skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How are people so "gameable" (gullible)?

Tech support, from a big-name company no less, wanting to get paid in Walmart gift cards? Jesus fucking Christ, how can you believe that.
Sure, it's wrong, not going to disagree. But it happened with a "plain ol requirements.txt", hence why I don't rate Python dependency management as highly as you do.
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Thanks for mentioning Graphile Migrate. Migrations are often the biggest issue people have with something like PostgREST and PostGraphile; I’ve used a lot of the various migration tools and Graphile Migrate is the seed of my vision for a much more compelling migration story for everyone in the PostgreSQL community (especially people who don’t mind writing SQL but find the current up/down pattern too verbose/clunky as I do). There’s lots more to come, so make sure you follow the project if you’re interested.
What is a full take, what do you mean by US policies on full takes, and can I also have a source on US performing full takes everywhere in the west? Thanks!
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By now there are clear red flags that everyone should know about. For example: no legitimate service anywhere asks to be paid by buying gift cards. No company’s tech support, no police departments, and no government agencies will ask for gift cards. A lot of places that sell gift cards now even have signs up warning people about scams. Why do people keep falling for this one?

If you have elderly parents, no matter how sharp they are, it’s worth it to take some time and sit with them and go over the basics.
Save the crash report, show me a notification where I can review the data and then decide whether to send it or not.

Yes. Getting this right is that simple.
Many of us frequently subject ourselves to all kinds of abuse that we don't consider an ok thing.

It's shameful but eh, it's a living.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyxJ7GKGFG0
Saudi Arabia is economic time bomb. They want to sell because they need the money.

Saudis have been running budget deficits 4 - 5 percent of the GDP year after year. Deficit might hit 7 percent this year. Saudi Aramco is a profit machine but the population is now over 30 million and the country if full of unemployment and bullshit jobs.

Cutting spending may not be politically possible because it's buying peace. Official unemployment rate is less than 15% but it's estimated that only less than half of working-age Saudis hold jobs or actively seek work. Foreign exchange funds provide buffers but their net foreign assets are gradually eaten away if oil price don't recover.
This should have been: PostgGRPC
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It would be strange to not accept code from certain countries since we are an open core company that gets contributions from around the world. There are other ways to prevent supply chain attacks. A difference with data is that there are always multiple people involved before code is merged while data can be extracted by a single individual who has access.

Discriminating on origin is likely illegal.
The math is a bit beyond my skills but I love the creative use of Kotlin language and compiler features on display here. The How? section was very enlightening. However, the abuse of backticks makes for some unreadable code. I was thrown of by `1` a bit until I realised that that actually referred to a sealed class with that as the name. I'm still a bit puzzled by how shape inference is supposed to work. So, a bit too much type voodoo here for my taste but definitely very cool.
Very interesting this reminds me of motorcycle riding in the cold and I think you are right. It is very hard to keep warm so you wear warm pants and a jacket and that helps but it can still be cold. It is all about percentages. Add nice boots and you may be 1% warmer. So add a scarf tbat gets you anothe %. Gloves another 2%. All the little things alone don't do much. But once you start adding them up the little pieces add up fast and make the final and most important contribution to the problem. Like you mentioned it will be all the little areas of carbon emissions we will be tackling which will ultimately need to be the hardest and most important step.
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An interesting fact is that disaster relief agencies use how quickly waffle house is back up and running as an indicator for how badly hit a region has been by some natural disaster (hurricane, flood etc) because their disaster preparedness is so good.

Some details here https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1168860400319946752.html and elsewhere.

They clearly take planning seriously.
Where do you show the notification when an AP crashes?

How do you handle users not familiar with the concept of a crash? How do you make sure you get their crash reports? How much are you willing to spend on dealing with edge-cases (like crashing loops and reporting fatigue)?

But yes. I agree that your proposed solution is the friendliest for the subset of total users who are also frequenting HN.
This should be the normal course of business... Humanity has taken a backseat to profits in many areas of modern life.
Humans are an invasive species, too. Ecosystems can adapt. Animals who can't go extinct.
> "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3.""

It's even worse than that imo. It basically says "That is idiotic", skipping over the "1 + 1 is 2, not 3" part. The amusing part is not that this was downvoted, but rather that it gains a positive number of votes every few hours.
If you look at the vetting processes in the defence sector they have strict nationality and background checks.

Why should the same not be true for something with a damage multiplier the size of github which is basically carrying a big chunk of commercial IP in private repos?
>I wonder what's so special about Python that it does this much more often than any of the other languages I know.

You answered it:

> It did a great job of pretending to be an efficient language by having libraries pawn off the heavy lifting to companion C implementations.

That's a feature.
Then you can just add `--exclude filename` to your backup job.
They are violating the GPL:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21432134

They might offer good products, but they're benefiting from the work of thousands of other people, improve on it and don't give back. If you think this is fine then I guess so is Chinese companies stealing western IP.
Pihole, a router that forces anything on port 53 back to the Pihole and careful device selection seems to be very much required already.
The more recent Apple TV remote with the touch pad rather than the scroll wheel is probably the best remote I've ever used - only problem I've had with it is as it is so small it is easy to lose.
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I believe, that I am capable of discerning those things :)

Though I suspect that we are over-thinking. Imagine Germany, 1935. “Company X will stop hiring Jews as it deals with stuff important for the military”. And the society be like, “thank you, company X, we are positively pleased with your transparency and shmamparency”.

Are you crazy, people?

I think, that Gitlab is the one that confuses Chinese, the people and Chinese government, let’s say.
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> Lockfiles are not just convenient, they are all but required for anything serious. You can’t have your dependencies break or change under your feet from one build to the next. Your builds need to be reproducible.

I see. So because C, C++ and most other build environments don't have lockfiles, there is no way to do reproducible builds. I better tell the Debian people they've been wasting an awful lot of time on their reproducible build project. /s

Seriously, "lockfiles are required for anything serious"? That's ridiculous. But if you insist, a quick google shows e.g. [0] and [1] provide that.

[0] https://github.com/Nextdoor/conda_lockfile

[1] https://picky-conda.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
If you want it to be taken seriously, why do you - and Popular Mechanics - describe it in such woowoo terms?

"using radio wave resonance to burn saltwater." ; "had discovered a seemingly impossible phenomenon: a way to burn salt water by exposing it to radio waves." - The salt water isn't burning, burning Hydrogen isn't seemingly impossible, separating Hydrogen from water isn't seemingly impossible. The description is nothing like what's actually happening.

the effect can be achieved with a much lower energy catalyst: radio waves are present in everything from microwaves to televisions. - ??? is this trying to imply you can mine radio waves from a television and use them for this? What a bizarre sentence.

"Nobody is claiming that you get more energy out than you put in," he says.; They even envision a future in which a vehicle can run off its radio's frequency waves.

.. is that not getting more out than you put in? A vehicle which generates radio waves, uses them to split seawater, burns the gas, uses that power to generate the radio waves, and also motion? Then the burnt H and O turn into ash (H2O) and drip back into the "fuel" tank to be burned again? That's not water as a "fuel", that's an overunity machine, perpetual motion.

If they're not claiming you get more energy out than you put in, stop claiming that. In the video the inventor is talking about how their Sterling Engine "could be a car engine if you wanted" but if you're putting in mains electric power to this, you'd be better off connecting that to an electric motor and saying "that could be a car engine" - it couldn't, it's mains electric powered.

This is a neat electrolysis without electrodes idea, but why(??) is it being presented as the woowoo idea "water powered car"?
The notification can be shown in the unifi controller, and optionally send an email. If you are using the controller you would be expected to understand the concept of a crash report.
Avoiding dedicated hardware and running it on a machine with a UPS is another way. I can recommend Docker, Synology and a small UPS. And that’s how the equipment cost got multiplied by 10.
> my limited understanding is that Australian law forbids secure-by-design encryption pipelines

This understanding is wrong. Secure encryption is perfectly legal, tech media simply likes to overreact to laws without actually reading them.

The underlying law that lead to this widespread misconception requires Australian companies to assist law enforcement in acquiring communications but only when it can be done in such a way that nobody else is affected [0].

The example I usually use to illustrate what this means is:

- The law could potentially compel WhatsApp to add code to their application that checks for a particular hard-coded user ID (i.e. new IDs have to be pushed through the app signing and update process) and when the user with that ID sends or receives a message, a plaintext copy is sent to law enforcement.

- The law could _not_ compel WhatsApp to add a law enforcement key to every message or to otherwise weaken their encryption or security in anyway.

[0]: http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ta1997...
Russians and Chinese could not care less but gitlab. They have progressed so much in the last years, they have their own gitlab systems. Demonizing Russia and China for bad practices and not doing any introspection on yourself is hypocritical. US suppremacy is over. Get on with it
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What has the "where you built it" to do with the domain name?
He used is as material to make another point. That's what great artists do. I like both the movie and the book, just for different reasons.
Maybe also prohibit people from certain cultures to use bathrooms and seat next to the “pure ones”.
So, can we expect KotlinTorch soon?
We examined each of President Trump’s 11,000 tweets
Why are you assuming that their backend architecture is bad when these positions touch sensitive data much more frequently than a software engineering position in companies globally?

In order to effectively support customers, you need to make a decision into how much visibility you'll give customers. Alternatively, you give your support the even more unfortunate circumstance of needing to request sensitive data.

SREs need to be able to work with hardware and software and by virtue of needing to take decisive action are in a similar situation.
I think that last paragraph is suggesting that GitLab could simply reject such clients - or better, direct them to the self-hosted plan where they have full access control.
Oh please little troll, you are from both Russia and China and you hate them so much. Give us a break
We lost something. At the beginning of internet, I remember, there were this kind of lists, with many links to interesting webpages, or quirky stuff. Surely you know what I mean, it was usual to see along smart blogs, this kind of list of gorgeous references, and it was amazing.

Maybe I'm missing something, but nowadays the internet seems "diluted", there is more noise than information, and it's full of common sense, low-value content (like Wikihow, I'm sorry to say). Google Search is a bit responsible, they rank at the top superficial stuff, and we lost trace of this kind of juicy content.

If someone has more links like this one, I'd be happy to read about it.
concrete doesn't dry, it cures. it's beneficial to spray curing concrete with water.
Those darned people looking for better life opportunities, security and happiness by moving to the developed world.

Calling such behavior "forced" is so inconsiderate. It blows my mind that you are trying to blame people for trying to find better lives. Should a lady in a brazilian favela not have washing machines? Should people not experience and use electric light or air travel? I also assume you are from the west which makes your position extremely arrogant as well.

I am very afraid of what the environmentalist movenment is turning into and would not be surprised to see major violent eco-terrorist events in the future. Makes me ashamed to support green policies.

So inconsiderate.
This is part of the cancer, though. People notice that even though their TTL is low, changes don't propagate, so they set it even lower in an attempt to compensate.
The NYT appears to be going after Eastern European politicians here, which is surely deliberate as they tend to be conservative and against immigration, so the ideological enemies of the New York set. But it seems they got distracted along the way by the shocking discovery that the EU is opaque and corrupt. The most interesting thing about this story isn't that some Hungarian academic thinks he got fired for criticising the government (i.e. his employer) but rather, that the New York Times' Brussels correspondent has never previously investigated the EU itself.
So stop using Electron?
But Applesoft had perfectly fine extension mechanisms: "&" and "USR()" and "PEEK" and "POKE" and "CALL"! What more do you need?

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/BF03203836.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applesoft_BASIC#Extensions

http://nparker.llx.com/a2/as.addons.html

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"nazis" (briefly hugs self with silent glee at besting a grammar nazi in the field, then quietly settles to await the inevitable reply pointing out my own solecism)
That's interesting. When I needed help with some emails in 2016, the support staff asked me to move the emails into a folder called "forwebmaster" so that they could look at it.
> Why would property taxes go down? The property value has gone up.

Assuming we want the total tax take to stay the same (changing that is a separate question), people who currently have a higher-than-average tax:property value ratio (which is people who bought recently) would have their tax bill go down (and people who currently have a lower-than-average tax:property value ratio would have their tax bill go up).

> At least you are being honest that the goal here is to force people out of their homes so that people with tech jobs can buy them.

In the same sense that other people are currently "forced" to rent forever and pay extra taxes to support idle homeowners, sure. Saying that I'm not allowed to own a house in San Francisco is just as cruel as saying that you're not allowed to own a house in San Francisco, whether or not you happen to have lived there for some number of years already.
Hi - I've tried this on my machine with 4K display running Plasma Wayland but unfortunately my xwayland programs are still blurry. Was this really the only thing you've done?

EDIT: just realized that you're not using wayland ..
The technology is called ultrasound cross-device tracking (uXDT) and companies like SilverPush are doing it. There is an ever-growing amount of android apps that contain this tech. DDG'ing should yield quite a bit of interesting articles about this practice.
If I understood it correctly, this should be a nationality block, not country-of-residence.
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Carmen Maria Machado’s New Memoir Fills in the Gray Areas of Abuse
It doesn't say anything on Warren (who I happen to dislike intensely). It's on Sanders, and it's misleading because the article itself notes that Sanders is trying to make it right, and that it's on a technicality that it happened in the first place.
Yeah it's pretty hard to do real 3D work without homogenous coordinates. Seems like a huge oversight.
Make it easy for your customer to get a crash report when one occurs. Make it easy for them to contact your support, whether it is a Github issues page or a professional phone support desk.

Make the report readable by a simple text editor. Let the users have a look at the content inside. If you do need the report, ask them to check it then send it through trusted and encrypted ways like Firefox Send.

There is no need to make an crash report automatically sent to you. No need to fix crashes for users that never cared for reporting them to you. Orient your bandwidth to users that care.
Honestly, it boggles the mind to think that a responsible developer would just pull in some 3rd party dependency without auditing what it does/calls and what other sub-dependencies it has, and then ship it as their product that their business relies on.

Everywhere I’ve ever worked, adopting a dependent library was a HUGE DEAL. You don’t do it lightly. You have to know what’s in it, know what it calls, know what the license is, understand the increased security attack surface, measure how much bigger it makes your binary, measure any performance deltas, and so on. In bigger companies, you need to get all sorts of approvals... Who the heck are these companies where you just hook up the git submodule and wing it?
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I don't think it's being directly mocked: the implicit association with this electrolysis result is being questioned.
Here's one... https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/golden_glow/
I'm sure the destination IP:443 tells about as accurate a story as the DNS lookups?
All you read on HN is the thousand ways in which (software) companies are inefficient but stuck in their ways and the market doesn't sort it out. Long hours, butts in seats mentality are the ones I read last. Managers have their own incentives and a lot of those are about perceptions, not necessarily money.
Xbox One X.

Now with 40% more confusion.
We just use our TVs remote, which passes through to the Apple TV over HDMI-CEC
Confessions of a Social Constructionist
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An Unnamed Source Who Shouldn’t Be Anonymous
There are reasons forums known for being less diplomatic than HN often take delight in heaping scorn and ridicule on js devs. This is one of those reasons.
> "If you look at the vetting processes in the defence sector they have strict nationality and background checks.

Why should the same not be true for something with a damage multiplier the size of github which is basically carrying a big chunk of commercial IP in private repos?"

I'm all for background checks. Those at-least try to give everyone an equal opportunity - and if you fail them, you'll know why and have a chance to challenge the decision. There is a due process - as opposed to having some random techbro creating "need to get rid of {arbitrary nationality} asap" issues and having a bunch of random employees debating it...

If by having "nationality requirements" you mean "being a US citizen" - then Gitlab will lose 50% of its workforce overnight. The same will be true for many other tech companies. You make it sound like the defense sector is enjoying the strict employment regulations...
Who the eff is going to register to read a fkn article?
For all their policies, they're still subject to Australia's "NSL" equivalent that requires they disclose data to law enforcement without notifying you, and in the case of certain agencies, without a warrant.

Their servers are also located in the US, so they're accessible to three-letter agencies as well.

I recently switched to a German service. Data can still be silently disclosed but only if there's imminent danger or a judge issues a warrant. Of course the service is covered by GDPR and European regulators as well.
Thanks, I stand corrected. Same result for me, I must learn to not just shoot from the hip and google first.