skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not asking you about the meaning of a common idiom. I'm only asking about what you mean. What are you trying to say.

> I think the standard lay person on a jury would not necessarily be open to a defense attorney attempting to explain that the word “decode” in goes against their base understanding of the word.

If they're not "open" to understand what Base64-decoding means, then they're not open to understand what the defendant did. Maybe that's true. If so it's a very deep indictment of the process. If what you are saying is true, the judge should not allow the prosecution to use the word "decode."

> To use a metaphor—if a state building is closed, but a person with certain knowledge knows that the windows on the building are easily opened

We don't need a metaphor. I used another actual example (not metaphor) of a encoding -- Morse code. A person who takes a transmission in Morse code and writes it down on paper has decoded it.

Is decoding Morse code allowed "without authorization"? Do I have a right to broadcast information on my HAM radio and then demand prosecution of any people who decode it?

It seems you would argue yes. Or else "no, but only because juries have heard of Morse but not Base64."

If the state, in this case, had used strings of "." and "-" to encode the data in Morse code, instead of Base64, do you think they would have the same case?

Or what if they had used Greek instead of English? (I think if you insisted to use a metaphor for encodings, that would actually be a good one.)
> They can access parts of my CPU without my knowledge.

Let me suggest you look into something called "Windows Update" which seems to be an intentional backdoor/RCE that Microsoft has baked into their operating system.
>> It’s like:

That's cute, but not what actually happened. It started with:

Company: We want more profit

Production: Moved to Asia

Other Companies: We can't compete any more

Other Production: Moved to Asia

Companies: Oh crap, we need production back in the US (for various reasons)

Production: Oh shit that's right, we moved because it cost less with no labor or environmental protections and we could work the shit out of people.

Companies: Let's call it a "Culture Clash".
Been programming professionally for about 23 years now. I've done Leetcode-like code for my job I think maybe once? A modestly clever bitpacking scheme for a particular problem in a confined space that used algorithms one step beyond what you get in an undergrad education. But I mean, only one step... I didn't have to whip out the Knuth or anything.

Sometimes the court jester speaks profound truth under an appealing layer of humor... in that spirit, if Leetcode is bothering you I very seriously propose that your best solution may be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlKao_Pox5A
Seems like companies want that as well. Fortunately for them, they actually get it (if their stock price is any indication).
On my 1185g7 laptop, the browser benchmark Speedometer 2.0 scores 116. On my M1, I get 288. That's a bit more than "slightly ahead". The M1 absolutely smokes Tiger Lake and even Tiger Lake-H.
Probably the "written in rust" label.
And since you have to know the web stack to exist at all on browsers that box is checked for basically everyone. Break the dominance on the DOM and JS in browsers and you open the door to better cross-platform toolkits.
What about the Intel Management Engine that is more than ten years old? It is a full OS with maximum privileges.
It doesn't matter. You end up trusting a centralized entity with your auth.

Unless, of course, you are a programmer yourself and can implement that "decentralized auth smart contract" from scratch
Recommended reading for anyone interested in this tecnology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next-Generation_Secure_Computi...

https://secret.club/2021/06/28/windows11-tpms.html

https://www.eff.org/wp/trusted-computing-promise-and-risk

https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:206552/FULLTEXT0...
Yes, my Amazon Fire is basically unusable after 5 years in now, takes 10's of seconds to load anything.
These might help:

* https://github.com/jlevy/the-art-of-command-line notes and tips on using the command-line, suitable for both beginners and experienced users

* https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr collection of community-maintained help pages for command-line tools

* http://www.compciv.org/unix-tools/ examples for most common usecases

* https://devmanual.gentoo.org/tools-reference/bash/index.html Bash reference cheatsheet
It's also unclear (judging from my twitter feed and a few liveblogs I follow) where Nazarbayev is currently located (and what he thinks about this mess).
Specifically referring to Iran...

https://old.iranintl.com/en/world/bitcoin-mining-iran-profit...

https://www.businessinsider.in/cryptocurrency/news/cryptocur...

https://thediplomat.com/2021/01/bitcoin-mining-and-blackouts...

From that last one:

> The photo of a power bill with an extremely huge price tag, issued for a customer named “Iran and China Investment Company,” has gone viral in recent days. The power bill, which apparently belongs to the Rafsanjan mining farm operated by the Chinese, indicates that the miners have used 58,615,905 kWh of electricity in one month, for which they have to pay over 270 billion rials (some $1.2 million).

From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Iran

> By the end of 2013, Iran had a total installed electricity generation capacity of 70,000 MW,

If I did my math correctly ( https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=58%2C615%2C905+kWh+%2F... ) that one customer represents 0.1% of the max capacity of Iran's power grid.

That leads us to:

> In recent weeks, Iranian power plants have been forced to switch to burning low-grade fuel oil to generate power because a sharp rise in the country’s domestic consumption has led to natural gas shortages. This severely increased air pollution in Tehran and other megacities, increasing public anger toward the government.

You could also work from https://www.elliptic.co/blog/how-iran-uses-bitcoin-mining-to... that has an estimate of 4.5% of all bitcoin mining is being done in Iran to go back to estimating the power consumption.
There was Gangnam Style a few years ago and BTS had a whole (US) nationwide McDonalds promotion based around them for the better part of a month this past year.
I have a close friend and colleague from Paris that I worked with in Philadelphia. She once told me that she attributes the American attitude of independence and self-reliance on the fact that we still can run into animals that will kill us. Our perspective is directed by the inherent risk of living with wild (I don't think she had downtown Philly specifically in mind when forming these observations/ideas :) )
Q: I am having trouble understanding why people think / do X
A: You should talk to people who think / do X and ask them why they think / do X. Until you do so, you lack sufficient empathy to address their issues / change their behavior.

Its good feedback that it is worded in a way that has ambiguous meanings, one of which (you are a sociopath) is an unwelcome character judgement. But IMHO the charitable interpretation is perfectly practical and important feedback: Don't build products for users you can't talk to and learn from.
Actually it does have this feature, and has done for many years. Many clients have it now, but Gmail was where I first encountered it. I don't know if it was the pioneer.

Here's a blog post by someone digging into how it works: https://www.labnol.org/internet/gmail-attachment-reminder/31...
While listening to the podcast "Moore's law is dead", I heard repeatedly that AMD has no interest in launching new Threadrippers, ever again.
Really? I looked, and mine does not, and I don't see where to enable it. I believe you of course, I just can't replicate.

Edit: Fixed. Toggled experimental features on, then off again, and it now works. ¯\(º_o)/¯
Sounds like a sync plugin for CopyQ.

https://hluk.github.io/CopyQ/

If I would guess, I would assume there is already one somewhere.

If there isn't maybe just using Syncthing would be enough?

https://syncthing.net/
So these policies existed up until the 1980s, but the sentiment driving them has somehow gone away? Classism is an over-cited reason used to remove the issue of race from the discussion. Jim Crow applied to all blacks, regardless of class. Housing covenants denied the sale to blacks regardless of class.
Hong Kong Suspends Flights from 8 Countries, Including US, Fearing a Fifth Wave
Those of us who are on the other side of the hiring table need to push back against asking leetcode and similar kinds of things.
And where are GATs ?

(See also: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/08/03/GATs-stabilization-pus...)
For killing matching processes I prefer
killall or pkill.

For infinite loops I prefer the slightly faster

while :; do
# do sth
done
When they want to prevent churn in the rank and file these companies have been known[1] to collude to stop each other from stealing employees. Why don't they do that for executives too? Oh right. Because the executives are the ones doing the colluding.

The game is rigged.

[1] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/apple-google-employee-poachin...
America Onchain: “You’ve Got Scale?”
Looks nice. I've got my own cheat sheet, if anyone is interested: https://github.com/r0f1/linuxhelp
I think there's a difference between ignoring stdlib stuff and not using some 3rd-party library of questionable provenance to parse strings in the format of YYYYMMDD into date objects.
I'm also anti-leeting for interviews. The one argument for them that I struggle with is when the candidate is told they'll be asked about data structures and algorithms.

The reason for the struggle is that, framed properly it tests a real world situation. Given this problem I've told you about in advance, how well did you prepare yourself to answer it?

I don't think it's fair to tell the candidate they could be asked about sorting, trees, lists, graphs, dp, lp so try and cram a 4/6 year CS degree(s) into the next two weeks. That said, telling the candidate, that they will potentially be asked to whiteboard a solution involving binary trees, sorting, or a linked list seems fair to me.
Google Chrome 97 introduces controversial API enabling potential fingerprinting
tooling and network effects.

perl doesn’t have the numerical chops to keep up, and if it started to fix that now, it has 20 years of headwind to fight through for probably marginal gains. Good luck.
Note that in this telling of the story "People" are the antagonist and the $600B company is the protagonist.
It's a helpful app that makes cooking easier and intuitive.
Why are lead pipes and asbestos not popular any more?
Flatten Arrays in Vanilla JavaScript with Flat() and FlatMap()
If aspirin doesn't improve survival, does that mean it also will not help with COVID symptoms?
Yes, eventually I believe proof of work will be replaced by other protocols such as proof of stake. This is already the case on many chains. The cost for proof of stake is minimal, as in you can run a full node on a raspberry pi.

Check out Tezos, Cardano, et al.
Would KVM with virtual TPM isolate Win11 enough?
It feels to me that the medical community at large looks almost exclusively at data regarding severe cases. I'm certainly no medical expert but it seems reasonable to me that the treatments for someone who is literally dying from COVID could be completely orthogonal from those who are in the early stages of the infection. My understanding of severe cases is that the body is no longer or not only fighting the virus but also it's own immune response amongst other things (e.g. blood clotting). And that outcomes are mostly determined by how well the individual is able to weather the storm of their own immune system attacking them. I would not expect aspirin or similar treatments to have much effect when the patient has gotten to this point. Thought certainly, there could be some treatments that help which would prevent this from happening in the first place.

And, I'm aware of the research (and money) being poured into antivirals. Of course that's a thing. I'm sure there are billions if not trillions to be made off a pill you "simply take daily" to prevent the "severe and long covid." The headlines write themselves. But I seriously wonder what research is being done on "mild" covid cases using more cheap/traditional medicines. I know where I live, the doctors don't even talk to you unless your case gets severe - basically once you need oxygen supplementation. Prior to that, you're told to stay home and rest. I'm not even sure they create a record in their medical system.
I got into Python because I outgrew Excel (and Origin) and started with Jupyter notebooks and Pandas. The Pandas functions DataFrame.from_excel and DataFrame.to_excel combined with how visual a notebook is made the transition very easy for me.

I do come across some perl every now and then but it looks like Bash on steriods to me (perhaps because of the $variables), and I never see any DataFrames or similar structure that looks familiar to me.

Idk, Perl never occurred to me and nobody ever recommended it. Is Perl good for data science? Do you have any examples? I never ran into "efficiency problems" with Python btw, I'm not using it at that scale, at what scale would I notice this? I have run out of ram at times, but that's usually when a dataset on disk is already larger than my ram. But then I usually find a tool to deal with the data anyway (for example pyosmium for super large osm/o5m fles).

Edit: I feel that Python also gives me other nice things to get started with, things like Django and Snakemake. This also leads me to recommend Python to other people, it's a broad basis for a lot of stuff. That's why even though some people recommended R when I got started, I choose Python anyway. I have no regrets, unless you are going to blow my mind with some examples...
I'm not a 100% sure how certificates work. What I imagined would be possible is having a certificate for mydomain.com, which can be used to sign certificates for subdomains.
His intention isn't to undersell himself, for whatever reason it's very favorable on this site to tell people how you have decades of experience working in this field but can't write fairly basic data structures or algorithms. It comes across as very likeable and personable and gives people hope that they too can spend decades working in a field making a better than average salary without ever having to master the fundamentals of their job.

The reality is that if this person's life really did depend on it, for example they lost their job and they have bills they need to pay or a family they are responsible for taking care of, then they almost certainly could put in the effort to brush up on their skills and get to a point where they could do leetcode easy or leetcode mediums in a matter of weeks or a month at most.

It's along the lines of an MIT grad saying that where you go to school doesn't matter or a rich person saying that money doesn't make you happy, or even the myth that Einstein failed at math. These statements that espouse a false sense of modesty have great appeal and they likely come from good intentions, but ultimately they give people bad ideas about what it takes to be a fairly competent developer.
> as the trial results for vaccine effectiveness against infection for all the vaccines were clearly and widely reported to be significantly less than 100%

> This is not true.

It is absolutely true. The difference between 0% and 5% is enormous, as I tried to illustrate with my example. Let me try again. If your doctor told you there was a 0% chance you have cancer vs a 5% chance, you would behave very differently, correct?
In 1987 I was programming in C and Lisp using GNU Emacs on a 386DX-25 running INTERACTIVE UNIX, today I program in C, Lisp and Java using GNU Emacs on an AMD FX-6100 running NetBSD. Was using AKCL then, SBCL now.

The machine then had 16MB of RAM instead of the 16GB today but the experience was pretty much the same.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processo... already exists
What about expanding capacity?
They say it is remotely accessible but present no evidence.

They present device-unique keys as impossible with no evidence despite that being exactly how TPMs have worked for decades.

They didn't even mention what is the biggest concern: firmware. This thing is basically a secure microcontroller, and MS has implied that it can run different software to achieve different use cases (at launch it emulates a TPM). The important question is: does it only load firmware signed by Microsoft. If not, I don't have a big issue with it.
Perl had a mis-step with Perl "6" that caused a lot of the userbase to drift off.
Good point, there helps fingerpointing. Bad programmers are not hearing enough that they are bad. Slow, bloated software is just accepted somehow. Even in the dev community. That needs to stop. Start naming the people behind all those electron crap.
I needed to write screen addressing routines in assembler for the Apple II in 1983. I went to my local bookshop in Sheffield and bought "Apple II Assembly Language by Marvin L. De Jong". This was for my undergrad project and I pretty much have a degree because of that awesome book.
> That is not what property is.

No, the ability to exclude others is exactly what property is.

> Ownership of property is the right to decide how a good will be consumed

Exclusivity is the defining feature of property interests. It's true that there is a common view of rights to consumption and alienation as dividing those property interests that constitute “ownership of property” (that is, ownership of the subject of a property interest) from those that are mere “ownership of an interest in property”, but that's not germane to whether or not IP is property though it might be to whether the subjects of IP are genuinely “owned” by the private holders of IP rights.
At least one possible fix would be a clipboard management standard such that an application can both set and clear or overwrite a specific clibpoard entry's data.

(I'd prefer the clear/overwrite myself.)

Another option would be specific IPC such that clipped content is available to one and only one other application or process. There was a recent HN submission on the Unix password manager utility "pass", including the ability to supply passwords to a command via shell expansion rather than as a command-line parameter. The former doesn't reveal the password in either process listings or shell history, the latter does.

That's a relatively primitive option, a more robust standard might also be provided.
...or that having a well-designed UI with intuitive controls is a hallmark of good design that has been proven time and time again to reduce errors, whether or not something is designed for the layman or a highly paid professional.
Out of interest, I had a look at the relevant Thunderbird source: https://searchfox.org/comm-central/source/mail/components/co...

The code simply checks the subject and body text, excluding the signature and any quoted text, for keywords defined in the configuration item mail.compose.attachment_reminder_keywords. The default keywords are: ".doc,.pdf,.xls,.ppt,.rtf,.pps,attachment,attach,attached,attaching,enclosed,CV,cover letter"

This little feature must have made lots of users happy one time or another...
I was just commenting on the aluminium smelter thing being very, very non-environmentally friendly at a local level.
I had similar symptoms in January 2019, I went to Urgent Care and then the ER because of heart arrhythmia, I felt sick, but no major fever. I put it down to anxiety (never suffered with before), but part of me wonders if it was COVID.

Out of curiosity, where do you live? I too live next to a bunch of chemical/steel plants and have been tracking air quality, weather, traffic, etc. https://millerbeach.community in Gary for a few years. Winds from North>South produce the best air quality, E>W or W>E produce worse, same with S>N.
For the project I'm working on currently, I use Charles Proxy's "Map Remote" function to map our UAT server's HTTPS url to my local machines HTTP URL.

Also ngrok.com works really well if you need to give other people access to your dev environment.
Emma Watson pro-Palestinian post sparks antisemitism row
Welcome to Ycombinator :)

I am a user of this solution for my company, and also for my homelab. It works great! Just wanted to say that, and thank you for the open source free as in libre license.
Browser-Vite – Vite in the Browser
As far as I can tell, the danger is around the of=somefile option. Maybe because the english word "of" feels more like "from" than "to", and "out file" isn't the first thing that comes to mind.
She has repeatedly refused the RMA request.
> You make it sound so ominous

It is like a group of folks only recently discovered the marketing value of being "banned". A lot of them apparently just noticed punk rock this decade, I guess.

And so you get amazing spectacles like Bari Weiss whining about being shut of out public discourse... in the NYT and WSJ. I'm sure many of her intellectual adversaries would love to be shunned to a similar degree.
I have a recommendation for you:

You need to exercise. You are in your mid-thirties now. It's a big problem if you don't. But you have bad air quality where you live. I've dealt with this myself in the past.

A relatively inexpensive solution that I recommend for anyone in areas with poor air quality is to build your own filter fans. Get a standard box fan, get a furnace filter that has HEPA ratings, duct tape the furnace filter to the back of the fan. One of these in a whole house does a good job. Put three of them in there and it's crazy how big of a difference it makes. My wife has respiratory issues and my son has asthma. My wife had to be hospitalized twice for wildfire smoke in my neighborhood. Once I started doing the filter fan trick the issues went away. You can then work out in your home. Used cardio equipment is ridiculously easy to come by. I purchased a reflex punching bag for my basement a few months ago and it's the best piece of cardio equipment I've ever gotten. Doesn't take up too much space wasn't too expensive either.

I applaud you on your diet though. You definitely have a good grasp of the metrics that matter. Low triglycerides and high HDL are crucial, and good for you keeping that blood pressure solid. That diet is clearly doing good things for you.

Just keep in mind that exercise does great things for mental health by relieving stress via hormones.

One side note:

You may have contracted covid and never known it. The only reason I knew I caught it back in February of 2021 was because of my complete loss of sense of smell. If not for that single symptom I would have never known I had it. It didn't impact me in any other way. My wife and kids caught it as well and had absolutely no symptoms. They only knew they caught it because they got tested along with me.
Absolutely - there's grind, but if you just want to fly spaceships in space, it doesn't really affect you.
Can New Caledonia in the South Pacific Power Tesla’s Ambitions?
Thank you for being a real company working on something interesting and not some god-awful NFT thing
The CDC now recommends Pfizer boosters after 5 months, down from 6
Learning might actually be better virtually than in person given the current situation -- there is a crazy amount of teacher / substitute teacher shortage (staffing issue) due to them being out because of exposure / symptoms. Plus kids constantly being out for the same reason leads to a lot of disruption within in-person education.

I think part of what contributes is that the city is still using the 10-day quarantine guideline instead of the updated shorter one from the CDC?

Still it seems to have been handled rather poorly but, easy for me to judge from the outside... must be hectic internally especially since it was just the holiday season.