skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats! It's absolutely refreshing to dust off an old hobby and do something with it!

I'm only 28, but during the pandemic I decided to dust off my old electronics hobbies that fell by the wayside when the mobile app boom started.

Middle school and early high school me thought I was going into robotics, but the iPhone came out the year I started high school. When the App Store came out the following year, the smartphone revolution started, and about a year later I went all in on mobile apps and gaming for the rest of high school and my college years. Contract iOS and Unity3D work got me through college.

It's somewhat ironic, because I haven't written or worked on a single mobile app since I left college (nor have I owned an Apple device). I ended up taking all of the knowledge of embedded Linux systems I gained doing robotics and started doing esoteric high performance storage virtualization systems as the starting point of my career. Never saw that one coming.

I hadn't really done any serious hobby electronics in nearly a decade, but I've continued to lug all of the equipment around every time I move. So, I dusted off some old hardware and got hooked once again, only to find out that the AVR is old news and everyone is into ESP32 and ARM these days :)
This falls under the 4th amendment. Certainly under the purview of the Supreme Court.

I'm not going to pretend to know what the ruling would/should be according to the 4th amendment, though.

> Do you really want five unelected, unaccountable lawyers deciding this matter?

No but that's what happens when Congress is so split right now.
They're really quite different in my experience, but the difference is not one of availability so much as it is Python developers (mostly) following traditional software engineering best practices. I write almost all my hobby projects in Python. Very rarely do I incur a dependency tree involving more than a dozen projects while doing so.

The rm -rf vulnerability is essentially a problem with a chain only being as strong as its weakest link. If any of the maintainers in the hundreds of node dependencies your project uses is malevolent, you're screwed. Hence, the security of the chain depends much more on the number of links it has rather than its innate strength.

Even large and complex dependencies tend to be well engineered in Python. BeautifulSoup is a widely used library for loosely parsing HTML. It requires only Python and an internal library. lxml is another HTML parser (which BS can optionally use), and it requires only Python and a couple of C libraries. Even an entire web framework (Flask) uses only 4 Python dependencies directly and only one of these (the Jinja template engine) has recursive dependencies on other Python packages. All told it's about 10 Python packages needed in total.

Or consider this, if you want an example of a trivial command line tool: the Python tldr[1] client uses only 3 libraries as recursive dependencies. The Rust client, tealdeer, has 119. The official nodejs client has, if I'm counting correctly, 603.

[1] https://tldr.sh/
You can always take control back. I have a fair few Ubuntus lying around whilst I use Arch on my laptop and workstations.

Ubuntu has /etc/pam.d/common-auth which looks like the main module to define your intent. Strip out the comments and see what you have left - read the comments first! Copy the whole lot somewhere and login to another console with root rights. Now you can play.

What would you like to do?
You are an ISP, and managing that hardware is your core competency. For every other CTO, saving money by moving to on-prem is picking up pennies in front of steamrollers. Just because you spend $3 million/year on AWS doesn't mean that same organization can turn around can hire 10 sysadmins and do everything themselves; anyone who thinks they can simply execute well just because they have a big checkbook is in for a rude awakening.

For a growing company I would always weigh the organizational overhead of moving on-prem to the actual cloud costs. If your goal is in the next year to grow revenue from 50MM to 100MM, then a company wide engineering effort to move to bespoke platform to save 5-10MM just isn't a good use of time (keep in mind you are trying to hire and release new features).

It's not that it's impossible; it's that trying to both scale up your business and provide infrastructure to yourself is just unnecessarily increasing the difficulty on your businesses execution.
Just keep in mind that some of the recommendations could've been dropped 20 to 30 years ago.

I don't disagree, they make some good suggestions - but take TCPWrappers for example. CIS will suggest you use it.

That predates firewalls, and requires applications be built/linked against the library.

These days, not worth the time/effort. Do the default-drop policy they suggest, and carry on!
From the article: "The VFX artists will be spun out into a new entity, “Weta FX”, which Peter Jackson will continue to own the majority of."

There are two different Weta companies being talked about. Weta Digital, which makes VFX tools and does VFX, is being split. The Weta Digital name and the VFX tools, assets, and software engineering have been bought by Unity. Weta FX has been created, is not owned by Unity, and will continue doing VFX.

(There is also a third big Weta company, Weta Workshop, that does physical props, costumes, models, etc.)
We need an FCRA for data. We need the ability to rescind the data if it’s a third-party.
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It's all well and good for the attempt but just wait until the company's with more then $50 million in gross receipts over the last 3 years send their lobbyists in to assist with rewriting it to make it more beneficial to the people.
And then they are violently removed from the populous like the single journalist who reported on the Panama Papers

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/16/malta-car-bomb...
~~And which storage system is that?~~ (parent post was edited with links after my response)

Lithium ion battery production is at only ~400 GWh per year. By comparison, the US uses 12,500 TWh of electricity daily, or just over 500 GWh per hour. And this is only electricity, not total energy usage. Attempting to provision widespread lithium ion storage would lead to demand shock and skyrocketing prices. Not to mention it would involve delaying transition from ICE vehicles to EVs.

You're right in some scenarios: if a country has extensive dam networks, then yes renewables + storage could be cheaper. Dams provide immense energy storage capacity. Close the turbines when solar and wind are producing, open them when they're not. If a country is blessed with extensive hydroelectric potential then great.

But hydroelectricity is a matter of geography, and plenty of regions do not have the right geography to construct dams. Lithium ion battery storage is not cheaper than nuclear, and is not produced at sufficient scale to be viable for grid storage. Other proposals like hydrogen storage, flywheels, etc. have not actually been deployed to the grid so we have no real-world cost history for these systems. Somebody writing a white paper claiming $X/KWh of storage and actually building a system are two very different things.
The interesting bit is the results are not entirely negative. They found one set of IRAS observations which could be compatible with a low-mass version of planet 9. (Or could be any of a number of other things.) But still!
With every government in the world buying US finantial assets that should lend even more support to the idea of loading up on assets yourself and riding the wave indefinitely, if the whole entire world is so overleveraged in American markets they will also do nothing to rock this boat since everyone around the world has been eating well betting on the market.
I don't buy it

Btw, just recently: https://www.neimagazine.com/news/newsukraine-agrees-to-const...

US, ukraine, trump, 2019, doesn't that ring bells?
I'm hoping China will leverage this and actually make some real modular mini nuke plants and make the US jealous enough to do the same. The USA has been stuck in the 60s as far as nuclear tech goes. Unpragmatic "environmental" groups have all but killed it here out of Luddite fears of teh nuclear radiation.
> We need a law that for megaprojects, local governments and/or federal agencies must respond to requests within X days, or be fined an escalating per-day rate.

Other than the fact that the federal government fining the federal government has no actual effect, all that making a high-legal stakes response timeline with impossible to concretely define completeness requirements would do is increase litigation and litigation costs around such projects.
First thing I noticed when getting a rotating monitor and put it in portrait mode was that reading speed went up. Not sure if it's less head movement and consequently neck strain, but anecdotally this helped my reading speed. Not sure about writing.
Off-topic but I might get an answer here:

I used to have a great recipe (I) called "15 minute cookies". The total time from first thinking about making them to eating - including preparation and cooking - was 15 minutes. Which was almost always irresistible, so I often made them. Somehow I lost the recipe. Does anyone know what that recipe might be? Thank you!
Why did glacial cycles intensify a million years ago?
Does anyone know what day Tech Inquiry provided these documents to The Intercept?

Seems kinda convenient we get our nice exciting "adversarial" article about this four days /after/ the infrastructure bill passes and we are locked in to have tons of new bank surveillance and like 80,000 new IRS agents...
A lot responses here seem to make the embedded assumption that users pay the "advertised price" for storage and compute instances from AWS. When you are at that scale, there are presumably closely negotiated agreements that result in much lower than normal pricing but require large volume commitments and clear ramping projections. Thus the arb between doing it all yourself versus AWS is probably quite different than it might seem from the outside.
> A truly banal review. The only thing I learned from it is that the author has read Ludwig Wittgenstein's Wikipedia entry. If you're interested in Wittgenstein, forget the Tractatus and PI, and instead get a copy of the blue book.

Why not remedy the banality by saying what makes the Tractatus (all that I've read of his) a poor read, and the blue book a good read, for someone interested in Wittgenstein?
>No company should ever spend more mitigating a risk than the potential cost they could incur from the risk.

I've heard hospital administrators make this argument after I've warned them about their security infrastructure being vulnerable to ransomware. I'm not convinced.
> NFT can't prove ownership of anything but itself

That's why the artist has to publicly attest which NFTs he approves

> There isn't even a uniqueness check

Even if there were, it wouldn't change anything, it's too easy to change one bit, or the metadata, and voilá, a new totally different digital asset that looks exactly the same to the naked eye

Again, none of these work without the artist approval of the NFT itself, that's the only thing that adds value to it
Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science
I'd agree that the 4th Amendment ought to cover it.

It isn't unambiguous, though. It isn't hard to see how a lawyer could point out that "and to forever secure the people, their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against all unreasonable searches and seizures under the guise of law" says nothing about purchasing data from a 3rd party. This wasn't really something that would have come up in the 18th century.

Extending the letter to match the spirit is why reflection is built into the runtime of the current constitution.
Normally there are multiple reactors and scheduled shutdowns. This is true for any power source. I'm sure there are differences in maintenance efficiency vs coal or hydro, but it's a different question than short term fluctuation that are a characteristic of wind and solar.
I am pretty sure that Zuckerberg has already attended such a concert or similar in high-quality VR and knows that it is possible. It is expensive now, but that price will come down.

I have tried out some VR, and apart from the thick cable coming out of my gear, I was blown away by how cool it is. Not that cool that I would really want to use it currently, but hey, that will certainly improve.

It reminds me a bit of my sister. She was swearing that she will never need another phone than her Nokia more than a decade ago when I showed her my iPhone 3G. Yeah, right :-)
U.S. consumer borrowing accelerates strongly in September
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I like the spirit :) keep up the good work!

By the way, do you have a blog or a github account?

I am quite comfortable finding useful information and lately I have collected a good amount of game development libraries and resources that could help me become a better programming adventurist.
Judiciary doesn’t make laws. Every controversial ruling that people worry the SCOTUS could be permanently solved by passing a law or amending the constitution. But if that happens then lawmakers no longer have the talking point to use when running for re-election every 2/6 years so both parties they a shared incentive to keep the status quo.

If you don’t put it into law/constitution then a new set of justices could reverse the ruling in the future.
Obfsproxy.

You can also use bridges, which are unlisted Tor nodes.

https://support.torproject.org/censorship/censorship-7/
They actually run on the headset. It's a full laptop equivalent.
> It fizzled due to FUD.

You're saying there were no actual, serious problems with nuclear plants?

> Existing plants work and are defensible.

That's survivorship bias to a degree: Te plants that work and are defensible are the plants you see. It's also a bias of sunk costs: The surviving plants could have been way over-budget and late, but it's still worth operating them.
Great insight ... most Bibles are formatted with thin columns as well. Maybe why it is easier to memorize as well. I got to try this for writing! I don't know why I didn't think of this.
We’ll what does anyone expect when he biggest shareholder says they’re gonna sell their shares… could’ve been worse. Might well be if it comes to pass.
how important was being able to disable postgres full page writes under zfs? that was almost a throw-away line in the article but could be really important for some pg workloads i'd think? certainly got my attention
For many (including me), Apple products are real pocket computers that do everything we wish. Apple products are built with a set purpose in mind. I couldn't care less about side-loading or hacking random software onto these devices. You can't expect products built for the masses to be suitable for a minority use case.
VFX houses avoided opening their common tools for way too long, especially after moving from SGI to Linux around the turn of the century. To their detriment, constantly on the border of bankruptcy. Blender is only just starting to get used.

They don't use much Apple or OSX.
A cynic would say they changed because Azure is now their revenue driver.

Strong developer relations are now life and death when Microsoft is pitching Azure to cynical developers choosing between Digital Ocean and their competitors.

Before it was Windows ecosystem lock in that brought home the bacon.

Now it's convincing corporate IT to choose Azure over AWS.
They call them e-fuels.. but the overall efficiency is low. There is a recent Engineering Explained video about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d0MPg7DxbY

But liquid fuels are incredibly convenient, so maybe they will be worth the high price in certain applications. For example in jet engines for airplanes.
Does anyone know of a PDF reader than will show three pages side by side? And allow the right arrow to flip forward by one page on each press?
Why are so many people so cruel to their dogs?
I’m happy with AltStore, thank you.
Alterate headline – Tesla erases ~10 days worth of gains, still up 30% this month and 150% this year.
But, nothing is being searched or seized here; it seems like people gave up their personal data, ignored or didn't read a ToS, and companies are selling it - not being forced to give it up. I don't like it, but does it mean it's illegal?
I hear ya. A landlady could very well find out someone is an Antivaxxer who lost their good job and took a lesser job and now has degraded credit and may deny the lease or may want bigger advance.

What do you suppose is a better tool you have or would build which hides this person’s history but can vouch for their creditworthiness or lack of it?
Toxic Positivity Is Real, and Annoying
Ah! Yeah you're right... I guess the lockdown has given me a bit of a bias.

Slightly on topic speaking of commercial real estate, I was sad to hear York Butter Factory is in liquidation :(
In CS, part of being an expert is knowing what you don't know. Each incorrect prediction or contradiction decreases trust and legitimacy. I'm disappointed in our institutions for marketing the COVID shot as a one-time vaccine. What was the basis for thinking this wouldn't happen?
The uptime (or capacity factor) for fission plants is the highest of any energy source, at over 90% [1] [2]. By comparison, wind and solar at at 35% and 25% respectively.

1. https://www.statista.com/statistics/183680/us-average-capaci...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor#Worldwide
Looks cool, bud! I was in a similar situation a while back and published a game too. It never made any money, mostly because I didn't market it too hard, but it was one of those milestones that I accomplished just to say that I did. :)

Heads up! You misspelled 'distractions' in your screenshot.
Julie Green, Artist Who Memorialized Inmates’ Last Suppers, Dies at 60
It is because when we wrote the parser for it our goal was to make it braindead simple.
I thought they were supposed to disrupt the whole industry of evaluating building structures while developing a react app to drive trains remotely as a side hustle?
Github has a similar thing called an account "successor" you can setup. More info here:
https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-an...
I was once in a job where I was solo on call for tens of thousands of cores globally and at worst we had like 2000 alerts in a week. These limits seem quite high to me.
>> 3. Proliferation risk?

> None? It is France. They already have nuclear weapons. But while we're talking about it, Megatons to Megawatts[2] has been the best deproliferation project in history, reducing the number of nuclear warheads by over 20,000.

More nuclear trained personnel, designs, materials, and plants mean more opportunities for someone to acquire technology or materials.
Amendment IV doesn't actually expressly include a warrant requirement for anything.

It requires searches and seizures to be reasonable.

It also creates requirements for the basis of any warrants that are issued.

It is a series of Supreme Court rulings that infers a general warrant requirement with some exceptions from that text.
You really need a video as the first thing you see so it is easier to grasp what the game is about.

EDIT: The video from your 13bananas site should be the first thing in the App Store page.

Looks very well done, still confused about what the goal is other than flying around planets.
> If you elaborately cheat your way through all online classes all the way through undergrad, that seems mostly bad for you.

As a teacher, I would love to be able to dispense with tests except as informative diagnostic tools. Unfortunately, I am required to give at least a final exam by my university, and that and other grade-based requirements come from the confounding of what the university's mission should be, which is education of the interested, with what most (at least US) universities' missions have become, which is credentialling (of the often unwilling—and who can blame them, when the requirement is artificially foisted upon them?).

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any way to get away from that drift towards credentialling that doesn't involve a shrinking student body, and administrators are addicted to the idea that we so badly need an ever-increasing student body to prop up … well, salaries for administrators, for example, whom we clearly need because without them we might not do so well on this endless treadmill of pointless dedication to growth.
Intel Optimizes Facebook DLRM, 8x Speedup (Deep Learning Recommendation Model)
I'm not sure what this is competing with in it's current incarnation.

I need corresponding mobile phone applications for any alert product I intend to use that can override DND/volume etc. on my phone so I can get woken up at night and respond to problems.
Love the idea!
Keep it up guys.
If it's built for devs then I expect it to have an API. Does it have one?
I'm working on this. Though when I initially talked to some vc-adjacent types and accelerator mentors, they over-indexed on current dating apps. It's my belief that if one does indeed crack interpersonal chemistry, that'd be a major disruption...
What a moron.
I'm not going to tell you your business, but you're not improving your 'making it' quotient by adding a piece of middleware to the process.

At best, it's subtly hostile. At worst, it's highly annoying and increases my threat surface by introducing Yet Another Browser Extension that is exceedingly vulnerable to supply chain attacks.
...and nobody thought of dictionary attacks when it was designed.

So it was world readable.
> I think OP means setting up your own DC

This is far more fiscally irresponsible for most companies than just using AWS.
Is the printing press compatible with this "harm principle"? With "natural rights"? Is the internet? Is wordpress? Would you deny the basic empathy of the people who created these things?
Always specify in order "sudo rm -rf opt /" so that opt is fully deleted before the / deletion causes too many failures?
John Carmack predicts a trend towards integrated graphics, unified memory (2011)
> Nuclear fuel is refined to about ~20% fissile material. Nuclear weapons typically need over 80% or 90%. Countries would need to build their own enrichment facilities to bring nuclear fuel to weapons grade uranium, and then further refine that to plutonium. If they had such facilities they'd be able to refine natural uranium to weapons grade anyway.

I've wondered about that. On one hand, the reasoning above makes sense. On the other, people who know far more than I do say there is proliferation risk. I suspect there is something I don't understand.
I suspect the bigger issue is public indifference. Only a small percentage of voters anywhere on the political spectrum vote on privacy as an issue.
May I ask what is "dishonest" about what I wrote? It is my opinion and I am entitled to it (yet). And how did it "shut down a legitimate question"?
Eh, no, it is world readable because even though programs that manipulate/read hashes are privileged, programs that map <uid>:<gid>:<name> are not. This is still the same. If you want to be able to use "ls" as a non-privileged user and see names, you need to be able to access /etc/passwd.
I'd very much rather have a way to make a new iPhone support CUPS. :(
There is some kind of continuing relationship between the two: Weta FX will keep contributing assets to Weta Digital's (i.e. Unity's) asset library. Maybe that's in exchange for being able to continue to use the software? I haven't seen the deal spelled out anywhere.

From the Unity blog post [1]: "Another exciting element of this acquisition is the asset library we’ll inherit from Weta Digital, which includes urban and natural environments, flora and fauna, humans, man-made objects, materials, textures, and more. The WetaFX team will continue their industry-leading VFX work for major film and TV productions and feed into this asset library for years to come."

[1] https://blog.unity.com/news/welcome-weta-digital
I believe SumatraPDF could do this.