skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of the "Robin Hood and Friar Tuck" hack.

Excerpts:

> They dug around in the operating-system listings and devised a thoroughly devilish set of patches. These patches were then incorporated into a pair of programs called 'Robin Hood' and 'Friar Tuck'. Robin Hood and Friar Tuck were designed to run as 'ghost jobs' (daemons, in Unix terminology); they would use the existing loophole to subvert system security, install the necessary patches, and then keep an eye on one another's statuses in order to keep the system operator (in effect, the superuser) from aborting them.

> They found the bandit ghost jobs running, and killed them... and were once again surprised. When Robin Hood was gunned, the following sequence of events took place:

id1: Friar Tuck... I am under attack! Pray save me!
id1: Off (aborted)
id2: Fear not, friend Robin! I shall rout the Sheriff of Nottingham's men!
id1: Thank you, my good fellow!

> Each ghost-job would detect the fact that the other had been killed, and would start a new copy of the recently slain program within a few milliseconds. The only way to kill both ghosts was to kill them simultaneously (very difficult) or to deliberately crash the system.

> Finally, the system programmers did the latter - only to find that the bandits appeared once again when the system rebooted!

Quoted in the Jargon File: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/meaning-of-hack.html

Original story: https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/xerox.txt
Management never seems to understand anything besides direct dollars. How much time has it cost the company to switch to Teams? It's definitely not zero.
Have you tried contacting Synaptics? They have all the details.

The Windows driver for the device undoubtedly interacts with the Windows Biometric Framework (WBF). But since you're not using Windows this is not an option.

Does the fingerprint scanner work properly in Linux? If not, you may have a long road ahead of you. If it does, I would look here https://fprint.freedesktop.org
I don’t know what market you’re in, but that’s not how it works in any market I’ve bought.

The seller signs an agreement with their agent, and that agreement dictates the commission and fee structure. You, the buyer, don’t pay the commission, and you don’t negotiate the commission with the buyers agent.

And in my experience, a buyer without an agent is just treated as an amateur. The offer is weighed against the headache of dealing with an amateur. It would be an extraordinary conflict of interest, and potentially illegal in some markets, for the listing agent to negotiate a reduced fee structure with the buyer.
How Politics Tested Ravelry and the Crafting Community
Hi, this is my list https://pegao.co/@zakokor
Just to be clear such a machine has not yet been built. This is only a theoretical paper at the moment.
Microsoft has an important business reason as to why GitHub needs to retain its quality - they have access to a universe of confidential corporate data - source codes, inventions, product issues, workflows and so on. They can look up what companies are up to and use that to create their own competing products. Something like Amazon does when they ask sellers on the platform to reveal all their leads and suppliers and then introduce their own cheaper version of the product. Only that Microsoft does not have to ask for this, as they already have all this data.
I don't think there is evidence now that Microsoft is doing anything with this data, but it only takes a change in the management.
Just to throw it out there. We all do realize laying down either glass or copper is expensive per mile. Replacing old infrastructure, per mile, is even more expensive. Add in just how incredibly large the US is compared to other countries... if the gov is going to subsidize something, I want to make sure the bridges, overpass and canal infrastructure maintenance budget is bigger than worrying about how long it takes to download a 4k youtube video.
I think that it is a syntax error is the weird part, in most languages it wouldn't be. So people stumble over an error that normally is considered a style choice.
Dont see an update option for this app in the app store. It says last release was March 12th. How exactly do I get this update?
Im one of these people that prefers the office, all else equal. But it isn’t equal. With full time remote I can live somewhere that is close to my parents, my in laws, and which supports my wife’s career goals. That is worth so much to me. I think I’d accept at 2/3 - 3/4 pay cut to work remotely if really pressed. To me, that’s the killer feature of remote work. How many people have picked up their kids, left behind deep friendships, and moved to the Bay Area? Tons. A huge amount of human happiness is sacrificed to be in the office.
Tesla’s Autopilot Technology Faces Fresh Scrutiny
From the article (the first few paragraphs in fact)

>Ikea France will be tried as a corporate entity alongside several of its former executives.[...] The 15 people in the dock include top executives such as former CEO Stefan Vanoverbeke, and former store managers. Four police officers are also on trial for handing over confidential information.

This suggests to me that those people may be facing jail time.
Telewest?
This is the way it happens in India. We have to enter an OTP to authenticate the transaction. The OTP comes as a SMS and it tells the amount.Some merchants tie up with bank and we can enter the OTP on the merchant's site or choose to go to the bank's site to enter OTP. In any case the OTP page is a new page and the amount is displayed.
Cory Doctorow is Canadian. I believe he also has joint British citizenship.
Juno Spacecraft to Carry Three Lego Figurines to Jupiter Orbit (2011)
I’m not sure what you mean by this sentiment. If there were issues, questions need to be asked. Anti-vax is a problematic issue, but you can’t solve that with hiding facts or causing doubt.
Ask HN: How much digital data could fit on a standard vinyl LP?
This came up in a chat at work, and it's got me curious. I've done lossless vinyl rips to preserve stuff I can't find good digital copies of (the Loving Awareness album for example) which came out to about half a gig, but I think that's more to do with the unreasonably overkill sample rate I was using (I know better now!) rather than any meaningful way of measuring data storage because 192 kHz FLAC is going to have a far better noise floor than vinyl.

As vinyl records are fundamentally analogue we need a digital modulation technique, apparently vinyl has about 18 kHz of bandwidth available so perhaps we could employ several frequency-shift keying channels? Could we do better than audio frequency shift keying^1 since vinyl records have more bandwidth available than the phone lines this is used on?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency-shift_keying#Audio_frequency-shift_keying
The housing crash in 2008 was caused by many people getting kicked out of their homes. It was too easy to get a mortgage that was too big, so lots of families were one hardship away from being unable to pay their mortgage (economic calamity). Also because it was so easy to get big mortgages, housing prices were higher than they would have been otherwise (bubble). So after the crash started, there were a lot of big empty homes and few people could afford them since lots of people were getting kicked out. So sellers and banks had to lower their asking prices until someone could afford them. There are more requirements for getting a mortgage now after 2008 so that should hopefully help to make the next crash not as bad.

Basically, if a lot of people buy houses they can't really afford, a crash will happen soon: when all those people get foreclosed on in large numbers because they can't pay the mortgage.
I wonder how much Tidal/Wind driven flow there will be.
That seems unlikely. From my reading there was a program (a simple research tool to ask people psychology questions), that was written by an "ex-Grad Student". Presumably it worked fine for some time, and then started exhibiting strange behaviour (after all if it was written to do this from the get go who would ever have used it?).

If we are going to do detective guess-work (#) get the list of students who took the test. This level of effort to poison a research lab suggests to me the questions raised some uncomfortable issues with one of the respondents, who happened to have compiler abilities and the ability to read the root password on the post-it note on professors desk.

(#) which frankly is how most detectives dive in - that one seems suspicious, look for evidence.
The CCP didn't do it right from the beginning. It took them almost two months to even acknowledge the virus was spreading between humans and was dangerous.

All they did was try to downplay it and cover it up, until it had spread not only throughout China, but the rest of the world. That's despite having systems in place for exactly the purpose of catching viruses like covid-19 early and quickly.

It's a great example of why ineffective bureaucracy, combined with a bad system of governance and a culture where saving face is hugely important, is harmful to humanity.
World’s First Cities Collapsed Due to Overpopulation and Climate Change
If that’s the closest thing I’ll get to a sorry for Redux existing, I’ll take it.
Interesting. Sounds like people there could setup a bunch of racks in a spare room and provide co-location services to their friends?
Dutch researchers test ways to party during the pandemic
Thank you. It has been a lot of work, with many occurrences of getting stuck. But also fun!
GNU Emacs Jokes
You trust experts to lie to the public (at the very least through omission) for their own good.

No thanks. Your attitude is a significant part of our current political dysfunction. Public servants have been replaced by self-promoters and technocrats who share nothing except contempt for the man on the street.
Personally I hope we move to a hot desk approach since it will lead to much less waste, but I do agree with you that it won’t be popular. At least not right now.

Still there is a chance that in two to three years everything goes back to normal and the hybrid and remote model mostly disappear despite its benefits.

What I actually hope happens is that the governments and municipalities encourage companies to adopt a hybrid or remote model. The more people who work from home means less traffic and the need for less transportation infrastructure which could save billions.
Sure, but how many times a year does something like that crop up? Personally I don't mind leaving a vast download like that to run overnight. On a related note, software updates run in the background, so whether it takes a minute or an hour makes little difference. Same for automated backup.

I very rarely have use for capacity beyond 40Mbps, or perhaps even 25. 4K streaming is as demanding as it gets. If 40Mbps is appreciably cheaper than 100, I'll take 40.

If your Internet connection can't handle video chat and streaming, then you're right to say you don't have a decent modern Internet connection, and it's holding back what you can do. Capacity beyond 40Mbps, though, is rarely of any real consequence.

(I mean this in the particular context of home broadband, of course.)
Yeah, I was thinking "Waaait, aren't they at <100 qubits still?"
I live in city and pay 12k p.a all inclusive 1000GB p.a with speed 10mbps... you are fortunate to have that value which you are getting
It will not break any valid program actually. I'm 97.5% sure that aborting or even throwing an exception on an out of bound vector::operator[] would be a fully conforming implementation.

The fact is that most standard library implementations can already be easily configured to bound check, so there is little pressure to mandate this in the standard.
I think, at least for corporations, the selling point is security compliance: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/security-com...

This always come first over user's convenience.
But the user experience of this tech is abhorrent, so I could see that Microsoft would like to fortify Discord with security features and sell it as Teams 2.0.
This actually could work if done right...
The 1st one is very similar due to the syncopated bass being anticipated by one 16th within the 1st beat of each measure. I guess it's common in that style.
Nobody thinks Australia is a utopia.
> It is up to AZ and Pfizer to decide how to use their factories to meet their contractual obligations with the UK and the EU.

Fyi this is completely untrue. The EU can (and has, now) block export of any product it wants. The US forced all domestic vaccine production sites to work for the US, while the EU failed to do so.
The code, which would break, was already broken. Just in far worse ways than throwing exceptions: silent memory corruption. And there would be no backwards-compatibility breakage, since in cases, where it would throw, currently UB is triggered.
Wow, I’d never heard of the Pfizer case. Here’s a crazy snippet:

“Pfizer argued that it was not required to obtain informed consent for experimental drug trials in Africa, and that any case should be heard in Nigeria”
Looks interesting. Signed up. Looking forward to making some $. Do I have to be US-based to make money on the site?
Building a Face Recognition Powered Door Lock
I wonder what the state of the art is in regex compilation? It feels to me like it shouldn’t be compilation to a program that processes one character at a time as you’ll be doing a lot of branches and so can’t process the data that fast. It feels like there ought to be a way to take advantage of ILP or SIMD operations. Maybe regex just doesn’t matter enough for that to be important.
I have that on my MBP 16".

If I'm coding with an external screen connected (always hot, regardless of activity), and doing anything that requires the CPU (that never fails to bring the temperature tup massively and the fans to come on all the way up) I will make too many mistakes. Missing letters, things I need to press harder or for longer, etc. It's a massive pain.

Works fine when the keyboard is cool though.
Experienced this this morning on my Pixel 1. Woke up to several apps in a crash loop every few seconds and most others crashing on startup. After a reboot didn't solve anything I thought perhaps my (older) phone had suffered a RAM failure since I hadn't updated anything in several days. After finding an article about the issue I updated Chrome which corrected the issue.
heh there's a deep irony here, in a story about "how science communicators [supposedly] ditched the term favoured for capturing the public imagination, in order to instead favour a more descriptive factual term"...

...of which the story itself is an overly neat simplification that has spread by better capturing the imagination of descriptive-minded physics students, in the teachers' own science communicating :)
Sure.

Part 1, from 2014-2019, for 3.7M:

https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8674931

Part 2, from 2019 until it was cancelled in April 2020:

https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9819304

Both led by Peter Daszak who is now also the lead WHO investigator. The same person who decided the WHO didn’t need to see the deleted virus databases, and the same person who co-ordinated the Lancet statement which minimised the lab leak theory early on (and let to it being considered a conspiracy theory).

Here he is on This Week In Virology, describing this sort of work. It’s worth watching the whole thing, but gets most interesting from minute 27 onward:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IdYDL_RK--w

For example he confirms it’s easy to modify these viruses in the lab, and mentions collaborating with Ralph Baric at UNC. Baric invented Remdesivir (with Gilead) - the “cure” that turned out not to work very well. His lab was doing gain of function experiments before the ban. Shi Zhengli (“bat woman” from Wuhan) worked very closely with Baric and Daszak.
> those people may be facing jail time.

Not to be the devil's advocate or anything, but it's extremely unlikely that they'll end up in jail. I would be thrilled to be wrong.
I was able to just do a Chrome update to solve the issue on my phone.
In the tech world, we've got responsible disclosure for security holes. That's essentially what's being proposed here - let AZ have 24h to at least come up with a response. The article includes a line saying "AstraZeneca did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment", which sure sounds like "we sent their PR an email, then hit publish an hour later".

We've already seen issues in recent weeks with the blood clots issue, where the initial breathless media coverage gives way to "the regulators took a look and it seems fine, it's about the normal level of them, and the pause probably killed many more than the clots ever did".

Lay people - including reporters - are really bad at teasing apart normal "how the sausage is made" from "there's an actual issue here", especially with anti-vax propagandists ready to leap on anything with even a hint of confusion.
University IT Dept. deletes everyone’s files in maintenance screwup
Besides the number of qbits, is "multimode memory" real or hypothetical?
Do I understand correctly, that largest quantum computer that exists today contains less than 100 qubits?

Also it does not seem that there's an exponential grow in this area: https://www.statista.com/statistics/993634/quantum-computers....

They hit the wall in 2017.

We should be safe for now :)
This isn't a "report", despite what the title of the article says. It's a "prediction". In other words, just a rumor.
How does something like this make it to production? I couldn't reply to any work emails for the greater part of the evening yesterday.

Adds more evidence to the case of "never use Google for your business".
Usually the top performing codec is OFDM or something similar, which is a lot like FSK with a huge number of channels.

You have to equalize that signal to match the capabilities of the channel. I think you can record well past 18k bandwidth with vinyl, this was used to encode quad audio in the classic rock era. That part of the signal rubs off when you play it unfortunately.
Posture: Is the Pandemic Breaking Our Backs?
> I've heard people say commutes are helpful for their mental health.

I'm sure that for any drudgery out there, you can find someone to extoll their positive aspects. In my case my commute was rather pleasant, a comfortable 30 min bicycle ride. However most of my colleagues had to endure crowded public transport.
No action required if you’re not experiencing issues.

If you’re affected and not able to update, trying to “uninstall updates” for “Android System WebView” will revert it to ROM-included unaffected version and solve it.
Times I used my knowledge of data structures on the job
Our politicians tried to fix it, centralised it, and made it a much worse development than countries that didn't.

Simply demanding the government do something is no guarantee it'll end up any better, and it could well prevent the development that preceded the "action" from continuing apace.
Hi - can you create an issue in the gitlab-runner project? It would be great so that we can investigate further.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/issues
It is easy to mistake 14-16 year olds with a lot of time on their hands for dedicated real supremacists. The best example was hordes of teenagers teaching a Microsoft chat bot to be a supremacist. Clearly they were having fun.

It's their way of rebelling against the establishment by trolling. Since a teenager can no longer troll by assuming a leftist position, they must do so by pretending to be far right.
Ha, yes I always have fond memories of the days when people wrote a serviceable chess program in 1KB which you typed in from a magazine [1] and I compare that to nowadays when I can have a Firefox Tab using 1GB+.

Also some of the optimisations (The Hobbit on the BBC micro actually using screen memory to load the game) and "friendly rivalry" between developers and copiers (I remember trying to Hack Frak! on the BBC micro and it detecting this and playing the Jolly Roger).

[1] http://users.ox.ac.uk/~uzdm0006/scans/1kchess/
Also the University of Zürich. The Cambridge involvement is just because someone from Imperial moved there.
A couple things I wonder there:

How does Robin (id1) manage to print the "I am under attack" message? Shouldn't a kill be immediate?

Couldn't they just do something like sending a SIGSTOP to processes, or use killall in a tight loop? I get it's not Unix, but it seems reasonable similar concepts should exist.

Also, this is more in line with Ken Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust"
I was missing the trailing > in my pattern but you are still right (as is the article)

It's been fun to note the benchmarks:

all tested against the string:
<a href="sdfsdf">sefsefsefsef</a>

1.
(?!>).*?>
2 matches, 41 steps
2.
(?:(?!>).)*>?
3 matches, 142 steps
3. (typo?)
(?:(?!>).)*?>
2 matches, 161 steps
4.
[^>]*?>
2 matches, 6 steps
5.
[^>]*>
2 matches, 6 steps
What exactly is DSL hell?
> Note that this behavior is defined as part of the `autocomplete` standard.

Yes, but it’s my understanding that Chrome ignores this attribute because some website authors abuse it to disable autofill on the login pages because “security”. I’ve also seen some places disable pasting of a bank’s routing and account numbers because “security”. It’s actually more secure for me to copy-paste those numbers than type them because I can’t make a mistake then!

It’s a tough call because I hate when websites do that, but I also want them to be able to disable it in the right places for security.
Right. I have full faith that his belief was that Minsky had made an honest mistake with a girl that would be considered legal anyway in large swaths of the world. I give RMS (what I would consider to be) the full benefit of the doubt here and I believe his message was less "Minsky is blameless" or "sex with kids is okay" and more "let's not confuse Minky's poor judgement with far, far more heinous crimes." And I wouldn't even really disagree with RMS there on a factual level.

Even given this generous interpretation, RMS' poorly chosen words are still rather egregious.

Specifically he misses the forest for the trees. A fundamental duty of adults is to make sure that our sex partners are (a) of legal age (b) truly freely consenting without coercion.

One can think of various circumstances in which one might reasonably make such a mistake in good faith. However, somebody's private... child sex island is not one of those places.

Even more importantly, RMS neglects even some sort of token recognition of the actual victims of Epstein's trafficking. Hint: Minsky is not one of them!
You can see how it happened. Now that you've explained it, it's easy to read, even without any assistive punctuation. But the first time I tried to read it through, it was impossible. The writer is obviously already at the latter stage, so they can't even see that it's unreadable.
AFAIR to choose your major you'd to fill a list of preferences - priority of majors in different IITs. These are then awarded based on merit - rank in the JEE(Joint Entrance Exam). So if you want a specific major at a specific IIT you'll have to get higher ranks in the JEE.
This is work done by an elite research university, not a haphazard "move fast, break things" SV tech company masquerading as an automobile company.
> Recently I tried to convert to a windows laptop from my 16 inch mbp. Upon switching I was constantly annoyed by the fan noise

Jesus, how loud was the Windows laptop? I just sold my 16" MBP for an M1 Air almost entirely because the fan noise on the 16" was unbearable.
The headline of this article is a garden path for me too, because at first I thought they discovered a book he wrote on torture or something.