skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've come across a number of low effort commentary recently that's easily googlable where folks themselves are inappropriate. In this case, there's amerocentricism heavily implied when that's obviously not the case. I think maybe what this suggests is that HN really isn't the place for me at the moment.
slack is incredibly, unbearably slow
A Macintosh History 86.12
Gh extension to archive a Slack conversation or thread as Markdown
To be fair (this comment is mostly a joke), Ashburn/Loudoun County is pretty nice for a suburb/strip mall hell. I've had some really good food in that area.
Not really a dupe in that it provides additional commentary from other researches over the past couple of weeks. So I'd say the NYT article provides additional value. Being as the earth's axis shifting when it's not supposed to is kind of a big deal, and all.
This was where my programming journey began, this and a "ring-binder-in-a-box" IBM basic programming manual detailing every command.

I have written so many programs on my Dragon 32, line numbers and goto's, oh those were the days (that I don't want to return to even though I just complained about traversing five or six layers in two different projects just to be able to call a stored procedure and return the result).
> and (most importantly) price.

… OP didn’t mention they were optimizing for price.

Some might say it makes sense to optimize for availability, recent updates to hardware software stack, etc.
> 1.9.5p2, CVE-2021-3156

> 1.8.26, CVE-2019-18634

> 1.8.0-to-1.9.12, CVE-2022-43995

interestingly these would not be a problem in a language like Pascal that is not memory safe, but has runtime bounds checks enabled by default or C++ that has flags to enable it

So we are left with one over at least a 100

another interesting thing IMO is that the bugs have been sitting there for a long time, so they are probably not obvious and nobody can be sure there aren't similar sleeping bugs in today's software written in safer languages.

This is not against memory-safe languages, mind you, I prefer Rust over C or C++ any day, I simply found that the original claim seemed too bold compared to the actual data and failed IMO to prove that sudo is ridden by easily exploitable memory bugs.
And this is what that small list of dependencies pulls in:

https://github.com/memorysafety/sudo-rs/blob/60985b2f5f7ffa8...
> why are you on a site whose community is literally created and run by a startup accelerator?

Why do missionaries go where no one believes their religion already? The idea that you must already be a believer in some community to participate in the community makes little sense and certainly isn't a good way to make progress.

> I guess my only other question is why seek attention like this?

Would you also characterize your own reply as mere attention seeking?
Are these the "Wizards"[1][2]?

[1]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11562433/Facebook-r...

[2]https://defiantamerica.com/after-learning-that-twitter-emplo...

Not sure why this is being downvoted, as there is clear link between the influx of CIA/NSA/FBI/DHS agents in private sector and an increase in turning over of sensitive data to government, at-will. We have laws and constitutional rights for a reason.
Google won't be rivalling Apple Vision Pro, scraps Iris AR glasses
Ah! Thanks. I'm not sure why my brain wasn't making the connection.

Materialized views are almost criminally underused. I feel most people don't know about or understand them. They can be a very effective "caching layer" for one thing. I have used them to great effect.

A lot of times I see people pulling things out of the database and caching them in Redis. When in fact a materialized view would accomplish the same thing with less effort.
doas is great with 2 caveats (from my experience on debian): the persist feature has a sketchy implementation that didn't work; and plenty of other software assumes you use sudo and may require it as a dependency.
No, at best they say they see stuff they can't identify. Throughout all this there are claims that someone somewhere has real evidence but it never materializes. You're taking that credible observational claim and running with it until you end up with alternate dimension creatures. I'm just saying - if we're going to make a bunch of unsubstantiated sci-fi claims fairies seem just as likely.
How does a steel water bottle break
You could try:

- booting into recovery -- find out which key combo might trigger that at power-on

- booting into an OEM download mode -- "" - probably a cable insert + key combo

- triggering the Qualcomm download mode -- ""

That would load a different boot setup (maybe kernel, or just ramdisk, and whatever tools they added on top from that particular OEM), and that may allow you to charge. That can work sometimes.
Quite a few of those ~1 million lines seem to be in libc-type wrappers, which is roughly analogous to libc for C (which also isn't included).

If I remove those the line count is about 100k, which is about the same as sudo.
Why are you posting this without context? We've all heard of it before, making us all practically experts.
THIS. No one cares about regions, you just care that the app is fast and globally available. The way we did things is a relic of the past and everyone mimics it because trying to guide new user behaviour is hard. The reality is we just need the app to be globally deployed with a globally distributed database and anycast DNS to route you to the local most DC. There's a lot more to it, have built this architecture more than a couple times, but it all needs to be in the service of something and if you're UX isn't better than the next guy, it won't matter much.
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I haven't found any good feature phones in 2023. They all have shortcomings or bugs that make them useless to me. They're also all really boring and ugly these days (like all electronic devices).

The one "retro" thing I find myself using most is my Casio digital watch
If youtube were taking down videos by pro-choice politicians or anything related to increased gun control would you find that problematic?

Authoritative tools are oppressive by nature, it's just a matter of time before they get turned on you.
Years-Long Data Leak at the US Patent and Trademark Office
Interesting. He's Colombian, and we met here -- but he went to San Francisco to start the business.
The question of whether "the edge" takes off will come down to whether or not the culture at large will swallow the illusion at its heart. You cannot remove the concept of a region any more than you can remove the concept of "the computer" in a cloud environment.
The Office? Dwight Schrute?

ARE YOU SAYING YOU INVENTED THE OFFICE?
There was a good Ask Reddit question recently that really drove home how the "use less electricity, travel less, eat less meat" solution is completely unrealistic when it comes to what is needed to arrest climate change. The question asked why, during 2020, when there were huge lockdowns around the world, with gargantuan portions of traffic completely eliminated, that overall CO2 emissions only fell 6%

Think about that. To arrest climate change we really need to bring CO2 emissions down nearly 100%, and the greatest worldwide economic pause in living memory only brought it down 6%.

The only thing that can possibly solve this problem is improved technology.
I’m not against this, by that point there will be another hosting provider with even cooler features for small companies to make their next startup in.

Fly.io are doing great I think and that they might one day charge more I’m not that upset by it at all. If fly.io can make money at a higher price that means they are adding more value.

I hasten to add you appear to be hanging out on a forum focused on VC funded startups.
I really wonder what triggered this inspection. Generics in the US have been a shitshow for a long time and plenty of whistleblowers from the FDA have come out over how much the FDA heads have buried the issue completely.

Personally, this goes back a few years. In high school, we had a quantitative analysis class where we decomposed various brands of acetaminophen pills to measure the % of active ingredient (acetaminophen) and compare to the labeled totals. Pretty every generic brand tested by multiple groups in this lab resulted in contents below 80% of the label. I think the Rite-Aid generic was 60% of the label content. The only one even close was Tylenol coming in at 95%. (With potentially the last 5% being experiment error in recovery since we are talking milligrams and not the most extremely careful lab setup). And that's why I avoid generic acetaminophen if I want it to work LOL
What do you mean by "correctly"? It sounds like victim blaming. For money, I don't think it's perfectly fine to use numbers where this isn't true.

0.1 + 0.2 <= 0.3 // sure looks true to me
Hey I appreciate that, just been tinkering with it as I added more to it... it's came a long way from when I ran a simple PurpleAirII!

Yeah I'm working on the Darksky replacement, but the trends issues is because of another hidden cost of air quality monitoring: lots of data! My mongo queries aren't the most efficient and for the past week or two I must have topped a Mongo/RAM issue and my DO box is running into memory issues. I'll hopefully get that fixed soon! Especially now, it's a cool lil feature as you can see around what day/time we first started to get hit with the CA wildfire smoke.

Feel free to pull it and add to it as you want! You could probably just use a PurpleAirII monitor near you and use that as for your AQI until you get something else, and disable all the other stuff (boats, advisories, etc), and keep traffic, planes, air quality. That's kinda how I've been doing it anyway.
As a fellow fan I'll second that recommendation, and add the Townsends to the mix (https://www.youtube.com/@townsends). I got into them before Tasting History was around, and I feel like they complement each other in a lot of ways. The Townsend stuff also has a wonderful "living history" approach with their historical homestead, and it's always incredibly informative.

Like you I'm not affiliated with any of this, it's just a desire to get other people into something I love.
Market dynamics only works that way in employer/employee relationships if the workers push for it enough. From the ealrier discussion someone linked to above: “The elephant in the room here is that VFX, unlike many other film professions, isn’t properly unionised” – this may play into the situation. It may also/instead be that a lot of VFX work is done (once you get down to the individual workers) in short term contracts, a bit like the “gig economy” situations seen in other industries, which seems to easily create a barrier for worker protections.
I always disliked ActiveRecord, and always really liked arel, which is what it uses to construct its queries. Abstracting over raw sql strings is very useful, but pretending that relations are objects is convoluted.
While I think the anthropocene is a stupid concept[0] I read an interesting article yesterday that human pumping of groundwater may have shifted the axis of the earth's spin due to the mass displaced: https://nationalpost.com/news/humans-have-used-enough-ground...

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/08/arroganc...
Here’s a direct quote from your link: “Health Risks of Teflon Coating

Teflon is generally safe, but heating it to above 300 degrees Celsius or 570 degrees Fahrenheit poses a danger to your health.”

Note they didn’t say Teflon was safe at 299C, the risk is chemical breakdown not a phase transition like water which boils at a specific temperature and pressure. When used properly pans shouldn’t get anywhere close to that temperature range but it’s very possible to get to a dangerous temperature if there isn’t food in the pan.
Love this. I would buy this if it was IP-whatever waterproof rated so I can periodically wash off the oils and flours that _will_ get caked on this thing.

If this thing was paired with a mass scale at 1g accuracy with a dynamic range of like 0 to 5kg, I would pay like $50 for this.
What has changed since calling those who opposed their intentions to introduce CSAM scanning last year as the screeching voice of the minority?
I agree. The tooling is not as good as Google's(expected, Google's internal ides are incredible). But it's definitely better than the rest
I'm not in the industry, but from talking to people that have been, VFX is one of those things that gets squeezed the most. It typically happens after principal photography is done, and the release date has been set in stone by the management and marketing machine at the studios. When you add the wide numbers of VFX houses, the lack of labor protections, and the ability to outsource to all corners of the world, there's so much competition that it's a race to the bottom with pricing and delivery dates.
> we have plenty of customers that just create a user with user_id "system" to track actions that aren't tied into a specific user in a company

I'll try to add some context around this for my use case: we need to track items at various levels within an organization. Company, division, team, user -- and that's flexibility I need by customer. These are contextual interactions with our customers, and we're not always interacting with actual users.

> There isn't really any drawback to that approach as you can filter out the system user from every analysis

There is a drawback for us. Forcing everything to a "system" user means we have to manipulate and skew how our customers interact with us to map into this product analytics product. This is important to us because we don't want everything to boil down to a user, even if it's just a "system" account.

This might not be so important with your other customers, so your mileage may vary.

Thanks for listening!
My default tech stack is .Net on the backend and Angular on the frontend. MS Makes this easy by just running `dotnet new angular`. Database changes depending on what I'm doing, but I use SQLite for local dev and usually postgres for deployment. I started out as a LAMP developer.
It's also doing a lot of good. It's in the nature of any broadcasting and communications platform
We're Topaz Labs, we build cutting edge AI image and video enhancement software, and we're hiring all levels and all teams. No VC or PE funding- we're already profitable. Onsite only in Dallas, we provide relocation.
VC capital is abundant for AI ideas
It’s a very low probability. I expect it to never happen, but it’s non-zero and easily mitigate-able for free by leaving it in a drawer.

Although I suspect someone will think it a fun project to sift through old storage devices found in the dump to automatically scan for photos of interest. Given the high interest in pornography, I expect the motivation of “found nudes” will lead to some discoveries no one ever thought possible.
Link to original report by Kaspersky https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/smb-cyber-resilience-report-2...
Human transportation is less than 35% of transportation pollution - most of it is moving _stuff_, usually cheap junk between factories. Not food or even finished products.

Your electricity usage doesn't go to people. Residential electricity use is ~20%. It's not your air conditioner.

Meat doesn't even enter into calculations. While it consumes biomass, changes to feed easily offset it's greenhouse gas output.

And, as the above shows, it's not people living their lives that causes global warming. It's not people in their homes or going on vacation or even leaving the tap running or the AC on a bit much.

You could, as a person, do all of the things and convince your neighbors to do them to.. and you would change almost nothing.

Stop buying junk, buy less, and push the commercial and office sectors to fix their behavior. Stop sending entire planes to move a 2 or 3 people.
It's the term of art for the portions of the Internet closest to specific customers, and, more generally, for the notion of deploying things in multiple locations, simultaneously such that they're close to users in different cities.
I think you could just say: "Instead of relying on the concentrated capital of VC firms, we should rely more on individuals investing smaller amounts in companies they want to use. The individuals collective stake in the company can help protect them from the company going against their interests."

That's just the main point right? Everything becomes essentially Kickstarter/Patreon subscriptions, and maybe you pay a little more fees to exchange your money to tokens?

Its surely an appropriate argument to make I guess, just falls a little flat to me personally. Like I just want to use a service and not get ripped off, I don't want to enter into and have stake in some distinct governance structure for every service I want use.
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I struggle with this a lot @ helping people with tech

It seems like most of the industry is pushing bits around or trying to make specific shareholders rich at the cost of everyone else.

Rambling, but it you get any good insights I'm definitely interested in hearing them
Root cause is that startup path is more crowded these days with JIT, dynamic linking, app initialization, filesystem/DB scans, sandbox initialization, subprocesses, etc. It's a natural consequence of the apps (or underlying frameworks) growing in size and complexity. Optimizing it all by hand is unreasonably expensive if not impossible.

What we need instead is a way to persist the process or even whole sandbox to disk and then fork off new instances from that. That's much less work and much more effective than piecemeal optimizations (AOT, native code, etc.). Unfortunately, existing platforms and frameworks do not support forking, let alone forking from persisted app image.
Sadly, I cannot. I can say that we're an mid-tier (size-wise) engineering consultancy working across the US. My team specializes in the design of "hyper-scale" data centers. Very intensive Building Information Modeling workflows and such.
Am I correct in believing that they haven't open-sourced Proton Pass yet? It seems like an ok password manager, but with no mention of open-source and an option for self-hosting, this already becomes completely unusable, especially considering so many great alternatives are already available.

edit: Their official announcement post says it's now open source, however I haven't been able to find the repository. I also still see no mentions of self hosting.
Enterprises can be classified in different categories according to their size; for this purpose, different criteria may be used, but the most common is number of people employed. In small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) employ fewer than 250 people. SMEs are further subdivided into micro enterprises (fewer than 10 employees), small enterprises (10 to 49 employees), medium-sized enterprises (50 to 249 employees). Large enterprises employ 250 or more people
I find Excel to be fine as long as I never use it.
How is fly.io different (or even better) than just fronting your entire app, including the dynamic content with cloudfront or another CDN? The CDN is close to the client giving you low latency ssl setup, which can be significant.

I get that this doesn't push your app servers to the edge, but even if you did that you still pay the latency cost of hitting your database in the bunker in Virginia. For many (most?) apps this seems worse as you are making many round trips to the db for a single web request. I would rather pay the latency cost on the web request, and have fast access to the database from the app server.

Seems like fly's target audience is mostly static content?
Crypto’s Most Powerful Woman Speaks Out as Crisis Rocks Binance
Windows Terminal is 93% c++ on github. Not sure where you got the impression it was mostly c#
It’s not secrecy that has prevented proliferation, it’s carrots and sticks that has.

Treaties, sanctions etc. Not to mention the cost of a nuclear program.
Solaris had a bit of Java in it, and it was a terrible fit on account of how slow the JVM startup was and how large its memory footprint. Now that was almost 20 years ago and by now there's ways to optimize the JVM for short-lived processes, but it's still a pain and it's still a huge installation just for a small program like `sudo`. No, something like `sudo` needs to be natively compiled, or if bytecompiled then to a tiny VM -- tiny in every way: tiny opcode set, tiny bytecode interpreter, tiny install size.
JPY has entered the room
PEGs in a PEG (2008)
> We’re all adults here, we can talk about this stuff, right?

proceeds to not really talk about it
And most of those dependencies are only transitive via [dev-dependencies], which causes the entire Windows API to be pulled in.
Correct me if this is no longer true.

The fatal chink in the Proton model is that PGP keys must either be generated on the service or uploaded unencrypted?

To me it seems trivial to make it possible to upload a locally generated appropriately formatted encrypted key.

Glad if that now no longer true.