skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been double vaccinated, so I don't care what others do, because I believe in the vaccine that it protects me, otherwise why the f*k would I even have gotten it in the first place.
And no, people don't need to get vaccinated to protect the vulnerable. The vulnerable will not escape an endemic virus. Sooner or later they will get it so if they cannot get a vaccine themselves then they will have to either fight it off or die. It's kind of how nature works, one day something will have to kill you. And I also reject all that nonsense that people must get vaccinated to create herd immunity. People, especially young people can also get immunity through infection. I had COVID and I was immune since then. I got the vaccine still because I believe in science, but I don't believe in tyranny and that is textbook tyranny. Kim Jong-un or Adolf couldn't do it better.
Decapping iPhone6S screen silicon
> In defense of PHP, this is probably due to simplicity

I don't consider this to be a good defence; in fact, I'd argue that makes PHP itself insecure.

I like to think of secure coding in terms of the 'path of least resistance' for a lazy/busy/inexperienced developer. If doing things securely makes life harder, things will be done insecurely.

We don't need to make the secure approach easier in absolute terms; we can just make the insecure approaches more painful. In this case: have database functions require arguments of an 'SQL' type, rather than strings; make it easy to write literal SQL values; make it easy to parameterise SQL values; make it as hard as possible to convert a string value to an SQL value, e.g. bury it in some deep namespace hierarchy, with a long and scary-sounding name, require a config value to be enabled (or even make it a compiler flag!), etc.

This way, the docs (plus stack overflow, blog posts, etc.) don't have to choose between showing a secure approach or showing the simplest approach; since they are the same!
What's the compensation / benefits / work-life balance like?
I noticed that legitimate interest is opted in. But I still don't know what that means.
Unicorn or bust! It's ridiculous.
And without reading the TFA of course, I assumed it was about the Corona vaccinated / clean 'passports' / 'certificates'.
This is cool in some ways but not others.

There's a vintage videogame/toy shop near here. The physical store is basically a warehouse for the guy's eBay shop.

There are no prices on anything. If you want to buy something, the kid in the store calls the boss, who looks up the price on their eBay storefront.

It's obviously nice to be able to physically see/visit the goods. But it's also kinda like, "why am I even visiting the store?"
Honestly, this isn't really that effective a tracking system, retailers already use beacons that can track every phone that comes into an area, due to the nature of of the way mobile devices look for wifi signal, and in some extreme cases cell towers, a phones in a retail space can be tracked easily, and without consent, knowledge, or interaction of the consumer. These devices can also restrict the range of their signal, and multiple can be used in a location, to track what parts of the stores you are in, and be used at a register location to associate mobile devices to transactions.

This has been happening for years, and is used widely across the industry, more than a decade ago I worked with one of these systems to be able to associate face from a camera system with this system to add a facial identify to the data.

QR codes are seriously nothing compared to that, and the user has to actively interact with them.
Oh, right now I remember my friend who is a glider pilot mentioning that & that birds sometimes circle together with them in a thermal. :)
I love the roof and the earth domes.
My point is that UK politicians are obsessed with tariffs and free trade agreements, while in reality those play a minor role (as EU tariffs are generally very low).

What really matters to companies though are non-tariff-barriers (regulations etc). By deciding to leave the single market, the UK has erected huge non-tariff trade barriers with their biggest trading partner (the EU).
I am pretty sure the other reailers in Germany like Aldi and Lidl teamed up to prevent Walmart from getting a foothold. They are extremely strong and this for a reason. I went to Walmart in Jena when they opened their shop there and was really underwhelmed by what they had to offer.
Except an ordinary human can't decode a QR code, so you will only know after the fact.
Co-working with friends over video in virtual gather.town office
Related: there was a recent article in the New York Times about the problems with this process: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/13/sports/chess-karjakin-mis...
This is amazing, thank you
DevOps Observability from Code to Cloud
There are several machines required to make a chip, and many steps involved. Those machines are crazy complex and accurate (i remember having a precision of around 3 atoms of silicon, femtometer scale). I meant firmware fot these machines, in general. Crazy complex (and amazing) tools with complex software
Still waiting for technocratic guidance on PPE in regards to this.
Ironic that this is from the New York Times, which has (in)famously had several years of poor or biased reporting.
An aside, this lady's accomplishments at her age make her someone I look up to, ngl
Do you think they're not paying any tax in the US? That 600k gross is at most 500k net (probably less)

Also you assume they are a) happy to stay in the US b) have no immigration issues to deal with c) don't have a crazy CoL on SV that eats most of that 500k...

Yes, it's not a clear-cut move, but not too bad neither. Salary is not everything.
Ask HN: Does anyone use keyboard/mouse extra buttons for coding?
Usually gaming mice have a few extra buttons that can be mapped and some gaming keyboards have extra keys for mapping/chaining functions to them in games. Of course there is also the world of people that build custom keyboards. Has anyone used these extra buttons/keys for programming uses? Is it helpful and what are the details?
Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent
>>>Yes that is what saddens me. I haven't seen those pole vault videos and find it disappointing that people would go to the trouble of making them.

Men are attracted to beautiful women, even moreso when their beauty comes not from plastic surgery but natural physical fitness. I have near-zero interest in athletics/competitive sports. There's no way I would ever know who Fatima Diame is if I hadn't clicked on her butt on a YouTube thumbnail. Those "sexy athlete" vids get MILLIONS of views.
It's not just an issue with blogspam, plenty of "bookspam" as well. A few years ago a friend of my then-girlfriend was learning C for some project. The book she had was so badly written even I could hardly follow it, and I can already program in C. It's no surprise this part of her project failed.

I started programming on MSX-BASIC (kind of like C64), and when we finally got a PC in 2000 or so I got a book titled "Learn C++ in 10 minutes". It was so bad hat I was turned off from programming for a few years, as I thought I just didn't have what it takes (it also didn't help that the tooling and "getting started" was much harder back then, especially on Windows; if I had known you could just download e.g. Python instead of mucking about with this pirated Visual Studio I probably would have had an easier time – but I didn't know about that. It wasn't until I started playing with FreeBSD a few years later that I got back in to programming).
I used MP3 feature phones before I got an iPod and the music library system of the iPod was miles ahead of manually managing my music. Having new songs and album art automatically sync onto the iPod, having play counts sync back, having smart playlists update, it all exposed what a garbage system manual file management was and made me yearn for the future we were promised with the meta-data driven file system of BeOS
> Not disingenuous at all, MS-DOS CLI was good enough for most pipeline use cases, and if you really wanted a more UNIX like experience you could always buy 4DOS, the Dropbox of MS-DOS shell utilities.

It literally is disingenuous for the reasons I'd already outlined. And then saying "but you could always install this other lesser known DOS-like command shell" doesn't exactly help your claim.

Sure, with a little effort pretty much anything is possible in IT (that's a large part of the reason I was inspired to work in IT growing up). But my point was if MS-DOS requires a new command shell or other hacks then your whole argument of it supporting pipelines is rather stretched. Literally the whole point of pipelines is as a quick and common way of passing information between programs and nothing you've details is quick nor common.

But you'll come along and find some other tedious argument because that is what you do....

> Back in the MS-DOS days, you couldn't use zip across floppies unless you bought the commercial Pkzip version, the shareware one did not offer it.

But the file format did.

> Whereas ARJ offered all what pkzip was capable of, for free, and every high school kid with PC at home got it on their floppies collection.

Every high school kid would have had the commercial version of pkzip too -- albeit not legally. The amount of pirated software that would get swapped around in the 80s and 90s was pretty ridiculous.

In fairness to you though, I guess the preference of ARJ vs ZIP is always going to be an unprovable subjective point. I can't go back in time to prove your community of friends used one over the other any more than your anecdotal evidence being proof of my group's, or any others, preferences. And to be fair, it was a long time ago now and memory is fallible. I remember using pkzip a lot to package software I was writing but I might just have forgotten about all those times I used ARJ.
I didn't know about Dillo's history, thanks for the info!
> He responded that it was because people secretly "proved" everything to themselves in multiple ways, but only wrote up one proof, and it was unlikely that multiple very different reasons for something being true would all be wrong.

This was the most frustrating thing for me when I was studying undergraduate maths. Often a result was just stated, with the reasoning behind how it was generated completely omitted. Good professors would go through all of that, but those seemed to be few and far between. The rest just expected you to work it out (despite not ever being exposed to it or pointed to a good source), or rote memorise the result.
„Current dEQP-GLES2 status: 93.8% passing.“ https://twitter.com/alyssarzg/status/1419064274350080003?s=2...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_temperature

0.025 eV Thermal neutrons
Not entirely sure myself, but with this I'm sure it'll be easier to reverse engineer and work on. I'm curious how the other periphrial support is still. Looks like some patches needed for at least usb, I winder what else.
They unfairly blocked opindia as a valid source on their site despite opindia being the BBC of India. Stating it had a few inaccurate articles which were corrected. Yet they never punished other outlets like thewire or print India for false news that was then corrected. Wikipedia is fast losing its reputation of credibility and has become politically partisan.
https://archive.is/XggON
There are various first-level responses "reacting" to OP's "negative feedback" with (what I think are) very reasonable suggestions (try this thing, try that thing, ask on forums, etc.)

This is a sub-thread to the original complaint (which was quite reasonable), where OP is taking on an oddly hostile and aggressive tone, and powerfully punching at various strawmen. I'm not sure what you think an adequate reaction would be.
I'm surprised there's not a dead man's switch which reliably brings the train to a halt in these locomotives :)
It looks like it's using a bitmap font, which always look odd compared to what we're using nowadays.
Ehh, I don't like current state of the Internet

In last months I've started wondering why do I even pay my internet bills

60% of the reason I still do it is that I need internet for my job

the rest is HN, two or three subreddits, music and some video games, wiki/google/maps and the fact that I still need to learn a lot in order to advance in career.

It's insanely hard to avoid that main stream media content (celebrities, dramas, dramas, dramas and $bad_stuff/propaganda) that affects the mood, even when I don't use "normal" social medias.
Those are the kind of punch cards that were used as the main method to introduce programs or any other kind of numeric or textual data into old computers, before the mid seventies, when the floppy disks became popular.

Like the telephone with a dial disk or the monitor with a CRT screen, this is an unfamiliar object for not too old computer programmers.

Nevertheless, there was a time when writing any computer program required it to be punched on such cards, one 80-character line per card, then you could read your program like with this Jane Austen example and you had to be exceedingly careful to not spill down the cards on the floor, or you would have to do a lot of work to sort them again in the correct order of the program lines.
You know what they say: "having strong opinions is better than having accurate scientific information."
If you dig into the linguistics for the singing a bit more, it's even more odd. Singing is traditionally done in "High German" so a lot of the pronunciation is as it is supposed to be, but it's not standard modern German. French is even odder, the sung version is quite different from spoken. I have tried simply speaking the poems that were set to music and people who know French have absolutely no idea what I am saying.
Get back to me when you've got it running on a dead badger:

https://www.abyssapexzine.com/2021/04/dead-badger/

/humor, in case you were wondering.

(More seriously: this is great stuff, but it's on a desktop Mac Mini; I suspect getting it running on an iPad Pro might be just slightly harder ...)
There are some great quotes in that piece. Must have been a fun piece to research and write.

> They don’t call the violin a cello for kids, do they?

> One sausage gave birth to another

> Of course I can make some fries, I told them. They literally thought I could only make cushions that look like meat

> We made this area attractive, now we could be punished for it

> I have sticky tapes in my store that mere mortals would never dare to dream of.
Also, fail-safe only works so far. A parked car needs to have handbrakes set or wheels chocked, since the air can eventually bleed out of the reservoir and release the brakes. The Lac-Mégantic disaster [0] involved insufficient handbrakes set on a train parked on a grade.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac-M%C3%A9gantic_rail_disaste...
>At last, it seems to me that the people who care the most about this issue are monolingual.

I had someone asking for a way to identify 'gender from the names of overseas customers'[1] on my problem validation platform. At a glance it seems like a similar problem and there could be some who doubt the veracity of the problem. Then there were several business solutions posted for that problem.

The same people who wanted to know the gender could probably also benefit from knowing how to pronounce the name if they ever get on a call or meet the person.

[1] https://needgap.com/problems/94-identifying-gender-from-a-na...
It is necessary to grind in a random fashion (OP is talking about the method of grinding, not the order), or you will end up with imperfections. Lots of info about this if you look in to grinding mirrors for telescopes.

Also, the order being random wouldn't effect the end result.
It is completely acceptable for those who want to pay to be beta testers to take risks. I would rather we have fewer bicyclists killed by people sleeping while their “autopilot” drives.
I mean…isn’t this how people tend to work by default? Just adding the journaling aspect which lets you go back and analyze your “data”.
I've looked at zillow a fair amount over the years* and they are always consistently higher than actual sales data. I don't think based on my own observations that they are causing anything. They are 1 site and the vast majority of transactions are between people.

* It can be fun to revisit places you lived/stayed at and see what changed, if its been listed in the last decade. Kinda like a before/after on home improvement shows with your memory being the before.
People really over sell the spread of democracy in these places. By US design, Japan was a one party state until after the Cold War, with ~six years of opposition party rule total. Similar happened in South Korea, who considers it's first free election in ~2000, and even then one of their few elections saw intelligence agencies ensure the win of their former dictator's daughter. And Germany had a history of democracy without US influence.
Do you by chance know how to remove the annoying search bar at the bottom of the homescreen without having to install a separate launcher or rooting the phone?
You put the @username (the @ is optional) in the search field then click on the user and send a message. Once a message is send the chat will obviously stay in the chat list. Same for public groups/channels.

Alternatively you can share/click a link with the format t.me/username to skip the search part.
> In which you will discover that most people can't even afford cars and nevertheless the globe keeps spinning.

Then I think you have to read the book again and pay attention to what happens when people move between the bottom 3 tiers. He also spends some time describing the "view from above" problem that we experience.

I think you missed the entire point of the book. Solutions have to provide a plan for the majority of human kind. Not just the top few percent. Especially since the bottom two tiers are moving really rapidly.
If you want to see Marcan's latest stream (just an hour ago): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hPtyaUFfY8

And if you want to sponsor him:
https://www.patreon.com/marcan/posts
PHP started life as a template engine for CGI applications written in C. And some pretty major projects like WordPress use PHP as a "template language".

There are various constructs in the language rarely seen in PHP code that make this easier, such as <?=, but also also "if (..):" which can be ended with "endif", and "foreach (...):" which can be ended with "endforeach".

It's not a hard feature to add. PHP devs want to move away from this "PHP as a template language" (I think they tried to remove the <?= a few years back); that's all fine, but fact of the matter is that people ARE using it as a template language and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future. Not supporting that with something as simple as "automatic escape special HTML characters" is extremely disappointing, and would actually prevent a lot of problems.
Decoupling, Digital Currency, and the Consumer of Last Resort
Wouldn’t people on that subreddit be similar to people on HN: fringe and rather ahead of the curve (relatively speaking)?

I don’t know much about urban planning but I see it in tech: the stuff discussed on HN and presented as more or less normal/best practice isn’t being done or even thought of as “best practice” outside of the HN crowd. See enterprise development and a vast number of agencies or other companies that, together, make the bulk of the software being made and sold today where basic things like unit testing or the open/closed principle are seen as a waste of time and unnecessary.
Just enabling the Handles column made me realize that the "Asus Update Service" SysTray Icon/application had a handle leak: as it had 64K handles open.

There's also an Asus Lighting Service that still has 10K handles open.
I'll just put this here and run away ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Reality_has_a_well_known_lib...
Pomodoro is meant for like, hyper-chunkable tasks where you're battling against boredom to do the work. Manually going through files and aligning things, reformatting doc comments, etc. That's good stuff for a pomo sesh. Most people don't use pomo to paint a painting or compose music or tinker an algorithm. It's designed specifically for rote work.

I didn't watch the full video, this seems sensationalized a fair bit for the sake of YouTube algorithm discovery. He's right though. Could've been right and given his position in about 2min instead of 15....
The comment is neither dishonest nor misleading. It is a fact that many people living in dense areas live a normal live without owning a car. GP was just responding to the problem of transporting large objects without owning a car and correctly stating that there is some amount of people getting by without car in the Netherlands. The solution is of course to just rent a transportation car for a few hours when you need it.

I live in a high density area (Berlin) myself with 1.4 Million cars on 3.6 Million cars. Obviously living in Berlin without a car is possible without much hassle for lots of people. Claiming that doesn't mean that nobody in Berlin needs a car. But because most of the 3.6 Million Berliners manage to move and transport furniture sometimes, we can conclude that they definitely do not need it to transport their Ikea purchase.
Because the bug happens when you're trying to get something done and you don't have 5 spare minutes to interrupt your flow in order to file a bug. You might make a mental note to report it later and then forget. Or, if the bug is annoying enough, you might just never use that program again and you don't care if it gets fixed. Or your wifi glitched at the same time the bug happened and you've no idea if it is a bug or the glitchy wifi. Or you don't know it's a bug until later and by that time you've no idea what you were doing to trigger it.

There's a million and one valid reasons people don't report bugs.
Yeah, our procedure for decommissioned SSD and HDD (imposed to us by HDS requirement) where 3-pass shred on the disk (logical wiping), and either pierce the HDD or microwave the SSD, with photographic proof send to our client if asked.

The 3-pass shred was done on the virtual disk each time a client left, and was done on the physical during maintenance.

[edit] And concerning encryption, it was at a premium, and i think only one of our client asked for it (this had a few issue). "hot" logs where not encrypted, but during the logrotation we tried to implement this (this was not technically audited btw, i think it was OK for Deloitte not to see our code)
It's very straightforward, and although typing speed is not quite the same as English (for me, at least, although I am not a native speaker), it's not wildly different.

Typing a Japanese word or phrase is just like typing in English, with the exception of selecting the appropriate kanji from a list (no mouse or stylus required). An experienced typist can do this very quickly, on a physical keyboard or on a smartphone.

For a word like "Japanese" (language), i.e., Nihongo or 日本語, it's actually fewer keystrokes than in English: 5 vs. 8, or 9 if you count the space afterward since Japanese doesn't have the same spacing requirements.
The One-Eyed Scout Who Liberated a Whole Town by Himself
German self-deprecation? I wish! My impression is that Germans feel to be top notch no matter what. I rarely heard self-deprecation from them, humble brag is what come closer.