skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My solution, and I respect its not for everyone, is learn to cook and start inviting people around for weekend lunch/dinners. I think this is more personal and better than heading to bars and restaurants.

I find this is a really good way to build a social network and become part of groups. It may be a little intimidating at first, but as it becomes regular, it's easier to add new people to an existing friend group than many new people together.

If people get along start expanding to other things. Weekends away or days trips to do hobby x. Bring new people in. Understand sometimes you have to move on from people that dont fit. But overall put in the effort to be the organiser.

I think people sometimes forget as an adult you often have to put in effort to build new relationships. It doesnt happen as organically as it did when you were young. There's huge value in it and we'll worth it I feel.
This is pretty relatable. Not sure I'd say "unworthy", as that's hard to measure. Instead, I'd just say that consciousness seems to lead directly and inevitably to misery. And following Qohelet from thousands of years ago, those who are no longer conscious, or never were, are the best off.

We'll all be dead quite soon. In the meantime, I enjoy going out into nature a bit (waterfalls are great), and more reliably, having a pet. I think this is the best that this world has to offer. Godspeed.
See my replies below. You could 100% use Coinbase and plan to use an offline wallet the exact way you have prescribed, and still lose everything due to exchange insolvency.

To save time on replies: “you’d have to be unlucky for that to happen,” and “just try to be fast” is not an ideal mitigation strategy.
It’s not, strictly? It’s just more of a tragedy of the commons.
It has nothing to do with xenophobia.

The Chinese government doesn't play fair, and the West has been letting them get away with it for decades. They take full advantage of open markets available in the rest of the world, but close their markets to outsiders; at best, outsiders can get a piece of the action, but only through the oversight and partial ownership of a local company. The idea that China is still a "developing nation" and should have special status and privileges is a joke.

While I won't claim that Western nations don't have issues with censorship and freedom of speech, the Chinese government punishes foreign corporations (economically) that say anything critical of China or its government. The Chinese government exports its propaganda and censorship policies through informal economic sanctions.

I'm not particularly interested in allowing an authoritarian government that pushes pervasive propaganda and censorship to become the next world hegemon. (I'll freely admit that the US is no saint in that role, but I think it should be obvious and defensible why I'd prefer the US in that position rather than China.)

Note that this is all about the Chinese government. I have no problems with Chinese people; by and large, those I've met on my few trips to China (granted, my last trip was over 10 years ago) and those I've met who travel to and live in the US have been good, friendly, intelligent people. It's perfectly reasonable to be against the constant, widespread actions of a foreign government without being branded a xenophobe.
Big banks dont deserve your money, they are awful institutions.
Nobody serious thinks the P-curves, which is what we're talking about, were weakened by NIST. I don't think anybody at all thinks the DSA algorithm was "intentionally weakened", but lots of people, reasonably, believe it was incompetently designed.

Ed2519 has the virtue of both a better curve and a better signing algorithm, which is why it's used in preference to ECDSA. If you're using 25519, don't bother keeping the rest of the algorithms enabled.

I think these hardening guides are mostly pretty silly too, for whatever that's worth. The important thing is making sure nobody can log into anything with a password. The rest is just liturgical.
Actually, there are a whole range of metal seed backup systems available!

But seriously, write down the 12 seed words, keep it somewhere safe. Make another copy, tear it in half (6 words each) and keep one with a relative and one at work. Check them at 1, 2, 4, then every 6 months.

But for most people this is all overkill: just use a mobile wallet.
Yeah, iOS doesn't allow JITs except for javascriptcore.
Better UI, more streamlined GitHub integration (I could not for the life of me get CapRover's integration to work), Docker compose support
Add three to six more zeros and these breaches will be taken seriously.
Are you going to pick the future domains now to prevent squatters?
Perhaps my comment was unclear. The oil supply itself was not the issue, i.e. the physical oil in tankers or pipelines, the issue was where the revenue from Iraqi oil was going to end up, what it was going to be used for, and so on. It's not that hard of a concept to grasp.
Where do you sell then?
The complaints boil down to

>Discord not deleting inactive accounts

I personally don't want my old accounts to be deleted. Just because I don't sign on to a site that doesn't mean I want everything to be deleted.

>Closing the Discord window doesn't quit the entire application and just closes the window

This is normal behaviour of programs. In fact most macos programs work this way. Windows still shows Discord in the bottom right no people can access it if they need it even if they don't want a window for it.

>Discord's password requirements were not what they wanted

Most people's discords accounts are stolen via token stealers and not by having their passwords guessed. They had proper rate limiting so this isn't a big deal.

>They didn't create various paperwork

Legal compliance is annoying.

I hate how foreign governments can trample over US products.
It would still be good to call out the exact processor model, as the lowest end i5-1240P has half the L3 cache as the highest i7-1280P.

Also I don't think it was clear you were running "sysctl vm.drop_caches=3" between benchmarking runs of your optimizations. Your table seemed to indicate those were generic initial read/write benchmarks from either dd or hardparm. The site you linked to also had comments on it stating dd is not very good for benchmarking, suggesting fio & a different site[1].

1. https://linuxreviews.org/HOWTO_Test_Disk_I/O_Performance
I have had quite a few emails form Heroku telling me to move my stuff.

Heroku's warning emails are how I found out two things:

- That I'm still the administrative contact for a former employer's production environment.

- That my former employer is using a free tier for its public-facing web site.

Ethically, I should let the company know is web site is about to go offline. But it's a start-up run like a fiefdom and the founder tells all departing employees that if they contact anyone at the company, he'll sic the (imaginary) lawyers on them.
I have several legacy free tier dynos that don't have the restriction. They run 24/7, at least for another day or so.
This should not come as a surprise to anyone here. The fact that people on HN still defend china when they clearly got their success through espionage and cheating just shows how much influence XI has on american institutions and social media. I hope everyone just wakes up in time so we can stop this nightmare before we lose everything we hold dear.
Virginia Commonwealth University is a great place. However, its current president is a drag, mainly interested in his own pay and prestige. Help us get a new one by RTing his parody Twitter account!
Lots of sites for this:

https://IndieHackers.com

https://IndieWorldwide.com

https://FoundersCafe.io

/r/startups
I hope structure editors strike back .. I mean I wish it's going mass.
> Second: I do believe that many people on HN really deeply care about technology/hacking topics and have detest for office politics.

I think it's more accurate to say that they have a detest for dealing with people in ways that require persuasion, or more generally situations without an "objective" right answer.

You want to do A, someone else wants to do B, you can't do both, you both think you're right, boom, "politics."
Privately, decentralized exchanges, etc
As a parent, I came up with this quick side project to play with that new technology.

From a single theme word, in this case “Christmas”, I got GPT-3 to generate:

- sub-themes with name and description

- Images idea based on each theme with title and description

- complete translation in Spanish and French

Then with Stable Diffusion, I was able to generate a simple coloring page for each image based on the name and the description.

All of this neatly packaged as a static Hugo website and hosted via Cloudflare pages! That was a fun project :)

The Christmas coloring pages are not all perfect overall, but some of them are already rather good!
Effortlessly install developer tools with easy-to-remember URLs
I do feel like there were many more "fake discounts" this year where many brands simply rehashed the same discounts they were continuously offering before. I don't mind real discounts, but find it extremely distasteful when fake discounts are offered.
no, they're sharks, cold, unfeeling and calculating. This outrageous statement gets people agitated and reading news. It doesn't matter that he has a long track record of lying, nor that such an fact, even if true, is inconsequential for everyone, because people are idiots and they're attracted to the wrong things.
Pretty much the only other option is to use something like localbitcoins and hope someone is willing to meet you with an envelope of cash.
Yep, housing is one of the few things whose relative price has increased, primarily because the planet is the same size now but there are more people.

In other areas, people were absurdly more wealthy in 2016 than in 1916 -- in terms of the quality of food, transportation, healthcare, nearly all household goods, services of most kind except domestic/household staff, and of course all the technology that didn't exist at all then.

Think about it this way: the planet is the same planet, but an hour of work at an average job should on average buy you an hour's worth of stuff-made-by-labor (of average skill/value). As human productivity grew due to better equipment, better materials, better science, and more efficient operations, the amount of stuff an average hour of work produces is way higher -- and thus the average worker can afford more/better stuff for the same amount of time worked.

Some work got way more productive, some got a little more productive, and a few things (like domestic help) are exactly the same level of productivity as before. And so some things, we have absurdly cheaper or better things, but others have gotten slightly more expensive instead.
Possibly the best tool in this space is blacklistd / blocklistd, which just exposes some reporting APIs and hooks them directly in sshd, rather than trying to parse failed logins out of logs. That said, meh.

https://github.com/zoulasc/blocklist
Too fast, too furious: Dangerous street takeovers stymie police, anger neighbors
There are three hard problems in CS: naming cache things, invalidation, off by one and concurrency. errors,
Yes, there is a problem with domestic labor being so demanding as to demand an entire human being's full time attention. That's why modernity is amazing.
It takes lots of effort to store money in a bank savings account: You need to send them info, and sign documents, and you need ID. I'm told lots of people can't get ID and don't know where the DMV is. That's why KYC is racist.
Took me more than 5 seconds to get the joke. Maybe I'm sleepy right now.
Forcing equal access to markets is a limit on sovereignty (freedom). That's why the TPP got shut down. Equal access to markets in many cases just means total economic subjugation of weaker nations by commercial interests like the whole India colonial period.
There's a popular movie called "Puss in Boots". That's what I had to think of first.
I don’t know if this is “shrinkflation” or “removeflation”: when I first came to the US, helpful fellow students gave me an advice to always use powder detergent (as opposed to liquid) for clothes, as a way to save money. Now, manufacturers seem to have fixed this “problem”: powder clothes detergent is almost non-existent.
> Every single technological innovation has made it easier for the individual to function better alone.

Isn’t it more nuanced? In order for someone to not need a wife for laundry service, we rely on the manufacturer. We rely on electricity.

It seems like we become more tightly dependent (single directional graph) on more people in order to feel superficially less intertwined.

I think people need other people more than ever. We just might not need them to be our masters or servants.
This is especially daft considering the vast majority of credit and debit card PINs are four or six numerical-only digits. At least the discord password could be alphanumeric plus symbols. Why is a Discord password being held to higher standards than a bank card PIN?
Yeah, that score is only slightly higher than the highest one it shows for my account (which is also bold) - and unless my alter ego has been disguised so well it even managed to hide from myself, I'm pretty sure that isn't me :)
Sure, it could.

Lawsuits are filed all the time. The people who lose those suits sometimes appeal. Sometimes they appeal all the way to the Supreme Court. When they go that far with a suit that has no constitutional ground for even being heard, they have to come up with some, um, novel constitutional question in order to even make it in the door. Otherwise, the Supreme Court won't hear the suit, leaving their loss at the Appellate level intact. This happens somewhat regularly.

What's much more rare is for the novel re-interpretation of the Constitution to gain enough traction for the Supreme Court to replace the existing, standard interpretation.

The headline said "could". And that's right, it could, at least in theory. It won't, though.
I take it you didn't read the article. The fine is low in part because discord cooperated and proactively complied with the regulator's orders before the fine was issued.
I started reading this article and immediately thought "That's something Ken Shiriff could have written", but I didn't recognize the domain name.

Lo and behold... looks like Ken just changed his domain name.

Amazing work, as always, Ken.
Unless you use MS products, then "it didn't worked yesterday!" is perfectly valid excuse...

After trying for hours to make their autogenerated libray to work (I had to patch their own wrappers to return actual error code coz they fucked up error handling) I just gave up for a day and threw some excuse

... the code worked next day. By which I mean it displayed another nonsensical error but it was progress!
Shooting the British has a lot of American tradition. You're still going to prison if you start shooting everyone with a funny accent.
I don't have any, but my cousin has sold his directly. All you need is the buyer's receiving hash.
Is this a new iteration in fail2ban? I gave it a cursory look and I couldn’t find any new features that make it a better tool than its predecessor
Well, there's some evidence that people are withdrawing from exchanges (to their own custody, assisted custody, or other custodians).

This is probably a good thing, as it's the only real way to ensure they actually have your money. And it's a story if you're worried about being last one out in that case! (I think it unlikely for Coinbase TBH).

Definitely some people (myself included!) hope this becomes a cultural norm for Bitcoin. But that might be a bit optimistic!
I've also moved from Twitter to Mastodon, for the same reasons, and have a similar experience - the raw follower count is still a fraction as before, but a lot of interesting people I want to connect with are already there.

And the feeling is... very different. There was lots about Twitter that subtly enraged me, like pop-sci Covid takes showing up in my algorithmic feed after I had extremely carefully curated my followers to only include actual scientists who knew what they were talking about. And it's also refreshing not to have all those ads. In general, I feel like you've got a lot of control of your Mastodon experience, if you curate your followers well, it can be quite good. I have rules of immediately "unfollow boosts of" anybody who posts viral "boost this if..." or bullshit polls, and that's cleaning up my feed as well.

I've also been followed by my first crypto account (so I might go to followers-need-approval), and have seen glimmers of the same kind of dumb drama you see on Twitter, but overall feel like I generally have the tools I need to keep all that in check. I was finding that Twitter was bad for my mental health, and took a bunch of breaks from it even when I was having generally positive interactions and finding good info. We'll see how this goes, especially as things scale.
I don't think it's that unusual.

> Ahh yes, finally, government-enforced password policies. They have lost their mind.

Sure arguing over the password policy itself is somewhat silly however those shorter/lower complexity passwords are trivial to crack in the event of a data leak even when properly salted and hashed.

> And they have thoughts on UI design too!

This one makes perfect sense. The complaint is that you can close the window while in a call without any prompts. It's not that the UX is bad (IMHO it's very useful) but that it can lead to accidental leaks of information that could be trivially avoided with minor changes.

The solution to this is trivial. Prompt on close (but not minimise) when in a call to warn the user and provide a setting to hide this prompt.
I’ve been reading Jacques Ellul’s The Technological Society lately (1960s), and it was absolutely an issue back then, according to him.
Maybe familiarity has bred contempt? We have more insights - accurate or not - into each other. The internet has placed us all closer together and more visible to one another where previously we could stay in our social bubbles and communities. Part of why it was easier to get along with people even less than a decade ago was there was a social distance, where that we were different made us more open to one another, and now that we are all in the same single power struggle, our circles have reduced their radii. The whole ideological thing has made us repulsive to one another by saying we are in a zero sum power struggle for equality, somehow against one another. Our differences are no longer complementary, they are intersectional and oppositional, and from what I can tell, almost irreconcilable. If you want to reverse this trend, just ask yourself if you have judged someone, and then look at what reversing that will take.
The Bumblebee Flight Myth
and orders of magnitude slower!
Agreed. Unfortunately many parts of the world call this “money laundering” and impose stiff penalties.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-libya/russia-libya...

(2008) "Russia agreed to cancel $4.5 billion of Libyan debt on Thursday, unlocking big military and civilian export orders in the face of fierce Western competition for the former outcast state’s booming market."

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/world/europe/03iht-03russ...

> "Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, the leader of Libya, visited Moscow over the weekend for talks on oil and natural gas deals, just two months after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was his guest in Libya. The visit here suggested that Qaddafi, a onetime pariah, is maneuvering to play Russia and the United States against each other for commercial and political favors."

There's plenty of similar stories, if you care to look up the historical record. If the House of Saud tried (for whatever unlikely reason) to pull all its oil money out of the US banking system and play similar games with Russia and China, a CIA-run regime change operation would be a real possiblility, right?
why would they?
What short time votes would they get from this? Is it more than whatever is raging in the cultural war?
CS looks so much like biology sometimes

Sometimes the relevant phenomenon lies at the scale of cache-lines, of which there is a whole zoo of possible specifications
> This is akin to asking if a bike is more reliable than a car. They are very different use cases with different implications, so it depends on what you're doing with them and how.

Cars and bikes are both fine for point to point travel. They'll each give you a vastly different experience though. It"s prolly better to stick with what you know how to use, in my opinion. You're likely gonna have a bad day if you crash and die.
And this is why I’m a reader and not a poster on HN :)

The second that I found out that requesting deletion of an account and its posts needed a MANUAL request to a single user (dang) I noped out so fast

But happy that the rest of you are still happy to contribute :)
I imagine this would be great for disabled/chronically ill people who otherwise don't have the time/energy to reliably do this kind of stuff irl

(Or people that are otherwise unable to find people they relate with irl, for whatever reason)
> Unpaid contributions

Certain Twitter accounts actually believe that they are providing free content for the platform. People who have grown their networks and reach immensely there. Twitter is so much better off without people who have this attitude.
Aren't a large amount of laws passed in bad faith? For instance all the acronym laws from congress, like the PATRIOT act. Or the solar tax that is under review in California being pushed by electric companies.
You think there's no intrinsic value to decentralized currencies?
Because the bank card chip is irremediably blocked after three wrong tries, and you need to submit documentation to your bank to get a new PIN. I don't think discord forces users to reset their password via snail mail after three wrong tries.
Reminds me of how I find computer programming to be an amoral profession because missiles have guidance systems and Al Qaeda has a website.
It would be the fallacy fallacy if I thought they were wrong, but I don't think they are. I think their reasoning behind their conclusion isn't completely sound, though.
> Saudi Arabia?

If you're a politician you aren't allowed to say anything against them either.
It's not specifically the close to tray issue:

> When a user logged into a voice room closes the DISCORD application window by clicking on the "X" icon at the top right of the window in Microsoft Windows, they actually just put the application in the background and stay logged into the voice room. However, in Microsoft Windows, clicking on the "X" at the top right of the last visible application window will exit the application for the vast majority of applications.
>
> DISCORD's behavior is different and may lead to users being heard by other members in the voice room when they thought they had left. The restricted committee considered that DISCORD should specifically inform users by making them aware that their words are still being transmitted and heard by others.
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> However, as part of the procedure, DISCORD INC.set up a pop-up window to alert people connected to a voice room, when the window is closed for the first time, that the DISCORD application is still running and that this setting can be changed directly by the user.

Rather the issue was that you could close to tray while in a call without any prompt.
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Any suggestions for cheap but genuine repairs are welcome. Also suggestions on how to get a good-paying remote job (while being in India - that's important) are welcome as well. Thanks!
Is Elon on Mastodon?