skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We had to build our own copy protection after dongles were hacked and too fussy. Weak bits were copyable using the CopyIIPC option board.

So what we resorted to is using a needle scratching the inner most tracks of the floppy on random locations. Writing those tracks with a pattern and record where the pattern was broken. While executing the program it did write that track and read that track, the locations where the pattern was broken (two tracks, begin and end) was the key that was used to decrypt some parts of the further into the program.

To my knowledge it was never hacked and every disk was unique, we kept the keys for each customer (was part of the serial) so if it was hacked we could trace it to the leaker.
Anyone who has ever had an article written about themselves or on a topic they have expertise in would probably agree that most stories are riddled with factual errors, exaggerations, and pushing narratives that don’t mesh with reality.

I think this phenomenon has just become more obvious to more of the population.
> Gov funded = Authoritarianism

Do you think of BBC as a mechanism of authoritarianism?
> The vast majority of these arrests occurred while journalists were documenting the historic, nationwide protests over the police killing of George Floyd and in support of Black Lives Matter.

So basically, it's not a coincidence - police are more likely to arrest journalists that are attending anti-police protests. And it's sort of understandable. Imagine you are a police officer called to go to a protest where everyone there hates your guts, calls for you to lose your job, and bad actors instigate confrontation, throw stuff at you, etc. The escalated tensions probably adds way more stress to the officers there and they snap and start doing heavy handed policing because they want the protest to be over so they can go home.
ERx is pretty cheap, actually cheaper than the tplink router I used before.

My isp is the former telecommunications monopoly in my country, not a artisinal isp and they still allow using your own cpe.
> What I can't do is teach them to be able to reason and write code and do the engineering work I hired them for.

Excuse me if I'm missing the obvious, but why can't you teach them that? Seems like it'd be right up your alley.
Ask HN: Brave Instead of Firefox?
I'm curious about everyone's experience with Brave instead of Firefox. For all the various reasons [0] I don't use chrome any more.

I just downloaded Brave for my main web-development browser (...via finding the latest release on their GitHub page, since they insist on doing an admin-only install on the mac, grr...) in hopes that it's actually faster than Firefox, and uses less memory (so they claim).

After startup, Firefox (that I'd been doing a day's dev on, so this is totally unfair, but I'll keep an eye on Brave) was using ~450M, and Brave ~140M.

Has the chrome-style dev tools, so that's nice. Don't care about the "rewards" thing, since it won't be my main browser.

Do you use it? What do you think?

I'm not affiliated with the Brave folks in any way, just curious.

Thanks!

[0]: https://chromeisbad.com
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Yeah I thought I was the only one. My wife makes fun of me when she catches me doing it (usually when I don't realize she's in the room).
You can talk to yourself out loud as if you were doing a screencast about whatever you're working on. Should override background verbal thinking. There are some positive correlations between self-talk and performance too, shouldn't hurt.
Are you suggesting Oracle wasn't a vendor lock in ploy from the start? I feel like they've just gone from one vendor lock-in to another.
I have the opposite experience working on the backend. GraphQL is too prone to N+1s and other inefficiencies because its in direct opposition of the way data is stored. Its much harder to make an efficient resolver than it is making an efficient REST endpoint.

Errors are harder, because HTTP codes are not used and monitoring is a lot more complicated. I see value in GraphQL - but I think it brings a lot of cost to the table.
It's not a bad idea but it would be hard to prove. For example, if a lawyer works on contingency, how much should be paid?

Additionally, the firm will likely farm out more of the work on to paralegals, private investigators, forensic accountants etc. to get around the cap wherever possible.
The evidence is pointing very strongly towards saturated fats being bad and towards an imbalance of unsaturated fatty acids towards omega-6 in the common western diet.

These are not novel discoveries, this is mountains of research done over the last couple of decades. Cut down on saturated fats and tilt your balance of unsaturated fat more towards omega-3.

The reason why fast food is unhealthy is not because of the specific oils used (and all of the ones you mentioned are much better than the trans fat nightmares we used to deep fry in). It's unhealthy because it's super heavy in calories, and because they're almost entirely carbs and fats and low-quality protein, and almost completely bereft of vitamins and minerals and fiber. The fat+salt+carbs combo keeps you from being satiated until you're stuffed full.

Focusing solely on the fats used during cooking is myopic. You have to look at the whole picture.
Search and information frictions on global e-commerce platforms
I am glad to see this as I hate using a web console to try to get actual work done.

But I have to confess I opened this article half hoping it would be about Lambda support for bare bash scripts. Horrifying, yes, but at the same time...
Also see emojis and at a better but more niche example, twitch emotes where, for example, a selection of happy looking emotes may differentiate between a range of emotional descriptions of good/happy. It's a form of language.
It is working well for me, although I'm not a heavy user and the week or two I had to go without NoScript was quite painful :)
It's the latter that really bugs me.

I'm willing and even happy to pay taxes for commensurate benefits. I don't really feel like I get that in CA. It's like an extremely inefficient engine.

Ironically there is one way in which the tax benefits are ABSURDLY generous - unemployment. When I saw how much that returned I was staggered. Perhaps I'm in an income sweet spot, but when I calculated it, it was far more assistance than I would have expected from a non-French government.

I'm aware of course that state tax sits on top of Federal tax, but when you factor into the equation what responsibilities are Federal and not state, it looks astonishingly poorly distributed.

I'm not really sure how the high cost of living is anything other than a milestone around the area's neck. I've lived in v-high COL areas, but that has always gone hand in hand with extreme density, which could easily be viewed at as a simple tax for the provision of world-class services. Somehow I'm out here in suburbia paying Megacity rates.
As you correctly point out, those are revenue figures, not profit. $10 billion from Google out of $60 billion in profit is significant. Apple saying they 'care' about privacy while making +15% of its profits from Google alone is hypocritical.
This reminds me of the write-up I saw about the Spyro games for Playstation. It has a similar result where a copied game would progressively become harder and impossible to beat. They had the same reasoning, most people pirating/patching the game won't play it all the way through before releasing their results.

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131439/keeping_the_pi...
Great post and I loved the "Monthly Napkin Math" section on his site as well. Always a treat to discover new resources like this :)
It's not clear, is it only for gnome users ?
I use Signal as my primary SMS, and more and more of my contacts are using it. As such, I'm doing a lot more Signal voice and video calls. On my several year old, cheapy Moto G6, I've never had an issue with the battery draining noticeably faster when using Signal. I've done probably 45-60 minute calls over wifi, after which my battery is... maybe 70% full charge?
Seniors do get a slight property tax discount here in Texas. Still I suppose it does encourage people to downsize when they are empty nesters and no longer need to house a big family. In California you get the opposite problem where people can't afford to move as their needs change since their property tax would no longer be kept low.
Funny seeing the amount of people who just read the headline and think this is about people believing journalism is itself dangerous to others.

The survey is about whether it has gotten more dangerous to be a journalist.
Haven't checked details. Does Spring Framework (Spring Data) binds well with this?
Bash is kinda like the last remnants of Perl. I know it's not perl, but it's similar. And it has similar conventions. And like Perl, it gets shit done pretty concisely. It's also a write-only language (easy to write / hard to read). I do find it interesting that bash has kinda become the DevOps root tool. I don't think DevOps would have had it's moment without Bash or if bash was similar to DOS Batch files instead, for example.
China’s Real Threat Is to America’s Ruling Ideology
Does it require 5G? /s
This was one of the most validating things I’ve read lately. I am normally extremely outgoing and due to current circumstances I’m more or less a shut in. I’ve been acting out in my brain social interactions. Despite actively chatting and calling people with my friends who are in relationships or quarantined with family, they have trouble following what in my current mental state makes sense. It’s happened at work as well, which is remote right now, and I was actually given a call to see if I was mentally ok.

Just seeing some preliminary findings about this makes me feel so much more valid in what I’ve been going through.

At the risk of being crude, Fuck loneliness
How is fedora on kde
Do you expect a Google competitor to step in with $400m/year of funding though?
FDA Authorizes Ellume as First Over-the-Counter Fully At-Home Test for COVID
Look... it's not that hard to get the script dir, no cd, no child process...

script_dir=${0%/*}
fwiw, it's based on Chromium like Chrome and Edge
They don't get to snap.
Well considering how many "journalists" there are/were at these BLM riots... im not surprised.

Basically everyone with a cellphone and a twitch stream thinks they are a journalist. Not to mention most the said "journalists" are very biased.
I've tried both; I find Firefox dev tools to be much better (I like them better than Chrome, too). And in a venn diagram of privacy features, I think Firefox and Brave mostly overlap.
If your goal is to have wealthier/higher income people pay proportionally more taxes than poorer/lower income people, i.e. reduce the wealth/income gap in society, then you want both income and property (specifically land value) tax.
I ran a small manufacturing business that listed on Amazon in both seller and vendor central. I was just interacting with it as a ”common user” for 5 years. Never tried to develop against the API - we did about £300,000 per year through the platforms.
Was anyone suggesting it was a coincidence? It makes sense more journalists were arrested, but it's still notable.
Show HN: Pre-record your job interviews
It's not like the products will disappear. Rather they will likely be split into different companies that wields far less power. I highly doubt the average european consumer will care if whatsapp is its own company again or instagram for that matter. Likewise with the various google product groups.
> Firefox won't even ask the DNS stack for the IP, assuming loopback instead.

Which loopback, 127.0.0.1, ::1, or both?
Expo Application Services (EAS): Build and Submit
In Philadelphia, the Inky had a similar footpath as other papers, circling the drain, trading owners, layoffs, a new internet work, the whole shebang. But in 2016 they were bought by a philanthropist who donated the Inquirer and it's other holdings (Philadelphia Media Network) to The Philadelphia Foundation which is a community foundation that has been around for a long time in our city. They're now a "public benefit corporation" which is a structure that can help enable not hedonistic structures to survive in a capitalistic world
The issue with Chicagoland isn't the property taxes currently, it's the uncertainty on the guaranteed raises that will occur. Sure, you can buy a $650,000 house in the city and pay $13k/yr in property tax, but that might go up to $20k/yr at which point you're underwater on your mortgage and spending an extra $800/mo.

I have the money to buy and the day the city files for bankruptcy and restructures their pensions is the day I purchase. But not a second sooner.
Something can be taxpayer-funded without being an arm of the government. Government grants and public funding sources can be divorced enough from what they fund that you can get things like NPR and PBS, which I don't view as authoritarian, certainly not in the way that state-sponsored media outlets tend to push the current party agendas.
> I don't want records or identifiers embedded in my body, full stop.

I don't want medical records stored in a place I can't control.

I've already read here that whatever you disclose with a request to be off the records, goes IN the record with a note "the patient said that was to be off the record"

So I don't play along.
Awesome work. I always wondered if this is possible, perhaps using two or three carefully placed microphones that could identify the source location of a given sound.

See also: recovering speech by filming the vibrations of a plastic bag on the other side of soundproof glass.

https://news.mit.edu/2014/algorithm-recovers-speech-from-vib...
Just a wild guess on my part --- but I doubt she understands that 60% of bitcoin mining takes place in China.

Just one of a number of things about bitcoin that I doubt she really understands. I don't think she should be teaching anyone about bitcoin.
I found the book "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle helpful in controlling or getting rid of harmful inner dialog.
I'm sorry if I said something controversial, I can take a look and send you relevant info, but for now please take a look at:

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... and similar in Bulgaria

On all relevant websites, you cannot find info on BYO, and I can personally guarantee you cannot use your device on GPON or DOCSIS networks.

Only Romania is an exception.
No, they're right but I can see how you interpreted it. They said salary is "your worth to the company" -- meaning, the amount of money they're willing to part with to have you, or to keep you from working elsewhere (your "worth" to them).

I think you took it to mean actual calculated dollar-value driven-by-the-eng worth. Even thinking about that, your example is wrong because it ignores expected value (EV) of a project which takes into account risk. For example, if your theoretical project has a 10% chance of generating $5mm/yr and a 90% of completely failing, the EV of the project is $500k/yr - so it's totally worth it to pay an eng $100k/yr to work on it, even if it fails.
It could be a replacement, depending on from what you need to prepare. It is usually a good candidate in many recipes where you need a mostly-solid fat. Both palm oil and butter have a high percentage of saturated fatty acids so butter can just be replaced most of the time. Extra virgin olive oil is not a good replacement in those cases for example, even if it is perceived as "more healthy" generally, but it can be the wrong choice if you are frying (and you would lose most of its taste, so it is an expensive waste). That is why I really do not understand "organic / full corn / honey-instead-of-sugar / olive-oil-instead of butter" pastries. It is still a lot of sugar and fat, so you should not probably eat a lot of that. Just eat it a bit less, use the right ingredients and enjoy ;-)
A real API would be nice! One can imagine what innovation it could spark in AI / feeding / learning neural nets with a nice API.
I was told this was a conspiracy /s
It is understandable that the police want to arrest the press when the press is reporting on a movement against police brutality. Its still bad.
Don, you are one of the few people deranged enough to write handwritten Postscript and surely have written more than jamie. Too much time spent reading the NeWS.
hacker news in a nutshell
Note: Texas doesn't have a state income tax.
It has a lot of murders but the QoL crimes seem to be significantly less severe than they are in San Francisco.
I read this article about GraphQL vs REST a while ago, and found it quite interesting.

https://www.graphiti.dev/guides/why

The author is arguing that by borrowing a few ideas from GraphQL, a “modern” REST API gets the benefits of both.
I'm on Linux. I stubled on webrender from a blog yesterday, and enabled it. My observation was the same - high CPU usage, so I then disabled. Got 84.0 today, and gave it another go. It appears to be behaving well so far. So I'm guessing there was some fix in 84.0 that made it work for me.
When I was younger I couldn't stand loneliness. I couldn't stand staying in on Friday night. Fear of missing out, even if I didn't even know what was I exactly missing out would burn too strong.
Now in my 30s I love being alone. I can even go camping by myself in the wilderness alone, or hit a bar (pre-covid of course) by myself and not only be happy that way, but prefer it too. Sometimes I would go out by myself a few hours beforehand before meeting up with friends, to get that "I am doing things alone" fix.

I am not sure what changed and I became this way. I didn't work towards it or strive for it, I just grew older I guess. So I came up with a theory. Not even a theory, more like an opinion...

That when we are younger we rely on society to survive. Without a support cycle, the elements will overtake us, and our animalistic instincts light up. Our identity is tied to our social circle.
But as we get more confident and more comfortable with who we are, that deep fear of loneliness decreases. I am more alone now but less lonely.
The same thing you get from AWS WorkSpaces, but in CLI form: a machine that's running within/adjacent to your corporate VPC, with fast high-bandwidth access to all your internal infrastructure, especially things like storage buckets. As opposed to your own machine, running half-way across the country where you might only be able to achieve 10Mbps between you and the AWS datacenter.

Think "I'll run this arbitrary script to batch-process input-bucket X to output-bucket Y, enriching the data by calling out to internal service Foo and external service Bar." The kind of thing Google's Cloud Dataflow is for, but one-off and freeform.

—also, for a lot of people, just the fact that things are running in the cloud, means they're running more reliably. If you want to run something that's going to take four days to finish, you don't want to do it on your own workstation. What if the power cuts out in your house? (Just the fact that you can restart/OS-update your local computer and "keep your place" in the remote is nice, too.) You want a remote VM somewhere (preferably with live migration in case of host maintenance) running screen(1) or tmux(1), with your job inside it. Of course, you can just create a regular VM in your VPC, and do it on top of that; but a cloud shell abstracts that away, and "garbage collects" after itself if you leave it idle.
Compute + DB should cover a lot of use cases, but it’ll be great to have support for more AWS services. DNS (Route53) issues are a pain to deal with for example.
I imagine you could accomplish that via a Lambda custom runtime. The example function given here is a shell script: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/runtimes-walkth...
Regular notaries could be as crooked as rogue employees, yet we still use them because imperfect barriers are still barriers (as with security).

But yeah, when computer-related vulnerabilities are thrown into the mix, it could get ugly.
Even the "fact check websites" have their biases, usually choosing to lie by omission and by presenting conclusions. They aren't just "here are all the facts in no particular order so you can make up your mind". They are "here are the facts I've chosen to highlight and this is the conclusion to arrive at from these selected facts".
Beauty is subjective, but I'd bet that the majority finds the model pleasing to the eye. Generally, for subjective things, consensus is the true evaluation.
You probably need to fix the international tax treaties to really fix it. Even with the EU, they have a tough time getting Ireland in agreement not to help Apple and Google evade taxes.
The quality is pretty good actually, I guess it depends on the caller's phone and reception. After listening bits of those shows, I think having everyone on, more or less, the same audio equipment addresses my complaint about old school radio. I always found my self having to turn up the volume to hear call-ins, and then turn it back down when the host started talking again. Having everyone dialed in via phone normalizes the audio across the host and guest somewhat. Keep up the good work!
> I wonder if the people fleeing California will end up voting for the same bad policies that are the reason they had to leave in the first place. That is, do they connect the bad policies to the bad outcomes, or will they still favor the bad policies?

They are leaving because of high prices caused by factors that are just as present in cities in Texas.

They're bringing their money and jobs with them, so they'll bring some of those higher prices too.

It's supply and demand, not liberal or conservative policies.

Texas conservative suburb-dwellers don't want higher density housing either. They especially don't want lower income folks near them! Look at how litle public transit exists, because such things would let the poor people get closer to their little burb.

Why are so many people falling for this "hey, look, we have lower prices, therefore we have better policies" talking point? Been there, done that. Lower prices are because I wouldn't pay as much to live there, that's not higher desirability.
I'm confused... why don't you believe they could drive past 365 cars during their commute?
I think it's a problem from a security point of view to allow websites to do this. Often the server that runs on localhost is poorly secured and may even expose "Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *" headers. And even if it doesn't, the browser still has to run a request to find out whether such a header is present, so some attacker controlled data does end up in these services. This in turn can be used for attacks.

Maybe these services were coded assuming that an URL can only be 1 kb long? What if you overrun that buffer?

For example did you know that cups runs a web server at http://localhost:631 ?

TLDR: not a fan of this.
SolarWinds Hack Could Affect 18K Customers
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus
I have an iPad that doesn't have a lightning port.

I have a battery pack that doesn't charge with a lightning port, and can charge my phone without a lighting port (wireless).

When I'm traveling light, I don't need a lightning port for anything.

When I'm at my office, I can top off my headphones/iPad/etc off with the same cable I use to connect my laptop to my screen. I never have to worry about bringing an extra cable with me to work.

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It's just too bad, that's all. Apple seemed like they were ready to phase out the lightning port in favor of USB-C and wireless charging. They've done such a great job with all their other audio accessories that a lot of tech-minded people like myself were looking forward to these.