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What should I do if people use my website for illegal purposes?
Let's say a simple encrypted chatting application. The company itself cannot understand all the data it is storing since they are all hashed and encrypted. But what if users are exchanging messages for illegal purposes? How to stop users from doing that?
I like to think the flood was a cover for some government buying a mind boggling quantity of hard drives. All for some massive spying operation. Obviously I have zero proof or even the tiniest bit of evidence. Just my personal conspiracy theory.
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How does the deal stop Amazon increasing consumer prices by the amount of tax?
Giant amounts of traffic (order of billions of requests per day) from a small number of boxes. It clearly doesn't get them anything (if your IP isn't changing multiple times per second you'd be better off caching, if it is you're probably a moron), so it's reasonable to suspect it's either a mistake or an attempt to take the site offline.
I remember using this to compare people’s top 10 lists (convert them to strings, see how far off everyone was off from each other, and ultimately the ‘winning’ list (the distance should be near zero to when lists are compared)).

Really didn’t need to, but I was bored. Worked well enough. Adderral is a helluva drug.
Same. I’ve been at it for 20 years and just never was in a job that used React or Typescript. In my current job I was paired with a boot camp grad probably ~15 years my junior who has been an amazing mentor as I learned React + Redux + Typescript.
This is nothing new.

One thing in the article surprised me: "Though the bureau’s ability to weigh items has been limited during the pandemic because of restrictions on in-person data collection".

I don't see the need to weigh items. There's nothing to suggest that manufacturers are reducing the weight without updating the amount marked on the packaging.
I used fuzzywuzzy [1], a python-based fuzzy string matching calculator that is based on Levenshtein's edit-distance for a parking enforcement product I built.

The product used an iOS client to capture license plates. The app would capture a single plate many times, de-duplicate using an edit-distance threshold matching plates up to a time period lookback. Then among those plates, send the one with the highest likely correct read up to the server.

The web app would look to see if that plate had been seen before or a plate similar had been seen before. If so, it would join a "plate group" which let you see the history of vehicle sightings.

A set of rules could be created to show vehicle in violation of a posted parking time limit. It worked when a person on patrol walked the lot twice and the app saw the "same" vehicle (thanks to edit distance)

I had Cummings Properties in New England and National Cathedral in DC as customers, but sold the product last year.

I did not like parking enforcement or the amount and type of data it handled.

The product was hard to sell into facility management.

Parking problems are a hot potato issue on private lots since they generally can’t ticket cars so it just takes time and money to deal with.

That said the other solutions require manual entry or even clipboards. So people would get desperate to reduce effort involved.

I really enjoyed building and iterating on the product, though, and learned a lot.

I wrote some about Vladimir Losifovich Levenshtein in a final high level blog entry about edit distance. There's a 2002 photo of Levenshtein at a conference if you're curious. [2]

[1] https://github.com/seatgeek/fuzzywuzzy

[2] https://blog.easyalpr.com/2019/09/16/calculating-license-pla...
As Dictators Target Citizens Abroad, Few Safe Spaces Remain
So far, Fast Fourier Transform and Quicksort still holds up well (there are faster algorithms, but both remain adequate choices for general use). But I do agree with you, they're exceptions rather than the rule, e.g. Fast Ethernet, only 100 Mbps ;-)
> memset(data, 0, LENGTH);

>// ...

> T data[LENGTH];

I'm not sure how important it is in practice, but I'm pretty sure you don't zero out the whole array for sizeof(T) > 1.

Anyhow, memsetting to 0 a complex type is... not something I'd recommend in most cases.
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Wow, this is a surprisingly approachable explanation of how a transistor works!

Also in next article they discuss "walkie-hearies". AAA! It's like "walkie-talkie" but for hearing. Obviously!
I still have my Amazon receipt for two of these where one failed within 2-3 years.
There's the https://drasticresearch.org/ group, which follows the lab theory. They unambiguously admit the possibility.
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> If you’re curious, Cloudflare did pay me for the site. We made a deal for them to pay me $8.03; the cost of the domain registration. The goal was never to make money from the site (although I did get about $75 in total donations from 2009 to 2021). The goal was to provide a service to the internet. Cloudflare has helped me do that and they will continue to do it as the new owners and operators of icanhazip.com.

Damn, I'm almost mad at you for not hustling. Could have left with a few million easily over that entire time period, including charging Cloudfare a small fortune for the site! But hats off to you for being a true altruist. Too many paper altruists these days.
>> "It’s common to declare that you are “beyond good and evil,” to adopt ethical nihilism"

This may have been in a related article on the site, but, if this is a reference to Nietzsche, as it seems to be, he was not a nihilist, ethical or otherwise. The book was called Beyond Good and Evil, and he points out this is not the same as Beyond Good and Bad. He advocated the opposite of nihilism: value creation as the basis for meaning.

Just pointing this out as I find Nietzsche is often misunderstood to be a nihilist.
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The picture on that page is worth more than a thousand words. Scary those death traps.
> but you didnt answer to point 2

Sure I did:

> You bring this up yourself when you talk about the fear that allowing trans rights to progress too far will lead to people who dissent being ostracized. For Americans that is inherently a tribal fear. It is a fight over a change in cultural values and standards: a worry that a certain cultural tribe (often white, Conservative, and/or Evangelical) is losing power compared to other subgroups.

I don't disagree with you that people have this as a fear, but it is a tribal fear, it's a fear of turning into the outgroup. In America, anti-trans legislation seeks to mitigate certain demographics' fear by othering the groups that "threaten" them. The anti-trans laws that get passed because of that fear are passed with the intention of slowing down and hurting what Republicans have designated as the enemy tribe (in this case, the trans community).

It's hard for me to think of anything more tribalistic than viewing an entire demographic as a threat, and then actively taking away their rights in an attempt to reverse cultural change.
The WEF websites generally outline the Davos globalist agendas. I critical reading of some of their documents might better answer some of your questions than a comment.
I worked at a small web hosting company back then, and we used a bunch of IBM Deathstar's. They certainly lived up to their name! I disassembled one just to see what went wrong, and I found the cause (of that drive's failure, at least).

Here's a list of terms for reference:
http://data-recovery-tips.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/h...

At some point, the bearing that serves as the pivot that the actuator arm and actuator attach to, is attached to the chassis of the hard drive with a bolt on the bottom of the drive. At that time, most drives also had a bolt that went through the cover. The Deathstar did not. It was only attached to the chassis. Which was fine, and that's the method commonly used since then. This particular drive had no thread lock on the bolt, and it had come loose, leading to a catastrophic head crash.

I don't know if other Deathstar's suffered the same fate for the same reason. The Wikipedia article on the subject says it was due to the magnetic coating of the platters coming off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar
Yes, and on Fedora it's the only way to watch videos. I also use Firefox on Android for some months. For some sites you need to fallback to Chrome though, mostly Google sites.
Thats important to know but in a low head dam you get sucked under and pinned.

This is very different from an exhausted swimmer, or the evolutionary dead end default state of just chilling in the water because their amoeba brain flipped off
Are all stack-based languages concatenative? What would it take for a stack language to not be concatenative?
I'm saying that more people suffering from other type of mining does not justify more lithium mining just because it is polluting less in comparison to another long establish industries.

Instead it should concentrate people thinking power to solve those other issues in mining industry of metals as gold, copper, lead, nickel, iron, cadmium...

Also going outside and seeing that it is beautiful kind of sounds as ostrich way of dealing with problems buy turning on the blind eye concentrating to things in local vicinity, convincing yourself that all is good and we should move on.
Damn, I have a 12 disk RAID-Z2 with that, almost all of them failed in about 1~2 years, luckily because of Z2, I didn't lose any data.

I'll never buy seagate again.
Simple Code: Contracts
Part 2/10. Simple code: Contracts

Code works around contracts and contracts should be carefully thought and crafted.
But all these people are vaccinated now and since quite a while. If not, it's only their own fault.
A good junior is an expert at writing clever code. I think this desire is squashed out of people once they realize there are many more stakeholders in the code you write than just you. Being clever is often a waste of everyone's time.
Unemployment benefits right now are paying more than your average unskilled job. You may not want to hear it but many people are using this provision knowing there are jobs out there for when it comes to an end, so guess what they collect unemployment.

Once it goes back to pre-pandemic then the issues are still pay sucks, job sucks, no retirement options, no to little healthcare etc...

The one thing we have been seeing and will only get worse is the skill gap. Many skills you cannot learn overnight and many people are assuming 'other' jobs will be there for them.

Short term govt. checks. Short/Long term skill gap.
> Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.

I understand the history of that term, but in this context it seems inhumane. Asking for additional sacrifices from people who are already struggling to afford access to medical care is deeply fucked up. Giving back (to your country/community/world/whatever) should be an ethical obligation, sure, but not one that kicks in when you're still struggling to attain some very basic needs.

Like, I understand your point that safety net programs are available to many (though I don't necessarily agree--food insecurity numbers and medical bankruptcy rates seem like pretty compelling counterpoints). But coming out with "ask what you can do for your country" when talking about a country's least affluent population seems crass and disingenuous.
Show HN: Repair JSON
I remember these, zpool history provides a nice record here. First one failed within a year!

zpool history tank | grep "zpool create\|replace"
2013-03-26.23:27:40 zpool create -fo cachefile=/var/tmp/zpool.cache -o altroot=/mnt tank raidz2 gpt/disk0.nop gpt/disk1.nop gpt/disk2.nop gpt/disk3.nop
2014-01-18.19:00:41 zpool replace tank /dev/gpt/disk3
2014-01-19.09:59:45 zpool replace tank /dev/gpt/disk1
2014-11-30.14:44:59 zpool replace tank /dev/gpt/disk2
2015-09-13.21:16:11 zpool replace tank /dev/gpt/disk1
2016-01-03.15:37:40 zpool replace tank gpt/disk0
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What they didn’t know... This immediately triggered the moderation magic, and they lost their entire account

Wait, the person who accidentally used an inappropriate model got banned? Or the creator of the model got banned?
In Austin, TX, there's a urologist famously named Richard Chopp, and his colleagues at the same clinic all have similarly relevant names, like Stephen Hardeman.
> I’m not a crow

I can see that
China currently gets most of its iron ore from Australia. It is completely unworkable to transport that by air as are many other things. (If China had to for example transport petroleum from the Persian Gulf by air, my guess is that it would cost more petroleum to fuel the operation than the operation would move. ISTR that most of the cargo by weight transiting the oceans is petroleum.) A naval blockade would harm China more than conquering Taiwan would help China.
It sounds a bit like the're saying benefits are the lever we control to balance between one disaster and another.

On one side there is inflation which ruins the economic recovery (too generous benefits) and on the other side you have mass suffering (too stingy benefits). As the primary driver of the shortage (the fear of COVID) goes down, we also need to scale back benefits while maintaining that delicate balance between too generous and too stingy. And we can't stop decreasing benefits until people begin to accept those less desirable jobs again. Failure to do this would push us over into inflation.
simpler HN search. why not.

text-only, no Javascript required, no SNI, unnecessary HTTP headers, DNS, etc.

json_reformat is from https://github.com/lloyd/yajl/

^M is Ctrl-v+Ctrl-m

example usage:

1.sh query > 1.json

json_reformat < 1.json|sed 's/ *//;s/\\n/ /g'|less

stunnel -fd 0 <<eof1
debug=debug
pid=$HOME/1.pid
foreground=no
[ $$ ]
accept=127.0.0.7:80
client=yes
connect=54.217.76.129:443
options=NO_TICKET
options=NO_RENEGOTIATION
renegotiation=no
sni=
sslVersion=TLSv1.3
sslVersionMin=TLSv1.2
eof1
nc -vvn 127.7 80 <<eof2
POST /1/indexes/Item_production_ordered/query?x-algolia-agent=Algolia%20for%20JavaScript%20(4.0.2)%3B%20Browser%20(lite)&x-algolia-api-key=8ece23f8eb07cd25d40262a1764599b1&x-algolia-application-id=UJ5WYC0L7X HTTP/1.1^M
Host: uj5wyc0l7x-dsn.algolia.net^M
Connection: close^M
Content-Type: x-www-form-urlencoded^M
Content-Length: $((${#@}+393))^M
^M
{"query":"$@","analyticsTags":["web"],"page":0,"hitsPerPage":30,"minWordSizefor1Typo":4,"minWordSizefor2Typos":8,"advancedSyntax":true,"ignorePlurals":false,"clickAnalytics":true,"minProximity":8,"numericFilters":[],"tagFilters":["story",[]],"typoTolerance":true,"queryType":"prefixNone","restrictSearchableAttributes":["title","comment_text","url","story_text","author"],"getRankingInfo":true}
eof2
cd;kill $(cat 1.pid);
Truly selfless service.
It cost him many thousands in money and tens of thousands in time.

And :

"If you’re curious, Cloudflare did pay me for the site. We made a deal for them to pay me $8.03; the cost of the domain registration. The goal was never to make money from the site (although I did get about $75 in total donations from 2009 to 2021). The goal was to provide a service to the internet. Cloudflare has helped me do that and they will continue to do it as the new owners and operators of icanhazip.com."

BTW, speaking as a nerd, he has the best formatted resume that I have ever seen !

See: https://majorhayden.com/
Traditionally, the bridge between stage 4 and 5 was reserved for "spiritual" seekers. And this is still a path to folow. While stage 4 people could consider spirituality a level 3 activity, hostory shows enough level 5 people that bridged over "duality" for example and that used "wisdom" as a proxy for metarationality. Having stronger "rationality based results" and call these result as "science results" makes the brdiging both easier and harder. It is easier because you get a stronger indicaton (lets say data) that rationality is an ilusion. However, you can also get lost in details: " became unable to see the forest because of the trees" ;)
Statistics for sure. But i don't really find myself using analysis on a day to day basis
Core: A new platform that wants to be the YouTube of game development (2020)
jeff erickson's 'algorithms, etc.' is the textbook for our university's algo class. it's brilliant.

in case, link: https://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/
And also left wing extremists, secessionists, centrists, people afraid of 5G

Americans have guns

Right wingers showed up with them and then said it was left wingers, who do also own them
Framework on top of a framework using a UI library, but close enough.
stonks
I bought a 500GB WD Green drive in 2010, and in 2011 I needed a second 500GB disk in a hurry. I went to a local supplier and all I could get was a Seagate 500GB disk. Oh well, beggars can't be choosers.

I retired them both earlier this year, replacing them with a single 2TB WD Blue drive to augment my SSD. They are both still fully functional, not so much as a SMART error.

I chalk it up to two things: The first is an extremely low number of power cycles. The second is that I never moved the computer thy were in until after they'd finished spinning down.
It seems more and more millenials and gen z care less about the idea of free speech that differs from theirs, just like the current GOP party.
Ha, it's one of the few HDDs that have their own Wikipedia pages [0], and even more so, it's one of the only two Seagate drives [1] - the other was the ST506/ST412, Seagate's first product! It just shows how infamous this 3 TB Seagate drive really is.

Other HDDs on Wikipedia include: IBM Deskstar (equally infamous), and other historical milestones like the DEC RK05 (classic HDD for PDP-8 and PDP-11).

I just hope the upcoming Heat-Assisted (Seagate) and Microwave-Assisted (Western Digital) Magnetic Recording drives won't repeat history.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Hard_disk_drives

[1] Several Seagate product families have their Wikipedia article, but ST3000DM001 and ST506 are the only two specific models.
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Yes, I see. What I mean is that in civilian systems I designed (or helped design) the focus is on redundancy, safety and personel safety. I've felt for a long time the 'for the military' design was quick to forgo redundancies and failsafes, for better 'performance' (my vocabulary is lacking there, sorry).

The mentality is changing a lot and I'm starting to see safety requirements in contracts and more and more frequent audits from customers on the topic (even though it wasn't in the spirit of things or the contract when system was designed, ugh...) and it's very, very hard to retrofit safety and personel safety in a product line, codebase, system design, and especially in the daily reflexes of systems or sw engineers. Everyone seems to overshoot ("safety says we must do X" - well no it's still an engineering compromise you still have choices and trade-offs - "but safety!" - yes, let's go back to the safety plan, what are the critical elements, what are the failure modes, what are the chances, what is the expected system response?...)

It's particularly tough for those teams that have to swallow the double firehose of safety and "cyber"-security :-D
Its all these jobs that want you to already own a car when you apply so they don't have to pay you enough to a) live somewhere b) eat food c) keep your phone on d) keep your lights on e) keep your internet connection f) much less g) buy a car
"cepharanthine, which is used to treat inflammation, and nelfinavir, which is approved for the treatment of HIV infection."
Thank you! I'll look into those options.
I used to work in the office next to James'. Don't know how he feels about it, but this seemed pretty unfair to be honest. It's an experimental codebase released by an academic institute. I think he originally wrote it for one of the DNA data compression competitions?

If this was in something one of Illumina's tools, on a platform that is used for diagnostics (some of their platforms have FDA approval). Then I think this would be fairer... but it's not, and they probably didn't do that because it would be too much work.

As it stands, they might as well have written their own buggy tool and exploited it to be honest.
I remember Njalla (https://njal.la/) being popular a few years ago. They seem to take cryptocurrency and require no details past an email address.
Looks reasonable! On a system with virtual memory, one popular trick is the "virtual ring buffer," which lets the reader and writer always access a contiguous region of the full requested length. The idea is to map the same backing store twice sequentially in virtual memory. It leads to a much simpler implementation, because you don't have to handle the edge cases that relate to wrapping around.

Sample implementation in C++17 here:

https://github.com/stanford-stagecast/audio/blob/main/src/ut...

https://github.com/stanford-stagecast/audio/blob/main/src/ut...
I second this and would also like to add a request to clarify what it is that would even be possible in this space, because I have no idea beyond “have hidden MathSpeak text behind the mathematics notation”, which is probably both too vague and too specific to be useful.

Even more damningly, I actually have no idea what it is the accessibility users do, because I’m sure I wouldn’t understand half of the maths notation I’ve read or typeset if someone just spelt it out for me. I simply can’t manipulate things that long without writing them out, and when comparing two equations nothing beats placing them one above the other. Surely computers must be capable of something more helpful than forcing everything into one-dimensional form?
I don't know what happened to the person who created the inappropriate model, but at least the person who added the model to the unpublished project got banned.

We would have just removed it from the project, but the ban happened so fast (I recall it was about 1 minute or less) that they got logged out of their account first.