skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No one uses paper checks here either...

Source on that one? I've found that people outside of the tech bubble use a paper check at the very least once a year and most likely once a month. I have seen plenty of apartments, renters, even a mortgage company just a few years ago that required payment still in paper checks in the USA.

I'm going to assume your suggestion is anecdotal. It is certainly in decline but it's still widely used.

Check out this article https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-26/why-can-t...
Not sure what he was going for with that definition of "explicit." It wasn't explicit at all.

> you can figure out a lot about your program from the source of it.

How does "implicit" not satisfy this condition? I can tell a lot about a program from the source of it implicitly as well.
May I ask what macroeconomic perspective that is?
Reddit recently deleted a whole bunch of subreddits because they decided that wasn’t good enough.

Anecdotally, I know someone who was interested in one of those topics (zoophilia), who thought the subreddit in question was “a dumpster fire” yet was still upset about it being banned.
Are all BSDs created equally? A survey of BSD kernel vulnerabilities [video]
> Note that your ISP can see/log your internet history regardless of which Dns server you use (unless of course you use a Vpn/Tor.)

Not if you use DNSCrypt which is mentioned in TFA, and quite easy to install. It can't also be MITMed.

If you're using a VPN you can also fail to use DNS over VPN.

The article is furthermore rather specific about using a load of extensions (which is profilable), it suggests 1Password which is expensive (open source alternatives available, also cheaper alternatives available), it suggests WiFi Spoofing which is 20 USD on the App Store (free tools available in Homebrew and /sbin/ifconfig), it suggests some unknown VPN called Mullvad VPN which 'claims' it doesn't log (you never know that for sure). In short, reads like an advertisement without going into specifics about the competition. I, for one, would recommend ProtonVPN because of Secure Core and a wide array of VPN endpoints throughout the world. But I would not say I am an expert about knowing ProtonVPN's competition. Then it goes on: "By the way, should you be doing torrents, use qBittorrent." Why? Why not Transmission? Why not WebTorrent? Why not rtorrent? Etc. Why not use Usenet/NZBs? If you're cool shelling out 20 USD for a MAC spoofer and pay for 1Password why not consider also to pay for a Usenet provider?
This sounds like the same as Vipps in Norway. Anything up to NOK5000 is free. And it is instant.

It has become a huge hit the last year. As for why I guess it's almost as fast as cash and you can add a little note so you can prove (rarely necessary but sometimes useful) that you paid.

Now a number of companies are also embracing it and I've started to receive invoices on Vipps. If it could be the thing that kills "Avtalegiro") I'd say that would be great.
Unfortunately I haven't found a reasonable alternative.

I have to use HUNDREDS of passwords every few weeks. HUNDREDS! Some for work, some for personal. Occasionally a service gets broken into so I can't have all of them be the same password and I can't have a system where I add, say "FB" to the end of the password to denote a service as that makes it pretty vulnerable.

So I am forced to use a password manager. I hate it and I'm terrified it'll get broken into one day. But what alternative do I have? I enable 2 auth on everything that I can but those are a very, very small handful compared to all of the usernames and passwords I have to use.

How do you not use a password manager is my question.
Considering the fact that it took him three hours to identify his own house, when he could see the current reading, I'd say that's not much of a problem.
At the very least in the Bay Area his money will be gone in no time.

Moving to a more interesting place is good advice though as is considering money a means rather than an end to itself.
It's up 105% this week so someone thinks it's still alive.
Not heard the term Giro in years, not since people stopped using the Post Office for banking services.
Even intentional design decisions can be flawed.
>>I use PHP. There, I admitted it.

Very happy to see stuff like this in blog posts. I use it all the time to stand up scripts like this. It makes me REALLY happy to see hacky code like:

>>exec("/scripts/gocode/bin/rtlamr -msgtype={$type} --format=json --filterid={$unitid} --single=true",$output);

I also do this all the time, even to control Windows processes on client/slave machines (generally killing and relaunching stalled programs).
Can you clarify what country are you talking about? Because it’s nothing like this where I am and around.
On the contrary, banks have been pushing for even more online capabilities for years, so you not only can pay whomever whenever wherever you want, you can open accounts, take loans, buy insurance, see your spendings grouped in categories, etc. etc.
The more you can do online yourself, the less staff banks have to pay.
Also, there is none of this weird payment card acount/normal account thing. You just have an account and card(s) tied to it.
For any purchase I do with my card I get a notification instantly on my phone. As I do for other activity in my account.
On Operational Environments
one talk I remember said as much. If i remember correctly, repeated obfuscation via self modifying code can increase code size dramatically, though a correlation to time complexity was not shown (and I don't remember how the code modified).
Huh. Citation needed. I know many people in the UK with a diagnosis.
'Adderall doesn’t “cure” the “disease” of ADHD'

This is completely wrong. It treats the symptoms of those of us with severe ADHD, and let's us do everyday things like sit in a theater or an airplane, or enjoy playing quietly with our little children.

It's not just about being an office drone spending 12 hours a day in Excel or some cynical bullshit like that, it's about every day life.
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Looks like we are making case for different things.

You are arguing that everyone should update to latest version asap. Because, as you say, older version is more vulnerable. I dont think thats true, case-in-point: macos root bug. What if criminals and security agencies has broken 1.3 but not 1.2 ? Dont fix it unless its broken. Fix it when its broken or predicted to be broken.

But thats different to what I was arguing for: Some poor 1.2 implmentations aborting connection when connecting to 1.3 client, is not a problem as the article says. For complete arguments, see my previous comments here.

> But either way ... the downgrade support.

What downgrade support ? Are you saying 1.3 browsers will only connect to 1.3 ? Because there is no way every/most 1.2 servers will just transition to 1.3 together. Before 1.3 becoming 99.9%, some will be using 1.3 and some 1.2. It just cannot be avoided.
Ideally the lights would have cameras and report themselves. FWIW, this was a temporary set of lights for roadworks in the middle of the Welsh countryside with little or no mobile signal.
Show HN: Nested VMs from Scratch in C
I absolutely love Kindle for fiction, but it is just not even a candidate for any sort of technical book. I'm actually considering getting an iPad for that purpose.
I know a researcher (Olivier Bournez) who uses the planimeter as an introduction to analog computing. His claim is that planimeters are single-purpose analog computers, much like calculators are single-purpose digital computers.
He then logically generalizes planimeters into General purpose analog computers, which I find quite fascinating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_purpose_analog_compute...
If you are looking for books about getting your attention back, I can only recommend Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi [0] and Deep Work by Cal Newport [1] I wrote an extensive blog post about both books (which happened to be on HN too), because they are kinda life changing.

- [0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.Flow

- [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25744928-deep-work

- [2] https://www.robinwieruch.de/lessons-learned-deep-work-flow/
I've been all three here in Shanghai: rented a desk, rented an office and actually worked for Wework.

For a non-tech freelancer, it's a good place to be: comparably high-level people, decent free coffee and beers. For a tech freelancer "community area" tends to be extremely noisy, with annoying pop music playing loud enough to distract, dogs barking, cleaning ladies "chatting" to each other (in China chatting is usually a 90 dB+ affair). During lunch, everything turns into eating surfaces as people here are accustomed to getting food delivered. Some food is extremely smelly, which can be very distracting if you need to finish something and didn't eat yet.

Offices are quieter, but they're really tiny, basic and dark, and very expensive compared to other market offers, at least in China. Shanghai has many managed offices, together with coffees, printers and set-up Wifi.

Speaking of Wifi, all Wework locations in China I've been to have awful speeds, during workdays, it's sometimes a 30-50 KBps crawl, in evenings a bit better. Of course, you need to bring your own VPN to access anything outside China.
Toca Boca tried this with their Toca TV service, but it was discontinued because subscription rates were too low. If anyone could do it it should be them, having proven that it is possible to charge for kids' apps with no in app purchases.
https://tocaboca.com/press-post/toca-tv-update/
Winter depression linked to low light levels?
judges and juries are perfectly happy to side with police no matter how egregious the shootings are

Like many I watched Die Hard and Die Hard 2 over Christmas, and it struck me how deeply the rogue, trigger-happy cop is embedded as a folk hero in American culture. The real life John McClain is George Zimmerman or Mohamed Noor. You guys have got to stop making these movies if you want to make any progress
Of course the people without the technical skills, but also everybody who counts their time in terms of money. I used to reason like you when I was a student and had seemingly unlimited time on my hands. But now I'm a consultant who bills by the hour which makes me somehow always translate time into money. If I bill $100/hour and the raspberry PI solution would take me a day to set up and working, then buying the sense is $500 cheaper.
The average cop show also is a collection of civil rights violations, with some arguing that this makes people less likely to realize that when it happens in reality. (That's not just US series, but strong there too)
Because that can get you much cleaner with much less effort and one less thing for your shopping list.
The Open Cannabis Project curates data from testing labs, the NIH, and elsewhere.

https://opencannabisproject.org/external-data-resources/

I have not seen the mislabeling studies you note. Most of the labels -- strain names -- are not intrinsically meaningful anyway.

w/r/t being chemically distinct, the research I've read show clear differences in cannabinoid and terpene composition between major strains, hybrids created from those, and within all of these per particular harvest, origin, conditions.

The pharmacological effects of those compositions on you won't be exact --
they provide guidance.

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/cam/hp/cannabi...

(ibuprofen, gin, and brussel sprouts don't effect you and me exactly the same way, either, but we have the general idea of what's involved.)

there's more anecdotal evidence than hard scientific research available because cannabis has been consumed for 3,000 years, but it's been an illegal narcotic in the US for the last 60.
> Some research told me that the power company accomplishes this via a simple radio broadcast on the 900Mhz spectrum.

Interesting. Around here (mainland Europe) they're currently installing "smart" meters which do this using CPL rather than radio.

> And with one simple command, I was reading the power (and probably water) meters for my entire neighborhood

That is a bit troubling from a physical security perspective, once you've mapped meters to accommodation you can now remotely check for presence across an entire neighbourhood, and can ignore the usual "fake presence" indicators (randomised lighting & blinds manipulation) entirely. In fact those would help you as seeing lights in a house whose owners are on holidays would not surprise the neighbours.
> Or people who don't even have mothers at all.

That intrigues me. I can imagine not having a living mother, or even a mother who died before/during/after childbirth.

But I can't imagine how it is possible for a child to have no mother at all. Is there a situation that you demonstrate ?
This isn't going to be misused at all.
It is. In Germany at least all communications must be encrypted. And often multiple meters will communicate via one gateway.

Though, if someone has the time and technical ability to implement this kind of surveillance then there are probably easier ways to get better info than inferring activity from energy readings.
I agree that knowing yourself is essential before taking any big leap. In fact, knowing yourself is the foundation of anything in life.

I'd say though that there's no better - perhaps even no other - way to learn these particular things than by doing them.

So, if you absolutely hate networking, talking to people and the more technical stuff that comes with a business like bookkeeping then yes: Being a self-employed consultant probably isn't for you.

On the other hand you might just think you hate these aspects of running a successful business because you never really did them yourself and only have a vague idea about them. Going down this path can be a great learning experience that can help you discover talents you didn't know you had.

I think people tend to underestimate what they're capable of, which often is especially true for technical types when it comes to anything related to human communication.
I've seen quite few self-proclaimed introverts and "I just want to code." people become great presenters and teachers.

Being an employee is something of a default case so many settle for that. Perhaps that's the 'reasonable' thing to do, especially when you're starting out and need to learn anything at all (including the skills you might later be selling as consulting services). It needn't be the end goal, though.
Currently I could import a crashed Leaf from US auction to my homecountry in Europe and have it fixed and registered for a total of about 8000€, many people do just that. I imagine this will fall to about 6000€ for the first year Leaf imports in the coming couple of year or two.
How do you get enough vitamins without any fruits? Are you just using supplements?
Its defensible because people are paying it...go on, you can buy the current clamps for a few bucks and make your own competitor for $25 a pop... you wont though because its easier to shit on things than actually do something.
my personal reaction is 2 fold

WRT

>In one study, he found that when kids stopped being addicted to games, their depression and anxiety got better.

( 1 )

Is this study repeatable? (or does it suffer the fate of many (75%) psychology experiments that cannot be replicated [1]

( 2 )

Instagram, Facebook , -- would those, potentially, addiction-fueled activities, ever become subject to the WHO recommendation
?

[ 1 ] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/27/study-delive...
In total I've spent roughly a month and a half working on it but mostly only spending an hour or so every couple days on it. After understanding the architecture, the coding isn't too difficult and is immensely rewarding!
Some empirical effects reasearch from the NIH: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/cam/hp/cannabi...
How I Became a Brand
Why don't you check the parts against the list before you start putting them together?
Docker containers run with a seccomp profile enabled by default.
It's not a popular opinion but remove the anonymity/fake accounts and you eliminate a very significant portion of these issues.
Except for the “borderline mathematics” parts of computer science (algorithms, PL semantics, etc.), the scientific rigor in CS publications is much, much, much lower than in math or physics publications. Scientific progress is to be measured in terms of advances in human understanding, not in number of publications, our current “publish or perish” culture notwithstanding.
"I'm not going to lie. It felt weird polling the meter readings for the entire neighborhood."

Yikes, and I though we had it bad here in the Netherlands where you explicitly needed to opt-out of your power supplier being able to read your meter.

At least here it is ordered that if these newer 'smart meters' are to be installed they always need to include a 'P1 port' which allows the home owner to simply read out the metrics every 10 seconds using a serial device.
That might be the "real scandal" but it isn't "this scandal". It doesn't matter what I think about brownouts because that isn't the topic.
Because it took him that long in his first try doesn’t mean that holds true of everyone.
> Though, if someone has the time and technical ability to implement this kind of surveillance then there are probably easier ways to get better info than inferring activity from energy readings.

I don't know, the original mapping probably isn't the most difficult thing in the world, and then you can just passively (programmatically) wait for oddities in consumption patterns against an entire neighbourhood.
There are long inquiries and court cases in the US as well. Jury of peers, the whole lot. I'm not sure how the 'balance is about right and nothing like the USA'. When called upon in a moment of crisis, these people got onto a train and shot an innocent person in the the head half a dozen times, from close range.

The big difference is, there are fewer opportunities for armed police to screw this up. There are far fewer of them (heavily armed police are the exception, rather than the default) and they are not nearly needed as often (the citizenry is not as heavily armed). The policy that largely prevents the mistakes is what really helps, rather than having better armed police or better post-cockup inquiries (both of which, to me, seem fairly debatable).
South Park did an episode on this. Where everyone was so afraid of "reality" they elected someone to censor it all and keep their tweets only positive.

Butters had to see every depraved thing. And he ended up trying to kill himself.

And in the end, when he almost died, they blamed him for failing to be the perfect filter.
Your bizarre, logical, absolutist view of the world is not one the majority of people share. There is a difference between removing the sort of terrible posts that show up on Facebook and thoughts in people's heads. Most people can see the difference. If you can't, I suggest you take some time to consider why other people might see a difference.
The same name thing is a Bank level restriction, not an ACH network level one.
Sure but for theft it's much more useful to have information about an entire neighbourhood at once, there's a much larger ROI to casing dozens or hundreds of homes at once than to casing each one individually.

You can have "small hands" doing the initial survey (e.g. triangulate signal strengths to meter locations), automate the surveillance/pattern checking, and call in more professional break-in teams when you have high confidence.
I personally just code for self interest and enjoy a challenge since my job is rather stale. I can't speak from experience but I'm sure having a portfolio relevant to the type of work you're aiming for would impress potential clients and enhance corresponding skills.
You can delete it and share the information with the proper authorities. In fact that is probably what's done.
* decode trunked p25 radio, eg: local EMS https://github.com/DSheirer/sdrtrunk

* listen to air traffic control nearby

* tap the IF on a hf transceiver for a panadapter
Where are there good forums/groups for compilers& optimizations ?
My first ebook reader was the Franklin eBookMan [1]. Since I bought that one, back in 200X (don't remember when but it was after 9/11), I stopped reading paper books. I have a few (technical) books I was forced to read on paper, because reading them on a Kindle is a disaster, but I solved that once I got my 10-inch tablet.

My Kindle has 1,029 books on it at the moment... though at least 50% of those are fanfiction, which I prefer to original books.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_eBookMan
That doesn't seem obviously true to me?

The manner in which a crime is committed affects all stages of the legal process, including sentencing, jury deliberation, and those considerations will certainly also affect how a prosecutor decides to charge someone.

If you're saying that someone hiring a hitman has the exact same probability distribution of getting charged (let's say, given airtight evidence in both cases) compared to someone who pulls the trigger, that seems like a very strong and surprising claim.

If you're saying that 'in theory' both crimes would rate a certain type of murder charge, that sounds reasonable. Even then though, the prosecutor would certainly be able to tack on other charges (e.g. assault with a deadly weapon) that tangibly affect the outcome, from plea bargaining onwards.

And that seems correct? One of the goals of the criminal justice system is to prevent future crime, so to the extent that the manner a crime is committed reveals information about the future threat level of a criminal, society (and by extension, the legal system) should take that into account.
Which is slightly odd, considering that in hyperinflation, paper cash was losing value just as fast as intangible money.

However, the privacy aspect makes cash usage understandable. But it is somewhat inconvenient sometimes - for example, you generally have to be prepared to pay taxis by cash, not bank/credit card as in Nordics.
Let's make 16 games in C++/SFML
You can still get creative with it by mixing other IKEA parts together! Check out the projects here: https://www.ikeahackers.net/
If it’s mainly for that purpose, wouldn’t you prefer something like reMarkable or Sony’s Digital Paper?
Sure, paper is still used for temporary stuff, like taking notes. However, for long-term use I prefer electronic storage - way easier to search. (Almost all my Visual Studio projects, for example, have a "notes.txt" file containing TODOs or general observations.)
I think that the fact that the display refresh rate is slow, leads to less "information snacking" which is one the goals of the kindle.

As for resolution, I think large format readers are for that.

As for the kindle internal light - sure it's a good idea, but if it uses pulsed pwm light(a technique for led power control) - it's less than ideals because it's more tiring and for some people it creates headaches etc.
I recently bought a 3D printer and feel the same "Ikea effect" as well. My wife comments how I spent (over the holidays) a disproportionate amount of time tinkering and declogging the nozzle to make items I could have otherwise purchased at the dollar store.
Primecoin is dead - go to their website and click on "Forums". Or find the network node explorer online.
Universe creation on a computer (2005)
The irony of reading this at 2:16am pt...
Not really, programming languages behaviours are almost always deterministic (UB + compiler shenanigans aside). For instance the weirder corners of JS value coercions are exhaustively documented and deterministically followed by browsers, but I would argue they're not explicit, unless you're bi-classed language lawyer or have already been bitten several times, you don't "see" this (again completely deterministic) process when reading the usually innocent-looking code which ends up invoking it.