skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not the same Internet.

Patreon, forums, Discord, Facebook, Instagram and so on are all centralized.

With the Internet of the 90s, discussion happened with decentralized Usenet (owned by nobody) with more-focused discussion happening on mailing lists (literally owned by whoever was smart enough to get Majordomo compiled and running).

Email was handled by individual ISPs or other orgs instead of funneled through a handful of blessed providers like Gmail.

Real-time chat was distributed on networks of IRC servers that were individually operated by people, not corporations.

Quickly publishing a thing on the web meant putting some files in ~/public_html, not selecting a WordPress host or using imgur.

Ports 80 and 25 were not blocked by default.

Multiplayer games were self-hosted without a central corpo authority.

One could construct an argument that supports either way being better than the other, but the the Internet of today is not the same thing as it was a quarter of a century ago.

(Anyone can make a "discord server," but all that means is that they've placed some data in some corpo database that they can never actually own or control.)
Is there something similar but for Ethernum?
Can this solution work for hundrets of data points?
C'mon. This is HN.

People are trying to posture and prove all kinds of things.

Of course folks have different tastes (I'm the redneck engineer, in my family. Most of my other siblings think James Joyce is da thang, but they are also into posturing).

But it also intimidates folks into not sharing some really good stuff.
The problem isn't the tech, it's the people.

If you allow these mistakes to be possible, they are inevitable. If you take basic precautions, you'll probably be fine.

I'd rather take a well-curated and trimmed down .env over a poorly-configured secrets manager that gives away the entire farm when the single secret leaks. Security isn't a single thing nor bolstered by switching a single method of how you store your secrets.

The problem is not taking precautions to prevent leaks from happening, not how you are managing your secrets. If your threat model begins or is imminently "when the attacker is logged in as root", just post your stuff on a public bucket to get it over with.
If you haven’t read Daniel Suarez’s book Daemon, this features prominently and somehow seems neat there but creepy here :)
I rant about this too much, but I urge anyone who is thinking of reading a non-English book to check reviews of the translations first. Translations vary wildly and the quality of the translation makes or breaks your enjoyment and understanding of the text.
After Google continued to make it progressively more difficult to use their Image search to navigate/download to the actual image I wrote an image search tool that could be hot keyed from your OS to search the google image repository and copy to clipboard in a fast manner using a custom Google Search Engine id.

About a year back I found that 90% of the results I was getting were AI generated, so I added a flag "No AI" which basically acts as a quick and dirty filter by limiting results to pre-2022. It's not perfect but it works as a stopgap measure.

https://github.com/scpedicini/truman-show
Also your local library probably has a bunch of home improvement books. They're probably from the 80s, but trim painting techniques don't change that much.
> while the trend has been to encourage avoiding monolithic architectures like Rails

I'm of the opinion that this was always bad advice for most people most of the time. Achieving any real infrastructure cost savings this was is difficult, its easy for delivery speeds to suffer, and the debugging experience is terrible.
Maybe because when the government looks to regulate them, that is why the lobbying effort takes up?

Nothing ever has changed
I find a good follow up question is oh? what do you think he's all about? And if they start talking about master/slave morality or the ubermensch, then change the subject and move on,
Every provider virtually has to mirror AWS. The S3 API is the standard at this point. Nobody will switch if they need to replace all their code.
It only took US three years of Russia-Ukraine war to kick a KGB's spying app out of their stores. This is a disaster. This should have been done on day 1.
I believe this sort of sums it up: “To begin with, the hint lies in the title of this section: secrets management. Environment variables are hardly managed unless you explicitly use an integration or an orchestrator like Kubernetes to automatically inject environment variable configuration.”

It has nothing to do with environment variables… It is just a ephermal way how to inject variables into the process, if you do it right…
Nice, so Rails does work well with Cursor? I'll give it a try then. Like you said, maybe it just struggles on random Ruby code but not Rails which has a ton of existing examples to go off of.
In what sense does the Netherlands or Switzerland have public healthcare?
dupe.

yesterday:

Google removes Kaspersky's antivirus software from Play Store
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41758475
I was just explaining why it's not brought up that often. I wasn't making a claim as to whether it should be more often.
We got access logs like this all the time. SaaS app with separate domain per customer so we got a lot of probes like this.

Famously IIS had some bugs like this. Not surprised that PHP has problems. What a clown car.
That's probably why. I like plant-based proteins because whey makes me feel gross, but the ones that aren't explicitly vegan might still have trace amounts of casein or gelatin or whatnot.
What Went Wrong at Blizzard Entertainment
Study: CA Fast-Food Minimum Wage Hike Didn't Cut Jobs, Raise Prices Much
workers are consumers too.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
EuroBSDcon 2024: Some notes after the conference
I can second this! Almost the only book of its kind I actually liked, not going to say that "it changed my life", but it was quite eye opening
The best books I read last year were the "Three Body Problem" books by Cixin Liu.

It's a science fiction series about aliens, space travel and the universe and they're easily the best books I've read in a while.

I genuinely can't remember the last time I got that absorbed in a series. I'd read until the early hours of the morning and sometimes just sit at the edge of my bed for like 20 minutes just contemplating the universe. Highly recommend.
See also, MLMs and the supplement industry. They're contributing for the legal right to screw average people out of their money.
Gps coordinates
S3 Select is not available anymore for new customers. Athena with columnar file format (eg parquet) in S3 and partitioning with Glue Data catalog is the solution for OP's problem. The cost of this kind of queries is very low because you only pay the actual data consumed/requested. And with the columnar file format Athena only accesses the necessary columns. And the data in the columns is usually compressed so the amount of data is even less.
Last time I argued with someone about PHP was about 2014 and his app got hacked that evening. You’re being verrry generous with how long PHP has not sucked.
As it stands, ~nobody is listening to AM radio. The only people listening are radio geeks, and I doubt that number would change if the analogue radio broadcasting band was scrapped.

Having an emergency frequency that devices auto-tune to would at least mean if you did manage to broadcast on that frequency, someone will actually hear it.
Nuclear power is dangerous - perhaps you meant to say that it’s manageable but the scientific consensus has been clear since the Eisenhower era – and the expense is similarly not an artificial creation: it’s not like the “far left” theory was real, you’d see nuclear plants in, say, Texas producing power at prices competitive with China. The problems with nuclear have nothing to with science denial and everything to do with being an immensely capital-intensive industry with massive startup costs and results which are marginally competitive with renewables on pricing. If we’d built out Carter’s nuclear program in response to the OPEC price crunch we’d be in a very different place now but it’s a really hard sell now that renewables’ costs have come down so much.
you are not wrong, but this has always been the case, from the earliest times. Similar problems with the institution of the military. It calls for moving past the initial indignation, and engaging somehow.. otherwise you get the government you deserved, as they say.
Super cool. How did I not know about this before?
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Security through complexity.
Indeed, as a technology, there's a lot to learn from Bitcoin.

The possibility that a fully decentralized platform can exist without peer trust still blows my mind.
Tim Wu discussed this at length in The Master Switch back in 2010:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8201080-the-master-switc...
Ok, and who appoints the judges? And who is responsible for enforcing court decisions?
Pratchett wrote some amazing books. And if you're into animation (especially older animation), you can find the old discworld animated movies on YouTube.

The first discworld book I read was Thief of Time, and I've been hooked ever since
UK National Highways: Lower Thames Crossing
I'm atheist-agnostic, but I've read the Bible several times and the Qu'ran twice. I think it is important to have at least a passing knowledge of these books, and TBH, as long as you cherry-pick, there is a lot of good life advice in there.

I'm fascinated by both books for their history and authorship, though. Who wrote them? Why did they write them? How did they write them? What parts of their content is backed by historical record? etc.
As a country, your option to respond to another country doing something you don't like is either A) Sanctions or B) Military Action. B used to be a ton more common so it feels like we are improving, not getting worse.
"but because it's a useful filter for obnoxious people in meatspace"

It is surprising that a book can become such a barometer. I liked the book originally, it isn't a bad introduction to some ideas. But even when I was young was able to poke holes in it.

But then many years later, it has become something like a 'flag' or 'rally cry' for certain segments of populating that either haven't read it at all, or have horribly miss-interpreted it, or most likely only idealized it by reading the first half.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Thames_Crossing
There's a company selling a radiation-tolerant TV camera for use inside nuclear reactors.[1] It uses a vacuum tube imager (a vidicon?). But it may be too big to put on the pointy end of the long, thin Fukushima manipulator.

[1] https://diakont.com/nuclear-services/radiation-tolerant-cctv...
A lot of the action has moved upstream now that Citizens United is the law (January 21, 2010: "this decision allowed corporations and unions to spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns"). Ideally from the corp. perspective you don't wait until a crisis point. You spend early and shape the narrative to prevent a crisis from ever happening. The Koch brothers created a network of donors who operate on this strategic plane more than the tactical "this specific regulation has to be changed" level. See Mayer's "Dark Money" for a comprehensive history.
Secrets in env variables are a highly attractive hacking target, they leak easily and can spill the keys to the kingdom.
Michael Reich is well known to push politically motivated, biased "research studies": https://epionline.org/release/new-website-exposes-berkeley-l...
How much work goes into changing orbits when this sort of thing happens?
Mmpf, Switzerland is not part of the EU!
An unprecedented peek-behind-the-covers at the inside of mainstream media brain.

Man with wide eyes and stock photos and nordvpn sponsorship on set with full makeup and steampunk costume rambles through various headlines, not forgetting to show you how to (mis)interpret facts, and how to manifest life as a rabid political fanatic, ready to ruin any dialog you come across with barking and screeching and red eyes.

There is nothing in that video that even resembles thought or rationality, it is just classic mainstream media non-sequitur that adorns the regalia of knowledge and batters the viewer with meaningless "facts" and "figures" until they are in a state of ready-to-be-filled aporia.
It has nearly nothing to do with the tech industry or counterculture and everything to do with being shit at urban planning and selling land to speculators on the cheap, so you end up with nowhere for the sprawl to go, and the land owner voting block that sabotages any attempt at building high density settlements.
Here's a 50-line sketch of abacus machines in Python, including some barebones parsing code:

https://github.com/gcr/abacus-machines/blob/main/main.py
Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber shifted my worldview quite significantly.

In the fiction department, I've never encountered anything to match HPMOR, even though I disagree with half of what it says nowadays.
Yes, well we are discussing elections which very definitely have time frames. We can't wait for Edward Gibbons to come along 2 millennia later and tell us that some bullshit idea's poisoning of this particular election is going to wreck democracy.

Add to that the fact that bullshit is cheaper to produce than truth.
Sprinkle in the notion also that bullshit is likely more profitable too.
Consider what might happen if the bullshitters control orders of magnitude more money in the first place, and then filter through Brandolini's Law:

Add to that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

Democracy is too sacred to be left to the loudest.
As middle ground for small scripts I like implementations like the one from 1Password: The environment variables contain the path to the secret:

export DB_PASSWORD="op://app-prod/db/password"

Calling the script with `op run scriptname` replaces the secret path with the actual secret after authentication during runtime.

This way you can commit the file but people still can use their own passwords locally without saving them in plaintext.
Anyone who says React has mired developers in complexity needs to go back ten years and use jQuery to build a single-page app and remind themselves how much less complex React is. I know that because I rewrote a jQuery-based SPA in React back in 2015 and that experience was so revelatory that I will never forget it.

It is then that they will realize complexity comes from single-page apps. Pushing back against that complexity should result in not building SPAs, which is where Htmx comes in. There are still plenty of very successful web apps that are not SPAs.

If a product owner asks to build a SPA, a developer's job is to stop and ask why. Most likely what the product owner really has in mind can be accomplished without a SPA.
You're right not to rush into running AMD, Intel's new manycore monster CPUs
How are you able to get all addresses within a polygon?
SWE has always been in a boom and bust cycle. Sometimes they love you and pay accordingly, sometimes they hate you and look for any reason to possibly get rid of you.

Some of the best advice I've ever received from senior engineers was to live below your means and to have a high savings rate. You don't have to go to the FIRE extreme and definitely shouldn't make yourself miserable.

What would I do about LLMs? I'd live like this could end up as the last high-paying job of my career. Aside from that, I wouldn't worry about it.
The Selfish Gene; Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
XCP-ng 8.3 is now available
Project Hail Mary is amazing, but personally I think it is just one step below The Martian. Both incredible books, though. I've read the Martian three times.
In other news: Florida man hospitalized after hearing back from potential employer on job application.
I would be pretty surprised if any have known toxic additives.
the Ethereum white paper is decent, and look up more literature on the "EVM", since that has captured most developer mindshare over the half decade

its primarily EVM or solidity "smart contract development", as the account system is far simpler than Bitcoin's UTXO system
The developer of kiwi browser ported single handedly devtools full fledged and extension with almost 70% api full support

And teams of google coders can't.
Sorry for language but google hires shit coders and web is filled with fake information you have to be genius programmer for getting hired by google interviews, my foot!,!

Google hires shit coders to make life of people shittier than shit life of google owners and ceo

I dont care about ads or privacy or trackers or collecting information of users or analytics, i can live with that

But fucking shit products of google who cant provide basic features that make browser a browser.

Keep Notes - Only one feature it has card view of snippets of notes. Best of best notes app like joplin obsidian etc dont have this feature on their app. Besides that keep is shit you cant import export notes

Drive : Fucking unusable from web interface forced to use its app

Youtube: fucking hell of inappropriately vulgur content specialky from bastard indian peoples literally indian are uploading vulgur videos of peoples pissing on youtube shorts. and morning inwake up in hood mood open tube to watch something new and youtube showed me in my feed short indian uploaded video of person pissing now i cant get it oit of my mind while eating or drinking that video ckip keeps embedded in my brain.
Fiction: The little prince

Non fiction: Maus

ie. the best and worst that humans can be.
I was ostracized at a right-wing small military contractor during covid for being skeptical of the novel medical treatment being offered for free with zero liability for those profiting from it.

I almost stopped trying to rationalize the world around me at that point in my life. I assume my experience was simply because the CTO had everyone under his thumb and he decided it was a good idea.
That's a pretty narrow view. My Internet in the 90s and early 2000s was on AOL Instant Messenger and MSN Network, Yahoo! Mail and phpBB web forums hosted by random people with pictures hosted on PhotoBucket. Plenty centralized.

The technology doesn't matter, it's changing all the time. The difference is the size of the community, and the barriers to entry. If these communities were easy to discover and join and hard to be booted out from, they wouldn't be protected from The Slop. It used to be just getting on the Internet was the barrier. Now we need new barriers: paywalls and word-of-mouth and moderation.
> Famously IIS had some bugs like this. Not surprised that PHP has problems. What a clown car.

This is a file inclusion vulnerability. And that's something that is _very_ easily done in any language which people use to do stuff that loads files from the file system. Image resizers are a pretty common exploit path.
I can like a book without agreeing with it.
I installed duck duck goes application tracking protection utility and was mind boggled at how many apps were tracking my location, battery level, etc on a regular and ongoing basis without notification because it is all through 3rd party ad networks.

Even more concerning where the apps, like AT&t's and Fidelity, that do it just to make the money by reselling the data, not to show ads.
They don't have to understand roundabouts specifically, there is supposed to be a yield sign when entering a roundabout - do they not understand the yield sign?
Yes, submitted chronologically after this, but somehow got the early votes.

Shrug

I've been on this site for some time, and I have finally worked out why I don't understand how things work. It's because it's people who are using it.

And people, even hackers[0], are weird, illogical, random, and unpredictable.

[0] Perhaps especially hackers.
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Exactly. I agree with OP. I don't think Atlas Shrugged is the best book around.

But by using a negative to judge the response of the other people, the other people could just as easily be judging him.

Now both parties are looking down on each other. When really they agree.
It's pretty good combo. I use Alpinejs for the client side interactivty such as modals, but then use htmx for as much as I can that interacts with the backend.

You could be using only htmx or only alpine but the combo is really nice
Because I am part of this community and since I am yearning for news outside of the AI echo chamber probably some other users here are also looking for it.

Did that help you understand?
Our (very) old system used enciphered secrets and an init script that got the key into a file and then unset the environment variable before the app started.

But we never had a good system for sandboxes, which meant another way the local and deployment differed.

They moved to a secret store instead. I don’t know if that’s better.
Like I said, it was a million years ago, and I was a teenager so I didn’t really engage with the material as deeply as you seem to have. But I vaguely recall Roark being the main viewpoint character in the Fountainhead, while Dagny was in Atlas, right?

I think that is one thing I enjoyed about the Fountainhead, it felt a little more grounded because, even though the main character is this egoist superman guy, we at least are with him as he’s having a bad time.

I just remember Gault being this rumor hiding off in the wilderness or whatever, then he shows up with his sci-fi engine, drops pages and pages of dialogue, and… wins? I forget how it ends for him, tbh.
I'm kind of surprised about how simple a lot of the core concepts are.

I think one of the most insightful pieces of the Bitcoin systems is the realization that with proper incentives, human behavior (ie, the miners) can be reliable enough that you can use it as a component in an engineered system.

It's really changed how I think about social structures/governments/society as a whole.
I read The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Misérables by Victor Hugo and I loved both of them, can recommend.

Seveneves is an amazing book, just make sure you skip the last part.

If you are into history I can recommend The last days of the Incas by Kim MaqQuarrie, it's just an insanely interesting description on how the Incas was conquered, it feels like you're there man.

If you like evolutionary biology/phsycology then check out The Red Queen - Sex and the evolution of human Nature by Matt Ridley.
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While Texas produces more clean energy than ever, it also produces more "dirty" energy than ever[1], mosty from natural gas and lignite plants. Similar story for other places.

The electric mix isn't actually that important, what matters is the volume of dirty energy still produced. And increasing electrical consumption is not actually helping closing older plants.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/texas-set-smash-...