skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Horrible, but not surprising.

As a first approximation, nearly 100% of corporate executives wouldn't see the problem with storing passwords in cleartext. To them, the T-Mobile rep's arguments would seem reasonable:

"I really do not get why this is a problem. You have so many passwords for every app, for every mail-account and so on. We secure all data very carefully, so there is not a thing to fear."

If you ever wonder why more corporations don't get hacked every day, it's probably because the vast majority of software developers are decent, honest human beings who have no desire to inflict large-scale damage.
so long as it has a sufficient radar cross section, the orbits of non-operational stuff can be predicted just fine.

NORAD tracks the location of everything big enough to track, and makes it all available.
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That's why cars have Brake Assist (BA) now that will break more than you're actually requesting with the pedal if you break suddenly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_brake_assist
I've clicked that action every single time I've seen it for at least the past year and it still continues to show the very thing I want to see less often. It's absolutely infuriating.
Majority of people in the USA don't choose their ISP, their city zones IPSs per neighborhood.
That wasnt the main idea of my statement.

I contend that my desire differs from parent comments claim
FWIW Clojure already has that concept as "transients" but it requires explicit invocation (creation of the transient then conversion back to persistent). I think Swift also commonly uses CoW but does so for regular collections not persistent ones.
Yes, but that would mean they're not launching anything else... the mind boggling part to me was that they're planning on over doubling the number of satellites in space in the span of 6 years.
On Facebook, Zuckerberg gets privacy and you get nothing
This thread from a few days ago: "Ask HN: Who are your favourite people to follow on Mastodon?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16741116
Absolutely. This is one very good use case.

Say you have a configuration to read and share with all threads. Each thread can make local changes that will not be visible to the others. The API looks like it's mutating the shared object, but it's actually mutating a copy.
I have a real estate business and this is one of the sites I have used to post my real estate listings. It wasn't a large part of business, but I did get regular leads from the site. I mostly used craigslist, facebook and zillow, but this was a solid 4th place source of leads for me. I'm self employed and these sites are how I make my living. So not all of the users are posting sex ads. I don't like the title calling it a sex marketplace. It makes it sounds like this is the only thing on the website.
Article mentions that this is just the high-altitude constellation in MEO, and there will be as many as 12000 total at all altitudes.

Putting 4425 in MEO, another ~7500 in LEO, and maybe a few in higher orbits, is likely a plan to reduce latency and increase bandwidth.

SpaceX has already launched some (50?) IridiumNEXT satellites, a planned constellation of 66 operational in LEO, plus 9 spares in a lower orbit, and 6 spares on the ground.
Sure, I was thinking with time limits on delete (presumably desirable if you're trying to avoid incoherent threads). It could also lead to accounts that post once and get deleted if you don't otherwise allow anonymous comments.
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In fact Trump's bankruptcies have been forgotten. The point of bankruptcy is that after a few years they disappear from your record. People who deal in credit are not allowed to know of any of trump's past bankruptcies (after a few years), they are gone and he starts over with a clean sheet.

As others have pointed out, Trump hasn't actually declared bankruptcy. There is an interesting debate about that in other threads, read them there.
ASLens – Using AWS DeepLens to Translate American Sign Language to Speech
I don't like most of his device review videos, too whiney. That said, his talk on op amps was very very good.
Open Compute Iron Is All About Acceleration
Tiger Woods, Nearly Human
I have a real estate business and this is one of the sites I have used to post my real estate listings. It wasn't a large part of my business, but I did get regular leads from the site. I mostly used craigslist, facebook and zillow, but this was a solid 4th place source of leads for me. I'm self employed and these sites are how I make my living. So not all of the users are posting sex ads. I don't like the title calling it a sex marketplace. It makes it sounds like this is the only thing on the website.
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I got myself a nodemcu (rather 10) on aliexpress, some relay boards, wires, resistors (haven't really needed them yet), some USB chargers, breadboards, LEDs, RFID readers, more wires, more nodemcu's (esp32 by now), more relays, etc, etc. and I just started hacking around with them. You learn quite a lot by having to solve 'how do I turn on this lamp?', 'how do I read RFID chips?'

My own and my neighbours garden lights are controlled by the nodemcu unit that I put together and I am working on a RFID project at the moment. Great fun.
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Previous autopilot versions didn't do this. 10.4 and 12 do this 90% of the time. I didn't post it until I got .12 and it did it a few times in case it was a bug in 10.4.

It looks like software updates will soon won't just break your workflow. They might break your spine or your head or take away your life entirely.
With an immutable data structure the only synchronization cost is that of atomic reference count increment/decrement, but it feels like you're mutating shared objects, so the API is very easy to use.

For an example API I'm familiar with, see https://github.com/stedolan/jq/wiki/C-API:-jv
Just did some back of napkin math, and assuming you wanted to transmit information half way across the world with a fiber optic cable at sea level that goes exactly where you want it to, it would go 12566 miles (2pi4000/2) @ 124,666 miles per second (2/3)c, or take ~.1 seconds.

If you transmitted data straight up 700 miles, and then around the constellation all at 700 miles elevation, and then back down 700 miles, it would need to go 16165 miles (700*2 + 2pi4700/2) @ 187,000 miles per second (1c), or take 0.086 seconds.

This seems like pretty exciting stuff.
A small amount of it, yes, but it's the card itself causing corruption issues most of the time, it happens even on devices where the filesystem is read-only. The controller will write and move things around for maintenance purposes even if the host hasn't issued a write command.

The cheap SD cards just aren't designed for anything except being used in consumer devices with batteries, where sudden power loss is rare and losing data isn't going to cause a plane to crash or result in someone not receiving a dose of insulin.

So when they suddenly lose power, they aren't always capable of ensuring that whatever task they were carrying out at the time is actually completed and did not accidentally destroy data.

And apparently the consumer SD card controllers are really there to manage and remap parts of the flash that were defective before ever leaving the factory.

It's probably cheaper to build over-provisioned cards with a simple controller that can deal with manufacturing defects in the field, than to do QA on 200 million thumbnail sized NAND die every month and still try to profit while selling them for a fraction of a penny each.
I was saying this while the Cambridge Analytica scandal unfolded.

All my UVerse traffic goes thru AT&T proxy servers and that dwarves what FB and Google get from me on a regular basis.
It's old enough to realize that I am not young anymore :-)
> Not useful at all

In English, nouns are often spoken with stresses in a sentence, which could make capitalizing them a pronunciation issue, just as other punctuation is (e.g. commas for pauses, question mark for changing intonation). I don't know about German, though.
I wonder how the public would respond if the person killed in that Uber accident a while ago was a kid on a bicycle and how the response will be when/if a Tesla on autopilot plows into a schoolbus (a situation they seem to have problems with is stationary objects partially in a lane).
> The cheap-o $15 soldering irons all produce horrible results and will shatter your confidence...

I would make the opposite argument that if you can get great results from a cheap-o soldering iron, your confidence and ability will soar thereafter.

Recall that, back in the really early days, soldering irons were large affairs, consisting of a large block of copper heated via a gasoline or kerosene torch, with a large wood handle and a steel shaft:

https://www.stevenjohnson.com/soldering/pics/old-reliable.jp...

Electrical ones weren't much better:

https://www.stevenjohnson.com/soldering/pics/ge-1911.jpg

Now granted, connections were mostly "free-air" and not PCB based or similar. Also, some of those irons were meant for soldering sheet metal, not really electronics or electrical work - but that's what people had at the time...

When I learned to solder thru-hole electronics, I learned with what could be called a "cheap-o" soldering iron; something like this (maybe not as nice looking):

https://www.circuitspecialists.com/content/image/104526/600/...

I still have it, and still use it occasionally. It takes "forever" to heat up (about 10-15 minutes), and the tip looks like hell. But for thru-hole construction, it works great. Once you know how to use it, you can solder like a champ.

Would I use it for SMT rework? No. Basically it's virtually worthless for anything with less than 0.1" pitch, unless you're removing parts and just need to dump a lot of heat in a small area.

The key to successful soldering is knowing how to control and place the heat where you need it, and flowing the solder into the joint properly. Most make the mistake of not tinning their iron or the part leads, then trying to flow the solder using the tip of the iron, where all it does is stick the iron tip. Instead, you have to heat the component's lead(s), and flow the solder using the heat on the lead(s). Tinning both the iron and the leads helps with this as well. Flux can also help, but if you use a decent flux-core solder (preferably 63/37 ratio tin-lead), flux should rarely be needed. A paste flux is useful though for cleaning the tip of the iron, especially when shutting down for the day.

It's kinda like arc welding. Sure, MIG can be easy to learn. But if you really want to understand, start with rod (stick) first. Yeah, you'll stick the rod continuously, cussing a storm up at first. But after a while, you'll develop the knack of keeping that weld pool just right and moving the rod while feeding it in, without sticking. Once you've done that, MIG is nothing...
Yeah I've been using this to make a interpreted Clojure-style lisp with immutable data structures. Great library.
> I, too, use encrypted VPN, but we are just a minority.

You're right that VPN usage is technically a minority [1], but it is well beyond fringe usage.

[1] https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/304927/Downloads/VPN-Usage-Ar...
Honestly, i believe the damage to ones life should stop when the judicial system has said the debt to society has been paid.

One reason i desire to see more convict employment advocate groups
It is amusing to see a person manging to continue funding vaporware with more vaporware...
Sounds a lot like jq's jv API: https://github.com/stedolan/jq/wiki/C-API:-jv
You can if you dial the specificity down to 0.

i.e: Always report "I'm wrong."
If there's anything left to be conservative upon. Current climate of "drive fast and kill people" might wipe out the field via PR.
This is at least in part because hardware has advanced to the point that for many games it makes sense to optimize for development time over runtime performance. Unity and Unreal are still not as performant as a well optimized specialized engine could be in many situations but it would probably take too long and cost too much to build that specialized engine.

There are also trade offs in flexibility that come with using Unity or Unreal. They make it easy to make games that fit within their paradigms but it's relatively harder to make a game that does something radical or experimental with rendering or physics.

I say this as someone who lives in Unity. It's absolutely the right choice in many situations but it's not without tradeoffs and compromises.
The study investigates three non-caloric artificial sweeteners: saccharin, sucralose, and aspartame.

"To determine the effects of NAS on glucose homeostasis, we addedcommercial formulations of saccharin, sucralose or aspartame to the drinking water of lean 10-week-old C57Bl/6 mice"

"Notably, at week 11, the three mouse groups that consumed water, glucose and sucrose featured comparable glucose tolerance curves, whereas all three NAS-consuming mousegroups developed marked glucose intolerance (P , 0.001, Fig. 1a, b)."

The article probably only talks about saccharin specifically because, as the study states: "...saccharin exerted the most pronounced effect, [so] we further studied its role as a prototype artificial sweetener."
This is just about what I expected it to look like when software engineering safety standards are let loose on the physical world.
There likely is an imbalance for MDs specifically, but Boston has a sizable VC-fueled tech community that can absorb non-MD grads.
I have no problem with alternate solutions, but for gods sake, at least answer the original question as well.
Who regulates global satellite TV?
Slack/Facebook comments/posts are all things I use that let me delete previously sent messages. This is possible because they control it all. (Of course, I'm relying on the other users' clients coming online and respecting the delete instructions)

and fair points about email... I had assumed this worked like other parts of Facebook, which doesn't seem unreasonable given they control the whole stack. (and they did shut down their old XMPP gateway awhile back)
The version (in S3) is a hash of the data so if you remove your local version and replace it then you won't be tricked into thinking version 1.0 is the wrong thing (unless someone brute forces a new file with the same hash).

There is also a concept of Write Once Read Many in storage which is used for compliance. So you can use sync with WORM and it's basically append only.
> I think that's currently the case for Tesla, selling the only commercially available semi-autonomously driving car ATM.

"I think that's currently the case for Tesla, selling the only commercially available semi-autonomous [electric] car ATM."

FTFY
Before they push that much extra stuff into orbit, they really should be required to demonstrate a working way to clean up space junk. If they aren't required to, then these 4500 ovens will be left for a very long time after they are no longer in use, until their orbits decay...
Marco Reps
https://www.youtube.com/user/reppesis/videos

Julian Ilett - especially if you want to learn about solar
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmHvGf00GDuPYG9DZqQKd9A

Andreas Spiess
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu7_D0o48KbfhpEohoP7YSQ
It's difficult to be positive when you know that FB is doing everything it can to save its crown jewels. HN's supposed saltiness will likely dissipate when FB starts carving out its data policies.
Thanks! I love recommendations of small channels, as I already follow all the bigger ones.
Isn't space debris more about collisions which spew out thousands of tiny bits which are hard to track and may have a ludicrous velocity relative to things they run into? AIUI, large objects a relatively easy to track and avoid if you have the gas and are on a collision course.
Device that can 'hear' your internal voice
"Google is a blind user"

https://www.w3.org/2006/Talks/06-08-steven-web40/
The Mostly Online 'Space Kingdom' of Asgardia Attempts Democracy
One can never be nasty enough against an organization, especially one that deceives its supporters so frequently.
Prohibition never works, except for for-profit prisons, Christians, politicians and police agency stats.
All satellites will eventually be non-operational, so the question is: do they have a plan for picking up these 4500 pieces of future space junk once they are no longer in use?
T-Mobile Admits Storing Passwords in Plaintext
Good to know , thanks
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Besides Tab, Diet Coke from a fountain contains saccharin:
https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2008/04/17/Coca-Cola-w...

(Trying to find another source, I believe Diet Pepsi from a fountain does as well, to extend shelf life.)
BeOS-Inspired Haiku OS Chugging Along with Driver Improvements, UI Changes
Refreshing Approaches to Workflow Automation
I use Pi's to teach introductory networking concepts to undergraduates, configuring various network functions and building out a mini-Internet.

Hoping to get the projects polished up a bit more this quarter and to publish a repo with guides and configurations. I've also convinced a handful of students to tackle some more interesting applications and modern networking concepts in lieu of the standard course project.
> what's keeping someone

Reality, block chain is not the answer to every question
Oddly enough, it's been my observation that in きゃ and ぎゃ, the /a/ sound is considerably fronted compared to other syllables. It's usually realized as the central vowel [ä], but in these two, it's often fronted to [a]. This is why these syllables are used to render English words containing /kæ/ into Japanese, such as "cannon" (キャノン kyanon) or "cat" (キャット kyatto). Contrast with "cut" (カット katto) or "car" (カー kā).

Japanese has some interesting allophones. I also find the allophones in the Z-row fascinating as well ([z] and [d͡z] are allophones in free variation).
2018 iPad review: Content creation with compromises
Apparently the FCC, since they just 'approved' it.
Well you have conservative and liberal feminists. Anita Sarkeesian is a great example of a conservative, sex-negative feminist who likes to cherry pick facts and video footage to support an anti-sexualized world view of women.

On the other side you have liberal feminists who are sex-positive, for regulated sex work and support Slut Walks.
Did T-Mobile Really Just Admit It Stores Customer Passwords in Plaintext?
I guess if you were to put out an ad saying that you want to hire people to have sex with you on video for commercial purposes, that would be OK.
When I was in junior high school we had a monthly mail order kit from American Basic Science. I made things like an amplidier, radio receiver, ham radio transmitter. It cost $5 a month for a year, much of the pay from my paper route.

http://www.quickreference.info/small-business-stories/americ...

An equivalent today might be a the add on kits for Raspberry Pi or Arduino. Plus the high school robot competition clubs.

Must have worked because I later attended MIT ;-)
Twitter delays API change that could break Tweetbot, Twitterific, etc.
Some fun schematics to "read" are Fender's digital microcontroller adjustable tube amps; basically the modern incarnations of integration of tube technology with solid-state and modern microcontrollers. Last I knew (when I did web dev for them 5-6 years ago), you could download them from their site.

You can find similar circuits from the 1950s-60s Popular Science back-issues on Google Books; that's the time period when hobbyists were transitioning from tube-based stuff to more solid-state and transistor stuff (transistors came down in price enough, plus they were more reliable) - so occasionally, you can find an article on some project combining both technologies.
“Excuse me? Do you have any idea how telecommunication companies work? Do you know anything about our systems? But I'm glad you have the time to share your view with us. ^Käthe”

And doubling down as well, that’s a bold strategy.
In other businesses where a risk is inherent, we require insurance to help deal with the fallout.
The issue is that Google claims to be a "journalist" when it thinks it prevents them from having to do what they don't want to do (delist things), and then claims to be "just a platform" when it thinks it prevents them from having to do what they don't want to do (take responsibility for content on their platforms).

Google wants it both ways, in whichever way is momentarily convenient. Almost everyone's comments on Right To Be Forgotten in this thread miss that key issue.
While I definitely see the advantages of contributing to open source, I get the feeling the article overstates the importance in landing you first job.
In my case at least, nobody seemed to care about my open source contributions or at least they didn't tell me.
Is it really the case that my GitHub / GitLab profile acts as a resume these days? Wouldn't that create kind of a filter bubble for recruiters? Not everyone has time to contribute to open source additionally to their regular work.
> "Art" is not a bad word to describe it at all.

I consider analog electronics to be more akin to "dark magic" than anything else...
That's a heck of an ass-u-mption. Running the red light as the n-th exponentially increases the probability you'll get into collision.
> * octopi

Congratulations on winning the double bonus points! Octopi is not even the correct Latin plural.
Exactly! You can keep the restaurant industry without the wage theft. Just do what Australia and New Zealand do: pay restaurant workers a living wage and not have a tipping culture.

Both those nations also have legalized sex work too.
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You mean holding the touch for a second and then manually moving the markers?
The newspaper? TV? Radio? Those channels are already heavily regulated as it relates to political advertising. The regulations controlling political ads in old media can be quite surprising to anyone who is not already aware of them.
I did the same math, got a similar result. I found that getting data from one side of the earth to the other should be about 17.4% faster in space.

Since the earth is 6,378 km in radius, adding another 1,150 km only makes the circumference about 18% longer.
I recall it being clear that, just like the S and X launch, the most expensive 3's would ship first.
Depending on what the errors are, you could design a filesystem where the apparent block size is a bit smaller than the underlying disk's block size, giving you room to add some sort of error correction code to the bits you write. Then a single-bit error (even if the controller moves a block around within the disk without telling you) can be corrected by the filesystem driver, and the correct data re-written.

(I also want a filesystem that does this so that you have room for a proper authenticated encryption mode for your full-disk encryption - if your apparent block size is the same as your physical disk block size, either you have no room for an authentication tag and you're using a pretty fragile scheme for making your ciphertext tamper-resistant, or you kill performance because you need to read the authentication tag from another block. Current disk encryption software tends to choose the former.)
No, they tokenize.[1]

[1] https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00043932/
Yeah I'm surprised others haven't mentioned raspberry pi.

Electronics is hard - esp building good quality electronics is hard - but its disappearing as software eats the world. If you're on HN you can probably code already, rpi is a great way to start with software and gradually add more eletronics for robots or sensors etc.
“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”