skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glad I'm not going crazy at least! That's my memory of self-hosting before VPSs as well.

I was a little surprised by the article but maybe it is just a redefinition over time as the industry changes.
Comparing oil to heroin is beyond stupid. It's an essential good responsible for 30% of the world's energy needs. If oil disappeared from the earth tomorrow, entire nations would grind to a halt and millions would die.
Naturally the authors don't live in dangerous shoeboxes, dorm rooms or co-living pods they advocates the plebs should race to the bottom to.

Every time someone nudges "the workforce" closer and closer to the 2-penny hangovers you can be sure he has a downtown penthouse, a suburban mansion, or both, and hope to scalp bottom-feeder market once regulations are laxed.
Most married couples would still not prefer them. It would be stuffed by single people that would otherwise be homeless.
How big is the market of (people who can afford this)*(early tech adopters)?
Shh no one wants to entertain this..

It should be banned for all kids until 16 years of age. Frankly it should be outlawed period. Only books, music, art and board games.
An excellent video was recently published on this topic, although it focuses laregly on Vancouver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRdwXQb7CfM
Yes.

No doubt the community is intelligent, but compassion, honesty, intellectual honesty and willingness to accept other peoples viewpoint (and they yours) are more important.

Many people come to HN, myself included to distract themselves from other things. They bring that frustration with them. If I were to make a forum, it would be structured much differently. The first to post sets the tone of the "discussion" if we call it that. It is often a hoard of frustrated people (mostly men) screaming at each other in rhetorical combat.

I really suggest people set their maxvisit and minaway settings. My minaway is 180 minutes. I am ratcheting down my maxvisit.
All these companies’ apps are still available in App Store for iPhone, iPad, etc.
So even more contrived
Our brains trick us into making bad money decisions
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman is a great book that explains how our brains trick us into making bad money decisions. I recommend this book to anyone looking to level up their mindset and psychology around money.

Loss aversion is a key concept discussed in the book.

Loss aversion helps explain why we hold onto losing investments way longer than we should.

We feel the pain of losses more than the pleasure of gains, so we might make irrational decisions to avoid losses.

Losing $100 feels twice as bad as gaining $100. And because the pain of losing something is stronger than the pleasure of gaining the same thing, this can lead to irrational decision-making.

The book also discusses the concept of attitude to risk, which is influenced by loss aversion.

We tend to be risk-averse when it comes to gains, but risk-seeking when it comes to losses.

This can lead to our holding onto losing stocks in the hope that they will bounce back, rather than selling them and realizing a loss.

Key lesson: Never let your emotions dictate your money decisions.

Do you think it's important to understand the psychological factors that influence our decision-making processes?
The post links to more context here: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/08/26/cve-2020-19909-is-eve...

Last year, someone got got CVE's assigned for a curl issue for code that didn't exist AND managed to get a high severity assigned to it. So curl becoming a CNA lets them provide some control to this process.
If that's the case, then facebook sexually harasses me by showing me ads for Hooters and a Coffee where baristas only wear bikinis in Florida.

I DON'T EVEN LIVE IN THE STATES, STOP SHOWING ME THOSE SOFTPORN ADS!

Anyway, does that mean I can sue Zuckerberg for sexual harassment?
I agree on the AI stuff ... personally, I think it's going to need 5 years or so just to iron out all the legal and regulatory stuff before the 'next big push'

In general, I think you make your money in Tech at the ends.. Either bleeding edge or trailing edge. ATM, I'm working on Rust, serverless, playing with Pijul, keeping an eye on OpenTF, and pulumi.

For trailing edge stuff - I figure I'll be the worlds oldest COBOL coder by the time I retire and can use that to fund my retirement :-P
I was like 13 when I bought this book and was so fascinated with how it allowed for functionality similar to HTTP but was bidirectional. Maybe it was most comparable to HTTP/2 today, but the biggest problem I had with it personally was that its implementations were all using SOAP. I hate XML and SOAP. I had no chance of ever implementing anything with this and kinda gave up. REALbasic and GameMaker users what's up!!
Everyone I spoke to who has lived with kids in both flats and houses on 600sqm blocks prefers the latter, commute (which commute?) be damned.
Ex-PANW here. It's almost certainly the firewall's URL Filtering feature (aka PAN-DB).

When someone makes an HTTP request, the firewall takes the host and path from the request and looks them up first in a local cache on the data plane, then in the cloud. (As you can imagine, bypassing the entire feature is therefore trivial for malware. You just open a connection to an arbitrary IP address and put, say, google.com in the host header. As far as the firewall can tell, you are in fact talking to google.com.)

When the URL isn't already known to the cloud, or hasn't been visited more recently than its TTL, it goes into a queue to be refreshed by the crawler, which will make its way there shortly thereafter to classify the page.

Palo Alto has other URL scanners, but none that would reliably visit the page after the user. URLs carved out of SMTP traffic, for example, would mostly be visited before the real user, not after.
Sounds like an ethical thing to do.

Now, whats the deal with recommending all the incest and trans stuff?
Look, I actually get it. He just feels about journaling apps the way I felt about U2’s Songs of Innocence album appearing uninvited on my phone one day. It was a nice gesture and all, but I think we all are free to feel irrational irritation from time to time. This one is way easier to remove than a gifted U2 album, thankfully. OP can maybe turn off updates until he’s able to mentally prepare for hostile OS additions, and can still receive security updates. Maybe journaling about it will diffuse some of that angst.
Has any discoveries or drugs ever reversed autoimmune conditions? This look like one of the big end level bosses for AI
> Download videos with a single tap.
> Screenshot showing video downloading from youtube.com

This app is on the play store. Unfortunately, it won't be for long given Google's opinion of YT downloaders.

Firefox's YT background play was killed by this.
As a West European: apologies. It's not like we don't have history books but it seems that nobody bothers to read them anymore. Also: people here are just too bloody gullible and Russian trolls and bots are having a field day. I sincerely hope that we will come to our collective senses but I don't see many signs of that.
for me the issue is: why? followed by a few more "why?" and once the answer becomes "because." it becomes time to solve those intermediary questions. maybe that happens and nobody tells me, idk
Text λ – Safe text storage app (Beta release)
Text λ is a simple text storage app with user-side encryption.

It is currently available for Beta testing.

I would appreciate any feedback or suggestions on the product.

Thank you.
Okay, what is the safety reason my barber can’t operate out of a room in his house?
It does, many Americans like to defend it as "free speech".
Part of the beauty of eg. CNC mills is they don't necessarily care what the units are.
Pollution laws protect against industrial operations polluting other areas, not zoning.

The real "pollution" they zoning was invented to solve was the "pollution" of residents of apartments living close to wealthier people. Seriously! Check out how the original Supreme Court decision phrased its motivation:

> “very often the apartment house is a mere parasite, constructed to take advantage of the open spaces and attractive surroundings created by the residential character of the district …. interfering by their height and bulk with the free circulation of air and monopolizing the rays of the sun which otherwise would fall upon the smaller homes.”

Here's a more extensive analysis from an org purporting to represent real estate, the source of much historical support for this sort of exclusionary zoning:

https://cre.org/real-estate-issues/americas-sordid-history-o...
We didn't even use red/green deployment; just had a multi-AZ deployment and migrated from 11.x -> 15.2 with about 30 seconds of downtime.

No dramas really, didn't even need logical replication.
Yes, a correct encryption algorithm can encrypt (essentially) any bit string. But it's quite easy to turn a correct encryption algorithm into an incorrect one by bolting on something seemingly innocuous.

Here's a concrete example. Let's say you decide you want to make AES encryption more efficient by defining a new standard, "lzAES", that is just:

Enc_lz(key, msg) := AES-Encrypt(key, lzw_compress(msg))
Dec_lz(key, ctxt) := lzw_decompress(AES-Decrypt(key, ctxt))

This "works", in the sense that you can correctly decrypt ciphertexts, and it certainly seems innocuous. But it is now an insecure cipher!

Here's why: the definition of a secure cipher is that ciphertexts resulting from the encryptions of any two messages of equal length are indistinguishable. In other words, for any two messages you can choose, if I encrypt both messages under a randomly generated key, you can't tell which ciphertext corresponds to which message. In contrast, lzAES as defined above does not have this property: you could choose one message that's easily compressible (say, a string of zeros) and one that's not (say, a uniformly random string), and then you'd be able to tell which ciphertext corresponds to which plaintext just by looking at the ciphertext lengths.

And this is not just a definitional issue! If you use lzAES to encrypt something, an attacker can guess your message and test whether compressing the guess gives the same length as your ciphertext. Guess-and-check isn't possible with a secure cipher, but it is with lzAES---in other words, it gives away information about your plaintext!
What? The simplest answer by far is

c) they haven't been programming for 8 years
You're gonna be tripping like that cat astronaut on the moon, alien spaceship background, synthwave style.
Did you see Lucy (2014)?
IMHO they are the same wins. Because behind all these, the real value is standardization. Kubernetes offers standard APIs and all the vendors fall in line with their own implementations.

As a result, the software I run in my homelab for free, is the same software battle-tested in various enterprise environments, from 5-person startups to planet-scale mega corps. There are paid engineers and companies out there making serious long term commitment to it. This is truly amazing.
MGH being Mass General Hospital or something else? I only ask because I'm a colon cancer patient at Mass General.
No.

Until I knew I had a brain injury, I could not figure out how to work around my issues. Everything I tried was a dead end. It was unrelenting failure and judgement.

Knowing what a problem is gives you the ability to solve it. Not everyone will use that knowledge to their benefit, but withholding the knowledge from someone is abusive.
I'm not sure if any amount of privacy marketing can make me use a non-open source browser. Perhaps AI-powered anti annoyance filter and dark pattern removal? Firefox and Chromium aren't perfect but the amount of spying in these browsers can be audited and Firefox has some advanced anti-tracking features (resistFingerprinting). The video downloader is pretty cool though if it works well enough in practice.
I've spent my entire career behind the firewall. No I don't have a portfolio I can show you.
At least we can put lots of nuclear plants in that 5,000 km^2 area so that definition becomes irrelevant for this discussion. Maybe putting the absolute maximum power generated if we turn all available lands to that purpose only is the best metric
In a corporate environment, i.e. one with managed laptops/workstations, it's best to assume that your employer can access the content of every page you visit.

Some employers might not actually do that, but that decision is usually neither static nor will a change in it have to be reported to you under most policies.
> And iOS isn’t a platform that you could.

Of course you could. Apple would simply have to enable it. The fact that you can't download an app through Safari on iOS is simply an arbitrary decision by Apple.

> If side loading is important to you, get an Android phone or maybe a niche OS phone.

This has little to do with individual user preference about side loading. This is about developers who want to get their apps into customers' hands. While I'm sure a lot of developers and companies would be tickled pink to not have to develop mobile apps, its their customers who expect those apps and a very significant number, if not a majority of those customers, are iOS users. So while we can say it is a choice to develop iOS apps, it is, for all intents and purposes, a competitive requirement for many developers.

So even if a customer is already aware of you, already aware of your app, even if you have no need for Apple to distribute, market or host your app, you are required to have them do so and pay Apple's 15% or 30% fees on everything between you and that customer, in perpetuity, just because that customer is forced to use Apple's app store to locate and download your app.

It's worth noting the contrast between that situation, which is the source of most of the derision over Apple's fees, and a situation where a developer is producing a mass-market iOS game from scratch, in which the app store listing is actually an asset, in which they DO rely on Apple's distribution, in which they DO rely on Apple's marketing, etc. yet they get away with paying $99/yr, which Apple apparently considers adequate compensation for the above services they provide, and Apple doesn't touch any of their ad revenue, regardless of how successful that app is.

Even putting aside the completely unnecessary and arbitrary walled garden, that inconsistency in Apple's taxation of developers is worthy of criticism.
The ones that have “instructors” and class times have chat-based sessions that you can skip if you prefer. Part of the homework is based on an adaptive problem system (Alcumus, which you can actually use for free) and part is weekly problem sets mostly based on the textbook. Writing (proof) problems are graded by a human so it is a useful way to get feedback on your proof-writing skills (if you know you are worse at it than a college math major).
Someone even hacked these to 8G but that required reballing a 200 pad chip.
I think one of the major advantages of corporations is allowing the people running it to avoid personal responsibility for the company. This allows owners to act without a conscious, because they cannot be directly held responsible. This leads to "it's just business."
You can't post like this here, and we ban accounts that do, regardless of who or what or where you have a problem with. Please don't do it again.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Edit: It looks like you've been posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait repeatedly. Could you please not? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for, so we have to ban accounts that keep doing it.
I'm sorry, are you unaware of the medical uses for the opium poppy and the millions that would die | experience great pain without it?

It's not an exact analgy, sure .. but to describe it as "beyond stupid" is certainly less than bright.
> we know they've been programming as a profession getting paid to do it for 8+ years.

We don't know that! We know they submitted a resume that says they've been programming for 8+ years; we don't know whether that happened or not.

I can't remember exactly what it was that gave me a "this guy is actually full of shit" feeling, but other things in the interview gave me that feeling, so I pivoted the interview to check.

On that day and to this day, I have serious doubts that that particular candidate had ever held a professional software job for longer than a probationary period.
Ok, take out the save the world comment.

Can you point to a promising project from the link you posted? Like I said, it lists a lot of funding, but not a lot of actual carbon sequestration.

Your rebuttal doesn’t actually provide evidence that carbon sequestration is a technology that is on its way to working on the small scale. All of those projects are sequestering carbon by consuming massive amounts of energy from sources that are partially or completely carbon powered.
I honestly can't figure out what this means.
> I can see that inflammatory comments are not equally disapproved https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39032567

That's just a case of us not having seen it. I've responded now. It's not possible for us to see everything that gets posted to HN—there's far too much. If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com.

> Were discussion about Foxxcon suicides equally moderated?

I can't fathom what that has to do with this, but the answer is of course. The principles are the same.

You can always find examples of comments that escape moderation on any side of any sufficiently-discussed topic. People are far too eager to make inferences about moderation bias from what is in fact just randomness.
Disappointed to see Google Wave on here[1]

Google wave didn't fail, mankind failed to appreciate how amazing it was. This is a hill I'm prepared to die on

[1] https://collection.museumoffailure.com/google-wave/
Weren't they originally designed to help limit owner liability?
These are awesome.
You can't ride the bus?
>> Why can't you take VC money and run the business the way you want?

Because taking VC money let's you defer the revenue question. And by deferring it, you then have to bait-and-switch the users.

Let me be clear. It's OK to get startup money. Businesses need capital to get going. But revenue should be the original business plan.

In other words, who is paying for this site, and how? Ello ruled out advertising and data sale - that's fine, but that leaves subscriptions, donations, premium features, whatever.

For a "regular" business, each wants to become sustainable, its important to become profitable ASAP. The team is focused on revenue, keeping costs down and so on. Once it can pay expenses and salaries it can run forever.

The obvious revenue here is subscriptions. Income rises with expenses. But of course if you charge you'll grow slowly. So you start free, which means customers will rebel later.

(Anyone see parallels to Open Source companies here?)

VC money allows you to kick this can down the road. Small angel investment? Sure, no problem. You still have majority control. But if you are using that money to pay salaries, then it'll quickly run out. If you don't have enough revenue, you could just close up, but you dont, you go get a series A. Then B. Then C and so on.

The implication is you are selling equity. One day that investor equity exceeds 25%. A round or two later it's over 50%. You've lost control. (And I'm assuming all the founders are in agreement all the time - in reality one wants to cash out, and joins the investors camp well before the 50% is reached.)

So, you can grow slowly, and sustainably. Or you can take money, grow fast, and "hope".

But make no mistake, when you sell -equity- you are selling control. You are selling your right to dictate "principles". That is -what- you are selling-.

Since you are selling to people who are in it for the financial return, the end result is like night following day; inescapable.

If you want to build a business on principles, not profit, you HAVE to answer the revenue question first.
'“I think employers are becoming used to a lower level of professionalism, sometimes.”

It’s a give and take. “We really do push against tradition. Gen Z’s moving things forward,” Harrigan said.'

In the future parallel world of Anathem by Neal Stephenson, the general public converges on wearing crocs and football jerseys down to their ankles.

I always laugh thinking about this progress of humanity (due to obscene over-abundance), but I think he was spot on about where we are 'progressing' to.
We did the exact thing not too long ago, but we couldn't do it using blue/green. We were able to minimize downtime quite a bit, but it was on the order of minutes, not seconds. I wrote a little bit about the process here. I spent a lot of time prepping and running the migration, so happy to share any details if it's helpful.

https://phizzle.space/dbadmin/aws/postgres/2023/12/30/rds-en...
I don't know exactly what to say because I think I have polar opposite views of you. I think mandated pet insurance is more likely to increase the cost of owning a pet for everyone, and more likely to see that father in trouble with the law for violating it.

That's without going into any of the economic and personal rights problems with making unaffiliated people pay for the care of other people's pets.
I had such a hard time researching autism after someone mentioned it might apply to me because I found most articles to be very stigmatizing. A lot of language like "ASD is a developmental disorder that impairs a person's ability to communicate" etc. Looking for actual examples now, I am seeing more nuanced language (eg "People with ASD may respond differently to the world"), but the stigmatizing language I previously found really put me off of it for a long time. Slowly I have embraced my differences as somehow on the spectrum, but I still sort of have this feeling of "different people are different" and I question whether pathologizing differences is that useful. Though I do hear people who say that diagnosis was helpful to them.
that was literally what the parent comment said: "This is why ads are the only viable business model". No alternative to ads has been really made viable. Fattr shutting down makes the point
Why would anyone use this over libp2p?
>A couch and a fire and that couch can't be pushed over or jumped over... That's quite a contrived scenario. I suspect that most of the improvements in the fire safety record of apartment buildings have to do with other factors like materials used, fireproof stair doors, etc etc.

I suppose you also think it’s silly for flight crew to confirm people sitting in the exit row are able and willing to help in an emergency.

Couldn’t you just push them out of the way or jump over them?
User-contributed documentation on the internet related to autism is slanted in a way you wouldn't necessarily expect; many people with autism consider the condition an 'identity' rather than a 'diagnosis' and they also tend to be what's colloquially known as 'terminally online.'

That results in a rather hostile environment for those who wish to label, discuss, contribute etc to the documentation of the subject.

In a similar way the frequently-online Deaf community is remarkably hostile to the idea of cochlear implants in a way that you just don't see among the less-online deaf community.
There’s also an intermediate number theory class that’s basically at the level of a college elementary NT course (one that does not assume abstract algebra), an Olympiad geometry class, and a group theory class. The first two do not have a text, the third has a text but you can’t get it without enrolling.