skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was more than "View Source". It was decoding viewstate.

Reading someone's postcard in the mailbox is like looking at the source.

He opened the letter that was in the encoded viewstate.

The envelope doesn't offer any real security but it is illegal to open someone else's mail, and decoding a site's viewstate might technically be illegal as well, but unless you tell someone you did it no one will know.

The reporter should have notified them directly, anonymously, or kept their mouth shut.

If you send information to the client, it is your responsibility to make sure it doesn't contain private information.

The reporter should probably not be prosecuted, pardoned if convicted, and we should repeal the laws that make using anything sent to client illegal.

If you are sent something you didn't order in the mail the FTC says you don't have to pay:

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/what-do-if-youre-bille...

"By law, companies can’t send unordered merchandise to you, then demand payment. That means you never have to pay for things you get but didn’t order. You also don’t have to return unordered merchandise. You’re legally entitled to keep it as a free gift."

This reporter was gifted some viewstate because it came to his computer.

Edit:

To the person claiming it is "another language", I don't know anyone that does Base64 decoding in their head, and this is clearly not meant for human consumption.

Here is what viewstate is:

http://www.nullskull.com/articles/20060208.asp

There are many tools for consuming it through decoding and deserializing but that doesn't make it legal. There are tools for decoding DVDs which meet this same category.
Umm.. probably I’d suggest through volunteering.

Local fire service/ emergency service/scouts.

Or local tech communities or social impact non profit.

Get into a space where people are gathering and acting in altruistic ways.. you’ll generally find generosity/community and friendship.

If I’ve been friendly and supportive and unexpectedly stayed till the end and properly helped pack up, support the organisers.. I’ve often had an invite “we’re heading for drinks now/ a late meal, would u like to join us.. [then at drinks].. hey tells us about yourself.. we’d love to have you get more involved..”. Not always but it happens enough that I know I can reliably make friends in a new community by legitimately being of service and I suppose modelling “being a good friend” from the outset.

Intense experiences together can bond deep friendships..
(studying together, helping a cause where you stay up half the night, pushing towards a challenge like in a socially oriented Hackathon/challenge).

Or join a group that meets regularly.. go consistently.. meet and thank the organisers at the end of the night, help stack chairs, hang around till wrap up, get involved.. friendships build amongst the small cadre of folk who make stuff happen and hold spaces for others, even when the main event ends up being more transactional.

Volunteering on a conference is often an easy option.. just reach out to any conference and say you’d like to volunteer.

Just a few suggestions, I haven’t boiled these down into principals but hopefully that gives you a few ideas.
I think a lot of analogies miss the point that data was copied and transmitted to the client and accessed client side. I think it'd be more accurate to compare to a barcode

Imagine requesting a voter registration form and you receive a letter in the mail with all previous residents social security numbers encoded in QR codes that were added as a "convenience feature" for the voting office

In that case, it'd be ridiculous to claim you "hacked the voting office"
One element is moral accounting. You have to make peace with what you did. Research on why some people come home from wars and are O.K. and others aren't point to this as the difference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_injury

It's traumatic to be hurt by people, but devastating to hurt others or believe you hurt others, particularly if you were driven to do it by group dynamics. (Nothing hurts more than being part of a network of wrongdoers, part of the problem is not knowing if the locus is inside or outside yourself.)

Last year I was involved in something almost indescribable, probably the best description is that I am rewiring myself to increase my ability to emotionally communicate with and charm people.

Many things went right and wrong, but after charming many members of a group I said something really hurtful to one member.

It's funny because I sometimes do a good job of telling stories and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I tell the punch line of a joke before the set-up.

This time I succeeded, I wove together several threads to tell a powerful story about my own pain and loss, another person's suffering, and the related problems in a wider community. The effect on the other person was almost like a physical impact and that person hasn't talked to me since.

I feel bad about hurting that person also feel bad because this mistake and a string of similar mistakes of lesser magnitude caused my self-interested plans to fail not just in a specific way (with that particular group), but in a generic way (would have failed with any group and any goal.)

In the process of refreshing my practice it realized I hadn't ensorcelled anyone since that day. I'd left my power behind at that incident. Even though it will be hard to open a dialogue with that person I have to apologize and make amends because I need my power back.
I think it's hard to move on from negative or traumatic experiences before you can make sense of them.
There is usually something to be learned so it makes sense to try to understand your past in order to avoid getting caught up in a trap again.

I've had some very negative, strange experiences over the past few years (in my professional life) but somehow I feel that the learning experience might be worth it... I think you need to take certain lessons with a grain of salt though.
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Plenty still do. The Home Depots near me don't do chip. They're magstripe only.

I'm more annoyed when a store doesn't take Apple Pay. The clerks always seem embarrassed when I ask because I'm sure I'm the 900,000th person to inquire. I find it so odd that the Krogers in two cities I've been to recently don't do contactless payments at all.
I work on a large rust project professionally, and we have tried to make build times a priority for CI. I’m just noting a couple of things that helped us a lot, in case they’re useful.

- sccache is pretty much essential

- beefiness: GitLab’s default runners for example are way too underpowered and made our builds take like 30 minutes (as opposed to 5 on a beefy machine in CircleCI). We’re working on switching to self-hosted runners for GL

- replacing diesel with sqlx saved us a fair bit of time

- caching the cargo home can help. It wasn’t a massive gain relative to sccache, though. Similar story with caching the target directory

- lld linking was another relatively small win, but a win nonetheless

- splitting things up into smaller libraries and binaries (all in one workspace) helped us a fair bit, since building/testing some targets can now totally skip some libraries, but I imagine YMMV
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I've read good things about the pro version, my comment was about the base version. In my opinion they sounded horribly tinny

I personally use a qudelix with Dan Clark aeon rt. For in ear I use tin audio p(1 or 2, can't remember off the top of my head) and from my experiences the original airpods can't even come close to the tin HiFi planar in ears (yes they do have their flaws, but tinny is not one of them)
Completely agree. Ubuntu 20.04 with a 5k monitor (Dell UP2715K)? The result: Burn in that lasts for an hour and graphics completely messed up. After a few days the monitor broke. Are 100% scaling too small for your new 4k monitor? Well if you think 200% is too much, you'll have to switch to fractional scaling, where things get blurry. Don't know about macOS, but Windows have no trouble scaling things nicely to 150% for instance.

In Windows there are no monitor issues and it's super easy to set up my PlayStation 3 controller for games (that are also nicely supported). Overall there's just less configuration in Windows.

Instead I run Linux in VMware, which comes with its own perks: By creating a virtual machine per project, everything is neatly grouped in its own workspace, and by suspending instead of shutting down when done, I can get back to where I left off as easy as loading it's previous state from disk, with everything open - unsaved documents, applications, browser tabs, etc. I get the best of both worlds this way.
I moved to a new place. New town new job new house new friends. It’s hard to live in the past when everything around you is different.
I appreciate that this is just some over dramatic roast, but claiming that some parts of open source are suboptimal wrt security is a "non causal observation" means you're ignoring the difference between 'warning' and 'example'.
Absolutely. For example: why can't "Get-TrustAuthorityKeyProviderClientCertificateCSR" simply be "takpccc" as $DEITY intended?

If your keyboard's tab key is still legibly labelled then you aren't trying hard enough or have an eidetic memory and fast typing skills!
Plans for crime can be a crime though. Law is complicated! :P
In my opinion.

* James Webb Telescope to fail.
* Republicans do well in midterms.
* Boris Johnson replaced in the summer by Michael Gove.
* Russian troops in Ukraine and perhaps other countries.
* Macron to lose; a far right candidate to become President of France.
* Starship to fly (eventually). But won't become orbital with landing this year.
* Telsa stock to tank.
* Stock market crash. High inflation. US recession.
* China to challenge Taiwan to test US resolve (which isn't there). Poss take control of islands near Taiwain and take control of waters around Taiwan.
* Biden ratings low.
* UK to recover best from pandemic. But UK GDP still to perform badly.
* Boeing to take astronauts to the ISS.
* Rocketlab to launch from the USA.
* China to launch new space station.
* Poss new anti-government protests in Iran.
* Full roll out of Tesla Full Self-Driving posponed.
* Argentina to win The World Cup.
* Mark Zukerberg to resign as CEO of Facebook.
* Elon Musk to step back from running Tesla. Poss new CEO.
* Polio to have close to 0 new cases.
And with Wine you have some hope for portability.
I also have family members who use them with windows for video calls, they work with just about any Bluetooth source afaik
It's true that it could fail in 10 weeks, but it's pretty likely that it lasts the whole 10 years. Computer hardware is pretty good like that. Especially if you've got power conditioning and a UPS so it never even reboots (except when you want it to).

At home I'm running an old desktop PC with Linux for my router. It's running on >10 year old hardware. I've got several other old PCs running, too, that's just the oldest, so not completely a fluke.
Perhaps you haven’t read through till the end of the story where Agassi makes his own decision as opposed to his father’s and chooses tennis then goes on to become a champion once again.
> The web page used an old .NET framework that serialized the application state, base64 encoded it, then dumped it in a hidden form field at the bottom.

Wow. I was a C# developer for many years and I never realised that ViewState encryption was _opt in_[1].

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/aspnet/bb...
Plant medicine was transformational for me to closing one chapter and opening the next.

Forming new neurological pathways was a significant way of creating new memories which allowed me to move on much easier.

Godspeed on your journey.

https://news.yale.edu/2021/07/05/psychedelic-spurs-growth-ne...
Looks like you can still rent DVDs from Netflix https://dvd.netflix.com/Movies
I largely agree with the author; with that said,

> where the only investment opportunity is as an economically corrosive synthetic hedge against all productive assets

Elementary finance theory (quoting Tobin's Separation Theorem here) argues that portfolios should be comprised of some weight of nearly all if not all of the available securities, as even assets with poor expected returns can be useful elements of a portfolio in order to improve diversification within the portfolio and reduce the portfolio's risk. Dumb money should be hedged against productive assets.

Is crypto a productive asset? The author's argument rests on the presumption of no. People who use cryptocurrency to cheapen and hurry the process of transferring capital across borders, compared to wire transfers, would say yes. Leave aside that international wire transfers could be sped up and made cheaper with a centralized authority in theory, the fact remains that in reality the fees are what they are. There's additional early work in using NFTs to deliver real-world benefits, where the issuer of the NFT derives value in outsourcing the tracking of who holds the rights to the real-world benefits to the miners propping up the backing blockchain rather than running their own centralized system. Is that enough value to justify the costs? Maybe. Hard to say. Too early to tell.
I believe there were no takers because 100$ for such a setup is completely out of market.

I wouldn't be surprised if a freelancer would charge 100$ per hour to do this kind of work spanning multiple work days.
qt would be a good candidate too.
This 1000%. It was amazing how much more comfortable I was with my suite of VPS's when I moved them from AWS to Digital Ocean! I always describe on-boarding with AWS as "drinking from a firehouse". There is so much to understand and it is hard to tell what you should actually care about. DO, on the other hand, has a much simpler set of services that seem much more applicable to 'non-enterprise' usage. (Plus the documentation for DO is great!)
I've kinda just accepted that I'm alone. I don't really feel that lonely, but I'd love to have a friend or two.
The few friends I've had have sort of just drifted away I guess.

I can be social, but I prefer being by myself most of the time. And in my country theres an unwritten rule of never talking to strangers, if you do; you're some kind of weirdo. So that doesn't help either!
They largely make it effortless to use with multiple devices. Pair with one of your apple devices, and they’re automatically available on all of your other apple devices. For the most part, they even intelligently auto-switch between them as well.

Occasionally you will find an app on a device that claims to be playing audio when it’s not, and your AirPods get hijacked, but it’s easy enough to switch back and forth when that happens.
How could this not be true?

The only way for the poor to not be intrinsically less smart than the non-poor would be for there to be little-to-no impact of IQ on job choice.

But of course IQ affects job choice, which affects income, which determines class.

Consider the most common jobs in the upper income decile--physicians, managers, executives, and lawyers. Generally speaking, these jobs are inaccessible to people with average IQs, let alone low IQs. So of course these high-paying jobs are far more likely to be filled by folks with high IQs.

Now, consider the most common jobs in the lowest decile--nursing aides, cashiers, cooks, housekeepers. Jobs like this would be, generally speaking, boring for people with average IQs and absolute torture for folks with high IQs (who as a rule crave novelty and complexity to a greater degree than most). So of course these low-paying jobs are more likely to be filled by folks with low IQs.

This doesn't even get into the fact that ~15% of the population have IQs below 85. These folks will struggle to hold down any job, and are far more likely to sort into the ranks of the poor than into the middle or upper classes.

Ignoring objective truths is always dangerous, even if they are uncomfortable.
I have a vague memory that at a previous job I was building envoy proxy in a build automation pipeline and it regularly OOMed. While troubleshooting I noticed that most of the time and memory was spent compiling one or two generated C++ files; they contained many many many type parameters. When you have to generate templates something is wrong.
Linus Sebastian has been doing so for years now.
GP specifically said ‘non apple’, so not AirPods.
Depends which exchange - some are US regulated eg. Coinbase, Kraken.
You are, essentially, describing reading comprehension which is tested in literacy tests. The easier ones can be skimmed, that is the point, someone can skim grade 4 level material and get the gist of it. However, through some university level content at them and they may fail miserably. The people you reference may pass the easier tests and they should, but of course they will fail at the higher level ones because they didn't read/comprehend them well.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.7129...
Unless you're writing something low-level like a driver or representation engine (game engines or CAD/CAM or something like that), why would you still have to write native Windows applications?

I do see how a native application generally behaves and performs better, but it's a whole lot of extra work vs. a less-than-native application. I'd even opt for a generic backend (say, Rust or Go based) and simply having the 'interface' be OS-native.
Is APTX Lossless an open standard? It doesn't look like it to me. I don't know why Apple would depend on a non-open standard that they don't have to.
Why would they even both to encrypt the firmware? Is that a regulatory requirement somewhere?
Well, AptX is shit (non-lossless), the only okay codec in use is LDAC, and it's by brute force - 990kbps is awfully close to flac typical bitrate (you'll also get connectivity issues for obvious reasons). Also legal reasons - everyone wants $$$$ for their shit codec

I don't know why the whole ecosystem is so fucked up, even AAC ~256kbps can pass double blind test against lossless source, assuming properly encoded and decoded - this assumption is not fulfilled in a slightest in Bluetooth land.

P.S. I really want to see some good and open codec, like .opus, properly implemented - this will close major source of frustration for everyone involved and will drive whole industry forward
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You are the sum total of everything that has happened to you. This can seem like a disadvantage when people around you have enjoyed a more perfect existence but, as you get older, you can find strength in the knowledge that you have endured things other people have not. This makes you a better person, whether you feel it or not.

Good luck with the rest of your life.
I do something similar:

- GCP VM with “Google Container OS”.

- “Cloud init” config set on the VM metadata (can easily recreate the VM; no snowflake config via SSH mutations).

- My service runs in a docker container, reads/writes to a SQLite file on the host disk.

- GCP incrementally snapshots the disk every hour or so, and makes copies to different region. Any disk writes are copied instantly to another zone.

- Lets encrypt cert is read from the host disk and the docker container serves HTTPS directly (no proxy). Certificate is renewed with the LE CLI.

- The service logs to standard out, this is collected by the Google logs daemon which I can view with the web UI.

- Google have their own HTTP uptime monitoring and alerting which sends you an SMS.
This article is a well-written deep dive on parallel performance debugging that ends up identifying the difference being due to how caching is handled on multi-CPU vs single-CPU systems. Thanks to the author for taking time to write up their troubleshooting process description.
Sounds like she demolished her husbands life too, although, I have little doubt he wanted the same. Its a non-unique story about youngish people that 'fell in love' and failed to plan.
Here's a link to the image in question directly: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FH0N9HNWQAE0n9R?format=jpg&name=...
As a cryptocurrency skeptic, I like some of Diehl's posts however he seems more sure that the whole thing will collapse than I am. I think it could survive long term as a kind of digital gold, a investment having poor returns used in niche financial use cases.

I like this article because it emphasizes arguments about the dangers of deflationary coins going into widespread use (a point I made here: https://benoitessiambre.com/specter.html).

I'd like to add some minor clarifications that might help understand some of the mechanics of these dangers better:

> Money exists to exchange for goods and services in an economy. It is created to mediate the exchange of goods so that we have a common unit of account we can trade instead of bartering goods directly. Money needs to have a reliable and stable value compared to a domestic basket of common goods and services, in order to achieve that the supply of the money needs to be controlled by a monetary authority which can expand or contract the supply according to market fluctuations.
>A dynamic money supply is a fundamental necessity for a modern economy. A small amount of inflation discourages hoarding and incentivizes investment into productive enterprises which grow the economy and produce prosperity. Conversely a static money supply is inflexible in times of crisis because it does not allow intervention. Economies do not stabilize themselves and require active intervention to curb recessions.

What I want to add is that in some broader context, economies do stabilize themselves. Without a standardized government currency, if everyone was relying on barter or volatile coins (resulting in a super inefficient economy), things would usually automatically stabilize.

If you want a stable currency, a useful thing to have that helps generate a ton of prosperity, that's when you have to put in place mechanisms that prevents the currency from creating market gridlock and amplifying crises.

It's not that markets don't adjust themselves. It's that the existence of a deflationary government stabilized currency can prevent these adjustments. It can prevent them at an economy wide scale, causing untold human suffering through massive amounts of unemployment and destitution. The only solution we have to this (without getting rid of all stable currencies) is to make sure stable currencies are inflationary, that they lose value over time. As I mentioned, this is further explained here: https://benoitessiambre.com/specter.html and here: https://bessiambre.medium.com/the-world-deserves-a-pay-raise...
My plan is to mediate more consistently. Hopefully every day. I’ve found it to help my mental health immensely when I am consistent and recently my mental health has been poor.

But in addition to mental health, I somewhat recently left an extremely rigid religion and have found myself looking for some form of healthy spirituality in my life again and I’m hoping that mediation coupled with a mix of views and philosophies from various eastern religions will help in that part of my life. I don’t expect to believe metaphysical claims from them per se, but to explore them and adopt what I do find makes sense rationally and then also through my own attempts at a spiritual practice.
Do they make it easy to use multiple devices (one at a time) or to have one paired with each of two devices?

If they're all Apple devices, yes. When I select AirPlay on my iPad, iPhones†, or AppleTV; or Sound on any of my Macs, all of my AirPods† show up and can be selected.

† Multiple iPhones and AirPods because I keep work and personal devices distinct.