skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are all the uber-expensive office chairs just snake oil? Or have I just been lucky?

Depends on your physiology.

I've been sitting at a computer desk for close to 40 years. In my late 30's early 40's I started to suffer from several degenerated disks, and really, all my life I've had upper and lower back issues. In most of my jobs, I usually had those big puffy office chairs with a few knobs. Those kinda helped, but it wasn't until I switched to an Aeron 7 years ago and it was a game changer: the webbing is more comfortable than cheap foam cushions and the seat tilt adjust fits just right. It is is the most comfortable seat in my house (I can't slouch on couches anymore :( ... ).

So for me, yes. It made a huge difference. But if you've got a spine like a cat, probably no biggie.

(Although: I have the Aeron model with cables, which was redesigned from the original one with linkages, and the first one broke the day I received it: they couldn't walk me through the repair because the cables required a special tool so they delivered a new one.)
The margins on retailers are razor slim, and publishers did handle a lot of marketing and front money. Apple has a muppet play with the app for a bit then they add a row to a database. They are absolutely bleeding developers to capitalize on their silly mindshare.
I was not aware that was possible with browsers and I'm more than a little disturbed. This kind of thing makes users easier to fingerprint.
I remember writing these up for NBC when a new set appeared in 2014. Those articles did traffic like you wouldn't believe, and the Siberian Times was on it back then too. I believe the conclusion from experts at the time was that it was natural gas trapped in the permafrost being released by global warming.
Sure. Essentially "for X in list-stacks; delete-stack $X". In this case it's only VMs (instances, I guess?) so it could be any cleanup script like "terminate not tagged", "terminate anything running over N days", or even just "delete-asg" which happened to have 456 instances in it.
It's worth noting that, historically, cryptosystems have more often been broken through errors in key management than by actually cracking the encypherment algorithm. Key generation from an untrusted source.[1] Weak random number generation. Reusing keys. Keys intercepted in transit. Stuff like that.

[1] https://www.allkeysgenerator.com/Random/Security-Encryption-...
It's not generally true unless you're a Capital-E grade Enterprise customer running a single server as a side component of a much larger Internet presence.

Finding connectivity that's not already blacklisted by the GOOG-MSFT email protection racket and will allow individual servers to send outgoing SMTP is basically impossible for sub-enterprise scale organizations. The major cloud services block outbound SMTP for non-Enterprise customers and minor cloud services will already be blacklisted.

Getting your mail delivered by GOOG-MSFT also means that you need to have matching forward and reverse DNS, and ideally you should have your own ASN that has never been associated with any addresses that have ever been accused of sending spam. This is an impossible hurdle except for large organizations.

The entire email ecosystem is stacked for force smaller players to pay a head tax either directly to GOOG-MSFT, in the form of using their mail services and paying extortionate per-user mailbox costs, or by using paid mail relay services.
Marpa will parse anything that can be written in BNF
I'm still using an X60 which is several years before that. It turns out that if you avoid the bloated "modern" software (which unfortunately includes much of the web stuff these days), it's perfectly usable. I use it for native development, browsing lightweight sites like HN, and the usual "office" stuff like email, IM (IRC), taking notes, etc. Likewise, my desktop is a first-gen i7 from roughly 10 years ago, only slightly newer than that, and also feels more than adequate.
If you announced you were QAnon, you'd probably be outed and end up fired, maybe get death threats.

Its why the silent majority exists.
An interesting mistake with Go's context package that I (sort of) made
E2E encrypted DMs will be quite a coup! Will Pleroma be the only OpenSocial project supporting that?
Death is not an equalizer. Just because the beggar dies just the same as the rich man, that death doesn't undo any of the beggar's suffering nor any of the rich man's gluttony. There most likely is no afterlife in which those who have suffered are rewarded and those who inflicted suffering punished.
Siberian Times has been around for a while though.
> I doubt I could list even three things I’d read or experienced the entire preceding eight hours. At this moment I feel very bad. I know one of the ~30,000 days in my life is gone. And I didn’t get anything out of it.

This resonates — I have trouble pursuing hobbies and being motivated. Thinking this is one of 30k days on this Earth at least puts some scarcity back into the game.
Exploring mullender.c – A deep dive into the first IOCCC winner
The Honda Clarity Fuel Cell, launched in 2016, has an EPA-estimated range of 360 miles, for around the same price as the Mirai. Unfortunately, you can only lease it. The Hyundai Nexo SUV has a range of 380 miles, also for around the same price as the Mirai. Toyota will launch a redesigned Mirai in a couple of months, with a claimed range of over 400 miles.

BEVs are only lighter in certain cases, like passenger cars. They become heavier/provide less range than the FCEV equivalent for larger sizes, like with large SUVs, pickup/semi-trailer trucks, etc. Additionally, electrified boats, ships, trains, and airplanes will likely make use of fuel cells.

FCEVs have the advantage of faster (5-minute) refueling, a low self-discharge rate, and have better resistance to temperature extremes.

Current FCEV production numbers are very low. As FCEV production increases, the cost will come down: https://www.thedrive.com/tech/26050/exclusive-toyota-hydroge....

An FCEV would make a good option for someone who wants to drive a completely electric car but who doesn't have convenient access to charging stations. Perhaps they live in an apartment and/or work at a place with a limited number of/no charging stations.
If those software components were all that was needed, we could just run macOS in a VM, as we can easily do with Windows or Linux. Apple forbids that specifically to make all prospective Mac/iOS developers buy Mac hardware.
Try to think about your own upbringing. I’m very biased against children because my own parents didn’t really get joy from their kids and were miserable and unleashed their misery on day to day family life in various forms. Many people had a great family life growing up and conceptually don’t even entertain thoughts like that.

If you guys didn’t grow up in a dysfunctional miserable family you are probably already way more qualified than many people who simply lack the experience (literal thousands of hours spent in a quality family). Start with that assessment, you have most of the facts about yourself to make the call - we don’t.

Again, people that had positive family experience will not ponder if kids will cause chaos, because well, they never felt that way in their own families. You and I ponder it, which means you better dig into what’s behind that question.
In the United States at least The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) requires emergency departments to provide care to all those who present with a real emergency. From my understanding, that means if you show up at the ED with a legit COVID case, they gotta take you or the feds will go after the hospital.

They've handled it by throwing up some tents in the parking lot to handle overflow. So, they're gonna take you, but do you really want to be the COVID patient in a tent in the parking lot?

Not sure if there are similar laws in other countries?
This is propaganda. A single anonymous "source" is the basis of this entire article. Not to mention that the New York Post is a Murdoch owned tabloid.
I'm so sorry this happened, the CSO reached out and acknowledged the issue which was.. The minimum, but I'd be doing an internal RCA at Slack for how that post made it public without any acknowledgement.

Just sucks - marketing, legal, the engineer and peers who reviewed it, security..
Eventually there would be a lot fewer kids. The new worlds we can colonize scale quadratically with the volume of space we can reach, but the number of potentially procreating humans scales cubically.

Although I'd assume that we have left our biological bodies behind before that.
If I remember right, the odds were better to win the lottery than do what I did. I did pull out a probability book at the time. Born under a bad moon I guess.
In addition to what AnimalMuppet said (fixed bounds on loops), you also have to be careful to avoid blowing the stack with limited memory + lots of running processes
I sometimes wonder, if it is just me.

No-one, no site I have read, whether they are tabloid type ( like Wccftech ) or professional type ever claims the end of Moore's law equals the end of transistor improvement. ( It just meant we wont be getting the improvement as quickly or as much )

And yet somehow, somewhere, some marketing reckons the Mass Thinks Moore's Law equals transistor improvement. So we are now "redefining" Moore's Law equals transistor improvement and it is not dead. As shown in the recent Intel Conference.

Which sort of make any discussion on the topic pointless.
It’s doing pretty well as a spectator’s sport. Look at Hikaru Nakamura’s stream on a typical night. Thousands of viewers. He recently joined a major esports team (TSM). His finals match against Magnus Carlsen was up over 30k viewers at some points.

Now how many of those viewers play chess themselves? Quite a few, I think. Chess.com and Lichess are booming. Tons of low rated players playing all the time.

Another big, emerging phenomenon is Pogchamps, an online invitational chess tournament featuring top streamers of other games. These streamers tend to be very low rated in chess and they receive coaching from IMs and GMs such as the aforementioned Hikaru. In addition to the excitement around the tournament itself, a lot of people tune in to watch their favourite streamers get coached by the pros. It can be very entertaining to see a normally cocky streamer get humbled in chess.
Do you mean qmap.pub?
Highly recommend you check out "LEASEHACKR", I've seen some very very affordable and decent mileage allowances on nice cars. Unfortunately lease hacking has a pretty steep learning curve.

[https://leasehackr.com/]
I use my bed as my chair. My desk has wheels, so I can sit on my "chair" way more comfortable then on any expensive chair.
There's only a single longitude line within a time zone that meets the criteria of sunrise and sunset occurring at the same time. It's silly to use that as the deciding logic for whether to keep DST or non DST when eliminating the transition.

Unfortunately that will split the vote. If 60% favor eliminating the transition, that probably means 30% prefer keeping DST and 30% prefer eliminating it. Those will lose out to the 40% who prefer keeping things as they are.
All the "Push notice" 2FA systems I've used or looked at are already cheerfully bypassed by systems for phishing TOTP and SMS 2FA.

That's because they're relying on a human to make a security decision and humans are terrible at this job.

The human is at fake-site.example which they think is the real site because humans are lazy and incompetent. The fake site's backend automatically calls the real site, and the real site sends the human a push notice as 2FA. "Are you signing into Real Site®?". "Actually I wasn't sure until I got this reassuring message" thinks the human, "Yes". And now the bad guys have access to their account.

There are a lot of HN stories which are dubious about AI because they suspect it can't ever match a human in terms of vague things like intuition and learning. But you know what computers are unmistakably good at? Trivial symbol matching. fake-site.example is not real-site.example, those strings are different. That's why you just can't use your real-site.example WebAuthn credentials on fake-site.example
Just one example to start from, https://github.com/jbcoe/iso-cpp-breaking-UB
This upfront payment from the developer might have the side effect of weeding out all but those who are heavily invested in their iOS app. Ensuring the apps there are not hobby or side projects and are maintained and supported by full-time devs.

That said, I wouldn't lock myself into that ecosystem with all those upfront costs and restrictive terms where Apple benefits much more from the devs than the other way round.
If I sell sunscreen, how do I target people who get sunburns ? (don't take me too seriously)
>Q seems like a harmless movement.

Q-anon is dangerous and baseless libel that undermines democratic institutions.

One person has already been murdered:
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/22/744244166/shooters-lawyer-he-...

Many others have been threatened with violence.

>It would be a red flag if Q denounced a group of people without justification

Which they have. Only well-known Democratic-party-affiliated personalities are implicated. The blatantly partisan narrative creates great potential for political violence.

And like many other conspiracy theories, the narrative is full of antisemitic tropes:
https://www.adl.org/qanon

Finally, there's the obvious logical difference between conspiracy theory and conspiracy fact. The latter has actual evidence supporting it.

And the probability of this menagerie of preposterous claims actually turning out to be true would be close to zero due to the vast number of participants who would have to keep silent. The more people who participate in any given conspiracy, the less time it can be kept secret on average:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
I'm curious how one would actually sign up for $50/mo insurance that doesn't cover anything. How is it marketed? Where is this sort of thing found?

(The argument being that there's got to be some kind of fraudulence-meets-loophole sort of thing going on for this to work at all.)
Any chance for open sourcing it ? Would self-host to keep community up (or something similar exists?).

2 feature request:

- add subtitles (automaticaly choose from torrent archive or by upload)

- stream/video by magnet link

Thanks!
A few minutes in, my browser asks:

> "Do you want to allow lordofthemanor.io to use up to 2 GB of storage?"

Now I know where the peasants are storing all that lumber.
>Or was it that they were trying to use low level APIs in OpenSSL to create some higher-level cryptosystem they perhaps didn’t fully understand?

Yes. They wanted to encrypt some URL parameters with AES-ECB.
Of course DeFi is playing with fire. And of course a lot of people are going to get badly burnt.

But the analogy is closer than you think. People still get badly burnt by real fire every day. Without coal fired power stations, blast furnaces and internal combustion engines we would not have modern society. If currently thinking is correct, without cooking food on fire there would be no intelligent hairless apes contemplating a future when DeFi actually does something useful.

PS: As the article says, transaction fees are of the order of $10..$20 per trade. DeFi trades derivatives in crypto currencies that have found no useful niche whatsoever (bitcoin being an exception, if you regard being the currency of choice for illegal activities as useful). In that environment, the only people who are reliably making money are getting those fees.
The Amex cards with no limit are charge cards, not credit cards. They always specify what your minimum income is and run credit checks on you before you're allowed to get one.
But it is in a way, where the beggar does not have to suffer for eternity, and the rich man's luxury also cannot last forever.
I've never gotten a car loan for less than 12% even once.

My real name is the same as a fictional title character from one movie made in 1972, so I am considered high risk no matter what my credit rating is. That's what they told me, anyway.

You people getting low interest on things ... I hate all of you. (Tongue in cheek hate of course)
As somebody who is running their own mail sever I'd love to agree with you but GMail, Hotmail, and all the other large email providers make it extremely hard to do so.

If you only send a few emails per month, you are fine. When you host an email server for others, even if it's only your family and friends, it can quickly become a nightmare. And if I ran a business, I'd never do it myself.

Landing on a blacklist of those large providers effectively shuts your email server down and it's way too easy to get blacklisted. There are so many techs around email now (DKIM, TLS, SPF, HELO testing), that coordinating them becomes a huge responsibility. Misconfiguring a single one can lead to rejection at the large providers that deal with billions of incoming emails a day, with hyper aggressive spam filters. The worst thing that can happen is that your emails were to be classified as spam but you didn't know it. A flat out rejection is relatively rare so you are often not notified that your configuration is incorrect.

Getting off those blacklists is extremely hard. Especially if you don't land on GMail's blacklist but on those community driven ones that only allow your IP to be removed from it once. If you land on them a second time, you need a new IP and hope that this IP isn't already blacklisted.

Many large providers are blacklisting entire ISP IP ranges due to past so waves. E.g. GMail is blocking the entire AWS EC2 range, I believe.
You can use VNC/RDP to remote into a graphical session. Graphical vs. terminal are both arbitrary binary streams over SSH, the computer doesn't care. There's no advantage to the terminal based one other than maybe less network utilization. I'd resort to that if I were traveling and only had my mobile phone's data as internet.
Purportedly, Q is a military intelligence operation. Some of the posts are supposed to be information releases that get around the secret classifications. Some of them are supposed to be intended to mislead their enemy and manipulate them into committing actions desirable to the Q cause.

Remember, the US Military is the true defender of the Constitution. Q is supposed to be coordinating the restoration of constitutional control of the government to the American people.
Yeah but those small communities also had rich and poor. You miss one season of rain, and a significant number are now indebted or lose their livelihood.
Perhaps Arizona? I don't know if anyone was actually turned away. But I do remember reading about them instituting standards of care. Meaning doctors would have to decide which patients would be helped.
There's a lot online. Unfortunately, I didn't find a way to look at all the submissions. I bet there were many interesting ones.
I wouldn't consider the ThinkPad line "budget" in any way --- that would be the IdeaPads.
And zoom is not controlled by a Chinese company under the control of CCP
Why the Neuralink pig demo was a big deal
I cannot tell if legit or fear mongering.
The New Chromebook Update “Halvor” Could Be the Next Google Pixelbook
Also, while it might be a lower risk path than the one you took, it certainly wasn't the lowest risk path available. The people who did really well had basically all their net worth tied up in one company's stock for many years.

That level of concentration risk is extremely ill-advised no matter how promising the company might be. Sure, it works out great when GOOG goes up 200%, but it could have just as easily gone the other way. And even if you want to gamble on it, you don't actually need to work there to make a lot more money than those employees did. Just load up on OOM LEAPs and relax on a beach somewhere until $100mm or more.

A really low risk option would have been to go to work for the Federal government or one of its contractors. Or maybe an established, traditional software firm like Oracle or Bloomberg.
I want to agree. But I turned forty a few years ago, and I'm in the same boat as the top post. Either using a dining chair or a workout bench as my sitting option.

That is, I can't lean on youth. But I also don't have near the pains mentioned on so many message boards.

Now, do I have trouble staying focused? Oh yeah. Staying motivated? You bet. Haven't exactly been a pleasant year. But my seating seems to be the least impactful thing going on right now. :(
What makes it a power grid is that the stations and substations are connected in a mesh topology. Every major load center is going to have multiple possible paths for power flows from multiple generators. In most cities, even residential distribution will have multiple feeder paths.

In most cases these are controlled by switches at the substations that put circuits in and out of service, thus moving the path current must take. More modern options include phase shifting transformers and other reactive device, and even impedance reactors that will adjust flow across multiple live circuits.

Aside from that, changing where generation is happening also moves current to different circuit paths, so for example a "peaker" gas turbine plant that can ramp up quickly might be brought online in one location electrically closer to the load to balance flow away from an overloaded or to-be-disconnect circuit.
Create Your Own Super Simple URL Shortener
https://github.com/cjdelisle/CryptoSplainers
Hey, the Windows version is ready. Please visit the download page [1] to try it out :)

[1] https://codemap.app/download
Some of the revenue comes from selling purchasing data about higher net-worth cardholders which is why your MasterCard Black or Visa Infinite tend to come with higher rewards.
That paper is a beautiful thing: 86 pages full of hand stippled line drawings.
But notice how that doesn't happen very often. Because hotel keys almost never have the room numbers on them. This is basic security the hotel provides to handle the inevitable fact someone is going to lose their credentials. The Sendgrid equivalent would be some mechanism to prevent lost credentials leading to abuses - such as 2FA.
The audacity of suggesting this obvious bullshit [0] is stunning.

Inanimate objects in an isolated rural area getting shot up around spring break (April 16th) smells a lot like underutilized youths with a case of beer being destructive. Road signs, substations, the Alaska Pipeline [1] - if it's rural enough it all gets shot up sooner or later.

If it's disruptive enough, and you're in a position to benefit from spinning up the facts into conclusions that earn your responsibilities some funding, then why shouldn't it be terrorists because some casings didn't have fingerprints.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=casings+catcher

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Alaska_Pipeline_System#I...
He was a raging anti-semite, holocaust denier, etc.
Isn't Proton Steam-only? Plus there are quite a few other wine front-ends (playonlinux and lutris come to mind).

Personally I had better luck fiddling with Wine than with Proton. (and by fiddling I mean "checking a few dlls in winetricks")
For example, let's look at the IV.

Symmetric encryption algorithms usually need an input called the initialization vector (IV), but different algorithms have different requirements.

AES-CBC requires unpredictability, but AES-CTR (and AES-GCM) require uniqueness. Misunderstanding of these requirements have led to real world attacks, see for example BEAST or https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/475.pdf.
Smart Dust Is Coming
A join creates a tuple but that's not the only way to use them. You can also just produce a tuple with an expression in the query such as (val(), 5, "dog") if you like. The whole language is documented here:

https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/mql/reference