skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In yesterday thread there were comment if I remember right that included more details. The squatters in question has already been sentenced and given suspended sentences. The request to ProtonMail was about other members of the same group that is suspected of home invasion and theft.

If that qualify as serious crime is still up to debate and it could just be a excuse to go after the organizers. I do however find the case a bit more nuanced after reading those details.
Some of mine:

- Baking: needed some way to still create things that can be immediately enjoyed. I like how most of it is just following a process and learning to gauge the outcome by senses. I also like that you need to practice to fit the recipe to your environment and tools.

- Calorie counting: weird hobby, but it helps me discover which foods give the best bang for my buck. Also helps sharpen my estimation skills, which I know we all need to be better at.

- Summarizing books and articles: I recently got into reading again and now thouroughly enjoy it more because I create something out of it: notes and sharable content.

- Mentorship: more ad hoc these days, but I enjoy helping juniors with their problems.
Do you sources for the 1 million writes(erase) on MLC NAND?

I work with enterprise SSDs and that number is well above anything I've seen or heard, even from the manufacturers.
The word epicentre has the obvious connotation of being the central point of some kind of quake, the point from which all waves originate.

The word centre does not.
FTC orders SpyFone to delete all of its surveillance data
> First, when the network space is growing exponentially, the value of preexisting work is decaying exponentially. I do grant you that completed work is nonzero in value, but during a growth phase its value might as well be zero. Whenever speculators believe the currency will actually have any long term value above its current exchange rate minus the resource costs, then it will be in a growth phase. The total resource consumption during this growth phase, including the supply chains to produce space, need to be studied. Measured in transactions per unit of CO2 emissions, I expect its efficiency to be better only during a phase of stable network space, i.e. when its value is not speculated to be higher than its current value.

To be fair you'd also have to measure and compare Chia's growth phase to Bitcoin's (or other PoW chains) growth phase as well. This would mean taking into account the manufacturing of the equipment, distribution and deployment costs of ASIC miners, electrical power generation costs, etc. Also, Chia runs on general computing hardware whereas ASICs have to be specifically designed and manufactured and ASICs use a whole lot more electricity than servers with hard drives running Chia. I think a single Ant miner uses something like 32 kWh a day IIRC. Chia has done a lot of power consumption analysis already and you can dive deep on that information yourself over at https://chiapower.org/ if you're curious. There's a dramatic difference between Bitcoin's PoW network and Chia's PoST network.
That's still going to lose the long tail
Comcast RF Attack Leveraged Remotes for Surveillance
The Unraveling of the Real 3D Mandelbulb (2009)
Not OP, but yes I think everyone should act against their own interests (when they are selfish) and instead act for the good of everyone
My workplace offers an optional schedule of one day off every two weeks.

I thought that sounded great, even though the hours have to add up to the same amount as if working all ten days.

But it turns out that they are rigidly inflexible in that you are not allowed to choose a minimum variance schedule.

You have to "bank" extra hours on the first week and "spend" them on the other. And that means you have excessively long days on the first.
Amazon Web Services makes money: Estimated margins by service
I don’t give a definition. The students know real numbers are the “decimal numbers”. They don’t need to know a definition at this point and giving one more precise than “decimal numbers” will just confuse them. They gain familiarity by practice in the same way a Fahrenheit person like myself can only get intuition with Celsius temperatures is by using them.
> Everything feels as if it was randomly defined by the teacher.

I suppose you prefer things randomly defined by Euclid? Just kidding... kinda. Seriously though, randomly defining things and then working through the consequences of that definition is a totally valid way to do math. Those random definitions are called postulates.
Mom 'furious' after teacher taped masks to multiple 4th-grade students' faces
You mean this headline?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/17/tennessee-l...

Yes, it happens. It's the nature of an employer / employee relationship; being a BLM activist isn't a protected class, and in only a few states does he have any legal recourse (in California, there's a law against firing a person for political affiliation). We definitely have a system where political activism is something those who have plenty to defend themselves or nothing to lose are best suited to engage in. I wouldn't have recommended to him he do this if he couldn't afford to lose his job.

I think you may have lost the thread though... I was talking about false accusations. Defamation would not help in a case like this one, as truth is always an affirmative defense.

The other point you raise (crowdsourced harassment) is trickier. IIUC, you could sue someone with deep pockets for that... "I heard what I was saying from someone else" is not a defamation defense. But a lot of the mob is bankrupt judgement-proof types.
Or you can certainly be 5% of a millionaire by saving $50,000.
Which is a thing that shouldn't be possible.
Most drives these days are TLC and and consumers are more likely on QLC. I havent even seen an MLC drive for a while now.
Yeah, I used to think that, but compilers are already allowed to do whatever they want in non-standard modes. Defining the result wouldn’t prevent implementing fwrapv or trapv. (Also note that neither of these applies to float-int conversions, so let’s not pretend that either helps here).
> The abandonment of established interfaces happens on FOSS platforms equally as frequent without any obvious purpose.

My laptop literally has CDE installed on it, using motif, indistinguishable from how it looked and acted decades ago. GTK is not the world.
It's not really worth using your free space.

I currently have 4TB of free space. I could plot them which would result in an estimated $7.57/month of income per month.

But.... that's not a constant $7.57 each month. Instead, it's a 1.5% chance of winning a single payout of 2 XCH each month. I could reasonably expect to go five years, never winning a single XCH.

Who knows what the value of XCH will be then. There has been a pretty solid downward trend in price since May, contrary to most coins, which started trending up again.
I don’t think SSDs drop in performance after substantial proof.

Linus tech tips YouTube channel has done a few articles on vendors quietly switching components to lower performing parts recently, it’s worth googling around to see if others with the same make/model are reporting vastly different performance from official benchmarks
Synthetic Bacteria Can Produce Muscle Fibers Stronger Than Kevlar
21st-century storms are overwhelming 20th-century cities
It was innovative 13 years ago, but never really caught on.

Kiln was also a great product and allowed for using both Git and Mercurial. It was way better than anything else at the time, but lost out to Github.

I always liked Spolsky's Evidence Based Scheduling that was built into the products.

https://fogbugz.com/evidence-based-scheduling/
Better title would be, Dogs Fall Prey To Free Will Myth Too.
Everyone on the planet is using IPv4 and the internet, yet the understanding ends at 'what is a LAN and what is a port' for a shocking portion of developers. Not knowing about federation[0] doesn't seem so bad.

[0] Most likely this is referencing the term and the structural pattern; as you correctly pointed out, the concept is quite widespread.
Vine was funny (really funny) but Tiktok shows you what you want to see, and that’s more powerful. It’s very effective and scarily addictive in a way Vine wasn’t.
> For the past year, a group of people have taken over a handful of commercial premises and apartments near Place Sainte Marthe in Paris. They want to fight against gentrification, real estate speculation, Airbnb and high-end restaurants. While it started as a local conflict, it quickly became a symbolic campaign. They attracted newspaper headlines when they started occupying premises rented by Le Petit Cambodge — a restaurant that was targeted by the November 13th, 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/06/protonmail-logged-ip-addre...

Still strange, how could they anonymously occupy the places, if they were physically present there.
Rumble (actual) is also being pushed as a censorship resistant service. So it’s either a big mistake, or trying hijack SEO or something, IDK.
Millions? They spent a lot more than 10s of millions on advertising. They spent roughly a billion on advertising and probably are one of the most advertised products ever in spending. https://www.wsj.com/articles/tiktoks-videos-are-goofy-its-st...
Correct. I overgeneralized; the coastal western states might be able to continue some farming. Assuming cities like LA don't continue to appropriate more and more water that fell to the ground hundreds of miles away.
A Better Parallelization Pattern for Babuk Ransomware
Don't forget "continuous" and "line". :)
Exercise helps, especially high intensity activities. Lowers both your stress levels and makes you more resilient when stress comes along. There's a reason why many driven individuals are also athletes.

Too bad that group sports aren't allowed yet, that also helps manage stress by increasing one's experience in handling situations with other people. Sportsmanship and all that.
Cool stuff. A 3D cake printer is now required to make these a reality!
Meanwhile in Windows land: You can run 20 years old drivers, no problems. Hardware is a commodity.

I can see why Android was so popular with OEMs!
I think by the definition given at the beginning of the thread irrational numbers are numbers that can’t be expressed as a ratio of two natural numbers. i is irrational by that definition, but not a real.

But I must admit I haven’t read the whole post.
> TDD is an implicit repudiation of Agile.

TDD was developed in the 1990; Agile was articulated in 2001. Were they actually opposed, “Agile is a repudiation of TDD” would be more defensible. But your basic premise is wrong...

> Agile places software and documentation at opposition

No, the “X over Y” statements in the Manifesto aren't about opposition, they are about subordination. ”over” can be substituted with “should shape the use of” rather than “should exist instead of”
Computers have long since surpassed human intelligence - there's no way I could perform as many FLOPS in my head as even a really old computer!
> it is illegal to report illicit source

I was under the impression that it was required to report all income, including criminal income.
yeah i am a p-hacker who can do any kind of statistics so long as it is nonparametric statistics because i only know the binomial distribution
Realistically none of the commonly used systems languages have a mechanism to recover from memory exhaustion. Some pretend to, but if you actually try to use them, yeeeeech

The big missing features (from my perspective) are fixed-size arrays, placement allocation, and the ability to guarantee that no allocations or refcount operations occur in a marked critical section. There’s a lot of other stuff I would like to have, but those are the things I can’t live without.
Given that Boomers are called such due to the baby boom that occurred from WW2 vets coming home, most literal boomers are 75 or so.

Calling anyone in the following 18-20 years part of the one-year boom has always felt contrived, though I’m clearly swimming against the tide here.

As someone on the tail end of a “generation”, its odd being lumped together with people who could easily be my parents - with people who weren’t exposed to computers until over a decade into their professional careers.
Something that's hardly ever discussed is reliability; having less parts and fewer points of failures typically means that devices can last longer.
Really goes to show that Rolling Stone is better than Fox News. Much of what Fox News peddles is opinion which their viewers mistake as news.
Thomas Midgley?
this header field is always 4 bytes, no need to parse length
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28420797 can be useful.
If you own the hardware, why shouldn't you be able to control what data it stores?
Dietary lead in the form of sweeteners for wine plus a little abraded from cups and pitchers has been present since antiquity, so could still stand?
Chadwick Boseman fought to reestablish a fine arts dept. It's named after him
It's good to see a passion project that is blatantly being done just for the fun of it and sharing with 0 concern what a corporation might think.
> I'd trust Wikimedia's privacy policy a hell of a lot more than I'd trust TikTok's

Yes, of course. I wasn't clear, but I was referring to going through a search engine, not going directly to Wikipedia.

> Presumably, the TikTok version makes up for this by having a better dance routine.

I'm afraid you've completely misunderstood what this subthread is about. The _quality_ of medical information and the privacy concerns involved in finding it (whether through Google or via tiktok's algorithm) are completely different topics. To be honest, I can't imagine how anyone could read these comments and come away thinking any comparison was being made (let alone equivalence being drawn) between quality vs privacy concerns.
He went to The Georgia Institute of Technology actually. Nick was a legend in the College of Computing even as an undergrad.

While I do not know, I concur with it likely being his dad who is the University of Alabama alumnus
> I'll have to deal with one of the junior devs bringing up Linus Torvalds' comment as the starting point for a suggestion we leave GitHub

If he can roll out a kernel and distributed version control system, listen to him. Otherwise, it's time to have the talk about cargo culting.
Banning Airbnb considered as housing crisis bites in coastal towns
> don’t offer strong data security protections such as end-to-end encryption

Imagine being so naive as to think that documentation would be improved by e2e encryption. It's not bad enough convincing developers to write things down, now we need to explicitly share those things with every new person who joins the team?

"Sorry, we can't fix your bug for 6 weeks, Bob's on paternity and the fix is documented on his page".

> MAJOR difference between Chrome getting owned, and the program that hosts all of a company’s internal communications

There's at best 0 difference between these things. Pop chrome, harvest tokens, access Jira. Think about that for a second. What critical company information is not accessible to someone who has arbitrary code execution in your browser.
A first-person perspective avoids some of the issues discussed in the video, like camera placement. I imagine it's also easier to animate if you only need to worry about the player's hand and lower arm.
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> The biggest emission reduction is when a person switches from using an ICE car to a EV car.

Not at all. The biggest emission reduction is when a person doesn't buy a new car at all. The greenest car is always the car that won't be made, regardless of propulsion system.

A Tesla Model 3 is actually a more polluting vehicle than a Toyota Corolla up until the breakeven point of 21,000 KM (and change). [1] And that's assuming a US energy grid.

If that same Tesla Model 3 is being driven in say, China, the Toyota Corolla is greener than the Model 3 until the 125,000 KM mark because the energy grid powering that Tesla is so absurdly dirty that just straight up burning fuel in an ICE is better basically for all its life.

What we really need to move away from is the "well if everyone just gets a Tesla, the ice caps will un-melt". That's a great Musk-enrichment plan, but still awful for the environment. The energy grids powering the EVs are not going to go green anywhere near as fast as if we focused our efforts on mass transit and better urban planning.

The issue with the battery chemistries is just a cherry on the fake-green sundae. You are correct in that those batteries may reduce emissions, but the trade off is increased weight (so you're just really shifting emissions around throughout the lifecycle) and a crushing loss in efficiency in cold weather climates. There is a reason why these are coming up during a time of scarcity. You don't switch back to battery technology from decades ago due to progress, you switch because key materials are not scarce and make it impossible for you to keep up the production necessary to prop your stock price.

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[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/when-d...
Reduced? Alcohol consumption is down (depending on how you view the stats), but drugs are winning the War on Drugs. Everyone else is losing. Legally, oxycontin is more highly regulated today, but the opoid epidemic is, well, an epidemic. Cannabis is legal for recreational use in many states. I willing to buy that something that's widely available in today's society has lead to less war (Internet porn, perhaps?), but I'd be surprised to hear in what ways drug use is down.
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My kids have their school attendance recorded in a government database every day. Some people aren't thinking very rationally.

Using social media and the Internet in general give up far more information and for very little in return. The direction the Internet and the businesses on it have taken is a massive disappointment after the naive utopian view I had of the potential in the early days. Apart from the terrible misuse and collection of private data it is a troubling source of misinformation and negativity.

I am not keen on governments fighting a war on encryption so they can spy on entire populations at will instead of policing at the edges. But to be clear that is something I feel is forced on our government by foreign powers (US & UK) which I thoroughly reject.

But recording where I had lunch in the midst of a pandemic to help keep local businesses running and my local hospital staff coping is fine by me. I live in this community and not some foreign land. Nobody is going to persecute me for where I shop or eat lunch. My kids are in school and my community is healthy and people are able to earn a living. That is what matters to me.
There's a ton of open source projects with names that are common words.
> It complains when it hits 10% and I plug it

10%? Wow, you're lucky - mine consistently only lets me know when it's down to 1%, and only once I need to use it, like now.

For all its $billions spent on their other stuff, you'd think they could hire someone to figure out a better mechanism to let the user know when they should charge their device. As someone once (sarcastically) posted on the MacInTouch (RIP) forums (I'll paraphrase):

"It so unfortunate that Apple can't come up with anything that would analyze the user's use of the device, and predict when it should be charged based on that usage... some learning computer of some kind...."
How would you rate the stop-frame Alice movie from the 80s? Did it age well?
Show HN: Neopub – E2E-encrypted social network (open-source and self-hosted)
I bought one of these, an Indigo, for $100 two weeks ago at the Vintage Computer Festival Southeast. They apparently came with 10GB hard drives but this one had a 20GB in it, big enough with an external firewire drive.
It came with OSX 10.2 on it, and can run 10.3 as is, but I put OS 9 on it so I can play classic games on a laptop and just generally use OS 9, I never really used it before.
One of my worst experiences was ordering direct from a little vendor (not HDD) to avoid Amazon scams.

The vendor added a markup to Amazon prices, and fulfilled with Amazon. I'm pretty sure I got a fake, ordering direct from the manufacturer.

I'll withhold names, so as not to embarrass anyone.
The differences is that databases in datacenters tend to run on write-optimized datacenter-grade SSDs while many Chia farmers buy consumer-grade SSDs, run them until they die, then maybe try to resell them.
Oh, yeah...one last thing, before I go...

I'm a unique talent. I'm not God's gift to Programming, but I have a very different kind of backstory from most that you find. I had a hard road, and the uneven terrain that I traveled, has a lot to do with how I became as good as I am. When no one gives you breaks, you are forced to make your own, prove yourself, at every step, and accomplishment becomes habitual. You learn not to overpromise, figure out how to learn new stuff, and check your own homework.

Many of the team I led, had similar eclectic backgrounds. They were all senior-level C++ algorithm developers, with decades of experience. Most were smarter and better than I am.

We all would have been immediately rejected, in barbarous fashion, from today's hiring process.

As it turns out, they have all gone on to do very well, and that makes me happy. I am glad to have been a part of their career. Working with them was a signal honor. They are making their new employers quite happy, indeed, but it took each of them over two years (in a couple of cases, well over two years), to really land, which is quite telling.

In my first three jobs, I never worked with one single engineer that had actually had real software training. I worked with astrophysicists, mathematicians, MBAs, chemists, designers, economists, teachers, electrical engineers, and even other high school dropouts, like me. Even my last, long-term job, was mostly with EEs and physicists, but all the Japanese folks had serious sheepskins. It was a fairly marquée corporation.
Fox News doesn’t even consider themselves news
Usenet used to be like this for me. With high cost dialup, I'd download batches of posts, read them and respond offline, uploading my responses at the same time I download the following day's batch.
A big item is making sure your filesystem partition is aligned properly. For example, by default the first partition begins on sector 63, which causes logical 4K blocks to straddle two different write blocks on the drive (causing both blocks to be read and re-written). Simple thing is to make sure the partition begins on sector 2048 (since it can begin on sector 0 due to the need to reserve the boot sectors).
fine, very fine, a new/better fb-terminal is a good thing;

still i wonder if this thing couldn't embed itself into a bash-process and serve tui frames with a scriptable curses api so that you could, for ex, have some tabs and buttons and graphs on a system status app

it could bring inversion of control to node and any kind repl .. so that instead of away from a term-info and term-cap standard, one would move toward curses as an acessible tui/gui metaphor, or at least toward something that makes sense without constant apologies for the past.

maybe i'm not using the right words, but it seems to me that hacking this up so it can be stuck into bash so that its api appears like any other language extension would make notcurses a highly desirable dependency for just about any project!