skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was partially noted in past threads, and partially missed, but this 20 year old didn't actually lose the money he thought he lost. It was basically a "leaky abstraction" of the backend that bubbled up. Their total lack of any real customer support since it's not "scalable" also contributed to this tragic adn avoiadable death.
I see a lot of incel-y talk on HN. Some of it seems predicated on Silicon Valley as a gold rush town, with men outnumbering women ten to one and the women taking that in a mercenary opportunity. Almost any discussion of dating will turn up a lot of such views.
It's a meme I see every now and then. It is based on two beliefs. One is that boys molested in their youth are more likely to be gay later on in life. Another is that gay men (or some subset of gay men) are pedophiles. Combining these two beliefs, the meme asserts that gay pedophiles sexually assault young boys and "turn" them gay, and calls this a form of reproduction (in the sense of one gay man creating more gay men).

The meme itself is intended mostly to get a rise out of people. It would be wise to pay it no mind. But if anyone wants to earnestly defend this position, I'm all ears.
Hackers try to contaminate Florida town's water supply through computer breach
A lot has changed in the last decade
I'm not sure if you're just reinforcing the message of the article, but that is exactly what the article is stating this competition is for

to create and demonstrate a solution that can pull carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere or oceans and lock it away permanently in an environmentally benign way,
If only he'd realized that he could declare bankruptcy, he might not have been so overwhelmed. I think it wrecks your credit for about 7 years (?), but it's not the end of the world. This is so sad.
Does anyone know what causes the "scanlines" we see throughout the image, e.g. https://viewer.legacysurvey.org/?ra=134.9718&dec=32.3736&lay... ?
> A group of people getting sex changes is arguably destructive if it's just due to a whim. Look at the suicide rates. In the real world where it's not a choice, I'd look to blame bigots for a lot of those suicide rates. In the world where it is completely a choice, I'd look to blame people who encouraged them along that path as the proximate cause.

Yes. In the present world unfortunately I don’t think we have lots of data to say either way, though it’s probably a combination of both. We should be tolerant, and also accept that not wanting to conform to gender stereotypes does not necessarily means that one needs to change sex, though sometimes it does.

> But there's a perspective, and from what I casually observe, is a genuine concern among some more conservative leaning folks. People are concerned that young people are being pushed into harmful surgeries.

I think that’s a very valid concern, considering the irreversibility of it and the potential harm. Being conservative is not in itself a bad thing: you can be conservative, empathetic and tolerant. There is no such excuse for homophobia, though, when there is no harm done to anyone.
Its worse then that because most of the users of cryptography aren't using it directly. It is often a layer or 3 down the dependency graphs. So its not unreasonable that the users weren't testing it.

There is a range of things the cryptography team could have done better.

1.) made it a major version change (i.e. 4.x) or even a new package name. This could be a bit extreme, but I would suggest if they are shifting to integrating more Rust, the package will likely have heavy internal changes.

2.) made a larger effort to understand how impactful the rust transition would be to non cryptography developers.

3.) Reached out to distro packagers to make sure they are aware. It appears they were focused more on PyPI users.

4.) Had a longer period of transition, Ideally with a public deprecation warning so that these users have had at least 6 months of logs they ignored before it broke.

However I think the blame needs to go to the packages that are using cryptography like ansible. They shouldn't have a floating dependency that allows a jump to a version that may be incompatible. Secondly the users of the package should be monitoring their upstream.

I think this is a larger issue under the surface for these alternative hardware platforms. Rust is becoming a major development language, and its side effects include much higher resource usage at compile time. I am not sure your going to be able to self host a Rust compiler on a m68k platform. This may be one of the points where a somewhat large portion of our computing hardware is "cut off", or alternative approaches will be required such as cross compilation. If Fedora, Debian, NetBSD and Gentoo wish to keep supporting these platforms it might require a considerable investment, however I wonder if it will be worth the time for most people.
Interesting, I mostly thought that the smart contracts had flopped by now (it has been more than 5 years now that Ethereum has launched, where are the smart contract based unicorns?), but maybe with a complex technology like that they just need more time ?
> The Kearns’ family complaint says, “Not only did Robinhood permit Alex to open the account, but when Alex was a freshman in college later that year, it permitted him to trade options.”

You have to go out of your way to trade options (they're disabled by default), and the only way you can get options enabled in Robinhood as a college freshman is to straight up lie on the application.

> “Worse, Robinhood provided almost no investment guidance, and its customer ‘service’ was virtually non-existent, consisting of automated e-mail replies devoid of any human contact or interaction,” the family alleged in the suit.

How many brokers provide investment guidance? How many do it without additional fees?

I've only reached out to Robinhood two or three times but a person has responded to the initial inquiry in all but one instance (where an automated email just said it would be a while, and a person followed up about a week later to actually address the issue).

Robinhood is a shit company and I look forward to incoming class action lawsuit but this is a grieving family lashing out and should be dismissed. If anything comes of this the only thing that's going to happen is there are going to be more roadblocks for retail investors to invest.
Apple positioned to offer cryptocurrencies: RBC report
I agree. The solution is to make people aware of their rights and know what to do when a cop is doing something shady, not weaken the tools that the justice system has for going after things like DUI. Most departments have bodycam requirements now, and citizens have the power to impose steep penalties upon dirty cops.

I stand by that statement though, giving bullshit tickets and fines means that cop will likely just have to spend more time in court trying to defend hopeless cases and eventually get investigated for this kind of activity.
The real question is whether it would have been better or worse for the case if he actually had lost 700k.
> What this tells me is that Tesla has too much cash and doesn't think investing that cash in its main business would produce gains comparable to BTC

In the short term how could it?

Also, isn't a $1.5 billion investment by a big named company (Tesla & Musk of all companies/people) a self-fulfilling prophecy, in that it will assuredly pump BTC prices? A $1.5 billion punt on anything, especially BTC & considering the stock growth/capital raising recently, doesn't seem that wild to me.
> The baboon was paid twenty cents a day, and half a bottle of beer each week.

I don't know what part of the sentence is more amazing, the beginning, middle or the end.
Have you used Cognito?

It sucks.
I might be misidentifying it, but they look like diffraction spikes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_spike
I don't think it's meaningful to let defendant review the code each trial. Such code reviews should have been done before it was ever allowed to be used in the legal system.

On the other hand, there's always the more practical option of getting the dna testing done by a second, third or even a tenth different approved company if the defendants want to pursue this line of reasoning. From what I understand, dna testing is statistical which means even if they find some bug in the code there will have to be extended debates on whether or not a particular bug affected the credibility of this test result. This is just bullocks.

Having said that, the excuse the software company is giving is a bit lame.
I found this too! I wasn't expecting that. What a fun trick.
It's nice if you can create opportunities for less able people, but I also think it should be people's right to employ the best person for a job. I don't think you should be able to demand from anybody to hire the less able person.

Creating jobs for less able people is probably an entrepreneurial skill in itself.

Just imagine you are building a house (your future home), and you have to hire people to build stuff for you.

Perhaps you can get a better deal by hiring less able people, but then you also have to be able to manage them properly, I presume.
However, I'm looking for: 1) usage on computer, not mobile, 2) usage from Windows too, not just Mac, 3) Share via internet, not nearby/bluetooth/etc.
AT&T Says International Variant Phones Will Stop Working on Network on Feb 2022
Maybe some sort of social network using it as the default profile pic and isn’t caching
And probably doesn't exist anymore if it's far enough away.
Perhaps a very inefficient “check if we have working internet access” routine.
What is an equal opportunity?
YFFA can also just ban you for any reason
I run data collection scripts on 64 different darknet sites. Markets that accept both BTC and XMR get hardly any XMR deposits, WHM is a major market that makes up essentially all the XMR traffic but is growing much slower than BTC-accepting markets despite being very popular on Dread.
But he's suggesting that they only be served to 10^-6 people - that's one 1,000,000th of a person - I suspect it will have little effect
Many things that we’re not tolerant of (like rape or murder) may also be an inherent natural part of human nature.
> Most of those supporters still support Fox though, no? How many are actually against Fox, never watch it, and advocate against it?

Seems like a lot. That's why OAN and Newsmax grew so fast.

> I don’t think the comparison is the same. Maybe for Democracy Now and some progressive YouTuber/online shows.

Democracy Now and TYT are the progressive version of OAN/Newsmax. MSNBC is the progressive version of Fox.
This is cool! We accidentally spun up a Private CA as part of ACM. It was a $400/month ulcer causing click.
There is no way to implement routing in lightning. Literally nobody knows how to do it. It is a studied problem, and nobody has a solution. Nobody knows where to start looking for a solution.

It doesn't matter how much is fixed or tweaked in the code, it won't help. We don't know how to solve routing in Lightning. It's just not a tractable problem.
It's still going. Full of dead links though.
Says it's been going since last June.
Everyone prefers better typography, but what qualifies as readable and acceptable for math? Generations of mathematicians learned from handwritten (including horrible scribbles on chalkboards), typewritten, and facsimile/photocopied material (like many Dover reprints). Current mathematicians grab scans of old math books from online pirate libraries. Math material on the web is mostly mathjax, and it's just fine. Math rendering doesn't have to be up to Spivak's standards to be just fine for reading and learning. And there's an even greater gap between "just fine" and "acceptable".

Back to the main points:

Epub is a better format for everything except niche uses (textbooks, especially math, papers, etc) where there's an argument for pdf. It's rather weak, but I understand the argument and I don't throw a fit when such material is only available in pdf. Most regular books aren't even published in pdf format anymore, for good reason.

There's no reason to convert epub to pdf except to print it — and why the hell would you do that? buy a used print copy — or to send to someone who doesn't have an epub reader — in which case you're better off giving them the name of an epub app to search for and install, so that they can read epubs in the future, rather than converting every epub you want them to read into poor quality pdfs.

Meanwhile, mathjax will only improve, along with publishers' general css competence.
Well if I had a bitcoin for every time somebody said......... Never mind
I think I am looking for pretty much something like this but for non-tech-savvy users as well and for Windows. For use between family members who live apart.
Yes, its a problem with the technology, so anything using RO will have the issue to some extent. Fancier systems will automatically flush the filter to help prevent this, but its rare on consumer grade equipment.
Github's main business is not Github Pages or be a CDN.

Netlify's main business is.

Netlify also provides deployment previews for commits and PRs, and a complete CI/CD pipeline that you would have to implement yourself with Github Actions or something else.

The CMS isn't what I need either, but there is so much more than just hosting.
And now thanks to this HN post, 21% of requests are for that same flower!
The article mentions the app misleading him into believing he had incurred the debt, but never goes into how it was misleading. Was he actually in that amount of debt, or was he misled? If he was in that level of debt, was he misled about the risks he was taking?

I'm not a fan of the argument "they shouldn't have let him make decisions he didn't understand" because I believe the onus is on us to know what we are doing before we do it, and arguments like these are what led us to our current regulatory framework disallowing investors into markets unless they meet capital requirements, essentially pricing everyone but rich people out of markets.
> You’d have to argue that any behavior is a crime in order for it to be legitimate for perpetrators to suffer consequences.

Okay, but there was a time when homosexuality was a crime in the majority of Western countries, and in some places around the world, it still is a crime. What then/there?

Moral reasoning based on current law is partially circular reasoning, and also tends to ossify current law/state of moral progress.
I've warned them about my concerns. If I stop working with them, and I have no further knowledge of thir situation, I don't see what else there would be for me to do.
No idea why this wasn’t. Often times they’re not for this reason _and_ because the hardware itself is too difficult or impossible to get online and can’t be upgraded. Forget networks for a moment - a system running Windows XP is way less risk than an upgrade to Windows 7. Plenty of companies have older systems running vital hardware that if it went offline could cause massive outages, revenue loss being only one if the impacts. So air gapped networks are pretty common in ICS environments as a result.
I don't know why you are getting downvotes, that's exactly who they drew inspiration from here.
Something that's been on my mind forever is, given the amount of photos and other data that's been gathered, if we put it all together with a really powerful computer/algorithm, could we generate a simulated picture of the Milky Way as if seen face on, at a few million light years above? Without it just being a generic galaxy.

I think I remember reading about the latest and greatest direct measurement of stellar distances, and how it's a huge number of stars but a very small radius relative to our whole galaxy. And of course there's all the dust and stuff in the way of viewing. So my belief is that what I want is impossible, but I think I have heard that we're fairly certain our galaxy is a barred spiral?
You can not like the language, but frankly:

'Why modernize a crufty Lisp when there is Clojure?'

is a strange comment. Those two languages have more differences than they have common ground. "It's got parentheses, and all languages with parentheses are equal" is a poor basis for critique. Now, you also speak about Perl in the same way, so ... ?!
Asked to become an advisor to a seed-round startup, options or equity?
I'm concerned that with options the gain is taxed as income when you exercise them which can be expensive if the startup does well, is it reasonable/desirable to ask for an equity grant instead?
The website should host an auction!
If you are going to offer MFA, it needs to be standard. How would you feel if seatbelts in cars or life jackets on boats were a paid feature? What if your bank charged extra for declining suspicious transactions?

Not the type of behavior you'd expect to see from the company you're handing all your user account data over to.
You said it.

I'm consulting for a company that uses Azure DevOps and I cannot believe how much harder it is to use than Github Enterprise for getting things done. The documentation is also strictly worse, and localization is just not there at all.

-edit-
I assume someone who works on Azure DevOps might be looking, so a few small specific things so you don't think I'm just a hater.

- It is hard to use markdown consistently, and it is particularly painful when doing any project management work on DevOps (which I assume is one of its strong points)

- The lack of a Japanese menu really sucks for something that is supposedly aimed at enterprises. Having to explain both native and English language vocabulary terms is double plus ungood (again, in an enterprise product put out by a company that has usually done excellent business in Japan)

- It's baffling that I can't make changes to the template when you give me a template option. I assume it is a permissions issue, but really?
Well if I just made multiples of what a Tesla costs thanks to this move perhaps I practice some positive reinforcement & purchase a Tesla? Adding support for BTC payments just facilitates the transaction even more so
It’s incredible that anyone thought it was a good idea to connect this kind of infrastructure to the internet.
That seems like a bit of a facile perspective.

I'm reminded of what a centenarian once said when they were asked about the secret to their health.

"Just keep breathing. I can't think of anything else. I can give you all sorts of ideas and suggestions but if you're not breathing, they don't mean anything."
Maybe it will be as soon as all the light gets here
90,000,000 requests a day. That's some flower.
I strongly believe that it's time to regulate internet as a utility and stop letting internet providers jerk us around while they provide a utility disguised as an optional service.

I can survive without cable or satellite radio, but it's impossible to survive without internet.
Robinhood’s app is notorious for indicating a margin call when one is not forthcoming for complex options strategies (options spreads, in this case).

PSA: Please use a real brokerage when participating in capital markets. Fidelity is my recommendation, but others are at parity if not close. No one should be using Robinhood.
Is any of those userscripts extensions usable on mobile Chrome or Firefox?
Or it's India's canonical non-hotdog.
Yes OMG! Didn't expect this one
Building on this, what are the chances this just leads to a cyberpunk underground economy of interview-passing images/videos?
CBD Oil and Hemp Products
> there's no compelling evidence that her original accusation about Andreessen was made in bad faith.

Yes there is. According to others on the call, the word "retard" was uttered by a woman, and in a completely appropriate manner given the context. Taylor claimed Mr. Andreesen said it, and that he said it in a manner that warranted calling out. When her "mistake" was revealed, she responded not with an apology, but another lie to divert blame. Her claims had no apparent relation with reality, and her recent antagonism of Mr. Andreesen gives us no reason to assume this was all a big misunderstanding.
This entire disaster will be the end of robinhood, and frankly it couldn't happen to more deserving people.

Kharma is a bitch, and when you build a business based on virtue signaling and lies you had better expect for it to come back and bite you.
Reverse engineering viltrox em2 ii Firmware
So I am into cameras and bought viltrox em2 ii speedbooster that lets me put canon mount lenses on my blackmagic camera (it also does other things that's not important right now).

So it has electronic pins that are supposed to allow me to control the aperature of the lens and allow for image stabilization to work. The speedbooster adapter has four firmwares (which I've included in a google drive link below) each which have drawbacks that are purely bugs in the firmware.

The two best firmwares are 2.3 and 3.5. - Firmware 2.3 works flawlessly Except you have to take the lens off and put it back on every time you start the camera. - Firmware 3.5 works flawlessly EXCEPT that the image stabilization on my canon lense does not work (it does not get passed through the adapter to the camera).

I am sick of waiting for viltrox to make a new firmware that makes this adapter fully functional and want to make my own. When I open the firmwares in a basic IDE like notepad++ you can see the binary like in this example line: CÌ/²K<ÅØ£ÿ:zm£J‰Pš×Oµ=€É­AìØd™êYûÆ¶ Y¢Ù_Joîì8M­´F¦Ú¬ì‰ÿ?»wµ€°êÉ¬s—0O}LµœGCÁõ‡°¼³KÁå6ONž%¢¶®J*„z‹ ¶ÒÂS.+

I understand reverse engineering software from binary is not easy but since these two firmwares are almost perfect after reverse engineering one would have to either fix the error in 2.3 (to get it to work without taking the lens and adapter on and off) or in 3.5 (get the image stabilization to pass to the camera which could be done by ripping code from the 2.3 firmware).

I am really interested in this and was wondering how much something like this would cost and who or where I could go to outsource this work?

Google Drive Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16_rssmmyjm5Ixt_xpM_M8X2F8Aaykl5s?usp=sharing
Mark Cuban give DOGE the nod
Wonder why this is accessible not as data but to do actual changes and modifications remotely. Surely this will change and new policies will come into effect before a disaster strikes. We're in bad shape security wise in the private sector as well, not sure what your gripe with the government is but at least their incentive is not to extract as much data from you as possible. Also in this case a government worker who was at the plant caught and rectified this attack. The problem you're complaining is not government vs private sector but more like bad management/bureaucracy/to complicated to mortals vs good management/individual initiative based/self management (it could be as a government agency or as a private one). The monster hierarchy makes it hard to fight all sorts of things in plain sight
I've wondered what would happen if jail culture expected people to go to trial.

So similar to how snitches are targeted, if criminals in jail start violently targeting people that didn't go to trial they might be able to tear down the system...maybe?

And to be clear this is a loose idea as I don't really know the system but it seems courts would be so flooded if everyone took this route. Prosecuters would have to stop with these rediculous threats of trial jail time vs plea deal as jails would become too full. And authorities would be forced to stop charging people for smaller crimes as they simply couldn't handle the case load in courts.

Even getting juries might be tough and start the rest of society pushing back if people were regularly being called for jury duty and disrupting their own lives.

...or something else but this would be an interesting 'fight back' by criminals.