skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OMG they tweeted the launch codes!

But joking aside, I doubt this was an actual password. Too many repeating characters and characters grouped close together. Like "ssaw" and that ";l;;". And no uppercase as some people have mentioned. Who mandates special characters but not uppercase or numbers? I've never seen a password policy doing that. Usually numbers and uppercase come first before specials are considered, due to regional keyboard differences that make special characters hard to find. Really sounds much more like a toddler at work to me like they say.

And really, this is twitter. Not a serious government system. Even if it was a password, people sending tweets tend not to be the ones pushing red buttons. Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/932/
My opinions not so much on the study itself, but the topic of general shitty behaviour people seem to display on popular social media platforms.

Personally, I think it has less to do with things like anonymity, up/downvotes and other gamey systems employed that tend to get blamed and more to do with the communities themselves.

Specifically, their size. But also, the willingness of moderators to enforce a few basic rules of civility.

I think they suffer from that same phenomenon that makes cities on a whole, less friendly than smaller towns and communities. I realize there's exceptions, but speaking generally this tends to be the case.

To further the comparison a bit, you're also more likely to have the police respond with favourable results to personal and petty crime in smaller towns.

You can see the same things in smaller internet communities. Whether they're pseudonymous or not or whatever kinds of upvoting systems they have or not, there's less people, moderators tend to respond more quickly to personal attacks and things and usually in more reasonable ways than automated algorithms.

Again, generalizing, but when communities are small enough all the people participating are recognizable and when moderators are active in enforcing those basic rules of conduct, people tend to behave a little more reasonably.

As a sidenote, I'll throw HN in as an exception to the size thing, because it's a pretty large community, but dang and the mods are like super human or something so manage to keep the conversation pretty civil most of the time here.
I do casual work for a person that serves that sector. It’s 100% self serve for us. We’ll pay fair value for stuff and vendors won’t ever need to interact with us. The problem is when those vendors think their firmware updater is worth a $10 / month subscription. It’s not.

For example with pfSense going closed source we’d be willing to pay around $100 total lifetime cost to put it on PCEngines hardware. We can build that in to the upfront cost of the device. I wouldn’t be shocked if they try for $50-$100 / year which won’t be economically viable for our market, so instead of getting $100 / device and never interacting with us, we’ll end up moving to a different product. I really hope they come up with an offering that’s appealing to the small business sector, but I’m not holding my breath and I’ll be learning opnsense as a contingency.
Intel tried this too, according to an ex-Intel employee here. It's a management strategy intended to get the best result by inspiring competition. The problems it invites are the obvious, but the tradeoff may be justified in some scenarios.

It's also the premise of David Mamet's famous play Glengarry Glen Ross.
Wow, when I (only a C# dabbler) read about this feature in the article I thought it sounded incredibly silly, but this really sells it. Was there really no better way to create tuples before?
Spinning up your own DB instance is also "open by default" and takes both effort and expertise to secure properly. I think it's pretty reasonable that there's a large surface area of IAM permissions when AWS offers a vast number of disparate services.
> Why didn't Steve Jobs go with web distribution of first class web apps

That was exactly his intent when he announced the iPhone, and he got absolutely obliterated by the internet for it.
Not allowing Flash on the iPhone is probably the best thing Apple ever did
They are, and even so, these companies still know far more about the engineering principles that go into both.

Tesla certainly has heaps of special knowledge that these companies will need to catch up on or innovate themselves, but I suspect in the scheme of things, even lower end car manufactures are better-rounded across the design/build process.
>Seems like there is nothing good out there

Check out Ruckus. I've found their 'unleashed' stuff quite nice (no affiliation, just a customer).
I'm guessing clear sky as in no clouds, meaning stuff should like AP/network management must remain on premise.
What data would they even want? My WiFi password? My PPPoE password? All my https packets?
That's very common.

And so intellectually insulting, that it's probably responsible for a non-trivial slice of that 50% drop in church attendance.
if you have serial console access, can't you key-combo it to boot into single user mode?
If it's improving at a rate of 10% per year, a 2x would take 4-5 years to achieve so a 2X is really a good improvement. I wonder where we'd be right now had we not gone the ICE route.
> having a trustworthy and secured backend.

Ubiquiti had a secured backend - their screw-up was not doing MFA on their admin accounts. I would still like if there was an option for a local-only control panel.
Clubhouse is not CCPA compliant
The situation on Android shows us that consumers like consolidation and they like walled gardens and simple choices. These things benefit them. Plenty of Android phones come with 2 or 3 app stores. One for the carrier, one for the vendor and Google Play Store. There plenty are others as well, but the market has spoken. Even Epic had to fold and move to Play Store. Maybe Google played dirty, but I think it's perfectly clear users benefit from consolidation. They like the simplicity of having everything in one store and when they change devices they just set up their Play Store account and there everything is. That's a massive advantage to them. Fragmentation is a nightmare.

Developers have come to the same conclusion, it's to their benefit for the customers to all be on one store with one set of policies and features so that's where the majority of the apps go.

So what are you going to do, force Apple to become a fragmented Android copy with multiple stores and side loading that a tiny fraction of techies actually use? Those people already have that on Android if they want it. Honestly you'd just screw over Apple and a few other people over a principle hardly anybody actually cares about or benefits from. It certainly wouldn't make any significant commercial difference. We ran that experiment and the results are in.

The idea that users would all be side loading apps and developers would be making far more money having their apps spread across 5+ different stores that would compete down to lower prices is delusional. If that were the case, why has this not happened on Windows or MacOS where side loading is actually the default yet Steam, GOG, etc still charge 30%? It's crystal clear that's just the split the market has converged on through a competitive process. After all Steam has competed from day one with a default split of nothing for direct downloads from the software publisher but has thrived charging 30%. If that's not direct market validation I don't know what is.
Definitely inspires awe. Humans 250 miles up, traveling at 17,000 mph, and you can see them with your naked eye.

My favorite part is when the ISS dot slowly fades out. It's so high up that it passes out of the sun's light before it falls behind the horizon.
TIL..
The price of one webcam? I think somewhere in our multi-trillion-dollar budget there's a place for a webcam. But I am sure if that'd be the problem Amazon would gladly cover the price of the cam.
Cool project. Would love to see some commonly requested feature examples, such as autocomplete (for tagging, mentions)

On a related note, I think biggest contender in this area is prosemirror but for the most people its api feels too low level-y. A more opinionated framework built on top of it with the support of common features would be nice (maybe tiptap/remirror gets close but they are tied to vue/react)
According to NRK, Der Spiegel has reported that 1.78 million women below 70 years and 864.000 men have had the vaccine. The nine cases thus suggest a risk of 1 in 61.400 for blood clots in women and 1 in 432.000 for men.

Source (Norwegian): https://www.nrk.no/norge/der-spiegel_-31-tilfeller-av-blodpr...
WPF is not dead, it got open-sourced and was ported to .NET Core 3.1 onwards.
Is it possible to create a single, stand-alone, self-contained .exe?
(I'm fine with only building for a single platform - Mac/Win/Linux)

Needing to run my programs (which show up as .dll's) using dotnet just feels weird (and it doesn't match my intuition for 'how programs are run' in Windows cmd/etc).

I'd be fine with an .exe that's not self contained but at least I run it like a 'normal' exe. :)
I'll change my forum password and continue to avoid UBNT's cloud features like always.

I'm still happy with the value, stability, and security updates (!!) of my UBNT hardware.

I still won't buy gear from another vendor that wants $$$/device-year in support contracts and have unavoidable cloud controllers.
I agree with you that our society is rife with culture war toxicity. But I'm confused with the whole 'shut up and dribble' mentality. Sure, sports fans may not want politics to bleed into their sport-viewing time, but as long as athletes do not exist in a vacuum, what do they expect athletes to do? Be mindless entertainers? Ignore their conscience and pretend like they have no qualms with the status quo when they are on the national stage?

> It's reasonable that athlete's want to use their voice for change, and I think most people would accept that, but they way they've gone about it is wrong.

What are the acceptable ways to use one's voice for change? If that question is too broad, what is the acceptable way for an athlete on the national level to use their voice for change?
Writer surely owns bitcoin
Referencing the realities and plight of homeless folks is not shaming. Should we instead not talk about the fact that they don't have running water to brush their teeth with?

When you brush aside the truth in order to be politically correct it only hurts those who are most vulnerable. Our sensibilities will survive, but in the meantime an absessed tooth can absolutely prove fatal to anyone not willing or able to seek treatment (guess who).

Being homeless comes with a lot of bad things, and one of those things is exposure to diseases that are passed upon skin contact. Pretending that homeless folks are just "normal folks like the rest of us" truly does them a disservice. They need help, and by pretending that they don't (or rather, by shunning such conversations out of "politeness") we are hurting them for the benefit of our own conscience. We are only being polite to our own sensibilities when we ignore the plight of homeless people, and pretend to put them on equal footing when they are truly nowhere close. Instead of taking personal offense to the statement I just made, think about them instead. It's become very tiring to see people "stand up" for others, when they are really only standing up to make themselves feel better about mostly ignoring the problem.
Strava brought back the chronological feed and seemed to get a lot of good press for it at the time.

https://road.cc/content/tech-news/271757-strava-has-brought-...
your traffic is mixed in with others using your exit node, and you control the data and logging of that exit node
ahh. i see now.. portability... i bet it would be possible to bypass/patch sysenter to achieve the same aim even if they're implementing their own syscall gates.
The good news is, they weren't born that way and they can change.

Debatable. See https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/8/e1600451 and particularly the supplementary materials about age distribution. I held the same opinion as you and was quite surprised by these results.
Of course, it has been never the case that federal agents behaved improperly. In fact, once a person is hired by a federal government, they become incapable of committing a crime or even an impropriety. That's why no courts has ever convicted anyone working for a federal agency in anything inappropriate.
Doesn't the carbon fibre argument work for cars as well? CF is becoming increasingly common and affordable, as are normal batteries.
I am absolutely the opposite. I've avoided CMake for a long time since many projects use autotools and because of its reputation as a painful thing to learn. ;)

But actually, one of the points made in the Calcote book really stuck with me: Build tools are not just about developer convenience; they're also about the user's convenience. It's more work on my end, but my users (who, admittedly, are on UNIX-likes) know to type:

./configure
make

From their standpoint, it just works as expected.
> Therefore, the choice of which conversation, which comment, is entirely yours.

It's not that simple though. You're likely to be part of a broader community and simply deciding to leave that community, and all of your friends, over the actions of one person, is not very reasonable. Often times we are forced to be around people we don't particularly like. When that person does something valuable, they get a level of protection from being reprimanded for their bad behavior that isn't afforded to outsiders of the group, so kicking out such people often becomes difficult as well.
Ohm my, Watt is going on here?
I setup a small wisp using mikrotik kit for a few neighbours, it worked well in the end, but the learning curve was immense unless you have a strong networking background. I'd setup and used openwrt before for a domestic router and this was another level of complexity to get basically functional compared to that. Thst said the level of customizabilty and scripting (albeit in a weird language) you can do is immense, so for a true power user with a lot of time on their hands, it's a good option
Easily enough fixed by item := item (that is, shadow the variable with something new that won't be overwritten)
This is the ideal open source logo. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
> by definition you should be ok with what Amazon is doing.

Only if we're on the side of definitions, I guess.
This is not a BitPay competitor until PayPal allows users to deposit cryptocurrency.

Yes, I don't see much point to this service without the ability to send crypto to your Paypal account. I don't buy crypto through Paypal, and I suspect nobody else that knows what they are doing does either. They've tiptoed around the idea of allowing crypto deposits by allowing instant, free, fiat withdrawals to Paypal from Coinbase (where it can then be spent). But they absolutely refuse to allow it directly.
Destroying an open, low barrier to entry animation and application platform that was used by teenagers to develop and share interactive content?

Destroying a way to deliver native-like, cross-platform applications without an app store was good?

Jobs did it for control. He didn't want interop between Android and iPhone, and he didn't want any web browser with enough flexibility to do anything sophisticated.
Let me come at it this way. You're hyping up our court system and constitution, freedom, all of that.

Yet we imprison Americans at a much higher rate than Chinese imprison their own. And that's before I even get into how we treat foreigners.

So how much are all those great rhetorical adjectives worth when the rubber hits the road?
Could you share a link, then? The prices I've seen for the Intel NUCs are more like $100+, even used, compared to $30 for the cheapest Raspberry Pi 4.
> Is it possible to create a single, stand-alone, self-contained .exe?

Yes.
Reschedule the Zoom Call
> I think they suffer from that same phenomenon that makes cities on a whole, less friendly than smaller towns and communities.

There is data that shows the opposite is true[1]. While the pace of life is faster in urban areas -- which may be jarring to people aren't accustom to it -- living in areas with high population density teaches people to be courteous and respectful.

[1] https://thepointsguy.com/news/are-new-yorkers-friendly/
You could create tuples with `Tuple.Create("a", 1)` since at least .NET 4, if not 3.

Since C# 7 you can also create tuples using just `("a", 1)`. But tuples are not KeyValuePairs. So the new "new" syntax will be very helpful in a lot of cases.
We all know massless energy storage is impossible. Einstein proved it. :P
Not by default as far as I'm aware. Though, it's been a long time since I've used a desktop Linux distribution. My experience is mostly with serial access for servers--Linux, BSD, and Solaris. I much prefer serial ports for backup administrative access as there's little chance of a misconfiguration. Whereas w/ port failover and other IPMI, BMC, etc non-sense if you disconnect the ethernet cable from the dedicated network management port you may still have admin/admin access live on the network.
Personal information is a bit nebulous. Do we consider the list of function calls in a stack trace "personal information"?
Section III definitely connects the choice to use this term to economics ("In an economic market, supply and demand are said to be aligned through a price mechanism. Alignment is reached because lower demand decreases prices, which disincentivizes production and returns a market to equilibrium.") Not 100% sure about the context of this conference, but my understanding is that it's a norm in these kinds of papers to refer to relatively basic concepts like supply, demand, and price signals without a citation (esp. given that page limits often limit your cites!). Totally get that some may disagree with this choice though.

Sorry if this comes across as defensive -- I know the authors, so am very certain that they are aware of the rich literature on collective action problems and public goods.
Google - if you're explaining you're losing
If it was for market alone those issues would never been fixed, full free market is just bad for labor market because of the power asymmetry between supply and demand.
I think you can do it with Pi-Zero and BATMAN? I gotta find my notes.
I thought the new name was funny. Apparently I’m in the minority because of the incredible amounts of vitriol present ITT.
You have to set up "dotnet publish" for the project that makes the executable.

It then makes a stub loader "your program.exe" which looks and behaves normally. You can then make it "self contained", which bundles the assemblies for you and transparently unpacks them.

You can have different publish profiles for the different targets.
Yes. Full agreement here. That said, for better or worse, Paypal's move effectively makes crypto into currency. Up until now, it was not exactly a mainstream option.
Yeah, but they’re still the best user-experience I’ve found, and they seem to care about code quality and doing right by their customers.
To reduce your probability of having your identity compromised. Because, practically speaking, most of us will need to rely on the internet.
I suppose this isn't much of a surprise, but it's kinda sorta pointless for Windows instances. I was hoping it would be something, but it's just a dump of the standard Windows system log output.

And adding to the fun, watching it on an initial instance bootup seems to block the process AWS uses to grab the encrypted password out of the log. So, it's not useful, and makes the instance a bit hard to remote into.
The FAA Should Let Supersonic Jets Soar Once Again
Introduction to AR Development with Unreal Engine 4
Maybe they can get the true fools on this day
Plug & Charge works and seems to be available in all new cars, why so much worry? Older cars can use whatever the charging station's app is, and it works fine?

ElectrifyAmerica basically just works today.
Best home security appliance or Linux distro
I want to get control of my home network. I would like a device that can sit between my cable modem and the wifi router so that I can log all traffic without configuring clients. Ideally it would have standard full range of proxy server features and have the ability to detect malware or learn standard network activity and detect anomolies.

I'm willing to drop some coin thought there might be a linux distro that can do all this.

The search engines are a mess and only return irrellevent results and cheap "easy to use" parental control garbage in the results.
Yes - Trump is an artifact of populism, and it's a tragedy that that kind of rhetoric had any kind of legitimization.

But even during Trump's presidency, African Americans had their lowest unemployment rate in history. I don't credit him with much of that directly, rather, but he did preside over an area of 'open business growth' for which that was the result.

Which is my point.

Even despite the toxic rhetoric of a public official, things on the ground can improve.
Reach out and touch me.
Yes that is possible, you can produce an .exe which contains your application's assemblies but relies on the appropriate .NET runtime being present on the user's computer. You can also build a .exe which has the .NET runtime bundled, but it can be quite big. I made a simple program that wrote "Hello World" to the console [1] and it was between 46-78MB: https://blog.mclemon.org/no-this-is-what-peak-hello-world-lo...
Is there a community for this kind of discussion at this point? When I was an admin, and then later working in networking in the 2000s, there were tons of very active mailing lists, not just for hardcore networking but for IT-oriented stuff, mostly all faded to a shadow of their former selves.

I'd be particularly interested in comparisons of Meraki/Mist/etc. for small enterprise and campus.
Sharing is caring! :o)
'First class web apps' was precisely how you were supposed to create apps for the first iPhone; the SDK was thrown together over the next year only after the huge demand for writing native apps. The iPhone pushed a bunch of device access web APIs originally explicitly for this reason.
If anything, this is an amazing insight onto how the media will report anything from a press release without a minimum of investigation. The name change was essentially breaking news everywhere.

- they're changing the almost 100 years old name with... a pun on that name? Even a teenager would see it as a joke.

- the announcement comes out 2 days before April 1st and is deleted from the website shortly after publishing?

- the media packages it as an amazing "leak" and spins it into VW attempting to distance themselves from the diesel scandal?!

I'm worried if we trust a press that can be so easily and obviously misled.
In short: who cares?
I've thought about it and there are for sure small physical things I'd love to change from birth to benefit my sport/hobbies.

But the problem is parents would be making that decision. Or in this case a dictator's military haha.

There are already hover parents living vicariously through sports, music, chess whatever.

I can imagine this going to extremes with parents making these forever physical decisions.

Elite athletes can chose to endanger their health for the sport they love.

But I'm not sure about the ethics of a parent deciding to say give lower resting heart rates/higher vo2 max with cycling in mind, even though it could be deadly slow.
You should care.
"Accessing your serial console is only 0.04$/per character, except if you bid on peak console then ..."

I made that up, but it would totally not surprise anyone, would it?
so stop using this website. Dang doesn't owe anything to you. I don't always agree with him, but at least i understand that i have no right to tell him what to do in his own site.
Covid-19 paused climate emissions – but they're rising again
so like Revolut
Have a look into Ruckus with their local zone director offering.