skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Problem

> Beginning on January 1, 2020, un-patched Splunk platform instances will be unable to recognize timestamps from events where the date contains a two-digit year. This means data that meets this criteria will be indexed with incorrect timestamps.

> Beginning on September 13, 2020 at 12:26:39 PM Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), un-patched Splunk platform instances will be unable to recognize timestamps from events with dates that are based on Unix time, due to incorrect parsing of timestamp data.

> Impact

> ...

> The issue appears when you have configured the input source to automatically determine timestamps, ...

> There is no method to correct the timestamps after the Splunk platform has ingested the data when the problem starts. If you ingest data with an un-patched Splunk platform instance beginning on January 1, 2020, you must patch the instance and re-ingest that data for its timestamps to be correct.

> Cause

> The Splunk platform input processor uses a file called datetime.xml to help the processor correctly determine timestamps based on incoming data. The file uses regular expressions to extract many different types of dates and timestamps from incoming data.

> On un-patched Splunk platform instances, the file supports the extraction of two-digit years of "19", that is, up to December 31, 2019. Beginning on January 1, 2020, these un-patched instances will mistakenly treat incoming data as having an invalid timestamp year, and could either add timestamps using the current year, or misinterpret the date incorrectly and add a timestamp with the misinterpreted date.
I mean why would he donate everything at once? That wouldn't really make sense.
Not really sure I want to leave the country's future to the few people who can be bothered to pore over a bunch of a la carte laws and vote on each one.

While it sounds good in theory, you're leaving the country to the same sort of crazy on NextDoor who has nothing better to do but peer out their blinds during the day to report the suspicious activity of someone walking their dog.
It sounds like you're implying that in this dictatorship people have been killed and their property distributed among people who haven't been killed.

If so, no it is very clearly not the same because Bill Gates is not a dictator nor is he responsible for killing people. To compare a wealthy monopolist to a murderous dictator lacks perspective, to say the least.
Well exceptions are generally a sign that code smells. Instead of throwing an exception, just return the default value.
Sorry, how is that related?
Yeah the quality of the subtitles isn't very consistent across languages (or even shows). In my experience, subtitles for German and French content has been decent. But I have seen some errors for Japanese content.

I do agree with your sentiment that the web at large unfortunately still isn't great in terms of accessibility :/
Be considerate while sharing knowledge
That would allow a company to equal the speed of safari, not surpass it.
It's explicitly described how and which parts were used.
A laser emitting contact lens for eye tracking
I find it more convenient to use checks for some purchases but the thing that makes them bad for small businesses is banks charging insufficient fund fees to both the depositor and the person who wrote the check.

We bought some salsa from a local business yesterday and she takes Venmo, Zelle, or cash (not the app). If she took a check and it bounced (insufficient funds), then she would be out the money and probably a $12 fee besides.

https://www.bankofamerica.com/smallbusiness/resources/fees-a... It's interesting to see how business checking accounts have changed - there's no free level. You're charged a fee for every deposit past a certain number. I wonder how many small businesses are run now without a business checking account. But a credit union like Unitus https://www.unitusccu.com/business-checking/has free business checking accounts. Deposits are charged $.15 after the first 75 but if you sweep your electronic accounts (Cash app, Venmo, PayPal, etc.) in every other day you could take 5 of them.

I only converted about 2 years ago to taking pictures of checks and depositing them. It's much easier than going to the bank or mailing the deposits to Charles Schwab. Three of us did a joint purchase and I got a check from one. The other sent me payment via PayPal but PayPal took 3% as a fee. It didn't bother me enough to say something but it definitely didn't make me happy. It'd be nice to have an option that was zero-cost or $.10 fee per transaction. I bank with credit unions that don't have Zelle yet.
Thanks. If I understand correctly, it’s a position roughly equivalent to “Lead” but without assumption that there is a team behind nor of any official hierarchical position.

Still feels weird if you have both a COO and a “Head of operations”, but I guess that’s a complex situation to start with.
You use incorrect reasoning.

You should think in the terms of opportunity cost.

I'm convinced that there would have been more jobs and innovation without MS monopoly. MS under gates killed and slowed down progress in personal computing. They didn't innovate.
Yeah, no. You do not know every billionaire (you probably don't even know one billionaire).

Warren Buffett seems like a pretty good guy who has dealt honestly in his life and is giving away a tremendous amount of his money. Of course, I don't know he's not a vindictive, sinister, exploitative bully deep in his heart, because I don't know him. Just like you don't know him. Or Bill Gates. Or any billionaires.
Those were probably a tiny fraction of all oil... not to mention are likely to have very different chemical properties compared to plastic ?
A bit off topic bit it reminds me a bit of one of Louis Rossman's recent videos. Apple hampers the ability for independent repair shops to get parts, making the repair shop look degraded compared to Apple.
I am amazed that it has remained so bad for so long! I find it very frustrating and have resorted to copying playlists into a text line shuffler and re-adding the songs...
Honestly that sounds substantially worse in pretty much every way in nearly every situation. If an assumption of your program has broken, you almost always want to do something about it rather than simply silently producing garbage. Even in a less expressive language like C you'll still often use e.g. a negative return code to indicate failure.
The local incinerator here in Switzerland isn't merely burning the waste. IIRC it gets vapourised using a high energy plasma or something like that, broken down to constituent atoms. At any rate it belches smoke into the atmosphere in the middle of a city, has done for a while and nobody seems to suffer any ill effects, so I believe them that the "burning" is highly effective.
Generalisations like that one are absurd.
Preventing third party jit, thus forcing chrome and firefox and other non-safari browsers to use webkit for their implementations.
After clicking a few linkd deep, I too would like a video link showing not just this fort design but the development through history of these. I couldn't figure out the distinctions between this and star forts and polygonal forts and the differences of Vauban's attack plan versus what is used against polygonal, etc. Any video recommendations?
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Wow, amazed they have iptables (and ipsets) in the report but no mention of nftables in 2020.

A 2017(!) test by RedHat[0] shows that nftables scales much better with more complex rules then iptables. The original post shows the same, again surprised someone doing this much work on testing hadn't mentioned nftables.

Modern firewall utilities such as firewalld (for better or worse if it scratches your itch) have defaulted to nftables[1] when possible on platforms like Arch and probably Ubuntu at this point.

Ultimately iptables is discouraged by Debian[2] and the netfilter project[3].

[0] https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2017/04/11/benchmarking-n...

[1] https://firewalld.org/2018/07/nftables-backend

[2] https://wiki.debian.org/nftables#Should_I_build_a_firewall_u...

[3] https://wiki.nftables.org/wiki-nftables/index.php/Why_nftabl...
The Safari web browser on mobile runs better than if you ran it embedded in an app. And also you can't run any other browser engine in an app.
Oil Companies Touted Recycling to Sell More Plastic
thanks , yes

i may have been over-expectant; not sure if this is happening in the ultra-cool upcoming v14 release.

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/1...
Some days I keep thinking that it shouldn't be a nice oddity, that it should actually be mandatory at some point to give back wealth to humanity. I'm not sure how and how to prevent abuses, but I feel it should be oh so much more common that if one single person gets to be able make such an impact on the world for good, they must.
Not really sure why you inferred there was a cutoff. It's a gradual ramp-up, at some point between "enough to live the rest of their life in comfort" and short of "one billion." The response wasn't meant to be a complete, self-contained argument that billionaires are terrible people as a step function; it was intended to allude to the well-known argument that you're terrible well before the $1B point. If you're not convinced by that argument or not interested in finding it, this conversation certainly isn't going to change your mind.
Take that with a grain of salt. I've been renting in the US since I got into college, 5 apartment complexes later and I have yet to see a single place that will not let you pay online. This might be the case for some smaller apartments, but anything bigger and they will always have online payments.

I think OP might be a renter in NYC / SF where you have smaller landlords that aren't running 300+ unit complexes.
Far worse than the presentation is that they often don't even match. And it's not that they are leaving out words (which is already horrible for language learning), but the subtitles are phrased entirely different than the spoken words.

I've tried to improve my French via Netflix and it's useless.
Netflix subtitles are often just the English subtitles independently translated. Even for original French content you are not guaranteed to get correct subtitles.
> Not exactly what I meant.

> If installation number is open and visible, any person without any knowledge can confirm that during vote, latest installation number was such and such and hash of build was of such and such. Before election day number can be publicly broadcast so everyone knows what needs to be checked.

> Opensource and visible means same as for linux, code is visible to those that have knowledge and can quickly identify attempts of backdoor attempts like for instance this one: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2013/10/09/the-linux-backdoor-...

> Code wise that will allow that people in power will not try to manipulate or rig elections. If you have XX thousands of IT professionals that can check code it is surely better than "trusted" dedicated private contractor.

"any person woth the knowledge" that's the issue you want a system where the most number of people with the least amount of specialized knowledge nessicary can verify their vote. Everyone can look at a pice of paper and see their vote before they cast it. Not everyone has the expertise to verify software was installed correctly and all the important cryptographic boxes where ticked.
Elon didn’t name the company, it already existed when he got on board, but I see your point.
> There exists a way to cryptographically secure

Fantastic, can you explain that to my 95 year old grandmother?

> there even exists a youtube video

She doesn't know what YouTube is.

You're showing the third weakness of online voting, and that is that because we have to trust whatever result the system produces, everyone in society also has to be able to understand the system. I'm sure I could understand your solution, but I'm a nerd, and you shouldn't have to be a nerd to understand it. It's hard enough to convince people that experts are right about trivial bullshit, why should anyone trust the experts about online voting?

The simplicity of voting through papers and envelopes and urns is its greatest strength. Everyone can look at the process, everyone is even invited to observe the process, and you can easily detect cheating or other irregularities. Everyone can be a poll worker, and that's a fundamental pillar of democracy, that we all build the voting machine together, so that we together can trust the result, even though we may have completely opposite political opinions.
My opinion is that this is not something limited to software. Think about rain forests, and about how difficult it is to connect money with nature. Free Software will always have aspects like this.

It would be better to focus on individual actions that may have been nefarious, on Bill Gates's part, than the overall fact that everyone started to use MS Windows. I think this is the only way to have some sort of audit of opinions. It is not clear to me that humans are able to en masse adopt actions that are always mutually beneficial.

You could also say that humans have universally adopted a stance that gold is valuable. The question of whether gold should be valuable or not is rather difficult to answer, and indeed this is what cypherpunks were thinking about in 2007.

I have a somewhat unpopular opinion that leather is more nature friendly than synthetics---since many hides, globally, are often discarded due to the cost of tanning---and if I were to make leather products more popular, on average, then it may become difficult to say whether it should be popular or not. And at that point one would need some sort of critical appraisal of individual actions and the individual intention and results of actions.
Ask HN: Best electronic devices to fix for education and profit?
I just had a great afternoon fixing my old laptop, and it works really well now. I'm a web dev, and had never fixed hardware before, but it was so much fun, and I've probably added ~£200 in value from only ~£50 in parts.

I now want to have a go buying a faulty device and fixing it up (mainly to learn, and hopefully make a bit of money by flipping it). Are there any good devices or genres of devices good for this? E.g. I've seen videos of people buying 10 faulty Nintendo Switches, fixing them up and reselling. Thanks.
> I seen case of good developers that have free games (they are passionate and use Patreon to get some money) and I see this developers creating Win,Linux, Mac and Android versions but no iOS version. So then you have the iOS users looking at all this plartforms that are supported but he is excluded, what do you think? Could there be a way that would make everyone happy(but maybe less money from some rich gy yacht?).

I think Apple is already trying to address that through Apple Arcade, it is giving indy developers that make games that don’t have in app purchases or advertising advances to publish games. Apple Arcade has to be a loss leader to convince more people to buy iOS devices.

I would go one step further, if they really want to support good, ethical games, prominently display ethical games (no in app purchases or advertising besides games from the same publisher) in the App Store, increase the minimum price that a game maker can charge - gets rid of the race to the bottom - and take a 15% cut. This would make iOS the platform for “premium games”.

They could also say that it “protects children”. Politicians eat up “think about the children”.

> If a judge deciders that is OK iOS is locked down this means OSX,Windows and Android can be legally completely locked-down , in the future, do we want this?

I wouldn’t buy a Mac. I use Macs because it is a consumer friendly Unix with commercial applications. I could completely live in a world running Linux and open source if it came down to it.
> your hardware

This is a problem that's bigger than Apple, and it's not a problem that will be solved by allowing more stores on the phone - it won't make it somehow "your" hardware.

You can blame Apple for doing this with their phone all you want, but you're fighting against the tide with a shovel. It's an industry standard to lock hardware down to the point where they'd rather the hardware be bricked (the Nintendo Switch and its hardware fuses) than run "libre" software on it.
I absolutely love military history, and it's interesting on how much I find it relates to other parts of life.

It was just this week I was explaining to my therapist the concept of "Defense in Depth" and how that relates to trust, friendship making, security, life opsec, work opsec, work, and making reliable systems.

The geometry in particular I always find to be interesting, since a lot of it is about reacting to life (both animal and human) and the natural shape of the terrain. Things like how animals hunt, or where they like to nest. Where and how colonies are established, etc. Covering distance quickly and secretly, and being able to see others coming. Protecting resources like food, water, or crypto keys.
It's surprising there isn't some sort of legal requirement to carry out strategic controlled burns.

If urban sprawl is the root cause of not conducting these, there should be more regulation and accountability on a small govt scale. They are the ones who approve/decline developer plans. Sounds like there may be a tragedy of the commons game theory issue here where certain counties are cashing in on local development projects while offloading the risk to outside counties.
You are missing the forest for the trees. This is 20 years ago, and Al Gore was (even then) not a leading climate activist nor a climate scientist. Our knowledge of both the nature and the scope of the climate disaster has change in the meantime. Heck, we used to call it the greenhouse effect or global warming back then. Since then we’ve gotten a better understanding and are able to make better predictions and construct better policy to tackle it. Saying: “Al Gore was wrong about prediction A and B”, reminds me of creationists saying: “Evolution is wrong because Charles Darwin said the origin of organism A was environmental condition B, when in fact it wasn’t”.

I really don’t even believe Al Gore would have saved us from the Climate Disaster. I’m guessing he would have had a similar success as Obama giving health care for all.

The point is that Al Gore could run on an anti-climate change platform with the Democratic party 20 years ago. Today even a train-loving Biden is hard against investing in the green infrastructure we needed 20 years ago, even though the majority of his voters desperately want it.

The crux of my frustration is that 20 years ago there was a political will to do something about this, while now—as the west coast is literally on fire, the gulf states are being bombarded with unprecedented hurricanes and the east coast just lived through horrible heat waves—solving the climate crisis is a hard problem because politicians are unwilling to take the necessary actions.
I’ve had an order of “Aleppo pepper” blocked from a small online retailer because it contained the word “Aleppo”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleppo_pepper
And a ton of US banks already have a way around this I believe. You can setup bill pay and the bank will basically dropship your landlord a rent check.
It exists as abbreviation for "C and C++" and several renowned publications, FAANG documents and ISO make reference to it.
I do know that every billionaire has held onto their billions despite widespread suffering in the world and the ability to alleviate that suffering without reducing either their personal quality of life or their ability to further alleviate suffering in the future. It is certainly possible for billionaires to be good people, but they would necessarily no longer be billionaires if they did so.
to answer the q though, this work on bt codecs in Pulse won't directly help PipeWire but the leading the way effect is here: figuring out how to switch codecs & otherwise manage the device (how much bluez (linux's bt daemon) interaction is required, i wonder?).
Providing source code when submitting papers: anonymous but protected access
If you were actually "democratizing" the workplace, people would get a vote on whether or not to outsource their own jobs.
> Do you have an example of a presidential election that was redone?

The (completely optional) popular elections for US Presidential electors don't generally have laws that would support a judicially-ordered revote as a remedy because they have a built-in after the fact legislative remedy, since the legislature ultimately decides the mechanism by which electors are assigned (and can simply do so itself), and can revise it's decision even after a public balloting has occurred (in principle, such an retrospective change removes the states electoral votes from the safe harbor provision that applies to procedures fully adopted in advance, but then the safe harbor rule itself is unenforceable and effectively a symbolic statement of intent.)

But that's a fairly special case, and a result of the peculiar design of US Presidential elections, not something general to elections.

This doesn't prevent a do-over, it just means that it wouldn't come from judiciary. It also means that the decision would be highly partisan.

While not about do overs (but potentially about legislative intervention in other ways), that's why the anti-mail-ballot propaganda (and Trump's double voting advocacy) is heavily targeting Republican-legislative-majority states that are polling close or leaning Biden.
Ask HN: As an engineer, what's your method for pushing back on design?
I doubt it will kill C and C++, because not even C++ has managed to replace all use cases where C gets presence, after trying for 40 years.
Do you not also want something that is accessible?
So because they aren’t a general computing device it’s okay? Also isn’t it bit disingenuous to suggest that side loading is an option to avoid the fee? I believe that’s why Epic also sued Google. Even when end users are given the option to download from an alternative store, most people won’t because it’s still not as convenient as downloading from the play store. Your app would have to be worthwhile enough to convince users to download from a 3rd party store.
California wildfire smoke plumes are unlike anything previously seen
This is worse in every possible way. If the default value was part of the domain of the function it would be impossible to distinguish an error from a legit answer without breaking encapsulation. If it wasn't, then you're handling errors like in C.. ugh
Try benchmarking the latest and greatest desktop computer from 5 years ago against what you can build today. Try using a 5 year old smartphone versus a new one. Count how many skyscrapers have been erected in big cities that didn't exist 5 years ago. You are arguing about some different topic, such as currency manipulation and the implications of government debt.

However, total wealth certainly hasn't been stagnant, which is what this thread is about.
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> It's not like the forker inherited all the open issues/PRs, they just dropped them all.

That's wrong, most of the recent commits in the fork are merging branches from a lot of other repos. GitHub doesn't have a mechanism for inheriting a project's pull requests when you fork, but that doesn't mean they're automatically "dropped", since you can still merge the corresponding branch.

https://github.com/blackjack4494/youtube-dlc/commits/master
Both Bill and Warren were/are one-dimmensional paperclip maximizers in business. If they had been AI's they would have been banned.