skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can talk to managing Pis in an educational setting, and honestly, it is less bad than expected. (Disclaimer: No longer a school sysadmin. But was for a number of years.)

First some comparisons. Kids are seriously rough on technology. We had a fleet of about three hundred laptops, two hundred iPads, and two hundred Pis in the junior school.

In a year, we'd end up with about a hundred laptop screen replacements, two hundred keyboard replacements and about a hundred hard drive replacements. About ten "I accidentally dropped the laptop in the river"s. We'd cycle the laptop out for a brand new one at four years, if it survived.

In the same year, about sixty iPad screen replacements, ten or so battery replacements, and twenty or so river dunkings. Only ever had one hard drive failure, apart from water damage, but the iPads were on a short two-year upgrade cycle.

The Pis were used for the robotics clubs (optional) and programming (compulsary). Pis aren't great for kids and robotics due to lack of protection on the pins for dumb mistakes. We had about twenty fizzle the mysterious smoke every year. About twenty more than experienced SD card failure in the year, usually related to yanking a power cord, not direct write failure. We also had a couple students a year who snapped theirs in half.

All in all, the cost of maintaining the Pi fleet was negligible besides the rest.
We solved it in the UK. Illegal to touch your phone unless parked.
Also amusing is the thought that lowercase "select" is any safer than uppercase "SELECT".
Browser history currently does not preserve local history. All modern browsers, on the other hand, will preserve history for the tab when you "undo close".

To observe difference, do the following:

- Go to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24518507 , click 'parent', close tab, undo close tab, hit back. Where are you?

- Load the page that was the 'parent', hit back. Where are you?

Each tab is a history tree. The history page, on the other hand, is a linearized chronological list. They are non-equivalent.
Is there a name for the fallacy when people say something like "you shouldn't be using this to protect your app anyway - doing so will give you a false sense of security and make you write riskier code"? I see this argument quite often for features like this that give partial protection. It's partly a false dilemma anyway.
A recent client of mine had their WAF configured to block requests with '%' in the URL. Yup. No URL encoding.

"Can we remove that?"

> "No, it could open up vulnerabilities"

Yup. Yes, it could. Silly me.
Orange Pi looks pretty good
It could have been hel or ivy I was seeing. I don’t like the mode line moving (growing the minibuffer) as I typically keep my eyes on part of the buffer and don’t want anything moving (or worse, obscuring where I’m looking)
I suppose it's true that spaying and neutering is technically disabling an animal. I guess not having pets would be the best solution for people who consider spay/neuter harmful. But for people who are okay with the idea of pets, and who do not wish to breed their pets, many find the control of breeding instincts and behavior helpful, not to mention the long term health benefits for the pets.
Aren't many of these 50 year old airframes are being decommissioned and towed to aircraft boneyards anyway? I assume most of the aircraft would still be usable for being picked apart there.

And to be a movie prop it doesn't need to even have all the parts for airworthiness, it could practically be an empty hull with broken engines and you wouldn't see a difference.
"According to the Indictment, since at least 2017, the defendants have used bribery and fraud to benefit merchant accounts on the Amazon Marketplace, resulting in more than $100 million..."

Interesting that only the 3rd party sellers are indicted here. At least that's how it reads.

Maybe it's more complex on the Amazon side and some second wave is coming.
> It also helps that I'm not being sold anything - I feel like everything and everyone is doing that nowadays, and it's exhausting.

Yeah it's the worst thing on the internet. Makes me wish my blocker could kill covert marketing articles on sight. I feel like this was less common in the earlier days of the internet. Now it's like nobody starts a website just because they have something to say, it's always to make money.

Why would anyone even trust a person who is trying to sell something? The inherent conflict of interest immediately leads to distrust.
Maybe it was just a 737 Max... X-D

Jokes aside, I wonder how much one of those decommissioned planes costs. Maybe disposing off a decommissioned plane is the hardest job and nobody cares about stripping out parts — in either case I’m very curious about the actual costs.

A practical advantage of CGI is that you can tweak it and redo till you get it right, whereas in the real scenario you have one take so you better make it count. But I don’t know if we should even seriously discuss a comparison; in all probability it’s more of a PR stunt. (Maybe one good enough to be worth spending a substantial fraction of the marketing budget!)
A mothballed 747-100 might be worth almost nothing, literally cents on the dollar, especially as anything valuable will usually have been removed by various parties before it even hits the boneyards. And during the current situation where air cargo, the only viable use for even airworthy old 747s, is not growing I can see some broker selling a plane in the low single digit millions. An airworthy 747 will of course be worth more but the article doesn’t mention that and it seems unlikely.
I wasn’t big on Digg, but I was moderately active. And I switched at the same time. This pattern plays out over and over. At least Reddit has left old.reddit up.
> 2. Bootloader available to view the source for, if not completely open source. I understand bootloader can be proprietary tech and they can use non-commercial compete license but allow people to hack them and at the very least view it.

This is a bit of a nitpick, but assuming point one of your post, tbh as an embedded developer there’s nothing magical or worth protecting in a bootloader. It’s such boring and, in the case of embedded systems on a chip, specialized code that really has no commercial value if the hardware documentation is available except in letting you gatekeep what runs on your chip. As in, anyone with the datasheets can write a bootloader and the bootloader provides no value to someone that has their own (proprietary or knockoff) SoC.

All that is to say, the Broadcom bootloader is closed for the same reason the datasheets and documentation are: it’s to prevent revealing the internals of the chip for fear of making it easier to reverse engineer or clone.
Your argument is that all words are made up?

You could say this about any language and of course, it still holds true.
Did people talk more?

Yes. Especially before the televisions arrived.

Gyms were well-known social hubs. You'd meet people, sometimes even work out business deals, at the gym.

The isolation that technology has brought us has reduced the number of serendipitous human connections we used to make as a species. It has also turned us into an us-verus-them society because we no longer have large circles of friends with varying opinions.
Surely you can buy one approaching end of life? They don't fly the engines or airframe forever.
There was a Compiz extension that permitted window tabbing like this. I did not enjoy its use. I attempted to use it to create "environments". It was less effective than using workspaces because workspaces allowed full windowing.
Sadly no. They'll need compatibility patches with new hardware, for example. Those won't come of Epic cannot build them.
Should have used a 737-max, probably could pick one up for close to free :)
My thought as well. I feel bad when I pull an extra square of paper towel off the roll for no reason. Imagine just destroying tons of metal filled with electronics for a pretty picture. It's probably more waste than the average person would go through in mulitple lifetimes.

Oh well.
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Oh I see now, I never thought about $ being usable anywhere except at the end as an anchor!
He always claimed - always - that he never used performance enhancing drugs or blood processes (doping). Which of course he did.
Right, but your example isn't an array of structs anymore. It's an array of pointers. You are correct that it's easier to take an array of structs and turn it into an array of pointers, or to take a single struct and get a pointer to one of it's members, whereas a struct of arrays would have to be scattered in order to get anything referenceable.

ISPC sounds pretty cool.

How much of a performance penalty is scatter/gather into and out of an SOA? I assumed you'd want to store all of your data-parallel fields in SOA format, rather than gathering into one every time you wanna do some maths-heavy operation.
I agree, you can own your own domain name without having to do everything yourself. Like anything else, if you don't want to do something, hire somebody else to do it.

I own my own domain name, and then pay others to take care of my website. I chose a cheap one for now. If I don't like their service, I can move my content somewhere else in the future. I could even have it hosted for free on GitHub, if I'm willing to live with him there constraints on static servers.

But I own the domain name, so no one can just take it down without any recourse. If someone decides to stop providing me a service, I can just take my stuff somewhere else.

Of course, you have to have a backup of the data, and use tools that are available elsewhere. But that really isn't that difficult. Static sites are really easy to manage this way. If you want something beyond the static site, it's not hard to use tools like WordPress which are open source software and widely available elsewhere. (Be cautious about adding plugins to Wordpress, some of them are security disasters, but at least you get to choose what you use.)
There are good ways to recycle multiple tons of high quality metal.
Yeah there's a huge boneyard at Davis–Monthan Air Force Base near Tucson, AZ. I would imagine that many of those will sit there into perpetuity, some scrapped for parts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis%E2%80%93Monthan_Air_Forc...
Does opening another program cause system instability? I don't know how you are monitoring it, but it sounds like Firefox is making use of the available ram for a cache. There's no real difference between cache and free memory, so using more is only a good thing.
That's absurd and stupid. Just add a one time tax rather than screw everyone, especially the poor with a higher gas tax.

The gas tax has a purpose and of course isn't be used very well for the purpose of repairing roads, especially in places like California.

People like you want to make it impossibly for old, busy, old people, and disabled to get around with your dumb idea of getting cars off the road.

A whole bike lane that in some cases takes an entire lane is used for a 50 bikes (that are almost all used for pleasure and not transportation) where 100,000 cars could have driven through that lane and there would be less traffic and pollution.

At least use common sense
Years ago helped handle a support request from a man named "fread" who had a similar issue.
Big fan of Cadquery! I used it to generate circuit board enclosures in an old project of mine[1]. Once you have it set up it is much nicer to use than Openscad and you have the ability to export STEP files, which is pretty huge. I haven't played with it in a while but the new improvements look great. The maintainers are also very welcoming/helpful to newcomers. Overall a great open source project.

[1] https://enclosuregenerator.com/
A few years ago, it was discovered that the head of the Royal Coin Cabinet of Sweden, a museum with one of the world's largest coin collections worth almost $3 billion USD, had been stealing and selling historical coins worth a fortune. Kind of the opposite, really.

There's a three part documentary series here (Swedish): https://www.svtplay.se/guldfeber-stolderna-pa-kungliga-myntk...
Goes to show how 80+% of countries have basically solved Covid.
Motorla sells LTE enabled radios, but changing from a narrowband air interface to a wideband one doesnt get you much, terrestrial can work in these situations, they dont need phone calls, they need radio and data communications - mostly data.
Boy that list brings back memories. Front page, bob, zune...
This is incorrect. Epic already has standing from the fact that Apple has collected $300 million in Fortnite IAP fees. They could have sued to recover those fees without also getting Fortnite removed from the App Store.
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This is from Bloomberg, so most people with tight controls on their information sources will multiply the information by zero first¹.

A more reliable source describing methane leaks in oil and gas: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-leaks-that-threaten-the-cle...

¹ i.e. your posterior after supplied by this information is equal to your prior
This is also just plain false you aren’t shipping jsx and react doesn’t depend on anything but there being a stable host DOM node. It’s literally the other way around, vue uses global registration making it the only one of the three frameworks likely to give you any issue at all https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/components-registration.html
What does Sidebery offer over Tree Style Tabs?
I imagine they did pick up the pieces and recycle what they could, just like after blowing up (down?) a building.
> Pretty sure if it happened to be 6 African American individuals who were indicted it would not be acceptable to say "Don't outsource your work to low-level Black contractors".

Notice the word in italics? The US would still have jurisdiction.

GovCloud is also not allowed to be administered by Indians but is allowed to be run by Indian Americans. It can’t be run by people from Great Britain either.
Gas works fine to create energy, they mention gas in the doco. Wind turbines also solve the wrong problem.

The nobody cares bit is around HN not caring all their info was made open source (Try algolia). There's no reason you couldn't try and pivot. It's something you can contribute code to. Tethers can also supply electricity upwards. You could make permanent platforms, perhaps.

Space tethers are probably impossible, certainly nothing can be started for decades. It's fun to LARP but it'd also be nice to get equally keen about things that are possible and actionable.
They use helicopters and fixed wing aircraft as firespotters, its not a command and control data problem, its not even getting data out to the units problem, its an interop problem.
I'm reasonably sure he would have used a "near end of life", but currently operating 747.

"Un-mothballing" isn't cheap. I suppose maybe you could find one in a small, corrupt, country, but outside of that, it would be expensive.
I'd say refunding people for a game after they already played it is even more consumer friendly than selling it to them at inflated prices to cover for the app store fees.
>It doesn't sound as if you recognize the concept of an obligation at all.

Oh, I understand obligation very well.

I also understand relationships and communication too.

Despite the obligation you have to your employer/job, it's inappropriate for your boss to have you lick the dog shit he just stepped in off his shoes (okay, I guess if that's your job it may not be -- but that's pretty unlikely).

And it's just as inappropriate for you to demand that your partner, presumably someone you love and cherish, engage in acts they don't wish to engage in. Especially if you force the issue.

I'll go even farther and say that, for me, as a Dominant[0] who is both sadistic and cruel, I never engage in non-consensual activities with my partner (of seven years).

What's more, I don't guilt her or make her feel bad or so she'll do what I want.

Quite the contrary. I support and uplift her, so she can be the best person she can be.

Even in a relationship with an unequal power dynamic, consent is not optional. And yes, sometimes she does things she wouldn't choose to do in order to please me.

That said, even though I (through mutual consent) quite literally control her sexual life, I would never violate her limits or engage in anything non-consensual -- because I care about her and won't put her in a position where she feels she has no choice or is obligated to do anything.

In fact, if I thought that she felt that way, I'd immediately back off because her trust in, and respect for, me is way too important to our relationship.

And so this idea of "well, we're in an exclusive relationship, so you have to have sex with me even if you don't want to" rings really hollow.

Besides, if you're having sex with someone who really isn't into it, that's more masturbatory and selfish than it is an act of love.

And in that case, I'd rather go and stroke one out than make the person I'm supposed to be in love with do things she's not up for doing.

[0] https://www.kinkly.com/definition/19/dominant-dom
My problems with history

- Sometimes I remember when I closed a tab more than when I opened a tab but its organized around open-time

- Once I start searching, I lose the context o time. I have a rough idea of terms and time and want to find something.
You should really try out a good VR headset. I think it will change your mind.
Gifted Children as Hidden Persuaders in the Cold War (2019)
Reminds me of this: “India's mission to Mars cost less than the movie Gravity” https://www.vox.com/2014/9/24/6838079/india-mars-mangalyaan
> If you're working on shell scripts, you probably know certain short flags well enough that long flags just add clutter and don't improve readability.

What about other people who might read the script?
Show HN: Deriving Music from Colors
... and it wrote the version to stderr up to 3.3, the stdout from 3.4; very convenient if you need to switch on version (which you do).
A new way to search for dark matter reveals hidden materials properties
For EU people: https://archive.ph/XZ2Dg
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> The problem is not in any particular stack. It’s system design overall.

Are you aware that unlike Windows, Chromium OS has been designed from the ground up with security in mind[1]? And that it can run on almost any hardware[2]?

> All your mentioned alternatives could just as easily fail if not properly secured.

Software has to be designed and chosen with security in mind from the beginning.

If a hospital is running Windows Server instead of automatically-updating, minimal Container Linux[3], it has a much larger attack vector space.

These two factors alone (a proper client OS, and a proper server OS) can reduce the probability of a successful ransomware attack to almost zero.

[1] https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/...

[2] https://get.neverware.com/healthcare/

[3] https://getfedora.org/en/coreos
Highlighting the key PSA from the article:

“The safest way to mitigate SQL injections on your databases is prepared statements. These come in most database interaction libraries for most languages. You can find a full list of ways to mitigate SQL injections at [OWASP].”

[OWASP]: https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/SQL_Injection...
Thanks. That was useful for the further discussion in comments on the other post.
Yes, I support Epic here because I believe it would be good for users like me if someone limits Apple's power over ios developers. And yes, I consider Apple having that much power immoral.
What you're getting paid at Amazon has the dimension of money/time; a bribe is presumably just money. We need to know the time period to reasonably compare the two :). Otherwise it's like saying "the distance to city is much larger than the speed of my car".
Pretty sure that's the play. Buy it while it's still certified, but almost on its way to the boneyard.
Exactly, these are the only ones I know and never get confused. Actually I use cvzf and xvzf.
Court strikes down Banksy's attempt to use trademark, not copyright
I hate these kind of defenses. If your application is vulnerable to sqli, select is one of many tools an attacker can use and you’re pretty much screwed anyway.

Instead, use sane tooling, like modern ORMs and parameter izers, with some data sanitation if you’re really paranoid.
Doing so in an unscheduled way is beneficial for similar reasons you want to test when services go down in controlled circumstances. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering

Large companies simply have different risks. If someone quitting randomly is a huge risk for your business you want to know about it ahead of time to mitigate it while they still work for you. 1 random week of vacation every ~3 years shouldn’t be a big deal, and discovering it was is valuable.
1: I have far too few information to even speculate on how to improve this particular hospitals infrastructure.

2: because Germany is federal-social-democratic, not stalinist.
The fact that most of us already believe it is reason for increased skepticism. We have a bias towards accepting things that mesh with our existing beliefs.

That doesn't mean their results are untrue. We just have to be careful not to overestimate the strength of this evidence.
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I successfully used shareport-sync and forked-daapd back a while ago with PogoPlugs and USB audio interfaces for multiroom audio. It worked without too much effort.

https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync

http://ejurgensen.github.io/forked-daapd/
In this case the due diligence, while quite due, perhaps wasn't very diligent.
DC-3 airframes are still flying and often refitted with turboprops. The original radial engines are getting expensive to maintain, parts are getting tough to source.
Do you guys think airplanes are recycled or something??
I don't doubt that a decomissioned/mothballed 747 would be cheap or worthless -- in the same way you can basically get an old upright piano for free just by offering to take it away from someone's home.

My question is actually a logistical one: how on earth do you get a presumably inoperational 747 to wherever it is that you need to shoot it exploding?

Or do they just fly a crew and equipment out to god-knows-where, set up ginormous green screens behind it and detonate it in whatever airplane graveyard it sits in?

Given the massive transportation costs either way, I'm inclined to believe this headline is false, but good publicity. ;)
It's a shame Nolan didn't use the Mexican presidential plane, lol. It's for sale.
What would help me in reducing tabs/windows is good session management. I want per-window sessions that I can close and restore with their own history. Each window would then have a purpose, be helping me work on a project.

Instead I have history that searches across all my work (news, python development, shopping, etc) and if I want to pause on some of it, without just leaving the tabs open, I have to manually delete and recreate the bookmarks to represent my current state.
> Is it not possible that this leads to good competition in the datacenter, and pushing prices down generally?

Possible? Yes. Likely? I doubt it. Just look at nvidia's past behavior with Linux.
Is this the same as rhythm produced by meditating? I can on demand induce disassociation by meditation, and I’m sure it’s a commonly known phenomenon