skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree that the key measure should be value for ICs, or atleast engineering ICs. There are a lot of management and non-engineering IC issues that can be sorted by a quick chat. The alternative to a quick chat at standup tends to be constant Slack/Teams messages and lots of 30min meetings. ICs might not get much direct value from a daily standup but we get a lot of indirect value from moving a big chunk of those interruptions to a set time each day.

This can be badly managed, as is the case in your examples. You're right that there shouldn't be more than 8 people and it definitely shouldn't take 45 min. 15 min max and if there's more to quickly discuss the people involved should stop and continue after the meeting. The situation you're talking about with crisis mode sounds like planning rather than standup and if you're Engineering Manager is declaring crisis mode and hijacking standup each day to spend an hour planning then you've got major cultural/organisation problems. In that case standups are just a symptom not the root cause.

There's also the social aspect, which other comments have mentioned. I've always found that underrated, though I was recently reading about how some national cultures rate it a lot more than others. For me as a Brit I always feel far more comfortable communicating my colleagues when we get on socially and we understand each others sense of humor and communication styles. Taking that time to banter for a few min each morning is massively important for improving team communication. And during lockdown and WFH it's been even more essential.
I always try and make eye contact with the driver in that situation. If I can't then I assume they will pull out in from of me.
> Isn't the SIM supposed to hold all sorts of secrets to prevent that?

The process has a security hole by design: SIM cards can get damaged/lost (usually with the phone) and you wouldn't want to lose your number just because you lost your phone or damaged your SIM card by accident. This hole is typically exploited by attackers after they have identified a high-value target. You basically outsource the control over your account to a telco employee.
Not surprisingly, this turns out to have a totally benign explanation.

Still, I do think this demonstrates how hard it is for (apparently) well-meaning, somewhat-technical users to understand what their software does.

I don’t think reading over firewall logs is a very good way to ensure trust in client-side software, of course. (Aside from just being ridiculously time-consuming, there are too many easy ways to exfiltrate data. Like…sending it to the Signal servers?)

But I do sort of idly wonder, given the ever-increasing complexity of the trusted computing base, how we can make it so users who are (apparently) concerned enough to read over firewall logs can more productively evaluate trust.
Well regular art sales are currently considered as potential wash sales, so why would be something even more cryptic (haha) considered even less.
Please don't, these comments are most valuable. In fact when something is relevant for me I wait for some time and revisit the comments. The top comment is often indeed the opposite view, and as such, very valuable and it allows you to make up your own mind. The truth (or I should say "a considerate opinion") is often in the middle of OP and the top comment, I find.
kernel32.dll is a little more language agnostic: it provides heap, threads, mutexes, environment variables and whatnot.
The headline was modified in a way that would (err..) trigger a discussion of a completely unrelated subject [the headline in the site says 'massive black holes'].

The article has a reasonable explanation of said telescope bias, which is not about what some might expect from the headline.
Anyone know of similar games to practice game hacking but on Linux? Ideally they would also be open source.
Wait you’re married too?

I kid.
How does one go around a game guard that uses an encryption of network packets with a dynamic key?
>But actually, what is so wrong about IRC?

1. IRC doesn't have any form of persistence or history, requiring the user to run a bouncer
2. IRC doesn't have any formatting - this makes it annoying to talk about code

My experience with IRC is that I joined a channel, asked the question I wanted, waited for a few hours without a response, and turned my computer off. If anyone answered it after that, I have no way of knowing. I don't regularly use IRC and so I don't run a bouncer.

This wasted both my time and the time of people who answered my question after I was gone.

In better chat systems, you can e.g. get an email notification if someone replies to you, allowing you to check back later.
X can't stop Y on its own is a really boring clickbait template.

I have complicated views on regreening as part of climate change abatement, but I guess headlines are not a place for nuance.

Can someone invent a web based abstract format so we can get the point before we click? Or are we short on electrons?
I once worked on a project migrating a central component used on trains from Windows 95 to Windows XP... this year.
I think you have to look at art and collecting art in general to get an idea of what is happening. When rich people spend big money on art, it is less about having a nice painting and more about things like flexing wealth, tax avoidance, being part of the provenance or whatever. People think that the most expensive painting ever sold, Salvator Mundi, which sold for ~450m, is sitting in storage somewhere in Switzerland. You also have to consider that for these people, it isn't actually a lot of money for them. They are the foundation for the mania that dogpiles on top.

These early NFTs are going to be like the early works of an art movement, and the iconic ones are probably going to be valuable to some degree just because of their place in art history. The art world has probably been waiting for the next kind of innovative movement to come along too. It is sort of a self fulfilling prophecy in that the ones that are bought for absurd amounts of money create the buzz that solidifies them as iconic pieces of the movement. Most will probably end up being worthless.

Art NFTs are like a tiny proof of concept of the idea of NFTs having value. The space, like crypto, is like a sandbox of primitives and people are just figuring things out, throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks. That creative environment is probably alluring to people in boring dev jobs who have the financial flexibility to explore. I think it just looks stupid to many because it is basically a completely chaotic wild west where basically nobody knows what is actually going on in terms of a big picture, and so much dumb stuff happens which the media loves talking about for clickbait so that is what everyone sees and uses to form their opinion of it.
Looks to be a service to remove the HTTP referer header when linking to other sites.

Say your on example.com and click a a link to foo.com the browser will send the http header `Referer: example.com` in the HTTP get to foo.com, this means foo.com can then track how you came to their site.
> Universe rewards creativity

What? That means nothing at all.
Consensus needs realistic price evaluations otherwise NFTs and most of crypto will remain what it actually is: a pump and dump asset class.
The video in the article has an example where it can be effective: as a silent non verbal signal. Sure, writing it may be more effective but if for some reason you can’t, then a signal may be helpful.
I think it is very hard for us to estate these days how good/bad it was living under colonial rule, without experiencing it or even having contemporary reporting about it. We do know it was apparently bad enough for people to rise up against it, and were willing to sacrifice their lives, in many places over an extended period of time. That suggests to me that it wasn't all that great either. It's impossible to know what the counterfactual would have been of course, but I have no trouble imagining even worse outcomes under colonial rule.
Right, I'm really surprised that there isn't at least a hash or something for that reason...
Elisp is a really poor language compared to almost anything else, more work should be done to allow Emacs to be configured in other languages.
The article fails to underline that if you want anything serious you would use IPFS URIs and pin it at least once. I would say, they don't know much technically and just jumped on the bandwagon. Because the serious aren't many in this NFT area.
There's no such thing as fractional reserve banking. It's an urban myth that has been debunked by QE for over a decade. Lord only knows why people still believe it.

Banks create money on demand by discounting collateral. Government creates money on demand by discounting the power to tax.

Fiat money disappears by the drain to taxation, to repaying loans and to 'rainy day funds'.
The Bosch CX motor in my bike is supposedly 250w. I don't believe that for one minute. Steep hills whilst I'm loaded with shopping are no problem at all.

Around town the speed is fine although it would be nice to go a little quicker out of town.
You can disable this. But just to be clear, the preview is from the sender. I think it’s reasonable to assume that someone sending a link is willing to click the link, no?

(There’s also a “privacy-preserving proxy” in the middle, FWIW: https://signal.org/blog/i-link-therefore-i-am/.)
Bangalore Airport (BIAL) Terminal 2 looks promising: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB2xF5ta0UA. From the renders, the airport is unlike any other in India. While T1 is a large glass structure, T2 pays homage to Bangalore's image as India's "Garden City". Trees and natural materials are a central element of the terminal's design.
Free Crypto
https://coincircle.com/l/pxrWZe2xE8 Must add if u want free crypto it’s very simple like coinbase
> People say that the Melbourne city loop was the world's first computerized train line. If that's true,

I don't believe that is true. The Melbourne city loop was using the Ericsson JZA 715 system. According to page 9 of [0], Melbourne's implementation of JZA 715 went live in 1982, but Oslo's JZA 715 implementation went live in 1979. Furthermore, JZA 715 was an evolution of earlier Ericsson computer-based rail traffic control systems, going back to the JZA 410 which went live in Stockholm in 1971 and Copenhagen in 1972. So, if these Ericsson systems were in any sense a "world-first" (don't know enough about the history of this technology to say), it looks like the "world-first" happened in Scandinavia, and Melbourne may have simply been "Australia-first" (or "Southern Hemisphere-first" or maybe even "not-Scandinavia-first")

[0] https://www.jonroma.net/media/signaling/articles/ericsson/L....
Very similar situation in Ceausescu's Romania (which also ended in 1989), in broad terms.

Many people (unhappy with their current quality of life) are still nostalgic of the old days. Low criminality, low unemployment, high home ownership (still the highest in the world even now) were some of the upsides.
That's an interesting concept, never heard of "icebox" before. I've always used the "is this relevant to everyone" questions though. There are often short chats about topics that are extremely useful for those involved but not the whole team. If those go on longer than a minute I ask the folk involved to stop and "pick them up offline" afterwards. Saves everyone time without destroying the value.
And all/some of these other processes might be conscious too, but we just can't communicate with them
To those who do not mind the different physical format (who do not strictly require paper pages), here is a reminder that 10'' and 13'' EPD tablets are available.
> The truth (or I should say "a considerate opinion") is often in the middle of OP and the top comment, I find.

Careful with that. [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation
+1 to that. I started by FPV hobby about a year ago (just regular analog tinywhoop). So it's 30% flying hobby, and 70% tinkering around and learn:

1) how to solder,

2) how how charge and use lipo batteries,

3) how antennas work, polarisation, connectors etc,

4) what all these buzzwords in betaflight means

5) binding, expressLRS setting,

6) 3d printing protection parts,

7) even there are different connectors standards!,

etc
so it's whole umbrella of little hobbies that comes with it. At least for me it's lots of fun, because it takes a few hours of learning time and you get working result. But it's not for everyone for sure.
Drastic different with PnP experience of DJI drones.
Happiness and the Productivity of Software Engineers
How to decrease bureaucracy – Summary of Literature
Ask HN: Help me identify a minicomputer from the 70s/80s?
Help me identify a computer from my childhood in the 80s! I've tried unsuccessfully over the years to try and identify this machine, and now, given all the retrocomputing interest and content on here, I thought I'd put a description out there and see if anyone bites. I was quite young at the time, so please excuse any confusion.

* The machine was installed at an elementary school, for kids that age

* There were 30-40 40 column terminals around the room. They were either green or three color. Very large text and rudimentary graphics.

* There was one classic WYSE style 80 column amber terminal in the middle of the room where the operator sat.

* Any time we wanted to play a different game or run a different program, we'd line up to talk to the operator, who would then key in a two digit terminal identifier and then select the program that we'd see from a menu.

* I think the system had some kind of branding around the name "super computer." I don't know if this was the hardware, the software or some value added reseller branding.

* The actual machine was 6-8' tall and made loud and distinct fan noises that could be heard around the room at startup which took several minutes.

* There was a tape system for taking backups, I believe it was at the top of the chassis (5-6ish feet off the ground and front loading with large tape casettes)

* The year I encountered this system was probably around 1985, I'm guessing the installation was probably between 1 and 8 years old.

* The school district used HP3000s in administration, it may have been one of these, but I don't think they had 40 column graphical terminals.

If you can identify this system, please pipe up!
You can implement a neural network in Excel
>People can cycle in to work without breaking a sweat.

This is a big one for me. Cycling into work doesn't take too much time (30 minutes), and it's good to be active. But showering at work you often need to wait, you need to bring all your clean clothes with you, and after going back you need to shower again.

It just costs too much time to cycle because of the sweating.

With e-Bikes I'm able to cycle into work slightly faster (saving a few minutes when going up hill) and I'm still fresh when I arrive.

Sure it's not as sporty, but it's something, especially compared to driving.
Sorry, I was wrong; for some reason I thought it was Fortran but of course it was PDP-11 assembly. It stayed there up until v7, and was removed in v8. That subtracts from my argument.
The same 60 yo might use a car instead, and drive multiples of 25kph. And energy is proportional to the square of the speed, so typical ebike will have about an order of magnitude less energy than the typical car, with also an order of magnitude less mass.

Nassim Taleb made some pretty interesting points on the magnitude of a risk vs its probability. If you get a shower of pebbles thrown on your head, you'll be sore at worst. If you get the same mass thrown as one big rock... you're dead.

Same with bikes. You're much more likely to fall (you really are). But chances are, you'll not even ruin your clothes when you do, and the risk of serious injury, while of course present, is much much smaller.
Great rant thanks for posting.

Let me provide some counter points to consider.

China is going to experience a population implosion in a few decades as they are not at replacement rate and cannot make up the numbers like the US does via immigration(for now at least).

Here is China's population pyramid

[1]:https://www.populationpyramid.net/china/2021/

Compared to the US:

[2]: https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/2...

As you can see the ages between 0-30 there is a large enough decrease. The US is not perfect as we have been starting to decline but we are nowhere near China.

>In fact, a good starting point would be to fire almost everyone in government and bring in new blood with a new mandate.

Were you following the Bernie campaign? In addition to running for president in 2016 he inspired the creation of several organizations to help do just that. Our Revolution, Justice Democrats, and Brand New Congress. These groups were the drive behind electing people like the Squad. Their focus is on electing politicians that don't take any corporate money. Now 5 years after 2016, I can clearly say that the efforts have been borderline impossible to achieve. Politicians like AOC are the exception and not the rule and electing people like her were borderline impossible. I watched as they threw everything at her and she only won because her opponent had not taken her seriously enough at the beginning. There is a whole movie on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCSo2hZRcXk

I saw with my own eyes in 2018/2019 how difficult it is to remove existing elected representatives when we tried. They have the whole party fight tooth and nail against any newcomers and they will spend every last penny that they have to defeat you. You are also up against the media machine that will help bury you if you get close to winning. Combine that with a significant chunk of the population that has just given up and won't vote at all and you have our current situation.

I don't know where the US will end up but my hope is that the coming population implosion in China will give the US a fighting chance long term even if the journey will be utterly painful because of our current short-sightedness.
You can have both. One doesn't invalidate the other.

Forums are no different from instant chat apps like Discord, in that, once you reach a certain size, you'll stop being able to stay on one topic most times, unless you heavily moderate and people hate that more than conversations diverging from topics(speaking from experience in both sides). But they're also great to engage with strangers and a wider amount of people at all times.

The main issue is that one is instant messages and the other has a delay that could be hours or days even, since people aren't going to wait there for someone to reply. The instant messages have a similar problem, in that, it can be hard to follow a conversation once you reach a certain size with comments flooding the chat and comments are mostly lost (there's the log, obviously) unless you're willing to go back and read everything. Discord and similar apps, are great to engage with people who are regulars, since you're already acquainted and can have a more casual and faster conversation.

They both have their positives and negatives and there's no good reason to not use both.
Or this will revolutionize programming and give a 3x-4x productivity boost to those who take the time to learn to use it effectively.
I use DDG and although I still have this issue, your comment got me wondering what it was like on goog. … holy fucking shit.
> I meant competitive and edited my post now to reflect that and I stand by it. I can only speak for myself with certainty but the benefits never outweighed the costs until more recent languages but if there were really alternatives then more things would have been written in them instead of in C or moving to higher-level languages.

You're now conflating "popular" with "better". What makes a language successful isn't always the same as what makes it better (eg there are countless examples of languages failing to gain significant traction (like Zig, Nim, OCaml, D, ) over other languages that had a large company backing it (like Rust did).

Moreover, what makes a language "better" isn't going to be the same for everyone. Some crave simplicity so that the entire language can be memorised (like SPARK) whereas others crave complexity where they can chose the subset of features to support (like C++). Some like C-style braces, some like ALGOL style keywords (like Ada), some prefer S-Expressions (like LISP) and some people even prefer to go direct to assembly.

We've seen operating systems built in Fortran, Pascal, LISP, Oberon and others so it's not even as if I'm making a theoretical point here.
The Ketamine Cure of Depression: Is This Unregulated Drug Safe to Use at Home?
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It's not like the victim is losing something if the signal is widely known. It raises the stakes for the attacker who now also has to constantly monitor for hidden signals.

Yes, the attacker can strip-search the victim for smartphones and GPS trackers and then tie them down in the trunk, but the game is getting harder for kidnappers.
>> Is there a non-core ASP.NET that also lives inside that framework?
> Yep!

No, the "non-Core" ASP.Net framework is not ported to the .Net Core platform (i.e. .net 5+). Only ASP.Net Core runs on .Net Core.

This is unfortunate, because it means older web sites based on the classic ASP.Net does not have clear migration path to .net 5+.
The longevity of many NFT projects is a real problem. This is why we set out to create the Smarts platform. The platform combines smart contracts with generative arts (smart arts, abbreviated into Smarts). Smarts is a new platform where the entirety of the artwork is stored in, and computed from smart contracts with no external dependencies at all. No IPFS, no Arweave, no APIs, no baseURI, no p5js, etc. So all Smarts artworks will live as long as Ethereum itself.

However, the EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) has some severe limitations for smart contracts - less than 25kb, no floating point math, limited gas amount for each invocation. So this makes it an interesting coding challenge to create smart contract based arts, it’s bearing some similarities to the demoscene.

We haven't launched yet, but you can check it out the work in progress here: https://smarts.is/
I just have to agree with this.
>At one point there was something I felt was a 'one-line change', that took 12 files to edit. Mostly routing calls through different auxiliary classes because 'architecture'.

I won't blame .NET for this. Needlessly complicated architectures are because OOP everywhere minded guys, Uncle Bob and GoF patterns. If you worked with a Java shop you cold have been hit by the same scenario.
I'd guess it's due to the fact the culprit is a 67 year old woman, and her fraud resulted in increased maintenance costs and not the loss of any subs or sailors. For better or worse the end result has always played a huge role in how these types of situations play out.

On top of that, it seems incredible to me that something so important could/would have such a single point of failure and that there was no redundancy or other safeguards.

I can see why somebody might decide keeping the number lower is better for everybody directly involved.
I even hesitated clicking on the comment section as it was totally clear this was going to be dominated by contrarian for contrarian's sake comments, Reddit style.

It certainly helps for some deep technical articles, but when it comes to broader topics, HN has become grumpy and old.
Ambien is black-boxed. How does ketamine compare in terms of risks?

Also, “unregulated” is an overstatement. In the US, any drug that has any therapeutic benefit can be prescribed for off-label uses. Ketamine is popularly referred to as a cat anesthetic… what’s its current schedule for humans?
GTC November 2021 Keynote with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
Heh, I'm doing a similar thing with a random cheap internet radio and Apple AirPlay: My Rasbperry Pi is running AirConnect in a Docker container and converts all UPnP devices to AirPlay recipients.

https://github.com/philippe44/AirConnect