skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It seems so many people in America are so fat now they don’t imagine people would ever walk, so they drive without regard for pedestrians and active hostility towards cyclists and park in the way of sidewalks, making walking or riding bikes to school seem so scary and unpleasant that few kids do it anymore, leading to more fat Americans who would never imagine walking. It is really depressing.

In my experience the mentality that drives this is "the road is for cars, you should not be here at all". You see this not just in the US where the infrastructure is extremely car-centric, but also in e.g. New Zealand.

With smaller roads people seem to instinctively understand that it needs to be shared, but with larger roads this understanding seems to go away.
> people have voluntarily gravitated towards simple, comfortable ideas and begun to reject complexity, nuance, and the possibility that contrary opinions are not necessarily immoral or even incorrect.

Isn't it ironic that that concept was already well know and had been discussed for decades, but we keep falling for it and encourage the new generations to "become what they want to be" regardless of the consequences while we also help them to chose meaningless fights against what is simply annoying to us, but harmless in general, reducing the public discourse to bubbles of anger that can only lead to less dialogue and more divisions?

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Dawn, 1881
>This is one of multiple instruments that, according to the author of See How It Flies[1] indicate important readings to the pilot, but don't exist at all in a default airplane.

The slip indicator, which replaces a yaw string in modern aircraft, is part of the standard avionics 6 pack.
For those that would like to see how smooth the game can be, I highly encourage to watch the AGDQ speedrun of the game where they explain a lot of mechanics: https://youtu.be/Z41SIqcsJVU
Can you please list which firms you are aware of that got caught front running?
> It is not in any way an intellectually honest or rigid argument, it is pushing a rightwing agenda.

Free speech is not a rightwing agenda, and if it is, that's a very troubling thing for the left.
It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone - if you talk to someone twice a year you wouldn't expect to be in their closest friends group. I can't imagine someone being offended by this as a mature adult.
I like to think I chose depth over breadth. I can count my real friends on one hand and I feel like we have deep and meaningful friendships. They're people who I've been through some shit with, or people who I'd be prepared to go through some shit with if it came to it.

Everyone else is someone who can come and go. How long are they around for? Who knows, it's just a temporary crossing of paths that feels nice while it lasts. I couldn't maintain a connect with hundreds of people unless fate crossed our paths again.

But, you know, even those deep connections might be temporary, just on a longer timeframe. If one connection faded then perhaps there'd be room for a new one.
A bunch of friends just look for and then sell vulnerabilities (the good ones to bug boundary programs the less ethical ones to governments or companies).

The price of a zero day exploit is quite high (for both sides) and I have friends who make much more money than I do doing this.

That said they mostly work alone or in small groups in their basement rather than at a large security company.

I would hire (or at least interview you) with a prior conviction though I am not hiring for a security role.

I don't think the conviction is a serious impediment for employment in this particular field (since it's for a non-violent crime) though it might warrant supervision on your employer's side and I can definitely see the larger companies not wanting to take the risk.
No, not yet, but you can bet that I check on a regular basis, although I should know better :)

A little backstory: a friend of mine sold a five letter single word .com about a decade ago for a really low price, IIRC $500. The buyer turned out to be Electronic Arts (through a middleman, obviously) and they used the domain for one of their games.

Every time I was contemplating an offer for the domain, I was worried that I was getting EA'd :) When I saw the domain getting relisted, I felt like that's exactly what happened.

So, to answer the original question, my biggest gripe is probably that price finding is really difficult for non-professional players.
Maybe they don't do that, but for sure they log me out almost every day from Firefox/Android and I'm willing to bet dollars to peanuts they don't do that on the app.

I even have freaking 2FA but they still don't remember the device and ask me every time for the code.
Why do we need to optimize everything?
Traders can hire domain-specific technical consultants.
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Neat, thanks for sharing!
Pretty sure both of those images would also be examples of illegal behavior in Germany.

> The latter was something the Nazis actually did. Making vaccines a matter of free choice wasn't.

This overstates the situation. The Americans also required smallpox vaccine for the continental army, and the US currently requires MMR vaccine for participation in public school.

Requiring vaccination (of everyone, another key difference between the pandemic and the Nazi analogy, as the Nazis weren't conducting medical experiments on those they considered "master race") to participate in some aspects of modern society is part of modern society. Comparing it to the Holocaust trivializes the Holocaust.
That is what tools like FileMaker of xBase/Clipper where made for. If you are on Linux you might be able too look at Glom.

Second best choice, RAD tools like Delphi and VisualBasic where designed to make your life easier fo this type of workload (but you still have to do most of the work).

Third best choice, Ruby on Rails or Django and still do most of the work.

A lot of the tools to do stuff like this became unpopular or expensive. The shift to web didn’t help much either.
Isn't the big question, how did someone convince the Court(s) that the software couldn't possibly be wrong and therefore the case is proved beyond a reasonable doubt?

This sounds like a failure on so-many levels. The defence should easily have thrown this out.

Presumably if Fujitsu sent their own witness to say the software was not broken, they committed perjury since it sounds like a fair number of people knew about bugs.
My immediate response to this is: WTF.

Why not just do `l = len(x) if l is None else l`?

With the new syntax can you define defaults computed from other defaults? What about side effects? Why is computation happening in function args at all?!
For those cheering this on, I recommend you watch this video from David Graeber.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxJW7hl8oqM

TLDR; Government debt is private sector surplus. Government surplus is private sector debt.
Apparently DCA has a positive behavioral impact on attitudes towards investing[0], but I would love to know if this is entirely irrational or not.

[0] https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~keechung/Lecture%20Notes%20and...
this article seems to miss why I participate on forums. I'm not interacting with the software, I'm not creating some great post that will live on in history. I'm interacting with another person, who has asked a question. Should I refuse to answer because that person asked the question on a vbulletin system? (* I've never used reddit or discord. With the exception of HN, the only forums I use are old school--small, single purpose vbulletin, SMF, or PHPBB forums.)
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Well can I ask for interpreter warnings when it detects the new syntax? “Using these features makes your code harder to understand and maintain …”
MY first class of calculus 1 we were about 80 to 90 students in the class, all ready to study and learn.

The teacher walked in look at us and said: The department only allows me to pass 7 or 8 of you, so either you are a genius, or you are doing this class for the Nth time.

At the end of the class, we pass 10, which makes it roughly a 10%. I talk to the teacher after the class about it and he told me that the department want it that way to filter out the people that does not make themselves responsible of their own learning.

I did pass, and I don't agree with the brutality of the rule, but I do agree with the principle.
WPF wasn't left behind. It's still supported in .NET 6, you don't have to rewrite anything. Windows Forms, too. Can you be more specific what you mean by aspx? ASP.NET is, of course, still supported.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/porting/net-fra...
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Because they've been optimized by commercial interests. What you hear nowadays is the sound of money.
Looks perfect for dedicated nethack mobile gaming.
> The point being, when possible, you should walk facing into traffic.

Please do not recommend this reckless and often illegal behavior.

If walking in the street, one should walk with traffic when possible.

Drivers and other forms of traffic merging into traffic do not expect pedestrian traffic coming from the wrong direction.

Salmoning causes other dangers, too, for example, by making it difficult to impossible for traffic to avoid collisions by stopping.
I used to listen to Rogan quite a bit until I realised what his format was, if he has reasonable guests on he'll find something to challenge them over (great), if he has 'controversial' guests on he'll let them mostly talk unchallenged. I used to think that was because he was easily redirected by bullshit artists, but after the anti-vaccine/ivermectin reporting I think it's more likely he just agrees with them and wants them to have a bigger platform

Again I'm not arguing he should be censored or that any differences in opinion should be excised from the public domain. But giving people equal platforms lends them equal credibility to laypeople and the general public, which is why I think a good faith effort to interview controversial subjects would include a lot of disclaimers/warnings/replies from experts which Rogan makes no attempt to do
1. use .Net that work with open standard like ASP.net (html/css/javascript) never buy into Microsoft's own technology like Silverlight. Blazor look promising since its based on webassembly

2. Microsoft fat client is a mess. winform? wpf? uwp? which one to use? don't forget winRT
“the mechanism is that the student works all the problems they can and then asks in office hours or review session about the problems they couldn’t do”

Wait, really? You want all 150 students in all your classes to come to your office every time you give out a homework assignment?

I never went to office hours unless there was some kind of highly unusual situation going on, like when I had a migraine with aura during an exam and couldn’t read the questions. Or when my wife had a life threatening accident and I had to tend to her and needed an extension on an assignment. Were other students just going in and out of there constantly?
The thing about parsing your social network down to just a tiny group of close friends is A) it makes it harder to develop more close friends, since friendship tends to work like a funnel where you start out shallow and become better friends through time/exposure, and B) eventually you start to lose friends, whether to physical distance, falling out, life events, and eventually death, and if you only have a tiny group, it's easy for the bottom to fall out of your friend group entirely.

I've watched this happen with a lot of older adults I know, which is one of the reasons I've deliberately made some efforts to keep a pool of shallow friendships. Some of them have already deepened into actual friends, some fall off and that's ok, because that's kind of the point. Casting a wider net is part of a strategy to not end up in my later years with 0-2 total friends in my life.
I’ve never worked anywhere that would hire an ex con. Have you?
Do you have a link to this? Every search query I try produces results for the character Monica from Friends. Seems like exceptionally poor SEO, heh.
I'm just picturing this guy showing up to a competition with his twin brother's glider (twin brother included).
And that's assuming it ever had any kind of "zen" in the first place. Its package management system looks like from something from Dante's "Inferno" rather than any kind of Oriental wisdom.
> There’s a surprisingly large amount of middle class Americans who will retire millionaires

I would love to see some data around this. Because what I keep hearing (being in India) from the usual suspect sources is mostly gloom and doom[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27205734
They put (some of?) their special reports online (PDF linked below the image):

https://www.private-eye.co.uk/special-reports/justice-lost-i...
The goal is to buy the largest percentage of the company with as little money as possible.

If the asks in an order book are (price, quantity) pairs of (p0, q0), (p1, q1), etc. with p0 < p1 < ... and you have $C in capital, then ignoring the "driving price of a stock higher" effect(i.e. if C/p0 < q0) you could buy floor(C/p0) shares.

However, if you purchase more than q0 shares, those will be priced at p1, p2, etc. and you'll instead buy C/(weighted_average([p0, p1, ...], [q0, q1, ... q_remainder]) shares(where the weights are the quantities). And because p0 < p1 < p2 ..., this will be fewer shares than C/p0.

At the extreme end, if you try to "clear out the order book", a stock that is nominally $10 you'd be paying $1 million per share to someone that put in a joke order to sell. So you'd be getting 100,000x fewer shares per marginal capital deployed compared to a smaller investor.
It's sad to say, but I think I'm over Python. It's not fun or pretty anymore, with all of the versioning headaches, the nightmare pit of dependency management, different runtime versions shipping on different machines. It's like they keep adding all of these features I don't want so it seems more like a 'big boy' language, but without any benefits in runtime performance.

What I really liked Python for was as a _productive_, high velocity language - when I just want to bang an idea or a prototype out. Now there are all these design considerations about what version to target, what language features to use.. blah. I just wanted 2.8+ with sane unicode, and that's it. Grumble grumble.
Who would have saw this coming? /s

I for one will not be installing a black box in my car, it's my right as a private individual to travel freely without informing the government about where I've been. I'll rip it out or put it in a lead box if I have to. I think COVID tracking has finally gone to their heads.

Another one to watch is green energy - it is currently heavily subsidized by fossil fuel taxes, so when everybody finally uses green energy they will lose tax income and the cost of green energy will increase for maintenance and future projects.

And as always, it is the poorest tax payers that ultimately pay the largest bills. They will be left with the largest road tax bill as they wait for a proper second-hand EV market to emerge, then will never see the tax break of owning an EV. They will be the last to adopt green energy, and will pay the most for it.

Politicians are completely removed from the decisions they make. In their mind everybody lives like a toff they rub shoulders with in central London. But, as they will learn, you can only push the working class so far. History is filled with peasant revolts.
I think you could have the same issue with a stricter format.

The "impossibility" is not the quirks and ends of HTML - is adding all the 100s of frameworks on top, like 5 accelerated graphic options (Canvas, WebGL, SVG, CSS Animations, WebGPU), all kinds of type-setting-foo including math rendering, real-time communications, 2 optimized-to-death-by-experts languages (JS, WASM), storage options, sandboxes, audio, video, MIDI, and synthesizer capabilities, and so on...
> Information overload forces you to do selection. And that's not "censorship".

If you, a consumer, are making the decision then it's not censorship. If some company, government, organization, school, etc is making the decision then it is censorship.

Sometimes, perhaps, censorship is called for. And censorship is only illegal if the government is involved. But in general, legal or not, censorship is bad. People should be allowed to say what they think and whether they have a platform should be decided by whether other people want to listen.

What disturbs me about the Joe Rogan situation is that Rogan is not an alt-right deplorable. He's not scary or mean, he exudes youthful exuberance and curiosity. He's thoughtful, un-ideological and he's a good conversationalist. The attempt to brand him as a deplorable is genuinely creepy.

As far as the article goes, I don't think we're close to any dystopia. These are growing pains as the media opens up. I'm optimistic.
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What are you advantages over Bubble, Appsheet, Retool, Appsmith etc?
employability? lmao

smart employers would kill to get someone like you

I personally know a guy who got convicted at an early age for similar stuff, he never had any trouble finding work, even worked for some governments

any decent security startup would do anything to get you

bro I'm actually jealous

also: freelancing of course, rarely seen background checks for freelancers
100% this.

Everything you described about yourself would make you an excellent employee to have on hand at many cybersecurity firms. Create your resume and have a few people review it.

Also, review your appearance and language skills. Make sure you are presentable in an enterprise or conference room setting. If a cybersecurity firm hires you, don’t make them regret it if you can’t hold yourself in a professional environment.
I do this, kvm/libvirt on Linux, Linux browsers, SPICE/virt-viewer. I don't rollback the VMs like you're suggesting, although that does seem like a good idea to start doing. In addition to the VM-based isolation, the VMs are running on a completely separate machine. One of the other major features this gets me is that my router sends traffic different places depending on what VM it's coming from. Casual web browsing goes out a rotating cloud IP (need to move this to EU sometime), bank and other surveillance based authentication sites go out my uplink directly (fuckers), torrent traffic goes out a commercial VPN, embedded device configuration gets no WAN.

Performance is acceptable, even for videos and the like. I'm sure it's considerably slower, but it works for me. I also see adding a bit of a speed bump that mentally distances the web from my main computing environment as a benefit.
I wasn't aware of this system. That made for some uncomfortable reading.

They had a capacity for 50 million daily number plate reads in 2006.
It still surprises me how much we care about a company's opinion, as if it were some kind of entity capable of thinking for itself. It's perhaps a kind of parasocial relationship. People often feel connected to brands in a way that, of course, the brand does not think about them. I imagine that's why people get personally hurt if their favourite brands speak out on a topic that put's them at oods.
Because nobody cared much for it, and it didn't give us what we actually wanted, which HTML5 did...
Actually they don't. They put managers in place and are largely hands off on the running of their acquisitions.
The funny thing is you can code redistributable stuff on iPad/iphone, just only within Roblox who made a special deal with Apple to avoid the normal dev license cost and Mac requirement, to enable child-labor entreprenuerers and where the cut is more like 70% instead of 30%.
I bought GOOG in 2005 and TSLA in 2014. Similarly, I don't see why I would buy Facebook or GM as part of an index fund when their growth potential looks terrible when compared to TSLA and GOOG.

If I was 70 and couldn't afford a 5 year correction, things would be different
> The SSE connection limit is a nasty surprise once you run into it, it should have been mentioned.

It does not apply to HTTP/2, as previously noted.

> Http2 is easy to set up, so are websockets, yet debugging the multiplexed http2 stream is is not that simple anymore.

I have literally never heard of anyone I personally know having to debug HTTP/2 on the wire. Unless you believe there are frequently bugs in the HTTP/2 implementation in your browser or the library you use, this just not a real concern. HTTP/2 has been around long enough that this is definitely not a concern of mine. I would be more worried about bugs with HTTP/3, since it is so new.

Websockets are also not especially easy to set up… they don’t work with normal HTTP servers and proxies, so you have to set up other infrastructure.
What those strips hanging off of truck wheels are for
That's a second-order concern - the view that fuel taxes are effectively road usage charges is already cemented by the fact that "red diesel" (fuel with an added chemical colorant) used in agriculture has a much reduced taxation regime vs regular pump diesel.
Do you understand that this is a choice made by someone instead of a requirement?
Technical debt is a vague and very ill-defined term that can be used by both engineers and managers to cover for dysfunctional organizational dynamics. So to avoid it requires a functioning organization whose members are committed to technical excellence. Short of that there is no reasonable way to avoid technical debt because it is fundamentally a reflection of the organization and not the code.
This sounds awfully similar to Microsoft anti open source textbook that no one can be trusted besides them, you always need their platform and services between. The only difference is that now people are shilling Apples fake corpo security propaganda talking points and sadly they are often developers themselves.
Similar software already exists.. https://ens.domains/ as does other blockchain software handling tons of value..

It was probably thousands of talented dev hours, who said it was easy?

Just curious are you at all familiar with smart contracts in general?
Alternative title: Billionaire buys himself three new space missions.

This is obviously great for SpaceX, as Jared Isaacman will be helping to finance SpaceX's development without (as I understand it) any long term stake in the company.

The "Launching Soon" label for the Starship mission is optimistic, seeing as Starship hasn't yet reached anywhere near space but Isaacman now gets a front row seat to it's development. There are worse ways to spend your money (but arguably also better ways).
A former coworker of mine was a convicted "hacker" who did time in federal prison for it. Part of his story was told in Clifford Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg. The coworker told me that he had stuck at the current company for many years because he felt that his reputation, including a Wikipedia page, would prevent him from getting another good job. I told him I thought it might help him more than hurt him, and he just shook his head sadly. But then a year later he did start a job hunt, and found an excellent high level position at a large successful outfit almost immediately. He's still there. They knew who he was and what he did. I think that rep helped him more than a little.

It depends what you did of course. In his case the only plausible "victim" was AT&T, and he disputes that too.
If I ever received a message like that I would be completely weirded out, is this a thing people actually do?
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