skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You both have a point, so I would word it in a different way: if we devoted enough resources to track hackers down no matter where, could we lessen their impact? It would take a crazy amount of resources, like sending in infiltration teams into hostile countries. It is technically possible, but where is the balancing point?
North Korean meth is sold in bulk on Telegram channels in South Korea. Drug abuse is out of control and crypto currency is used by NK to sell drugs to SK and use funds for its regime.
Personally, I find it loads simpler to use Packer + Terraform, and boot new machines when I have to re-spin the Packer image. Some of the Terraform modules maintained by the cloud providers can reduce the amount of boilerplate you have to write by quite a bit. It’s still non-zero configuration required, but IMO it is easier to understand and manage than piles of YAML.
I'm working on Relay [0] -- a collaboration plugin for Obsidian using yjs to provide live cursors and folder sync.

I'm currently thinking about how to robustly Integrate different edit sources like iCloud, obsidian sync, git, and yjs updates. I think it could be cool to create a crdt persistence format that can live alongside markdown files (like note.md + note.md.crdt) to support edit history tracking from multiple users and their devices.

[0] https://youtu.be/Ol6zDF5vrZo
I also think CLAs are eerie and goes against the open source spirit, I don't think CLA alone puts a project in "high risk". I'm not sure about the FAANG open source projects that are used as libraries (Guava, React, ...). These projects fundamentally don't jeopardize these company's businesses, and serve to increase the developer goodwill amongst the engineers. Nobody can predict the future but I can't imagine these projects becoming relicensed.

More plausible scenario is them becoming an abandonware, but even in those cases the community can carry the torch.
The title and FTA are true but the economics for a startup is tricky.

One of the spectrum is true bare metal - setting up a data center, space, power, cooling and all of that.

Next step might be colocation.

The other end of the spectrum might be something like Firebase or DynamoDB. A step to the left from there might be Cloud Run, and then GKE.

It’s difficult to know how to spend your time and money as a function of the associated costs and maintenance.

Unfortunately from what I’ve seen the big clouds are a bit too expensive compared to the likes of Hetzner et al to just overprovision and forget about it.

I will say that it’s getting easier to have a self hosted set up that supports failover well with CockroachDB, TiDB and such.

The app side still needs refinement. Maintaining a k8s cluster on bare metal isn’t trivial.
Interestingly the market for Aerospace engineers is really small. For many of those guys, they could only go work at Airbus or Embraer. Some could potentially get jobs in military with Lockheed or something. Very few may be able to find work with Textron or similar.
You are explaining a symptom of the problem. Solve the underlying problem. If humans are to become a space faring civilization and all the other things this cannot be an insurmountable problem.

>But the 50s were a big historical anomaly that should not be taken as benchmark due to a lot of factors, first of all being an overheated economy, the only country with serious industrial capacity post WW2

Why is it that society should be expected to solve these extremely difficult problems to go into space and to do all these other sci-fi things but when it comes to the standards of living that humans were once capable of, its "oh what you had were a big historical anomaly that should not be taken as benchmark due to a lot of factors".

I'm sorry but I don't buy it. If you want the magic of the future that you see in the comic books get the fundamentals right first!
I was actually playing around those files today. I know this will be a typical HN comment and I'm sorry but, if it takes you an hour to load that data into sqlite, you're probably doing something very wrong.

$ sqlite3 x.db 'create table foo(a,b,c)'

$ time for year in {1880..2023}; do
sqlite3 x.db '.import yob'$year'.txt foo --csv';
done

real 0m1.359s
user 0m1.013s
sys 0m0.323s

$ sqlite3 x.db 'select count(*) from foo'
2117219

(Numbers are from Linux/tmpfs/i9-12900k)

Obviously that needs tweaked to store the year in a column, but it shouldn't run for more than a few seconds. Those csv files are the furthest thing from "big data".
> It is a matter of composition, trajectory, and mass, no?

We're talking very specifically about an asteroid made up of iron. Logic would follow that it would be on the more massive end of the scale. No? That's like the worst possible composition and the very type that worries the doomsday types.
Kudos to you! Even just being more aware of your mental state is a step in the right direction. Reminds me I need to be more proactive in this area.

Dunno if it helps, but just know most of us are at least a bit of a mess. Life is messy. I once took two years off of regular work (we were fortunate to have enough savings to do it) and made two music albums, the first album based exclusively on hard things that either I or people very close to me went through. The process of fleshing out the songs and lyrics was incredibly therapeutic for me.

Here’s a link to it in case you’re interested. I had a fraud issue with Spotify, but the album is up everywhere else.
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/boudwin/ccCe/
I’m working on a self-hostable, open-source collaborative bookmark manager:
https://linkwarden.app

Github:
https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden
Contracting their asteroid lander for various science missions is also a good opportunity. My bet is, that's where all the revenue in the next 10 years will come from.
Secondary applications for med school - once your initial single app gets processed, every school (out of the 20+ you apply to) wants multiple essays from you. The process of preparing for and applying to med school is a nightmare and consumed the last two years of my life. I've had a lot of really cool life experiences because of it though, learned so much about medicine, and done some actual good. But I just want to get in this cycle and be done with endless essay writing.

I've been working on and off on building an app for learning chest x-ray interpretation, but that's shelved until I finish applications.
rehabbing an old bike. also, bookhead, software for bookstores to sell online: https://www.bookhead.net/
Clevo Boot Guard Keys in the Wild Opening Door to Coreboot and Security Issues
It seems that the clevo boot guard, and possibly other signing keys have been shared regularly on their official site, which should allow for coreboot/dasharo/system76 ports to work with a wider variety of their machines.

The OP in the linked thread has not fully fleshed out the process, but in theory, once you can use the keys to build an image disabling boot guard - level 0, it should in theory then leave the machine open to being reflashed, though I'm not sure how true that is.

Clevo is like the 3rd largest manufacturer, and is sold as a number of names - XMG, Asus, HP, Alienware, System76, NovaCustom, Tuxedo, Eurocom, and many more...a lot of laptops they make are just ODM badged.
Trading Places

Coming to America

Home Alone

Back to the Future
Interesting use case thanks
Sort of relatedly, I’ve been fighting Safari bug for years that feels like it has to be related to dates in js.

Safari’s saved credit card support works pretty well, but when I switch between US and Asia timezones the expiration date will shift by a month in one direction. My best guess is that they store the expiration as midnight local time on the 1st of the month in a js Date which can shift when you travel outside of that timezone.
> And if I’m struggling, as someone who’s not burdened by having children to take care of or even not having the most demanding job or hours to make ends meet, I have no idea how others manage to have a curious mind and succeed the way they do.

Paradoxically, I _feel_ like I have more time after I had kids than before. This is of course, after YOB (year of baby- first 12mo).

You see, I experienced such small slices of free time during YOB, that I became way more efficient at a ton of stuff, and dropped things that were time wasters.

Because I reproduced, I needed more dough. After working 3 jobs, 90 hrs a week for long enough, I decided to study programming.

Went to a code boot camp and walked out with a job. But the grinding didn’t stop there. What followed that was years and years of grinding, and studying as much as possible outside of programming at work.

Until finally, I got where I was going. I climbed up the ladder until I got tired of climbing, and avoided more stressful and time-demanding roles like management. I get senior dev compensation, don’t work more than 40hr/week, and I don’t commute. This is the life I built.

For everything I pursue, there are others who can run circles around me. But I can still look down from that ladder and see how far I came.

Wait, what am I talking about? Ok, the whole point is I became efficient and middle-class because I have mini-mes that deserve it.

Also, you never know what’s on the other side of that wizard level person you see. Everything I said sounds nice, but I wasn’t taking care of myself. Last year I had a mental breakdown, and am just now getting out of it.

So yeah, you’re not alone, etc etc, you know. There’s probably more people that can relate than you think.
"Spatial Grammar" in DNA: Breakthrough Could Rewrite Genetics Textbooks
The contents of the letter are within his brief, but the timing of it was done in such a way as to impact the EU's foreign policy, which lies outside of his remit.
This is for .NET, but the issues described stand for any stack:

https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a...
And rats
Apple vision pro app for documenting realtor's pre-listing-checklist notes in space and then also exporting notes to LMS-required PDFs for submission.
Cool! Lemme know if you want help with testing.
The problem with this is when the idea gets taken over by people who aren't in on the joke. . . Remember how flat earth used to be a gag?
ScholarlyArticle: "Position-dependent function of human sequence-specific transcription factors" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07662-z
Owning a company providing a secure communication product is not negligent nor non-compliance.
This looks great! Is there a way to sync with an api? For instance, my site currently has a rest based api with a non-Postgres backed db but I’d like to add offline, sync, real-time capabilities. Is there an option to sync the updates outside of the Postgres store?
People have been waiting for that like forever. It may happen, it may not. I spoke to multiple SpaceX employees post Musk twitter and they are as committed as ever with an insane amount of dedication to the cause...so if he does not lose his top talent, the likelihood of screwups like what you are describing seem small.
If you read GitHub issues for datefns you’ll find examples where it doesn’t handle timezones correctly
Government funding?

Mandatory phone number exposure? (or did they finally implement usernames?)

A joke of a "registration lock pin" instead a proper 2FA to protect against sim-swap?
A channel that incites violence is against the law (in some countries). A channel selling drugs is against the law. These are few examples. I do not how the specific details of the French case to comment on the specifics. I could believe the arrest is poorly justified, but I have reasonably belief in their justice system.
Drupal interface for interacting and managing ArcGIS Online services, layers, and tables for people who understand GIS but aren't GIS experts to build reports that query across potentially unrelated services.
voice controlled browser tab finder/switcher. initial viability stage.
The point is the same for reads: the vast majority of usecases just immediately abort() when a read fails. Writing byzantine fault logic to deal with broken storage media is like trying to recover from SIGSEGV, it's almost never a good idea.

> I/O errors aren't always fatal, even in the write case

Linux will not return -EIO unless the disk is in an unrecoverable state. Generally the assumption is that userspace will treat -EIO as fatal, so the kernel won't return it unless it's truly hosed. Sometimes the error is specific to a file, but that's the far less common case in practice.

> e.g. you're also out of file descriptors,

ENFILE is easy to deal with in a fatal path, by closing stdin so fd #0 can be reused (you're about to call abort(), you don't need it anymore). Try again :)

> or when the cause of SIGBUS isn't due to an I/O error.

It's either -EIO, or it's I/O beyond EOF. The second thing is a bug equivalent to a buffer overrun. That's synchronous, you can handle it just like you handle SIGSEGV if you want to emit more debugging or even write byzantine recovery logic.
Sounds like there need to be one or more honeypots in each network for catching intruders in the system. Fake crypto credentials, fake password storage etc.
HTML doesn't do indentation. I typed four spaces between every word in these sentences.
Mostly, I will watch a movie a second or third time if I am tired and it's on TV and cannot sleep. So there is only a small intersection of films that I have watched multiple times and would admit to watching even once.

So excluding those, from most to least (probably).

- elf

- the Bourne identity

- groundhog day

- ronin

- Willie Wonka (the original)

- the fifth element

- ghost dog (any Jim Jarmusch)

- the blues brothers

- singin' in the rain

- crouching tiger, hidden dragon

- my friend totoro

I am probably leaving out quite a few, but all these films I have seen enough times to reconstruct in my head, scene by scene.
Wait! You're saying the earth isn't flat?! /s ;)
I made a Google Sheets add-on to evaluate JavaScript inline: https://www.evaljs.net/

It uses QuickJS compiled to WASM in the backend to sandbox JavaScript execution.
So many times the solution is to be kinder to yourself. I love this.
I didn't know Signal app had access to a secure enclave chip.
It's long, and has examples in C#, but this article by Jon Skeet should instill some healthy doubt in your convictions:

https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a...
There is no need for backdoor anything, when there are public channels.
I do not know the specifics of French case though, so I don't know if their case is about those or some private chats.
Origin of the phrase "Roger that" in English (2016)
It's not really sharpness - you get weird artifacts since it's combining multiple (slightly different) captures to create one big one. Some other cameras reportedly have better merging algorithms that make them more capable of handling motion in the scene but I haven't tried those.

It really is kind of a gimmick feature unless you have very specific locked down scenes, like a still life.
drug trade, crypto scam coordination. All on Telegram.
I’m working on building a payroll outsourcing company targeting the construction industry. 2,900 employees paid last week! Deep ERP integration is our competitive edge.
Breaking up businesses that are “too big to fail” is good for the economy in the long run, and for defense firms is arguably an issue of national security. It seems to me an incredibly bad idea for a nation to have all of its defense eggs in a single, increasingly fragile basket.
sounds authortarian
This really depends on getting the details right.

If you choose the right kind of problem that the children can figure out on their own -- it helps a lot. The will remember it better, and they will also feel better about their own skill at math.

But if you incorrectly estimate the difficulty of the problem... and instead of noticing your mistake and fixing it, you just wait for a miracle to happen -- the kids will only waste time and get frustrated.

The problem is teachers who believe they can do this trick, but fail to notice that they are doing it wrong, and then they blame the kids.
2 nose dives in 6 months apart within 2 years of first operational flights. This is not safe. This was anything but a testament to the aviation regulatory regime at the time. There was glaringly obvious engineering and procedural issues the FAA and Boeing management waived through.

Is the MAX safe now? After killing over 300 people needlessly, being grounded for 1.5y, and an extensive investigation? Yeah sure, probably.

To be saying what your saying, I think you mustn't of followed Max 8 MCAS debacle very closely, or at all.
I've been working on a site that helps you find in-person work in NYC that is actually convenient: https://walkablework.com

I recently left a startup I had cofounded after a few years because we were a remote team and I came to the conclusion that we weren't going to be successful without working together in person. I wanted to make this site to help people like me use location as an early filter to find good companies and teams to work with. Let me know if you have any feedback!
In principle you can do the same thing of having keys in a secure enclave that can only be accessed if the bootloader and OS were signed with an appropriate key and not revoked. In practice there would certainly be a larger attack surface because you've now got n different hardware secure enclaves, n different bootloaders, and n different OS implementations, and a flaw in any one of them is potentially all that an attacker needs. Would you allow apple to apply a high standard and e.g. blacklist manufacturers who repeatedly had holes in their implementation? Would you trust Huawei's implementation to not have a hidden backdoor accessible only to the Chinese state and not discoverable otherwise? (Do you trust Apple's implementation to not have the same for the US/Israel?)
> adjacent to the relevant file descriptor.

So is SIGBUS: you get the address in the handler. You probably have a data structure associating the two things somewhere anyway, and if you don't you can look it up in /proc.
At one point, well before Facebook was 'Facebook' in modern parlance, I posted a photo of a potato on my timeline knowing that somewhere in their object graph, I == potato. I'm certain my potatodentity isn't in this dataset, but one can hope that joke eventually lands.
Movies I think I truly great I usually only watch once, sometimes twice. If a movie ends and I just sit there thinking to myself… “wow”… I will probably never watch it again.

Movies I watch over and over again are movies that I relate to in some way or find comforting. These are ones I’ve watched at least 5 times, and some I’d bet more than 30 times.

- Back to the Future

- Home Alone

- What About Bob?

- It Could Happen to You

- Matilda

- As Good as It Gets

- Office Space

- Cruel Intentions

- Boiler Room

- Finding Forrester

- Training Day

- Super Troopers

- 8 Mile

- The Transporter

- Elf

- Bad Santa

- Mean Girls

- Saved!

- Garden State

- V for Vendetta

- Thank You for Smoking

- Stick It

- Little Miss Sunshine

- Idiocracy

- Hot Rod

- Run Fatboy Run

- The Other Guys

- Wreck-It Ralph

To name a few.
Essentially paying down (with time and money) maintenance debt on house and property after semi-retiring. I'll get back into doing some "real" work in the fall. Seems to be a pretty common pattern.

I got lazy during COVID but stuff seemed hard to get done and I wasn't really in the mood to try harder.
In your support: https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a...
I first watched Pulp Fiction when I was ~13. I had it on DVD and didn't know what to expect. Watched it alone at the farm when I was just bored. I was blown away. For some reason I watched each scene twice in a row, first the scene, then again with the directors commentary. I don't think I ever did that again, but it was one of the most enjoyable movie experiences of my life.
Love Laputa. Personally Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is probably my favorite Ghibli movie - I've definitely watched that one about a dozen times. The opening song still gives me chills.
In what sense do you mean “executable?” Does it include a main() and can you launch it? Or do you mean because its code is invoked before your own executable’s code?
I hear you. Fight Club had a big impact on me as well.
That's neat and congrats! How long does it take to be part of the authorized dealers listed on the site?
I'm working on updating the yavaca.com site including the backend written in golang. It allows users to publish an Out-Of-Office (OOO) plan so they can unplug while on vacation. Great for maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
The phone company has long cooperated with government. And while I’ve never heard of anything, the post office _is_ owned by the government in the US.
it is both of these things
I’m curious to know of similar examples happening or references that back this up if you or anyone has them.
You come from a weird place.
More because Elon's politics don't align with theirs. That is why the hate is irrational.
I think your point here can be more generalized. Why should someone expect reading memory to benefit from async code?

The fact that the memory in this case has an access layer with exploitable latency is where the chatter about this stems from, but it misses the fundamental issue at hand.

If this was a valid concept we’d have async memcpy interfaces.
I’d start from one’s bookmarked websites on Pinboard.
I’m working on a screen play called DRONE RACER about kids who race human sized quadcopters through the subways of NYC. It’s a mix of Hackers and Fast & The Furious.

Using a lot of off the shelf AI and pushing the limits of what’s possible.

Really fun.
I’m working on a Swift implementation of 802.1Q SRP. Niche interest.
They can't, not without the support of France and Germany
The Thing and Alien are my two favorite movies. Silence of the Lambs is up there too.

Not movies but I've rewatched X-Files and Twin Peaks repeatedly as well.
The EU will be first of the west no doubt. Brussels has that technocratic total control thing which runs deep. Maybe UK, they started doing overnight SWAT raids over mean tweets a decade ago and these days it seems to just be a normal accepted thing there.
Thank you for all your hard work. It is truly appreciated!
Chillin - Next-Gen AI Video & Motion Editor, I'm working on the online video editor, https://chillin.online.
Chillin has a significant advantage over its competitors(veed.io, clipchamp, capcut online), eg it supports mobile devices, offers full keyframe support, no watermark high-resolution video exports, and supports vector motions.
So I feel like I am changing the world through this work.
Right on. Outta curiosity, whatcha up to with the name data?

Fair. I'm sure there are waaaay more efficient ways to load that into the db. That said, it's one of those things - like, where do I wanna spend my time -- sorting that out, something I only gotta do once a year and I can basically push "go" and walk away -- or something else. It's not like I gotta keep turning the crank.

... and, of course, PRs are welcome :)
I found it decent for niche languages like Haskell and Isabelle/HOL.

Isabelle is quite challenging, but there is a mid-sized corpus to train on.

So I was hoping the opposite would be true, but maybe just wishful thinking.
"Official" in the sense that the statement carries the complete backing of the institution and is a public declaration of its position.

The fact that it was wound back by the head of the EU's executive branch - Breton's boss - demoted the statement to "the opinion of the commissioner".
You didn’t say to slow down and wait, you made the claim that “something’s probably bad”, quite different.
I'm working on a new approach to assess engineering candidates. Lot's of good HN discussion around this, it's been fun to read. https://ropes.ai
It was definitely way overoptimistic on making the material. But it does present a pretty interesting design, for whenever the material becomes available.