skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminded me of a story about the launch of WebTV by Microsoft back in the 90s.

My memory is blurry but essentially the bug was in the signup or login code. When displaying an error to the user, the memory address to read the message from was pointing to an array of banned words. This lead to the user seeing no details of the error but instead just the word “f*k”.

Unfortunately the only reference I can find to it online is someone also trying to find it and failing: https://dotclue.org/archive/2006/12/002664/
COP26 agrees new global climate deal
around my neck of the woods the most common banks, like bank of america, regions, fifth third - afaik - all charge over draft fees.

not sure that late fees or interest fee apply, unless you consider things like paying BAM late on a mortgage payment - surely has a late fee.. perhaps if you have one of those account like. free checking so long as your balance stays above 1500 or/and you use your debit card 15 times a month to push fee onto retailers.. if these are not met you could say it'd be like a late fee.

I've seen news stories that have discussed discovery of some banks structuring debits to an account with the same 24 hour period that would cause an overdraft.. so take out all the payments and then apply your deposit after those are settled - now that is super extra shady.

personally I'd just prefer them to bounce back and refuse a payment if there was not enough money in the account. Although I was charged for a bounced/bad check someone had given me at one point, so I'm guessing they could find a way to charge for similar.

Maybe I am missing the qualifier in "'private' banks" in that statement - but I've seen a lot of people pay a lot of overdraft fees and have accounts closed for them, not sure what "private" banks don't do such things, or how common uncommon.
UDP doesn't have a notion of key/value headers of arbitrary data (like HTTP does). This is all the metadata that UDP packets include: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol#IPv4_ps...

If cooperation of intermediary networks is assumed, these attacks can be crippled by convincing ISPs to deny outbound UDP packets claiming source IPs from outside their networks.
a carbon neutral future will never come as long as wealth inequality exists at the levels they're currently at.

all carbon negative or neutral actions will disproportionally harm the poor and middle class who will use political power in order to prevent said changes.

i'd love to be wrong, but the evidence is there.

reusing glass, though is environmentally friendly, would drastically increase the price of beverages. it's not going to happen at scale.
Pentagon should just order it's chips from China.

It should also move vehicle assembly there, it's much cheaper.

In fact, they should outsource everything outside it's core competency - strategy.
That's not what I was talking about. Before async we had one ecosystem. Now we have at last three: non-async, Tokio, async-std

My point is, the ecosystem experience has degraded since the async MVP is stabel.
How Do Linkers Work
Worse, $39K/year is extrapolated to full-time equivalent, which the job is not. Per the article:

But school bus drivers don’t work year-round, full-time hours. “We’re only guaranteed four hours of pay a day,” Steele said.

There are no paid holidays or sick days, she and other bus industry experts say. Benefits vary from company to company, and there’s no guaranteed work at all in summer. “Spring break is all unpaid. Every teacher-compensatory day, every snow day, any time they cannot pay us they will,” Steele said. She added that a recent, failed unionization effort among the Robbinsdale bus drivers started in part as a fight for snow-day pay.
I was planning to write a point by point reply but then I realise that the simple fact that we are in 2021 and you feel the need to take this extremely contrarian and slightly disingenuous position to argue that the Beatles are less culturally relevant that I’m implying is the ultimate proof to my point. They are so culturally relevant that people have strong opinion about them 50 years after they disbanded.
School districts have no money to spare. Due to wealth inequality, the fruits of prosperity are accumulating somewhere inaccessible.
Everybody should prefer vi over Emacs.

But does vi have an teledildonics mode?

Seriously, I agree with what you're saying but I did a double take when I got to that part, like "why did he slip that in there?".

Life is short and I agree you can't do it all but a society that facilitates people's ability to do all of those things, plus learn some basic coding and all the other things you didn't list is still a worthy goal and one that I want to live in.

Trying to do as much or even some of what's on your list is also a worthy goal. Maybe it's enough to just say everyone should try to never stop learning new things and challenging themselves to be more tomorrow than they are today or were yesterday.
A new way to store thermal energy (2017)
Competition brings out the best in people. I know it does for me. After the Beatles broke up, they weren't competing with each other anymore, and, well, that was about it for the great songs.

There's also the Paul showing his music to John, and John telling him it was crap and to do better. And vice versa. After the breakup, who is going to have the nerve to tell Paul that his latest creation is crap?
6.9886 is not a floating point number - it’s just a number. Floating point is but one representation for approximation of real numbers, so called fixed point is another one. Having said that I believe the DX7 does use a floating point representation internally since floating point addition can be done with adds and bit shifts - both easy things to do in hardware.
Possum robbing bank
In many countries kids walk to school.

And walk home for lunch.
Maybe it's stored as a fixed point? 4 bits for the signed whole number portion and 4 for the fractional part?
Having it available via Nixpkgs could be cool! :D
That’s not right, either, since he is speaking in the present tense and comparing his current local high school’s attempts to emulate what Los Alamos high currently does:

> Reminds me of the fact that Los Alamos High School has the highest test scores in New Mexico. Our local high school tried copying their schedule, in search of the secret. Didn’t work. I know of an approach that would, but it takes about fifteen years.
Shouldn't those short trajets be done by train instead? Any flight less than 2 hours should be a train IMO ( well except if it crosses a sea of course).
>That really sounds like the kind of topsy-turvy logic you get out of a company pushing plastic

or just the topsy-turvy logic of a system that generally ignores the true cost of landfills. When throwing stuff out costs an amount that rounds to $0, systems will prioritize that.
Never heard of the boy who cried wolf, then?

The serial liar is probably lying. If he had anything of substance then he should pass it to someone with credibility.

Or, more likely, this is Hunter Biden's laptop, which disappeared once there was literally no substance.
It's even worse nowadays than it used to be, due to "Serverless" and "Infinite Scalability"/"Auto-scaling".

One of the most fascinating things I've read recently is the rise of "Denial-of-Capital" attacks.

Essentially, you DDoS a competitor, but not directly in the interest of just taking them offline.

Instead (hopefully) running up a massive cloud bill and putting them out of business. Or a similarly critical financial hit.

If you don't have billing limits enforced for all of your services, and you run auto-scale/serverless workloads in any part -- if someone can pass enough traffic to your services they can cause you potentially incredible financial grief.

Most recent (publicized) one I can think of is this one. Fathom Analytics attacks:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25194795

There was an initial cloud bill, but now they're paying $3,000/mo for AWS to have a Cloud Protection team on standby for them.

"$36,000 & my call with Fola"

"I don’t know anybody who has signed up for this $3,000/month service from AWS… it’s called AWS Shield Advanced. The big value of this service to us is that we have access to some of the world’s best DDoS mitigation experts. In the event of an attack, we can page them, and they’ll help us mitigate the attack, creating firewall rules, identifying bad actors, and offering advice. So instead of just two of us responding to DDoS attacks, we have genius engineers we can speak with, and that feels good."

Ouch.
We're talking in hypotheticals of course, but the effort to make headers real isn't just to fool people who would inspect, but also to fool corporate spam filters and email clients that would display big bold warnings over such an email.
> Reverse-engineering is not illegal (at least in Germany, to my knowledge).

Up until like 2 years ago or something reverse engineering was only legal for interoperability purposes AFAIK.
Amazing blog, glad I found it and the other articles look great too! Very interesting history of computing.

Can you use an arbitrary waveform generator to make these sounds accurate or differences nonexistent?

Do you think that good audio can be “solved”? I’ve heard of Harmon tuning and people’s preference for it, and how good speakers are all tuned the same but high end headphones don’t. I remember this person who knew electronic design destroying the credibility of head-fi. https://nwavguy.blogspot.com/ what do you think of forums like audio science and his findings?
There can be security issues when using encryption on top of compression. These attacks have been used against HTTPS.

I don't know if they apply to this specific case, but I assumed that the restic developers were being extra paranoid.
Glass bottles are also 10-20x heavier for capacity than aluminum or plastic bottles, like <60% content fraction vs >95%. Absolute amounts of that recycling energy inputs are apples and oranges, but with as much as 50% mass and 25% volume worth for delivered products having to be recovered in order for glass bottles to be recycled, or even reused, I can't picture microscopic oranges here.
> The Constitution is one of the most symbolic and important governance documents in the world

For the US, with their fetishisation of "Founding Fathers" and "The Constitution", yes. The rest of the world, really not so much.

Many other countries have realised that those things can and should be improved upon to correct original failures and mistakes. With the US Civil Religion, that sadly doesn't look likely there.

If i were American I'd pool money to lobby/fight for change, like a new constitution getting rid of obsolete and/or racist terrible ideas like the first past the post, weird elected officials ( judges, prosecutors, sheriffs) and fix abused things ( election funding, gerrymandering). Examples off the top of my head.
What to do with spent fuel rods is more of a political problem than a technical one. Read up on Yucca Mountain.

Current thinking is that the best approach to long term disposal is to find a cold hard-rock mountain where nothing has changed much in millions of years. Dig tunnels that are far above any possible flooding. Drill vertical holes in the tunnels. Package the nuclear waste in stainless steel thimbles, with the waste embedded in ceramic. Place thimbles in holes. After a few decades of nothing happening, fill in the tunnels.

Sweden and Finland, which have lots of stable, isolated hard rock mountains, are working on this. So is China, which now has two vitrification plants for nuclear waste.
That's not going to fly in a sprawling suburban school district in Minnesota.
Pfizer.
Covid in April 2020. One of my housemates infected me.
Vaccines in summer 2021.
Second time covid two months after vaccine. My brother, also Pfizer vaccinated, infected me.
First time was probably the original strain and second time delta. The second experience was worse, minor breathing problems.
I’m early 30s.
I don't know, we might need technology to save us from our seemingly bottomless stupidity. Maybe in 2050, Robo-Joe Manchin will secure a permanent government slush fund for Greater West Virginia coal mining and we'll have to stick a fusion-powered CO2 capture facility right next to where they burn it.
The Neutron is an exception - it is one of the few Behringer products that is an original creation and not a cheap clone of a reputed instrument. Also, there is nothing like it anywhere near that price range. I bought a Neutron, but I would feel dirty buying a clone of something that is still in production.

Some background, for those who don't yet know the controversy surrounding Behringer clones: https://www.factmag.com/2017/04/08/behringer-minimoog-synth-...
Memory is a finite resource too, but would you force your students to run all their programs in 12K of memory, just because that was how much memory I had in the machine I learned to program on in 1972?
Another anecdote of mailgun issues: we recently had an issue where a staging environment of ours started sending mails to real people.

We use this staging environment to do as-much-as-possible end-to-end dry-runs of real work, and thought that mailgun's sandbox functionality would be an ideal fit for this - we get to test everything up to and including the mailgun api to find regressions or other issues.

...until it started sending real mails; and when we talked to their support staff the response was the frankly astonishing "yeah, that's by design, sandboxes will send real mail out of the sandbox when under unusually high load" (paraphrased).

Seriously, W.T.F.

Now, of course we can and do do normal testing with entirely fake data, but data-distribution dependent failures happen; that's kind of the whole point of a staging environment. I'm not sure what the point of mailgun's sandbox even is if it's useless for staging.
My country doesn’t make that distinction. There was a year inbetween infections.
> No one wants the U.S. to pay all of its debt, the structure of the global economy today requires these debts to function. They’re basically cash equivalents.

That is an entirely valid point. But that is not what Graber is alluding to:

> American imperial power is based on a debt that will never-can never-be repaid. Its national debt has become a promise, not just to its own people, but to the nations of the entire world, that everyone knows will not be kept.

They are cash equivalents exactly because nobody believes the US will default. Basically, the exact opposite of what Graber is saying.

> The U.S dollar as a reserve currency is America's greatest strength (maybe not greatest but it’s up there) and weakness.

People keep saying that but I am yet to hear a compelling explanation of the tangible benefits the US actually derives from this arrangement. Graber points to seigniorage or tribute as he likes to call it. Ben Bernanke, obviously not a neutral source, claimed in 2016 that this is on the order of $20 billion a year[0]. The highest, albeit unsourced claim I could find puts it around $100 billion[1]. Either way, in the larger scheme of things, it is chump change.

> Anything that impedes the dollar as a global reserve currency is a significant risk to the U.S.

Even assuming that is true, it's hard to link it to the invasion of Iraq. Iraq started selling oil for Euros in 2000. This wasn't some rouge act of defiance, the switch happened under the aegis of the UN's food-for-oil program. If it actually was a significant risk, the US could have simply vetoed it at the Security Council.

> Grabers comments on Europe, Korea, China, etc. you mention- again not an unusual thing to say in my view. Debatable certainly, but not obviously wrong.

So, is a foreign county holding huge reserves of US treasuries a) The act of a vassal paying tribute to the US or b) The machination of a rival intended to turn the US into a client state? Certainly, they both can't be true.
I'm really glad that you find it interesting, it was my solo project for the long time. Feel free to contact me on discord stan#9673 if you need any help or just for the general shell-scripting related chat :)
The language that has been agreed on for coal and fossil fuel subsidies has been "further watered down as the result of an untransparent process".

>The Indian delegate has just called for a change to the wording of the draft climate agreement.

>He asks for the line to call for the "phase-down" not the "phase-out" of unabated coal power.

>This would be a major change to the text.

>The line around coal and fossil fuels is seen as unprecedented language in a COP agreement.
I don't really care about the politics of it, I'm just shopping for cheap gear and they're the only ones pushing out quality synths at affordable prices. If Moog or Korg were actually competing in the low-end business there might be a different story, but I couldn't care less when Behringer's stuff sounds so good.
If ammonia is safe enough for agricultural use, then it may also be sensible for other large-scale applications, like powering ships and industrial processes.

You definitely wouldn't want it in your car though.
No one who uses Emacs is actually getting laid.
Yet Amazon, Google, and others all use, produce and offer Linux themselves. How can logging into a server running Linux from a desktop/laptop/handheld computer running Linux be "suspicious" activity. Is Android not Linux.
I agree it’s more fun creating your own little games or problems to solve. Someone posted an elevator coding game here a couple months back[0]. Those are more fun to me. I found Euler too math-heavy and I spent most of my time in Wikipedia trying to understand the question.

[0] https://play.elevatorsaga.com/
I don't think this article is based in fact.

Glass cannot be infinitely recycled, as they point out later on, glass containers can be recycled, but not windows. it gets more contaminates in. Also colour glass needs to be treated separately.

They also seem to not understand that melting glass eats a fucktonne of power.

From my reading of this: https://www.nrel.gov/docs/legosti/old/5703.pdf Using 100% recycled glass only reduces energy use from 4.3 megawatt hour per ton(for virgin glass) to 3.8mwhr per ton

By far the biggest saving is to reuse the bottles.

unless i've missed something, this article is pure horse shit.
I'm not looking for anything in particular. I'm at a stage where I know a little about a lot and I don't have the expertise to know what I should dive deeper on. The first thing that comes to mind for you would be great.
well i guess we know what you like to do in your spare time!
"Only 22 Conservatives rebelled against the Government by voting for an opposition amendment to the Environment Bill, which would have forced a legal duty upon water companies not to pump sewage into waters.

...

'Initial assessments suggest that total elimination of discharges from storm overflows would cost anywhere between £150 billion and £650 billion.

This process could involve the complete separation of sewerage systems, leading to potentially significant disruption for homes, businesses and infrastructure across the country.'"

https://www.maldonandburnhamstandard.co.uk/news/19688229.joh...
Ask HN: Will we ever get JSON output for bash commands?
JSON has become a standard data interchange format now and almost all HTTP APIs operate using JSON. If we have JSON as output for bash commands, I think we can pass it to HTTP APIs or even use a CLI tool like JQ for json processing.
Decades of wage stagnation finally catching up to society
Yep. I don't feel bad about them ripping off the Moog Model D when your only other option is to buy an authentic recreation at 10-15x the price.
Psst. Github has all that stuff too. Just more because it is a growing and changing webapp instead of an ancient, solidified key value store.
I don't think the population argument makes sense. The number of lawsuits a company is exposed to will rise linearly with the number of bottles they sell, whereas their profits rise (due to fixed costs) more than linearly as a function of sales.
> Now imagine if something like MX records could also contain SSH keys for the mail users

Unfortunately that leads to this: now imagine said MX servers were under whatever political party you oppose.
I'm coming to the same conclusion. I was running Freenas and my file server died and then my files were locked up on that host. Luckily I was using Syncthing to the central file server but I just added new links between individual devices and then it didn't matter that my file server died (except for files that were not on any non-server device). File servers are annoying for disconnected usage. I was using duplicacy for backups but the storage format is annoying (not just regular files) and nothing is more reliable than regular file systems. So now with my new setup I'm using a Rpi4b with NixOS and ZFS data drive over a USB3 dual drive docking station with UASP. I can boot from a USB3 thumb drive (which I do) or an SSD in the docking station and still have another SATA port for the data drive. (The downside of this is RAID doesn't work over USB.)

I'll have two of the same RPi servers in different locations with all software running (like a hot swap) with Syncthing keeping them in sync while ZFS snapshots keeps a history. I can plug in a cold storage drive in the second dock slot once in a while too. I'll have a spare RPi4b on the shelf in case it dies. If my server dies I can take the off site hot backup home and reconfig the network and then it is my primary server. With remote duplicacy backup I'm days away from getting going again. So ZFS snapshots + Syncthing and cold storage is where I'm going (for home use). Also I want to stick with Linux because I set up Freenas 5 years ago and now I forget how to admin it so I'd rather just keep with ZFS and Linux (the zfs send from freenas to zfs recv on Linux works perfectly).
Much of FAANG runs on SAP. You may not touch it in your day-to-day work, but there is going to be a team dealing with it.
How would it do that?

Wifi isolation/tls everywhere means it cant snoop traffic.

Other machines running Linux means no correlation of telemetry. (even if they ran windows it would be complicated legally and technically to do what you say)

Even the scenario above if remotely possible you would sue and at discovery it would be interesting / you would win more in settlement.
Game theoretic problems? Could you elaborate?
^ Well said
Increasing the wall thickness of a pressure vessel has rapidly diminishing returns (especially in a brittle material like glass), increasing shipping weight for very little benefit. On the other hand, scanning for defects in reprocessing is easily automated with very low marginal costs.
sure, california is basically uninhabitable as it is, might as well leave the door open to make it official.
I can't get the point of the article. I don't think we ever reached a point that we recycled plastic so many times that it started loosing its property. Most of the applications of plastic doesn't even require best grade plastic.
In most places in the U.S., city planners have engineered that to be impossible.
If you're going to scam people anyway, infringing on a patent is probably not your biggest concern.