well, since money was invented. You guys portray crypto as being particularly terrible, but the truth is there are hundred times (or more) more money being lost to scams involving the US dollar or the Euro. Crypto is no better or no worse in this regard. Some people will always make dumb mistakes with their money. For example just in the US alone, last year, $5.8 billion was lost to fraud: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/22/consumers-lost-5point8-billi... that's excluding 7.6 billion people outside of America, or money lost to causes other than fraud (eg. theft), etc, etc
testing/quick is in the standard lib, though it's a very far cry from Hypothesis or QuickCheck.
I might think that of a builder if he said he used to play with hammers as a kid and well into his adult life for fun and because he believed in hammers.
Your links had me thinking for a while.

On themortgagereports, setting aside that the other camp from "the absolutists" is the former HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson, who is like, one man, who could also probably litigate his way out of any serious trouble, it still gets to the conclusion:

> The important point is that there is much that should be read in home closing materials. Whether you should read every word is arguable.

On professional investors, I wouldn't also hold them as the shinning beacon representing what most of us think or do with money, contracts or responsibilities.

I don't get the feeling that most people don't read, just that it's a deeply painful and frustrating experience that some people bail out from. Like tax reports, or homeworks. I still think most people are way too scare to not take the time to check as much as they can, for them these papers could affect the next 30 years of their life.

Also there's whole sections that can be skimmed pretty fast, but it's different to me than "not reading".
Thus the Beatles.

The Beatlefly effect!
Yes absolutely, but I think carbon tax cannot achieve that. Because on a global scale (and in fact national as well) we have so large discrepancies in income.

Food production is not the lowest hanging fruit. Neither is infrastructure construction in less wealthy nations. But in terms of spending power those budget posts can't compete with the demand for leisure travel and meat in the richer world.
I make no objection.
Sounds like there should be some symmetrical landlord screening tools.
I mean… yeah? Some trade workers I know genuinely do like their job, but they are in the same place in this story that the author is. They like their job, and are even moderately interested in the details of their job, but they get home at the end of the day and don’t want to start laying tile or framing a wall.

Computers might be a tool for you but pure entertainment for others and that’s perfectly fine.
Every word is a trademark somewhere.
Generally I take a dim view of shoddy journalism. Not doing adequate investigation before printing, then refusing to retract when it turns out you were wrong is basically a textbook example of that.

I get that people really like him, but he had plenty of time to do the right thing here and has nobody to blame but himself.
Or if they did not change the viewport size and instead appeared as a popup like how it is on Edge.
If you wanted to watch the best 100 movies, you could do it in about a year, watching two movies every week. If you want to play the best 100 video games, it's going to take a lot longer than that, or you're not going to get a good feel for most of them.

A game in the Civilization series takes several hours to finish (or get far enough that you don't care to finish) and you might want to at least play a few times and get through some of the learning curve.

Of course, one can get a good feel for Pac-Man in 30 minutes, although if you want to get good, it'll take a lot longer.

It sounds like you're more looking to broaden horizons than for mind expanding games; broadening horizons would be more of trying lots of different things, and mind expanding would be things like Tetris Effect, Portal, Rez, Polybious Geometry Wars, Tempest (maybe), Katamari Damacy, Audio Surf, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Tetanus on Drugs (if you can find it), SeaMan, Odama (gamecube), Toe Jam and Earl (I never figured out wtf was happening in this game, but clearly drugs were involved), maybe A Boy and His Blob, the reverse level in Marble Madness, LSD: Dream Emulator for PS1 (I haven't played it, but it looks wild). Etc
Not to rain on your parade here but I’d say while your story is common enough - it’s not most people’s situation.

I graduated with a BS at 23 and was making that ~400k/yr by 30. (Even 1,000,000+/yr before that actually - equity grants are beautiful until they crash…) Now because I’m a dipshit who held onto all the stocks rather than sold - I actually have only ever really lived off of a much more meager salary and most of my equity has vaporized…

But if I had sold… If I had… :’(

Again - I’m an unexceptional case. Like super boring. First generation college student. Grew up poor-ish. Rural American. Yadda yadda but made it quite well if you ignore my equity constantly getting destroyed by interest rate hikes and what not.
Oh that's interesting. Let me investigate.
> One thing I'd love to see, is a TUI editor that focuses on providing hooks for developers to build deeper integration with various frameworks into the editor and it's autocomplete.

But... Don't they already do that? I am a daily vim user and there is a million plugins that were created using those "hooks" you talk about. I guess that's the case with emacs too.

Just two days ago I jumped into a huge bazel project and needed a good way to navigate through 100s of files that are connected through @funny//labels/across/directories/and.files. By only reading vim's :help, I was able to write that 10lines of code which hooks into the existing "go-to-file" or "find-where-this-is-defined" functionality.

(In fact, after "implementing" this feature, I was wondering how I'd do this as a user (not as a plug in author) in any other editors.)
Nice job, Tuan! Having written an HN interface myself, my hat off to you for seeing it through and sharing it.

Building on Minor49er's comment about requests, a nice feature in your next iteration of Lipu might be to cache some or all of the details of the submission on your server side. Three benefits from doing that are: (1) you can choose how often you query firebaseio for fresh data to avoid hammering their server, (2) your UX latency isn't so dependent on network traffic, and (3) you can reuse the submission details (i.e., provide a speedy response to user) when the user switches from one category (e.g., top, new, ask, show) to another and the same story happens to be present in both categories.

For other HN readers, Tuan has a brief dev blog of sorts about developing Lipu: https://tsk.bearblog.dev/journal-lipu/ . (Not too bad for a 14-year-old!)
This is a great point. It’s also worth considering the impact that Twitter’s algorithms have on which posts get engagement and correspondingly show up in searches for prominent opinions. You may want to curate certain Twitter accounts that accurately represent the stances of various factions (various members of government, celebrities/influencers, publications with various degrees of partisanship, etc) to check in on for takes on narratives, in addition to talking to more non-Twitter people.
It is correct to refer to GNU/Linux as GNU/Linux
High income != wealth inequality.

Wish you understood that. Wish everyone understood that.
Same thing for me. Both frameworks I looked (freqtrade and some other with a fancy name) had a insurmountable amount of context needed just to grok the concepts and how to make the complicated machinery go. I would probably spend months just trying to understand it.

It got me so uneasy to the point I just decided to go straight at it. Load the values and hey, let's try some backtesting. Simple stuff. If at the end of the day I end with more money than I began, shit is working. tweak that into oblivion. That's my plan.

So yeah, you also validated me (because I was thinking "this is just going to be stupid stuff. that can't work").

Thank you for existing and lucky me to be able to have this timely exchange in such a noisy communication world heh

o/
A best effort calculation done with partial information is a type of estimate.

I agree, this won't work for a big class of people. It won't work for me. But it will work for the majority of tax filers who don't have a 1099 and who don't file a schedule A, B, C, D ...

My tax return last year was a half inch thick, printed out. I had to file on paper. I very much understand that this doesn't work for everyone. But it works for most people.
Today they are tools but that is not what they used to be. In late 80 for about a decade later on they used to bring excitement and fun and surprise with a bit of frustration. Today they are just boring tools.
Yeah, but having a broken RNG in unauditable encrypted obfuscated microcode is more likely to go undetected than something hotter and more critical for performance, but even then meltdown and spectre took a long time to figure out.
Hey, fellow 67’er.

My graduation class chose Alphaville’s “Forever Young” as its commencement song. Yah, the one that starts off

> Let's dance in style, let's dance for a while
> Heaven can wait, we're only watching the skies
> Hoping for the best but expecting the worst
> Are you gonna drop the bomb or not?

I think that that musical choice perfectly encapsulates what it was to grow up as Gen X.
Most people enjoying their profession also enjoy their tools, often times simply because of said tools.
Yep.

> "HB11 Energy’s research demonstrated that its hydrogen-boron energy technology is now four orders of magnitude away from achieving net energy gain when catalyzed by a laser," reads the press release. "This is many orders of magnitude higher than those reported by any other fusion company, most of which have not generated any reaction despite billions of dollars invested in the field.

> HB11 claims is a "world-first 'material' number of fusion reactions by a private company

So they have a result which is 10x better than they thought will be, but still way lower than stellarator etc.
I feel this hard.

There is a difference in having fun with computers and getting a paycheck for computers and sadly the things you have to do to a computer to get the paycheck is often times a sin against many of the high minded ideas the 90s brought forth.

Let he who has not fudged a react component or lazily copied and pasted a function cast the first keyboard. As for me I find that my free time is much more filling when it doesn't involve a computer and while that's sad it should at least be understandable given the state of the industry and the nature of growing old.
They were ahead of their time in that regard.
There's a lot of hostility to unpack in your response, but I'd just say this: It costs nothing to study law, you don't need a college degree to pass the bar, and it's a useful life skill the way understanding code is. If you have the ability to study something that would benefit you and don't choose to, that's a waste of intellect. If you feel the need to deride it as well, that's indicative of having a chip on your shoulder. Ultimately your unfounded class assumptions and indignation at people who try to better themselves by learning as much about the system we live in as possible are a lot of wind and water, and speak more about your insecurities and fear of learning something that seems scary. Make all the appeals to popular emotion you want - they don't change reality. The reality is that people who can read and write legal documents have an ability to execute all of the business strategies that the smartest minds on HN struggle with; for the same reason that those brilliant minds can execute algorithms in binary that the average lawyer can't conceive of. If you could know both languages, why wouldn't you? Your comment is fundamentally no different from one which derides learning math as an elitist activity, when someone else says it's a way of making sense of the natural world. Or who says that learning another language is only for the elite.
I absolutely get what you mean when you say "floaty". I use the word "plastic" for that, as in cheap plastic.
Yet most workers I know advocate for better quality of life for everyone. I don’t see capitalists doing that.

End of the day - these “highly” paid workers are… workers. They’re not capitalists like their CEOs are.
Corey is really playing up the media aspect here. I think Corey's tweet exemplifies the problem here which Krebs speculation helped spread; Ubiquiti had no actual security breach, they had an insider ransom fraud. Krebs was also a victim, as the conduit for the attacker to speak as a "whistleblower". When they notified Krebs, Krebs left up their unfounded speculation. This isn't what reputable news organizations do. Despite all of this, it's probably going to be hard for Ubiquiti here, obviously has a good chance of not making it to trial.
If it's false, then sure. But if it's true, then those hiding this fact are actually supporting Nazis.

Don't you think it's important to have as many sources of information as possible to verify this?
> In the late 1980s, criminals were already holding encrypted files hostage in exchange for cash sent via the postal service. One of the first ransomware attacks ever documented was the AIDS trojan (PC Cyborg Virus) that was released via floppy disk in 1989. Victims needed to send $189 to a P.O. box in Panama to restore access to their systems, even though it was a simple virus that utilized symmetric cryptography.

https://www.crowdstrike.com/cybersecurity-101/ransomware/his...

Note that in 1989 Panama was a narco-state, so running a scheme like this via there made some sense.
Yes, and, inspired by that, Alphabet tried to introduce its own problem: Google+.
What do you mean by 'real' fake money? ETH is money.
This is a super cool product! If there was some way on blogsurf to have RSS feeds per category I'm sure that would make my RSS feed curation much easier, random and interesting. I.E. subscribe to all the blogs labeled in cybersecurity, linux, etc. Or maybe this functionality is already present and I didn't see it (I saw the RSS feeds per blog).

Unrelated: it was interesting to see my blog listed on the site. Kind of surreal that someone finds my content useful and/or interesting. Very motivating and humbling.
Sad that I've toyed around with signing emails with PGP 30 years ago. Now decades later we still haven't got that working. Perhaps something like this will push email signing.
What you really miss is your state of mind when you were young and carefree. Don't blame Netflix or Instagram or VCs. Your youth isn't coming back regardless of how computers may look today. You have aged 20 years. Your friends aren't having LAN parties they all have kids in middle school. Fiddling with computers isn't fun because you have taxes to file. You can't still have Red Bull and coffee-fueled all nighters hacking on that shiny new framework because your heart would literally give out. All the new kids entering the industry have their own culture and their own lingo and you hate it all.

Nothing is ever as it was in the "good old days". The best move is to realize this and adapt and make the best of your current life situation.
It's ECG here:

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/electrocardiogram/
This part about "a lot of die space" is largely false. The die shots show that AVX-512 adds only a modest amount of area, mostly for the wider register file and 64-byte path to memory.

The "huge power hungry" execution units are in fact largely the same execution units used for AVX and AVX2 - the CPU simply uses 2 adjacent 256-bit AVX/2 units as a single AVX-512 unit: this is the so-called port 0+1 fusion. Only the larger shuffles and the (optional) extra FMA unit on port 5 take significant addition space.

In fact, the shared core die area for SKL (no AVX-512) and SKX (has AVX-512) is the same! There is some dead space on the SKL die due to lack of SKL support but it is small: you can bet Intel didn't ship 100s of millions of SKL and SKL-derivative chips with a big space-wasting AVX-512 unit which couldn't be used on it: they could have made a new, more targeted layout if that was the case.
There was never a dollar minted that Jeff Bezos didn't like.
As always with crypto, this “use case” falls apart on even the tiniest inspection.

Ukraine was not cut off from the global financial system and had no issue receiving donations in fiat currency—I myself sent them some fiat. It was quick and it was easy and the Ukrainians lost a hell of a lot less of my donation to transaction fees than they did of the ETH.

Donating to Ukraine in ETH is a higher-fee way to do something you can already do (this is typical of purported blockchain “use cases”). If you actually care about the recipient of the donation, you should want as little of the donation to be siphoned off as transaction fees as possible.
Yes, a good chunk do. (You haven't lived till you heard a contractor wax for 30 minutes about why he prefers what hammer for what task ;)

Of course, by far not all. But the thing that truly differentiates computing from most other jobs isn't that people are indifferent to their tools and want work to end when they're home. That's the common case.

What's different is that software engineering seems to be the only job where its practitioners actively resent the tools of their trade, because those tools inevitably bleed from their work life into their private life.