skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Follina – a Microsoft Office code execution vulnerability
Conversely, you can argue that modern medicine affects humanity's gene pool much stronger in the opposite direction by giving people with diverse genetic diseases a much longer lifespan than they would have had a century ago.
I'm definitely not an expert on Girard's work but I agree with what you said. This seems to map on to the concept of `external` mediation [0].

I agree that `external` mimetic mediation does play a role in the choices that you described but I don't think Girard claims that this is the only way desire is mediated. Given multiple options, one's intrinsic desire of self-preservation and to live a high quality life might also play a factor in what one chooses for dinner.

On the other hand, there are a lot of cases where people take seemingly irrational actions because they seek safety in the masses. I think his theories are useful in explaining the latter. It would definitely be a stretch to claim that all desires are mimetic but it would also be a stretch to claim that there exists a human being that is devoid of mimetic desire.

I think it is definitely useful to understand his theories and observe them in action in society without it having to define your entire world view.

[0] https://iep.utm.edu/girard/#SH2a
Also a Solaris thing, yeah? (beadm etc)
So how does this help with taxes for hedge investors anyway?

Lose money in the markets to save on taxes? Makes zero sense.
When I saw the headline I thought it was about Martin Shkreli, but Cathie Woods makes sense too.
Ask HN: SaaS owners, do you see an increase in churn lately?
We had about 4-5% monthly churn for like 3 years and this year it increased about 20-40% to 6-7%. In the last 12 months number of new customers stayed relatively the same while in pandemic increased from 50/month to 100/month.

Nothing was changed on our side and customers don't seem to go to competition.

I'm wondering if it's just churn catching up or it's something caused by the economy (inflation, recession fears) since our main customers are very small online businesses thus my post here, maybe i'm not the only one.
Consider that you're arguing on a spectrum of the acceptability of adolescents in sexual situations.

You may want to engage with that idea, but as for me, fuck no, fucking never and fuck anyone who stands for it.
While this is true, bear markets usually last 12-18 months. We're just getting started.

I think it's fine (but not optimal) not to sell if you're playing the long game.

I'm all in cash and short positions right now. If my investing track record is anything to go by, that's a signal we've hit bottom. I'm betting otherwise, but what do I know.
People have been waking up to this during the current gas price crisis... governments say they're doing everything they can, but they can't do more, because of the global oil prices,...

...meanwhile more than half of the gas price goes to the government, and people are notcing.
Even setting aside the "the touch bar should have been above the function keys instead of replacing them", the touch bar also just didn't work very well. My experience with it was that it froze somewhat frequently and the shifting buttons lead to me hitting the wrong thing because what was under my finger changed right as I was pressing it. The touch bar being context-sensitive is also sort of the opposite of a stream deck; a large part of the point of the stream deck is that the buttons control OBS (or your software of choice) regardless of what application is active. The touch bar could be configured to do that, but there wasn't anything guiding people to do so.
15 or so years ago our local Walmart got a new location and store. They must have at least 40 checkout lanes, and when I first saw them I was surprised they would staff that many.

Of course, as far as I could tell they never even approached that. Maybe during Black Friday a but I’m not insane enough to go to a Walmart of all places on that day. Even before they had self checkouts put in the most I ever saw was perhaps 3 or 4 staffed. Now that they have (too few) self checkouts I think they often don’t even have a single one staffed.

Our local Target is a far smaller store, with maybe 8 checkout lanes. They’re usually all staffed, and by people who actually try to do a good job.
/me waves from the tropics, where there are effectively no seasons

Although after living here long enough, you start to recognize monsoonal microseasons. It's still ~30 deg C all year around, but the average is a couple of degrees cooler in 'winter', especially after a couple of days of solid rain, and a couple of degrees hotter in 'summer', especially after a dry spell.
Yes, forcing the OS on people is a bit much. Rpis are not super reliable due to sdcard wear, so i personally prefer to run it on a X86 home server, so the os is not an option then as I use it for other thigs. Currently I'm using a VM to run the os on that server, which seems excessive, comsumes 20gb as a vdi image. I believe a supervised docker install is an option now, but it's officially classed as unspoppported. Shame it's so convoluted to get running.
Ransomware attack sends US county back to 1977
I'm 59 and have a six-pack. They're made in the kitchen. If you have any muscle tone at all, and you're lean enough, you'll have very visible abs.
There was no judgment of "taste" at all. This was all automated.

"The Twitter violation algorithm took 3 minutes to detect, flag, lock my account, and send me an email. There is no way a human can read tweets so fast, so it’s a violation detection bot army doing at work. Doing this at scale means all tweets are following some fast regex, and likely, an AI is getting trained and making decisions."
This is interesting. Is anything known or documented about the low-level protocol used to upload images and recognize input? I can see it being useful as a controller for specialized applications, including embedded ones, but only if there's a low-level C API.
Thank you for the detailed reply!

As for what I actually did with Python, it was a mixture of cli apps, apis in Flask and a fair amount of personal libraries, like an async couchdb client library and a wrapper around termux-api commands.
I didn't really like it last time I tried it either... I'm going to try ESPHome next: https://esphome.io/index.html
It turns out that you can write proven correct C compilers (CompCert), proven correct Operating Systems (seL4), and proven correct secure network protocols using proof assistants like Coq and F*. All of those proof assistants are using languages that are not Turing complete. You have to prove termination if the proof assistants can’t automatically prove it. So being Turing complete is not really necessary for writing complex software.
Same here. I have it coupled with Tailscale to enjoy the same benefits remotely on my phone

https://nicolaslouge.com/post/install-adguard-home-raspberry...
Scrupulously count your calories, and go on a 1500 KCal/day diet until you can see them.
I'm glad that you were emotionally attached to your child when they were 12 months old, and that is completely normal. I apologise if I gave the impression that I thought parents would find it easy to lose a child at that age.

The point of my thought experiment, though, was not to imagine what a parent would do, but what someone with a terminal diagnose would wish their parents had done.

I accept that this is not an easy thing to talk about, nor are there any easy answers, so I'm not trying to start an argument. If someone wants to think about it, they can, and it's just a difficult hypothetical that came to my mind when I read the original comment.
Not quite bikeshedding... Sheffielding?
greater fools may be in infinite supply, but fool acquisition costs are rising sharply.

Invest accordingly.
I anticipated this sort of response seeing the title but didn’t anticipate it being (currently) at the top of the comments on HN. It’s a pretty myopic take.

I live in a place (Seattle) where the special thing about the weather is that it’s temperate and fairly predictable (our version of timeframe in your paraphrase is 5 minutes, otherwise it’s fluctuations within a stable range). Well, it used to be anyway.

Two data points doesn’t make a trend, three might suggest keeping an eye on it. Five years running with consistently uncommon heat and humidity and prolonged fire seasons isn’t a weather variable, it’s a change in climate.

Again, Seattle has been relatively stable. Relative to global temperatures, we’ve lagged behind the trend. World records have been concentrated in recent years in a way that’s only deniable if your probability models scale to centuries. Local records in other places make that completely untenable as a hypothesis, with some places breaking whatever pertinent record pretty much constantly for several years longer.

Weather does change, it’s the nature of living on a spheroid spinning around on a tilted axis with most of its energy coming from a nearby star. Many trips around that star showing similar persisting changes isn’t weather. It’s climate.
I'm not trying to swindle you. I'm trying to have an intelligent conversation. You don't need to call all my points bullshit :)

It depends on the level of guarantees you want for that data. If we're communicating, and you're okay with me changing my APIs, or even changing the data itself in ways we didn't previously agree upon, then you 100% don't need a blockchain. And if you don't have a lot of entities that need to coordinate on the data, then there might be an easier solution.
Weird

In the 11+y I've been on Reddit, never seen that behavior
> The aforementioned languages not only boil down Smalltalk's object system into a basic "code sharing" scheme

This is wrong. C++ wasn't based on Smalltalk. It was inspired by ideas in Simula, which predated Smalltalk. Alan Kay tried to convince people (and succeeded with many) that he owned the term object-oriented, because he was the first person to use it. He wanted it mean only his ideas, but from very early on people were applying it to a variety of ideas that were developing concurrently in the sixties and seventies, his being only one flavor among others. He never gave up trying to convince people that all the other competing ideas were a distorted, mistaken version of his own, but the truth is that those other ideas had their own history and earned their success on their own merits.
I have an early one someone gave me and there was a custom ROM that one could flash that let one choose their own DNS servers.[FN1] I actually bought a Teensy 2.0 in order to install the custom ROM, but I never got around to doing it. So now I have an old Chromecast and a Teensy 2.0 I am looking to make use of.

TBH, I always found the Chromecast proposition to be unreasonable: "Look at this neat form factor single board computer you just paid for. Too bad only Google is allowed to have control over it. Sorry, you cannot use this for your own projects because [unspecified]. Google must be allowed to conduct surveilllance and gather data." By comparison, lack of complete control over the RPi GPU is rather easy to ignore. AFAIK, the RPi Foundation is not selling online ad services. Compare the number of cool projects people have done with the RPi versus the Chromecast.

1. I think it used to be possible to force use of different DNS servers via DHCP as well.
Analysis: U.S. trucking downturn foreshadows possible economic gloom
Well, it's also that the people with the time and mobility to drive up to farms to buy local organic produce also tend to be price insensitive, so it makes sense for the farmer to price accordingly.

This also applies to wineries: buying a bottle directly at the cellar door is almost always more expensive buying it at $LIQUOR_SUPERSTORE, but the people plonking down $100 for a bottle don't care, so this is a perfectly sensible pricing strategy.
Remember when Chamath Palhapitiya was claiming he's the new Warren Buffett on CNBC. Blew up a lot of retailer investors funds through his SPACs although he himself Madeoff quite well given the closing conditions.
If people knew what they were doing they wouldn't need hedge funds. I don't think anyone got bait-and-switched. caveat emptor I suppose.
> > This is in fact one of the very few places where Hardware RAID solutions can have an edge over Software solutions - if you use a hardware RAID card, the extra write copies of the data will not have to go over the PCI bus, since it is the RAID controller that will generate the extra copy.

This is not a thing to bother (especially after we moved from PCI to PCI-E) for a home user.

The only great thing about HW RAID is what in case your primary drive fail-but-not-fail-completely, ie it would still be seen in the BIOS and BIOS would try to boot from it (but it wouldn't be able to, because drive is half-dead) is what for the BIOS a controller presents a single device and so it would allow booting from a healthy drive.

But again, if this is not a server in a remote oil digging site served twice a year by air (been there, done that) this is not a thing to bother for a home user.

> the possibility of the hardware controller failing is a worry, so I’d need to have a backup strategy for the backup disks

If you use a basic mirror (striped or not) the recovery process is straightforward - for a simple mirror just stick it in any other system/controller, for a striped you would need GetDataBack or R-Studio or just find a newer model of the RAID card from the same vendor.

In your case I would advise to have a single disk in the ODD bay as a boot/system drive and use both your HDDs as an LVM PVs, without fdisk shenanigans. If you/when you decide to upgrade/replace disks the migration would be just a couple of commands like

pvcreate /dev/sdc
vgextend your_vg /dev/sdc
pvmove /dev/mapper/your_vg__your_lv /dev/sda /dev/sdc
vgreduce /dev/sda
Thank you very much! This is great stuff, I have definitely found it overwhelming.
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You let it run when there's wires around? I went through and attached all wires to the wall or behind immovable things before I let the vacuum run. I just assumed it would rip the crap out of my wires and start a fire.
> a 26-week old fetus is considered to be a bundle of cell

"For 26 weeks of gestation, the percentages were significantly higher with a survival rate of 81.4% and survival without impairment rate of 75.6%."

https://www.verywellfamily.com/premature-birth-and-viability...
You make money while you make money. you would have made bank with ARKK but just not in hindsight
For perfect security, the biggest problem is that you can't buy any hardware and can't use any third-party software because it could be malicious (and can't hire/delegate anything).

To serve anything via HTTPS you pretty much need a general purpose computer, which is going to be very challenging to build by hand from scratch starting from raw materials.
#NaturalVariability
Termination is undecidable in general but that is not a problem in practice. Proof assistants like Coq, LEAN etc. can automatically prove termination for most practical code. And if not, the developer has to prove termination by hand. Which is not hard in most cases I have encountered. And if you still can’t do it you simply add a “fuel” natural number counter that guarantees termination (exit when out of fuel).
I owned a cafe around 2005 and found out you could buy a pay phone on Ebay which I did and then hung outside of the building by the front door. I printed a little placard that read "Mo' Money Telcom" with a wacky take on standard instructions, that I am sure no one read except my friends. I collected my winnings daily until one night someone ripped the payphone off the wall thereby stealing my entire telcom company. To this day, no income has ever given me such joy. It was like random jackpots between 3 to 8 dollars a day which is practically nothing, but it was the embodiment of "make money while you sleep" and it made me damn happy.
>Also, if Terraform configuration is refactored, for example, to wrap a bunch of frequently copy-pasted resources into a module, state must be manually reconciled before proceeding.

Not true since Terraform 1.1 introduced moved blocks : https://www.terraform.io/language/modules/develop/refactorin...
Renaissance tech still does this and has been beating the market for decades. James Simons is a mathematician by training
They have touch bar on some MacBook models. Or is it about the tactile feel of physical buttons?..
Southern IL. Coldest spring ever. The roses are doing wonderfully.

Much extreme seesawing of temperature too.
Turning Red is a Pixar film, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pixar_films
Show HN: I'm coding redesigning our site live, for the next 3 hours
I feel with investing classes it often works the other way around-- people hear about all these folks getting rich off of crypto or the stock market, feel it sounds like something they can do, and then take an investing class to figure out how to do that. So a lot of people already buy into crypto just based on the fact that everyone has heard stories about crypto millionaires, plus if that's not enough-- there are ads for them at every sports game and Goldman Sachs is invested. At that point it'll take a lot to convince anyone in one of those classes that they're better off investing responsibly
It's a weather forecast not a research paper.

And it goes on to say
"Unfortunately, our lead will only increase with the third week of May likely to shatter numerous records across the state of Texas. "

Anyway, those 10 days were hotter than any other first 10 days of May:

https://www.lcra.org/first-ten-days-of-may-among-the-hottest...
> some uninformed comments about "velocity of money" decreasing and that's the reason we won't have inflation (this was during the "transitory" phase of inflation denial).

Far be it from me to defend ARK but this statement I've seen repeated by CFAs -- velocity of money is linked to inflation -- it's the only reason we didn't see inflation in the "real" economy earlier, no?

Since financial assets were still moving freely (and sovereign bond yields were crushed), they felt the immediate effects of inflation. It's obviously idiotic to say that velocity of money will be decreasing going forward or something (did she say this? surely not?), but it seems like the recent increase in inflation is due to the real economy opening back up (and velocity returning to normal) along with lingering supply side shocks.

Would love some correction if I've got this the wrong way 'round.
Modeling systems that know about you is game theory. I wonder how much of that is in modern trading algorithms?
https://www.lcra.org/first-ten-days-of-may-among-the-hottest...

And short term weather forecasting is common technology.
What independent auth server do you use?
I didn’t know it was possible, how embarrassing.

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/homekit/
When I lived in Minneapolis, police encouraged a bike registry; they'd send you this serial number sticker plate that affixed to the frame rather well.

No doubt many flaws with that, I don't know if it helped. But I got a sticker.

(3M home town... they are good at sticking things together.)
>Of course, if your child is literally starving, you should look to a less than ideal, short term solution.

Yes. That's the issue we're having here. People are encountering that situation of being unable to find formula, meaning that their children are literally at risk of starving, asking for alternatives and being told 'there's just no viable alternative' by the media as though that information will make formula appear out of thin air. They are looking for that less than ideal short term solution from the media, which is responding oddly.

It is quite simple to provide short-term replacements for infant formula. Famine relief, missionary and other charities do have reliable and nutritious recipes for baby formula alternatives that can be made in bush conditions and over open fires in metal pots.
Thanks! the major threads look to be:

My smart home 2021: A Home Assistant love story - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30349767 - Feb 2022 (200 comments)

Smoking a turkey with Prometheus, Home Assistant, and Grafana - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29361741 - Nov 2021 (71 comments)

Home Assistant – open-source home automation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28544835 - Sept 2021 (177 comments)

Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27779453 - July 2021 (76 comments)

IoT Unravelled Part 1: It's a Mess but Then There's Home Assistant - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25184763 - Nov 2020 (188 comments)

Open-Source Home Automation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21665125 - Nov 2019 (231 comments)

Home Assistant: Open-source home automation platform running on Python 3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17826373 - Aug 2018 (196 comments)

Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform running on Python 3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15521743 - Oct 2017 (170 comments)
Not at all. See CompCert, seL4, F* (F-star) and Coq for examples of how it is done.
Yeah, the Stream Deck's software is great because it doesn't require using up one of the limited keyboard keys (or creating a modifier-based combo that can interrupt your typing) for each function.
Quest games are also fairly cheap compared to console games as a whole, so they might be somewhat equivalent in overall software purchased. Also, a lot of people are still hopping on the Quest/VR train so I would expect that number to go up.
It would be very hard to do so because SSL prevents middlemen from intercepting and modifying data. You'd have to install custom SSL certificates on all devices connected to your network like businesses do. PiHole would then use a copy of that custom certificate to decrypt the SSL, inspect/modify the contents, re-encrypt the contents with a normal SSL certificate, and send it off to its final destination.

I've looked into this and it seems like there is no software out there that makes this easy. For it to be convenient enough to make sense, I think there would have to be some router 'login' page which makes downloading and installing the certificate as easy as possible. But, even 'easy as possible' would probably be too inconvenient for any guests who just want to use your wifi. Maybe it could be optional somehow. Don't install the custom certificate? Fine but you'll still get ads. Install the custom certificate? Awesome, your ads will be blocked.
When the tens of thousands of programs that give windows it's monopolistic advantage are reprogrammed and recompiled to support arm's instruction set.

So never.
> Unfortunately, on Windows, Teams does not have global hotkeys for mute/unmute mic, audio on/off, video on/off etc

If I'm understanding your need correctly, you can do this with Microsoft Powertoys: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/video-con...
I've read Girard and watched many of his lectures (including the 5-part series).

I generally agree with mimetic theory and find it explanatory in many situations. It is a useful theory in that sense.

Like all theories, I think it has its limits. As you noted, I don't think it fully explains the formation of all desires. For instance, for me it seems to not explain novel desire. What if we had several models of desire (i.e. other people, inspiration from nature, etc.), and we were to "synthesize" a new desire that was heretofore unthought of? Is that new desire mimetic? I suppose you could argue that the new desire was intermediated by several models, but it seems to not allow for the possibility of creativity, even if that creativity was merely the blending of several models.
Sheffield stand is pretty good. Even better would be to create a culture where people don't steal bikes, so you don't need to lock them up at all
No tldr?