skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even that's a bit of a crapshoot. I have a Reddit account that's over 15 years old. I have a Neopets account that's over 20. I can't get into either of them, a consequence of (my abuse of) poor UX design. (What's the fake birth date I chose in 2000? Who knows! Was taking advantage of Reddit's account-juicing tactic of not requiring an email worth losing a decade-old identity to hackers? Probably not!)

I've tried to recover them, and faced a (perhaps justified) customer support brick wall. Was Neopets to anticipate Millennial nostalgia (and our preteen willingness to circumvent COPPA) in their sign-up processes a generation ago? How obligated is Reddit to investigate someone's claim to any single account?

But without those accounts, I'm two closer to being a digital non-entity, for significant portions of my life.
Julia also created this comic about DNS, which is helpful for learning: https://wizardzines.com/zines/dns/
It has great optional support for Discoverable Partitions, which has made writing custom kernel cmdline's optional. https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/discoverable_par...

Systems is also are deprecating non merged-/usr.
You can make computers even more stable by casting them in concrete and dropping them in the sea.

Do you genuinely think people want computers that cannot be used to read email, do online banking, buy things with, watch Netflix, and so on?
You know, that's actually an interesting idea. Probably still the kind of expense that I couldn't currently justify, but it's also sort of nice to think that I could "subscribe" and have some rotating pin in my basement if I wanted to without having to take out a car-sized loan.
I do not think its unfair at all. Schema registry needs to add a wrapper and UUID to an Avro payload for it to work, so at the very least Avro as-is is unsuitable for a MQ like Kafka since you cannot use it efficiently without some out-of-band communication channel.
I believe Tor is underrated in P2P systems. Many networks consider NAT traversal mostly (or partially) unsolved. Routing between nodes over Tor immediately solves your NAT traversal problems allowing any device to tunnel to any device (at the expense of latency).
Alf?
Just more deflections and allusions.

https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/encumbrance

Educate yourself.
OpenRC does most of the stuff that systemd does but better, and has existed for longer.

SystemD is architected in a way that makes significant security issues all but inevitable. There's just too much code running in PID 1 to be able to audit, too big of an attack surface.

Binary logs are frankly pretty annoying, but probably really helpful if you're in a large enterprise environment.

Locality of behavior is another annoyance, some services require a bunch of unit files to work well. One `.service`, another `.socket`, maybe a timer. There are also something like 6 different locations a unit file can live, depending on how it was installed, who owns it, etc. This is once again great for enterprise customers but means that if you want to find a unit file you can't just look in a directory, maybe a users home dir if it's a user service. You have to memorize or look up the systemd command that tells you where the unit files actually is. Same problem with unit file overrides. Overrides aren't just `myunit.service.override` or something next to your service, they live in their own folder and you need to use systemd commands to find/edit them.

Basically it discourages general unix knowledge in favor of memorizing a huge number of systemd specific commands, it does this by hiding files all over the place, using binary logs, and otherwise going out of their way to make themselves incompatible with unix-as-a-programming-environment.

They also make controversial decisions that you're probably shielded from by your distro, things like killing long-lived tmux sessions. Changing the behavior of your lid switch with no warning. They break a lot of stuff and when they do they're very unsympathetic about it. I recognize that they get a lot of hate, but when I look at issue trackers I often see people on the SystemD side being unprofessional first and escalating minor disagreements.

Can't launch systemd services in a chroot either, you need to be running systemd as pid 1 on your host system if you want to work with any kind of embedded linux that uses systemd.
I think it's fair to call the database of hashes an "eyeball database".
Its not really aquaculture specific advice, but I knew a guy who dropped out of aquaculture after leading with no real experience in the industry.. In retrospect it was a bit of foreshadowing.

It's not all that surprising but nonetheless important to realize that you can do all sorts of jobs with no experience as long as you are pretty tolerant about others having no experience, but.. The likelihood that at least one person's lack of experience dooms the whole project is substantial, perhaps overwhelming all odds of success.

So I would recommend not settling for just any in to an industry. Look for what you can learn and prove you know and an environment that tests you on it and will test the others you will depend on.
Am Brazilian, can personally confirm. I used to do that too. I actually left the country with the explicit goal of shedding my Brazilian identity and becoming someone else entirely.

I think Brazil suffers from being a country where some segments of the population can’t find a relatable national identity. I feel very strongly about my state identity (I’m a gaucho from Rio Grande do Sul) to the point I’d probably support secession if that was a serious possibility, but I’ve never felt anything positive about being Brazilian.

Funny enough, 10 years later and now a US citizen, I don’t speak so negatively about Brazil anymore. Turns that that over time I found out I’m a bit more Brazilian than I thought, despite former efforts to not be one. Also, there are things I miss about living there, at least compared to living in the US. If it wasn’t for the still insane crime rates, I’d consider moving back for a season.
While not perfectly matching to actual usage - interest has dropped MASSIVELY.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%201-m&q=...

It's kind of interesting to see stuff like that.
This makes it sound like the adult pains of holding friendships alive as you grow older. Everybody is busy with their lives and coordinating even with your closest friends leads to 'agenda conflicts' that push your time together weeks or months ahead. It's sad to see that this is happening to kids (who are often pushed into scheduled extracurriculars for better academic opportunities) too.
Just shoving a developer's IDE full of warnings from CVEs isn't terribly useful, because the CVE/CVSS system doesn't address real security issues well. It's not shifting left to show a bunch of red flags on written code. To really shift left, developers need training to learn how to write secure code and organizational support for application security to be part of the development process, not a nice to have that dropped when product demands new features on impossible deadlines.
I love almost everything on this blog but it is super hard for me to read long texts on a screen. Would be amazing if the author publishes each series as a book.
AWS re:Invent 2022 - A day in the life of a billion requests (SEC404)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPr1AgGkvc4
If I had to guess what the indicator of where the new writer bar ends up, it will be wherever Joyce Carol Oates goes. Not because people like her or her tweets necessarily, but that she’s kind of like the black hole at the center of a galaxy, you don’t want to get too close (she’s the queen of the bizarre takes, not to mention her post with a rather disturbing picture of her feet), and yet everything kind of ineluctably ends up orbiting around her anyway.
Don't remember which companies were involved, but in California and Nevada trying to use a debit card required a deposit ($500 or so?).
> Threads failed the smell test early on because it started out with algorithmic feed

That was probably a wise decision to seed it with something for people to look at and interact with so they didn't just sign in and see a blank page. The random influencers and other people "go away" pretty quickly if you start following and interacting with people you care more about.
I mean a schema registry solves this problem, and you just put the schema in to the registry before the software is released.

A simpler option is to just publish the schema in to the queue periodically. Say every 30 seconds, and then receivers can cache schemas for message types they are interested in.
No it wouldn't. You can use difficult to obtain cookies or registration to prevent bots.
I'm currently on an H1-B and I'm considering exploring a startup idea. My research suggests that I could do a concurrent H1-B but what I'm not so sure about is the prevailing wage. Is it possible to get a concurrent H1-B for say 5 hours a week so that I can actually afford to pay myself as the govt. requires?
Embeddable Tweets are a fundamental part of what made Twitter an integral part of our lives. There will be embeddable Threads.
Thanks for the suggestion, I was not aware of "Blank!".

What inspired me to write the comment is was thinking about time travel and how people in movies and stories seems to always materialize on a nice level surface, somewhere in a building with the their feet exactly on the floor, in a nice meadow outside the city, on a sidewalk etc. Then, remembering how earth and galaxy move through space I thought how extremely hard would be to get a safe set of future spacetime coordinates to land on.
Recommended video on the matter: https://youtu.be/d2Tm3Yx4HWI
Mislead is probably a more accurate term. Bullshit exists outside of the correct/incorrect binary and serves only to build narrative.
As the dust is settling on the last 15 years of this insanity, and the monopolies are being cemented, is Zuck not the only one left standing independently? Of the big guys, the early "wizkid founder" types, who else is left towing the line and controlling the destiny of their company? And who else is maintaining that techno-utopianist optimism publicly? I sort of admire the guy, if only for how every time he speaks, it feels like a time portal to 2009.
The tinfoil hat part of me says its like the "identify the stoplights" challenges.

We'll introduce this idea that sounds really tech, and hype. Maybe imply its so difficult that computers could never compete with humans.

We'll say its about improving security, and most humans will get a vague comforting feeling from the idea that there's some security feature, even if they find it kind of annoying to interact with.

Five years later, we say "surprise, it was really about training an eyeball recognition database that we can sell. Just like the image recognition datasets."

I do not even kind of believe these people are dumb.
Most great candidates don't live in SF, so OpenAI isn't an option for them.
Astounding find!!!
I might misunderstand how Tor works, but unless you are a relay I don’t think you participate in routing. Unlike BitTorrent, clients don’t automatically contribute resources back to the network.
This may be obvious or well-discussed but I had an epiphany some years back when my dad, regarding my kids, said (paraphrasing),

"they're not playing. 'Play' is a misleading term. They're testing the world. They're learning how things work. How gravity works. How friction holds lego together. How actions cause reactions. How friends and strangers behave when you do things. How to use language with make believe. How to comfortably and safely explore new ideas out loud with their action figures. How to discover what feels good and what doesn't. They're not playing. They're growing."

My kids are young. But I'm confident this is generally true for teenagers, too. One quick example: I played WoW and looking back... I learned a ton about how to work in a team. How to be social. What social behaviours work and don't work. How to deal with people you don't like. How to delay gratification. How to plan. And it was all in a low-stakes environment.
Hey Peter! What tech (legal and non-legal) do you use?
> I think partly DNS and the core protocols may seem confusing to younger people in the industry because so much stuff “just works” now.

Younger people aren't dumber than old one, they build even more complex stuff on top of these old abstractions.
> do something small,

> analyze how that affected your environment

> learn from that, and

> respond/repeat.

I could be missing your point, but this is precisely a core tenet of Lean - Plan, Do, Check, Act

Agile speaks nothing of these sorts of processes(aside from the cargo cult enterprise scrum nonsense of course)
I am still considering, but assembling the right team and the right locale (to get talent and funding) is a bit difficult as I am based out of Hong Kong and Australia right now. But I am open to ideas.
I can empathize with the “friends” part.

When I was in college, I was either studying or running around with friends. The only time I mindlessly scrolled on my phone was when I ate alone in the cafeteria.

Hanging out with close friends, I hardly felt any urge to use my phone. I really miss that.
As a dad of two, this timeline sucks.

Even children need to be optimized for maximum success (so profit) now? Must have missed that memo.
because it cannot determine a fact from fiction

This is way too narrow. Even if it were able to determine fact from fiction, a neural network would still be able to hallucinate as long as it has no ontology: if it doesn't "know" the boundary between objects it has no way of knowing the atomicity of its facts, so it will inevitably combine even known "facts" into falsehoods.

To illustrate, the following fact-based syllogism would sound perfectly valid in the absence of a working ontology:

A: That green flask costs $10
B: This flask is green
=> This flask costs $10
Games alone or online feel very different from games played together in the same room. Even if they're the game.
I think most billionaires have the belief system "I deserve more money and power and what's best for me is best for society".
There's an old saying: if someone tell's you they know how DNS works, they're lying
Monero has not be deanonymized from my understanding. Most coins are shitcoins, yes, including Bitcoin, but Monero is at least decent (assuming you actually own your crypto via a hardware wallet).
They are a bit late to the party. Not even a blogpost from the FSF when the news around Pluton dropped for example.
Asynchrony?
I loved playing Psychopath back in 2006 and built a Java clone in 2007 for a class. I love how many awesome puzzles emerge as people pieced them together to make levels on top of the simple rules. I also remember enjoying Stick Avalanche & Boomshine. Thanks for all the fun times & awesome to bump into you!

I've started Pathology.
I agree. You get to be really careful where you want to put ur skill points. Play time is part of the skill tree too ;)

Full scheduling of random stuff doesn't mean it would always help the children. It's the children's version of appearing busy.
Nobody cared about superstitions, but they are solved.
> somehow

The US has an absolutely enormous Not-Invented-Here field around pretty much any policy discussion. It is simply inconceivable for most Americans to look for solutions outside their own borders.

The solution is called modern trash incineration plants.
Nah, it can be just talking without much rigor or verification of fact or anything, often with a loose boundary between opinion and fact - the "to talk in an exaggerated or foolish manner" definition.

As in "my buddies and I were bullshitting about movies the other day."

ChatGPT definitely talks with an exaggerated manner confidence-wise.
The Reluctant Sysadmin's Guide to Securing a Linux Server
Ask HN: RSS Feeds You Subscribe To?
What are the RSS feeds you subscribe to?
I would assume most of the blame here really lies with Meta.

I mean, didn't they:
1. Leverage their IG user base to get a lot of early sign-ups and then...
2. Use those early sign-ups to hype up the platform?

They got exactly what they wanted, which was a lot of articles about how fast Threads was growing.

They probably knew all along that most of those early sign-ups weren't going turn into active users.
A friend of mine is a (retired) MD/MPH who was asked in February '20 to be on some task force or another. I congratulated him, but he said turned it down. I was kinda shocked and asked why.

"Imagine you're the captain of the Titanic, and one of your men tells you that you've just struck an iceberg. Naturally, you sound the alarm, call for help, and immediately get everyone into the lifeboats (which you have plenty of), right?"

Recognizing the rhetorical move, I smiled and waited for his continuation.

"Of course not! You tell them everything is fine, that your Best and Brightest are working the problem, announce that drinks are on the White Star Line tonight, and strike up the band. Then you pray like hell that you can fix the problem before the ship sinks and everyone dies. No, thanks. I'm too old for that."
I think "confabulation" is a way more accurate term, I wish it had stuck instead of "hallucination".

A hallucination is a problem with input. Confabulation is false output.

Confabulation is when a person mistakenly recalls details and tries to "fill in the blanks", without realizing what they are saying is untrue.
So wait, using an alternative social media platform just because the bourgeoisie doesn’t like the market leader‘s owner’s politics isn’t as convincing for the plebs as it is for the bourgeoisie? who would’ve thought?
It's cheap to produce, yet gets enough eyeballs to validate its existence.

No more paying actors, script writers (at least, not at the same level), etc.
Why? If any currency is appreciating, people are incentivized to hold it, which has the effect of decreasing supply, and decreasing supply makes the price of something go up, not down.
> (who are often pushed into scheduled extracurriculars for better academic opportunities) too.

Gotta say though, this seems to be purely a thing in the english speaking cultures. Apart from sport and maybe an instrument, extracurriculars aren't a thing in most european countries.

Extracurriculars are so peculiar that our ministry of education deems it necessary to make it a mandatory point for teachers to discuss when talking about american childrens typical day in school.
Purism ghosts Librem 5 customer, lies about refund policy[YouTube – L. Rossmann] [video]
As for the last point: Check out the author’s blog. She’s a real hacker and can convey technical things in friendly and simple terms.
There can be a middle ground, y'know.
I'm doing a CS degree in Ireland. If I want to start a company in the US, how hard would it be to get the necessary visas to get in?
Vector Database Performance Benchmarks
Do you have an inability to form close connections with other humans? Would that be different towards artificial ones?
I thought keybase was really on to something. It's ashame they sold out. I'm surprised nothing has picked up where it left off in relation to identity declaration/proof.
The Power and Potential of the Ada Language
You could add a "high bandwidth & low latency" mode, where when active, you load the current video + the next one. So when the user goes to the next channel, it's already playing but muted and not visible, and you start playing the next-next channel hidden again :)
> People DO-NOT-GIVE-A-**

you are upset so.. empathy on that, first. Please consider that the pressure of the situation somehow escalates blame on exactly the people who are not doing this.

Consumer electronics users are not the ones who "vote" on the content. Closed-box computer systems with hierarchical, private and internal decision making, are arriving at decision points.
It's up to you.

It's easy to imagine any statically typed language having a general-purpose JSON type. You could imagine all functions accepting and returning such objects.

Now it's your turn to implement the sum(a,b) function. Would you like to allow the caller to pass anything in as a and b?
>Tor itself is full of scams and dark markets selling who knows what.

Did you forget to read the article? They make the point that this is not the case. Tor Browser can be used to access most of the web besides aggressively anti-privacy platforms like Meta.

If you choose to go on a "Dark Web Search Engine" and that's what you find, that's entirely your decision and not something you would stumble upon.

>but normal people aren't going to put up with that. Nobody wants to see that stuff.

They would never see that stuff by accident, as they never do right now.
Please don't cross into personal attack, no matter how wrong someone is or you feel they are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thanks! Yeah, not being good was my expectation but I thought, if it was there, it had to have a good reason. I appreciate the input and confirmation, thankyou :)

Random distribution of outputs does seem to minimise collisions on as a small an input set as a list of processes so I suppose the risk of killing the wrong process is minimal. I do think if I used the app I’d replace it though.
Lemmings is a great game! If you haven't seen it yet, I stumbled upon a somewhat modern version / idea of Lemmings called Humanity. I've been playing it on PS5 but it's also on steam and probably others. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1581480/Humanity/

You play a spirit version of a Shiba Inu guiding humans to the exits.
Looking for solutions that do not involve any structural change is inherent to liberal politics in our society, since our current political economy is deeply liberal in structure (for a definition of liberal that contains both mainstream "liberals" and conservatives, closer to classical liberalism).

You can see this plainly by looking at the pattern of recuperation and dilution of any proposed structural change - making up non-structural alternatives that don't work but might and then haranguing over them for years is a common pattern in liberal democracies. See for example trying to avoid public healthcare by creating "optimized marketplaces", the entire idea of nudging in economics, the idea of self-regulation, avoiding providing free national tertiary education by instead giving progressively stringent and oddly targeted scholarships, etc...
.. better late than never
Study on adversarial attacks on LLMs to steer their objective into misalignment.
Yep, Microsoft did just that. Moved on.
djbdns is simple, easy to understand, easy to configure; it embodies a clear understanding of how DNS works.

Unlike BIND and dig, it was designed after DNS had been in use for a while.

Like sendmail, BIND suffers from being designed before anyone knew what it would need to do.
It specifically says she does fly in emergency cases. Did you not read it?
That's an oversimplification of the real world as a metaphor and if taken literally, also not true
If I understand correctly this is what they want to do eventually (delete the info used to create the iris hash) but isn't actually what they are doing. The impression is that once they have their algorithm "perfect" and never need to retest on source data they'll go back and delete all the data they have stored but who really trusts that will happen?
Can you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? It sounds like you have a lot of experience in this area and have substantive points to make, but you've been making them in an inflammatory way that is guaranteed to worsen the discussion. We're trying to go in the opposite direction here.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
It depends. Some days require lots of not-that-important decisions, other days I have to make a few high-quality-and-important ones.
Why an app? That I have to install?

Why not a web app? Seems easy enough.
Did that, but didn't find any particularly interesting. What am I supposed to see exactly?