skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For that price you can get a $10 dedicated server with similar specs. Installing and configuring Postgres isn't a big deal. There are several helpful guides available. For small projects the config isn't important at all. For everything else it is just editing a few lines in a text file.

I'm not sure where the impression that this is some arcane art comes from. For a typical Debian system it is just an apt-get. Yes, the default config has tiny limits for work_mem. Just edit the .conf

Part of this might be that AWS or whichever other proprietary environment has captured developer knowledge at this point. Instead of sane INSTALL files, projects tell users to use a prepacked Docker image.
Right. It's a great story but to me it's more of a commentary on modern Internet-era ethics than it is a prediction of the future.

It's highly unlikely that we'll be scanning, uploading, and booting up brains in the cloud any time soon. This isn't the direction technology is going. If we could, though, the author's spot on that there would be millions of people who would do some horrific things to those brains, and there would be trillions of dollars involved.

The whole attention economy is built around manipulating people's brains for profit and not really paying attention to how it harms them. The story is an allegory for that.
I've gotten paid for programming since 1990.

I got into programming because I was an engineer, and I used finite element modelling, but nobody would adequately explain time sharing. Then SGI loaned my group a Unix workstation.

I've quit several jobs because the company decided to go all Microsoft all the time. Those companies aren't around, but I'm still writing programs for Linux. Mastery of CS fundamentals is key, but you have to learn to apply them, not just grind leetcode with them.

My lesson is that if you learn and do commodity things, Java, Windows, XML, you'll have a commodity resume and you'll get commodity jobs that you have to fight a plethora of other commodity developers for. Do different things. Learn and master something unusual. Teach yourself new things as often as you can.
Smartphones can run a full Debian Linux distro in a VM too, but that doesn't make them desktop PCs.
>There the manufacturers were stealing each other's ideas "within months" as Japan had no enforceable Western style patent system yet.
The electric andon was for example copied from Suzuki looms, where it prevented looms from dethreading when the machine runs out of thread, and requiring hours to manually rethread it again.

How horrible! I’m glad the patent system saved us from this backwardness!
Did you measure your returns in USD or ETH/BTC?

I've come across many profitable traders in Crypto who only measure in USD and when you compare their results to just buying and holding ETH/BTC at the start of the cycle they come out behind. Everyone feels like a great trader in a bull market.
I suspect they mean from use cases that aren't so centered around software for its own sake. Use cases where the rubber meets the road, as it were.
Ask HN: Any possible legal issues from disclosing security vulnerabilities?
I was looking at the network requests made by a relatively niche, small, and new social network I'm on. It turns out their security practices are absolutely terrible and they leak tons of info like the email, phone, and hashed but unsalted passwords of every user. This is all available at unauthenticated endpoints (i.e. not just incorrectly set permissions, but no login needed at all).

I'd like to responsibly disclose these issues but have never done something like that before and am slightly afraid of any possible legal repercussions. Even if I'm technically in the right, an expensive and career-damaging lawsuit is something I really want to avoid.

I could report these issues anonymously but I suspect a smart person looking through the server logs would be able to de-anonymize me. I did change up some URL parameters to verify that the vulnerability worked (e.g. "GET api/users/myuser" -> "GET api/users/anotheruser") and produced some weird traffic in the process, all while working from a browser that I was currently logged in with. I'd like to think that I didn't do anything wrong but I know that hacking laws can encompass anything outside of normal usage.

Does anyone have advice? I could leave it alone but the issues are so bad that someone else will find it sooner or later if they haven't already.
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I always think this very thing
The places you can casually drive around are no the places you would want to target with a spy balloon.
The bread factory and plumber turn a little bit of risk into a little bit of money. A company like Google or Goldman Sachs turns a lot of risk into a lot of money, if they manage the risk so it pans out, or a lot of risk into losing a lot of money otherwise.

GP's description is actually quite astute. The legal concept of a "corporation" exists solely to pool risk and limit downside; it originally came from shipping voyages in the early age of colonialism, where a significant portion of vessels simply sank with all hands, but one successful voyage would make everyone involved wealthy beyond belief. Basically every business endeavor you do involves some risk, because the future is unknowable. The plumber might fall into the sewers and drown, the bread factory might be contaminated with E-coli and get shut down by public health after getting sued by all the customers it got sick. But certain endeavors, the ones like the plumber or the bread factory, have largely been studied, systematized, and structured to maximize the chance of success. These are low risk, but they're also low reward, because low risk invites lots of competitors. Other endeavors like writing complex software systems or predicting financial markets fail all the time, and that's why succeeding at them is so lucrative.
Some Mac users thought the bomb icon meant they MUST turn off or unplug the computer as fast as possible, or it would literally explode. Even a few who had been users for a few years. The possibility never occurred to me until the first time I heard someone in all seriousness (and with appropriate note of trepidation) assert it when describing how to handle it to someone.
On top of a pile of money, with many beautiful ladies.
If done right, sure. I used to subscribe (via nntp via rss) to the n-gate HN weekly summary but that died out a couple years ago. But... if there was already a HN newsletter, would that save you time?
Big Dead Place was great: it gives you a great idea of the terrain, the characters who come through, and the politics, all from the perspective of a grunt who works there.
The main reason why MB lasts so long is due to a single component in the engine,
they still use a chain rather than a timing belt. This one little change has so
much impact on the rest of the engine design that they tend to last very long
compared to cars that have timing belts.

No.

Timing chain vs gear vs belt has little-to-no bearing on the longevity of an engine. You can, for instance, build an engine with a timing chain that's prone prone to catastrophic failure of the timing components. Mercedes has done it twice so far with the M116 and the M272/M273.

Suddenly a whole pile of stuff is happening inside the engine enclosure
instead of outside of it reducing the number of seals and in general reducing
complexity outside of the engine core. It also reduces the need for complex
service.

Tell that to anyone who's had a Ford with the Duratec or EcoBoost and an internal water pump.
Ask HN: Foundational Networking Expert?
I'm looking for a role that tends to be non-traditional in this trade. I would like to apprentice with someone who is well-versed in aspects of real-time multiplayer games. Preferably someone who has been doing it for decades. I can write you working networks, I can pretty much make most single-player. Real-time game simulation and the art of has seemed to be lost to the public sources of information and tend to become focused at places with a lot of money to offer. If you are this said person, I would be willing to work for you, grunt work on your other projects. This would be in return for creating starting points, answering questions, guidance other than what the algorithm on youtube predicts next, and that type of things. If it woks out well, I'll give you a percentage of any multiplayer games that are released. There's a but of a plan involved, we won't be going directly to multiplayer.
China’s police are ensnaring thousands of suspects abroad
Your question about what futures is weird. Yes? It does have a lower expected profit? But a mitigation of downside risk. You seem to think the answer is "no."
I generally agree and wince at anything deeply nested, but there's no question that the biggest benefit here by far will be pseudoclasses. Especially when you wanna do something to children elements based on a pseudoclass

.page form
border: 2px solid #223;
border-radius: 0.15rem;

& button {
background-color: red;
transition: background-color 0.15s ease;
}

&:hover button {
background-color: blue;
}
}

seems way cleaner, easier to read, and more maintainable than the alternative which I don't even wanna type out
Principal Prompt Architect
I hope they don't take it down like how Berkeley CS videos were taken down.
What do you use now? I'm currently using Create-React-App for one of my projects and some parts of it are really frustrating. For example, you can't create a Web Worker script without ejecting, or using some tool that intercepts and alters the CRA Webpack configuration.

Should I just bite the bullet and figure out Webpack (or another bundler) from the basics? I feel like that will be inevitable at some point anyway.
https://www.startrek.com/watch_ytclip/Q99bm85ReoKI
El Salvador Plans to Open ‘Bitcoin Embassy’ in Texas
Not sure how this goes, new here, but if at all like reddit, please private message me if interested. I'm not sure what I'm looking at in terms of reading comments. Were it reddit, I'd be doubtless it to be construe as something horrible but it seems different here.
cat-v is such a website. i love it. nothing like it these days
Super Nintendo World: Guide to every dish at so-cute-it-hurts Toadstool Cafe
Yeah, Robert Miles (science communicator) is that classical character nobody listened to until it's too late.
You can mount a lot more equipment a lot higher up on a balloon, and it can float places you can't legally drive.

The, in theory, purpose of such a balloon is going to be something like satellite surveillance but low and in the are long enough to use certain types of sensors that would not work that high up, or that can now penetrate much further into the ground.

Not that I really think there's much to be worried about, as even if this is the case its more "nations who's only war will be miserable nuclear fire pretending there's a chance it could be others", but there is absolutely a plausible reason for these.
Your HVAC technician might be better at math and science than your accountant, your estate lawyer, your real estate attorney, your corporate contract review attorney, and probably 2/3rds of everyone else that works in an office building. At least in major urban school districts, I don't generally think teachers are underpaid (every OPRF teacher makes 6 figures; the median CPS teacher makes something like 70k, and they all get defined benefit pension plans and large amounts of PTO). But calling them "not intellectually gifted" is mean spirited, reductive, and unhelpful.
Neither the pile of money or the ladies are a direct result of launching weather balloons though, so I left those details out as they weren't exactly relevant. You know, keep it classy
Ok. It sits on a desktop, has an external monitor and keyboard and mouse, and let's you run general purpose computing tasks, like compiling a C++ program. You can even plug in a USB printer and scanner. You can get them with 16G of RAM and i7 CPUs. You can put them in dev mode, wipe the OS, and install any Linux distro of your liking. Is that a desktop computer?

Or is the definition of desktop computer that it can, say, run Adobe Photoshop natively?
I remember the main argument against this is that you can always enforce this with a linter and either way it's not a slower parser, maybe slightly more complex.

Personally I do agree and I like the explicitness of always having the &
lol just curious what the thought process is. Sass and postcss support that and every other css flavor with nesting I've used supports it and it seems like it'd be a pretty big deal and something that would be explicitly called out in the article if it didn't support it. So I'm just curious if you've run into an issue with that or if there's some in-the-weeds technical reason why that might not be supported
"Does a bread factory that hedges its future wheat purchases with wheat futures have a lower expectation profit than one which does not?"

To the extent that it hedges them rationally, they have exactly the same expectation profit. But the bread factory that hedges its future wheat purchases has a lower real profit than the one that does not, assuming the price of wheat doesn't go up, because buying those futures contracts costs money. That's what it means to turn risk into money: if you are willing to bear the costs of things turning out poorly, you can avoid the costs of avoiding the chance of things going poorly, and increase your profit by the same amount.
There’s an element of overreaction here (when isn’t there?), but this also isn’t true: you can’t exactly drive onto missile bases in Montana and take pictures without causing significant problems.
Thank you, this led me down a really interesting rabbithole about age-related dementia and anticholinergic substances. Best tidbits:

1: "Anticholinergic Accumulation: A Slumbering Interaction between Drugs and Food Supplements" https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bcpt.12437

2: Chart of medicines with high ACB scores (higher is worse) - you will recognize some of these, such as allergy and anti-nausea meds: (pdf warning) https://corumpharmacy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Anticho...
> The scientists injected the nanoparticles in chicken eggs. After the chickens hatched, the scientists detected changes in the functional, morphological and microbial biomarkers in the blood, the duodenum (upper intestine) and the cecum (a pouch connected to the intestine).

This looks like those nice studies where they injected MSG into the brain of mice to show they are bad. I don't think these findings can be extrapolated to humans who encounter those nano particles through food
One would need more information about the exact chain of events. Did NORAD call (not necessarily an actual telephone call) Trudeau and say "Mr. Prime Minister, we have an unidentified object in this location and we recommend to take it down. What is your decision?", "Here's the object and the following options: shoot, follow, let go. What is your decision?", or "Here's the object. What's your decision?" Yes, Trudeau gave the order, but his judgment was undoubtedly influenced by the substance and the manner of the information provided to him and his advisors. It gets more complicated if Trudeau debated the matter with members of his cabinet, as he almost certainly did.
Do you have a good reference or search terms for that reverse flow thing? It sounds crazy. Searching ["reverse flow" of helium vacuum pump] doesn't seem to be doing anything for me, at least as a layman.
If, say, the cook in a restaurant messes up your dinner, or the mechanic happens to accidentally scratch your car, you don't want them to get cute about it, especially when you're already annoyed. Yes, mistakes happen, but then please be professional about it.

So you would rather them inform you of their mistake deadpanned without any show of emotion?

You don't like when the waitress circles the refund on your check, and writes sorry for the trouble hope you give us another chance with a smiley face? Or when the mechanic says he'll have his body guy fix the scratch before making a crass joke and offering you a donut?

Real life interactions are full of emotional cues, and personality. This is because it can often soften the blow of bad news. If you show me a picture of a puppy along with the error message I'm going to be a little less annoyed. That said, definitely show as detailed of an error message as you can along with that puppy.
$60k is below the starting salary for an NYC public school teacher.
They got it perfectly right. You can only tell what kind of balloon it is by the time it is on the ground.

And there is no reason why the USA can't be both worried about spy balloons and about the chemical disaster in Ohio.
I don’t get this. SQLite can perform 500k writes/s (or 5k write txns/s). What app are you building which requires more than this?
Aspiring bitcoin maxi here. Is this good for bitcoin? Will the federal government have a problem with it? Bullish for Salvadorean soft power?
I would recommend using PostCSS. It allows you to compile future CSS for browsers today. When you feel comfortable with browser support you can just remove the processing step
>Ariake/Odaiba you just can't reasonably cycle at all IMO - e.g. you're simply not allowed to cycle across the Rainbow Bridge or through either of the Tokyo Minato tunnels

People cycle in Odaiba and Ariake all the time. Have you never been there?

No, they're not crossing the Rainbow Bridge, but they don't need to. They live in Ariake and cycle around it just fine. There's no need to cross the Sumida with a bike for most people.

>I would bet that the mode share of cycling in Ariake/Odaiba is just a whole lot worse than Tokyo in general.

It sounds like you've never been to Ariake. There's tons of bikes, and lots of bike parking at the various destinations there. You don't seem to realize that a lot of people actually live in (or close to) Ariake. Take a look at a satellite view on Google Maps: those big towers next to Ariake Gardens mall are housing towers. People live there. And people live in other parts of Koto-ku and cycle to Ariake, because it's close by bike. There's wide sidewalks and even actual bike lanes (separate from the road) in some places. But there's probably no one trying to cycle regularly between Ariake and the west side of the Sumida, but that doesn't make Ariake "un-cyclable".
I certainly agree that the full-spectrum attack capability is not here now.

For a short-term plausible case, consider the recently-published Toolformer: https://pub.towardsai.net/exploring-toolformer-meta-ai-new-t...

Basically it learns to call specific private APIs to insert data into a completion at inference-time. The framework is expecting to call out to the internet based on what's specified in the model's text output. It's a very small jump to go to more generic API connectivity. Indeed I suspect that's how OpenAssistant is thinking about the problem; they would want to build a generic connector API, where the assistant can call out to any API endpoint (perhaps conforming to certain schema) during inference.

Or, put differently: ChatGPT as currently implemented doesn't hit the internet at inference time (as far as we know?). But Toolformer could well do that, so it's not far away from being added to these models.
Due to NORAD, Canada and the continental U.S. are a shared air defense zone.

In this case, USAF had been tracking/following the balloon since before it crossed from Alaska into the Yukon, so they although F-18s from Cold Lake had been dispatched, the U.S. F-22s already on-scene took the shot.
This [1] article has some bemusing details on the third engagement of the Great Balloon War of 2023. The relatively immobile balloon was the size of a small car, and it took two $400k missiles to pop it, after the first one missed. So I think the answer of how it works is, "not easily"!

[1] - https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/air-force-missile-miss...
"any unmanned free balloon that -

(i) Carries a payload package that weighs more than four pounds and has a weight/size ratio of more than three ounces per square inch on any surface of the package, determined by dividing the total weight in ounces of the payload package by the area in square inches of its smallest surface;

(ii) Carries a payload package that weighs more than six pounds;

(iii) Carries a payload, of two or more packages, that weighs more than 12 pounds; or

(iv) Uses a rope or other device for suspension of the payload that requires an impact force of more than 50 pounds to separate the suspended payload from the balloon."

Translation: To be exempt from the rules of high altitude balloons your balloon must have no more then two payloads at 6lb per payload, cord no stronger than 50lb (fairly weak / most fishing line is too strong), and not be too dense.

Your payload sounds probably fine unless it contains a chunk of tungsten for some reason.

There's also a maximum balloon size and some other rules worth reviewing.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F...
The first samples in Italy that were later detected to have the virus were from 18 Dec 2019

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7428442/

The first documented COVID hospitalization was 16 Dec 2019. The first sample was sent for sequencing on 24 or 25 Dec 2019. 27 Dec 2019 was the date of the first medical report.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pande...

It was between those days an 20 Jan 2020 when Zhong Nanshan went public with the information that it was communicable human-to-human that the government in Wuhan was dithering. Long after the virus was already in those samples in Italy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhong_Nanshan
If you are a good software engineer, you probably work at a place that needs good software engineers, which by definition tends to be a place with a system that needs high availability or low latency or both or something else, while serving a lot of customers or load or something, all of which basically results in a pretty complicated distributed system...

So in your day to day job as a good software engineer, yeah sqlite isn't going to be a good choice. It doesn't work well for the sorts of systems you work on. But if you were going to build a new social network for your college or something trivial like that, and you just want to move fast and have a crazy simple deployment setup, you might well use sqlite.
A woman will very unlikely give you an honest advice. They are usually not made for that with friends. They usually just re-assure and "support" you. That's been my experience.

There are two types of woman who will be-friend you platonically: Woman who are interested in you sexually as a partner and want to be close to your radar, just in case. Woman who are not interested in you but find value in your friendship (either connections, money, emotional support, etc...)

In both cases, it's a bad deal for you. You are much better finding your own real partner instead of masquerading around other woman to forget about your lacking in that area.

Friendships with woman do exist. But they are limited by the fact that man and woman have very different hobbies and interests. That is, unless you are interested spending Saturday evening looking out for the perfect face mask or the color of your jeans; and I don't mean that in a pejorative way.
Doesn't sound interesting to me. Safari also implemented a very popular feature first a year ago, long before that act (:has() selector).

Even if Safari were to be the best browser ever, I don’t think that would save Apple, so any development effort would be futile (especially compared to lobbying)
The song "99 Luftballons" is becoming a reality after 40 years.