skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One's own or a small instance with a few friends is suitable for people who are high profile who post challenging content. People will follow them from anywhere and visibility will be gained that way. Some high profile people do not want to be subject to the whims of moderators. Examples include every politician and many journalists. If you are not a high profile publisher, you will likely experience a bit of isolation with your own instance.
So they sued the guy claiming the conspiracy existed, not the government, because the government would have mounted a real defense? That trial sounds like a farce, as the two parties were in agreement and just wanted that conclusion on the record.
> VSCode is the greatest productivity tool in the history of software engineering,

Emacs would like a word with you.
With almost all software you're likely to write professionally, yes. There are edge cases (as there are with all things), but those are not things AI is good at to begin with :)
Sounds similar to the IRIX "fsn" view of the filesystem that was featured in the "This is a Unix system" scene in the movie Jurassic Park.

https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/9745/is-the-unix-...
notably honey made from mountain laurel ('Mad Honey') can be hazardous to your health, since every part of the plant is toxic.
Does sugar raise fasting glucose in non-diabetics?
This is my recommendation on diet soda to people as well. The literature points to diet soda being a productive replacement for those currently drinking soda and desiring to lose weight.

But the jury is still out on potential effects of diet on the microbiome and insulin sensitivity etc, so I wouldn't go encouraging people to pick it up for no reason.
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Yeah I think you'd change your tune as well if some psychopath attacked your infant child.

This is demonstrably false; last I checked, Elon didn't even file a police report.

> Sweeney said he hasn't received any notification of legal action, and the last time his bot tweeted anything was Dec. 12, "which is not last night, so I don’t get how that’s connected.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/twitter-suspe...
We can all be so blind sometimes to the 8th layer of the OSI model.
Disclaimer: I am working on a competitor that can also run Python, on a closed beta period yet.

It is an interesting choice to increase the prices with such a short notice indeed. The cloud business for DBT is competing with its open-source version, and utilizing dbt-cloud could mean a nice inconvenience, one that can be exchanged with a steep, sudden increase in prices. In the end, what dbt does can be replicated within the existing environments the customers have along with dbt core, e.g. running them in Airflow. This might be happening because of the pressure their business is getting inline with their recent investment rounds and valuation.

If anyone is interested in an alternative, I'd be happy to share what we are working on, the link is in my profile.
> Our lab computors have 500gb of space.

There's your problem. Development and content creation machines need far more disk than this. It doesn't have to be the OS drive; a data drive or two is usually fine, but 500GB in total is far too little.
1. Scratch your own itch

2. Be in love with the problem

3. Talk to potential customers to find what they need, not what they want

What if {{1} ∩ {3}} ∪ {{2} ∩ {3}} = ∅?

That is, what if everything you love to do is not marketable and the solutions to the problems you care about are not marketable either?

> If your starting goal is "I want to start a startup"

My starting goal is "retire by 50 without taking a hit to my six-figure lifestyle".

Achieving it via my technical chops is the only way I know how.

I'm a bad investor and my wife is a spendthrift. It's highly doubtful that we'll get there "the slow way" (e.g. collecting on several corporate real estate investments) by starting at 34.
Recommended reading on AGR plants - a blog entry by Charlie Stross about Torness, the other AGR plant in Scotland:

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/rants/nothing-l...
For context, the natural sugars found in fruits are called FRUCTOSE. High fructose corn syrup comes from corn that naturally produces fructose. I’m not saying HFCS is healthy but merely pointing out that just because “natural sugars such as what’s found in fruits” sounds healthy doesn’t mean it’s chemically different from the thing being vilified.
Every person (no matter how wealthy or powerful) has routines in all aspects of life and you're right that elonjet flies somewhat predictable routes. All of my points about the security of any routine aspect of elonjet movement applies to Elon and his family outside of elonjet. Again, restaurants, external meetings, offices of his various companies, etc. For his family it's likely even more predictable - schools, playdates with friends, extracurricular activities, etc.

I am genuinely trying to understand the "security risk" argument for this move. At the risk of the internet classic "I have a friend..." I do have a retired Army Special Forces (Green Beret) friend who's former "co-workers" I've met do high profile executive protection and have described what their work looks like because it's obviously fascinating - that's where I got this general "security playbook" from. They literally adapt head of state, diplomat, etc active warzone-level security measures for their services.

It's been mentioned by guests on the Joe Rogan podcast that even at his level he's surrounded by former elite-level military security at all times. Comments like "Wow, when I got to the studio today I wasn't expecting there to be Navy SEALs everywhere".

I still believe, all things considered, that elonjet almost certainly has to be the most secure aspect of movement for Elon and his family.
Too bad the bees are done. Maybe the AI guys can leave artists alone and jump on this looming mass extinction thing. Would be nice to solve something that needs solving for a change.
Plakats are bettas, though. https://japanesefightingfish.org/plakat-betta/
More than 25% of all venture capital funding is going to climate technology
Our Contaminated Future
Do you have the same question about SQL Server, or is it just Oracle you're asking about?
Why would somebody make loud claims they had something big without at the same time making use of that big thing? For a comparison, if you just brandish a gun without using it, you're just putting yourself in danger - which she likely did.
Especially risky since the conspiracy has them not just assassinating a president, but killing multiple people (you see at least a couple of others mentioned in this discussion), while relying on multiple highly unstable people outside the organization to put the plot into motion and trusting they won't reveal anything. All because people think Kennedy would curtail their operations somewhat.

But then a decade later you have the Church Committee directly investigating abuses from all of these agencies, which results in President Ford issuing a congressional order that explicitly forbids U.S. involvement in assassinations (going further than what people claim Kennedy was trying to do), and these agencies do...nothing.
Why doesn’t Windows use 64-bit virtual address space below 0x00000000`7ffe0000?
The key is stored in KMS, not on the drive firmware. You can read more about how this is done here, in the section at the bottom about "Isolation of Physical Hosts" https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kms/latest/developerguide/concep...

But in short, the key is kept in memory on the HSM, and employees don't have access to it. They key can be referenced, but not actually read.

It also means that if a user accidentally deletes their key, there's no recovery. That's it. (Pro tip: Deleting a key is a faster mechanism to make data unreadable than deleting the data itself. ;)

Disclaimer: I'm an S-TAM with AWS.
But we’ve waited too long for multithreading to merge them now.
Whatever you eat gets dissolved by something like 10-20 teaspoons of stomach acid, which is roughly 100x-500x more acidic (linear scale) than honey. By the time it gets there a teaspoon of honey is not making a dent in the overall acidity.
> Overall, honey reduced fasting glucose (MD = −0.20 mmol/L, 95%CI, −0.37 to −0.04 mmol/L; low certainty of evidence), total cholesterol (MD = −0.18 mmol/L, 95%CI, −0.33 to −0.04 mmol/L; low certainty), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (MD = −0.16 mmol/L, 95%CI, −0.30 to −0.02 mmol/L; low certainty), fasting triglycerides (MD = −0.13 mmol/L, 95%CI, −0.20 to −0.07 mmol/L; low certainty), and alanine aminotransferase (MD = −9.75 U/L, 95%CI, −18.29 to −1.21 U/L; low certainty) and increased high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (MD = 0.07 mmol/L, 95%CI, 0.04–0.10 mmol/L; high certainty).

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Note the amount of "low certainty". Note the confidence intervals. This is what passes for dietary science these days, gets news headlines and people in this thread and elsewhere taking it as gospel. I guess no one even took the time to read the abstract of the paper.

EDIT: the list of funding sources and potential conflict of interests at the end of the paper is a sight to behold: https://academic.oup.com/nutritionreviews/advance-article/do...
This is by far the most popular link that I have posted to my mastodon.energy account! Don't know why! (And yes, I have lobbied my local council here in London to mandate similar...)
Focusing on who pulled the trigger is a distraction from what the consequences were and how policy was affected.

What's important is what happened after and that should be the real focus - that's why most people have no idea who Charles J Guiteau and Leon Czolgosz are.
I imagine a lot of HNers don't really understand the scope of what Oracle offers in the enterprise setting. This question is like asking: why would anyone still be using AWS in 2022 when OpenStack is available for free?

Yes, PostgreSQL is an impressive piece of software and it certainly deserves all the praise it gets. But the complexity of many mid- to large-sized businesses, particularly those in high-stakes finance and bio/medical tech is impossible to imagine until you've seen it.

Years back, I worked in a mid-size finance company whose computing infrastructure was three identical datacenters scattered across the city. One hot, two standby for DR. All populated with big expensive IBM iron and storage with fast network and fiber channel links between them. All writes were continuously and automatically replicated to all three sites so that even a complete outage at one site meant the workloads could be shifted to another site with virtually no interruption to the business. All of the business logic was written in-house in a variety of languages (but mostly Java) and there were a half-dozen separate teams that existed ONLY to manage the infrastructure. An outage could legitimately cost the company millions of dollars (depending on the scope) in either lost opportunity, customer sales, or regulatory fines.

I was on the Unix Admin team and not counting the toxic management, the scope of our jobs was relatively easy: provision computing resources as LPARs or VMs, manage storage, manage users and permissions, make sure backups worked, automate the shit out of whatever we could, troubleshoot issues, interface with vendors, etc.

The DBAs who sat in the next row over had much harder jobs. They did many of the same things we did, but in the context of Oracle DBs. In addition, they also had to be experts in SQL and schema design, PLUS understand the business decisions underlying the data and structure of the databases they were responsible for. Which sometimes meant arguing with the application developers who didn't grok the platforms their code was running on had finite amounts of RAM, etc.

I don't have any love for Oracle as a company, but they just don't have any competition when it comes to deep integration with highly complex enterprise systems like this.
I think when you have a country which many more people want to live in than it can realistically sustain, you're bound to end up with a system which isn't equal. It's like a game of musical chairs with 500 people and 5 chairs.

The US has 50m foreign-born residents, the second highest is Germany at 16m. There's no country on Earth which takes in more immigrants (I'm actually one of them!) yet my whole life I've seen nothing but people demanding that they take in even more.
Maybe, but Elon Musk has a big enough political footprint to compensate.
Keeping the same safe houses or reporting structures in place for 60 years seems like it would be terrible OPSEC. The IC is very good at coming up with plausible sounding explanations for why they have to keep secrets that the masses will believe without question but that don't stand up to deeper reflection.

I suspect the remaining redactions are because they're waiting for certain people to pass away. Probably not major players but there could be people who were in their 20's or 30's in 1963 who had some knowledge of what happened. Once they've all died off it will be forever impossible to prove anything because anything really damning would never have been written down or the records would have been destroyed years ago.
I think a big part of what makes people so afraid of radiation is how easy it is to detect. Imagine if you had a geiger counter that detected Dioxin, Benzine, or PFAS contamination? It would be going off pretty much constantly. You can detect radioactive materials with a cheap detector, where you need an entire lab to find regular poisons, which doesn't help with our lack of ability to assess risk.

For example, people side-eye me when I tell them that I have a collection of Uranium glass sitting on a shelf in my house. They assess that risk to be much worse than say, owning Teflon cookware.

It's not hyperbole to say that that other forms of pollution kill more people every day than nuclear radiation has in the entire history of atomic power production. But most people don't have the same resistance to an oil refinery or steel factory that they do to a nuclear power station.
I’m sure NetBSD will be ported soon enough, if not yet…
Very nice. I'm building a new startup MVP with supabase it's been lovely so far. Now if there could be an EC2 competitor I may be able to avoid (re-learning) AWS entirely.
After $700B drop angry Tesla investors say Elon Musk has “abandoned” them
You've never sat on a bench for 10 minutes to look at something neat? They move even slower.
The material used is plexiglass, aka acrylic, a type of clear plastic. Actual glass is probably too brittle or expensive.

People use "glass" to mean the clear part of a window, not the actual material, in this context.
> I didn't mention the word "fucked" , that was the article

Sorry about that.

I totally agree with you. I just don't agree with the use of the word "fucked". My related comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34014786
Implicit in this article is the idea that security posturing is a zero-sum game for many companies on the dimensions of both software complexity and time.

Adding full disk encryption takes time from other projects and makes the system more complex. That equation needs to pay out. In all likelihood, the reason your data is going to get stolen is a privilege escalation in your app code or a bad actor on your team. Rogue AWS employee swiping your particular hard drive in us-east-1 is way down the list. Full disk encryption does nothing for the first two vectors.

I think compliance programs are oriented around pushing companies into complex/expensive system designs thinking that is a proxy for a secure system.
There is no meaningful difference between measurable and hazardous radiation.

You never know where the stuff builds up. Some isotopes get enriched in some organs and do damage over a long time. Depending on what the material actually is, it can get into unfortunate places and stay there for a few years, irradiating someone. It can get into the food supply doing some more damage than anticipated.

None of that is calculateable, so it is better to treat every radiation as a risk. You also forget that workers may be wearing a dosimeter, but average people don't. They'd never know. You can easily reach the 20x increase if you have a contaminated object in your home or car or whatever, even if that contamination isn't that strong.
Can you explain why, or link me to some reference?
In this case, the slow digitisation had a good side-effect of allowing a open, decentralized encrypted messaging protocol to be maturely adopted.

Not much consolance for the German people, who still have to deal with a lot of paper administration but a happy accident nonetheless.
Why would you ever want to become a 10x dev instead of winning the lottery?
why would you want to see the screenshots of an application used by the German military which is basically a fork of another app with plenty of screenshots on its own webpage?

this is just a blog announcement of something cool they're doing behind the scenes and that you will never use in a trillion years, not an Apple product launch
> isn't it fundamentally built on a fork of Atom's core?

No. AFAIK the only thing common to them is Electron.
Yeah, the trials were done with ~2 TBS of honey daily or around 128 calories. Could definitely see people going way above that or using low quality honey. YMMV on products like honey and olive oil based on the quality of the manufacturer
hey hn, supabase ceo here

Vault is a Postgres extension that wraps pgsodium/libsodium. It enables 2 key features:

1. Secrets management - you can store things like API Keys

2. Transparent Column Encryption (TCE)[0]. This allows you to encrypt a column in any of your tables, with a View for "selecting" out the decrypted data. It enables "row level encryption" too when you create a key for each row.

The blog post details how it works with AEAD[1]. This is a secure way of encrypting "associated data". An easy way to explain this:

Imagine you associated a `user_id` with a `credit_card_number` while you encrypt it. A bad-actor updates the `user_id` to their own ID. When they attempt to decrypt the `credit_card_number` it will fail because the data that is associated is different. (note: please don't store credit cards in supabase)

We're rolling it progressively to the platform over the next month. Michel, the mastermind behind this one will be here to answer the questions that are above my head.

this is the last big launch of the week. You can see everything we launched this week here[2]. Some highlights from today: pg_graphql v1.0[3] (re-written in rust), PostgREST 11[4], and PGroonga release for multilingual search.

[0] TCE: https://supabase.com/blog/transparent-column-encryption-with...

[1] AEAD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authenticated_encryption#Authe...

[2] Launch Week: https://supabase.com/blog/launch-week-6-wrap-up

[3]: pg_graphql v1.0: https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-point-in-time-recovery

[4]: PostgREST 11: https://supabase.com/blog/postgrest-11-prerelease
> Musk has achieved great, incredible things. That’s just indisputable fact.
> We should celebrate the good and debate the bad.

This is the kind of statements that are not a helpful framing of the debate.
Musk alone hasn't "has achieved great, incredible things", I can try and dispute this.
Why celebrate the good while debating the bad. Instead we should question the good and verify the bad. It should the expected behavior towards anyone in a position of power. Musk being in one of the highest positions of power in the world does not make him more vulnerable...
Total contributions to Tor in 2020 was $4.4M so this is very significant https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/208...
It's a different person. I'm the person you first replied to, and I don't believe good artists will lose their jobs.

This was my reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34005604

I also agree that artist employment isn't sacred, but after extensive use of the generation tools I don't see them replacing anything but the lowest end of the industry, where they just need something to fill a space. The tools can give you something that matches a prompt, but they're only really good if you don't have strong opinions about details, which most middle tier customers will.
The fact that it's their own government?

It's really not that hard to understand.

We pay the CIA to forward American interests. Most of their actions, even the most nefarious ones I'm aware of, have a somewhat believable rationale as to how they fit into that overall priority - often extremely imperfectly in both ends and in means. So if someone could put forth a theory for how assassinating JFK would benefit CIA or the US then sure. But largely the CIA implication is just "big shadowy CIA is responsible for all the unexplainables."
Clocking in an out of any headline in the document tree is a great feature.
Yes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34015681
Ok, but that doesn’t explain why Musk himself specifically said this was ok.
we've found Fly.io to be very nice
These hubs look like they can greatly simplify geodesic dome construction. Lots of people here are commenting on the longevity of plastic or alternatives to geodesic domes, but I think that misses the point. Nothing is perfect for every application, but this looks perfect for getting a dome up quickly and easily.
>but aren't the side-effects of covid well established, on average more severe, and much more common?

No they are not well COVID in my view. To me the complications that are supposedly attributed to covid are those of respiratory illnesses that have existed long before COVID came on the scene. In fact I have my doubts whether the whole COVID thing is a brand new disease.

As someone pointed out there are bigger issues: like trust in pharmaceutical companies and current science medical science. In my current view medical science is very primitive, while putting up a front of sophistication and accuracy, while being very crude.

And just so that you know that I'm not a perpetual skeptic, I will go along with Einstein's quotes:

“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”
Rust-analyzer works via the LSP, and I'd hardly call Rust "trivial".
I guess "refined" should be probably understood as "many ingredients, seemingly important but unknown to actual medicine, filtered out"...
An evil and odious map (partition into even/odd parity in increasing order)
The old Advent of Code puzzles are still online, so you could start in 2015 and do day 1, 2016 day 1, and so on.
I recently watched a documentary on this incident (but can't find it now) but here are some further links (with slightly more information that includes the various 'he-said-she-said' nuances).

https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2017/07/03/the-forgotte...

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/the-long-shadow-of-war-t...

https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

https://web.archive.org/web/20070518142130/http://www.histor...

https://web.archive.org/web/20190702033213/https://www.usni....

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

And for those that prefer YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-ElU38kipk (Ted Koppel report. Gosh I mourn for proper investigative journalism!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShruhRkOPsU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seiMQxvCX3A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEgzKRpLNAI
I agree, but also, maybe some amount of punching down is deserved - there really does tend to be a lot of people speaking in an authoritative tone while being completely wrong in the finance-related hn threads

EDIT: I suppose we can scratch the "finance-related" bit
No. Unless conflict of interest,most nutritional research shouldn't be ignored. How you interpret academic research is up to you, and might be out of your league.
Effective Altruism in the Garden of Ends
Not at all. I use VNC as well. It's great for remote administration. In my testing VNC was literally unusable with this virtual monitor setup, some kind of bug reading the headless display tanks the performance beyond practicality.