skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't consider them resolutions, but things I am just focusing on more/top of mind:

1. Swimming. Kids are in swim lessons and my wife and I will be swimming laps in the same pool area. We've only just started this in December but I think we will stick it out for many months. I would like to get away during work hours to exercise too (I already WFH and need to take advantage of the flexibility more).

2. Nix and Nix OS. I've been interested in it for many years but just decided to not pursue much new technology in 2021 and 2022. Reading about Flakes and some nix projects sounds a lot more interesting to me lately.

3. Rebuild my homelab and build out the automations I have wanted but have let slipped away. I have current clamps for my breaker box, zwave and ZigBee networks, run k8s with a couple dozen services (home Assistant, *arr, etc.) and lots of other fun things. I haven't touched it in a few years though and some parts stopped working. At the time I specified all my manifests in Ansible + some Jinja. I don't have a machine that can push updates to it heh. I'd like to move to some mashup of gitops/nixops/argocd and really get into Home Assistant. I started installing zwave switches this week to kick start my interest again.

4. I'd like to build some small electronics with two of my daughters. We watch a lot of YouTube creators that build and program interesting things. I'd like to turn that interest into more actions for them. It's a little to much entertainment and not enough learning. I picked up parts and we'll pick an idea to pursue soon. I also got them crunchlab boxes for us to build together.

5. Set up a Minecraft server for my family. Also make available to them some of the more classic games. Likely refurbish some laptops for us to play something like Civ 4 together.
> The nuclear arms race started immediately after WWII (or possibly during it), the space race (and associated missile race) started in the 1950s.

Those weren't races. The decision to start an arms race and space race to starve the USSR of GDP is an explicitly laid out plan in Kennedy admn.'s internal memos.
18 years
If those are the rules, then the risk is too high for corporations to trust strangers, they shall have to stop using FOSS, the ecosystem collapses (because nobody can build on an untrustable system), and the FOSS experiment fails (in the sense we're back in the bad old days of closed software and while people can develop with FOSS, no same user would trust it for use). If my company has to be responsible for every line of code, we may as well own them.

I'd argue that he very much did break the social contract. Not the letter of the actual contract, but it's generally assumed FOSS developers aren't in it to screw consumers of their offerings actively. That's the social contract that's the lifeblood of the movement, and if it breaks in the general case, the movement dies.

(There's a lot of things people can do that they're perfectly entitled to that would destroy ecosystems because they shatter expectations. Linus could sneak a very clever backdoor into Linux [hypothetically, perhaps not without collusion with multiple actors and a lot of prep work], and he wouldn't break the license but he would severely injure the project's reputation).
Why does McDonald’s own so much prime real estate? Kind of a misguided question imo.
We have three levels of "bullshit":

1. The liar: The insidious lie fulfills this criterion, because the liar wants to deceive and is sure of success.
2. The bullshitter: thinks "What I'm saying could be wrong? So what?"
3. The idiot: thinks, however, "What I say could also be wrong? It'll be true!" The idiot just talks like that, or he heard something and passed it on unchecked.

In digital media, bullshitters and idiots - as opposed to liars - are both perpetrators and victims.

All three (liars, bullshitters, idiots) sometimes accidentally tell the truth. But because it is always easier to miss the truth than to meet it, in most cases they increase bullshit of all kinds and thus act at the expense of the truth.

Bullshit only spreads on the internet if many people forward it.
If we were all attentive, critical and informed, then this phenomenon would not exist.

source(book): [ Philipp Hübl ] "Bullshit-Resistenz", 2018
It's as immutable as burning a new bootable LiveCD every time you update except that the images are kept on the HD for convenience and speed. Once booted, files stay pristine until the next reboot.
I'm 41 and been in the industry since early 20s. There is no intellectual challenge here, because there is no art to what you describe, just man hours.
I like the sentiment, but, as with all advice, moderation is key. The failure mode here is "analysis paralysis", where you get so caught up doing the preparation that you forget to actually do the work. A good example is writing. By all means, do research and create an outline prior to writing. But never ever confuse research and outlining for the writing itself. Preparation is key, but so is just buckling down and doing the damn work.

As Steve Jobs put it so well: "Real artists ship".

EDIT: Another common failure pattern that I've noticed (and personally fallen into) is spending more time figuring out todo/task tracking systems than actually doing work. The todo system is only a tool. The only measure of its value is in whether you actually get tasks done faster with the system than without. It doesn't matter if you "feel" more organized as a result; it's far better to feel disorganized, but finish projects than it is to have everything squared away... have nothing accomplished at the end of the day/week/month.
Nice post. Instead of using inpainting for model explainability, why not use attention maps to understand where the model is focusing to get a particular prediction?
USB-C done cheap: when 2 ports become 1 (2020)
>>>I'm curious to hear what your speculations are in terms of a war with China.

Well, honestly your next sentence is pretty on the mark in broad terms: sea blockades, massive asset destruction in the main conflict zone, global economic impacts and political chaos.

I think the Chinese are using Russia's Ukraine failure to re-do their math about an amphibious assault aimed at Taipei (100x more difficult than driving across a land border into Kiev). I still expect their combination of ballistic missiles, land-based airpower (including old aircraft converted into drones/guided bombs), and a metric boatload of surface ships to wreck most US combat power in the region with sheer mass. We simply don't have enough assets or enough AMMO forward deployed here to maintain supremacy right on China's doorstep.

The big question marks are the responses from other local powers. We expect the Japanese to help if attacked, but what if they aren't targeted directly by China? The Japanese -N-a-v-y- "Maritime Self-Defense Force" is large and competent and we need them to counter the Eastern Theater Command Navy. Will the Philippines let us stage combat power in their territory? What will Vietnam do in the SCS? Will India distract China in the Himalayas?

Even if we get the upper hand in combat, maybe after 90+ days when we've gotten reinforcements from allies, from the continental US, etc....at BEST the situation becomes "Well China, we sank your entire Navy and Marine Corps, and killed most of your Air Force pilots......can we consider this 'Taiwan unification' issue settled?". The concern is that Xi Jinping and the CCP have staked their regime's reputation on this one goal. It's the same problem with Putin and Ukraine: failure is a guaranteed regime-ending scenario from domestic discontent, so they might just double down no matter how irrational it appears, and if the CCP can foster sufficient nationalism from the population, we could be looking at a LOOOOOONG bloody conflict and total economic chaos.
It looks like totally overengineered solution to me. The CPU already has a protected mode which doesn't allow the program to access any files directly. Why do you need to run a VM which by the way is run from the kernel (privileged mode) in Linux? Why cannot you run untrusted programs in protected mode?
Did he die?
Instilling doubt or question in something is often more practical in effecting change than immediately announcing every facet of your argument. Sometimes it’s more practical to coerce change by presenting an opportunity to question an assumed assumption.

Maybe someone will see my comment and start down their own rabbit hole to find a conclusion. That is more ideal than immediately assuming the details of my personal assumptions and conclusions.

:)
Is it too soon for another round of Pictures of Greg Egan [1]?

Is Greg even male or an individual?
Hats off to a fellow sandgroper.

[1] https://www.gregegan.net/images/GregEgan.htm
Lol, I knew you were mostly joking — but you also weren't wrong.

At the same time, some people genuinely shit on Maven Central and think that it's inferior to other registries.
Honestly I'm often this customer (the one that flips 180 - not the one who wants to be a cunt!)

It's quite strange. Maybe it's because I have in the past drafted kind and considerate support requests only to be met with an incomprehensible response that's not related to what I said. Getting a genuine response is a pleasant surprise.
Steve Jobs put it more succinctly: "Real artists ship". At some point you have be very honest and ask yourself, "Do I really need to revise my outline once again before I start writing?"
Yeah, DRM-free stores like GOG demonstrate that you don't need DRM to sell digital media. But movie industry is still stuck in this stupid dinosaur mentality.
Having no knowledge of this conspiracy theory, my guess would be that Ghislaine Maxwell is Israeli and harbored there after Epstein’s arrest.
Always great to see "don't write a shader language" on someone's new years list. Wishing Raph the best in 2023, I've learned more about curves and gpus from his blog then anywhere else
I enjoy how RA handles address assignment. I like how the address space feels huge and uncrowded (almost private), like how internet v1 once did. I like it when the lightbulbs go off the first time I get a service working.

I like feeling like a member of the club.
I reckon there is space for a drop in replacement ui for Angular and Ionic that respects screen real estate and users ability to interep a more dense set of information. Less padding etc. I'd pay for it. Or there could just be a few small modifications to make what is there more workable.
Survey of Security Mitigations and Architectures
> This affair has all the hallmarks of a state level blackmail operation run by CIA and Mossad. (“law enforcement” is a rather amusing label for spook agencies.)

“spook agencies” don’t make prosecutorial or law enforcement investigation decisions (outside of those within their own investigative jurisdiction where they are also law enforcement agencies, which US ones, other than FBI to the extent you consider that a “spook agency”, aren’t) directly. If they were involved, they would be an example of a powerful actor exerting influence on law enforcement / prosecutorial agencies. Which would be consistent with the possibly I said had some grounds to suspect.

OTOH, there are other actors (including many of the individual reputed clients) that also might have, on their own and through their own connections, significant ability to sway law enforcement decisions if it was important to them, and significant motive to do so if they really were Epstein’s clients. “Spook agencies” make good targets for weakly-evidenced conspiracy theories, because people take suspicious events plus the lack of clear evidence of a particular actor as evidence that clandestine professionals are involved.
Is this person describing objectively horrible people, of just people who are incompatible with him?

I reckon about 5% of folks rub me completely the wrong way and I likely do the same for a similar number. I don't know that I agree that makes them inherently bad/the worst.
IPv6 is handed out using sparse allocation inside /12 from IANA ensuring two goals: minimal recall on IANA and maximum utilisation inside each /12 preserving second call headroom for the original delegates announcing the space in BGP. They can take a /32 to a 31 or 30 or 26 or whatever and not have to announce disaggregated blocks in BGP. (They can disaggregate, but it's not forced by being given discontinuous blocks) The sparse model is like binary chop: it tends to equalise the size of the "hole" across all delegations. It's a reservation system without having to make reservations: within limits everyone who hasn't yet requested subsequent space can request it, and everyone within reason has the same growth potential to market against other delegates of the same size at that point in time.

APNIC runs modified sparse: the /12 is divided up into pools and bigger and smaller parts are used to make two sets of binary chop headroom reflecting the scale.

The outcome should be visible in the chart: a grey peppering of blocks spread throughout the /12s and for APNIC evidence of at least two densities of scatter.

Broadly speaking, it's worked. The RIR collectively haven't gone back to IANA very often, a lot of IPv6 space remains. Scarcity isn't driving the dynamics of BGP announcement and disaggregation. Compare that to IPv4, costs of entry to market for new players, avg number of prefixes and relative disaggregation of holdings.

(Disclaimer: work in an RIR)
nothing on the spec prevents arbitrary data on body of a GET. but clients and proxies are implemented by lazy people who make excuses they are preserving some legacy security feature or something and continue to ignore the spec.
There are so many levels to the conspiracy that I think some conspiracy must have occurred.
He was in a notoriously unsafe prison: the fact that that exists is a conspiracy on its own. the fact that he wasn’t under constant surveillance, the fact that he was given a dangerous cell mate.
> Not sure how much of that is necessary. I mean, a button doesn't "look native", so what? It's a button.

Is it? Native buttons also come with things like affordances, accessibility, recognizability.

"So what" is what lead Google to spend money on user research involving hundreds of people to figure out that text boxes looking like text boxes is good, actually.
pwa+webview+webassembly is the future of everything.
That’s a fair assessment. To paraphrase Haldane, the universe is not only stranger than we imagine; it is stranger than we can imagine. Religion and religious people have a tendency to narrow this perception of majestic strangeness because they tend to be wary of uncertainty. Atheists on the other hand tend towards embracing uncertainty and like to revel in the strangeness. In my opinion, of course.

Happy new year!
> Couldn't find any "report spam" or "report post" link.

I saw that lack too. In a way it felt warm and nostalgic for a earlier, more naive, time of the internet.

But yea, we need that.
Sea Organ
Love Monkey, implemented a language based on it a couple years ago and it was an excellent learning experience.
This is terrific, thank you!
Two points:

1. You are assuming 0 income for the college track person, which is not the case for many, and was not for me. In my case, the "opportunity cost" was largely time spent on work/education (minus the difference in part v. full time and being on a career track), as opposed to leisure. But even without sacrificing leisure, many students work for 2-3 months a year during summer break.

2. You are assuming that a portion of that income will actually go to compounded return, this is not the case, most of that is eaten up by living costs at the lower wage.

They are not saving at high rates getting compounded returns (lazy first google result)
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/14/how-much-money-the-average-m...

All I can say is that anecdotally, in my cohort, my peers/friends that got a degree are doing significantly better than those who do not. And that is why I mentioned confounding factors. It is likely many of those peers would not have done as well, but it is hard to work the numbers on that without going really deep.
> I like how the address space feels huge and uncrowded…

^^ in case anyone is wondering why IPv6 is where it’s at after a decade…

Sigh.
Ask HN: What Products Will Google Kill in 2023?
Ghislaine Maxwell is the daughter of Robert Maxwell, who was a suspected Mossad spy. Per Wikipedia:

> The Foreign Office suspected that Maxwell was a secret agent of a foreign government, possibly a double agent or a triple agent, and "a thoroughly bad character and almost certainly financed by Russia". He had known links to the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), to the Soviet KGB, and to the Israeli intelligence service Mossad.[52] Six serving and former heads of Israeli intelligence services attended Maxwell's funeral in Israel, while Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir eulogised him and stated: "He has done more for Israel than can today be told."[53]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell
The fact that the nearest cameras happened to malfunction is certainly either an amusing coincidence or cause for suspicion. Given that he likely had blackmailable information on other powerful people (anybody who had visited him on his island and happened to partake), there are certainly people who would have the motive to arrange for something.

It's still likely he committed suicide but I wouldn't bet my life on it.
Lots of strategies are possible. I may only need to refresh the data in it once a day. I may need to refresh it on every write. It depends on the applications needs.
I don’t understand how Ghauline got charged with underage child prostitution but none of her clients did. Who did she traffick them to? Makes me think politicians at the very highest level like Prince Andrew in the UK and a bunch in the US. It’s funny that the sketches for the Madeline McCann kidnappers look an awful lot like the Podesta brothers - the same ones with the creepy nude art of children in their homes.

Also, can we just call it what it is - child prostitution?
The people with nearly no pathway to home ownership, a bachelors degree required for the most basic of jobs, & the least social mobility in over a century are “in need of nothing”

You clearly aren’t to be reasoned with. I also think you would benefit from therapy, but I digress.
But to figure out how much will go to compounded returns you need to look at only the savings rate for that cohort.
Then you can decide for your org to not trust them and perhaps use a different certifier. i would welcome them offering such a service instead of having none.
If the private settlement includes a gag condition for the primary criminal witness….
It is a nice quip, but is it true?

I think Free code is quite unlike garbage, in that most Free software devs do somewhat hope their code will be useful or enjoyable to somebody, right?

Garbage is explicitly refuse, you don’t expect anyone will find it useful at all. The raccoons are a nuisance — we actually go to great lengths in some cases to make sure they can’t check out the garbage! People sifting through your garbage are probably up to no good.

I think is hard to make an analogy between Free software and a physical thing because most physical things are finite and can’t be copied for free.

Maybe Free software is more like a dance — you do your dance to for yourself, and to impress your friends maybe (or maybe as exercise, or some other motivation). You don’t mind if someone copies your dance. You might even help your friends learn it. But you clearly have no obligation to help strangers learn it, and no responsibility if they get hurt trying to do it.
San Francisco's Wave Organ: a wave-activated acoustic sculpture (2015)
I'm using restic to backup. I like that it's encrypted and can be installed easily on every major os.
On the spectral bias of neural networks
I re-read their comment and I sort of get it now. We could bring back "gentlemen's spaces" and these single guys might be less lonely. They would still die alone, though, and it wouldn't do anything at all for the lonely women out there (who also account for 15-20% of the lonely deaths mentioned in the article).

Though I'm not really convinced that those opportunities for socializing no longer exist, I mean any medium sized city has meetup groups, pubs, and probably all sorts of other social outlets I'm not thinking of. The modern middle aged man's problem isn't meeting people, it's building relationships that have a closeness and intimacy equivalent to familial ones, which some people seem to think is easy but if it was these corpses wouldn't be rotting in apartments would they?
HTTP methods don't really have functionality inherently attached. They're only semantically meaningful. Occasionally intermediate infrastructure will treat them slightly differently, such as a firewall stripping bodies from GET requests, but that's not part of the spec.

You can even use custom methods. I have a server that responds to the SALAMI method.
And 'crazy' is the non-pc word for that umbrella of non-standard neurotypes that are just-barely normal-ish. Crazy is a fine word. Let's not hop on the euphemism treadmill.
Games are also frequently going to be some of the most complex software you'll ever install. Bugs are just inevitable no matter what you do, short of writing games in Haskell (maybe), which sounds like a nightmare to me.

That said I've only ever used C# in Godot. Hasn't let me down yet.
While your point is valid, I can't help but smile. I men, first world problems?

It does however highlight how things that are of benefit to millions, (or at least, hopefully of benefit to those millions) can have unexpected (?) impact on the few.

As a completely alternate anecdote, I'm planning to attend a conference there in 2024,and this change has made it a lot more attractive :)
some of the people in charge like screwing kids and were implicated in his crimes, it's not unprecedented look at the lengths the catholic chruch went to protect it's own
As a holder of a not popular passport, it’s great that now I can visit Croatia without going through an additional lengthy and expensive visa application process.
Supply chain management is not about telling you what to do, it’s about properly understanding the things one depends on to build one’s product.

Like I said, your (presumed) license specifically excludes any obligation to users of your software. I’ve written free software and proprietary software, and one thing I’ve learned is that the world is full of entitled jerks. Entitlement has zero meaningful intersection with software supply chain management.
Love the preview widget that changes as your scroll through each section. Truly great work.
That was for an old version of HDCP up to 1080p, right ? Not to mention, capping and transcoding is tedious and will alter the quality. I doubt if anyone still does it as there seem to be better exploits for the determined.
UX is a real thing. Any user that feel your app is crappy, slow, inconsistent, ugly, breaking OS paradigms, janky. Will just dump it, and just get another one (there are plenty) Users are the real judges giving you the Award of Excellence, any minute they keep using your app
As an example of how big ipv6 is, we got a /29 from ripe at a not very big at all ISP, which even if we had handed out a /48 to each and every DIA customer physical location/cpe, would have lasted us at our projected growth rate for the next several hundred years.

And that was in addition to the ARIN /32 we already had.
There's literally a black book with names in it, as well as flight records. There is plenty of evidence here to get started on a charge without the banks or victims cooperating.
I'm not sure I understand what you are saying, but would like to. Is there a more long-form text on the topic you'd recommend? I think I can understand it for a simple question like "is there a god?", but cannot see how this arrived at believing everything in a particular passed-down book.