skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am more worried about browsing Reddit, and steganography has put that horrible things into it, so I am looking at a picture of a tree and something horrible is in it. Seriously, imagine a tree being 'bound' to evil.

A high school friend Bruce told me about that and I flipped the fuck out. That guy told me that and I went what the fuck is wrong with people. I want to browse a decent godddamn internet. It should have stayed Arpanet considering the users. Military technology should be used by the military alone in my opinion.

The US government isn't that fucked up. Cops just sprinkle crack on people.
Y'know I'll probably make one.

> But I have no clue about networking, and I don’t know where to start.

Start here, because it's literally the foundation, but you don't need to be an expert. You probably understand more than you think if you have a VPS and can access it, though.
As a start, you need to have working knowledge of the following:

- The OSI model so you understand the layered model of networking, even though nothing strictly folows it.

- what a subnet is,

- what NAT/port forwarding is,

- what TCP is,

- basics of routing (packet not on my subnet? send to default gateway which is a router, rinse, repeat)

- that IP addresses are associated to interfaces, not computers or people, and

- why HTTP is called an application-layer protocol,

- what SSL certificates are and how they work.

- you also need to study up on Docker and containers as a lot of web apps are released as containers now.
To find the LUA scripts that do not depend on a centralized catcha service, search for "nginx lua ddos". [1][2] I do not have a live example at the moment as I took my hobby sites offline while the dust settles around the new California AB 2273 law.

Most of these give site-wide examples but one can run the LUA by locations or other ACL's to protect specific resources or exclude specific resources from protection. e.g. RSS feeds.

[1] - https://github.com/C0nw0nk/Nginx-Lua-Anti-DDoS

[2] - https://github.com/satrobit/lua-resty-ddos
Lol. This is the User-Agent of Apple's crawler:

"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_1) AppleWebKit/601.2.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.1 Safari/601.2.4 facebookexternalhit/1.1 Facebot Twitterbot/1.0"
Note: marcinzim was referring to the probability of "getting into an accident". It's not clear what the law firm you link is referring to since their source doesn't cite their sources properly, but it looks like they might have been referring to the probability of being injured in a car accident. Even so, I'm not sure where they get their numbers or exactly what the numbers are supposed to refer to. See the sibling comments for some references to statistics that are very different from those that the law firm seems to have gotten from an insurance company.
I'd definitely want to pay on quality on some stuff, the problem is that it is very hard to spot that quality and not just product being more expensive because of a bunch of features I don't need, or just plainly on brand name.

The other problem is that niche high quality stuff also would not benefit from economies of scale as much, and at some point buying 4 of the cheap might get you thru longer than one of the "reliable" one

The top-end electronics are maybe a bad example as (at least till now, it seems to slow down at last) the performance is also a big factor, so buying $700 laptop you will want to replace anyway in few years is sensible over "will never break" $4000 one that will just go out of date.

But on like, just about everything else ? Reliability and repairability please, I will pay extra.
Ukraine applied to NATO AFTER they got their land annexed, not before. Also, before Feb 24th, Ukraine is still years away from being accepted into NATO.

So no, whatever the real reason for the SMO was (highly likely to be oil), it was not because Putin/Russia was scared of being attack by NATO, and the agreement to not joining NATO will not stop the invasion.
A colleague and I also had the delight of visiting him, quite a few years ago now. I'd been doing some unusual stuff with TeX, and had been in touch and showed him some examples of our work.

He had recently been working on 3:16 and showed us some of the original calligraphy that he had at home at the time.

What a lovely man, as well as being a multi-talented genius.
It's about averages. For certain groups of people, for certain amounts of time, people are willing to starve / freeze / have poorer conditions voluntarily. Under the threat of a gun they can accept it for much longer periods.

But on average, people want to live in comfort and have their needs met. It's even worse because leaders very rarely struggle under the same hardships, and when they do it's a PR stunt.

It's like Brexit - people voted for it (just barely) but now are hating the consequences. The only option is increased trade and commerce, the UK government simply can't socialism / money print their way out of the mess. Only productive enterprise will save them, meaning a freer market, freer trade, lower taxes, etc. but this will take a decade:

- Conservative government falls

- Leftists take over

- Leftists destroy everything and make stuff worse for a few years

- People give up hope

- Thatcher-like figure emerges, cuts taxes, promotes business, free trade

- People get comfortable and start thinking socialism can work again

- Go back to the beginning
Does it though? [1]

We have pretend rule of law. We pretend the law matters, and we pretend to follow it.

In any case, Putin argues that the war (or in his parlance, SMO) is legal under UN precedent in Yugoslavia, that a breakaway republic may be recognized even if the former nation dissents.

IMO, this whole ordeal could have been avoided, but Western backed Ukraine decided it was better to fight than capitulate to Russia's demands.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_the_Iraq_War
No offense taken. Sounds like good advice.
Again though - these sensors performed a highly specialized task - there is no inherent reason Tesla wouldn’t be able to outperform them with a specialized visual system
The whole idea of Matter is local control over IPv6. From what I understand, it is basically Zigbee's cluster library re-platformed on top of new encrypted mesh layer that runs on IPV6. This does technically mean that all such devices can send out arbitrary IPv6 packets, and for Ethernet and Wifi can even send out ipv4.

When operating via thread, those ipv6 packets are just using it as low powered wifi alternative for those packets. Both Wifi and Thread connections thus require two levels of joining. One for connection to the AP/thread mesh network, and one for the matter encrypted network. Ethernet based devices on the other hand, can simply join directly to the matter encrypted network.

BLE for joining can simplify this, as a controller can provide the needed info about thread or wifi, as well as the info needed to join the matter network.

----

Now I very much support local control. Most of my smart home devices right now are either Zigbee or Z-Wave. I have 9 z-wave devices (plus the home-assistant controller), and 4 Zigbee ones at the moment, although only 2 are in use. (These current ones will never upgeade to support matter over thread). I am waiting on he new inovelli switches which will initially run on zigbee, but I will probably later upgrade them to run on matter. (After I buy a new zigbee radio dongle that supports dual stack zigbee/thread operation, and home-assistant officially releases their support for doing that).

But those of us running home-assistant, or the like are not the real target market of Matter. For more typical users, they end up with a bunch of smart devices that are wither wifi based, or have their own hub. Each one has a seperate app. Some might be homekit compatible, some might be hue compatible (work via the hue hub and its app), some might be compatible with amazon Alexa via the cloud, some might work for Alexa via zigbee (but only if you have an echo model that supports zigbee). It is not easy for consumers to even be certain what works with what.

With Matter, every Matter device will be compatible with homekit, will be compatible with Alexa, will be compatible with google home, will be compatible with SmartThings. The only requirements are that your controller device have support for the general type of device in question, and if it is a Thread device you have at least one Thread "border router" (ip gateway, equivalent to wifi AP) in your matter network. Homepods for example include such a border router, and likely some future Amazon Echo models will too, and it has been suggested that some Wifi Routers will include that functionality too.

That is a huge win for the average consumer!
Got one like that recently, where it swapped meters for kilometers. The response proudly declared by google was comically wrong.
That's a great point, thank you for the link.
Off-topic: which software do you use to make those "simil-hand-drawn" diagrams?
The Twitter thread says it was created "a few days ago" and was hit "this morning" so I'm guessing 10 minutes might not be enough (if it is even something time-based).
> The US government isn't that fucked up.

1. See MK Ultra

2. There are other governments then the US
because I want to know what my friends from college are up to? being in a messenger app group represents a much closer social relationship
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> That suggests he would

Perhaps Snowden disagrees. It's easy to say what he did wrong with no skin in the game.

Everyone also said it was obvious J Depp was going to lose his second case against Amber on the basis that American courts are harder to win in that the British court he already lost in. Look how that turned out.

> breaking the law is an important part of civil disobedience

Protesting unjust laws and whistleblowing are different things. A WB is still effective even when anonymous - this was not "civil disobedience", nor "break[ing] a law that conscience tells him is unjust" in the same sense as civil rights issues.

> To quote MLK

you could very easily quote any number of murdered civil rights leaders. Martyrdom isn't a very convincing argument.

> MLK's Letter from Birmingham Jail was so powerful was because it was written from Birmingham Jail

Nice that strategy worked out. Suggesting choosing any other strategy is unethical, or going to jail is some kind of "fight", is nonsense. Do you think the same ethos applies to protesting genocide, or does protesting government with long jail sentences have some kind of honour to it?
If you seriously think that people in the federal government don't try to control the media narrative, you're ignoring a huge body of history where they have done exactly that.

Most recently, look at the white house trying to pressure twitter to ban journalists: https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-white-house-privatel...
They've been sold to Lenovo, it's just a matter of time
I found it surprising to read that some of Elon’s high school classmates confirmed that slang word was used to mean ‘idiot’ in their locale.

I have some family members from SA… very interesting culture to say the least!
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I didn’t realize that Sketch’s operation was so much more lean. That difference is staggering.

I agree that Sketch should focus on its strengths rather than chase after Figma. There’s at least a few things Sketch is better at… for example Figma is pretty pointedly squarely focused on prototyping, which makes it awkward for asset creation and sometimes even high-fidelity mockups (particularly for styles that aren’t some variant of flat and require a lot of layers). Sketch on the other hand handles those use cases quite well.

And I realize it’s comparatively niche and not where the money is at, but I find that Figma doesn’t bring much to the table over Sketch for purely solo projects. Its value is almost entirely tied up in its collaborative abilities.
“Severance” takes place in an alternate universe where regular humans who work for Lumon Industries.
But works with disabled JS.
Interesting. You don't have to be smart to see that this is going to make the situation even worse, with even fewer users.

So given that this is so obvious, why are they doing it? Are they really that desperate?

I know it's a public company, but shouldn't Mark Zuckerberg have enough pull to not run into these short term this-quarter issues?
I've been using fswatch for a project that supports both linux and darwin. Here's an example from a Makefile of how I use it to re-run tests on file change:

test-watch:
make --no-print-directory test || :
fswatch --event Updated -o test/*.c test/*.h src/ | xargs -n1 -I{} make --no-print-directory test
Start with a notebook, and write blogs just for yourself to begin. When you start writing it's easy to put stuff out there and then look back on it and wish you'd expressed things differently-- but if your readership notices you're modifying old posts, it will tarnish your reputation for integrity irreparably. I like to write then sleep on it and read it aloud before I post.

Try to keep in mind: good writing is just good thinking.
You should avoid House of Leaves at all costs.
Just the kind of concrete suggestions, of where to start, that I was hoping to get. Thanks!
what are the advantages of having this design ?
> Researchers successfully convert methane gas into liquid methanol

That's why a lot of researches remain in obscurity: have they tried a step further and obtained ethanol, they would be heroes. But they stopped /s
FYI if you're running Arch Linux, Linux 5.19.13 has already been released into [core] so you should be OK, assuming that your mirror is up-to-date and you've run pacman -Syu recently. https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/linux/
> Since Go doesn't have a concept of immutable data types (except consts)

I believe this is incorrect. Strings are immutable, for example. You could also say the same about pointers and maybe a few other data types.
How are you going to send it to them in such a way that it wouldn’t be glaringly obvious to a court that they were sent it unsolicited?

If your threat model is the government fabricating evidence then why even bother, just arrest them, “collect” a USB drive at their house with CP and lie.

I mean hell why even bother with the song and dance, just send them the link and iMessage preview will do it too.
I expect you're going to get a lot of good advice. My small contribution is this: whatever you do, document it. Write down the date, what you did, what settings you tweaked. (or use Github to manage your changes - that still counts as documentation!)

Someday something's going to click for you and you'll realize you should have done something differently, but you won't remember what you did (or how to undo/change it). Keeping good documentation - especially as you're learning, is going to save you from wiping and re-installing your machine.
What can I do with this ?
Absolutely and I called that out, I just thought that opening it in QL/Preview or even scanning on an iPhone might manually kick off the same “processing” that’s being speculated about here.
He is musk, there isn’t a great historical analogy because globalization has truly enabled him to rapidly impact the entire world with his antics and successes.
I wonder what difference a metal roof would make temperature wise to have this stuff on it in broad daylight?
It’s a good day when I can get a laugh out of HN heh
We're paused right now since we're prepping for a funding round. However, have you checked out the Clojurians slack? They have a #jobs channel which is pretty good.
I got curious and looked. It's not intro to computer science, but intro to computer systems (i.e. systems programming and high level computer architecture). https://cs.brown.edu/courses/info/csci0330/
This part seemed a little more significant than maybe the author recognized:

"Jasen would go so far as to argue that shining a beacon in unknown territory that inspires explorers to look for treasure in the right place makes you the Togo, racing through fractured ice rapids social ridicule and self-doubt to do the real work of getting an idea considered at all."

It was in the discussion of Wegener, which muddies the waters a bit, but that "explorer" role leads to a lot of selection bias in science. That is, that "social ridicule" can be extended pretty far to "career ends" or "ostracism" so you end up in a situation where it's not just that people doing that work get less credit, it's that they might be driven out even when they were on the right path.

There's lots of examples of this with the pandemic. E.g.:

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/scientists-were-c...
Can I ask you, what are those ads you see? Are they mostly related to greyhounds?
> Sketch cannot out-Figma Figma at this point.

Not sure what you mean here. It is good to point out the investment in the tech, but that's been made already. There are people who know how to do it, and some of them are going to be leaving Figma soon. Even if not, the very fact that it's out there in the world means it'll be a lot easier for someone else to build the second time around. I know that Penpot is a very different scale and level of polish than Figma, but it is an example of someone saying "we believe we can do what they did, without the budget," and being at least somewhat successful already.

And in terms of chasing another product's smoke, I think the problem a lot of people have with the Adobe acquisition is that Adobe has no track record of innovation in the software design space. Rather, their history is of buying innovative design companies and ruining them. If they've learned their lessons, if their product culture has changed, then maybe that won't happen this time. My fear (as a designer who uses Figma) is that they bought Figma precisely because they can't innovate on their own, and that they'll spread their bad culture to Figma rather than the other way around.
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> I would have thought somewhere North Africa would have been a real contender

Is there really a point in having your first African region in North Africa? North Africa, especially Morocco is pretty close to Europe, where Google already has a big presence. If you want to serve Africa, you might as well start with a location that is further away from where you already are. Another argument going for South Africa.
Imagine Don being your interviewer at a FAANG company.
No two countries that both have a McDonald's have ever fought a war against each other

- Thomas Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree

Hold our beers

- Russia and Ukraine
I'm not saying it is right for people to be monitored, but that I would never trust that I wasn't being so I'd not be daft enough to do something I don't want the company to know about using their resources.

And there are perfectly valid reasons for companies to monitor traffic: data exfiltration, accidental or malicious, is a significant concern for companies that hold and process PII and for the people who have their PII held/processed by those companies. It is not as black & white as “monitoring and surveillance bad” unless you only care about your personal privacy.
I thought about mentioning proxmox but in my (personal) experience it was easier to get up and running with ESXi.

Once I understood somewhat what ESXi was doing, it was easier to learn proxmox or Xen or whatever.
I suggest installing Debian or Ubuntu on the NAS so that you will be familiar. Then install all the services on that NAS box. Next step is to learn iptables and make your own router. Could make the NAS into a router if it has two or more network ports. A router is just some iptables commands.
Machete-Mode Debugging
Mac Studio idle is 11 W (max 115 W) compared to RPI 4 idling at 4 W (max 6 W).

It's reasonable to assume that the 115 W on a Mac Studio will never be hit on a workload that could be supported by a RPI...so you're looking at an extra $10-20/yr to operate the Mac Studio.

The biggest issue is just the upfront cost, since of course the Mac Studio is proportionally expensive to its capability.
Ask HN: Who are the founders / builders you follow on Twitter?
I've been a founder for a decade, but have always resisted Twitter.

Now I'm finally getting into it -- who are the founders / builders that share high quality content that I should follow?
Short-sightedness has risen to over 80% in some parts of the world
I’m not in favor of government intervention.

But 2 rules you shouldn’t break as a residential property owner, don’t build on your neighbor’s property and properly handle your sewage.

Otherwise, build your outdoor kitchen if you so desire.
I didn't know about this until a while back, I was at a meetup. Casually talking to other JS developers, I mentioned off-hand how I had written PHP was back in like 2010-2012. Started talking shit about the language and a guy behind me called me out and went on a long spiel about how great it has become.

Now that file-based routing is making a comeback (https://enhance.dev), it would be interesting (and hilarious) to see it come full circle and we all go back to writing SSR with PHP.
I'm gonna try to use this to revert the .xcscheme file changes that Xcode makes when I switch between various Xcode versions on my machine. These happen in 10+ submodules everyday so this is great!
It seems so obvious to us that this is a short term win at the expense of the long term. I wonder if data driven companies like this are locked into local minimums via tons of short term optimizations to boost metrics.

In optimization algorithms like stochastic gradient descent, some form of entropy (crucially temporarily decreasing fitness) or exploration (having parallel evaluations of the fitness function) is necessary to not get stuck. What mechanism incentivizes this in a large corporation, where every initiative must aim to improve the business and there is the capability to actually measure it all?
LEDs are current driven, not voltage driven. It's still weird as most controllers have the current set via resistor (either the value of inline resistor used for current measurement, or separate one), why wouldn't you set that to the max one for the panel ?

edit: https://www.diodes.com/assets/Datasheets/AP3019A.pdf example of simple one. The value of the single resistor decides the max current.
https://twitter.com/brave/status/1574822799700541446
In my experience, sometimes the "systems" part means something along the lines of "architecture". I've seen syllabi for "computer systems" courses that did an overview of virtual memory and all, ran up to a bit of assembly, and then moved on to stuff the OS provides like syscalls, etc. Maybe that's the case here?
>The US government isn't that fucked up.

hahaha
Rust's Safety Is Effective
Exactly this. That is why the Agile Manifesto said to favor "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools". The problem is that approach only works when you have a team of experts with clear goals and enough space to address them. It doesn't necessarily lend itself to being quantifiable or standardized across multiple teams (depending on the problem), so the bean counters and middle managers get nervous. This is an environment ripe for agile consultants to swoop in with the siren song of the silver bullet process du jour.
Sheryl Sandberg left recently.
Matt's analytics has been great - and how fed-up he is with the whole show.
> Putin orders nuclear military train to Ukraine

Now that is environmental friendly. Other nations struggle to convert Diesel trains to electric but Russia already is a step further: nuclear train.