skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it surprising that so many CDNs were vulnerable. They are literally services that operate open front ends that accept unauthenticated requests and issue (expensive) backend requests based on the front end requests. Wouldn’t counting the number of requests issued and the number in flight per outside IP, network, etc be a basic part of the process?

Sure, HTTP 1.1 makes it extremely awkward to have lots of backend requests in flight per front end connection. But HTTP 2.0 makes a factor of 100 variation in the backend / frontend ratio trivial, and that’s a big number already.

Calling this critical vulnerability in the protocol seems like an odd way to phrase what I see as an accounting failure in the overall system that apparently affected everyone. If I were implementing such a system, I wouldn’t have wanted to ignore the difference between an HTTP 1.0/1.1 connection with a single backend request and a 2.0 connection with 100, and catching the case where a 2.0 connection had 100 live backend requests and a couple thousand more orphaned requests seems like a natural result of accounting the requests correctly in the first place.
Sounds like you were just using Redis for something you shouldn't have been.

I think Redis is great in the space of "I need a little bit more structure than memcache", but if you're rising to the level of unscrewing a data structure or needing nontrivial types, then Redis was not the tool for that job.
If HDD, remove the hard drive, image it, apply data recovery software to image

If SSD, mourn your lost data
Of the people I referred to, many were in Canada (primarily BC, Ontario, Alberta, and Quebec) at the time, but they're from a wide variety of ancestries, nations-of-origin, and socioeconomic statuses. Most of the rest were living primarily in the US, Europe, Australia, and India at the time. A small number were in other Asian nations.

The least-fearful subset tended to be in Ontario and Alberta, the central US, Eastern Europe, and India.

The most-fearful subset were in BC, Quebec, urban Ontario, the coastal and urban areas of the US, and urban Western Europe.

For the grandparents you mention in the cases you're aware of, were they in care homes of some sort?

In Canada, for example, neglect was allegedly a serious problem at some facilities, even leading to significant numbers of deaths there among the elderly:

"Patients died from neglect, not COVID-19, in Ontario LTC homes, military report finds: ‘All they needed was water and a wipe down’"

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canadian-mili...

Could something like that have been going on in the region you mention?
You must have missed the "Imo there is no mystery here" smack dab in the middle of my comment, but I added a big disclaimer at the top just now to be sure
Crime abhors a vacuum.
> elevated resting and walking heart-rate and my apple watch

Glad you recovered. If you have an Apple watch be sure to also track your overnight HRV. (I have a Garmin). While many blood tests fail to be illuminating, RHR and HRV at least can indicate something is wrong. A high HRV/Low RHR is good, Low HRV/High HR is bad. And yeah, cardiologists are the worst when it comes to unexplained heart issues that are not picked up by an ECHO.
Nah, the unique tragedy is that some humans want to live forever in a mushy world where everything complicated will eventually crumble and rot. Cancer has been right there for millions of years and the pretty slick biological "intervention" was to just continually be spinning up new generations with a clean slate of cells. It seems to work great on the level of humanity as a whole, and countless tools have been offered to help individuals wrap their head around their individual material mortality. No understanding of cancer or bodies required; no magical chemicals needed; no violated "shoulds" involved.

That you may now stare at a cancer and panic isn't a universal part of "human existence", it's just a struggle that some individuals see themselves trapped in when they've lost sight of the bigger picture.

That's not to say that medical inventions aren't cool, or that they shouldn't be enjoyed, but the starkness of what they're set against is a very personal and subjective thing. What's tragic is that so many people seem cursed to stare at that darkness these days and lack insight into there even being some very robust alternatives to doing so.
The Great Chain of Being
I can understand their skepticism, but these professionals should always be open to new data and should at the very least make a note of it in your records so the retrospective analyses can be done. Do you know if any of your symptoms got recorded?
Same issue but different topic. Earlier was about bad behavior by individual officials. This is discussing bad behavior by the agencies. It includes stuff that wasn't touched on in the earlier article.
Asylum is a human right. You didn't even bother looking that up, did you?

Military wages war, and defends against other militaries. Border police doesn't do push backs.
Ok so $7 a month then. What you're doing to "save costs" is absurd, and the approach is entirely incorrect.

Downclock your monitor to something like 60Hz, then pin your frames there too.
Again, what you are talking about is political influence on rulers, not cultural influence on the population. In that regard, claiming that an independent Romania should be seen as marked by Russian influence would be like claiming that independent Vietnam is Russian-influenced. Any political ties and military aid involved a tiny amount of people and never affected the culture of either country.
Not really, even if the total costs doubles the payback period will be quite long. And that differential taxation needs to change first anyway - blowing up people's heating costs can easily turn into a non-starter.
Energy Agency Sees Peaks in Global Oil, Coal and Gas Demand by 2030
I recommend Fortune’s Formula, a book about the Kelly criterion by William Poundstone.

The book's blurb claims it "... traces how the Kelly formula sparked controversy even as it made fortunes at race tracks, casinos, and trading desks. It reveals the dark side of this alluring scheme, which is founded on exploiting an insider’s edge."

The book is light on math and strong on stories about and interviews with people using the Kelly criterion.
Ha, yeah I remember in high school looking into Bitcoin, thought it was cool.

Then I realized it would never be useful as a currency due to the Bitcoin cap making it deflationary.

I still don't disagree, and most of Bitcoin is speculation and fraud, but the correlation of Bitcoin being deflationary is that the value will only go up.

So, Doink.
They're being squeezed by patient demand and administrations simultaneously, the whole system in the US has seemed on the brink of collapse since 2020.

I get all my care done in Taiwan and everything is fine and the doctors all seem to be mostly happy with their jobs, and a few regular nurses like me because I look like a famous actor, so they're always pretty chatty and seem to be mostly ok with life.
I think it's pretty funny how I sometimes get emails and even physical letters that suggest registering a domain is a life changing event whereas asking me how many domains I own is like asking John McCain how many houses he owns.
Infosec is already a discipline plagued with tools that are useless at best and harmful at most when users don’t have background knowledge into what they’re securing.

Hopefully there will still be enough people who do know what they’re doing to notice when the AI says the wrong thing confidently.
"Maybe that was all preparation for slicing America in two using an Australia-shaped knife" one of those sentences I feel like no one has ever said before (/r/brandnewsentence material)
> "The Covid vaccine"

You know there's more than one COVID vaccine, right? Anti-vaxxers generally talk as if they don't know this, and you are talking that way here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_COVID-19_vaccine_autho... - "Ten vaccines have been approved for emergency or full use by at least one stringent regulatory authority recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO): Pfizer–BioNTech, Oxford–AstraZeneca, Sinopharm BIBP, Moderna, Janssen, CoronaVac, Covaxin, Novavax, Convidecia, and Sanofi–GSK.[1] Seven others are under assessment by the WHO: Sputnik V, Sinopharm WIBP, Abdala, Zifivax, Corbevax, COVIran Barekat, and SCB-2019.[2]"

"Of the 40 vaccines, 16 have a full or emergency authorization in only one country, 12 in ten or fewer countries, and 12 in more than ten countries."
No. Now at Modular.
> young adults/teens will drone on about "mental health" because its fashionable (if social media is giving you an eating disorder or making you anxious, how about putting down the phone?)

To be fair, for many young adults and teens the parents are demanding the kids have their phones so that the parents can track their location and other surveillance shit.

Additionally, we know for a fact that these social media companies are hiring tams of people with full doctorate degrees in keeping you online and responding. How is a 13 year old's underdeveloped brain supposed to compete with that when most adults can't even do it?
> consumers are outrageous liars

Calling them liars is a bit much in this scenario. I would blame the poll more than the person answering the poll. If I ask you: do you want a Porsche? You might say yes, but if i say: i can give you a Porsche for a million. You will probably say no.

They should probably ask a more nuanced question around what kind of trade-offs people would be willing to make for those bigger pockets.
I live in the UK and I use the metric system for pretty much everything, including weighing humans.

Everything except driving speed, for obvious reasons.
https://archive.ph/C04fX
I bought him Spintronics in the same vein but I have to wait 7 years to gift it to him :D
Ugh. A quintessential engineering mind is always curious, critiquing and questioning everything and will always want to know the why of the what and ask why not an alternate what. Such a mind be motivated by a higher purpose – finding meaning in larger impact of their work. Only such minds can be creative and persistent to solve the hardest problems to create outstanding product experiences. All it takes to destroy such a mindset is to tell them to shut-up, not to ask so many questions, and to do as they are told.
Potency can still vary drastically from batch to batch (and even within the same batch), let alone between distinct strains. Standardization and accurate testing are still quite important when we are talking therapeutic use.
The problem is the mis-alignment of frames being pushed into the buffer and the monitor drawing them.

You will experience tearing with this much of mis-alignment. It's why things like GSync/FreeSync even exist.

> motion blur

You can enable motion blur in most game settings...
“Focus on problems” - yes, but if you want to build revolutionary products, you have to find new problems. Some of the solutions you build to new problems, often end up making the old problems irrelevant.
Has to pwn your DNS and SSL, you mean. If someone has broken that, they'll get my credentials when I have to login at some point.

This seems to help mostly against servers improperly using cookies, servers improperly logging request content, and users improperly uploading HAR files that include bearer token.

And anyone who does those things improperly will also implement WebSession improperly - like not bothering to keep track of nonces - so what does it really gain us?

edit: just broadly on "pwn your machine vs pwn your DNS" - overall, in the general case, machines are much much easier to pwn.
And like tobacco, they mostly got away with it.

Same with oil companies.

Of course there are many entities doing bad things, but few have such a dramatic impact on all of civilization.
Maybe we should just reduce the need for white-collar jobs? Since we don't exist in the Metaverse yet, most things that we actually "need" are performed by blue-collar people and almost always involve transporting atoms around.

> propping up highly toxic industries such as commercial real estate, restaurants, oil, and of course car sales and manufacturing

This reminds me of the assertion that inflation is below 2% now, if we exclude food, energy, shelter, and used cars[0]. Life is great, if we don't meet in person to do work, break bread together, and get ourselves around to provide goods and services?

What's left, if you remove the "highly toxic" industries?

[0]: https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1712494317024026761
How does [that] ... cause a 'split' of Brazil, in any significant sense?
I think it depends a lot on the developer. But it _also_ depends on the company. "The work that isn't appreciated" is commonly the worst type of work; and maintenance work falls into the bucket in a lot of companies.
> Psilocybin is not addictive

This is what was said about THC until it was legal and now we know there are physical withdrawal side effects in a decent percentage of people. So I don’t trust advocates pushing this narrative at all

> I also believe the "recreational" potential is low

Laughable. Most people doing magic mushrooms are doing so recreationally. That’s what it’s known for, that’s why there has to be entire talks given about the mental health benefits. Because it’s widely used exclusively as a recreational drug
Unless you know a really unusually large number of people and are rigorously collecting and verifying data about their conditions, I don't know how much value this observation has. It certainly doesn't reflect the experience of the people I know, but I'm not really trying to extrapolate my local experience to the population at large.

Also, given that your categories are basically politely-reworded "Heroes who didn't believe the evil lie that Covid is a serious public health problem that we should probably do some stuff about", "People who believed the evil lies somewhat but eventually learned the Truth" and "Weak paranoid stupid people who bought into all the lies and were consumed by fear and panic as a result", I'm going to go ahead and assume that you're not really coming at this from a perspective of honest inquiry.
What about use cases where JavaScript needs to be able to read or write a cookie?
They (and by they I mean everyone - not just the PMs, strategists and designers) either flat out don't care or have deluded themselves into thinking they can still make a positive difference. I'm not sure which is worse.
now if only the America vs Australia cut was on spherical (or ellipsoidal I guess) geometry rather than projecting both countries to a plane prior to slicing
We are talking about the people who:

- were an instrumental part in creating Big Tobacco's strategy of "distract and create doubt, then delay, delay delay"

- applied the same playbook with Big Oil

- helped create the opioid epidemic

- give advice to multiple oppressive regimes (e.g Saudi/Russia)

Seems legit, let me take my engineering advice from these guys, they must know what they are talking about...
Agreed completely. This is a fluff marketing piece with enough algorithms lingo thrown in to sneak it onto the front page of HN.
Ah thanks, I thought "realms" sounded familiar and that helps clear things up a bit. Also Lavamoat and SES look really interesting thanks for the link.
And countless employees happy to take a paycheck while looking the other way.
For what it's worth, I upgraded to 115. I can't remember how long it's been. I forgot I upgraded because it doesn't seem that different to me. I still have pretty small fonts and very little spacing around things. Above my reading pane are buttons with words on them like "Reply All" and "Forward." Some menus are still hidden behind an oddly placed hamburger near the top right, just like they were before. Search is still pretty mediocre!
Speaking of airline bugs, something about the spelling of my first name confuses the heck out of Air Canada. For the last 10 years of so, they've been printing my boarding passes with my first name as "Dr. Alexan" instead of "Alexandr". Luckily, it has never caused a problem at the gate so far.
Meta: Automating Dead Code Cleanup
And if you did for some reason, you'd almost certainly write it as lbs rather than pounds to avoid this entire thing.
Element users are asking for protection against government encryption busting
Obviously this subjective.

I personally never like the old UI, and though it still has ways to go, it's miles ahead of the old UI.
If that were true, we would be seeing far more entrepreneurship from countries with Universal healthcare (most of EU) or UBI (most gulf countries).
Elevator door close button
I have had good luck with Hover. I don’t think it’s a problem of no good ones. It’s just a problem of the community hasn’t rallied around a de-facto “good” registrar, like they have with SSL certs.

So there it’s a bit more nebulous which leaves room for bad actors.

Not that I am arguing for a de-facto one, there are two sides to the coin, putting all our eggs in let’s encrypt might not be the wisest choice in the long run, although so far it seems ok, but does have its drawbacks.
I'm currently waiting on the integration between Delta and Difftastic:

https://github.com/dandavison/delta/issues/535

Difftastic now has JSON output, whic should make it much easier to build this.
> Anyway, another thing my watch was telling was that I wasn't getting enough sleep and I focused on fixing that. A few months after that, my resting heart rate started to trend down and has come back to pre-covid levels.

There’s solid research causally linking lack of sleep to high blood pressure the next day.
Try redis-schema https://hackage.haskell.org/package/redis-schema
We Just Gave $500k to Open Source Maintainers
> I love psychedelics, but this list shouldn’t include psychotic breaks or detachment from reality.

Well great because it doesn’t!
if they had built it with a modern stack it would have done well to last 43 days, let alone 43 years.
New work for Tailoring Access operators from NSA. ;)
So you're telling me that despite Romania being next to Russia for hundreds of years, Russian being a major foreign language taught in schools, and the actual independence of the country itself happening because of Russia, and the two countries sharing a specific religion of which Russia was the primary power, there was zero cultural influence on the country whatsoever, and was merely political influence on a small group of rulers that had no effect on the broader culture?

Yeah, this argument is really becoming a nonsensical waste of time.
When will social media finally be regulated like alcohol, nicotine, and every other addictive poison?
> Huh, so covid is more serious than a cold?

So you're saying that all those scientific studies that prove you wrong with 0 that prove you right actually prove that the vast majority of scientists, pharmacists and medical doctors are "in on it"? You should work more on critical thinking, but I'm not expecting anything but personal insults from a person like this.

I actually know a guy that was on respirators and a medical induced coma for 2 weeks because of covid. Age 45, morbidly overweight. They saved his life. Still doesn't believe in covid and talks shit about doctors. Fits his personality tho as he once killed a guy because of a minor drunken disagreement (hit him in the face, the fall and trauma to the head did the rest, spent years in jail).
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This is where conspiracy theories are born, and why they are so hard to fight.
AI is certainly reshaping everything and the way I'm seeing it is that it's going to be the superpower of the 21st century.

As for photography, I'm not sure if it can entirely replace cameras. Maybe not for the next few years, but if a genius new way of easily capturing your face structure is mainstreamed and you have a digital avatar of your face, it could actually happen. In that case you could just enter some prompts for the scene and other details and it would generate a perfect image you couldn't even take on your own in any way.
It's a semiconductor standard to release new architectures for consumer first, and then over time - scale it up to the enterprise ("pro").

So it shouldn't be a surprised that the progression would be:

iPhone -> iPad -> MacBook -> MacStudio -> Mac Pro

And their might be a lag of 1.5 years (or more) between new architecture on iPhone to landing in MacStudio.
This is the first thing I have ever pre-ordered in my entire life. I'm counting down the days.
Top Elements of Technology Entrepreneurship [pdf]
I drive a 20 year old truck that gets categorically ABYSMAL MPG. The problem is, I only drive it less than 10k miles per year and at the cost of a new vehicle, I doubt I would ever "come out ahead" by replacing it.
ok this is really cool, thanks for the tip! I've been in this IDE before but only when making edits to files directly in Github. I did not know I could shortcut to it directly from a commit diff.

By the way, this shortcut also works in Gitlab (just tried it)
We're just now really getting studies propagating into medical knowledge of a lot of this. I have covid-related tinnitus and despite the huge uptick in people reporting these symptoms post infection it took until this year to find a doctor that had specific interest in the subject.

Heart damage has been a known likely problem for a while, hopefully we're on the cusp of better diagnosis and treatment protocols.
There used to be this video explaining each layer of a neural network visually on youtube back in the days.
It's probably just patents, just about every other display tech came down in price by a factor of 10 a few years after it was invented.
The last time we hung out before all this went down, we had a few drinks then she broke out the acid, saying we would just microdose and it would be mostly like a really strong cup of coffee. Of course we ended up doing another microdose, which I'd estimate ended up at about 1/4 of a serious acid trip.

I assume stuff like that happens a lot in her Phish group. Other times we've hung out at a party she's broken acid/e/shrooms out and I'm thinking, "We're not 25 anymore, we don't have to do this."

At the time I kind of admired her for still being willing to go to those deeply introspective trippy places, whereas I'd rather just get a nice buzz and not plumb the depths of my soul. But now I'm thinking it's probably a good thing to hang that stuff up after a while, or at least not keep doing it regularly.
You can double count to some extend/doesn't have to exactly proportion but you worked on something that in the end had an economic impact.
IMO, in light of that comment, this is a non-story. Though what they did was stupid: acting like a fascist towards someone like this tends to undermine whatever position you're trying to establish simply by making you look like the bad/worse guys.
When the First Amendment is repealed.
i gotta speak highly of nearlyfreespeech.net here.

i don't need much registrar service; and they provide all i need. no fuss, no trouble, for 16 years and running.

I first registered domains before they cost money. I think the sleaze began to accumulate at NetSol about a year before they were allowed to charge

The dream of charging everybody on earth, periodically, for a database entry. the ultimate rent seeker's money printing machine. AT&T ever realizes they're now in the same business I expect them to jump in too.
Will we be saying the same thing about cannabis dispensaries?