skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I read '$$money$$' I picture a cartoon character who starts excitedly staring at something with dollar signs in their eyeballs before embarking on some harebrained scheme.

I don't think it's supposed to indicate that profit seeking is somehow bad or unnatural for companies to pursue, but that Hashicorp got caught up in something foolish and shortsighted because of some excessive eagerness and carelessness.
"It won't happen to me."

But it could! You may feel it makes sense. And for some of us it may make sense too.

What happens when it doesn't and you do not know?
I would love to hear more about your issue though. I have deployed LE in situations where I needed wildcard certs and didn't have access to the DNS server to set the challenge (literally a separate network) successfully. I have deployed it in situations where the DNS server doesn't even have an API at all.

I won't claim that it is always easy, but I really can't object to the short lifetime. I agree that the goal should be to automate this. After all, domain registrations aren't forever, you shouldn't be able to hold on to certificates to someone else's domain.
> It just feels to me like a silly strategy

SEO should be considered as a bare minimum amount of effort to increase discoverability. Some sites get most of their traffic from social media, so they don't need to optimize for search.
How would a browser know the difference between a self-signed certificate created by you and a self-signed certificate created by an attacker? You can create self-signed certificates on the fly based on the SNI.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_space this perhaps
I'm putting all my chips on the Mormons in the US to make it through for exactly this reason. Also because they keep a year of shelf stable food around.
Awesome reply, thx!
Do you have an idea on where you stand on incompatible changes that are strict improvements over TF? As a concrete example, https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/13022 - My only read on this is that Hashicorp arent doing this as this removes a key selling point of Terraform Cloud.
valid point, and to be honest i'm tired of reading the same argument over and over about utility classes and having to write out my "defense" over and over, sometimes it's easier to be snarky.

to be fair, his initial point didn't make any sense to me and was also of the same flavor of assuming something about people (equating utility classes with people not knowing CSS) and prompted my knee-jerk response. i clarified my point to him in a later reply. seems we did have a fine discussion?

but thanks for assuming that i'm full of it lol. ironic in a way that you'd criticize me while throwing the exact same ad hominem when you literally also know nothing about me.
Really depends on the area. If you’re sailing late in the season on Lake Superior or the North Sea, you might need a bit more than that when it’s below freezing and raining.
Dropbox drops unlimited storage, blames crypto miners, resellers for the change
Roger. I’m mainly saying jamming everything into a utility that is one prop per class is a mess. Mixing where appropriate is good.
I agree with this. I use L.E. for a handful of hobby domains, and it seems every 3 months, something fails, and I have to ssh in and diagnose and re-run something and restart some processes. Yuck. I’d rather just get/configure certificates once, and not have to worry about them anymore.

This feels like software that deletes its own config file every three months, just to make you write a script that regenerates the config. Make-work. It would be great to have a button “I understand the risks, give me a 5 year certificate.”
Ask HN: Clojure vs Elixir?
Problem is that practitioners of mental health treatment themselves cause much damage today. This will not change that. Perhaps we're not too far from an LLM causing less damage than the _average_ mental health practitioner – with far more availability not to mention affordability.
People often conflate AI progress with hardware progress.

If we had hardware as flexible, robust, and "cheap" as the human body, we'd solve a lot of these problems such as retail, trades etc.

The problem isn't software. It's hardware.
Can rock dams reverse climate change? [video]
Well. You would definitely have to very carefully select a very, VERY narrow slice of society, to get a piece where Qanon supporters make up a significant percentage of people.

But hey, if you are really looking to convince yourself of something, I have no doubt that it can be done.
At least for me as someone who made one, the inspiration was seeing really well done ones like OS.js or Windows 96 that got me thinking it was "possible" to make something realistic. But the core idea was less about making a desktop environment and more about my personal website being like someone RDP'd into my machine and could see all my stuff.
Judge tears apart Republican lawsuit alleging bias in Gmail spam filter
No Man’s Sky is a redemption story.
I don’t follow? You don’t think they can set up CI and migrate issues? It seems unlikely that there will be major breaking or architectural changes imminently.
They want to live in a world without consequences.
> At the end of the day, the question becomes “does this enable us to reduce our carbon emissions whilst keeping a reasonable quality of life”. And to that question nuclear is without a doubt a good thing

Solar and wind don't leave a ton of radioactive material behind.
Developer Updates on AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3
In the last case, had you just used a CSS variable, you could just change that.
Something I wondered is why there isn't a language model trained on doing just RAG.

my suspicion is the language model could be a lot smaller if it's just regurgitating things from the context above.
> > Anything that touches food is lined to within an inch of its life with plastic.

> I guess they could coat them in something else, like beeswax

Beeswax is a plastic, just not a petrochemical-derived plastic.
Thanks for sharing this tutorial.
Kinda. The Human Genome Project's reference genome is from 4 people. 70% of it is from one person, because that sample happened to be very good.
Ohad co-founder of env0 here, early supporter in the OpenTF initiative.
TFE and TFC have a future. Competition is good for everybody. It forces innovation.
However, only OpenTF will make sure to properly differentiate between the OSS layer and the commercial layer.
It would be completely reasonable for Apple to detect whether a part is non-Apple and then warn about it on each boot but otherwise cause no impairment of functionality. The second hand buyer would know as soon a they turn on the device.

But also, Apple has a certified refurbished program. The buyer of a second hand device also knows whether they bought it from Apple or not, and so "fuck that seller, he lied" is actually in their interest.
Attempting to retcon your arguments when your previous comments are in plain view is brazen, and essentially bullshitting to avoid admitting any kind of incoherence or mistake on your part. But keep going off, I guess.
It's generally not the law that companies need to censor this form of user generated content.
I tried sending test files from ios to android and vice-versa.

Both the times it errored out with “it was not possible to establish direct connection with the peer”

Both devices are in the same wifi network.
Is NASA Too Dependent on SpaceX and Elon Musk?
This used to be the normal way to make sure your logs weren’t 99.99% abuse attempts on low- to moderate-traffic sites, back in the day. Deny a few country-specific IP blocks and almost all of it went away. Maybe you lose one in ten thousand legit requests. Oh well.

Cloudflare’s the modern version of it, complete with factoring in origin location to a request’s likelihood to be abuse.
Or definitional? A "prepper type", by definition, is one that talks about it (a lot).
Right, but lets be honest, I don't care about 1995 of those providers. Nobody is using Terraform to manage spotify playlists [0]. The big ones are what matter, and (and HashiCorp manage the big ones)

[0] https://registry.terraform.io/providers/conradludgate/spotif...
That's arguably for regulators to decide though, not technologists who have no exposure to the harm they cause. I can't even say "engineers" because engineers are held to a standard of care [1] that people slinging code are not. The fact that medical practitioners are sometimes wrong is not a legitimate means to wave away AI safety.

In this instance, the solution isn't immature tech (that may [may!] one day be good tech), it's policy that enables healthcare access. You aren't going to fix that with LLMs. But, you know, that's what tech people keep doing. Poor tech solutions to people problems, and sometimes getting wealthy due to luck along the way.

[1] https://docs.acec.org/pub/18803059-a2fd-2d06-cc39-a6d1dd5752...
> Catalyst ingredients with a chance of being consumed (presently emulated with probabilistic outputs, native support could be interesting, the catalyst would just sit in the machine until it was consumed)

Not sure how interesting this would be. There is already coal, and Factorio is all about large-scale automation, so whether coal lasts for 10 recipes or has a 10% chance of being consumed on each recipe is almost irrelevant.
This is the second low-quality article from this website to hit the home page today.

I'm wondering what's afoot.
I sincerely hope this is AI generated.
LMQL, a Superset of Python, Helps Developers Use LLMs
What does "mole" mean in this context?
Dropbox Is Dropping Unlimited Storage, Blames Crypto Miners
There is always an STD risk, IIRC ~3% per year for condoms, which accumulates each year, always increasing, never decreasing.

So the probability that your condom does not fail in any year is 97%. The likelihood that your condoms don't fail for N years is (0.97)*N. Odds of "no failure" for 10 years is ~74% and for 20 years ~54%. Not so great. You're looking like a fuzzy STD taco -a high risk matchup with no gain. Your gambling friends seek out younger, safer partners. [And that's part of what they're doing, isn't it? After all, studs can calculate probabilities too.]

And that's just for condoms.

What you're describing is not "skill" but a peculiar form of addictive gambling.

And to top it off, there's always the "Lorena Bobbit" factor: a mate slices and dices b/c you gave him/her an STD.
Crypto mining is a cop out on their end. I doubt Chia miners were really using their systems. Plus, it would be easily detected and easily banned.
Yes. The people who "practice SEO" are pure cringe, and watching people buy into their snake oil is cringeworthy as well.
Tensors are objects that combine in a certain way and act on vectors in a certain way, they roughly represent a collection of linear transformations. One way to represent a tensor is a matrix after fixing a basis.
The CNCF process takes a bit longer and CNCF is part of the LF anyway. The project governance can benefit from being part of a reputable foundation as soon as practicable.

(Marcin here, one of the OpenTF folks)
I don't see why it would be the worst thing as a first level thing to interact with, freeing up doctors for more important tasks or trickier individuals.

How many people are showing up to doctors for bullshit, going to er for colds and mild flu's, or symptoms that can't be talked until tests are ordered

Last time I went to the Dr, I waited two hours, I finally saw a nurse who took down my symptoms, ordered a test, and said a Dr will follow up,who just gave me some antibiotics for a couple of days before even taking the test.

Why couldn't an llm take my symptoms, match it with similar tests needed and order the test automatically and have me leave with the same antibiotic?then follow up with a doctor when the lab is done.

Same for yearly physicals, just have an llm order all the tests and I'll talk with the dr later.

All sorts of low level stuff can be automated away.
Good is a direction.

A painter might study and practice enough to be as good as Michealangelo, but the attempt to be 'more good' or 'better than Michaelangelo' stops as soon he starts a serious painting. He has to finish the painting with the skill he has at that point.

I agree code should be unattached and you can throw it away. As soon as you start coding a program for a client, your attempts to become 'more good' as a coder and to write more ideal code, have stopped and it's time to make some code you can throw away or sell to the client.

But all the 'training' paintings you made on the journey to becoming 'good' have to be kept, because you trashed thousands of attempts along the way in pursuit of an ideal painting. The good painting is framed and hung on my wall. The commercial painting is sold to the client or trashed.

Yes, give up on 'good code' at work. Keep the ideal of good code as a direction to improve towards, not an end result in commercial works.

As soon as 'good' became explictly defined/bike-shedded it died anyway..... it's an infinite direction, not a limited thing that can be defined and boxed up.
If you want some Browserception, my desktop environment (https://dustinbrett.com/) can indeed do this. But after a few levels in Chromium you need to add a random query string (/?a=1) to the URL otherwise it stops working.
In comparing to human minds, LLMs are better understood as the "inner voice" part, not the mind. From that perspective, it's eerie how similar the two are in success and failure modes alike.

Yes, I'm saying here that peoples' inner voices are hallucinating in very similar fashion; "rejecting fictional generated output that makes no sense" is a process that's consciously observable and involves looping the inner voice on itself.
Brave isn't without sins either, particularly around crypto, their ad and search arbitrage and the creator payment tokens.

I'm not sure without a dutiful audit that I would trust any of that to be better. Simply, its trading one set of issues for another.
There's a website here in the UK which thinks my british IP address is non EU and tells me I can't use it because it's meant to only be used by EU citizens (oh the irony, the UK not being in the EU anyway, probably why they ban all of their british users without knowing lmao).
this feels... positive? spread the wealth a bit, lower real estate prices
That's not what this article is about. This article is whining about Meta banning their ads promoting the article (not even banning the article itself) that violated guidelines and then allowed the ad back on after minor changes such that it would be within guidelines and then acting like Meta is trying to censor the article.
I want to assume you're joking, but I've encountered people who earnestly think the essence of cyberpunk is the retro-80s neon aesthetic, so your comment is in Poe's Law territory for me.
How effective is oilskin? I see from a web searh that some people still use this, and it is potentially biodegradable with the right fabric and coating.
Yes, of course, the MMU also does that. But I'm not sure what that has to do with Unix systems requiring an MMU _by definition_ as the post I was replying to claimed. Obviously running a Unix-like system without an MMU will lack certain functionality, but it could feel very much like "a real Unix".
I mean, I understand it quite well. Through this understanding I am able to come to the conclusion that it bad.

Like, the very concept of a corporation is ordained by a society to provide benefit to the society, not (just) to the shareholders--otherwise there's no reason to enable its creation. Did Hashicorp's action better the society that granted its charter, or attempt to (and hopefully fail to) better its P&L?

I feel it is not unreasonable to simultaneously think that making some money in a sustainable fashion is a good thing--and at the same time also think that there is real value in expecting a functional moralism out of what are legally persons. I do realize that that is out of step with current (American) jurisprudence, but I also don't much care about that.
I'm not getting it.

How is this different from REPL mode in python, swift, or java? (There was even a REPL for Java 1.1.) Both the javac and eclipse compilers have incremental compilation, so they save state and do only the necessary updates -- and provide effective feedback at each step. One interesting project would be to use an incremental linker with clang/swift.

For human-interactive programming, the key feature is not speed of execution (or really compilation/build), but the clarity of the feedback and code-assist. IDE's are growng by leaps and bounds in content-assist features, and shell languages have blossomed of late by supporting type-completion almost as well as IDE's.

For interactive use, type-inference in the language would seem to be a key requirement, and that means a robust type system, likely reduced to a constraint solving algorithm. (Has anyone has made one of those work in an incremental mode?)

Finally, for ground-up or semantic prototyping, I would think a good way to try a new language/compiler combination would be Haskell, where people are starting to support incremental compilation. Here pandoc could be an interesting code base because it interprets multiple (markup and document) languages with the same AST. (Which itself suggests the investigating implementations for DSL's...)

So the article would seem to ignore longstanding work streams in this space, to focus on the wrong features, and not to consider some relevant alternatives.

So... it's easy to miss the forest for the trees? I must be missing something...
Yeah this was confusing to me. They both state that Google is making money from the certificate racket, while also suggesting that Google might come out with their own CA and kick out LE to corner the market. It's contradictory.

It was written back in 2019, but they were partially correct. Google did make their own CA (https://pki.goog), but they now also give certs out for free via ACME. And they didn't boot LE.
Why do you think 20s is a mistake? I mean, of course we can analyze what happens at longer time ranges, but I wouldn't say that was a mistake. Regarding the initial position we can also analyze what happens when some offset is allowed, but the game I designed consists on starting completely vertical.

In summary I agree it make sense to analyze your scenarios, buy I don't think they're mistakes.
> So in other words, a CLA.

Sure, in the same way that a cantaloupe is a hand grenade.
I swear they used to have a Terminal and a few other features that seem missing from the existing demo. I saw videos of it from nearly a decade ago where it had a lot more stuff.
You may be right on that one, but they still have copyright headers like this:

# Copyright (c) HashiCorp, Inc.
# SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0

This is enforced by a GitHub Actions check on every PR.
In cloudflare you can block access by country with just a few clicks.

The point of this article wasn't to completely restrict traffic from one country, but to reduce the vast amount of garbage/bot traffic that is generated by regions outside the US (like russia, for instance). Of course it can't stop simple use by VPN, but that wasn't the point. That would not really be "garbage traffic" unless it was a distributed attack.

That said, this article is light on substance.
> A Pentagon official tells Farrow that it “sucks” to live in a world where “Elon runs this company and it is a private business under his control.” I get the sentiment, but is he aware of how every other military capability is provided in the US? The problem of the military industrial complex isn’t limited to SpaceX, or even the executive branch—pork-barrel loving lawmakers helped create the conditions for SpaceX’s rivals to wallow in the trough. And SpaceX wouldn’t stand alone if companies like Boeing, which receive much more generous treatment from the government, hadn’t failed repeatedly to deliver.
rejct monke, return to crab
Call me a starry-eyed optimist but I think consumers are perfectly capable of understanding “you need to order the part off this website and I’ll install it for you”.

This is the tradeoff you make for not having iPhones stolen and stripped for parts. If you allow “blank” parts with no serial, or allow pairing with random serials, then people will steal phones and strip them.

I’m all for allowing “unpairing” of components when a unit is not in the “stolen lockout” state, such that they can be re-paired with other phones, but they do it for a reason, not just restricting repair.

The value delivered to the average customer by reducing theft risk isn’t zero, and actually it’s probably more than consumers gain from the ability to have a third-party shop install a counterfeit battery with half of its advertised capacity.

Apple battery replacements are dirt cheap, arguably actually probably dumping/under cost (this “byo part” thing usually ends up with repairmen whining that if they have to use first-party parts they can’t compete with apples pricing) because apple wants to make a show of greenwashing. So the commercial value of third-party battery repair is quite small. Is it all really actually worth saving 10 bucks?
> very smart people at the helm

Hear, hear. We would love to see them join forces with OpenTF.
CLA's required by some projects effectively require the contributor to give away all rights to the receiving organization. There are other forms of CLA that do not transfer these rights, but are still agreements (which is what the A stands for) between the contributor and the receiving organization. These might allow the recipient to change the license, or they might not. The DCO is just a statement and does not permit the receiving organization to distribute under incompatible licensing terms.
That graphic is misleading: https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/what-really-happened-in-1971
My distro-hopping ended at Fedora Silverblue.
Virding's First Rule of Programming:

http://rvirding.blogspot.com/2008/01/virdings-first-rule-of-...
Seems to block Thailand for absolutely no reason.

IMO blocking entire countries is completely useless then again I mostly have experience operating very high traffic sites, maybe things are different for tiny inconsequential blogs.
> The 5000 lines of if else that handles the menu state is a striking witness to this insanity.

> He takes the code from 40,699 lines to 7,731 and notably loved an excuse to work in C. “I had an absolute blast cleaning up this mess!”

I't just marvelous to learn what kind of crap coding makes it to production. It's a huge boost to my self-esteem.
I still wish CDNs in all their modern tech had less fluff. It is almost like they try to make even the pricing complex. I agree to your point though.
heads up display (HUD) was a good feature that I haven't seen re-implemented as a an option out of the box in another desktop environment.
That's now how public organizations are defined in the slightest....

You can complain that the way the world works is broken & should be fixed, but you can't redefine words to make your argument.
This basically just decreases NY/CA tax revenue from the investment firms, it does nothing to move the money.
The competition is between real platform engineering tools like yours, spacelift, humanitec, morpheus, etc. Real innovation, not just running TF plan/apply.
I bet what happened is that one of Apples internal qualia changed and caused them to flag this developer, and no human being with any ability to fix things ever actually took a look at what happened until the lawsuit was filed and Apple was at risk of actually losing money because of it.

I hope they get a multiplier on their damages. $725,000 for 4 months of downtime for 7 people doesn't seem like enough.
What makes you say that neural networks hallucinations are random? There's absolutely no reason for them to be.
Thinly veiled ad thats no more substantial than the submission title. TFA doesn't provide any analysis of which countries drive abusive traffic, only asks you to contact the author for your SEO needs.