skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a unique new category for networked digital automation that is absent from other systems. I don't think computer security people take it seriously enough.

Say, you sabotage "dumb" automation system to break and turn the car suddenly right. When the failures starts to happen, manufacturer eventually notices it and recalls vehicles. Maybe tens or hundreds of people will be injured.

But what if the system has access to date and time trough CAN bus? If design a system that steers all affected cars suddenly right at the same time the cascade can kill and injure thousands and cause huge panic. People are afraid to drive until the problem is fixed.
That would be which logical fallacy? Something where you take something I said to a nonsensical extreme?
I certainly never asserted that people did not pay for software. My point is that free software is very proven as a development, distribution, whatever method by now.
I don’t believe it is only a skill. If it were, a master could pick a random person on the street and have an amazing marriage with them.

In my opinion, just like a job, there is only so much willpower and motivation you have. It’s a finite resource. A person that you are

1) Sexually attracted to

2) Emotionally connected with

3) Makes you happy by just being themselves

Will make you happy and motivated to work things out, and vice versa.

Saying it’s a skill is like saying working at a frustrating job for decades is a skill. Sure but why not find one you actually are happy to come to every day?

The actual problem in today’s society is how much we expect from what we see is possible, versus how POOR matchmaking is today when you are single!
Checking the status of my visa application.
A plant dropping offline is still a relatively friendly and controlled event. In a malicious case you could imagine a plant acting in a maximally adverserial way to the grid's direction.
> Parks made history precisely because she was well-behaved, because her image was so wholesome and unthreatening, and her protest stood out as an apparently isolated act of forgivable “misbehavior” in an otherwise virtuous life. She was a much safer heroine than working-class teenager Claudette Colvin, pregnant out of wedlock, who had been arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus several months earlier

This hits home. Society wants well behaved women -- and men. Heroes they can rally with, not so much. Just people that the average person think are like them, living a vicarious life.

But is that the best for the individual and their unique talents?

Personally, I do not want to glorify submission to any cultural value. I want to forge my own path. While I am sure many men would like well-behaved women, I do not think we ought to become their idealized version of a human being. Likewise, I do not want men to think they have to follow some cultural narrative to 'prove their worth.' They should forge their own path.

I thought we had left these old values in the previous century, but apparently we haven't.
Agreed. But you can do it the other way. You can be grateful FIRST for your partner and that will bring out your kindness.
I was specifically thinking of the Webb space telescope. Per Wikipedia, the budget estimates indeed laddered up in this way. [1] I would be mad at Congress if they decided to cancel it because of the next $1 billion cost increment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope#Cos...
I was about to write a comment like that but you did it so well there's no need to... :-)
I certainly would use my package manager to install this. Having the latest version isn't critical, and if it was, I would compile from source. Apt likely protects you from exactly what's being discussed here, as well as from the need to compile from source.

I don't think the comparison of the "wizard" to installing from apt or similar is hyperbole. I'm familiar with the typical Windows apps install process, and I do indeed warrant that that is a realistic comparison. GUI software is more difficult to automate and presents information in a way that's difficult to absorb at a glance, for me.

The 'wizard' does not require a steady 10 minutes of attention, but I don't think 20 clicks is an exaggeration. How many sounds right to you? If you want, I can write an essay contrasting software installation on these platforms because what I wrote sounds right on to me. The fact is that standard procedure to install software on Windows involves clicking "next" over and over again after downloading a binary from some random website.
I still really prefer GTK2 apps. The GTK3 file picker is awful, and I'm generally not a fan of apps that use the new fancy window borders like gedit.

I'm glad Mate is around to keep maintaining gtk2/gnome2.
The Active Mindset: A Sure Way to Avoid All Boredom with Life
Hm, how about a show about a robot pirate ship (in space or today's world) and either some hackers in a basement or a 3-letter agency on the other end? (Maybe leave it ambiguous for a while. Or maybe they fight each other for control.)

There probably are a number of political and economical reasons to disrupt shipping routes and terrorize billionaires on yachts, and plenty to stay unrecognized and uncaught meanwhile (use 'hacking' to disrupt the military that might come to check).

Maybe at some point the robots gain their own sentience and decide to mutiny, maybe to become space pirates too..

The plot is pretty far-out, but I think I would watch it.
> GTK+ 3 stopped changing in drastic ways, which was well-received, and we are finally seeing applications moving from GTK+ 2.

It's almost as if devs care more about stable APIs than about endless churn for minor features!
Then why do they not have a strict "no personal devices inside the wire" and the same for air crew all phones must be locked in a secure box.

Locking down the USB ports to authorised devices would also make sense.
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Mate has ported all of its application and the DE itself to gtk3. It can still keep the old look but use current technology :)
Receiving a counterfeit item must happen so very rarely, considering the (millions?) huge volume of these sales per day, and Amazon is obviously swift to fix the issue (much to the chagrin of sellers swept up by the zero tolerance rule) that I really doubt most consumers would ever receive a counterfeit item in this way. It seems more likely that consumers would buy the "cheaper" option from an FBA seller (perhaps unknowingly) and receive a knock off.

The major logistical advantages outweigh the very low possibility of abuse. If you asked the average consumer if they would like to receive their item 2 days faster, but risk a 1 in 1000 chance that they get a bogus item they will need to exchange with Amazon at no cost, I think the former would win by a mile.
> defend her article's reverent/respectful tone and (nowadays-common) unspoken premise that all cultures and ideologies are equally good and valid.

The "Dogma of Otherness"[0] is important for humanity, but needs to be carefully applied to resist Popper's paradox of tolerance.[1]

[0] http://www.davidbrin.com/nonfiction/dogmaofotherness.html

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
I bought a kit and made my truck a push to start. Instead of using a wireless key device their is a hidden switch that makes it seem kooler. I also replace the radio with a zero pi that does some neat things. It is controlled over bluetooth from my phone. I also war drive with it and map wifi for fun and some other things.
It most definitely is not "a couple" of cases, it appears to be a thoroughly rampant problem that has destroyed any trust I have in buying items from Amazon. I personally received about 5 counterfeit/bootleg items before giving up on buying from Amazon entirely.

The US GAO recently did an investigation (admittedly not specific to Amazon, but it included them) and 20 of 47 items they purchased were counterfeit!

https://www.gao.gov/assets/690/689713.pdf
It would prevent the legal case from ever taking place, ideally.
The Dogma of Otherness (1986)
Carbon trading credits are not enough to fix global warming your right, if the value of carbon fixing or putting carbon in the ground was higher than the value of extracting 50 years ago. Well we would probably have solved this by now, but coal and oil get subsides rather than tax, we don't make the external costs apply to the profit makers. At the risk of sounding libertarian if auto manufactures had to pay for the cost of asthma and respitory diseases that autos cause electric cars would be widespread by now.
> I guess that is why Ouya, GP32, GP2 are such a big market success.

The Pandora

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_(console)

was at least in Germany, where the main developer Michael Mrozek lives, somewhat popular in nerd circles despite the high price.
We spend aeons hunting aka problem solving on the walk- i never understood why thinking was supposed to be a thing of motionlessness.

I always suspected its the triumph of some educators deep down in history - who had a preference for a quite audience over one restless challenging the presented ideas.
It's .... complicated.
Sounds like it's just the next step in the chain from discrete components -> ICs on a circuit board -> this. The active interposer is filling the role that the circuit board currently fills, with devices etched into the interposer filling the role of discrete components, making everything more compact.
The Western world did not believe in concentration camps for a few years after the war ended, IIRC, so it's impossible for them to mobilize to stop Holocaust - if that's what you mean.
Does anyone else program all day? (addiction/obsession)
I love programming, specifically the benefits it provides.

I am hooked on automating my day job and my coworkers excitement only feeds into it.

Not to mention as I develop my current project difficult ideas become copy-paste easy and now I'm mining excel files into sqlite for queries.

When I'm sick of php laravel, I always have a react-native hot reload bug to work on. Really I'll probably just do the html/css/js for our non profit.

Friday night, had a friend I havent seen since high school over. In 90 minutes I prototyped an instagram bot for them as we smoked pot.

Ive noticed its all of my conversations and my friends are the few people in my life that are barely considered programmers.

I dont think its bad, thousands of people have benefited already. With every day, I learn a new skill that I can 'copy-paste' and I become much quicker and have more tools.

This seriously feels like I hit level 60 in a video game and unlocked new abilities.

Anyone else similar? A full stack project seems to have taken over my life :P
Ask HN: How to get started Moonlighting for established companies?
I’m wondering if anyone has any practical advice for getting started moonlighting, in particular with ‘boring’ companies and industries. I’m not all that attracted to ‘change the world’ and typical startup hype. I’d prefer a company that’s been around for 45 years, that I can layer technology on top of and see person weeks per month saved because of small, focused projects to capture efficiencies. It isn’t about size really, it’s about process maturity.

My ideal client is someone that could benefit from technology automation in their business process. Think excel spreadsheet to web app. Or maybe they’re using what is now considered a ‘legacy’ system and need functionality added or need it moved to a modern platform that allows for faster technology development. I have a lot of experience moving from legacy systems to more modern systems in a way that keeps the business moving, but also delivers business value along the way.

What I’m looking for is something is semi-long term (or at least could be), where I’d work 10-15 hours a week, and ideally would be using Ruby on Rails. I’m not attached to Ruby on Rails, but I feel that is how I could provide the most value to whoever I’m working with.

Is what I’m looking for a unicorn? Even if I’d be moonlighting? If not, how do I find the first couple clients?
Fiat money is a century-old cult. Democracy is a cult. Lefty progressiveness is a cult.
Bitcoining is a far less dangerous of a cult, because it's completely optional, it doesn't interacts with whom doesn't want it.

Finally, just because some are having fun about mystery in a social network doesn't mean they are a cult.
I myself think satoshi is probably dead (frozen) and will reborn in the future because bounty-hunters will demand his coins, some kind of long-way holder. This is just fun.
Hitchcock's ‘Kaleidoscope’ was too shocking to be made
Like others, I'll start by questioning the assumption behind the question. I know I've made more than some of my managers, starting at least ten years ago. Many people get this idea very early in their careers, when it's true because they're just starting out and (obviously) their managers are not, but after only a few years of big raises and easy level advancements it needs to be re-evaluated.

When it is true that managers make more, there's no single reason. On the good side, the effect of a good manager compared to a bad one can be bigger than for an IC. On the bad side, managers get to whisper more in the ears of those who control the money. In between, and most often, let me ask you one simple question.

* Would you want to be a manager?

For me the answer is HELL NO. I got close to it once, and didn't care for it. Many other ICs feel the same way. You'd have to pay us extra to give up what we do now for management work ... and so that's exactly what often happens. Supply and demand, pure and simple.
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I believe most work places ought to have large sprawling gardens and beautiful landscaping. It would make me more productive for sure.

I am from India and most offices are in the middle of concrete jungles. Even in IT companies, there are no places to walk around. It's a shame.

Looking at houses in the US, especially rural areas makes my mind orgasm. Such serene places.
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I'm sorry, I'm not going to follow your request. I consider it detrimental to HN. When someone just downvotes an insightful comment, I have every right to ask why. Of course I can be downvoted too just for asking, but if enough people do that, others might stop to think a bit and use an argument instead of easy click.

I completely see your point though, I just have a different POV. That's OK, we don't have to see everything eye to eye.
I started this right after college after reading "Automatic Millionaire" that advocates for "paying yourself first" and automating your finances. Money goes into checking then automated to online savings accounts, one account per purpose (xmas, vacation, kids college, kids sports, big ticket purchase), money goes to 401k/IRA, money goes to stock account. Only bill I need to remember to pay is credit card (although minimum payment is at least made so no late fees), everything else is automated. Only decisions I make are how to rebalance things if I overspend the money left over, which stocks to invest, and periodic rebalancing to make sure things are on track to reach long-term goals. The real savings is "saving me from myself" :)
Idiotic. I am both dumber and 10 mins poorer for having read this. What happened to HN's downvote feature?
>Who wants to listen to Leonardo DiCaprio, Al Gore, etc. as they jet from continent to continent, play on mega yachts, own 10,000 square foot homes-- then the listeners are supposed to live like monks?

Because they pay them? This is how carbon trading is supposed to work on a larger scale. How much money do you need to replace your a.c. or heating with a greener version/to retrofit your home? Why shouldn't Dicaprico pay for your solar panels? People like him could easily afford to offset their emissions, but they are not putting their money where there mouth is, are they?
> I thought we had left these old values in the previous century

You are welcome to go forge your own path - but many of us love and cherish "old values" - so why should we follow?
Sickbeard and couchPotato did that through GUI with a few clicks a few years ago (at least).
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Cult: a system of religious veneration and devotion
directed toward a particular figure or object.

Religion: a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes
supreme importance.

yes; in this way it seems very much like the cult of any other currency that has no intrinsic value, but a population of people who are willing to accept it as a surrogate or bookkeeping symbol.
One of my biggest problems with the existing web stack is how complicated it is. You basically need to be a company with a budget in the hundreds of millions per year to make a functioning web browser.

That gives web browser vendors a ton of control and political power over the internet, a place that ideally is free of all of that. I believe strongly that the Internet would be a more free place and a better place if the barrier to entry to building your own web browser from scratch were an order of magnitude lower.

We keep adding more standards and more practices and more compatibility requirements, and so the cost of making a major web browser is just going up.

Is WebAssembly something that can help us move in the other direction, or is it yet another standard piled on top of the mountain that already exist?
That's a good question. I suspect that it might be cheaper to use the same USB components they use in passenger systems.

Note: there are other USB or RJ-45 ports, or SD cards that are used to update avionics software or aeronautical databases. These are usually available only to maintenance and use digital signatures to verify the data.
As much as I always like GTK2 as a solid workhorse, and GTK3 (although unstable) was adding actual improvements, I lost a lot of faith in the GTK team with their original hare-brained versioning scheme for GTK4. When they recanted that plan and announced that GTK 3.22 would be The Stable Version, I felt a bit better, and honestly it's been pretty great so far.

Going back on that promise and saying that GTK 3.22 isn't actually The Stable Version after all feels a bit like a betrayal... but on the other hand, if gdk_window_move_to_rect() is the function I'm thinking of, all is forgiven.

I was trying to create a custom popup the other day and (thanks to limitations in the GDK API) it wasn't possible under Wayland. Trying to dig into why, I found out that GDK had an API that did exactly what I wanted, which I couldn't use because it was internal and unstable. Assuming that API is gdk_window_move_to_rect(), this is the best news I've heard all day.
You're stepping on some toes here.
Oh yeah it took what 8 years to get decent ps3 games?
Fantastic. Much of this content has been unseen and unheard-of.
I've been thinking about that on and off for quite some time. These kind of embedded systems are actually a really hard problem, because updates are hard up to impossible. So eventually there will be 10 years of known bugs in that system.

Digesting from a lot of defcon / blackhat talks, it seems that the best way to minimize this amount of bugs is to deploy less code. And I think that's where a BSD or a linux has a strong option to be more secure: you could strip down the kernel and the system as much as possible. Don't deploy any USB related code, potentially remove the entire network stack if you can.

That's the theory anyway. The IoS displays how badly managed linux can be equally open.
I don't know if the GNOME/GTK folks will ever really understand, though. The thing is, it would be OK to have new features and even feature breaks. It's just, every GNOME release had a corresponding GTK release and a number of new things broke in GTK for it. You couldn't use a third party theme without waiting to see what was going to break next. There's no strong guarantees unlike with say, Qt, where generally speaking true API breaks are much rarer.

People probably would've had less trouble and been less upset if Gnome wasn't in a privilege position and had to just be another user in the ecosystem.
Pretty cool project! If you want to go further, check out the CloudWash [0] project by Berg London.

[0]: https://vimeo.com/87522764
Thank you for the list.
I used Tasker to make my phone vibrate in Morse code. Now I don't have to take it out of my pocket to read a notification.
It actually gets a lot better at categorization the more you use it. It has at least some primitive machine learning (possibly rules engine?). Categorize a transaction once and it usually gets it right subsequently.
Reminds me of this video from the Cisco TechWise Fundamental series: https://youtube.com/watch?v=l75B6D9xyMQL (“Fundamentals of Software-Defined Networking”)

That’s obviously not a hardware development, but I feel like the motivation may be similar: make components more modular; stabilize, standardize and align their interfaces.

By making these components “plug and play” the distance between a logical flow chart and the actual implementation is somewhat reduced, making the development of custom components more efficient and agile.
Man that's a big collection! Though to be fair the iPod 160GB came out like ten years ago, and I thought we'd have advanced a bit more in that department by now. (Like imagine an iPod but instead of the spinny hard drive it's all microSD! There's just no market for it I guess.)
> I still really prefer GTK2 apps. The GTK3 file picker is awful

I rather prefer Qt4 apps. Some Qt4 apps look uglier after migrating to Qt5.
I don't know how to measure the physiological debt, and the person asking the question was not sold on the physiological debt.
The Chicxulub impact is now generally accepted as the direct cause of dinosaur extinction. A 2013 paper updated the date of this event from 65m years ago to 66m.
Yeah, funniest thing ever.
Does your Blog auto-poster app really need Facebook review?
It's a really helpful list pointing out some of the cognitive traps people might not be aware of having/might not understand that somebody around them needs help on. One gripe I have with it is that some stoic traits seem to also have been thrown in here which is a bit off. Being stoic/always be prepared for bad possibilities while working towards the good ones doesn't mean being miserable, pessimistic or depressed. It's just a way to keep on sailing in your life no matter what the conditions are. Also I'm not so sure about "quit your job, clean out your savings account, and move to a state you know nothing about." I guess it's a matter of how this person is exactly treating it: Whether as a new chapter in one's adventure for a life-loving person or just a getaway from one's undesired and perennial boredom then.
Empathy is a cold, hard competitive advantage.
Because those old values lead to the misery and needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, for very little benefit.
As I see it, this is just a network on interposer instead of a network on chip (NoC). NoCs have simple rules for routing that also prevent deadlocks, so I am not sure that the idea here is that significant. The active interposer is a quite new idea. I haven’t followed it. Maybe the journalist found the rules more exiting than the active interposer idea.

Either way, the research is one of the many small steps forward to better chips.
can you provide a link or source for that ? TY
https://github.com/rain-1/filezilla-ng
Its not much different from placing manga frame in vertical order rather than pagination. I dont think it qualifies for "vertical storytelling" - it's like saying a book in which you scroll instead of turning pages is a "vertical book" - it's a very artificial way to categorize things.
Learning is about context and we tend to assume others have the same frame of reference. This is why it is so lonely being an expert in any given topic. It is also why certain very commercially successful musicians kill themselves. The better you are at something, the harder it is to find someone to relate to.