skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What is having an internet connected coffee maker buying me?

One "cool" point with your friends.

"Check this out dudes! Alexa! Brew coffee"

And when Alexa responds with, "Please add water", you lose two cool points and end up in a deficit.

If you need to remote start your coffee pot, you need to get your life a little more together. If you need remote notifications that coffee is done, the same applies. It's not hard to plan around "Coffee takes about 15 minutes to brew, so I start it before I hop in the shower".
Need YouTube to stop asking me for a premium free trial
How does application development like this work in the face of evolving data structures? Do you just manually fix up the back compat issue?
It's essentially an impossible project anyway. I tend to agree with the older lists more simply because I don't like newer music and newer genres so much (particularly rap/pop/modern country). And the lack of representation of modern black artists in earlier lists is nothing compared to the overall lack of representation of non-western, non-English-language music in all of these lists generally.

I'm preaching to the choir here but there's no sound methodology for remotely being able to quantify the "best" albums. About the best you could do is use some kind of Metacritic-like review score aggregator, but that will still heavily favor in biases existing at the time in who societally was even allowed to win recognition, e.g. Elvis will rank a lot higher than the black artists whose music he was ripping off.

So it's always just going to come down to the editorial judgment of whatever team is compiling the list, and it seems like the team working on this at Rolling Stone now is likely younger and more diverse than the teams of years past, hence the forays into newer artists and genres.
Rule of thumb: "Not Going on a Boing".
Perhaps something similar to UL, linked to insurance contracts?
I build Planimeter’s Grid Engine, and we use Tiled for our primary implementation, which also has a terrific generic map abstraction that aligns well to multiple types of level design and game engine architecture.

While there is a bit of work one has to do, there isn’t as much as you’d think. If one has enough engine level code implemented already, multiple map formats are feasible.
In their case Sign Up goes to an account creation page, and Under Attack? goes to a sales form that (presumably) will page a sales development rep (SDR) to wake up, qualify the lead, and fetch a solutions engineer and sales exec duo.

In any case, the implied lesson in the article is to A/B test different ideas and see what works, rather than sticking to the default.
Asynchronous allocation of TUN/TAP devices in Rust using async-std
RFC 2324
> I’m talking about the code they took from Apache Harmony

Which Oracle did not own and which Google used with a valid (up to the Apache Harmony code not being infringing by virtue of copying the API) license, I've literally never seen any suggestion that if Google had written this code themselves anything would have changed.

> Also, the de minimis was overturned on appeal.

Ah, you're right. Either way it's a separate question from the api portion of the case.
This book is great coffee table material, but I think it's a bit silly to treat Rolling Stone as any sort of meaningful cultural arbiter in modern times, where:

-niche music blogs exist,

-Spotify's related albums exists,

-Allmusic and Band Camp exist, and (most importantly)

-near-instant communication with your friends, peers, and social groups (who are still my biggest source of new music) exist

There are just so many sources of recommendations that are better suited to aligning to an individual's musical tastes. It really throws into sharp relief what a dinosaur RS is.
This is true, in a narrow sense.

Countless times though, talented people need stimulation to finish something. Tools provide that. Indie games take years to make too, many of the best ones 4-7 years, entering "early access" as essentially finished products.

Authoring tools give someone with a diverse set of skills time and space to figure out something, usually in the context of originality. It is also a rehearsal for the successful game that may very well be done in a fury in six months at the end of seven years.
Sure, but those lists exist as well, and are curated by much more qualified people than the Rolling Stones editors.

/block of unsubstantiated opinions/ I don't think Rolling Stones claims to be a full list of all music of all time, nor do I think their editors would claim to be experts in all music. I dare say they hardly claim to be experts. I'd imagine they'd say they were more interested in being entertaining.

/going off the rails a bit/ Now that I think about it, it would honestly be pretty disgusting if they did try to make a list encompassing all of music. Either it's strictly analytical, at which point you're really asking "What's the best selling of all time", or it's saying "our opinion is a proxy for every other opinion". The hubris of that kind of project would outweigh any good it could do.
Because it's not core emacs. Core emacs uses ELPA, which has fewer packages.
> I do wonder how many people are becoming unreasonable in situations like this.

Pushback on masks or any type of covid-altered behavior is not limited to "walmart meltdown" youtube social shame videos.

While it has been walked back, poll workers in a Missouri county were told: "You may act surprised that you don’t have a face mask on properly and then apologize as you put the mask on,” “Wear your mask correctly until the voter leaves the polling place. Please do this every time a voter says something to you.”

[1] https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/516943-st-...
Yeah, I think a lot of the time people expect the rules to be flexible and applied in a reasonable manner.

In the story you linked, any reasonable person would have let the Germans dock.

They had been isolated at sea for more than 14 days, and applied for a docking permit through the appropriate channel, and stated they needed to repair their boat.

The NZ government has a process which they used, but rejected them based on a procedural technicality.
Please do not post politicol propaganda. This is hacker news not covid news.
The value from smart TVs is very clear, even if the privacy concerns are only clear to a few.

But a coffee machine, toaster or whatever... just... why?!

Even as a life-long techie, and putting aside privacy concerns, there isn't a single compelling reason to want my coffee machine to be connected to the Internet, or even my local network.
Here's my personal list of great Brazilian albuns:

1) Tom Jobim: Stone Flower

2) Os Novos Baianos: Acabou chorare

3) Joao Gilberto, Stan Getz, Tom Jobim, Zimbo Trio: Getz & Gilberto

4) Chico Science & Nação Zumbi: Da Lama Ao Caos

5) Secos & Molhados: Secos & Molhados

6) Os Mutantes, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Nara Leao: Tropicalia

7) Tom Jobim & Elis Regina: Tom & Elis

8) Heitor Villa-Lobos : Bachianas Brasileiras

9) Egberto Gismonti : Sol do Meio Dia

10) Sepultura : Roots
You still have to prove who had the gun in the first place
Knex
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/compatibility....
Rolling Stone's list, for all it's flaws, is a comparison of albums not artists. A meaningful comparison of artists isn't possible in the broad sense. It's literally a popularity contest. Stop pimping your website.
I’m often a Luddite regarding smart versions of simple electronics, but at least part of the issue is how cumbersome “dumb” versions have become relative to modern software. The knobs on my gas stove are intuitive, yes, but the buttons on my dumb microwave are not. It takes trial-and-error every six months to adjust the clock for DST. I bought a $30 Casio watch recently, specifically for the hourly chime so I don’t miss Zoom meetings while away from my laptop. It works great, but when I wanted to disable the chime on vacation I had to download a large, unsearchable PDF manual on my iPhone because I couldn’t figure it out. And this is an interface that, presumably, has been honed by decades of use by billions of people. It wasn’t enough of an issue to make me consider an Apple Watch or the like, but it’s made me more sympathetic to people who gravitate to modern, frivolous-seeming electronics by default. To a security-naive buyer (i.e., everyone), “smart” often means “usable without a manual”. I imagine this is doubly true for someone younger who isn’t used to electronics with highly constrained UI’s.
RS's Ranking always reminds me of:
Best Sellers Sell the Best Because They’re Best Sellers
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/19/books/penguin-random-hous...
I forgot about this. Thanks for the reminder, and the laugh.
most of the useful stuff? can you point me to some data that shows which "useful stuff" is lacking in sid?

what is the actual issue? inability to compile things from source or not knowing that you can install to /usr/local/bin or $HOME/bin etc?

of course everything is either on gihub or gitlab in 2020. the argument that the majority of software that is useful isn't actually available as deb package is false. useful to who? based on what arguments?
I'm not sure if I remember this correctly, so don't take this at face value:

I remember some colleagues rolling out a project to thousands of postal service branch offices. Oracle was very happy to provide 24/7 emergency DBA services in case anything went wrong with any of the instances (local to the branch offices).

Just an additional guarantee of "if one of them behaves weirdly, we will be right on it" (as a service).

Unless you get a Postgres-based consultancy to do the same for you (and ofc they're not first party), that support is just unbeatable (in terms of what you're selling to your customer, the post offices).
True, and even on relatively good connections (e.g. gigabit with 10-20 ms latency) the difference between tarpipe, SCP and SFTP is quite telling.
I think the OP is right and few people seem to realize what MS is doing by "featurizing" Linux. If devs and enterpise want FOSS and Linux (which they do) and all the enterprise users are on Windows (which they are), it makes sense for those distinctions to go away. The easiest way for MS to accomplish that is to fold Linux into the Windows desktop. Everybody gets what they want since users don't care where software runs or how.
You can't distinguish between freshly-brewed coffee and microwaved instant coffee?
It makes sense, for charges about an attempt. Presumably if you attempt to kill someone in a way that doesn't work, you may try again in a way that does later. Also, a case can probably be made that while attempted murder may not be harmful to the intended victim (in some cases), it's still harmful to society.
A performance and it's composition are under two different copyrights. Think of it as a book and it's audiobook.

The copyright holders think that what Graeth was doing was like taking a audiobook, listening to it and transcribing the whole book and then profiting from it.

It's not copying the performance, sure, but it is taking a roundabout way to copy another copyrighted work.
I think you're misunderstanding the psychology. It's not a matter of people literally believing virology doesn't apply to them; it's just a values tradeoff. The virus might not care if my father were dying, but I would, and I wouldn't allow a virus to stop me from being there for him.
Example site is available at:
http://www.shitmyself.com/

id/pwd: admin/admin
Title guidelines are flexible in some regards:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19776913

Avoiding reactions based strictly on titles is a key consideration. HN is interested in stimulating discussion, not selling newsprint or eyeballs.
I personally prefer an AeroPress---it's easier to clean---but I can understand others having different requirements.
Often times if "sign up" feels like a blind commitment, it is the copy or narrative arc of the landing page that is poor and not just the CTA. Also, in some cases (eg: platforms that have multiple equally important but diverse features, like infrastructure as a service companies) there is not one clear "action" to prompt the user and "Sign up" feels a bit more neutral.
Not the person you are asking but it seems pretty clear who is being referenced here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Waleed_bin_Talal
Thats where i’d start to learn hacking. Wifi, webcams and coffeepots are the gateway drug to more hardcore hacking
https://github.com/OpenPrinting and cups-filters in particular.

> GTK's WebView (and browsers like Epiphany aka GNOME Web) use WebKit, complete with Apple's web inspector / devtools.

Good point, Qt's legacy HTML engine (Qt WebKit) is, well, WebKit, too. The newer Qt WebEngine uses Blink. I suspect this is a common pattern with components built on KHTML/WebKit before Chromium became Blink. In any case, Blink is clearly the fork that won.
Also to add, just because the rules are followed doesn’t mean the proof was communicated. Any layer of translation can act in between two entities without understanding.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

Weird. Are we just playing games with ourselves? One programmer existing as the programmer of their reality fooling themselves into perspective?
If you use YouTube so much that a free trial offer bothers you, you might just consider subscribing. Ad-free YouTube is a glorious experience.
Do you miss the community element of it or what?

Because tabs for pretty much anything are fairly easy to find nowadays... except even better: dynamic tabs are very much in the vogue now (tabs with multiple tracks that you can instantly play and verify if it’s good by how it sounds). You can loop certain parts, slow them down, etc for effective practicing.
The 3 Reasons Why Bitcoin Will Become the Standard for Gen Z and Gen Alpha
Original post: https://decoded.avast.io/martinhron/the-fresh-smell-of-ranso...
RFC 2324 - Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2324
Self consistent rules doesn’t imply communication.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

Said another way, if you have a dictionary translating, it doesn’t mean the definition is equivalent. In fact, most definitions aren’t, as each one has its nuance. If following a dictionary to arrive at a result after some steps, it doesn’t imply anything other than a set of rules being followed to arrive at an arbitrary value.

Also interesting is the perspective of mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_brain

Universe as one mind depending on zoomed out vs zoomed in.

However this attribution of mind is simply anything that follows rules. So it’s better to call it “logics” and humans have a property of “bio-logic” abilities. But then what exists outside of logic that allows arbitrary definition of things to represent said logic? The programmer, the consciousness. In general I feel mind exists outside of logic but that’s perhaps a matter of perspective and definition. It gets hard to know where one has defined a conceptual space between continuum and borders and assigning it a range of values.
Moby Grape kicked off the list? Say it ain't so!

Seriously, though, what we're seeing is blues, R&B, and blues-based rockers on the way out, and a new generation from the 80s and 90s on the way in, along with some seminal discs from various genres and periods that were under-appreciated for years (Blue, What's Going On, etc.)

It's interesting how the tide has really turned for some artists like U2.
In the US people either under estimate the size of the CCP or act as though it is an egalitarian group of people where everyone has access to all information and is briefed on strategy. The CCP doesn't vote on its strategy among all of its members.

Most things that we see as controversial or dangerous when it comes to the CCP aren't even apparent to most CCP members.

Joining the CCP isn't generally a decision to turn a blind eye for personal gain. It is difficult to comprehend just how much China controls the flow of information to its citizens (and the ordinary CCP members).

We must distinguish between CCP leadership and the ordinary members. The average CCP member is no evil person and is unaware of any evil acts being committed.

Now you might wonder why people don't investigate rumors they hear from Western media (even if the sources are banned):
- Western media tends to attack Chinese culture and pride, attack ordinary Chinese
- The Chinese government refuted the news and any contradicting sources are blocked.
- Approval of how the country is run is generally high. Han Chinese and other groups are doing as well as never before. (And they truly don't know that there are people who are not being treated well.)
Ask HN: Breaking into solo software development work
As the title suggests, I’m curious what steps people have taken to get from “I want to work for myself” to actually doing it.

I have read many blog posts explaining the difference between consultant and contract work, even more about “I manage this alone and it’s great” posts, but I am curious to just hear directly “I started doing X, which eventually got me to where I could live off of my solo work”

Just thinking about it with what I know, the hardest part of getting started feels like it’s going to be both finding work (preferably a large enough pool of it to not have to settle for terrible jobs) but also building a reputation (a chicken and egg problem, plus needed to not have to settle for the aforementioned terrible jobs). Networking feels like a huge part of this as well, as people know people with jobs, so widening that network makes complete sense, but curious to hear how heavily you all weight it as well.

Another detail that may matter is I don’t want to limit work to the tech sector. While that’s where I have worked for all of my career as a software developer, it isn’t really where I need to stay. Hell I think breaking out of this industry would do wonders for my mental health lol.

I don’t need people to tell me “you don’t want to do this” as that isn’t what I am asking.
> It’s one of something. When one of something and one of another thing are observed it’s expressed as 1 and 1 so two rivers become one they represent a quantity of observation.

Not really. If I look at a map and see the Amazon river, and then see the Nile, Amazon + Nile ≠ 1 river. They're still two separate rivers. Adding rivers means merging sets of rivers under consideration, not merging actual rivers.

All you're doing now is playing with different operations that are not what the symbol "+" stands for.
The same could be said for Stuxnet.
You are correct when you say its not a defined measurement. And that is the point. Not defined in math.

Math is our reality, and not a universal reality/law/principal (while science conservation of energy/matter is universal). There are no addition/subtraction happening in the universe.

Addition is not conservation. But that's how we see it.
If you bill your clients for licenses and add some markup on that then you make money from it.

Also some customers feel more safe when they know they've paid $10 000 or probably more for an oracle license.

Source: I once suggested to my boss that maybe we could save around $10 000 pr customer site and also save ourselves tons of work by using Postgres instead.
Yup, all your usage data goes through Alexa and Amazon keeps an eye out to decide when it would be worthwhile to make a first-party Alexa coffee maker and eat your entire business
What's the methodology on this list?

In my opinion, the first 9 are fine enough, and then it starts going off the rails at #10, heavily favoring modern bands in the current era of music streaming. E.g. Lynyrd Skynyrd isn't even on that list, and Twenty One Pilots ranks significantly higher than Jimi Hendrix?!?!
Fortunately, OpenWRT has been ported to a decent number of Mikrotik hardware: https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_16128
While I now understand your first comment was about returns exclusively, where I disagree is that’s protecting returns is not the Feds primary goal. Their mission is to help stabilize prices and employment to cultivate a stable macroeconomic system. So I think their actions are more appropriately viewed throw that broader economic lens than simply assessing whether stock returns are going up
> I've literally never seen any suggestion that if Google had written this code themselves anything would have changed.

That’s not what I’m suggesting. If Google had written it themselves it would have had to have been identical, and that is why it’s infringement. The code is the same in the Android SDK as it is in Harmony and Java SE. It doesn’t matter where they got it from, it’s copyrighted, and the copyright belongs to Oracle.

I’m no fan of Oracle, but I also believe that Google has a history of playing fast and loose with copying other people’s technologies and asking for forgiveness later. My overall opinion about the consequences of that case are similar to those expressed in this article: https://www.wired.com/insights/2014/05/non-apocalypse-apis-c...
There is little evidence that highly paid executives make better decisions than other similarly educated individuals. They're just "smarter" in the sense of getting into a company and/or field that pays more for similar expertise. The reality shows that huge companies make lots of mistakes, but they're often protected from these mistakes by their strong position in the market. See for example companies such as IBM, GE, GM, etc.
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Built this to help me grab a RTX 3080/90 card.
Right, but it's not possible now, is it?
Ngl, I'm glad it's over. GSoC is another program but in that, students actually submit their project proposals which makes way more sense and is better than GCI in orders of magnitude.
This was over 20 years ago, and the machine itself would have been about 20 years old at that point. At that time, it would have been the norm to dispose of such a machine in such a manner. It was certainly too big to grab for the collection of vintage personal computers I had at the time![1] (To be more specific, it was a disorderly pile of pieces on a dock where equipment was frequently left to be disposed of.)

Of course, I can't be certain it was the machine Gosling used. I don't know how many PDP's the university had. My recollections are also sufficiently vague that I don't remember the exact model, just that it was a PDP composed of many boards. Anyway, the bit about Gosling possibly using it was just a fancy I had while listening to the interview.

[1] Calling those personal computers vintage seems weird now. None of those computers would have been older than 15 years at that point in time, but a 1982 computer would have less in common with a 1997 computer than a 2005 computer with a 2020 one.
The (editorialized) current HN title ("Coffee makers are demanding ransom") implies that this is an in-the-wild attack.

It's just another PoC showing that IoT devices tend to have bad security.

In-the-wild ransomware would be interesting news because the same fragmentation that makes it unprofitable to secure devices (too few devices sold of each vendor/model for the vendor to invest serious money in security) makes it unprofitable to attack most devices.

Ransomware is particularly pointless for non-critical devices like a coffee maker. I could see it working e.g. with something controlling heating that isn't easily bypassable (pay us now, or by the time you get a tech out your pipes will be frozen and your house ruined), or something that can otherwise cause harm before the user can disable it (which is likely rare).

With a coffee maker, you can easily unplug the device (preventing it from doing further harm/threatening to burn your house down), put it in a box, and ship it to the vendor to fix it.
They should have applied before disembarking, but three people traveling by boat for (I assume) over 7 days are a very low risk. A lot of regulations that have popped up have been overly blunt.
Isn't the FTC already "the FDA for consumer electronics"? Or do you hoping for an agency who is solely focused electronic devices?