skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I watched some of his live streams, saw some cool things but man the things he would say
It's imageboard/IRC slang, you won't find any documentation on it because it's an intentionally obfuscated/dogwhistle phrase intended to only 'make sense' to other browsers who've stuck around long enough to get spoonfed.
Mentioning it just because I didn't see it addressed in the article: AC compressors & fans can be a significant current draw. If you want to replicate this project, it's probably worth checking the amperage ratings for whatever smart plug you use. Something intended to switch lights or a room fan may not be up for the task of repeatedly starting a compressor. Even if the AC unit only draws 15 amps (an so is fine to plug into a wall), inrush current could be an issue for an traic or SSR-based smart plug.
> anyone been of the impression that keystrokes in an address bar are not public

They shouldn't be. Logs containing URLs are commonly considered private information, and while it's a bad practice to put passwords, etc. in the URLs, people still do it, and even more often things like tokens, keys, object IDs etc. are part of the URLs. Disclosing this to a third party is essentially a MITM attack, and even though we're talking only about user input, this still includes stuff like URLs copies from emails, terminals, documentation files, etc. - and those may contain very un-public thing. Simplest example - do you consider the password reset URL many sites send to be public or private? Of course, not many people would type it - but people would copy-paste it and then maybe type something else - and who can guarantee the whole URL isn't then sent to an untrusted party?
Try lobste.rs ( https://lobste.rs ) if you want "real" hacker news.

They punish non-technical submissions.
Ordering parts out of a catalog and assembling them per instructions is what a mechanic does. An engineer designs the parts and writes the instructions.

Some things you can't do without math: curve fitting, statistics, implementing Shazam, 3D graphics, write a game engine, do data flow analysis, implement a neural net, non-trivial use of floating point, write a lunar lander game, etc.
This is the type of high quality tinfoil hattery I've missed.

Wake up sheeple the lizzards are here!
> If anything it's a dying business model.

For values of dying that include an unserved market of about 2 billion people in Africa and Asia.
Big shoutout to the ScummVM team for keeping these games alive and well on modern hardware.

But did you know they also often times will additionally fix existing bugs in these games. Bugs that are now decades old!

These classic titles are now even better to play than when they originally came out.
As in the case of Keccak and SHA3, it doesn't necessarily have to be the designer, it can also be the reviewing committee.
Great, let's send all death-row prisoners to France.

This reminds me of all the far-right, Christian, pro-lifers: if they want to eliminate abortions, they should raise all the unwanted kids.
The Internet feels empty and devoid of people. It is also devoid of content. Compared to the Internet of say 2007 (and beyond) the Internet of today is entirely sterile.

I post to daily play by play post Pathfinder game on paizo.com. I'm pretty sure my players are real. If not, AI is already way what's bee advertised.

I interact regularly with people FB, before Covid, I hosted stuff on meetup.com and I'll be back doing that soon. All of my various, current circles of friends were met using some Internet elements (whether FB or seeing a local ad, etc).

In 2007, the Internet was an edgy hobby for me, now it's just the medium. It seems like the poster is upset that "ordinary" people do ordinary things on the Internet.
@VMtest, Personally I think these discussions are interesting as a small part of learning and reading about hiring and recruiting.

@baobabKoodaa

> if you assume people never change their opinions as the result of arguments, then I suppose people gain nothing by arguing

One thing: they can slightly learn how others can react to what they say, and thereafter, in real life, better know what to say, or not.
It can be, but when you're a company like Microsoft you've poisoned the well with anyone who cares about these things. I have no confidence whatsoever that MS has purely good, product-improving/research-based intentions with VSCode telemetry.

As for this change, I've seen it myself, and I think it's just poor design, nothing evil. They are just refactoring telemetry control and fucked up with porting over existing preferences because it's not a 1:1 thing.
This post takes an initially plausible premise (e.g. "much of the internet is manipulated by big corporations") and uses it to springboard into batshit conspiracy theory territory (e.g. "many well-known celebrities actually don't exist and are computer-generated").

Combine that with the repeated insistence on people not existing on the Internet and it really gives me the feeling that the writer is trying to apply a Capgras delusion[1] to the entire Internet.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capgras_delusion
It's not knee-jerk. This is the same company putting ads in the start menu and trying to force Windows users to log in to microsoft.com on boot. And I guarantee you, the PMs who pushed for those 'features' genuinely believed they were improving my user experience too.
A bit late but I use this which is a wrapper over JDBC: https://github.com/JetBrains/Exposed
> a goofup with IT and instead of shipping a Mac this coworker ended up with a Windows machine

That kinda implies this isn't a small shop, so "breaking" a windows machine IT provisioned to put Linux onto it might be out of the question, both in terms of requisition, access to the UEFI, or even network configuration.

Or said coworker is more familiar with Mac/Windows than <Insert Linux Distro and particular window manager here>, so this is best of a bad situation.
You run just native Linux games, and the times they aren't available, you run them using the Proton compatibility layer (built right into Steam). There is also Lutris for Windows games not available on Steam.
ProleText
French speaker too, I had no issues.
seems more like unix based fanfiction/retro-appreciation for early 90s era desqview.

as such, the author is likely over 40.

terminal based tiling window managers have been around for decades, the most popular ones are gnu screen and tmux.
Yes, I find it a far superior dev setup than a standard corporate Mac. Everything about Windows is inferior to macOS, but I spend 90% of my time in a shell, and having my familiar Arch setup and tools vs crumbling macOS Unix is well worth the trade-off of minor annoyances like terrible start menu and file explorer. Windows Terminal is actually pretty okay.
The Neurologist Who Diagnoses Psychosomatics
They do it for non-premium accounts. Premium members can use it outside their country.
You're clearly not a 10x engineer.
So it’s a flowchart wall? As the earlier user shared, I can’t seem to get the wall to do anything either. Sticky notes can’t be dragged and the text on the site gets cut off at the site’s edges. I’m on iphone.
Yeah, that is right.

But is tangential to be relational. You can have relational data in a causal way. Now, i see that some think "relations" are PK/FKs and that only GLOBAL coherence is the only way to make relations to work.

If we can take a JSON and make it valid and correct only in this replica in this moment of time, relational data can too.
Using the term 'dogwhistle' seems like a divisive way to discount what I said. Do you care to articulate yourself in a way that addresses the actual substance of what I said, or is this it?
The Wisdom of Plants and the Future of Fashion
So New Mexico is not part of the West?

There's a definition based on climate that's used widely https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2018/04/11/the-100th-merid...
With premium it'd probably be worse, because signing up you'd surely sign an agreement that somewhere on page 37 says "we can track you any way we like, and do anything we like with the data" and you couldn't claim you didn't know - you made an explicit action to sign up and even paid money for it, surely you knew what you're doing!
It'd be interesting to see if edge on Linux tries special tricks to force itself on the user, though they'd definitely have less sucess with that.
Maybe it'll rewrite my bash profile and desktop entries
> I guess I don't really see the moral angle here, in one direction or the other. Why shouldn't an entity try to impose its understanding of law and ethics where it can afford to?

You’ll have a hell of a good time exercising this conviction when China starts doing the same.

They’re already doing it to immediate neighbouring countries and have started doing so in the US through basic means of capitalistic influence.

I mean. They think they’re right. Why shouldn’t they? Who cares about nations having so called “sovereign” laws? What does your 1st amendment rights mean when China thinks you shouldn’t have it?
> Even if I'm being generous and grant them two private crewed missions per year, that's not exactly a multi-billion dollar business.

Didn't each shuttle cost several billion dollars to refurnish in between launches? There will certainly be a market for this if SpaceX is capable of meeting the demand, especially in the near future as the ISS ages and the international community begins to build and man the next generation of space stations.
The greater valley (valley+bay+SF) is still the best place in the world to start your high-tech startup. The talent, resources, and infrastructure are here. The mentors are here. And the general 'work like hell to produce MVP' ethic is also here. Until other population centers duplicate all of these, the valley will remain The Place for Tech Innovation.
I'm being old here I know - but instagram is surely the nadir of social media.

Big brother facebook, cousin whatsapp - and even twitter, snapchat and tiktok on the other side of the tracks can actually say that they can fulfill a useful purpose.

Instagram just seems to go out of their way to ensure nothing of any importance can be transmitted on the platform. Crappy little pictures with some token text, just enough to plug the sponsor.

I think my point was I just don't see how it's healthy to anyone.
If a magic wand was waved and instragram vanished - I can't even imagine a downside.
> The question is: what is harder to use in a program?

In your imagination, maybe, but otherwise, no, it's not. The claim being prosecuted is that "Everything XML wanted to be, JSON did better." (It would be bad enough to lose sight of this once, but I explicitly repeated it for your benefit in the comment that you you are directly replying to. This iteration makes #3.)
Betteridge's law of headlines does seem to apply strongly here.
That's true, but my blog is not a peer-reviewed publication, it is a personal journal, and as such my policy is not to make substantial changes to posts after they're published. I want my blog to be a reliable representation of who I am (or, in this case, who I was) warts and all. Sometimes I'll post corrections and updates, and maybe I will in this case, but geez, it's a twelve-year-old post and this is the first time anyone has brought this up. This probably isn't be the most egregious uncorrected error I've ever made.
Crucifixion sometimes has the opposite effect.
Interesting perspective, thank you for the thought, but I'm going to go with "nah"
Ask HN: Is it illegal to spoof IP address with curl?
I needed to download some news articles for a personal project (non-commercial; only for learning). The only way I got it to work is by spoofing IP (using curl header) as a web-crawler. I am wondering if this is allowed or should I stop doing that?
HN is HN. It ebbs and flows like the tide. I love HN for what it is, a news feed of interesting articles, with a bias towards technology but not always. I've been introduced to so many things because of the wide range of articles that are fascinating to like-minded people.

> I'd like to see conversations about software, hardware, computer science, and hacker culture resurge and dominate here.

Feel free to upvote the articles that you enjoy. But forcing HN to only be about the above would probably lead to its demise.
You won't often catch covid from stray particles but from the person breathing next to you, which these filters can't help. This study was in a hospital where everyone is wearing serious PPE, so its a super edge case to get rid of covid in the air because the main use case of catching covid has been handle by plain old PPE.

This doesn't have sweeping applicability. It won't stop covid among the general population. Its for maybe hospitals that are on super covid lockdown that want a little more protection for their most vulnerable patients.

We get rid of covid through mass vaccination like any other virus. There's no shortcuts for those who refuse masks and vaccines.
Looks cool! hmm would you invite me? :)
I think some of these aren't North Korean-authored, but international textbooks in unofficial translation. For example, Google matches code samples from "CTBooks1/ANSI_C++.pdf" to this textbook from 1999 (and the front-cover graphic is identical),

https://books.google.com/books/about/Object_oriented_Softwar...

I think the version they're translating is a UK print edition, because the currency unit in the code is "£".

But the series about Red Star OS [0] are very certainly DPRK-authored.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS

The music textbooks are worth noticing (they're very obviously North Korean -- e.g. "Lesson 1. Song of Kim Il-sung"). It's all in Western notation. References both Western and Korean instruments. There's bow markings on the score of "Song of Kim Il-sung", so I infer that violins are at least somewhat common in secondary schools (or why else are they there?)
The orbital physics used is always impressive.

I assume some velocity adjustment is done by the drone to intersect with the asteroids? Or are the orbits that precise?
> At one point, escaping the negativity of it was enough, these days you're plastered with its toxicity even when not being a part it.

Most people I know have Facebook accounts and use sparingly to keep up with friends, family, and hobby groups. For the majority of users, the realities of Facebook are relatively boring. Nothing like the hyper-dramatic portrayal of social media as a "threat to our democracy" or an incurable, society-destroying addiction.

I think traditional media is overplaying their hand by cherry-picking the most problematic Facebook users and trying to tell everyone that those rare edge cases are actually the norm on Facebook. These stories are extremely popular with people who don't use Facebook because they validate their decision in an almost self-congratulatory manner. Everyone likes being told they made the right decision, so reading stories that Facebook is evil is some nice validation for someone who happens to fall into the non-Facebook camp.

Meanwhile, I think the general public is going to tire of these hyper-dramatic Facebook stories. The anti-Facebook news stories are starting to feel like an exaggerated moral panic relative to the boring realities of the average person's Facebook experience.

I am, however, concerned about the second-order effects of this new anti-Facebook culture war. What, exactly, do people expect to come of all of these calls for more regulation of speech on the internet? It's starting to feel like the tech communities are being tricked into rallying behind calls for more government intervention and censorship of speech on the internet, which is not something I would have predicted a decade ago.
They should've put the obstacle course in the dark to confirm. I have a hard time believing that a dog has a perception ability unknown to man. If it appears to be the case, seems worthwhile to do a bit more testing than a backyard obstacle course.
"Glowing" means that it's probably a plot of a government. It's not cryptography-specific.
If you are not Saas , biotech or a tech-platform then revenue growing isn't as of itself a good news.

You need both revenue growing and costs staying flat or just slightly increasing

Only the SaaS, biotech and platforms get a free pass, because the rationale is that once you become the dominant player , drive everybody out of business and kill competitors in the cradle thanks to your strategy aimed at acquiring marketshare...you'd then be able to sweep the market because you'd found yourself in a monopoly or quasi-monopoly regime, thanks to the network effects and a huge first mover advantage.

No matter what Musk says : cars and rockets aren't tech-platforms.

Of course you can bet on his ability to convince people other than yourself that they are, but that is a social engineering bet, on the charisma and the salesman ability of mr. Musk, it's not an enterprise or a business bet.

Nothing wrong with social engineering bets, they are the most profitable ones and you can ride on the way up and all the way down, like Thiel and Robert Mercer did with Trump for example.

It's not like they believed he'd Make America Great Again, they believed he could convince people other than themselves that he'd do so.
I believe most window units instruct you to set them at a slight angle so that condensation can drain out the back without manual intervention. At least mine do.
Building on a Mission: Neutral Buoyancy Facilities for Spacewalk Training
How legal is decompilation? Have we stablished legally accepted ways like in reverse engineering?
> That's why you do not control networks with signals on the network itself.

Other than, you know, the entire Internet (BGP) and pretty much every corporate WAN (OSPF, EIGRP, RIP) and LAN (spanning tree, ARP).

Having an out-of-band control plane is very much the exception. Now OOB emergency access, on the other hand...

edit okay, SS7 is out-of-band, but parent was talking about IP networks.
The holes exist to provide an edge capable of scraping off oxides on the contact, thus providing a (more) reliable low resistance connection.
If we were not meant to distinguish creation from creator, we'd be in a world of trouble. Also, he was quite ill, I'm not sure we can fault him for some of his mannerisms while also admiring his ambition and skill.
Y10K compliance, of course.
Aluminium is the spice of life.
But, really, how much is a planet worth? The moon hasn't been profitable.
I'm currently using Brave to reply to this comment because it was already on my drive. I don't like Brave's philosophy and I don't like its proximity to Google. I'm using it as a stop gap till I find something better.

It's going to take me a few weeks of research to pick my new permanent browser. I want something far-removed from Google, but with an active enough developer community that it doesn't fall apart after an OS update or turn out to have a back-door hidden in the code base.
I did something similar to the TFA but instead of switching the power on and off, I signal it with instructions to cool to the minimum and maximum temperature. (This was easy in my case because it has an infrared remote which I can emulate.) I’m assuming that any logic required to be mechanically sympathetic to the compressor is built into the AC’s own controller.
I once read about an approximation of novel experiences in life. It went something like: in your first year of life, you experience 100% new things, second year 50%, nth year 1/n % new experiences. By this calculation, assuming a life expectancy of about 80, the middle of your life, by experiences, would be around 20.

Sure, the internet is in many ways less diverse than it used to be. But aforementioned effect might also be in play: as we get older, it becomes increasingly harder to have novel experiences. Take note also of the "seen it all"-attitude in the beginning of the post.

It's a nice thought-experiment regardless. It might theoretically be possible for an AI to "live" on the internet and perhaps manipulate us or something. Fun thing is, the west would believe it's the east, and the east would assume it's the west doing it. So in that hostility and non-openess of the "world powers" may be found some shade for another entity to hide.
Progressives are well known to have illicit dealings that are designed for personal profit based on idiotic policies. Follow the money...bet they are lining their pockets with drug money sources...
This blog post from Cloudflare proved incredibly useful to me when I was trying to understand this stuff for the first time. The animated gifs about halfway down the page are particularly useful: https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-relatively-easy-to-understand-...
i never got to play with one as my family had a 16-bit income.

thankfully, there was the $600 atari 520st that you could plug into the tv if you had to.

amigas always seemed like they were mismatched to the market. obscenely expensive for hobbyist or kids' machines, but not really suitable to the business/prosumer market. (except for the video toaster, i guess, which seemed to be the niche they ultimately filled- other than overpriced home computers with limited software options)
I wonder if you could track down who Satoshi is based on someone's search queries about Secp256k1 specifically
It reads like oldschool creepy-pasta from 4chan. The point isn't that it's true (it's not) the point is that it takes something that you've felt (online comments that can't possibly be made by a sane human being) and builds a whole cosmology around it to explain why it happens in the most convoluted and disturbing way possible.
I was surprised to see Myst 3 in the supported games list. I suppose I shouldn't be though, it's a perfect game to be done mostly with scripting.
If you don't work in webdev or the equivalent mobile apps then it is important for quite a lot of jobs. If you work in webdev then I agree there is not many reasons to get a degree, but what if you want to work in some other fields where it helps? I really doubt that the number of people who works in webdev matches how many people have a passion for webdev, feels like many would prefer to work in fields which requires a bit more technical skills than that.

Math is the fundamental building block for doing so many interesting things with programs, so to me every interesting programming job requires boatloads of maths. Sure you can do forms and crud and authorization checks and messaging apps and large distributed systems etc without maths, but that doesn't sound terribly exciting to me.
Boeing Starliner test flight delayed until 2022
Africa and Asia are getting urbanized faster than everywhere else.

Lagos, Nigeria will be home to 88M people in 2100, Kinshasa, RDC 72M.

I don't care how bad their infrastructure is now, running fiber in such a high density populated are will always be better than relying on internet via satellite.
Tibet?

Yes, China's invasions pale in comparison to US, but Tibet is relevant to the discussion because it's a disputed territory, i.e. a territory that the Chinese government doesn't recognize as a foreign country. This doesn't make it less of an invasion for people who hold the opposite view.
I saw that, and it struck me as odd. I was under the impression that Starlink was intended to be the cash-cow that funds the Mars colonization project. I suppose it'd make sense to IPO if he prefers cash "now" to future income, but colonization will be a major resource sink for decades. How will SpaceX fund the colonization project if they spin off Starlink?