skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the discussion on the article that may have inspired this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28191639
there was a story a while back about someone being caught with a signal jammer in his van, because he was sick of people being on the phone while driving
I've been thinking about this a bit, and something like Smalltalk is just completely alien if you came from a C or a Cobol background. The Cobol guys were used to using a rich, transaction based environment and the C guys were used to rolling their own everything. When they hit Smalltalk and the "if" statement looks like...wtf the boolean does the work? Or even better, one of the gurus decided that the best way to solve the "how do I get my database connection information" was to give the users a class that deliberately threw an exception they were meant to catch at the top of the chain of execution. In this case, the guru wrote a class that threw a "#doesNotUnderstand" which can be caught, re-injected with the appropriate object, and the program can continue.

It quite simply was too much for some guys to get their heads around. It probably wasn't the best way to use an exception either, but occasionally when I'm working with .NET I really wish I could catch some of those, re-inject the expected bit of data and have my program continue it's merry way.

One of the modes of working in Smalltalk is to deliberately write something half finished, so when the #doesNotUnderstand gets thrown, you can edit the code during while debugging, accept it, and continue the program. If it takes a long time to reproduce a bug in a C# program, you're stuck with going through all the motions to get back to where the bug exists, but in Smalltalk you could simply fill in the bit of broken code, continue and it would work from then on.

Again - hard to change the habits of a lifetime and I'm not sure that as a long term development environment it's very healthy (you might fix an instance of the bug, but did you fix all the possible combinations of it?)

Still, when you're in a Smalltalk groove it feels like walking a high wire and performing magic.
> It’s basically a picture perfect example of the market working.

Yet most times across all fields, better technical approaches are shutdown due to misaligned economic incentives. So while this is an example of the market working, its fame is due to going against the trend of profitable crappy engineering and planned obsolescence that plague industries.

EDIT: We could also argue that accounting for "privacy" and "autonomy", Discord is not a good solution to the group communications problem and therefore the market is not working.
The Dirac String Trick (2015)
Have you tried the `tokei` tool for counting lines of code? It can also output in machine-readable formats IIRC.
Mid burning is when a company will have many shell companies and just open up at many acquirers and knowingly will breach their chargeback ratio with the expectation that eventually their acquirer will shut them down but they don't care because they'll move onto another acquirer. This goes on until Visa/Mastercard blacklists them at the card level but these merchants don't care because everything is shells corps and structured that it looks like it has no ties to the parent corp.

I expect the CB ratio to be 0.7% if they're aggressive with not leaving money on the table and refund anything that looks like it'll give them bad press. If they're they're trying to keep it as low as possible I've seen the ability to operate at 0.3%.

CCBill & Epoch when I want to shift high risk liability. Rocketgate for everything else. Getting the processor is the easy part, finding an acquirer and getting a mid is much harder.

I have no advice on how to find an acquirer/getting a mid for high risk it is very much networking and knowing people club.
These things are written with the intent that people she works with read them. Some of the recent ones are about drama where some walking bridges on her works campus were closed and she wasn't happy about that, and a building was named after her and then not named after her but one that was named after one of the company founders in a different country stayed named after them, and she wasn't happy about that either to the effect of multiple posts on it.

Both specifically communicated to people still working there mentioning to look up and leak videos.

Certainly doesn't seem like someone I would want to work with either.
The writer makes a lot of good points.

Essentially he has been responsible for 'the reinvention of money, automobiles and space travel, there’s always someone who says: “Yeah, but I hear he can be a real dick.”

Take that, Elon.

"But self-driving cars will kill people!
Grow up"
Mine did
Some of this language: “a smart fifth grader would”, “a good student would”, stuck out to me. I have experienced people talking like this at work and I think it can be harmful. I watched a group humiliate one person by saying “how could you get a job here and not know that?” I also had a coworker once offer to help me solve a problem, during which they said something like “any competent engineer should be able to …” I had only been there a couple of weeks and it really undermined my confidence.

I don’t think recognizing a trick problem is necessarily about being good or smart. Is the author of the cited blog post dumber than a fifth grader?
Hell Is Other REPLs
Corp exec: "I'm in charge." "People do what I tell them." "Pay me."

Prosecutor: "You've committed a felony."

Corp exec: "Someone made me do it."
Then keep your damn cat indoors. They shouldn't be roaming free anyway.
Installation of M-13 (“Katyusha”)
When they busted a large cheating ring here in Sweden for the national aptitude test the setup involved miniature receivers and transmitters, a central location giving information to all the test sites, and countermeasures to anti-cheat. The cheating was a multi-million operation and the several people involved got multiple years in prison.

One could say that the quality of information is one qualifying difference, also the scale and effectiveness. They were less detectable, and also designed and tested to avoid detection in ways that note cards are not.
Shame he turned into a Ted Nugent in his old age.
Sounds like they could have labeled it "pay with card instead".
I fondly remember that period indeed. But reading your comment i realized it's been a while since i could tell whether my computer having network activity was suspicious or not, and i'm guessing a lot of younger people don't even realize that could be a thing.

> Malware wasn't nearly as well hidden back then, so uncovering it wasn't all that hard.

Yeah catpicture.jpg.exe was definitely easier to identify than modern viruses are.
Except that it runs counter to the rules that enforce record deletion.

Right now the path companies need to tread on is already razor thin: Companies are already feeling the heat from both sides.

Customers already sue because right after account deletion their personal data still exists in backups and database tombstones — while on the other hand, others sue for not being able to resurrect accounts with years of data after their accounts got hacked.

There are no winners here. Long term archival as a lesser concern is one of the major losers in this confict.
Apart from fighting political dissidents, tracking is used for targeted ads, i.e., to force you to buy staff you don't need. Many people are not fine with psycological manipulation.
I work in an organization where the developers pretty much run the show, it sounds like heaven but we bump into churn situations like this all the time.

The thing the author doesn't really realize in this article is that building consensus and making sure everyone agrees with the priority of the project is part of the job.

It kinda sounds like he had pet project that others disliked so they tried to kill it by claiming the "dashboard team" was handling it. Then he attempted to vicariously micromanage the project from another team.
All costs are always ”sunk”. The fallacy is to think that just because you’ve spent a lot of money, time, or effort, that that in itself warrants that you continue.

In your athlete example, as long as she makes her decision based on risk and reward in the future, then that has nothing to do with sunk costs. If however she thought that her outlook as an athlete was bleak, but figured ”I’ve already dedicated seven years to this, might as well continue” - that would be the sunk cost fallacy.
Polaroid and Fuji discontinued their large and medium format instant films, but a new shop, One Instant, is producing some Type 100, at ten euros an exposure.[0]

There was a shop producing some large format peel apart, New55, but production wasn't economical (even at something like $17/shot retail) so they shut down.[1]

[0]https://the.supersense.com/collections/packfilm

[1]https://new55project.blogspot.com/
“People who don’t know the truth are dumb. But people who know the truth and lie about it are criminals. “

Berthold Brecht
Yes. You may also find that `ls` is slower than `ls|cat`, because the latter needs to call `stat` for every directory entry to colorize it.
>only selfish personal financial interest should be taken into account

Sorry, that's just wrong. Firstly, the central scientific question is one of description and not prescription. It's not what should be taken into account but what actually is. Secondly, that which is taken into account is not "selfish personal financial interest" but preference. Would you seriously try and deny that you have preferences and choose your actions in accordance with those preferences? Well, neither can anyone else.
It’s easy to understand how a student at this level would approach it and give an answer.

Everybody’s problem here, mine included, is that this is a toxic way to teach math. One which has no use in math, which does not teach how to properly approach a problem and which in fact teaches and artificially rewards a bad approach: “just try it! It’ll work because all problems, even ridiculously difficult ones, are artificially customised to be easy for you to solve!”.

It’s bad. It’s awful. It’s not good. It’s everything math education shouldn’t be: boring, artificial, useless, constrained and a lie.

I don’t want children to solve this problem. I want children who can like math, to like and learn math. This is one of many drops in the jar of bullshit that will eventually overflow and turn them off.
I think that clickable text on the login screen is what people are talking about. I'm in NZ and for a brief time they were ads in the fullest sense.

I don't know if MS changed its mind, or if there is no market in NZ for those adds, but now they link through to MS web sites. So sort of ads for MS properties.

But it does fuck me right off. Get FUCKING ADS out of my OS.
They need a project management system.
This book has a lot about parenting, including how to get your kids to go to bed:

https://www.amazon.com/Bringing-Up-B%C3%A9b%C3%A9-Discovers-...
I hoped it was about Ian Dury and the Blockheads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EMR9DXU_NQ
I was wondering what the motivation behind this would be, and I guess this would make sense.
Working on trying trying to extract the most benefit from my suicide while reducing the risk of of damage. Right now there's two issues:

* I'd like to donate my kidneys, liver, and lungs as a living donor. However I've heard that there may be a psychological screening component for being a living donor which may detect that I'm planing on killing myself and trigger intervention. Is there a way around it? It's not critical for success but it would be nice to give back to someone else a chance at life, but I'm not sure if it's doable.

* I want to minimize the possibility of being discovered and identified after death. I've selected a heavily wooded site that's time consuming to access on foot and selected timing to be early autumn some years from now once I've acclimated my acquaintances to my absence. The concern however comes from the fact that I have a security clearance and my fingerprints are in the system. I'm trying to figure out if it's a real concern that my body is discovered with fingers intact, and what needs to be done to mitigate it. Or if seclusion, exposure, and scavengers are enough to cover that possibility and it's not a real concern.
If I am not mistaken those can be turned off on miui at least the ones embedded in the system apps.
> If you re going to be paranoid, because you attack children or sell drugs, why the hell do you buy phones in the first place !?

Because innocent people can be persecuted too. Just ask many of the ethnic groups across the globe, or other abuse victims.

Privacy protects innocent people from criminals, more than it protects criminals from the good guys.
Can you please stop spamming the site with these archive links? Thanks.
I disagree. Such tooling would probably be annoying for pro users and beginners alike.

The reasoning involved is deeper than what an automatic tool can accomplish. It requires knowledge of computers (disk access speed) and of the input (mostly not unicode). We can imagine inputs for which this optimization does not work and also architectures where it will be less effective. This is the kind of reasoning experienced humans are (still) better than machines.
Maybe worth sending a Request For Package[1] in Debian? (that process involves sending an email, or running 'reportbug' at the command-line if you have it installed). Most of the install steps would be rolled into the dependency list by the maintainer, I imagine (and many of them look like they're only required at compile-time).

No guarantees on when it might appear as a package, of course, but it doesn't take long to ask (and hopefully not too long to implement, either).

[1] - https://wiki.debian.org/RFP
getdents() on Linux (since 2.6.4) includes a file type (block/character device, directory, pipe, symlink, file, unix domain socket) in the dirent structure directly, so that shouldn't be necessary - certainly ls on my machine just calls getdents() and still produces the type indication.

(also "-f" turns off the colors and type indication in any case, making it a more portable way of ensuring you get fast output even on systems which doesn't embed the type in getdents() results)
Most of the biggest mind and perspective altering events I have experienced have had nothing to do with money or free time.

Going through such events as partner's cancer treatment, triumphs such as full remission, and the death of a loved one have had more impact on my values and perspective of time then would ever happen with bank accounts bursting at the seams.

Growing older, with continued exposure over time to new ideas and perspectives from people from all walks of life from over the world has also had a big effect.

These experiences are not bought with money.
https://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/05rat/...

Interesting history of how there was supposed to be a difference, but the idea was dropped and then later revived by SPARK.
Welcome to 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy and Life Has Never Been Better
No worries, thank you :)
> non-profit ISP (...) cannot be open i.e. without oversight

That's also the case here. In France you need to declare your ISP activity to the telecoms regulator and follow some regulations. In Germany too there are regulations, but Freifunk as an activist collective ignored them in order to protect their users' privacy, and went up to the supreme court and won their right to operate a privacy-friendly ISP.

> jmp looks great, Google Voice has been shutdown in India can I use jmp as a replacement?

JMP is great from what i heard. It may not be as featureful as Google Voice yet, but there's active development and the user support (i hang out in their channel despite not being a client) is the best i've seen across the entire telecoms industry, and by far. The maintainers are very happy to work on new features and open to suggestions, but due to being a very small organization they're prioritizing obviously new features requests on a "who would pay for that?" basis.
Another game in this genre, but 2D is Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime.
Why reasonable? The guy was stopped just because being black
Maybe we could borrow from our distant (or not so distant) ancestors, where an event might have happened on the other side of this planet, but due to the speed limitations of ships sailing the ocean, this information had not yet arrived at the observer.
The article is literally trash.

Other people have mentioned the poor concert ticket example.

But the Concorde example is equally bad.

The Concorde project started as an exploration between Boeing and European partners. Boeing didn't believe in any of the assumptions, including primacy of hub and spoke, so pulled out.

The British did later threaten to pull out of the project over costs, but the French threatened everything short of war. So the British continued for reasons of diplomacy. There was the additional benefit of European technology development, likely resulting in Airbus.

How bad was the Concorde project? The British and French not only had separate management and test teams, but also separate assembly lines.

The British test pilot said the two teams barely talked to each other, with the French being rigid and standoffish.

https://www.airbus.com/newsroom/stories/concorde-day.html
They were swindlers, raking in hundreds in cash using scientific knowledge that was indistinguishable from magic to lesser educated minds.
The author forgot to add the "duckie" item in the list.
Link of 'Things you should never do' article for reference:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
Astra rocket suffers anomaly during orbital launch attempt
https://twitter.com/Astra?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5E...
Obscurity shouldn't be the only form of security. These systems are very insecure, and the fact that they are trying to rely on obscurity is pathetic.
The code should be open source and auditable. I specifically mean,Publically viewable, not open source licensed. They can keep ownership, but I think the only way moving forward with Digital election systems is open spec, and viewable code, so we the people can ensure there is no manipulation. Anyone that tries to prevent such a thing is likely trying to manipulate it, or cover for those who are.
> Because I might as well use classical symmetric keying and not worry about PQ.

In that case the attacker could potentially compromise your security with an analysis breakthrough on the symmetric cipher, and a passive (e.g. bend the fiber a bit and see the light that comes out the side) attack.

The QCD requires an active attack, you have to actually insert active equipment into the line, not just peel off some stray photons.

So assume you're already using multiple layers of independently keyed state of the art cryptography, and still have money left over in your link security budget...

How much is it worth to you to make it so that attackers have to insert equipment vs just siphon off a bit of extra light with a tiny bend in the fiber (assuming they have space alien grade mathematical breakthroughs)?

It's probably worth more than nothing.

Now, I would agree that any who is promoting this stuff with claims greater than "probably worth slightly more than nothing" is misleading people.

And as an area of pure research it gives us a lot of room to learn about practical realizations of quantum-sensitive systems, optics, photonics, electronics, etc. There is plenty of research with no known practical application at all. Having a really minor application isn't a great sin.
author here: Xiaomi make Google and Facebook look restrained, it's true.

That said, I basically declared data bankruptcy a while ago, and I'm literally one of the people who should know better (Open Rights Group founding member, etc).

This phone is relatively new, and the open-source Android replacements are typically multiple models behind. So basically someone who can has to step up.
If the date is server side script you cant tell if its automatic or not.
I take her articles as wakeup calls. She points out ridiculous behavior patterns in companies by telling stories from her hands on ops perspective.

As a industry we talk a lot about agility but stories like that are more the norm than the exception. It is good to see an outside perspective on what is expected. Typical customers swallow our behaviors due to the lack of understanding but an IT ops like her just knows what is possible.
good policing is impossible to achieve?
Dior too has extensive archives

https://youtu.be/bwaPA9Hxo7A
The colored and animated logging parts are from pwntools (https://docs.pwntools.com/en/stable/).
> The last point was also in retrospect not sot good for the language ecosystem: buyers wanted a 100% on this test suite before considering your Ada compiler, which means dev had hundreds of compiler bugs to fix and no paying customers.

You mean, they couldn't sell a half-finished product while claiming "100% conformity"? Awesome.
Boring Languages Are Underrated (2015)
A better approach: keep only plants that are safe for the cat to eat. Cats need to eat grass or other plants, they do that to stimulate regurgitation of their own hair they unwillingly eat when they clean themselves, and that if not expelled could clog their digestive system.

Image recognition could be used to open a cat flap door when the right cat arrives, and a timer could keep it closed for a while after the cat went out to eat some grass. It usually takes a few minutes to the cat from eating grass to regurgitating it, so it's just a matter of keeping it out for a while.
> [...] "please do this" and when naturally things takes too long to look reasonable complaining on the internet.

This is a story about broken parts of a large company and how something got done in spite of it, there are lots of these on HN.. They are cathartic for the author and readers who experience similar scenarios. Perhaps you were expecting some sort of moral to the story but some things are just broken and you have to do it yourself, still I'm not sure why you are picking on this author in particular.

> stuff that the author could have done differently [...] pass by its office, offer its a coffee and communicate clearly why the things is important and how important it is and what is the goal of the project [...] These kind of human work and relationships building is fundamental.

This cuts both ways - and I believe the recipient of a task (as the recipient of many) has a greater responsibility in understanding the requirements and keeping dialogue open when they do not understand something. But this is not the problem here, in this story the person tasked and the person originating the task are too far removed from each other due to corporate layers.
Actually "Correct Thought" is a Gene Wolfe reference =>

> Although Ascian is their mother tongue, adult Ascians don't understand plain Ascian sentences, unless they are direct quotations from governmental propaganda materials (called Correct Thought). So, in order to communicate, an Ascian has to know by heart thousands of these quotations (sentences) on many different topics.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascian_language
The other common thing is to label it "test equipment".
you are a military genius