skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a niche use-case, but one of the things I've been curious about is nested virtualization using Firecracker as the outside VMM and KVM as the inner VMM (with QEMU being the sole userspace process running in the Firecracker VM). This would make it possible to use Firecracker for whole-system virtualization, and run Windows.

KVM-in-Firecracker is apparently technically possible and just works thanks to Linux' support of nested virtualization, but celebratory noises to that effect elicited a slightly freaked out response: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/issues/17...

That issue only really covered the security impliciations of multiple KVM (QEMU) instances inside a given Firecracker instance though, which I can totally see as (strictly, pedantically) problematic. But if QEMU is literally the only thing running (besides an only-what's-necessary /init) in a given Firecracker instance, that sounds to me like I'd have the best of all the worlds (Firecracker's awesome security and hardware emulation) with verifiably no downsides, right?

The only ramifications I can see are if the hardware acceleration involved in nested virtualization might represent a security vulnerability. Theoretically a practical attack would equivalently impact Firecracker-inside-Firecracker use cases as well, on the assumption that it would need to first break out of QEMU and then Firecracker, as opposed to *waves hands* doing something that punches all the way from the twice-VMM'd guest all the way out to the host because of a hardware fault.

Such hardware issues are arguably unfixable though (insert standard paragraph about microcode updates here), so theoretically (from a software boundary correctness perspective) I should be good to go right?
Stunning visuals and interactivity!
You made the assumption I'm implying they're all drug dealers. Try to be more creative. I'm not making that assertion at all. Most of the economy is informal, it's estimated to exceed 60% of their economy. That includes things like sewing a blanket and selling it on the street unrecorded -- likely illegal (tax evasion), definitely 'informal', but not drug dealing.

60+% is not a 'small fraction'. You're factually incorrect.
Also looking for something similar. Our cat never comes indoors and therefore has a food bowl on our porch. Several other cats eat her cat food every day and it feels like we are feeding half a dozen mouths, including birds.
Holy shit. Sounds like my company.
"are US banking really this dysfunctional?"

Yes very much. A lot of banks don't even have 2FA and most that do only offer SMS based. APIs, forget about them. Walk before we can run.
What? NATO navies actually rammed and shot "a bit" on each other. And I haven't heard of this. How.
Sure but the product has to meet expectations otherwise you are claiming the person buys it, pays 10x, gets it, realizes it is exactly the same as the product that costs 1/10th and then buys it again?
Note: I'm old.

All of those monumental-but-surmountable problems can be surmounted with massive, unprofitable collective effort. All the evidence of my lifetime and my parents' says that our society as it exists now can only coordinate collective effort if it is profitable. ∴ those problems will not be solved.
One of the most hilarious things I've ever seen was the head of Google Plus loudly sharing his "1.0 OKR" regarding social adoption at TGIF. It was about that time folks got suspicious and some long-termers found out Vic was lying about adoption rates.
Lol this is why I installed Ubereat on my phone a few weeks ago. If you want to attract attention to your product give out some free money.
Love your website!!
See, I have seen promotions of Tailscale and Zerotier before, but this is the first I have heard of Nebula. If with Nebula I am not beholden to some internet behemoth who may cancel my authentication without notice, I am motivated to try it.
I actually have an SKX013 which I like wayyy more than the 007. Basically the same watch but that 39MM size is perfect.
Enterprises using more K8s, but continue to find it challenging
I’m a guitarist and I can’t understand either.
EU central bank draft for privacy of Digital Euro: ‘anonymity is not desirable’
When I got a new PC last year I tried to sell my old one but couldn't find any buyers for a reasonable price, so I just made it my "home server" (much better than the Pi I had running before).

It has a 1080Ti GPU so I'm just mining Ethereum on it (T-Rex miner) which pays for the electricity and actually makes 2-3 extra coffees a month :)

Of course, mining uses only the GPU (and a little bit of RAM) which leaves the CPU completely free to run a bunch of other services. I'm running an Ark Xbox server and Jellyfin on bare metal, with everything else in Docker (on a Windows 11 base install): AdGuard, OpenVpn client + socks5 proxy, Portainer, Watchtower, Speedtest, Grafana, Prometheus, Awair and Ecobee exporters, CloudFlare DDNS plus a couple of other this-and-thats :)
Tailscale on EdgeOS
But are these the kinds of costs that are accounted for by an insurer? Have local hunters/butchers/restaurants managed to get compensation for loss of revenue?

Also, these costs seem specific to a melt-down. Fukushima wasn't just poorly insured, it failed to heed studies warning about its location.
I wonder if he cashed that out in recent days now that his short position is in the money? If so then maybe he doubled (or better) his $500M and he can plow those profits into more philanthropy?
Such a policy would create a chilling effect on the creation of practical languages which don't refuse to compile unproven code (every language in wide use).
True, it’s difficult to know how things work when they become needlessly complicated and one is unable to move on from a project that is essentially complete.
I believe that the collapse of our global civilization is both inevitable and imminent. Climate changes make it inevitable. Peak oil and cultural bankruptcy make it imminent.

The beauty of this position is that it's structurally unfalsifiable.
It isn’t individualism unless the individual is determining their own goals, and deciding what’s best for themselves. As soon as you have policy deciding what the public good is, you’re no longer discussing what individualists mean by individual freedom, at all. You’re subordinating the individual to the public good. I’m not trying to invalidate your other points, I’m asking you to please not try to frame them as ‘individual freedom, actually.’ I can’t stand doublespeak.
Very good.

> On the gallery page not working, could you let me know what browser and device you're using?

Firefox on Windows desktop. Further testing reveals that the animation is stuck while the page is loading. So if I click on an orb it won't move until the page has fully loaded (and the gallery takes a long time to load).

Actually I'm not sure why but the gallery page seems to get stuck loading for some reason, and the orb animation is stuck accordingly.

Firefox's dev console shows that these are stuck doing something and the page won't... "settle" into finished state:

FaviconLoader.jsm:191 (img)

tracker.js:1 (xhr)
Apple computers don't support CEC (Consumer Electronics Control)
Would it be more secure if they downloaded and unpacked a tarball and ran configure && make install?
So is Intel 4 what was originally going to be their 7nm EUV? That would be good news.
Advertising source may drive experience for Siri users
That was also my dream when I first saw the CD encyclopedia and seeing the first demo of AR using google maps of pointing your phone to a building and seeing information about it and then the introduction of google glass, then it all suddenly disappeared.
I think Apple has done a fantastic job of incremental improvements on their products rather than chasing the next cool thing. Can you name a company that has actually been doing this better?

For instance, they often resist new technologies like high refresh rate or OLED screens, 5G, etc., until they feel the technology is developed sufficiently and won’t impact battery life. There are other brands that compete by making a list of features rather than a coherent product.

Of the examples you named, both the Touch Bar and the butterfly keyboard are gone now, and the latest Macs are the best Macs ever. That shows a willingness to try new things, while also showing that they have good judgement in the long term and a willingness to move away from what doesn’t work.

Also, the iPad and Apple Watch haven’t been as important to Apple as the iPhone, but they are still original and category-defining products that I would call innovative. Not every new product needs to double your company’s market cap to be a big success in the category.
Not just (potentially) civilization-ending levels of climate change—but the near-certainty that, if civilization does end, losing us our current industry and expertise, it will be massively harder to get back to the point we are today, because oil is the conveniently concentrated and portable energy bootstrap that got us this far.
You can think Tesla stock is overvalued AND want to do something about climate change. It looks like he wrote a book and donate 2 billion with another 2 billion promised[0]
https://www.geekwire.com/2021/heres-bill-gates-not-help-figh...
> and someone else always jumps on with why overcomplicated cloud shit should be the solution to everything.

I didn't say anything like that. the opposite in fact.

Next time try reading and understanding a comment before going off like an obnoxious jerk
Missing OKRs means that the team cannot set achievable goals. It is a signal that the team has terrible foresight.

I know the argument is that by being more ambitious and achieving 70%, you are setting ambitious goals. But then the goals are never met. The work doesn't finish. The projects falter. The users are unhappy. Engineers leave.
What Words Should You Start with at Wordle?
Ask HN: Which country is going in the right direction recently?
Are there any countries that HNers think have been making all the right moves as of late and growing?
>As a founder, I've noticed I continuously have less and less time to focus on my health.

The first sentence of the thread makes me wonder if the low-hanging fruit (or "biohack") in this case, is to get away from this situation.
Part of the issue is that places like HN cater to smaller startups and places eager to seem 'hip'. Companies that employ a lot of embedded engineers are invariably either FAANG type companies that don't need to advertise that way, or hardware companies so institutionalized that they treat it like any other administrative job and only post on LinkedIn/indeed. Occasionally you'll get a smaller startup/unicorn that's trying to complete with SV tech giants, but that's uncommon.

I'm trying to implement these sorts of changes (and many others) right now at my own place, but it's quite frustrating from the other side too.
Which really means that if you discover a vulnerability in your system, you assume that it was fully exploited.
Now if only they were also sustainable in terms of water supply.
In Defence of the Single Page Application
> I mean, it won't have a useful value, so I need to re assign to it, at which point I could just be using a new variable right?

I have a hard time understanding why "I could just be using a new variable" follows from "it won't have a useful value".
What often happens when an employee doesnt get promoted? they leave and usually are able to get that next level role in another company. Why is that?? Why does the current company require employees to show a track record and data points to be promoted, while they hire externally for the same position and often only look at resumes, interview and maybe an assessment. Why isnt it the same bar for internal vs external.

I think promotions to the next level should just be considered a new job (in the same company), and you don't 'win it' or get promoted - instead you apply for it and go through an interview process. If you study/train and get through the interview, then you get the job and all it's benefits. This way, employees can focus on doing the right things for the company and if they feel they're ready for the next level, apply for it.

If they don't get it, its based on merit - they can go back, get more experience/study etc. and reapply later. Their ego isn't destroyed, they're not pushed to to do the wrong things simply to get promoted, and I bet most people will remain at the company.
The story needs to continue with Microsoft releasing Edge and adding the "Edge" identifier to the user agent string, then in Chromium Edge, changing the identifier to "Edg" because they need to ensure servers do not confuse the new Edge and the old Edge.
A high schooler invented a low-cost, mind-controlled prosthetic arm
There is of course scope for a wide variety of living situations, but aside from cities and suburbs, there is no way to accommodate a large percentage of the population. Yes, I have ventured outside of the suburbs.
Does anyone know the tooling used to create these?
The hardest thing about making decisions is saying no
Congrats and best to you for reaching out. Two thoughts.

I work with and have a good friend who followed similar trajectory- serious touring musician, show producer, etc for many years, now we work together in tech. He's a project manager. He's fantastic. Half of PMing is logistics and half is personalities. If you have produced, you have done both. The terminology in tech you will have to acquire- the artifacts/objects/roles, the process (agile/scrum/etc), and the tools (jira, github, etc). Whether you do that through self-teaching, classes, certifications depends on how you learn- but I suspect what will best is to find a way to shadow a team. You will learn more in a month from sitting in, asking questions, then following up with research than from any other activity. So if you have any friends in tech on whom you can impose yourself to let you listen in- highly, highly recommend doing that.

Second point. There is a somewhat controversial movement in tech loosely known as "web3". If you have seen talk of "NFTs" or "crypto" these are adjacent. Some people hate it and attribute climate change, fraud and other evils to it. Others do not. If you are someone who would not, there is a burgeoning subfield impacting music. It is NOT stable, but there are lots of interesting and rewarding conversations for people whose experience spans the machinery both of music production and technology implementation.

Best wishes again, seriously. Love your energy in reaching out and am sure things will go well for you.
> At this point, maybe, because we’ve leveled any forests immediately around cities for suburban sprawl.

In the general case, we've leveled forests for food production--originally Native American tribes cleared forest to help them harvest bison en masse and then the descendants of Europeans cleared forest for agriculture. Cities and suburbs eventually came to displace land that was previously used for agriculture.

But in the general case, if you’re starting fresh, urbanization makes it easier to leave the forest intact than if you sprawl out with low-density housing.

> But in the general case, if you’re starting fresh, urbanization makes it easier to leave the forest intact than if you sprawl out with low-density housing.

I mean, this is true in a contrived sense--if you plan your city from its initial settlement and create strict nature preserves then yeah, you can probably have your urban/natural juxtaposition, but that's pretty hard to achieve in a democratic context (good luck keeping this a popular priority over the decades and centuries). Your best bet is starting next to a federally-protected forest so residents of your city can't easily decide they want to expand into it. In whatever case, "starting fresh" is the least realistic option.
Author clearly shot himself in the foot with the mattress mention. I don't know about you guys but I spend close to 1/3 of my life on a mattress. I can afford to spend more than $400 on something I spend 1/3 of my life on.
I used to work in physics, which seems to attract a lot of people with shallow knowledge, and ML seems to be going in a similar direction.

To be clear, I'm actually quite bullish on AI (well, bullish on it ultimately happening, not necessarily on how it will impact humanity). I was mostly reacting to the timeline for photonic quantum computing rather than on ML advancement, actually.

Language modeling is extremely impressive. I've been saying since 2017 that modeling language is basically modeling the world/intelligence, but at the time most people did not seem to believe that. People still don't really seem to believe it, but I think the smarter among us are beginning to now that they see GPT-X & PaLM. I think there is still a substantial gap from "good language model" to "embodied agent taking actions in the world" that we have not bridged and will be potentially pretty hard to, more than mere "minutes."
Any ideas on mitigating, kneecapping "prolific coders"?

My observation has been the torrent-of-poo coder also demands quick (pro forma ~~performa~~) code reviews while nitpicking concern trolling other people's PRs. Not sure what to call this? Gatekeeping, control freak, PKI hacking, passive-aggressive, or maybe just being an asshole.
This guy managed to socially short the only billionaire that you can actually short on financial markets and there is lots of liquidity.

Whatever you think about Musk he's the only celebrity/cult-figure on which people can bet in droves and that includes the possibility of profiting from his downfall or rise.

People who speculated on Johnny Depp downfall or Harvey Weinstein or Jack Nicholson...they had no way to make money off of that.

Not even elections are as direct because one has to unpack the policies and assign a probability of the candidate keeping their promises.

If you think the tide will turn against Musk this billionaire Dowd should just short Tesla
> There was nowhere near enough big projects to get everyone the evidence they needed for promotions.

Would the goal be to promote everyone? Who's going to do the work they all used to do?
Imperative and OOP are not the same though.

None of the languages I mentioned are FP. Though FP has benefits and many of the languages or frameworks mentioned above are either moving towards FP or borrowing concepts from FP.

You're not wrong about intermediate state. I shouldn't have emphasized FP here that wasn't my point. An imperative program that is just imperative without OOP or FP tends to be simpler then OOP itself.
@dang: I posted this two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31230687

How is this now at 33 points? I've observed this a few times; I'll post something and it won't get much traction, then someone else will post it and it shoots up.
Integrating with the HubSpot API Using EveryAuth
It is a pain point, but relevant for legal liability and tracking security concerns, else you quickly have wild west where it's unclear what kind of problems affect which team and how
I agree with you. But dont add a new tool (even a more general one) unless it fills a gap, or has other specific benefits.
Yes, but that stuff came later. It's actually the first way I used Perl on the web, but by then PHP was off to the races.

You could even get modules that would allow you to inline Python just like PHP, although the interaction between that and mandatory indentation could get a bit "interesting".

Also perhaps ironically, this style of mixing code and HTML has generally come to be regarded as an antipattern. PHP may still be able to do that, but woe unto the project that wants to write tons of code that way. But it's still the foothold PHP used to wedge its way into at least the B tier of languages.
But isn’t that because the Clairenote alternative is new to you?

Seems like an unfair comparison.
> why would a company do that?

Or maybe it's because the company is always looking for the runaway 10X success story (like search, ads, etc). Incremental growth doesn't make a dent in the balance sheet. So they're always shutting down the products that didn't explode into a success and starting new ones to roll the dice.
Most of them don't even have smartphones, only 50% of the population uses the internet and you are talking about learning to use crypto when they didn't even use a normal bank or google before.

Racist my ass, you entitled first world country geek.
I understand the perspective of people who view their profession as solely a job, checking out after their 9-5 and doing other things with their life. This isn't me. I enjoy the work. Idealistically, I think I can make a large impact on people with my knowledge and experience. Shave off a seconds on a workflow in Google Docs end-to-end, that's a net good to humanity. It's not all about compensation. At some point it's almost only about impact, and impact often requires higher titles and putting in hours due to systems that govern these large companies.
I got 138 which is apparently 99.5 percentile. I ran out of time on #32. This is about right based on an IRL test I took before where I scored 99.7 percentile.

Psychologically, it's hard to remain humble when you always score 99+ on every measure of intelligence. Even for unrelated topics like political opinions or personal ethos, I find myself thinking that almost everyone I disagree with is overwhelmingly likely be less intelligent than me, and therefore probably wrong. When you're <= average intelligence and most people disagree with your opinions, it makes sense to think that you might be making some mistake in evaluation. When you're 3 sigma above average and most people disagree with you, it's a lot more likely that they're the ones not fully thinking things through.

Of course, anyone can still be wrong about things, but is that likely? Many say that IQ doesn't measure intelligence, but based on the evidence I disagree with that too, so it's pretty unfalsifiable. Either I'm an idiot using a meaningless test to judge himself superior, or I'm actually superior; until someone comes up with a more 'accepted' measure of intelligence (they won't), well, it is what it is.
As it stands stakeholder capitalism is a scam perpetrated by the professional-managerial class on everyone else.

ESG offers a viable career path for people who don't actually like finance but want the money it pays. Plus, you get to tell yourself you're Making the world a better place. What's not to like?
> the still unsolved questions of where to dump the waste

This isn't an unsolved problem, just an uneconomical one - there isn't enough waste for any of the possible solutions to be economical. The solution to getting rid of nuclear waste, is to produce enough of it to make R&D worthwhile.

> of nuclear weapon fuel proliferation

But how does this relate to power plants? The military will get its nukes, whether or not the plants are built.
Proving that you can lead does not neccesarily mean that you must prove others cannot lead. This is the fundamental problem in your thinking when you make such generic and universal claims. If people are doing this (and I do believe it happens a lot), then it is certainly very toxic culture but calling it "toxic masculinity" is forcing the issues into your own sexist ideologies. Also, competitiveness is not by default "masculine". You are doing massive disservice to many brilliant competative and successful women by making such blanket claims. When resources are finite, competition are natural regardless of sex. For example, we all need to demonstrate good grades out of school to get in to programs with very limited seats. Being able to compete is neither exclusive or inherent male characteristic.