skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Monty Hall Problem ... After writing my simulation, however, I finally feel like I get it. "

It was the same to me. I actually set out to write the simulation to proof the conclusion is wrong (I was a bit younger and more arrogant). But already while writing it, I suddenly slowed down and thought about it in a different way. And guess what, the simulation confirmed it. But only while writing it, I understood.

And yes, simulations are fun in general.

I finally got back to it and working now a bit on a WebGPU physic simulation with simple chemistry. It is fun and GPUs are so much more powerful, if you manage to tell them to do what you want..

(shader debugging is no fun)
This is interesting because a lot of the decisions to “sabotage” are about convincing people to attempt to cover their own asses.

I think in that light, number 1 is to foster an atmosphere of fear where anyone attempting to make things better will be confronted if things don’t go perfectly.
I've noticed a lot of consultants I've worked with over the years do most, if not all, of these things.
Startpage is owned by an American advertising company (System1)

https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/di5rn3/startpage_i...
Have you ever rode a bike with a $10 derailleur for a long time? I'm guessing there are differences in part durability
Very humorous … ironically, it’s happening in many companies…
Why are belts inherently inefficient compared to a chain?
Opening the window should help, unless the outside air is highly polluted. One can also install a fan that either vents air out of the room to the outside or draws fresh inwatds.
It is celebrated, not made fun of.
Fuckin hell. It's like asking for a citation that Microsoft owns Azure. Ridiculous.

OpenAI runs on Microsoft servers.

Apple partnered with OpenAI to use their service which runs on Microsoft servers.

Basic facts.
I agree with all of this, but I just mean to show that his outlandish and outrageous claims have so far never been hyperbole, but plain unembellished documentation of outlandish and outrageous acts.
I am solo builder and runner of https://atomictesselator.com and I have used k8s from day one. I also agree with you, it's been rock solid, and the ability to horizontally scale so easily is great. I dont even know which physical machines in my rack the jobs/pods are running on, I just have a high level dashboard (lens) and I can see the CPU+GPU utilization hit 100% as everything self balances, it's great, this has been very helpful scaling my GPU workload which has increased a lot recently
How did you arrive at no elite universities is the cause of under investment relative to Seattle's status as a tech hub?

According to popular research, the best founders are older, as in 40s. [0]

Maybe older founders need/want to raise less?

[0] https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/podcast/knowledge-at-wha...
How do you define the border between hallucination vs recognition issue?
The article talks about one such example, Argentina, and how it was harder to own USD than Bitcoin there.
Somewhat related due to a weak password a mail server from a community I'm involved in send out lot's of spam mail, after analysing the log files I've had over 1500 different IP addresses that logged in to send spam, about 10 mails for each address. ASN and subnets where spread across over the whole world. It seems like these attacks are coordinated using vast botnets and the use of single ssh public key here seems to confirm this. I had similar experiences going after attacks on WordPress instances and there I've also found attacks spread out across lots of hosts.

I'm wondering if it's possible to pin down those behind these attacks, there must be mistakes.
+1

So is contacts list, sms messages, Whatsapp data, browser data etc etc. whese are separate installations of sqlite, hundreds per phone. And they ARE important, at least to me.
I hire regularly on upwork. There are a TON of developers lying about who they are or where they are in the world (I swear, despite the Russian embargo there are a lot of devs from Russia who have found loopholes via Turkey etc). The biggest problem I have is people trying to get a gig then asking to come off upwork. Don’t do this. You’ll get banned. Happened twice this weekend

But do preserve. We would hire at twice the rate when we can for a better more reliable set of reviews.
It seems incredibly petty to me to exclude UK companies from this list. We left, yeah ok. But this says European alternatives and we're in Europe as far as I'm aware.GDPR is enshrined in law and we've a EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement.

You're missing out on a massive plethora of services, London's tech industry is one of if not the strongest in Europe.
did you ever publish the erl research?

that sounds extremely interesting and useful. specially now with the elixir renascence
Yes I am very confused by that statement as well. After rides on muddy trails I just hose my bike down, pat the metal parts dry and apply grease to relevant parts.

Any city bike worth its salt will have a chain case and long inverted U-shaped fenders that will redirect dirty spray away from you.

You won’t get off completely clean but maybe 99% clean?

Maybe OP just has really cheap bikes.
Idk, it's looking better than the ziopsycho control we are under now.
If you can exchange cash you can just exchange crypto at the same time as well.

Instead of dollar bills for peso bills you exchange a crypto transaction for peso bills.
Over 90% of the ssh logins come from just a few China Telecom addresses. They just keep trying random ssh accounts over and over all day. I just geoblock China now. Maybe occasionally unblock it for a few minutes if the kids want to buy something from Shien.
Then I honeypot the rest with the continuous ssh banner script.
> is there any actual data on harms caused to teenagers

Must all moral decisions be based on data? If so, what level of certainty is required of this data? In this hypothetically permissive world, is a 13 year the same as an 18 year-old? Because in my experience, their capacities to reason through difficult choices are entirely different. And what makes a 13 year-old substantively different from a 12 year-old? Clearly by limiting your hypothetical to teens, you’re saying something about their capacity to make fully reasoned choices in a way that differs from younger peers. Is there data there? Are these properties evenly distributed in the population? As a parent of a teen, I’m fine if there’s no data here; and I’m ok that it’s a moral choice that the culture in which I live makes based on a deeply held duty to protect, even if the harms aren’t fully understood. Because power differentials may create the illusion of consent, when it’s not truly fully given.
If you had bothered to search the gcc or clang manual, you would have found e.g. "-fsanitize=bounds-strict".

There is nothing magic about this option. With it C or C++ is compiled exactly like any other programming language where array bounds checking is implicit.

That means that whenever a new value is computed for a pointer or index that will be used to access an array, the value is compared with the bounds associated with that array.

Such a comparison cannot give false positives or negatives, any address is either within bounds or outside bounds.

This is something that is completely independent of the programming language. Out-of-bounds checking has nothing to do with the syntax or with any explicit features of a programming language. It is just a compilation technique, which can be applied or it can be omitted at the compilation of any programming language, regardless whether the language is C or C++ or Ada or Rust.

The only difference is that in better programming language specifications it is required that any conforming compiler must by default insert bounds checks, while in the C and C++ standards the behavior of the compiler is unspecified and the existing compilers have a bad default behavior, so it is the responsibility of the programmer to use the right compiler options.
> Is this still possible? Are your emails getting delivered?

Yes and yes (if DMARC/DKIM/SPF configured correctly).
Fan in the doorway
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180705084215.h...
Thanks for the tip. Looks like greynoise use ipinfo.io for IP metadata.

I use https://www.abuseipdb.com/ for any manual IP address checks, and https://hackertarget.com/as-ip-lookup/ for finding what ASN an IP address (range) is a member of. I'll check out greynoise and see what extra info may be provided.
Note it's in subcategory of "self-hosted".

Lots of places use it completely self-hosted or even offer EU-hosted keycloak for clients as SaaS.
Webdev can be impactful. It's really a matter of thr domain. Some of my most impactful work work was webdev in health IT. Some of the stuff I did across jobs in order of when I remember:

- Validate covid positive/negative status for reentry into various nations
- Dynamic reports that allowed hospitals to understand how in or out of compliance with regulations they were.
- Take the data underlying those reports and submitting them to thr government in order to continue funding for the hospital
- Integrating various health insurance APIs into a system to vastly speed up approvals for surgeries (we're talking from days down to minutes)
- Honestly, every battle I've waged and won around accessibility

That's just off the cuff. I really enjoyed my time in health IT. The technology and regulatory challenges made for interesting problems, and it was nice to understand immediately the good I was doing. It's easy to understand the good in an assignment like, "Identify all the tired doctors/nurses/staff based on this data and flag them for forced time off"
The major thing that springs to mind here is I've never seen a compelling reason to believe that the original CIA suggestions actually worked. In my experience workers like that exist naturally and organisations are great at just sidelining them. I think in that section the CIA was just writing a listicle that sounded good [0].

The way to cripple a company is to get bad people promoted into management and have them optimise something plausible but not profitable. Like what happened in a lot of slow-fail engineering companies - insist on maximising the profit metric to the point where the actual product becomes compromised. That strategy can be intiated from almost anywhere in management too because a constant "what if we optimise for profit" [1] usually does well at meetings.

Being a destructive CTO is almost too easy. Just don't do anything much, weed out any competent people in the level below you and develop a culture of pushing blame aaaaalllllllll the way down the org chart, ideally out of the technical part of the tree, so that nothing broken gets fixed. When people catch on, allow blame to move 1 level up the org chart and do a big shakeup to clear out any institutional knowledge that might have built up in spite of you. That game can go on for years.

[0] I've seen people where "do things through official channels" and "demand written orders" would have made them more productive. We are our own worst enemies.

[1] Yes, the irony here is that naive optimising for profit is typically not profitable.
The point of the anecdote from the book, Psychology of Money is that some financially non-optimal or non-rational decisions can bring peace of mind, which has a hard to calculate, but real value. The fear of my business being disrupted caused significant amounts of anxiety and an almost crippling helplessness feeling.

I recognize the risk of Nvidia under-performing, but I have a lot less anxiety about that, than what I see as a higher risk of being perpetually unemployed forever.
Police force? FireFighter? Do they have to lift the same?

If you're hiring to fill out a 4 person tech team and you've got 3 men, and a quota 50% male/female split, would you say men have an equal chance at the job. Or less of a chance?

Being intellectually honest, you will admit the criteria for the men in that case are harder, or perhaps impossible to achieve.

If the criteria for one sex are significantly harder (impossible without gender affirming care) then the criteria for the other sex are easier.
The snark is uncalled for, especially because Harvard does have a (fairly decent) engineering program at the undergrad level, as well as the fact that the 2 most popular concentrations are Econ and CS.

Nor does this kind of snark actually add any value to the discussion in HN and clearly breaks multiple rules of HN [0]

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://www.solarreviews.com/blog/solar-paint-hydrogen-quant...
Duplicate (15d) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40538920 and (5m) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38707591
Why I Like Programming in C [video]
This might not matter for your setup, but I would have thought it's bad
in general to have sshd listening on a high port
because then any non-root user who finds a way to crash it can
replace it with his own malicious ssh server on the same port.
Show HN: Xtract – Proof of Concept for Filterable Iterator in Golang
Hello HN's!

This is a library for extracting collections and creating iterators.
It's still PoC quality, but I'm working on making it better before Go formally supports range over func!

I hope to get some feedback or point it out from you all!
Avoid to sympathize for companies based on non-competitive parameters, they aren't your friends or do anything for you regardless of where they are, don't choose them for reasons like "Oh they pay taxes where you are so it will come back", chances are, they're not even paying taxes
https://archive.is/Myagt
Landowners can now maximize profits by renting it out and speculating on land value increase. They are getting value for free, at the expense of the renters and people who can't find land. They are nothing but a drag on society if they take this approach.

Note that a landlord who builds and maintains a nice house isn't freeloading and not part of the problem.

The problem to solve here is vacant lots, land speculation, and, slumlords. Anyone who makes their money off their land from it just being there, rather than by working on improving or using the land. Put differently, anyone who makes their money purely by virtue of people who have no other way to access land.
The only search engine with its own index in Europe (not EU) is Yandex. There is a lot of controversy around it for obvious reasons, but at least it exists
Trade agreements only get you so far.. The UK is also a member of five eyes, among other things, which is one of the reasons why someone might be seeking a “European alternative”.
Some of us appreciated the cheerleading though. :-)
Do you use music player? Most, including open source are using SQLite inside. There are open source tiling maps formats like MBTiles, based on SQLite. Just dig around, you can find plenty of examples. It's other way around since database format is well known with tooling available
I use a bastion host on a VPS as the only source IP address allowed to ssh into my systems, so any attempts to connect to ssh (from any IP address other than the bastion) are both blocked and logged into "the list" to be blocked from connecting to any other service ports.
> I'm fundamentally sceptical that animals have, in general, a "poor" understanding of probability.

I take the opposite view. Casinos with all of their negative-expected-value (for players) games would not exist, nor would many lotteries, if not for the allure of "oh, but if I win big..." overpowering any rational decision-making.

Monty Hall is not challenging as a result of information loss due to translating to natural language. Reading the simulation code is like telling ChatGPT to think about the problem step-by-step: if you picked the door with the car, the host opens one of the goat doors arbitrarily; if you pick a door with a goat, the host opens the other goat door.

Further, if you flip the sequence of events, such that the host opens a door containing a goat, and then you pick, you end up with a different probability of success entirely -- 50%, instead of 66.7% (always switch) or 33.3% (never switch)!

This played out in the actual game show in real time, where people could observe the actual events directly. Per Monty Hall himself:

> He said he was not surprised at the experts' insistence that the probability was 1 out of 2. "That's the same assumption contestants would make on the show after I showed them there was nothing behind one door," he said. "They'd think the odds on their door had now gone up to 1 in 2, so they hated to give up the door no matter how much money I offered."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem#History
That's not a reasonable explanation though, it's just garden variety FUD. It doesn't take "domain expertise" to make up cartoon villain plots.
> Answer 1, 2, 3, and five other questions

Where’s 2 and 3? The question numbered 4 seems to be referred to as (2) in the question numbered 5
Every things on the internet is doing exactly this "dangerous things", with the exact same means you have at your disposal.

Exposing a service is not dangerous.

It is the same thing when you go to the sub and many people ask you for money : they keep asking, but that will not lead you to your bank account.

So you have log, this is not an issue, this is not something to be scared of or even cared of.

Just ignore them, as they are worthless and part of the v4 internet.
Compliance with EU regulations is an important parameter for many EU CTOs, so this can be indeed a useful project.
The reality is more that USA built up VC and the like by having lots of capital (often government capital - Silicon Valley, Boston route 128, etc being built heavily on military funding), ridiculous demand (only western industrial country that didn't have its industry heavily damaged), lots of workforce (returning soldiers, considerably low losses). Hell, Marshall Plan essentially fueled demand for american goods, because funds provided in US Dollars pretty much translated to purchasing things that could be sold for USD.

The network effects were huge and paved the way for dot com boom and later cycles, especially with zero interest rates combined with huge 401k funds looking for any return.
BetterDays, your AI-powered physics tutor
Actually I would go with 70 unless people working in industry (CEOs) is forced to retire at 60.

CEOs of large companies really run the US, people working for them tend to write the laws plus they really decide who gets to run via contributions. Most people would call them contributions, but Citizens United changed that.
Control surfaces work the same whether you are manipulating them with a direct mechanical connection or have hydraulic assistance.

It's not a question of whether you are strong enough to move the flight controls.

The only thing the hydraulics do for you is to reduce your effort in moving those controls.

Control surfaces don't magically make the plane go up or down, or left or right. The only way they work is by pushing against the air flowing over them.

If there is not enough airflow over the actual controls - ailerons, elevator, rudder - you won't be able to control the airplane.

And if there isn't enough airflow over the wings, they won't provide lift. That is when you stall and lose all control, until you find a way to increase your airspeed and get some air moving over the wings and flight controls, so they have something to push against.

Source: my basic pilot training where I practiced stalls and spins and all kinds of loss of control.
Companies from everywhere selling on EU territories already have to be compliant with EU regulations, so EU CTOs maybe need to learn something about import/export
> LLMs won't replace programmers, but programmers with LLMs will replace programmers without LLMs.

I like that. I would darken it a bit though:

"LLMs won't replace programmers, but a programmer with an LLMs might replace two programmers without LLMs."
Happy Father's Day
Happy Father’s Day to all of you guys out there who are raising sons and daughters. I hope you’re enjoying some well deserved time today doing something you love.
For legal purposes, including GDPR [1], UK is a "third country". Trade agreements do not change that - those that do, are listed on the site.

[1] It currently has GDPR included in law, but there's nothing keeping it in law.
I don’t think it’s “loopholes via Turkey” but literally Russian people living in Turkey. They’ve moved there in droves since the draft began.
Most of this nonsense disappeared when I adopted wireguard and later Tailscale.
I don't know if he does, but I vouched for this flagged thread, as this is a Hacker site, and such allegations should be met or discussed at least.
Germany has 81 large US military bases, Italy has 26, UK has 14. Sorry but if you think your internet traffic isn't being tapped by the US regardless you're completely delusional. At least in the UK were probably not letting EU countries tap it too :')
fail2ban is the kind of pseudo-security applied just because someone's cousin mentioned that in his blog.

It provides zero security. If your endpoint uses default usernames you will be shot anyway because of IP spread. If your security is good you add something that will block your legitimate connection when you are in the middle of nowhere and, shit, cannot access your <some service>.
Solus OS-designed for home computing
Love the dig at Flutter
Congrats on making on of the most useless and toxic websites on earth.
Imagine a company with no assets, no product to sell, no service to offer, no dividends or annuities to be paid and no reasonable plan or intent to ever change any of the above.

It's only reason for existing is to issue stock. Lots of pretty and unusual stock --- based on nothing but the sheer hope that enough people can be somehow convinced to collect, trade and speculate with it. And by the way, ownership will be creatively maintained on a blockchain.

Would you buy in at $65k per share? If so, then bitcoin and DJT stock might be for you. While you're at it, how about a few Bored Ape cartoon bitmaps that can be algorithmically generated in perpetuity?
If you need to poison the DNS by court order. Can you also just poison the requestees DNS entries? E.g. Canal+ own websites?
They have an outstanding professional support with in depth Linux knowledge and provide help, even if it is out of scope e.g. failed distro updates on a vps
I see. So on September 16th I’ll lose access to my account. Glad I migrated away a while ago. Still need to remember to setup email forwarding.
I’m extremely pro EU but GP has a point. The field advantages the US had doesn’t change the fact that the EU as a whole is less friendly to small businesses.

Where I will disagree however is that it’s not an EU thing, it’s a country thing. The Netherlands for example is extremely SMB friendly. Yes EU has more regulations but most of the ones that matter, US SMBs also have to deal with them so it doesn’t change the playing field.
We run internal sites that are on the public facing web - the logs from Akamai are a daily list of mostly the same requests to find unsecured Wordpress and MySQL installs, .cgi and php files and paths like "..%C0%AF../..%C0%AF../..%C0%AF../..%C0%AF../..%C0%AF../..%C0%AF../etc/profile"

In 24 hours theres anywhere from 7000-9000 log events just from the CDN
Astonishing no commenter mentions that SQLite unleashes the power (and pain) of SQL for what were in ancient times dark binary blobs or obscure text formats.
I.e. guaranteed consistency, easy versioning with better up/down compatibility, excellent complex retrievals, ...
Basically it is Modula-2 with a C facelift, and compile time metaprogramming, for those that want Safe C.

Which means, while the safety is much better than raw C, with proper strings and arrays, alongside stronger type system, it still has UAF as possible gotcha.
Genuinely I'd love to understand why this is an issue. This can trivially be solved contractually, indeed any UK tech company will have it in thier standard contract since they encounter it so often.