skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, let's take the fact that I'm brainwashed while you are a free thinking sovereign citizen who just understands reality better than everyone else for granted.

The fact remains that they can't sell me a new car and deliveries are years out - so I'm a brainwashed person who tried to buy a gas minivan and was told that it wasn't available. Or did I just imagine that?

If you'd like, you can contact Stampede Toyota (https://www.toyota.ca/toyota/en/dealer/14058) and have a discussion with them if you feel I'm lying to you
Feature or bug? What about a hash algorithm with a fixed point when its input is all nulls?
It is also a great material to build the frame of various kinds of antennae for SDR uses.
That's why HTTPS is still a pain in the butt. 30 years after it was invented.

I don't want internally used subdomains to be public. Because of certificate transparency, the only way to achieve that is via wildcard certs.

Let's encrypt only supports cumbersome validation methods for those. Like changing DNS records every time you need to renew the cert.

Pretty annoying.
How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
> since I'd like it to be viewable in old browsers (IE6, Firefox 2, etc.)

You SHOULD only distribute your website over TLS 1.2 or later, which locks out IE<11 and Firefox<27.

(I will not engage in any discussion about the truth of this SHOULD, since I know it to be sometimes mildly controversial and the subject has been done to death; if you’re not familiar with the arguments, searching should find them easily enough.)
But the problem is the ADDICTION, not the substance itself. People are trying to point out that if you are against marijuana legalization (because people become addicts), then you must also be against legal alcohol, as it is a much more destructive and addictive substance. And you haven't answered with anything except "weed is bad for you!"
The newsletter is much better than the posted article. It's a detailed critique and discusses alternatives. Efinancialcareers posts a lot of low effort blog posts.
> The tying together is tying together because you can sensibly separate them and the customer might like to use Microsoft Word with Google Drive or LibreOffice with OneDrive.

They might like to, but those options are just not available in the market, and that's not an anti-trust issue. I might like to have a Tesla with Apple Car play. I might like to have Ford Ranger with an engine made by Toyota. But these companies are under no obligation to satisfy my desires. I am free to make those combinations happen at great inconvenience to myself, but those companies are in no way expected to help me do that.
https://ibb.co/zmm5HK1

found it. i was almost there but its much better
This is so insightful. I’m going to remember this.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/859178/projected-world-e... claims around 7 TW
Intel TSFFS: coverage-guided snapshot fuzzer for SIMICS (kernel, firmware, boot)
on a 1.44MB floppy?
They can't because they have no oil refineries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oil_refineries

(The US has 125.)
Nice, last time I used Wolframalpha for this.
Ring announces a wearable for your lost pets that's just a QR code
Mushroom Laws by US State
Legality of Cannabis by U.S. Jurisdiction
https://archive.li/43jZA
Borg 2 has been in development for nearly a year and a half [1] and may probably be released early next year, i.e., early 2024 (just a guess, seeing that even RC1 is not yet released and seems to have a lot of work to be done).

Does anyone know how Borg 1.x and 2 would compare to Kopia?

[1]: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/6602
In California, at least, this is illegal unless the code competes with the company's products.
I don't have a problem with the US bullying others. My problem is that people here on HN and in the west in general, demonizing China for doing the exact same thing when the US has done worse. They think it's ok to boycott Chinese products, but they won't boycott product from their own country. They will say that the Chinese government is evil, but is completely ok with the government of their own. They will say China has no right to bully Vietnam, but they will vote in politicians who advocate for war with just about anyone.

It's hypocritical. Don't demonize China unless you're willing to demonize yourself.

Hell, don't demonize China unless you read their point of view too. I'm sure you're only getting one POV.
Is woke really the modern version of hippie/green? I feel like a lot of people myself included can support and appreciate environmental issues but have no interest in this woke culture nonsense.
If "originally designed" refers to the ten-days-in-May Mocha then == on unlike type operands evaluated to false. I've told why this changed later many times, e.g., https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1440088359473324036.
I don't know. I think that may have other issues with the additives to make it flexible, but that's outside my knowledge.

The East Palestine train wreck recently was carrying a big load of vinyl chloride among other things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Ohio_train_derailment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl_chloride

Maybe other plastics are just as bad, but it seems like not making stuff out of vinyl chloride if we can possibly help it might be a good move generally.
Fixed. Now is light again. I didn't like it either :-)
Going on a tangent:

> Why was the Euro so weak back in 2000? It was launched, without coins or notes, in January 1999. The Euro was, initially, a sort of in-game currency for the European Union. It existed only inside banks - so there were no notes or coins for it. That all came later. So did belief - early on it didn't look like the little Euro was going to make it: so the rate against the Dollar was 0.8252. That means that in October 2000, a Dollar would buy you 1.21 Euros (to reverse exchange rates, do 1/rate). Nowadays the Euro is much stronger: a Dollar would buy you less than 1 Euro.

Even if the Euro initially only existed electronically, it still had fixed exchange rates with the old currencies of the EU zone members. Most importantly with the established and well-trusted Deutsche Mark of Germany.

So any explanation of 'why was the Euro initially weak' also has to explain why the DEM was weak at the time. The explanation given in that paragraph doesn't sound like it's passing that test.
I find these Doodles useful enough that I could have bared it! But thank you.
Outlive
I got back an empty list for my domain on Cloudflare with several subdomains (non wildcard)

edit: I retried on my computer (was on my phone earlier) and now it returns all of our subdomains, even picking up our test R2 bucket. In guessing I was rate limited because I accidentally loaded the example file a few times
Yes. Also, in the ancestor predicate, the arrow should be in the other direction.
Well yeah, that's kind of why I brought it up. PVC is cheap, available, and easy to use. Is there some other material that could replace PVC but made from less environmentally undesirable materials? Is it available at hardware store? If not, could it be?
Not diminishing the article at all, there's massive value I've gained from leveraging this runtime solution in multiple projects: https://github.com/antonmedv/expr

The language is easy enough for people to pick-up.
It's half about using Deno Deploy and needing a way to store persistent data across edge servers and half about having a database you can just use in your own runtime.

Of course there's a lot of other databases, but we programmers forget that for beginners it is setting up the DB which is the barrier to entry.
What’s funny is that Americans don’t seem to realize Europeans can see the cost of all the shiny things like trillion dollar companies, billionaires, “cool” services and the like all the way from across the ocean.

To most of them, everytime someone is trying to yank their chain by talking about “losing out” or lack of big tech companies, it’s the equivalent of someone suffering from the bubonic plague bragging about their fashionable buboes.
US corporate espionage is also shared with select companies for economic gains. This has been going on since forever. Google Echelon.
Don't use PVC for any pressure applications like potato guns!
Can you source the claim about Washington State?
You might like https://www.benjamin-schieder.de/nethacklinux.html

Replace nethack with your favourite editor, and it might just work. (Well, also replace the floppy disk with something faster.)
> "Everything is virtually dispatched" reduces the ability to make inlining decisions sensibly.

you can use "static" keyword?..

> Escape analysis gets harder (and less effective), leading to moving fewer variables onto the stack.

does go have the same idea of escape analysis with benefits and issues?..
Is it the phrasing you think is racist? I don't think pointing out the fact that the student body of a given school is, for example, 20% Chinese, is racist. It's merely a statement of fact.
I get a rate limit error when I click the text input (I'm on a VPN).
Veeam does both file and full system backups. Kopia is meant to do only file backups.

Veeam is an enterprise solution, and popular among sysadmins.
Pineapple ONE: open-source 32 bit RISC-V CPU that you can make at home
Those SAN and CN names will appear in publicly visible certificate transparency lists ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_Transparency ): so if you ever get a TLS certificate for a super-seeekret internal sub-sub-sub-domain-name from a major CA then it won't be secret for long. The only way to keep a publicly-resolvable DNS subdomain confidential is to either get a wildcard cert for the parent domain or find a dodgy (yet somehow widely-trusted) CA that doesn't particiate in CT - or use a self-signed cert.

This subdomain.center database returned one of my "private" sub-sub-domains (which just points to my NAS) for which I did get a cert from LetsEncrypt, but it doesn't have any of my other sub-sub domains listed (despite resolving to the same A IPv4 address as the listed subdomain) because those subdomains have only ever been secured by a wildcard cert.
I just want to say I am sorry you have to cope with people trying to convince you you are not free for no reason
> apparently I can’t figure out how to permalink a post

The link on the timestamp of a post points directly to the comment.
If the subdomains aren't supposed to be public, the public also doesn't need to trust the TLS certs. Sign them with your own CA and trust it on the devices that should be able to access the domains.
If you have a suggestion I'm sure it would be welcome.

Generally, if there were a better solution we would be using it. If you know of one, you should share it with us.

If you don't, maybe work on finding one.
Ask HN: How could I hire someone in Bangalore to watch me for 8 hours a day?
I recently saw this post a friend had written again: https://www.simonberens.com/p/i-hired-5-people-to-sit-behind-me

and realized that being in India instead of the Bay Area, I could possible afford to pay someone to do this every day. I'm not really sure how to tap into local networks to find someone to do this for me though; any suggestions on how to hire someone that could come to my house and:
- wake me up
- ask me for data on how i'm feeling every few hours/analyze it once a week
- make sure I do what I set out to do
- help me figure out why I'm not doing things if I don't want to do them
I wouldn’t dare writing so much about things I don’t know so well. My blog would be a lot more empty.
"Won't someone PLEASE think of the money?"
This is exactly what I was hoping for. Thanks.

I wish there was some way for us to keep in touch. There are a few things I was hoping for some thoughts on, and most of the people here don't have emails in their profiles.
Was thinking the same thing - travelling salesman problem, no?
It's both the phrasing and the content.
I think you are supposed to automate the renewal with the DNS record method.
Is the blood pressure increase (with increase in sodium intake) temporary, which implies that the body gets used to the increased sodium and blood pressure drops back to some average/normal level after days or weeks of the new intakes?

If yes, why is it that a very common advice from doctors and all kinds of “health information sites” is to cut salt and sodium to manage or reduce high blood pressure? Is the sensitivity to sodium not easy to detect or is it actually more prevalent in the population?
PVC is mildly toxic.
Static == final?
But we spot these diseases the world over, not just in the US where it is lucrative.

A lot of countries this medication is purchased and bargained for at the government level and then provided to individuals for low cost/no cost (outside of tax).

It’s also assessed at the total population level. So I don’t know how you could convince a country (say) to buy something that makes them ill then sell them the cure. They have the efficacy data of both things.

Or are you suggesting that it is a cross industry collision, like shampoo that create diabetes, and then they sell us diabetes cures?
100k, 10 million? Please give us a guess. How many are in known languages, how many unknown languages?
As far as I could tell, it can't be installed offline or without a MS account. There's no offline installer. If a rewrite corrects this, that's a huge win
Why Explore Space
Running the models on laptops overnight? They know desktops and servers exist right?
One difference I noticed some time ago is Duplicati allows encryption with GPG keys but Kopia afaik doesn't provide that.
>How many of these burger joints own the building they operate in?

Roughly half. Nearly all of the locally owned ones.

>Inflation was a huge problem 10 years ago. It’s why I stopped renting.

No it wasn’t. At least not by any quantitative measures.
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I think that is just what you’re being led to believe. I meet pretty hardcore conservatives all the time who have Teslas or other EVs. Hell, I can walk to the end of my street and there is a front door covered with a large Trump flag that has 2 EVs, a Model 3 and some Ford, in the garage.
Hexadecimal clock counting down to 2038 problem
Sounds like we need wikiconomy crowd-sourced model building over two open-source platforms:

- mathematical macro-economic simulation run by differential dependencies (like Minsky)

- agent-based Monte-Carlo platform for behavioural experiments to find or validate the macro rules

There would be a core set of models, with parametrized instances running for each country, loosely coupled through trade flows, capital flows, FX markets and migration.
what concretely are you concerned about if a "random weirdo" knows your address?
Yeah, we can't distinguish the arguments. Can't have a parent named X, I guess.
The subdomain explorer may be fun, but their Exploit Observer is really useful: https://www.exploit.observer/
It’s not obvious in that previous example, but you can also write shaders in js, in addition to the built in abstractions for SDFs.

https://shaderpark.com/sculpture/-Nc57ho13qXl3G7fQ2wy

There are some limitations but again the point is just to explore new possibilities!
That addresses an entirely different problem.
Nitpick, but relational does not mean joins, it means tables/rows of tuples. A "relational document database" which is the slogan of Fauna it seems is a contradiction in terms.
This is a great thread, and it shows the power of smart, tech-capable citizens.
In context blockchain is referring to a distributed set of hash structures + a consensus algorithm
static methods, they won't be virtually dispatchable, and will be potentially inlined.
Queueing Theory: An introduction for software development
Saudi Arabia is squeezing the oil market just as consumption surges
Not sure if it was DARPA, but the web server used Tame, a custom event-driven framework at a time where the thread vs. events debate was all the rage in the academic community. (I did a PhD on the topic and that's how I learned about Ok Cupid!)

You can read the paper they published: "events can make sense"
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/usenix07/tech/krohn.htm...

I met some ex-OkCupid engineers at a later company who said the framework was smart but a pain to maintain in then long run.
> especially when fiction has much better stories

The Bible stories are mostly fiction as well.
So an engineer learns how to make something, and then goes elsewhere to make it.

To be honest, the way you put ut, the story feels OK to me.

There are many truly bad examples, e.g. the arm china story, but engineers doing their thing is not one of them.
Ask HN: Is The Guardian down for you too?
Trying to go to The Guardian's homepage and it leads to this URL:

https://www.theguardian.com/europe

which has a URL to go back to the homepage but it's a redirect back to the URL above.

Image for reference: https://i.imgur.com/OgM8GZt.png
> albeit lesser ones than those it is solving

Very doubtful. Small inconvenience for the oligarchs (is it a crime to be an oligarch by the way?) and drug traffickers, lot of inconvenience for a lot of innocent people. In my opinion, the war on financial privacy has been a net negative for society. A massive cost with little reward. Global AML compliance cost alone is estimated at ~300$ billion/year and that doesn't account for the invisible cost (e.g. billions of unbanked and underbanked people). How much crime does it really stop?

[0] https://www.forbes.com/advisor/banking/costs-of-being-unbank...
For cuneiform see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36446876 on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36446289
MacOS X makes heavy use of xattrs, too.

> Yes, there's a whole bunch of things currently not captured at the filesystem level, including setuid/gid, hardlinks, mount points, sockets, xattr, ACLs, etc.

That was three years ago and it sounds like things are only slightly better.

These people are incompetent at making backup software.
In the west, I sometimes wonder if we already have a scoring system which ensures only good citizens can access housing, food and the rest.

It’s called “money”, which together with credit scoring functions to make sure you abide by the rules society sets: no pay, no play.
https://github.com/projectdiscovery/subfinder does this, but it explains all the methods and lets you choose to only do a passive scan.
I feel like the USA was probably ahead of the curve on things like the banking system in the 90s but removing all of that cruft and replacing with a v2 is not an easy thing to do. Especially when the population are generally skeptical of government and outsourcing to a private corporation is seen as the cheaper option. Short term it's potentially cheaper/quicker to outsource but long term maintenance contracts and lobbying to keep things as they are is much more expensive.

In the USA you find these whole industries that exist due to the inadequacies of the old systems. E.g. venmo doesnt need to exist in Western Europe (and probably rest of world?) because person-to-person bank transactions are free and easy.
Because creating a substance that when injected selectively turns off immune response to a single molecule is going to be way easier to administer, cheaper to manufacture, and more effective than say airborn anthrax spores...
They seem to have edited out "open-source" now.

Still, a free for personal use model is better than none. Hopefully, we will soon have some adaptation from Llama 2 that matches it, fairly soon.
Economics sits at that intersection between the social sciences and the exact sciences: you can get some useful quantitative predictions out of it, but that is discounted by the fact that people are messy, and become even messier where money is concerned.
Omid Malekan on why crypto is not a scam
I love the last line of the colophon (About Da Site):

> Everyone is wonderful, even you! (Yes you!)
Found out recently that GitHub markdown supports Mermaid
Bibliographies of books I find useful, for nonfiction.

Specific author recommendations.

The related-books adverts at the end of many books.

Literary magazines within genres of interest.

Book reviews: NY Times, London Review of Books, LA Review of Books, New York Review of Books, Kirkus Reviews, etc.

Catalogues. Worldcat's been considerably enshittified in recent years, but remains useful. Open Library is increasingly appropriate.

ZLibrary's recommendations tend to be surprisingly useful, though it's harder to access these days.
(I once saw a Google result for Stackoverflow that included a username in it. I never saw it again or investigated it further, though.)

I don't know what's going on with archive.is, but that service has always struck me as sketchy. Unfortunately since I use Cloudflare WARP as a VPN, I'm not actually able to access archive.is (although technically I believe this is not because of the VPN, but rather due to 1.1.1.1 DNS and its lack of support for EDNS [0]). So again, I haven't investigated it much.

But I've always wondered who has the time and resources to maintain the archive.{is,ph,etc.} websites, which must cost a lot of money for no directly obvious financial gain. But there is some serious intelligence value to knowing who views those sites and where the links to them get posted. And that's not to mention how weird it is that they insist on EDNS (which sends client IP with DNS queries) in the first place.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28495204
How fast does it need to switch? An alternate approach would be to have all routers physically connected, but only one of them powered. You could probably do this with a smart power board and some scripting to switch the power points over if pinging an outside server stops working.
Jolly good. Now we just have to create a profit incentive for the continuation of life as we know it and we might actually see something happen.
Well, he does call it a pet tracker.
Finally something I actually CAN build in a weekend ;)
How confident are you in your position? Literally 30 seconds spent searching: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41418-022-00936-x
Heh.. I'd like to blame my boxers getting tighter on the same thing but I'm pretty sure it's just my waistline that's grown
So is he either a figure head that can work remotely because he doesn’t matter, or is he doing “real work” and it turns out that working remotely does work?

Execs like to paint working remotely as something that is wasteful and so the common employee shouldn’t be allowed to do so, while simultaneously extolling the virtues of their remote work.

It’s reminiscent of the time I worked at one company and the chairman of the board showed up to give us a rousing speech that included the fact that he only showed up because he was going to a board meeting for another company whose board he was on in the same city. This was less than a month after one of our coworkers got shit canned after it was found out that he was moonlighting.

This is a bit ranty by the tl;dnr is that lots of jobs align with remote work and I am personally pissed that you try to frame it as ok because it’s a CEO and then in the next sentence you try to blunt the message by saying he’s just a “co-ceo” so it’s not that bad
Digitalocean droplets and hosted database. I have a no AWS for personal projects rule.
Adding CAs to trust stores on devices and in apps is a major pain.

If you have unmanaged devices this becomes even more painful.

"Oh, hi, welcome to the company, please install this Root CA onto your machine to access <internal service>"

Because you can't scope CAs to specific domains, this causes everyone with any idea about security to start being concerned.
Oh hey you're UW SE2011! I'm UW SE2021 o/

Small world
Can't wait for a font renderer to get this smart. Any day now...
Wasn't lower latency one of the big selling points of 5G...?
Capslock: What is your code capable of?