skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not reasonable to ask a country like China to suppress their "geopolitical ambitions".

When you're that big, politically, militarily, economically, you need to be able to "clear your orbit" of other territories that could smash into you. It might be direct military involvement, or aggressive economic intervention (Belt and Road)

Was this where Japan stumbled? They were militarily neutered after WWII and largely subject to US political whims-- did that restrict their ability to prevent Taiwan and Korea from stealing their economic thunder?
I bet your bathing products aren’t far off
Back in the mid-90s, when Laser Tag was peak nerd entertainment, there was an arena nearby that offered MechWarrior-style LAN combat.

It was super amazing, more than a typical arcade experience, because you got encased in this cabinet with all the controls your body could handle, to run a gigantic MechWarrior with/against all your closest friends.

We went in a fairly large group. I don't recall the capacity of the game or the LAN, but obviously limited by number of rather expensive pods. It was exciting, but also really confusing to me: I didn't know the controls, the environment, or the object, and so I just sort of flailed and listened to my friends yelling and shouting, until time expired.
It's nice to see "modern" tools that aren't JS/NPM and the associated crab grass dependency tree.
That’s a company name that didn’t age well.
> Except for a tiny percentage of oddballs like me, classical music is essentially dead

Opera may have fallen out of popularity, but stage and screen musicals are still popular.

Classical music may have fallen out of popularity, but film music in the classical style is certainly popular.

I also keep noticing how certain popular classical works or excerpts (such as O Fortuna from Carmina Burana, Dies Irae from Mozart's Requiem, the overture from Carmen, etc.) are used as stand-in music and in film promotion, and many classical pieces show up in film releases as well.

Along with the yourself and the author, I concur that film music may be a gateway into wider appreciation of classical music.
100% rollout is the default for me when submitting an app. You're saying it's not for you?
But no one is truely going to live forever. They'll die from disease or accident or murder.

Everyone dies man.
Another clever Australian invented the practice of removing the bag from the box and hanging it on a Hills Hoist clothes line.

https://assets.atlasobscura.com/media/W1siZiIsIjIwMTcvMTEvMT...
Imagine living on the edge like this permanently ? Not the kind of world I think we want to live in ?
>I don’t know any personal acquaintance or any celebrity that has one. Perhaps I do but I’m not aware

I guess that's another allure for it: OF isn't really indexed, so it creates some privacy and security despite being a public website to link to. Very easy to have a 2nd twitter which links to OF and have your peers be none the wiser.
I was responding to the article which focused really heavily on therapeutic applications, hence my focus in the last paragraph there
People much higher than me at Vercel advocated for killing the entire category more than once.
Can you get down from your high horse long enough to answer a simple question --- can a MITM like Privoxy operate in a transparent manner and decrypt TLS traffic in order to block ads?

Possible or not?

If Privoxy can do this, why wouldn't any other unknown/hostile MITM be able to do the same?
I do think that is an interesting and worthwhile perspective, and broadly I agree with it. But I think a better way to do that is to spin up an HN clone, Mastodon instance, or Discord server. I don't think HN can really support that use case, because it goes against the culture and isn't supported by the platform itself.
The Slashdot-ization of HN. lolz
I see this sentiment again and again, but the Windows 95 experience I remember included frequent spinning hourglasses, blue screens of death from faulty drivers, everything grinding to a halt when memory is near exhaustion or files are being copied between disks, tons of third party applications (and even Microsoft applications, like Office) that disregarded the Windows UI standards, constantly having to run CHKDSK and defrag, not to mention malware/virus vulnerability...

Latency when the system is under low load was definitely better, although a big contributor to that is changes in input and display hardware. But otherwise I'd much rather have today's "bloated" experience over the real world of the '90s.
I once met the son of one of Chile's largest wine producers. He had recently set up his own wine export business. When he mentioned he was also selling cask wine (i.e. wine in a cardboard box with a plastic bladder), I assumed this was cheap, inexpensive wine. He told me that he sold some of his better wines this way because a lot of European hospitality businesses preferred it. Makes sense when you consider that it will keep much better than bottled wine once 'opened'.
Is it accessible enough it can be soldered-out, or is this one of those effectively-permanent things?
> If you want legitimate spirited debate and can learn to ignore trolls removing the voting system would bring HN closer to the fantasy it's readers seem to believe it is.

You're free to turn on the "showdead" setting to read comments that have been heavily downvoted or flagged. I had it turned on for a while, and then turned it off after confirming to myself "yep, didn't miss a thing".
From ALB to Caddy – Our Wandering Path to Supporting Thousands of Domain Names
Which, ironically and tragically, makes the characteristics of the particular human the most impactful variation in the information chain.

A bit like how the quality of a science journalist has more impact on the quality of reported science than the quality of the science.
Yes, but at the same time, I doubt that any of those countries would be able to lay claim to such dubious achievements as “allowing corrupt politicians to sell their people into sex slavery without fear”.
Government needs to step in and investors need to write it as a total loss.

Making people pay could collapse the entire economy.
>IMO, legalizing it would let creators own their brand, get rid of exploitative race-to-the-bottom content, and give buyers/sellers confidence/acceptance to pursue their needs in a regulated and safe way.

I'm all for legalization, but I think this idea of "giving power to self hosted content" will go as well as pretty much any other blog site that's been replaced by tumblr, medium, wordpress, or ugh... Twitter. Yes, people would rather type out rants 300 characters at a time over 20 posts than use a proper word processing unit.

Anyways, legalization won't solve the algorithm race. We're still dealing with those issues even on sites that ban 18+ content.
Every library in these United States is an Internet cafe. Well, perhaps only a small portion serve food and drink (mine does) but they have long been the gold standard of hangouts for people who need a public computer and Internet access.

Libraries often hold classes to teach basics to the elderly. They often have a tech support desk for all computer questions. They not only have public, timed terminals, but they also have great WiFi and anyone can bring in a notebook or phone instead. Mine has a few charging stations with lots of cables.
Do you mean because people just use metric in those contexts, or that everyone avoids math?

I assure you people regularly figure out how many small things fit in a large thing. I places where those things are measured in feet and miles, that's what they'd use.
Since you're going into your freshman year I'll offer my college advice as a current senior. The moment that you feel a class will be covering something you already know, reach out to your advisor and the professor. I personally wasted far too much time in intro classes that could've been easily bypassed. While easy A's are great for the GPA, it's better to spend your time and money actually learning.
This doesn't work terribly well in humid climates as you don't get as much of the evaporative effect as you would otherwise.
Thanks for continuing to write as you can.

Both of my parents are simultaneously dying from different forms of cancer. My father the same as yours (it started in his upper gum line). My mother a rare form of bile duct cancer. They’re not the sort to engage in psychedelics, but I suppose in some way their deep religious beliefs and experiences served the same purpose.

Your story and others I’ve read have really helped me understand the turmoil they’re facing internally and externally, and to analyze what I’ve been feeling to this point.

Perhaps a brief trip into the unknown is in my future.
Why not leave it filled with wine, and just accept the fact that the pillow will get smaller as the trip progresses.
An Eternity Service Built on Usenet News (1997)
It's odd to me when people say backups are a feature.

They are not.

Restoration, however, is.

And has to be tested...
The more layers of automation we add, the more invisible points of failure. Magic is great until it isn’t.

I feel their pain. The sinking feeling when you realize that data is gone and not coming back is an awful experience.
you're just aruging past each other without defining "normalization". Some people would say Video games are normalized, while some still think people make fun of adults who play them. We'd need a proper lens before we start arguing if something meets the criteria.
You mean the same way alcohol, drugs, sugar, gambling, cheap credit etc. are marketed?
Wow... tooling that deletes a bunch of stuff because a manifest file is missing. Just... wow.

I feel for the admin here. This seems equivalent to an accidental `sudo rm -rf /`.
Is there an alternative anyone would recommend.

It might not be the best question to ask given the complexity of the software and experience/culture of the team.
On Identifying Risks
Moreso than this: redundancy.
If you care enough to do your own research and math, you will definitely know that <# forks> / <# stars> for VanJS is in a normal range.
https://archive.is/H6Kpj
> Why extensively use something about which we know very little what the environmental effects are?

Because burning jet fuel in an enclosed interior ship space while hundreds of miles from land is a bigger and more immediate threat?

It makes sense to phase out dangerous chemicals wherever we can, but sometimes their use is a chemical imperative because there are no equivalent alternatives.

The X-37 reportedly uses hypergolic nitrogen-tetroxide + hydrazine fuel, which means everyone wears spacesuits around it on the ground. But it solves an engineering challenge that more mundane fuel mixes don't. Ergo, they use something toxic and dangerous.
> Integer overflows themselves are not significant, they have to be paired with other mechanisms to be actually vulnerable

No, that is not true. That's a misconception. Your sentence is true for unsigned integer overflows, but not for signed integer overflows, which are undefined behavior in C.

Compilers assume that signed overflows are not possible. They exploit that assumption to perform many significant and important code optimizations, which greatly improve performance. Those optimizations can cause the program behavior to change dramatically in the case that a signed overflow would happen.

In some cases, the compiled code behaves in ways that have nothing to do with how the program was written.

In extreme (but real, documented) cases it can have effects like:

1. Security vulnerabilities being introduced in the compiled code, even though the source code appears to be perfectly safe.

2. Code that isn't called anywhere to be called.

3. The program crashing even though the code looks completely safe, and in fact would have been perfectly safe if the optimizations hadn't been performed.

4. And many more.

These are not theoretical or hypothetical effects. They are real effects that have been demonstrated in real code compiled with widely used compilers (GCC and clang), in some cases in high-profile projects like the Linux kernel, glibc and OpenSSL.

> and Rust also agrees, whether overflow checks are enabled or not does not affect the memory safety

That's because in Rust, signed integer overflows are well-defined.

In C, they are not well-defined. They are undefined behavior.

> Unless reporters have figured out an ingenious way to exploit a single integer overflow, the OP's reaction is completely justified.

I agree! It is completely justified.

However, the OP's assertions that the code is perfectly safe because it looks like a harmless integer overflow and that anyone can take a look at the code and figure out that it's not a vulnerability, are not justified.

It would be OK to say that the bug is unlikely to be a vulnerability. But not that it is not a vulnerability, at least, not without a much deeper look into why it is not (which would likely include looking at the disassembled code under multiple platforms, multiple compilers and multiple compiler versions).

To be clear, I believe that the burden of proving whether the bug is (or is not) a vulnerability is not on the OP. I would say it would be on those who have assigned a high severity to the CVE.

But that still doesn't make the assertions written by the OP correct.
I don't understand the backup failure, how did you not notice your PVCs weren't being backed up? Like wouldn't you realize they were too small or happening too fast? It seems like the root cause is people not having their work checked from first principles.
I mean I agree with much of what you’d said, you’re interpreting me as saying I expected him to correct the record or cover it, I never did. I just was surprised that he was completely dismissive when it directly addressed some of the pain points he was talking about.

And… You’re saying I’m being rough when he’s accusing me of being delusional, which is frankly so totally out of line and I think speaks to his character way more than mine.
Yes, sometimes if you are unemployed you need financial stability fast or loose valuable resources and assets.

So you take what you can find for a job.

For some reason, getting a job from unemployment is often very difficult, while it is much easier to find a new position when you already employed.

You are more confident then, have a better stance in negotiation, etc.

If you have enough resources and assets to burn through, while skilling up without pay, you are quite lucky.
Oof. I've been there. The rush of adrenaline and then just feeling completely wrecked and empty is something that sticks with you for a long time. Take care, lone admin - don't be too hard on yourself.
> boxed wine, which hides the plastic bag in a cardboard box with a little spout, and now wine in a bag is commonplace

Never seen boxed wine personally and would never consider it respectable
So is alcohol, cigarettes, cheap credit, factory work, cheap fashion, gambling etc. etc. etc.
In Israel they produce single-serving chocolate milk bags, which now mainly serve as a fond dose of nostalgia for me.
this seems to be an internet trope because it's completely wrong in reality or completely lacking in nuance? the japanese usually have some kind of decorum when interacting with people they are not familiar with but once you get through that layer you'll find they are actually individuals with preferences and they can be friendly or unfriendly just like anyone else in the world.

i wonder if those who simply spout things like this expect to be treated as an insider on first meet? is this the same sort of people who also go to places like paris or stockholm and wonder why those sort of people are unfriendly too? "why don't these people smile at strangers" and "why is restaurant service so poor?". i see this opinion a lot and i just don't get where this is coming from.
Also, Safari dropped support for the .safariextz format years ago.
In what sense was the Evergrande situation caused by geopolitics? I was under the impression causes and effects were wholly domestic.
Are they actually designed and manufactured in inches, or only marketed in inches?

Almost everyone called 90 mm floppy disks "3.5 inch", despite the fact the formal standard which defined their dimensions was metric. I believe the same was true of the "5.25 inch" disks which preceded them. (I think the original 8-inch floppy disks were non-metric though???)
Not really appropriate for discussion in this particular forum.
Goon of Fortune!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goon_of_Fortune
That's older than I remember other "time capsules" being. When did people start doing this?
It's actually worse at my local Toronto Walmart:

Sealtest 4L = $5.89

Sealtest 2L = $5.18, or $10.36 for 4L as 2L cartons.
I now understand why I'm not – and will never be – rich. My first (and last) employer complained about my preference for stable and reliable solutions, equating it with lesser profits. According to him, unstable solutions requiring frequent maintenance meant more revenue. To me, a job is well-done when it works consistently, not when it demands constant fixes.

This is a great point. Haven't you noticed the teams that have downtimes constantly are hailed like heros for saving the day countless times. Yet the guys that have services running 24/7 for years without a hiccup will be the first ones on the chopping block when finances get tight.

I am also in that boat. I too like systems that never fail, defensive programming, proactive attention. I'll never be rich and most of my company has no idea what I do. It's still the right thing to do.

Boring that never fails = Quality.
/remind me 200 years. curious to what the people in 2223 have to say about us.
You can get it at US grocery stores and some of it is competitive on quality with other wines in the same or slightly higher price ranges. It's fairly popular for family dinners, e.g. when there aren't guests over but Mom and Dad want a glass.
It blows my mind that people can be that disinterested in how the things they use actually work.

I would never want to be that dependent on first-level helpdesk to solve my problems for me.
I know for a fact engineers on my team that called me crazy for thinking scrum is snake oil sold to management will upvote this.
You mean they ignore the seven or so years that the Americans were in charge of Japan after the Japanese state went on a 30 year rampage through East Asia and the Pacific where Americans have supposedly treated the Japanese poorly during that time?
The design differences between the Japanese trains and the American ones is so sad.

The Japanese trains are significantly more aesthetic, let alone their superior function.
Anyone who would feel a "crippling loss" if their data disappeared must execute a real world real failure test at least annually. Disconnect the storage, attach new storage, and go.
prostitution, maybe. But porn? This just sounds like "Sex is good, but don't show it to anyone but people you care about". "Porn" as itself is such a general term that it can really mean anything involving exposed genitals.

Either way, I feel "sex positive" means being able to respect differences. So it feels weird to call oneself that but also feel that consenting adults cannot exchange money to have sex, even if you never personally want to deal with that.
This post screams agenda. What is "warning shot"? They shot themselves in the foot with a property bubble to anger the US!!??

I'd move on.
> Aleph is not the symbol for Graham's number, rather it is the symbol for Cantor's orders of infinity.

So? We weren't doing math theory. Foreign language instead. He's allowed to entertain himself after his lessons are done, and he'll be familiar with that stuff when he does get there.

> Also, if he had a good teacher,

Sure. If he had one. The implication that there's any such teacher in public schools within 100 miles of us is absurd.
"compare the call sequence against the API usage rules"

The validity of this entire paper would seem to depend on how robust and agreed upon these "API usage rules" are.
The evergrande situation has nothing to do with the US or the trade war or the political tensions between PRC and the USA, it has more to do with the internal economic situation of China really.
It's less than optimal.
The stuff on the shelves is rarely sized precisely enough for the units to matter. I've bought 1/4" ply that measured much closer to 6.0 mm than to 1/4".
The real meat and potatoes here is, how can I find out who has added me to their foe list?
Is it all fediverse data? If so, could the data be reconstructed from copies scattered amongst caches on other parties' servers?
And play any kind of physical sport if not able to work out.
I have seen this argument before, but I'm not sure that I buy it. Even if you count every footfall, you are not magically going to somehow use, say, only your left foot. At the end of a km, you will have 600 double paces or 1199, 1200 or 1201 single paces. Well within the margin of error.

My hypothesis is this: Actually try to count every foot when you’re out. If you count only every second footfall, you can mentally go "a-one-a-two-a-three" and so on, but counting every foot, there are just too many of them. At least I get brain overload from it.
Automation is wonderful for creating things, configuring things and moving things.

Automation should never "clean up". Do your cleanup manually, or this is what you get.
"I just don’t see how it could save time."

Have you tried it much?

It's saved me a ton of time over the past 8 months. I don't know what else to say - I'm not the kind of person to deceive myself into thinking something is saving me time when it isn't.

The time saved is mainly in the micro-research you no longer have to do - the bits where you have to go and look up how to write a for loop in Bash, or how to call super() in a Python class, or which exceptions you need to catch for a call to httpx.get().

GPT-4 writes the code right 90% of the time. The 10% of the time it doesn't you catch in the same testing you would have done against code you had written yourself the long way.
Which is on the verge of being renamed to Aylo: https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/18/23837670/pornhub-parent-c...
It sounds like they did test restorations, but didn't correctly verify the results. It's not very clear though.

>While manual backup and restore tests were run once a month to ensure our backups were functioning, they were run manually.
Very sad. But also a miss on admin's part, even if unfortunate. They did not realize during manual restore testing that volume was not being backed up.

"Yes and also apparently no. We use #Velero to capture backups of our cluster every 6 hours. From what I had seen our backups had been running successfully. I discovered once the incident started that backups had captured everything but the Persistent Volume Claim data. While manual backup and restore tests were run once a month to ensure our backups were functioning, they were run manually. After digging into why our restores were not coming up with data, I found that our recurring backups were missing the flag to run volume backups with Restic which snapshots PVC block volume data."
Easier to type into any general purpose calculator. It’s also so much more accurate when trying to enter into any CAD/CAM software.

It’s also easier to add up 10 different decimal numbers than the same number of mixed numbers.