skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are _encoded_ as ASCII. But they very explicitly support arbitrary octets. The interpretation of those octets, and the timing of decode is where the fun starts.

Quick quiz: How many hierarchy elements are present? http://example.com/one%2Ftwo/three

If your Apache config has a proxy for `/one`, does that url match?

What is the value of the utf8 param?
http://example.com/frosty?utf8=%26%C7

application/x-www-form-urlencoded historically didn't specify encoding either. So POST doesn't save you.

It is bad, and just gets worse. HTML/HTTP are just a bit too old to benefit from the genius of Ken Thompson.
They started absolutely ignorant of character encoding. Berners-Lee was a physicist who just wanted to share some cat memes.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1738#section-2.2
https://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/kieranshaw/entry/utf-8_internati...
> You are downvoted because you are saying there are differences in woman and man preferences.

But men and women have different preferences in general?

> his is also known as "neurosexism"

Cool, so now I am a sexist? I really am posting in the SV timezone, aren't I?
Related video from City Beautiful on YouTube: https://youtu.be/TaU1UH_3B5k
>>Opening the web inspector is such a normal moment of dealing with other people's websites, I have no clue how people manage without it.

As a C++ programmer who has absolutely no idea how to even open the dev console in browser - I just close the website. If I can't scroll it, if it has stupid popups that I can't dismiss, if it lets me get halfway through checkout and then misteriously empties my basket? I'll maybe give it one more try and then just close the website.
Why can't Spotify allow users to randomly shuffle through songs?
I don't know what really goes on, but it's pretty clear the shuffle function does not randomize. It has preferences and will repeat some songs multiple times and ignore others. First time I realized was in a month I was only listening to a single playlist, with around 100 songs, and then I was missing a song, which I haven't heard for long time, only to notice it was indeed in the playlist but being ignored? What's even the point of creating playlist if Spotify won't lemme enjoy it fully? I'm seriously considering going back to mp3 and external harddrives and unplug my premium spotify account. Is there any alternative in the market with a similarly large collection? Is this a bug? What's going on here? For at least 18 months I have noticed it's a consistent behavior across all my devices (up-to-date software).
That one set off the flamewar detector.
Just curious, could you just put the address for Finder into that hook instead of the auxiliary program? Or even better, just put the main MPQS program?
Very unfortunate that Namecheap isn’t cooperating. Not really sure what the hold up is, some say it’s related to the Namecheap vs. Tucows lawsuit [0], but realistically it wouldn’t make much sense to do something like this out of spite. I wonder if they’re worried about potential legal obligations of turning over such a “controversial” domain?

[0] https://domainnamewire.com/2018/11/08/namecheap-and-tucows-s...
When I was in uni a few years ago it wasn't exactly unusual for students to use the PC pool for things like this, but you didn't need to circumvent any security to do it (which presumably would have drawn some ire - some poking at security was ok, but always a bit uneasy). Nobody cared unless you really got in the way of people wanting to work on the machines.
Sure, but what's there really to say about those things on the occasion of them announcing their divorce?
Spotify is not an Electron app, they are using Chromium Embedded Framework.
From where I am sitting, your characterization of seriousquestion's comment as a "very shallow dismissal" is itself a very shallow dismissal. Substantially shallower than seriousquestion's comment, which at least contains an argument about consumer demand shaping the products the clothing industry creates.
I generated two random 35 digit primes, multiplied them, and then tossed the product into the first hit for "factor integer online": https://www.alpertron.com.ar/ECM.HTM

1731 322587 637083 705865 442033 654804 904216 446486 784497 444181 466938 498269 (70 digits) = 25317 847509 490819 861309 522806 413689 (35 digits) × 68383 482718 586893 688113 139227 257221 (35 digits)
Time elapsed: 0d 0h 0m 23.8s

This is in JavaScript on a single core on my laptop.
Given the Gateses' roles in the tech world, venture funding, philanthropy, and Big Problems (scroll through BG's Twitter feed for numerous recent examples), including malaria, fresh water, sanitation, COVID-19, nuclear power, carbon emissions, global warming, disinformation, and more, the adjacency to numerous topics highly relevant to HN are high.

I say this as a very long-time critic of Microsoft and Gates, including on recent issues (patents as applied to vaccines).
Gwern has an extremely detailed article that should provide a lot of inspiration. https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3.
The odds of a serious discussion of marriage and estate planning under these initial conditions are low. And the vast majority of HN users aren't tech founders.

More explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27031522
If someone is really drunk you can smell the alcohol standing near them. Not sure about glucose but possibly it's detecting chemicals diffusing through the skin or pores?
Another discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27031650
> If you are placing 16+ story housing buildings down, it's because you need the density

Who is "you"? The way your sentence is structured is from the perspective of a city planner zoning a city or a powerful central authority actually building these structures.

In Houston, "you" is an individual and if you are placing a 16+ storing housing building down, you're doing it because you think you can make money renting or selling the units. The idea of relaxed land use regulations (zoning) is to allow demand to plan the city.

> It's an inefficient use of our limited resources, and artificially inflates housing prices by limiting supply.

Efficiency isn't the most important thing to all people. If it was, we'd all live in dormitories and eat in the cafeteria because private bathrooms and kitchens are wasteful. I don't understand what you mean by "artificial" inflation of prices, what's artificial about it?
And then we will have restrictions in place for much much longer than anticipated/needed.

A much better approach is to define an acceptable level and live with Covid, much like we live with the flu, cancer and other deadly diseases.

The US seems to be the most sane part of the world in this regard.
Paging was also highly interested in making sure every bit that went over the air generated revenue, so adding bits to provide security was a hard sell. FLEX and ReFLEX are 90's technology.
>So women, we’ve got a right to be upset. The data proves it.

This is one of the dangers of scientism. Without widespread memes about taking "data", "peer-reviewed studies", and long articles presented in a magazine-style web theme being authoritative, we would never see an attempt of this kind to transmogrify seam measurements from a small, arbitrary sample of garments into proof of a grand societal conspiracy to restrict "women's private spaces".
Please, for the love of all that is holy, don't put long-form content on Twitter. That's not what Twitter is for. Reading long-form content on Twitter is like trying to read a novel written on post-it notes. Please, just don't.
What works for me is not removing the apps - as you can install them back - but having something else to do that is not on the phone/computer. Having paper books/kindle for instance.

Things you can do to avoid being on the phone/computer, mixed durations:

- paper books/kindle

- (print) sudoku, crossword, logic puzzles (I love those)

- journaling

- drawing (in general, or comic strips)

- playing an instrument (for larger 'do something else' sessions)
iirc thats what it did, cycled through a "palette" of bitmap fonts, but i dont recall if it did the whole block or individual characters...
In 19 and 82 or 3, I worked at Lockheed Shipyard in Seattle, in a sort of tech writing capacity on a Navy ship building project, based on my recent experience in the Navy. The business closed with completion of the ships.

We had to fill out lots of forms that documented what we called "analysis," and we'd often have to change them based on some factor changing. One change could cascade through the whole form.

Paper forms. Green see-through plastic letter guides. Whiteout. Lots of whiteout.

We had access to a department mini computer, don't remember what it was. The language might have been Basic-like, but I didn't know enough to recognize it as such.

I figured out how to write and run programs, someone showed me how to print, and I wrote a program that would accept values for all a form's fundamental values, and cascade those through calculations for the dependent values, and print out the filled in form. You could save it, update a new value, re-cascade, and print it out again. No more whiteout.

Part of the calculation involved sorting. I didn't know anything about sorting, so I implemented what I later learned was bubble sort. Because that's obviously how you'd do that.

The system administer noticed more load when people ran my program. He found me, and told me not to do that again.

I learned that there was a thing called a system administrator. He might have given me a better canned sort, don't remember.

I eventually thought it would be a good idea to quit and go to school, so I did.

(I took a number theory class, but had to drop it. I don't have the math nature.)
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The home office desks of Basecamp
magit-forge is real close.
> When you convert a spectrogram back into sound it sounds like crap

fft gives you the spectrum + the phase. if you only use the spectrum to resynthesise you're missing half the information. temporal domain <-> spectral domain is a 99.9999999% lossless (not 100% I believe because of floating-point shenanigans, but enough to not matter at all) transform in both directions.
OT: Github READMEs have got to the point where they don't say what it actually does, how it does it, things you can depend on or not. They are now QUICKSTART.md. With the dependency insecurities going around, why would anyone think this is okay?
I love how it’s all being mixed in the shell.
Using HN Search on comments with "by:dang" and relevant words will bring up lots of past explanations. There's no document that attempts to describe everything comprehensively because I don't know that that's really possible, and it would eat my soul to try.
One of the last gasp paging technologies was two way paging, which included a slow return channel to confirm message reception.
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is."

- Benjamin Brewster . . . 1882
I know some people who can't even wear a fitbit to bed because it causes anxiety. I am open to the idea of wearing a device that monitors blood glucose if (1) it could accurately measure blood glucose, and (2) the information it provides me passively/via notification can help me to make significant improvements in my health.

For example, if I could make my liver 20% healthier by eating more moderate portions of bread in a meal where I plan to eat dessert, it would be useful to know that.

On the other hand, I don't think I have to wear the device forever to gain this information. I could learn about what makes my blood glucose spike after a month or two, and then just carry that knowledge with me going forward.
Meanwhile, society seems to be on a war against cargo pants.
Actual title, which doesn't have a grammatical error: "Electric Vehicle Batteries: The older they get, the safer they are"
I have a old phone where I can remove the battery.

A) banking app works, but no games etc.

B) browsing for information works, but no fun browsing the clickbait internet

C) removing the battery is an physical act of letting it all go, and a blockade to quickly turn it on again

D) with the battery removed, I know my phone is really off, together with all potential spyware
well, one of the existing CGM (continuous glucose monitor) products on the market, Freestyle Libre, offers phone-based NFC monitoring of their sensor everywhere EXCEPT in the U.S., because the FDA hasn't given approval yet. It's been "real soon now" for almost a year.

Not the sensor itself, mind you. That's been approved forever, just the ability to read it with an app instead of their dedicated NFC reader.
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> Do you think your experience at the DMV is caused by an army of saboteurs in the building?

My experience with the DMV in California is mostly positive, thank you very much.

Most of the stuff can be done online and I do it there.

That, unfortunately, means that when I must go into an actual DMV office, I can't schedule an appointment and I wind up in the line.

Yes, wait times can be significant (1-3 hours). However, when I get to the front, the woman (and it was always a woman) always tried to solve my immediate problem somehow. Yes, twice she needed to get her superior who also scratched her head to figure out something.

If I needed some extra paperwork that I could get that day, they generally gave me a way to jump the line when I came back.

I will tell you that FAR too many people go hit the DMV without having even the vaguest idea of what they need the DMV to do or even attempting to try to corral the paperwork they are going to need. This causes 90+% of the issues at the DMV in that they need to make multiple passes through the system.

If you hit the DMV and are just missing one thing, you're gonna get a LOT better service. The workers are only human and they're going to go the extra mile for someone who is putting in the effort more often than someone who isn't.

> Or, just maybe, is it simply the result of organizations which are unable or unwilling to terminate poor performers, creating a dead sea effect where competence is punished with more work and no credit?

Spoken like someone who has never worked customer service.

Why does everybody always seem to think rude and dismissive employees are indicative of employee failures instead of an indication that the job is shit, the employer is treating the employees like crap, and so only shitty people will take the job?

Reference: Costco vs Walmart.
My school's computer lab ran Windows 3.1 for Workgroups on top of DOS. The network login prompt was in DOS. There were some hackers in upper grades who had installed games like DOOM, Descent, Duke Nukem 3D, etc. in a folder named Alt+255 on many of these computers, which looked like a space in DOS but was invisible to Windows Explorer.

The lab manager found out about our Ctrl+Break hack and put in an event listener/handler for that keycode in the DOS login program. So I spent several hours trying other key combinations and eventually figured out that Alt+3 sent an ASCII character that had an effect that was equivalent to Ctrl+Break in DOS -- and we were back in business.
Traffic is also miserable and public transit is reportedly pretty inadequate, so yeah there are other costs/considerations. You can't ever really talk land-use without talking transportation. (Although this pandemic has brought us closer than ever before to being able to plausibly consider the two separately.)
I remember that when I was 18 I wanted to become a smoker, but I never could because I don't do anything consistently.
Funny, because I remember bypassing my university's print quotas in grad school a few years ago simply by printing directly to the IP of the printer. I didn't set out to do this. It was just an unintentional side effect, and one I never abused, but I did happen to notice that whenever I printed, my quota allotment never went down.
> roads

Heavily subsidize car use, incentivizing urban sprawl and carbon emissions. Repairs take too long. Design is convoluted.

> railroads

Usually privately owned

> Airports

TSA

> Ports

Jones Act

> Oil pipelines

Usually privately owned

> nuclear weapons

Oh yeah, what a great thing to have around. Really provide a service to citizens.

> nuclear reactors

Often privatized

> national postal service

Junk mail. Also, have you heard of the American Letter Mail Company? They competed so well, the government essentially banned competition in the letter delivery space.

> social security numbers

Insecure, easy abusable. Not meant for identification, but used for that anyways.
Perhaps, "I am not interested in testing a novel, experimental vaccine, but if you want to, go right ahead."
Those two things are correlated, in fact. I can't get the citation now, but it's in the literature.
Peter passed years ago, brought down by alcohol. Lesson in there somewhere. I think it's the 2nd edition that has a thank you to my father in the forward. My father ran a graphics arts photography house that I worked in all through my youth. I did most the halftones for the 2nd edition. "A Friend With Weed is A Friend Indeed" was definitely in the book it's also in one of the compendiums of clip art, I think that is where Peter found it. My favorite was the spider webs where they fed various drugs to orb weavers and see what effect it had on the webs and the near perfection of the LSD web. One year Peter gave drug talks. Each week would have it's subject be a single drug. I went to the MDMA talk. A bunch of us took the drug then answered questions and shared our experiences as the talk went on. To this day I am shocked the authorities let him get away with it. Peter Stafford was a trip. Brilliant guy but goofy as hell. He was tall and lanky and talked like goofy the Disney cartoon character. Picture goofy explaining graduate level organic chemistry, strange and wonderful at the same time.

I first did LSD on a warm rock in a babbling brook in Aspen. The next few were in the fore mentioned Nisene Marks. A state park and redwood forest. It had been clear cut in the late 1800s and has mostly grown back with fairy circles of redwood trees surrounding the huge stumps of cut old growth redwoods. If ever there were places for me to get mystical, those two would be at the top of my list. I also read Carlos Castaneda's The Teachings of Don Juan during that period, so I am familiar with the idea of mysticism with Psychedelics. In my and my friends case it just never took for whatever reason...
On the other hand, men deserve to be able to carry a purse. When jacket season ends mens carrying capacity drops dramatically

I love the presentation of data though
In your browser console, can you edit a previous statement and have everything recalculate?
I see these conversations go off the rails often because what should be seen as a call to common cause comes across as whataboutism, so let me try to be transparent about that:

I think prospective mothers in tech should find common cause with other groups of people who suffer because the expectation is that everything in a startup is event driven and that each event is automatically the highest priority.

When a plane crashes, we expect the NTSB to be 'responsive'. The meaning we use here is a quality we generally expect large organizations to lose - the ability to notice problems, take them seriously, and aggressively work to do something about them. That's not the same definition that I see people apply to startups. Startups are instead chronically run like a Skinner box, only you're the box.

If my career has a thesis it's that we have tools, literal and figurative, that let us "move fast and not break things". For some developers these tools seem like nice to have or a distraction (the White Knuckle Crew), for others they only see the value during an incident or a crunch, but to others they're essential for sanity, be you remote, a night owl, easily distracted, disabled, long commute, a caregiver, or prospective parent/pet owner.

From my knothole it seems like a lot of the infrastructure people build up in order to become an 'adult' organization is presumed to be something that you develop in-house shortly after the Last Responsible Moment, instead of something we expect from our tools out of the box. But that's probably more a consequence of the fact that few people demand it, so it hasn't gotten done.

If everyone has to be a hero, then you get mostly unattached bachelors in moderate to perfect health. Do you want an Old Boy's Network? Because that's how you get an Old Boy's Network.
I was referring to total incidence, because approved vaccines have total incidence (Israel, where I now reside, has >84% of eligible population already vaccinated), so that's what you should compare to when considering vaccine adverse events vs. disease adverse events.

But something doesn't compute;

1:12,500 COVID incidence vs. 1:50,000 total incidence means 1 in 4 kids in the US has confirmed covid, despite less than 10% of the US population being verified (32.4M as of this second).

If we extrapolate the 1:12,500 number to the whole population (assuming 10% of the kids are confirmed), it's 1:125,000 for MIS-C in disease, vs. 1:20,000 myocarditis with vaccine. I'm not sure it's valid extrapolation (and I suspect your data, from July, is very outdated), either way -- it is not possible, based on this data, to claim that it is clearly beneficial to vaccinate children.

The data I'm familiar with DOES show that at age > 50 there are clear benefits. But, especially with respect to things like age, obesity and other attributes, it is very far from "one size fits all".
> All that said, it sounds like Houston could be a good "experiment" for something more efficient/optimal than the normal US city/suburb zoning scheme. Reduce the lot sizes a bit more, remove parking minimums, etc.

The problem is that Houston is extremely lacking in offering any transit-based options for people, which means the "solution" is going to be extremely biased towards whatever is most comfortable to people who travel exclusively via single-occupant vehicles.
Wouldn't the logical conclusion be to build the homes, but to build the foundation higher than the forecast flood line? Or even to build the house raised above the foundation?
What's your programming background? This is some quite basic stuff to be honest. Have you heard of dependency injection? Context is dependency injection in React, there you go. There's quite a few .Net/Java books that would offer you better examples and clearer reasoning than myself, like this one: https://www.manning.com/books/dependency-injection-principle....
Nice work Fossy and co.

I believe this is this is the dependency chain your live-bootstrap works through:
https://github.com/oriansj/talk-notes/raw/master/live-bootst...
Email: GSuite

Task Manager: Trello

File sharing: Google Drive (part of GSuite)

Code: GitHub

Messaging: Slack for messaging stakeholders (I'm in tons of Slack orgs), PaperCups (Or Drip/Crisp Chat/Intercom) for responding to my customers

For context, these are the services I'm using for building a SaaS (https://onlineornot.com), your business might have different needs.
Why UUIDs were designed in such a way that collides?
Regular old v1 UUIDs contain 60 bits of the system time and are sortable by it, all you need is a uuid library to extract that information from them. Eg, in haskell:

ghci> sortOn Data.UUID.Util.extractTime (map (fromJust . Data.UUID.fromString) ["8fca290c-ac63-11eb-9e74-79cdba6ee3eb", "8d543a32-ac63-11eb-9e74-79cdba6ee3eb"])
[8d543a32-ac63-11eb-9e74-79cdba6ee3eb,8fca290c-ac63-11eb-9e74-79cdba6ee3eb]
I looked up the stats and for someone under 35, they are more likely to die of murder than of Covid-19, in the United States and much more likely to die of suicide or car accident.
Ah, the era of primitive DIY security. Those were the days. It's kinda of sad that today's kids have to deal with industry-grade encryption and professional best practices, instead of going toe-to-toe with an underpaid self-taught middle-aged "computer guy" like my generation did...