skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Black Fraude

We still use the first part from English, but the second is Fraud. Which is almost the same as the English word, but phonetically it is closer to how Brazilians say Black Friday.

It is almost the same, though. Black Fraud is a good enough approximation.
Where are you based if I may ask? Been watching which news?
Ports < 1024 are defined as "privileged", so it's not just a Windows thing.

What usually happens is that the process only has the necessary capability for a brief period to open the port and drops it immediately before processing any requests.
There is a "nearby" Shoe Industrial Area, in the major city I work. And in the city centre, you can see a lot of low cost shoe shops selling shoe-ware that came from "excess production" to luxury Italian brands. You can get real nice deals there, but you have to be careful if you are buying actual excess or just something that did not pass QA (which are most)
That's because you're the product.
Indeed. I also switched to Kitty a long time ago. While I personally would like a tty with less features overall, this one was absolutely a deal breaker for me.
I’ve lived in the USA, EU, and Asia. Very very rarely can you get a job near your housing (suburbs) - residential vs commercial areas are intentionally zoned against this. Getting housing near your work (city center) is much easier, due to mixed zoning, but obviously way more expensive.

> profit with a dividend anyways

See, the thing is, there are no carbon dividends yet. We do have lots of carbon-like taxes (in the EU and elsewhere) though. So, there’s only loss, no gain.
Prefacing this with the fact that I'm still thinking about all of this, so I'm trying not to be absolutist. But I was thinking that as well. There is a few ways in which the older generations have not left room for the upcoming generations to flourish in general, including when it comes to governance of companies and governments. That said, it's probably a fallacy to think that there is any precedent for the world we live in now. People live longer, stay active longer, and we're all so steeped in "What's mine is mine" individualism that the idea of making way for the younger generation may as well be egocide.
It's nice, but it doesn't cover any topic of Theoretical Computer Science [1]. It's just the math required for undergrad general CS courses.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical_computer_science
I don't know how it works in Denmark but I've seen that being worked around all the times.

A typical thing is to make a special model just for the sales, which is the same as the normal model with maybe some small differences like firmware tweaks, different accessories, different stickers, etc... They put one or two samples in the corner of the shop at an inflated price, not intended for anyone to actually purchase, then when the sales come, they unload the truck and proudly show the new "discounted" price.

This way, they can justify that they had the product available for a long time, that it didn't sell, and they can officially make the discount.

They don't even have to keep stock except for the one sample. You can get a funny situation sometimes when someone actually wants to buy the sample at the sticker (inflated) price and the shop actively tries to discourage the customer from buying it despite the huge margin. That's because without the sample, they won't be able to justify the "discount" later.
Dyson Sphere Program
Even tariffs won't be enough. Iran is the 8th carbon emitter in the world despite heavy sanctions and tariffs and their entire oil export are under heavy sanctions, they export only a small fraction of what they can.

China will never cooperate, and they are 29% of the worlds emissions.

We need to realize there are simply more evil countries that don't care and will never care and prepare for the world after the warming. "Luckily" the warming will at least make all those Arabic countries exporting oil uninhabitable so we've got a chance they'll eventually change.
This permission is harmless because native messaging only allows an extension to communicate with a specific native companion program that has to be installed/enabled outside if firefox.

If you don't install the companion program, this permission won't do anything.

It does not allow the extension to run arbitrary programs.
Entertainment is useful. Excess entertainment is wasteful. Keyword being excess. I calculate the waste as: cost of the entertainment plus potential loss of income from missed opportunitys of work and training. Of course if your entertainment is bring some other tangible benefits, like exercise, then that needs to be factored in.
He is selling the statement that someone owns that image.
Table 3 (decryption) from link [2] shows that it took 1.265 seconds for 233 bit ECC and 0.031 seconds for 2240 bit RSA to encrypt something. The associated comment was:

>We noted that the encryption by the RSA algorithm is faster than the one with ECC algorithm.

While we are here, I will point out that the performance was almost the same for the same key lengths in the encryption case.

So ECC seems to be faster for key generation but overall slower for everything else.
Please tell me how saying Indian engineers trained in India are worse on average than Indian engineers trained in the United States is racist. Maybe you should also share your special definition of racism, I'm sure it'll be an entertaining read.
> Linux usage is about 2%

Considering the amount of very casual users, the usual paretian distribution, the heavy introduction of mobile OS in accessing the web, and the (witnessed) presence of engineers who adopt the motto "Outside work I want to use a Mac to convince me that no issues ever exist", the number makes some sense. I would have computed double as an estimation.
Did Hack start that way, or am I misremembering?
> common man out of their polluting activities

The common man is definitely less polluting than the average HNer - HN represents the upper % of the upper middle class. So really, the way you frame your reply makes me think you haven’t thought through the impact on your own polluting lifestyle.
Just try it out.

I am not saying that a type system will find all bugs. It will stop you from running incorrect code “50 times a minute”. Then you should have tests. Lastly you must also do some manual procedure (or run slower e2e tests).

Doing all this yourself constantly is just frustrating.
I must say I do feel that way and it is a common "joke" within my circle (mid-twenties) that we will be lucky if we survive until our retirement. So I would not say 10 years timeframe, but more 40-50 years up to 100 years (so our potential children lifetime).

It will take a lot to change my mind on that, I believe we are truly f*ked and I don't believe humanity will get out of this one. It requires such drastic change in lifestyle that most are simply not ready to do unless facing imminent (in your face type) catastrophe. Most likely scenario in my mind is global disruption of food supply chain, wars for water access, lots of migrations and lots of death/suffering.

Planet is going to be fine, we don't need to "save it". Us? Not so much.
I think in this context, God's prophets could be considered a form of self-insertion.

> So are we saying creators are never part of their creation ? Does that mean AI being created by us humans, can never know we created it.

This seems like a broader existing problem with knowing whether other sentient beings exists. We don't have access to any other subjective experience than their own, so we really can't tell. We can assume that because we think and feel and experience other humans do too, but we can't actually know. We don't have access to their thoughts and experiences. So we couldn't know whether the AI we created merely acted like it thought and experienced, or if it actually did.

> does that mean, that evolution of AI means human intelligence can no longer exist after this point ?

I don't think this follows.

I wrote a short dialogue about this a while back, mostly for fun. I think the creator-creation-relationship is a very interesting topic. https://memex.marginalia.nu/commons/dialogue.gmi
I've never heard this described as a tactic of international brands, but only of retailers, so I guess I would need to see data that showed that brands actually did this.

And if the brand did this - how would it actually work. They would be telling the brand pay use 2000 for half the year, and then coming to black friday they would tell the brand now you only need to pay us 1500? I'm not getting the angle here.
Java 3D is not a Dead Parrot: Announcing Simple3D
what? a giannina is about 60€.
and I assure you they last a lifetime (my parents still use one of them daily from before I was born, 40 years ago)
I can see your point, but it seems to me that today's youth might be different. Arguably, climate activism and the general frustration of nothing changing is a much bigger thing than before. I do agree that spreading doom and gloom is problematic/often ineffective (and dangerous because of hopelessness, self fulfilling prophecies and all that). However, it can also instill a very justified sense of urgency that motivates one to action.

But yeah... It's a hard and sad topic, and I'm generally naive and don't know shit. Maybe it could be helpful to focus more on creativity & solution-oriented futures that don't deny the shittiness of climate change, but still seem livable enough (e.g. solarpunk or something like that).
I chatted with two public highschool teachers at Thanksgiving dinner. They are two very liberal ladies that sounded like they have been red-pilled on this subject. "I have always supported public education but ..." They are both beyond saddened by the state of their "collapsing" school systems, and do not recommend that any parent send their kids there who can afford private school.

They say that teachers are being treated so badly by the administration, and that the students are so out of control due to no consequences for anything, that teachers are quitting in large numbers, causing the remaining teachers to have much bigger classes. Then those overwhelmed teachers are quiting, and that is snowballing.

They say the kids learned next to nothing during remote teaching and are now years behind, and so poorly socialized to the classroom that they disrupt it continually, but cannot be stopped or removed. They both once took a lot of pride in their work but feel that their jobs have become about wharehousing kids rather than teaching them.

They let loose with war stories, each one worse than the last.

They're both from the Phoenix area. I can only hope it's particularly bad there.
If it has a steady supply and things are getting easier to produce, yes. Typically a larger amount is minted each year so that its value relative to goods and services decreases in a predictable fashion.
I bet they had a big stack of 45s!
Of course they work. Fuels have historically been taxed quite highly in some countries. EVs are doing well in those countries and these countries tend to be a bit ahead of the curve in terms of adoption. Financial incentives help so they are a useful tool.

One caveat here is that governments also hand out subsidies and a much more effective way to penalize carbon emissions is simply to stop subsidizing it and then add the carbon tax on top. Yes, EVs get subsidized too. But it's peanuts to the many billions the oil and gas companies still continue to get their hands on to perpetuate the problem.

Whenever you hear oil companies defend blue hydrogen what they are really talking about is getting payed (with tax money) for the process of pumping insane amounts of natural gas for the next few decades so they can use that to produce hydrogen. That's "the hydrogen economy": pumping yet more gas to speed up how quickly our planet heats up. They'll emphasize how important that is and how green it is (or could be). Never mind that it is completely unprofitable to capture carbon at scale and of course tax payers are going pay for them pretending that it's going to be meaningful amounts. That's the game right now in terms of handouts. We're talking tens of billions being allocated for this madness.

Companies often double dip even and get also get subsidies for cleaning up their act (or pretending to) while also taking full advantage of governments wielding their power on their behalf, public spending on their infrastructure (e.g. pipelines), leniency when it comes to environmental issues, permits, and public money generally being used to clean up their mess.

A carbon tax would go towards balancing that; but only a little bit. Eliminating subsidies for carbon producers would cost the worst offenders the hardest and actually level the playing field in terms of cost for the alternatives that they've been allowed to unfairly undercut in pricing.

The irony is that getting rid of the subsidies is somehow more controversial than carbon taxes. That's how messed up our world is. We're actively paying to destroy it quicker currently. Every time you pay your taxes.
The histograms are essentially completely broken for me in Chrome on dark mode. Had to switch to light mode, refresh, and re-run.
It's great for quickly fiddling around in the dev console.

Similarly - $0 gives access to currently selected element
Sure, there are effects like you describe. But also, the new alternatives can't compete if the old polluting alternatives don't have to pay anything for their pollution.

Unless the new ones are subsidized a lot.
I'm sorry you had to spend Thanksgiving in Scranton.
It requires a disproportionate amount more work to succeed in than other careers. The payscale has a long tail and low median (everyone quotes a high mean but it's not normally distributed) which means it's really not worth it unless you are. There's better careers to be unenthusiastic about if you're just there for the money.
tl;dr USA killing a million random people in Middle East is ok, because they are not American citizens.

I’m still somewhat surprised how anyone can claim that and still be considered not a nazi.
Sounds like a way to end up with women forced into having children they do not want.
This is ridiculous. SQLi is a dumb problem and any development environment worth using should make it trivial to avoid. All you have to do is never allow SQL queries to be formed using string concatenation. Or if you do, make sure you're excruciatingly strict about it.

I run a large-ish web application written in ColdFusion (more precisely, CFML running on the open source Lucee) which is a language where string concatenation is happening all the time. This is a very old language which will look embarrassingly janky compared to any of the new hotness in vogue on Hacker News. But even in CFML I can trivially guarantee zero SQLi by parameterising all variables.

Query parameters. They're a thing. If you don't know how your favourite programming language has implemented them, learn it. Use them.
For rtl there doesn’t seem to be much reason to use things like hardcaml and chisel.

Testing is usually where the claimed advantage is. That and being open source.

But as you say, SV is all about testing and verification. But the tools are closed source and expensive.

I think the big win is the open source tooling that comes along with these efforts.
Can anyone recommend a "sane zsh defaults" config that I can download and just works with approximately the same features as fish?

(Without having to first learn/spend time about howto setup and configure plugins etc.)
>Another thing you can do is to simply use USB sticks or USB drives as boot media (on RPI4). Those have much better lifetimes than sdcards, and are much faster as well.
>Shameless plug: I build such custom OS images for RPI and other SBCs for a living.

I havent seen anyone using a rpi to usb boot other pi's via a usb hub, do you think thats possible? :-)
You can't separate out that from the depression, though. He was prescribed benzos, a highly addictive drug, because of his depression, and possibly relapsed because of that depression in addition to a chemical dependency that developed over the course of treatment. If you haven't suffered, you really can't empathize with how easily that can happen.
Snake in a Block – How I stopped having a life and ran Snake on Ethereum
> the kids marching in their little organised-by-adult-pied-piper protests suffer from a form of induced mass hysteria

You are making a good example of a political statement dressed as a scientific truth.

Similarly to ideas like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology, masquerading one's own ideas behind scientific-sounding words is how a scientist loses credibility.
It was poorly phrased, but the OP meant that web apps usually have full unrestricted access to the database. Clearly that's not entirely true (your webapp likely doesn't need truncate, or the ability to add/change stored procedures, or the schema) but it's broadly there. Your database is effectively chmod o+r
Should be doable, see recent supply chain law of Germany regarding human rights
> Few countries have such a place

There are 7bn people on the planet, how many do you think are under a jurisdiction with "human rights" ? Not many.
Yeah theres so many issues popping out of the rust community and projects I didn't think that would happen. Guess I have a lot to learn
I think many developers treat PRs as an opportunity to gatekeep. I'm not a very politically correct or emotional person but I think gatekeeping/nitpicking is extremely demotivating and it should be avoided wherever possible.

When I review PRs, I'm looking at the big picture. I'm looking to see if it introduces security issues or diverges from standard practice. I don't care if there's a slightly better way which reduces the number of branches - if I see it as worth changing I'll do it myself after the merge. I'm not looking for all the reasons why it can't be merged, I'm looking for the minimum changes needed to make it comply with the codebase's existing standards.

This post also highlights one of the reasons I fell out of love with Rust. There's too many ways to do things.
sure, for throwaway code anything goes of course
> Hint: how do you think this attempt is recorded and fulfilled? Or, do you think "it's just appended" and bank recalculates your balance from scratch every time you spend 1$ on coke can?

That's how the bank I worked with did it. Of course there was caching in place so we didn't actually recompute everything every time, but the implementation of that was a lot closer to "commit a kafka offset" than an RDBMS-style transaction. (E.g. we didn't overwrite the "current balance" in-place, we appended a new "current balance as of time x").
I didn’t know about any of this. Thanks all for your comments.

Now I’m getting some bad February 2020 déjà-vu reading this current thread about flights from Gauteng:

https://twitter.com/AdamJSchwarz/status/1464150235714932742?...
Well you don't have to get up and go to the office.
> I think I have some mental disability where my feelings don't remember things.

You're not the only one - I also hated some of the things you've said about programming; I couldn't help it, programming is a large part of my identity, so I got defensive really fast.

But that doesn't matter, I mean, we're just talking here, I think none of us has really any bad intentions, and I really benefited from this exchange a lot. And it's not like you wanted to specifically hurt me with what you said, so even if I felt hurt I won't cry you a river because of that :)

> If you want to talk about something you can reach

Thank you! Saved it. The thing is, I have this inferiority complex caused by not understanding much about math even if I try to learn it. In college I was already good at programming, so I didn't have much interest or need to learn math back then. And later, when I realized that it would actually be a good idea to learn some, I found myself completely alone with it. I mean, nobody around me cared at all, there were no lecturers to go and ask questions to, no peers that would be solving the same problems at the same time, nothing, just the Internet, Wolfram, and a lot of head banging. I realized too late that I've made it this hard for me basically myself.

But what's done is done, so I started thinking about how to cope with the situation. And I came up with the idea that if someone explained maths to me in terms I'm familiar with from programming, it would be much easier for me to digest. But, there are no materials like that. That's understandable given the very specific path you'd need to take to be able to write or create them... And you've taken that exact path. Honestly, at this point I wouldn't mind you calling me an idiot and programming a children's game, if only I could understand the things that were eluding me for years.

Again, thank you. I will write an email, definitely.
Wütendes hochwähl.
Church of Emacs?
> But making the current state the primary thing is a huge step backwards

Yeah, who could need to know exactly how many items of a particular product they have in stock currently, or how much money a customer has in her account at the particular moment she wants to do a withdrawal? It's really hard to come up with any useful real world examples when this could be the case.

> What do you do when a transaction fails?

It depends on why the transaction fails and in which way. But sometimes it is really useful to make sure that when one account is debited, another one is credited at the same time.
> I don’t know anyone who runs their heating for shits and giggles.

Heating isn't a binary thing - we want people to minimise their use of gas within reason.

Most people I know could turn their heating down a couple of degrees and put on a warmer jumper, some thermal underwear, or sit with a hot water bottle whilst at their desk if working from home. I've managed to save >30% of my households gas usage in this way.

Yes, there are people on the poverty line who already use their heating at a minimal level. And at risk elderly people. This problem is best solved with subsidies to these specific groups, rather than gas that is too cheap for everyone relative to its environmental impacts.

This view (that a sizable portion of people can reasonably turn down their heat) is substantiated by UK government research, see e.g. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

For instance, there are lots of people heating rooms they don't even use, and heating their whole house overnight.
And of course no one will exaggerate this "uncertainty" as a cover for protectionism. /s
I’m probably one of those people that don’t bother with the sponsored items. I’m not much of a spontanious shopper, if I buy something then I most often know what I want before I even go to the shopping site. Example is if I’m buying a tv then I don’t care if Samsung has an equal model at half off if I’m already set on getting a specific LG. I do look sround to see who has a better deal on the item I’m looking for however.
Mastering Apache Kafka on Kubernetes
This sorta thing? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/390856037063 or https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363604565328 I don't have an IR blastable phone.
I understand the point of view of the author, but at the same time I appreciate how simple and not bloated Alacritty is, there is great software out there but terribly bloated with features that become useful only in edge cases.
What was wrong with Nuremberg?
It was great I had a great time at the Genet's, had some Yugoslavian moonshine too. Alcohol is astonishing cheap in the US.

Scranton reminds me a lot of Nova Scotia or more specifically Cape Breton (part of Nova Scotia). Coal, steel, and trains plus the lay of the land too.
Concentration camps full of women and children so the dictator can collect all that sweet carbon money.