skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for answer. The prostitution sounds more expensive then I assumed (but I guess it factors in risk and periods without customers).

To the ending, your friends are kind of guys I really dont want to meet. I kind of assumed it was all about single guys having causual fun, now I feel sorry for their wifes. I honestly think better about guys that are not getting laid at the base.
Yep. Same. Read HN at least 2-3x/wk and use Stack Overflow and a bunch of their related sub-sites about the same frequency. No clue who this is or what the event is referring to.

(Nor do I want to gain any clue)
I can't downvote your comment here on HN, presumably because I don't have enough reputation. And HN doesn't even tell me.
On Windows you can use C# for audio plugins.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/audio-video-cam...
Pretty much anything Kathleen Kennedy had her hands in is horrible.

The best thing they could do is have Mark Hamil wake up from a nightmare at the start of the next movie.
Yeah, a lot of people don't realize you can't compare intervals of UTC seconds without an almanac generated by a random natural process.
> Conde Nast managed not to destroy Reddit after buying it.

I would have said the exact opposite. The Reddit community was destroyed. People no longer recommend Reddit for interesting discussions or speak excitedly about its communities. Conde Nast monetized and changed Reddit, recouping their investment, and now it's hard to find people who have good things to say about it.

Consider e.g. /r/darknetplan or similar topic focused subreddit a that were thriving in the early 2000s - all graveyards today. Those people are on Discord now.
Not that it really matters to your points, but eBay and Paypal split in 2015.
this could be a great project. also the raspberry pi is very affordable. However, i think the best raspberry pi would be the raspberry pi 3 as the raspberry pi 4 requires a different ac adapter with usbc c and also a special hdmi cable so that increases the price of entry.

Even writing a game system for the raspberry pi zero w would be amazing.
Ha, I'm user 26! So funny: https://stackoverflow.com/users/26/shawn
Arrest Fauci Now!
I've only used the Coffee sock ones I mentioned and those are cotton.
The problem here is that is sounds like he was SENDING money not RECIEVING money,

They can trace where the money came from, if I put money into the account so I could pay someone they find objectionable and then shut me down they should not be able to hold that money because it is not a fraud issue, i did not receive from a 3rd party, it is 100% my money

yet they also hold these funds for the 180 days
How about, companies who pay ransoms get a fine that's 10x the ransom. It slides up toward 1000x over two years. Kind of like deprecating an API slowly by decreasing its responsiveness.
I wouldn't be so terribly sure. <em>Mississippi</em> voters approved medical marijuana last year by a fairly strong majority https://ballotpedia.org/Mississippi_Ballot_Measure_1,_Initia.... The vote was complicated by competing "initiatives", one of which was written by the legislature, and by a legal challenge to the rules surrounding initiatives in the state that ultimately led to the state Supreme Court striking it down, but 68.5% approved of at least one of the two competing proposals, and of them 73.7% voted for the one that was actually a popular initiative.

It was popularly perceived that the "medical" requirement would not last for more than a few years before recreational was legalized.

So while it might still be a deal-killer in, say, Utah, I don't think it holds nearly the sway it did even ten years ago. It got almost as many votes as the presidential race, and even if you assume that every Biden voter was pro-legalization, there are nearly 300k extra "yea" votes you have to account for. You only make that go away if you assume that every Biden voter was pro-legalization and voted for the citizen initiative, and that every Trump voter who voted to legalize voted for the (more restrictive) legislative proposal instead of just voting against it or choosing the citizen proposal.
One one hand, I'm glad that Stackoverflow is profitable. That someone is making money on it. On the other, I'm peeved that someone made two billion on all free content I and others created for no other gain than imaginary internet points. Without our work, SO wouldn't have been worth much. None of us can objectively claim to have been take advantage of... but still...
You really think schizophrenics on 6th and market are holding off from drug use because it's illegal?
If I take on $50,000 of debt to get a degree, and then they kick me out before I get it, that's a lighter penalty than getting put in prison, but it can still mess up my life for the next large number of years.
Next Steps for the Gnome Foundation
Most of what I read previously about this has to do with a lot of uncertainty about how the Nasper's stake in Tencent will eventually be taxed or how the value will be extracted, and a lot of uncertainty about South African business in general.

Note that Prosus, which is a subsidiary almost completely owned by Nasper (they have a small amount of public float), is worth close to $180 billion, which is much closer to the Tencent holding value. This reflects that people are much more confident of Dutch business than of South African business, and there probably is every right to be.
You use paper or metal filter?
They are actually too inefficient.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/helium-hokum...
To further explain, residual coffee goes stale, the oil in the coffee beans can go rancid and thus spoil your cup and if the retention varies you might miss your ratio or go overboard.

This is in practice at most annoying, so you can indeed make good coffee without a zero retention grinder but for a 'coffee snob' the most important thing is consistency in the cup.
I read this differently -- I think there's a ceiling on just how much money SO will make, and the SO team has realized there's no future in which they are a company that makes $1B or so per year. Which is fine, but hard if you want to play in vc land or go public.

There definitely are companies that will buy something like this to operate it essentially as an annuity.

The risk to the employees there is if SO essentially becomes done and the owners want to put it in maintenance mode and operate it as a run-out.

Also, it's been 12 years. There's probably a bunch of employees that would like some liquidity.
I can't. It seems totally irrational to me. Makes no sense at all.
I’m more worried about the other state understanding the topology of my state in higher resolution than my own state does. The ramifications are endless, and I believe that to be the more grave threat (aka undermine society at its cultural fabric while stealing/undermining the economy and crippling the military).
Ask HN: New variant of DNS water torture DDoS?
I have a block of static IPs through my DSL provider, and these host all of my online infrastructure (because you effectively have no security at all when you give up physical control of your servers). This is a one person operation, at the outer fringe of the grid.

I recently discovered that my DNS services have been suffering a water torture attack, occasionally resulting in congestion that makes the connection virtually unusable. I think I know who is doing this and why, but that's immaterial to this post, as I don't expect anyone (including law enforcement) to do anything substantial to help resolve that situation.

Everything that I can find in my quick search of literature on the subject talks about these sorts of attacks using randomly generated non-existent subdomains (e.g. <hash>.<hash>.<hash>.example.com), but I suspect this pattern of abuse has been mitigated by ISPs and backbone operators? Instead, I am seeing my server answering queries for endless capitalization permutations of the names that actually exist: example.com, eXamPle.com, ExAmple.COM, and so on.

Can anyone link me to current reference material describing this variation of DDoS attack? What is my best plan for mitigating this kind of attack?
I wonder if the title of this submission ought to be just "Blender 2.93 LTS" to make it more clear what the subject of it is? Just my two cents.
Chris Hedges: “Dying for an iPhone”
I saw a video that I wish I had bookmarked about a US farmer using alley cropping with no pesticides, and indeed almost no management other than the first planting and yearly harvesting.

Their setup is to grow asparagus for income in the alleys between nut trees (which take 7+ years to start producing), leave a bunch of asparagus to go to seed instead of harvesting it all, and time their field mowing to support asparagus growth. When the trees start producing, they will reforest the fields between them. Low-effort and low-cost by working with native species and using long-established techniques.

Is it going to yield as much as highly-managed farmland? No. But it also takes a fraction of the effort, so they can pursue other things in the meantime. It ain’t quite passive income, but it ain’t real active either, and they’re rehabilitating the flora and fauna while they do it.

Lots of permaculture ideas share similarities with this and are more geared towards higher yields.
I'm not too knowledgeable about all this, I'm sure you're right, and it was someone else's requirement that we have peering. Still, we'd grown accustomed to other vendors offering it by default (Timescale Cloud, Aiven) so it was a serious sticker shock and a big part of making us go elsewhere.
Does he know you can hide the number of likes now?
The pessimist in me thinks it will mean an increase in McAffee sales and pen tester fees followed by regulation that makes them mandatory.
How people differ: before SO, I've rarely bought language books because most of them had reference pages readily available. I've learned and used heavily all of Python, Perl, PHP, SQL (with MySQL and Postgresql), a bit of assembly (NASM and GNU as), low-level details of C too (from ISO C9x draft), JavaScript, HTML and CSS and plain TeX, not to mention structures of x86 and VBE programming (I played with writing minimal kernels).

This was all before 2001 while I was in high school, with books being very hard to get in Serbia, so internet was my go to resource.

Now to be honest, even after SO, I only use it as a last resort. Somehow only 1/20th of the problems I hit match what people seem to hit on SO :/
Republicans do not uniformly oppose it. That is not true.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/2-republican-lawmake...
Drugs are illegal for Americans to buy, sell, and produce.

Laws are how you prevent this.

Can you imagine the Massachusetts Steamship Authority paying in cocaine?

Why would paying in Bitcoin be any different?

Bitcoin is parroted largely by a bunch of libertarian speculative grifters that think they're above the authority of our government to manage the monetary supply. They want to soak up all the advantages of building and controlling an economy.

If you look through the covers, it's all speculation and hype. There's noting "decentralized" or "democratic" about it. Bitcoiners are fine with letting social services and the underserved slip through the cracks as long as they get their reward that they feel they earned.

The US is a democracy, and theoretically it helps people of all backgrounds and socioeconomic statuses. It might not be evenly distributed, but at least we can toss out the bad players. Bitcoin is not a democracy. It rewards the Ponzi schemers at the top and leaves everyone else out to dry.

And now look at what it's gotten us -- unprecedented crime from across international boarders that we can't stop. All brought to you by the remarkable "governmentless decentralization".

Just wait until the kidnappings start. Or the murders for hire.

Fucking good for nothing bitcoin. The world was better before it existed.
nix-env isn't meaningfully an escape hatch, since you can still only use it with stuff that's packaged in Nix's peculiar way.

Here's an overview of the escape hatches that are currently around in NixOS for package management, meaning you can use them to avoid packaging something natively for Nix, or to run pre-built software for other distros or targeting multiple distros:

• flatpak — use flatpak to install stuff just like you would on any other distro: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/index.html#module-serv...

• FHS user environments — create a usermode chroot that puts Nix packages where naive `./configure; make; make install` programs will expect to see their dependencies

• steam-run — run whatever in the pre-built FHSUserEnv that Nixpkgs uses for Steam: https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#sec-steam-run

• AppImage — launch an AppImage using `appimage-run` or create a quick and dirty Nix package that wrapps an existing AppImage: https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#sec-pkgs-appimageTo...

• Docker — you can run stuff with Docker if ya want: https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=unstable&show=virtu...

NixOS also includes little escape hatches on the configuration side for every service. Basically every module also has an ‘extraConfig’ type of option, which lets you append to the config file that NixOS generates for the service in its original/raw format.

Otherwise, you're generally looking at setting up a chroot environment. I can think of some ways that NixOS could be a little more generous with escape hatches, but I don't think there's much developer interest in the community.
Thanks for mentioning that, I was not aware of Eurorack and when I looked it up I found the Synth DIY Wiki, which is a treasure trove for this topic, super cool (https://sdiy.info/wiki/Main_Page ). BTW, some friends and I build the Box of Boom, which is an interactive digital + analog drum kit that uses actuators to play real drums with a video game console ( see https://www.boxofboom.com ). We're exploring doing a new version that integrates more synth-y sounds and signal modifiers.
To secure your remote workforce, lock down ‘your’ computers
Meanwhile, I'm seeing ads from Nespresso with catchphrases such as “Did you know aluminum makes your coffee even tastier?”.
What about a 2-tuple with two numbers, one being the BigInt and one being the exponent. So 1.000054 would be (1000054, -6) = 1000054*10^(-6).

Yours is probably more space efficient though.
https://xkcd.com/1649/
> fill-paragraph (M-q),

I use C-u-M-q. I prefer that text layout.
What Are Linear Data Structures?
You can bet your ass if one of these obscenely funded startup takes on the same problem, you are going to see all of that microservices, event sourcing, reactive patterns, service mesh jazz all over the place when they are dealing with like 100k users. And throw in the obligatory machine learning for intelligent ranking or some shit like that.
Plenty. Uneaten leftovers, rotten food...
I suppose we can extend the German analogy here as well, e.g. not trying to put half a country on trial might be the most reasonable option
Most SPACs sign on "influencers" and "celebrities" who promote the hell out of the SPAC before the group has any clue what they're trying to buy.

VC money goes into a company that the VC knows about. IPOs have strict public financial disclosures such that everyone knows how the company operates as it IPOs.

A SPAC? You only know that its held by Shaq O'Neal and they're trying to raise money for something something something. And sure, maybe some of us know how to look up the history of the financial types who make up SPACs, but we all know that dumb retail money is just following the celebrities that they're a fan of.

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All the people who bought "Current Forest Road" (aka: the Shaq-SPAC) had no idea that they were buying Mixology. They raised money first, and then bought Mixology later. You're pretty much buying the SPAC purely on celebrity presence. There's no fundamentals to analyze, no industry to speculate the future about. Its purely a "lets collect some money together and buy something later" vehicle.
> How many of these attacks are fully automated in the initial attack/encrypt phase vs. human operators explicitly working to more fully infiltrate a target?

Given the effectiveness of social engineering in hacking's history, that's a very good question. I wouldn't be surprised if randomized attacks are used to create a "sales funnel" of high value targets with poor IT ops/outdated equipment/etc that can be exploited for big payouts. All it takes is a few hundred or thousand dollars to bribe a low level employee so the vast majority of the cost is likely in finding targets. Once they've identified a target, the exploitation process is probably mechanical.
There is no error. The error produced is completely indistinguishable from the plane turning left or right.

I mentioned gyros and accelerometers in my first comment. They are the only thing that can at all help with advanced spoofing attacks. They are not sufficient. If they were sufficient, there would be no use for GPS to begin with.

This chip can only help against primitive attacks. It can help if the GPS signal is being jammed with nonsense signals by allowing the navigation system to lock back into the correct signal more quickly.

In the case of a sophisticated attack, the navigation system will not be able to detect the spoofing at all. The error induced by the spoofing will be completely indistinguishable from gyro drift.

That is to say, in the RQ-170 incident, the attacker was limited in the amount of error that could be added each frame by the gyros and accelerometer. Now, the attacker is still limited by the gyros and accelerometer, there is no change to the amount of error that can be added over time.

This chip can help against unsophisticated attacks. It cannot do anything at all for sophisticated attacks like those that allowed the capture of the RQ-170.

Let us have a thought experiment to ascertain this. Imagine a drone with an unphysically perfect clock. The drone receives time from 4 satellites and uses this time delta to calculate the distance from all four satellites.

Now let us imagine an attacker which overpowers this time signal. Initially, the signal is exactly the same as before the jamming. The signal at time t is such that it is exactly equal to that if the drone was turning left at exactly half of the gyro drift rate.

How would you be able to detect that this signal is incorrect? The answer is, it is impossible.

You may claim that the clock will be able to detect errors in the time by the spoofer. However, there is inherent noise in the time signal from GPS due to numerical errors in the predicted orbit of the satellites as well as interference from the ionosphere. The stochastic component of this noise is equal to more or less 3 meters. So the time is error in the date signal from the GPS is already of the order of 1/(100 000 000) seconds, meaning that any clock with better than that is not useful for discriminating against sophisticated attacks (but still useful against unsophisticated attacks).
None of those genres are produced exclusively by white people, and two of them are direct descendants of African American music.

I assume you've finished the video by now, so I look forward to reading your informed opinion of it.
I assume they have to pay for the testing. Search suggest ~$30/test/person. Not sure how many tests per year, 4? With 1m+ workers that’s a decent sized budget line item.
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You could create a website where you could browse the internet with a browser written in JS. No apple approval needed.
Coming from the Pascal side of programming, the syntax doesn't help to gain adoption in hacker community that grew out of UNIX culture.

In a way I think it is a kind of revenge that most newer languages adopt Pascal style variable and type declarations.
Isn't this what the JVM already does?
Chinese made cars? Where?
> I remember the "Days Before Stack Overflow"

Yes. In the early 1990s I relied on Usenet's comp.lang hierarchy and the awesome FAQs that accreted there. A thorough reading of these could head off a huge number of problems before they manifested as bugs. Here are some examples [0, 1] to give people the flavour, admittedly from about 10 years after I had moved on.

[0] http://www.faqs.org/faqs/C++-faq/part1/
[1] http://www.faqs.org/faqs/C++-faq/part5/
NixOS makes it easy to emit raw configuration files if you want. I do this for software where I want more control than the Nix wrapper exposes.
The Mania Loses Its Mojo
Typo fix: 'harvesting'
Can I transcribe audio files into plain text with this? Or is this overkill? Don't need json, just plain text.
That graph really shows the (mostly automatic, forced) conversions from existing Lync/Skype for Business users rather than brand new Teams ones. Not exactly fair to compare it to Slack without including the existing user counts as well.
Developer platforms can triumph over common product-led growth roadblocks
There's definitely a strong compounding effect over time. I have a 6-digit UID there, but haven't been active for years now. However, I'm still in the top 0.16%, largely thanks to a steady trickle of rep from all those old answers that are still relevant.

But any such "interest" does apply to the magnitude of the initial contribution, so merely being around for long is not enough - you had to have a sufficiently productive period of activity to capitalize on.
Where did his 3,675 reputation come from? He only asked 2 questions and has a small number of badges.
So they actually decided to create a racist flamewar did they? They just called it "wuhan flu" to "scapegoat the Chinese". That's all 100% accurate in your head.

Your problem is you're assuming malicious intent as fact. It's completely impossible to know what someone is thinking, so you should just assume they're not evil racists planning racist flamewars I think.
The point is the device is clearly not competitive on specs. You have to put a lot of value in it being an open platform to find it attractive.

It is the kind of specs you typically find on $30 phones.

https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Mobile-Prepaid-Smartphone-Lock...
Can you imagine how idiotic someone would sound if they were saying that about type 1 diabetes, or maybe schizophrenia?

Robin Williams lived a pretty pleasant life, but he died of depression. If Robin Freaking Williams couldn't beat it, what chance do the rest of us have for successful self-treatment?
How do you think warrants work? The police suspect Criminal Charlie of organizing a crime using pidgin, so they get a warrant, then they give the warrant to Charlie? "Please remember to cc us on all your criminal plans. Thanks."
Lol ok.
Do be careful about powering off HDDs that have been possibly spinning for 20+ years. They might not spin back up.