skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>and according to them concern about the grade book system being exposed??

Junior year in high school, I got suspended for "hacking."

The tl;dr is that I was using a proxy to fetch assignments for class (because the county decided "yeah, this state run Moodle instance is obviously not appropriate for education" and one of my classes used Moodle) and got caught with the proxy configuration screen open. I wish I was joking.

Anyway, when I was sitting in the guidance counselor's office as the teacher was talking up how "dangerous" I was, I noticed a sticky note with a username and password written on it. Turns out it was an admin account for the gradebook, though I think it was just intended for scheduling.

I never did anything bad with those credentials, but that really tanked what little respect I still had for the administrators there.

On a lighter note, when stack exchange & co got blocked the next year, I was good friends with the librarians since I helped out a fair amount fixing up their laptop carts (and doing other things the sysadmins were too busy to take care of), and they were able to get them unblocked. It taught me a lot about office politics: people are willing to return favors, so you should always make those connections.
Agreed. There are lots of other scenarios, though.
It looks like OP is mad that they have to spend 2 DAYS a month running down permissions or overrides due to broken dependencies. I mean they are supposed to do what else exactly? Just heads down keep writing code and nothing else?

The question is if they are being overworked for this or if theyre mad that their cushy well paid perk filled 9-5 job is inconveniencing them twice a month to get out of their seat. Like what?

The only times I’ve seen that work is when absolutely no one actually runs the code. If you want to write code at places where it touches billions of people (for better or worse), then this seems like a better way to do things than what other companies seem to do.
> Rather than be able to pin something to a version that works, the culture is that first someone breaks you (or says, “this might break you, please figure out if it will and act accordingly”), then you have to dig around for the change that caused it, find the right person to approve a rollback, and then figure out how to prevent them from breaking you again

Shouldn't the person/team who makes a change take ownership of fixing any breakage it causes, rather than passing the buck to their customers?

It sounds like the real issue isn't anything as technical as monorepos-vs-polyrepos or software versioning policies, but rather a management and culture problem?
I agree with you on the physical components but you’re missing the point. If you’ve read the article you’d understand physical goods are different than digital ones. Look at the footnotes, I even point out that NFTs for physical items is not solved.

With digital goods, it is solved. If you have a brand (like cryptopunks or say, the US gov) and you produce some NFT—people can see and verify that the NFT is produced from those parties.

Again, I’m reiterating the same points in the article— it’s the same idea with open-sourced software. You can fork some code and “attempt to sell it” but you won’t go far because it lacks branding and trust.

Half the battle is branding.

Hope that clears it up
Properly understood, they're on opposite sides of the equation and as mentioned, I'd prefer not to do any punishment at all, because I feel like that cuts off most of the nonsense. So that means giving people masks if they don't have one or making reasonable accommodations where possible and making interventions about safety.

But I know it's not quite so easy and especially now a lot of people are hardened and less willing to work together to smooth things over.
Trump literally still calls it the "Trump Vaccine". Also I think people forget how much airtime went into "the vaccine isn't the answer" once Trump started talking about warp speed and the second the election was over it was "the vaccine is the only answer".

I think you can blame a lot on Trump and repubs with regards to protocols, level of concern, being actively anti-mask, etc but it takes a very selective memory to act like Trump wasn't 1000% on board with the vaccine.

Examples:

- Past vaccine disasters show why rushing a coronavirus vaccine now would be 'colossally stupid'
By Jen Christensen, CNN
Updated 11:34 AM EDT, Tue September 01, 2020

- CNN: The timetable for a coronavirus vaccine is 18 months. Experts say that's risky
By Robert Kuznia
Updated 2:14 PM EDT, Wed April 01, 2020

- Here's where we stand on getting a coronavirus vaccine
By Holly Yan, CNN
Updated 1:45 PM EDT, Mon June 08, 2020

- With big talk and hurled insults, the gloves come off in the race for the coronavirus vaccine
By Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent
Updated 7:00 AM EDT, Wed May 27, 2020

> (CNN)Ethicists and physicians are concerned that, amid a desire to put an end to the Covid-19 pandemic, developers of drugs and vaccines have become overly enthusiastic about the chances their products will work.
Thankfully since the device is hackable you can do that easily with third-party tools.

But yeah it's lame that that's tied to the cloud account for the official stuff.
VERY late, using rather large values of “late”.
We could probably list a thousand things that you could do now to reduce your risks of something. The question is around a mandate, and if the risk reduction is marginal or diminishingly small, why would you mandate it? That's the whole point of this thread.
Here's a video that brings more perspective from My Deep Guide who reviews quite a whole lot of e-ink devices (timestamped for relevant part): https://youtu.be/K79MPnPq4_M?t=508

The thing that stood out for me is the way they push for a subscription as you purchase your device. The Marker Plus used to be $99, but they inflated the price to be $129 so that if you choose the Connect plan, it "slashes" the price back to $99 - how it originally cost before, according to the video.
But public health officials are royally screwed if nobody trusts them.

Importantly, I am NOT arguing that health officials should have changed their guidance in early 2020, I'm arguing they should have changed their messaging. "It's vital that people don't go out and buy masks because if you do hospitals will run out of masks and then we're all screwed" is very different from "masks worn by the public don't work".
I have an ex-girlfriend who did exactly this in her mid-twenties. Was a great experience for her and she's since come back into white collar work, but was changed by it.

It's a pretty big thing I learned, with most farms having extensive intern networks.
Are we just going to ignore all of the anti-vax disinfo then? That seems like a far more significant factor than "the government didn't give the public the complicated version from the start."
Indie dev here. I made an electron app to generate and print barcoded labels/images. It’s one of the only apps available allowing windows and macOS users to print to thermal printers without drivers.

You can create forms for variables that get injected/interpolated into barcodes/images.

I just added the ability to print from the command-line or via URL. I’m looking for label printing system integrators and offering free licenses if you mention you found my app on HN.

I’d love to work with people on issues like this. Cheers!

Download from https://label.live
It's a great time to get off their cloud using libre third-party tools.

https://github.com/rehackable/awesome-remarkable#gui-clients
> My understanding is that the lawmakers alone (legislature and governor) own this one.

Why aren't they doing anything about it? Serious question,

I'm not familiar with politics in CA and the Bay Area but every time I hear about how bad it's getting in SF I have to wonder why no one seems to want to do anything about it, and worse creating policy that makes the situation worse.

SF isn't run by dummies (idk maybe). Why does it seem like they are sitting on the sidelines watching their city go to absolute shit.
Good point. I've realized that 2^160 can be just 160 words, each word is a choice of two synonyms.
What utter nonsense. Even not adjusting for improved quality, do you honestly think things cost 220x what they did in the 50s?
Indeed, I have had to consider that, and am pretty sure I have not projected my feelings about the pandemic because I was tracking this scenario in earnest since 2012. Most people aren't nihilists, but the ones who are have managed to find each other again.
Now there's a coalition I can trust to secure my financial life!
I don't think they're wrong about the inefficiency of it all being psychically damaging though. I wonder how many dependencies the average project has and how many projects each engineer has to get a rate of breakage that high.
Some ovens are teflon coated, and some of those have cleaning modes that effectively kill of pet birds.

I don't get how that can even be allowed ad a regular household appliance.
I had surgery a couple of months ago and the hospital entry here in QLD had their QR checkin code printed on a novelty-cheque-sized piece of cardboard sitting on an artist's easel outside the entry to the hospital foyer. I could scan it from like 10 metres away without any zoom. It was fantastic.

Many places I've seen have taken a 'defence in depth' approach, where they put up numerous copies throughout their entryway so that multiple sets of people can check in simultaneously. Either on top of the pylons holding barrier ropes, or against multiple doors in an antechamber, etc. That also works well for getting people through.
Where I grew up, most 17 year olds had cars. You can't exist without a car in the suburbs, and as soon as you can drive, you get one. Opens up a lot of employment opportunities, and not having one used to be a social death sentence, although these days kids are probably too busy on their phones to even realize they've turned 17.
There's an exhibit at the Field Museum in Chicago about another meteorite that smashed through a garage and ended up in the back(?) seat of a car. I think this was in the 20s or 30s.
Doppler effect doesn't allow sound go to faster than the speed of sound.
RSS Feature Returns to Chrome
Better cross variant effectiveness, longer lived in blood.
Hot take and I honestly hope I'm wrong but there is a whiff of burn pit / AO benefits program mindset in this...

( https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/us/politics/havana-syndro... )
> They’re pretty much seen as an anti-pattern by most people today

That's a bold statement :)
> In fact, he thanked us for our findings and wanted us to present a debrief to the tech team!

This is the only acceptable response.
As someone that lives in Oakland, I would agree with the conclusion of the survey. I know several people that are leaving SF and the sentiment reflects mainstream news about SF's future.
For sure, not something I'd feel comfortable deploying either. The `www` subdomain can certainly be removed at least, I'm fairly certain. Though I would definitely err on the side of caution rolling something like this out since it'd be scanned by all sorts of devices in many different environments.
google authenticator is not the same thing. that's an rsa soft token type thing, not a text to your phone. if you want issues with google texts on cell phones, pick a bad word, add "google fi" to it, and you'll get some hits. then repeat that for google voice.

now, what you can compare it to, is when google sends you an sms for authentication. and you don't get it, and they lock your account. customer service - sure, chat from your phone, as long as you have their app, and if you don't, then install their app - from google play, which is locked because you can't confirm your phone number. then figure out they locked your gmail, phone, and all google apps, while deleting all your data. why? because you worked with a dev on an app 3 years ago, and that dev was found by google to work with another dev 2 years ago, who is now a russian hacker. online chat? you need to log in first. phone number to call? they don't have a phone.

you are free to google for an hour to somehow contact them, and a big if/then loop they call AI will reply with an off-topic template, then delete your youtube channel. if you complain more, they'll trash your employer's production servers in GCP.
Good answer, thank you!
This is part of my threat model. Is there an easy way to do this with e.g. hosted RDS or block storage device snapshots?
I have a question.

Is it not possible to create a good cryptographic hashing algorithm that results in 128bit or 160bit hash?

It seems all the modern, secure ones are 256 bits or larger. Is that because 160 bits is too easy to compute collisions for any algorithm, or are we just not able to fully realize the entropy that can be recorded into 160 (or even 128) bits?
The uniswap frontend is mirrored on IPFS. It's stateless (it pulls the current state from Ethereum RPCs)
This is not a problem a C++ compiler vendor can solve.
Kindness clearly doesn’t work better than Bloomberg stuff, every time restorative justice type stuff was tried (the 70s, now) crime skyrocketed and every time it stopped crime plummeted across every city
I think if you are going to critique the explicit strategy of "One version" and forced upgrades, an acknowledgement of the many issues with lazy or incremental upgrade strategy implicit to semver is also warranted. One of my biggest gripes about semver, for instance, is how often supposed non-breaking changes in semver do in fact break client/consumer functionality. Semver as far as I can tell is generally managed by people and is a potential point of human induced error. Perhaps this is mitigated through tooling and integration testing in sophisticated organizations, but in my experience it is broken in much of the OSS projects and less savvy organizations I have worked with.

Still, I find this writeup to be a good glimpse into culture at Google that one engineer found to be, at least, more complicated than the rose-colored glasses through which we usually read about Google's engineering practices. This criticism also mirrors what people have said about Google's tendency to kill off their products that people depend on, which causes reticence on the part of users to adopt new products. (related: https://killedbygoogle.com/)
So many ads.
Seat belt mandates:

- Have accumulated evidence of well quantified effectiveness, however small.

- Have no practical downsides, even speculative.

- Practically are not 100% enforceable, and therefore are not 100% adhered too. Technical means of enforcement (like beeping) are lame and easily bypassed, at least for now.

- Are related to a man-made activity of reasonably increased danger and, importantly, licensed. Someone may choose not to participate in such activity (driving), with relatively low downsides. Public health mandates are, effectively, an attempt to license the mere existence.

- Do not have religious symbolism attached to it. No one is ever yelled on by strangers for not having a seatbelt fastened. No one has a sticker on their facebook photo saying "proudly wearing my seatbelt".

- Seatbelts are "reversible", i.e. you don't wear them for life. You are not forced to have seatbelt mounting points implanted in your body. You cannot "un-vaccinate", though, if it ends up a bad decision.
Thanks for sharing this. Looks like Senator John Cornyn and Senator Mitt Romney support the COVID vaccines, too [1]. Good to know.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/us/politics/gop-covid-vac...
A study in Israel shows the opposite of your link [3]:

https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-on...

Based on the information in your link, it's a absolutely tiny sample in a very small specific conservative community. I'm really skeptical that they controlled for the unvaccinated cohort that caught covid twice hanging out in anti-vaxxer communities where covid infection was high. The CDC should be embarrassed about using this as evidence.
The Uniswap devs created a standard called Tokensets to allow different front-ends to curate which tokens are available without actually censoring anything.

https://www.tokensets.com/
A power grab by who? Mask manufacturers? People who don't like to look at lips? I am baffled by the belief that asking people to wear masks, in the middle of a pandemic, is a power grab by anyone.

If anything, an intervention that would make it safer to open up more businesses and public spaces should be seen as a great thing for reducing the power needed to shut these spaces in the first place.
Don't let the loud moon boys who take all the attention in the crypto space deceive you. There's a ton of serious and incredible work going on that rarely gets the spotlight.

Plenty of scams and irrationality too of course.
Do you have any original sources of Vitalik promoting the idea that "the code is law"?
The brain can store 1 petabyte of memories, or 13 years of HD video (2016)
Are you sure it wasn't a green Chevy?

https://youtu.be/PqEztDtxWBY
The paper is from 2014.
I think one of the best examples of the US government shooting itself in the foot during this pandemic was when it was released in the press that some in the CDC advocated to prioritize minorities for vaccination for social justice reasons.

A quick to market vaccine based on new technology, and some woke bureaucrat doesn’t seem to connect that that message would be heard as “they want to test it on us again”.
Because it covers a lot of other accidents that are predictable.
Not sure we're alone. Take the UK, for example. 2/3 are either overweight or obese. Better than the US? Sure. But what a weak victory that is.
The calculus is different for tens of millions people who acquired natural immunity from previous infections before the vaccines even existed. I am one of them. There is no good reason for me to take the risk with the vaccines because it will only increase my immunity marginally.
Streetsblog 101: How Media Help Build Car Culture (2020)
If you go ARM route that'll give you 4cpu/24Gb free tier which you can slice into multiple instances.
For sure lots of fun, we also very quickly found the staff wifi password, and just cloned mac addresses of allowed devices to bypass the filtering.
A narrative driven AI experiment in art
> There are evolutionary pressures on viruses that tend to weaken them over time.

Those evolutionary pressures relate to transmissibility. Basically, a virus that kills its host before it can spread doesn't spread very far at all.

SARS-CoV-2's defining feature of asymptomatic spread decouples this and so far hasn't led to weakening – indeed, Delta is both substantially more transmissible and more likely to cause severe disease and death.
Immediately thought of this[1]. This may well be the one in a billion exception, but skepticism is warranted.

[1] https://sites.wustl.edu/meteoritesite/items/what_to_do/
Show HN: Firstparty – Google Analytics Alternative
Wow an entire thread full of civil opposing opinions and discussions.
I feel sanity has returned.
Interesing article. Would be great if use better visualization techniques and clear up the sections.

It seems that Flutter Desktop performs as expected. Though I would say the margin is not as large as I personally expect, in terms of FPS and energy efficiency.
They ideologically are opposed to doing anything about it. The left has gone completely off the rails over the past ten years on social issues, it just gets ignored because the right has gone off the rails more
Is there any science to back up anything you're saying?

Bonus points: Studies not funded by pharmaceutical companies.
To a rough approximation, I'd wager that someone == everyone.
How about rapidly biodegrading plastic that most things are made of? Your car or your fridge dissolves in 3 years, so you have to buy a replacement. "Greenness" can mesh very well with greed.
Ever try just contacting a recruiter or applying on their careers page?

They are going to make you do irrelevant algorithm problems no matter how much of an impression you made or connections you have.

In software engineering, literally just skip the extracurriculars unless you want to do them, they don't matter. There is no rat race of eligibility. Just solve the problems after you get the interview.

Good luck
Possibly only Android Auto receives vehicle speed signal from a car? https://developer.android.com/reference/android/car/VehicleP...
How to anger the establishment and win a Nobel Prize in economics
> The real fear was that there would be a run on masks by the public, making them unavailable for hospital use.

Ironically the run on masks had begun months earlier. I snagged a box of N95 construction masks in late Jan 2020, and they were totally gone everywhere by early Feb
I worked at CRL. There's nothing about the architecture of CRDB that makes it hard or impossible. The company has bigger fish to fry with limited product and engineering hours.
If your alternative is fossil, you need to compare this to land lost due to rising sea levels, desertification etc.
I was born in Vancouver, I live downtown. You seem to be ill-informed of Vancouver's past, or are deliberately trying to white-wash its history. Take a look at Harland Bartholomew's contribution to Vancouver's city planning[0] or hear from many local historians and experts on the development of Vancouver's zoning and districts[1]. I'm sure it's impossible that Chinatown's relatively poor condition, or the complete razing of Hogan's Alley has no roots in racism, and certainly I'm imagining that residual impact.

Suburbs were designed to isolate their residents from the poor (and predominantly visible-minority) people who lived in the denser urban areas. Single-family zoning was created to make illegal the development of more dense/affordable living options such as row houses or apartment buildings. That is limiting growth, clear and simple. It is limiting growth (by your own admission!) to "keep it mostly homes" as opposed to turning the city into "Pacific New York."

I said nothing about Vancouver's growth having been "stopped." What I said was, there were - and continues to be - efforts to eliminate growth. The city grows despite the NIMBYs (albeit less quickly and less efficiently), but it is absolutely their objective to inhibit growth for their own benefit. Growth is often exponential, too, so if the city has been growing somewhat linearly that's a good indication that its growth is being inhibited.

If people want to live here, good. Let them in, let them build. Not sure why you believe it's your right to live here and keep others out. Perhaps you're someone who has benefited greatly from Vancouver's growth, despite yourself.

[0] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/vancouver/articl...
[1] https://www.straight.com/news/734491/history-shows-racism-ha...
Goldman Sachs: Home prices to climb another 16% by the end of 2022
How do the data checks work? You can have a PO Box for a whois address and you can have any number of phone numbers in general.
Lots of good answers here already. In a lot of areas in life, the situation is like with man pages. The important thing to learn and remember is broadly what shell program/command you need to do the task at hand, what they can do. You can look up the exact option/format details in the man page as needed. There's not much point trying to memorize every last detail, most of which you will never use.
Sure. But this is easier to understand, albeit means repeating code:

class B {
foo: number;
bar?: number;
baz: number;
}

I know these are toy examples, and I'm sure there are reasons why in the real world you'll be modeling things where this is not a good option. But I'd really need to be convinced that the CRUD webapps a lot of us write actually benefit from having this in our source code.
I believe a Joe Rogan podcast of the time, that I watched on youtube, featured an expert who claimed masks were basically useless