skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it might be indicative of wider issues with keeping their systems / data up to date, or the wider govt IT infrastructures that support them. If they are getting this wrong, what other problems are there, in the Met Bureau or across Govt IT.

I'm reminded of the COVID reporting fiasco we had in the UK in October [0] where Public Health England - an agency of the NHS - lost COVID data because they were using .xls files to log data rather than .xlsx - the former was silently truncating critical datasets because of a hard row limit. The .xlsx format first appeared in 2007, so the NHS have only had 13 years to get their act together.

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/05/excel_england_coronav...
It'll be definitely interesting to see what Facebook is going to do if one of those bills that would require it to federate and/or provide an open API gets passed.
I think amazon offers a mechanism on your Amazon linked devices of sharing wifi credentials. If you had ever fired up an amazon fire tablet or something and connected to that hotspot, the fire STICK may have accessed the wireless history and assumed it was yours to connect to.
No I totally get that. My point is if we want to get to that lofty goal of space exploration and colonisation, then our own Moon really is the obvious choice. The supply chains, the technology, the achievement is no smaller than it would be on Mars. For some reason people threat it as almost "too easy" which is obviously completely nonsense. We should built and maintain a permanently inhibited base(colony?) on the Moon before venturing out all the way to Mars. Surely having a visible colony so close to us would be a huge uplifting achievement to all of mankind.

The bottom of the ocean is perhaps less glamorous, but it's no less technically challenging - the risks of having a permanent base on the bottom of the Mariana Trench would be huge, but we could try living there permanently, growing our own food, conduct research etc - it many ways it's more similar to space exploration than many people think.
I wish people would stop downplaying security, as if it took attention from an individual at a malicious agency to screw up your digital life.
After 18 allocations on the backend allocator LFH will kick in. The LFH will randomize returned chunks of the same size, doesn't matter if they were freed in the meantime or not. That makes it hard to exploit, you need to groom the heap before LFH kicks in because afterwards the unpredictability becomes too large.

If you change the size of your request you will go either to another bucket or the backend allocator. So that makes type confusions slightly harder if you don't control variably sized buffers.

Even before those 18 allocations, the specific tricks that used to work on the old manager, which is very similar to the behavior of linux kernel apparently, no longer work. It used to be that you could reliably get the same memory address if you allocated a same sized structure immediately after freeing another. But that no longer works.

The only technique that I currently know of is that the merging of free blocks on the backend allocator is still deterministic.

But to use that you must be sure your target has not already triggered LFH for the sizes that you're using while grooming.
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Probably changed by a moderator because they considered original one clickbaity. About new title: as a Canadian I am well aware what GST/HST is but might be worth changing back to the generic “sales tax”.
What "bell curve"?

And it's totally normal that people pick number sequences etc on lottery tickets, so if one of those (or ones resembling dates etc) comes up its normal theres more winners than usual.
Because capitalism privatizes profits and socializes costs whenever possible.

The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 is the relevant law. The USSC upheld it 6-2 in a 2010 case.
So we should let them run mitm-able websites in the name of unsupported OSes that can't be arsed to keep their version of openssl up to date?
Does this distinguish between paid and non-paid accounts?
Completely agree. Same thing happens in the US - to hear some Americans speak they have become a dictatorship with a tyrant in charge, and the whole system is broken. Meanwhile they continue to have free and fair elections, first amendment rights, the ability to take their government to court etc. In my country (in west africa) just voting against the dictator in charge can get you banned from getting any employment, send you to jail to be tortured etc. And marching on the streets in peaceful protest has actually had people sent to death row awaiting execution. I guess it’s a matter of perspective :)
I think it's kind of mean for us to find this story interesting. If I merely found it uninteresting, I wouldn't have commented.
Could this be why Google are withdrawing their free phone calls on Google home devices in the UK as well?
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For placement of the bell curve on lottery balls sets, just sum the set to get it's total.

Sum the lowest possible set and the largest possible set to establish your boundries.

For this lottery it is:

Lower boundry: [1][2][3][4][5][1] = 16

Upper boundry: [50][49][48][47][46][20] = 218

Mid Point: 101

Last nights draw is 45

The sum of any set will fall somewhere between these two boundries (16 and 218), with majority landing close or to the sides of the mid point.
My jaw dropped the first time I learned that JSF was translated (not sure compiled is the right word) into Servlets full of print statements. And of course no JSF-based application has ever managed to produce valid well-formed HTML ever since.
I just recently got my company's moneymaker app into HTTPS, and it was no small feat. So much totally screwed up browser automation (read: DOM/JS interaction) and ad-hoc URL construction kept disrupting the HTTPS experience by attempting to redirect or fetch HTTP.

I did have the certificate and reverse proxy ready to go a full 18 months before I could finish the app migration. Someone previous developer was REALLY against relative URLs. "http://".$host.$urlPath everywhere.
What site? Just pick one of the over 150 trial sites at random? What are they going to see that they couldn’t have seen a month ago?
Markdown doesn't work on HN, so that link got corrupted. Fixed version for the lazy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levinthal's_paradox
> Airbnb: we don't need to own hotel properties and employ managers and housekeepers

This is correct for AirBnb, but incorrect for the value chain. Someone must have the flat on their balance sheet. Someone must have a cleaner lady on a payroll. Is Airbnb value chain more effective that hotel value chain? Maybe. Maybe not. But for AirBnb host having a tax advantage of not being charged as a tourism business while in fact being one was clearly an advantage.

Similar laws have been passed all over the world, including the US where it goes by a city or a state, Las Vegas being notable.
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It's not the same server.

A "curl --head https://www.bom.gov.au/" answers with "Server: AkamaiGHost", while "curl --head http://www.bom.gov.au/" answers with "Server: Apache".
Panics Are exceptions but they should be seen as a fatal error. It is very discouraged from being used and the official doc insists that you should not use them for error handling. Qualifying a feature as exceptional use does count, just as having goto in C++ (and go) is possible but should be (and is) generally avoided should impact your perception of c++.
Amazon Sidewalk enabled?
The Rendering Equation [pdf]
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We've been JITing using LLVM for a number of years without an obvious problem. It obviously depends on the size of the code you are wanting to JIT, but the OP was discussing a toy language as a side project, and LLVM is certainly perfect for that use case.
How is that different from the different caches already present in the linux kernel? For example, `struct cred` is always allocated in the `cred_jar` cache and nothing else goes there.
* in China TLS 1.3 is blocked by the state firewall

* based on past reading of discussions here, in some states using encryption may be illegal, not sure if this is really the case, this may eventually come to the West as well, see Australia and U.S. officials attacks on encryption

* old computers/OS/browser that the user can't update
https://web.archive.org/web/20201202123130/https://amnesia.o...
It makes me think of that Russian mining town that is very far north with high pollution and horrible winters that basically last year round.. no one lives there except for the people paid very nicely (in relative terms) to be there to mine valuable materials. There are probably materials in abundance on/in Mars that people get paid to live there to extract, process, and send back to earth. Only then does it make sense to say “well we could really use a dentist up here, and a little deli, and maybe a store for home goods. And we can’t keep the team members away from each other, what do we do with all these children that have popped up, perhaps an elementary school?” Like many colonies, the first large foray of onto another planet may involve slave or political exile labor.

I’m not much of a sci fi person, but there are real economic reasons to set up shop on Mars beyond a mere achievement for mankind.
Premise: Forgive the sloppiness, I have some math background but I'm not a mathematician, any correction is more than welcome.

I don't really conceptualize them as the same kind of object, to be honest. I'm aware exponentiation is more fundamental, but the kind of exponentiation you are referring to is related to the intuitive concept of "do this N times", which only makes sense for positive integers.

When you are talking about real numbers, the notion of "repeated multiplication" and "exponentiation" diverge, for example, (-2)^2 is well defined and equal to (-2)(-2), but (-2)^(1/2) isn't, unless you relate it to the exponential function.

Since the OP was about a notation proposal for working with real numbers, in that specific context I believe the more natural interpretation is to relate everything to the complex exponential and work your way up from there.
Not that my gut counts for anything, but most prosecutors unless they're just trying to make an example of someone in particular would not be wise making that assertion I think, because they'd have to pin it on the customer doing it intentionally. I'm not a lawyer, nor is this legal advice but I'd think the manufacturer that actually controls the implementation details would be a far juicier target. Otherwise, precedent would be set such that every user of that model Television would potentially be another offender waiting to caatch tge eye of law enforcement to jave a token charge thrown at them.

Just seems like a massive anti-pattern to me.
If you want to share results from your Python analysis (such as visualizations, tables, datasets, files), check out what we're doing at Datapane. It's a Python framework and API for building and sharing reports.

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We have private support for hosting - or you can just export and self-host your HTML report using our open source library: https://github.com/datapane/datapane

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Is a high-performance, low-latency execution system possible on Aeron?
Yeah, the Computer Misuse Act requires mens rea of intending to access a computer you know you shouldn't.
Well we're just dancing around the point now. You agree that there was an implied expectation, I agree that there was no obligation to follow it. That people didn't just makes them -- maybe not bad, per se -- but certainly less-good. But, hey, a lot of businesses are run by literal sociopaths, so what did anyone expect of a person like Zuck. I mean, the "dumb fucks" comment has been out there for at least a decade, and that's really all you need to know about him.
Maybe less likely than out in startup land where piecing many tools together? And at least everything works well together.
Is Dropbox still using AWS? They had a testimonial on the page.
A few years ago if you typed bom.gov.au in your address bar it wouldn't load. You'd have to type www.bom.gov.au .

It took them many years to add the redirect.

It's long over due for an overhaul. I'm glad to hear it has already started.
Userland heap randomization on windows is something different than ASLR. Windows 10 actually randomizes heap layout, not just the offset, by filling larger chunks in random order. So even offsets between allocations don't stay constant.
Always baffled me how even some more accomplished scientists make arrogant statements like that.
There'a a long list of physical phenomena we're unable to explain yet.
I recently bought a Samsung Smart TV (they simply offer good value for such a little price). Best thing to do is to never even start connecting it to a WiFi network and use an external TV receiver. That way it most certainly will not connect to any network whatsoever. I also never agreed to any terms that are on the start display, which may also add to that. Just switch to your Input channel (external device etc..) and enjoy your "dumb" TV.
It's also possible that almost all organizations using SAP are dysfunctional.
And comments needs to be maintained too, which often slips even in PR reviews.
Thanks!

But I don't understand how ePD with no changes from 2009 can suddenly include Facebook and others? Unless there have been other regulations passed?

I can't find anything about ePD changes that forces Facebook to do this, all I can find is the upcoming ePR (ePrivacy Regulation) that will affect Facebook and others, but it hasn't been passed yet.

I haven't heard of any privacy/GDPR/ePD changes recently other than the EU-US Privacy Shield invalidation.

Is there anything I can read on the changes you're talking about?
Oh, I wasn't aware. Yes, it's the same thing.
If you read the article, or even the original comment, in full, you'd know that the scope of this IT project is much more than a single certificate.
My Spanish sucks, but here is a video from some of the Staff at the telescope.

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CIQsBa2H3kg/?igshid=gkczuoe5ud4...
Some years ago Slack advertised itself as a tool to replace e-mail too..
+1 I plan to write a toy compiler and considered llvm. This one thing is the reason I will never use llvm for a hobby project.

Even for non-toy compilers, I think it's a waste of human resources that every frontend has to implement the C ABI.
Demonising of short sellers is an old hat.

It's just as silly today as it has ever been.
>is there any media format, like at all, that can be used by a layman to achieve reasonable results?

I'd argue a WYSIWYG that outputs PDF. But that's probably shifting not only the goal post but the playing field. (It does get at whether the creator should have full control of display or not debate though.)
It is not that hard. The notebooks are all open sourced and you can learn it just like the ways you learned HTML (view source).

As a software engineer, you also have an advantage of having the curiosity to explore and understand how it actually works.

https://observablehq.com/collection/@observablehq/notebook-f...
The issue with ROC is tricky. ROC also claims all of China. But the current party wants to separate. And that has threatened Communist China.

The United States has two options. Either use Taiwan as a negotiating token for leverage over CCP, or wait for CCP to become weak and support ROC eventual take over.

Neither of these options allow for Taiwan’s independence.
Is there anything wrong with short selling?
I suspect My ISP router to have aircrack embedded...

My personal router got scanned by the ISP router...

dunno what to assume with this now... :Ð

It's like trapped at every turn :D

Friendly yours.
China successfully lands historic robotic mission on the Moon
And there's nothing wrong with speculation either.
The idea of lending money just so you can profit from its failure is caused by the affiliations between commercial and investment banks.
> You need to write exception-safe code. But also you're not allowed to use exceptions. So it's the worst of both worlds.

I wasn't aware that this is a real problem in Go land, thanks for the explanation. I wouldn't say the language is "great", was just using it as an example of a modern language where there is a consensus that "they got it right" and not using exceptions, even though error handling is still tedious right now.

I think in Rust you have to consciously fuck up the panic handler to cause similar issues, but I'm not sure.
Many taxi drivers, like uber drivers, are also classified as Independent contractors

Employment classification was not what I was referring to, I am talking about the endless regulations around taxi medallion system that puts a government regulated cap on the number of taxi's
Yeah, the freedom to spend corporate money is nice, but for a smaller org, the experience is exactly the opposite. We have ca. 30 servers and I can move things around without any problem. Most of them are already configured and ready for operation; reconfiguring is easy. With AWS, first of all you need to learn all their ecosystem, and then we had constant problems with cost allocation. Yes, you can book all these charges under "IT", but it's too broad, you need to assign them to projects. And then they constantly grow.

With bare metal it's 100% predictable. Where to book the sudden spike in costs in April? Why did it happen? We had €3000 booked for this project in April, why do we have to pay €5000? And so on.

Sure, if you have too much money to burn and the financial department is lax with controlling the costs, AWS feels great, but not everybody has this luxury.
> What do you mean how it works? If network=open, connect and start uploading.

Except an open network does not mean there's an actual internet connection. Specifically, most "open" networks, require going through a portal to gain access, and while that used to be easy to bypass, it's not so trivial anymore as network admins have gotten wind of the issues.
most likely just amazon doing what everyone else does and storing your wifi history and password in the cloud under your account. so as you switch/add devices it's easier to setup
It’s going to vary a lot depending on where you live and other lifestyle factors. The rule of thumb I have heard is take your yearly expenses and multiply by 25. That should yield enough income from investments to last more or less indefinitely.
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Ask HN: Has anyone joined the growth.design UX course and has opinions?
Ref: https://members.growth.design/product-psychology-mastery/

They have a really nice home page on biases and they do monthly case studies on various things (headpsace this month, a couple of months ago was tik tok) and they sounds pretty cool.

Wondering if anyone here has used the actual course though and if there're any opinions on it?
There's another fun aspect to short selling: it creates extra 'virtual' shares.

So for eg a company like Tesla, securities borrowing and short sellers make it so that effectively there are more shares to buy on the market for people who want to go long.
Duh?

Betting against malls in 2018 sure seems a sure thing. The trends were obvious, much discussed. USA over built retail, something like 4x more sqft per capita than 2nd place UK. Retail revenue (per sqft) underperformed, was going down. The bodies have been piling up for the last decade. The success of the exceptions (Apple Store) further proved the point.

Mega trends killing retail, and therefore malls, were (are) e-commerce and urbanization.

One cliche that Scott Galloway likes to say is (paraphrasing) "A crisis like coronavirus accelerates change, compressing 10 years into 10 weeks."

I'd be more interested in learning why asset bubbles take so long to pop.

I'm also very interested to see how malls can be repurposed. The article's example of the low rent WeWork clone is very interesting. Many others have dreamed about community hubs, cheap rent for day cares, etc.
Arecibo Radio Telescope Originally Built for Ballistic Missile Defense Research
Wait till you see that you just need to log output in CI like

##teamcity[setParameter name='foo' value='bar']]

or

##vso[task.setvariable variable=foo]bar

From any package in your deps, a simple console output can set any pipeline variable. CI pipelines are a security nightmare with modern dependency chains.
If the wifi module is soldered on the main board then I think the best thing one can do is to break the lines near the antenna pins of the wifi chip and terminate it with a suitable resistor.
Helping companies deal with that gap is what I do in a nutshell. It's rather enjoyable- I work directly with the owners to help develop a good IT/Data management plan, then offer monthly service/retainer contracts for the rest of it. No overhead of an agency to account for, so it's cheaper for them, good income for me.
I was the biggest advocate of this approach.

Then, by chance I landed flutter/dart side project.

The power of language where you can mix business logic in presentation files is awesome. You can include your own or 3rd party clients and get full autocomplete and type safety.

The styling did feel awkward at first, but even I, being the first time developer managed to create pixel perfect replica of whatever crazy widget style our designer came up with. And using cols/rows made it easy to make app look good on variety of screen sizes.

I hope that in some moment in time we get same experience for the web, and I encourage more people to try flutter/dart, you migh be pleasantly surprised.
Yes, but you don't need an "IT project" to just disable the redirect.
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Ask HN: What personal cloud storage would you recommend?
There's probably still an external or PCB antenna. Wrapping it in aluminum foil should do the trick.
SF rents fall again in November, down almost 25% since March