skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>* But I have an unbroken record of many years of being able to maintain my accounts without any compromises*

If I was paid a quarter every time I heard a similar line during an emergency incidence response, I wouldn't need to be working incidence response anymore.

No one gets hacked, until they do. Everyone claims they have the best password, the most secure machine, the most cautious of habits. Then they get hacked. Everyone gets hacked.
Not the buildings, they have little faith in the structural strength of poured concrete which is why they use rebar. It increases the strength to tolerable levels so they can build what they want to build. So yeah. Civil engineers know the properties of the materials they work with. So should hardware engineers. I'm aware they all have metal frames. I'm also aware that some aluminum laptops incorporate the frame into the lattice structure the motherboard sits on. I like when engineers find ways of using the materials to their strengths (aluminum laptop) vs having to strengthen (plastic) or support (carbon fiber).
I agree, if you have to consult 50 charts and formulas to calculate damage in a single round of combat that's going to slow the game down too much. No need to go full computer rpg though, I could see a DM pulling out a laptop and writing some scripts to handle some of the math while keeping the rest of the game tabletop though.
Ambitious! Cool idea, but its scope is so broad... I think your roadmap will need to include robust support for integration with related tools. For example, it's hard to imagine committing to creating highlights in an all-in-one service like this, vs something like Readwise, which lets me export highlights to my Obsidian vault.
Twitter blocking an account for a message made by that account seems mundane and uninteresting.

The related issue of someone-else allegedly posting on the author's Twitter-account would seem more interesting.
I adore plain HTML but their lack of any versioning seems silly to me. It's so easy to use (for instance) git to sync changes back and forth that eschewing it from the process just seems unnecessarily dangerous. Throw it all in source control (and maybe if you're using git create a public github repo) and you've got a free backup along with a safer way to edit the files. Considering it's all plain HTML local edits can be trivially vetted by just opening .html files in browsers or, for the more advanced, taking five seconds to download an appropriate WAMP/MAMP/LAMP binary that sets up apache and some crap you don't need - then just move your source dir into whatever their public_html is called.

It is so so trivial to vet local HTML changes and use a repository where you just directly push to master that I'd suggest it to anyone building a plain HTML site just for the fact that you're getting free backups as a side effect.
Also, Web Intents don't need OAuth authorization and just have a Confirmation page: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-for-websites/t...
I don't drink, don't use drugs and my memory over the span of a few minutes tends to work fine.
>But they'll typically have a check valve good for one assist

2-3 in practice.
I have a friend who is a quadruple amputee. For him straws are pretty good. For the rest of us, the solution to plastic straws is not straws. They aren't necessary.

Of course, it's all bike shedding anyhow. The real problems are big and complex and overwhelming, so we argue about straws instead.
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So with edit button implemented this wouldn't have happened
True. Which is why I would really love to know one way or another how this was done.
I'm with Strava for 8 years now.
I had my socialisation period. Then my KOM hunting period. And finally a fatigue of both.

All my rides are now private.
I sync them with GoldenCheetah that provides much more advanced and useful metrics.

The only thing that keeps me subscribed is the ability to draw a route with a finger on a map, and the app instantly generate a route based on rides done by other riders making a heat map.

Unfortunately the route generally needs to pass through Komoot to clean parts of it that are not appropriate to the type of bike chosen.
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And most older engine will float the valves and, assuming nothing collides or comes apart (floating valves isn't good for the rest of the valvetrain), self limit that way.

But almost any engine with electronic ignition (so early 80s or later for a standard car or motorcycle, with plenty earlier having that feature) will cut spark to control RPM as needed. Unless you just start getting ignition breakup at RPM (not enough dwell time for the coil).
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The ability to create segments and compare them across rides is probably the easy part. The hard parts that Strava has already solved are:

1. Segment creation - over the decade+ that Strava has existed, people have eventually created enough segments to cover most riding areas. Most people won't be interested enough to create segments - Garmin has had segments for years and I don't see a single segment created on any of my runs, nor am I willing to create segments myself. So the feature is unused.

You can attempt to create segments yourself across all users by leveraging another source of data (like how Strava is using pre-defined Zwift routes instead of allowing user-input segments) or some programmatic way.

2. Global leaderboards - Strava is primarily a social media site, so all rides and runs are public. This means leaderboards are heavily populated. Having a KOM or PR in Strava is somewhat meaningful; but on a platform with few users, the KOM or PR is not. I don't know how you would address this without a lot of user data.
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Probably paint from the late 70's, still military grade, just not the cutting edge. And chemistry doesn't work that way, there are some environmentally sound compounds that come up, sound enough not to poison her beatiful garden, and she wasn't the only RF hater in the entire planet, like you think it's just her sockpuppeting in those forums? But it's not like I was the second, I plain don't care about RF, total immunity from natural selection. So I only care about pain she felt and still feels.[1] For me it's putting myself in her place, if she complains that's noble, it's noble to complain because then others can reason about their own pain with a better sense, better words, when the complaint is true, and say, I feel that same pain. Something is wrong.

She had access because of her conviction to her crusade, because she was smart, knew all about the spectrum, like I said it all checked out medical studies notwithstanding. Actually answered the question of tin-foil hats, said they're harmful because they end up acting as like as an analog to a parabolic antenna to focus the RF into the center of the skull irregularly, with hot spots.

If it is hogwash, I want to hear all about it! Answer point by point, for instance by arguing whether it is wise to hack a microwave so it cooks with the door open, with you in front. I'd love to hear your experimental results.

But to interpret "your" comment in the best possible light, per the site's guidelines, and something I did want to get around to because I like that question. No I think you actually could find stealth fighter paint for a mega useful use in your home RF lab, if you were as tenacious as she was. And as rich, and as smart, and as connected, and with a community of people like you, and had as persistent a microwave migraine, I mean if you actually needed to. She didn't hate all radio, no problem with DC or daylight, mostly certain specific parts in between, especially...from the way she told it...she objected to VHF (30MHz roughly) til infrared, and then UVB and UVA, and from ultraviolet on out she hated all of it. She hated it with perfect hatred, she called them her enemies.

It had a psychosomatic component but it wasn't purely psychosomatic, and you must understand headaches are never purely non-psychosomatic.

So what's your budget for your RF lab, $100? You do have a home RF lab, don't you?

[1] And then maybe she'll sympathize with my hatred of the F atom in the water and toothpaste. I fight for her, she fights for me.
Do you have an example of someone in the community making this mistake?

My understanding is that if we knew that all future AGIs would have human-like motivations, goals, opinions, and concepts of good and bad then that crowd would be much less concerned. Smarter humans are not the concern. Intelligences which are _not_ human-like are the explicit concern.
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The existing data already looks excellent. I wonder if you could leverage SIMD/the vector api for speeding up some things. Or if value types will have an impact.
It's honestly fairly similar to From's games in several ways, except it's a first person shooter.

At face value, it's ridiculously hard, everything kills you almost instantly. The game is figuring out how to cheese the game, the more you cheese it the more the game unfolds. The game expects you to do this, and rewards you for it, arguably even more so than FromSoft's games do. Jank is a core gameplay mechanic. If you manage to bullshit your way into a location where you really shouldn't be able to go, odds are it has a super powerful weapon or a secret or whatever.

It really forces you to engage with the game as it is rather than going through the motions of playing a first person shooter.
A blown fuse should be detectable with this method.
Caveat: This may be a challenging view for some people. I am not dismissing the actual suffering that people experience, I am questioning the "medicine".
Mental illness is a made up thing. Mental health is a made up thing. It's just life. People have issues, problems, dilemmas. Sometimes they can't adjust, adapt. But a bunch of people step up and say "We're professionals, we can help". Where is the evidence that they really can? People heal themselves or they don't, just like in the previous 100,000 years+. If they don't well, they suffer, sometimes awfully badly. Very few therapists are going to say "I am not helping your problem lessen or go away so stop giving me money and try some thing or someone else".
Also confused. Seems like the actual story here is that OP or Twitter was compromised, not that a Tweet was blocked. At least that's what I'm more curious about.
Bits of trivia: Some Kindle components are named after Mario characters. My Kindle Touch is built on the Yoshi platform (that is the only one I can find right now, but I remember there being more; boot logs contain "K76mcsd:def:skipping on non-Mario-based WW hardware").

My Kindle's root password is "fiona430" (Shrek?).

The Kindle Touch's system is a pretty normal Linux from around 2010. Upstart, D-Bus, Xorg, awesome WM. The shell is made with GTK 2 and lots of unobfuscated, commented (!!!) Javascript. It's a joy to explore. If the kernel wasn't ancient you could run modern Linux apps on it - on the newer models you can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcZiVo1z4Eg, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHoPgXb-JNM

Maybe somebody from lab126 could comment on the culture that brought forth software internally so fun.
> poor test coverage

Yet you don't have to hang around here long to be told that "Unit Testing is Overrated": https://tyrrrz.me/blog/unit-testing-is-overrated
Oh that is a very good one, I never ever even thought that something like that was possible, I thought that by just using a browser and a strong password that I was protected against that kind of trick.

Thank you. Between the various comments in this thread bit by bit I'm beginning to wonder how safe this setup really is. Qubes OS starts to look better by the minute...
Thank you, yes, that's exactly right. And it is in fact harmful, if you are shipwrecked and getting beaten by the sun 14 hours a day, exactly all day, you'll remember this comment in this forum. It is in fact harmful. UVA and UVB, gives people cancer, Fitsch type 1 people die of that all the time, it's brutal. There are OTHER frequencies that are visible that are not harmful in everyday quantities, and that's specifically because we evolved to block them with our skin. But if it's from a laser? Not ionizing, but it will blind you.
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In the past there have been black market services that would give you the complete info and even access to twitter accounts for like $50 a pop or so.

Presumably via an insider or forged law enforcement requests.

You'll never get twitter to look into it or give you an ounce of data which you could use to pursue the matter yourself. ... I've never heard of that happening even when shamed in public.

Check out some of twitters court filings to see their corporate attitude, they even gaslight the courts-- they're not going to help you or care that they've screwed you over. They don't even care when people are complaining that they're hosting extortion generated child pornography... they simply respond that it doesn't violate their content policy.

Twitter's customer's are advertisers. You're a cow at a meat farm mooing that the ground isn't comfortable to walk on... no one cares how the product feels so long as production stays up.
> for things like bubble tea reusable straws are a reasonable investment

You're suggesting people bring their own straws to bubble tea? That's very impractical.
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As opposed to just Apple having that information doing God Knows What? They say they “care about privacy” but I have good reason to think they actually don’t (based on convos with some data scientists that worked there).
As soon as I have full access again I will look at that. Should be somewhere tomorrow if what they write in that email is accurate.
Given how much of a role pandas seems to have played in the growth of Python over the last decade I suspect you aren't really the only person that loves pandas :)

I think you'll find a similar selection bias if you ask HN commenters what they think about Excel.
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This is nice. One interesting choice is the decision to compute the number of observed words, N, as the default value of an optional argument, thereby ensuring that it is only computed once, while still limiting its scope to the function in which it is needed. Perhaps this is a common pattern but it's one I haven't stumbled across before.

The short circuiting `or` chain is also pleasantly virtuosic. Sometimes a little flashiness is tolerable when it works this well!
> Why is it difficult to reverse the transactions?

Why should the transactions be reversed?

If things had gone according to plan, Knight would have made several million dollars that day, some likely because of a mistake by someone else or an unavoidable circumstance, just like it did on other days.

Those other people weren't made whole, so why should Knight be any different?
Postmodern Pandas sounds like a great title for a blog post.
The specification is just codifying what browsers already did in practice.

There was a time when people thought we might be able to change web development practice and browsers to something more consistent, but (a) what they chose was XHTML and (b) the benefit of switching was not there.
The attitude that finance pays more is a leftover from a previous era. 10-15 years ago it was true: the profits from HFT were so also way, way bigger and split up amongst a much smaller group of firms.

Now those firms are all in a completely competitive industry squeezing each other for basis points.

Meanwhile the definition of a FAANG is that it has an effective monopoly, and these companies are taking in way more money than the HFT industry. (Netflix is losing its monopoly but we can’t really drop N from the acronym without a replacement..)
You might like the book "beautiful code"
Even if provided for free now by not being either libre source nor a cooperative what is stopping the negative aspects of Strava form creeping into this alternative?
The modern Comsol GUI is truly phenomenal, especially considering where it was at with the 3.x versions. It's one of the rare cases, pretty much the only one I can think of in CAD/CAM, where the effort put into a radical GUI redesign really paid off significantly and immediately.
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With some of the details that have come out, like this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31240589

maybe it would be a good idea to check your environment for carbon monoxide, or ask someone you trust in real life if you've been displaying erratic behavior. People arguing on a forum about Twitter might be overlooking a health issue you might be experiencing.
Ah, thanks for posting! It's relevant for hackers because all early stage media tech has the same "wild west" early days property. You can catch a few like Design for Living and Rain on youtube, and indeed the subject matter is quite shocking at times. But always with the "moral" ending. The quality is not great. Backlog at LoC digital preservation unit is like 100k+ works. Not to mention lack of funding for storage, serving, etc ;)
> and web browsers don't know by default how deal with the files or handle things like pagination or the table of contents.

So? Safari and Chrome don't know by default how to handle pagination of documents. (Actually, they do; they handle it by scrolling.) But any browser that exists on a Kindle does. If you can use it to read a web page, you can also use it to read an epub.
Timeshift and storing the system backup folder in an off system portable hard drive has worked for me with system backups. I've restored timeshift backups from bare installs or live disks without issue. For home backups I just use rsync. I keep a few backup scripts in my .local/bin folder so they can be easily accessible from any directory.

Here is an example of a backup script I use:
https://pastebin.com/16MPxby0

this script will show me what files have changed. So if a huge number of files have changed I can perceive that as a potential crypt attack. Or some other bonehead thing I did..

This script will DELETE files on the backup that no longer exist in my home directory. I do that so I don't have a bunch of zombie files laying around that are no longer needed.
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