skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
# First, write what nobody else can.

Take your experiences and your knowledge your distinct flavor and distill it into a potent package.

For an example, check out my essay currently on the front-page:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35259588

It also helps to "Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere" (POSSE). This gives you a nice balance of freedom and control over your online identity.

[2] https://indieweb.org/POSSE

This essay provides great advice on finding things to write about:

[3] https://www.benkuhn.net/writing

# Second, be helpful (and opportunistic).

In order to be helpful, you must (1) know stuff and (2) share it.

To learn stuff, read voraciously and write obsessively.

To share things, be everywhere first. I have a bunch of keyword notifications to help people in my fields of expertise.

If you can't be there first, be there better. Hone skills that are difficult to ignore.

[4] https://hnrss.github.io

# Third, don't be annoying.

This takes finesse, and I'm personally still trying to find the balance.

People will signal to you when you're not wanted. Listen to those messages and cool down. Other people are generally not your problem.

Here's an example of how to be annoying:

[5] https://taylor.town
A lot of it is young kids or college students with undeveloped brains and a lack of good guidance. Then a bunch is desperate needy or greedy folks who are thinking impulsively.
The last group of celebrities to get in trouble with the SEC started with Kim Kardashian, who endorsed Etherium Max without disclosing it was a paid endorsement.

Then there's the whole Guy Oseary/Yuga Labs/BAYC promotion scam.[1] That's in litigation. Short version: all those celebrities who announced that they'd bought Bored Ape NFT's didn't have to pay for them.

[1] https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/bored-ape-yacht-club-c...
Tax Heaven 3000
I'm not really sure that sentiment applies here. People on slow or unreliable connections probably aren't going to rejoice that they get to see blobs of color for a while until the full images load, all for the cost of waiting longer for the full images and loading more total data at the end of the ordeal.
https://archive.md/5ppMx
> Inflation is also good for those that own assets as their relative value to dollar increases.

That's not "good", it's just less bad, because as soon as they want to turn those assets liquid they run into the same problem. Their assets are not gaining value, they're just not losing it.
Dhall lacks a killer app that would use it. (Write one!)
From what I am understanding of this, it is a notice from the SEC specifically focused on the current question if staked coins are a security.

This is not the end of Coinbase or crypto.

If staking is deemed to be a security, it will have an impact on crypto, and as far as I understand, it means that PoS coins would need to be registered with the SEC as securities, or potentially Coinbase would be the registered party required to govern the coins they offer to stake.

Am I understanding this correctly?
I have to admit that after a lifetime of dealing with banking hours and having to wait days for ACH transfers, it is a bit of Schadenfreude to see the same happen to a bank itself.
US will not go back to price controls. That would make sense, but can you imagine the cries of socialism?
Yeah it's complex, the perceptions regarding who has a "good heart" are also skewed due to the halo effect where attractive people get higher ratings, which ugly nerds lose out on.

The opposite gender counterexample is a "jerk with a heart of gold."
>* I read the terms of service, and they do not actually grant license to the code. They say in very clear terms: YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR TAKING SUGGESTIONS.*

That doesn't exactly mean they don't grant licensing in the sense that they retain the license to use the code they produce.

That means there's no licensing, and any issue others have with your code infringing on third party licenses is on you.
They could just use nomad and call it a day
It depends for what. There are still ways to go with video, but mostly only for people who care to colour grade their footage. I expect a significant proportion of people now are buying mirrorless cameras now almost entirely to shoot video so I expect it is a major consideration. Things like in-camera 10-bit raw video recording which is still fairly rare. Probably mirrorless cameras will start being able to shoot 5K or 6K too, which is useful (for reframing by cropping in, otherwise downscaling to increase visual quality).
No. This too shall pass. :)
I thought AMD was all in on OpenCL?
Primarily rate increases don't even correlate with less borrowing (meaning less credit) so how can they correlate with something ten steps down the line, being inflation?!
https://github.com/skywind3000/z.lua is similar to `z` but has extra features, including a useful integration with `fzf`.

It does require installing some version of command-line lua.
This reads like they have a set of requirements and since the Unix model doesn’t meet their requirements, the Unix model is bad. As opposed to it’s fine for those who have different requirements.
People haven't been able to get an RPi for years, and yet they still won't switch to those nice Beaglebone Blacks running standard Debian in stock over there.

Shrug. At this point I see RPis as a litmus test.
Copilot for generating TS prop types on react components is fantastic, or guessing the write type for a library object's type.
(swirls fancy wine)

pairs well with single file frontends.
Rent increases drove inflation
>AI won't replace that many creative jobs in the long run because the value of many of those creative jobs doesn't come from some objective aspect of the work.

So they are 'bullshit jobs' and because AI can't BS it won't be able to fill the job? I don't think most corporations buying design care about the brand of the individual designers that contributed to their work. They care about the result.

>since the creator or brand is like 90% of the selling point.

Brands will be created. People won't be able to tell the difference between human and machine created work.
> Why isn't this something that is easily detectable by the average investor?

Because much crypto trading is just transactions within some crypto exchange, and never makes it to the blockchain.
It's so funny how SEC think they can just walk around and charge anyone in the world with some made up law

imagine chinese SEC or egyptian SEC doing that to americans
Ray tracing on Linux for CP2077 with 7900 XTX is still barely usable, but it's getting better.

I'd say RDNA 3 is not really giving useful ray tracing on for example 2560x1440 unless you use upscaling to speed it up. May be in a few GPU generations ray tracing will become usable with native resolutions.
So let me enlighten you a bit: we did collapse the internet, and got a testy email from a bunch of backbone maintainers that they were going to block our live video streams (on port 2047) in four weeks time or so. Which resulted in us moving to the other side of the Atlantic to relieve the transatlantic cable. So even if it didn't make the news Metcalfe was 100% on the money on that particular prediction. The Segway never had a chance as far as I'm concerned but the other thing he got just so. But maybe he never knew (and I never knew about his bet).
>When you distribute your software to other people, it cuts the step of installing the correct interpreter... at the cost of requiring the correct computer architecture

Not even, as it's trivial to cross compile on Golang. Then you just offer 3-4 arch binaries, and they download the one that matches their platform.
The video[1] shows JetBrains at 31 seconds: "All in your favorite editor"

[1] https://youtu.be/4RfD5JiXt3A?t=31
Does pointing the blame in the direction of some open source library make any users more confident that it wont' happen again?

I don't care why the bug exists, tons of bugs exist before you ship something, but I do care why you shipped it. If you lacked end-to-end testing, or other testing, say that, and make testing a higher priority - do and say anything that'll make me think it's less likely to happen again.
Good, this has been overdue for a massive correction for years.
And there's not selective bias in the curriculum?

It's also funny how my kids outwit me and know so many things that I don't know about.

And how I've gone on to specialise in what drives me, and that just works.

Or how my eldest self taught himself maths to uni level and is now doing maths at uni.
They just got a Wells notice:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/coinbase-issued-wells-notice-b...
BlurHash kind of does, but also doesn't, as I believe the canvas image API respects the colorspace of the loaded image; you can see this by generating a blurhash from a (non-sRGB) image and comparing it between the browser and server implementations.
Somebody has to do it - do we really trust big corporations to hire their own AI ethicists to police themselves?

A part of me hopes they are able to use money Google gives them for some of this - although that may be reserved for just Firefox.
As n grows larger, the number of edges approximates n²/2. I may be pedantic but I feel that the difference between something and it's half is non-negligible.
> People like to look back at previous generation's moral panics, but I can't help but think there was an element of truth to many of them.

What is the element of truth then? What was the negative impact of the printing press and how did it end society and our ability to pay attention to things?

It's so strange to have someone hear that their concern has existed for hundreds of years, the doom and gloom never materialized, and yet still double down on the same thing. What besides your intuition or the fact you share the same fear actually would lead you to think that this time it's different and tiktok is the technology that'll ruin us?
I've also seen two parents of below average intelligence make children who are of above average intelligence, and thats not even uncommon.
I was guessing that they kept using Capistrano because it still worked. No need to change something that’s working…

(Somewhat of an ironic comment when talking about an article about ditching K8s…)
Hehe, I remember that page :) Thanks!

Some of the captions are quite funny.
The docs, for the reference: https://ytsaurus.tech/docs/en/

P.S. I wonder if LLMs could be used to generate docs and comments for big hairy codebases. Seems that the current generation of LLMs lack context to do it, but maybe it's "just one or two more papers down the line"®...
But it would be good resource to group them together though.
I think a lot of it is margin. There is a furniture company where I live that advertises a 45% off as an employee discount perk.

I’ve seen employee discounts usually priced at cost plus 5%.
Was this not the guy who was trying to buy Credit Suisse?
I'm guessing it's not recorded?
I second this. It can take multiple man-hours among native speakers to craft an email in a politically-sensitive, high-stakes professional environment.

I worked under an executive who would keep her people (inner-circle advisors, direct reports, etc.) huddled around her desk all day as she slowly wrote and rewrote email responses to her boss(es) and executive peers. I hated having to go to her office for things because it was so easy to get pulled into that circle and feel like there was no escape.

I'm a native speaker who has attained near-perfect scores on the verbal sections of the SAT and GRE, and I like writing, but I'm still a very slow writer myself.
No idea what you are talking about - I find Firefox desktop working better than ever and never run into issues with Firefox mobile on Android. I even run the dev nightly version on both so I can have a completely separate browser (and separate profiles) for testing.
Big discussion earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35264787
How does this compare to the "LuLu" app from Objective-See? IIRC that one was open source, while this isn't.

A few years ago there was a concern that Apple was exempting itself from some of these firewalls. Were these concerns ever addressed in any meaningful way by any of these apps since then?
Our firm started the big cloud initiative last year. We have our own datacenters already, but all the cool startups used cloud. Our managers figure it'll make us cool too.
> AIUI the problem there is not FD_CLOEXEC/SOCK_CLOEXEC but the possibility that some library might not be using it?

Not exactly. The problem is that you have to be able to set it atomically from the creation of the file descriptor. Setting it after creation is subject to a race condition where a fork occurs in the interim. There's no portable way to do that, and people often ignore O_CLOEXEC even when there's a platform-dependent way to pass it. (How often do you see dup3() called, for example? And how often do you see higher-level languages and libraries expose this and force callers to make a conscious decision?)

> However we usually cope with that by closing all unknown/unexpected file descriptors after fork and before exec.

You can't really do that portably (well, maybe unless you want to call close() billions of times). And even if/when you can do that, you run into the reverse problem, where you might close descriptors that were supposed to be duplicated into the subprocess but that you didn't know about. (One example is when a user performs redirect inside a shell like 2>&3 and wants it to work inside a descendant process - you don't want to just randomly close FDs you don't recognize.)
I haven’t seen a website load so fast in a while.
Didn't expect https://i.imgur.com/I3kNUWe.png
How is this different from the traditional version of Little Snitch?
I have found the total opposite - Chrome Mobile slows to a hault with tons of tabs open
Could be a useful book for ChatGPT to read
Financial Institution Innovation Needed in Silicon Valley
Usually I share new articles on Linkedin and sometimes post here. Then I link my posts to colleagues and friends when it can be of help.

My blog: https://marcolabarile.me
“Just not for the hardware issues” is a huge deal though. That’s an entire skillset you can eliminate from your requirements if you’re only in the cloud. Depending on the scale of your team this might be a massive amount of savings.
other comments in this thread—including siblings of yours—prove your first sentence false
It's okay, they just got distracted! :P
> Childcare is an expensive, albeit temporary, expense.

It's $15-40k per year for 5-6 years, often per child. Consider 2 children born 3 years apart with no non-nuclear family childcare help, which means 8-9 years of 9 AM - 5 PM childcare needed for at least 1 child.

With a nanny in or near a big city at $25-40k per year, that's $200-400k total. With a childcare center in same scenario, it's likely similar in total cost, albeit with (to your later point) spreadsheet-worthy complexity.
Forecaster for Android shares some good ideas with this
Confirmation bias ahoy but when this came up a couple months ago the comments often pointed out these are often very ancient cores, availability can be spotty, and prices can run high. They also can be unupgradeble, and or just have radical compromises like cheap boot mediums.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33791069

Generally I think the 1L mini-pc market has completely crushed this once-useful second-gand market in terms of value. These tiny business machines are made in such huge volume. Places like woot sell nicely refurbed i-6500t's with decent ram load out for like $150. Idle could be a tiny bit better but is still usually below 11w for even modern models, which have gotten much beefier than the old quad cores. Newer models will have nvme.

There is a t740 thin client that has a fairly modern V1756B ryzen, zen 1, 14nm. I really like the embedded ryzen chips & would love some systems around them. The unit is $850 new and $300 on ebay though, which feels not hot to me.
I bought little snitch years ago but could never get into using it consistently. Always seemed like a chore.
I feel like you’re painting good-faith disagreement as “community pretending there isn’t a bright red line” or “he would say that because he wants jurisdiction,” so I don’t think there’s more to talk about.
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

For all I know you're entirely right in all your views, but still you can't abuse other users like this, you can't post egregious flamewar and so on, and you can't use HN primarily for political/national/ideological battle, regardless of what you're for or against.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
First, all laws are made up.

Second, the Chinese SEC or the Egyptian SEC can very well charge Americans with whatever they want. It's just that those Americans probably don't care enough about China or especially Egypt to abide by the punishment they receive and would rather not do business with those countries and never set foot in it.

I, iLoveOncall, am hereby charging you with the crime of idiotic comment, for which you will receive the death penalty by ball slapping. Surrender yourself to the Republic of iLoveOncallandia to receive your punishment.

It's literally the same thing.
> A hilarious example of this is seeing Microsoft use Macs to design UIs for Windows which then look too light because taking the same image file across to a PC shifts the brightness curve. Oops.

(Showing my age I’m sure) I distinctly remember how frustrating this was in the bad old days before widespread browser support for PNG [with alpha channel]. IIRC, that was typically caused by differences in the default white point. I could’ve sworn at some point Apple relented on that, eliminating most of the cross platform problems of the time. But then, everything was converging on sRGB.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/upshot/wordle-bot.h... suggests SLATE as well. This is a bot that analyses your game and suggests possible answers at each step.
My bank (in Canada) has limits on how much I can withdraw per day, per week, per month. Furthermore, there could be a delay of up to 5 business days before I can get the money to its destination. And that’s for money in the thousands only. How is that money in the billions can be withdrawn so quickly esp. since these were high value accounts each in the millions/billions? Couldn’t they just use one of their terms or conditions to delay the withdrawals and give themselves ample time to react?
1. Plug drive into cable

2. Plug in other end of cable

3. ???

4. !!!
The monitoring is super useful for metered connections (looking at you, Comcast/Xfinity) and I happily paid for the full Little Snitch for that feature. Super glad to hear it’s free now! I’ve tried to recommend it to people and it was a bit of a big purchase for most to stomach just for the monitoring features.
I thought solar farms were switching to mirrors concentrating heat on a superheated salt solution.
Garbage in garbage out wins again!
Typically, any program I run has the totality of my (regular user) authority, which may let it do things I did not intend.

Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_authority

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confused_deputy_problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-capability_model
The first USB thumb drive I could find on Amazon was a Sandisk with dimensions of 7 x 41 x 17 millimetres. That gives it a total volume of just under 4.9cm3, which would be a maximum of 8.5 grams of C4, or just under 1/3 of an ounce. Here’s one ounce of C4 as a shaped charge punching a hole through a steel plate: https://youtu.be/AwyniA5ryhY&t=46

Realistically you couldn’t achieve 1/3 of an ounce (that would be a thumb-drive-shaped blob of C4), it would be at most half of that, and the thumb drive would weigh 5 grams instead of half a gram which is probably noticeably odd.

The problem is that a flash drive bomb is going to explode when you plug it in, i.e right when you are holding it in your hand, and holding an explosive in your hand is the best way to maximize the harm it causes. The closest real world example to a thumb drive bomb that we have data on is an M80 firecracker, we have hundreds of instances of those going off while being held in the hand just like what would happen with a thumb drive. The M80 has between 2g and 5g of flash powder, which causes a very comparable explosion (similar size and speed) to what you could practically get from a C4 thumbdrive bomb. I don’t recommend searching M80 firecracker injuries, it seems like it tends to mangle multiple fingers.

So an estimate for a practical thumb drive bomb is that it could probably blow off your thumb and a finger or two.
What is "this" ?
Trial Run of Chefs Plate
As someone who's been paying for Little Snitch for a long time this is an odd move, as this seems to do everything I would want.

Sure, I've availed of some of the more advanced features in the paid version, but they definitely never seemed essential to me. What I mainly need is the basics they've included in the free version now.

I wonder if this is a direct response to Lulu (have been meaning to try it but migration is friction)
Yes: there is no product.
And spending some money in order to not destroy an important knowledge resource may be the right choice especially if the alternative means burning some good will.
You're right about that. I bet the algolia search is enough for HN's requirements.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tru...
Want to regulate big tech? Start by ending caste discrimination
https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-mini/compare.html

Basically a lot fewer filtering features, and only monitoring for free.
Uhm, hate to break it to you, but you can only have a run on the bank as a result of fractional banking - which is systemic in the fiat banking system due to regulations only requiring they hold 10% of customers' deposits.

You literally cannot have a bank run on USDC or BTC because they do not do fractional banking (i.e loan out the money you deposited).
HN disucssions of that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35267692

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35267407
This doesn't address the issue of whether teaching the way schools teach is actually not very effective.

Self directed learning (which is basically unschooling) is so powerful and it's not uncommon for kids to go from zero reading to reading thick books (like Harry Potter, for example), within 6 months.

Kids/people have to want to learn and it's hard to manage that in a school setting.

I know as an adult that I can't learn things that I'm not interested in, it's the same for kids. And the curriculum is generally not very interesting.
They have a comparison page: https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-mini/compare.html
> The sad truth is that all the exchanges are going to steal your funds.

> like Coinbase paying out billions in stock-based compensation while losing money

I really wish people put more effort into arguing their side in these discussions. Your point is absurd and lazy.

[public company] pays some % of employee salary in stock >> while "losing money" >> ??? >> customer's property is stolen.

> Did the SEC orchestrate FTX and all the other crypto failures

FTX's problems were amplified by being unregulated, outside the US. The overwhelming majority were not US residents. The SEC didn't have jurisdiction over their International firm. The US version of FTX was handled very differently, but supposedly co-mingled funds. They FAILED to protect US residents by not shutting down the US version. They could have gave warnings about the international firm, instead of working so closely with FTX's founder.

As usual, lots of hand-waving from crypto detractors. You have a clear bias. Sadly, when enough people share a bias, truth and facts are irrelevant. There's a lot to criticize about in crypto. No need to make up irrelevant associations.