skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I remember correctly, the shells with the tiny radar set for proximity triggering were only for AA use - and there were strict orders to only use them over water to make sure no dud shells were recovered and reverse-engineered, since the advantage they gave was so huge.

It was an incredible achievement to fit a battery and some glass vacuum tubes into a device that would be fired out of a gun at 1000G.

I would also attribute some success to the Allied choice of pragmatic effectiveness over technical superiority most of the time. This allowed the effective arming of a huge force over a huge area with adequate replacements, whereas the "superweapon" approach fell to limited availability of parts and special alloys (due to Allied targeted bombing!). And the V2 program was a huge waste of resources for Germany. Good for the subsequent American space programme, though.
Sure, we wanted to use Google Tag Manager, to load their javascript, because they already lied about it being async. So we’d use GTM to avoid them blocking our order confirmation page, when they had issues. So we asked if that would be an issue. It would not, their product worked well with Google products. It did not work, it completely failed to pick up the correct dom elements, it had never been tested with gtm. Again they also promised that they’d more to a real HA setup, but the never did.

Oh I forgot. They claimed that their solution was custom made, tailored to the need of their business and the business of their customers. When we asked for a few tweaks, to make implementation easier it turned out to not be true. It was in fact an off the shelf solution and they had no influence on the development. We only found out because some of the Javascript revealed the real authors.
Would you know where I could read up on the armatures and the mechanics of the mount?

I'm curious how they spec out / tolerance and achieve things like angularity (sag) and position (centeredness).
Wow, this is excellent. It's been a while since I read IJ but I apparently missed a _bunch_ of the plot, judging by this writeup.
Agreed. If anything, it greatly criticised the rampant use of science-soundbytes devoid of proper context.

"It's got electrolytes!"
I just wanted to point out that what those people did only goes against _your_ morals, which are far from universal.
Many people like to say "Idiocracy is a documentary" or some similar thing implying they think it's realistic. I've never seen anybody take the premise of the movie seriously though.

If idiots are reproducing out of control and that will lead to a bad result, doesn't that mean we should reduce the reproduction of idiots and increase the reproduction of the intelligent? To avert Idiocracy we need eugenics, no?
I remember being surprised at the abundance of tactile paving in Japan.

https://www.simplemost.com/sidewalk-bumps/
Wouldn't the Dunning-Kruger effect mean that unintelligent people would just keep having kids while the Imposter Syndrome would mean Intelligent people would not?
you don't need to even go as deep as hentai, you see it in anime (Ghost in the Shell is one prominent example)... it's fairly common to see nipples and a complete lack of genitalia
I hope they intend to provide more proof than their word...
Maybe not but I'm willing to bet there are more reasonable/impactful things for the author to fix or worry about instead of handling this case at all in the first place.
Except that "Read Across America" is Dr. Seuss's birthday, and "Dr. Seuss Day" is the other common name for it? And, what about the rest of the events?

I think you are merely trolling, and not really arguing in good faith. In that case, I'm done replying to you here. Wish you a happy new year, and have no scruples: we all gonna end up loving the Big Brother anyway :-)
> In this instance people have been using this Java package for years I gather without problems. Why is the responsibility for changing the package anyone but theirs, the people using it; now that they're decided they have stricter requirements for that need?

Because for a long time, libraries have been advertised as building blocks that you can quickly integrate into your own application without having to understand in detail how the library works. This assumption has been pretty crucial in the cost/benefits calculation for using libraries vs writing functionality yourself.

Now that internet security is becoming an ever more serious topic, this assumption might be less and less viable to hold. We've walked back on it to an extend already with the current best practice of "you don't have to understand how it works, but at least update frequently".

However, it might as well happen that this is not enough to keep security issues from happening. Things are already moving in a direction where it's absolutely expected that a developer understands and takes responsibility for every line of code that is included in their prodiuct, whether they wrote it themself or not. But if that happens, it will fundamentally change the way we deal with libraries and how software ecosystems work.

Yes, free software devs can smugly repeat their stance of "it's a gift so don't complain, no guarantees about anything" - but if everyone took this serious, no one could use free software for anything critical, so the free software movement would be mostly dead.

> now that they're decided they have stricter requirements for that need?

I think what made the log4j vulnerability so dangerous wasn't the ability to load arbitrary code via JNDI on it's own (even though that was certainly a horribly overengeneered and dangerous feature). The main vulnerability was that log4j was accepting substitution patterns in the "parameters" section of a logging command, the main purpose of which is to accept untrusted input. There has been at least one other CVE which exploits this without needing JNDI at all.

"Don't trust user input" hass been a fundamental rule of security for a long time, and it was reasonable to assume the log4j authors were aware of it. So the current situation is not that requirements have suddenly became stricter, it's simply that log4j broke a fundamental assumption about its API.

(I'm also pretty sure that while the JNDI thing was an unfortunate feature and was "working as intended", the "substitutions in untrusted input" part was likely a honest bug and never intended like that)
Plenty of things you do are “like an animal”. I cycle in Amsterdam all the time, and while rain is unpleasant it is really not the end of the world.
It's easy for me to imagine how you get here.

- Eng are still writing the postmortem

- Marketing want to put out a statement

- Eng know or suspect a bug exists that can trigger spurious notifications, but don't have sufficient logs to be able to reconstruct if that bug was in fact in play in production

- Legal advises not to say anything definitive that they can't stand behind later

I don't see any of that as particularly damning or malicious. "We aren't yet sure, but have a suspicion and are still investigating" can come out like the LastPass blog post when run through the PR filter.
In this specific example, given the context (that a virus would have a simple time going 400 meters from lab to market via some host), isn't the difference between 400m and 26km valid to point out?
Sweden. A city with the same population of Utrecht would make it the 4th largest in the country. The cities I had in mind are much smaller than that.
Isn’t location data particularly easy to de-anonymize? I remember reading some research that because people tend to be so consistent with their location, you could deanonymize most people in a dataset with 3 random location samples through the day
I’m not sure you are commenting on OPs remarks. The argument of lazy morality and voting of yuppies from corporatism and consumerism? Many, many (many) people buy things they don’t meet that help fuel corporate power. Yuppies, non-yuppies. For instance, how many people do you know that bought things from Amazon lately?
That might be interesting, but it might not. I've heard that digital thermometers intended for taking human temperatures are calibrated for a very narrow temperature range. And you can't really check them at home for accuracy with ice or boiling water.

My actual body temperature is fine, BTW. My working theory is that below a certain threshold, the thermometers give wonky readings. But that threshold is higher than the lower end of the range of "normal" for humans. A better sensor increases the BoM cost by a few too many pennies.
I even forgot about the corporate wokeism that is placated towards consumers for their 'one month a year gay pride twitter image', then not upholding the same morals year-round
“Western” is a shortcut for the dominant alliance of imperialist countries: US, UK, most of Western Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. Materially also Israel and Japan, but rarely in rhetoric.

The concept is used both to critique the imperialist countries and to strengthen their alliance, by different people.
It hit too close to home.
I miss Dillo.
There’s also https://dutchcycling.nl/en/bestpractices (not a good site; I suggest clicking “Download the Full Book”)
I am describing the sentiment at-the-time.

Of course, some people were complaining can't get anywhere in the City anymore after a first redesign to a one way street model. But change is always criticized and the criticism soon died out. Sometimes it is the exact same people who now applaud such changes.

Maybe our multi party political system ( also in play at municipal level ) helps too.
I set them the same. The whole point of two zones is that they go on and off independently. Yes, the 2nd floor tends to be a little warmer, so the first floor zone just comes on more.
javascript:(function(){var imgs=document.getElementsByTagName("img");for(var i=0;i<imgs.length;i++)imgs[i].style.visibility="hidden"}());

Source:

Javascript bookmarklet to hide all images from current webpage?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3623640/javascript-bookm...
Stanford requires booster shots for all students
"Boy, society sure has devolved into Idiocracy-world during the last couple of years" has been the claim since just after the movie came out.
> The politicians we apparently prefer are those who can reliably generate viral content.

By prefer, you presumably mean elect, which in the US means using a voting system that has been shown to increase partisanship, because you can get elected by being loved by a minority even if also hated by a minority. Other voting systems encourage you to work for every voters vote and avoid a whole bunch of problems as a result.
If it is a group accumulating passwords via extensions it would make a lot of sense to me if they planned to sell them like credit card data on bulletin boards.

I don't think individual financial accounts would sell that well without really knowing if you have the necessary associated email accounts, etc to delay detection of a fraud.

I also don't think such groups are necessarily sophisticated enough not to have someone slip up at stage 2 of their plan, give away a few accounts to boast, etc, etc.
I don’t think explaining it as a generalization of the Fourier transform is going to help very much with New Yorker readers.
Bingo. We have the option of recompiling with an older version of glibc while we work out the bugs. Our users won't have the option of running our code in 2037 when the epoch arrives.
I know that you do not need an email for some of the things you mentioned. I doubt you need an email for the rest.

I don't think the change we need to make here is "everyone should require email for everything, and therefore we need government subsidized emails for everyone." If anything, the change should be "email is not required", because it's not.

Furthermore, these are not rights but privileges:

> buying virtually anything online
> interacting with the government online (I needed to provide an email address to update my driver's license and vehicle registration)
> opening a bank account
> renting an apartment

I feel strongly the other things aren't rights either, but don't want to argue about it.
“Potentially creates” is a solvable problem. Further the ash from burning municipal waste is very toxic and still needs to be stored somewhere. The volume is significantly reduced, but waste disposal benefits from the square:cube law reducing the volume doesn’t save that much effort.
Yep probably one of the most important and under discussed military operations of the war was one without a single bullet fired

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tizard_Mission
The article appears to be a rambling list of eulogies and tidbits.

What's the alleged "darker side" that isn't just being (in part) a regular person?
Plenty of folks who reported getting this email from LP, including myself, reported that they used a strong unique passphrase for LP only.
Thanks for writing this up! After reading LastPass' very vague response, they did not inspire confidence for me to stick around as a paying customer.

I am unsure if this is too small of a compromise for them to be able to a) care or b) spend resources on investigating or that they just don't know what's happening.
Love this post below that I'll shamelessly copy:

> ... at the moment Twitter is a Trojan Horse pretending to be an impartial public exchange but in reality it is being controlled by political and business interest groups.

We are seeing the transformation of our former beloved social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, dare I say Hacker News in some ways) into Trojan horses for other interest groups.

We all know big news/media has played this role for several years, I reckon that is why most of us went to those sites in the first place. If they play this role now, and are also able to do whatever they please, I ask do we even have any alternatives for open discussion any more? It's a cool argument to say there are alternatives but do those open-source sites count if no one goes there?
I'm not sure I understand your point?

Even if I ran it on my own hardware, where I was responsible for plugging the cable in, it would still have the same single point of failure problem in the event that my ISP started suffering Network issues. I've never had an ISP that didn't have some sort of issues at some point.

Alternatively, if you think I am blaming my cloud provider for being the single point of failure, please read again. I specifically mentioned that I want to fix up the application so that it is highly available. I entirely and completely blame myself for the current situation. I didn't build it (otherwise it would be 12 factor[1] from the start and horizontally scalable), but I maintain it now.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REbM4BDeua0
> what if there were a way to declare fines for corporate offenses based on a percentage of the money earned from committing such an offense?

That basically sounds like "actual damages", which is already the norm for calculating penalties in civil suits.

> This percentage could be greater than 100% to ensure it is never incentivized to break the law.

... and "actual damages" is by definition 100%, though you can get higher than 100% by adding on "statutory damages."

(You can see this as applied to copyright infringement in 17 USC §504: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/504).
Four words: Can't see that.

* Games: some might be done with better battery life, but most games are simple ones, where this should not really hold. Besides that: If it's so horrible in browsers, the manufacturers should hurry to keep up, as these manufacturers are often the same as the mobile platform providers

* Icons: maybe it's two clicks to add a web page to the home screen, or to click on a bookmark in the browser. But it should be still not more difficult for users to add the bookmark icon to home screen than to install an app, which requires not less 'clicks'

* Performance: most apps are quite simple, and should not need the native boost. By the way: How big would it be really for most apps?

* Technology: if you "cant" do messaging, why does it work? ;-) And of course as web page it already works for ages, also encrypted, if you want. Besides that, email is still superior, and not more complicated, than instant messaging.

* App Store: restricts you in many ways, in what you can install, instead of having a freely visible web page

So already with the restrictions of the App Stores, how can the User Experience for (most) apps be better than with simply visiting a web site?
Do you really consider them being too dumb to add an icon to their home screen instead of installing an app?
Honest question, I'm not a lawyer: is this bill actually unconstitutional? The government is not trying to limit the rights of individuals here, as far as I can tell parents and children are allowed to own and read whatever they want under this bill. Instead one arm of the government seeks to restrict another arm of the government (schools) by requiring it honor the wishes of (the most extreme of) the populace.

Edit: never mind, the article says the bill would apply to private schools as well, so I can see that not holding up. I wonder if the idea is to start with overreach and then when the backlash starts they can "compromise" by letting private schools teach what they want.
Many systems have code in place to set the range when a partial (i.e. 2-digit) year is entered. Call it a two digit year cutoff or century pivot, it works, as long as it gets updated by someone every couple decades or so.

Only having two-digits for the year can be problematic for some organizations who need to keep DECADES of data/records, but I can't imagine almost any will need to keep millenia worth of records preserved... So I'd say a century or millennia cutoff/pivot will suffice.

How long do we need to keep track of a bunch of dinosaurs' credit card transactions, anyhow?

With apologies to geologists, archaeologists and astronomers. 5-digit years won't be enough for them, anyhow.
They didn't give me anything, they gave to the companies that bought the satellites for next to nothing.
Well, shows like Jackass and Za gaman were around long before Idiocracy.

It was certainly a mirror held up to society as it was at the time.
And you can almost always adapt a mirrorless mount into an SLR mount.

In the old days prior to live-view, some even added the mirror back!

https://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-wiki.en/index.php/Visof...
That's exactly what acceptance of failure sounds like to me. E.g. you abandon a chess game when you accept you'll lose. To just keep pushing for a situation you know is irredeemable is to deny you've failed.
Tether.io :)
Unsurprisingly, there is a whole community collecting old lenses, I just narrowly escaped this not so cheap hobby. But I am more and more fascinated by using the different bouquets ("style of blurred backgrounds") as case for teaching. There is so much in there: optics, physics, math and a very nice application of machine learning, maybe.
Oh I'm looking at the development side, being able to iterate quickly and having full visibility of the code. This fits in with stuff like aspect-oriented-programming (AOP) so that things like execution traces can be generated at runtime without modifying code.

I mostly work with the shell and scripting languages. I'm racing as fast as I can all day to get anything at all to work, then building on that to get to a solution. Most of the time, I can't really edit the code I'm working with and still maintain velocity, so can't do any kind of manual type annotation.

Also I question if there is really any merit to hiding the type of a variable at runtime. It feels like a power trip by the language, a form of security theater. I also view the "private" and "final" keywords with similar skepticism. If I can call typeof on an element in my own struct/class, then I get frustrated when I can't do that with anonymous data from a framework or in the REPL. It also frustrates me when I can't access the call stack or get information about the calling function. If there's a way to do it in C++ (no matter how ugly), then I must be able to do it in whatever language I'm using or my psyche views it as stifling and I lose motivation.

I guess I find the obsession with types today to be a form of pedantry. So much concern for only accepting a narrow range of shapes, but then holding that info close to the chest. It should be the opposite.

That's also the reason why I've gotten away from object-oriented (OO) programming. I've found that functional programming (FP) on JSON types (number, string, etc), and doing declarative programming in a data-driven way, usually runs circles around the boilerplate/interface yak shaving of OO.

Object-Oriented Programming is Bad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1iUe6IofM

Simple Made Easy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKtk3HCgTa8
>it maybe a kind of IQ test or maybe 'personality type' test because I saw it with a friend and she didn't grasp any of the satire at all, to her it was 'stupid' and she literally fell asleep. I didn't know what to make of that.

Simply not everything is for everyone. The world is not black and white.
‘Time, clocks and the ordering of events in a distributed system’ by Leslie Lamport 1973. This is my favorite intro to distributed systems paper. Gives you a new tool to think with, and it’s a straightforward read.

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/time-clocks.pdf
> There exists no computer system than can crack an AES256 encrypted document. The weaknesses are in the protocol.

Well, or in the human-chosen passphrase. There are plenty of systems that can brute force an 8-character alphanumeric password run through PBKDF2 for 100,000 rounds.

Per https://support.1password.com/pbkdf2/, that costs...about $60k.

So keeping the ciphertext safe is in fact a very reasonable precaution, especially if you have a fairly short input passphrase or are not using a ton of rounds of key stretching.
It's not for lack of trying.
What about persistent storage and access costs ?
And couldn't that then over time increase managed k8s costs significantly ?
Call and Put Options for Beginners
Got mine from a Tolkien name generator around 2000 to create an online alias (after reading and liking a few books) and used it since. Used to have inglor.com and still have the gmail.

If you look hard enough you will find my contributions in early-mid newgrounds (inglor day, zombie inglor, the inglor dance and 10k bbs posts :))

Anyway - good taste and nice to meet
Then the headline is misleading. Doubly bad for pay articles
No matter how seriously you take science, research and knowledge, evolution is merciless. Given a strategy that uses less resources to reproduce, that strategy will win over time. It's so obvious that it feels like a tautology. Science and research is extremely expensive and time intensive strategy. Living on universal basic income, finding a mate and making lots of kids doesn't require anything outside having the ability to attract the opposite sex.
? not for me, but here you go: https://archive.is/tnHWq
A captured solider in war doesn't get to go home and try again after apologizing.

Also, going to war is inherently already a massive corruption of culture.
There is a book, called 'The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World' that is popular in author circles. It's about the gift economy and how it's different than capitalism and how creative endeavours are really part of the gift economy, not the cash economy proper.

I honestly got a bit bored of reading it and stopped, but the idea stays with me. This essay captures some of that idea - why you can't pay for a gift, how gifts work differently. They are a form of capital in that gift givers get social credit or something, but it's a very different system, a more traditional one than capitalism.