skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you've been teaching swimming exclusively on the blackboard for 20 years it's probably time to retire as a teacher - your students are never going to learn how to swim from you.

Yes, but sticking to the analogy it says more about you as a teacher than about your students. I think we can agree the US failed pretty badly here to get the Afgans into shape to defend themselves.

They shouldn't have left until they achieved that goal. They were down to just 3500 soldiers. Hell they have a bigger troop presence in Germany, and dozens of other countries around the world. The death rate is comparable too, believe it or not. The last soldier to die there was back in 2020. There was no need for this rushed disaster.
>but I'm part of the crowd that is strongly in favor of this type of regulations.

It boggles my mind that anyone would support having the government tell you, at the point of a gun, what kind of software you are allowed to run on your own computer.
Brilliant chart, but this 40+ year old was left wanting a “TP Best Buy”
Here's a bug I ran into a few years ago:

https://datastax-oss.atlassian.net/browse/PYTHON-891

With all the issues I encountered using in prod, it gave the impression of an overly complicated key/value store.
Las I checked judges don't love it when you try to be clever or cute.
Stanley Kubrick was well known for his abiding interest in camera technology. /s
Where I go on the Internet outside of Twitter dot com is none of their business.
Never used my Ooni Koda 16 for any other food besides other bread products like Pita or whatever. It's been fun, but real issue w/ pizza when dealing with friends is trying to get them to put only a little bit of stuff.

Load it up with 10 wet items and you get soggy pizza no matter what the oven temp is.
Company asked everyone retweet something. Awkward silence. Finally many people mentioned they had deleted Twitter for mental health reasons.

Few weeks after watching a group plotting to come burn my neighborhood down in real-time I deleted the app. Just too much.
HackGT 8 – A college hackathon with an open source track:)
This is the forum for a VC firm. You would be hard pressed to find a social media platform with a greater concentration of people wanting to make a shitload of money by growing a tech company outside of the one that's exclusively for people who have received YC funding.

Steve Jobs made a shitload of money growing a tech company. The broad overview of his career involving him being there when it went from nothing to something, leaving, succeeding while it floundered, then returning to have it then also succeed; gives him more credibility for having caused that success than many other potential role models have.
IIRC a snowflake ID's first few bits (or characters?) are by definition a unix timestamp.
Not sure about WayDroid, but microG is confirmed to be working on Anbox after patching the default device image to enable signature spoofing: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=9815&pid=65378#p...

Anbox can also be used with Google Play Services. The Arch Linux AUR offers a recipe for building an Anbox image with Google apps (see PKGBUILD for code): https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/anbox-image-gapps/

The AUR also has recipes for Anbox images that include Magisk root and Xposed: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=anbox
I have a Gozney Roccbox, and I have found it useful for: Pizza, Naan Bread, and Pita so far. I haven't tried much else.
An in-house data service built with RocksDB/LevelDB. [1]

[1] https://rocksdb.org/
> the rich do not pay their share of taxes and face no punishment.

The government tracks everything we do right now, and the rich still don't pay their share of the taxes or face punishment for it. So why don't we stop the tracking, since the rich aren't paying anyway, and stop pretending that blanket surveillance is somehow beneficial and desirable for the rest of us?
Unvaccinated individuals are 29 times more likely to be hospitalized from Covid
Really? We almost saw a resurgence with the chatbot craze that recently passed. And frankly command-line is something that GUIs do easily, or have we as a field forgotten that too?

People have such a gap-filled view of the past. I barely had to learn any IRC command-line stuff because of mIRC
This is barely a critique of the science of the vaccine trial; it's 60% political pandering and inclusion of various public figures (completely irrelevant to the science) and their yappings about geopolitical context, peppered in with some potentially valid complaints about the approval process and the reporting by Gamaleya.

But at this point it's all moot, because we have multiple (https://www.conicet.gov.ar/wp-content/uploads/Informe-Sputni...) (https://www.fundacionfemeba.org.ar/blog/farmacologia-7/post/...) (https://magazine.oceanomedicina.com/actualidad/respuesta-inm...) reports and production of Sputnik outside of Russia (https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/pharmaceutical-fir...), which basically corroborate all of the findings of the Gamaleya Institute.

So I'm wondering why exactly there's this tremendous conspiratorial thinking about a vaccine that made claims... that turned out be completely on target with both the trial data and its epidemiological impacts in the countries where it's being applied.
I'm confused why many people automatically assume robot taxis will be cheaper.

Financial Times (Alphaville Blog): The questionable economics of autonomous taxi fleets: https://www.ft.com/content/aa05823d-e58f-33ee-a99c-d50f2fd0c...

... quotes this Harvard/MIT study: Autonomous Taxis and Public Health: High Cost or High Opportunity Cost?: https://psyarxiv.com/6e94h

<<<Drawing on a wealth of publicly available data, Ashley Nunes and his colleague Kristen Hernandez suggest that the price for taking an autonomous taxi will be between $1.58 to $6.01 on a per-mile basis, versus the $0.72 cost of owning a car. Using San Francisco’s taxi market as its test area, the academics examined a vast array of costs such as licensing, maintenance, fuel and insurance for their calculations.>>>

I can imagine that as the world grows more urbanised, and wealth concentrates in urban areas, that people will want to pay for the convenience and safety of a robot taxi.
Besides the more obvious reasons, making the battery swappable would compromise other things like thickness, weight, waterproofing, and so on.
Pinduoduo swings to a net profit of $372m in Q2 2021
I can make excellent NY style pizza at 550F with a Baking Steel in 4 1/2 minutes.
To be fair this is a very very old list dating back to 2006/2008 and these were the pizza names that came up constantly at that time - it's also only rating the shops that he personally traveled to which were predominantly NY/Neapolitan because that's likely what he was benchmarking his own restaurant against.
What I think happened, as someone who's been using Discord daily since 2015, is that they came up with a slightly better product than the alternatives, spent enough in marketing (to gamers specifically) to convince investors that it was a platform worth investing in, and only then slowly started improving their faulty software.

To say people were manipulated into using Discord is obviously not true, but it's also disingenuous to deny the massive amount of marketing Discord pushed back when it first started, not only in advertisement but just branding in general.

I'm not going to address the latter part of your comment because I don't understand what you're trying to say. I'm of the belief that I'm allowed to voice the legitimate issues I have with the software that impact not only myself and other developers but users in general.
Would you still go through Google store for the apps I mentioned, or used apk files from 3rd party stores?
you can host your own server and it's so simple it's hardly a problem.
If you're not rapidly growing and are paying millions in cloud compute, you should hire your own infra team and start managing your own database, so you can save millions of dollars.
He obviously does, but the things he says about Putin are basically true.
Remarkable — all that without explaining anywhere what a “corporate card” is. Is it a debit card (debits immediately)? Or a delayed debit card (debits at month end)? Or a credit card (credit balance up to a specified limit)?

And why do they brag about “no credit checks”? Brex already tried that in the beginning. That’s really only a thing for businesses so small that they definitely do not need a corporate credit card (and who are bad at picking banks). I scaled a startup to 100 people and had 0 need for issuing cards to employees…

But all of these companies seems to do really well, so there must be plenty of demand…
Twitter destroyed in myopic greed what was once a sensible service that shared in our vision of an open web. The “struggle” you refer to is protest.
> voicing an opinion with the intent to gather enough employee consensus to pressure the employer to not serve a particular customer

That's literally what makes it potentially protected by labor law though.

Now, it's only protected if it counts as "working conditions". But gathering employee consensus to pressure the employer about "working conditions" is literally exactly what is protected by labor law. Whether the "reasons for their opinions" on working conditions are "in the best interest of the employer" or not.

Under what circumstances and conditions do you think this law came about?

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> Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (the Act) guarantees employees "the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection,"

https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/in...

"To engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection" is in fact what's protected, not "voicing opinions". Employers actually do have the right to fire you for "voicing opinions", in theory (the first ammendment constrains the government, not employers), although in practice it probably shouldn't be an opinion related to all that stuff above, or voicing the opinion might have been part of those activities which the employee has the right to do.
> Should a customer’s TV be incorrectly blocked, the functionality can be reinstated once proof of purchase and a valid TV license is shared to serv.manager@samsung.com

So if you can't find your receipt, you're SOL?
Noam Chomsky – Startup Culture (2015) [video]
>But I also have started wondering if there's something about the humidity that's different in most wood-fired brick ovens.

Major byproduct of burning hydrocarbons is water. That'll definitely raise the humidity.
The reason startups get large amounts of funding is because they are expected to grow exponentially.

Tech debt mills cannot grow exponentially. They grow quickly for a couple of years, then stop growing once the accrued tech debt slows down growth.

Once the 10xers/rockstar/ninjas that "got shit done" for years are asked to make things work for that missing "5% of the time", they will look for another job and disappear.

Tech debt mills should not be treated as startups. They are small or medium businesses that are not prepared for exponential growth, and as such, do not deserve startup-level funding. The obsession over "getting shit done" and "shipping" are traits of tech debt mills.

Sustainable growth and a long-term vision beats tech debt mill mentality.
> “Cutting healthcare spending significantly, which I think we should do, would cause hardship for a huge number of people and entire regions on the country.”

And cutting healthcare spending would provide prosperity for many more.
I've decided good bread at home is too much damn work. I've done the sourdough thing, I've done Flour, Water, Salt, Yeast, I've done baguettes the slow & hard, correct way. I've put a lot of time into it. Results far too mixed, and never amazing. I still make bread but I don't bother with fancy shit anymore. Just mix up a simple ratio dough in the standing mixer, rest it, and bake. I use lame dry-instant yeast—I've discovered, after much trying, that I hate basically everything about keeping sourdough starters. The space they take up in the fridge, the mess, the way they look, having to "feed" them, the waste (don't listen to hip eco-conscious mommy bloggers, you can't use excess starter to make pancakes—I'm still haunted by that one). The care require in prepping it to even maybe get a half-decent rise. Nope, never again.
Also check out https://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php which is a treasure trove of pizza experiments. Varasano himself was active on the forum back in the day (~2005) and a few members actually started their own pizzerias.
I use qemu exclusively for my virtualization needs these days. I migrated away from virtualbox late in the 3.x era. Probably my biggest complaint is that the man page does not actually document all of the arguments to the emulator. For that you have to search the source code.
> They can't be easily traced to a particular person is what they mean

Exchanges typically ask for an ID in most countries these day before you can purchase any crypto. I'd be curious how you avoid detection unless you started very early in crypto by mining on your own. You'd still need an ID to exchange back to fiat anyway.
You need to spend more time around non technologists. Many folks just dismiss computer prompts without reading, ignore emails, or any number of other similar behaviors that would likely drive you and I crazy by their lack of attention to detail.

Adding detailed prompts won’t solve the problem.
> In future we want to be able to do even more sophisticated things, like ask users for confirmation before the push code that contains secrets

If you all have thought about it, do you imagine you'd only warn in the presence of some generic token identifier, like `secret-token` a la https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8959 ? Or, would you be able to warn on everything that matches the regular expressions your partners give you to identify their API tokens?
It would the exact same amount as a colour TV because the B&W would all be done in software.
> And it's not a common enough usecase for manufacturers to bother supporting.

Woah now, I would like to disagree with that, phones running out of a charge is a pretty regular occurrence. In fact, I'd say the only reason people panic so often to keep a charge is because the fucking things won't turn back on immediately. shakes fist at sky It would be fucking GREAT if I could use it (turn it on) immediately upon plugging it into a power source. I have been pissed off about not being able to use my iPhone (or any device) while plugged in since "they" (electronics manufacturers) started doing this shit. Truly, I've seen grown ass people thrown into a panic because their phone is about to die and I promise 80% of that panic (for a plethora of reasons from silly to necessary) would be alleviated if they knew they could just plug the damn thing in and have it turn on immediately.

Edit: moar better grammar.
A battery management IC will be able to discern a battery's health.

Not saying you're wrong, but it could easily be the case that the iphone runs from wall power if it detects a healthy battery, but doesn't allow that if the battery is very dead.
I think Discord messages can be unbounded in size
I really love this kind of hacking but I hate several things.

1. That it's even necessary

2. That any non-techie would immediately be against even unscrewing anything on their own devices

Sure, I'm glad to do this on my own devices. But those willing to has gotta be a sample size of so small, its no bigger a deal than a statistical anomaly.
> discovery process for lawsuits will find your carelessly written email and opposing lawyers will take it out of context

I don't work for Google or have much of an opinion on "Googlespeak".

However, that the practice of law is allowed to exist in its current state is an indictment on our society. The legal profession is one that polices itself, has no proper oversight (judges are just lawyers with a more refined superiority complex), raises barriers to entry with a level of zeal only matched by medicine (to which it is not actually comparable), and is also allowed to maliciously and limitlessly wield this power over the people who do real work is a foundational problem with governmental design.
Peter Corless here from ScyllaDB's marketing team. Your feedback is 100% heard, understood & appreciated. I'll share it with the team.

The good news is that we just provided a new benchmark today and it is 100% ungated.

Scylla 4.4 vs Cassandra 4.0:
https://www.scylladb.com/2021/08/24/apache-cassandra-4-0-vs-...

Also, here are a few other free and open blogs where we have benchmarked vs. competitors:

Scylla vs. DynamoDB:
https://www.scylladb.com/2018/12/13/scylla-vs-amazon-dynamod...

Scylla vs. Google Cloud Bigtable:
https://www.scylladb.com/2019/05/02/going-head-to-head-scyll...
I worked at a very large telco for 4 years, and you just described a few of the people I worked with better than I ever could.

I once got a call from a Project Manager on conference with a bunch of VPs, letting me know I was now the sole support person for a new customer-facing product that went live that day.

On the call I confirmed with everyone listening there was no documentation for the entire system, no support procedures, nobody could tell me the name of the server or any credentials to even access anything, or what to do if anything went wrong.
But there it was, dumped in my lap.

That PM always got a green tick for delivering projects on time, and got many promotions and bonuses.
Relocking the bootloader doesn't imply that verified boot is enabled or that that it's not broken for alternate OSes, as is the case for the devices you mentioned.

https://twitter.com/GrapheneOS/status/1423665850725408771
This is an important point. I write that with no disrespect to all those FOSS developers who have devoted themselves to the work of creating new, interesting and useful things. But the fact is that usability, like intuition, is usually a very subjective matter. That's why QA and UAT were such an integral part of traditional software development, and why community engagement needs to be a two-way street.
Actually, our threading is quite simple.

There is exactly as many threads (that do anything) as CPU cores.
> It is far more widespread than an interaction with a Google employee.

Yes, it's systemic, not just in capitalism, through all of nature.

In cell biology, it's the Krebs cycle.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28219702/
Most naive string comparison methods (including language expressions like above) will usually compare one letter at a time until a mismatch is found. This allows an attacker to build up the correct password one character at a time. The correct letter will take longer to check then the incorrect.
Developers can now submit beta apps to TestFlight for macOS
because big politic. Covid is first and foremost a humongous wealth, resource and power redistribution and grab, at all levels, from local to global. It is being a pandemic is a distant second.

https://brazilian.report/liveblog/coronavirus/2021/03/15/us-...

"OGA [The Office of Global Affairs] used diplomatic relations in the Americas region to mitigate efforts by states, including Cuba, Venezuela, and Russia, who are working to increase their influence in the region to the detriment of US safety and security. OGA coordinated with other U.S. government agencies to strengthen diplomatic ties and offer technical and humanitarian assistance to dissuade countries in the region from accepting aid from these ill-intentioned states. Examples include using OGA’s Health Attaché office to persuade Brazil to reject the Russian COVID-19 vaccine"
Looks great, thanks. It's good that it also support with Google Play Services for who needs, despite it's privacy oriented ROM.
Forget even iSCSI as the goalpost, a lot of places still use fibrechannel drives and controllers and FCoE makes sense mostly once you’ve hit at least 10 GbE which is a bit pricey for the sake of learning while it’s basically hot garbage in professional environments worth a career in. Half the point of vSphere in a professional capacity requires use of several nodes such as different HA options, how to trunk networks, distinctions between different LUN abstractions (RDMs in physical v virtual compatibility modes) and an endless parade of the ways different vendors’ SANs and physical switches can completely mess up and ruin your entire month if you’re not pedantic about every random switch or flag in configuration. All these other vendor minutiae being so important rather than the general concepts as a practitioner is part of why I don’t do VMware professionally anymore and went quietly to SRE janitoring in major cloud providers and chalked those days up as time in IT. It’s just much more practical to learn AWS than to pore over the Cisco Nexus documentation unless one’s career really is in the lower infrastructure levels of tech.
Highly recommend the Discord on https://www.serverbuilds.net/. It's a great community built around home lab hardware using off-lease or decommissioned enterprise hardware. Guides range from 4U virtualization builds to custom pfSense routers.
We used Discord for a while for our team at work for over a year. Stopped using because company policy changed (we had no centralized chat program, some teams were on Skype, some on WhatsApp, then Slack was instituted). Context: 10-person, mostly technical, project-oriented, game development team.

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It was a joy to use, we created channels left right and center and knew everyone needed would be in them thanks to the centralized "role-based" permission system. (We would create project-specific channels and an accompanying role, or client-specific roles for the few high-throughput clients that had lots of small projects)

At the time it did not have threading, which was one of the biggest pain points on the text-chat front.

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The voice chat is very good, and having dedicated voice channels means you can emulate meeting rooms or desks and have people join as desired/needed. You could be working and idle at "kroltan's desk" voice channel, but even if you weren't, joining one is trivial (a single click, can be done independently by many people) compared to Slack (find the call button somewhere different each time because they redesign the UI every week, then wait for your peer to join the call).

Screen sharing is 720p on the free plan, so for meetings, it was hard to read documents, requiring zooming and whatnot. At the time there was also no setting to optimize for framerate or definition, so even 720p felt closer to 480p. Nowadays you can lower the framerate and also select the desired optimization, so you can ask Discord to optimize the stream for quality which is much better for documents, even in 720p.

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The client is also much more responsive than other Electron-based chat programs, especially with big workspaces with close to a hundred channels (yes, for a 10-person team, we sure type a lot), search is basically instant and has very useful filters, mentioning roles is great and the notification settings are fine-grained enough to please everyone.
If you only hire to get shit done, then everything you get done will be shit.
Why would something derived from a random string have better comparison properties than the random string?
I’d rather store an HMAC of the token.

That way you’re hashing the user input, which sanitizes it. It also protects against timing attacks.*

And most importantly it protects against credentials leaking. Even insiders who can read a token from the database can’t use it to authenticate, because the app logic expects a pre-image of that value.

*HMAC resists timing attacks because the attacker can no longer control the bit pattern on either side of the equality check.