skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside the hyperbole, yeah, it's now decades of 're-learning' ahead again, that's permanently destroyed for a generation or two (considering the existing decades of loss) who it won't be there for.
There's lot of evidence of dating sites doing this, such as having people working for them to string male customers along for money. It's arguably fraud. There are also many other ways to take advantage of desperate or lonely men (or "picky" women with some marketing twists), such as suggesting or advertising to customers they pay even more money for things like "boost", "VIP", "gold membership", etc... These more costlier options also give an incentive to do fraudulent things like having paid (usually female) responders fake interest in paying customers (usually male) for a set time and then go ghost or flake.

Speaking of fraudulent, so are many of the profiles and descriptions, both male and female. Profiles and descriptions often are highly distorted, with out of control female hypergamy. Everybody trying to present themselves as better than the other or elite, even when they are average or below average in reality.

80% to 85% of the women on a site looking for the top 20% to 15% of men, thus many don't really qualify nor match up for what they are looking for. Consequently, such "lower ranking" women can get taken advantage of by the top 15% who run through them (sometimes at incredible numbers) or will never commit to them, then these angry hurt women take it out on all other men that had nothing to with their past. Thus they are "full of old scars", "super extra picky" or "flaky".

For all the time and money wasted on fake and distorted profiles, it's better to invest in getting over one's fear of rejection and learn how to approach people appropriately and have natural conversations. Find free ways to meet and talk, there are plenty, if a person puts their mind and effort into it. At least don't have online dating, especially costly sites, be the only option.
Show HN: Built a Botnet Using Node JavaScript
Hello HN.

So about half a year ago, I started taking programming more seriously, and I've decided to learn Node JS and work on some projects to sharpen my skills. I found such a topic (Botnets and C&C) very interesting, and I decided to make my own one.

It is nothing that impressive; it currently cannot perform any kind of DDOS attack, which is kind of the main reason Botnets exist, but regardless, I am fairly happy with it.

The reason I am posting about it here is that I have been finding it very hard to find somebody to criticize it or to give me some feedback, as I am concerned about the quality of the code and if I am even doing things correctly here. So, let me know what you guys think.
Both of those require resources. Or are you going to grow your own trees and build a log cabin yourself? How much time will that take? Can you build it by yourself or will you need someone elses help? These are all resources that are not unlimited, and there are trade offs whatever way you allocate said resources.

Edit: also power, water, wastewater, internet for a house are services run using limited resources
It’s funny because it’s true.
The UX for client certificates is horrible and practically an afterthought, so it's no surprise.
Although not american, ASML is not chinese / taiwanese either where most of chips are made.
The editor for people I'm talking about is running locally on the desktop. The user is viewing a window on a monitor attached to the desktop. How does this work without changing that workflow?
Why can someone drive for 6 months in a country with a foreign driver's license but can't get a local license?

A government issued id, like a driver's license, is often required for various services like opening bank account, a telephone connection, avail some government service etc. Thus a local driver's license can be used for deception by a foreigner who wants to pretend to be a local citizen.
Yeah same with Decathlon in Spain too. My mind was literally blown when I saw this because I did not know until we were at the checkout.
503 from Germany too, for all 10 language-editions listed on their home page
This comment is sensational, but the article here is eerily similar to one also on the front page published by the WSJ:

"It’s Time to Bring Back Asylums"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36826335
In Canada we have free health care and a similar homelessness situation as in the US.

USA 17.5 per 10K
Canada 10 per 10K

Americans like to think that universal health care solves every problem but it really doesn’t. It’s a good system and helps many things but not a panacea.
It’s easy to shit on HF but some of their products are basically industry standard - like winches and floor jacks. It’s really odd to be honest because people will frequently mention buying something cheap off “Amazon or Ali express” and then scoff at HF. I’ve seen some HF products out perform SnapOn tools in YouTube reviews.

Not everything is “good” but it’ll get the job done.
As a completed CS PhD I would not claim incoming PhDs are that naive. It's quite common for a PhD to have no interest in becoming a prof or staying in academia. I, too, made it clear to my advisor that I absolutely do not want to become a professor.

Many begin a PhD because they want to avoid becoming a code monkey at some company. They hope that the PhD opens doors to intellectually engaging work. And it often does. If you check the graduates of CS advisors, they often end up at prestigious, well-paid research labs. Or they simply start their own company based on work done in the PhD.

I am not sure if the non-professor track would change anything. Most schools already do not require teaching because they want their CS PhDs to focus on research.

This calculus might of course be completely different for other disciplines.
> They need to be good, well run with compassion and care of course.

And there lies the core of the paradox: We can't pull that off with run of the mill geriatrics. Bottom barrel nursing homes, like the kind medicaid pays for, are hell holes. And the plight of an old patient who has no family left to advocate for them, is not an acceptable one in the least bit.

If we're not going to properly handle this responsibility -now- for a sympathetic polite and docile old granny, do you really think the funding & care for 20s-50s aged mentally ill patients would be appropriate?
Am I taking crazy pills? How does this make perfect sense? The obvious solution is to have more compasses and redundancy.
Few people are "blown away" by the absolute skill level of ChatGPT. It's more that there exists an AI that can do this at all. This just wasn't a thing three years ago, and the first truly capable version (GPT 4) only become publicly accessible this year.

Some things I've seen GPT 4 do is "as good as human", often better than average. For example, spotting bugs or reverse-engineering code and then writing doc comments for it.

The real power is not in having an AI as smart as you, it's having something "good enough" that can be deployed cheaply at scale to do rote, menial tasks. Review code, check for vulnerabilities, fix spelling mistakes in comments, etc...
Yes, with Ctrl+ I get bigger text, but the margins stay the same and make the text flow further down the page so I have to scroll too often to read in a fluid manner. Compare to HN margins, which are smaller and when you enlarge beyond a certain point, the margins get even smaller.
Why is underwear more disgusting than the bare body that it contains? It’s not like taking your underwear off makes you sterile no?
More likely 386BSD than NetBSD back then, although the timeline between the two is only a year and a bit apart.

Back in '92 I was interested in 386BSD, but told to check out linux (which was at 0.12 at the time), back then it was the root/boot disk distro, then mcc, then slackware.
We don't have to have the same rules for people as for companies. There's absolutely nothing preventing us from saying "If person does X, it's fine. If company does X, it's bad."
> If you start under the assumption that materialism is true (...) you can't trust any of your thoughts since they are: 1. Out of your control, since it's all physics. 2. Created by a brain that evolved to survive, not to create logic.

On the other hand, if materialism is false then your thoughts are (1) definitely out of your control, since they aren't even constrained by physics, and (2) exist due to some mechanism that's not just not understood so far, but not understandable in principle (otherwise it will be inside the realm of science).

How is that better?
You're ascribing a ton of ill will here, and I hope you'll give me a little more grace, but on the other hand maybe there is some truth to your words. I'll see if I can communicate more clearly and authentically in the future. Thanks for the opportunity to introspect.
> And now please explain: why is it better for those places if some people stay poor?

I suspect it’s not so much a matter of being poor, but allowing the possibility of being poor.

If you do not have the freedom to fail, then you also have less opportunity to succeed.

For example, a government retirement program keeps the elderly off the street… but it also takes a percentage of their earnings while working. For many that might be the difference between being able to buy a house this year vs. waiting a couple more, or between starting a business and working for their current employer, between jumping on a good financial opportunity and missing it.

It also forces people to choose retirement over investing 100% into their children. This isn’t an argument to abolish social security, but an example of how eliminating the possibility of failure limits opportunities for success.

The key here is I think people are better judges of their financial situation than the government. If we had to solve economics problems with a computer I wouldn’t choose a mainframe with one set of rules for everything. I’d choose millions of distributed processors that were each able to evaluate their own situation and that could fail without taking down the whole system.

So, what happens when social security fails and nobody had retirement income? That’s the kind of problem that small scale poverty helps avoid. Otherwise we have a communal tendency to kick the can down the road until the problem becomes insurmountable.
Saying they "realized you could identify the location of many posts and wrote a paper" is downplaying the situation. The authors essentially ran a lookup table attack, computing over 3 quadrillion hashes to crack the IPs. The website owner incorrectly thought and claimed this would protect IPs, which are PII.

For more context, see here:
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/07/th...
I love my work and I’m darn good at it, but I definitely want to retire. I hope to teach my grandkids (fingers crossed) how to program and take an active role in homeschooling them (again fingers crossed).

Apart then that I have a very fun and rewarding hobby: growing heirloom apple trees and making my own cider.

Nothing wrong with working, but I’ll be glad when I never have a google calendar reminder again.
Thank you for the kind words, very much appreciated.
> Otherwise, the fact that it didn't survive the front page of HN bodes ill for its reputation

It’s working fine on my end?
To be fair, I've seen large brained mammals exhibit (homo walmartus) completely inane and stupid behavior.

I have a feeling many others here have also witnessed those actions in their natural environment.
Researchers make progress toward a new environmentally friendly nanomaterial
I think there's a weird situation here. People don't actually want 'cheap' things made in America (because that's what China et al do), but then complain it's too expensive to make locally.
This is very difficult to solve: allow cheap locally made products while still allowing pride in the 'locally made' label...
Vaccinations /= medical experimentation.

Are you suggesting we as a species should still be being ravished by the scourge of smallpox?
I understand that a large proportion of Googlers use Google's slightly customized Linux on laptops (which is also the default/recommended), which is completely compatible with your workflow, so I'm not sure what argument you were trying to make (unless you don't count laptops as "Linux on the desktop"?)

I can only infer that you're suggesting people would only want to use Macbooks? Setting aside the fact that that is wrong, you don't make any argument as to why that would be.
They absolutely think about the consequences of their actions. What makes you think for a second that they don't?

> Perhaps we should slow down this frenetic pace of AI development and think about it for a bit?

Perhaps you should actually talk to them sometime and get a clue.
Globalism was and is always sold as a good idea.
The asylum system was so much worse for the victims than homelessness that it's not even funny.

It existed just to hide these facts of life from the most fortunate and spare their feelings.

All at the expense of the committed that were horrifically abused.

And no, you won't do it right this time.
Your healthcare system doesn’t (from my anecdotal experience knowing someone in Ontario) cover that much mental health. She could effectively see a therapist a few times of year before it became an out of pocket expense. If we want to address homelessness that’s related to mental health we need much better access. We also need housing, food.

We need things that are doable but we don’t do them because capitalism doesn’t allow for it.
That makes sense. Currently what I'm building is something that can handle most of life's tasks which is no small feat. Things like tracking errands, finances, goals and health metrics too. What's the best way to contact you? Email?
For some us states I have zero doubt they'd make such things eligible criteria for placement in a facility, regardless of thier presence in the dsm.

Just look at what's happening right now with them violating hippa to attack women trying to survive miscarriages...
It might be more valuable to have AI read news articles and decide which are factual and important or apply whatever filter the user defines. Automated HN but with much broader input.
I think the explanation does not make any sense in 2023, if 99.99% of dev use Git you have to use Git, using your own solution that no one else uses or know or need to know is bad.

If you want to make your project more open to contribution you have to use what the rest of the industry is using.

Edit: After reading some responses, I'm really surprised that sqlite does not accept contributions.
I think there are some legitimate criticisms of Git here. But some of them are...odd. Despite using Git in a variety of circumstances, from a local personal repo project to very large company repos, I admit I haven't run into about half of these issues.

> The closest I have found is the network, which is slow to render (unless it is already cached), does not offer nearly as much details, and scarcely works at all on mobile.

I hope my team never has to consider their mobile device as a way to check the status of a branch. It hasn't even crossed my mind as a use case. Does this come up often for others?
Prisons were and are far better.

Those were endorsed torture centers with zero accountability.

Prisons don't even come close.
Why do you think this was a "typical" case, as opposed to atypical one? Do you think that "typical" outcomes these days are better?
I’m sure git is less than ideal. I pretty much just know enough to do what I need to do with it. The only reason I want to use it is because it is the industry standard tool.

Otherwise Hg, Perforce, have all had pretty compelling arguments put forward for their use.

There’s so much technical churn in this industry, that any time I can use something that’s widely embraced I’m actually happy for that. Regardless of my personal feelings on it.
Using Apple Mail with Gmail leaks your IP address (2020)
At the very least it would be helpful to use a temperature unit when mentioning degrees.
You cannot advocate to bring back an institution and then lie about what that institution was. The asylum institution was a way to label people as insane regardless of their sanity and then subject them to heinous mistreatment for which they had no recourse. Unless you directly address this, you are simply advocating for the re-implementation of institutional abuse.
Does anybody know who manufactures the chips for these?
Read this first.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephor
Right.

A side effect was that studies of climate change in that period tended to avoid erring in the direction of overestimating climate change. Looking back at predictions from 20-25 years ago, CO2, global temperature rise, and sea level rise predictions were pretty close. The side effects of those changes were way underestimated.[1] "We "underestimated the dramatic increase in persistent weather extremes like the unprecedented heat waves, droughts, wildfires and floods we’ve witnessed in recent years."

We used to see statements that there might be some trouble by 2050, and real trouble by 2100. We're seeing real trouble now.

[1] https://www.onlineathens.com/story/news/environment/2019/12/...
Government agencies that serviced their own vehicles just ended up with a fleet of non-working vehicles. At least that was true for those for which the vehicle fleet was of secondary concern.

And for something like a police department, the efficiencies disappear with modern vehicles which need less maintenance.
So somehow ascii is less information dense than 12k 32-bit floats per token?
Nice! If you ever want to chat about DP stuff, feel free to shoot me an email.
Something is seriously wrong with our culture the past 10-15 years to have contributed to such a dramatic rise in mental illness.
Also: kids for cash scandal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
It's a classic programming language flamewar comment. This is not a borderline call!

The only other people who will care about such a post are the people who feel as pro-$LANG and/or anti-$LANG as you do - and then the two tribes will bash each other with clubs. This dynamic has been known at least since Usenet and it's very much what we don't want on HN, so please don't do it here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
For my purposes harbor freight is where sears used to be - hand tools with lifetime warranties and easy replacement.

Power tools I look elsewhere but for hand tools and cabinets even their low-end stuff is great, or at least good.
One look at this page and I can instantly tell this person "gets it"
Site worked fine for me, but in any case, SQLite is 23 years old now and widely used all over the place and well understood by many thousands of developers... the time has long since passed when its reputation might hinge on the moment-to-moment uptime of its own home page.
> Does your home have electricity?

Dumb arguments like this do more harm to the climate change cause than anything else. It comes across as an unreasonable and uneducated point of view that no one listens to.
Sure, but with that kind of argument will we ever be able to make the switch to a better vcs if one exists? You have to start somewhere.
It should have been free after rotation, but often the hassle of complaining to get a refund is too much for me to bother.

Unless I’m filled with rage.
Anyhow and Eyre seem cool, but completely losing all information about what types of Errors the function returns in favor if what is essentially a trait object of std::error::Error seems... questionable to me. I value type safety a lot.
I'll ask, in the corporate world. Why even allow them to know their password. To login to their device a Yubi Key or Door key could be used (or similar) then once logged into their laptop they have an app the works like 1password or lastpass that inserts their passwords, updates their passowrds etc. for everything the company uses. (If they have a reddit account that is non corporate they could use their own pw manager.) This would also solve the "shared password" issue where a company that has a corporate Twitter account, they control access to the credentials and the credentials. Also gives you a paper trail in that you now know who used the credentials at the time of a post.
> If you want to make your project more open to contribution

This is a key point, and assuming this in the positive is often a mistake. Not all projects want, or can handle, increased contribution.
Pretty sure that in the cases where it matters, the law does make the distinction between a naturalized citizen, and a jus soli/sanguinis citizen.
Amazon's support can be amazing. I remember years ago, when every support call was answered by a knowledgeable and helpful employee in WA. That was amazing!

More recently, I was lied to repeatedly by agents who told me that they were going to do something, or had done something already. I had to contact support many times, and the issue was only fixed after I was able to escalate to the executive support team, who confirmed I had been lied to repeatedly, and who were able to fix the problem.
People with severe mental illness are actually more likely to be victims of violence, not perpetrators of it.
Huh TIL! Reaper is considered by a lot of professionals to be the best all around DAW for those who are unaware of the audio world. It only really gets the respect it deserves though in the world of game audio design. If DAW's were compared to operating systems, logic/ableton would be macOS, Pro Tools would be Windows, and Reaper would be Linux.
> is the 10% of people who are bored, *lonely*

I heard this is especially prevalent for suicide hotlines - because of the strict requirements to take and stay on such calls they have to put up with a lot of sexual harassment and its more or less swept under the rug by supervisors.
First off there’s lots of housing or housable space - office buildings with tons of vacant rooms, Airbnb style properties that are just profit machines, hotels rarely at capacity, abandoned or unaffordable houses, vacation homes. There’s plenty of housing.

Then let’s talk about restaurants and grocery stores and farms and factories where food is routinely thrown away daily. Can’t let employees take food home from the fast food joint because then they’ll just make extra food, so instead you end up tossing tons of perfectly good food. I’d help my dad pick up “old” food from grocery stores for a local shelter and they had to still only take some because the volume of usable food being tossed was too much for one shelter. There’s plenty of food.

Power, water, waste, internet - if suddenly everyone who didn’t have these things did have them, do you think the infrastructure would crumble? If, for instance, every vacant property that has working power/water/sewage/internet was filled, would that be too much strain? Would the system that was planned for that capacity buckle under the weight of what it’s made to bear? I don’t buy it.
> If you want to make your project more open to contribution you have to use what the rest of the industry is using.

They don't want contributions

https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html

> In order to keep SQLite completely free and unencumbered by copyright, the project does not accept patches.
One of the coauthors also operates a Mastodon instance with over 5000 economists signed up. His complete access to these people’s credentials, such as IP address, email, and names, makes it easy for him to cross reference these people in the webboard. People are questioning if he intentionally set up the server to harvest people’s credentials for doxxing.