skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of when I was an intern at an InfoSec company 6 years ago. At the time, they were doing some research into mPOS devices (though I wasn't involved).

They found and exploited a stack-based buffer overflow in the EMV parsing of a particular device, which allowed them to deliver a payload from the smart-card itself. To demo this attack, they wrote a flappy bird clone which was played using the number pad of the mPOS device. It weighed in at ~4k though, so positively heavyweight compared to this!

There's more info here: https://labs.f-secure.com/assets/BlogFiles/MWRI-Labs-BHUS14-..., with a video demo here: https://vimeo.com/89924160
Ask HN: Is my preference for RubyOnRails over Laravel justified?
A colleague and I are going through the planning phase of building a web app for specialist users. We should have about 20k concurrent users daily. His previous experience has only been with Laravel, and although I've used several frameworks, my main experience has been using Django and Rails, and in recent years I've begun favouring Rails heavily for the development experience.

We're now trying to come to an agreement on which framework to use. My main two arguments for going with Rails was that:
1 - Rails has amazing support for its features (additionally, I'm not convinced that Laravel has feature parity with Rails as he suggested)
2 - I've never met a PHP developer who tried Python or Ruby and ever wanted to go back, including myself. (I chalk this up to the development experience)

These are not the strongest arguments, but I believe most people think that the choice comes down to preference anyway. At least, I've never really read an article that made any stronger case than that.

So is there a more objective position to take here? Are there any real reasons to use one framework over the other?
There was some sorts of renaissance of chess in twitch community. All the big streamers were playing chess for some reason. Not sure what happened there, might be related somehow to Hikaru Nakamura starting to stream and growing pretty big. But that was before "Queen's Gambit".
Interesting article. I think black and white is never a good rule, so although I would side on the conflict-theory perspective it would be very naive of me to claim that incorrect analysis doesn't ever contribute to dissinformation. Same goes with many of the points in the article that the author assigns to "mistake-theorists" but I can see myself subscribing to these.

With those in mind, I'd say that although not the sole cause of dissinformation, conflict of interests is the most important and impactful factor.
I had a coworker once who had spent half his working life in Germany and half in the USA (so about 15 years in each). He often liked to compare what it was like working in Silicon Valley to Germany.

My favorite observation of his was that in Germany, he would arrive at work, go to his cubicle, work until 4pm, and then go and get beers with his coworkers until 7pm, when they would go home to their partners.

In SV, he would come in, we would socialize, he would work, we'd have lunch and drink a beer, do some work, take a break for some beer, so some work, and then have a beer at work before heading home at 7pm to our partners.

We'd get the same amount of work done, and the same amount of socializing, but it would all be done at work.

He never understood why we would want to do that, and not just work all day and then leave to socialize.
The title didn’t age well, I think. In the current milieu everyone seems to be aware of this and any person who uses the term “alpha” is automatically considered anti-science alt-right misogynist.

Though, of course “alpha” animals exist in different species and in artificial wolf packs as the article admits, which makes this weird obsession with wolfs as a way to take down the concept of alpha-male quite bizarre. I honestly didn’t even know the idea of alpha animals has originated in the science of wolves before these articles started to pop up in mid 2010s.
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Renewables would work too and are probably cheaper and easier to deploy than nuclear. Imo we should just try both and go with whatever is done first.
I know that my sleep quality would increase if 1) I could keep my window open and get fresh air 2) have a silent environment like I did when I was a child/teen living in a remote area. Now I live next to a relatively busy street, so keeping my window open is not possible due to pollution, and using earplugs won't fully solve the noise issue either.
Here's yet another page with some code examples:

https://www.jeremyong.com/klein/geometry-potpourri/
For Typescript, I warmly recommend the related Typescript AST Viewer [0] project.

[0] https://ts-ast-viewer.com/
> I have a topic I’d like to write about. However, I’m getting lost In the weeds and failing to structure my content in an easy to consume way.

Ricocheting from your consumption metaphor, could it be that your topic has enough meat in it that it deserves to be sliced and served over the course of several meals?

The attention economy being the way it is today, articles that succeed in being read observe the rule of thumb of one idea, one message, one piece of writing.
I'm on my second hackintosh now, and while setup is now easier, I still need to be careful with what I buy/update/upgrade. Right now, I'm getting way more bang for my buck. (faster cpu, faster gpu, normal priced ram+storage)

With apple silicon, I hope they release a decent 'mac pro' or something that is good enough for me. Prices won't go down obviously, so here's hoping we can at least install third-party ram + storage.
Yes you do need Windows. Wine is great, but there's no way I'll publicly release a windows application that hasn't been tested on an actual windows install.
I've tried lepton and packJPG (on which lepton is based) for my personal collection and found packJPG to be faster, give better compression and a lot simpler to compile and install. Only problem was that it did occasionally fail to compress an image.
This is mostly just Apple fixing the bonkers default security settings of a unix desktop. As devs we're used to the idea that, e.g., any app we run should be able to modify any files that belong to us, regardless of whether we asked it to. But that's actually an insanely lax security model.

It's honestly not hard to disable any security settings that are getting in the way. I run whatever software I like on my Mac, no problems.

People have been talking about how Apple were going to lock down Mac OS "real soon now" for at least a decade. There's no real indication that it's ever going to happen.
On the racism part...

People trying to assimilate in Japan... most of them will always remain foreigners in the eyes of their new country and fellow citizens. No matter what they do. Simply because they don’t look the part.

Regarding their attitude towards people from other Asian countries. Well, let’s just say I’m glad to have lived there as a white kid.

However it’s true; in Japan you’ll rarely, if not never, face any outwards violence or hostility as a foreigner.

But, let’s be honest: you’ll rarely face any sincere and authentic outwards anything ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That’s just not how people work. Their weaknesses are exposed differently by different diets. That’s why people are encouraged to find the diet that works for them, and why diets are more than just absolute maths and science.
Genetic programming control of a laminar premixed combustor
The Future of Work Is Written
Here's the thing: gopher & gemini are, in a sense, like Facebook: extremely uniform. In that sense, they are not even BBSes, because it's practically impossible to convey self expression beyond text. Don't get me wrong: one can easily get lost in gopherholes with 20+ years of content, but it's always only content.

In contrast the web of the early 2000s was awesome, because you already could do a lot of really weird things (bouncing mouse trailing balls, anyone?) resulting in self-expressing art-like sites - the pinnacle of these kind of sites were undoubtedly the Flash era.

So yes, depends on what one is after. Maybe both are needed.
From the pictures the ship looks awfully small compared to container ships. I wonder whether the economics will work out for them.
> > Japanese people are racist!

This is a difficult subject to answer in a simple way. I think they are, but it doesn't matter as much we tend to think, and it has less impact than what would be expected.

For instance I agree with you that outward hostility is extremely rare, or any racism explicitly verbalised. It also have basically no effect to foreigners above a certain living standard. To put it bluntly, if you're rich or at least middle class, you would be hard pressed to find signs of discrimination.

It's on the lower part that it becomes more apparent. To follow on your point:

> For instance, renting apartments can be an issue for foreign residents with poor Japanese language skills

It's not the language skills most of the time, although if you're crazy good at negotiation you might be able to dig your way through it. In my experience it's more that if you want to a flat at the same basic conditions than an average Japanese worker you will only have access to 5 or 10% of the offers. Those flagged "foreigners OK" for whatever reason.

For what it's worth, if you're a dude with no guarantor you won't have the same conditions as student girl backed by her gov. worker parents, as well.

In contrast, if you're ready to shell 200k a month on location and work at a prestigious place, you will be mostly welcome whatever your gender or race.

And of course a lot of things work the same. If you're looking for a job, trying to work at low wage job might be harder as a foreigner than applying to an IT department or financial institutions. The lower you go the more people will care if you're a foreigner or not.
I'd love to see truly modern wind powered ships - maybe more rotor ships (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotor_ship) or something using a modern CFD designed computer controlled aerofoil. Something that could actually slot into the modern shipping industry and reduce emissions - even if only by 20% or in favourable winds.

Building 120 year old ship designs without the aid of modern construction techniques is cool, but it's not going to change the shipping industry.
> UIs are not hard. They just aren't. It's a skill like any other.

I think the idea behind the phrase "UIs are hard" is precisely that, they are hard like any other skill. So don't expect to be able to make one with zero experience or interest in them, like many developers do. The amount of armchair designers is astounding.
> Everyone loves to talk about tech monopolies.

No monopoly loves to talk about how it is a monopoly though, most claim to have fierce competitors. Monopolies usually pretend to be part of much larger markets; where they are just "a small fish in a big pond".
Again, I appreciate the existence of others. Do we have any knowledge of them doing what CIA has? Have they organized dozens of coups on the other side of the globe or something?
That’s not how it works. That’s also not how science works. The burden of the proof is on whoever is making the claim. Saying “this unsubstantiated claim is true until proven wrong” is a logically fallacy.
Tracy comes off as what Paul Graham defines as "formidable" [0] and so it is no surprise that the essay underlines just how difficult it was on both personal and professional level to startup but PlanGrid overcame it all anyway.

But...

> I remember on so many occasions; I would turn the corner in our house to find one of my co-founders, who are all tall, strong men, sobbing in a corner, mourning our best friend.

I can't help but find this line ironic given the talk is from Future Founders Conference for Women.

[0] http://paulgraham.com/convince.html
Did I say "acceptable" means "equivalent to $300k in the Bay Area?" No. Far from it. There's a big gap between $300k per year and "acceptable," even in SF.
Certainly not, I'd be willing to fund a Linux port to an open architecture. Apple is not bringing anything positive to the table, why in the world should we give them software for free to increase their proprietary hardware sales ?
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Why would I want to spend 3 hours every day socializing with people who I see all day at work?
>body is magnesium

It's an alloy with aluminum; along with PC GF-30 parts.[0]:

[0]: https://www.canon-europe.com/cameras/eos-r5/specifications/
Well my toddler is 16 months and things did really already improved a lot in terms of sleep, but the new baby is coming any minute now ... so I expect less of it in the next time ;)
you seem to really forget that history is full of example of crazy things that people would have undoubtedly labeled as "baseless unverifiable brain farts" on their time.

You try to make a black / white distinction between "factual" and "idiotic", but reality is much more diverse (although there are some extreme cases for sure).
The things become even more complex when you consider that real scandals often start to be unveiled by thin hints, rather than obvious proofs.

My point is that it's a spectrum, not a binary thing.
This is same old same old, nothing new in here that India hasn't suffered for since it went from an extremely resource rich nation to impoverished after invasions. It doesn't really resemble the ground level Indian spirit which is very enthusiastic. India remains one of the most diverse countries, in other countries there have been Arab springs and revolts yet Indian hosts hunderds of millions of Hindus and Muslims and many Sikhs and Christians who apart from the odd one off issue, live in incredible peace compared to other countries.
What exactly does high L5+ mean?
I had this plugin installed for a long time. The idea is really awesome, but it's just like debugging frameworks. Most of the time I just use console.log, or in this case the debugger instead of powerful tools.
Also many times I don't actually debug loops and list mutations.
AWS broke itself by exceeding OS thread limits
Tips to Help Technical Founders Grow Sales-Driven Organizations
If the intention of the README was to leave us wanting, they succeeded!

+1 for some more docs, I'm a sucker for libararies that do-one-thing-well.
...but you can find the motivation to offer a product that just works (mostly) perfectly and doesn't need support! Rarer updates, because you just need to test your things perfectly and ensure 99.9% of user will not need any "support". And shipping things that are "done" - they don't need upgrades.

If I find I actually need any kind of support with any service/product and I can't "just use it" then I start looking for an alternative product/service.

There's something rotten at the core of everything-as-a-service and continuous-improvement and growth-hacking and everything that comes with it... Most people actually like things that are done and stay done, most stuff doesn't need to need to be fixed, and it doesn't need to evolve or improve beyond the glacial pace needed to keep up working on the infrastructure it uses...
> After a day spent at the shipyard watching Ceiba being built, I ask Lynx Guimond, another co-founder of Sailcargo, what he thinks is really needed to cut the shipping industry’s sizeable emissions. Perhaps surprisingly for someone in the middle of building a ship, he tells me that one of the solutions is simply less shipping. “At the end of the day we just need to transport less stuff.”

I love it when people are so brutally honest about their own work.
Ah but he is different from those iconoclasts because his personal was also his business life and he drove them both into the ground at the same time.

You’re right, I am absolutely refusing to be generous with him. He had all the generosity a person could ever need and he spat in the face of all those generous people. He also said his whole family forgives him now, and he always
wins, never surrenders. I don’t know much about gambling recovery, but I’m certain addicts never “win”.

All I want anyone to consider is that there are thousands of case studies out there who didn’t have to demonstrate so much dishonesty. Sure he’s got the business chops to keep making good money, doesn’t mean he deserves veneration, immortalisation, and any faith that he’s a good person.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25236057
This site is a bit confusing at first, originally I thought they were modular libraries for writing general software.

But it seems to be a collection of tools specifically for generating computational art/design. Still impressive and useful though!
Possibly :)
As a developer you will always use tools and rely on applications others have written. If you write your program in C, then you use a C compiler like gcc and most developers have not read the whole source code of gcc. Same is true for the C library you use, including standard library, you rely on others developers code you have never seen.

Therefore, I think the IKEA effect holds true in software development, because you rely on "pre-assembled" items, but I agree that you have much larger degree or freedom on how you build your application in e.g. C compared to a IKEA build. Maybe, this higher degree of freedom even strengthens the effect.
You're referring to imbalances in the equation, not to the premise.
> you can always add upgrades

as a customer, i don't have the choice to not pay for such upgrades but continue using the old one.

And yet, the SaaS subscription cost is charged continuously whether the customer likes the upgrades or not.

So no, i don't agree with the SaaS business model. It's more extractive. The point of buying a piece of software is the same as buying capital equipment - purchase once, and have it work "forever" (and since software doesn't rot like real equipment, this should be even more true).

What i would pay a subscription for is live/in-person support.
Amateur Astronomer Finds Possible Source of Wow
If anyone's interested, here's Nithin Kamath, founder of India's largest brokerage firm, on bootstrapping a multi-billion dollar fintech business: https://youtu.be/1ExWh4zm1zg (the major theme is they preferred to run the business on their own terms and pace).
> shape grammar engine with reinforcing engine.

That sounds like it might make the exercise more tractable. Without some sort of middleware, the article seems to be saying the researchers lack traction.

Or maybe the problem is a lack of data.

What if each building was a dataset that included digital versions of the client brief, the CAD files, the BOM and procurement folio, and a 5 year subjective client review? If there were millions of these datasets for training, the same learning could occur as with the shape grammar approach.

Perhaps the limitation today is not enough data, irrespective of data format.
> I'm reminded of how retailers once they cross a certain threshold of popularity and distribution penetration begin rolling out their own branded products. Amazon Basics is an example of that but is true of almost any medium/large retailer.

Conversely if brands become popular they open their own retail stores. The point is not not give your profits away to others if your business is the one bringing in the customers and margins, not them.
I don't know much about Tyson.

Latly I've watched his interview with Kimmel[0], which left me wondering - is it all a joke? An act to keep the audience amused?

In the end, sport is entertainment, and individual sport even more so. I shouldn't be surprised that a boxer is mostly an actor.

[0] https://youtu.be/_SDopVjUPKA
>That's incorrect. They sued the company because they were supposed to take the devices apart and recycle/recover the parts. Not resell them as manufacturer refurbished.

While they ended up on the market as refurbished, (not necessarily manufacturer refurbished) the devices were sold to refurbishers, who would have treated them as any other device they received for refurbishing.
> "well those customers must obviously be stupid and less enlightened than myself, a true warrior of the Free Software tribe"

Sort of.

For most MacBook users, a chromebook will be more sensible choice.

And iphones sell because fashion.

iOS is locked down, and Mac app Store is also a candy shop. Because there are stupid people to spend money on shit mobile games, apple makes quite a lot of money.

And they do lot of deceitful marketing. Apple software is getting shit year by year.

Most people buy apple because "brand", and get accustomed to it and don't like slightest change.
I complained to MS about a serious performance issue. Even finding out how took time. Nothing happened. I reported it slightly differently. Nothing happened. I spent several hours overall, all completely ignored. I no longer consider bug reports to MS to be worth anything.
Maybe "mainstream general computing" was never the thing? Gaming is mainstream, social media is mainstream, many thing, but general computing is not.
I'm perhaps in the same boat. Played a lot as a child but very rarely nowadays. I am a member of chess.com but haven't played in a while.

I think the better players tend to play a quicker timed game to better avoid bot activity. Personally I prefer a more slower game, particularly because I'm out of practice.
We are paying too much for bullshit
I feel the same way. The RAM disk was so important for daily operations that I couldn't imagine not having it, yet I don't even think about it today.

Speaking of layering windows (screens?) I specifically remember having 3 different resolutions open at the same time: normal (Workbench), HiRes (DPaint), LowRes (terminal). It was kinda magical to do all of those things at once and switch between them. Ahhh, memories...
Covid-19 vaccines 'could be rolled out by mid-December' in Northern Ireland
I like the data-url version! I found that on iOS safari, a data-URL page could be installed as a PWA (to some extent). I like the idea of shareable installable apps on iOS that don't even have a server to take down... because they're just a shareable URL.
This thread started when someone said ‘both brakes and tyres emit pollution’. The point was the brakes don’t when they’re regenerative. I’m sure the tyres still do. But that wasn’t what the thread was about.
I built my own one too. Then I realised I reinvented server-side includes again. So I just went and used those. Again.
"Shitty software" was an old saying even back in 1995:

http://scripting.com/davenet/1995/09/03/wemakeshittysoftware...
In other words, you would have to be rather bad at cheating to maintain a low rating.

Chess competition is driven by various rating systems which match people fairly well. Computers are very much better than beginner to intermediate players.
Being bothered is perfectly ok. Just keep in mind the absurdly lopsided balance of cost vs benefit, when compared with something mundane like eating meat (which I do btw and still consider worthy, but is objectively several orders of magnitude less efficient).