skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A funny one that comes up is many WAFs either block, or only examine the first X bytes of large-sized post requests, for performance reasons.

So your choice of unpredictable lost requests, or a loophole where the WAF is blind.
Is it worth making this specific argument if you don’t think it’s true ?

Otherwise, we’re in societies that evolve at crazy paces, some parts of our lives 5 generations ago were radically different from our lives now, while other groups almost didn’t change. I don’t see the concept of “fitness” to be relevant to our current situation where we have no idea of what’s coming up even in 50 years. In times of uncertainty, diversity is a better bet than trying to optimize for a status quo.
It's really fascinating to read historical accounts of science. Cicero's De Natura Deorum has an incredible account various antique world views and how they're motivated. Most of it is wrong in some sense in the light of modern science, but what's fascinating is how often they get things right.

It's like they're using poorly chosen basis vectors, and muddling some concepts we now understand to be distinct: They seem to have associated energy and/or thermodynamic heat with the element of fire; the gaseous phase with air and buoyancy, the liquid phase with water, the solid phase with earth and gravity.

It's very clear why the model stood for as long as it did despite some remarkably clever people looking into it. It actually fits the empirical evidence pretty well.
I'm Dutch and work in tech. One of the reasons I'm a digital nomad is because Amsterdam is too expensive. For reference: the city center of Berlin is about twice as cheap, and Berlin isn't cheap anymore nowadays.
How to password protect a static HTML page with no JavaScript and only CSS
That doesn't seem to be the case anymore. You have to pay for all the users to get the benefit of unlimited storage.
Luckily those courts have no jurisdiction now.
In Europe in particular, there was the diesel craze of the 2000s. Few cars in the 1990s had diesel engines. The average family car was something like a Ford Mondeo with a 1.8 NA petrol engine.

By around 2005, almost any "premium" mid-sized car like a Mercedes E-class or a BMW 5 series had a turbocharged 6-cylinder diesel engine around 3 litres with common rail injection. These engines have much heavier blocks and need a lot of additional systems for emission control.
They're probably either working a new job, job hunting, or vacationing. If I got laid off I'd probably grab a beer with a couple employees or fellow ex employees. Maybe grab a couple numbers. Then.. adios. Don't make it a bigger thing than it needs to be.
This is a concise thought expressed clearly. I fully agree that much of the work of being creative happens in silence, or more specifically, in a state of flow, in which all of the creator’s faculties and energies are directed toward the manifestation of intent. It’s a rare state even for prolific creators.

Sure there’s other work to be done, all the administration and logistics of adapting the product to the need, all the business aspects, the mechanical, what have you. But the springing to life of an idea into reality… there’s a species of this that seems to emerge in isolation.

For some, and I count myself among this group, the challenge that comes next is in releasing this ore of an idea to its audience or its destination. As soon as you publish it, it’s no longer under your control. People make what they will of it. It may not be what you intended them to make of it. But you can no longer help it. It’s everyone else’s product now.

So you can protect it and hold on to it and keep it in its isolation to maintain its reflection of the conditions that created it, or you can release it, and let it find a life of its own. Sometimes that’s scary and sometimes that’s exhilarating. Whatever it is, the moment of silence between it and its creator is something only the creator will have experienced.
> What trade?

More input latency plus whatever quality loss is incurred to pull frames out of thin air.

The latency is a big trade off for competitive reaction-time-based games.

It's often true that people can't easily feel the difference of a few extra ms or tens of ms in input latency. It is nonetheless a statistical disadvantage, as a players reaction times will be too slow in a higher percentage of cases since they've had a bit of their reaction window robbed by input latency.
It sounds like Jack's medical condition was bad enough that his decision to go for the surgery was inevitable, software installation trouble or not.
Again, it's a mix. In many automated anti-abuse systems, there are humans in the loop for training/verification. Like, take something that's trying to catch home rental ad scammers by running basically a spam classifier on the messages they send, except trained on scammy language, like "please send the security deposit to xyz, and I'll mail you the keys". But that classifier isn't perfect, and you probably don't want false positives banning legitimate users' accounts. So instead, it just leads to a temp suspension so that if they are a scammer (high likelihood, so this is fairly safe), and drops the message in a review queue, to be verified or reversed by a human reviewer. If it reverses, that's valuable training for the automated model.

If you're charging $8/mo/account, you can justify a lot more verification than if it's just an effort to keep the user base free of scammers for nebulous brand value reasons, and there are likely to be far fewer scams to moderate anyway, since it makes it a lot more expensive/risky to ramp up 10,000 accounts, which might all get banned at once if they identify commonalities between them.
Love rclone!
Right, the country with the strongest freedom of speech protections in the world is so illberal.
Seems a bit close to "I wonder how effective knowledge is to people who don't have it."

The two things required for this program to work are useful information & willing learners.

By making it free, the organisers are incentivised to provide the first, and by requiring participation with a coach they're asking for the second. Could your question be more accurately stated as "is the information good?".

People stay in bad situations when they don't know how to change and/or they don't want to change. The former is kind of up to those with knowledge, however ultimately nobody can do anything about the latter but those affected themselves.
GP: Basic things like figuring out how to get a bank account open vs paying a check cashing fee, things add up quickly.

You: Many people just want to live a life, they don’t want to pursue greatness at all costs.

These things are incongruous.

Separately, in the US you only need two factors to predict poverty: did you graduate high school and did you wait for marriage to have children. For the vast majority of people, it's their culture that determines if those are valued. You need to change culture to change those, and people are suspect of having the government do that because of past and ongoing mistakes.
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Yes, but also no. I'm not a huge car person but it seems they automakers are diversifying their lineup quite a bit. Look at BMW in the 90s, there was basically the 3,5,7 series (plus a few outliers, then the Z4) but now they have troubles putting all the models in one navigation bar :P One could argue that it's more built-to order now but you could already choose all the options, but I guess there was simply a different segmentation - i.e. let's say there were like 3-5 engines per series and 3 series, and now it's 5 series but maybe not with 5 engines each...
There was a time when people used to come to me create search queries. This was during the Alta Vista era. Constructing queries to find what you’re looking for was a skill. I feel like we’re in that era with AI. I suspect soon this will all feel like a distant memory.
They definitely do, with real life exploits using pastebin or reddit as ways to post C2 code.

Effective, because you can post it as HTTP/HTTPS traffic that generally flies under the radar of a lot of IDS/IPS systems. Even if they inspect the packet it's just a buncha random reddit gibberish and you could use memes as commands, e.g. "I also choose this guy's wife" == launch attack
Which service is that? Doesn't Workspace allow 1TB?
ETFs Concealing Billions of Dollars of Insider Trades
I think if this happened in 2014 it would be more accepted as a footgun since Docker was much less known then.

But in 2021 they:

- Ran their main DB in Docker without knowing the fundamentals of Docker
- Shipped it to production without anyone catching it in a review process

I mean, the incident isn't fun and I wish no one harm on their production data but this is like saying you never used Linux before, stumbled upon a prompt onto your production server, ran `rm -rf /var/lib/mongodb` and now you wrote a blog about how you're upset at Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie[0] because an `rm` footgun allowed you to delete your production database.

Now, to be constructive about this. Can or should Docker do anything to help prevent this? Would adding a warning to the terminal output that you're opening a port to the outside world be worth it? That sort of feels like overkill. Maybe a Docker plugin could be created to add more text or extra protection through y/n prompts when running anything dangerous, such as `docker compose down -v`. But this feels like a scenario where someone would do the bad thing without protection, get bitten by it and then discover the plugin afterwards where it's too late.

[0]: The creators of the `rm` tool.
I don’t get this argument. Government scales with population size just fine.
> There is absolutely enough food and shelther available on this planet for every man, woman and child to have a roof over their heads and enough to eat. It is a choice to deny it to them. Why?

Because the dictators where a lot of desperately poor people live will use their militaries to control donated food and goods to increase their control over the people.
AI prompts remind me if making a wish to a genie. The thought going into the input wish drastically effects the output, and we quite often don't get what we expect.
From what I've seen of families in poverty, it is usually less about them fitting into the current environment and more an issue of them having a surrounding culture that makes it hard to take advantage of the current environment.

A simple example is that people in a poverty culture tend to spend money immediately on short term gratification. On one hand, we could assume this is because they are foolish, but many have experience that if they try to save $20 for something longer term, someone in their household will end up just taking the money for something else. So their are acting rationally by trying to convert that $20 to something that will bring pleasure to them rather than deferring the pleasure only to lose the ability to spend the $20 on something they would enjoy.
> many tech workers working for hot startups or big tech have made in the past couple years

I can guarantee you no tech writer has made $1 million in salary or compensation in two years.
You didn't specify what you do, but you clearly laid out what you see as the biased and the unbiased way. It's not that simple. Everyone thinks their decisions are based on reason, and most people will sometimes ignore evidence.

Maybe some people are better at avoiding bias than others, but from my experience people will be better in some areas while still prone to it in other areas.
Acquired Podcast - "stories of well-known business and the playbooks that built them". Awesome podcast if you enjoy learning about the intersection of tech + business.

Startups For the Rest of Us - far on the other side of business + tech spectrum in the indie hacker space. Find it lends a really nice counterpoint to Acquired.

How I Built This - well-known and fantastic interviewer Guy Raz interviews company founders about their stories. Definitely has more a consumer than tech bent.

Planet Money - because it's awesome.
> In the USA, corporations enjoy human rights

They enjoy most civil rights in the US, not human rights, and this is by design in every country I can think of.

A "corporation" is, by design, a legal person.

> and as we’ve seen since 2008, are not allowed to die.

Corporations "die" all the time. Even large corporations "die" frequently - usually by whole acquisition, but sometimes by piecemeal acquisition in bankruptcy.

2008 demonstrated to the masses that some corporations are Too Big Too Fail, but that was also true of the corporate officers who were supposed to be legally responsible for unlawful behavior of the corporation: even when the officers knew what they were doing was unlawful, almost none were prosecuted, because the officers themselves were Too Big To Fail.
All the same I would much, much, MUCH rather be poor in the Netherlands than the US. Just not having to operate a car would save tons.

Also, not sure but this comment may be a reference to:

How The Dutch Economy Shows We Can't Reduce Wealth Inequality With Taxes | Economics Explained

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot4qdCs54ZE

and if you watch that it's well worth watching this Dutch economist's rebuttal

The Dutch Economy is NOT the Most Unequal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW_kw6OPXc0
> Human emotions have never changed throughout history, the reaction will always be the same.

This will not necessarily true with advanced AI. In fact it most likely will not be true.

> Technology simply changes the medium, but the end result remains the same. Transformative AI falls into the category of technology.

(Advanced) AI is fundamentally different from every other technology.
My only advice is to note that a lot of this hangs on how you and your spouse enjoy the new place, not your kid. Attending a better school or belonging to a more prestigious segment of society doesn’t matter as much as you being happy, relaxed and available.
With something like Astro you can use React (or others, even vanilla) components that can either be fully server rendered, or sent to the client. With that you can allow people to post comments. As for how to render them, depends a bit on what you decide. You can either have comments displayed the next time the site is built, or you could have a posted comment trigger a build, or some other similar idea.
I'm not sure it does prove it. It could just be a story of poor execution.
I think the article and most of the commentators are missing a real problem. The real problem is that there is an underlying complexity, which has no simple solution - collaboration of teams/groups of people with different expertise and even different interests is a universally unsolved problem.
When a company passes the "startup" stage and gets real customers, it isn't a startup anymore. It has more tasks to handle and needs more people to work, people with different expertise. There are sales, operations, developers (with multiple expertise), lawyers, coordinators (of all kinds). Innovation is not a self-evident target, at some point startup needs to cash innovation.
There are frameworks which attempted to address that complexity, for example scrum or more flexible superset "agile manifesto" or even waterfall. They all may work or fail, but there is no guarantee, no recipe.
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> If the underworld only crime is to sell weed then what's the problem? It's just a matter of semantics.

No it's not because it means it's also more profitable. More profit while something is illegal means it's more attractive to criminals to pursue. It means that the coke dealers, criminals from other EU countries (eastern Europeans or Russians) and other people that don't give a shit about The Netherlands will take it up and do it as a side hustle thing. And sure there are also "pure weed dealers", and yes for this group it's (almost) pure semantics. However, they now have to deal with crazed criminals that aren't afraid of shooting you when things go sour.

Source: I'm from Amsterdam, I've heard enough stories and anecdotal evidence is enough to challenge you on your assumptions that it's "just a matter of semantics".
"lololol" != "lol". They're two different words these days. I wasn't deriding the modern lol. I think it's actually more useful than it used to be since it works extremely well to define tone in conversation; its meaning has just shifted as language tends to do.
I remember using SciTE in the early 00s. Apart from some oddities of displaying italic text in a weird way it was a perfectly cromulent editor and you could start it, do your task, and close it before eclipse had even finished the loading screen :P
Show HN: LinkSnatch – Dead simple bookmarks on the go
Hi HN,

I have been meaning to have something simple using which I can dump links I come across for a long time. Something pretty straight-forward that just works. So, I built LinkSnatch in a week and launched an MVP.

Here are all the features it currently have:

- A beautiful interface with minimal distractions.
- Extracts URL metadata using jsonlink.io and saves it to the browser's local storage.
- Save and search links all from a single place.
- Dark mode.
- Doesn't track you.
- No signup needed.

It's also an open-source project: https://github.com/amitmerchant1990/linksnatch
Any given change to a car might by itself fail to seem radical - I agree, yet in the decades since 1909, how cars (and trucks) are used in our world has changed radically, and radically changed our world. Paved roads and freeways, gasoline production, the repair industry, and taking for granted that a person of ordinary means (in first world countries) has the ability to travel dozens of miles to work daily. Foodstuffs can get transported hundreds or thousands of miles and be edible. My parents didn't eat a green leafy vegetable from October to May as children, because such veggies didn't grow locally in Winnipeg.
No, but you misunderstood the audience for an engineering strategy, namely other c-level execs.

User 'jschveibinz' describes it well.
> Really, this should make you angry

We are all angrier than at any time I can remember, and it's not accomplishing anything.

We need to turn down the temperature of the rhetoric, and start implementing practical solutions, like what you describe.
United’s New Family Seating Policy
Primarily a software story:

> The biggest impediment has been technology investment, to make assignable seats available when young children are on a reservation with adults or to program automatic seat assignments to populate together in that case.
Sans Bullshit Sans: leveraging the synergy of ligatures
>More branding than reality, since we accomplished their projects later — transmuting elements and detecting the aether.

Arguably this was accomplished using the work of alchemists. Ontologies tend to progress through stages of differentiation of components("stamp collecting") followed by integrative models. Mendeleev doesn't find periodic patterns in elements without alchemists first inventorying elemental features.
Interesting, I did not think about the possibility of moving the sensor to another position. But it makes sense. The Logitech Trackballs I've seen also have a slight offset that could be in the ballpark of 20 degrees.

I will have to do some further experimentation. Thanks!
https://i.imgur.com/GPdnYBa.png

Building on mac was easy. It compiled fine with just go. But then to run it I needed:

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/9fans/plan9port.git
cd plan9port
./INSTALL
The key question the article doesn’t answer is if there is sufficient low atmospheric kinetic energy to move a cargo vehicle of sufficient density.

Cargo movement is performed at large scales to optimize the cargo to non cargo ratio within constraints of implicit requirements like keeping things dry, not squished, etc.

Can a vehicle maintain a similar cargo to noncargo ratio with an ability to capture sufficient wind?

My alternative would be to go for nuclear powered shipping. I think a country with a higher tolerance for proliferation risks like France or Iran could really transform the world by civilizing the tech in that way.
For education of present young people, the core need is to give them what will help them for the next 60 years.

We can be fairly sure that one important theme for the next 60 years will be the economy. The economy has two important sides: The producers and the consumers. The producers need to generate products/services that please the consumers. So we see two goals for education:

(1) Understand people, the consumers, how to please them.

(2) Understand automation, for the lower costs of high quality production of products/services.

So, net, understand people and automation.
I think modern over-parenting by high income / HCOL area / high status couples takes sort of the worst of these approaches and produces a lot of precocious, stressed out, cardboard cutout, downwardly mobile youth.

I suppose in olden days of yore, labor was cheaper so people could afford some of the 1-1 instruction/tutoring/etc from the article.

Nowadays, the more common approach is to hustle/coach your kid so they get into highly selective K-12 programs, and/or pay up for the highly selective private school flavor. You then put your kids in the same dozen or so box-ticking exercise extracurriculars that all your social group are doing to their kids.

Little league baseball? LOL, that's for the poors. My kid does fencing.
Camp? Sorry that's below my kid, he/she does summers abroad at Oxford.
Summer job when they turn 16? My kid doesn't need the minimum wage cash, anyway they are staying with our friends in DC to volunteer at HQ of an NGO this summer.

By 17 you have a kid capable of scoring 1500+ on SATs, with a deep resume, and no ability to handle adversity.

The real shock comes when they are up against 100,000 similarly coached kids. The kids end up only getting into colleges at best as selective as their parents, and quite often less so. Most of these kids are also so busy on their all-rounder resume building for 17 years, they have no career aspirations or idea what to do for a living..
Bit hyperbolic, no? Maybe rephrase to "if you engage in Neo-nazi hate crime and promote real world harm, they'll deactivate your account after much internal deliberation on their role as gatekeepers and will publish a post with clearly stated rationale"?

I'm not advocating Cloudflare, but I do think we need to be fair when judging stuff like this.
Search YouTube for “mini dos pc”

WeeCee is one interesting project. There are also some (older) client terminals.
Exactly. Pennsylvania has 13M people. Why can’t Pennsylvania do this?
Very interesting, indeed. The issues in this video with the track issues ... what a shitshow.
>Groceries and all utilities (basic and luxury) have become 50-100% more expensive but somehow the inflation is 8%?

Where are you getting "50-100%" for "Groceries and all utilities"? The BLS is only reporting 11.3% for the "Food at home" category.
In fact, bureaucracy benefits from economies of scale. You can only get so small (population wise) before you can’t shrink the number of bureaucrats any further.
> Another commenter mentioned insulin. Despite insulin being invented 100 years ago and the IP being given away for $1 to benefit people, we're still paying outrageous prices for insulin in the USofA even with supposedly limited patent life.

No, you are not. Out of patent insulin is cheap. Newer, far more effective patented insulin is expensive. Insulin makes for great clickbait, because the average person does not understand there are many different kinds at different prices.

Where is the incentive for a business to research better insulin?

And no one is stopping US taxpayers from voting for US politicians to pay for R&D of insulin (and other medications) so that it is in the public domain and can be produced and sold as cheaply as possible.
+1 for TextAdept, it's been my Notepad++ replacement on Linux for quite some time.