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I believe my outlook towards politics and society is substantially Amish-like, in that I (utterly and devoutly) hate industrialised, massive, yet so lonely and atomised, societies, and I believe the blood-tied extended family is the only reasonable unit you can build a healthy community on. https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=32265182 is one comment where I express those views.

There is nothing I despise more than what I call "The Economist Fetish", you know how it goes, "GROWTH! GDP! CAN EARTH SUPPORT 10 TRILLION PEOPLE?!! LETS FIND OUT!!", economists, as the namesake implies, are the most infested with this intellectual disease, but milder forms are endemic to a lot of modern people. A perverse and virus-like fascination with growing and expanding, a bizarre sexual pleasure derived from imagining life blown up to monstrous proportions. Someone with this disease have a rather curious inability to think about limits and ranges of validity : Can we humans, evolved for 1/4 million years to live among tightly-knit communities, live sanely in those infestations we call modern cities? Can the ecosystem, usually an incredibly balanced and intricate contraption based on animals eating each other to avoid overflowing resources, handle a species hitting 10 billion soon? An economist-fetishist have no patience for those questions, the rush for "GROWTH" overrides all conscious thought and sensation, like a drug, leaving only the raw sexual desire for more, more growth, more humans, more fuel, more cities and cement, more molding of the universe according to ugly and short sighted designs.

I like the Amish, in another life I would have loved living among them (if they allow strangers), despite my atheism. They are as far as you can go against the perverse idea of "society" and toward the more humane "community" without a full-fledged revolution.
This is an epic result. One of the authors, Ward Beullens, also recently broke the Rainbow signature scheme: “Breaking Rainbow Takes a Weekend on a Laptop” - https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/214

He is on a roll at breaking post-quantum candidates and he and his coauthors will hopefully keep going. That this guy is able to do this kind of work in the open is a public good. Note that he has broken schemes after NIST has declared the systems safe enough to advance to the next round. This is really embarrassing for NIST. Do they really not have the capacity for doing this kind of research? One or two people can only do so much, no? One can only imagine what is being done in private.

Thanks for working in public Ward! You’re doing a better job at cryptanalysis than NIST can do with a team of people who do this as a full time job! You deserve a medal, along with other cryptanalysts who work in public and release results in public.

It’s a little sad that he uses Magma for his attacks since it isn’t Free Software but it’s not so important. The result is what is important.

Already as of today one group using SIKE is now considering switching to CSIDH: https://forum.xx.network/t/paper-an-efficient-key-recovery-a...

This underscores a recently reiterated point from djb on the NIST post-quantum mailing list: we should not have confidence in the security of these post-quantum schemes.

These kinds of breaks are a strong argument for the use of hybrid constructions such as ECC or even more conservative systems. Note that NSA opposes hybrid constructions and is pushing for post-quantum schemes to be deployed without hybrid protections.

SIKE, like Rainbow, both supposedly post-quantum have turned out to be less secure than currently deployed contemporary systems. They are neither post-quantum nor currently secure. Very impressive results!
The rationale is that is you end up with more false-positives, which need to be ruled out with more invasive testing (biopsy) which not only costs more, but also has risks of it's own.

So testing more can actually result in worse health outcomes than limited testing.
It’s worth remembering that the US and many other healthcare systems around the world got absolutely slammed by COVID and stayed that way throughout most of the pandemic. Restrictions kept being tightened and loosened not out of incompetence but in response to actual hospitalizations and deaths.

In the end, US casualties only being ~1 million was actually a positive outcome, things could have been a lot worse even if exactly the same people got sick but they did so even slightly faster. Worse suffering 5+ times as many casualties in 2020 would not have prevented the variants which would happily reinfect people.

There wasn’t any great options, but many of them where far worse.
Big gaming companies learned quite a few years ago via various microtransaction practices that the market has expanded so rapidly that the gamers that complain about these things are a minority that can basically be ignored now since the vast majority of players basically only started playing after insidious monetization practices have been normalized so it doesn't feel wrong to them. Why cater to old users who would only spend 60$ on a game and complain when you can just cater to all the new users who love to spend money on microtransactions by making the geek equivalent to Madden or Fifa and print money?
They're saying that writing the whole thing in bash (no rust) would be even harder to read. Programming in bash is hideous.
So, how much time and how many people (# trained/specialist, # non-specialist) do I need to steal the core and fence it to unnamed Eurasian wanna-be nuclear power ?
I think you could use these to "upgrade" coal power plants to nuclear power plants, no? Those already have turbines, cooling towers, transformers, grid connection, etc.
I doubt he had much choice though, when your home gets destroyed and is surrounded by the enemy why not just give up and go into their country as a refugee? What should he have done instead, died a meaningless death as a civilian resisting arrest? Demanding he fight his way back to Ukraine controlled areas seems very unreasonable to me.
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I don’t think it may help in a long run, except in cases when you mistyped a command. Mistakes are done because some assumptions are wrong, e.g. wrong cwd, hostname, account, and a captcha-like barrier cannot point that out or make you think about it more. The correct way to prevent mistakes is easy reversibility. Except for very big files/changes we now have an essentially unlimited disk space. Programs should learn to use it to manage undo.
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< I suspect his book (and this headline) are an attempt to snap people out of their complacency. It's an admirable goal, but I'm not sure what to do to accomplish it. This headline itself seems to suggest we should all give up, even though the journalist and subject disagree.

Whilst that may of been the intention, the types of people needing that shock factor or reality may well fall into two camps:
1) Those who stay in denial and carry on doing nothing
2) Those who finaly get it and conclude that if it's too late then why bother now

The net result that such approaches that remove hope will only serve to fuel those who need such education into doing less and akin to telling somebody they will die in a week due to their lifestyle and nothing they can do - such people would hardly give up doing what they enjoy and spend that week changing their lifestyle and more inclinded to party harder.
Sadly WinMTR does not work properly anymore and is long abandoned.

The best alternative is a commercial product called PingPlotterPro. You can use it for free during a trial period.

Networking people generally don't use Windows much for troubleshooting. Windows networking behavior causes all kinds of problems and nobody wants to deal with that shit.
Wouldn’t `setenforce 0` be essentially “disabling” SELinux without a reboot?
Yes but I think the goal is to create repeatable results so that if your application stops working properly you can debug it.
I am aware of one user, dang, and I learned he is the moderator of HN. Over time, I started to recognize his posts and to appreciate the enormous work he is doing each day.
It's complicated to call a c++ library from rust.

You actually have to wrap all the c++ functions in c functions, and then call those c functions from rust. Which requires either making manual wrappers, or automated wrapping tools that handle the specific idiosyncrasies of the library you are calling.

Which is a massive barrier; Gamedev standardised on c++ and there are so many c++ libraries.

In comparison, Carbon is designed from the ground up to automatically have bi-directional inter-op with c++. It's what the language is designed to do.
> I've never seen any reasonable explanation for that to be true. Crypto is very easy to censor, just ban the exchanges.

You are correct. First thing that National Bank of Ukraine did when the war started is they banned buying foreign currency electronically (theoretically people could still buy actual physical foreign currency, but nobody would sell except for very high markup), transferring money outside of Ukraine, and _any kind of so-called quasi-cash operations_ including buying cryptocurrencies or transferring money to exchanges. And paying salaries in anything but national currency is of course illegal. So tech-savvy folks could still try to find local who owns crypto and would sell it for cash, but for regular people crypto doesn't offer any respite.
shellfirm not changes the shell command, only get the the command and check the pattern. the shell is execute the command.

You really think shell script will be easier? can you elaborate?
Congrats on the project and company, looks really cool! Funnily enough I wanted to write the same post this week. I got lucky enough to get into this current batch of YC, but in the end you ended up in a great spot if you were able to raise directly 1.6M.
Our tools have so many similarities, Windmill is also AGPLv3 (https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill) and also self-hostable, and also about building custom internal tools. We focus a lot less on UI but on the run custom logic part as flows of Deno or Python (and we actually just released an open spec about it we call OpenFlow: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill/blob/main/openflow...). So in that sense we could be greatly complementary. If you would be interested to chat: ruben@windmill.dev.
> By choosing VC money, you also have to commit to an exit or a total failure.

I hope that exit strategy is not on the founders team mind at this stage.
You can visualise incrementation as a single step along a line, addition as a step of any length along the line.

Multiplication: the formula for area of a rectangle is "length times height", so IMHO now this - "a * b" is best visualised as 2d. Or if you like, "m lines of length n", visualised as a stack of lines.

Exponentiation covers "to the power of 2" (area of a 2d object) "to the power of 3" (volume of a 3d cube) and beyond, so now we've run out of graph dimensions.

I think what we can take from this, is that when going from first operation to second, second to third etc, the rate of change is not constant, it is increasing. Since the sequence is "no extra dimensions, one extra dimension, all the extra dimensions"
Yes, but probably not in the way that makes the program any useful.

Example: I recently executed `git checkout .` (that incidentally would not be caught by this project) on the wrong repo. Oh the pain. But I would have probably confirmed the "captcha" blindly as I really wanted to execute that... just not on that repo.
> Odd that you put ambiguity in quotes. I guess it's not real ambiguity then.

Because a parser is never really ambiguous is it? Nobody writes a parser that has a random decision on which rule to take.
Interesting, I didn't know about the Amish.

There are communities like the Amish but without the religious beliefs?

I will be interested to join, but replace the religion with some secular spiritual exploration.
Off topic I know but I can't let the idea that Sweden's death rate wasn't significantly different to other similar nations with stricter restrictions slide - that was true only for people under 70. I don't know about you but I intend to be fully fit & healthy and living a meaningful existence at 70 that I don't wish to have cut short because public health measures in a crisis are insufficient. Further, talk to some frontline healthcare workers about the extreme case load they had to deal with.
> "It'll probably take two months to build this relay because there's no syslog server library for Clojure." she says.

> "Oh wow, I didn't think it would take that long." Sam says.

The correct answer should have been:

> "Who asked you to write it in Clojure?"
Very true - those impacted are mostly those who are not causing the issues and those that cause the issues are more inclinded to complain how they can't water there lovely green grass than care about the destruction happening elsewhere as sadly many people have a selfish mentality.
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Your choice of framework should make very little difference to SEO. SSR, SSG, ISR, etc will have far more impact.

Dont forget that Google's crawler is literally Chromium these days. https://searchengineland.com/google-will-ensure-googlebot-ru...
I wouldn't speak about it in the past tense personally!
Thoughtful and insightful answer. Although I am on the other side of your argument.

I like your rationale around other cloud providers’ virtualization solutions.

I think the main comparison that’s lacking is one of v8 isolates vs strict site isolation which runs on separate processes. Why would the Chrome team build such a complex thing if v8 isolates passed rigorous security standards/bar etc? This would be good to get your insights on.

What’s the actual cost of separate processes vs v8 isolate? In terms of cpu/memory/latency mainly. I would guess either would win over other virtualization techniques but between the two is it really that stark of a difference?

I am more and more convinced you may have seen the light shine through and people such as me are missing the big picture: so providing answers for this line of attack would be more helpful than comparing with other virtualization mechanisms.
Kinda? I guess it depends upon what exactly you mean. If you mean behaviours, structs, protocols, modules and maps, then I can kinda see that, although Clojure has most of these too. But if you mean actors? Well...

I view Elixir as two languages in one: an actor language, and a functional programming language. Sometimes you gotta use the actor language (processes) to model behavior, but it's far better to leave that to the FP aspects.

The problem with using processes is there are a lot of concerns that only they can handle.

To be fair, I'm only a hobbyist Elixir dev. But there's lots of misinformation about how easy Elixir makes certain things. In my experience, it's not easy to build a process tree that factors in concurrency and synchronization, much less fault tolerance on top of that. Nevermind performance and gc isolation. Adding modelling on top of that just makes the job way harder.

The only real thing processes have in common with objects is they both hold state. Messages are kinda similar to methods if you squint hard enough, but there's more differences than similarities. Everything else listed above has nothing in common with any given object in your average object oriented programming language.
> Honestly the information is out there to address most people's gripes.

Exactly, but not discoverable. I came to know of esbuild, vite, pnpm etc.. only because of reddit and HN.
Not sure about Mapillary, but Yelp license agreement were to restrictive for me and I assume for most really interesting use cases
Yep, that's Dr.House at its best.
Do you see people here competing for karma? The only case where I've seen anyone care about it is when someone posts these lists.
Without even realising it was a brag until now I had this idea the moment I heard spiders were hydraulic and dismissed it as silly haha

Should have been a scientist
> Patriachy isn't men dictating every action of every individual, it's structuring society so that the only real choice is the one that benefits the ruling class.

No, that's literally what patriarchy means, that the ruling class is men.

When the ruling class is women, that's called matriarchy.

When the ruling class doesn't favor either, it's neither.
By paying taxes to provide free housing and entertainment to people not only do you bribe them to not revolt as you are the one to blame for their "laziness" by working more than you demand in labor, it is also better for the economy and the working people as working to feed or house someone is more respectable than working for the sake of some billionaire that caused the hikkikomoriproblem.

Maybe you should start fixing the problem where most people don't work for their own sake or their fellow people but actively compete over fewer and fewer necessary working hours as productivity keeps going up without the economy growing and everyone insists they need a full time 40 hour job.

Pretty much all unemployment can be explained by the laziness of the financial capitalists rather than the people doing the work. Investors being job creators is ridiculous because saving money destroys jobs so the net job creation is zero and it is actually the opposite, saving forces investment and hence nobody gets moral superiority by creating jobs because if they don't they are massive assholes.

In European countries like Spain the elderly voted in heavy labor restrictions against firing seniors and introduced huge severance packages which means companies fire young people first instead of old people who have more than enough money and would have even more after severance pay. What this means is that the old are hoarding all the income opportunities while simultaneously saving for retirement which decreases aggregate demand and effectively makes it pointless for young people to work for their own money and very profitable for them to just stay at home while their parents pretend they are the productive breadwinners. The sink or swim/tough love idea would require parents giving up their job for the sake of the young and that is unlikely to happen. No, the economy isn't growing faster than productivity, you can't grow your way to a job for everyone.
I just stopped worrying and commit everything into my own repos, even half baked or temporary, making sure that a commit message or a file name signals it clearly. It’s a versioning system for this exact purpose, not a ceremonial sanctuary.
Even google languages (Go, Dart) and modern Java, no matter how people here hate them, have excellent tooling.
> As if said impacts are not shared by plant agriculture

Absolutely, and use of pesticides and fossil-fuel-derived fertilizers in crop production and horticulture is also a huge problem.

Fact is though, the same quantities of calories or protein as beef or lamb require vastly more land and energy to produce than plant-based alternatives: roughly 100 times as much [1]. That’s owing both to pastureland and to the fact that half of all the world’s cereal crops are fed to animals.

Granted, livestock raised purely on marginal (i.e. non-arable) pastureland is relatively low impact in terms of carbon emissions. There’s still the factor that carbon dioxide is converted to methane, which in the short-term (that we actually care about) is much more potent in its warming effect.

That model does not represent most animal agriculture, however.

As for tropical deforestation, the United States is one of the chief importers of Brazilian beef [2], so as a country is absolutely implicated in the practice.

You’re right that clearing land for grazing is not the only economic incentive to destroy forest, but equally it cannot be discounted in its contribution to the trend.

[1]: https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

[2]: https://eu.wisfarmer.com/story/news/2022/01/05/brazil-ranks-...
> The governments have been able to prevent individuals from storing and saving wealth

Do you have evidence for that? While the Argentinian economy is struggling, and the government has defaulted in the past few years, I don’t know of widespread, illegal government theft of private citizens’ assets. The opposite seems true: they want people to get richer in exports, so they get more in taxes.

Is your argument that taxation is theft? They do need taxation in order not to default again.
That's a current situation, on one platform.

In the future, this might be the same on the other platform, — or it might be different. I don't trust any of Google/Microsoft/Facebook to not try to shove their app store (user account, personal information collection) down our throats in perpetuity.
There is a difference between a nuclear reactor blowing up in a country with low overall population density (e.g. the US; in Chernobyl also it wasn't that taxing to designate an exclusion zone for a few centuries), it happening in a very densely populate country (where it would be a desaster), or it happening in a military sub where the owning state doesn't care about collateral damage [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/19/us-depleted-ur...
Had seen Windmill a while ago, nice work and happy to chat, let me send you an email to get connected.
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I love that HN is content-oriented. It's not the only criteria, Reddit is also content oriented, and it certainly has its flaws, but given its size and spread, I think it's still doing remarkably well.

However, people-oriented media are unbearable for me. LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook.. All are full of people who want to build a reputation, and even though everything about them are different superficially, they all feel very similar.
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Yeah but why? Why does karma matter?
Nah, if religious belief helps group cohesion in such a way that we get societies that overall increase the likelihood of survival, then the truth of said religion is irrelevant.

Religions themselves are to some degree affected by their own evolutionary pressures. The views on missionary work, procreation and possibly also military all will effect the group of people that adhere to the religion, and if they lead to a higher survival/birth-rate then the religion itself will also win against alternatives. The truth of its dogma isn’t really relevant for this factor (unless we start considering interventionist deities, but that’s a different discussion entirely, as the above would apply across shared value/belief systems without the need for interventionism)
Fortunately we were able to find VCs who believe that COSS is not meant for an exit or monetisation in the early days.
That's moving the goalposts. "Paying for updates" is not the same as a subscription. A subscription is if I pay automatically, no matter what - and usually, I will get some negative change to the status quo once I stop paying: I might lose access to the service immediately, I might be downgraded to a previous version, etc etc.

> Considering people naturally want the latest and greatest

They often don't. Especially with updates, those are often far more in the interests of the developers than of the users. That's why so much development effort has gone into auto-updating schemes.

Remember how much effort Microsoft had to invest to get people off Windows XP. A large part of their userbase would have been perfectly fine with staying on XP for all eternity. It was Microsoft who wanted them to update to Vista, not the users.
It only works for the Amish because they are a tiny minority in a larger society that supports, or at least tolerates, them and their lifestyle.

If they become dominant or even merely competitive with the larger society then there will be conflict.
agree, this is the reason that i wrote it in rust
faster
easy to maintain
unitesting
and small binary