skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was actually inspired by that one, but it has some glaring deficiencies (like windowed DOS boxes corrupting the graphics state) that I wanted to fix; but only managed to do so, partially, before other things took priority.

The amount of code needed to get basic unaccelerated graphics working is surprisingly small; most of it has to do with detection and modeswitching. Once you set the mode, all you need to do is give Windows' GDI the appropriate framebuffer and related information (the structures are, not surprisingly, very similar to a BMP file header), and it will do all the rendering. Of course you can also hook into some of the drawing functions for some acceleration, but my testing with a relatively recent GPU and CPU showed that even unaccelerated 2D graphics is plenty fast for essentially everything but gaming. That's partly why I wanted to turn it into RDP --- which AFAIK is similar to GDI, but RPC'd over the network.
Checkov – Open-source infrastructure-as-code static analysis tool
I think it's unfair. A single person doesn't bear the whole responsibility of a breach like Equifax's. The breach is just the final symptom of deeper problems with company leadership & policy allowed to fester by ineffective public oversight and bad incentives. The witch hunt will change nothing and absent policy, it will probably happen again because the specific people were never the problem.
I was unclear, sorry about that. I used to have a PiHole, but have since switched to NextDNS
CryptoHack discord invite: https://discord.com/invite/eJaJ3xC
CVE-2020-28243 SaltStack Minion local priv escalation and container escape
Strong typing can be both needlessly verbose and useful, or the total opposite. My experience with java compared to Typescript, is that the tools largely compensate for Java's verbosity, while that is less true of TS or JS. For example, generating strongly typed method definitions from field declarations.
Deep Learning (by Aaron Courville, Ian Goodfellow, and Yoshua Bengio)
Read cover to cover, then applied these techniques to Crypto Markets (turns out, crypto markets are pretty inneficient)
But far up did the Falcon 9 rockets go before the observatory separated?
Typescript permits you to write code that does implicit unsafe casts at runtime. Type-safe languages don't. Java Generics don't let you implicitly do unsafe casts[1]; erased generics mean the unsafe cast wouldn't necessarily fail visibly at runtime (though there are warnings and linters to alert you to that, and techniques to work around it), but it would enforce that it was explicit in the code (and you would then know to add extra test coverage etc.).

[1] You can implicitly do unsafe casts using arrays, but arrays aren't really using generics, they're a special-case builtin.
At least in the US Burger King does not sell Beyond Burger made by Beyond Meat, they sell the Impossible Burger made by Impossible Foods. They are two different products from two different companies.
How do you test if they're experts?
Also, nobody should have children.
Natural gas burns cleanly and is very effective at heating homes and water. While there are problems with leakage, it's a huge step up from burning coal & oil.
There's something wrong with the idea that you go to college for a computer science degree just for the job market, and not the science. If getting a job is all that matters, surely a trade school or boot camp is the better route. But then I'm of the opinion that college shouldn't be in the market of mass producing future workers.
Svelte uses the dollar sign.
https://svelte.dev/tutorial/reactive-declarations
Toshiba Introduces Touch Free App for Multifunction Printers – Business Wire
What numbers are you guys looking at? They lost $7M on $125M of revenue. Compared to losing $10M on $92M the year prior. It's not insanely far away from being profitable.
The only reason I know is because I thought the same thing! The rent control laws in CA are an absolute rabbit hole you can go down if you have the time!
The answer (in depth) is in the book written by Disney CEO. Too complicated to answer here.
Pretty much everything you describe are poorly cherrypicked non issues that affect fictional people. Like the tormented fictional people from informercials.

Just use pavucontrol (Pulseaudio volume control) which comes included with most distros.
Wow, a 90s internet classic. "Santa Claus machines" indeed.

https://www.tinaja.com/santa01.shtml

His "unauthorized autobiography" was an entertaining read.

https://www.tinaja.com/glib/waywere.pdf
Scala.js actually works really well. Frontend people aren't very aware of it, but if you're a backend dev who just needs to write a bit of code that has to run in the browser then I highly recommend it.
How are you defining "luxury" here? The land in SF is inherently expensive; any newly constructed apartment building is likely to have rents meeting your definition of "luxury". The land is expensive and so too is building buildings on top of it! The granite countertops and stainless steel appliances are a tiny fraction of the overall cost.
StreetEasy is owned by Zillow
Nobody was talking about nationwide averages, because the housing crunch is local, not an average of what's going on throughout the country.

Wages in [U.S.] metropolitan areas have increased much more than what was referenced in your source [1], while housing in many of those areas has not kept up with that growth.

Just look at the wage growth at top metros, many of which have grown a lot recently, but have failed to increase housing supply to correspond with that growth.

Affordability crisis in these metros are the result of restrictive zoning policies that greatly restrict supply. The ones holding the bag are those that need to move, or had the unfortunate timing of being born more recently and are stuck paying recent market rates.

Rent control adds even more fuel to the fire by artificially constraining supply even further through reduced liquidity. People will stay longer than they otherwise would in their rent controlled unit because moving to a new one means paying market-rate on a different unit.

This is playing out similarly in Berlin.

[1] https://www.garnereconomics.com/images/reports/Metro_and_Non...
I'm not uncomfortable, and I don't know why you think I am. I merely think you're factually incorrect in your assertion that the point you mention has not occurred to leftists.

I do understand that it's possible to believe both are bad. I am informing you that leftists do not. (There's probably a more general phenomenon where centrists say that tools that can be used towards bad ends are bad, and people of a particular partisan tendency say that bad ends are bad and not to be blamed on the tool. For instance, liberals are generally not in favor of expanded gun rights, because they understand that guns can be used towards bad ends. Leftists are generally in favor of expanded gun rights, because they understand that, and also understand that guns can be used towards good ends.)
Not the original parent commenter but a sniffer like Wireshark would reveal the url(s) or IP addresses being requested by the phone to call home - it’s fairly easy to check if those belong to a Chinese IP range.
+1

Senior mgr is 1 level down from director and generally has a lot less scope.
going long with $BYND
Virginia governor signs key privacy bill into law
Please stop spreading misinformation and maybe educate yourself on the need for fiber in a healthy diet [0].

[0] "Dietary fiber: Essential for a healthy diet - Mayo Clinic" https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...
A physicist came up with the gear solution which was stated in the video and dismissed because the mock physicist didn’t understand why the gear or wheel solved the problem.

If the gear or wheel is moving at a known rate, it can define the minimum speed of light passing through it, if the gear goes sufficiently fast and is sufficiently large with a sufficiently small hole.

Einstein was not infallible or all-knowing. His insistence on having two clocks when all that is needed is one time-accurate gear just shows he wasn’t thinking clearly. Einstein was clearly not an idiot.

However the mock physicist ignoring the very solution he presented is an idiot.
Self-hosting is no longer the performance drain it used to be now that HTTP/2 is a thing, as soon as the browser parses the page, the JS file is only 1 RTT away. Using a CDN for a single asset like jQuery requires a DNS lookup, TCP connection and TLS negotiation - that's 3 RTTs plus unknown latency from the user's resolver before the HTTP request is even sent. The performance difference in the single request scenario is likely negligible and the benefits of not relying on a 3rd party can outweigh the latency savings.
Javascript is not so often used as a teaching language.

There are many languages which hammer worse practices than either such as POSIX shell scripts, but they are seldom used as a teaching language.

Python is in the unique space of having made horrible design decisions but somehow often used as a teaching language.

One would assume that programmers are to understand such concepts as block scoping rules and the difference between lexical and dynamic variables. — how is Python to teach them that?
"Silicon Valley is digital, no matter where you are. If you have bold vision and strong conviction in an idea or start a venture, you could easily find people anywhere to fund your idea or invention. Covid-19 have decentralized Silicon valley's powerful network, and it will never be the same, ever!"
Maybe this?

https://www.coindesk.com/moderation-bot-blacklists-telegram-...
Inaccurate article.

When the Korean War came to an end in 1953 ...

The Korean War did NOT end. It is the US's longest war at 71 years, Afghanistan is only a mere 20 years old.

The Korean War is still in Armistice mode. To end the war, there would have to be a Peace Treaty. The US refuses to do that.
If you only have 15 years of free pricing, then build the housing with the highest short term margins possible.

If you have free pricing in perpetuity, then you can build housing that might have a lower margin near term but an overall high NPV over its lifetime.
Yeah, so it actively incentivizes neglecting maintenance duties and driving out the current tenants rather than offering them to renew their lease at the market rate. Sounds like a terrible law.
It's way more interesting to look at the nuance and downsides of how Bitcoin works than to merely marvel, awe-struck at the concept of a distributed ledger.

It's been a few years since I was reading in-depth about Bitcoin, and I don't have references, but off the top of my head:

* It's bad for the environment, "wasting" so much electricity on more and more literal busywork... or is it? Apparently it depends where your electricity is coming from (it had better be cheap if you want to make money mining!) and whether you are actually causing additional electricity to be generated or just consuming surplus, or so I've heard.

* Control and power over Bitcoin is not all that distributed in practice. Mining a block would take prohibitively long for an individual, so there are mining pools where participants share in the spoils. Mining pools and exchanges have a lot of power. Just as the infrastructure of the Internet is run by big telecommunications companies whose routers talk to each other, there are various major players that make Bitcoin run, and there are occasionally decisions affecting the future and fate of Bitcoin, and Bitcoin politics, like disputes over protocols.

* In theory, Bitcoin is hard to fraudulently "take over" because you'd have to have more computing power than the rest of the miners combined, but if you control mining pools, or are China or something, I believe you could do it (and no one would necessarily know?).

* The rise of Bitcoin as a currency (not just a ledger/clock) whose value seems to just go up and up raises a lot of questions (IMO) about whether this is a good property of a distributed ledger system.
Maybe they can. Who knows what strange realms of physics this research leads us to.
Amazing, since the first ADA compiler wasnt released until 1983.
You'll make those HR people happy who want candidates with 10 years of experience in 2 year old languages.
Legislative summary from https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+sum+SB1392:

> Consumer Data Protection Act. Establishes a framework for controlling and processing personal data in the Commonwealth. The bill applies to all persons that conduct business in the Commonwealth and either (i) control or process personal data of at least 100,000 consumers or (ii) derive over 50 percent of gross revenue from the sale of personal data and control or process personal data of at least 25,000 consumers. The bill outlines responsibilities and privacy protection standards for data controllers and processors. The bill does not apply to state or local governmental entities and contains exceptions for certain types of data and information governed by federal law. The bill grants consumer rights to access, correct, delete, obtain a copy of personal data, and to opt out of the processing of personal data for the purposes of targeted advertising. The bill provides that the Attorney General has exclusive authority to enforce violations of the law, and the Consumer Privacy Fund is created to support this effort. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2023.
Don Quixote I can feel sympathy for. The fossil fuel industry not as much
Malice or incompetence? Why choose? They've got both!
SkyTran – Personalized Public Rapid Transit
Manage any infrastructure your applications need directly from Kubernetes
Good question.. you would think that this is a discussion worth having
| people aren't really making the rent control argument about Peoria, IL.

We are more than you think. Rising rents due to speculation or just plain landlord greed have become an issue country-wide. Even in places like Peoria. Especially in relation to stagnant wages.

I advocate a combination of strong rent control, aggressively subsidized housing and consistent growth (especially vertically) where possible.
Yeah, at a glance it seems they had a performance problem, possibly from their use of reject and filter which you correctly guess operate over the results instead of becoming part of the query.

I'm guessing he was not familiar with the codebase and maybe not even ruby/rails in general and just wrote the whole sql query by hand, not bothering to figure out the correct way of parametrization , using string interpolation instead.
> Shareholders are already exiting them in droves...

Source?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography#Classi...

Both, but neither for as long a period of time beforehand as you remember.
It's economics, which is sort of a science.
I’m gonna guess that wild grazers get predated on by a much more varied species than just carbon polluting humans and their domesticated wolfs. In the wild a bison might get eaten by a pack of wolfs or it might live long and die of old age and be eaten by a host of different scavenges, as well as insects and fungi. All supplying other niches in the ecosystem. I’m guessing that in the wild the methane that gets emitted by grazing herd animals is offset somewhere else in the ecosystem by the niches which these animals create by their behavior.

It might be that allocating all of these grazing animals for just one species destroys most other parts of ecosystems which would otherwise have adjusted for the greenhouse gasses emitted by them.

Or who knows, maybe we fluctuate between warm periods in our ice ages because enough grazing animals have farted enough to start a runaway global warming effects... though I doubt it.
Realistic Tom Cruise Deepfake – AI Tom Cruise
I think a lot of what you're saying makes sense. People tend to lump all types of raising cows together, when it's really only the factory farming type or rainforest clearing kind that needs to be stopped. There's a tremendous amount of dry or hilly land that isn't suitable for other types of agriculture, so it really makes sense to raise cattle on these lands in low density. I drive by a lot of these places regularly, and seeing cows on them looks extremely natural and the animals seem very content.

So we should outlaw factory farming and clearing rainforest for cattle, which will drastically cut the supply and allow prices to settle much higher so it's more of a luxury than an every day thing.
Sure the US might call itself a democracy but is it really a democracy?

The US is an Oligarchy. There are no "Democracies", those that say they are are actually Oligarchies.

If you doubt that, answer this question for yourself. Do YOU have as much money, influence and political clout as (say) Bill Gates, Nancy Pelosi, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris? Why is that?
Why are the poor dying of Covid-19 more than the rich?
It was cheaper for me to ask my junior which of two blocks he understood more easily and eliminate the style he didn't grasp immediately throughout the project than it would've been to try to teach him and every programmer that follows him on the project for sure.
The American and Australian governments have both advocated strongly, recently, for the ability of law enforcement to decrypt civilian communications. Of course, there's plenty of other countries that would desire this imbalance of power, as well.

Examples:

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/10/12/us-government-ca...

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/21/805032627/trump-administratio...
@nightski
Yes, natural gas is about half as bad as burning oil and one third as bad as coal in terms of energy output per tonne of CO2 emitted.

Although methane is usually the largest component, natural gas is typically a mixture of methane, propane and butane. So not quite the came as cow burps.
> Let me fix that title. Happy to be downvoted into negative territory. I only have 11 points. Go ahead.

> "Bitcoin Is A Waste of Time (and Resources)"

The fact this clever whoring works on HN, saying you'll be downvoted then saying something mainstream popular to get upvoted says a lot about the HN community.

Absolutely 100% off topic to the article and painting the garden shed.

Good work to OP turning their claimed karma level from 11 to 177, that's hacking.
Ask HN: Will There Be a Market for Selling Outlines of Story?
For instance, if you're a hacker, but also a writer of fiction, would you ever buy a chapter outline, for the purpose of reinventing & creating/selling your own Short Story Series?

(Maybe on the premise that an Original Idea (or series of them) may be worth a dime a dozen or so?)

To convey the question more clearly,
the following is a preview chapter outline
of a short story book I am currently working on:

* * *

lit art outline

* * *

1. Uncommons Gameroom

2. (available with one $1.00 purchase)

3. Heyday with Missy Moomoo

4. On Broadway

5. (available with one $1.00 purchase)

6. (available with one $1.00 purchase)

7. Shy Guy Seek Fly Girl

8. Online Dating

9. Visions of Joanna

10. (available with one $1.00 purchase)

11. (available with one $1.00 purchase)

12. Maddie Addie

13. “Best Milk In Town”

14. Nancy Whiskey

15. (available with one $1.00 purchase)

16. CBD Mallory

17. (available with one $1.00 purchase)

..

(etc, etc.)

//license CC BY-SA

* * *

The idea is, the full outline would be available for sale. Is this a curious idea or not really?

To paint more of the picture, the license of the outline (in this case) would be a kind of copyleft license (the Creative Commons CC BY-SA)

Applying such, one could reinvent the chapters, & if one likes, sell the new collection commercially.

In terms of software, the CC BY-SA Creative Commons License appears to me the closest thing to how the GPL License would apply to fiction creative writing.

Is anyone aware of a better way to promote the creation of a 'copyleft' creative-writing ecosystem?

I know this topic isn't specifically code-related, but I want to contribute to an "operating system for story," made in the spirit of Linux. I don't know of a community of folks to better address this question than that of Hacker News.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts or discussion - jon
BIT (alternative information centre)
This isn’t true if the government generates more via subsidies.
This was our internal data and internal questionnaires in a group of about 1000 with 200 responses.

I wish there was more research in this area. I’ve found a hard time with HR type data as it’s all either too general or so specific it’s never published or shared.

I’ve wondered about programmer efficiency for decades now and wish there was some objective way to measure. I’ve never been part of a programmer labor lawsuit but I wonder how that would go as it’s really common for people with similar titles to make very different pay and it’s usually based on completely subjective measures of impact. But my basic understanding of this stuff from business school is that the onus is on the employee to prove a pattern and just “my boss subjectively pays me less” is perfectly legal.

The cases I know of are ones like WalMart’s sex discrimination case [0] that was eventually won (or lost if you’re Walmart) based on the ease of measuring gender (compared to race) and the size of the organization.

I think part of the issue is measuring race and ethnicity is hard. Many people’s race and ethnicity aren’t necessarily widely known so informal methods of looking at the company prof pics isn’t definitive. It’s also hard because race is self-selecting so if someone responds to a survey there’s not really anything that can be done to qualify responses unless they are specifically claiming tribal nation status.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wal-Mart_Stores,_Inc._v._Dukes
I need to haul an old kitchen oven to my dad's house so he can cook dinner, since his failed. Dad lives deep in the mountains at the end of a dirt road, far from any train station.

I've got a 20 foot fishing boat sitting in my backyard. I want to take it out on the lake.

I'd like to visit my in-laws who live on a farm in a rural town without bus service, 200 miles away. The temperature is a few degrees above freezing and it's raining.

I can't use a car, either owned or rented. What superior transportation solutions exist that allow me to do them?
PHP's type hinting can be a nice onramp to typing, albeit runtime checks. With some linters it can be the best of both worlds for those disciplined and educated enough.
Bombholed
This is a national problem requiring a federal solution. Anything less will be exploited by desperate people. Don't hate the poor players. Hate the rich exploiting them for profit.
Show HN: Bring real-life gestures to your video calls using Heyoh – Mac OS
The problem is employers require computer science degrees, especially for entry level jobs. Then there's things like coding tests about inverting binary tries and such that tends to be less thoroughly covered in trade schools. When employers have more realistic demands we might see some change.

At the same time colleges are morphing into expensive trade schools, their advertising is full of phrases like "preparing you for the real world".
Rookie question: is there anything IDA Pro does that Ghidra does not?
I really want to use Deno, but until it's got a decent solution for cryptography, it seems as if encrypted session cookies are a no go, which makes a lot of my use cases a no go.
I had a Sony Clié PDA which ran .swf flash games and the home screen had a grid of icons much like the iPhone 1 home screen. It was a gorgeous full screen display with touch and stylus. This predated iPhone by a few years.

Any else have a PDA and see the glaring opportunity to add cellular functionality to them?
Think this through. You could maintain a military so powerful no rational state would dare attack you. Or you could “right-size” until you get a military just barely powerful enough to defend your nation. You could very easily end up spending more in the second case, where you’d actually need to fight a life or death war, than in the first, where you just keep the military perpetually at the ready.