skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but isn't selling bugs on the black market illegal?

Noob question: is there any specific law that punishes describing how to get into a software/electronic system but not actually doing it? Something that is just not purely US-centric.
I agree, that's why I added the last sentence. On the other hand, I do not expect this announcement to belay any of the fears over dependence on Taiwan by politicians since this fab is not on the cutting edge.
The Horstmann Brace Style
Arguing that Ethereum is a currency is just a straw man and you know it.
Ammonium nitrate, commonly used as a fertilizer, is highly explosive. I suppose that Finnish authorities might frown on one showering auto parts everywhere, no matter what explosive is used.

[Edit: I had not read the article when I made this comment, and so did not understand that the owner was actually in Finland.]
> It's an impossible comparison to make.

And yet Nature published Comparing the responses of the UK, Sweden and Denmark to COVID-19 using counterfactual modelling in August[1]. It's not as if that's the only paper making comparisons, even if we only look in Nature.

> A younger population, with a better healthcare system may have fared better if we didn't lock down.

I live in Japan, are you going to tell me it's a younger population? Or perhaps you'll make some claim about the healthcare system here based on… what I could not say as you have yet to give any indication of how your notions are backed, other than by political, tribal concerns.

> I'm not a scientist, so I can't show you specific papers to back up my assumptions.

As I've shown, one simple search should've turned up something, as I have a whole host of results. Biases should not go unchallenged, especially not through wilful ignorance.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95699-9

Edit: formatting
Test pilot recounts his survival of a supersonic SR-71 breakup
It is a far lower number. Are you checking random pages or browsing from the beginning? If you check random pages you're unlikely to even find a single page with a tx.
Brain region that responds to clitoris
Smoothly Reverting CSS Animations
OSMC latest release works fine for hevc 4k content
This can't possibly be a good faith comment.
To be fair to stars, and for accuracies sake: we don't actually know how many stars are in the universe but we have some broad guesses.
Ask HN: Has anyone switched from support to development?
Hello,

I have about 6 years of technical support experience - in person, remote, covering hardware and software - and have created many tools/web apps in Go and PHP (less so lately, it has mostly been Go) to make my like and work easier along the way but, even though some of these were used for my work, I have no official professional development experience I can put on my resume. Making matters worse, almost all of these projects are closed source due to how integrated they became with the work environment I made them for. I do not have any degrees but I am about 1.5 years away from completing one.

Things have become unbearable with my current employer in the last few months and every similar job in my area is a significant pay cut - meaning 30-40% - that I’m not in a position to absorb right now due to health issues. I would love to switch into a development role because that is the future I have been trying to work towards for a long time now. I just don’t have any professional experience I can provide evidence for and am feeling a bit lost there; not to mention almost all of the entry level positions I come close to qualifying for are using things like C#/.NET & Java.

Have any of you transitioned from a technical support type of role into a development role recently? If so, how did you do it?
I guess the point is on the exact amount of the "this long".

I may be wrong of course, but 8 years (and unknown KMs, but I don't think people make that many km oer year on EV's) don't seem to me that many, I would say that most modern "traditional" (gasoline or diesel) cars have an expected life of 15 years/300,000 kms or more (of course if cerefully maintained).
AFAIK it is hardly a problem in The Netherlands. I can't imagine it is totally different for our direct neighbours ( other EU countries ).
My father always said, if you find something, and it isn't yours, it belongs to someone else.

There are actual laws in the US that if you find money, you are supposed to report it to the authorities, and if no one reports losing the money in some fixed time (30 days?) then you keep it.
Because we should all think like you? Not me, I'm dissident from your mainstream ideologies, but have been fighting on your side for ~15 years ;)
If you only care about viewing censored materials and don't care about the repercussions of getting caught, then I agree that a VPN is a fine solution.

It's probably easier to use and faster for most customers, with the downside that you have to pay.
I don't understand how you can't see blockchain/crypto as a growing tech where they might succeed, evolve and grow into the promises that contributors hope for. Why are most people taking a stance either in the crypto bro corner or in the "I can't buy popcorn with it, mah energy hurr durr" corner? The internet wasn't perfect from day one. How about seeing what sticks, what evolves, what problems are being worked on? It's also totally ok that we might not have the best problems to solve with blockchains, that's how science itself also works. Let's be critical but open to something new? How bout dat?
Extinction, unless we stop doing business as usual and have a major drawdown soon (although that doesn't seem likely). Or at least collapse enough that it's pretty darn close to extinction.

There will be some neat technology leading up to it, though. At least the next 10-20 years. So that'll be fun. Maybe a couple new web frameworks people will get excited about.

[1]: https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/environment-and-conserv...

[2]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-are-doomed...
Spain had invested in octopus breeding research for like twenty years. I'm glad that they finally made it but the obstacles that this people needed to overcome were huge (I have meet some of they personally).

Is an example of how you need to support scientists for a LOT of time, so they can bring you lots of money in return. The common chunks ranging between one-three years are useless.

> Should it go ahead?

Capital uppercase YES. We are trying to save millions of sentient and really smart animals in the planet that could die from famine if we don't bring real solutions.
Apps installed from the Microsoft Store are no longer guaranteed safe, as Win32 apps can be added to the store now and installed via winget. There’s static analysis and they run the installer, but if it does something stupid after the install they can’t automatically detect it.
Like what? What town would you classify as an important regional centre that has less than 5000 inhabitants?
How feasible would it be to defer string processing to the operating system so that the behavior of all software running on it is the same? Perhaps a new OS interface could be defined for this purpose using syscalls on Linux. At the very least, there should be one canonical set of algorithms per operating system, rather than everyone downstream reinventing the wheel. Please forgive me if this sounds absurd, I am not a low-level programmer.
Neither is incorrectly accusing someone of lying and then, after being corrected, doubling down instead of apologising.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So here is a particularly unhelpful argument pattern.

> Today’s experience of childhood, they wrote, was an “inner, solitary” affair, plagued by the proliferation of “obesity, anti-social behavior, friendlessness and fear.”

where "they" means a bunch of authors who wrote an open letter about modern childhood.

Then there follows a large amount of stuff about what these metaphors mean, how they relate to previous bits of the history ideas, etc. The Noble Savage makes a predictable appearance.

But there is absolutely zero engagement with the authors' actual argument! Like, are kids getting fatter or not? Are kids suffering more from antisocial behaviour or not? Friendlessness? Fear? These are real factual questions, not tropes in some novel.

In other words, this piece engages with vocabulary and metaphors, as a substitute for engaging with the argument. Not, in general, a good trade.

I see this style of argument a lot in work derived from the humanities. I think it very rarely adds light to any debate. Perhaps it needs a name, so it can be pointed out, and when appropriate, mocked.
Yes and: Adobe were turrible stewards. So much neglect, unrealized potential.
But can your initial proposition also be true (or is it strongly true in any useful sense) in the face of the second statement?
> Most cryptocurrencies failing is not an argument against them.

My whole comment already implies utility in cryptocurrencies - directly towards payments and towards the parent especially if cryptocurrency regulations were to come in the long term. (with examples)

Tons of other cryptocurrencies are going to fail once regulations arrive and realistically, those that have no serious use-case in general other than being meme or hype coins will wither away.
> easyDNS.

They price their offering a tad on the expensive side. From a cursory search, easydns prices some domains at between 2x and 3x the prices offered by the likes of namecheap.
In Germany it is a problem, but more subtle. We have things like "Münzkontor", things like "Enkeltrick" which target old people with their scams.
I am not redefining it.
Even though I haven't met a Sublime user in a few years, it still must be popular since it's at v4. Last time I checked, Sublime was still proprietary, which is the reason I had skipped using it. I've heard Sublime has some useful features, though. If it's in their interest, I hope they decide liberate / open their source code.

E: misspelling
No, because hash functions are non-continuous, aka they change a lot if the input changes minimally. This is different from imageDNA, which needs to be robust against small changes in input.
The worst part is that some of this know-how might've been the stuff that makes the plants safe, an accident at a newly built plant due to this would be a death-knell to the industry and our hopes of clean energy.

Also in this theme, even if material science has advanced I'm a bit curious as if it has really advanced enough that people trying to promote building molten salt breeders over and over again (that's the ones that are highly corrosive iirc? if not insert the ones with practical problems).
There's kind of a reason you don't count the coefficient in big O notation etc. It doesn't really matter.

If you can't exponentially increase the amount of power / transactions you don't really have a chance of figuring out a collision.

100x machines with a computation that takes 100 billion years is still 1 billion years.
I don't see anything wrong in that example. As you said, golang has unicode/utf8, as well as the utf8string package. Is anyone really suggesting that the default slice should be on graphemes?
Nice! We had a voluntary meeting early in the morning but we ended up dropping it.

What we do now is to encourage calling each other and also to encourage showing up for meetings early - if we want.

For all its warts, this is a thing I like about MS Teams: it shows a notification whenever someone else first enters a scheduled meeting so if someone enters a meeting 5, 15 or even 20 minutes ahead of time I know they want to talk and can join if I want to talk.

Talk before meetings can be anything both work and weather, but work has priority (I think).

We also have a voluntary meeting sometime after lunch where we aren't allowed to talk about work : )
> I assume you never had to deal with unicode normalization ?

I hadn't, and as long as I control the data I'm displaying, I won't have to.

> Or all kind of weirdness like that because every system outside of your program will handle unicode differently

Blame those systems, not me.

What you suggest is surrendering to the state of affairs, which we collectively self-inflicted.

When I have to deal with normalization issues and have to interface with external systems, I can still go looking for a library if I don't feel like implementing it on my own (which is likely).

But unless I need to do normalization, I'm way worse off with a complicated library than with just doing memcpy() or using a simple decode_codepoint() routine.
I've seen a couple with a bolt every couple seconds. More or less continuous lightning.
One of the cited articles is called "Designing Smartphone Apps That Support Habit Formation". It's about intentionally developing positive habits, but I'm sure the same principles can be applied as a dark pattern, to subconsciously encourage addictive behavior, as in social media.

In the posted article, there's a final section titled "Beyond Games". It made me see the larger implications, how designers and developers of technology have an ethical responsibility not to abuse such psychological dynamics.

> These design guidelines are potentially valuable for other ambient technologies. We turn our attention to pervasive technologies, such as smart homes and fitness trackers, whose functions in day-to-day lives bear a striking resemblance to idle games.

> Our findings also have potential implications for the design of technologies around influencing and affecting the development of positive habits.
Good work identifying one of the purchasers of leads. Sue them under the tcpa which will cost them money - and land you a few hundred dollars for your time. Best of all, it will dissuade them from buying said “good” leads.
In my limited experience as an American, most of the callers sound like they have American accents to me; maybe 10% that actually get through sound like they're from South Asia, which is what I used to associate with spam.

I also suspect that a lot of spam calls are coming from within the prison system - not prisoners trying to run scams off payphones, but actually working from a phone bank at a prison for a nickel an hour. It's the only thing I can think of that explains their dogmatic adherence to the script in front of them. Free scammers from overseas will start insulting you once you're onto their scam; free scammers from the U.S. will typically just hang up and try again; but if you're a prison worker, the punishment for going off script is much worse than just losing your job.

Wish I could prove or disprove my theory.
Ruby on Rails creator: 7.0 ‘is the version of Rails I’ve been longing for’
David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails, says 7.0 is the version he’s “been longing for”. Version 7.0 was released last Wednesday and brings with it several major upgrades.
Vertical Unveils Full-Sized EVTOL Model Ahead of SPAC Vote
I found installing NoMoRobo and paying the $5 a year has helped considerably.
Obligatory reminder: Sensitive messages should never be sent over email. Signal is the best system for those messages.
A http(s) proxy, like squid?
That this reduces security for honest citizen, because it makes it harder to find evidence against criminals.
I still switch it back to the XBMC-ish theme on Kodi. I think its called confluence.

Did you get it off #xbins? I think that was the only place to find binaries of it without building it yourself.
For browsing, previewing, searching, and organizing videos I created Video Hub App. The primary feature is scrub / preview thumbnails from inside the video as you hover with your mouse and an infinite scroll of all your videos. It also has a "filmstrip" view to see all screenshots at once.

I hope it is useful to some of you here.

https://videohubapp.com/en/

Open source MIT: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
I have a feeling that the recent move to OpenGL rendering for Sublime was a mistake. I know, we did with Firefox and WebRender as well. And yet, when compiling a heavy project on a modern machine, I can scroll fine in Firefox, but Sublime chugs, becoming unusable. For Sublime, it should be assumed that some code is compiling all the time!
Anything with a hard or soft real-time constraint (audio, video, industrial automation, etc). You'd be shocked how many algorithmic prototypes are written in numpy then hand converted to C++ for realization.
Let's give up all our rights and live like cattle in a field, sure...
Exactly. Unlike other hashes, this photoDNA "hash" has to be somewhat of continuous function of its inputs.
Encryption protects everyone. Banning encryption is futile, make it illegal and the next day I'll transmit messages using steganography and other tricks. It would be about as effective as the war on drugs - the only winners would be the criminals making money from it.
We could definitely expand on the search protocol in our WhitePaper, thanks for the input! However, we provide client side search and not server side search, thus, our servers have no idea of what the user is searching.

The keywords (along with other file metadata) are also encrypted using the user's key, so analyzing access patterns of the chunks, would not be possible for us.
Also this device has a recall for false positives: https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/medical-device-recalls/e...

The "Bluetooth" hardware looks similar to this: https://hackaday.com/2020/09/09/digital-pregnancy-tests-use-...

Because $25 of electronics to read a $1 paper strip makes perfect sense in today's world I guess. As does not making the strip a replaceable consumable part.
On Unix/Linux, it is binary data without any restrictions except that each argument is zero-terminated (the typical argument is probably UTF-8 if you have set a UTF-8 locale). You'll see exactly the bytes that were put in as arguments to execlp() et. al. by the parent process.

On Windows, I believe it is Unicode converted to current codepage.

In any case I don't need to care about it since I can simply treat arguments as ASCII-extended opaque strings as described.
Yeah, but people seem to have found wallets already. This is more a reminder that the probability is a little different from the naive 1/total possibilities idea.
If I ran a business I would not allow customers that break the law. Would you?
Where do you all find these jobs where you have so few meetings?
I feel like even one meeting a day at each company could eventually lead into an overlap and you would at some point need to explain yourself why you are unable to attend.

And there are only so many excuses one can use...
Colour Cycling Effects with Grids
I guess my point is that I think kids should be hoping they don't have any medical condition instead of asking a therapist "Doc, can you find me a diagnosis that fits my current mood somewhere between asbergers and schizophrenia with a dash of manic depressive"
Yea, a "hash" should be maximally non-continuous: Minimal input changes should change the output as much as big input changes.
Totally missed it! Yet, I wanted it to be referred to as just `prolog` in the host code just like `database/sql` being referred to as `sql`.
Surprisingly concise and clear. Metapoint, but wtf...

I'm always surprised at the extent to which courts, legislators, regulators and such prefer to decide by analogy. Determining that that X is fundamentally like Y and therefore Y rules apply. This seemingly doesn't require decision making at all. Instead of deciding and making choices, there's a strong preference for determining & adjudicating.

I'm not implying this is inappropriate here. Seems pretty straightforward that if labour laws/agreements apply to deliveries, they apply to deliveroo. I wonder why it took this long, in fact.

That said... labour "uberization," online privacy issues, media monopolisation issues and any of many digital issues de jure are actually new scenarios. They're not just derivative of pre-digital issues. The effects of one decision or another can be totally unrelated to considerations taken into account whenever the original decision/law was made.

The best ruleset, decision or whatnot is not necessarily a derivative of some old one. Who cares if Google is like Bell or standard in some legalistically specific way? Who cares if uber is "really" just a taxis service, limo service or whatnot? Why is that relevant by default?

Is it really so impossible to create new labour laws, agreements or whatever we need that actually take into account the existence of app-based casual labour realities of our time?
I'll oversimplify video production to make the point, but let's say I'm making a video where a Bob runs up to Alice, makes a snide comment, Alice makes a clever comeback, and Bob slinks away in shame. There are a few creative parts to this:

1) Writing the script.

2) Designing the visual look of Bob and Alice.

3) Designing the animation (e.g. animating the body language of "slinking").

Those are all creative contributions. A tool like this one converts an image into bones, which I don't think has a creative element. It also has a bunch of pre-baked animations of those bones, which are neat, and do have a creative element.

Is that enough? I don't know.

Let's take this to an extreme. In the early '00s, there was a popular video (an early meme) of a pair of stick figures having a rather fancy fight. Most of the work was in the rather comedic body language. If I replaced those stick figures with something my child drew, it'd still be /mostly/ the original work. Simply replacing a stick figure with a child's drawing doesn't change the underlying work. Even if I took a little clip, say a neat-looking jump turning kick, I couldn't take that without permission.

There's a line somewhere in there, and I'm not quite sure where it is. I don't think anyone really knows until there's case law.
Seeing how Deliveroo stocks are doing, one wonders if it is all just regulatory arbitrage.
If that's their compensation philosophy then it seems unlikely they will come up. I recommend talking about comp early in the interview process (ideally the first call) to avoid these scenarios.
To be clear, your theory is that these calls are coming from operations run by American prisons?
I have fond memories of using MythTV. It was a great alternative to Microsoft Media Center. Automatic advertisement removal, great scheduled recording capabilities. As most of this functionality comes with your TV or settopbox today, I wonder how popular MythTV is today.
Would it also be acceptable for the state to dictate how we store our bananas at home (pedophiles eat them too), what font we use in our greetings cards (terrorists also send birthday cards), or with which hand you are to wipe your arse (even Ted Bundy pooped)?

Citizens should not be treated or approached as enemies of the state by default.
Your friends verify you as a unique human, generating a web of trust and a cryptographic fingerprint you can use to identify yourself as such. This fingerprint doesn't contain any more info about you other than you are a unique human, and you can provide a different fingerprint to each app you use.
When I am looking at an employee I look at 3 broad categories.

1) Can the employee do the job.

2) Can they get along - this is being able to work with others, and can they communicate. This is a double edged sword as you do not want someone who just talks and gets no work done. Mature enough to bring up problems. Are they happy.

3) Do they care about accomplishments. Corollary will they learn whats needed to do the job. Are they flexible.

Some criteria are job dependent. Ambition is usually great, but a lack of ambition is not always a problem. It depends on the job and the individual. Ambition must match their ability to expand.
Great advice! I'll give this a go, thanks!
Yes you will, but most criminals won't, that's my point. It's exactly like legalizing guns.
It's been years since I used sublime text, has anything changed that users have found noteworthy since ~2016?
Right on! We (the semantic web “we”) own that term.

I realize that you may be joking but that doesn’t stop me from agreeing with you :-)