skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Carl from Obscura here)

Totally! Mullvad is _the_ pioneer in this space, and we look up to them. This is why they were our top pick for being an exit hop provider!
No severance per reddit chatter [0]. Given that job safety was one of the big things drawing accountants to IRS this is certainly a unique approach. Especially for the organization supposed to be bringing in the $$$.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/Accounting/comments/1itisph/irs_lai...
I worked at a large 3PL during an avian flu about 10 years ago. We gained a large customer because we gave them a plan to import huge quantities of eggs from overseas (mostly Europe) via ship. Managing them through ports in both ends and over the road across the country, eggs still in shells, needing constant refrigeration and unbroken chain of documentation was a monumental task. It kept them in business egg with their largest retailers, but I’m still not sure it was worth the expense/effort.

In the years since, they would export. Egg whites stayed in the US, and egg yolks would go to Europe. American consumers don’t want yolks.
In a regular ringbuffer the writer just continuously pushes data to the 'head' and the reader continuously pops data from the 'tail' (and the size of the buffer is used to compensate for any 'hickups' on either side).
Is this it? From wikipedia:

'A studio version was made for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show at the Maida Vale Studios on 28 October 1977 and first broadcast soon after on 14 November. It includes a separate section that begins with an abridged session version of the original comprising the first verse, chorus and guitar outro - this part has become known as We Will Rock You (slow). Between the two parts there is a brief reading of Hermann Hesse's novel Siddhartha, used in a BBC Radio documentary. This audio was found on the BBC tapes being reused to record the session and was retained by the band.'
This is a fine way. I’ll say that the difference between a senior and a principal is that the senior might snicker but the principal knows that there’s a chance the code was written by a founder.
I was reading a rocking history book (Dark Continent), and it argued that Germany had already lost democracy before Hitler, as basically all rules were done by the executive. Sent a shiver down my spine when I applied it to recent US presidents. (The book was written in 1998 fwiw, so not contaminated by current events).
Funny that you mention this definition straight from the book, this is one of the themes that are quite intertwined in the book as well. My impression is that humans in the search of enlightenment (for the lack of other word, i.e the reason you get into a religion in the first place) get too attached to their -ism and forget about what exactly were the actions of the person that created it and what were they trying to solve.

For a book with similar tongue in cheek philosophical take on the theme "religion on a first person account" I recommend "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ" by Jose Saramago.
Idk if I would ever bother reading a book on a field/subject that changes week by week, sometimes hour by hour.
careful not to mail them from close to home, or have any handwriting, or leave any fingerprints
Isn't the better analogy that you insist on being able to get fruits from anywhere - including neighboring towns or the wild - and not just the local marketplace?

Yeah I could get mauled by a bear if I get my fruits from the wild. But that's probably not a risk with the vendor from a neighboring town.

And if there's a fruit I can only get from the wild, who are you to tell me I can't have it? Maybe I get mauled by a bear. Maybe I get robbed in the neighboring town. But what else am I to do when what I want isn't available at the local marketplace?
This is an absurd false dichotomy. You can pick fruits from the wilderness and not get mauled by bears. Using apps not in walled gardens has nothing to do with attempts to feel morally superior.
At my school you were provisioned as <two-digit-start><first-three-firstname><first-three-last-name>. e.g. Joe Bloggs starting in 2000 is 00joeblo

Cue problems when two "Simon Smith" join in the same year. They were given 00simsmi and 00smisim I think.

I am pretty sure they spent 7 years at school forwarding each other email as various teachers assumed the default would work.
You are right. My point wasn’t that chicken and eggs are the same or even similar.

What I wanted to convey is just because kids have a preference for something doesn’t mean it is better. So more a flaw in the syllogism.
Entry level 16e - one lens. Mid-tier 16 - two lenses. Top-tier 16 Pro - three lenses.

The segmentation is very visible.
Morality is arrived at through value judgement. We have a social contract with each other, not animals.

People generally dislike gratuitous pain and cruelty, hence we're seeing a push for cage-free hens and the like. They don't oppose slaughter in and of itself.
Interesting, I wish there was something like DOGE in my country as well. So much government spending that is ridiculous, unnecessary and wasteful.

As an example of that, we (Sweden) have an unemployment agency (as one of many, many examples), that employs over 15k individuals but only is involved in less than 2% of all the job offers [1]. You could easily cut 98% of the work force and it would literally be no difference in the outcome. Just cut the shit, have a few programmers around to have a digital job board and be done with it.

[1]: https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/7035131
Knowledge of what exactly?
> After that, I've had great fun playing with RT-11 [...]

If you want to play around with RT-11 again, I made a small PDP-11/03 emulator + VT240 terminal emulator running in the browser. It's still incomplete, but you can play around with it here: https://lsi-11.unknown-tech.eu/ (source code: https://github.com/unknown-technologies/weblsi-11)

The PDP-11/03 emulator itself is good enough that it can run the RT-11 installer to create the disk image you see in the browser version. The VT240 emulator is good enough that the standalone Linux version can be used as terminal emulator for daily work. Once I have time, I plan to make a proper blog post describing how it all works / what the challenges were and post it as Show HN eventually.
The client is open source, and I believe the E2E encryption is done when the client creates a new Wireguard tunnel. At least, that's what I'm seeing here[0]. Still poring over the code.

[0] https://github.com/Sovereign-Engineering/obscuravpn-client/b...
For auditing,
you keep the data intact.
you keep the people around in case if anything you don't understand or can't find

Change the data, Firing everybody , leave no way to contact them, this is not auditing.
College students and ChatGPT adoption in the US
14 years ago? Time flies.

(I should update my own similarly inspired but different generator, given it is no longer compatible with current default python: https://github.com/BenWheatley/HighEntropyPassword/blob/mast...)
I think wired nailed it:

"This is incompetence born of self-confidence. It’s a familiar Silicon Valley mindset, the reason startups are forever reinventing a bus, or a bodega, or mail. It’s the implacable certainty that if you’re smart at one thing you must be smart at all of the things."

"And if you don’t believe in the public good? You sprint through the ruination. You metastasize from agency to agency, leveling the maximum allowable destruction under the law. DOGE’s costly, embarrassing mistakes are a byproduct of reckless nihilism; if artificial intelligence can sell you a pizza, of course it can future-proof the General Services Administration.

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-incompetence-mistakes-featu...
We started having budget surpluses during the Clinton administration and paying down the national debt. Republicans regained control of congress and swiftly put an end to it because obviously if have enough money to pay down the debt taxes are too high.
I like the one that goes "why did god create the universe? because he didn't have a choice".
I think it’s because google has such a super high margin on ads that everything else pales. So theoretically it’s better to focus attention on higher margin stuff.

But hosting Deja forever should have been so cheap for them.
It's time to become an ML engineer (2022)
Irrelevant really, because plenty of people use plug style ear buds that you can't obviously see in their ears. If someone is talking to thin air then I always presume they're on a call with someone.
I’ve wondered about this myself, though I only have one middle name. Do you typically enter both middle names into the “Middle Name” form field?
There's plenty of good alternatives to choose from:

- https://www.hetzner.com/ (bare metal & cheap)

- https://www.open-telekom-cloud.com/ (bigger cloud)

- more european alternatives: https://european-alternatives.eu/category/cloud-computing-pl...
I thought most apps sell per-year subscriptions that then expire. Isn't that correct?
With “it’s better for yourself” I’m not just referring to nutrition. Animal agriculture is devastating for the world, including the environment around you.

Also I think for most (dare I say ‘well informed’) people it would be an ethical relieve to stop consuming eggs and other animal products.

And yes: there are (nutritional) concerns around eggs; for example concerning salmonella, cholesterol and saturated fats. Although I should mention science is not unanimous regarding all of those subjects.

But science is clear about one thing: bird flu is not to take lightly.
A new experiment from Google to help people explore more career possibilities
The XKCD comic assumes the attacker has 1000 guesses per second, but a single GPU box on a stolen hash can easily hit a couple billion guesses per second. So the security model of the comic is extremely optimistic compared to some completely reasonable and common threat models.

Fortunately the readme on the target page appears to show the tool defaulting to passwords of considerably higher security than demonstrated in the comic which ought to provide reasonable security under a broader set of attack models.
Yeah "fermented chicken feed" is the search term you are after and it really does work with all kinds of grains and chickens love it.
If they were a year or two apart the DOB would have disambiguated it.
> You can make a good case to spend time sanitising requests

> In most cases, it's not your system, though

You can’t pick and chose whether you own a system or not when presented with an opposing argument. That’s not how this works.
The carrot is exactly the thing you're complaining about - that other nations don't have to invest in military infrastructure and the US polices international shipping on everyone's behalf, and every now and then the US does a genocide to keep the Saudis happy and the oil flowing, and everyone lets them. It's the very set of agreements and obligations that Trump has thrown out the window because he wants to shake the world down for its pennies.

The rationale being forth here is simply naive. The US hasn't been getting a raw deal. If anything Trump's behavior is making it clear to the world how bad the deal has been for everyone else.
The internet is a nirvana automata. It wants to hack you, all your emotions, desires, your lust for rage, your hunger for dopamine, your wish to sit under the baobab tree and stare at the glowing stones lights indefinably, blissfully unaware of the world.

Thus without ever reading any of the teachings of the one in the lotus flower, one must rediscover detachment from the hackable self, or be enslaved forever.
Where can I buy call options on eggs?
Yeah man, eggs are great. My wife and I cook almost all of our meals, and we go through about two dozen a month. Have one for breakfast a few times a week, cook a quiche once or twice a month, stir one or two into fried rice, use them for battering fried foods, many baked goods call for an egg or two.
> So we test on a more relevant job skill, like can you have a real conversation (with a whiteboard to help) about how to solve the problem.

Everybody says that, but reality is they don't imho. If you don't pass the pet question quiz "they don't know how to program" or are a "faker", etc.

I've seen this over and over and if you want to test a real conversation you can ask about their experience. (I realize the challenge with that is young interviewers aren't able to do that very well with more experienced people.)
For Linux users, I particularly recommend SafeEyes https://slgobinath.github.io/SafeEyes/

While it doesn't detect video calls automatically, you can receive notifications and choose to skip breaks when needed.

More importantly, while it sometimes interrupts my flow, that also helps me reassess my current focus.
A bit off topic - I really like Scott Aaronson and his blog, but hate the comment section - he engages a lot with the comments (which is great!) but it's really hard to follow, as each comment is presented as a new message.

I made this small silly chrome extension to re-structure the comments to a more readable format - if anyone is interested

https://github.com/eliovi/shtetl-comment-optimized
Figure: Helix [video]
Big difference between the IRS and random friends of the President. Congressional Acts is one
I didnt even know this existed.
GNU Mach! GNU Mach! GNU Mach! GNU Mach! GNU Mach! GNU Mach!
They jumped through some pretty giant hoops to make their play services "drop in" replacement, but idk if that's just for fire tablets or if it gets installed on Android too.
In all the implementations I use, a full buffer simply blocks the producers. Nothing bad actually happens.
When I was Christian, we didn't want to call our system a religion.

Years later when I was exploring Buddhism, no Buddhist I met wanted to refer to Buddhism as a religion.

So the mentality seems to be that everything else is "religion" and what "we" have here is something deeper.
Tight homes dont happen by accident. If the contractor is just getting by, they likely arent building a home that needs passive ventilation.
E. Musk son’s name will be fun. Hyphen, number and uncommon unicode character.
Lots of products smell bad if they're truly unscented. "Unscented" is an effect that is often achieved with... scent. So, still putting stuff in the air for you to smell, but to counter other odors so it smells neutral to you.
I think they mean they're the author of the post they link, not the author of the OP with his broken caps.
Well put and straight to the point.
The consequences for following an illegal order include being sued, being held in contempt of court, or being criminally prosecuted by a subsequent administration. They don't have the same immunity that presidents do because they don't have a direct vesting of authority under Article II.
lol

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93q625y04wo

I already know the answer to this, but if Obama had George Soros hire a bunch of anti-white people to oversee the Doge systems, would you still be supporting it? Or it's okay because you're white and the people are in charge are white.
I have 4 names (two first names and two surnames), pretty common thing in my country. But I've had issues several times when flying because they assume it's two different people? How stupid is that?
Congrats on the seccomp-based interception, that's a really neat way to solve this problem! We did some BPF_PROG_TYPE_CGROUP_SOCK eBPF shenanigans in mitmproxy for redirection, but that doesn't work with containers at all. Cool to see that intercepting all relevant syscalls works that well.
It's not that simple. High consumption of animal saturated fat can raise total blood cholesterol, but animal consumption in and of itself does not necessitate that. Notwithstanding, with a balanced diet high in vegetables and fiber, omnivores do not fare any worse than vegans in acm.
You can now change the channel name and URL from customize channel settings :)
It's surreal arguing with people like this.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93q625y04wo
But is that a problem? Or is that functioning as intended?

Generally speaking, I want my government to be stable, predictable, and consistent over fairly long time horizons.
> The new roles require much less skill and effort than translation, Türkmen said. For instance, she spent a year on her master’s thesis studying Samuel Beckett’s self-translation of his play Endgame from French to English. More recently, for her Ph.D. in translation studies, she studied for more than two years about the anti-feminist discourse in the Turkish translation of French author Pierre Loti’s 1906 novel, Les Désenchantées.

> In contrast, working on an AI prompt takes about 20 minutes.

> For every hour Türkmen works, she gets $20. That’s as much as a translator earns after spending roughly four hours converting two pages of densely written text into Turkish, according to Çevbir, the association of Turkish translators.
The AOC and Bernie wing of the Dem party have been pushing this for years, but were repeatedly shut down by the Pelosi wing.
Fair enough. From my perspective, little has been done to benefit the population, more has been done to cement political power.
For people who are only somewhat familiar with Tor or Obscura: how about three hops?

https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/491/why-does-tor-use...
Everyone just has to opt-in to it and remain opted in. That's a completely different community building problem, but it's still a problem. If you succeed at it you trade off the cost of "doing all the chores" with the cost of "keeping the community running" (unless you are graced with someone else in the community who is interested + able + better at it than you are) so you don't generally come out ahead (but it's worlds better for sustainability if you can build up something like that).
This is different though, isn’t it? Amazon still exists. The whole platform is shutting down. Individual devs aren’t taking down their apps.
A former employer had a first letter of given name + last name (actually first 5 letters) convention for email addresses. They did have a fallback--usually with second letter of given name. But, of course, a lot of people just automatically emailed the convention with the result that certain email "twins" got misdirected mail.

A very common one at one point was that the CFO shared a first letter of name with his daughter. As I recall, he actually had the email in the usual convention so it's not like his daughter was receiving lots of highly confidential financial info but there was regularly misdirected mail.
I had a thought while reading this:

Are we, in fact, in the very early stages of gradient descent toward what I want to call "software defined matter?"

If we're learning to make programmable quantum physics experiments and use them to do work, what is that the very beginning of? Imagine, say, 300 years from now.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/18/death-of-cap...
Cool hack but feels like a downgrade.

I'd put Windows Phone 8.1 on my iPhone if I could!
You skipped a step. Immoral acts are immoral because we deem them so. Animal slaughter in itself is not generally thought as such. Unless you think aboriginal / hunter-gatherer tribes who maintain their traditions are immoral for not modernizing.
Privacy focused VPN that only supports MacOS. Amazing.
And since many applications are basically plugging SaaS with each other via APIs and webhooks, not even those.

We're living the SOA dreams, but it will be an hefty price.
> Even though there isn't a single moment in history they can point to that's similar

In US history, maybe. But you can look at the raise to power of almost any dictatorship, you'll find the same exact concep of cleptocrats taking unrestricted access to whatever entity used to fight them.
How the Rockefeller Foundation helped bootstrap the field of molecular biology
They found their succession
Related: Null Island [1]

> Null Island is the location at zero degrees latitude and zero degrees longitude (0°N 0°E), i.e., where the prime meridian and the equator intersect. Since there is no landmass located at these coordinates, it is not an actual island. The name is often used in mapping software as a placeholder to help find and correct database entries that have erroneously been assigned the coordinates 0,0.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island
last commit: 8 years ago.
Canada pledges billions for high-speed rail linking Quebec City and Toronto
Yeah, don't have high expectations for things you pay for but don't own. It's a sad truth, but I've accepted it (I also bought some dvds in 2024 which is something I never thought I'd do again).
Bash, C strings, URL query strings, and CSVs off the top of my head.
Might be, and I don't wish for any of them, regardless of the variant.
Technically DOGE is part of the United States Digital Service (USDS)
"Do you want an extra-democratic body who is capable of telling the population "No"?"

There's value in having speedbumps that keep 51%* of the population from shooting 100% (or 99%) of the population in the collective foot... or in this case, head. The institutions aren't anti-democratic - they were put together by democratic processes, and each speedbump is usually there for a reason. Sometimes a long-forgotten or no longer good reason, and it needs to be dismantled, also by the same type of processes that put it there. Yes, I want people who won't be easily and summarily dismissed for following the law and regulations even when they're not popular. I want regulations and guardrails that can't just be swept aside by an administration that rotates out every four to eight years. (I'm generalizing a lot here, of course...)

*Really much less than 51%, given that a large percentage of the population doesn't vote, another percentage of the population's vote is suppressed, and another significant percentage of the population is not yet old enough to vote...
> But you can look at the raise to power of almost any dictatorship, you'll find the same exact concep of cleptocrats taking unrestricted access to whatever entity used to fight them.

Good point.
This was already discussed last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43016574

The security on the whole thing still relies on the idea that those two providers, who are partnering to offer this service and sharing the cost, would only try to attack you separately and not together. I don't buy it.
I think a robot that can work with existing machines will be much better than one that requires new, complimentary ones - at least initially.
By that logic, we shouldn’t have toll roads either but they’ve been necessary to pay for the enormously expensive projects demanded by users of the least efficient transportation option.

The problem here is basic math: people driving cars need an order of magnitude more space than any other transportation option, and there simply isn’t room for that in a city. Basic economics tells us that when there’s more demand than a limited supply prices should rise to encourage more efficient decision. There just isn’t an option where suburban commuters can drive into Manhattan and magically have room for all of those cars, and that’s before you even attempt to price in all of the years of quality life lost due to the direct injuries and indirect pollution from their cars. The last month has been full of reports showing that everything is better for NYC residents due to reduced congestion, so their interests need to factor into this discussion about their city, too.
Yeah, they have filters that get nasty without regular cleaning. Physically clean that out, bleach the hell out of it, and run a self-clean cycle or two if the washer has one.

If someone's not cleaning that, I also have some bad news for them about their washing machine.
(Carl from Obscura here)

Here's what [one of our FAQ entries](https://obscura.net/#faq-trust) say:

> Additionally, our app displays your current exit hop’s WireGuard public key on its “Location” page. You can check this key against what Mullvad publishes [here](https://mullvad.net/servers) to ensure that you’re connected via a genuine Mullvad exit hop!

Let me know if that's unclear!