skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My solution to this has been creating a public bastion server and use Wireguard. Wireguard listens on a random UDP port (port knocking is more difficult here.) This client is set up to have a dynamic endpoint so I don't need to worry about whitelisting. The key and port information are stored in a password manager like Vaultwarden with the appropriate documentation to connect. Firewall rules are set to reject on all other ports and it doesn't respond to ICMP packets either. A lot of that is security through obscurity but I found this to be a good balance of security and practicality.
Why are you using two l’s to spell langchain?
Collapse-to-zero, vs. a period of high inflation which lets the US reduce the current value of the debt by a large factor?

A huge global financial/commerce system needs a "standard" currency. The lack of a good replacement for the dollar (in that capacity) means there are a load of A List players in the game...who have vested interests in pretending that US govt. debt doesn't matter.
https://gist.github.com/thesamesam/223949d5a074ebc3dce9ee78b...:

>Lasse regularly has internet breaks and is on one at the moment, started before this all kicked off. He has posted an update at https://tukaani.org/xz-backdoor/ and is working with the community.
Do you believe Michael Weiss or the National Institutes Of Health?

https://apnews.com/article/havana-syndrome-diplomat-health-b...
Robot slide whistle orchestrion [video]
IIRC, this was called "permanent assignment" in CPL, a name I very much like.

It's also pretty much the same as a dataflow constraint (see: Amulet, Garnet, Spreadsheets, ...)

In Objective-S, I use the syntax |= for the unidirectional variant of a dataflow constraint, =|= for bidirectional (ObjS uses := or ← for assignment, = for equality). So the above would be:

a := b.
a ← b.
c |= d+1.
z |= 10-time. (if 'time' were the current time in ObjS)

https://objective.st
Only a couple of years ago, Tesla was at the top of my list for switching to an EV. It seemed an innovative company with an apparently intelligent leader (I even defended him here several times).

Since then, it's become evident that the quality issues are not fleeting but systemic and endemic. A neighbor has two Teslas and complained they are always in the shop.

And the leader? Once he started openly arguing software, which I know a little bit about, it became obvious that he is clueless amd a bullying, blustering, fraud. Confirmed when I read that SpaceX has a team dedicated to managing Elon, like an internal immune system.

There's now no way I'd consider any of his products.
Got a link to that study by any chance?
Well it's also an LZMA implementation, and an implementation can be fast or slow, good or bad.

From what I gather 7zip tends to be quite a bit faster than xz, since it's been worked on/optimized quite a bit more (I didn't test this myself to verify, but I've seen several people comment on that over the last few years).
At 45 I got laid off from a startup in June 2023 after trying to push through burnout for over 2 year. After 4 purely cosmetic redesigns of the product before we were even public, I just stopped caring. Our none existent customer base isn't going to suddenly buy the product if primary buttons are purple vs blue.

The next six months of trying to find a job were completely demoralizing thanks to all the other layoffs in the industry. I gave up looking and downsized my life so I could take 2 or 3 years off.

I'm slowly letting it go, but I'm still dreading having to go back to writing software. Unfortunately I haven't been able to come up with many similarly paying options to switch to. Maybe management or technical sales I guess? Maybe just getting away from frontend dev will help as well.
Show HN: Instructor v1, for LLM structured output and streaming
What examples of major companies that the DOJ has lit into?

AFAIK, the last company they broke up was AT&T, 40 years ago.
Lean for proving theorems, and some complex analysis.
Medical outcomes can vary widely, and sometimes, despite initial concerns or decisions, things can indeed work out favorably over time. Good to hear that evrything's ok with your dad now
Here's a sobering view on the economics of hydrogen: https://about.bnef.com/blog/liebreich-clean-hydrogens-missin...

Hint, they remain terrible and you shouldn't get your hopes up.

Converting air into gas isn't hard technically. It's just really expensive. The expensive bits get waffled over a lot by proponents. But there's no real solution for this stuff just being really, really expensive.
Dropbox has a lot of bizarre, and for me useless, features: Dropbox Capture, Paper, Vault, Comments, To-do lists, Document scanner, Task manager, folders for turning images to PDF, and now a fax machine. eSignature is useful but I don’t get it even in paid plan Plus.

Yet, it does not have a proper backup product.
I think it is more about education, the way "we" study/teach programming than an intrinsecally problem about paradigms. I personally find the query syntax better and I am not working as a developer "anymore". I would say that is a matter of taste and education. Related [1]. Personally, I look for simple and clear syntaxes and don't have a problem switching from one programming language to another while the focus in the solution is clear.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/csharp/comments/w7n11s/why_does_the...
I didn't think of "identity" in this sense, but I don't see this as a show-stopper either.

On my current jig developer churn is not high, yet I've only recently met developers hired 6+ months ago. I know first-hand only a handful of the committers I see. Barely know the most common commiters. I generally do watch commits of the trees/projects I'm interested into, but I'm a minority, and such behavior wouldn't catch something similar to the xz situation unless I'm absolutely lucky.

This also ignores the fact that you can just as well corrupt a current employee.
Why are humans so often seeking to bind clarity about our universe behind a non-connected ideology? Meaning, outside of theism we find ourselves in a scientific endeavoring; and both sides agree at some point connectedness among 'life' rang unshakably true - via faith and via experimentation. However we skip right over most of that in seeking truths in complex detail - when - it would make much more sense to me to find the simple truth in reality.

I see the world (Earth, specifically, then my perception of it, and ultimately the cosmos behind that) as inherently connected at the most basic of levels. Science has shown us that much of the physical world that we can interact with is uncannily common in structure - we and stars are essentially made up of the same basic materials - as is everything else in the cosmos.

So why then, do we concede a connected cosmos at its core (basic building blocks) and instead seek to dissect this basic cosmic connection - via theism, or reality, creationism or intelligence on cosmic scale?

To me, if everything you can see and touch and interact with was at one point basic building blocks of all things, why would consciousness be different?
But, do you like them?
> I doubt the world would go into prolonged lockdowns again.

Most of the world didn't go into any lockdowns. Sure, most gatherings were banned and places like restaurants couldn't have people dining in. But most people could go outside and do almost anything they wanted, provided they didn't gather in crowds.

The lockdowns like China enforced where people had their doors barred and could only leave once a week for groceries (or had groceries delivered by the government) were an outlier.

If we ever see mortality rates in the double digits, expect real lockdowns.
Sans paywall...
https://archive.is/hV7GG
I would get pretty mad if my phones and PCs were supported for 10 years only.
iFixit Announces New Spudger Pro and Spudger Pro Ultra
https://www.ifixit.com/News/93647/ifixit-announces-new-spudg...
(Disclaimer: Former Sentry employee)

There's a ton of DB passion at Sentry but most importantly for anyone this deep in the thread, Sentry also detects and helps fix common DB mistakes whether it's you or the ORM: https://docs.sentry.io/product/issues/issue-details/performa...

If you're at the “why it’s slow” runbook, Sentry turns the first 2 steps into 1 click:
https://docs.sentry.io/product/performance/queries/
Ah yes, the "beans and rice are more expensive than beef" argument.
Yeah I think this an April's fools joke..
Reading the paper, this is pretty weak sauce findings. Here is the main scatterplot showing the fit lines, https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczOuepTKEj908Wc8Gkx...

The main findings are suggesting a slope change, which when you incorporate standard errors are just below 1 (the yellow line in the above graph). The model to me though is very noisy (should clearly have seasonal monthly terms, this should make estimates somewhat more precise), and is suggestive that the matched areas are not quite the same (they are substantively lower, although to be fair do appear to have similar seasonal patterns).

Biased because I have written a bit on this (IMO the pub health literature is biased to only conclude alcohol is bad, a similar paper saying "no effect" would be rejected at JAMA or other health journals). It is an interesting idea, I think it could probably be made stronger though (control for the same area during daytime, or a better synthetic control area). As is the 23% reduction is a bit wishful thinking I believe.
Thorium: The Fastest Open Source Chromium-Based Browser?
Well said! I'll be keeping this in mind when searching for my next job.
IBDs like Crohn's and Ulcerative Colitis have increased in incidence (controlling for better diagnosis) as countries develop[1] [2]. People in developing countries have a lower rate of incidence, and if they move to developed countries, the incidence remains low. However, their children, born in developed countries, experience the higher rate of incidence. Something about being a child in a developed country increases your chance of developing an IBD

Several theories have been proposed, including hygiene hypothesis, lack of fiber in the diet, and pollution, but finding causality has been hard. Worse yet, nobody knows what causes these illnesses.

It's also interesting to note many food allergies have increased in prevalence in the last 30 years - although the causes for that might be different, they are both GI related auto-immune conditions.

[1] https://www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085%2811%290016...

[2] https://www.thelancet.com/cms/attachment/1bc07ee3-782c-4670-...

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19917585/
You live in a fantasy world. Here in the freedom loving state of California, not once did any person, LEO or not, tell me not to leave my house.

Did Chuck Norris and the Texas Rangers lock you up? Where did the bad man touch you?

The closest thing to lock down this country has seen in recent memory was Minneapolis police marching through the streets firing paint rounds at people standing on their own front porch during protests about George Floyd.
Should mark 2015 as this is old article. As there is a nuclear melt down, guess the mark in history and memory is very different.
Sure, we'll just get around to that as soon as we have the time to care for a self publicising narcissist.

Wait, I think Elon is ahead of you in the queue!
> Everyone has a surname

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
> Why the men? At least one well-known theory is that the education and development of women is tightly correlated to overall development.

Absolutely. It’s a fool’s errand to try to develop the men without prioritizing the development of women (ie mothers of men). I’d even go as far as to say the underdevelopment of women directly results in the corruption of whole society; how many vandals, militants, and generally corrupt men are the result of absent or uneducated mothers?
>> is there ever a case for doing a project in C++ (outside of being forced by the platform you’re working on or anything outside your control)?

No.

That is part of the reason why so many big companies (Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc.)[1][3][4] are pushing ahead on Rust adoption and large government agencies[5][6] are recommending memory safe languages over C and C++.

Google did a study and found that their Rust developers were twice as productive as their C++ developers [2].

Rust should be preferred over C++ unless you have no other choice.

[1] https://thenewstack.io/google-spends-1-million-to-make-rust-...

[2] https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/31/rust_google_c/?td=kee...

[3] https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/31/microsoft_seeks_rust_...

[4] https://blog.qwasar.io/blog/why-is-rust-growing-and-why-do-c...

[5] https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Releases-Statements/Pre...

[6] https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Final-...
The Pirate Bay's Oldest Torrent Is Now 20 Years Old
> A virus with that kind of mortality rate would have no chance to spread very far anyway, so all good!

Give it a two week incubation time (not that far-fetched) and it will spread far and wide.
I was having this debate with my sister recently. To be clear I agree with you, but I think the question is whether or not most people care.

She was arguing that something like ChatGPT would obviously not have the emotion while writing a Poem. And while obviously true, the question is can it fake enough that most people won't care or notice.

She was like, I simply can't accept that ChatGPT could do this and if I did it would be the end to me. And it's like, yeah. That's the problem.

What is scary, is it seems like a lot simply don't care.

We can scream all day about the lack of emotion, the stealing to train the models, etc. But it clearly isn't slowing them down. It isn't slowing down what seems like most people just happily using it to generate "Art" to sell.
Just note this is not arabic, it's a dialect unfortunately.
Port knocking is definitely dumb, but "increase your password lengths, or cryptographic key sizes" does nothing if your ssh binary is compromised and anyone can send a magic packet to let themselves in.

Strict firewalls, VPNs, and defense-in-depth is really the only answer here.

Of course, those things all go out the window too if your TCP stack itself is also compromised. Better to just air-gap.
I don't think I agree. This backdoor means that it doesn't matter how long your key lengths or cryptographic key sizes are; that's kinda the point of a backdoor. But an automated attempt to find servers to exploit is not going to attempt something like port knocking, or likely even looking for a sshd on a non-standard port.

Kerckhoff's law goes (from your link):

> The principle holds that a cryptosystem should be secure, even if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge.

With this backdoor, that principle does not hold; it's utterly irrelevant. Obscuring the fact that there even is a ssh server to exploit increases safety.

(I dislike port knocking because of your third point, that it complicates access. But I don't think your assertions about its security principles hold water, at least not in this case.)

(Ultimately, though, instead of something like port knocking or even running sshd on a non-standard port, if I wanted to protect against attacks like these, I would just keep sshd on a private network only accessible via a VPN.)
Yeah, I'm very fascinated by the ways that people can all have such different experiences with the way we process the world around us.

My internal monologue is very much like yours, where it's mostly talking to myself the way I would out loud, but there's a deeper layer of abstract... connections?

The analogy of a thought web seems to work well to describe it. It's like a massive web of interconnected thoughts where new patterns and connections are constantly being created to associate relationships between concepts in my head.

I think everyone more or less has that type of underlying mechanism behind consciousness, though that may be a big assumption. What's interesting about mine is that I can often come to conclusions based on lower level abstract reasoning, especially as it relates to visual descriptors, without necessarily being able to articulate how I arrived at those conclusions.

To answer your last question, I don't think I've ever had an MRI done. The reason I was put on so many medications was because in my early 20's I struggled a lot with Major Depressive Disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. They were severe enough that I self-admitted to an in-patient care facility to get treatment. During that 2 week period, I went from 2 medications (Zoloft + Wellbutrin) to 14 medications. During the time, I didn't realize that it wasn't normal or okay to be put on that many drugs at once in such a short period of time because I trusted the medical professionals and was in a particularly bad state of mind. In hindsight, I view what they did as incredibly abusive of the trust and faith I had in them.

Fortunately, I didn't have a mental breakdown or anything—I just notified them of my symptoms and they removed a fair amount of the medications. I left the facility with about 7 medications prescribed, to which my normal psychiatrist immediately discontinued the usage of all but the original stuff I was on (which was clearly the right choice).

All that to say, I do have some mental health issues (though therapy and medication has helped alleviate them all), but I'm unsure of whether or not there's a discernible neuronal cause for the aphantasia in particular. I'm considering an appointment with my Primary Care Provider to discuss the worsening of my memory because I've become more and more concerned that the levels of memory loss I seem to experience seems far greater than normal. Maybe that will provide some more insight?

Appreciate your comments and thoughts! It's nice to hear the perspective from someone on the other side of the spectrum!
I don't understand this new law... Who determines what's offensive, and to what extent the offence is punishable by prison or X amount of money. Because, this works both ways... maybe I'm terribly offended at this HN thread... and maybe I want reparations beyond the ones the mods can offer, I want to see wood_spirit locked up about it... and you know, maybe, maybe I am truly that offended, I just need to push it hard enough for someone in Scotland to pick it up.
I’ve personally done both vegetarian and vegan keto diets (a couple months each).

From my normal keto diet it basically meant I stopped eating eggs/bacon and meat. Vegetarian was easier than vegan because I could still eat eggs.

Ketosis definitely can be achieved with “whole food diets” and “whole food plant based diets”
Since I don't know many people using MacOS, I didn't know this was a thing. But it appears to be a UX problem with that particular OS rather than a problem with the existence of the capslock key.
Do J.K. Rowling's anti-transgender comments meet the standard of "stirring up hatred"?
OpenSSH and XZ/liblzma: A nation-state attack was thwarted, what did we learn?
Building a Vietnamese Language Model with Advanced Continual Pre-Training
The only buyers for green hydrogen or natural gas today are companies where the 'greenness' of the fuel matters far more than the price.

They are happy to pay a 100x or even 1000x premium to have their CEO's car powered by green hydrogen.
It's a feature!
Security-by-obscurity is dumb, yes. But in the context of supply-chain exploits in the theme of this xz backdoor, this statement is also myopic:

> If you want more secret bits which users need to know in order to access your system, increase your password lengths, or cryptographic key sizes.

If your sshd (or any other exposed service) is backdoored, then the "effective bits" of any cryptographic key size is reduced to nil. You personally cannot know whether or not your exposed service is backdoored.

Bottom-line is: adding a defense-in-depth like port knocking is unlikely to cause harm unless you use it as justification for not following best-practices in the rest of your security posture.
I think I am. I'm disagreeing with you on the volume of software that's critical and relevant. I think you're understating the amount.

I've been in this business for 40 years and I've worked in several verticals. You'd be amazed at how much software is critical to the continued operations of modern civilization. Software has increased the carrying capacity of the planet, and without it, literally billions of people would die.
That action would create extra noise.
My dad still posses iPhone 3G. He cherishes it like the apple of his eye
That's the entire value of the API. They deal with the proxies and reverse engineering for you.
It's normal English. But hey, never let an opportunity go unmissed to show your bigotry!
> That said, this article proves we have way too many battery-powered toys that make noise…

I was never bothered by that. The real trial by fire for a parent are wooden toys - really loud when they hit the floor, can actually hurt and don't have any batteries to pull out.

Anyway my daughter has the most recent generation of Furby given by a friend of mine working for Hasbro, whose annual bonus is apparently paid in kind.

The toy is pretty sophisticated with actual, though rudimentary, voice recognition and the ability to detect and record speech, which it repeats to you with different effects, but outside from that follows a pretty strict script and I was unable to produce any errors.
This was my first thought too. Tree makes more sense.
I strongly disagree; People have agency, rocks and geological forces do not.

>We may be wrong together but at least we are together.

Is a great way to get everyone killed.

We, in the west love to tout how our diversity and free thinking makes us better than those who do not have those values. What I saw were a bunch of countries that wished they could rule the populace in the same manner as China and Saudi Arabia.

If we can not uphold our values when we face difficulties, then they are not values.

You speak of martial law and preventing chaos. Envision the outcry and response if Trump had enacted such a policy in early February when members of the Democratic Party were encouraging people to gather in crowds to show support for Chinese New Year?
Perhaps there is a reason why it was launched at today's date?
It's also worth noting that the ADM-3A terminal may have chosen H/J for left/down due to ^H being backspace (like left) and ^J being newline (like down) as well as being on home row.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument
If someone misplaced their kid, the could simply start playing with their favourite toy and the kid would invariably come out.

It serves as a baby-retrieval device (BRD in the lingo).
> Michael (or it s cognate) at all common as a name in Mexico

That would be Miguel.
I still want to know how LLMs can help with dreams, as was once described from something I read
Only a fool would have trusted them in the first place.

They’re spies with little to no oversight.
My cat hard-rebooted windows 95 pc just by walking on the keyboard.

No dialogs, nothing. Just immediate black screen and clean boot afterwards.
Anyone know of any theories regarding the naming of the robot Daneel?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Daneel_Olivaw
Essentially a very long meandering joke that has all sorts of side-tracks and irrelevant bits before reaching the punchline. The British comedian Ronnie Corbett told these regularly on TV [0] in the 70s/80s.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Corbett#The_Two_Ronnies
I’m surprised the loss caused a plunge. It’s still trading at many thousands of times possible future earnings, I wouldn’t have thought the majority of owners are expecting positive earnings any time soon.

I think it was a Bloomberg opinion columnist who suggested that Trump Media shouldn’t be treated as a normal stock or even a meme stock but as a Donald Trump Crypto Coin which will be mostly bought by his fans and the price will match his popularity and how much he’s in the news.