skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought about using FUSE while I was attempting to reverse engineer a proprietary file system that was on floppies for an old ISDN analyzer.

For context I wanted to try to reverse engineer some do the programs on the floppies, but being a proprietary file system, but obviously couldn’t browse the files normally. I loaded some of the floppies into a hex editor and tried to analyze them. I did manage to find some patterns, including a header and file table, but upon not a particularly good reverse engineer and failed to recognize some seemingly random bytes sequences that would slightly differ between floppies. I do remember it seeming incredibly primitive and figured if I ever cracked it, I could use FUSE to implement and then mount the file system and browse the files normally.

Sadly I never fully completed my reverse engineering, but it seemed like a decent job for FUSE.
Thanks for the tip on the G604.

I also have I think 6 g700s'!!

My favorite was the old Logitech MX with the autoswitching hyperscroll. But I couldn't live without hyperscroll at all anymore.

AHK is also super useful but I've only done a couple of things so far.
Depends on the service? I've maintained a service used for supply chain planning where an outage during business hours needed addressing, but an outage over a weekend or holiday wasn't important. Being able to set up company holidays ahead of time then just not think about it would have been a useful feature for an on-call tool in that scenario.
Tor is much more easily detected than VPN.

Or. Well. It is same easily detected, but you can reasonably say you have VPN "just to watch US netflix" or something like that.

You cannot say that about Tor.
We are not embarked in a race on efficiency. A system able which is:

- able to store otherwise is wasted energy

- affordable (the total price of this storing-then-reconversion into electricity is OK) is adequate

- storing in adequate volumes

is adequate, even if its total efficiency is below .01

Blue hydrogen isn't good (emission-wise), but may be used as a way to evaluate and enhance what will ultimately be a green (electric energy only produced by renewable used to obtain dihydrogen) system.

Moreover there are quick and decisive progress towards better efficiency.
Also, re: Tihange: the reactors at Tihange were designed for 40 years of operation, so Tihange 1 should have been shut down in 2015 (and Tihange 2 should be a year from now). If the operator and the Belgian government had adequate planning skills, a replacement reactor (or other power generator) should have been completed by then, and the new reactor could have been built using updated safety margins.

Tihange is a good example of the same political inaction that gave us this climate crisis. It has nothing to do with cutting corners, nor about "designing and running these things". It is (political) complacency, not mismanagement of the plant that's the main problem.
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i sympathize with the author.

safari and browsers aside, there is something bigger going on. there is a massive disconnect between applications users and makers nowadays. i have started to think that they a) don't care b) have misaligned priorities c) have weird notions of "acceptable" errors.

i have a long list of applications that break every time there is an update. even UX updates introduce bugs nowadays. i have started to dread updates and upgrades.

we have lost all notion of stability.
Especially (from their intro comment, which I can’t reply to for some reason):

> We believe in superior privacy choices without losing convenience.

Their replies in this thread contradict that - both privacy and convenience are compromised in favor of sticky user acquisition, with the founder doubling down on how this is somehow not contradictory, just “unfortunate”.
How many years of research does Apple require to check the consequences of allowing external payments?

> “You haven’t asked for additional time. You’ve asked for an injunction which would effectively take years,” she said. “You asked for an across-the-board stay which could take 3, 4, 5 years.”
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Just for context: I'm Russian, it all might be different in your part of the world. Anything education-related was hard for me exactly because of the pervasive "you can only use your head" mindset. You have to use formulas from memory. You have to do everything from memory, except maybe the teacher would write some constants on the blackboard. If you're lucky. In some classes in school (physics iirc?) we were allowed to use a calculator, but for math you definitely had to only make do with pen and paper. I easily grasp how stuff works, but this whole memorizing the exact intricacies or risk failing the test/exam is what gets me every dang time.
Gabriel (the founder of DDG) wrote a fabulous book (called Traction) on growth.

Tl;dr is that it was much more than just word of mouth. They have been very deliberate and methodical about growth from the very beginning and employed many different growth tactics throughout the lifetime of the company.

Edit: typos
Wow. Did you really think this nonsense was going to fly? Or that the size of the extension is the problem? Or, frankly, that you're the right guy to be doing unscripted PR of any kind? Somebody paid a lot of money to make this- why are you sabotaging it?
I used a foreign data wrapper to query elasticsearch indexes from within postgres.[0]

It pushed alot of complexity down away from higher-level app developers not familiar with ES patterns.

[0]: https://github.com/matthewfranglen/postgres-elasticsearch-fd...
The Obama administration tried to do something about it 10 years ago, the TPP. Unfortunately congress said no.
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I assumed people were exaggerating about the extension being pushed too strongly, but I couldn't even test a simple search to check the results or see how it looked. Incredible.
Academic cheating also doesn't seem like a sustainable life plan. Even if you get your degree and land a job, what are you going to do when your boss and co-workers realize you don't actually know how to do the things you have a degree in?
Welp, doesn't make you a terrorist, but perhaps a better comparison is people who have HIV and spread it knowingly. If her defense was "I told them as they were arresting me, but they dismissed me" then I think you'd have a good defense.

But why wait until you got to the cells?
Yes, news backed off from Apple News because they want to track users more than Apple News allows, basically.

Plus they want to be more in control what gets shown.
I am from Nepal and I have seen that US companies who can see this is the future of work are getting the best deals. They are paying decent money by US standard to Nepali top 1% developers for whom its a very good salary and getting an enormous return in result.
> I fully expect this to be a bit of an uphill sell to people. Writing stuff that mucks with the authentication stack is rightfully kinda scary, and there will need to be a lot of security and subject matter expert review. I expect this to be a slow burn, but good god I would love to see it happen.

Actually using it would be a long ways off, but I don't think conceptually it's a hard sell. I'm interested in making authentication easier for my developers lately, and also in dodging some key management in favor of accounts people already have at work. Right now, I'm evaluating Tailscale for VPN access, since I find myself supporting developers without (yet) any remote access to them or any endpoint management crap on their machines, and walking them through configuring WireGuard has proven painful (more painful than I expected, which maybe sounds dumb). (Incidentally, ‘Tailscale’ is a name I remembered as a possible VPN solution because I think your blog is good.)

One of the things that's occurred to me during my testing is that if it could be as stunningly easy to configure as Tailscale, it'd be great to use some kind of SSH gateway that plugged into everyone's SSO instead of managing a bunch of SSH keys. Plus, being able to have admins confirm privilege escalation requests might make it easier for me to convince some higher-ups to give the developers I support sudo rights.

There are products that support things like this, but I think the use case is a natural extension of what people are likely already using Tailscale for, and it would be a killer feature to integrate.
I hadn't heard this before, could you provide a source or examples?
Ruby Next makes modern Ruby code run in older versions and implementations
Target having a GitHub org has bolstered my future use of Target pickup orders. Didn’t know Target open sourced tech, love to see it.
If you've seen what photoshop can do you wouldn't say that's a dismissive statement.
What's unclear is is SafariViewController[0] qualifies as an external link under the ruling, or if it required the act of the foreground app changing to a browser app. From the ruling[1]:

> The Developer Agreement prohibits third party in-app purchasing systems other than
Apple’s IAP. The Court did not enjoin that provision but rather enjoined the prohibition to
communicate external alternatives and to allow links to those external sites.

I also wonder if just another app would work, eg. perhaps the shopify app[2] could be used as a payment broker in the future.

0: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/800893255091879969/90...

1: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.36...

2: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/shop-package-order-tracker/id1...
France nuclear innovation was very linked to military force and bombs. Over the decades, skills where lost and biggest players in the field are failing companies deep in dept. The enregetical status quo looks good but there is absolutely no research in the field except fusion which is very far away. France lost his nuclear leadership times ago and there is absolutely no reason to wait for innovation here. The risk of a nuclear disaster in the center of e
Europe is not to dismiss, with 55 aging reactors across the territory. Wasted genius ressources by politics 101.
The Raid5/6 might not matter, if they are running on AWS with local NVMe storage, as defect hardware will kill the VM anyways, and how often do they get a read checksum error?
"The Internet has no cap to concurrent users, while also providing each user with an individual sense of “presence”"

While every user may have a presence, some users are more equal than others. Not every user has a site on the internet that other users can visit/interact with.
Why should any developer care about supporting Safari? Chrome and Firefox support most (all?) of the current web standards. Every site I use works on both. I don't hear any concerns about Brave, Edge or Opera either. How is it that Safari is the only broken browser these days?

As for 'acceptable' errors, I find software to be pretty reliable these days. I remember way more things being messed up back in the day...
Sorry about leaving your program suspended - I believe that was because of a bug that should be fixed now https://github.com/benfred/py-spy/issues/390 =(
Poor people who can't afford e.g. smart water heaters will pay the high spot price.
It’s only worth it if it’s cheaper than alternative low or no carbon technologies.
Thanks, that explains it as I use Firefox. That is surely a very odd decision to have it fail to with Chrome/Chromium without a plugin. I can see why it'd make people a bit suspicious as there is no reason for it other than to force the use of a plugin when it isn't necessary.
I remember viewing the source on my bank's online banking site a few years ago - self-hosted jQuery was their only dependency. I guess the risk for them is high enough to not branch out into npm.
People do have, in certain situations, the ability to sell their constitutional rights. You sell your right to free speech when you sign an NDA. You can't sell yourself into slavery because slavery itself is illegal.

Slavery itself is also somewhat of a special case because entering into a contract requires the ability for each party to seek redress or other appropriate methods of enforcement. But once a slave, all personal agency is lost and therefore the enslaved party is no longer on equal grounds with respect to having the contract honored. It is an inherently paradoxical contract.

Contrast this with selling your right to free speech with an NDA: you still have access to all the methods of enforcement and redress if disagreements about the terms arise while the contract is in effect.
My desperate hope is that we end up paying people for creative content. Not grinding.

I used to play D&D with a group of 8. We took turns being DM, but none of us were all that great at it. Well, picture how much we would pay to have someone else be our DM. $10 an hour? Could easily change someone's life, depending on the part of the world.

Picture mini games that are engaging.

Picture interacting with an NPC that has rich conversation trees. At some point, it's a novel or better.

I dunno, man, I hope we do a good job of rewarding creative people in the future, because I can't see how the value of manual labor will be above $0. Robots will replace everything that's not creative, and a lot of things that are.
In the US the EBR I melted down as did the Enrico Fermi reactor in Detroit. Both of them were put back together and operated after the fuel damage.

EBR II and FFTF operated with no major problems in the US, but the Clinch River project was canceled. However the US has failed to construct a mixed-oxide fuel facility which is the most developed fuel for a fast reactor (e.g. pure metal and nitrides are both options but oxide fuels seem to require a high energy ball mill that can turn harmless silica into deadly nanoparticles that can wreck your lungs, just imagine what it does with Pu)

MONJU burned up in Japan.

The Russians have documented hundreds of sodium fires in the BN-350 and BN-400 but they would say fires happen in industrial facilities all the time and people just put them out. They turned on the BN-800 in 2016 and it is now consuming nuclear weapons plutonium.

Old literature suggests that the capital cost of the LMFBR is inevitably worse than the LWR. I'm not sure that's right. Both the LWR and coal burning power plants have been uncompetitive since 1980 against gas turbines for power generation. A closed-cycle gas turbine would fit in the employee break room of the turbine house of a nuclear reactor, but it is an undeveloped technology. A high temperature reactor with a gas turbine powerset could potentially be an order of magnitude smaller than an LWR, not have high pressures, have no risk of a steam explosion -- I think next generation nuclear is not worth pursuing unless the capital cost can be brought radically down with those factors.

There is a precedent for commercial licensing of the LMFBR in the US. Terrestrial Energy (Bill Gates's company) is making noises about building one but they are holding their cards so close to their chest that it's hard to believe they have a realistic plan to do it.
You could argue the same for racism or nazis or whatever as well. It's not like someone suddenly wakes up one days and decides to go to nazi school. It requires indoctrination just as religion.

As a side note, indoctrinations are quicker and more efficient when done younger.
Apart from hours, special effects shops have been known to deal with such entertainment as people losing a mouthful of teeth during fight scene mocap or "dealing with James Cameron".
Hopefully not one of those:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattenom_Nuclear_Power_Plant
From what I saw, Rittenhouse was using a pretty standard open carry configuration, with the rifle held in front of him, pointed down, and secured with a sling. Generally that is safer than slinging it across your back, because you are better able to control the muzzle direction and maintain control of the firearm if someone tries to grab it, like the video and physical evidence shows Rosenbaum doing.

I get your point about the situation after shots had been fired though, and that's where it starts getting sort of weird from a self-defense perspective. It's entirely possible that both Rittenhouse and his latter assailants could successfully claim self-defense. In the case of Rittenhouse, it would be because his previous actions were lawful self-defense, and then he was attacked again, with an imminent danger of serious bodily harm or death. For Grosskreutz and Huber, they could argue that they thought Rittenhouse was an imminent danger to the people nearby. That would be a tougher sell I think though, given how Rittenhouse was retreating towards the police line, and neither of them actually witnessed the first incident.
Babel Street, the firm selling data to the IRS, seems to say they don't have to follow the California CCPA requirements around data access or data deletion. Their only mention of CCPA is obtuse but implies it's their customers' responsibility: https://www.babelstreet.com/privacy-policy

My understanding was that if a company has my personal data and is selling it, the CCPA requires that they allow me to put in a request to access that data or delete it. Babel Street seems to be saying that it's their customers who needs to follow these requirements not them.

Is this legit? Tons of other big sketchy personal data brokers actually allow you to access and delete your data under the CCPA even though they have the same customer arrangement. Acxiom for example: https://www.acxiom.com/data-privacy-ethics/california-consum...
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No, it is more nuanced than that and depends on the nature of the information. Banks hold massive amounts of highly personal information about their customers, and this knowledge is an unavoidable consequence of the business relationship. I think most people would agree that the government needs a warrant to obtain this information, even if the bank was willing to sell it anyway.
Globalization will take more cultures with it. You see everyone with a freaking nike shirt and adidas shoes.

> I know language is not ethnicity…

It is definitely part of ethnicity just like religion, customs, and dance, etc.
Please read my other reply published nearby: we are not embarked into an efficiency race. Efficiency (of any renewable-source based system) is a mean, not an end.

As for efficiency:
https://www.vicat.com/news/vicat-schlumberger-new-energy-cea...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187661021...

> Salt cavern storage doesn’t change the math

"Total on- and offshore European hydrogen storage potential estimated at 84.8 PWhH2." is pretty significant and pertinent.
I have to admit that I've worn a skirt around the house from time to time. It can be pretty comfortable.
Doesn't it greatly depend what those exports are. Like, if the US exports food to China and China exports plastic toys and fast fashion the numbers alone don't tell the whole story.

I know China produces electronics, but I thought most electronics components were made in Taiwan, not China proper.

Meanwhile, they look at US orders for manufacturing equipment, without comparing it to Chinese orders for manufacturing equipment. It seems obvious that we're in a "produce consumer goods, don't make large capital expenditures" economy.
Color me surprised that Unity had 1.6 billion.
Isn't Brave essentially a Chromium skin?
Mobile safari… since it’s the only engine on iOS … that ends up being a good chunk of users depending on your user base probably many try to use your website on an iPhone … if blink engine was allowed by apple on iOS - safari would die tomorrow
It's really not just "trendy". Safari is the bane of my existence. On Big Sur, our WebGL app was occassionally sporadically rendering floating objects and black primitives into infinity on our CEOs laptop.

On the plus side, our competitor's product didn't work at all. So I guess it's not all bad.

In this case, Catalina had worked fine, and upgrading to Monterey fixed the issue. So props to Apple for fixing the problem. However, at the same time, our app worked flawlessly in both Firefox and Chrome running on the same hardware. Granted, it's not as simple as pointing the finger at Safari. The issue was a combination of Safari's behaviour paired with less than perfect graphics drivers.

Although, this is just one example. Mobile Safari not supporting full screen APIs on iPhone, but supporting them on iPad is just, well, weird. Is that a conscious effort to cripple the web on iPhone, or could they just not figure out the UX?
I get the impression that a majority of the commenters here are (somehow) not aware that there is a deep body of legal precedent interpreting 4A.
While the terrorism charges are a very American dramatic overreach...

In my country, if you were HIV positive, knew it, and had unprotected sex without telling your sexual partner, you'd be charged with grievous bodily harm with reckless disregard, which carries a penalty of up to 7 years imprisonment.

Now, if her defense was "I told the Police I had COVID-19 as they were trying to arrest me, and they ignored me", then that's a good defense to these charges.
"49 percent was asking for a gradual exit from nuclear energy" isn't exactly "not opposing".
Narconomics. Enjoy.

https://www.econtalk.org/tom-wainwright-on-narconomics/
Just curious but are the other better game engines like unreal or somesuch? I'm looking into game dev and wondering what to get started on.
Speaking as someone who started in Java and moved to Julia, my experience has been that a lack of concrete subtyping has generally not made an impact on difficulty with respect to problem modeling (at least, not relative to Java or other languages with concrete subtyping). Moreover, some of the emergent properties of Julia’s type system (the “Tim Holy Trait Trick,” etc) enable problem modeling in different — and perhaps more “Julian” — ways, modeling by behavior rather than structure.

That said, if you absolutely need concrete subtyping in Julia, you can emulate it for structure with the tricks described in this (old but gold) Chris Rackauckas blog post: https://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/type-dispatch-design-pos...
All I'm going to say is always look at where these 'scientists' are getting their funding from. I'm not a climate denier, but realize much of the NGD is really a redistribution of funds. Driving EV machines will still require electricity, most of which is still generated by fossil fuels. Then there's the quagmire of what to do with spent batteries. The Earth has heated and cooled over millions of years, so I really doubt we're at the point of no return.
Interviewing a person is not "search and seizure"; the two things are categorically different.
I tried it out and not bad. I like there are no cluttering ads like some search engines. The side scrolling is a little tough to quickly see the results.

And as most said, the forced extension needs to go. It is basically saying if you use Chrome go away.
I’ll admit I’m inferring a lot from a single anecdote here: but from when I toured Weta the guide we had seemed very honest in saying the high proportion of contract employees was because of the unpredictable nature of the work. She’d work there for 6mo, then a project would wrap, and she’d have to go find a different job. Hopefully being able to come back if/when the next project came a long.

That’s a very different experience to the rite of passage a lot of devs (myself included) have taken because there’s high constant demand and high day rates.
Last year Apple made ~64 billion dollars from the App Store.
Presumably this will decrease significantly if other payment options are possible, due to increased competition.
Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/08/apples-app-store-had-gross-s...
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That arrangement sounds great for the countries with enrichment facilities and a raw deal for everyone else. What country would want to have that dependancy for
basic energy needs?