skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can be a bit economical to do that for the US & Canada but once you start needing to regularly make calls in both NA and somewhere outside NA that's where it really shines. There are some providers that cover all of NA for a reasonable price and most other geographies have really wide coverage - but there are scant choices for NA & Spain or NA & France coverage.
The other big drawback is that damaged composites attend to violently fall to pieces, where metal would bend.
Being an elder Millennial, the answer seems obvious.

In the 90's, it was hard/uncommon to access the internet. Personal computers were just on the rise.

Before ubiquitous screens and computing, the only thing you could do is socially interact with others (or go read a book/play solitaire). So, it tended to happen organically almost all the time.

Something is missing now.
This seems a myopic article. The problem is surely male loneliness, being a father or not. Several of my friends and I (male and female) have struggled to make new meaningful friendships over the last 15 years. Between us we've lived in London, moved countries, changed jobs, etc. Some of us work from home, some own businesses, others are on-site employed.

It just seems to be a nightmare once you actually have to work at making friends (i.e. post school/uni). We're all really at a loss. Between us we have 2 or 3 good friends each, but it's not enough. We've tried clubs, meetups, going to sociable places, nights out, etc. but the success rate is so low it's depressing.

In some ways its encouraging to see fathers suffer the same loneliness. I had assumed since we're in our late 30s/early 40s and none of us had kids that we'd missed a life stage. That is, most people our age are too busy raising kids and meeting friends through their kids to hang out with us. At least this points to a deeper societal breakdown.

The issue I think is somehow finding people who have space for new friends. It's like, I might meet someone at work with kids, but they're just too busy to meet up after work. Or people are too irregular with work/fickleness. They might go to a hobby club one week, then you never see them again. The rate of attrition is so high. And that's even before you get choosy about wanting to meet people who are actually on your wavelength.

I'm at the point where I'm considering just moving to Asia to find a group of people on career breaks in Bali or something. While I like WFH, I now meet no one. Luckily I have actually made a good friend in the last few years, but I won't see him if he ever manages to find a girl or he moves back to his country like he plans to.

For me, the only place I really meet anyone in my age group (or with the sort of ambitious, interesting mindset I like) is London, and I just can't live there. So all in all, I feel pretty stuffed, but I know I'm not the only one. And even when I did live in London, all the above still applied and it was almost impossible to meet people I clicked with despite trying loads of different things.

Anyway, a bit of a ramble, but I think this is a big problem for men and women. I've wracked my brains, but there's just no easy solution :(
"Makes money" in the sense that someone will pay some money for it, absolutely. "Makes money" in the sense that it will adequately compensate you (and your collaborators), almost certainly not.

Most successful businesses take years to build (at which point they suddenly look like an overnight success to outside observers). But you can definitely prove out the concept for a product (or several) in six months -- and decide then if it's worth continuing to pursue, or if it's time to go back to a paying job.
I've listened to a substantial faction of those 1k episodes without noticing any of that point-scoring. But then, I might not: the whole thing is so dry and academic that even vicious arguments could be coded up in such a way that I could miss it.

That's what I love about it. It's always real academics, rather than popularizers of the topic. They don't have that polished persona of the author-on-a-book-tour feel. They're experts, trying to explain why that topic is worth knowing, and willing to risk being dull to do it. They want to interest you rather than thrill you, and to me the result feels more sincere and thoughtful.

I've been told that Bragg is regarded as a national treasure in the UK, and I believe it. I sometimes idly ponder what it would be like to host a show like that.
Are cumulative flow diagrams useful for serving systems, where arrival rate > departure rate causes immediate user visible issues?
Show HN: ChatGPT Plugin to Search the Web
Have you considered that maybe his skill is making other people, like you, believe he is a good person who cares? He is, after all, most known for his ability to influence others (particularly billionaires) into doing what he wants. And the whole doomsday prepper thing is pretty weird.
Versus being quite literally held hostage by a non-cooperating foreign power for political gain?

Things like energy independence sound cute and quaint until you find yourself being taken advantage of at best, or ground to a halt during armed conflict at worst.
As nice of an idea this is and how GUI making friendly godot is, wouldn't it being purely immediate mode make it not viable for most desktop GUI applications besides games? This would be the same issue when considering other game engines for this purpose.
This is also the reason why it's a breeze writing UIs in DearImGUI compared to QT or GTK.
Which explains why general purpose frameworks like QT and GTK take so much time to develop: they integrate more deeply with the OS to enable retained mode rendering.

To my knowledge there isn't a way of creating retained mode GUIs in godot but I'd like to be corrected.
Les Entrepreneurs ET LE Mérite: Origine D'UN Mythe [video]
Fun fact: the Godot editor is itself a Godot game.

> The Godot editor runs on the game engine. It uses the engine's own UI system, it can hot-reload code and scenes when you test your projects, or run game code in the editor. This means you can use the same code and scenes for your games, or build plugins and extend the editor.

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/intro...
Definitely.

I tried to find a house in our nearby bigger city. The prices were 100k higher than I was planning on spending, and also had upwards of a 1 year wait to close because they were being used as a rental property.

Instead, I was able to find a house in the nearby smaller town's outskirts. However that means that I live in the county, as I did before. It also means I have no say in the town's elections, nor do I have any say in the city's elections. And I'm 2000 feet away from the town, yet cant vote there.

And I even worked in person in the bigger city, and lived in a trailer park 3 miles away from the city square, yet 1/3 of a mile away from the city. I spent 40 hours a week there, and no voting rights. I deserve a quarter of a vote given my taxes went there, and I was there quarter of my living hours.

The ones who can afford to live there are the ones enforcing terrible laws, and are gatekeeping the rest of us out.
You're on a team of 10 people with 20 different machines between you and want to securely send/receive files, spin up servers and talk to them, etc.

Tailscale makes this really easy, and fast.
There's a lot of practical/contextual knowledge that isn't documented, and what's documented isn't guaranteed to be correct or can be misleading (terminology changes, standards change, some things are implied because they are obvious at the time, etc.)
On one hand this is not a big deal, on the other one this is a fallback option on a slow connection and no access to IMAP apps. Someone’s day will be ruined.
Aw, please don't respond like this. It just makes things worse and breaks the site guidelines in its own right; this one, for example:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
100% yes it's written by ChatGPT. Just look at the "practical example", it's about as shallow as a puddle.
Does USA even have civilian dry docks to build ships? I thought everything was outsourced to Korea.

I know it can build military vessels, but at horribly slow pace. Australia will get their nuclear submarines some time in 2040. I can not imagine building civilian nuclear ice breakers in US.
> * Doesn't scale. Having passwords in a plain text file is not a scalable solution for users directory. Can probably go up to a hundred users, but not much more.

Why not? A file 100,000 line file will only take a moment to scan.
I think the additional context is fine. It's only an issue if you're sensitive to the word "homeless" and see the description as demeaning. Otherwise, it's additional.
Zenwalk Current 2023 is out
I'm curious about the terminology for the "functional representation" dataset.

Is this a well-defined term? I've been thinking about similar approaches for getting more structured propositional knowledge into and out of LLMs, and the examples in the Viggo data set are the closest thing so far to someone thinking the same way I am.

However, Google doesn't turn up many results that use the term in this way. I'd love any more resources or information on the topic.
Pay Transparency Is Sweeping Across the US
I need a tanker truck of jet fuel and a copy of the movie FireFox from 1982.

I'll be sharing a table with Jeff at the next gun show.
https://joshdance.medium.com/who-is-jeff-and-why-does-he-hav...

/s
How to build a lukewarm career in tech
They are certainly pulling already in supercomputing drip. In the West, I think only MareNostrum looks that cool.
You're missing the point that calling something "not real" is very often used as a method to discredit it. Saying "not real" discredits the fact that there are more barriers here.

That's my primary issue with this. Phrenology can also be called "not real science" but it doesn't seem fair to paint both with such a broad brush. There's more nuance involved than an off-the-cuff "not real."

Though at this point it all feels too belabored to carry on.
Do the models run in a docker container? Probably one of my favorite things about Ollama.
Working from home could slash emissions by half, study finds
If I remember correctly, OpenVMS only started supporting Itanium half a decade after the launch of Itanium, and thus also half a decade after Linux merged support in.

OpenVMS was also transferred to a bunch of other commercial entities after Compaq abandoned it.

Disclaimer: I never used OpenVMS.
very cool. why did you work on it? curious on motivations. congrats on shipping.
This blog post is a very good technical read (and the diagrams are really cool too): https://tailscale.com/blog/how-tailscale-works/
> Unions have a history of corruption

So do many large corporations

> not driving benefits for the working class while crushing businesses

This also describes a number of monopolistic companies

> It is a travesty that the Biden administration is encouraging their proliferation

The Biden administration also promotes business interests at home and abroad.
> Do we really need to OWN icebreakers?

That would depend on one's strategic goals and priorities. Personally, I do not believe the US should be the world police so I don't think it is necessary.
Main actually offers 3/4 full time in the beginning and a hybrid model, so I may be this long commuting only ~3 days a week.
Just hate to choose between apparently equally acceptable offers.
The thick steel (like the landing deck of an aircraft carrier) is flat not curved. The curved stuff is actually Kevlar, not steel.
Is there any valid use case for when it's a good idea to publicly expose a S3 bucket?
How is open data these days? I have the feeling it lost a lot of steam?
The vintage computing scene mainly.
I don't mean to pile on, but you guys can't do this here, and we ban accounts that do, so please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> fallback option on a slow connection

And on mobile if you want to edit settings like filters, impossible to do without the html version
> unless you really think that raising children is the highest purpose a person can have.

No, it's not that, but there are purposes in life aside from social gathering, for which social gathering is a natural side-effect.

Going to school or work is a big example. But it can be more subtle: try sometime, look actively for opportunities to help others. That is, don't try to fix them or their situation, but rather look for genuine opportunities where your skills, resources, or luck puts you in a place where your'e able to do something without great cost to yourself, but which has a massive impact on another person.

Start racking these up and things may change...
Arrr, it not be for Netflix.
Then couldn’t there be more detail that would allow those of us who haven’t lived in SF to understand it too?
How does this compare to GUIs like llamero (https://github.com/mpociot/llamero) and gpt4all (https://gpt4all.io/index.html)?
If Apple Vision Pro or just the whole VR & friends industry takes off, then we're gonna see a resurgence of z-depth all over the place, and perhaps even a small return to skeuomorphism.
> It builds to cross-platform [...] Godot supports C#

Godot supports C# on desktop only (works well on Windows and Linux, bit annoying on MacOS X but it does work).

There's been talk of supporting Android since v3 but it always fell through. There is no planned support for iOS or web targets afaik.
...Is this supposed to be a defence of the A-10?
I’ll be sure to let the kids know!
> Imagine you’re a CEO: Why on earth would you want your expensive engineers reworking something that already makes money?

CEO will start looking at this topic if app performance/stability metrics will start making impact on revenue stream, aka app is slow and stop working every day and customers go away because of that.
Tailscale is basically wireguard in a seamless UX wrapper, and a bunch of nice (optional) things added on top like ACLs/2FA/MagicDNS/ssh.

https://tailscale.com/blog/how-tailscale-works/
USA built a Navy warship out of steel from the World Trade Center (2018)
I'd like a men's only gym with a strict no content-creation policy.
And building ships isn't even that hard... Like a really nice passenger ships takes what 2 or 3 years?
This blog of generally gibberish hits the HN front page with an astounding frequency. IMHO, there are many interesting blogs on "system administration" topics that are submitted to HN every week that never reach the front page while there are a handful of familiar, low-quality ones that routinely appear on page one.
Considering that most of our models of how life arose on earth involve liquid water interacting with both an energy source and a rocky crust I wonder how a planet with an icy layer sparked abiogenesis. Or how the minerals and materials needed for life get circulated in the oceans. Perhaps there are cracks and vents spewing mantel material out into the oceans. And perhaps there are strong currents that circulate this material that the life feeds off of.

One thing I am sure of is that life is not as delicate or requires such specific conditions to thrive. Only liquid water.
I've been using Backblaze for 11 years now and only just had my first full disk-loss event. A 10TB drive decided to give up the ghost entirely. Indeed, I had checked before to confirm the disk was being backed up and tested recovery with their web restore option, so this made the full-disk restore fairly trivial. I opted to do their sneakernet option: they ship you a drive (up to 8TB) of your restored contents. I had 9TB backed up on this disk, so I needed two disks, which they obliged, for $200 per, which I'll get back when they receive the returned disks.

Was very happy to see the process go off without a hitch, and you can't beat 19TB backed up for $7.60/mo anywhere.
Depends on your workflow. You might just mark everything as read, or archive them, rather than download and read them.
Phishing Attack on Retool Led to $15M Crypto Theft
What terrible ideas?
It's WireGuard with a really nice UI.

WireGuard is an outstanding mechanism for building secure virtual private networks.

You can run WireGuard on a bunch of different machines (or virtual machines) spread all over the world and give them the ability to talk to each other as if they were on the same LAN, with every packet fully encrypted.

TailScale has productized this. They wrote software for a bunch of platforms that makes it trivial to connect those machines to your "tailnet" - effectively a WireGuard network which their software manages for you.

They tie this to SSO - so you can install their software on your phone and your home server, sign them both in using Google SSO or similar, and now they're able to talk to each other on a secure virtual network.

I suggest trying the TailScale setup process to really understand how good it is.
If you've ever lived anywhere near a bar without adequate off-street parking you know why those minimums exist.

And since the law is not "8 hours bottle to throttle" like it probably should be, it continues.
Which low end devices can’t run the current version of the mobile gmail site? Who isn’t able to run it?

The smartphone penetration rate in sub-Saharan counties has doubled between 2013 and 2017. Countries like Ghana and Senegal had about 30% usage in 2017, and South Africa was over 50%.

And 2017 was 6 years ago, so we’re probably at the point where the majority of people in some of the least developed countries on earth are using smartphones that can run a lightweight mobile site with some JavaScript like gmail.

At least half of Africa has LTE connectivity, while over 75% has 3G.

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2018/10/09/majorities-in-...

https://www.gsma.com/mobilefordevelopment/blog/mobile-connec...
Since we're all sharing our corners of the web, I guess I'll link mine as well.

I only have 6 posts over 4 years, mostly due to me thinking my ideas aren't "original" enough to warrant lengthy write-ups, but I know that's not exactly true.

Anyway, here's mine:

https://jakesulpice.com/
It don't understand what's the big deal about it. To make the system immutable, isn't it enough during boot to just

1. create a ram-backed filesystem
2. copy `/`s contents to that new filesystem
3. Optional: Unmount `/`
4. Mount the ram-backed filesystem on `/`

?

You can easily do that from the initramfs during booting.
I'm applying this patch to the roofs created by debootstrapping Debian Buster. You can use the system just fine and make changes as you please. But when you shut it down, it's all lost. Everything I want to keep (like the permanent storage this system makes available over sshfs, NFS) is on seperate disks anyway. Sure, you need enough RAM to hold the entire rootfs (1.2G in case of Debian Buster) and it increases boot time a bit. For server applications, I don't care at all.

--- a/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local 2021-11-05 12:50:23.541088057 +0100
+++ b/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local 2021-11-05 13:02:14.483203576 +0100
@@ -180,9 +180,20 @@

# Mount root
# shellcheck disable=SC2086
- if ! mount ${roflag} ${FSTYPE:+-t "${FSTYPE}"} ${ROOTFLAGS} "${ROOT}" "${rootmnt?}"; then
- panic "Failed to mount ${ROOT} as root file system."
- fi
+ #if ! mount ${roflag} ${FSTYPE:+-t "${FSTYPE}"} ${ROOTFLAGS} "${ROOT}" "${rootmnt?}"; then
+ # panic "Failed to mount ${ROOT} as root file system."
+ #fi
+
+ mkdir --parents /tmp/diskroot
+ mount -t ${FSTYPE} ${roflag} ${ROOTFLAGS} ${ROOT} /tmp/diskroot
+
+ mount -t tmpfs -o size=6G none ${rootmnt?}
+ chmod 755 ${rootmnt}
+
+ cp --force --archive --verbose /tmp/diskroot/* ${rootmnt}
+
+ umount /tmp/diskroot
+ rm -r --force /tmp/diskroot
}

local_mount_fs()
They aren't backdooring modern open-source encryption. They may have some elite knowledge about some esoteric corner of the code that allows them to theoretically throw a data center at the problem for a month or two, but the days of easy backdoors to decrypting everything in real time are gone imho. It is just too easy to implement mathematically-strong encryption these days. Too many people know how to do it from scratch. The NSA's real job is keeping american systems safe. That is done through creating the best encryption possible. They are very good at that job.
I've also noticed that the economics of fast food make no sense anymore compared to groceries and casual restaurants. Inflation has hit everything, but fast food has not retained the relative discount.

A footlong basic chicken sub at a Subway near me is $13. A "Supreme Meats" is over $18. A "Beast" (whatever that is) is $21! All without a side or drink.

Taco Bell and Wendys are similarly out of my guilty pleasure rotation. The discount was part of the basic contract we had with bottom tier food.
We should buy the icebreakers and retrofit them minimally and inexpensively, not rebuild a niche industry just because we are running out of 50+ year old icebreakers in the Coast Guard.
Update on KDP Title Creation Limits
Seems like a lot to add to such a simple program. I bet they didn't do that.

Years ago I re-released an old and honored tool. A strange path.

It was the simple code editor used on an early office computer. The programmers all used it daily.

First, the source was gone. The team that made it, the last remaining member that remembered it, said "It was just a checkpointed version of our general document editor. We've continued development and have a hundred more features now."

Moving to the document editor wouldn't do. Can't have programmers confused by formatting and mail-merge features on a C source file.

So I took the current Document Designer source, ripped out everything formatting-related, kept some useful multi-document features. Added some special programmer-specific features (paste-to-anchor point etc for fast prototyping). Got something not too much larger than the old Editor, and much much smaller than the latest document tool.

And...hardly anybody used it. Even a little change from ol faithful was too much for most of the teams. No surprise; their job was writing code, not relearning tools to write code.

Anyway I had my own personal useful tool after that. Even if I was the only one that knew how to use it.
Been with my wife for 17 years so unless she dies in a freak accident I think I'm good.
Former CIO accuses Penn State of faking cybersecurity compliance
I have found that I need to be specific when I talk to developers about "long lived" branches. In the past I have questioned teams about why they are developing in long-lived branches and they defensively claim they aren't - their branches only last two or three weeks. In my view that's a very long-lived branch.
I'm not sure what you mean - the last security update fixed massive 0-day which was an arbitrary code execution caused by the image decoder. CVE-2023-41064

AFAIK every app that uses the ImageI/O api is effected by it, which includes every app you mentioned. You often don't need to even open the message for the image to be decoded.

From my understanding most vulnerabilities are from either the image decoder, text decoder, or webkit which again, effects nearly all apps. All apps can only use the webkit view, which affects nearly all of them to some degree.

I think you might be confusing the attack vector - messages is the easiest to attack since you just sent a regular text. Even if you don't normally use messages, it'll parse the image and you'll be hit by the 0 day. In theory this will work with most messaging apps.
In an other breaking news, "how to tell if your click bait title is full of buzzwords assembled in a meaningless sequence".
Awesome news and boosts the utility of the Apple TV tremendously.
Godot Project Organization Introduction for Unity Refugees