skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The OpenSSL team is actually very good and they do very good work, and they even have funding. The problem is that legacy never goes away, and OpenSSL is a huge pile of legacy code, and it will take a long long time to a) fix all the issues (e.g., code coverage), b) migrate OpenSSL to not-C or the industry to not-OpenSSL.
EVM optimization challenges posted on Twitter (Ethereum Virtual Machine)
IHS can work but most indie hackers miss an important success factor. Whether you're building a micro-SaaS or or mobile app, the fact remains: you're starting a business. And I think most indie hackers under estimate just how difficult that is to do. Most indie hackers think in terms of 'features' and 'tech' when they should be thinking about differentiating, aligning with buyer behavior, marketing, and business models--a host of skills that indie-hackers can't run from, and unfortunately, rarely possess. Understandably so!

If you're the most brilliant hacker (as you put it), your technical skills aren't enough to build a lasting, profitable business. To survive and eventually thrive as a business owner, you must learn how to carve out a segment of the market, you need a product and marketing strategy to defend your position, and you need to be an operator who can make things happen with a limited budget.

For better or worse, your future competitors are a second-order problem.
How many markets do you anticipate adding next year?
1) it makes the engineers happy to be able to speak about the interesting projects they are working on and give back to the wider community.

2) it serves as a venue for attracting other talented candidates who are likewise minded on working on technical problems.

3) when I was employed of FB it was a relatively flat hierarchy, which is to say there weren’t that many higher ups to convince that this should be done.
When what you're really selling is a jobs program for your constituents, perhaps consuming these rocket engines for each launch is not wasteful but good business!
Thanks for the input! We have plans to expand many of our existing markets, and introduce many new markets. Geopolitics is definitely an area we're excited to grow over time. If you have any specific suggestions, please send them our way!
I dislike the marvel movies for the same reason I dislike comic books: The focus is on making sure there is a next episode in the series, which means status quo above all else. This prevents pretty much anything interesting from happening, because significant changes have to be reverted, or previously interesting stories in the extended universe become retconned when a big budget version is made that removes any interesting elements and replaces it with generic action for "mainstream" audiences.

It's remarkable that the most controversial thing disney has done in decades is making main characters not white.

For example, in star wars, instead of doing something interesting or different, they just magicked the "first order" or whatever into existence so they could have big bad empire again, before eventually just saying "fuck it palpatine is back". They also took a back story that was left untold (getting the death star plans), rejected the expanded universe version that was about a usually ignored population having a big impact and sacrificing much for the good of the universe, and replaced it with a super generic "one important ideologically pure character plus one clearly ideologically evil villain" story with basic action.

Meanwhile in the marvel universe, they've adapted the comic book tactic of saying "multiverse and time travel and alternate realities exist" because then they can keep using popular avatar characters. This of course also means nothing freaking matters, because you can literally retcon in universe. It's so boring, nothing matters.
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Then the problem becomes the same, who is empowered with calling a fork? If they are just by users who are using it, how is it different than having an election etc.? Except here the agenda comes from a shadow organization within a "decentralized" system. I would much rather my votes happen in public with everyone's consent.
https://archive.ph/esWQT
This is amazing .

Named colors have one incredible use case: as placeholders in teaching environments. In my CSS course, I’d much rather use “color: hotpink” than “color: hsl(345deg 90% 50%)” (when color isn’t the focus of the lesson)
I've been making a lot of use of SQLite WASM over the past few months.

The other day I learned that it's built into Observable notebooks now - so if you have a SQLite database file that's hosted anywhere online with open CORS headers you can load and query that directly from a notebook.

This notebook here uses that trick: https://observablehq.com/@simonw/mastodon-users-and-statuses... - I wrote more about how that all works here: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/20/tracking-mastodon/

SQLite compiled to WASM is also bundled with the Python Pyodide WebAssembly system, which is how my https://lite.datasette.io/ Datasette Lite application works: https://simonwillison.net/2022/May/4/datasette-lite/
What Going Off the Grid Really Looks Like
Diagnosed at 32.

I knew beforehand even (guessed at least), but I put off doing anything about it. I didn't realize how much it was affecting me. And how many unhealthy coping mechanisms I had built up in my life.
I believe you are basing this on the title.

The second line of the video clarifies she emailed "Britain's national healthcare provider 133 times, trying to get a doctor's appointment."

Her GP is not trained in trans medicine. She needed a referral to get treatment. Her first GP didn't do so, after several attempts. Her second (after she moved) was persuaded to do so.

Even then, the waiting list is decades long. Not the 18 weeks required by law.

That's when she started emailing, and contacting aNHS dministrators, "hundreds of hours spent doing this in my free time, just to get an appointment with a doctor" who can treat her.

Why do you doubt it's true?
I run a 22yo online competition for a 32yo DOS racing game: Stunts, or 4D Sports Driving in some countries. The competition has spawned a long-lived community which includes reverse engineering, game patches, new cars, alternative engines, a few world meetings, and multiple other competitions.

- https://zak.stunts.hu

- https://wiki.stunts.hu/wiki/Custom_cars

- https://forum.stunts.hu/index.php?board=90.0&label=stunts-re...

- https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-remarkable-community-ar...
A lot of this is covered in his Graphics Programming Black Book too.
The best mv2 repository would of course be ublock origin: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
The best mv3 repository would be AdGuard's https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardMV3

For a generalized ad blocker, importing and updating filter lists is probably the most challenging bit. https://kb.adguard.com/en/general/adguard-ad-filters AdGuard has an amazing blog, their content is impressively broad and deep https://adguard.com/en/blog/how-ad-blocking-is-done.html
Archived: https://archive.ph/2022.11.21-172111/https://www.newyorker.c...
Am I the only one that detests businesses with an ideological bent? I mean…you’re starting out eliminating a subset of potential customers.

I recently read on TechCrunch about an LGBT-themed digital bank that raised a $15 million round [1]…why not just be a bank serving all types of customers, or are there specific banking features that cater to LGBT individuals?

1- https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/18/daylight-queer-neobank-rai...
You can fit a stack of 60 bills in your wallet comfortably!? The internet says a bill is 0.0043 inches thick, so 60 bills would be roughly a quarter inch thick. Folded in half, that's over half an inch just for your cash.
I recommend Mumford's Technics and Civilization.
Coinbase shares tumble as Bitcoin slide continues, investors fear contagion FTX
Ask HN: When does fearmongering turn into information sharing, or vice versa?
In the current situation, the software engineering news world is full of layoffs, market turmoil, crypto collapsing, etc.

When spreading fud (fear, uncertainty and doubt) people inevitably share information one can learn something useful from, and vice versa, when sharing information sometimes it feels like people are purely spreading fud.

What would be a good approach to share information with the team or colleagues at work without them feeling like you're fearmongering?

Generally, I like hearing information and judging for myself how relevant it is to me. On the other hand, I sometimes feel questioned at work for why I'm sharing information in the first place, as in, what am I trying to accomplish. If my goal is purely being a selective proxy for information I liked reading, how do I best phrase myself such that it comes out that way?
And there’s not much there aside from rocks
Interesting, yeah access-control is kinda open problem with Yjs. Regarding ProseMirror and rich-text documents, you can mess up documents in other ways as well. Eg deploy a faulty command with a transaction that inserts nodes with invalid children (can be prevented though by using createChecked). Or just changing your schema in an incompatible way with the previous version. So you kinda have to deal with possible malformed documents either way.

Havent had documents corrupted by Yjs allowing changes that are not parseable by schema though - has this happened to you?

And about the schema layer on top of Yjs, you possibly could inspect every update and apply some validation rules. Arent all operations just inserts, updates or deletes of nodes? You can at least rollback to previous version as you flush the updates to the doc in the db. Not ideal though.
Thank you, I really appreciate this constructive feedback.

I obviously get the metric system, and most Americans are pretty familiar. But inches and feet are rooted in physicality. An inch is roughly a finger width, four inches make the (now rarely used measure) hand, and 3 hands is a foot. You can step off roughly accurate feet. I long stride is about 6 feet, or 2 yards. All of these measures divide neatly by 2, 3, and 4. It makes most fractional measures, especially things like 1/16th of an inch easy to work with. I wouldn't use it for science, but for building a table or measuring a rough distance imperial units are super intuitive.
There's work on it, and implementing it at the protocol level may not be as easy, obvious, or as helpful as it seems.

https://github.com/soatok/mastodon-e2ee-specification

https://twitter.com/LeaKissner/status/1592937764684980224
Noted! I'll probably work on this in the next month or so, along with a couple other suggestions I've received from folks.
Most people probably need to flush during to keep the toilet from clogging. Not everyone has the luxury of an aircraft lavatory.
> Even if you stop moving people, you still have to move goods (and electricity, and sewage) which is less efficient if the people are spread over a larger area

That's not necessarily true. Centralizing leads to congestion, for instance, to say nothing of the other failure modes of centralizing (single point of failure being the big one). I expect there is an optimal density for each of those, and it's not clear that "large city" is in that region.

Losses in distributing electricity are fairly negligible, and distributed generation should be encouraged for some of the same reasons.
iCloud for Windows downloading other people's photos
X-ray CT is standard. There’s also just borescoping it. You can build witness coupons at the same time and test their strength. No substitute for test firing the engine. Even operationally, you’ll want to acceptance fire the engine before putting it on a vehicle.
The biggest shock to me here is "aarch64 Windows doesn't have calc.exe"
My favorite 4K movies are the ones on originally recorded on 35mm, in fact, as far as looks go.
Some have talked about this being the ultimate goal for Musk and his tech buddies. A repeat of the 80s style of acquiring a company, stripping it down and turning it around for a quick profit which reduced any power left from the employees.

So far that hasn't happened with tech and tech workers have had a unique position that others have not had in a long time. This Twitter saga might be a proof of concept of how many tech companies can be stripped bare (if it succeeds at Twitter)

I hate to think about it but from my point of view it seems as if I should be rooting for Twitter to catastrophically fail so that the tech elitists who are trying to make this a thing will have to go back to the drawing board for now.
He was only sort of a proponent of that in extreme cases. People get hung up on the sex stuff, but he was way more into digestion.
> Combined with verification costs that don't vary that much from
> language to language, and there's a long future where, for
> safety-critical applications, there's no downside to C -- the cost
> of verification and analysis swamps the cost of writing the code

That doesn't sound right. You really want to get the code right early on. The later bugs are discovered, the more costly the fix. You may have to restart your testing, for instance.

If the language helps you avoid writing bugs in the first place, that should translate to quicker delivery and lower costs, as well as a reduced probability of bugs making it to production. The Ada folks are understandably keen to emphasise this in their promotional material.

> the cost of qualifying a new language's toolchain would be absurd

As I understand it, this typically falls to the compiler vendor, not to the people who use the compiler. A compiler vendor targeting safety-critical applications will want to get their compiler certified, e.g. [0]. To my knowledge we're nowhere near a certified Rust compiler, although it seems some folks are trying. [1]

[0] https://www.ghs.com/products/compiler.html

[1] https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/sealed-rust-the-pitch/
While not that interested anymore, I used to be really into the iOS jailbreaking scene, more specifically writing and testing tweaks/tools used post-jailbreak. This was back around iOS 5 (2012-ish), when names like Cydia, Saurik, Redsn0w and unc0ver were commonplace. I guess they are not anymore. Back then, Jailbreaking was not commercial in the same way it is now, no money prices, large teams, etc. It was just a few dedicated, talented individuals working in small groups, backed by a community very eager to jailbreak. I remember I showed off dark mode on iOS around 6-7 years before it became an official feature.

The main point of jailbreaking for me was actually to "fix" a lot of broken shit in iOS, and significantly improve usability. After a while, that I kind off became less and less relevant, as important (to me) features like dark mode got native, change the lockscreen, and similar things. Also, performance on iphones and iOS got so good there was no longer any point to disable animations and other things I used to tamper with to give the illusion of increasing performance.

They were good days! I remember hard refreshing /r/jailbreak hundred times a day because "a jailbreak for iOS 1x is 'right around the corner'".
Probably the story of DEC itself (the maker of the PDP line). An ahead of its time company that made breakthroughs that were picked up and extended by the likes of Apple.

Runner-up: the story of Texas instruments, and their innovative use of cheap transistors.
It's been a couple weeks. Gizmodo's article says 4hrs ago because they're just spamming it and making it seem like new content (another red flag IMO)

Here's a Gizmodo article from 2 weeks ago talking about the same exact researcher: https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-analytics-tracking-even-whe...
Decreasing network latency by tweaking routers/developing new software:

https://www.bufferbloat.net
Designing mechanical keyboards and making mostly from scratch.

Algorithmic and AI art
Malicious actors will monitor patches and reverse-engineer them anyway, so probably better to make some noise in this case and make sure people update as fast as possible.
This level of fame paranoia is commonly talked about, but is also extremely hard to reach without actually trying and spending resources in regularly keeping your name in people's mouths. You can achieve a great level of wealth without anybody caring: see extremely wealthy families in most countries who 99% of people won't even recognize even if you show them a picture with their name under.
This has to be the deepest insight from all this circus.
An important distinction is that if you are an asset manager (i.e. gambler with other people's money), you aren't allowed on traditional betting platforms--only SEC and CFTC approved ones. Now you can bet on political outcomes with other people's money.
Well, the reason that I had the Apollo watch, and the two Oceanus ones, was because they synced to all the worldwide time servers.

I'm pretty anal about time. People know they can rely on me. It's a thing.
iCloud for Windows: Corrupted Videos, Photos from Strangers
My impression is that a bunch of it has to do with "4K UHD" Blu-Ray uses just about all the space for the main feature and required languages per region and has very little spare room. (As did "3D" Blu-Ray, though those are mostly extinct today.) The early solution to that was "4K UHD" releases were all expensive "Collector's Editions" that bundled a standard Blu-Ray and/or DVD with all the "special features" including commentaries (increasing the marginal costs of all the packaging by including multiple discs). The late solution today seems to be to just ignore all the "special features" entirely, planning only for the lowest common denominator amount of extra space, and things like commentaries are slowly disappearing as an expected bonus feature (again; it's not like these features existed in VHS or Laserdisc; DVD was its own weird golden age).
Yeah, talk about burying the lede! I had no idea so much progress had been made on this problem.
AWS is Amazon's most successful business, but they were wildly successful even without it. AWS only launched in 2006, 12 years into the company.

Today, most estimates I could find put AWS at 25%-50% of Amazon's worth.
So, should the quip be “go anti-woke, go broke” then?
Similar to: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/soundprism/id386833491
Does this mean we won’t get spammed with tailscale articles every day now?
So you're not afraid of making controversial statements, but you're afraid to have them attached to your handle?

It sounds like you're a coward, honestly.
> None of these techniques is relevant anymore given that all the hardware has Z buffers, obviating the need to explicitly order the polygons during the rendering process. But at the time (mid 90s) it was arguably the key problem 3D game developers needed to solve. (The other was camera control; for Crash Andy Gavin did that.)

In your opinion, What is the key problem 3d game developers need to solve in 2022?
Recent threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33628136

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33374402
An even cursory reading of the list does not disqualify all, or even most of them, so not sure what you're getting at. This is childish nit picking at this point, anyone who wants to actually spend bitcoin will have no trouble finding a place to do so.
Could have venemous spines on the pectoral fins. If I were going to be a venemous flatfish, that's how I'd roll.
Especially given the breadth of products and the volume of products they produce vs the smaller company. Food and industrial safety relies on pervasive vigilance which relies on a culture of vigilance.
Also, maybe the original launch date a month ago was more optimal? I'm sure it's hard trying to time the perfect launch trajectory while also juggling weather and a bunch of other variables.
With the news that Chinese Hackers are using 42,000 domains in a huge phishing campaign I have been getting asked a lot: What does it take to send out a phishing campaign? So I wrote a guide (with a few pieces left out): How to send a great phishing campaign
> My joy knows no bounds.

Much of the time, neither does a C compiler.
> I am not Christian; these are not things important to me, but they are part of the operational definition of a classical cult, which NXIVM is not, in that sense.

Could you possibly link to this singular, authoritative (and non-contested) "operational definition of a classical cult"?

> Why use the label cult? As a rhetorical device, that's fine, but don't present it to me as an absolute.

Only your absolute definition is allowed? Is there a governing body for such things?

> Language is free -- what I think subjectively is a cult and what you do are different, and usage will evolve as time goes on, and that's fine.

This is a bit inconsistent with the rest of your comment - what constitutes a cult is now subjective?

> I'm in general in favor of holding to a narrower definition because otherwise the semantic mismatch in discussing cults can get very broad, to the point where we're just talking about two different things and the connection from cult -> occult -> hidden knowledge has been completely lost.

Is it possible that this could be happening right here in this thread?

> EDIT: And not stated here, but my main thrust, is that expanding the meaning because of poorly scoped definitions is the worst possible way to go about it because it's motivated by pseudo-logic rather than by organic usage.

Now we're back to "the (singular) meaning"?

Sir: do you recall where you acquired your facts? Did those who provided them to you include any supporting proofs?
> fidget cube in your pocket

This could be misconstrued. On the other hand a rosary is a lot less ambiguous.
"I don’t want to see so many people getting hurt. My generation has been hit by the financial crisis, by Covid, we’re going to have the climate crisis. These people don’t need this extra suffering in their life."

Better get working on fixing the financial system, the health care system, and CO2 production. Hating on crypto won't solve those.
Huh, ok, that's not so bad then.

It feels like there could still be a TOCTOU issue there, but it'd be difficult to use.
The app was aimed at people who saw Wall Street as too liberal and wanted a bank that shared their values.

I'll ignore the likely wildly-inaccurate base assumptions, and cut to the shared-values part: "DO NOT fuck with my money". There ya go, you share that value, perhaps we can do business. Hopefully you have a good app, and reasonable loan rates, and hey, maybe I'll transfer my mortgage over or look to you for my next car loan.

But you will absolutely not get a penny of my money if your catch line is "we're not 'woke' like those other fuckers". I'm seriously having trouble coming up with why I'd care about that. Maybe the schtick is "the bank's profits will go to liberal causes!", I dunno. Seems like a weird thing to hang your hat on. I'd say that the market apparently agrees, but again if that's the schtick, then I'm willing to believe the company had no business handling the money of others, and would have gone under regardless.
I spent several game nights shooting guys in TF2 while listening to this interview. It is long. The channel has a few good interviews with biology guys as well
Pouet or Demozoo are probably your best bet.
He did answer. He said if NASA says so, then it's so.
Don't you simply need an apartment with an extra room? That's what I am doing and it works very well. WFH wouldn't even be in my list of reasons as to why I should move to a house.
"The view from top of the bridge was wild."

Do you English? That can be interpreted in any way.

Election interference claims have been made after every US election I have known of.
Back in OS X Mountain Lion (2012) OSX was a separate product. I had a Macbook but bought the installation disk (OS) from a online store, because it wasn't bundled. Then suddenly they made it 'available to download from the App Store'..
For tiny very specific problems that can be done under 2 k lines, I love a single self contained page that includes the necessary html/ja/CSS!