skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hear me out: the Internet was supposed to be about peer-to-peer connected computers, and the privileged roles ISPs and later "cloud" providers assumed changed that for the worse.

The main problem aren't privileged actors like ISPs (although shit like asymmetric DSL or CGNAT definitely prevents people from self-hosting)... it is abuse and the complete unwillingness of almost everybody from private actors over governments to international organizations to put a fucking stop on it.

You open up a server on the Internet? Not even sixty seconds and the first Shodan or whatever using script-kiddies will attempt to hack you. And god forbid you run some popular software that can be sniffed like Drupal or Wordpress - you end up in Shodan just as well and will be automatedly exploited as soon as the CVE gives enough hints to people to write an exploit. You wish to send your own emails? You find yourself greylisted by almost everyone in their futile attempts to keep their users from spam. You wish to communicate with someone? Better read up on crypto because governments and ISPs just love to mine data. Operate a service that allows user-generated content? Beware for a deluge of everything from warez groups to CSAM spreaders that can and will expose you to serious legal liability.

The old protocols were all designed with implicit trust in mind and the assumption that no actor on the internet would abuse their position. That worked reasonably well as long as it was only universities (but even then, first viruses appeared from enterprising prankster students)... but once the Internet got mainstream, all of that broke down, and it completely collapsed once people started realizing they might make money shilling grey-imported penile enlargement pills. And the more people were on the Internet, the harder the work of "abuse departments" got, which led to most organizations simply dismantling the department or redirecting complaints to /dev/null. The fact that some governments (particularly China and Russia) take a completely blind eye towards hacking originating from their countries as long as they themselves aren't targeted (just look how many malware samples have a dead-man switch when they encounter information that the target might be Russian) just makes the problem worse.

Unfortunately, by that time the old protocols and standards were so widespread in use there was no chance to replace them, and so layers upon layers upon layers of bullshit got placed over the old layers in the end.
The questions are: (1) are they legit? (Do they have the underlying assets?) (2) do the underlying assets collapse in value, (3) can they afford to keep in operation through a crisis and (4) what liabilities do they face from money launderers, tax evaders and the like using their platform?

If the assets are BTC and ETH and the values float then variations in value just happen. If they are stable coins people are going to mad if a $1.00 coin is worth just $0.95 and you will really have a run.

Ordinary stockbrokers can break down and be unable to sell your stock for you, that is why the SIPC was formed in the 1960s crash. Bin ace is also facing big trouble because it has dodgy customers, banks really hate their KYC responsibilities because they’d rather not ask what customers are doing but in a world where the Republicans, Tories, and similar parties won’t let governments raise taxes it is all they can do to make sure they collect the taxes they are owed.
There is a Yerba Mate cold brew called Tereré[1], is very common in some countries of South America. Even more than the hot version in some places. I myself had it many times, sometimes mixed with lime juice, and even mixed with vodka

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terer%C3%A9
> I've seen people propose a linter to enforce consistency - but at that point I might as well chose a language with better design choices - plenty of alternatives these days.

You're seriously proposing that adding a linter has the same organizational costs as changing languages entirely. Meanwhile, back in the real world...

Ruby has major advantages over many other languages and a linter is basic tooling you should have in every development environment.
Elevate your web3 project with 12 elegant gradients.

Our high-quality gradients are now available for download, providing you with an easy-to-use, stylish solution for your web3 project.

The collection includes a range of colors and blends that you can use to enhance your project’s overall aesthetic.

Elegant Gradients are the perfect choice for adding a modern, sophisticated touch to your project. Download elegant gradients now and add a touch of class to your web3 project.

Optimized for web by tinypng.
I know this will sound like an echo chamber:

But PHP is on the decline. Its only hanging on barely because of wordpress.

Let me explain.

The web changed. The web evolved. Too fast for PHP to catch up, and fundamentally the web today is not compatible with the PHP way of exec + die immediately.

The web is more and more real time, all sorts of events fired thru sockets, work queues, and state is stored both on the client and on the server. PHP is not up for this task. This is why people have been moving away from PHP for the last decade, and this will only increase as time goes by.

Finally, please dont even start with that "nodejs clone in PHP" as its just a hack. If you use a node-js clone (there are many options) built in PHP you cant use any of the core stdlib, as its all blocking by nature, so for me and many others its a non starter.

PHP did a good job in evolving the web. Late 90s and early 2000s websites was the start, now its time to use better tech and continue forward.

Thanks PHP, but your time is up, its now time to say good-bye!
I'll admit I'm not well versed on the subject, but I don't think the vapor is just water, correct? Otherwise the pen would need to get insanely hot to turn it into vapor so you can inhale it. I've seen some pretty tiny vape pens. Doesn't make sense.
There's a bunch of other sensors though... also don't forget that there is often more then one microphone... like on the Pixel 7
A note of caution: using that trick on modern hardware and/or languages is likely to be slower than just using the temporary variable. Because compilers and processors can see through the latter better than the XOR.
You must be thinking of something else. Pure fentanyl has a lethal dosage in the microgram range.
That's one of the first lessons old schoolers learnt about web hosting when the internet boom began and busted - The oldest web hosts are the most reliable, but always keep an eye for change of ownership. Rackspace, Pair, Slicehost, Linode etc. were some of the really popular and good ones in the small and medium segment (Rackspace, ofcourse targeted enterprises) during this era but now ALL of them have been bought by someone else for their brand value. And yet, the new buyers didn't understand or seem concerned about the values behind the brand that made it so respected, and so all these brands have suffered under new management (I guess it is too early to speak about Linode yet, as Akamai just bought them).
"Ilex trees are located exclusively in South America: in northern Argentina, southern Brazil, Uruguay, and Paraguay, where they cover an area of approximately 540,000 km2." That's the range of Ilex paraguariensis, the species from whose leaves yerba mate is made, not Ilex trees in general.
> I would describe myself as extremely cynical, would you? Do you feel similarly about the following?

Yes, and yes.

> I've noticed that I myself share a sort of way of thinking with the 4chan / net-present crowd I grew up with

That explains it. I spent a part of my youth there, too, while it still had the "secret club" vibes. I guess it left some influence on my way of thinking.

> I really believed that the happy people HAD to be lying about it, because I wasn't happy. I really believed everyone was secretly judging eachother, cause that's what I was doing. I really believed that various psychological techniques just had to be total bullshit, because I never genuinely tried them in good faith, and just assumed they were konk science.

I resonate with this a lot.

---

Thanks for this. It's useful to see your perspective described from outside, by someone who actually understands. Makes it easier to take myself less seriously.

I see in your "about" section that there is a "please feel free to email me" sentence - if it's okay, I'd maybe like to contact you for further conversation.
More large crypto businesses are likely to collapse because they were highly leveraged and now with their debtors failing (other crypto firms like FTX) and their assets falling (crypto) they will be forced to sell their assets to cover losses (crypto) which will push the crypto market down even more.
Seeing the wheel of feelings / emotions reminded me, again, that there are people who don't experience most of those. Even if they do, they have a difficulties in describing what do they feel or if they feel anything at all. It's impossible for them to name the feelings but few most general cases - happy, sad, crying, angry. There is a disorder called alexithymia that may be the reason for that. I suppose, for those people (which is around 10% of population, quoting Wikipedia[1]) the concept of mindfulness is alien and above page is beyond comprehension.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexithymia
I always find it interesting how in our implementation of capitalism here in the US, wealth is able to insulate and protect itself from many of the very measures capitalism is supposed to peel away and counter (in the interest of society at large).

It's almost like it there are fundamental inherent flaws that need to be fixed to continue on and we can't keep treating things like business is usual if we want to enable continued growth vs stagnation due to power concentration like we've seen in non-capitalist systems in the past.

You're going to see the big players like Sequoia get some retribution here and to a magnitude that's significant enough to be usable and recoverable, meanwhile you're going to see all sorts of others life savings evaporate, resulting in a far less recoverable scenario, with little to nothing recovered--at least that's how this tends to play out, historically. Everyone will of course lose, but you'll see disproportionate losses and disproportionate recoverability. Disproportionate wealth as a proxy to power does this.
Single buyer, is not what the lobbyists wanted. It would make the lobbying sellers less powerful...
Do you have a link to the raw data on this?
I choose between https://railway.app or native AWS serverless. But native serverless for me is to only use services that scale down to 0, so this may defocus you from your project
Ouch, just starting to write more after only writing mostly code. Guess that makes me lean a little robotic lol
Couple hundred years ago people were still thinking that Earth is in the center of the universe :)

Ideas that survived is survivorship bias - everyday life just shifts around.
I read this post a couple of times before it hit me: Your comment about Arrays and "doing it wrong" actually works without trolling the original question. Your main point: The question isn't hardly useful vis-a-vis arrays. However, for pointers -- if you really have 128-bit pointers -- then, yes, you are screwed and that interface/impl won't work. Excellent reply!
Scalingo, because EU company and hosting in EU. They are a great alternative to Heroku with awesome customer service. If I don't need a PaaS I use Hetzner (e.g. for my newsletter with Ghost). Clever Cloud is also a good EU hosting service.

I've used Render before and was happy, but I now prefer keeping all my stuff in the EU =)
Oh in theory you are correct, but in practice once people are given a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail, especially since they do not yet have the basics down well enough and it does lead to them not really learing the basics, because "it also works with React" (no matter how shitty and with how much overhead)
Don't be obtuse. Using crypto for payments isn't common.

Maybe you can make 1 on 1 payments to other people who are also convinced to use the same crypto as you. People who don't use that crypto (almost everyone in the world) or your grocery store (most in the world) won't take your payment in crypto.
Am I the only one bothered that he didn't first optimize the HashSet solution to O(N)? When sliding the window, you increase the counter for the new element, decrease the counter for leaving element, and update for each element how many have their counter set to 1.

That makes a bit weaker the case for using popcount, since that actually is O(W/Wordsize), which happens to be O(1) in this case.
I do have an engineering degree in France, but even then I think the "software engineer" title is just wrong. There is little actual engineering going on in most development jobs (most. Some do have actual engineering).

At least in France, the biggest difference between an engineering degree and someone who learned by themselves are going to be:

* the engineer should have more general knowledge about databases, algorithms etc.. and generally how things work. Someone who didn't get that training might not have as deep an understanding in those fundamental concepts (that gap is sometime very very visible when working together). That's the most important part in the day-to-day.

* the engineer will have at least a decent English level. Not an issue in English-speaking country obviously, but that's actually the number 1 reason some students don't get their degree in schools I know.

* the engineer should be able to present well his ideas, and generally be at least good in communication. There is formal training to speak in public. If you are shy by nature, this may not come easy without formal training.

That's about it. There is no special skill that someone determined cannot acquire by themselves with freely available training and experience, but when you are a teenager with little self-motivation, it helps to get all this drilled into you. On the other hand, I wouldn't hire most people coming out of my own school, so take it with a grain of salt.
Wait, what exactly makes you sad about PeerTube ?

Also, how would you connect to the Internet without an ISP ? (Well there are mesh networks I guess, but AFAIK they are much slower, both in throughput and latency ?)
People think of Fukushima as (1) one of the very worst nuclear incidents there has ever been, and also as (2) something that cost very few lives.

Yes, something like 150k people were evacuated because of worries about radiation. What you don't mention is that the total number of people evacuated was 470k. Most of the people who had to leave their homes had to leave not because of anything nuclear but because the enormous tsunami destroyed their homes.

So the Fukushima story is: massive natural disaster that caused enormous destruction and tens of thousands of deaths; a nuclear power plant was in a badly affected area; the damage was expensive to deal with but the total number of resulting deaths was, er, maybe about 1.
What a revolting attitude.
What Does Love Do to Us?
PHP is still used widely on the web. But from all of PHP out there, its like 98% wordpress.
Unless they are the same memory location!

http://underhanded-c.org/_page_id_16.html

x86 CPUs have a dedicated instruction to swap two registers, or a register with memory.
This is an audiobook, in which a narrator reads the printed transcripts; not the original tapes.
Sufficiently bad stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.
We have come to the point where we need bots to distinguish bots.
Cloudflare Workers is a big time saver for my side projects. I don’t use JavaScript/TypeScript/WASM at work, but it’s been great.
Just use github actions. Currently I do AWS + EKS + GHA. You edit, you commit, it runs test, GHA pushes to EKS. Roll backs are easy, just revert. Scaling is easy, you use the EKS node scaler.
https://github.com/james-ransom/eks-gha-auto-deploy-fortune/...
Being able to force CAs to fix issues is important, but I hope nobody is supporting the EFF's drama about Extended Validation certificates: They're a good idea, DV is mostly pointless, and there's actually a new version of EV, the Verified Mark certificate, now being promoted to access new types of features like BIMI.

EV was never the wrong path, it just needs stricter checking mechanisms. Google wants people to dislike them because those checking mechanisms require humans and intentionally doesn't scale. (Good security does not scale, people who tell you it does are wrong.)
I bought a couple of nice bags of what I believed to just be normal herbal tea. Having never heard of this "yerba mate" thing I thought it was just the brand. Once I looked closer at the bags it had a whole load of instructions like "use the pipe" and "don't stir as it blocks the pipe" which was just bizarre. Since when is a pipe or straw needed for tea?

I tried to make a normal herbal tea with it but it tasted disgusting and nothing like the cherry flavour it claimed to be. Total waste of money and seems like an incredibly hipster and convoluted drink to need all that crap including a straw.

I even googled it again just now and one of the top results is a reddit post saying try it with soda? Ridiculous.

I just stick to herbal tea bags now.
No, you are right. This is indeed much much worse. But back at the time heroin use here was so so common, it was bad. I can't imagine how bad whatever is happening in America is given it's the leading cause of death now.
https://news.fintechnexus.com/payment-for-order-flow-bernie-...

Is one of many articles on the topic. I had an old textbook (maybe 2003) textbook on markets and trading that had a sidebar that lionized him but almost everything on the web is colored by his scam.
> To try and pass off these results as objective is just wrong given the propensity for ChatGPT to be confidently wrong.

But nobody is trying to do that; the GP's question is in fact phrased precisely right. ChatGPT isn't a truth-distilling model - it's just abridging the Internet, with all its current biases. It's not being optimized for correctness at all, and the post-moderation OpenAI does isn't optimized for correctness either - it's optimized to make output non-controversial in the current media environment.
It will suck for private parties to sell a used car in Europe. There are so many scams with non-cash payment methods.
The Cost of Planting Trees
the "lake" is long dried out. this was done on land in a vessel with a cockpit. there's a video toward the bottom of the article.
Just been using azure. Their free tiers are pretty good
DoJ also filed charges (I think the indictment is sealed)
I don't really know what you do with your text editor, but Emacs (and vim) are very much not "low-level" editors unless you chose to not configure them.

Emacs has all the features of VScode, plus more. And it keeps expanding by each day. A "fully featured" Emacs "IDE" is also just as laggy, sometimes even more, as any other "fully featured" IDE. Some Emacs configs even take tens of seconds to load! Mine however takes 1.5s, but that is because everything is lazily loaded. The first time I open a C++ file, it takes a couple seconds.

A really nice easy to use framework for getting productive in Emacs quickly is Doom[1]. You should give it a peak if you think Emacs is "low-level".

[1] https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs
It's not about the legitimate/medical/supervised usage, it the recreational use that kills. Marijuana (MJ) is used a lot recreationally; if people to use MJ instead of Fentanyl the OD cases would not pile up like they do today.
Can't wait to be told to RTFM by some person on the internet because I cant get the security patches to build for an implantable pacemaker.
The goal of Peertube and Framasoft, the org behind it, is not product and market building. Product and Market building is exactly what led us to the default video repository being run by a for-profit company with only its own interest at heart, arbitrary censoring based on american feelings for the entire planet, arbitrary demonetizing videos/channels but still getting the revenue stream, mining every bit of data from users for ad placement.

That's not the spirit we want. Peertube is not a product to compete with existing video websites. Peertube is a product you use to self-host your videos, for you, for your band, for your org, for your company, anything. It's about taking control, not selling junk.

EDIT: I fear I might have been unclear, I am in no way affiliated to Peertube
Yes. Investors fear that there aren't stable coin anymore. Luna's stable coin is a good example.
Could not agree more! This is very well articulated and a point I think I'm going to add into the article.
My defunct startup Staffjoy operated from 2015 to 2017 and was an early production user of Julia. We open-sourced some of the code here: https://github.com/staffjoy

I haven't kept up with the ecosystem - I'm curious how things have improved in the last 5 year!
CEO Aaron Skonnard’s Email to Pluralsight Employees
> Much slower, less re-entry forces.

I should point out it isn't forces that matter for entry from orbital speed, it's heating.
Yes, the green checkmars means that the code is lint-free (up to a point).

The Jetbrains linters are proprietary, though they can integrate Open Source ones, and generally better and more thorough than Open Source ones. They're especially better for professional development where you use various frameworks.

> I take offense to it when part of the onboarding experience is setting up an IDE and someone really pushes it on me.

That's fine, but being a part of a team sometimes requires sacrifices. It's as true in football as it is in software engineering :-)

Plus I'm sure reasonable teams just leave you alone if you do your job well and your setup doesn't intrude on what everyone else is doing.
> This seems to be the reason why the SEC doesn't have a clear-cut case to protect FTX customers, but does have a case to protect rich VC crypto-bro partners.

I mean, given that FTX.us was supposedly completely isolated from FTX.com isn't that true?

Assuming (and I understand this is a big assumption) that SBF is correct that FTX.us deposits were completely isolated and US customers can be reimbursed in full, the only US citizens harmed by this would be Sequoia et al.

Even if it turns out US customers are actually left holding the bag as well, does the SEC even have clear jurisdiction over FTX on that? Maybe? Wouldn't the DOJ criminal charges be much better wrt nailing him for that though?

Seems much easier for the SEC to charge him with defrauding investors, as that's pretty much a slam dunk case at this point and also clearly the jurisdiction of the SEC.

You can draw analogies here to Capone and tax fraud etc. etc.
Definitely not insincere (I have no basis on which to judge toxicity). As a result of your communication, I've stopped spamming said comments.

It's just a well-done and very helpful app. It's current position at the top of the front page shows that I'm not alone in this sentiment. Again, I only wanted for others in need of the boost to their day to get access to the link. As I mentioned (in another comment where someone else agrees with you that my positivity is unhelpful), the app isn't needed by everyone.

It's not rocket science to understand that a recent/timestamp-young post on the front page is more sensitive to algorithmic downranking. I just did what I could to defend a positive sentiment in the comment section for long enough that the link could establish itself. It's all in the spirit of promoting well-being among the users of HN. I appreciate your feedback (though I'm a little bit confused as to why you view my actions in a negative light). Does the success of my endeavor to establish the post on the front page of HN not show that my motivation aligns with the attitude around here? (Perhaps it has nothing to do with me, I acknowledge that (but doubt it.))

Your welcome for the GitHub links. That whole repo fascinates me.