skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds way overblown on multiple levels. "Harden the OS"... why... if you are port forwarding samba? Firewall with IDP? Please. This kind of advice seems designed to intimidate & scare, and it's absurd & cruel to convince people self hosting is so impossible and terrifying. Geeks oversell their conservative paranoia & gate-keeping like this all the te but this naysaying is just posionous!

I've gone through every CVE for Samba & there seemingly is 1 potential problem since 2007 that would possibly potentially be an issue for a basic non-domaim controller smbd fileshare that a random non-user could possibly exploit. If you dont trust your users, there's indeed some CVEs of real threat, but still, like... 4.. https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-102/...

Yes you probably should update fairly regularly, just in case. But more often than not, if you are a couple years behind, it's not a problem. Maybe someday that goes bad. But... so far... being super lax on updates generally hasnt had much impact. Maybe check logs every now and then, but honestly... once you have some confidence, it's fine. This stuff runs fine. It's easy.
> The judge should not view Theranos as "a house of cards," but as the "ambitious, inventive, and indisputably valuable enterprise it was," they wrote. "The court's difficult task is to look beyond those surface-level views when it fashions its sentence."

I’m trying to stay level headed and reason about this. I am a layman when it comes to the US justice system, but I find this insulting and making a mockery of the justice system.

It was absolutely a fraudulent, house of cards. The courts task is to actually carry out justice, and keep in mind the fact that Elizabeth Holmes carefully concatenated an imagine of success, even dressing like Steve Jobs.

Forget the investors. This crime defrauded actual patients. An 18 month sentence? Ha! Why not just abolish the entire judicial branch of government? What’s even the point?
It could also be said that being able to re-lock after cooking your ROM is just as important and even more missing
Haven't been to Svalbard but sadly my experience on the mainland in Norway and other nearby places with polar night is that cloud cover is near constant. Perhaps 75% of the time. But, the sky is jaw dropping the rest of the time.
I agree with your first statement about hoarding by early buyers.

However, the smug "write-only database meme" is getting a bit old. Cryptocurrencies, and even other crypto-payment systems (e.g. chaumian cash) obviously have different characteristics than centralized money. Come to think of it, you could just mockingly describe any computer program that has structured data as a database.

Cryptocurrency has almost nothing to do with databases or storing data. At its core, cryptocurrency is a system of distributing signed transactions that uses hashcash as a sybil-resistance and (order) synchronisation mechanism.

Google spreadsheets need not apply. The whole point is that you don't require a single party to sign transactions. The problem that cryptocurrency deals with concerns co-operation between adversarial parties. Centralization leaves you hopping from platform to platform forever.
I'm really surprised you weren't able to land anything in 2021 when companies were binge hiring. It might be because new grads working remotely aren't worth it. It might be something with how you're interviewing, where you're applying, or where your degree is from. The lack of internships hurt somewhat, but not so much you can't land a job in a year in a booming tech environment.

> which affects the connections I know well...

For the most part, no. It's not the connections, it's a stamp that you have a small amount of experience, and for the companies running the internships, it's for their recruiting pipeline. Especially if it was remote, the connections just won't be all that valuable.

> my inability to drive as of this post

If you have to commute and don't live somewhere with good transit, yeah, this is a problem.

> job...shelf stocking...is for getting work experience

It's great that you're doing something and having a little spare cash is nice, but this experience won't help you get a tech job.

Up top, I said 2021. 2022 is different, and I'm not as surprised.
Kidnapping early bitcoiners is happening more and more. I'm fully out of that now, but if I weren't, I would be keeping it a secret from everyone.
Ah! The plot thickens. The Fables of La Fontaine are well known, but I hadn’t heard of Montaigne before. Apparently there is a link!

First there is this: https://www.jstor.org/stable/458505 “Montaigne as a Source of La Fontaine's Fable: La Mort et le Mourant” It notes major similarity and possible link between Montaigne’s philosophical essay and Fontaine’s fable.

But even more interesting is this: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1659-essays-michel-de... It’s two books—essays of Montaigne side by side with illustrated (by Hooghe) fables of Fontaine. Not a single book as you described, but interesting to see that there is clearly some connection between the two!
The funny thing is that every Silicon Valley shill has should have sufficient understanding of how this works to come to the same conclusion, but there are legions, LEGIONs, of technologically illiterate people who are easily fooled by these sort of bullshit usecases
That's what I meant by basic things.
My wife and I had the Skin Horse’s Tale read at our wedding. I believe that we also made bookmarks with that text on it and left one at each place setting.
yeah, I mean that's the definition of hindsight. Once something happens, you can look back and comb for warning signs.

But that doesn't mean it's reasonable to have a rule like "If someone does stimulants and is polyamorous, dont let them give you money, they're definitely running a scam"
I think this argument can never be won. "Layer 3 switch" is common terminology. But "switching" strictly speaking is a Layer 2 action. But sometimes we say that a switch is "switching packets at Layer 3" when it is doing a hardware action in response to IP layer information. We could go back and forth all day. So let's all be reasonable if possible.
Awesome! I encourage you to post your code and blog about it. I would find it fascinating, and suspect others would too.
That strong correlation of how big/successful the company is and how it's almost always Grade E.

Not defending that it is right or not, just pointing my opinion.
> a16z is in on the scam.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I think this is an unsupported claim, that also happens to be factually false.
Having multiple frames within one webpage, to show broader context alongside nuanced comments and references (in a user-managed way)... all to invite deeper engagement with a poem. I dig it. 2002.
What state/region? It surely can’t be this bad for new grads…

If you are open to relocating, note that in your resume and make it clear when applying. Being open to move will unlock more oppty.

Beyond the retail/seasonal job you need to build a portfolio of tech projects. Things you’ve built for SMBs or even biz ideas you’ve worked on. Prep for the “what have you been doing since graduation” question from prospective employers.
Just a counterpoint I've been working in the software engineering industry for 20 years and never once had to do any sort of grinding on leet code or anything else.

I've found that the problem-solving whiteboarding that is common in the industry reflects my university comp sci education (binary tree, big O notation, etc).

On the other hand, I also have zero interest in working for a FAANG so that might have something to do with it.
* People rarely deal with large amounts physical cash. They deal with abstractions built upon cash (checks, credit cards, ACH, other electronic transfers).

* I think it's the same for banks. I think banks also mainly operate on abstractions built upon cash.

* An attacker who wants to steal physical cash needs to be physically present. That means there's a more limited set of people who could attempt the attack. With hacking, people across the entire world can attempt the attack. With physical attacks, you're at risk of being physically apprehended and caught through physical investigations. With hacking you can be behind proxies and avoid getting caught. Additional, with hacking you can do the hack from a jurisdiction that won't care, so even if the victim and the victim's government know you did it, you won't face any consequences. You might even be on your own government's payroll.
For my journey, which is still starting (I am just now comfortable to apply for jobs, gotten an interview, but not employed yet), Harvard's CS50x was an amazing "Bridge gapper", but outside of that it's been courses on things such as Udemy, LinkedinLearning as of recently, and Youtube. I haven't gotten too far into it, but there is this github repo created to supplement the knowledge learned in a computer science degree titled Open Source Society University as well.
I’d say being alive and obese is healthier than dying earlier from diseases we’ve been successful at tackling. Obese doesn’t mean anything close to being unable to work and be productive for society. A 6ft tall man is obese at 220. Hardly debilitating.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17395493
Given the nature of the complexity of some of the 'devices' generated in the GoL for some rules, doesn't the fact that in this study, the generation space was set constant at 100x100 cells potentially mean that the results could be strongly tied that that arbitrary choice- and that re-running the simulations with a significantly larger board size could result in markedly different complexity categorizations? That was my thought on first read through at least. Would be interesting to do the same thing at multiple scales, to see if the results hold. There's a whole other study there then in determining the potential complexity class dependence on observed board size.
Its a good question and I don't have any handy answers other than a loose distribution of twitter accounts and subreddits although if you want a single source to plumb through there is an amazing store of knowledge in Voices of VR podcast by Kent Bye [1] run through his archives for a thoughtful discussion of almost any topic in this space.

[1] https://voicesofvr.com/
Rewriting the Story of Ötzi, the Murdered Iceman
The Progressives on the Council tend to be left leaning on many issues and often at odds with the city’s Democratic mayor. And in June 2020, the Progressive members of the Council successfully sponsored a measure that sought to reduce the size of the city’s police force by about 30 percent.

[...]

The police say making arrests for bike thefts could be challenging. They cite a memo from the local prosecutor which stipulates that, according to Vermont law, in order to effectively prosecute someone the police must prove the person “actually knew” the property was stolen.

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“We have an increase in houseless folks around Burlington,” Ms. Hightower said. “It is not something people are comfortable seeing and it sparks an emotional response.”

[...]

Mr. Turner and the others in the group say they believe the bikes that end up in the park are being sold in exchange for drugs.

[...]

“Meth is a game changer,” said Ms. Boudah, the leader of the outreach team.

Some Meth users are known to become fixated on stealing things — such as bikes.
> And if you get caught it’s all on the chain..

I'd imagine in those circumstances, once you are caught you are in trouble regardless of the medium of exchange once the authorities note you are doing something. Up to that point, something like Monero [0] probably mitigates the risk, they have some insanely good obfuscation happening to make it hard to figure out who is trading with whom.

[0] https://www.getmonero.org/resources/about/
Yes, switches can do this with policing. The hardware can inspect into higher layers in (certain, specific) ways.
Education platform to learn about core cybersecurity concepts
I'm not confident it's valid to allocate objects larger than SIZE_MAX/2 on any platform.
Twitter Flags Mediaite Post Critical of Elon Musk as ‘Potentially Spammy’
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I remember the Boxee Box and loved mine.. while it lasted. The interface was slick, simple, and had the basics that I needed at the time.
Venezuela didn’t ban crypto.
I found these two episodes of the “Fall of civilizations” podcast to be very informative about the Sumerians and Assyrians.
It’s episode 8[1] and 13[2], definitely worth a listen in my opinion.

[1]: https://youtu.be/cq1g8czIBJY
[2]: https://youtu.be/Qr4FiT0ks7I
A vast amount of money and effort goes into creating products that are only accessible to people in the US. I’d say the rest of the world is due a more than a few billion dollars worth of investment into financial infrastructure.

Not disputing that there’s a lot of scams and shady operators, but that kind of goes with the territory of subversive technology.
All's well that ends well - William Shakespeare. I'm not trolling. I literally believe that during a person's life, absolutely nothing matters except the final state at death. No matter what happens to him in the intervening time, if the end is good, it's all good. And I believe this with 100% no wiggle room.
Heroin is an illegal drug.
I guess it’s really hard to admit that you were wrong. I watched a video recently where he was challenged quite a bit on the benefits of crypto. His answers were simply bad and hollow.
A deed is a piece of paper, plus big guys with big guns who enforce what the paper says. The paper is the least important part of the equation.
On the energy item modern HVAC systems use a device called an ERV to greatly reduce energy loss to ventilation. No need to turn down the heat to get fresh air. The thermal plume associated with each occupant makes the problem a bit easier too, in general stale air heads to the top of the room because it's warmer and more humid therefore less dense. Not a new idea and some good models to look at.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_recovery_ventilation

https://techxplore.com/news/2020-12-ventilation-easy-highly-...

https://hackaday.com/2022/07/07/the-benefits-of-displacement...
>See this actually worries me - why do you feel like that? If you think what you're being asked to do could introduce bugs and you're not convinced about how much revenue it will generate then you probably should be having a conservation with the client about whether it should be built in the first place imo.

I feel like I'm repeating myself a lot so I'll point you to another comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33573035

> And to my original point: that a business requirement adds more potential bugs is not sufficient to obviate implementing it. The only sufficient argument is that it doesn’t provide the product owner as much value as it costs to implement and maintain, but rarely is the developer in a position to judge that - they just provide the cost estimates and the PO can decide if they want to wear it or not.

It's more an issue of competent estimation and communication than gatekeeping. If the complexity costs have been adequately communicated by the technical staff to the product owners/managers/stakeholders/etc, and they insist on decisions that both add significant maintenance cost and, by your humble measure, aren't positioning the product better, it's time for you to move on to different company/client.

> So I took a look into it and realised that the main issue was that we had something like 20 marketing scripts running on the site. When I started asking why we have [x] script someone would always provide me a valid reason, "Oh, Sally and her team use that for [y] reason". Okay fine, so then I ask Sally if we can remove it, but she obviously says no because this specific tool best suites her team's needs.

Not sure this is in the scope of what we're talking about. Intra-organisation conflicts on the business requirements don't mean that business requirements don't have primacy here, it just means those requirements were badly specified and badly maintained. Perhaps a faster website is a greater requirement than the scripts were for the marketing department, but the business requirements for marketing haven't gone away, and really an alternative and performant system should have been made in their stead to enable marketing to do their job well again, again, if its decided that this provides values for the business. And the developer doesn't really have the authority to speak on whether it does or not.
1. ArtStation got the sweet Epic Games buyout/exit. It is also the better community as it serves as a Github-like professional portfolio for artists.

2. AI-unaided art is on the way to becoming a niche artisanal field. Kids of tomorrow will treat illustration as they do calligraphy, celluloid film, and butter churning.

3. Because of these trends, their userbase will stop growing and eventually dwindle.

DeviantArt sees the writing on the wall. This is a risky but probably necessary pivot, though it will accelerate the loss of their existing userbase.
I had my first panic attack in that terminal, so I may be one of the few in this thread with professional psychiatric analyses to share (though surely not the only one.)

Basically a lot of Americans find CDG stressful because it is so close to the beauty of Paris without allowing any exposure to it. It is a perfectly accomodating and pleasant space, but it hits the uncanny valley of manufactured cultural institutions while really just being an airport at the behest of arbitrary French immigration officials.

The airport is also very open even by airport standards. There are very few nooks and/or crannies to hide away in to catch your bearings. The omnipresent announcements relay information relevant to you 1% of the time but you constantly feel on edge trying to keep up with all of them.

Couple that with the fact that travellers are likely to be sleep deprived (or in my case Ambien deprived) and you have a recipe for disaster.

If purgatory is a real place I am pretty sure it will feel like CDG. Its quite a nice place for an airport. In fact, your first hour there is always lovely, but it seems to have an exaggerated version of that 'airport feeling.'
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If you need to leave your country quickly, perhaps because you are being conscripted into a war that you don’t want to die in, are you going to pack your bag full of cash on your way out? It will be confiscated.
It's not going to replace artists. It's just another genre. Like any art form that's done over and over, people catch onto the nuances of it and begin to get tired of it after a period of time. It's why we have different periods of art in different regions of the world, or why I want to gouge my eyes out with every bland new Pixar or Marvel movie.
What does waiving my moral rights mean? IIUIC, when Paypal says this it means that it is not responsible for whatever service I use it for?
Otoh Activision Blizzard is there and it isn't doing great. At least in future. They milked their franchises to death and expect to bite them in the ass.
Victorians ‘mistaken’ about why Egyptians mummified bodies
The gist has comments with some additional pretty graphs:

https://gist.github.com/johnhw/dfc7b8b8519aac530ac97da226c17...
We're how many thousand years in to having gold and honestly nobody has figured out a practical use for it - it ranges from put it in a vault to show off how spangly it is. Still big money in digging it up, despite the utility of glitter and yellow paint.

It is clear at this point there is a multi-billion dollar market for cryptocurrencies that isn't going away (I choose my words carefully, I don't like the long term prospects of any particular token). Wild success and a use case has been demonstrated already, even if a lot of people don't like the idea that burning energy is its own reward. The world has changed substantially because of it.
What you are proposing is royalty payment.. if movie does well payback goes up as well.

Have you considered the fact that if he was given a choice of royalty payment (for ex. 10K advance and rest royalty) vs $250K cold hard cash, which one he would have opted for anyway?

I know what I would have opted if I was in his situation.
With WebAssembly, layout engines should be easy pickings. Just have to grab the code from an open source browser and get it to build, and put the license on it.

Edit: well, not that easy :) https://github.com/servo/servo/discussions/28070
> those use cases will never justify billions of dollars and this much resource, talent and energy poured to it

I don't remember the source tweet anymore, but a lot of the interest in crypto from software engineers comes from the belief that most challenges that can be solved with technology have become political problems, and that there's a "why even bother?" mentality because the bureaucrats have made it unappealing to press forward.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17817627
> The picture is very clear here.

I wish it were.

It should not be difficult to verify that N95 masks filter COVID virus particles effectively.

If such a study had been performed, nobody could reasonably hypothesize that, owing to the properties of the viral envelope, an N95 filter could stop nanometer black carbon particles but not COVID viruses of the same size.

It is baffling that the very basic experiment has not been done: DOES N95 FILTER COVID?

The advancement of human knowledge absolutely depends on VERIFYING assumptions. Institutionalizing common beliefs without empirical data is a crime against science.
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We are looking into adding a whatsapp bot soon!
Regarding capture, you can do it on most browsers this way https://www.notion.so/akiflow/How-to-capture-texts-and-URLs-...
I think people often share common goals, but “how” is where disagreement tends to be. And I think that’s healthy. Some friction in decision making will often yield better decisions.
What does it matter? Just use Tor for everything read-only.

If some service requires you to create an account, just give them false information. If they ban you, just create another account. At the end of day, the legalese is irrelevant. If it was relevant, then people would read it.

It is not like the user has any bargaining power with the platform owner to spy on them less for example, or even verify that they are upholding the privacy policy. These companies do not follow their own rules in banning you or otherwise.
Very quick searching seems to indicate increased complexity of trials is a big factor. And trials are more complex because most of the drugs being tested are incremental improvements on existing drugs.

“Drugs are more expensive to test when they have smaller effects that require observing more patients for longer periods of time,” [1] Because you have to observe more people over a longer period of time.

That also tempers the article's enthusiasm for biological technologies. The problem with health technology is that every single step is uncertain, every single step needs to be tested. It's "artisanal" to an extreme extent. There is no equivalent to Moore's law. Each step costs more, not less. Well, until we reach the point we can grow who organs easily. Then thing might change.

[1] Title: "From concept to clearance: Why it’s so expensive to develop new CV [cardiovascular] drugs" https://cardiovascularbusiness.com/topics/healthcare-managem...
And 4 million would be even better. What’s the “right” number?
Why not QPSK over VSB like used in broadcast satellites?