skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
@dang: I feel like the big information here is less the content of the post (which is interesting nonetheless) than that Cloudflare seems to be looking at (and storing for analysis*) the traffic they serve as an intermediate —while users may think they're using an HTTPS secured connection from their end to the website they are visiting and authenticating into—, that's why I editorialized the title to focus on this disturbing meta-information. Feel free to switch it back to the original post title if you think that's not okay.

* Passwords are hashed before being stored. But being able to hash the passwords means they can access it in clear at first.

This has a lot of implications if only because Cloudflare does cooperate with law enforcement as required by most countries, and thus maybe does so in some countries that are not democratic, or on the verge of not being so anymore…
I don’t know if I’d go quite so far, but it is very good. The Chamberlain remains a piece of work, and Lena Headey sometimes feels like she’s still on the set of Game of Thrones.
This is true! Funnily enough, mandatory individual arbitration can and does backfire on companies: https://www.levernews.com/how-corporate-americas-favorite-le...
Even if you manage to build the product (R&D) now you have to incentivize the private sector and governments to switch to the EU product. There's only few options of making this happen and tariffs could be one of them. Natural transition won't happen for many reasons.
> People don't die from flooding because of dams

They certainly do if there is a catastrophic failure in the dam itself.

Dam collapses due to human error are much, much more frequent than nuclear and much more deadly.
Sorry to be a killjoy, I see these sentiments everywhere across the EU sovereign cloud space. The dream of distributed "cloud providers" made up of individual companies products, all cooperating and communicating together in some utopian way. That's the stuff that Gaia-X was huffing.

Make no mistake, this will absolutely be curb stomped by vertical integration.

But I get the sentiment, we need to figure out a way of collaborating on this. Perhaps airbus is a good example.
Correct. And yet people are still choosing it over Photoshop, and then using the money they saved for avocado toast.
Because anyone that ever built anything worthwhile in this field knows you have to give it your all, when starting out especially.

Nobody gives their all for 5k/mo.
> Tariffs are not particularly different to subsidies.

Tariffs are the exact opposite of subsidies; though a tariff applied globally to all imports of a class is, I guess, sonewhat similar to a subsidy to domestic products of that class.
Meanwhile AWS' popularity was largely driven by EC2 servers which are VPS.

Also they are literally called OVHcloud...
Yeah, the big issue is that any code that took addresses from user input had to do validation to make sure addresses were valid, in allowed ranges, etc.

While the sockaddr struct allowed to to abstractly handle v4/v6 socket connections, there wasn’t a clean way to do all of that additional stuff and IP address logic leaked into all kinds of software where you wouldn’t first expect it.

Something as simple as a web app that needs to inspect proxy headers would even have it.

It also didn’t help that it became practice to explicitly not trust the addr resolution offered by the sockets API because it would do unexpected things like resolving something that looked like an integer to a uint32 and then a 4 byte V4 addr.
Call me a neckbeard, but 3/4 of devs are not representative of 3/4 of devs in the industry in my opinion. And especially not of 3/4 of devs on HN.

According to: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#most-popular...

It seems that the order of most used technologies on SO is JS, SQL, HTML, CSS, and only then Python. We skip back to TypeScript and then Bash before finally getting to Java, C#, and C++.

I daresay that self-selected people who read, and sign up for, and fill out a survey at Stack Overflow does not represent the industry as a whole.
Explain the error in the metaphor? From my reading it seems valid.
Hetzner is not small, I would say it's several times bigger than OVH in turnover, but this is just a guess based on their perceived markets and market share in those markets.

The cloud offered by Hetzner is the perfect sweet spot for me, but the vast majority of IT crowd and non-IT decision makers in EU want AWS-like.

But all EU alternatives that mimick AWS will be worse than the alternative.

Pretty much like wvery MS Word copycat was worse... until Google Docs shifted the paradygm.
The “discussion” seems one-sided and any dissent is downvoted to oblivion. Maybe that is why these are flagged by people. They are not discussions.
Yes, especially Azure's success seems largely driven by their generous free tier for startups and the lock-in of the Windows ecosystem.

While I like the user interface, after having used it for more than a year I've successfully stayed away from it ever since.
Plug in DIMMs just doesn’t make sense. Too much compromise on performance. And that difference is just going to get bigger as packaging technology continues to improve. RAM wants to have a connection with as many traces as possible, with the shortest possible length, to the processor.

Making some kind of super niche card for a small fraction of developers who might want the option to upgrade RAM, just doesn’t make financial sense. It’ll end up being more expensive for everyone compared to just buying the card with the amount of RAM you need soldered in.

I mean, check the Framework Desktop. If it doesn’t even make sense for Framework, who can justify a bit of extra cost for modularity, it doesn’t make sense for any company.
You made a important point for academic reform their. Regularly allowing for fast, unbeaucrati domation of groups and auto dissolving already formed hierarchical structures would help. The reactor internals cant be allowed to stratify.
> Are you suggesting that we would have to evacute less people during rain if we did not build dams

Are you suggesting that more people would have died had we replaced all coals plants with nuclear decades ago?

Because obviously the opposite is true.

Damns reduce the amount of people who drown during natural floods. Nuclear power reduces the amount of pollution and CO2 emissions (since people are just as likely to stop living in flood plains as accepting not having access to electricity)
I'm curious if your questions are driving at a reason which you choose not to share?
Torrenting led me to find many bands I wouldn’t have, and that led me to buying tickets and merch I otherwise wouldn’t own. Those things help artists more than anything afaik, torrenting has been a boon. I’d wager if you go up to someone in a band after a show and ask how they feel about you pirating their album, the response would be along the lines of “I really don’t care, you’re here aren’t you?”
As someone who left their PhD, it rubs me with how accurate it is lol
From the abstract it sounds a bit like https://brianmckenna.org/blog/type_annotation_cofree, which is a great read.
250 miles in 5 minutes instantly makes electric vehicles better than ICE in every possible way with the exception of heavy earthmoving machinery.
Yes. The interesting legal question is that are you sharing the original knowledge if you've transformed it via teaching it to an AI.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/ai-companies-lose-b... reports on the ongoing case on the image generation side of the fence.
That is irrational. It suggests every time someone sees a market price at $5 they could put in an enormous fake sell order for shares at $5.05 to buy shares at $4.90 then cancel the fake order, which makes no sense. "The market" is giving away freebies in an insane way.

If the clearing price is $5 and someone puts in a huge sell order for $5.05 there is no reason for the clearing price to drop.
What if I repost your comment without your permission?
Not sure why you upgrade to a much broader "net negative" point when you can't even defend the much more narrow "publishing nonsense somewhere wastes a lot of valuable time"
> Here's an interesting thought about how preferential surveillance can lead to repression even when it's public and not itself acted on:

> 1. Every demographic commits petty crimes and code violations at about the same rate (things like parking violations and music piracy).

> 2. However, people who are being watched will be caught more often.

> 3. The end result is that people in the "wrong" crowd on average are punished more than people in the "right" one at an equal level of misbehavior.

For what it's worth, the Israeli side sees the situation as every nation has pitfalls and misgivings at about the same rate. However, nations who are under threat from well-funded media campaigns (AlJazeera, BCC) will be discussed more often. The end result is that nations in the "wrong" crowd on average are punished more than nations in the "right" one at an equal level of misbehavior.
Not sure about these ads, but a Pi home prevents the ads appearing on the home screen alongside the channel listings.
Of course it is to some extent semantics. But the important point is that the wavefunction is not something like a sound wave, or even something like a classical EM wave. Those are all waves defined over 3-dimensional physical space.

In the original QM model, light is not a wave in the classical electrical theory sense. Light is made up entirely of photons, which are particles just like electrons or billiard balls, and they are described by a wavefunction. That wavefunction gives them various probabilities of being in various states at a certain time, and those probabilities can increase or decrease when more particles come into the mix. The states can represent position, momentum, charge, spin, energy levels, etc.
Australia needs to have a rethinking of its geopolitics strategy. It still seems to think it's part of Europe while at the same time being one of the members of Five Eyes, which makes it an extension of USA and UK's intelligence network (which has become problematic from the EU's perspective). In reality, Australia's biggest trade partners are all Asian (China, Japan, South Korea, India). If anything, Australia should be seeking to join efforts with its Asian partners and neighbours.
Yeah, I checked the mail source too. Passed DKIM, SPF, DMARC etc, so the mail server is definitely compromised.

They seem to be using SendGrid. I pinged the CEO and CTO of Autodesk, the official Autodesk account and the SendGrid account on X about this, but now, more than 24h later, the attack is still ongoing and nobody seems to be giving a flying fuck about it.
Who's your provider if you don't mind me asking?
This hammer is really bad for working with screws.

If you need something like

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinta_(software)

use that. If you want something like krita, use that. And if you need something like gimp, paint.net is not even in consideration because it is decidedly something else
Especially if more than half of that goes into taxes
Show HN: Mac terminal-like experience for my personal website
Had some fun creating a terminal-like experience for my personal website yesterday.

I started making the terminal self-directed, the user types the commands. Ended up walking people through as I know how impatient I am with any website I drop into.
A hidden gem, well worth the watch for fans and newcomers alike. This show wows on so many levels.
There are compromises that should have never been made. Just to please the eye. The Blackberry keybord worked fantastically well. It was killed because Steve beleieved that touch screen is always better. Then there are the knobs in cars replaced by touchscreens. I hope there are no attempts at replacing physical keyboards by touchscreens in laptops. I cannot type on touchscreens. I love keyboards. Especially my mechanical keyboard. Love it.
Lol, the technique directing the art. Now everywhere a observer behind the wall would love to peep, there is a picture or lamp in the diorama. Basically , the artstyle subconsciously went towards subconciius thriller/horrorhouse with that .
I don't think error handling is a solved problem in language design
Cloud is highly overrated for a lot of projects. While in theory you could scale up or down based on demand, my experience the need for it was rare. More common was provisioned resources sitting there for months.
And S3 encourages you to basically save everything

And there was another aspect, since compute / storage was a consumable. Devops were less shy about spinning up services as if they were candy, rather than being more economical with resources that were fixed in the short term.
Why didn’t anyone working in that company raise any alarms? Were those who knew silenced?
The issue is not lack of european providers. The issue is almost natural lobby from the likes of Microsoft and Amazon.

All the unis are infected with former corpo programmers who push their preferred employer stacks. Students get free credits to use on Azure. Some of them become gov employees or consultants. You end up with all sides agreeing Microsoft Azure is the most trustworthy solution.

Everything gov in my country seems to be built with asp.net to point where its often requirement in the contract.

Lets start with erasing all the proprietary tech taught at universities. Microsoft can do their education. Universities dont have to do it for them for free.
First I'll say that I say this as my view as a Brazilian, that actually have a very good and default opinion about the U.S, as far as a Brazilian can be.

U.S is an economic powerhouse, Russia isn't. So yes, U.S attracts worldwide immigration. And of course, who goes to the U.S, already go there because... like it. If they didn't liked it, they wouldn't go.

But Latin America population is almost 700 million. Those who go to the U.S are a small minority, and specially from countries that are very much, to be kind, not going well, so they see the U.S as an example to be followed, like the Cubans and Venezuelans in the U.S.

But Latin America isn't only them.

I suggest checking some polls on the subject on China/US, and you'll see majority of latin americans have positive opinion about China¹, with numbers actually similar in some countries to the U.S. While 16% have positive opinions about China in the U.S, it's 61% in Chile.

And of course, I'm not even considering the governments here, which I think should be the main point, as they are the one who will drive the countries relations.Most Latin America governments, see the U.S as a country that would never let another economic world power rise in the Americas continent. Majority of Brazilians believe that Brazil should reduce use of Dollar², and Trump made specific threats to countries that try to avoid dollar.

This view is actually very widespread, but is worse between leftists, the leftists in most part of Latin America are more what we call "Anti-american", because of U.S Operation Condor that imposed right-wing dictatorships in the region. And it goes even newer, as Brazilian former President's Dilma Rousseff was spied back during Obama terms. That was discovered in 2013 or so.

The whole Trump U.S thing in Panama it's because of the growing influence China was getting there, too.

[1] https://x.com/maps_black/status/1884036385272983709
[2] https://atlasintel.org/polls/latam-pulse
This is a terrible take.

Grad students try the hardest to change things because they are the most affected. The problem with "tabling the issue for later" argument is that you just keep doing this and we end up with exactly the system we have. Maybe it isn't a PhD to do, but there's always something. Professors are still overworked.

There was a good post on BlueSky recently[0] that quoted from the instructions for reviewing PNAS

The purpose of peer review is not to demonstrate proficiency in identifying flaws

I think this is an issue many have when doing any form of quality control. Every single work has flaws and every single work needs more. The problem, especially in machine learning, that I see is that we are not focusing on what matters: validating hypotheses. This requires far more than looking at plots and tables. It really requires you to think about the paper you read.

But I think there's a fundamental alignment problem. An irony in ML, since surely this is far easier than the AI alignment problem. But the purpose of publishing is to communicate. Are we actually doing that? Is our review process improving communication? Or is it actually just gatekeeping or blocking out voices? It is one thing to reject works because they communicate poorly, don't evidence their hypothesis, or are outright fraud, but why are we blocking anything else? This stupid notion of prestige? That's never going to end well.

Not to mention all the wasted time and money...

[0] https://bsky.app/profile/docbecca.bsky.social/post/3lkbec2hi...
Why wait when we could just not be dicks?
No, for example on Android and iOS the APIs for when you connect to a server the hostname is a string. This hostname can be either an ipv4 address, an ipv6 adress, or a domain. The BSD sockets API on the other hand forces each application to implement this themselves and a lot of them took the shortcut of only supporting ipv4.

It isn't about upgrading one protocol to another but about having the operating system abstract away the different protocols from the application.
Frontend (IMHO) tends to be simpler than BE systems, because FE is literally a single device, and often a single git repo.

BE requires a lot more context around microservices, database, reverse-proxy, api-design, etc.

A signal that makes me correct is the number of BE vs FE at a big company.
Apple TV remote has it’s problems but at least it strives to be simple. Magically it also controls enough amplifier and projector (I don’t know how, hdmi signals?) so I don’t need to touch any other remotes on daily basis.
Pressing where, in gimp? I was talking about an average app with customizable ui. But in general, search can’t replace a list because search is not discoverable. You can only search for what you know and remember and you may not remember e.g. “Morphology…” until you see it in that section, how was it again.

More generally, and just as a tangential sentiment, I don’t understand the last decade trends of dumbing down apps and removing (/not adding) features because X is enough. Back in the day we had full dialogs called by a shortcut and having searches, menu builders, etc. Nowadays everyone tries to sell only a shortcut, or only a filter, or only nothing. But why-y? Humans have multiple mechanisms of memory and orientation (and these may heavily vary across population) and people are throwing it away deliberately.
It's super easy, don't listed to hypersensitive people who can't stand two seconds of sales pitch. The same goes for the Economist, when I unubscribed the rep asked me if I'd like a 50% discount on a yearly subscription, I politely declined and that was it. One advantage of this is that you can easily pretend you're canceling in order to get a big discount. Some people just love to complain about every little thing.
Cloud is easy nowadays.

There is everything:

Servers/Storage/Network/Linux/Kubernetes

Experts are still rare but people can learn.
None of those violations are related to trade order flow.

The majority are related to customer protections, lack of data retention etc. With perhaps the violations related to the blue sheet data (transaction data), which is used by various financial regulators to sniff out illicit transactions.

Robinhood's been accused of selling out their retail customer by allowing HFT firms to frontrun retail trade. And yet, no evidence of such actions have been found so far.
The irony of course here is that _mjd_ is a fantastic author and contributor, and not a Twitter bot. That said, it does read like an AI summary.
Perhaps you mean "investment" rather than "speculation"?

All mainstream European politicians are in favor of more growth, more investment, more industry, more jobs, and so on, across the continent. The parties who are about "de-growth" are marginal, even as the climate crisis is on full steam.

The actual problem is lack of pro-risk capital. Almost all of Europe's capital is concentrated in 1) conservative industry giants, and 2) huge conservative pension funds.

Basically all capital in Europe, public as well as private, is risk averse. There are very few actual "VC"s. I'm not sure that's unambiguously a bad thing, but it is the difference.
I often think we're living in a dark age (an age that is characterized by little surviving cultural output)... Dpends on how thing's will go, of course, but I ain't holding my breath.
C#: ASP.NET Core (a slimmer, faster Spring Boot), EF Core (better Prism, jOOQ, etc.), very flexible build targets (JVM-style, self-contained JIT and AOT binaries), easy integration with F#, good pattern matching, access to low-level features only rivaled by Swift (although Swift has its own set of issues). Far better performance ceiling than all the languages here on the list.
Don't all the XBMC/Kodi-likes suffer from having poor support for mainstream content providers. I've looked a few times over the years, and add-ons for Netflix, YouTube, iPlayer, etc. were slow and terrible for discovery. If you knew the exact name of what you wanted to watch they were just about ok, but beyond that they just didn't fit the paradigm of something that was designed for browsing static libraries of content.

Isn't the whole premise of Roku that it does this well with cheap hardware?
I wish the 'find anywhere' instead expanded and highlighted the correct place of that command in the menu.
In that way, it would teach me gradually a mental map of the shape and set of commands I have available, ie I imagine it would let me notice 'neighbour commands'.
I realise this is not the most efficient way to do this, but it would be 'incremental on the job learning'.
> are you a notion employee?

What I do is clearly written in my profile. Tangentially, do somebody has to be employee of $CORPORATION to like $CORPORATION.$PRODUCT?

Banal is boring, boring is good. If they can do useful and novel things with banal and boring things (which they can from my experience), it's doubly good.

They give a Markdown and CSV version of the stored data, which is not that bad, IMHO. Still doesn't beat Evernote on that regard, though.

As with all tools, Horses for Courses, YMMV & moreover, Caveat Emptor.
Given the negative sentiment around Adobe's cancellation flow, you'd think they'd advertise the fact that you get a 'free year of everything' and 'zero issues'. Seems weird!
And have people been wrong? Have our societies not changed a iota? Is protracted decline impossible?
Your first two links don't work