skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is most likely the effect of some luddite in a leadership position that simply can't handle change but has been able to force everyone to comply for decades.

It's much more likely that they have an established set of procedures on how to handle day to day operations that involves floppies, and that they didn't see the point of changing the procedures that already work for them.
If so, please make it opt-in. Let users set the auto-delete date themselves, because I don't want to have to make sure that I log in every other week to keep my account alive.
Haven't seen a floppy disk for 20 years. Haven't seen an 8" floppy since about 1988.

Floppies got bitrot quite badly; I doubt they're readable without forensic equipment (come to think of it, even without the bitrot, equipment for reading floppies isn't common).
Are you talking about the famous wealthy upper class and status people with your example?

Not sure if you genuinely believe justice is blind. Something that has never been true.
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I challenge you to show me a case where mere presentation of statistics led to a ban, shadow or otherwise.

More likely the "raising of a statistic" was accompanied by a first-order explanation of the number that, besides being trite and lazy, was also "blatantly racist". But it wasn't the statistic that did the job.
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I think part of the problem is that Omicron is too new to really quantify risks for the vaccinated but unboosted population.

That said, what we do know is that the side-effect risks associated with getting boosted are extremely low.

So, I would pose the question: why not?

The health risks associated with getting boosted is vanishingly small compared to other risks you take. For example, as an average 30-40 yo, the risk of death by simply getting out of bed and engaging in normal activities for one day is 1 in 200,000. That risk is far greater than the risk of getting boosted.

My take is that people are making a big deal out of nothing. If there's a chance that getting boosted will help us put an end to this virus sooner, and I'm not taking on any meaningful risk by getting boosted, why not?
> It's a company, they optimize for their interest. They will invest according to that image/reputation value.

Given this article exists, which specifically targets damages against apple’s image/reputation value, then it seems clear to me there exists at least some incentive for apple to do as GP describes
Good point. I was recalling the movie here and also noticed that the doctor's appointment consisted of the doctor plugging the patient into a machine, too.
Seems risky though. A judge or jury could then publicly hand you your ass making you look incompetent.
They say it "briefly" showed that logo. Who knows how long that is.
"His girlfriend Taren always dealt with taxi-drivers, with waitresses."

"The guy in front of me’s leaning all the way back, but I’m in the last row so my seat doesn’t go back, and I have to lift my legs up to stretch out a muscle that was sitting funny while I was asleep"

I feel like Aaron Swartz was never truly an adult, just a boyish intellectual. I can't imagine his submissive behavior was a net positive to his mental health.
I just recently went through around 300 floppy disks -- 3.5" HD mostly, but also some 5.25" 360k and a few 3.5" DD. All dating to 1985-1995.

Overwhelming majority of the disks were readable. I have about 15-20 that aren't... and many of them may be formatted Mac 800k which I am not able to read out right now, rather than corrupted.

This even includes many DD disks that were formatted as HD by my PS/2 that just didn't care. Was a slight hassle to get newer drives to ignore the absence of the density hole and read them out.

The bigger problem is that almost all the interesting data I'd want from that era was generally overwritten by dumb stuff. Why keep old papers and source code from when I was a "baby", when a friend was offering a copy of a game?
Because the basic controls that prevent us from harmful outcomes were not observed. Did you read nothing else I wrote?
.. and that allows plenty of silently accepted extensions, including variable-length arrays, which were in GNU C long before C99.

It seems that only GCC 4.3 added the -Wvla option to unbundle the diagnosis of the presence of VLA's from -pedantic.

Now you can write in gnu89, while banishing VLA's from your code base, if you're so inclined.
Of all the myriad indignities of SQL, this isn't near the top of my list. I also don't like making the names of objects like foreign keys and indexes first class concerns in your queries, that's a whole new layer of cognitive overhead.
So have I. But I also remember plenty of floppies that I’ve written data to not even surviving the 30 minute cycle to college back in the 90s.

Maybe consumer floppies were of a lower quality than published ones? I don’t know if that’s true but I do remember having a really low success rate with consumer floppies (it got so bad I’d often write two floppies just in case).
I'm happy to see that it includes primitives of varying precision, specifically, that it includes PlainDate [1], which represents a calendar date, with no timezone. This year, I've spent far too many days, probably weeks, fixing tedious bugs due to incorrect handling and parsing/formatting/reparsing of dates.

[1] https://tc39.es/proposal-temporal/docs/plaindate.html
In such high numbers that you need dedicated anti suicide infrastructure?

This very clearly isn’t some kind of regular workplace with otherwise reasonable conditions.

What has been repeated described there over many years and many accounts is by every reasonable definition a human rights and moral nightmare.

Just waving this away as the “normal” course of business seems gross
Ok, so what? I still want it. Is everything that hasn't reached mass adoption a failure?
That actually might be a good idea.
> Such tools existed and were popular in 1990s: DBase, Clipper, FoxPro.

Also Crystal Reports, Paradox...

> They worked pretty well in their domain: data entry and report generation, with lightweight transaction processing and general computation.

Having bought Ashton Tate, Borland got DBase and Interbase in addition to Paradox, and built data access components into the VCL class library (in effect "almost-first-class citizens" of the language), which IMO made Delphi the natural and superior successor to those languages: Not just "lightweight", but fully advanced (i.e, ~C++-level) general computation. (And with transaction processing built into the RDBMS connection components.)

> Then happened the internet and client-server architectures, and these do not map as neatly onto local, single-user, single-transaction tables.

Weeelll... Seen the spate of recent posts on here about how SQLite is good enough for pretty much anything? :-) And arguably, that's where Delphi was at too, over twenty years ago: AFAICR, there was a "Fishbase" (facts about tropical fish) demo included with Delphi, which in one variant could be built as a standalone Web service / server.

Also, AFAICS, that's where Free Pascal / Lazarus is at now, only using SQLite / Firebird / MySQL / PostgreSQL (and lots of other DBMSes) in stead of DBase / Clipper / FoxPro / Crystal Reports / Paradox. (I've been planning to look into that a bit closer myself, but haven't got around to it. Procrastinating away too much of my time on Hacker News, I suppose. :-( )
2 what? Did they time-travel from 1992?
Unvaccinated 12-34 year-olds in Washington are

• 3 times more likely to get COVID-19 compared with fully vaccinated 12-34 year-olds.

• 12 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 compared with fully vaccinated 12-34 year-olds.

Unvaccinated 35-64 year-olds are

• 4 times more likely to get COVID-19 compared with fully vaccinated 35-64 year-olds.

• 18 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 compared with fully vaccinated 35-64 year-olds.

Unvaccinated 65+ year-olds are
• 7 times more likely to get COVID-19 compared with fully vaccinated 65+ year-olds.

• 13 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 compared with fully vaccinated 65+ yearolds.

• 15 times more likely to die of COVID-19 compared with fully vaccinated 65+ year-olds.

https://www.doh.wa.gov/Portals/1/Documents/1600/coronavirus/...
Can also be done on any Linux or Unix system with the date command.

On Linux: date -d @1640890924

On Mac: date -r 1640890924
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it seems like there's a couple of hundred consumer-facing VPN service providers, all with slick looking marketing websites to sell you a $5/mo service.

lots of them are nothing more than 1 or 2 people and some rented 1U servers or dedicated servers somewhere on whatever ISP that can find with cheap IP transit / DIA rates. maybe a part time website design/graphic arts person they found via fiverr to make things look cool.

from the perspective of a colocation-specialist ISP or medium sized generalist ISP that offers colo, they get lots of weird requests for colo and dedicated server services from VPN companies they've never heard of before. often with something like a corporate entity that exists in cyprus, panama or even weirder places.

looking at this in terms of the risk that a VPN provider presents to an ISP's reputation, IP space, attracting unusual volumes and numbers of DDoS, etc... there is a certain amount of "KYC" (exact same idea as finance industry KYC) that needs to go into a potential vpn service provider as a colocation client before quoting them a price or accepting them as a customer. fail to do that at your own risk.

it's very much in the weird/shady/grey market end of the ISP market.

the level of technical acumen and professionalism varies greatly between VPN providers.
I think existing laws are OK, if not enforced properly (laws are different jurisdiction to jurisdiction, so I don't know what exact law this guy is being accused of breaking). Usually, though, in court, you do have to prove intent in a criminal case. That this case is against the state, though, is probably unlucky. The governor doesn't want to appear to have egg on his face, even if it would be better for the good people of Missouri if he would just say "thank you" and delegate the responsibility of fixing the issue to the right person.
From what I read it seems that they have to stop logging. They can start logging only after they got a request from whoever is allowed to issue such requests in Germany.
Same with the Victoria scale. It wasn’t uncommon to see companies kind of capping out around $90k. I had to negotiate way too hard before I started working remotely instead. Since then I see rates around 120-150k in senior roles, which isn’t that much better with general COL inflation around here, but it’s an improvement. I think you’d generally do better by working remotely, still.
This seems to suggest viral loads are the same for everybody - vaxxed, unvaxxed, symptomatic or asymptotic.

https://www.ucdavis.edu/health/covid-19/news/viral-loads-sim...
Personally I really love the idea of a range extender engine. I want to be able to go camp or be somewhere far away & be able to recharge. I also like the idea that a range-extender engine can be tuned to efficiency, in a very narrow performance band.

Let's quickly calculate efficiency here:

> can generate 3.2 kWh of electricity with one liter of fuel through its 1.5T four-cylinder range extender 3.0

Gas is 46MJ/kg. * 0.2778kWh/MJ. Comes to 12.778kWh/kg. Gas weights 6lbs/gallon * 1gallon/3.78541liter * 1lb/2.205kg, = 0.719kg/l. So multiply 12.778 * 0.719, get 9.187kWh/l.

Making 3.2kWh would be 34.8% efficiency from gas, if I got these figures right.
Do you have a specific criticism of this study?
You taught in a classroom and, I assume, you have taught people you have hired at a company in your position as a manager or senior engineer. There is a very significant difference in accountability. If in the classroom, a student falls through the cracks, it isn't your fault and you are not held accountable. Whereas, if you are leading a software engineering team, you hired the best qualified applicants available at the time, you are under pressure to be the best in the world and those people you hired will always fall short of that, the accountability to get those employees up to speed falls on you -- you can't say they are disabled, fire them, and hire new employees since they were the best qualified applicants available when you hired them, you can't do better. If your team fails, it isn't because the people you choose to hire, it is because of you. It is impossible to devise a system where teachers are held accountable for student performance in a classroom. I wouldn't even start to suggest that it is something we should do. What could go wrong?
VT Fuzes For Projectiles and Spin-Stabilized Rockets , OP 1480, 1946

https://maritime.org/doc/vtfuze/index.htm
How would Sega know there are AWS API keys in a public S3 bucket without vpnoverview defacing their careers site? Sega could probably, y'know, look in the S3 bucket at the identified file which contained the keys.

All of the things found could have been investigated by Sega and replicated if vpnoverview just documented how they got access to the info.

You don't have to joyride in a car to show the owner that they dropped their keys.
The article that btilly linked to is very good, but I think it over-emphasizes the possibility of interpreting open source licenses as contracts. You have to read pretty far and pay close attention to understand that most open source licenses will fail as contracts and that the GPL explicitly intends that result (pp. 65-66).

Some consequences: (1) the sole recourse for breach of license conditions will be to sue for copyright infringement, (2) only the copyright owner will have standing to sue, (i.e., an intermediate licensee or a user, who might have standing as a third-party beneficiary under a contract theory, will not), and (3) remedies will be limited to monetary damages.
>Sega deserved to be punished

I don't understand this way of thinking. They made a serious security oversight, but that doesn't mean that they deserve to have their website defaced.
Excerpt from another article on the same events, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-08/torrance...

> In the Mitchell case, that could be especially concerning. According to district attorney’s records reviewed by The Times, Concannon once sent a troubling text message referring to a deposition he gave in an “officer-involved shooting.”

> “They believed our lies. Good job sticking to the script,” he wrote. “LMAO, that’s what they call a W.”

> According to a Times review of public records, Concannon has shot only one person during his career: Christopher DeAndre Mitchell.

Referring to this case, where it was found to be "lawful self-defense": https://da.lacounty.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/JSID_OIS_10_...

Obviously this is totally inconclusive and in no way proves Concannon's guilt, but note the obstruction of the bodycam for the crucial moments:

> In the body worn footage, Concannon appeared to move slightly back along the side of the car as
he put away his flashlight. Concannon’s left hand can be seen coming up to brace his firing hand
on the service weapon. After the shift to a two-handed firing position, the body worn camera’s
view of Mitchell was obstructed by Concannon’s hands. As a result, Mitchell is not visible on
the body worn footage during the three seconds preceding the first shot. Concannon can be
heard on the video repeating the command, “Get out of the car!” more forcefully during this
interval. About one second after repeating that command, the first shot was fired.
Well might stop someone who does not care but someone like me would be highly curious finding a floppy disc this day and age and may spend the 20$ on amazon for a reader.
I wouldn't worry. Everybody knows that floppy disks are used to safely watch solar eclipses. Nobody would plug them into ancient computers expecting to find some data there.
Yes. I am the source for information about everything I have not read.

Do you have a source for the claim that Winston Churchill was not a carrot?
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At least the invisible ink is an attempt at hiding the information. A comically bad attempt but still an attempt.

A better analogy would be that the state sent the journalist a document with everything readable in regular light, and a separate sheet that tells him which words he must redact. There was no attempt to conceal information, and worse, the redaction list would have been promptly ignored by anyone using a screen reader or other accessibility devices.
When chrome added their "apps" feature (with games) all I heard was praise, though?
It's really not though. Even my parents know and understand what view source is in the browser. A browser is simply a way to render information sent. Once it was wilfully sent and in your browser you are not accessing a machine in a criminal way. I hope that if they even try to bring charges the reporter and the newspaper counter sue for violation of rights. Mozilla and the Chrome team need to weigh in on the defendant side. Anyone here from those teams willing to stand up for this guy?
Let's follow another guideline [0]:

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

Barrin92 brought up American universities where it wasn't necessary. I get it. Let's not dismiss their comment because they brought that up. I looked past that and I am trying to keep this on topic by discussing the point they made.

Does the paper you linked say anything about using the words "light" and "dark"?

How do we determine which definitions of "dark" we should use in a professional context?

I think this topic is important to discuss and I am genuinely curious how you and others would address the points in my previous comment.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not sure why any api ever had functions like float.parse(s) or date.parse(s). Even more modern ones like .NET (circa 2000) had it. And it's literally never a good idea. Not even for a one off script is it convenient or ergonomic to omit the information about what format you expect (or try to suck it out of thin air such as a static locale on the thread). It's just a bad.idea. If it does accept date parse(s) it has to be with a fixed format (e.g. iso) unless specified. Not "system local format" or something. The same applies to number formatting. I haven't met one single person who prefers automatic string formatting to switch decimal point and decimal comma due to the system language.
Should have just left it at that and collected the bug bounty, defacing for a proof of concept and telling everyone pretty much makes you ineligible in any white hat program. Can I get dibs on your flat while you're in the... camp?
>Its not good satire because its very heavy handed

ah, yes, such blunt and heavy handed satire compared with old, subtle satire, like that one, modest, pamphlet advocating for eating poor children.

not sure why satire needs to be subtle to be good. It can go from crass to oscar-wilde-subtle, as long as it's funny and based on reality I would call it good.
Artillery was where the US had a real qualitative edge in WWII. There were the radio equipped forward observers that could call in a barrage with drastically lower latency than any other combatant. There were the computer generated firing tables aiding both accuracy and allowing things like time on target barrages[1]. And towards the end there were the proximity fused shells.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_On_Target
I have many 3.5 inchers. None of them lost data, either.

Although as a precaution, I long ago copied them en masse to CDROMs. Later, the CDROMs got copied to hard disks.

I gave away my PDP-11 long ago, but not before I copied the 8" floppies it had (circa 1980). But one day I realized I had neglected to copy a critical file. I had the floppies, but no way to copy them. Then I remembered a friend of mine, Shal Farley, might still have an -11. Calling him up, sure enough, he had it but hadn't fired it up in years and was about to dispose of it. I mailed him the floppies.

He fired up the -11, it still worked fine, and the floppies all copied perfectly. My entire box of floppies, every byte.

A big thanks to Shal and his company, Cheshire Engineering.

(The missing file was one of the source files to Empire for the PDP-11, which I have now backed up on https://github.com/DigitalMars/Empire-for-PDP-11 )
>There was a rumor that in the Rittenhouse case, one of the other folks involved had a much much larger actual criminal history then the one they released, but that a lot of the history was hidden in various ways?

As an aside, there's a ~2hr video floating around the internet of bodycam footage from arm guy's DUI arrest between the shooting and the trail. They dropped it, presumably because an active DUI case makes for a crappy prosecution witness. Police officers don't even get treatment that good. If they get as far as being cited (vs a free ride home, which is what they often get) the prosecution typically makes them plead down and spend thousands doing so rather than just dropping it.

That said, the DUI in question is an example of a lot of things that are wrong with policing (the cops in the video are professional and civil the whole time) and I think it's worth watching just for that.
Can you explain how PAKE would help here? Going just off Wikipedia, it is a key-establishment protocol "based only on their knowledge of a shared password". So I would expect that the shared password is the master password or its hash and the parties are the user and the LP server. So wouldn't using PAKE require the server to know your master password or its hash? That sounds the same as before. Is the idea that they both know the hash only transiently (instead of the server knowing it persistently as it does today) and then establish some other key which they use after that?
Do you have a paid account or a free account? If I store my documents on a free account for a one time send to the university application and then I forget about it, then Dropbox should purge it after a time to protect my data, as I don't have any "contract" with them like a subscription or something. The same for G2A, I have bought from them some game keys at a cheap price sometime ago and then I totally forgot that I have one, I couldn't even find the activation mail in my inbox, lol. One day in the summer I woke up with a mail that I have to pay an inactivity fee even if I'm just a row in their database and I have no contractual obligation with them.
Oh man, spent way too long staring at the resources on this page once upon a time, when implementing a level-based algorithm for drawing trees:

https://dmkolobov.github.io/tidy-trees-demo/

Good stuff on this page, and the references are an invaluable collection of prior art.