skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yeah, the school admins were always (probably all around the world) a special bunch of people. From complete bureaucratic permission junkies, to those who opened the doors for curious students to hack around, experiment and in general just talk shop with a grown-up (of sorts). At the time, I felt it was so hard to find people to learn from, everyone was just playing games or hating computers. So those people could (sometimes) be a beacon of light in a not-so-nerdy world.

In another school (where IT was much more advanced, likely a lot like you've encountered), I put a file called DukeNukem.exe on the school-wide network share, and it didn't take long for people to discover it. It just showed an error, game needs some extra permission, and asked you to enter the password to try again. Well, people did that of course and the game didn't work. But another file on the network drive collected EVERYONE's password, one after the other, it took a few weeks until they caught me. They were able to use some Novell admin ninja something something to figure out who placed the file there and again, I was kicked out of IT classes, no other harm.
No, it wouldn't be a "massive SEC violation" and yes, a prison sentence would be _very_ surprising. The SEC can't send someone to prison. They're a civil enforcement agency.
At the risk of bike-shedding...

It's not exactly secret knowledge that having "if (!cond) return" at the start of a function can save you one level of indentation from the rest of the function. Sometimes the saving can be significant (4 spaces per line, for a hundred lines). Especially if you have multiple such conditions. Especially^2 if you are an old fart like me who prefers to have all their code fit inside 80-column width. (I prefer being able to examine at least three source files side-by-side, thank you very much.)

That said, it's a rather trivial observation, and just like everything else, should be used with moderation. So I'm not sure what's the big deal...

(OK, now get off my lawwwwwwwn...)
What a video game can reveal about monkeys’ minds
Dude, it's (at least) April 2nd all around the globe right now...
Sysdig Detects Lateral Movement Attacks Across Containers and Clouds
Won't that bias the search towards showing you NSFW content? Since you specifically made it clear that that's what you are interested in.
> we should learn from how they did it

Lockdowns and people immediately willing be a part of the contract tracing part.

https://www.businessinsider.com/vietnam-coronavirus-measures...
I was trying to get a zoomer relative of mine interested in technology. I said, "let's mine cryptocurrency." He didn't want to because, according to him, "that's hacking." Kids these days!

The Z's are shaping up to be... interesting. From what I've seen so far, they're turning out to be very much like Gen X.

On the other hand, I see very little difference between the Millennials and the Boomers. I find it amusing to see them trading barbs about one another, while exhibiting nearly identical traits. (Social media addiction, persecution complex, entitlement complex, obsession with money, etc.)
It will also make a wider band of hospitable climate for insects and tropical diseases. "Got my pills 'gainst mosquito death"
Completely agree, the green new deal isn't about climate change. It's a jobs program.
I actually had a cup holder for a drive bay that was intended as one, it even had a cigarette lighter!

https://sep.yimg.com/ay/yhst-39083765508394/thermaltake-x-ra...
Because they have huge revenue and even profit in 2020.

1.14 billion revenue 2020, $322 million net income.

A thesis of the risk of their profit being tied to crypto prices is that big retail trading volume relies on rising prices or at least rising sentiment/popularity.

On the other hand, can argue probably not super important (unless they have huge settlement risk). Falling price = sell orders (and someone buying on the other side of transaction). Unless everything goes to zero, which seems like a low probability barring extreme world-wide government regs.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/25/coinbase-files-for-direct-li...
What about people who didn't inherit anything and don't own any assets and don't have any debt? What do I get?

Does this mean I should go to the bank right now and take out 1 million in loans to buy crypto then wait for my debt to disappear? Why would the bank approve such loan?

Some people couldn't even afford to get a loan. Forgiving debts will make house prices even more out of reach. These people would be absolutely evicerated since everyone else will basically get free money. These honest, cautious people will be the new lower class of society. It's criminal. Think of all the lawsuits... The court system won't even be able to handle it. There will be complete break down of all laws. I doubt private property laws will survive. You can be sure mafias of disgruntled individuals will form and take all your assets anyway.

Maybe if the debt jubilee comes with complete forfeiture of all assets, then it makes a little bit more sense. But this will still be terrible for inequality at the very top.

If we want to change the rules, the fairest thing that can be done is seize everyone's assets which are above a certain threshold net worth and redistribute them evenly to all citizens. Then we can talk about cancelling the debt. Otherwise I think we should just let things run their course.

If you don't like your situation, why don't you pay a visit to the billionaires and politicians who put you in that position? Sort it out with them. Don't try to steal from decent people via monetary manipulation who are also victims.
>Funny, I feel like you are the one doing that.

Stop projecting. You're the one literally calling for systemic racism.

>"Ending systemic racism is racism" is basically what you are saying.

Complete opposite. I'm saying "ending systemic racism is ending racism that's systemic."

>Except your argument is that wealth inequality by race somehow isn't systemic racism?

My argument is, find examples of systemic racism and we can both ally against it. Correlation != Causation.

>The system is equal meaning that it's a meritocracy you mean?

Point to specific laws that are systemically racist and we can say yes, the system is racist. Implementing UBI and discriminating by race is by definition introducing institutional racism into the system.

>If the system is equal, why is there a wealth gap between black people and white people?

If the system is white supremacist, why do Asians, Jews, Nigerians, etc. out perform whites?
Not without some tweaking. A physical product you can see and touch will be too abstract for the majority of the NFT adopters.
For sure. That's definitely where many organizations are. "To cook breakfast this morning, I propose we clean up last night's dinner mess. Here is my 27-slide deck."

But I think it's also worth orgs getting to the point of defaulting to just cleaning up after dinner, and also cleaning as they cook. Having to have a specific, urgent reason to clean up a mess is a fine argument for 13-year-olds to make as they come to understand how a household works. But it's tiresome when nominal adults refuse to accept that the future eventually arrives.
I have 'Enable to view adult and NSFW (not safe for work) content in your feed and search results' enabled in my user profile, and this is what I'm seeing when I click that link: https://imgur.com/gm9PZqZ
> I think the author doesn't appreciate that the debt is being repaid... #1 we are doing gargantuan "stimulus" transfers of money... #2... IF any issuer of debt, like a bank, gets in trouble, like in 2008 or March 2020, they are bailed out.

Changing who's holding the hot potato is not the same as repayment of debt. In both of your examples, it's the government who's assuming the debt from corporate debtholders who have (presumably) milked it for return already in the way the article describes. But, as you point out:

> ...govt debt still needs to be repaid. But that can happen via #1 ["The US will become a net exporter (and to some degree, it always was) of inflation."], or via taxation.

Taxation is a no-go - even if the political will could be mustered in the US to increase taxes, who are you as the government going to tax? The companies who were so indebted you had to bail them out, or the private individuals who've already been put through the wringer by the companies?

So we have to export the debt in some way - but it stays debt, and it has to be paid.

> Its just that the time horizon for repayment is so long, and hard to observe, that it may lead to the conclusion that the debt is not being repaid.

I suspect that if it takes long enough then it doesn't really matter whether the debt is "repaid" in some technical sense because the negative outcomes associated with default will have already taken place.
COMIC SANS FOREVER!!!
that shouldn't be surprising, because of pi(n).
>The negative side of this is that you will get offered ads that are specifically tailored to your interests, at the time you are most likely to buy at a price point you can afford.

To me the current system doesn't seem all that different. It's more crude, but it's already trying to do that. So I think we both have been in this dystopia for some time now.

I don't see a problem though. Consumption of ads is a free choice. People have made the choice of wanting to be manipulated for thousands of years (religion or patriotism are common examples).

I removed all ads from my household nearly two decades ago. Anyone that doesn't do that, doesn't object to the manipulation. Everyone knows what ads are for, what they do. It's not like it's a secret. A lot of people just don't mind being manipulated. And changing that I suspect is impossible.
If they prompoted to receive a code during sign-up it would make the system immune to a person accidentally entering the wrong number. Only malicious entry would remain, which I suspect the company would ultimately not be liable for. So I believe it would actually be a better solution if the goal is to prevent robotexting people who didn't consent to it.
Acids such as citric acid are also very safe, but definitely not in the context of brushing teeth as they dissolve enamel. There simply isn't enough safety data _in that context_ for dentists to start recommending EDTA vs regular fluoride toothpaste. In one in vitro study I found, EDTA is shown to cause erosion https://www.medigraphic.com/pdfs/odon/uo-2012/uoi121b.pdf so I'd say more studies are required.
Of course it doesn't. It merely shows an image that resembles a mouse cursor.
> I must be the only one who thinks full self driving will not happen before year 2100.

Nope. Me as well. I think self driving is AGI-complete, and we are as far from AGI now as when we were living in caves, banging rocks together.
Huh. That makes sense from a frequency of exposure sense.

It's just that I'd be interested in the main fonts that make practical sense for projects and not so much on the quest for the holy grail of fonts that makes all men fall to their knees in awe at its aesthetic perfection. Doesn't matter how pretty you write bad content, anyways.
No I didn't go to the mailing lists. I did seek help on Stack Overflow. I also asked the Perl expert at work. He tended to get mad and say things like "that's basic CGI, you should know that".

I agree Perl's docs are great. Once I discovered 'man perl op' I was set. My complaint is that Perl differs from other languages where a quick Google of a bit of syntax leads directly to stack overflow question or the language docs.

The DBI issue I had was a mix of FreeTDS, Sybase and SQL Server 2008. The combination of an old version of SQL Server and these drivers meant we hit uncommon bugs. My complaint here is how tricky it was to debug. The string has an internal flag to say that it's UTF8. Somehow that was getting set when the encoding was Windows CP1252. It took me a long time to learn about how Perl stored these Strings. Even longer to resolve the issue it caused. Something about packing and unpacking a string just felt harder than it needed to be. The experience left a me disliking Perl.

I worked with a Perl backend for almost a decade. I love not working with it now.

I don't blame Perl for it's difficult to Google syntax, or it's design choices for backwards compatibility. I know some people are Perl grandmasters and can do amazing things with it in short time ( I worked with one ). But to me I didn't like it, it felt out dated and harder to use than any other scripting language that I've used.

Debuggers may well exist. My initial attempts at getting one running failed, but that was years ago. If there are good debuggers out there I'm happy to admit I'm wrong on that front.
There's a 1:1 backing of crypto funds, there is no fractional reserve stuff going on. But lots of internet people like to speculate there due to technical issues that happen from time to time.

A delay to take out coins != a fractional reserve. Exchanges operate with hot wallets that have limited throughput, there's a ton of reasons that particular withdrawals may be delayed that don't have anything do with having those assets.

One of the more common scenarios you would see is the hot wallet running low of funds, and there's a delay before more funds can be sent from cold storage to the hot wallet to service more transactions.

If more people are taking crypto off of Coinbase than sending it in, the hot wallet trends downwards. If whales make large withdrawals, it can take a huge leap downwards. Funny antecdote, whales see significantly more delays than your typical consumer but are used to it and have some lines of communication to get insight if they have concerns.

The process to move funds from cold to hot starts, but it's intentionally slow and takes time. So sometimes withdrawals can be delayed until that process completes.
echelon, it doesn't really sound like you understand the underlying mechanisms of how the human body works.

Without a brain, running an entire body would Require a replacement to that brain, so what you are suggesting is unlikely to be very useful.

Rather, we are already creating scaffolding for individual organs, and we already have technologies that continue to develop that allow us to test against actual human tissues, such that the end-game you point to of 'in situ' testing already is and will continue to be accomplished.

Rather than wasting time and energy attempting to clone an entire human (with all the potential ethical and moral considerations), it is Far easier to simply clone organs, which then allows for direct build/replace scenarios on an 'as needed' basis, And with the full agreement of the source/destination.

Further, as we learn more and more about all the detailed methods and ways that various subsystems, grow, develop, operate, and interact, we can simply create more and more detailed simulations of Any human (or any other creature for that matter) to distinguish proper vs improper function, and investigate and even optimize potential solutions Far more quickly and effectively than spending precious time and other resources.

That is why computational capabilities are and will likely remain our focus moving forward, rather than the arguably cruder and generally Much slower approach which you outlined.

For reference, given the incredibly complex and integrated nature of almost Any living creature, a body without a brain or even without a fully functioning And developed brain would (especially in creatures as complex as humans), in addition to the issues that I already outlined above (along with those raised by others), Also tend to respond Far differently to a fully functional human, thus being of rather limited utility, regardless.
How does being an island help? Are America's covid problems primarily caused by infected Mexicans crossing the border? Do the islands you listed not have much air travel?
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Hello from Vietnam.

Lockdowns are not about islands. It helps, kinda, but not completely. Vietnam completely sacrificed the tourist industry, unlike US or Europe. Quarantine is at a designated facility, not at home, unchecked, like in US or Europe. And dissent is suppressed.

The last part is a bit unfortunate, but the former ones are really just a matter of decision. And it works.
NFTs can't prove originality, only ownership. Since digital things are easily copied exactly, that's all you can do
Tell HN: Opening this page will flag you as abusing GitHub
There's a page on one project's GitHub Wiki with a lot of images (font specimens) which will get you flagged as abusing GitHub's infrastructure - and institute a rate limit:

https://github.com/olikraus/u8g2/wiki/fntlistall

Click at your own risk! ;>
The "bad exponential stuff" that the online doomers seem to cling to is almost always:

1) permafrost melt, albedo feedbacks, etc., which has been considered in the most recent IPCC reports and is still being researched

2) sudden mass extinction due to biodiversity loss

As far as 1) goes, read the IPCC report and get back to me. 2) is scarier, for sure, but there is not enough research done to conclude that we have breached or are about to breach an extinction tipping point. Some recent models suggest phytoplankton extinction (the usual tipping point in doomer arguments) may be reversed in lower latitudes in a warming climate. But no one knows.

“Many of those making facile comparisons between the current situation and past mass extinctions don’t have a clue about the difference in the nature of the data, much less how truly awful the mass extinctions recorded in the marine fossil record actually were,” he wrote me in an email. “It is absolutely critical to recognize that I am NOT claiming that humans haven’t done great damage to marine and terrestrial [ecosystems], nor that many extinctions have not occurred and more will certainly occur in the near future. But I do think that as scientists we have a responsibility to be accurate about such comparisons." https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/06/the-ends...
Iceland is not in the anglosphere :)
I can only think of The Office: "It doesn’t take a genius to know that any organization thrives when it has two leaders. Go ahead, name a country that doesn’t have two presidents. A boat that sets sail without two captains. Where would Catholicism be without the Popes?"
Tracking priority in that way would almost certainly be an expensive thing to do. Nowadays, control groups can contain that backup job pretty nicely.
Damn, I just got Rickrolled in the most unexpected way.
I'm on 18.04 and my cursor is white (and much smaller than the one on the site). I never realised Ubuntu had a black cursor option.

I think you could make these changes, but I think that's if you want to have fun doing it. The diminishing returns are tiny and the gag lands well.
There’s a decent amount of factory automation that is essentially fully autonomous with the exception of a “big red emergency shutdown” button for a human to press if all the other safeties fail. Many operate without continuous oversight and in the cases where a human is positioned to watch its usually for economic reasons rather than safety (e.g., to stop the operation if there is a quality issue that will render the product unusable)

Edit: downvoting is fine but please at least add to the discussion by stating why you disagree. I’m speaking only from my personal experience working in factory automation and realize there’s probably a lot of differing experience
VB6 was the worst and best kind of software. You were NEVER (even as a professional) sure if it ran on the other/target machine, so you just hoped for the best.

Also, I quite like the cat-and-mouse analogy you mention, because I feel it was (mostly) a harmless way to hone skills, to level up knowledge essentially, with a (at the time) reasonable amount of risk involved, which kept it exciting enough to learn more. It would be cool to see schools have a bug-bounty type of environment here or there, just for those few kids who actually want to spend their time on getting better at networking.
This may be unpopular to say, but anxiety could have caused some or all of these symptoms.
That was a great article - to anyone seeing this comment, I’d recommend reading through it
The smoothing coefficient (or data resolution, however you want to look at it) on that chart is vastly different over different periods of time, leading to a misleading hockey stick type visualization.
Do I need to know Ruby in order to better understand Crystal? I'm interested in learning Crystal, but the community is quite small and the learning resources, sparse. Ruby on the other hand has a massive presence in the form of tutorials, books and blog posts. I have some minor experience with Python, Java and PHP.
I wonder if perhaps we can't get self driving cars, but maybe we can can't self driving train carts and move completely away from cars?
I don't know about 2100 but I've made some bets that self driving cars won't be available in the next 5 years.. 2 years ago.
As an Asian, I find the progressive crowd to say one thing but do quite another with regard to helping Asians, so frankly the flak they receive is something that they earned through their own actions.
Floppy drive bootloader.

If you left the floppy disk in, I took over the boot-process and displayed "Uploading Virus" in a loop. Which of course, didn't do anything.

A few weeks later, all the floppy-drives were removed from the library's computers, lol
That's also the time when the system has to scale the most, so it's not exactly surprising to see this. Unfortunate and something that should be improved yes, but doesn't really support an argument of them trying to prevent people from selling since that is exactly when you'd expect the system to fall over.
I mention the Wiretrustee SATA towards the end of the post; it looks like they'll have a laser-cut acrylic case in two sizes, for either 2.5" or 3.5" drives.

I'm hopeful one of the mini ITX or micro ATX boards goes into production soon; at that point, you could mount the Pi securely into any bog-standard ITX/ATX case and even make use of PSU connectors and the PCIe slot!
Yeah, I ended up getting a shitload of projects done on my property instead of the usual summer vacation. It was probably the better path since I had been procrastinating many of those things for too long already.
I respect your experience, and I'll concede that fMRI for pre-surgical planning in neurooncology is used at only some centers. If you worked mainly in neurooncology you may have missed some of the uses of fMRI for epilepsy surgery. Thanks for the discussion.
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The ignorance of the externalities of fossil fuels and a bipolar hyper focus on those of nuclear energy is mind boggling at this point.

I’m all for developing renewables, but we cannot abandon the one good technology we have for generating massive amounts of energy our base loads demand without polluting our air.
Those subreddits are not exactly hacker hotbeds though
My understanding is that with factory automation usually it's designed to the human is not in danger (usually they aren't even present at all). Are there factories that exist that are automated in a way where the human is exposed to a potentially lethal injury?
Yes it can survive the HN hug of death.

I speak as a software engineer whose blog has hit the HN frontpage multiple times, and who has optimized my blog to be static & lightweight, just like the author. In my experience, a front-page HN post (in the top 3) leads to 30-40 page hits per second. The page at https://nns.ee/blog/2021/04/01/modem-blog.html weights 44.4 kB transferred (HTML, CSS, images, fonts, etc, all compressed over HTTPS). So this is 11-15 Mbit/s of peak bandwidth, below the maximum throughput the author measured on the Pine phone modem (20.7 Mbit/s).

And the bottleneck is going to be purely network. Not CPU. Not disk. Just serving a small set of files cached in RAM by the pagecache.
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