skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"some degree of it". Trade wars, repatriation of manufacturing, and questioning extended supply lines due to geopolitical factors are all signs of this trend. Not a complete mass isolationism of course. Perhaps also a better frame is some degree of shift away from extreme uni-polarity towards more multi-polarity, a shift that would have similar effects even if it wasn't an absolute shift.

Europe severing energy ties to Russia, regulating US tech cos, West sanctioning Chinese 5G and chip producers, confiscating Euro/Dollar reserves, China, Russia and Japan years ago stopping increasing their holdings of US debt and recently selling them, Europe re-assessing the belief they could have such extreme dependence on US military for security and Russia for energy....all signs of some degree of de-globalization (towards more autarky)

>a devastating WWIII

I don't think it necessarily requires a devastating war, but some war is not that unlikely (we already have it.)
Scroll down and you'll see the thread - navigate the tree as you wish.
It's about opportunity cost though. Is there another $67M mission we're losing?
Nah, I'm just kidding. I don't know, probably not :)

I never heard about the hugging face before that post.
Just like people's incorrect perception of crime: that it seems like it's going up while we are at historic lows, I wonder how much of this perception is just that mental health problems are more visible now. Homelessness (correlated with mental health trouble) is much more visible and in your face now. Social media has given everyone a megaphone, so the few crazies can now be as loud as they want and algorithmically drown out sensibility. You can go browse r/PublicFreakout and other "crazy videos" subreddits and watch unhinged people for hours. Political rhetoric paints "the other side" as insane rather than simply as opponents with differing views. All this combines to give the perception of a crisis, just like endless, breathless reporting about crime gives the perception that criminality is out of control.
It feels like I've been finding a lot more products showing up with Made in India tags on them. Sheets, hand tools, car tools, clothing. Pretty good stuff.
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Good news. Nix has really been floundering lately. It needs some assertive direction.
Some of these "security" products that MiM TLS traffic allow configurations that objectively reduce your security. You can configure Palo Alto devices to accept a self-signed cert from the Internet, but present your trusted MiM cert to the on-site user. Now the user isn't aware that they are the victim of a second MiM outside the organization.

The organization also exposes itself to greater liability. E.g., a rogue employee could use the trusted MiM CA cert for their own MiM e.g., capturing banking credentials of co-workers or accessing user/employee PII they would otherwise not have access to.

Yes, monitoring traffic by MiM https to external sites can alert you to / possibly prevent accidental exfiltration, but it doesn't prevent intentional exfiltration. It is, however, very effective at monitoring employees. The thing it is best at, might be its true purpose in an organization.
> -It’s not that I advocate for no note-taking. I just strongly believe in keeping it as elementary as possible, such that the note-taking itself doesn’t become the thrust of the endeavor. Leonardo da Vinci kept all of his notes in one big book. If he liked something he put it down. This is known as a commonplace book, and it is about how detailed your note-taking system should be unless you plan on thinking more elaborately than Leonardo da Vinci. Taping a bunch of cryptic phrases to the walls is also acceptable, or keeping a shoebox full of striking phrases on a jumble of papers, as Eminem did.
Yes, humans are needed until they’re not.

Once they’re no longer needed the cost of repair drops by 100x.

Musk’s android seems like a bit of a gimmick but hopefully he stirs up enough imagination in people that we get a few breakthroughs in robotics.

Then we can explore the entire solar system…build bases on Mars and the moons of Jupiter, etc without sending humans
I was confused too. At first I wrongly assumed the database in question was National Do Not Call Registry (https://www.donotcall.gov/). But it's not that at all.
If you haven't used a lisp or lisp clone, it's hard to describe fully. Still, the fact that you can trivially replace and reload modules in running code or being able to fix a bug in a function and resubmit the input to the function from the stack trace is amazing ergonomically.

In the same way that most languages have lambdas, it's very different from being able to trivially compose functions into new functions. (This one I can't even describe well, but if you try and write SICP exercises in a lisp vs. python, the difference is obvious.
What would you be looking for exactly tho? What are the advantages - what could be studied in this way? One million dollars is really low for space ready equipment no?
Actually! Funny thing, I did! The article was getting long so I ended up making some cuts. Originally, I had it listed as an honorable mention because while they did have a free tier, it required a credit card:

"Fly's free tier requires a credit card but does include 2,340 hours of computing each month, up to 3 shared CPUs, and no inactivity timeouts.

Though an evidently powerful platform, with the need to install their CLI and use Docker to access its features, Fly wasn't ideally suited for this specific test case. While sadly this meant that I was unable to successfully measure deployment performance from a Github template, it has left me very interested in exploring other testing scenarios and projects where it might be a better fit."
This is yet another reason to be apprehensive about Occulus and the "Facebook metaverse". I think it is only a matter of time before the mission for Occulus and the "Facebook metaverse" become similar to Facebook's current mission.
> The purpose of monetary policy is to stimulate the economy

no, its not.

(1) Monetary policy doesn’t have just one purpose.

(2) Sometimes one of its purposes is to slow rather than stimulate the econony.

(3) Mostly its high-level purpose is economic stability.
For sperm metrics to return to normal, a few months.
Anything that causes a move away from physical cards and onto direct bank to bank transfers is good
Oh, how I have learned the hard way on this.

Our IT now blocks outbound SSH entirely. You know, the secure way to access VM's in, say, our cloud? Sigh. I'm sure there's a "jump" server somewhere that I'd have to log into, `sudo` to another account, THEN SSH to my target box. Whatever. I just avoid the VPN.

I used to use `cntlm` to tunnel requests through our firewall for things like Ruby's bundler, as it required NTLM authentication. Now they've also gone the additional mile, and installed a certificate (Cisco Umbrella) in all of our computers, and require its signature to pass the firewall. Unfortunately, it took me a long time to sort this out: why `cntlm` no longer worked, and why none of the usual suggestions on SO fixed it. I finally figured out that RubyInstaller for Windows included a nice facility to deal with this. You just place additional certs in a directory, run a Ruby script, and it will bundle the whole stack into a single .pem, which it will reference for all network-related commands. Thankfully, bundler's error messages were telling me the specific certs I needed, and I could download them from Cisco's web site.

Just about a month ago, my company started requiring that cert for ALL traffic, not just HTTP(S). Like for, say, Postgres connections on port 5432. I finally realized that I could reference that same SSL bundle in my Postgres client connections, and get through.

I've spent about 8 years here now, and it's been a cat-and-mouse game the whole time. I'm always wondering what's coming next.
What is ‘private cloud’ supposed to look like?
Viewing PDF isn't too much of a problem on mobile - just a little more zooming and panning than on desktop.
> you really shouldn't be hacking some scripts on top of your bank login

You can hack whatever you want, but from a SECURITY perspective this is horrible and the banks know this. There are secure ways to store credentials for scripts but most people will just hard-code the values or stick them in unencrypted ENV vars. Also, who's fault is it when the bank updates their website and the selenium script does something horribly wrong? Tell me more about Disney...
I thought they could now control it with only 2 reaction wheels [1]

[1] https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/10543974.pdf
Is it possible to configure a Kubernetes cluster to run only _signed_ images? I.e., if someone has replaced a Docker in registry is should not be accepted by cluster.
Deans typically lack detailed technical knowledge to evaluate candidates (not to mention time), they just go with the flow, and want to run the department smoothly.

I think the real mechanism is this: those who make the decision (those with the most power, i.e. those who bring in the most funding and can threaten to leave if they don't get their way)
already know whom they want and they cherry-pick data, eg "impact" figures, to bolster their case. That enables the dean then to justify the decision in public with those cherry-picked figures ... (the dean can hardly say
we are hiring X because otherwise top funding getter Y will leave)

I think Twitter is less important in STEM subjects than in social sciences or humanities, as STEM has more clearcut results.
This happened to me, and I had a hard lockout. Luckily the account was not that important, as I only used it for the Play store.

It was a learning experience. I setup another Google account after this, but made sure I had a copy of the recovery codes which will allow me get me back in if I lost my 2FA device (in this case a Yubikey).

I prefer a Yubikey over basic SMS since it's easier to get a SIM lost than a Yubikey. I have the Yubikey on my keychain.
I'm glad this is happening. I was hoping that maybe the Nix/NixOS developers could have a dedicated documentation maintainer or two to make deeper learning about each system more accessible. Although I can make my way around NixOS, I feel that's only possible because I could look over the obscure parts of the configs of people more obsessed with Nix than me.

The old development style mentioned reminds me of that excessively mentioned essay about Lisp hackers keeping to themselves. I wonder if there's something intrinsic to certain developer-oriented projects like these that lead people to tinker with them on their own for long periods of time.
I think OP is saying (and I agree) opportunity cost in space budgeting is more political and not economical.
Global civilization wasn't really still functioning this was the end of WWII. Europe was in shambles and the more industrialized parts having been carpet bombed, the Germans Italians British and French had lost/were losing their empires. China had just been broken first by civil war then by the Japanese. Pretty much the only industrialized nation to come out not broken was the US.
> I'd like to see some compelling evidence that supports the seemingly prevailing economic theory that the US can issue an unlimited amount of debt…

The “US” in your comment is more than one entity. There is no single body that can just make more debt unilaterally.

Edit: To clarify, the “limit” to the debt is set by the market’s willingness to lend.
That’s exactly what they’ve been adding, actually. You can also set a schedule for which mode is active or trigger them with automations.
California high speed rail is still being built. Hyperloop didn't have any impact beyond getting some people to think, "Why is this so expensive?"

The CA HSR project was started in 2008, when voters passed Proposition 1A to provide $10 billion to fund high speed rail between SF and LA with a maximum travel time of 2 hours and 40 minutes. Initial estimates were that trains would be running by 2022 with the project completed by 2029 at a cost of $33 billion.[1] Construction started in 2015. Now the official projection is to have trains running between SF & LA in 2033 at a cost around $100 billion, though in reality the two cities will likely never be connected.[2]

High speed rail doesn't make much sense in most of the US. The country is so big that most routes would take significantly longer than aircraft, even counting the extra time spent in security and traveling to/from the airport.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_California_High-Spe...

2. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/29/california-h...
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+1 for being the most concise rebuttal. What an asinine statement that poster made
Single-Sided Single Density floppy disks.
This is one of the most stark examples of bikeshedding I've seen on this site.
I take your point, but a lot of people are worn out from the pandemic, increasingly hopeless about climate change, and observing the decline of democracy in almost every influential country.

Those are all justifiable things to be more depressed about now than people were in the past. People are smarter, wealthier, and more educated now than they were in the past, and that causes them to think further into the future (which is depressing).
But not necessarily.
"Just write it anywhere with as light structure as possible" works just fine with modern search methods

"A directory with a bunch of markdown files" is pretty portable too and there are few apps making that a bit easier.

I do divide "just a random notes" from "cheatsheets I use for stuff I use rarely enough to not remember" but that's about most organization. Just a descriptive title and working search function is enough
How about the annual 400B in interest payments this year alone? How about the massive wealth disparity in our society?

I don't want to work for the government 4 months/year if we can just rack up infinite debt and be fine.
I am a fan of the libconfig format: https://hyperrealm.github.io/libconfig/

(it's quite close to json, but supports comments and also integer sizes and such)
"Clowns at the Circus Gate"?
It’s hard to see how much Índia will remain a democracy and it does have its problems. But certainly it seems far less of a revisionist power than China.
The Road That Killed a City
I think a lot of people would have stopped answering their phones regardless. Letting random people interrupt you with a conversation may have been the best UX available 100 years ago, but I don't think that's the case now. I note that 81% of millennials "sometimes have to summon up the courage to make a phone call", and 75% will avoid calls that are "time consuming". https://www.bankmycell.com/blog/why-millennials-ignore-calls...
Setting up WireGuard is definitely the way to go. I learned a ton about networking doing that. It's a beautifully elegant implementation and actually very easy, but it exposes a lot of networking concepts that are important to understand. Don't use PiVPN and the like, just install it and write the configuration files manually.

I used WG to get two homes talking to each other. A Pi at each end running WG, with static routes set up in the actual routers, and both networks function like one. It was fun to configure, and I learned a fair amount about networking doing it.

Also, using WG to access your network addresses a lot of security concerns. You open up 22, and you're going to get hammered day and night. Assuming you set it up correctly, it shouldn't matter, but there's still always some risk. WG just silently fails if it doesn't receive the proper key. There's literally zero difference (from the client's perspective) between using an incorrect WG key and a machine's simply not existing at that IP address.

And then, once you get WG set up, you can expand stuff like pihole to cover all of your devices wherever you are; just run a split tunnel on the client and route all DNS lookups back to your home.

You likely won't have a static IP residentially, but you have a few options there. In some cases, a business-class connection isn't much more and is better anyway (this especially is true in cities and other areas that actually have competitive markets for ISP). There are plenty of free and paid dynamic DNS services, and setting up one of those on a router or Pi or something is pretty straightforward. Finally, if your IP is _mostly_ unchanging, you can just do the lazy/cheap move (which is what I ended up doing), having a simple script run every hour that checks the IP address and sends me an email and a slack message if it changes. Happens less than once a year, and updating all of the devices that need updating everything takes maybe a half-hour. If it were a weekly or even monthly thing, I'd probably go the DDNS route.
Delicious food.

Walking.

Surfing the net.

Good music.

Good TV shows, movies, podcasts.

Hacking the planet.
It did a very great deal with amazingly little physical hardware.

As much as people complained about its performance, I would have been proud to have designed it.
Can someone elaborate for me on the "memory training" responsible for the long initial boot times the sticker warns about?

I skimmed this https://www.asset-intertech.com/resources/blog/2014/11/memor... and it sounds like a crutch for marginal silicon. How's it compare to Memtest86 and the like?
The whole system is fraudulent.
Scheme on top of scheme on top of scheme.
Look at Payment for order flow. Who benefits. Who created the system in the first place. Bernie Madoff. When he went to jain for his scheme did they remove the systems he built to help make that fortune, absolutely not.

Everyone learns inside a fraudulent system so thats what they know. It's a giant echo chamber.

Here come the down votes.
There was a Bloomberg article saying that 98% of Apple production is in China, and it would take 8 years to move 10% of it to other countries[1].

Having the largest American company entirely dependent on China is definitely not a good thing, given current tensions.

[1] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-30/apple-s-t...
That feels like us government planning more bans and big corps delaying it.
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A boost module can semipermanently attach itself and take over all the maneuvering functions with its own hardware suite.
It's a mixed bag as I understand it. Some things recover quick and
some take much longer, many years of changed lifestyle.

It's got me more interested in health and biology for sure. The human
body is remarkably hackable.

Things like bone density and tendon health definitely change
slowly. Superficial organ fat, the most dangerous type, is apparently
the first thing to go, and you can get so it won't go on quickly
again. That's what the cold swimming is for, something to do with
types of fat metabolics. I think being overweight for a considerable
time (a few years) may have given me joint damage, knees maybe, but
TBH I've not pushed myself into injuries and I think it's all
strengthening well. I may move to some light strength training soon,
but I prefer bodyweight only. Getting to the state where you can even
do bodyweight, like 20 press-ups, is a great target.

If you're thinking about doing this... DO IT. I wish I could be beside
you on some long walks. Maybe talk to the doc first and set a
reasonable plan. But the fasting is not as hard as you think. After
the first couple times it gets old and you start to make friends with
hunger.

And what ever you improve, whether it's lasting or not, that's gotta
be good right?
Hubble can operate with down to 1 gyro [1]; however, the viewable regions of the sky are limited.

[1] https://esahubble.org/about/general/gyroscopes/
Yes, you could. A high-pass filter that is able to drive a laptop voice coil down to 100 Hz would probably cost about that much, which is 50x more than the motherboard manufacturer wants to spend.

A high-pass filter in the DSP/driver software is free, sell a million Chromebooks and that's $500k of pure profit from cutting costs. Unless you account for warranty recalls due to buggy drivers, in which case a 0.1% failure rate is enough to make this a bad idea.
The ratio of ads to real posts on Instagram is already terrible. If it gets any worse, I'll probably stop using Instagram due to frustration. I'm pretty fed up as is.

For grid posts (not sure what they're called, but the part that's not stories, where you scroll down), my feed is currently as follows:

1) Friend

2) Friend

3) Ad for a prescription medicine I'll never take. Totally
irrelevant.

4) Friend

5) Friend

6) Ad for a product I'm unlikely to buy (it's a personal grooming product)

7) Friend

8) Friend

9) Friend

10) Ad for a retail item I'll never buy (item costs $5k+)

11) Friend

12) Friend

13) Friend

14) Ad for a movie that I probably won't see, but this ad isn't totally off base

15) Friend

16) Friend

17) Friend

18) Ad that's not relevant to me (it's for a car)

19) Friend

20) Friend

I also usually see "suggested" posts that aren't relevant, but none showed up in the first 20 posts today.

So...5/20 = 1/4 of the posts on my feed are ads. If they bump this up to more like 1/3, I'll stop using Instagram.
One way to exploit this is to send the QR code through email or messaging app.
When I open the email or see the message, the image may be downloaded, scan starts,
and it makes requests which expose my information, including IP, without realizing it.
Then it might actually work out. I bitterly hate the cold and my ideal of perfect weather is the stereotypical warm and dry with the odd shower.
He's talking about the spelling not matching the pronunciation
Since this is the old-school phone system, even though IP is used as a transport, SS7 is the actual protocol being used to interconnect providers. That would be the affected protocol I think.
Swiss National Bank Monitoring Credit Suisse Situation
I guess it depends on your definition of DIY.

It's not new, so if someone didn't already know about it, then they are probably unlikely to be in a position to take advantage of it, because it is already how a lot of synthesis in this field is done.
That's like saying Bollywood movies are regionally-locked because I don't speak Hindi
Has it been floundering? Could you provide some context?
How to Adapt to the New World of Work
Just the other day indians were blaming their pollution on the west because we moved manufacturing to that country and china. I fail to understand why we would want to continue outsourcing to india all things considered.
>Ownership of blockchain assets is defined by who has access to the private keys.

Nope, like everything else in the world, the "owner" of a thing is purely defined by who the government will go to bat for. If the court says your bank account is now owned by the feds, and you withdraw money from it, that's not your money.
If you deliver supplies via the black market, then yes you are going to lose more supplies to the black market.
Looks great, but it bothers me that the mascot has no feet. The name sounds like a type of footed animal.
Your argument would be fine without the name-calling. I can see both sides of this.
Single sided single density
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk_format
Hasn't our recent history argued against "disposable" hard enough?
It's worked out for the last ~20 years for me...
Watch out for init() [1].
Apart from that, however, I agree about the general lack of magic in Go.

[1] https://go.dev/ref/spec#Package_initialization
The idea that some team is "vetting" that the entire stack of stuff you'd pull from npm for a React front-end app is "safe" is ridiculous. Forget the mirroring; that's trivial. What criteria or process would make you think you had a "vetted" snapshot, beyond what they already do!?
You can probably use an Admission Controller with the ImagePolicyWebhook.

https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/admi...