skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do I pull ASCII files or folders off a server I am remoted into?
For the first time in my life as a software developer I am tasked to remote in by VPN (sort of) to a server where ASP code resides. I want to copy and paste the text locally so I can do things like searches for function names and such. I can do it on the server perhaps but there is an issue with lag time. Also, the screen I remote into with is small.

I would like very much to cut and paste the ASCII text.

I can cut and paste via screen shots and piece it together and then use OCR software to convert into text. But that does not work.

Of course, cutting and pasting the ASCII does not work. The shared system memory does not work.

Things tried:
[LIST]
[]tried to copy and text ascii text.
[]tried to copy and past text as a screen grab to use with OCR but it did not work well.
[/LIST]

Now, not to get dark here, but, there IS some way to do this. And there IS such a thing as "friendly hacking". I mean, I have all seen youtube videos of people dialing into a remote server and downloading content somehow.
There is a very classic webpage related to this list of rules:

https://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume6/v6i4/T...
Thank you for sharing this. It is somewhat staggering to come across a paper that so perfectly captures that problems that one encounters, and discover that it was written nearly two decades before.

This is a comprehensive review of human factors affecting interaction with nearly any "formal" system where "formal" means anything from a color wheel to a prolog database.

I have repeatedly encountered these issues while working on a formal language for specifying scientific protocols. I knew I had my work cut out in terms of finding a way to create an interface that non-expert users could work with, but this makes it clear just how critical it is for the tools not to distract the user from their expert thinking.

This poses and incredible design challenge, and that is without any discussion of variability between users!
The product is really cool, and so is the language! Congratulations and all the best!
Spelling quibble: Lyme Disease, not Lyme's Disease. It is named after Lyme, Connecticut.
> An accent is simply someone applying the rules of pronunciation from one language to another.

Exactly, and that is the wrong way to speak the "another" language. The ears of native speakers are tuned to a certain pronunciation, any departures from that will be harder to understand, it will be a distraction.

You might not like it, but that's how it is.

> Many regional accents from the UK are difficult to understand because they use non standard grammar, sentence structure and place stress and intonation differently.

True. It's also true that many regional or working class accents in the UK will impair your job prospects in the UK. It's probably better to come with a Swiss or Norwegian accent than a Geordie one, when applying for a job at Goldman.
No it isn't. This isn't a gotcha. This is probably one of the most well known software behaviors on the planet.

You KNOW the problem exists, yet you STILL choose to use the software, THEN expect it to change its behaviors because its inconvenient for your very specific use case. Microsoft aren't going to fix this behavior because there are likely millions if not billions of spreadsheets that rely on it.

That is not a software problem.
That sounds like Utopia compared to what we have.
Friendly hackers save Ford from potential leak of employee, customer data
family plan was on verizon :(
"It should be noted that while there is some evidence that Disulfiram has effectiveness against Lyme, it's not yet well-studied and the incidence of significant side effects, particularly neurological side effects, during treatment is high enough that I wouldn't risk it."

Oh man, don't I know it. My post was about the question of whether chronic Lyme actually exists, not whether taking disulfiram is a good idea.

Both my wife and son had a VERY difficult time with the disulfiram treatment. My son, in particular, ended up in the ER one night, basically having a psychotic break. That was the day he stopped taking the disulfiram.

BUT it happens that he was almost at the end of the recommended treatment duration anyway, and EVERY indication is that both he and my wife were completely cured by it. This was probably about 2 years ago, and so it's very encouraging that there is no evidence of any recurrence.

As I mentioned, my wife and son were early in the treatment experiments, and they had high doses. The doctor who treated them has now treated a good number of people and has much more experience with different doses. With a lower dose for the same amount of time, cures are less reliable. But there are experiments with low doses for longer times.

I worry that you may have Lyme spirochetes in your brain that may predispose you to Alzheimer's. So it might not be a bad idea to look into more treatment even if you can deal with your current state.

If you do, I'd recommend talking to my wife and son's doctor, https://lymediseaseassociation.org/blogs/lda-guest-blogs/ken...
There clearly is more to this story as there are a number of keyboard apps.

> Apple says the keyboard needs to work even if a user doesn’t give it “full access” to network access and other iOS features

Having a keyboard app with any sort of network access is a red flag as it would make it the easiest way to secretly build a keystroke logger.
In my high school’s Drivers Ed class I distinctly remember the one-question pop quiz: “What is the most dangerous mile of road?”

The answer was “the mile in front of you”

Additionally there was some statistic about the frequency of accidents within a very short distance of the drivers residence, which seemed to underscore the importance of being aware of just how much your brain filters out the “familiar” in contrast to a newly stimulating environment.
You are making it harder for recycling to be profitable/worthwhile. Sorting the material and disposing the trash is one of the biggest costs associated with recycling. If the inputs to the processes get too saturated with waste, the recycling process stops being a net positive to society. As an example posted elsewhere in this thread, a soiled food container is not only non-recyclable, it will contaminate the other material next to it also making those materials non-recyclable.

Basically, if you think you are being a good steward of the earth by throwing your trash into the recycling bin, you are wrong, you are making the problem worse.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/environm...
What happens when a package gets lost that contains an animal?
Oh, I'm not defending this license in particular. That's a great point, apologies.

Most fonts I see for sale have a one-time license fee for # of views/month. So if you do 500k monthly views you pay ~$99 once, and 5MM views is X*4. That's pretty reasonable to me, the costs are hardly prohibitive.

If you're looking for a fantastic variable font, I can recommend Proxima Vara[0], which is the variable iteration of Proxima Nova. It follows this licensing structure.

[0] https://proxima-vara.marksimonson.com
Yeah, I probably could have phrased my original comment better. I didn't mean to imply the areas in Africa with HIV issues have a culture of rape. I said "if there is a rampant culture of rape/unprotected sex with many partners the same region will just get ravaged by the next STD and stick them back in the same rut." (emphasis added).

My point being, if we have a magic pill that cures them of a given STD, but there are underlying cultural problems that contribute to elevated STD transmission (such as unprotected sex or rape), etc., then the magic pill is only a bandaid that doesn't address the underlying elevated STD transmission problem.

As a sibling comment stated, maybe the problem is that these Africans believe homeopathic cures like special tea leaves will protect them from HIV when in reality they are just all having unprotected sex, so it's both a cultural and educational issue.
Whenever I see the four legged dog robot, I wonder how far we are from the chevaline in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age.
Marketing != reality.

You can believe whatever the fuck you want from what the 'marketing' is but it IS a currency.
It's cognitive bias. It might be junk, but it's their junk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere_ownership_effect
It is legitimately a problem that the UK is pressuring Google over this, but that does not necessarily mean that Google doesn't have the option to toggle settings about cookies in other markets.

This is exactly how the rollout of DoH has worked, different regions have had rollouts at different rates, particularly in regions where legislators are concerned about market effects. If the UK moves to block that too, then maybe then we have a more serious problem. But Google should be trying to roll out these protections in areas where it can.

It also doesn't mean that the UK is opposed to restricting 3rd-party cookies. The UK is worried about Google privileging their own ads. That's not the same thing as demanding a compromise with advertisers to enable cross-site tracking before cookies are removed, it's a requirement that Google not use the removal of 3rd-party cookies to give themselves outsized control over the advertising ecosystem.
This is fantastic. And I agree with the fellow mentioning direct drive as better. If you can get the same results using direct drive, you’ll have a sizable energy gain above what the input energy was, perhaps enough to drive a (multiple stage) heat engine and produce net electricity.

Anyway, I also want to point out that laser inertial confinement fusion bears a not-coincidental (some of the same codes and plasma physics techniques developed for laser fusion were used by Lawrence Livermore and others to develop EUV) resemblance to the extreme UV light sources sold by ASML and used for the highest end computer chips today. Compare the LIFE fusion reactor concept (based on an evolution of the NIF) with the EUV light source of droplets of tin being hit with a pulsed laser:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Inertial_Fusion_Energy

EUV light source: https://youtu.be/IattxYrc9Go

(The Hohlrahm of the National Ignition Facility, surrounding the tritium deuterium fuel pellet, is acting like the tin droplet of the EUV light source, converting longer wavelength pulsed laser light to (near) X-Rays.)
Wow! That was amazing, I couldn't understand more than a few words of the first speaker. The others were much more intelligible, but it required a lot of attention (which is also interesting, how much of listening is really passive). I feel for any non-native English speakers used to a different accent trying to understand that.
I wish we got more airtime! I think the reason why organizations like LGC do not, is because they don't really have much if any political clout in Democratic politics
- primaries etc - the way NRA does on the right (Republican politicians jokingly refer to it as Never Re-elected Again, because of how much influence it has on the primaries).
Heh heh, Ockham’s razor provides an explanation!
The underlying assumption here is that when transferred into R or Julia, with an equivalent level of development effort and testing, that there will be no/fewer bugs. I'm not entirely sure that's true.

I think we are comparing something that is knocked out in an hour in excel to someone spending 4-10x of the time doing it in Python / Julia, but I don't think that's a like-for-like comparison.
Technically yes, but practically, if someone can't get their job done without breaking rules, they're going to break the rules. If your goal is actual compliance with rules, giving people a way to comply is much more effective.
We are tackling this same issue, but in a different way. A unified UI for AWS and LocalStack. https://getcommandeer.com
My area has a relatively high infection rate, but most people I know aren't vaccinated, even if they're somewhat aware of the dangers. Having a vaccine is not enough, you also need people to use it.
I was just replying to the alarmist part:

> Delta is one of the most transmissive and dangerous viruses in history. Many times worse than previous strains of COVID.
Doesnt mean we should return to that horrible state.
> they divide walmart.com from walmart pickup and delivery for no reason

I can hazard an informed guess as to why that is -- they built .com as an independent company, in order to get it off the ground faster and with less interference from the brick and mortar side.

End result: quick iteration, but now two completely separate supply chains. You'd be amazing how complicated warehousing, inventory, shipping, etc. get when you've got 2 SKUs for every item + a bunch of hacks to duct tape everything together.

And it's not trivial to reconverged them, when you're as optimized as Walmart logistics is.
Right, but is parkour a well-understood problem with formulas and solutions?

I think there's also a tendency to go "You just need linear regression" a lot when actually, well, there is a reason people are excited about new AI techniques: they make things that were very difficult much easier, and they make some things possible that never were before.

Is deep learning / reinforcement learning actually useful here? Maybe. I would be surprised if Boston Dynamics wasn't at least looking into it.
Releasing more energy is good, but is it enough of a difference that the delta can be captured (assuming imperfect capture process) + is it able to offset the cost of the expensive laser setup (maintenance)?
How can you possibly know that Gauss and Euler would have been able to achieve less than Tao? That's a baseless claim.
Writing R Extensions in Rust
HIV/AIDs is a perfect example of why it's dangerous to not distinguish between the two. If you are vaccinated and exposed to SARS-COV-2, you still have a high risk of infection, but because of the vaccine, you have a low risk of that infection developing into the disease known as COVID-19.

If a successful mRNA vaccine is developed to prevent AIDs, it would be extremely important for the vaccinated to know they can still be infected with and spread HIV. It's not any different for SARS-COV-2/COVID-19. The talk in this thread about an mRNA vaccine eradicating HIV is nonsense.
Assuming you are American. In general, for the future:

- Don’t vote for people who actively seek new enemies.
- Talk to your representative and tell them to not support foreign invasions.
- Don’t believe everything the western media says the next time USA decides to invade some country.

For now:

I don’t think any amount of money will help since the US spent trillions to achieve the opposite. Taliban is stronger than ever.

You can try and raise awareness about the situation in Afghanistan and call out western leaders for their hypocrisy and mistakes. Let them not act like this was a success. Since the US is the best democracy, use your voting power and social media influence. It is basically like cancelling somebody but this time you are cancelling politicians from decision-making positions.

Invasions make bad situations worse.
Just got done sharing this story with a friend who has a computer security firm in Detroit. I told him they badly needed his services. Because if you turn away friendly hackers you will soon come to know the unfriendly kind ;<(.
> So we blame the software instead of blaming the downright lazy people who can't be fucked learning an appropriate tool even though that's their entire career.

Further, the software would be fine if you use it properly for this sort of use case (i.e. bring the data in via PowerQuery which has enforced types).
And how do you enforce your mandate? Without the threat of physical violence, any mandate devolves into a suggestion - or worse, handcuffs on the just.
That is the exact threshold that was previously being presented as good enough for herd immunity.

But herd immunity stats are all made up anyway. Fauci admitted the US value for herd immunity threshold was being picked based on opinion polling, not science.
Thanks for your kind words I guess. Please remember your comment and reflect on it in 10 years when the politicians will have stole all of your freedoms and you won't be able to do anything in life without being tracked, judged and denied.
So in the end what's your point?

Do you support mandatory mask-wearing and social distancing for the rest of our lives?
Mapping concepts to colors (terribly) with the Oklab perceptual colospace
They could just as easily be 0% of the way. The stuff the community is working on doesn't end in self driving cars (in the sense of human level driving). Right now that is an AGI problem, and there is no evidence if or how far down we are on a path to AGI.
Giving a percentage is like checking some theorem (Fermat's last problem e.g.) for millions of numbers and claiming we're closer to a proof.
Why there is a PayPal Mafia but no Google Mafia
"It looks like you are working on genomics data, should I direct you to a search engine to find appropriate tooling instead?"
You could also get vaccinated.
We are not reaching the limits of solar and wind in any country, this is just not true.

And even if it was, you have not given a single reason as to why building new nuclear would help in that scenario. Talk me through it please.
American English is easier to understand because it's less distinctive, it has lost any character, which is common for linguæ francæ.

So I don't think it's solely about American soft power, although that will undoubtedly play a part.
For those questioning the “Livermorons”: I can’t speak directly to that but can say that Naval Aviation uses a similar term for those who elect to stay at NAS Lemoore: “Leemorons”. It’s not a perjorative; the people I’ve talked to use the term affectionately.
The world is not nearly as tightly controlled as one might think. Lots of stuff is just some normal person's job to not lose track of.

Body parts are only super custody tracked when they are still viable lifesaving tools (ie organ transplant). Besides that they aren't a huge deal.
Ants have queens. Ants are a kind of flightless wasp, they have a lot of commonalities with the wasp/bee family.
I'm sorry, but Hangouts is terrible. It sucks on every level. The UI is so bad it's hard to believe. I wish I could sit down with their product team to get an explanation for how badly Hangouts is designed. Takes about 10s to see all the problems with it compared to Zoom.
As an intelligence source it would be invaluable, see their IP addresses, locations, who they're talking too, what they're saying, their social graphs, what else is on their devices, etc. It's probably better to keep all that under American control rather than just 'banning' them for optics.

Although as we've just seen that intelligence is almost certainly not acted on or taken notice of.
I'm going to assume that most 'killer robots' will be reasonably heavily armoured, so unless you have very powerful AP rounds the best approach will be to disable rather than destroy. They'll also likely be hardened against 'jammers' or any radio interference.

Presumably most systems will use multiple sensors and vision systems, LiDAR, RADAR, etc. The key would be to disable enough of each to put the machine in 'safe mode'.

Vision systems are the easiest to attack. A cheap paintball gun, spray can, or fire extinguisher would be more than capable of disabling a camera system.

LiDAR would likely also be fairly easy to disable. Most LiDAR systems also depend on visual light, and have a revolving sensor of some sort (though there are some fixed units as well) which have their own weaknesses. A reasonably powerful pellet gun, or most rifles or pistols would be enough to disable a revolving lidar sensor, and a few shots with paint would disable a fixed unit, much like a camera.

It's almost certain the designer of such robots will think of these attacks and build around them. Think windshield wipers or compressed air to clear debris. So, the ideal material would be very thick, very sticky, and completely opaque. It would also need a high pressure container and a nozzle that produces a laminar stream to hit the sensors from at least 10m away.
Study Details Robust T-Cell Response to mRNA Covid-19 Vaccines
amazing product! i'm looking forward to test it
Then how is Waymo having driverless vehicles in Arizona already? You can use an app to order a ride like Uber, but without a driver
I thought best-practice for web apps was to use system fonts ? e.g. along the lines blogged here[1]

[1] https://booking.design/implementing-system-fonts-on-booking-...
You’re twenty years too late for this sentiment. You’re already tracked constantly by everything around you. The vaccines are not a useful method of tracking or control. Computers and cameras are much better.
> Full disclosure: I stopped looking into the hard-coded key around the time I typed this string into Google and discovered several results from other projects. This is weird. Weird and stupid.

https://www.google.com/search?q=VGhpcyBpcyB0aGUga2V5IGZvciBh...
I have not. Looks interesting. To be clear, I do not have chronic lyme, but rather have been bit by a tick twice in the last year and a half and got lyme disease each time.
Why on earth does a keyboard app need network access?
I've had Moderna and the flu, and they were about equally bad ("I can move, but only because I'll wet the bed otherwise, please God let me sleep so it stops feeling like my bones are dissolving") but Moderna lasted only a day whereas the flu lasted several. I think you'll struggle to argue convincingly that Moderna doesn't commonly have awful side effects :P
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Taiwan#...

There are 15 states, the vast majority of which are microstates, which recognise Taiwan as "the China". Some countries have unofficial representation within, but don't officially recognise it. No country officially recognises Taiwan and China as separate countries. Should have said "almost everyone", not everyone, indeed.

> That sounds a lot like "two countries" to me

And absolutely is, in practice. However, from a legal/UN/international law standpoint, Taiwan isn't a country, it's a Chinese island.
Due to the power and influence of the PRC, few countries, even the US, would dare to recognise an independent Taiwan replacing the ROC claim to the whole of China. And even then, China would still claim it's their land and they might even invade.
Remind HN: First LangJam is this Friday. There's now a Discord
If someone has an epileptic seizure or a diabetic goes into hypoglycemic shock whilst driving and gets into a head on collision and kills someone should they go to prison? They call it mental illness for a reason.
> A reasonable alternative would be for example statically typing each column or row in the sheet.

You can actually statically type the columns now for imported data via the PowerQuery editor (which is built into Excel), although not a lot of people know how to use it.
A nice rule of thumb for these kind of timescales (courtesy of a lecture by Grace Hopper) is to consider the speed of light: 1 nanosecond at the speed of light is about 1 foot (300 mm). A picosecond is then 0.3 mm.
Claims about Delta being "more infectious" are the same claim that was made for all the others. Dig into how they try to calculate that and you'll find the exact type of models that have repeatedly failed so far.

Remember: the UK released most of its restrictions, including masks and lockdowns in a so-called "freedom day". Experts said the country was performing a dangerous experiment on the entire world. Cases started plunging just three days later. To compare people pointing out the proven, beyond any doubt unreliability of claims about COVID to flat earthers shows just how ideological and blind this whole thing has become.
Doorknob.