skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Product idea! A little e-ink display (let's call it a Password Storage Device or PSD) with a tiny processor and enough memory to store all your passwords. Make them cheap enough that you can have a few redundant copies in various places.

- OS sees the device as a keyboard

- Two versions. One with bluetooth, and one with only USB for a little more security.

- Open source software package to sync your collection of PSDs

- Open source browser extension to autofill passwords

- Tiny keyboard on the device (detachable to share between your collection?)

Usage:

1. Install browser extension

2. Navigate to a password field

3. Follow prompt to populate password

Alternate usage:

1. Manually search for password using the device keyboard

2. Click into password field in browser

3. Press button on device to have it type the password

Or of course you could just view the password on the device if you prefer.
russian translation https://vc.ru/flood/551857-pol-grem-chitat-pisat-dumat
Professional journalist, yes, that's definitely it.
Do they do it on Android or desktops? They’d have a much stronger moral case if they said that on every other platform they take the cut they’d give Apple and forward it to the artist instead.
So [established financial player in old school finance job put on high risk desk] sees crypto as a chance to 10-100x BUT they just have to time it right. So all they have to do is basically play the lottery that their hundred plus million investment will have IPOd or got acquired by a bigger fish... all before a) anyone figures out the company is a fully worthless or b) the whole value was based on other companies falsely pumping up crypto. So they simply bet no one would notice in the next 5-10yrs before the stock gets converted or maybe a loan gets paid back.

And their risk/management team signed off on it?

And how do they estimate how long no one will notice or care? Or do you think they have other bullshit companies lined up to acquire it or the IPO market wouldnt check either?

Why wouldn't they just buy FTX coins or similar tokens for such a blatant pump scheme? Why make a long term bet on the actually company cashing out before anyone checks their books?
ssh -D ftw
Pricing is available at https://www.crunchydata.com/pricing/calculator. To add-on to that, we really liked the Fly pricing model where if you consumed less than X we wouldn't charge you. Recently we introduced a $10 a month plan and if you suspend the database while developing and your bill is under $5 you won't get charged.
Oh man, an old employer had one that did the same HTTP header monkeying. I discovered it because it broke, of all things, the C2 wiki. I thought the wiki was down when sent a link to a coworker but then checked from my home machine (working remote but over Remote Desktop). And then, of course, had to figure out why it would work at home but not at work :D

I believe it was FortiGate but don’t quote me on that.

It also liked to drop idle TCP connections out of its routing table without sending a FIN or RST. HashiCorp Vault, at the time, only used TCP keep-alive and no additional in-band heartbeat mechanism. Naturally, the firewall dropped the idle connection earlier than the default keep-alive interval (which is long…). Additionally, packets sent to an IP-port combo that it didn’t have in its routing table were black holed, without an RST. We had this painful bug to chase where first thing every morning we could read but not write to Vault for a few minutes and then it work fine for the rest of the day without incident.

I left tcpdump running overnight to see it. At night no one was using Vault… first thing in the morning, the first write goes out to the existing (still valid on both sides according to netstat) but just disappears into the ether. Takes a few minutes for the write to timeout (while spamming retries) at which point Vault closed the connection and started a new one. I just about flipped the table over.

Edit: and just like that, Twitter delivers https://twitter.com/substitute/status/1597695409903714304?s=...
La-tinkss with long ss at the end. Another possible interpretation: latin extra-small.
By God I loved SimCity 2000 as a kid. Did anyone else build a "hydro mountain" in every city (basically a pyramid covered in water, to which you could keep adding hydro power plants as the city grew, was all the electricity you ever needed), or was it just me?

To this day, whenever I'm stuck in traffic, I say out loud: "Sim Copter 1 reporting heavy traffic".

My addiction still hasn't cooled, as the main game I play these days, when I play anything, is Cities: Skylines.
Actually that made me think... you might be right. I just saw this opinion in earlier threads and repeated it but upon second inspection I either remembered it wrongly, or it is a wrong theory.

I think the issue is more the side effects than the panic message. I have tried making a side effect free loop like for i in 0..44 { v[i]; } but it compiled down to a "if array length is larger than limit X, then call panic_bounds_check". On the other hand, if you replace the v[i] with soon-stable black_box(v[i]), you see that the loop remains. It doesn't know what black_box is doing so it has to run the code. The optimizer is in this case very happy if you have a check before the loop.

https://rust.godbolt.org/z/5x46edeTb
Still working out the details. Would love to hear what hardware you're using. Shoot me a message? patterns.app/contact
Hunger and basal metabolic rate are aspects of physiology, and they both change based on what and how much you eat.
> This will work for basically any possible value/type of foo, assuming foo supports .toString(). It will work for NaN, it will work for infinity, it will work if the value is already a string.

A) the example above was explicitly for int -> double, so the fact that it the path through .toString will work for other types is a benefit we won’t get but which has a cost we’ll have to pay regardless.

B) I find it hard to believe that the Double class doesn’t my have a method you could call which will convert an int and catch NaN, Null, and MaxInteger.

> In most places that's probably a sane call. Is it always the right call?

Just as you’d bet that the hash implemention will become slower, I bet you that only 1 in a million people (if that) would write the Double code we’re talking about as the result of thoughtful consideration.

> optimize when optimizing becomes important, because something is slow and it sucks. Until then... slow is smooth and smooth is fast.

Slow is smooth assumes that the slow path you pick is sane.

There’s also a big difference between having to write code that needs optimization, and writing less code to do a job faster.
Similar plan. Using this to learn Rust - and hope to make it to day 10 or so, before falling back to my daily driver languages.
No doubt when GP refused to complete the coding assessment the people who designed it thought “aha! Yet another non-coder filtered out by our process!”
Stuff like that goes on a different VLAN that can only talk to the outside world (or not, depending on the case) and not the rest of the intranet.
You may be right, but I have a feeling most vegetarians and vegans don't need an imitation of meat in mock bacon. They have a great variety of tasty things already few if any rely on meat analogues (especially if the diet is inspired by traditional vege/vegan diets). So the target with this naming convention would be "converts" or people transitioning to vege/vegan --which is a smaller market.
Well, if we all ate meat alternatives most of the time and treated ourselves to real meat much less often, we could reduce the density of animals raised for food so that they could be raised humanely. I love meat and especially bacon, but I'll have sea-crunch (or whatever) most of the time if it means we don't have to torture animals all their lives.

Related: this Future Perfect podcast
https://pca.st/ngofo0ll
USB4 Is a Glorious Mess
> "I'm old enough to have read Snow Crash the week it came out and IT WAS A DYSTOPIA, why are we building it?"

But at least it was a dystopia where pizza delivery was an exciting business.
I am personally shocked continually at how drastically overvalued seeming engineering is. I read through what he wrote here - Not to be cynical; and I used to be an engineer: but this sounded like a bunch of fluffy B.S.

I used to work at several mega corps. Very overstaffed ones. We had tons of very elite engineers doing god knows what. They always had stories that sounded exactly like this - It’s so complicated you wouldn’t understand!

I believe engineering has become way overvalued relative to what it is worth realistically.

I will give far more credibility to anyone who has built or tried to build and run or manage their own startup or business.

Too many engineers have only ever worked in these environments where they are totally disconnected from reality.
Dude then build your own phone lol.
Language is flexible, and "seaweed bacon" clearly communicates what it is. Just like "soy/oat/coconut milk", the dairy lobby's objections notwithstanding.
Exactly, if you're hand soldering through hole components, it's not a big deal. However, blue/black/white solder mask pigments were noticeably (>2mil) smaller in tests than the standard green for a high volume manufacturer. Most of the time a partially mangled pad reflow wouldn't be a problem, but when you're automatically stuffing the boards, you won't know and could have latent failures (temperature/time) after production test. This is especially the case for aQFNs and BGA ICs.

Fiducials are automatically placed in top copper, but we also noticed larger misalignments of paste and smaller 01005 passive components (pre-reflow) on non-standard colors. Again, unlikely to cause large yield problems unless you've got a lot of components, but why risk it.

We did still use red for test PCBs so that they wouldn't be shipped to customers. If we were making gaming video cards colors would have been more of a priority.
> But shouldn't a blacksmith be able to make a nail before he makes me a suit of armor?

Yes.

But I think there's a reasonable upper limit to the amount of time a company can expect someone to spend on a job opportunity.

If they're burning an appreciable amount of that time on a trivial coding exercise, that's not great.
Maybe it’s a bit literal but I see lots of people at computers planning updating just like I did 20 years ago.

From the IT workers context a lot has changed but the end user outputs are still; video game, chat app, email app, todo app, fintech app, dating app, state management DSL.

AI isn’t going to change the outputs so much as minimize the people and code needed to generate them. Because we’ve mined the value prop of desktops and phones to death.

Materials science, additive manufacturing, biology, are outputting actual net new knowledge. Consumer facing IT is whittling a log into a chair leg, grabbing a new log, whittling a chair leg… but faster!
That's true; any damage out further than the length of the study will not be quantified.
Yes, if you disable SIP on ARM Macs, apple already disables Apple Pay and running iOS apps as I found out the hard way.
No, Safari is the new IE. There are better browsers but due to it's market share (forced by Apple) developers are forced to limit themselves to it's feature set.

And the reasons are the same as well: Microsoft saw the browser as competition to their OS and Apple sees it the same way. So they both limited development of their browser to keep their platform supremacy. The situation is not the same with Google -- the web is their platform. This has it's own issues but it's not history repeating itself.
People change the environment themselves by choosing that over the alternative. If you don't like the thing that other people chose that's a fair opinion to have, but it's hard to argue that harm was caused by it.
There are some people who like the taste and texture of meat, but dislike the impacts of the commercial meat industry.

Those people might choose to use a meat-substitute, if it was reasonably similar in taste/texture/resulting product, and had less harmful impacts on the world.
I was bullied as a child, and as a young adult.
And yes, I have had adverse mental health effects from that.

But the thing is that I was weird before and am still weird now.
Aspergers ( sorry, must not mention that mass murderer's name ) / Autism spectrum disorder/ general weirdness.

So I do not really know if the bullying was an epiphenomenon of my weirdness and whether my weirdness would have caused my issues.

Or perhaps the bullying contributed.

In any case, it does not matter.

"Il faut cultiver notre jardin: ‘we must cultivate our garden’"
as Voltaire wrote in his Candide...
You would also likely need a way to get this to work on a mobile phone too. I know from personal experience that there is plenty of times nowadays that I end up logging in to various places using my password manager (not lastpass) on mobile.
Give iPhones to babies imo
What? Samsung is the most hostile of manufacturers in this regard. Unlocking the bootloader, installing another bootloader, or running a different kernel burns fuses permanently in the device and renders it unable to use their version of hardware-secured storage, aka "Knox."

Kiss some multimedia apps, payment apps, and enterprise security features goodbye...along with a bunch of random features like private mode in their browser.
The way I like to think of this is risks.

Different companies or even teams within different companies will have different risk acceptance. The thing with managed services, is part of the premium is your getting all the bells and whistles... but that may not be aligned with what customers need, that paying the managed premium is buying them.

So I suspect the important thing here is that customers realize what they're getting and have proper expectations set. In this case, unless I'm missing something, that you're not getting a managed database service from fly.io, you're getting an OSS tool that makes running postgres on fly.io a bit easier. Kind of like a database controller for kubernetes... helps you automate some things, but it's still just software running on your cluster.

And then it's up to those customers to decide, whether that's acceptable risk to them or not. Maybe a bunch of customers get to vote with their wallets on whether this works for them or not. Maybe there will be enough demand where some partner specializing in database tech like neon, crunchy, cockroach, etc will have a service targeting fly.io specifically, or maybe fly.io will get stuck building it themselves if customers demand it.

Lots of maybes, so at least I'll be interested to follow this and see how it develops.
> It is intensely weird to me that people hold the opinion that their company is building something that is bad for the world, and yet they stay there and continue to help build it.

Hoo boy, the old "just take another job" trope. I've got news: First, in this late-stage capitalism neoliberal hell, people have to cling to their jobs for more reasons than anyone can count. Second, where are they going to go? Who is hiring that isn't also doing things that are bad for the world, at a rate that someone with a student loan, a family, a mortgage, and college-bound kids can afford?

Knock it off with the "just get another job" thing and come join the real world.
I'm not reading all of that, sorry.

If a parent isn't preparing children for life as an adult they're bad parents.

I'm a bad basketball player and my intent has fuckall to do with that judgement.
It would have been better to ask "What is the smallest number of ducks there could be that fits this description?"
I would look for better examples than Twitter to base that claim on. The primary lesson to draw there is that you’ll have a harder time running a business if you act like a coked-up frat boy, which is … not a surprise?
Arguably it wasn't secure in the first place if it had backdoor like that.
How does this make it more "fair" to Apple? You can find much worse using Safari very easily. Apple's behavior here is unforgivable.
They essentially have to compete against Digital Ocean and Linode... those are their 2 largest competitors that I can think of off the top of my head. I have experience with all 3. For the price, I prefer Linode.
Advent of Code 2022 is nigh
Back in my days we called those "tracking pixels" and it didn't even need a cookie.

That's just not a real problem to solve. If you don't want to track users just giving each one unique ID is not a problem if you don't store them for future lookup.

The fact remains that from client perspective client have no way of telling whether you track them or not so you can't really prove to user you're not tracking them.
You can use the Trezor as a password manager. Passwords are not stored on the device, but the key and all encryption/decryption happens on the device.
Thanks I did find it after I commented; I had to follow two buttons from the front-page that were the same color as the background though ("Learn More" -> "Check out pricing" [which was a contrasting color] -> "View Pricing Breakdown")

[edit]

Also other managed DB hosts have similar anti-funnels for pricing, so I'm not trying to pick on Crunchy Data.
I meant more that when you put the 'card' into the slot, at random the image displayed is rotated 180 degrees (like it could be in a real deck of cards) so that the image is upside-down. A simple transform function.
Dropbox works really well with KP and I used it for years. The problem was that I ended up with more devices than Dropbox supported for free so I switched to Syncthing. If you only have three devices use Dropbox.
Agreed. The real reason is the inevitable avalanche of support requests that hit when some popular side loaded app introduces a 0-day. No one at the Genius Bar is going to touch your toxic device. That means no Apple Care or iCloud backups either.

Support is expensive. Apple spends a lot of money to provide what is generally very excellent support. It’s a huge component of the overall brand for many users that stay in their ecosystem.
Supervisors vote in favor of SFPD killer robot policy
wtf are you on about?
I’m paid handsomely to dance with one foot in the EE world, one foot in the software world, and one for managing people and system design. It’s fun! There’s been a lot of linear algebra and partial derivatives lately. I sadly learned that Excel has an “only 8kB of equations per cell” limit the other day.
This was on HN a few months back: https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite

While not Spanner, it is essentially an open source db like AlloyDB or Aurora, pushing replication and scale out to the storage layer (in this case via FoundationDB). The most interesting bit of mvsqlite is it's multi-writer capabilities, using FoundationDB to perform page-level locks.

I'm neither the creator nor using it in production, but I'd love to see more DBs using FoundationDB as storage. It's a pretty cool solution.
such as this open source device? https://hackaday.com/tag/mooltipass/
The post we're children to suggests that meat eaters may not be the intended market, so my reply is a response to that.
Competitors to utilities exist too.

Anti-trust is more nuanced than whether there’s a single party monopoly. And it certainly will apply here
The end result is more like replicating a grape with artificial grape flavor: not nearly there in taste and with a ton of processing.

I hate how tepid these companies are. Its like if all food has to be a copy of some other food to go to market, then we are stuck with the mass market cuisine of the mid 19th century as our end all be all.
Patches for Windows predate iOS. Free upgrades to major versions do not.

I’m not entirely sure it’s worth it but it sure seems like most people accept this bargain since it’s become standard on the most used devices.
I'm reticent to ask more questions given that you said receiving the newsletter was retraumatizing. But one of the people who witnessed the behavior you described should consider documenting it.
A better metric here would be the number of people wanting to immigrate and are in queue. I believe US will come out uncontested winner here! :-D
This has generated surprisingly divisive interest for a blog about how money works. Maybe it was the reference to stablecoins.

Highly recommend watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0 before reading this article if you're coming in without much context.
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Home Temperature Monitoring on the Cheap
Many laws are just mechanisms for coordination and organization of society. In the U.S. it's illegal to drive on the left side, and in the UK, It's illegal to drive on the right. Which side you drive on isn’t a matter of morality. However, knowing that everyone else is going to drive on the right (or left) keeps traffic flowing and reduces accidents.
The point is that at even the slightest hint that Apple might compromise Twitter's iPhone App or advertising, Musk has to visit and smooth things over. Have you heard that actions speak louder than words?

If Apple didn't have too much power why would this occur?
Are you speaking from experience? How many teenage kids did you have? What are the outcomes?
At the same time its a choice to eat processed food in order to continue unhealthy eating habits.
I don’t think that’s a great argument. Just because a company is large doesn’t mean they’re ethically in the wrong on every possible accusation.
I’m very interested in why you prefer Linode.
the issue with all of these foods is the amount of chemistry required to get them working. I like Michael Pollan's philosophy of "not eating food your grandmother wouldnt recognise". My outlook is at odds with the majority of folks I know which eat heavily processed food. I just cant see positive health outcomes with diets where your main protein source is stuff like this...VS being nuts, tofu, legumes (and milk, yoghurt, cheese, eggs if you eat them).
How is this single tenant? Is it running on dedicated physical hardware or just difference instances on the same cloud provider?
Right but it went up when turning off bounds checking. Which is crazy no?
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Epic’s case is being appealed, so they haven't lost yet. Lower court judges don’t get the final say
I think some degree of bullying is fine as it helps to prepare children for the real world. Once you've grown up, everyone constantly tries to take advantage of you, cheats you, breaks your morale, lies to you and then gaslights you about everything... The world is run by bullies and you need some serious prep work for that!

That, said, I've heard stories of bullying where someone gets their head held down a toilet. That's crossing over the line into assault and these people should be jailed.