skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> simply a ponzi

*sigh* Welcome the 2020s, where anything economically unsustainable-looking that somebody doesn't like gets blithely tarred as a "Ponzi scheme".

Bitcoin? Ponzi scheme. Social Security? Ponzi scheme. Housing market? Ponzi scheme. Monopoly™ board game? Ponzi scheme.

No, at a minimum any "Ponzi scheme" requires somebody to be telling you actual lies about assets and money flows. Without that, you are at the very least dealing with a different category of scam.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/ponzischeme.asp
If people are using space that has been marked as "Reserved For Future Use" within their networks, then this is a problem that they must deal with and it must not affect or influence global usage. What about networks squatting on DoD /8 space? Does this mean the DoD can never route this space publicly because people are using it internally?
Is that what it is?
I should make a table with all other plotters and compare them. That would be cool.
My guess is that this is still acquiring the email tech, but Notion has no interest in end-to-end encryption. They don't care for the customer base, since those are all with Skiff (partially) for the E2EE stuff.

I'd bet they'll either unravel the E2EE from Skiff's software to relaunch it under their brad, or use their newly acquired expertise to build a Notion Email service from the ground up.
Thank you for sharing your insights on deploying money effectively to save time and build a business. It's crucial to explore various avenues for investment, and your suggestion of checking out https://icoholder.com/en/ico-forums on icoholder.com is interesting. ICOs can indeed provide unique opportunities for funding and collaboration in the rapidly evolving business landscape. However, it's essential for entrepreneurs to thoroughly research and assess the risks associated with any investment platform. Always exercise due diligence and stay informed about the latest trends and regulations in the cryptocurrency space. Best of luck to fellow entrepreneurs on their journey to financial efficiency and business success!
This is a good point, we have good insulation and doubled glazed windows.
Thanks, that's reassuring. We're still in the validation stages with our product; we haven't invested too much into it yet.

Would you think that in general, we stumbled across a good or a bad sign? Should we pack up and put our efforts elsewhere, since we didn't pour too much effort into implementation yet?
This proposal is not regarding repurposing 240/4 as RFC1918 space. It is regarding reclassifying it as Unicast space. I would recommend reading the article.
Works for me in Safari too.
When also has someone retracted a real confession? It seems more likely that the police beat it out of him, then they leaned on this obscure lab to get the results they wanted. Or he’s just guilty and somehow thought confessing to multiple murders wasn’t going to effect his life that much.
SonicKey enables all music in the world to be identifiable, referenceable and
That feels like a lot of electricity usage for such high seer, in Oregon. Are you positive that electric backup wasn't being triggered for some reason?
Greece Signs Artemis Accords
Meta has sold far more VR headsets than all other the other brands combined. Unlike Apple's headset, they also have a clear use case, a "killer feature": VR games. Something you can't have without VR. Apple seems to just offer somewhat improved(?) experiences for watching TV and working with multiple monitors.
Living in an echo chamber may be part of the aetiology.

Another part of the aetiology may be that the objective, qualitative, difference between "eccentric" and "crazy" boils down to "is it causing undeniable problems in your life?"

People ascribe many contradictory things to money: being barred from Heaven on one side, as outer evidence of inner goodness on the other, etc. etc. What I think most people will agree upon is that having money turns many things that would be problems for people without into (at worst) mere annoyances, and (at best) other peoples' problems.

For all I know, it never occurred to Howard Hughes, while he was living in a movie screening room for four months and recycling milk bottles to serve his daily physiological needs, that this behaviour may have been a problem?
Hmmm... I'm not sure about that.
How did you build it?
It's hard not to see it from the perspective of "for the person with a hammer, everything is a nail", Azure and already having the capability to build data centers is their hammer and the nail is a compute-heavy task. There's an element of speculation if whether it will be a lasting wave of the future people will pay for, but they have the levers to pull in case it is. It wouldn't be the first time they or any other company has made a bet so they don't get left out, time will tell if AI becomes a part of the furniture commodity or doesn't prove broadly valuable and fades away after a change of direction.

The interesting thing for me is the push for AI hardware as a baseline in consumer chips, right now I'd assume training and inference is done on their servers, but as it moves from a development/exploration phase to regular operations and scales up they want to offload inference to save costs, and probably provide a better experience running a model locally.
Honestly, just make sure you’re spending as much money as you can afford in insulation and double or tripled glazed windows. It makes all the different. We used cellulose fiber on our latest renovation , even between the slab in the ground and the floor, it’s wild how warm our place is.
UK to replace physical biometric immigration cards with e-visas
Thanks, that's some good input.

How would you go about checking their track record, and the time it takes them to develop features?

I'm clueless at this, would appreciate some inputs
Interesting article!

> Furthermore, there is literally no way to tell whether your program will ever actually terminate without actually executing it. And there are many, many, many, ways to write a program which make it “slow” to execute. “Slow” being… like really slow.

Nitpick: there are some languages where you can tell whether your program will terminate without running it. There are even languages where you can tell whether your program will be slow.

And there are even more specialised languages where any program will be 'fast'.

Obviously, these languages aren't Turing complete. It's an interesting exercise to explore the design space to find languages that are both useful and avoid being Turing complete.

Agda is an example of a language that allows you to run approximately any practical computation, but it's not Turing complete. Oversimplified: in Agda a program is only considered valid by the compiler, if it comes with a computer-checkable proof of halting on all inputs.
Good grief, I'd not seen this before and now I've lost an entire evening to it. Who'd have thought a game nearly 40 years old could still be so engrossing?! Thanks
While in Iceland good sources of heat may be close to the surface, so exploiting them may not change a lot the cooling speed of the Earth, in most places in order to obtain enough geothermal energy the heat must be brought from high depth and its use is equivalent with significantly reducing the thermal resistance of the upper layer of Earth's crust at that point, increasing the speed at which the Earth is cooling.
I agree on the one hand but empirically I don’t think I have seen a bug where the problem was the string for X ended up being used as Y. Probably because the variable/field names do enough heavy lifting. But if your language makes it easy to wrap I say why not. It might aid readability and maybe avoid a bug.

I would probably type to the level of Url, Email, Name but not PersonProfileTwitterLink.
Agree, desperation only applies to more critical things in my view. But sometimes it's the sum of little vexations, being passed on, being forgotten, that lead to a high level of frustration, anger and desperation. Then one goes into a "I don't give a shit anymore, I have nothing to loose" (there is always something to loose but desperation does that to you).

I'm mentioning this because the general tone of the article and the comments was that there are many examples of this trend toward less equality and in my eyes it is very true, we are going toward a society where the gap between poor and rich becomes bigger and bigger. And this is going like this since 50 years at least...
I do find the same great productivity and focus at the same hour (usually). However, this happens from my sleep schedule sliding to where I end up nocturnal, not from something like caffeine or nicotine. Waking up at 11PM and staying up until the late AM of the next day.
Funnily enough, I have the opposite opinion.

AWS has "fun" features like the ability to just lose track of some resource and still be billed for it. It's in here... somewhere. Not sure which region or account. I'll find it one day.

GCP is made by Google, also known as children that forgot to take their ADHD medication. Any minute now they'll just casually announce that they're cancelling the cloud because they're bored of it.

Azure is the only one I've seen with a sane management interface, where you can actually see everything everywhere all at once. Search, filter, query-across-resources, etc... all work reasonably well.
Thanks!

How would you go about checking their track record? Never done this before and I feel as if it's an important metric

They do not promote it overly strongly, but it is hinted at in their docs as an upcoming feature. No data is disclosed though, and the feature still feels immature at this stage.
The headline (and url) is hugely misleading here. This is not based on any statistics or analysis, it's pure opinion from a newspaper that is basically a tabloid by now, an author who is a self-described hardline Brexiteer (and Irexiteer for that matter) and is mostly famous for airbrushing British atrocities in Irish history.
Strictly speaking, the worst that could happen is you damage the pen, typically by breaking or twisting the nib.

Although nibs can be replaced, I expect that would significantly reduce the second hand value.
It sounds like your house is poorly insulated too ?
Shouting in the Data Center [video]
Unfortunately it’s also possible that e.g the company switched from share point to confluence and lost half the entire knowledge base because it wasn’t labeled the way they thought it was. Or that the docs were all purged because they were part of an abandoned project.
> Now, obviously basically nobody else has all of that set up.

Yep, your average hooman only has the one smartphone these days and no access to a printer :)
The technology that passkeys are built on is well understood, and the deployments are building on a tech stack that's been getting deployed in browsers for well more than a decade. I don't remember hearing about any zero-day phishing vulnerabilities in FIDO or WebAuthn during all that time. But even if there had been any, zero-days have both a limited lifetime (these things get fixed quickly after being used in the wild) and a limited reach (only the most sophisticated attackers would have access to them).

There are a small number of people in the world who might need to worry about being the target of a spearphishing campaign that a state-sponsored attacker is going to waste a once in a decade zero-day on. I'm fairly confident nobody in this thread, nor anyone I know in real life, is one of those people.

Even taking hypothetical future zero-days into account, the reduction in specifically phishing risk is going to be absurdly large, the risk will be reduced at least by a factor of millions. That's very different from your original thinking that it was just some minor technical impediment that the attackers would automatically and irrevocably catch up to.
This is excellent. Bravo, mister! Really interesting stuff.
The article details closed schools etc. Presumably many of the places closed also had ceiling fans and therefore deemed insufficient to counteract the health crisis
Well the metadiscussion upends the whole discussion.

Microsoft should've wrapped up their HoloLens research and offered a nice low-volume product for researches, engineers, and designers. We need such products, and it's a shame they abandoned it.

But they keep trying to find the "next big thing". And VR is absolutely not the "next big thing". So if they only see value in that, they were right to cut losses and move on to focus their resources on other things like AI.
Some discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18137217
I've recently started using fountain pens, the Pilot Capless (Vanishing Point) Decimo with Pilot Iroshizuku Shin-kai ink in particular. The Decimo is retractable, making it great for everyday use. My paper of choice is Rhodia R 90gsm.

It's refreshing to write with something as tactile and manual as a fountain pen when I'm surrounded by screens all day.
I find that taking notes on paper helps me with programming (debugging, code structure, etc.), and the writing experience of a fountain pen encourages me to take more notes.
What’s with all the await-stuff? Couldn’t it be written just straight forward?
Well, it's a good thing that even those people will still be able to recover their account with just a new SIM or new phone. (Depending on whether they lost the phone completely, or if it just stopped working.)
Perhaps I undersold myself a little. By the time I got my first job I was fairly well versed in SQL querying, and these days I feel comfortable writing what I'd consider complex queries. That is with various window functions, nested queries, recursion (though I try to avoid that) etc, and I have a good handle on what the query optimizer likes and doesn't like.

But schema design is something else. I still take my time doing that.

Especially since our application is written with backwards compatibility in mind, so changing schema after it's deployed is something we try very hard to avoid.

But yeah, when hiring we require they are comfortable writing "normal" SQL queries (multiple joins, aggregation etc).
Who Inherits the Earth?
In a large application you may have dozens of tables that different backends may be operating on. Each worker pool polling on tables it may be interested on every couple seconds can add up, and it's really not necessary.

Another factor is polling frequency and processing latency. All things equal, the delay from when a new task lands in a table to the time a backend is working on it should be as small as possible. Single digit milliseconds, ideally.

A NOTIFY event is sent from the server-side as the transaction commits, and you can have a thread blocking waiting on that message to process it as soon as it arrives on the worker side.

So with NOTIFY you reduce polling load and also reduce latency. The only time you need to actually query for tasks is to take over any expired leases, and since there is a 'lease_expire' column you know when that's going to happen so you don't have to continually check in.

As far as documentation, I got a simple java LISTEN/NOTIFY implementation working initially (2013?-ish) just from the excellent postgres docs: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-notify.html
Maybe it should say that somewhere.
But there is no paid egress when we are moving data between account within one region, rigth?
It can 3D-Print onto itself? [video]
I just love how downvoted you are! Really shows the true hn crowd, the kids themselves.
> If the Mach team can pull off this whole "Zig as a cross-3D-API shader compiler" and make it work as smoothly as "Zig as a cross-compilation toolchain", then this would be pretty much the biggest thing in computer graphics since 1995 or so :)

And a major boost for Zig -- both as a language and a toolchain.
The Ukraine war is ultimately about Poland
There's a Dramatiq backend to do this (https://pypi.org/project/dramatiq-pg/) but I don't think it has seen as wide adoption as it deserves. I haven't tried it, but I don't see why it wouldn't work well.
I agree but also I'm not entirely sure how much of this is avoidable. Even the most simple web applications are full of what feels like needless complexity, but I think actually a lot of it is surprisingly essential. That said, there is definitely a huge amount of "I'm using this because I'm told that we should" over "I'm using this because we actually need it"
I recall in the late 2000s Microsoft had some of the best mice and keyboards on the market, but you'd never know they existed unless you happened upon them.
So those impenetrable keys can be reset with just a SIM clone?

What's the point then?
They knew the DMA was coming for years. For a company with the resources like Apple to not have enough time is just a load of crap.

They don't want to, and will go out of their way to make their statement.
Indeed. Here in the EU we’re basically gaslit over this kind of eco stuff. To me, clothes just don’t come out as clean as they used to. I always use the extra rinse button on my front loader and a temperature of 60C to approach the kind of washes we had the 90s and 00s
I think I am seeing a real clash of mind-sets in this thread.

People from a security mindset like you and I meet a lot of friction
with developers who are chirpy and optimistic (and also more
generally with people who want technology to be fluffy and "just
work")

Not that chirpy optimism is a fault at all, we all need a little more
of it, but when it crosses borders into strong beliefs that actually
put others at risk I feel discomfort, and a need to challenge those
ideas.

Now, not understanding complex and subtle security issues is nothing
to be ashamed of, and it's wrong (arrogant) if we decry that. What is
unacceptable though, is "reckless and dismissive optimism", whether
that's in systems, ostensible authorities, technologies or whatever.
Ahh interesting. Didn't realise there were such significant differences in storage. Thanks!
That's why I stick with Ubuntu (well Linux Mint actually). I have yet to run into a project or problem which didn't had instructions specifically for Ubuntu.

You can also explore building with Nix to be platform/distribution agnostic.
> Statistically speaking, the more the subsystems your program relies on, the greater the chances of something going wrong.

And lets not forget The Internet.

E.g. Gmail Reply's automatic recipient selection can depend on the speed of internet connection. Amazing but true.
But semantics… RSS is flat and items are usually ordered by pubdate. OPML is better suited for relatively static collections of things organised in a tree. Using OPML to store blogrolls makes sense (but is not the only viable option of course).
I should really learn AWS huh
start tracking all food, from crops to harvest, reduce family farms. Charge people to use carbon on a metered rate, slowly reducing the allowed amount each year. Keep everyone restricted with scarcity.
https://archive.ph/lsQ3Q
Haha, was just thinking about this yesterday. Taking care of a 2012 Nissan Sentra and sometimes I lose track of the lifetime warranties of parts.

Started an Excel last year for it, although I’d be saving a lot more money if I did that earlier…
Usually this criticism doesn't even hold water if you put performance aside, since a set will often have nicer ergonomics if you find yourself reaching for it. I see far too much code that is like items.remove((item) => item == value) and if you're using the proper datastructure you don't have to handroll your implementations each time, because they are provided by default.
Thanks for posting. I keep a log of these for every time I have one of those “mocks and synthetic loads are useless to test this piece of software, we absolutely need to clone production” conversations.
They are planning an IPO ... so this is good publicity for cheap and helps counter the bad PR they've been receiving from all their actions.
I heard a while back that the most devastating thing that could happen to a politician is a stereotype of him/her being confirmed in the wild.

They then become caricatures in the eyes of the public. Some have lost elections because of this.
Social engineering - scope out their support forums, their annual reports, media releases.

Identify as many customers of theirs as possible in a few days, then start making notes on those customers; size, people that post in tech | social forums, their media releases.

Follow up with cold calling | DM's via socials etc. to ask about experiences with { problem domain | bigger supply company | software } etc.

It's a hard one to lay out in advance, the path forward will often reveal itself as you scope out more and more.
> Ponzi schemes are money laundering schemes.

No, that's like saying "bank-robberies are drug-smuggling."

A Ponzi scheme involves investors being defrauded by someone lying about the status of assets and money flows.

It does not automatically imply any kind of money laundering, and in fact it can operate just fine even when every single scent being invested is from entirely clean sources.
> how do I know that I can trust the protocol?

It's going to show you which app and probably which protocol is going to be used, then you can decide on your own how to proceed.

> really fear that in practice, it will just weaken end-to-end encryption everywhere. And for what? I have absolutely no problem using multiple apps to talk with friends right now, I don't need one "super-app".

You always have the option to just use the same app? That won't go away, and it will still have advantages

> But maybe that is actually a political incentive: if you can't make E2EE illegal (in order to spy on your citizen), make it weak.

The idea is to kill the network effect in chat apps, it way too strong now, to the point that even the WhatsApp policy change controversy didn't kill it, everybody complained, opened a signal account and then just continued using WhatsApp

And of course they did the master class of withdrawing the change then rolling it out when the news cycle fizzled out, so that 'protest' had literally no effect on WhatsApp and it's dominant position.
They don’t all appear to need this practice in order to be able to fly.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.066... is a recentish overview of existing literature and touches upon this in the section Wing flapping before flight.
Can't spell "copilot" without "clip"
if the Replication Crisis ever comes for criminal forensics there will be hell to pay.
Nabladown Server
View nabladown files(markup language for math and code) as you type them.
The DSA was not written overnight. The agreement was made in 2022, the text is from 2020, preliminary versions probably available years before that. And even without having the exact wording Apple must have known their anticompetitive behavior wouldn’t be tolerated forever way before that. Mandatory Browser Choice exists since when, Windows XP times? There was enough time, there is no excuse.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/?uri=COM%3A20...
You can have multiple workers, but they all need to process all events. So it’s not suitable for parallelisation of work (how can it be, if total ordering is required), but it can be used where different workers consume the queue in different ways (eg for synchronising different services).
I think I've come across alda and abc notation. I agree melrose seems the most similar to mine. I guess it's an over-generalization saying most software out there is focused on experimentation. I was thinking mostly of Sonic Pi and SuperCollider.

I think the main difference in my program is that you'll be defining functions that react to state in the song during the simulation, which can output notes dependent on that state (such as the root of the current chord), instead of concrete notes visible at "compile time".
Related recent Times piece with lots of discussion around "Flip Phone February"

A practical guide to quitting your smartphone

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256176