skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Elon tweeted this yesterday ... He has a vested incentive/interest to help make this not happen.

Then why is he Tweeting nonsense cartoons that only serve to divide people?

I mean, the right has stood still for the past 13 years? This perception is part of the problem. Notwithstanding actual studies (tweeted in reply to that comment) show the exact opposite has happened -- that the left has moved leftward slightly while the right has lurched further to the right 4x further, we know the right has moved far right since 2008 because of January 6 2021. That's proof positive that a problem exists with right-wing extremists, and to just pretend otherwise strikes me as dishonest on Musk's part.

The far right went from tea party curiosity in 2008 to full blown anti-democratic, paramilitary, conspiracy lunacy in 2022. We had an unbroken track record of 44 peaceful transfers of power until 2021, when the former president and his party plotted to overthrow the newly elected government by force. We are now learning as texts are being leaked, they spent the entirety of Nov-Dec 2020 texting each other illegal strategies to prevent Biden from assuming office on 1/20/21, and then tried very hard to implement those strategies, including going so far as having constructed bogus legal theories and a faux-constitutional process to attempt to legitimize their efforts. And of course, purposefully fomenting an insurrection and gleefully watching as it unfolded.

And you can't even say it's the fringe because that wing of the party has literally taken over the GOP. If you don't believe me, ask any of the conservatives who have left the GOP citing how far right it's moved. People will cite AOC as the most radical leftist they can think of, and even her Green New Deal is fundamentally grounded in the ideals of capitalism. Not very radical leftist if you ask me. Where are the actual radical leftists in Congress, espousing an end to American democracy, the monetary system, and capitalism? You can't find them because they're not there.

So given all that, for the new owner of Twitter to tweet that conservatives have moved absolutely nowhere in the past 13 years, shows just how completely out of touch he is with the political climate.

(for anyone looking to reply that the left has move left, I will not contest that, but the point of the cartoon is that the left has exclusively moved left while everyone else has stayed the same. This is objectively not true.)
Ask HN: Whats the best way to secure a NAS device for outside access?
I'm looking to setup a NAS device that can be accessed by one remote person. I was thinking the easy way to do this would be to configure home office VPN appliance that has good performance. I have been out of the security field for awhile, and I'm more of a desktop support guy anyway that has some, but not a lot, of security knowledge.

My goal is to host files remotely from my NAS device. I dont want to put my device on the net as I am sure it will be hacked, so I am looking for VPN appliances to fit the bill. The last time I worked with VPN related technology (15 years ago) they were slow has hell on the processor end and I am thinking that has improved somewhat. I have one person that needs to be able to read and write PDF files directly to the NAS and I am wondering if anyone versed in this field can point me to some equipment that will fit my use-case and provide that user with fast file system access over a VPN tunnel using an appliance device. I don't have a lot of time to configure and support my own custom device.

I currently have a NOKIA BGW320-505 Gateway device with a local provider that supplies ATT's fiber service at 50mpbs Down and 10Mbps Up with a Gigabit Switch. I'm looking for the best way to get reliable and secure VPN capabilities and am thinking of an independent VPN device [like this one](https://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-Insight-Managed-Business-Router/dp/B08GL497XL), but I am open to suggestions. Thank you for your time in helping people find good security solutions.
Answer: Maybe.

What we are experiencing is acceleration. Left-wing accelerationists want to bring on capitalism's end-stage calamities in order to foster a revolution that will overthrow the bourgeoisie. Right-wing accelerationists think that worsening economic conditions will trigger some sort of white-nationalist boogaloo garbage. I'm not an accelerationist, for my part, but it's pretty clear to me that acceleration is happening. Capitalism has been in objective decline for decades, but now the decline is happening faster than most of us ever imagined.

There's an inevitable sequence to this sort of thing. Capitalism becomes corporate capitalism ("Stage 2") due to business consolidation. This requires the proliferation of middle management positions, both to curtail inefficiency and to prop up a middle class (preventing overthrow) while small businesses die, so what you get is an evolution into managerial capitalism. ("Stage 3") At this point, bureaucratic diversions make it hard to know what is happening, and few people--least of all the overpaid boneheads on top, who can't tell when they're being lied to--know if their managers (or consultants) are any good, so this leads to reputation capitalism ("Stage 4") in which there is no such thing as truth--there is only what people say, and power resides in the ability to control what others say. (In other words, might makes right.) This leads to widespread, deliberate misinformation that proliferates; the system begins to shake, but the nature of post-truth capitalism ("Stage 5") allows it to preserve its own stability, for a little while longer, if it can convince a large number of people that they're either already winning (bourgeois false consciousness) or destined to win (fascist fuckery). This isn't hard at all, in a world where nothing means anything, and in which the convincing telling of lies is the surest path to prestigious jobs and high incomes.

We now live in a world where having a national reputation is necessary just to get an average job--hence the pathological obsession of the young with fame and "influencers"-- and in which admission to the most prestigious universities is as competitive as it has ever been but the product is the worst it's ever been. We have the right wing using fascism to win; we have the left wing diverted into callout-culture identity politics and virtue signaling instead of actual change. The dysfunction of capitalism can no longer be contained. We have stagflation now and will see worldwide food riots in a year or two. Read up on the Russian 1990s if you want to know what the capitalistic world (which is now the entire world) is in for.

Is everything falling apart? It's hard to say. It'll get a lot worse in the short term, but humans and human civilization are resilient.
https://www.cst.ch/en/what-is-cst/ makes it sound as if they're trying to build small-diameter tunnels like the Boring Company, but using the strengths of the format much more cleverly.

The lack of humans means that they can build tunnels with fewer escape routes and almost without regard to ventilation, the centrally coordinated 30km/h speed ought to be cheaper than building for the kinds of speeds one must expect from individual drivers.
Firefox has a feature where, if you're logged into firefox, you can see what tabs are open on your other browsers. It makes sharing links across computers trivial.
Is Rust an abstraction over ideas in C++ or is it in fact just a better set of abstractions over the same underlying operations? I would say the latter, mostly due to jettisoning OO nonsense.
"You can move anywhere in the country you work in and your compensation won’t change"

But if you move to a different country, suddenly the work you do is worth less to the company?

Roles should be paid for the skill and work required, not the location of the employee.
Meta partners with RayBan to bring camera sunglasses
I'm hoping he comes up with a source too, but I imagine that the people we're all naturally biased toward generally get evaluated in the most favorable light so it'd be weird if there wasn't some data that showed they were more competent.
I think that we need to start accepting individual responsibility more.

Also, holding companies liable for illegal usage of their products is a constraint on growth.

Why not charge the store that illegal sold the children the Menthol cigarettes?

Why not ask the children what ads they say with cigarettes in them and charge the marketing agency?
EU set to announce new anticompetitive charges against Apple
Yeah the idea is to burn labors and wages to the ground and finish off get middle class.
Reverse engineering the Pokémon trading protocol
The hardest part seems to be sitting down to create those flashcards.
Don't take the following as a critic of your disdain for shell. Your comment reminded me of this:

https://www.gnu.org/software/nosql/4gl.txt

Note to phone users, the formatting works better in landscape.

I don't remember when this was written, but it's an interesting read. It requires a bit different approach, but it is augmented well by 3GL programs. Commands that don't exist can be written in shell, Python, C, Rust, etc. I usually use a shell first approach, start the command as a shell script and rewrite it in something else if necessary. It is quite flexible and extensible if you work within it's data types (probably the wrong term, but f.g. files and text streams).
I wonder how many people on earth can compute 8_000_000_000 * 0.001% 'cos obviously I'm not in that part :-)
"Strong men" make fascism, not good times.

It's pretty much the definition of fascism - a delusional paternalistic idiot infecting everyone around him with his own neuroses and narcissism, in the name of "patriotism" and "respect."
Web scraping via JavaScript runtime heap snapshots
Eventually one will cause it (at least, our world).
Yes! OP is being super condescending. And thus far, this amazing new paradigm in stealing recipes and posting them elsewhere on the internet isn't working as well as any of the "mommy blogs" OP complains about.
Not sure if you are looking to single-file backups or an actual backup solution that includes good encryption. I have very good experience with restic (https://restic.net/), which encrypts all backups and does deduplication, using it on production servers with millions of files, as well as for home use (rather 100k files order of magnitude). It would be a bit too cumbersome for single-file use, though.
I was on my phone at the time so I was being lazy. Sorry. Last couple of times this happened I just checked.

:(
Pure gold. Content like this reminds me of the "favorite" feature available on HN. I will try to read this article a few times during the year. I should have used this "favorite feature" more often. Btw, I love HN. Thanks for sharing!
20 Years Ago Today, Apple Unveiled the EMac
URL shorteners still serve a purpose for sms, marketing, smart redirects, and more. One of the ways to combat some of the concern around what happens if the service shutdowns is to use your own domain when creating short links. This allows you to export your links since you control the domain.

I've been running https://T.LY URL Shortener for the past 2 years and I'm the creator of the URL Shortener Extension (https://t.ly/extension) that has over 400K users. Let me know if any questions around url shorteners.
What we should do is transform the materials. Instead of using hydrocarbon polymers we could start off with sugar based polymers. These can be engineered to degrade and there are already plenty of naturally occurring bacteria that eat them. It will mean being satisfied with plastics that go bad and need to be disposed much quicker, but they will could be both recyclable and naturally degrading if we got the science right. Plastic is such a useful technology that it is unlikely we will simply abandon it.
I recommend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Look_Up - a more up to date version of Idiocracy.
Yes, url shortening is about the simplest thing you can build honestly. I'm all for not hand-rolling everything but its honestly just not worth the cost/headache of relying on someone elses service for this.
This reminds me of when they opened the Gotthard Base Tunnel maybe 5 years ago. It replaced an old mountain railway that connected the North and South ends of the country, and did so at great expense connecting by a straight tunnel that made the route much faster. It takes an incredibly prosperous and stable place to make achieve that increment of improvement. And this feels like more of that same story.

I envy them greatly. The US should be building 5-10 copies of this same system in various regions, connected by a functioning freight rail system for long haul. Our diffuse development pattern and the enormous accompanying expense will be our downfall.
A cure for cancer. That's something no amount of money can currently buy.
How much money would you hope to arrive?

I have been burnt out myself in the past and it was not a pleasure to be in that state of mind. Do you have hope that this might become better in the future? Do you see "light at the end of the tunnel" so to say or are you more like trodding ahead in the dark?
> "visiting workers" (don't know the exact term)

the term is 'posted workers'
I have the chance to love my work. I started a few years ago a company with a friend of mine that I've known and worked with for 10 years. I try to spend as much time as possible with my family, and the rest is just work.

I would basically still do the same thing if I didn't have to, but without the overwhelming pressure.

I would also travel more, my work can be done remotely, and I'd love to meet more people from around the world. But 90% of the money I earn goes to food/water/rent.

My procrastination just makes me do in a few days what I could do in a few hours. I don't really delay stuff, I just do it slower. I've stop pressuring myself into doing it quick because it would increase my anxiety.
Not the OP, but I agree with the sentiment. Advertising is insidious. Since having children, I can really see how much of the economy is driven by getting them hooked on shit they don't need, and that is not good for them. It's the same for adults, but with different methods.

Advertising is not free money. Just this morning there was an example discussed on NPR. Magazines targeting black communities ignored any and all evidence that smoking is bad because such a large portion of their budget came from tobacco ads. This type of thing happens _all the time_.
Evidently the only reason menthol cigarettes aren't banned already like the rest of flavored cigarettes is because they predominantly kill black people. What an absolutely disgusting state of affairs. Seriously, what the fuck?
Why would you like to have this?
Its funny, embedded x86 SBCs cost a fortune when compared with their matx/mitx brothern. Arm SBC's OTOH, have some very inexpensive variants, but the matx/mitx versions cost a relative fortune.

The difference has to be a NRE/unit volume thing, but you would think that someone who needs a x86 in an embedded form factor like this would have the volume to get the price down. DFI has to know that they would sell those things like crazy if they cost $59.
I use Turnstile: https://github.com/fadedbee/turnstile
An orange for a head.

To fulfil a classic anti-joke.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vx9bDegjn75KrpNTn/the-orange...
Twitter... have you ever tried to share a Sharepoint link. Those take up like 4+ lines in emails, it's a nightmare. Back in the day, Microsoft even used to have an internal url shortening service that people used to clean up Sharepoint links.
The James Webb Space Telescope is fully aligned and ready
Fine, 3 in a trillion.
They look great! Too bad they're hardware only.
You are not guaranteed to get COVID.

None of my friends or family have gotten it. Not one.
Mildly amusing bug report for bug in Sakila sample MySQL database
Like others in the thread, I use it for foreign-language vocabulary, and this is the large majority of my cards. However, I have also found that when I'm trying to learn a new topic or domain, making 10-20 cards for basic concepts very early on really helps me get over the initial hurdle where nothing is familiar.
It is definitely true that Joyride can't make VS Code as fully extensible as Emacs is. VS Code is not designed this way. And also some extensibility from an extension need to come from an extension manifest when an extension loads, so Joyride can't declare new commands for instance. I'm guessing that is the simplest thing in Emacs.

Having, draw a rendom number out of a hat, 50% of Emacs extensibility at your REPL is fantastic, and worth pursuing. Joyride can do everything a VS Code extension can do, except the things i mentioned above, and anyone who has used some VS Code extensions knows that that is a lot.

However, the self documenting part described above is not out of reach. Most of the code building up the VS Code API is open source. Same goes for many of the extensions. Looking up and navigating to any of that code is possible. Perhaps a lot of work would need to be put in, but it is possible.
this saying is often used to demean men that don't fit a very narrow definition of "strong"
Hard disagree. The law should affect you exactly as much regardless of income. Poverty is not a moral failing and wealthy people should not be above the law, which they effectively are with a fixed-amount fine.
You wait for the market to cycle again - crash, boom, then crash, etc. Parent poster might have been in their 20s/30s though and implying that waiting for the next cycle would waste prime years of their life.
Dell XPS desktop. The monitor is an Asus screen with a resolution of 1600 x 900. But the problem is the same on other devices using Windows (tested on laptop and desktop using Chrome and Firefox). Turn on the light to see the Earth more clearly.
Most people don't get to fly airplanes.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2740#comi...
No one just throws away a perfectly functioning, fully supported Mac. They hold their value well enough that an “upgrade” is selling your old computer and buying a new one.

Besides, if you care about performance, you’re going to want to do more than just replace the RAM
What an egregious overreach by a non-elected government agency.
It’s also an absolute availability issue. A hospital has, in the near to intermediate time horizon, the staff that it has. So dedicating staff in such ratios make them unavailable to other patients, so triage considerations come into play.
I wish you were wrong. I just looked this up out of curiousity, and Gnome themselves had their charity status denied by the IRS for this reason-

> You have a substantial nonexempt purpose because you develop software published under open source compatible licenses that authorize use by any person for any purpose, including nonexempt purposes such as commercial, recreational, or personal purposes, including campaign intervention and lobbying.

> Mere publishing under open source licenses for all to use does not show that the poor and underprivileged actually use the Tools. ? You do not limit your distribution and do not know who uses the Tools much less if they use them for artistic purposes. ? you do not know who uses the Tools much less what kind of content they create with the Tools.

That said it should be clear here that this was explicitly for a charity, not just a non profit, but even still it's pretty messed up.
Qualcomm’s M1-class laptop chips will be ready for PCs in “late 2023”
Seems like a good way to discover malicious GH accounts.
Have you seen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863?

The "it's pretty trivial to do your own" piece is trivial if you already have gone through the effort of setting up an AWS account and finding a globally unique bucket name across all S3 users. That option by the way requires entering a CC, personal details, and requires you to pay expensive rates compared with shorteners which are typically free. Not to mention that the resultant URL is still comparatively long

Most people won't do that.

FWIW, most larger companies I've worked at have their own internal URL shortener that they run for all their internal docs and whatnot. That doesn't solve the public use case though.
I think if the debate is "everything is pretty bad" vs "everything is kinda bad, but..." then it's not going to go anywhere.

I wish that Wright had focused more on Haidt's concrete suggestions in his article. For example, towards the end of his article, Haidt writes,

"Reforms should reduce the outsize influence of angry extremists and make legislators more responsive to the average voter in their district. One example of such a reform is to end closed party primaries, replacing them with a single, nonpartisan, open primary from which the top several candidates advance to a general election that also uses ranked-choice voting. A version of this voting system has already been implemented in Alaska, and it seems to have given Senator Lisa Murkowski more latitude to oppose former President Trump, whose favored candidate would be a threat to Murkowski in a closed Republican primary but is not in an open one."

And that's an idea that may have pros and cons! But it focuses the debate on specific proposals to improve the situation, rather than just a general referendum on "How Bad Are Things?"
So...for you, the main reason to work hard to earn more money is so that you can break the law and the fines won't matter as much to you?
>A theory fully embraced by every con artist --- and crypto fan.

There are some BTC maximalists who demand that the energy consumption of BTC and the sunk costs give it value. This is the input cost theory of value which is distinctly different. Similar to the labor theory of value.

I'm sure the title to a the Golden Gate Bridge is at least worth the paper it is printed on. Perhaps if there is significant novelty value, someone may buy it for those benefits alone. It is impossible to say how individuals would value it, but again false and fraudulent claims are a distinct and separate matter. Attempting to conflate the issue is somewhat dishonest in itself.
How we fought bad apps and developers in 2021
Which fine steak would that be?
Happiness.

Whatever you wish for is rarely what makes you happy. Rich people have same-ish issues with depression as the rest, even though you'd think they can have all their wishes fulfilled.

We have the tendency to see the next thing we want, and to think "ahh, then I'll be happy. Just that one more thing". Then we get it and hours/weeks/months later we think, "really, that thing?".

Happiness probably doesn't look like what I imagine. Maybe it's hard work, but just so fulfilling? Maybe it's harm to me, which brings me to a whole different path of life? Or hell, maybe it's just a wad of cash, but at least I know it will make me happy.
I'm now curious. Are there any standardized consensus protocol test suites similar to Jepsen for databases?
(Physicist/Engineer of sorts here. Zero atmosphere knowledge)

That half life depends on concentration is not surprising to me; ethanol's half life in the blood also depends on it's concentration and the reason is rather straight forward: the liver has limited amounts of enzymes needed to process booze.

What is surprising to me, though, is that there is a mechanism that has such a massive effect at the extremely low concentrations of methane that are present in the atmosphere. Sure, OH is rare, but I'd guess is generated in large amounts in the upper atmosphere (UV + H2O -> OH- + O+ + momentum to keep them away from each other).

Does anyone here have any hard math on this?
I retired for 3 years in my mid-20s. During that time, I walked, rode my bike, watched TV, went to the movies, worked out, read books. Would just do that until I died.
Heh, a problem we honestly have with age is that the whole article (including SSH key support!) would be a one-liner with age, so it just doesn't get written and it doesn't get SEO :)

It's a good problem to have, but I find it funny.