skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I swear to god sometimes I feel our proffesion mostly consists of people that are a weired combination of arrogant and alternatively gifted. They do not value and do not understand how the rest of society does things.

Hundreds of years ago we have invented this cool thing called a Safe. It works better than 90% of tech-based security systems out there. Write something on a piece of paper, put it behind a locked door, and you will be safe from 99% of scams and attacks that exist. If someone breaks into your house, and get this piece pf paper they will be leaving real fingerprints, and real police will get involved. If noone breaks into your house, then only select few people are ever near that safe.
The high energy frontier the FCC targets is one of the more accessible regions: it's not like there's any viable way to travel the interstellar distances needed to really look for dark matter outside the solar systems.

We're stuck on earth for the foreseeable future, and building 2 more of the instruments we're already building won't do anything to resolve the problems high energy physics struggle with.
Can a random Venezuelan sign up for Zelle? I needed an SSN if I recall correctly (in the US at least).

And yes, I've donated to the Ukrainian military through https://uahelp.monobank.ua/ , with a normal credit card donation. But these are slightly different things. One is a catch-all army account, which will probably take its time to percolate the money to whomever the higher-ups think needs it most. The other are grassroots initiatives supporting small divisions or local ter-oboronas (and yes, some of them are probably fake, but I don't think the majority is; it's a risk you take when you're funding anything). Neither replaces the other; in a war, there are things that the central government can do that a local volunteer bataillon can't, and vice versa.
Yes and their plenty of phone manufactures that give you a choice of buying phones with USB-C.
For anyone wanting to work on problems like these at commercial scale, check out Enphase[1]. We build real AC microgrids that perform realtime energy production and consumption calculations to enable true microgrid orchestration with or without the presence of the utility.

[1] https://enphase.com
Yeah but to be native and die you kinda have to be involved somehow in the game in the vast majority of cases.
The tech for wireless charging is not really that new and isn't really changing a large amount. My Nokia 920 uses the same charging standard as the latest iPhones. iPhones can charge on the old charger I have, the 920 can charge on an iPhone charger. That phone came out a decade ago.
>I hope this person leaks the 100GB files to crash the crypto market

If a coin with a $40b mcap going to zero in a few hours doesnt crash the crypto market I highly doubt a telegram chat dump will
Running servers and developing apps isn't free. I'd rather they sell their premium service to some users than sell data.
They don't want you to spend 3 hours a day commuting, that's up to you. That does sound like a miserable commute.

A quick google search suggests that the average US commute is 28 minutes one way, or about an hour a day, not 3 hours a day. The average US commuter is probably in their own car though, mass transit is usually going to add some, despite other social and personal benefits. I also know it's going to be higher in certain major metro areas. And that the US built environment is kind of insane, and sometimes seems like it was honestly designed to maximize commutes.

I agree nobody should ever be spending 3 hours a day commuting. But it's not like the only possibilities are working from home or 3 hours commuting...
Seems like a huge own goal to cut Russia off from SWIFT, now there’s basically no way at all to monitor their financial industry.
NFT-Scented Candle
Circle: Finance Built for the Digital World
My approach to that is to follow xkcd advice with an emergency password which looks less like a random string but more like a real world phrase.

I try to use my local language and some obscure local slang to avoid being guessed by an international dictionary.
It's probably useful to talk about what Operations Management is first. It's a business discipline that touches on many parts of a business. It is defined as "the management of an organization's productive resources or its production system, which converts inputs into the organization's products and services". You can get a PhD in Operations Management.

In tech, software and data is the "productive resources", and the "production system" is the actual system you build out of those resources: the website, API, etc. You don't have to write any software to build and manage that production system. Maybe that's unusual to people in tech today, but it's a fact that you don't have to write a single line of code to build and operate such a system. Heroku, PagerDuty, DataDog, Splunk, Octopus, AWS, etc, all are products built with the sole purpose of enabling operations without the need to write code. You can assemble logging, alerting, monitoring, web server, networking, database, deployment, etc, without ever writing a single line of code, and have it be highly available and highly reliable.

The title will vary (Systems Engineer, Operations Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Systems Administrator) but the job is the same: to use Operations Management techniques to ensure the products and services are productive. You can use software development practices for all of this, sure! But they are absolutely not a requirement to accomplish the goal. And many other roles in the company are involved in Operations (QA, PM, DM, etc) and may or may not use code. The business doesn't care about code, it cares that its resources are being used properly and the production line is operating nominally.

In terms of the distinction between builders and operators: you could say that a construction worker and a custodial worker are part of the same occupation because a lot of their skills overlap. They both need to understand how the building works and may need to build/repair parts of it at times. But they're still two different disciplines that require different training, experience, and day to day responsibilities, and as such we don't lump them into the same category.
Has someone posted a resource, or checklist of actions I can take, or backups I should make to avoid getting in this circumstance?
Similar experience here, but when using the mobile app.

My bank in my country of origin also used to use a token, but they changed to a "token app" in the phone about 10 years ago.

However to authorise this app I had to use an ATM. Since this bank only has ATMs in one country, this means I couldn't lose or trade my phone.

After I moved I kept a super old iPhone in a drawer only for this bank, but at some point the app kept threatening me to upgrade, otherwise it would stop working in the next version. But I couldn't upgrade because my decade-old phone was too old for the new version.

Since even blocking my debit card via phone required using the "token app" (something incomprehensible to me), it became too risky to keep this account.

At this point I had no recourse but to close the account.
Freakonomics published a podcast episode about this sort of thing: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-perfect-crime-2/

> I don’t actually want to kill anyone. And I don’t endorse the idea of wanting to kill anyone. But if I did, and I were looking for a way to do it and get away with it, how would I do it? I’d wait ‘til they were outside, walking down the street, maybe crossing at the light … and then I’d run them over in my car. Now, I’d have to make sure that no one knew I was trying to run them over. But they’d be dead and I, especially in New York City, would in all likelihood go scot-free.
My former student association, BEST, ran on https://best.eu.org for over two decades. They also have best-eu.org as a mitigation strategy (they unfortunately didn't manage to grab best.eu back when .eu launched). IIRC the eu.org was always reliable so it's not been a problem. They do a lot of nontrivial IT, with all kinds of internal sites of varying quality, tons of email lists on a homecoded engine, and so on, and so forth. While I was involved (over a decade ago, mind), the domain was never a source for trouble.

I think you could do worse for a free subdomain provider.
Lots of Latin America (especially Brazil) still have remnants of import-substitution policies [1], where tariffs on manufactured goods are high to encourage domestic industry. It's one reason Lua was created (in Brazil), because importing customised software from abroad was too expensive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Import_substitution_industrial...
Does anyone know of programming tools for better thinking? I used to be a very good programmer, and now I run a large research organization. One would think that there would be ample opportunity to use my programming skills to better manage the organization, but there's little more than exploring business data using Excel. The closest I've come is the Thinking in Systems stuff that Donella Meadows and her colleagues have done.

Are there other Thinking Tools for programmers who want an edge in managing large groups?
> Very likely referring to “satoshis” which is a small amount of bitcoin.

Hackerfreund, nie vergessen: Drei können ein Geheimnis bewahren, wenn zwei davon John McAfee und Dan Kaminsky sind.

(Ich schalte jetzt wieder auf Englisch um, ich muss mich auf maschinelle Übersetzungen für synchrone Gespräche verlassen)

Do people still think Satoshi was a singular guy? I had a convo at a picnic about how it was probably a team and some very smart people acted like they hadn't thought of that, people who definitely had heard of Shamir's Secret Sharing and read Wired or whatever, so should have been able to connect the dots that maybe "Satoshi" was a set of people ,and one of them died or lost access to a key.

Here is the wayback archive of Wikipedia from that summer:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130208051024/https://en.wikipe...

And a current link to the article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing
Ah, ok. I saw the S3 URLs and assumed that's the platform you're using.
But this technical problem is unsolvable, our industry lived in arrogance of pretending they solve problems they can't actually they don't, and blaming the user when it fails
Google Cloud: Major packet loss between multiple regions – Europe and Asia
> People have been putting stupid stuff into text-to-speech since the late 90s with iMacs G3.

People have been putting stupid stuff into text-to-speech since the early 80s after it was popularised by the SP0256 chip.
That would be an incredibly humorous-and stupid reaction to this silly and obvious bluff attempt.
> if you don't pay your taxes, they might not take your house.

At least in the states they absolutely do. It starts off as a tax lien which is then sold to whoever wants to buy it, so that the private sector handles actually reclaiming the land and re-listing it on the stock market.
Depends on the lifestyle you want. Are you looking to make a ton of dough and retire early? CA is going to give you a better chance for that. Are you looking for a good quality of life for you and your children? Germany is better for that. You'll be working longer in Germany, so make your peace with that, but that's a small price to pay for your family to be able to put down roots and be around extended family. If it's any consolation, I'd bet a middle class existence in germany is a better life than even the average dev in CA can afford.
"A lot of people" is going to have a mushy definition, but to me, aerospace engineers + physicists, + biotech workers (probably a small subset) + actuaries + the rest you mentioned = not many people. Like <1% of of the US population?
This is a famous quote from the first real book on category theory. "Categories for the Working Mathematician" by Saunders Mac Lane.
Apple could have at least attempted to standardize his port, but they did not because they charged money when a third pary uses their proprietary ports. So stop crying for poor Apple, they have paid PR people to defend them with better arguments anyway.
LUKS these days supports Argon2, which has configurable time, memory, and parallelism parameters; brute-forcing a single weak password can be as slow as you want it to be. The offline backup of my pass(1) repository on a thumb drive on my keychain takes more than 3 minutes to unlock on an i7-7700K.
anything anti crypto is an automatic upvote for most people here, regardless of content. emotions are high
My Vision: Heptabase (2001)
I had that experience with some pieces in this work: https://mikiplayspiano.bandcamp.com/releases
A lot of it is sparse, and then there are moments that remind me of the black MIDI genre.
Ask HN-Beginner Arduino Kits
I’m not a super techy person (dentist) but I like the articles and discussions here.

My son (almost 9) is showing some interest in computers and programming. He likes his computer class in school and they do some programming lite games. He also likes taking things apart to see how they work.

Are there any good arduino all-in-one kits out there I could get and play around with him so he could see the connection between software and hardware? Want to keep it mostly fun and not overbearing.
It's for your protection. Besides Google, some 3 letter agencies and some Google customers noone else knows what you're searching for.
Must have been pretty hard to carry around a type case the weight of a wardrobe.
Yes I know there's outside the US, I had in mind that (some of) the development in the US could move abroad

Didn't know about NHI.
Fantastic write up of a complex bug, really nice to see the amount of work that went into making the interplay of the various innocent components result in unexpected behavior.
Is this text-transcription working offline? Or it's sending everything to the servers?
They removed those endpoints last year[1], to help combat abuse.

[1]: https://discuss.dev.twitch.tv/t/deprecation-of-create-and-de...
I'm not for sure about how wordpress would get their stats, but I imagine it's something like scan the internet and put "/wp-admin" behind the base url. If it comes back with the wordpress login page, then count it. At least that's how it seems like hackers find out if you have wordpress from my http server logs.

Also someone posted this thing a while back that does some detection like this to find out what tech is powering the website you are on:

https://www.wappalyzer.com/

I'm not related to them in any way and I don't know how accurate it is but it was interesting.
There's this beetle that glows greenish. From 2 panels on its abdomen. And this other, much squishier, beetle that glows yellowish. From basically it's whole backend. So that's 2, whatever you call them.
I assume it's widespread in more developed nations/places with familiar employee rights, since it's pretty basic really - you worked when you shouldn't, here's time off to compensate.

Unless you just meant the acronym - that I'm aware of but wouldn't say it's as common as the concept. To me 'toil' is firstly an English word, secondly an SRE term, and only distantly third 'time off in lieu'.
How do I know is not an attempt to manipulate the crypto market or to cause panic for some reason?

To be clear, I have nothing to do with crypto nor my dumb brain can understand how even crypto works!

The only crypto I know is the term "cryptography" LOL!
> Can humans withstand 4 g non-stop for 9 days?

They might if you keep rotating them, so the force is not along one axis all the time.
Octagon Networks converts its entire balance sheet into Bitcoin
Agreed, it should have been noted upfront that it was hypothetical
I agree with your position, but it is no less polemical and ideological than the comment you are responding to.

> an embryo is not a child and you cannot murder an embryo

It is not obviously and axiomatically true that embryos are not human (I'm assuming the previous comment meant human and not child). Many people think that they are, which is the source of the disagreement. It probably is fruitless to have this conversation on HN, but you shouldn't just assert the opposing position as if it were settled when it is anything but.
> Scala is the only other language I know of which has some kind of XML/HTML syntax support

Visual Basic .NET has XML literal support [1].

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/program...
You can also find size-optimized LZSS decoders in 30+ different assembly languages here: http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/asm/ll/ll.html
If a ship is capable of continuous 1g acceleration then it shouldn't be designed with rotating centrifugal rings for gravity.

Instead, design the ship with the floor towards the engine and travel at a constant 1g to wherever it is that you're going. Decelerate at the same speed.
Let's hope slack itself doesn't start using rootly for incident response :)
I wonder if that's the key -- maybe it's acceptable to shorten one meeting on your behalf (or at least your participation in that meeting) if the reason you'll miss this meeting is that you'll be in a different meeting. As long as you're in some time-wasting activity, they're satisfied.

I say mostly tongue in cheek...
When Jon did the initial tweets, almost immediately non-Twitter users were like "Please transcribe this somewhere else" and there was a Reddit thread, now this is an actual article.

I think Jon just intended it as a bit of fun, and so Twitter felt appropriate. After all if there's important stuff to be communicated about a type it should be in the actual documentation. If you want to learn about types entirely by reading Tweets that seems like a weird and probably bad learning style. See also: learning ballet entirely by reading translated poems about ballet.
I like how we have to hope your money will get you what you paid for.

We really need to eatablish precedent that this state of affaira is not acceptable.
The reduction isn't because of lack of subsidies, but simply a change in needs and wants.

People no longer want to have 4-5 kids, no matter if you 10x the paid time off or double the subsidies. This too empirically.

And no, actually. Your "LOL" aside, we actually are. Anyone who takes time off for child raising gets a bump literally forever.

So yes, actually.

I'm not saying fully compensated, obviously.

But people do it or don't do it based on if they want, not the money (given a basic level of comp, which we are waaaay beyond).

To increase birth rates we have to start paying people who DON'T want to have children, to do it.

Like wow, how much would you have to pay people who would only do it for money? One million in cash just day one?

Just the physical toll for the parent is huge.

And statistically rate of happiness goes down during thirties for people who have children.

And then on top of that your idea is to have people who don't want children raise them? I'm not betting on this improving quality of life for the child, if the child is just a paycheck.

So we really want people who have children no actually want to, too.
it's like rain. a rain storm. monday sunny skies. tuesday light rain. wednesday it rains all day - we call that a rain storm. thursday a rain storm with lightning? we call that a thunderstorm (or less commonly lightning storm): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderstorm
So much support for Germany! Makes me want to move there even though I have no connection to it.
Time to up your game from Alegria to actual artistry, but yes this will kill the CalAets grad dead. And good riddance! They ruined animation and illustration.
I remember for a brief moment when facebook messenger had this feature. It was awesome! IIRC they took it away because it turned out they had some humans listening to some of the messages to help with transcription and that got them some bad press.
True, but it wouldn't need to be someone coming clean entirely. Think along the lines of Elon and the masseuse/horse scandal - he gets asked about it by a journalist, then panics and goes onto twitter talking weirdly about how he's suddenly a republican and that he because of this he expects to be on the receiving end of fabricated hit-pieces. To many of us it's pretty clear how that went down, but people do dumb stuff sometimes to cover their tracks when they're caught and think they can get away with it :)

I dunno, I'm just guessing. The more likely thing is that it's just someone trolling, IMO
Yeah, I have about the same invested in I-bonds at the moment as I have outstanding on my car note.

But either way, the rate on the car note is lower than inflation, so I'd be ahead just by spending the cash on something else.
You should probably edit the title - some amount of puffery is reasonable when showcasing one's own work but if you're so wide of the mark, the only feedback you'll get is about how your representations are inaccurate. Which is what's happening.
This looks really cool. Albeit feels that it is actually a feature implemented in the driver (client side) so my initial impression is that is not a meanignfull innovation on the server side. This can be implemented with any Database, even with current MongoDBs
This is where risk assessment comes into play - people often consider it "evaluate the attackers and how to prevent them" but risks include many things; hardware failures, memory failures, human memory failures, etc.

And one of the biggest risks with encryption is data loss if passphrase are forgotten - using encryption usually involves considering that data loss is better than data exposure - which is obviously true for things like passwords (you'd rather forget your bank's password than have it exposed, because you can reset it) but not necessarily true for other data.

This can lead to things like encrypted systems but storing the off-site backups unencrypted because they're off-line and the only real risk is theft. Again, depends on what the data is.
"Yeah, the US sounds rather hostile to raising children".... As a lifelong US citizen with three kids of my own, I do feel there there is some truth here. In my opinion most of the school systems across the USA have shifted to treating children as burdens instead of blessings. I would argue this has happened enmasse in the culture at large and getting worse over the last 20 years. Perhaps a big portion of the problem is that we don't take good care of our teachers first and foremost.
In the 8 years of me living in the Bay Area. I think I’ve seen lightning maybe twice in the area.
They do indeed, but that doesn't mean it has to be fun for everyone.
Some people enjoy cooking, but that doesn't mean everyone has to make every meal into a banquet.
Eleven million mallocs over seven minutes of gameplay at 60 fps comes out at an average of 437 mallocs per frame (this includes "load level" and "die and reload", so the average during gameplay is likely even lower).

The author writes "Doom 3 hits 60fps in debug and calls malloc all over the place.", but to me those stats suggest malloc-averse code.
“Buffer” is just as bad or good a name as “file” or “document”. Files and documents can be in-memory and temporary, and the primary purpose of an Emacs buffer arguably isn’t buffering.
Talking is indeed faster but if you're not recording the result in some document to share with others not on the call there's risk that valuable information will be lost.
It will probably last for very long consider 24 wire of type c is a lot compares to 4 of 3.5mm jack. And it can actually be repurposed by changing the protocol (software) ?

Probably until someday that 24 physical wire isn't enough for a phone. (but the iPhone don't even use the usb3 yet, why did it even need these bandwidth?)
Octagon Networks is a cyber security research and development company with mostly remote workers.

Since they've started, they have grown and expanded to employ many extremely talented ethical hackers and software developers in the US and across the globe.