skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quote: "Self-modifying programs were fine under MS-DOS, but modern operating systems won't let it fly"

This is wrong on 2 accounts:

1 - Even on MS-DOS you weren't able to directly modify your executable. I remember having to launch a copy, which would see from the name is a copy, exit and let the copy modify the original .exe. Later I simply did this using batch files.

2 - Even on modern operating systems you can actively destroy the link/handle between the operating system and the executable, allowing you to actively modify your own executable. See "Unlocker" as example on Windows for a legit application that can do such a killing (I used that to get rid of that crap called BitDefender, who after installation is behaving like a rootkit)
I know about that, but for me, that inherently made it seem like they meant the term from physics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instability), as with rowing singles used in racing, which don’t have a righting moment/have a negative righting moment.
<goes away to find out what if its in my preferred language & tool>

Its not something I've every heard of before, I guess its peculiar to Python though but dont most languages have some eccentricity?
An Interview with the Man Fired by Chick-Fil-A for His Views on Zoning
Shojo and Josei manga are designed for female-audiences. They can consist of male characters (DNAngel) or female characters (Princess Jellyfish).

Shonen and Seinen manga are designed for male-audiences. They can consist of male characters (Naruto), or female characters (Madoka Magica).

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Madoka Magica in particular is a Seinen-oriented story pretending to be a Shojo story. So the categories can get complicated sometimes. All categories know and understand each other's demographics, as well as the tropes and overarching storylines that enter one demographic vs another.

But that's what makes "cross-demographic" shows (like Inuyasha, Kenshin or Madoka) so much fun. They take elements of one genre, and shove it into a totally different genre.

Inuyasha is nominally Shojo (aimed for a female audience), with Kagome (female protagonist) meeting lots of cute fantasy male characters (Inuyasha in particular). But it takes a battle-style reminiscent of Shonen, and a lot of male-audience members identified with Inuyasha.

Kenshin is nominally Shonen (aimed for a male audience), with Kenshin (male protagonist) largely doing battles. But Kaoru's arc largely plays out like a Shojo romance. As such, a lot of female audience members identified with Kaoru.

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The gender of the main character though isn't really that important though. In the West, it seems like "male-audience must have a male-main character", but that sort of thing just doesn't seem to be an issue in Manga. Its kinda-sorta there in some cases, but there's enough manga / anime that break the rule that it really isn't a rule at all.
When it comes to server admin, nothing is painless. You just may not know where you're bleeding yet.
Oh God I totally know how you feel.
Anything that touches everything like that gets blamed a lot.

On the upside, you learn every part of the stack as you have to defend yourself at each and every turn.

But be honest, it was Tanium that got my dog knocked up, wasn’t it?! Just admit it!
This happens to me when I research some RFC concepts surrounding oauth, saml, and the like. It’s incredibly frustrating.
> Incentives are key to bring the technology back into the realm of usefulness (in the grand scheme of things). Externalities need to be priced into energy costs. In principle there is no problem with using the electric power of a small country for proof of work purposes, as long as the production of that energy is not harmful to everybody via global warming or pollution.

I disagree. Pricing externalities into energy costs isn't sufficient, because proof of work is basically pissing massive amounts of irreplaceable energy resources into the wind in order to play a stupid, unnecessary game. I think it's better those resources stay in the ground or be used for a more productive purposes, and making miners pay more for energy isn't going to change the fundamental wastefulness of their activity.
The History of Rome was the very first podcast I can remember listening to on a weekly basis. It was the era when the Nokia N95 was very much the flagship almost smartphone, and I got so interested in the idea of being able to automatically subscribe to these on-demand and niche "radio shows" that I suffered the torture of writing an app for the Symbian OS.
That too. For songs I listened the most I even prefer cover versions now. The more the cover strays from the original - the better. You still have the song you love but it's also fresh in some ways.
Yep, that's the graf that made me look for his original name.
> I really hope that if Apple is ever forced to open up their devices, that it takes the form of allowing other app stores and not allowing side-loading.

> If side loading is allowed the amount of tech support I'll have to provide my family will skyrocket.

I mean, if apple ever allow sideloading I suspect it will be behind a 10 feet wall warning and obscure multiple clicks on settings, similar to how google does it.

I also suspect that my family will be divided into two camps: oblivious to the existence of sideloading or technical enough that won't need my tech support.
Microsoft is also "older" on the software side of things, and is probably the source of why that law came into being in Washington state.
They were just public listed apps. You’d have a corporate app on the normal store which would just hit a login wall. Not really that big of a deal but not as nice as an unlisted app.
Sadly, general purpose computing is so 10 years ago.
I think a question to ask in the same vain would be: What would they do, if due to economic changes other companies are suddenly willing to match the money with better working conditions?
Yep, no dice on either. Consulted all the docs I could see and no sign of WAIT. There's an INP for reading a port, but no waiting for it.
My take is that for people who want the option of living alone - even if occasionally or due to life circumstances - don't have the option.

I've seen 60 yr old grannies trying to find roommates. It's sad.
> American public schools are quite adept at teaching distrust in authority, particularly in bureaucrats.

I wonder to what extent that property is primarily due to them being schools, or primarily due to them being public, or primarily due to them being American, or is it some combination of the three?

My own impression (having experienced both as a child) is that private schools are less prone to bureaucratic inflexibility than public ones, which is one of the reasons why my wife & I have chosen private schooling for our children. But, not the US, so our experiences may not be directly comparable.
As many other commenters have already pointed out to you, that is exactly what the phrase usually means in this context, and more importantly it's exactly what the original phrase "make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts" was understood to mean in the U.S. Constitution at the time it was written and ratified. The use of "tender" in this way long predates the writing of the U.S. Constitution, as this example[0] shows:

> It was the doctrine of the middle ages that for every commodity or service there was a just money equivalent. This had been the dictum of the Roman law. "However diversified may be the object of an obligation, it is always transferable, in the eyes of the law, into the payment of a certain sum of money." Though the English law of contract was not fully developed before the time of Henry VIII., the action of debt which lay to recover a sum of money was one of the early actions developed, being in use at least as early as the time of Henry I., and it is from the pleas allowed in defense of such action that we have the word "tender." The debtor could of course discharge his obligation by payment of the sum claimed; but sometimes, when there was dissatisfaction on the part of the creditor, he could acquit himself by tender to the creditor of the amount admitted by him as due. Should the creditor refuse the sum tendered, the debtor could then deposit it with the court, leaving with the court the question of the adequacy of the tender. (emphasis added)

[0] Breckinridge, S P. "Legal tender, a study in English and American monetary history". 1903. Page 22. <https://archive.org/download/legaltenderstudy00brecuoft/lega...>
Hence propaganda
I'm not tired of hearing them. If I happen to hear a Beatles song, I often marvel at how great it is in so many ways.

It's more that I'm... "done" with them. I listened so many times, I know every little sound, and I don't need to hear it again.
You are right not be convinced, because it is entirely incorrect.
When I read it I presumed he was using anomie in the sense of Durkheim, usually taken to mean a kind of listlessness or alienation, from one's work and society. I really like: "the anomie and the ecstasy are inseparable".
Great point. This indicates the real change happened in 1917.
Thanks for replying on HN! When I do want local search results from a different location abroad than where I am located at I have found no other way than using a VPN ending in that country. Is there a simpler solution?

Google is notoriusly bad add respecting my browser language. I more often than not get the login page in languages different than my browser language. (I only log in when I really want to use some personal service, which is not that often).
/usr/bin/python will be a script that tells you to install Xcode utilities if it doesn’t find python3. At least that’s what I understand
Irony here, that "safe" rubber appears to be more harmful than woodchips. I'd much rather deal with occasional meltdowns over slivers than a broken bone.

https://www.playgroundprofessionals.com/surfaces/rubber/its-...
In any live event, things go wrong. Tearing in to what went well, what didn’t go well, and suggesting process changes for the next event is an important process not only for making future events easier, but also for improving the mental
Health of the organizers who tend to focus on the “what went wrong” parts.

So technically, we only hold one if things went wrong.

If we ever held an event where everything went right, then yes, we’d totally call that one an afterparty.
Except that ivermectin has been used as antiviral well before the pandemic though. I'm not sure why people assume that doctors tried just random drugs without any rationale behind it!
In fact they may not even be employed; a relative of mine had to do a few shifts on such a hotline as part of a community service sentence for a non-violent misdemeanor.
Bosses can force workers to do their bidding. Think getting overtime work without overtime pay because people are scared of walking away.
Whenever someone says that you should trust psychiatrists and the huge number of other similar professions I just point out that forcible admission is not rare and that they will share anything that they deem a 'risk', such as "I will shoot John if he chews with his mouth open one more time."

If you want to get someone to listen to your problems without telling them to anyone you can't do better than the catholic church:

>Priests may not reveal what they have learned during confession to anyone, even under the threat of their own death or that of others.

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

Ironically enough the apparatchiks of the Communist Party of Poland would often use uncorruptible priests to vent. Ones they had used the secret service to vet by entrapping them.
If it can be assumed that only modern processors are that can deliver 2's-complement modulo (not saturation) results are used, then testing is easy:

#define IS_UINT_SUB_UNDERFLOW (x, y) ((x) - (y) > (x))

#define IS_UINT_ADD_OVERFLOW (x, y) ((x) + (y) < (x))

#define IS_UINT_MUL_OVERFLOW (x, y, size_max) ((x) && (y) > (size_max) / (x))
> Twelve orcas swimming down their quarry until it grows tired

Looks like humans aren't the only predators who use persistence hunting.
this is dumb. HN is a relatively sophisticated crowd, and anyone from here with 2m cash, isn't going to be fooled.

I see no reason to flag.
What I've observed is that everybody in the US -- cars, bikes, pedestrians -- is driven by opportunity and convenience. Cars drive above the speed limit while texting. Bikes and cars roll through stop signs. Bikes take short-cuts that avoid obstacles and intersections. And so forth. The law is the law, but is not an immovable boundary condition. People will factor the likelihood of enforcement or injury into their habits. Enforcement (in my locale) follows patterns of crashes or complaints. Parts of town where lawless cyclists cause actual problems will find themselves on the receiving end of an enforcement "sting."
Fear is an emotional motivation, and can be a cause for taking on the seatbelt. There are also logical motivations, such as the realization that I will be less injured if I have a seatbelt and an accident happens.

It’s not that the action of using a seatbelt is different, but my reason for doing that can be very different. This can also apply to Covid and other risk mitigation. And emotional motivations usually affects us humans more strongly than logical ones, so using them is good when you want to motivate more drastic actions. So most overreaches are motivated by emotional arguments, such as fear. Because of that it’s good to be skeptical about such arguments.
Battlesnake Competitive Season Begins Now
Perfect. Then, since we agree that humanities are less useful than the sciences, and since they are "just people's ideas," we should absolutely minimize the amount of humanities-related reading children are forced into at school. Let's pick a small set of books that illustrate a healthy relationship with life's realities and leave recreational reading to those that want to use their spare time on it.
Melatonin - its 4x more potent as an antioxidant than vitamin C and its used to release mesenchymal stem cells, but plastic in our bodies bind to stem cells and prevent them from working. Even plants have higher levels of melatonin if they are picked in the dark. Blue light increases serotonin synthesis, a Japanese study on school kids found those who walked to school had higher levels of serotonin than those who were driven to school, and after going through the food diary, found it was the direct exposure to daylight (bluelight) which increased the serotonin.
Serotonin also increases stem cell (platelets) numbers, SSRI anti depressants suppress stem cell (platelet) numbers.
>And when some component of the server fails, your app is unavailable until you can repair it. So you need another server for redundancy. And a load balancer. And a UPS. And a second internet connection.

Most applications don't actually have a four 9s uptime requirement. Like, how many otherwise healthy businesses closed up shop during the cloud providers we've seen in the last year because they didn't have their stuff implemented and deployed such that it would remain fully functional when these issues happen?
It’s the same calculus most people do - pay/bullshit ratio. When that starts going in the wrong direction , it’s time to jump ship.

As far as AMZN, it’s down to $2850. The same as it was in May 2020 when I got hired.
You’re welcome! Hope it’s helpful.
I run Lineage, and use a number of scripts.

Stop ignoring standards. They exist for important reasons. Invent your existentialism in some other realm.
If you don't think that maximization of social capital doesnt lead people to do dumb shit things allow me to introduce you to real stuff with escalating degrees of real consequence over millennia like TikTok, eating competitions, luxury yachts, most of Hollywood, Jeffrey Epstein, various wars over the course of milennia like Assad murdering his citizens in Syria to dumb wars in Europe for centuries, crusades, pol pot, e.g.
Malware and packers do this with overlap between them. Let's say you have a 10MB executable, you can pack it to be a lot less. Tamper protection is also another, VMProtect is the packer I run into in that area where it tries hard to detect if it is inside a VM before self modifying and unpacking.
Blessing in disguise.
In which use case where Prometheus is used does it matter if the binary is 103MB or 2MB?
It sure seems like you used to work there since you're making specific critiques about company culture and decisions that only someone internal would know.

And you're taking statements like "lost a couple of deals last quarter due to engineering challenges" as being a personal slight against the engineering team when an impassioned observer would not really see it that way.

I don't know the specifics of Dgraph's failings but reading the Glassdoor reviews it sure looks like the main issue is that the CEO failed to organise a bridge round and that the disputes between the CEO and CTO and poor metrics meant the VCs didn't want to provide one.

You can fix any problem at a company except running out of money.
Crypto so far is largely a vast space with little intrinsic value.

The "technological veil" over it seems to confer more legitimacy to crypto projects than is really warranted.

E.g. people buying land in the "metaverse", which is really just some hastily implemented crap game/mmo.

Less technical people aren't going to understand that the perfectly legitimate technology is a ruse covering up illegitimate investment ideas.

But personally, Im not too worried. Fiscally irresponsible people will always find a way to throw away their money one way or another. It will seem quite obvious in hindsight, however.
Epic tried it on android but the law of defaults are strong. Too much friction for an average user but at least on most android devices users can enable developer mode or even root if they want. So google here is not trampling over device owner’s property rights.
No wonder the signing bonuses are so high.

This is the cost of a company with a severely spaghettified code base written by an army of mercenaries being jira'd to death!
Just when you think that NFTs represent the worst of late-stage capitalism; you are reminded that defi is still a thing.
I was a teenager in the 1980s. For some reason, the Beatles were never on the radio (at least not the stations I listened to). So, I grew up not really familiar with the Beatles music. I watched the documentary and was surprised by how enjoyable a lot of their music is. I was also surprised at how very little I recognized. You would think that with such a popular band I would have heard their music at least occasionally over the past 50 years.
Just to give some context, Wonderland is not a blockchain or consensus layer. It's not even a legitimate DeFi app with a specific purpose (like Uniswap as an exchange or AAVE for lending).

It's literally nothing more than an on-chain ponzi, with no other ostensible purpose than gathering a bunch of assets in its treasury and inflating its token price at some multiple to those assets. It's a form of OlympusDAO (the original flavor of this ponzi), that's designed to be even more leveraged and bubbly.

All of the users of Wonderland literally called it a ponzi. 99% of users were consenting adults who knew exactly how the game worked, and chose to play anyway because they thought it was fun. They call themselves "the frog nation". Not one person in 1000 thought this was a legitimate or sustainable scheme.

Some are acting like this is the crypto equivalent of finding out the CEO of a Wall Street bank is a convicted felon. It'd be more like finding out the CEO of an Atlantic City casino is.
Don't need to. If someone falls for this, they are not true hackers.
Go watch "Dead Man's Switch" on Netflix
> Metaverse will be a niche

One big reason for this is some strange social stigma surrounding VR. Yes, there are many other issues like cost (minimum $2000 investment for a VR ready PC and headset) and complexity if you’re not using Oculus / Meta. Then there’s also Facebook’s toxic brand, which drives away many early tech adopters; but what if we were able to take them out of the equation?

Anyways, I did an experiment last Christmas. I got several family members Oculus Meta Quest 2 headsets. At the same time Meta was offering a $60 referral credit where both you and the new Quest user would get $60 in store credit.

To summarize, I removed the barrier of monetary cost, and Meta removed the barrier of complexity from VR (ie no wires, or PC setup). None of these people had a bad opinion of Facebook either. What was the result?

They tried the free demos once and stopped using it. It wasn’t until I constantly pestered them, that they actually tried apps with free credits and games and started to understand VR and use it more regularly, namely the fitness and social apps. I even recently talked to Meta contractor who mentioned that she wasn’t interested in a free Quest 2 headset even though she held the company in high regard. I feel for VR marketing teams. Until Apple helps make this mainstream, XR will have a very big hill to climb.
Ha. Classic.
Then I wouldn't put #!/bin/bash at the top.
I just switched to managing a scrum team that is absolutely completely under water. We spend half of our time fighting fires and the other half trying to solve everyone’s problems. I got so distracted cutting old ties, applying tourniquets and trying to learn the ins and outs of the system that I didn’t realize I was burning out the product team by not helping enough (at all really) with planning.

Lessons learned. Beers to buy.
I've still got an old iMac running High Sierra just so that can use virtual cameras. It used to work beautifully.
An unsophisticated scam is still a scam.
Yes, they do. For example:

https://threatpost.com/plaintext-supermicro-ipmi-credentials...

Here's a search for some of them (requires a Shodan account):

https://www.shodan.io/search?query=ssl%3Aipmi
Seriously who downvoted this? I left this comment in response to parent, who had no idea this was not the Linus of Linux fame and said he was unable to afford teamviewer as a result of Linux being opensource.
the competition for NSO within the US would be traditional defense contractors: raytheon, l3harris, etc.

One can make much more money with the DoD than the DoJ.
This is a pretty insulting opinion to hold. It's not like the spam messages have gotten infinitely more complex over the last 20 years, or that someone who is a competent programmer just completely forgot everything that they know about a subject.
>Considering how much therapy costs, I've joked about just hiring prostitutes to be my friends for hourly pay. Why can't the gig economy meet that demand, huh? I'll pay $15 an hour to share my opinions on Linux with another trans girl while she pretends to listen. That's an entire work shift for the price of 1 hour of therapy!

If you talk to escorts a surprisingly large chunk of their clientele does exactly that. That said $15 is no where near enough to have to listen to someone talk about how great Arch is.
Me: I've been using Linux for a total of 14 years.

Interviewer: That's nice, but how much AWS experience? :(