skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I write literary fiction and have kept a daily diary for the better part of my years spent writing. While the keeping of a diary was initially meant as a private practice, used only to begin my days in consideration of life before I began my fictional efforts, I eventually began to post excerpts from them regularly online and now do so on a twice monthly basis.

Every time I finish a notebook, I go back through it and write the subject of the passages on the cover. I also write the dates of passages I would like to revisit on an index card. When my schedule demands it, working over these passages for public consumption, sometimes days or weeks later, but often months or years later, I am often surprised to discover where the extrapolation of the initial idea leads me. In the moment, it would have been incredibly laborious to achieve the results that the benefit of hindsight, through the twin effects of memory and subconscious processes, makes easy.

I recommend it for all writers of literary works, but I think the process has merit in other domains as well.
It's true, he doesn't think HBD-ers are 100% right about everything: Alexander is careful to point out that's he's not as sure about HBD's predictions vis a vis the four Albion's Seed English migrations to the US, in contrast to his other links, or the "absolute nuggets of gold" that include the HBD information he gleaned from neoreactionaries.

How much attention do you want to keep drawing to this email? I'm happy to keep talking about it, but then, you know what I believe about Alexander at this point, so you can see why.
Looking for this. The conservatory system is a net negative for anyone but those who really want to be an orchestral player.
> Virus almost running on your PC is not a routine product feature

Maybe on macOS it is, and the only reason it isn't broadly knows is because Apple is sweeping this under the rug?
One year for Christmas I got an awesome Galax IV Hovercraft, also powered by the venerable Cox .049 engine.

Great fun!

https://www.retrothing.com/2008/03/testors-galax-i.html
Think it's the overweight balding guy playing a video game.
An actual link would be good:

https://weatherwest.com/archives/22404
Japan makes it very hard to lay off employees too, but unemployment is very low.
What this basically does is (in a grid-down situation) is move the fuel usage from the truck's engine to the station's generator, greatly limiting the vehicles overall mobility precisely when they might be most needed.
Python's pattern matching also isn't an expression, it's a statement and creates bindings that persist outside of the match block! This is a very strange way to do things but python for some reason is allergic to expressions.

After using languages with no statements, going back feels like a pointless restriction in expressiveness. You don't even need a ternary operator when blocks are expressions that can be used for assigning to variables.
But those drivers still have to drive to the charging station and then back with the second truck... through new york traffic... on a snowy day.

Good luck with that.
First one's been done already: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RhOrwjPkes0
You've changed my mind. I now plan to live to at least 150 so I can be around to say 'I told you so' in 2123.

Seriously, 30-40 years ago I would have eagerly agreed with you. Much as I continue to like technology and feel optimistic about it overall, I greatly doubt that a century from now there will be any non-military space colonies in existence; long term existence is more likely to exist in silico than for biological bodies. One major influence on my thinking about this is the fact that we landed people on the Moon from 1969 to 1972 and then just gave up on it for 50 years. Now in middle age, I cannot overstate my sense of betrayal by earlier generations that decided to devote themselves to financial engineering instead.
There is usually separation between tram tracks and cycling lanes. It really isn’t a problem unless you mix them -- the only place I’ve had a wheel caught is Amsterdam, where pedestrians/bike/trams share the space.
For all the broke young thrill seekers still out there and reading hn, KNO3 is readily available as "stump remover / killer" (for which it's ... better than placebo) and dirt cheap since it's technical grade
I honestly think that any valid life coach would just call themselves a licensed/certified therapist (or something similar). There is a lot of opportunity for scams or abuse, and it's probably not worth it. Around here you're going to pay the same amount (or more) for some jackass who can print "Life Coach" on a business card as you'll pay for a certified therapist.

If some one really wants to get paid to help people they should do the necessary preparation to do it responsibly. I've seen a lot of scammers and people who seem to think that being alive is the sole qualification for a life coach.

There is a role for free help like, say, AA sponsors, priests, lay pastors, or whatever life-coach-like role someone wants to take. There is also a social structure, or set of traditions or whatever that place limits on the role. Because they are done for free there is a sort of "good Samaritan" expectation.

There is also a role for paying for more specialized help, like maybe a business coach or mentor or whatever.
Naturalism insists that anything which is supernatural cannot be scientifically investigated, by definition.

If you want to live your life via the scientific method, awesome - it's a really powerful technique for refining the accuracy of predictions.

It can't ever rigorously conclude whether anything was ever divinely inspired, though.
> Without private trackers, it’s not obvious that anyone..

The piracy scene (with 0-day FTP etc.) worked fine before BT was even well-known.

And there are more than enough groups directly release their content on public trackers for anything remotely popular (any Netflix series fall into this category). You (or they) don't need PT for that.

PT is kinda essential if you're interested in obscure/niche content though, I agree.

I hate private trackers purely due to (my personal) value. I think it's a violation of "piracy spirit", and it somehow enables lots of people/groups' superiority complex or unnecessary gatekeeping behaviors (emphasis on "unnecessary": I know by definition it's not gateless).

But I do acknowledge it's probably the most practical way nowadays.
Almost everything out of the initiative system (arguably, the design of the system); high state spending for mediocre outcomes; "big" (state) government in general. NIMBY housing policy in every major metro. Unsustainable water use for water intensive crops in a state that is mostly desert.
Sycophancy
The difference is that a skilled blue collar worker can do it much much faster and with better results
Target response times for fire trucks are measured in minutes. Fire damage increases on an exponential curve, a couple minutes can make a huge difference when lives and homes are on the line.

EVs are a great technology for urban settings in moderate weather conditions, like in the big California cities where travel needs can be predicted, e.g. I travel < 40 miles/day and can recharge at home overnight.

Jamming them into applications for which they are not yet viable is a recipe for failure. People will only tolerate so much cost and inconvenience for the sake of climate change, it is important we not waste it on foolishness, because it's of urgent importance that we succeed in addressing it.
This sounds like he's using handwriting analysis on ancient text. I don't think modern handwriting analysis has a stellar record, I can't imagine it works great on scraps of parchment from thousands of years ago.
You still need to press space after that.
> high protien, high fat, and zero carb

Basically a keto diet, of course it works due to ketosis.
I worked remotely for a multi-state employer in the past. If I was a California employee on my last day, no non-compete. If I was a Washington employee, 1-2 year non-compete. I considered traveling to California to switch job locations and resign.
A beloved in every port: Iskandar's encounters with women
Ask physical therapists. There is a whole subspecialty there about Gait and Balance. They would be familiar with devices and technology.
CircleCI Security Incident – “Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI”
Full e-mail I received https://i.imgur.com/Nz1tEfu.png

https://circleci.com/blog/january-4-2023-security-alert/

--

We wanted to make you aware that we are currently investigating a security incident, and that our investigation is ongoing. We will provide you updates about this incident, and our response, as they become available. At this point, we are confident that there are no unauthorized actors active in our systems; however, out of an abundance of caution, we want to ensure that all customers take certain preventative measures to protect your data as well.

Action request:

Out of an abundance of caution, we strongly recommend that all customers take the following actions:

- Immediately rotate any and all secrets stored in CircleCI. These may be stored in project environment variables or in contexts.

- We also recommend customers review internal logs for their systems for any unauthorized access starting from December 21, 2022 through today, January 4, 2023, or upon completion of your secrets rotation.

Additionally, if your project uses Project API tokens, we have invalidated those and you will need to replace them. You can find more information on how to do that in our documentation here.

We apologize for any disruption to your work. We take the security of our systems and our customers’ systems extremely seriously. While we are actively investigating this incident, we are committed to sharing more details with customers in the coming days.

Thank you for your urgent attention to rotating your secrets.
No company deserves loyalty, but 2+ months severance at a tech salary isn't a tragedy. I wouldn't mind getting laid off at some of the companies
Help wanted for OSS project: ccxt in Rust (already started and working)
I've experimented with laying the groundwork to transpile the ccxt library into Rust. This is a proof-of-concept where basic `create_order` works

However this turns out to be quite a lot of work and I don't think I have enough time to finish it. At the same time I know quite a few people in the industry would be interested in this so I'm seeking contributors to the project. If you'd be interested to work on this project please reach out and I'd help you get up to speed.

As mentioned the "basic groundwork" is already in place so what's left is to put it into real projects and finish the rest of the functions in a real world context.

For people who have worked with / worked on the ccxt library this might also be interesting because this breaks away from the regex-based transpilation process and uses a proper parser library (acornjs).
Fire trucks would be terrible EVs:

- Fire departments cannot afford to have their apparatus out-of-service for hours while they recharge.

- The truck alone weighs around 10,000-15,000 lbs, without water, and they carry anywhere from ~500 gallons of water (attack engines) to upwards of ~2600 gallons (tenders). That’s 14,175lbs to 36,710lbs of truck.

- The engine powers the apparatus itself, its pumps, and often, a huge alternator for its electrical systems, and an inverter supplying 110V for use with fans, portable lighting, etc. It has to do this for hours.

> Generators are a thing that pretty much every one of these services will have. Because you can't have a fire station, EMT dispatch, etc go dark because of a grid down situation.

There is a several order-of-magnitude difference between the power required to service the station, dispatch, etc, as opposed to what’s required to rapidly recharge the kind of massive batteries an EV fire apparatus would require.

> And, consider this when thinking of a "grid down" situation. How do you pump fuel if the grid is down?

Local government maintains diesel generators and a fuel supply to handle this kind of extreme infrastructure failure.

> For everything semi-truck and smaller, batteries have a high enough capacity to service today.

Fire trucks aren’t semis. They have very different energy demands, usage patterns, risk profiles, and failure modes.
If you're using one just accept the fact that an Apple device never belongs to you.

Apple can do what it wants on their devices. You can't.

But you're generously allowed by Apple to pay money for that. Isn't that great?
> “people are our most important resource”

Did you ever believe it?

It makes me throw up every time I see corporate messages
speaking of family and employees being their most
important resource.

I have been around for long enough and I have learned
that a job is just a contract between parties and it
exists for as long as both parties can benefit from it.

Don't get caught up in the whole companies family kind of bs
or get too emotionally and culturally attached to your employer.
Always be on the look up for opportunities and take them.

Never stop learning and investing in yourself. Knowledge and experience
are your most important asset, keep nurturing them.

Also, I wanted to believe that a good chunk of these layoffs
should have seen this coming. One must be aware at all time of
how valuable (if at all) are for their employer.
My mom made me and both of my brothers take 9 years of piano lessons. Today, not one of us plays - I don't think any of us even has a keyboard in our houses.

The reason for this is simply that we were never allowed to play the kind of music we liked. Which was, of course, rock. Or blues, or country. Or, really, anything with a beat.

Nope; it was all classical all the time. And piano lessons were the only time we were ever exposed to classical music otherwise, so we had no opportunity to learn to like it; it was just a source of frustration and boredom.

We weren't even allowed to pick a different instrument; it had to be piano. Because mom wanted us to be able to play the organ in church.

That nine years of lessons was the single biggest waste of time in my entire life, and I work for the government.

In order for a child to learn anything on their own, which is the way a musician has to learn, really, they have to be incentivized. They have to like what they're doing, at least some of the time. The product has to be meaningful. And in music, like so much else in education, whether the child is actually engaged with the process is just never considered.
> And there are more than enough groups directly release their content on public trackers for anything remotely popular (any Netflix series fall into this category)

Name one! Or link a torrent. I’m pretty sure you will only find shit quality webrips made with capture cards and not actual decrypted streams.

> The piracy scene (with 0-day FTP etc.) worked fine before BT was even well-known.

The TV scene has been reduced to nothing because none of the groups could figure out Widevine. Just look at any pre feed.

Private tracker groups did though, and now everybody depends on them.
One of the likely factors in my gerd issues is being about 20 lbs overweight, so I wonder how this balances out.
Show HN: Google Sheets Bulk Writer
JavaScript library for queueing data to be bulk written to the Google Sheets API on timed intervals to avoid violating the rate limit
It's similar in Washington. If you make less than $116k, no non-competes. Otherwise, get fucked.

https://lni.wa.gov/workers-rights/workplace-policies/non-com...
MANPADS is for shooting down aircraft ("ADS" = air defense system). You're thinking of the Javelin and NLAW anti-tank weapons. Anti-tank rockets have been around for many decades; they're nothing new, but the latest ones are just more effective and have better range. IIRC, the Javelin itself was designed and first deployed back in the 1990s, so it's not exactly new either. What's new in the Ukraine conflict is that Russians apparently don't know how to (or just can't) properly operate tank battalions.

Back to MANPADS: man-portable anti-aircraft weapons aren't new either. The US was giving Stingers to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan back in the 1980s to shoot down Soviet aircraft.
You're doing yourself a disservice by dismissing these texts like that. Whether or not you believe the greater claim of God's existence in them to be true or not, they still have great value, and are a phenomena of human history.
Well, I think people have different levels of willpower (which may actually also be genetic) and an interaction with their desire to eat. Some people clearly have much stronger wills than others, and that's probably genetic or at least imprinted early on.
That networks of trackers and their operations are being exposed in realtime. This isn't a security issue for tracker users, it's a security issue for the trackers themselves. It's very very bad, I don't know why people are making light of it. Also, the trackers have reacted and are fixing their management panel configs as we comment, so the story is accomplishing something.
Software workers, we have to unionize. We have way more power together than isolated.
It's fair that you edited out the confused commentary, but I'll leave this note that cash is an immediate/near-term asset and long-term debt is a long-term liability. Duration mismatch is important for a company that attempts to maximize free cash-flow.
The burden of proof rests on those who make fantastical claims, not on everyone else to disprove their claims.
> Ah, I hadn't heard of that issue/those issues. I'll search for them tomorrow.

It's pretty easy to summarize: basically for every curve25519 secret, there are 8 (cofactor=8) corresponding public keys, whereas for secp256k1 there is a 1:1 mapping between secret values and public keys. Normally this isn't an issue because when doing things like ECDH key agreement, or digital signatures, honestly who tf cares? Hence why djb opted for a cofactor curve for a small performance gain.

However as a broad generalization, zero-knowledge proofs basically operate by doing manipulation of public keys instead of the underlying secrets/committed values. So for every committed value there are 8 different possible commitments on the curve. Any time you have a zero-knowledge proof using curve25519, anyone can come by and (without knowing the secret value), manipulate it to create an entirely different, but valid proof.

In the case of Monero, spending authority derived from knowing a secret corresponding to an output, but you only ever revealed a "key image" which (simplifying greatly) was essentially a public key / elliptic curve point derived from that secret in a particular way. Double spends were prevented by keeping track of which key images had been seen already. But of course there are 8 possible key images, so every output was spendable up to 8 times. It was a number of years before this flaw was caught!

The cofactor is a huge foot-gun opportunity for anybody doing anything more complicated than simple ECDH, signing a message, or login authentication. It is the main reason why I don't use curve25519 in new protocols, nor recommend its use to others. Better to just not take the risk of getting burned.

There is a sub-curve (Ristretto) which is of prime order which can be used on top of curve25519. But doing zero-knowledge proofs of Ristretto operations is significantly more complicated due to the fact that it is a sub-curve, and the security arguments are subtly different in nontrivial ways. Easier to just use secp256k1 and know you are safe.
I have some github projects. I deny/delete all PRs and delete all issues, sight unseen. Been there before on other projects, don't want to deal with that toxin again. Any email received regarding the code is deleted and the sender blocked. It is the only way to maintain sanity. In the same way that you do, I have a couple of github accounts under pseudonyms that I will make some drive-by commits from (usually bug fixes) to other open source projects that I don't want to be connected with. As you say, life's too short.
Regular HTML forms are hard. Source: I was the Drupal form API maintainer for a long time. Way too long.
Why shouldn't average folk be installing random FOSS tools they've never heard of before? Some are great. It's ridiculous that anything can be installed from the Mac App Store by anyone where there are apps a plenty trying to trick you into some horrid weekly $60 subscription to even use the "free" app but actually useful, trusted and free FOSS apps are positioned as harmful. But hey, Apple gets their cut...
> so that they could still enforce the non-compete without paying me in accordance with NY state law.

Could you elaborate on that part?
Just go to https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/ and put anyones IP in, depending on how static it is, it will provide at least accurate recent data on public trackers.
Having lived in Japan for 10 years with my 11th coming up I have some perspective. I have seen almost every single marvel film that came to theaters here and it was always a packed house. However, I think the fact that the pandemic has scared people away from movie theaters has something to do with it. That, as well as, the fact more and more films have been released only via streaming here (I didn't even see it advertised as being available to watch at the theater). For me it is hard to get interested in a film that I couldn't have enjoyed in the theater and have to settle for the streamed version that I only knew about because of some ad I saw on YouTube or a google search. Plus, I think there is still the fact that movies have gotten more and more cookie-cutter to appeal to everyone with the obvious chain of development. When everything tastes the same and nothing sticks out, why would I care for it except to say I watched it?
Console.log makes more sense now
CircleCI Security Incident
Just got the following alert from them: CircleCI Security Alert - 4 Jan 2023 - Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI.

We wanted to make you aware that we are currently investigating a security incident, and that our investigation is ongoing. We will provide you updates about this incident, and our response, as they become available. At this point, we are confident that there are no unauthorized actors active in our systems; however, out of an abundance of caution, we want to ensure that all customers take certain preventative measures to protect your data as well.

Action request:

Out of an abundance of caution, we strongly recommend that all customers take the following actions:
Immediately rotate any and all secrets stored in CircleCI. These may be stored in project environment variables or in contexts.
My experience with students that have used various learning software has been mixed.

They're not good for absolute beginners because it can't give you feedback on the bad physical habits that lead to repetitive strain injuries, or just make it hard to play.

Once you're past that point, you're usually far enough to find a tab or chord sheet and figure it out.

For a motivated intermediate level student there can be value in the smooth difficulty progression and forced introduction of new concepts, but that's a pretty small window where they add value.
I think people are not understanding this story. This is a story about trackers who share content between them, not about users. The semi-open management panels expose networks of people who are working with each other to do something that is legally frowned upon.
Yes, especially when a lot of the work is grunt work. Think of making a 2-hour movie. Even the ones without much special effects like dramas require an enormous amount of people since there is so much grunt work to do.
https://youtu.be/aIHj3qMRqqE

I found this video just today about USB PD "trigger boards" or "decoy modules" in the ali express/ebay/amazon searches.

There seem to be some you can short a resistor on for a locked setting, or others like in the video that have a mode select.
You mean Apple would brainwash their users?

No, Apple wouldn't do that. Never! Big Apple promise.