skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author presents some ideas for uses here, but TBH I still don't see how these uses are better than tracking these actions via a database too.

If you issue a "reset" token embedded in an emailed link, when it's consumed the stored token can be invalidated/deleted, enforcing that the token really is single-use.

A JWT used for this still opens up the same problems as with auth: it's open to re-use, and can't be invalidated. Yes it can have a much shorter TTL, but there's still potential for it to be abused.

The only real valid use I see from the article, is to replace presigned URLs, simply because it could be a standardised thing in CDNs, rather than the completely random implementations that are used now.
That's true. Only 95% of enterprise companies use Azure [0] and only 83% of Fortune 500 use Office 365.

0: https://www.extremetech.com/deals/307468-microsoft-azure-is-...

1: https://zipdo.co/statistics/microsoft-office/
I tried to look for active DSA keys now, and didn't see anything but don't feel confident that there are in fact none.

Hmm.
What is the actual "progress" here, except for the stock prices of a company?
>How do we go backwards from something we got right four decades ago?

Elon works from first principles, so it's going take a while.
It would be nice to add a serie with the total number of posts.
> Do we recognize Crimea or Mariupol as Russian, because they are de facto under Russian control?

The situations are quite different though. Somaliland is a real functional country in every reasonable definition of the word (unlike Somalia!).

Somaliland is also an established military fact of self determination, not an occupying external force.

East Timor is a much closer and more reasonable comparison.
Zwo is still common today, because it's the word for two in some German dialects. The military adopting zwo would be similar to the American military adopting "y'all," a word that's commonly used and universally understood.
I was laid off my last job, of 27 years.

I didn't actually mind. It was completely anticipated, and we (me and my team) were pretty much ready. I think the company made the correct decision, but the reason they got there, was because they made a whole cascade of rotten choices, that painted them into a corner they couldn't get out of, easily.

I really wish that they would have involved me in some of the really dumb decisions they made, because I'm actually pretty good at strategic thinking, and could have easily advised them of alternatives.

But what is done, is done.

The really annoying part, was coming out of a 27-year "silo," into the current tech industry zeitgeist.

Nasty culture shock.
https://danstonchat.com/ (previously bashfr.org) for France/French speaking countries
What exactly is meant by "its own court system"? Nothing is coming up when I Google.
>If you've built up a 1.2M / year lifestyle on a 1.2M / year income you've made some terrible mistakes

You'd be surprised by people's poor spending habbits. Aquitances of mine when they got their first SV job out of college at Facebook, they immediately bought brand new Porsche 911's.
I think it is about access. I would guess that not every university in Germany at that time had computers for their students. If you were a student or engineer, heard about this new thing computer and wanted to use it, I don’t think you had many options.

I had my time with computers in Germany as a teenager in the 80th and still, to get to a computer I had to take the bus to the neighbour town to go to the department store which had a computer department and they let you fiddle with it. You had to prepare the BASIC program on paper and had now one afternoon to key it in and make it run. Later I got a home computer from my parents:-)

So this machine in the 70th is probably about access. Either this or nothing.
https://primatejs.com has supported htmx from day one.
> 7th largest GDP

This isn't relevant when we're talking about individual welfare. France is 23rd for nominal GDP per capita and 26th for PPP.

Which is still good! A lot of the countries near the top are petrostates or tax havens. But not the US.
Are you hoping for it to remain the same or are you hoping for an increase compared to usd? Asking because you mentioned stored. What if you could buy shares with btc? If value just sits there and is not used in a productive way - things companies try to do - you're subscribing to a very static world view. It might make sense if you are close to retirement - where people usually move to stable assets - but generally you want your assets to be used in a productive way rather than hidden away.
Hmm this sound like a bad deal for that developer. Looks more like a performance art than business plan. The amount of work needed to automate all that stuff probably took more than a few months for only 50k income.
I didn't know the Clean Code church was also preaching the single point of return. Single point of return used to be big when Structured Programming was this "newfangled stuff". I'd rather expect some CS professor types smelling of mothballs and shambling about in empty hallways.
I think the fact that we have tens of companies making different sugar water is proof that capitalism allocates capital in ways that is useful to humanity! Sarcasm aside, I don't actually have a better solution.
500 comments not a single one is interesting.
It's interesting seeing a TV drama (and, more widely, a great miscarriage of justice turned into a public outcry) centred around an IT issue.

This should be something for the HN community to take note, as this scandal is for Fujitsu the chickens coming home to roost for an issue that started in 1999. We as software developers, the maker of the tools and the facilitators of change and advancement have responsibilities, and those responsibilities can have wide reaching consequences.

We saw in Myanmar that not understanding the locality and not having adequate moderation can have consequences, we see with this case that absolute faith in a system can be damaging and mixed with other factors (such as the UK's obscure Draconian laws around the mail service being able to prosecute people) can be catastrophic.

So, friends, when you are approaching a deadline and you feel as though you need to ship even though you know the product is bug riddled, just take a moment to write some extra tests or to document the shortcomings more thoroughly. Someone you don't know may be depending on it.
> It can't be that a genuine issue has filtered into the public consciousness via a dramatised TV show.

Except that is exactly what has happened. The story was widely reported, nobody cared. Footballers wives fighting in court, people care. The royals, people care. Celebrities eating bugs in the jungle, people care.

If a person affected was on love island or dancing with the stars, people would have cared.
Unexpectedly wholesome resolution to the name dispute!
maybe Microsoft shouldn't have overloaded a generic word as a brand then.
There is no reason the choices are mutually exclusive besides the fact that you want them to be.
Where is any evidence to back this? How can you compare a VC funded tech job pay to a normal trade pay? Software pays a lot because its a good business. There is no physical product cost so labor can be higher, and margins are higher. Comparing the EU and US start up cultures and implying its somehow due to labor protections is disingenuous.
There is a large amount of theoretical research on the subject of energy limits in computing. For example, Landauer's principle states any irreversible change in information requires some amount of dissipated heat, and therefore some energy input [1].

Reversible computing is an attempt to get around this limit by removing irreversible state changes [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_computing
Your money, your call.

But I'm wondering - why wouldn't you invest in business? Business are, after all, the drivers of economy.

While cryptocurrencies could theoretically grow to "infinite" (finite supply and all. combined with fiat monetary policies), there must be some realistic limit to the growth, where the price starts to converge. For BTC, that price is somewhere in the single digit millions. Could make a long post of how I came up with that figure, but basically assume that everyone owning any assets in the world manage to liquidate those, and go all in on BTC, nothing else. Combined with investing newly minted fiat into BTC. (Never mind the economical consequences of public companies being worth close to zero $, and people only spending their money on BTC)

So let's say that BTC "only" has a theoretical maximum of, say, 100x increase from the current price. (but more realistically 10x-20x)

If you really wanted to make a killing, wouldn't it be better to also invest in revolutionary companies? NVIDIA has jumped 100x the past 10 years. There will likely be other NVIDIAs out there.

Obviously this wouldn't mean as much if you're a longtime holder, but from the perspective of a fresh investor, that's where one stands right now.
Show HN: Playground for web servers and template engines
I always wanted a way to easily run different technologies to try them out,
debug on the fly, share working config snippets and help me in teaching others.
At some point I thought others may find that useful too, so I built it.
Currently supports nginx, HAProxy, Django templates, Jinja2 and Go templates.
That's working under Linux, but not on Windows.
It's not that it runs its own court system, but the Post Office was allowed to bring private prosecutions, which is to say a private individual or organization can bring criminal law cases to court as well as vastly more common civil law cases.

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prosecution#United_Kin...

What the Post Office did have, though, is its own centuries-old investigation team, and much of the scandal hinges on the fact that these investigators are employees of the Post Office and likely knew the accounting system was faulty, and those faults could explain supposed losses, but deliberately disregarded that in bullying and prosecuting subpostmasters into accepting liability for phantom losses.
Rod logic seems to fit the bill (https://anthony-zhang.me/blog/rod-logic/).
What you want is an money fountain turned to high. A cost-plus contract for Hinkley Point E or F would be good, but if you're willing to change fields, why not build something in Saudi Arabia? Build something for the Neom project and make sure to be paid early and well.
> If you start from scratch with a non-exchange wallet and get paid in BTC for something to it, sure.

I believe the original idea was that, to start from scratch, you would just leave the Bitcoin software running on your computer for a while, since that software not only hosted your wallet but also contained a miner. After a while, you would get lucky and receive 50 Bitcoins.

Of course, that stopped working once mining moved to FPGA and then to ASIC; even with GPU mining software, an individual user has no hope of mining any relevant amount of Bitcoin. That bootstrap mechanism is now completely dead, and the only way to get new Bitcoins is to get them from someone, buy them in an exchange, or invest lots of money in specialized Bitcoin mining hardware.
That's like saying you didn't read the book because you didn't like the font.
> HN is not actually good at self deprecating jokes, either

One problem is Hacker News are terrible at recognizing dry humor. 90% of readers interpret tongue-in-cheek posts as face-value. And among those who recognize the humor, 77% want an accompanying "/s" flag iff (day-of-week mod 13 == -2).
Same. Canceled prime, now buying much less stuff and if I need to buy something I wait until I have $35+ worth of stuff I want to buy to get free shipping. This really makes you think twice “do I really need to buy this?”.
>The article goes into detail on why the 350GWh figure you used for your calculation is a lie

Their claims don't make a lot of sense though.

>The upper reservoir, Tantangara, is rarely full.

So... it's a battery that doesn't get filled up. Cool I guess we need to produce more power so we can utilize it better? No. They want it shut down.

>The lower reservoir, Talbingo, even if empty can only fit two-thirds of Tantangara’s water.

And? It's simple physics - you push water uphill that stores power. Push it uphill again and you store even more power.

>Refilling Tantangara will take a couple of months due both to limited periods when pumping energy is cheap enough

"Oh no, we haven't built enough solar and wind yet to match the storage capacity of this enormous battery. Let's just stop building it!" wtf?

>An article suggseting it can provide less than half, which already puts it nearly on par with just purely batteries: https://theconversation.com/snowy-2-0-will-not-produce-nearl...

This article looks even more like bitterness from the competition and they seem similarly COMPLETELY INCAPABLE of comparing what they call a "blowout cost" to the cost of batteries. Probably because 3.7x still blows chemical batteries out of the water and they're acutely aware of that fact being inconvenient.

>But you seem to have missed my main point that comparing the price of storing energy over longer than a day is silly if you can instead spend some of the money on solar power which can deliver power on a predictable schedule

You seem to be saying that storage can be done away with. It can not.
Doesn't look like a DDoS according to the attacker's email, but rather a DoS / p0wning. Anyway looks like it's working again.
The article says it is a JavaScript framework.
On-point sarcasm. Have an upvote.
You're really working backwards. At the time people like Galileo started down the path of scientific discovery, he didn't think his religion was wrong though it seemed he quite disagreed with some in the leadership at time.

Discovery after discovery afterwards, learning there was billions of years of history of Earth. Billions of years of evolution. That causality exists. That entropy exists. It was these pieces compounding that finally reached a tipping point for most letting them know "yes, this is a bunch of bullshit".
Well, aren't early returns in guard clauses "recovery from abnormality"?

You could flex some language lawyering to define "abnormality"...
Yes, because they believed in the infallibility of the software in the first instance.

It was only subsequently that that believe changed to outright lying to cover their own backs.
I mean, it’s not that far off. Take this guy who ate only twinkies/nutty bars/donuts/doritos for a month (with some veggies added in for fiber/ruffage):

https://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor...

> His body mass index went from 28.8, considered overweight, to 24.9, which is normal. He now weighs 174 pounds.

> But you might expect other indicators of health would have suffered. Not so.

> Haub's "bad" cholesterol, or LDL, dropped 20 percent and his "good" cholesterol, or HDL, increased by 20 percent. He reduced the level of triglycerides, which are a form of fat, by 39 percent.
> That being said it doesn't need to be on the public internet, but it makes it a lot easier than setting up and managing a private network.

I'm sorry what? It's easier than setting up a portion of/separate LAN with no internet access? I mean, yes, in the strictest "lazy bastard" kind of way, sure. Can we not even ask that of businesses now?

Sure Bosch should've secured these things, that's a given and they should be rightly held to the fire to fix them. But also like... wifi routers have been a household staple piece of equipment since like.. 2008? Depending where you live? And we still can't ask business operators to do even the most basic due diligence in setting up their environment, or at the least, hiring someone who can?

This is like when you go to a restaurant and their access point is called Spectrum-Wifi-5G using WEP encryption with a password that's like, F8F023gX. Just well established that not a single fuck was given in doing this.
Globs.design
Core Developer is the org that provides key software that developers use to build and deploy applications. Stuff like "we ship the java compiler" and "we ship the IDE."
> Pay retail prices for AWS

Is this actually the case for Twitch? How are they different from any other Amazon team using AWS?
> Have you looked at the economy in the last two years?

Try the last 3 years. Or last 4. Or last 40 years.

They are desperately trying to control money printing (oops sorry, quantitative easing) with high interest rates, but I'm sure they'll be forced to bend to political pressure in an election year.

U.S. needs an extremely tight monetary regime for two decades, to be viable long term. And the big funds will hedge. BTC is one of those hedges.
Do the adjacent tiles affect the likelihood of getting certain creatures? First paint had no creatures, then I started getting ants, rats, doves, spiders, hedgehogs, and now my first bumblebee and rabbit.

A region of clovers seems to increase four-leaves clovers.

Edit - ok I guess not, after looking through the code. Still, getting the lion was pretty amazing.
I can only go by what FB people have told me in person and that was "we use MySQL pretty much just as a k/v store". I think all the people I talked to worked on the frontend rather than MySQL directly though, so if you worked with MySQL directly that seems more authoritative.
Voice Actors Say Union's 'Ethical' AI Deal Is Bad for Humans
Automated machine shuffles and deals cards so you don't have to
Me and one of my employees are going through almost identical and seriously difficult personal times. Our company and the people within it have really rallied around us, providing personal and professional support in ways I could never have imagined.

I have said that while other companies I have worked within would be sympathetic, they definitely would not have been empathetic; however, at my current company, EVERYONE from the CEO to interns have been so very empathetic, helpful, and thoughtful.

We are all remote and have been since the pandemic. These are people who are reaching out regularly, coming to visit, offering support in whatever way possible, and being genuinely good human beings. It's simply a work culture when you don't have this, but you CAN find it.

Don't lose hope. Good companies and great people within them are there, remote or not.
thats because it is
No. I just talk to it, like I am talking here, and if I don't get the answer I want, I tell it so.
Show HN: I uploaded all the evidence of a missing persons case to a custom GPT
i dont fully understand what amortized means but this[0] article is talking about how it could be the reason for layoffs in 2024

[0]https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/section-174
Wikipedia Provenance
I really don't think you can assume that. Other humans will have told them that it was good.
I mean, it fits both honestly. It's a mockery of the ideals international cooperation should stand for. The word is used like this a lot and that's why I use the word like this. Just like I use "chair" for the thing I sit on :P
I think the only thing you really need to do is unpack your jargon so people who aren't exactly you can understand what you're saying. Even on this site, there are folks with all sorts of different experiences and cultural context, so shortcuts in phrasing don't always come across clearly.

For example, "in which case the world goes all Huxley really fast." "Huxley" apparently means something to you. Would it mean anything at all to someone who hasn't read any Aldous Huxley? As someone who _has_, I still had to think about it -- a lot. I assumed you're referring to a work of his literature rather than something he actually believed, as Huxley's beliefs about the world certainly had a place for the contrarian and the original.

Further, I assume you are referring to his most well-known work, _Brave New World_, rather than (for example) _Island_, so you're not saying that people would be eating a lot of psychedelic mushrooms and living together in tolerant peace and love.

I don't at all think you need to sound like GPT to be a successful communicator, but you will be more successful the more you consider your audience and avoid constructions that they're unlikely to be able to understand without research.
This was my take exactly. I read the original and thought, "Wow, this sounds like really interesting stuff this poster us excited about. I wish I knew what the terms meant, though. I'll have to come back to this when I have more time and look up the terms."

I was pleasantly surprised to find a glossary immediately following, which tells me it wasn't the tone of the post, but the shorthand terminology that was unfamiliar to me that was my issue.

I think writing in "Ben's voice" is great. There are just going to be times when your audience needs a bit more context around your terminology, that's all.
Appreciate the funny response but that is obviously not the intention of my question
You sound like you are in a cult.
Hard to say if BigHead style devs are being affected here. Annual review ratings aren't quite yet finalized, so it is hard to know whether they could be used as input to a layoff system.
Do I read that correctly? A significant percentage of Slack/Salesforce's employees were doing literally zero work?
Surprised to see another cycle of layovers happening here. What’s going on in the industry?
Or libuv:

* https://libuv.org/
So, friends, when asked if 1 + 1 = 472, don't say "of course it does, you filthy thieving criminal" because you don't want to admit you or someone else working on your innovative reimagined system maybe possibly made a mistake.
The show is well-made and worth watching. I enjoyed it.
Nope, we are talking about Europe.
Twitch's profitability is an accounting decision. Twitch's IP was transferred to AWS and became IVS [1]. IVS is sold to other companies like Kick. It's a completely subjective decision of how much Amazon charges itself for use of IVS by Twitch. If Amazon lowered the IVS price it charges itself, Twitch would suddenly be hugely profitable.

All this shows is Twitch is not an Amazon priority.

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/ivs/
> This Japanese response seems very confusing, it's hard to understand how this could possibly be relevant to the accident.

"The move comes after the misinterpretation of the phrase could have led to last week's deadly collision between a Japan Airlines passenger plane and a Japan Coast Guard aircraft on a runway at Tokyo's Haneda Airport."
Read vs. Watch
And the other half of the population?
Just saw it on Youtube:

> France Info is a French public broadcast service. [Wikipedia (French)](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_Info_(offre_globale)?wp...)

Curious why YT forwards analytics data to Wikipedia.
This is great. Would you recommend Godot for prototyping UIs, in general, over HTML/JavaScript?
Erm, who says the folks being laid off are the "best of the field?"
An unbiased evaluation of Python environment management and packaging tools
Spotify isn't 'distribution', it's a bottomless flea market; anybody can open a stall.

Actually, they can't. Spotify stopped direct uploads 4 years ago; you have to go through their handpicked intermediaries:

https://artists.spotify.com/blog/we%27re-closing-the-upload-...
For every Google there are 50 enterprise shops using a thread per connection in IIS or Tomcat…