skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This appears to be JGC's first post since 2010. Perhaps the Cloudflare IPO has finally enabled him to take a holiday! Well done, John!
Is letting me into your house to read a book on your shelf or a newpaper a security risk? It's just static content on a page you say. Well, this is nasdaq.com. Even their blog site is a source of security concern both as access to a domain that hosts a lot of critical content and even static stuff on nasdaq matters.

Imagine a bogus post ending up on their blog that crap cryptocoins have been approved by regulators for direct trading / custody and some random ETF has gotten approval for a direct coin ETF offering etc.

The cost/benefit of dealing with tor on your network for a place like Nasdaq is not even close - NO BENEFIT to allowing it. Literally no one they care about (ie, folks paying them big bucks) will complain if it is blocked. So it's blocked. Simple.
The housing bubble popped right after a tow truck driver told me he was getting his realtor's license.
I've been looking for a new apartment in NYC and the place I applied for wanted 2 month's of paystubs and 2 month's of bank statements. Most agencies I've seen request this or more. It's insane but if you find a place you like things sell so quickly here that you have no choice but to play by their rules or leave the city.

Unrelated rant but the reason I've been looking is my current landlord has taken over 35 days to send me a renewal contract. Go figure that 10 minutes after texting him I'm going through the credit check for a new apartment he sends me the updated document.
Some of these books are indeed trash, many have advice that's inapplicable to most people, a lot are based on anecdotal evidence, but some of them are alright and I read them and every once in a while I get something valuable out of it.

I think if you set your expectations right (e.g no book will make you happy / rich / whatever) they can be quite useful.
One thing we tend to forget is that not everybody lives in the US, there’s a lot of places where repairs are a thing and techs do magic with almost nothing but they need to resource to piracy for information and to black market for replacement parts.
So as long as I read GPL code, then rewrite it from memory and feed it to copilot to train it I can unGPL anything?
Recent developments (see aducanumab) have shown that the FDA mainly cares about safety but much less so about efficacy.
I'm hard pressed to identify doing anything that would destroy my business faster than this, aside from "cutting out the cloud hosting middleman and just tweeting the customer data directly."
I imagine a couple of news stories like https://horizon.fandom.com/wiki/Banda_Sea_Incident in my life time:

Horizon Zero Dawn game> "Another problem to add to our big steaming pile. Apparently a fisherman in the Banda Sea captured video of a Hartz-Timor Horus unit refueling via biomatter conversion along the shoreline of Pulau Wetar. On a pod of endangered dolphins, no less, quite possibly the last of their kind. Not to get graphic, but it looks like what happens inside a blender, as if the robot was whipping up a big pink swirling milkshake of dolphin chum. Our suppression team has scrubbed it from 43 networks, but it's still propagating, so it's only a matter of time before it goes viral. A prepared statement feels grossly insufficient. Any suggestions? This one's a real stinker."
The government is not a monopoly of violence. Plenty of non-governmental organisations are violent. The existence of private security firms is an obvious example of this. In addition to this, if you support a minimal government that enforces private property rights, then this doesn't eliminate government violence: it allows the wealthy to access it by proxy.
> about 0.1c per month to store it,
> 0.4c per view for bandwidth

No. Those estimates are 1 order of magnitude wrong. You wouldnt even pay that much contracting the highest tiers in AWS/Azure/GC , let alone owning the infrastructure.
my personal favorite is the Sabbath mode https://elevation.fandom.com/wiki/Sabbath_service_(SHO)

not to pick on a specific belief system, but it's quite interesting the lengths people go to follow the letter but not the spirit of things.
The kind of videos you can watch once a year. Deviant Ollam is so interesting.
What makes you say that? I've posted lots of things. Such as this: https://blog.jgc.org/2021/04/aeronear-ambient-device-showing...
Facebook Removed Seek Bar in Videos on Home Feed
Looks like a new UX/Manipulation tactic that they've employed to force people to click on the video in an attempt to seek, which takes them to videos page. That page is designed to get you to watch more videos.
Agreed, I want fairness as well. I’m not opposed to the taxes on private jets. I’m just opposed to the overwhelming “fuck the rich” mob tone.

Maybe I’m looking into this too much, but to me it’s unavoidable observation.
I think you're exactly right. He's, unfortunately, an artifact from a time when devices just weren't as complex as they are now.
It's 2 bad examples, this linter is focused on try/except blocks. For more general linting I would suggest flake8 :)

I'm planning on writing a plugin for it.
Summary of every self help book by AvE: https://youtu.be/E7RgtMGL7CA
Reality: A new, digital journal for philosophical discourse
The difference is intent. When Github reads public code, their only intent is to profit from it. Depending on the license, that's a violation.
Maybe this is common knowledge, but I never knew people used fandom for topics like this. I’m amazed that it had 800+ articles and over 1000 videos on a wiki dedicated to elevators.
It’s an excellent book. Mike Oldfield made an excellent soundtrack for it, and Clarke wrote the insert for the disk.
This will surely happen within the next few years; but if the "new work" contains a full paragraph from an existing novel the copyright hammer would come down hard.

Maybe it needs to be paired with another network / hunk of code that checks for verbatim copying?
Details for anyone interested: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/07/visa-says-crypto-linked-card...
It's still a risk, the new landlord may not want an unstable source of income even if the previous one did.
Doesn't want to upset the teachers unions. School systems want that sweet $$$ and they heavily support the Democratic party.
Anyone know if NSD or Bind is going that way?
Or can be abused, without pet, to go directly to your desired floor without being interrupted by those passengers at other floors.
I'll bet a comparable number of clients won't be able to reach DoH servers for one reason or another. Especially because there seem to be people who are going to actively try to block them. Whenever you change anything, something will break.

And it would have been relatively easy to put up a notice that said "your DNS server seems to be dropping all EDNS0 data or whatever stupid thing it's doing; would you like to switch servers"? Which would have avoided centralizing everybody by default.

I know there were enterprise firewalls that broke DNSSEC on any packet that went through them... but frankly the sellers of those firewalls deserved to get heat, and any enterprise that would deploy that kind of broken crap isn't an organization I'd want to support as user.

And that still doesn't justify putting DNS on top of HTTP of all things. But that's another story.

As for Cloudflare doing DNSSEC checks, the fact that I shouldn't be trusting Cloudflare to do the validation for me is kind of the point. Validation (final validation, at least) belongs in the endpoint.

If "oblivious DoH" is what it sounds like, it sounds like maybe I have to retract "zero interest in exotic anonymity". Which I am very happy to have to do.
I think that must be something like imparted kinetic energy rather than chemical energy of the fuel it burned. This puts Apollo 16 fuel at 4.19E13 joules:

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/35155/what-rocket-...

Still doable with renewables though. Assume 11639 MWh of fuel energy and 60% efficiency converting electricity to fuel. About 19,400 MWh total. That's 8 days of output from a 300 MW wind farm operating at 1/3 capacity factor.
NIST defines “critical software” with a broad range of security functions
You obviously have not been following the news lately.

Insurance companies are putting incredible pressure for business to lock down their IT HARDER not less hard.

Seriously, look for tor to get blocked lots more places.

"security fetishists" are going to be making good money for a while yet.
I can confirm that taking an Uber from NYC to NJ is much cheaper than a yellow cab used to be.

Uber and Lyft are great as long as we don’t think about the drivers they’re exploiting.
does the software lie about the rats? people are better at that type of soft skill.
Much of the industry is a scam. And (similar to business books) seems to exist to support the broader business of the author.

But… There are some nuggets in there. For example, did get value from reading Covey.
I've never seen it go towards first month's rent, but that's not the point. The money isn't going to the landlord or the tenant, but to the data aggregators.
While not modern MMA the Gracie brothers were doing their vale tudo fights before Bruce Lee was born. Though obviously they were mostly using the techniques that today is called BJJ the fights themselves had almost no rules. This also meant no rounds or stand ups so if a BJJ fighter managed to pull a striker to ground the fights is effectively over.

Problem back then was information. Pre internet and stuff happening really far away from each other (Brazil and Hong Kong/USA).

UFC and the internet really helped to spread information on what actually works to a much wider audience (and from there to a group of practitioners) and thus sped up the development of the techniques a lot.

UFC also made it possible to make a living from actually fighting instead of teaching others which is/was the “traditional” way of making money from martial arts which allows the fighters to fully concentrate on their own skills.
Utopia (Short Movie)
I tried doing this a couple years ago. You should download the source and read the docs. If I remember correctly noobs are recommended to make improvements in drivers/staging. There are "TODO" files with things that need to be done. There is a good post about "wanting to contribute" that used to be at the top of the kernelnewbies IRC channel you can read.
There actually tons of unlicensed and wrongly licensed code on GitHub right now that being accidentally leaked by employees of many companies.
of all the things ever invented in software, regex still amazes me.

It's almost like nature, many simple rules coming together to make extremely clever and fairly complex ideas
> No one is telling customers "your phone is now a brick" when their charge port breaks

Apple is. They'll "repair" it for you (they go out of their way to make sure that nobody else can - if not with the charge port then certainly with some of the other components) for a price. But they typically do this by replacing the item and destroying the old one. And the difference between that and a true repair matters from an environmental perspective.
New Research Quantifies ‘Zoning Tax’ Exacted by Land-Use Regulations
TimeTrack Raspberry Pi
> Low profit routes were pretty much impossible to get pre-Uber.

In cities, that's absurd - car services existed for decades serving just this part of the market, and they let you schedule in advance!

In the suburbs and exurbs, probably less so, but this is where everyone has a car as a prerequisite for living in a house with a multi-car garage.
Because that language is for dietary supplements which have a specific legislative carve out from falling under FDA regulation.
Thanks for the detailed response, this makes a lot of sense!
That doesn't make any sense.

This isn't about throwing away tools for some idealized goal. It is about using the tools that are available to achieve best results without making you reliant on the tools to the point you don't know what your program is going to do without compiling and running.

IDE helps catch a lot of stupid simple mistakes and that helps save time. Why would that be bad?
These products can do that because they contain no substances that need approval in any way, so they are likely just food supplements without any active ingredients.

Nicotine will count as an active ingredient, you can't just slap these 9 words to any random drug and just sell it over the counter.
Bezos didn't view Amazon an online bookstore. He deliberately went into books first because they take up a lot of space and have a long tail of interest, which made them ideal for internet distribution vs. physical distribution. It's pretty clear from what Bezos has said and written over the past 20 years that he had a decent idea of what he wanted to accomplish and has been gradually executing on that.
Thanks. It's interesting that after this account the characterisation "fortunately" is still used. But the motivations still give good perspective though i would have done things differently.
I'm not following?
Nice negotiating! and I agree about the persistence.
I was thinking about that great answer when I was reading the article. Thanks for sharing it.
Hence the "/s" :)
> I read it 10 years ago I wouldn't even have the emotional maturity to appreciate it

That's why I emphasized the right book at the right age. I know successful people who swear by the book. I appreciate it, but I have a small criticism: He basically preaches trampling all over personal boundaries to get what you want. It's an aggressive strategy.
> not to pick on a specific belief system, but it's quite interesting the lengths people go to follow the letter but not the spirit of things.

That's not the way observant Jewish people look at it at all. You're assuming that these workarounds are not "following the spirit", but according to them, the workarounds are as much a part of the spirit of the law as the law itself.
Pfft. List is far from
complete. I have done 3rd party interfaces to several elevator controllers. I am highly encumbered by NDA’s, so won’t say much. But I still wonder what “Korean Lunch 2” mode does???
I've seen several regexs in various code reviews that are used to validate user input but do so in an exponential manner that can be exploited for simple DOS attacks.
My go-to site for this is: http://pudim.com.br

Pudim is portuguese for pudding. This website runs for as long as I can remember and there is only low-res photograph of a pudding.
It’s pretty good content, but you should know some history. He first trashed Tesla model 3, but after huge Internet outcry realized that there’s a lot of money in catering to fans. He’s now a proper Tesla fanboy, making money on Tesla stock and selling sticker to the fans. A lot of credibility is gone. But content is still pretty good to learn basics of stuff like that works, just keep in mind bias in it.
"I think that a who does not care about his or her end user is a worse in concrete ways"

??
I wish 'hold to deselect' was standard. It only works on some elevators and it can be quite annoying if some kid presses all floors ...
You must be one of those who think ideas are worthless because everybody has them
People like that are generally not going to be desirable tenants for landlords. And in a high cost city like NYC, they very likely wouldn't be able to pass the income and credit verification anyway.
> My point above is not that the US is above reproach, but that it isn't disapppearing its citizens for criticizing the government or practicing different religions or being of a specific ethnicity. Etc. To say the two countries are "equally bad" is a pro-ccp propaganda point.

The US has killed their own citizen with drones, has imprisoned people who revealed government abuse and just last year arrested more than 100 journalists.

https://cpj.org/reports/2020/12/record-number-journalists-ja...

So I could easily same the same about you, you are repeating a pro-CIA propaganda point. I would suggest to ask around in Latin-America, in Africa in China and even in Europe and ask people who they consider more a threat to world peace and which behaves in an arrogant, "my way or the highway", imperialistic manner. You will be very surprised and the whole worldview you were taught in your perfectly designed educational system will come crash down.

Less swearing allegiance to the flag and more travelling. I hope that is not ad-hominem enough to try to ban me.
> I believe both you and I want us to stop (or never have started) all the wars of the past 20 years. This is a very popular viewpoint, yet moneyed interests prevent this.

Let's not rewrite history here. All of the American wars of the last few decades where very popular with (most) American voters when then they started.

There's no doubt the American military-industrial complex had some role in manufacturing consent, but don't kid yourself into thinking that the will of the American voters wasn't critical to the political strategy of the government.
Advertising platforms love middlemen beause they feed each other.

Both are parasitic entities that cause more harm to end users than benefits. The problem is that they control the information flow and supported by governments, hence we cannot eliminate them completely but can try to keep them at the bay using technology we can control
The stars only get smaller in the direction you're traveling. Perpendicular to that (that is, in the direction you have to dodge), they don't change no matter what your velocity is.
This is another example that, to me, does a disservice to the R2R movement. A tractor doesn't need the technology that John Deere has put into it to limit its functionality. It's a tractor. Tractors have been around for ages and ages and the basic ideas behind how they work hasn't changed. John Deere is artificially limiting the repairability of their tractors. It would be one thing if a "quality of life" component on it went out but the tractor still worked. It's wholly another to say that the whole tractor can't work because a single, optional component is not working. With tech devices, many of the components are either integral to the system or are required in a chain for reasons related to device integrity or security. It's not really the same thing.
To name a few:
- Tight integration between your calendar and the context (notes, actions) related. The notes you take are automatically linked to this calendar event, the attendees, potential past related meetings

- The notes you take in Hera can feed into other tools, for instance Todoist for your next actions.

- Fewer friction points: you click on one button and it opens your Zoom/GMeet/... and your notes where you find back your preparation. Spinning a new page in Notion is not that hard, but you would be surprised by what small friction points do over time.
Similar situation in Boston. The value add is that the brokers are regulated and in theory this means no one gets scammed. For context, over the past few years of crazy rental market, many people have gotten scammed by finding a fake listing online, sending off a deposit, and never hearing from the "landlord" again.
Some destination-dispatch systems used in high-end residential towers will not schedule pet owners and non-pet owners to the same cab at the same time. Which makes a lot of sense.
You're looking at the "popular posts" section at the bottom of the page, not a list of all articles.
The systems used for cooling work just as well for heating. Really heating is probably the reason most of them are installed, and then, hey, why not also use it during the summer.
It is either government, or C level executives in large companies. Nobody else can afford to fly private jets. Even if you fill your private jet with others it is still cheaper to fly first class commercial. I've looked into it, engineers can't afford it unless their company is paying for it.
Are books written by Ph.D. researchers who have spent their academic lives studying a topic considered "self help"? If so, not all "self help" books are alike.

My strategy has been to read books like "Stumbling on Happiness" - written by Daniel Gilbert, a Harvard Ph.D. -- rather than by journalists who only tangentially explore a subject to pump out yet another book.
One alternative to this mess is reading good autobiographies by actually successful people in a particular field. Eg I got a huge amount of useful “self help” style guidance from autobiographies of professional
mathematicians (eg Paul Halmos) when I was becoming one…
I like to think most software engineers don't work 56 hour weeks. Someone can take interest in their craft without taking interest in a product. And many people are happy enough working to live instead of living to work.
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Losing weight is just consuming fewer calories than you burn.

Any diet advice or strategies are just ways to achieve that. Keto, low carb, intermittent fasting, whatever. It's all just getting you to consume fewer calories than you burn. Often it gets you to feel full with fewer calories so you don't overeat. It's easy to see how drinking more water falls into all of this.

However, anything claiming to switch around body chemistry or change your metabolism is either wrong or micro optimizing.

Edit: People are getting very hyped up about my comment. To be clear:

- I'm not hating on the article. I said in my post that it's easy to see how drinking water helps when you understand what causes weight changes.

- I'm not hating on Keto and Intermittent fasting or whatever. They work, and they largely work because you end up consuming fewer calories than you burn. It's not largely because of some change in your body's chemistry.

- It's harder to lose weight eating shittier food because it often doesn't make you full, causing you to eat more. Eating 1200 calories of chocolate bars a day will (often for most people) make you lose weight, it just won't feel very good doing it. That's why what you eat is just as important as how many calories you consume.
A close family member has stage 4 cancer.

Even if the absolute death rates for some cancers are relatively unchanged, one of the amazing things I’ve observed is that medical advances have increased the long term survival rates of terminal/metastaticized cancers. It’s partially due to the development of various drugs that have been identified as effective against various specific mutations. Even if the cancer is incurable with existing technology, they can extend lives by years, which is nothing to sneeze at. Especially considering many people get diagnosed with cancer once they are elderly already, it can mean the difference between dying directly of cancer and living long enough to die of something else - ie the cancer becomes something more like a chronic condition than it does a direct threat (for a period of time).
This is why there are or are incoming (long time since I've looked at the details) rules in the EU about fully automated decision making.

It may not have covered this example, but it's a good reminder of the reasons why this kind of legislation exists.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...

(edit - grammar)
Somehow "It kills you slower than cigarettes" isn't an attractive slogan.
Apple, nor any other tech company, doesn't have the power to make something illegal and they don't artificially disable parts. They disable portions of the device that rely on those parts for integrity or security reasons. Stop lying.
Since we’re talking about elevators, it would appear anyone can call the elevator’s emergency phone line. Which is good, but also has unintended consequences: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdXyQ5ra/
There's shift of context too. In our grandparents' generation, companies also promised to keep the workers around and sometimes to give them pension. There would be a steady career path based on seniority as well. Something along the lines of that you take of the company and we will take care of you. None of such promises exists nowadays.