skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got kind of mad at this decision for precisely the same reason as you.

I'd like them to put up some signage to encourage people to walk up (it's a low friction way to get some exercise) and try again. I reckon they could increase throughput and make a few people slightly healthier this way.
You can't just disappear them into the void. The length of a year is not something we can control.
Peak self-absorption.
I Photoshop Paddington into a movie or TV show until I forget: Day 477
Persuasion (and the rest) was not better in the business sense.

ie. As a CIO, I can go buy a suite of products that work together well. This is what Microsoft recognized - the bundle and integration was the key.
Note-taking apps bury your information. We're building a better way
Wars between groups of chimps are well documented. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War
>> One simply does what one can.

Exactly.

Long ago, I built a task management app for myself and my company. After using it for a while, I looked at the overview and found that I had something like 768 hours of Urgent and High priority tasks due in the next two weeks. There are only 336 hours total in two weeks (nevermind sleeping, eating, traveling, etc...). Moreover, this was not atypical of the list of things on my plate, it was just that now it had been collected as actual data.

No amount of working faster, trimming, delegating, etc. was going to get this done. The realization is that things WILL slip, even so much that some never get done. The goal is just to keep the critical things from slipping so much that you are taken out of the game. Also recognize that this is OK, and don't beatup myself or others about it (and that beating on myself or others only distracts and prevents the tasks from getting done). Just get on with what you can get on with.
>And if all these high-profile people manage to get caught (It seems like pretty much everyone that isn't a nation state ends up getting found eventually!) then maybe it's not that these people are terrible at Opsec, it's maybe that it's much harder than it looks,

I tried to make it explicitly clear, over several different comments in this thread, that I'm not saying opsec in general is easy nor am I saying that everyone who has been caught has made these easy-to-avoid mistakes. I am struggling to think of yet another way to word it, but here I go one last time:

A robber goes into a store and steals a bunch of money. On the way out, they leave their drivers license on the counter. Can we agree this would be a dumb mistake? This doesn't mean that all robbers ever caught made dumb mistakes; some robbers are caught through extraordinary police work and with the help of several technologies (DNA, facial rec, whatever). Those robbers, while still potentially making mistakes that lead to their arrest, have not made extraordinarly dumb mistakes like leaving government-issued identification at the scene of the crime.

This concept applies to opsec and computers as well. You can slip up once and be caught through the smallest of mistakes. Or you can literally tell everyone who you are and be caught that way. Both are mistakes, but one is a trivially avoided stupid mistake, and the other is not.

Many other operators (of dark markets, ransomware gangs, etc.) have been caught, but I did not include them because the ways they were caught did not appear to be through dumb mistakes, but through intense technical means.
Ask HN: Do we need to be first to market?
My co-founder and i have been working on a web3 saas mvp for a couple of months, we're getting to the point were we've broken a lot of ground and are beginning to provide some for real value for a few customers.

Issue is, since we've started building giant companies like Salesforce, Shop, A16Z backed Startups have announced initiatives that would directly compete with our platform.

Co founder and I feel our value prop is unique but we're nervous that these giant companies have a massive edge on us especially if when they launch better versions of the same products...

Do we need to go more niche to stay alive or should we just stay the course?
This mentions studies not being done in the global South, being done in the US/Europe/China. And forgive my extreme naivety here, I've never lived South of the equator... but Buenos Aires is 3800 miles from the South pole and NYC is 3200 miles from the North pole. Aren't these fairly similar climates? Is there more to it than just distance from the nearest pole/distance from the equator?
Having your own password table even feels archaic today. From what I've seen, even simple internal apps are doing SSO with a directory provider (Google, AD/ADB2C, Okta, etc.)
> The CCP recently declared that Hong Kong was never a colony of the UK, but "under ruling of a colonial government"

Is this supposed to be a difference of fact or a difference of perspective? Colonies are ruled by colonial governments.

edit: e.g. if I kidnap a woman and force her to marry me, her family may not want to refer to her as my ex-wife after they get her back.
I open a page with a single link. I click.

> 404! The page you were looking for doesn't exist.

Indeed it is.
If we didn't need a reason to shut down all data brokers and outright ban the sale of data before, this is certainly a good enough reason to do it now.

Also, if I'm ever called to jury duty on a trial where a woman is accused of seeking an "illegal" abortion or a medical professional is accused of providing such services "illegally", I will always vote to acquit.

Jury nullification is not only your right, but your duty in the face of tyranny.
I never had any evidence of the buyers not being legally able to own them. I simply checked to make sure they were a resident of the state via their driver's license.

Having a higher willingness to pay could be a whole bunch of things; I just found there was a curious number of buyers that would pay over the going rate, which in a free market may have meant there was a reason for it.

I also take ideological issue with the felons cannot own firearms rules. Imo, if you've served your time, your debt to society was served, and your rights should be restored.

I was never under the impression that these weapons would be used for violent crime.
Ansible Security Cloud: no open inbound SSH ports – NetFoundry
Great America amusement park will close after S.F. developer buys land
They would have just built it. It is not like Powerpoint or the rest was magic, they just wanted to accelerate their timeline.
> Don't feral cats and dogs also pose a threat to ecosystems?

Yes, but that doesn't mean we should make it worse.

> Why should the threat to endangered species necessarily outweigh the significant psychological benefits of pet ownership?

Because ecosystem collapse could kill us or at the very least be very expensive in the long run. We're not gods, so we depend on the ecosystem working.

> Couldn't feral ferrets from one of the many states where they are already legal easily make their way into California anyway?

Maybe, but that doesn't mean we should make it worse.
Unofficial, but compatible, period-appropriate military gear is on brickwarriors.com
It's possible to cooperate to survive, it seems much harder (more complex!), but I don't agree that it's impossible. Much easier, I'm sure.

We'd need to forgo some autonomy to achieve it IMO, for example: we'd need to get a handle on population rises; we'd need to limit resource usage using some mechanism other than financial affordability; and lots else.
> technology is a tool which leverages resource extraction and control

What an absurdly reductionist viewpoint.

Yes, the invention of the box camera did spur changes in, say, the normative definition of privacy in the public sphere. But in doing so it hardly “leverage[d] resource extraction and control”. And most people concerned about it, even if they didn’t own a camera themselves, certainly had access to other resources.

And what about the pulley or the inclined plane? Come on.

Adding accelerometers to phones had wonderful and (potentially) dangerous consequences, but ridiculous nonsense like his framing makes it harder to make assessment and judgement.
> Makes me want to go out and hug my truck, whose gear selector consists of metal sticks and pins.

If it's a manual transmission or an ancient automatic, sure, but manual transmission trucks basically haven't existed for a decade or so and every automatic since the mid 90s has an electronic gear selector of some variety.

Somehow the world keeps working just fine. The biggest problem that's come up with them has been when manufacturers decide to screw with the physical interface and make it more likely to inadvertently miss Park, like the Chrysler design that killed Anton Yelchin.

> I'd be leery of using this device, with all that complexity, as an input for video games.

It's less complicated than a force feedback joystick or even a lot of modern gamepads.

> The latency makes me ugh.

The latency is coming from the transmission, not the shifter.

> Certainly don't want that much "systems" stuff between me and the transmission of a car I'm piloting.

Again, it has been this way for literally decades. My 1993 Crown Vic with an AODE transmission had a shift lever based on the computer interpreting ranges of resistance from a potentiometer. The lever was literally a joystick with notches. And as the name suggests, that was a classic AOD transmission with the mechanical valvebody replaced with solenoids and an IBM PC grade processor.
At that point you're already at day 1000 and already know what scale you need for the project so none of this conversation is relevant. You already have hit the point you need to build it a certain way.

I've never worked at a startup, until last year I never worked at a company with less than 100k employees.
> In a town near me, the store generates ~3000 arrests a year

Of first time shoplifters? I find this incredible, as when I worked Walmart (admittedly eons ago) you had to be a very well known repeat offender to get caught. Everyone else would simply be yelled at to leave at best.

Target (from friends at the time) even had a policy to simply let thieves do their thing and document until they hit the threshold for a felony - at which time they'd take action.

Just that repeat offender list ended up with an arrest maybe every other day or so though.

I find it amazing society has changed that much in such a relatively short time. I know every store/location is different but this stat definitely blew my mine.
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If you are going to implement yourself I would recommend familiarizing yourself with the NIST SP 800-63b [0] guidelines.

Have a good understanding of cryptographic primitives and what the state of the art is right now for hashing, salting; both at rest and in-transit, etc.

And make sure you follow the principles of least privilege.

Of course this is a fair bit of work and there are specialists in the industry who've made authentication into a service which takes care of following the guidelines and best practices... if you know how to vet them.

They don't always get it right either. Standards and practices evolve. Authentication (and its sibling authorization) require keeping up to date and being vigilant.

[0] https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.S...
From what I've seen (I work in the field), surface level AI/ML skills don't really command a salary premium these days. So many people hopped on that train that the market is saturated.
I sleep better at night thanks to Spring Security and KISS. [1]

Reading the docs from top to bottom, and diving into the source code makes me believe that "you should never roll your own auth" should be an addendum to "you should never roll your own crypto". The number of edge cases and gotchas is simply mind-boggling. It's not about being a good enough programmer to cover yourself, but about years of collective experience dealing with all sorts of exploits and browser shenanigans.

[1] https://docs.spring.io/spring-security/reference/servlet/aut...
Ah did you then modify the BabylonJS editor? I've been thinking of this approach but worried people have been submitting issues of glitches and oddities that made it seem unstable.

I've been trying to write a 3d editor from scratch with Three.js and Vue 3. It's quite daunting task and I am more appreciative of the work Babylon guys are doing just wish there were more funding so they can knock some of the older issues out.
In what deluded world are items that cost tens of thousands of dollars consumables?!

> I appreciate where you’re coming from but experiencing the joy of dual clutch automatics and their shifts in BMWs and Audis that I had the joy to diving might change your mind.

Yeah, no thanks. A good manual transmission is a core part of the driving experience.
We're talking a week's worth of sales here, so lifetime numbers are different. Nevertheless, Microsoft Xbox Series X|S seems to be around 80% of the PS5 sales, which isn't bad - it could be that Sony did a better job of securing manufacturing capacity.

In any event, it's great to have healthy competition in game consoles.
Over 500 pages is a bit daunting, is it a worthwhile read?
Yup, religiously driven politics sucks and I am all for worldwide secularization.
What are your major gripes?

I’m trying to launch a ROS alternative called Mech (github.com/mech-lang). Would be interested to hear what you find lacking in ROS.
I don't think it's that surprising, especially as an occasional result.

Consider that surviving severe overpopulation is trauma. Survivors are physically and/or psychologically sick. They're not good breeders and at this point.

Happens frequently in aquariums. Guppies breed like guppies. Overpopulate, then die back. The proximate causes can be varied. Maybe there's an ammonia spike, oxygen deficiency or other consequence of overabundance.

When the "crash" happens, survivors tend to be a precocious bunch. They're past breeding prime, and probably injured by the events of the crash and its precedents. Starting a colony with "poor stock" is always more difficult, and that's what you now have.

It doesn't have to be overpopulation that causes a crash. Say you accidentally pollute the water with soapy hands. Some fish will die today. Some tomorrow. Dead fish rotting is also polluting. Fish surviving the ordeal will probably have reduced lifespans and breeding potential.

My unqualified guess is that most extirpation events leave survivors, usually in less than ideal shape. The technical extirpation happens later, as survivors gradually drop off without successful reproduction.

Good question about minimum population size for boom/bust cycles to occur. I suspect this is more about environmental richness than pure numbers. Some predation probably stabilizes things, and some boom/bust might be possible. If you had multiple colonies connected by 500m of tubing, this "distance" between territories might allow for "local" booms and busts to occur.
Maybe this is obvious but this sound like zoom vs Microsoft teams story just in the past.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1542061516912037890.html
The idea domesticated ferrets would escape, breed, and threaten wildlife if one of the most hilarious concepts I've ever seen, starting with the fact that getting a ferret that isn't already spayed or neutered is basically impossible, and ending with the fact that domestic ferrets tend to get fat, are lazy, and especially in the case of one of my previous ferrets, remarkably dumb.

Of a dozen ferrets I've had in my life, I can think of one that might be able to find and capture food well enough to survive on his own. And he couldn't reproduce.

It's absolutely shocking to me still that California has this weird villainous perception of these basically elongated rabbits.
So does Applied Micro, Broadcom, Cavium, Huawei, Nvidia, AMD, Samsung, Marvell, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Intel, Faraday
Because if you don't, the seasons and the months will drift out of sync with each other. And you don't even get the benefits of a lunar calendar as a tradeoff, because your weeks are shorter than 1/4 of a lunar month, and your months are two days longer than a lunar month.
Neat how modern car systems turned into microservices.
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Right. And clearly that was my motive. Always happy to find a buyer later to help pay for the rounds I put through that weapon at the range.
Speaking as an EM, from product partners, there is basically this switch that sometimes flips (depending on the PM, depending on their experience/career maturity, depending on the team/business context):

- Either the eng team is a tragedy of the commons, a place to graze whatever sheep you care to send their way, and sure why not let your friends and neighbors also come graze here too? After all, it's not like YOU own it, it belongs to the EM, right? And it's the EM's job to figure out to sustain 100 sheep on a 10 sq ft plot of grass, right? After all, that sounds like some cool engineering whiz shit (to invent hyper-efficient grazing), doesn't it?

- OR, the eng team is YOUR resource, and you don't want others to graze on your land for free...

IMHO, I don't even know that I'd call it a "high quality" vs low quality thing; I think of it like, making a choice about what you want your product <-> eng relationship to be like - do you want your eng team to be thoughtful and do "deep work", or do you want them to optimize for context-switching and multi-tasking? I know it sounds like "deep work" is always the right answer, but it might not be, in all contexts (... okay it probably is right, in 90% of contexts).
> accepting the risk of an unplanned pregnancy.

No, they're accepting the risk of having an abortion.
I wish it was easier to use Firebase Auth without the half-maintained javascript mess that is firebase-ui, which has not worked with the current Firebase SDK for, over a year now? (or at least I still failed transitioning from SDK 8 to SDK 9 as of a couple of months ago).
We use identity server from M$ its fairly good and works for our purposes, its easy to bind clients etc. we can always expand it if we want it to do more.
It's been 5 years since she first got $0 paychecks and this still hasn't been resolved?

I'm confused why the union or whoever can't sue the government on their behalf. Or some lawyer takes on a bunch of their cases if it's 200k people affected.
are there any continuous calendars like the linked one that allow sync or import from google cal?
Well, FWIW it's impossible to find a Pirate set on a brick and mortar shelf, but Lego Friends and similar are still selling reasonably well.
I have seen lots of escalators at peak capacity for walking. Perhaps you didn't travel a lot in rush hour. People (for obvious reasons) are much more likely to walk up escalators in the morning rush hour than in the evening.

The escalators at Holborn are somewhat exceptional as was noted in the linked article, and the anecdata provided by station staff is not particularly convincing. If the station was extremely congested in the morning, it is hard to imagine that very few people chose to walk straight onto the left side of an escalator rather than queue at length to stand on the right.

'Shutting the goddamn gates' really only happens at stations like Holborn in the evening when people are trying to get out of the city centre. The up escalators at Holborn are conversely at their most busy in the morning, so this is a confusing claim at best.

As for the accusation of 'napkin math', I was simply responding to the clearly wrong napkin math which was widely cited in favor of this change. This purported to show that even at capacity, a walking left side was wasteful of escalator space. Without this flawed claim the main consideration simply becomes that if the left side is being used a lot for walkers it should be kept for walkers (obvious) and if not, not (also obvious).
Except that hasn't happened in any other State where Ferrets are legal and have been for many many years. Hmmm.
Rails 7 and Ruby 3 are excellent.

They both got major companies (Etsy, Shopify, Github, Gitlab, Airbnb,..) backing them and are not going away at this point.

Great choice if you are looking to get work done with a mature ecosystem and settle down..
I didn’t check your numbers, but if they’re correct that’s a 600 mile difference. 600 miles south of NYC puts you in South Carolina, which has a much different climate from NY.
Global South is a newer term similar to second/third world or low and middle income countries.
Ok well, Amazon has it in stock at RRP then:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08H93GKNJ/ref=as_li_ss_...
Oh man I remember VRML. Do you also recall WildTangent? Was also another 3D engine in the browser. At that time I was convinced the entire web would become a mix of VRML + 3D navigation. Websites would become mini 3d worlds. To visit the Contact Us page, you would have to move your character/camera to a room etc.

I've also some nostalgia for the demos produced in this time. I cannot for the love of god find this one where you are in some film noir type of detectives office you could walk around in. The lighting effect, ambient traffic sound from the window, it was magical around the 2000s.
NATO is currently not, however, engaged in any effort of nuclear arms reduction. As somebody from a NATO member country, I don't care about other countries position on this, as I believe my country should be a moral leader.

I have to say, I consider MAD theory to be completely misguided, and also morally wrong to engage in nuclear retaliatory attack.

However, I understand the worry. It would be possible for NATO to propose an aggressive, world-wide nuclear arms reduction schedule (and possibly even lead it), but they are not doing that (they are rather doing the opposite, expanding).
>> It's great if there's actually stuff you can turn down, but more often than not there really are business objectives that won't be met if you don't do the work.

Make it about resource planning. Two stories:

One of my old managers was really good at getting himself in meetings where new business was being discussed. Even if he wasn't invited because people didn't think our team would need to be involved in a project. He could either convince them that we didn't have resources, we needed additional resources, or we could make due (maybe shuffle a bit) with what we had. Our team was almost never blindsided.

I was running a small software team doing multiple embedded projects. We had more projects than people, but I made a chart breaking software for each project into common high level components (some were N/A of course, some were largely reusable) and showing percent complete on each one. In one meeting I simply showed that one of the smaller projects had zero percent completes across most components, and said it was going to stay that way for the foreseeable future due to all the other partial completes on higher priority products. That one got cancelled within days.

I've come to appreciate an important part of management is to prevent these interruptions from reaching the people doing actual work, or to... you know "manage" the workload on behalf of the team.
> Global solution would be enforced price controls, we know it works because France did it after the war, the government imposed lower prices and started selling good directly itself and France got out with a much lower inflation than other countries.
That was way more complicated than you described. War-related price controls are very different because of many things, and even in countries whose territory wasn't directly affected people experienced shortages constantly.
I have a Lego City police station from the mid-80s that has a jail cell.