skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a bit of a meta point it’s a bit astonishing how good Cloudflare is at PR and community management. The sentiment I’ve seen here in the past is overwhelmingly pro-Cloudflare. Every now and then they’ll publish a hit piece on AWS here and there’ll be an AWS hate thread, but no one seems to question Cloudflare’s motives for promoting bad press about their competitor directly to their target market.

Then again in most things, the underdog trying to upstage the incumbent is always a popular narrative. You’re right that talking about it likely isn’t going to change any sentiment.
Like this one ?

https://channelnz.com/what-we-do/terminal-pipeline-services

Not sure how dangerous it would be though to have one transport wildly different chemicals...
> We see a nation used to quick and easy growth from top/down government investments in infrastructure now struggling under the maintenance burden of all that unproductive asphalt, steel and concrete. The simple Jacobin solution of an additional $400 billion per year wouldn't address this problem; it would make the problem way, way worse.

I’m not sure if I really understand this part. But I’m familiar with StrongTowns cause (parafrasing):

There is a lot of public infrastructure build (roads, power, water, sewage, drainage)for land that will never provide enough tax revenue per square foot to pay for maintenance of said infrastructure. This will bankrupt cities and towns.
Really interesting, I knew Lincoln was a lawyer by training, but was unaware of his area of practice. Or for that matter, his interest in technology, or role in sounding the US Military's first aeronautical core.
I recently read a study that suggested around 30% of incarcerated individuals in the UK probably had ADHD or similar.

Just for another fun data point.
What I find bleak about the situation, is that it is a glaring design-fail, even though everyone involved should have the necessary expertise to do better. A callback from your payment provider should never go through a best-effort WAF. Instead, as you already have a strong business relationship, you could easily exchange/store/configure strong credentials with stripe [1]. When even a security professional doesn't do that, what does it say about the state of documentation of this feature?

Looking at the documentation directly, what they advise you to do is kind of the worst idea they could come up with: https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks/signatures – you need custom logic[2] to verify that their MAC ("signature" they call it incorrectly) is valid and you need to configure a different secret for each of your endpoints. And then you still need to handle replay attacks somehow, which is its own nightmare to do correctly. It's no wonder the WAF can't do that for you.

From a few years old personal experience, I'm really irritated by stripes web-hook approach overall. Payment process information is such a vital business concern that "let's try to call them and if that fails... well we tried" is broken on principal alone. The obvious approach is to have an event list which you as customer long-poll or just poll every few seconds if your framework doesn't support async well. This is also trivial to do securely: You're HTTPS library already authenticates stripe during the TLS handshake and that is all that is necessary.

[1] Best case scenario: Let stripe authenticate with mutual TLS, but I know this is quite a long way away from typical web server configurations.

[2] Stripe's approach very much reminds of DPoP https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31266575 which shall in now way be construed as a compliment.
Depending on how much (or how little) customisation and interop you require, something like prose.sh makes blogging a lot simpler:

No need to worry about points 3 and 4, and very little to do for 5.

Backups can be a simple git push.
Are there any other household appliances that emit photons that circle around any other planets?
Creation happens in silence
It’s truly delightful to read. I’ve never read an explanation of real numbers construction as easy to follow as this one.
That may be as you say, to oversimplify. (Until it's not quite right.) Poorer townspeople can't afford to have cars either. I'd rather be able to afford a car I don't have to use every day, than being forced to keep some rustbucket running because I have to use it every day to get to work and to buy groceries.

"Fuck the absolute necessity of car ownership" I'd say strikes a balance.
> A lot of PM's end up overreaching because they're just tired of there being a leadership vacuum and nobody willing to fill it.

This kind of apologizing for horrific behavior undermines what I thought were otherwise strong points.
Perhaps not but the Netherlands has ridiculous levels of wealth inequality. On paper it's worse than the US.
That's largely Nvidia marketing spin. RT in games during RDNA2's lifetime, and even today, is little more than a gimmick that causes huge performance impact for fidelity that is barely noticeable while actually playing. It isn't even real ray tracing.

And even further, even on the RTX parts, using RT usually requires rendering at a much lower resolution and then upscaling. With DLSS3, they just go ahead and start inserting extrapolated frames to get the FPS numbers up. It's hard to believe gamers are willing to make that trade to be honest. If it was pitched together as all one package many years ago, they'd have been laughed out of the room.
Well, that's what the question is asking. Maybe having cash and passports ready is the answer. Though if the enemy comes to America, I'm not sure how to go about leaving or where to go. Probably can't just book a flight.

The internet has the answers to just about any how-to question that's been asked. What foods can you forage in my region, how to trap animals, how to build a shelter, what's the weather in this area historically, how can I make this broken machine work, etc. "Downloading stuff off the internet" I think turns out to be pretty useful.
Just regurgitates a few paragraphs from the official docs?
Yea but how useful is that if I can't control USING that information. The only way to control what I can focus on unless I loop in some way to get ALOT of dopamine out of it.

It's an executive function DISABILITY, it takes so much work to get it close to useful where it just makes it so your basically on par with everyone after it.
This is true for a variety of health problems. You need a doctor to verify it doesn’t impair your ability to fly a plane safely.

There are also restrictions on medications you can take and still fly a plane.
Many people (including me) use static generation with a fancy build process because we find it fun, not to save time or money.

I honestly find it more fun to setup my blog than writing content for it... Which might be a problem. (And also explain all the blog posts describing a complex setup).
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I've been listening to the companion podcast to The Last Of Us and the theme of the show was basically described as asking the question "What's the most terrible thing you would do for love?"

The show gets around the thing your describing by having almost everyone technically be the villain and justifying their villainy in any number of ways.
Being tall gives you an obvious advantage at basketball. As a result many tall people are drawn to pursuing a career in basketball. Could it be that ADHD gives you an advantage at the kind of tasks involved in software engineering, and that many people with ADHD are naturally drawn to this kind of work, even though the advantage is not so obvious as a physical characteristic like height?
The UI is gorgeous and buttery smooth on my Windows machine. Very impressive.

In the docs, the example pages have a nice 'configuration' dropdown. Again, this is very nice and I can see a bunch of 3D printing websites adopting this as a library. I mean, how many times have you seen a model that just needs a slight tweak to be perfect, but there is just too much friction (download, unpack, load, modify, resave, reupload).

On another note, I wonder if I can train a small LLM to the docs. Once trained, I would be able to have a conversation to create some really cool geometry. Hmmm...
Are the articles on CSS Tricks under a libre license? I can't find any mention of it, though I haven't searched in depth, so it's proprietary?

For the record, their code on CodePen looks to be MIT licensed (though CodePen requires a login). For example, Infinite Burger is MIT licensed [0].

[0] https://codepen.io/team/css-tricks/pen/mNBrNG#_=_
Gosling Emacs from Early 1980s
Shameless plug but I built a tiny unopinionated static site generator that is great for blogs. No toolchain or anything fancy, I just added RSS support too :) It would be my pleasure if someone wants to try it https://github.com/donuts-are-good/bearclaw
The human mind appears to have evolved in a tribal system, and it appears to be predisposed to tribal thinking. As for myself, I try to think of my tribe as all of humanity. You're all my cousins; some of you are knuckleheads, some of you are dangerous, but you're all my cousins.

I like the book "The Righteous Mind". It took me a month to read; it's emotionally difficult, not intellectually difficult. You can't blame people for their gender or skin tone; you also can't blame them for how they were raised - people pick up deeply held beliefs as children that are very hard to see or address.

> What I find really scary is that I have hard time understanding if I am just fooling myself or being rational. Because it’s always my own mind coming up with explanations, so the actual process looks the same to me.

The mind is a rationalizing system. It makes things you do feel rational. After I left organized religion, I fell in love with rational skepticism. Then I found that most public "skepticism" is just debunking, not gathering evidence for things you should believe in; and that most "rationality" is just post-hoc rationalization of existing beliefs.
The concept of a “hospital acquired infection” is a drug resistant infection that came from the human petri dishes living in the hospitals taking antibiotics and breeding resistant strains which don’t survive in the wild.

So, yes you have the right idea. There is a general push to not do outpatient procedures in hospitals for this very reason.
Depends on who starts the process. If the acquirer starts it then there may well be nothing at all.
The Comet wasn't particularly successful (at least in part because of its fundamental design flaw) - but the military version - the Nimrod - flew until 2011.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Siddeley_Nimrod
Of course it is an indictment, because such a system needs to be enforcable without doing damage. Although some of that may extend to our system of justice and its huge monetary barriers as well.

Aside from this, false DMCA claims are even used as a vehicle for harassment. Of course that is broken as well...
I'd add another thing to the back of low hanging fruits: it also makes innovators less bold in their goals, limiting them from the start.
Would love to see an example of your monadic database abstraction
Wait until you learn that the "early modern" period started in 1400 or so.

The point being that the term modern is most certainly subjective and definitely has usage that is different from "contemporary" even though the latter is how people often read it.
> GCs do various resource clean up that mean certain bugs are not exploitable. Rust does not have that.

All of the work Python does at runtime with a GC, Rust does at compile time with the borrow checker. GC is orthogonal to the idea of memory safety.

> And you didn’t address my second point.

I don't know what you expect. It's a semantically empty statement and thus unfalsifiable. You can flip it around without changing the truth or the meaning:

> you seem to think because you can crash a Rust program that means the memory vulnerabilities of Python are justified.
Your complaint is rather unspecific. For me the position and size of the space bar is among the last things I can complain about, pretty much the same goes for the shift keys.

Somehow for a lot of people saying that something is 'old' is already sufficient to claim it's 'obsolete' and in need of replacement. In your argument, too, the unsubstantiated claim that 'positions are somehow not ideal' is the only hand-wavy bit that you offer beyond the observation that keyboard layouts are 'old', period. That I regard as a kind of psychological ailment, a fixed idea bordering on the pathological. Out whole society is obsessed with that. Today, where simple solutions (a paper ticket for the bus) would suffice, No! That's so 19th century! Instead, let's build a crappy, expensive electronic ticket-vending system that will break down without electricity, and let's issue plastic cards with chips in them!
Generally people with proof of a diagnosis and a current prescription get to continue taking their current prescription without any hassle.

Not so in the case, you might lose it for months if you move and switch doctors.
I don't think fastlane will have trouble finding backers and sponsors, because like you said many huge companies rely on it for deploy their iOS and Android apps, even when I was deploying a side project I used them. It's a crucial tool mobile devops and there is really no equivalent.
In the case where you know what to type, don't you find the position of ctrl/escape ... positions akwards ? have you even used the right alt key ?
My point is that with the current layouts could be definetly improved
It happens in a lot of countries, not so long ago in France they'd spray bleach on the food before throwing it. It wasn't until 2016 that it was made illegal.
how do you know if its all a dream? Because the top doesn't stop spinning.

You need a top for testing rationality. Here's a nearly definitional one: you're being rationale when your explanation convinces people other than just you.
> I try to fully rationalize the opposing viewpoints.

Edit: "Both Sides"-ing an issue can be dangerous. Many times, there is actual harm on one side, and mere discomfort on the other. You may not be describing "both sides"-ing; but this could be read that way.

I would say it as "identify the deeply held beliefs that got this person to their viewpoint"

Previous statement:

This can be dangerous, depending on how it is done. I would say it as "identify the deeply held beliefs that got this person to their viewpoint"
I'm not OP, but when I experienced due dilligence the thing I found counter-intuitive was that 'looking really good at everything' isn't actually the best approach.

As an example - it might be better that the company doing Due Dilligence finds you awful at sales during the DD phase, because they will see that you got revenue despite poor sales technique and they will see it as an easy target for improvement / 'to generate value'. Companies want to identify ways that they would be able to help the company they are aquiring.

Not sure if this applies to Technical DD, but thought it was interesting enough to share!
You have never been to the Netherlands, have you? Because those statistics you hint at are misleading at best.
More than 60 nations agree to address concerns over AI use in warfare
The traits often looked for in software engineers when hiring can often bear a striking similarity to the traits an ADHD or autistic person may display.
> and doubly so if you don’t speak Dutch or are on a budget

Like literally anywhere in the world, in the vast majority of country if you show up poor and not able to speak the language you won't find a place to live.
> America is such a weird country.

This is true. It's also one of the largest and most diverse countries in the world, both geographically and demographically. Some might say it's ungovernable, the Disunited States.

> big parts of the US closely fit the definition(s) [0]

[Following the link] "What constitutes a definition of fascism and fascist governments has been a complicated and highly disputed subject"

Difficult to closely fit the definition when there's no clear definition. ;-)
> How hard would it be to make your workbench pull and render code from GitHub repositories, so that for example, authors can link to a render of the codebase in their readme?

You can already do some of this. Either by pointing to an encoded url (something like this: https://studio.replicad.xyz/workbench?from-url=https%253A%25...).

There is also a share arrow which will put the current code in an url param (and you can have something like this: https://studio.replicad.xyz/workbench?code=UEsDBAoAAAAIANhzV...
PostgreSQL CDC to any database directly (No queue/Kafka required)
I agree with this in principle, but where do you draw the line between language features (good) and obscure tricks (bad)? Is your team really writing only ANSI C89 from the K&R 2nd edition book and ignoring the last ~35 years of language improvements?
Because otherwise you may find that your estate goes to the state, when in fact you want it to go somewhere else. Subject to the inheritance rules in your legal arena, which can vary considerably.
Even the most cynical don’t consider non-capitalist systems like slavery something that models value.
https://archive.ph/dzcmi

ctrl+f "law" -- 0 results.

The interesting development will come as these AIs make lawyering trivial. 99% of what lawyers do on a daily basis, from writing contracts to motions in litigation, is right on the edge of irreversible disruption. (And I don't use that word lightly!) It'll be very interesting to watch this play out. If certain agents play their cards right, it could lead to much broader and more equitable access to justice for the common man.

Then again... We may yet see an uneasy alliance between the "AI safety" community, luddites (Kaczynskists and other types,) academia and media in general, and the 1.5M American lawyers who are on the cusp of having their jobs devoured.
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That would be far superior to the current option in many places where one has to to pay the shrink every month to renew, on top of paying for the prescription to be filled lol.
Not required. With mobile app development one of the biggest pain points is deployments to the app stores, it's a little easier with Android but on iOS it's an absolute pain in the ass and fastlane makes it a much more tolerable experience.

When it comes to webapps it's a much more straightforward process. A simple github action that deploys your site to S3 would suffice. On mobile you have a billion certs, profile, and other crap to deal with and fastlane handles all of that.
one could argue that struggling families are families that for one reason or another are not fit enough for their current environment, whereby by assisting them you are gradually lowering the fitness of the entire population, therefore everybody loses.

now of course I am not claiming that this is true, nobody can know, and I'd much rather we helped eachother than not, but there's certainly an argument to be made.
they learned from the bast....
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I vaguely recall some secretive company (perhaps Apple) using adjustment of spacing, capitalization, etc. to encode a unique serial number in messages sent by the CEO, which could then be used to trace leaks.
I do this, but without the database. I chose Grav[0] because of its flat-fileness, but at the same time I did not want a build process (I mean, why? why do I need to rebuild my blog every time I post?)

Put it behind a CloudFlare free tier. Been happy forever after.

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[0]: https://getgrav.org/
While that’s possible, I don’t think that’s what’s happening here. This looks exactly like the behavior of an email burying attack (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34868298).

Notice that the email addresses appear legitimate. Vulnerability scanners don’t use email addresses like those. One of those emails shows up in HIBP, indicating that it probably belongs to a real person.
you sound like a trol. I leave it here with you
Like one of PolyForm Licenses [1] or BTPL [2]

I'm contemptuous of the feckless trust that unenforceable legalese can
win over human nature. It already sounds ridiculous for Coca Cola and
Kentucky Fried Chicken to publish their secret recipes permitting the
public to recreate them at home but not repackage and resell. And
that's for a food product whose provenance is easy to trace, what with
the issues of scalability, storage, transportation, government
inspection, etc. Dissemination of software is frictionless and hard to
trace.
I suspect OP is trying to fight a subconscious bias that the person in question is male, which is why there is inconsistency.

Many of us may also have made a similar assumption–I know I did, and I have certainly made edits to comments in the past where I have unconsciously assumed the gender of someone with no evidence and later noticed. However, we have no idea what gender the user is. English does not have a clear, unambiguous way of saying a third person of an unknown gender, but 'they' is definitely part of common vernacular.

I agree that in general, it's probably better to be consistent internally within a sentence, but the rest of your argument is pretty badly flawed.

With regards to resorting to French to try to argue, 'any online translator' will likely translate 'they walk' to 'ils marchent'. But it's equally possible that it could be 'elles marchent', 'on marche', or with enough context 'il/elle marche' regardless of the gender of the actual person (e.g. 'La personne s'approche dans la nuit. Elle marche avec des pas longs.').

There are also plenty of cases where we refer to singular nouns with plural verbs (e.g. 'the police are on their way').

Prescriptivism in English is an overall unrewarding topic, unlikely to make you any friends, and rarely helps to forward whatever point it is you're trying to make.

I'm not sure that I understand exactly what your point is anyway, how do you propose we refer to someone of unknown gender?
Yes, bonds for reserves, and vice versa. But recall that reserves are money -- they are the key component of all measures of money. Also, recall that the primary dealers which trade with the Fed routinely act as intermediaries on behalf of third parties -- mutual funds, companies, individuals, etc. During QE, the Fed was buying bonds previously held by the private sector. Now, with QT, the Fed is letting the treasury/agency bonds it holds mature (it may be selling some of those bonds too), canceling the money it receives, and thus putting the private sector in the position of having to buy the new treasuries/agency bonds that refinance the recently matured ones. So, I think it's OK to simplify things as the parent comment did for the purpose of having a useful mental model.
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I am working on a DB project [0] too, so I was excited to this!

Thank you for answering my questions, I wish you the best with the project

[0] - https://github.com/avinassh/go-caskdb
Kidless and unmarried is actually a great reason.

If you're married then pretty much everything goes to the spouse by default. Kids, likewise, are usually a default inheritor as well. Can get messy if you have a bunch of kids, but the default is usually an even split.

But what happens if you don't have a spouse or kids? Do you want that cash to go to a charity? To your shitty relative who you don't like? You gotta make it explicit.
Every product person I’ve ever worked with in depth has been obsessed over the customer and the market, and if anything they tend to get frustrated when circumstances require them to think about internal communication instead. I don’t know where the gap comes from but I can testify that the good PMs people are telling you about do exist.