skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why stop there?

Because we want to, and we can. I don't get how HN consistently fails to understand the actual social and political process by which regulations are made. I constantly see this argument which effectively boils down to "if you ban a thing, you will also need to ban everything else, which is absurd, so you shouldn't ban anything". But in real life we can choose what we ban. Everything is a trade-off; we can choose to ban something if the harm it creates is considered to outweigh its benefit to society.

It is open to society to decide that Telegram is more proximate to the harm being caused, and less otherwise socially useful, than an ISP, and on that basis punish the former but not the latter. (It is also reasonable to argue that Telegram is not sufficiently proximate to the harm and that it is sufficiently socially useful that it should be allowed to operate, and honestly I sympathise with that argument more. But my point is that it is a matter of weighing social harm vs benefit and not just a technical analysis of "where the bits go".)

If you get caught driving a getaway car for an armed robber, you are going to jail. Arguing "ah, but by that logic you'll also have to jail the guy who sold the robber his breakfast" isn't going to cut it, and rightly so.
I was on the far edge of relatively convenient airport access when I was working and traveling a lot (and, at some point, decided my employer was just going to pay for a private car whether they complained or not, which they didn't). Now I travel somewhat less but take fewer discrete trips so just pay my own transportation out of pocket.
I'm working on hat knitting software focusing on colorwork[1]. It has some bugs, but so far has been a great way to learn React and Typescript.

[1]: https://themadhatter.netlify.app/
I was playing around on a 486 machine the other day. It's not impossible someone might.
I'm working on a platform for recording and managing user acceptance tests for software projects. I am trying to build it out slowly but in the open at https://github.com/golang-malawi/qatarina

Besides building the ideas I have in mind around how UAT could be improved for both devs and clients (users). My other goal is to encourage more Malawians to consider Go as a programming language for shipping solutions in, my Go evangelism has been working slowly but I think people need to see something they can appreciate to get more people onboard.

Also working on a personal finance app in Flutter for young Africans, but that's not public yet :)
0patch* is supposed to help with these old systems, but I don't have experience with it beyond hearing about it.

* https://0patch.com/
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I'm sincerely glad I haven't seen login forms that obscure the user ID. Blind user ID entry, followed by 10+ characy,high entropy password, also blind, on a tiny keyboard with no tactile feedback. Don't know about you, but my fingertip can cover 2 phone keyboard virtual keys, and touch corners of 3 or 4 at once.

Logging in is already excruciating. That would make logins secure by making them impossible.
This isn’t any better. Are you an IC? All you’re probably saying is, “the people that I work with more directly, that share the same organisational context as me, that I personally can relate to, etc are good, and the other ones aren’t”.
This is not an “edtech startup.” It’s a side hustle
It's not just working hard enough, but also doing the right kind of work. Many people make the mistake of trying to memorize things without understanding. Which may be easy at the beginning when you memorize a fact or two, but it gradually accumulates, especially in math when the old topics never go away as the new ones are introduced. And then the memorizers are actually working much harder, and even that is not enough, so they fail.

So why the aversion to understanding? I suspect part of that is generational; if your parents sucked at math because they relied on memorization, they probably won't introduce you to math as an something worth understanding. It will either be "give up", or "work harder" but in the sense of memorizing harder. Not just your parents, but the entire culture around you will be like that. Another part is that most math teachers at elementary schools actually suck at math; because teachers are many, but people good at math are few and they have many better careers available. But another problem is the insistence of school system on everyone going forward at a predetermined speed -- sometimes understanding takes time, and when you don't have the time, you are forced to memorize; but once you start memorizing, you usually need to keep memorizing, because understanding can only be built on understanding the prerequisites.

Properly taught elementary-school math should be fun, like this: https://www.matika.in/en/ Fun makes people think.
That’s not just cyber security, that’s part of the reason many service/support contracts tend to exist, the whole CYA finger pointing by externalizing the responsibility.

Ultimately you end up having to clean up the mess after either way but at least there’s a paper trail of responsibility passing to CYA.
> I get what you are saying, but I would find it even more amazing if we are alone.

Alien life in the universe is extremely likely. That does not mean however that every odd phenomenon is evidence of that alien life. It's unlikely (possible but unlikely) some alien civilization has a pet black hole in orbit of their planet. Just a random comet getting grabbed by its gravity could generate dangerous x-ray bursts for the planet's inhabitants. Jumping to the conclusion of "it's aliens!" is unscientific and really a bit tiring.
That’s kinda surprising. In Polaris ATV’s they seem to have this built into the interface of the machine itself so you can read the codes on its LCD. I don’t know how complex they are but I assumed they were a bit more open than OBD-II instead of less.
Working on generating zsh tab autocompletion for my CLI framework. I'm finding it difficult because zsh makes completion surprisingly complicated and the zsh docs have a lot more descriptions than examples. Other CLI frameworks all seem to approach this differently.
How would I handle this with Postgres?
Personally, it's sending it to GoodReader on a 13" iPad.

I don't know that I'd go so far as to say I 'prefer' this, but there are a lot of PDFs out there, this works fine, and it's a nice change of pace given how much time I spend in front of a monitor / laptop screen.
I'm working on a cross-platform file search utility: https://ksylvestre.itch.io/mightygrep

I based it off of an old win32 application that is no longer receiving updates. Release cadence has been about once per month.
Odd, there are still Windows 2008 R2 patches. Why? I thought ESU year 4 ended in Jan 2024...
I'm building an open source Federated Public Key Directory, so that I can then build end-to-end encryption for the Fediverse.

https://github.com/fedi-e2ee/public-key-directory-specificat...

Think: Encrypted DMs for Mastodon. I wrote several blog posts about the project and why it matters.

https://soatok.blog/2024/08/21/federated-key-transparency-pr...

https://soatok.blog/2024/06/06/towards-federated-key-transpa...

https://soatok.blog/2022/11/22/towards-end-to-end-encryption...

Eventually I plan on doing a "Show HN" post when it's built and close to feature-complete.
Beyond timezone and DLS which I don't use much, and mutability which is already solved with dayjs, is there any problem with moment? Really curious because I use that in production for years without problem.
It's so disingenuous to say it's just a small requirement. It always starts off small than grows and grows into ever widening topics and unfavourable people. We've seen that plenty of times on the internet and in history. The good intentions in the early days won't make any difference in 20yrs from now.
I feel like this goes too deep. Or maybe it hits on the right reason, but the wrong cause. The defender’s job isn’t defense. Cyber security isn’t a sportsball game where there are clear even goals and objectives with alternating positions. It’s a side show, and a distraction from the main business of whatever else the defenders are trying to do. By contrast, an attacker’s entire job is to attack the system. There is no other purpose they are serving, no secondary masters or considerations that need to be used to weaken their attacks.

Attackers win for the same reason that Microsoft is better at publishing operating systems than Cisco, because ciscos operating systems are a means to an end. Microsoft’s are the end
My immediate guess is that there’s more. The french secret service strikes me as much more “intelligent” than the US secret service (which I heard is mostly ran by mormons), so I would think this type of move is heavily calculated
Merchants of Complexity
That's a good project.
agreed it can be misused so easily.

One time it works is when your team is across many time zones, the data being listed spans many time zones, and what’s important is knowing the recent events from older ones. And yes, also showing the absolute UTC stamps too
This is actually a very good point. The family I visited travel 1hr+ to get healthcare services because the local ones are pretty bad. They're not elderly per se, only a few years into retirement but they definitely have health issues that come with old age. They're relatively well-off and live in the nicer section of Cumberland where doctors and lawyers lived. I can't imagine how bad it is for people who are just getting by.
The vec already gets allocated with capacity == length

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/alloc/slice.rs.html#16...
Yes it’s intended for private repos. As it stands you could add a public repo but there wouldn’t be much point unless you’re using it as a way to accept donations, though I think GitHub Sponsors is more apt for that. Typically when you add someone to a private repo, they get full write access.
We should use some of that "innovation" to solve this problem.
My brother had it for a while in fairly rural Maine. Eventually got fiber but the Starlink was pretty good if not 100%. I used Starlink on an Atlantic crossing a few months back and it was pretty solid. It's not perfect--or probably as good as my Comcast is these days--but it's pretty good in my experience. But then I'm old enough to remember both pre-broadband and really unreliable broadband.
It has a "Sponsored" label and doesn't match my interests at all, but is still displayed at the first place.
Avi Loeb is one man clickbait factory.
Well, it's a shameless promotion but I'm working on my UI/UX course. I make it with NuxtJS, so it's a custom platform.

The key idea is that I'll try explain UI/UX by redesigning a big application (with old UI and poor UX), combining theory with real-world practice.

https://doing-design-right.com/
(Minor correction, the plugin is called ‘dark night’)
Check out https://texty.org.ua/articles/112347/eight-signsof-danger-te... especially .

Yes, it's Ukrainian, but it's very detailed.

By the way, I'm not sure what reasons would Ukraine have to make up their accusations: if Telegram weren't entangled with Russia, why would it be such a big problem for them?
LLMs don't learn: they get indoctrinated
Thanks for the interest. It's definitely not at the level of polish as Day One yet. I used to use Day One years ago when it was still a one-time purchase app, but even back then it had nice things like recording your location and local weather conditions. I'd love to add simple niceties like that eventually.

I'm trying to position my app less like a traditional journal and more of a "jot down quick thoughts" place, hence the social media-like interface. But I also want to add more zettelkasten-like features as well, so it's kind of a shoebox app for whatever you want to keep track of for later.
> You can't operate a successful company (i.e. with a decent ROI) if you're sitting on a Scrooge McDuck cash vault.

Of course you can. There are thousands of examples around the world - not least the great success story of the last decade or so, Apple.

Minimising your cash holdings is a microoptimization. It might get you a fraction of a percent more return in good times, but that doesn't make it wise.
woaw nice,
Do you open source it / make it available in any way ?
I don't think the comment you replied to implies such a black and white distinction. Is it so absurd to suggest that some of the people working on Starliner actually cared, and did the best work they could?

Managers too, though ultimately this failure must come down to management at some (presumably high) level.
The games that keep me in VR are racing and flight sims.
Some that haven’t been mentioned yet: Matinee, The First Great Train Robbery, Dave, Ghibli movies (Laputa, Mononoke, Totoro, Kiki, …), Mad Max 2, Nightmare Before Christmas, Edge of Tomorrow, Tremors, Godzilla Minus One, Watchmen, The Fly, Dark City, Passengers, Predestination, Strange Days, WarGames, Tron, Timecrimes, Sneakers, The Frighteners.
> The charger thing is misleading. The money hasn't been spent yet

Not certain if that is any better. If an organization can't execute, it can't execute. It doesn't matter if it is some frankenstein of Boeing prime contractor and Rocketjet subcontractor or Federal and States.
They don't need a dictionary to tell them that they're not oppressed when the reality in front of their faces says otherwise.
For a single server I’d rather have one config management system - Chef/Ansible/… - and just have that set up docker & nginx, rather than have config management set up Kubernetes, and then also need to write Kubernetes manifest YAML files in addition to my config management thingies.

On my home server I use Chef. I have a recipe for each service that sets up a docker container plus an NGINX config that does the TLS and port mapping stuff. To handle container updates I run Watchtower (https://containrrr.dev/watchtower/) which pulls and then restarts my containers when I send a POST.

Deploys are super easy, just docker build, docker push, curl -h $DEPLOY_TOKEN $DEPLOY_URL.

don’t need anything complicated for rollback, just retag and curl again.
performance tanked once I started to dig and the screen got dark, FPS returned to normal once I was fully above ground
I’m enjoying going through your site, looking for inspiration and tactics. Btw, this page is missing: https://lelouch.dev/roadmap
For me, there's so many I watch over and over, but I think if I had to choose by the number of times I watched them, the top 5 would be:

Fight Club

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Raging Bull

Apocalypse Now

Cocaine Bear
> Hard work doesn't scale

Not with the current framing but you contradict yourself.

It's true that there are hundreds of candidates but that's... Scale. Getting a PhD is no easy task. And I'm not saying you should abandon the metrics all together, that would be a naive misinterpretation especially given what I made explicit. Instead consider the effort in evaluation should scale with the role. Maybe you can reject 80% of candidates by citations and indices alone. Do you miss some gold candidates? Probably, but it's fuzzy. Your remaining 20% you can consider their niches, funding capacity, and read at least the abstracts of their top works. But in your final selection you should be nuanced and read a selected list of their works (not all. Let the candidate tell you).

Is it hard? Hell yeah. But why should something being hard stop us from doing it? That's called giving up. It's a crazy mentality to have as a researcher.

> you may devote a few days on superficial reading of the works of the shortlisted candidates.

So it's okay to do this with a paper when we review for publication but this is too much work when hiring someone who's going to be your colleague for years to come?

Come on, I can't be the only one that thinks this is ludicrous.
i think HR has a lot to explain about their methodologies, however...have u ever heard anything from them?
Finance people prefer finance people. MD's bean counter management were seen as being more responsible and "hard nosed" than the Boeing management who were focused on things that "didn't drive the bottom line" like the product, culture, etc.
They decided to diversify and include a bunch of managers who didn't understand the engineering culture.
All fair points. If we could even get an honest dialogue of this issue in the mainstream maybe we could start fixing it. At this point all I hear from politicians are catchphrases and an insane amount of effort has to be undertaken just to get breadcrumbs. I saw this when Bernie Sanders lost the primary, he and his people worked to push the Biden white house to adopt some policies to help working families...it took a lot of effort and we got some tiny wins but with those wins, the elites got hoards of goodies as well.
Ratpoison does this if I'm understanding correctly.
Safety wise, Signal (or PGP email) on GrapheneOS is probably as good as it gets since it's all audited free open source code.
I don't know what kind of deal the creators of The Fifth Element have done but I'm pretty sure more than 50% of the time I check into a hotel if I turn on the tv it will be playing on one of the channels and I'll watch it from whatever point it is up to.
Parallel streaming video ingestion of live events, chunking up the video, sending it to Gemini Pro to get get the context/narrative/transcription/sentiment, and alerting for various things.
zzz, this guy who wrote this piece is either a tool or an agent.

people give up their security too easily...

the same applies to the threat model absolute bullshit. the threat model makes people think inside the box, meaning, they already accepted, by thinking inside that box, that there are people/entities they can't defend against.
The best, I'd say.
Cool, i recall microG doing this. but they were hamstrung by the mozilla decision to shut down its wifi based location positioning.

I don't thing its easy building that and without that accurate poaitioning is hard imo...
Boeing was awarded more money for their vehicle, had years of extra time and two previous demonstration flights. This flight should have been close to flawless given the additional time Boeing had for remediation and testing. Boeing engineers should have understood their systems well enough to convincingly demonstrate the vehicle met NASA's safety requirements. Even after much additional testing during the flight they couldn't make their case. Starliner will probably complete its third uncrewed return intact and people might question if NASA was being overly cautious but perhaps Boeing should have supplied a crewed vehicle with reliable thrusters and avoided this embarrassment.
AI news seems kind of harmful - it can't do investigative journalism, so it's taking the hard work others have done and rewording it, right?
The author leaves out the most interesting part: How much it would have cost if the hadn't been redeeming a ton of reward-program miles they already had.
I smile when I see this meme because it makes me think of its possible origin in The Incredibles; specifically, a scene where a parrot turns out to be a surveillance drone on Syndrome's island: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g4zKWXdDt2Q
Assessments are getting better in education and they help find missed skills. It's possible the author was smart enough to copy but not understand why they were doing what they were doing. Whether your local district focuses on skill acquisition versus graduation rate may determine the students success long term. I know little, but what I've seen from reading programs they're pretty much 'there' in discovering these blind spots. I don't know if there is comparable assessments or programs for mathematics.
I’m curious about what that “preliminary knowledge” is? I’ve read stuff like a mathematician delight and the Joy of X and it’s such a beautiful, attractive but seemingly unattainable realm of knowledge.

As an example, this is the math that I’m aware of and have been exposed to:

Arithmetic
Algebra
Geometry
Trigonometry
Calculus

I’m vaguely aware of linear algebra but haven’t studied it (it also seemed unattainable)

I’m also aware of discrete mathematics and even bought the book concrete mathematics by Knuth, only to be totally stuck in the very first example of recursion and the tower of Hanoi…

So, what is that preliminary knowledge and how does one goes about acquiring it?

From where I sit sometime it feels like I don’t what I don’t know and I don’t even know how to ask how to learn what I don’t know I don’t know
Dozens.

#1 most obvious atm is autostop.

Starter gives you enough juice to enter the intersection, but engine sputters and you get tboned. Same for not providing enough acceleration/ hp.

Also 1 pedal driving.

Electric cars that outweigh the 'old' 'inefficient' light trucks because batteries are heavy. Harder to stop, more wear on roads. Tires that are designed to extract breaking energy over stopping.

Lithium fires (not cause but much more dangerous result).

Aluminum crush zones in cars not big enough to have crush zones.

Every design decision is a compromise.
Is this another surveillance tool at the workspace ?
I’ve been building a personal finance app that runs fully in the browser (using the automerge crdt and sqlite) for over a year now at https://tender.run.

Recently I’ve been taking more of being able to flexibly run sql against this data, and this past week I’ve been working with d3 to make fancy sankey graphs to show income/expense flows. Quick preview here: https://demo.tender.run/reports/sankey
On JumpHigher [1], an app that helps you improve your vertical leaps, just using your phone camera. It's functional already, but very early, the algorithm took quite a while to nail ( still far from perfect ).

I'm a CEO of a small consulting company, and I love working with startups ( or hate working with huge companies, matter of perspective ), and I always thought that to be better at that we have to be able to launch our own stuff.

Also, I never launched anything solo, working alone is hard for me so this was a challenge. I want to continue working on it on the side for a while.

The main audience for now would be basketball players that want to dunk, or anyone that wants a good leg workout and track the progress.

1. https://www.jumphigher.io/
Telegram and cryptocurrency has single handedly responsible for the recent drug epidemic, sex blackmail rings in South Korea.

Cant say I have good things to say about Telegram founders and operators. Its not some innocent "free speech" messenger app, its sinister
Yet you probably loved cash for clunkers.
French Authorities Arrest Telegram CEO Pavel Durov
Me too. I was in a very dark place for a long time until a couple months ago. My views on life and death haven't changed but I'm not actively rooting for my own death anymore, at least.

Embracing the solitude and the mindset that no one is coming to save me has sparked a bunch of motivation (out of spite) to improve myself. Started to workout regularly which has been a huge help for my mind and body. Starting to peel back layers of things that happened during childhood now.

Wish you the best of luck on your journey.
Is that not true of MS Office as well?
The new guy thinks he's got the hang of it and says "112" at lunch the next day. Silence... "it's all in the delivery, man!"