skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Devil's advocate:

Because things like unauthorized clients make abuse easier. If you control the client, you can do more than if you merely control the API.
I'm puzzled by which machines are covered by these regulations, and which aren't.

I bought a new farm telehandler three or four years ago, and a dairy farmer friend did about the same time. His machine has the reversing alarm which is apparently non-optional. Mine doesn't, and as far as I know, they never sell anything with one.

They're from different manufacturers and mine's centre-pivot whereas his is side-mount, but they're basically similar-sized kit to do the same job. Nonetheless, only one of us makes an enemy of the neighbours at 4am. (I wonder if the rules only require them for construction sites, and my manufacturer doesn't sell into that market whereas his does?)
Never played the original.

Are there any controls besides the arrow keys? None of the other keys I pressed seemed to do anything.
This is the only way their tokens would sell themselves (and arguably more so) is if they guarantee that even if you lost your account, you could still transfer your NFTs to a new account. Also the ability to sell games you've bought is pretty awesome. Heck under this scheme, if you buy a game plus DLC but you already own the base game, it should let you gift / sell the game to a friend if you paid the full amount of the game + DLC.

I seem to remember a time when people were able to sell games and buy games on the Steam market.
Don't know about Stellar but the original XRPL consensus which Stellar is based on requires each validator "node" (nodes that participate in consensus finding) to define which other nodes it listens to (This list of other nodes doesn't have to be public.) But if you would make all the lists public the most overlapped nodes would be the core.
A common misconception is however that nodes in this core somehow have more rights or can somehow affect the outcome of the consensus. Which is not the case.

Each node enforces all rules. The overlap is only requires in the sense of that it prevents forking. I.e. if there would be 2 loosely connected "cores" the same size and they get disconnected form each other, both sides could keep going which is objectively worse than if the system halts until the problem is resolved. This "emergency halting" is only guaranteed if there is one core that is overlapped enough so that no 2 separated parts or the network could reach the 80% quorum.
Since you do not [most likely] have root access to your phone, you cannot directly examine what Apple/Google has installed on _your specific_ phone. Any of these applications could have its memory examined transparently if the operating system is evil.
I am a big fan of Mr Pike’s work. I would love to see Mr. Pike revisit this whitepaper as of 2021/2022.
The Zig programming language approach to communications is a great example of what you advocate: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Community
Levels: A Cultural Anomaly?
A competent lawyer would write this up so quickly that Amazon would settle rather than fight it out. I don't know the full story but it seems like this is a quick 5 figure payout for the family.
I agree it's very quick and easy to just get shit done in Bash. When I go back to my code after a few weeks I can't stand looking at it.
The article says some employees were assaulted. Wouldn’t it make more sense to arrest the perpetrators than sue the company ?? Not saying this is wrong but it seems like the perps are still out there.
> Is there a way to send a strong signal that we don't want this?

Stop buying iPhones, start de-registering devices and selling them on the second hand market. Use a flip phone or an android privacy ROM.
The real question is if you actually believe what this document writes about Wickr.

Wickr is set up like an expected honeypot would be set up. So for people that don't or aren't willing to understand that, I'm wondering if this document validates them, or if the skepticism of this document's classification level validates the idea Wickr should be avoided for sensitive communications.
> "Schuko plug partially inserted in CEE 7/1 non-earthed socket, pins are in contact but exposed. There is no connection for the earthing contact"

That’s a plug from one country (Germany/France) inserted in sockets from another country (Netherlands/Denmark). That’s not a supported configuration, and if you do it like that, you’ll always be able to cause trouble.

German sockets are significantly more recessed, so the pins are never exposed.
"Modern" TeX processors (LuaTeX or XeTeX) are sadly held back because publishers still cling to PDFLaTex. For instance, ArXiV "fully supports and automatically recognizes PDFLaTeX" and makes no mention of other backends [0].

So, LuaTeX is perfectly fine for personal stuff that you can compile in-house, but basically nobody wants to risk using it in any scenarios where sources are to be sent to a 3rd party for compilation, only to find out that they need to make them PDFLaTeX-compatible.

And after all LuaTeX came out of beta in 2016 [1], which is pretty recent in TeX-years. So it kind of makes sense that publishers still prefer the quite battle-tested PDFLaTeX...

[0]: https://arxiv.org/help/submit_tex

[1]: https://tug.org/pipermail/luatex/2016-September/006201.html
The primary lien holder absolutely has a right object (practically not legally). Because its a lien senior to the original lien. So in case of a foreclosure, the PACE loans would be repaid first. No other loan can trump seniority of the primary lien. PACE is an exception by law

For instance, if someone buys a home for 100k putting down 20k (standard 20% in the US). Then the owner takes out a PACE loan for 20k, the loan to value for the bank is now 100% (as opposed to original 80%). In case of foreclosure, the 20k PACE is paid down first or becomes the obligation of the buyer. And these panel depreciate, so its unlikely the panels are worth 20k after a few years. So in case its liquidated for 70k, the PACE gets paid off 20k, and the bank gets 50k. Without the loan, the bank would get their back 70k.
Some people have to spend 1 hour in a vehicle to get to work, plus extra time to get ready for work. You can rather spend that same time with your family, or exercise, or learn something new, or sleep, or whatever.

Going to work every day is such an spectacularly awful way of spending resources just so that you can be in an office sitting in a workstation that is inferior to what you have at home.
Has it been independently audited at all? I looked around and didn't find anything about it.

It's probably maybe fine, and of course code can change at any time, but with software focused on security, it would seem more necessary than, say, an audio player (excluding improbable situations).

Either way, It's nice to see a GPG alt written in Go.
Lakes have a sort of nebulous depth though. They're probably a better measuring stick for area than volume.
My 1 yr old does this all the time when exploring the world. I have had to tell my 17-year old stepchild who easily gets down on failures, that my role as a parent isn’t to protect my children from failure, but to protect them from catastrophic failure (ones that cannot be easily recoverable from).

Myself, it isn’t something I learned until I was an adult, encountering “growth mindset” and practicing martial arts. Failures are the foundation of growth and anti-fragility, and works better if you can un-identify with it.
Mycroft.ai is what you're looking for. They're taking pre-orders now: https://mycroft.ai/blog/pre-order-your-mark-ii-shipping-star...
Good luck with that approach, I hope you enjoy your office.

Yet the [zero covid] approach has largely cut off Hong Kong from both China and the world - a severe blow for a place that built its success on global connections. Even more than recent political changes, the authorities' refusal to adapt to living with the virus is eroding Hong Kong's viability as an international city, according to almost two dozen diplomats, chambers of commerce, recruiters, pilots and other expatriates.
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In a survey released this month, the British Chamber of Commerce found that 70 percent of respondents hoping to add staff in Hong Kong had encountered difficulties, with many citing quarantine restrictions.
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Jan Willem Moller, chairman of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce, said that about a quarter of Dutch businesspeople have left this year, and that the departures would "increase significantly" if the quarantine rules stay in place
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At least 240 Cathay pilots have quit since May, according to employees who reviewed internal numbers. The carrier is reeling, with staff morale at "rock bottom" after hefty pay cuts last year and more departures imminent, several pilots said
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Resentment spilled over last month when more than 120 students were ordered to a government quarantine camp known as Penny's Bay after they were deemed to be contacts of a pilot who was among three who tested positive on return from Germany

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hong-kong-clinging-zero-covid-132...
UP arrow for jump.
How is this the "explanation of a goal"?

I issue an imperative command to apt-get, and it tries to execute it.

It has no knowledge of why I want foo bar and baz installed, nor can it decide if these 3 programs make sense for what I am trying to do, or if there is a better way to do it (maybe there is a package "bazinga", that can replace the foo-bar-baz stack?).

A goal-aware package manager would look like this:

super-apt "i need the system ready to function as a webserver, with a high availability database and backup capabilities"
Interesting. If solar/wind and batteries continue their downward price trajectory we may never see commercial hot fusion on Earth, not because it's impossible but because it could never be economically competitive with the giant free gravitational confinement reactor at the center of the solar system. Fission and fossil fuels would eventually be eaten too, though I think you might still see some use of them in regions that are isolated and have very poor solar and wind options.

Fusion would be very important in the far future for the potential of interstellar probes or even interstellar migration. AFAIK it's the only power source that could enable flight at a meaningful (e.g. double digit) fraction of the speed of light.
Show HN: A Simple Workout App
hey nerds, I am a dev and I built a small app for setting my own workouts cause I get tired of apps telling me what exactly to do. I just needed something simple which would let me to choose my own exercises and respective repetitions. so, I did that. you may find it useful, too. any feedback is appreciated but mostly the negative one.

https://www.kongrats.co/

cheers!
Yeah that's true, but this has nothing to do with the programming language, and everything to do with the file system implementation in the kernel, and the OS APIs.

The programming language can only do so much about this problem, and doing too much is harmful (e.g. Python 3).

The default OS X file system isn't POSIX compliant, which creates a portability issue. In POSIX file systems, filenames are bytes, and file contents are bytes. But that isn't true on OS X.
It is good enough! Almost all code forms from the book live in the tests (see the FDG directory[0], for example), and there are a few nice environments like Nextjournal[1] where everything from the books works in the browser.

The Clojure port is quite fast, faster than the original for all benchmarks GJS has sent me, and more fleshed out. (That will change, as I've been pushing bugfixes and performance improvements back upstream as I go, as a meager gift to GJS for making this huge, amazing library in the first place.)

I actually wrote to GJS this morning asking for instructions on how to compile the original "scmutils", since I have the same problem. He responded saying he'll get back to me this afternoon, so I'll post here once I have details.

If you are still interested in getting the books going with MIT-Scheme, I put a decent amount of work into the exercises using the original codebase here[2], including a dockerized version of mit-scheme[3] and the scmutils package[4] that might be useful.

- [0] https://github.com/sicmutils/sicmutils/tree/main/test/sicmut...

- [1] https://nextjournal.com/try/samritchie/sicmutils/

- [2] https://github.com/sicmutils/sicm-exercises

- [3] https://hub.docker.com/r/sritchie/mit-scheme

- [4] https://hub.docker.com/r/sritchie/mechanics
Ruby because I feel productive using it and it allows you to write pretty elegant code. I also think bundler is the single greatest dependency management tool that's bundled with a language.
This is obvious tabloid-esque content from a non-tech source. I do not think this is good enough content to belong on hackernews
> First, my local library lends eBooks. In the UK, authors get paid for each book that is borrowed.

I'm in the US, and I wonder how it's done here. I also get all of my eBooks and audiobooks from my local library. Just yesterday I was perusing titles at Barnes & Noble and putting stuff that looked interesting on my library queue. I ended up actually buying dead-tree manga books from there, since I really can't get into eBook-formatted manga for some reason. If it's illustration-heavy, I still want printed stuff.

For the audiobooks I don't even have to strip DRM. The ODM files provide links where you can pull down unprotected MP3 files.

For the eBooks I keep a Windows VM just for running an older version of Kindle for PC, Calibre with DeDRM, and Adobe Digital Editions.

I know there are websites from where I can just directly download the DRM-stripped eBooks, but I figure that going through the library means that somehow some kind of revenue is making it to the authors.

I'd be more than happy to tip the authors directly, but I'd imagine that publishers forbid that sort of thing contractually.
This comes up a lot: everyone has some "skills" that transfer from one domain to another. Read an interview with a titan of industry and they will invariably bring up the willingness to get up early and work hard that s/he "learned" from the paper route. The CEO of the studio "learned" to network from being in the mailroom and so on. In theory, almost any job can give you some transferable skills. A PhD may give you many more than most.

I know if you have PhD you (probably) worked really, really, really hard, were able to focus on a single problem for years, can communicate, analyze and so forth. I have enormous respect for PhDs, and believe they can deliver enormous value. But they are not the same kind of hire as an MBA.

What is the difference between a PhD and an MBA? I think to me it captures the single most important attribute that you cannot pick up directly: what people care about.

The thing about an MBA is, they really enjoy this "business stuff." They like thinking about markets, the customer, costs, finance, how to cross-sell, how to avoid dilution and the like. Its not just that the skills are different (though they are), it is that the interests are different.

Source: comp sci PhD student who switched to an MBA.
Was just going to comment this, can even increase the health bar now :)
Yes, but this neatly ignores the reason this can't work: to WHOM does it cost more?

The polluters make money now. I bet many are even planning how they'll make money from the damage they're causing. Later costs borne by governments of the world are a potential benefit, not any sort of disincentive at all.

So long as politicians are bought and sold, and so long as capitalism is allowed to run full speed ahead with no regulation, the whole planet will be victim to today's greediness.
The article is totally unconvincing. It estimates 2% higher GDP in 80 years, with initial effects in 50 years. 2% over 80 years is ridiculously low ROI, spending money on literally any other kind of infrastructure will have better returns. That's disregarding that it's a very long term economic prediction, which makes it ridiculously unlikely to be correct.
You didnt argue. You just posted a load of completely irrelevant links that have absolutely nothing to do with the java security manager class or why it was depreciated in Java 17.

I believe there is a name for that - strawman.

the jep is here
https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/411

Not checked but Im fairly certain none of your links are referenced there.
2022 New Year Card as an Animated Quine
Can someone give details about what is the best way to contribute? Is there some easy way like just installing an app in my phone and receive popup notifications to answer some quick questions when I'm in a queue of a random local shop?
DRM for software or games (which is what I assume you're talking about) is hardly comparable with DRM for movies/tv shows, they serve a very different purpose. It's basically impossible to prevent users from copying video files so it has basically no effect on piracy rates or rather it can only increase due to the horrible UX.
I've always thought OSM's data license should be more BSD-ish than the current LGPLish license. If you were trying to privately build and edit data from OSM, there'd be a pretty strong incentive to get most of your updates and corrections upstreamed back into OSM, (especially for things that are broadly of interest to the rest of the community) because eventually someone will also create those updates in the upstream OSM, and then you'll have to deal with how to merge your changes with the OSM changes.

I think OSM would benefit more with more people building on the dataset, because even if a smaller percentage actually contributed back, they'd make up for it with a larger overall set of people building on the dataset. And I think they'd get a larger set of people building on the dataset with a more permissive license.

(The obvious counterpoint is OSM is doing just fine with its current license)
For me, the behavior is:

* Connecting from my own IP with wrong password: It tells me to "Check my master password and try again."

* Connecting from another IP with wrong password: It tells me to "Check your inbox for an email from LastPass: <myemail**@gmail.com>" and also to check my login info.

It's a bit odd that it tells me to check my email even though the master password I provided was incorrect.
I didn't say either of those things weren't true. Perhaps I should have used "cloned" instead of "forged" to be clearer. You can't remotely clone a SIM unless you use an OTA exploit or something. It's not the 'normal' case.
Having obtained a PhD myself, I would say its definitely helped in my career, though that is largely because my industry work is related to my PhD; people tend to assume I'm an expert in this super complicated thing and they just need someone around who understands it as some kind of insurance or person to turn to in a crisis, even though with the PhD itself I was working in a niche within a niche within a niche which won't really help the company. Obviously during the PhD I got a working knowledge of the whole field, but I often feel as if a lot of what the company uses me for is pretty obvious and googleable. Very, very rarely do I actually use my PhD expertise. I definitely think if you work as a software engineer in tech a PhD would have too large an opportunity cost vs just working for it to be worth it, especially in the US where PhDs typically last ~5 years.

Aside from that, I think I was lucky to have a supervisor who taught me how to make good presentations. I definitely think my presentations are a lot better than most peoples in industry and that's benefitted my career too. Though, I've also seen very many terrible presentations in academia so I'm probably just lucky there. I'm not sure its the case PhDs typically give better presentations. My LaTeX CV looks incredible though :) (though I highly doubt that will ever affect whether or not I get a particular job).
Agreed. This feels like folks complaining about e-mail vs snail mail.
A "decentralized" google?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_search_engine
I'm sure it's not all the evidence they had. You can definitely use an IP to aid an investigation but there's too much plausible deniability for "beyond a reasonable doubt" if all you have is a computer or an IP associated with a crime.
From here -

https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/rqd3vr/2022_new_yea...
If he’ll bent on getting back to work checkout Excelitas I’m your neck of the woods. I am in conference call with them every week and they are in the office and so am I. Or why not come work for our company. Molecular diagnostics is hard, not adtech and we need all the xooglers that we can take. A guy just relocated from st.Louis.
If someone has no real talents apart from following and enforcing arbitrary rules, he/she can rise in the social hierarchy by virtue signaling and reporting others. We see this in many open source projects now.
Does it really make a difference? In most real and onscreen layouts the keys are staggered as if they were hexagonal.
I haven’t, but I don’t think it’s a stretch to assume that conclusion doesn’t apply in creative fields.
I disagree with the comparison, with physical goods there's effort involved in doing all these things, meaning most people won't do it and you still have to purchase the new unit from Toyota (unless someone manufactures a "perfect" replica).

With bits and bytes on the internet there's no effort involved.

I hate the state of media consumption, but it makes sense from a sellers perspective more than a consumer perspective indeed.
HR are often the worst offenders.

Sometimes they're great and actually invest in the humans at an organization, other times they are the worst humans at an organization.
As a wise man once said, if you want to know what people believe, watch what they do not what they say.
Show HN: A tool to send push notifications to your phone, written in Go
AVR8 assembly.
I've considered that - and it's true in a way - the ones you see are the survivors. But it's surviving the trends and whims of size and style. And people wanting ice-makers and automatic defrost cycles. Not that like only 5% of the 1960 refrigerators were somehow built far better than the rest and they kept working.

I'm 100% certain that all 1960s refrigerators need repair eventually - but it's a simple compressor and that's it, one part probably fits dozens of models for 20+ years too. No sensors, controller board, ice-maker, fans, touch screens, seals, pumps, valves, etc. The difference is that you can't, at least economically, fix the newer appliances.

> every 2020 appliance you find in 60 years will be built robustly, probably in a serviceable manner.

true - but that number will be very close zero. Because there is not a single brand or type that is built that way today. If there is, it's some $10,000+ professional kitchen equipment. Sure some are better than the rest, but they are all essentially un-serviceable. We can mandate right-to-repair and force the vendors to sell parts for 3 years, we can't make them sell them at a reasonable cost. But in 20 years, somethings going to break that isn't worth fixing and nobody is going to stock specialized repair parts for your exact model.

> In any case, don't just throw these away! At least donate them to a nonprofit.

Have you ever tried donating a broken appliance? they don't want them and won't take them. Because they can't economically fix them either.
This is easy to mock -- and others already are -- but there is some element of truth. I've always said that the PhD gave me two valuable things:

1) the demonstrated ability to complete a large, self-directed project from beginning to end, starting with ambiguous, poorly defined goals.

2) a herculean tolerance for bullshit.

Both can be earned elsewhere, but the PhD was definitely a fast path. The first one is still quite rare, in my experience, and I'd call it a "hard skill".
Calling age an unknown upstart is a weird take.
Played it first on my Windows 98 PC or was it the counterfeit nintendo ? I don't exactly remember, but me and my big bro had a blast playing this during the early 2000s. Did not remember the jumps were this dysfunctional tbh.