skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. the file is replaced with a malicious version on their server and not checksummed

2. copy/pasting includes invisible characters that aren't seen until executed

both of these things happen regularly

orthogonally, curl|sh (usually) circumvents the package manager and makes uninstallation difficult
> Without government we at least had choice.

Yes, the choice between surrendering to the bandit (who happens to be stronger than you) or getting shot by him.
I'd pay, just not an open-ended amount :) One of my few regrets is not buying a backup classic when I had the chance.
> Or is it literally just the actual elected officials getting power hungry?

What elected officials? They are appointed.

Its been a technocracy from the start and they are open about this.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/faq/7/how-are-the-com...
> The thing here that NFTs references an asset.

I find this part amusing. It makes me wonder if it is even possible to actually plagiarize an NFT. Like, sure if you copy a picture shown in an NFT, reupload it and wrap it in a new NFT, that's plaigarism, but the way around that is even simpler! Just deploy the new NFT and reference the location of the existing picture! If people are willing to purchase your NFT anyway, who cares?

Its like buying a picture frame, holding it up over your face and looking through it to a picture hung 5 feet away. If people are willing to pay for that, then sell picture frames. NFT are the picture frames.

The difference is that I find it merely amusing, while this person finds it like their missionary duty to stop the practice. But why? Who cares? The contract address of the digital picture frame is different and can't be plaigarized, its up to the consumer to discern. If consumers don't want to..... then sell digital picture frames!

There are overlapping similarities to a selling a TV as well, or cable box, you can set the channel to one thing elsewhere, or you can change the channel. NFTs are the TV or cable box here.

I think the most similarities would be like those digital photo frames you can buy at stores, the ones w/ tiny android computers in them that show a digital photo that you set. That's the NFT, except the NFT is completely digital, so its more akin to a digital digital photo frame.

Maybe Matt Levine could write it that way and more people would get it that way. But maybe you're already perceiving the world correctly, congratulations, you perceive the world correctly. The market is saying sell those, so sell those.
Perhaps not designed, but the rest of the EU has to dance to the waltz - or break/exit.
You don't have to buy new, but maybe 2018ish is a sweet spot when it comes to price/performance in the used market. My Fujitsu esprimo has a 6th gen i5 and idles at 14W with one spinning disk, one SSD and one spun down disk, plus an additional nic.
This series is outstanding!

Be warned, it is five long chapters, and will take hours to read. But it is well worth the time. I learned more computer history from this one book than everything I had picked up in decades before.
I continue to support the ACLU and I agree with the argument that even if it's lost its way on some things, its overall mission remains important, and it continues to do a lot of really great work.

However, if you feel you can't support the ACLU, there are a couple of related organizations you can and should support instead:

The EFF - https://www.eff.org/ - the ACLU but for computers

The FIRE - https://thefire.org/ - the ACLU but for college campuses

Would love to hear from people here who might know of others. My personal criteria would just be that they're genuinely non-partisan (no "the ACLU but for people I agree with), and that they fill a niche the ACLU doesn't already fill (though a more general "competitor" might be a good thing too).
It’s a type of tree.
My Synology NAS use an ARM: I chose badly: very few video format are supported..
MPEG LA had a cap, Access Advance (formerly known as HEVC Advance) now has a cap though I do not believe there was a cap originally. However, my statement is still correct because to use HEVC you need to also talk to Velos Media (pricing and terms not public), and you also need to contact several individual companies not in pools like Technicolor (who also do not have their pricing and terms public).

EDIT: HEVC / Access Advance does have a cap if you put their branding on any product you make containing HEVC technologies - including, oddly, 4K Blu Ray discs (see LOTR Extended Edition 4K, it has the HEVC logo on the box, as if literally anyone cares about HEVC as a brand). If you don't put their logo on your products, no caps.
I take issue with calling the desire to do violence against people like me an "ideological difference"
Hmm I wonder did any politician realize that their credit card transactions also are legal to scan and spy on using the same damn law?

maybe someone should point that out to them?
This is a straw man. I’m speaking up for disproportional attention given to not holding the government accountable.

There should be more focus on why government is dysfunctional than about raising taxes. The situation is completely opposite today, extremely lopsided. Newspapers and journalism has stopped exposing government scandals and inefficiencies, but people are frothing over other things.

I want governments to work like Swiss agencies.
It's far too expensive to launch new material up to do that. It's much better to scrub out the CO2 specifically than to throw out mixed gases. If you're just removing CO2 you only need to replace it with new oxygen which can be electrolicized from water stores but if you're tossing out cabin air in bulk there's stuff like nitrogen that's harder to replace. The ISS is basically sea level air with 21% O2 and the rest nitrogen plus trace CO2 and other gasses, that nitrogen would be much harder to replace.

With hydrolysis you just have waste Hydrogen to toss which could in the future be combined with CO2 from the scrubbers to create methane fuel (probably not in significant quantities but it closes the cycle on O2 as the Sabatier reaction also creates H2O which could feed back into electrolysis or drinking.
No, the frog doesn’t know it’s being boiled at all.

Being fully aware of an organization’s good and bad behaviors is the opposite of being unknowingly boiled. Even if one chooses to continue supporting the organization in spite of some disagreement.
The old C bum in me says this should really be a bitwise AND with 1 but I'm sure modern compilers and JS JIT/V8 runtimes optimize MOD 2 to the same.
Dell owns Alienware so there are some gaming PC:s. Don't know if it's still within corporation possibilities.
Yes, an elm is a kind of tree.
No, I actually think it's much more closely aligned with a VC business than a regular business. It's just a more "regular business" approach towards it. That is, it's still serving a large market, creating a competative advantage (which "regular businesses" rarely have), has compounding growth - it just doesn't need to rush to make it all happen in a few years in a very high risk way.
Best legal definition I've heard involves death. When is a person considered dead? Brain activity ceased irreversibly. In the opposite end you have first brain activity (around three months since fecundation) as the best milestone.

Of course there is philosophical discussion that goes beyond that, but since making it a crime is a legal matter, it's probably within reason.
Ok, got it. Haven’t felt the need for it because I’m pretty conservative regarding language features.

But I definitely see why you‘d need it. It’s just a bit sad to me that there’s yet another tool with a potentially confusing name, orthogonal to the system Python. “Wanna get started with Python? Sure just install another Python (ignore the one that comes with your OS!) using pyenv, then it’s just a matter of getting a virtualenv and pip-installing your requirements.txt! Or was it Pipenv? Or setup.py even?“. Oh and it’s almost guaranteed that your IDE will pick the wrong instance.

It‘s just too much.
I see non-Python enthusiasts struggle with this stuff on an almost dsily basis. Especially the ones who only have exposure on an irregular basis.

I wish OS distributions would just STOP providing Python packages at all.

So much about Python the language and its standard library is great. But many peripheral things (the Python 2->3 debacle first and foremost) are just badly executed.
I ran laptops 24/7 on AC with the batteries acting as UPS for over 15 years. Granted, all of them had removable ones with 18650 cells, so no swelling.

The charging method has been standardized a long time ago - they are charged to ~96%, then cut off, if they fall below ~94% they are topped up again.

There is a significant loss of battery life if you do that for years. I used to unplug some of them and do 2-3 full discharge/charge cycles, that usually helped increase the battery life.

Some laptops use the battery as additional power when running at wattage beyond what the AC can provide.

If you want to be safe with your model, you can try removing the battery while the laptop is plugged in - it should not shut off, the circuit for charging the battery and powering the machine are separate.

I lost more batteries in storage - they still discharge, and even though the cells could be revived, the BMS won't let it recharge if it falls below a certain voltage, rendering them dead (unless you find it fun to restore them).
The list of the formerly respectable that lost their minds in the rise of Trump is depressingly long.
Discrimination against straight white males? Presumably everyone would agree straight white males were given huge privileges in the long tail history of America. (That's a pretty easy reading of history.)

So, if your claim is that they are now discriminated against- what was the inflection point where they were treated with no net bias?

Perhaps the reason it feels like discrimination is because those privileges are eroding?
A few more details without a paywall.

https://www.flyingmag.com/faa-modifying-approach-to-evtol-ce...
A 501c4 is a social welfare org. Political activities are generally prohibited

"Political or social activities. The promotion of social welfare does not include direct or indirect participation or intervention in political campaigns on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office."

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/26/1.501(c)(4)-1

I think this is a fair confusion currently however given their strong dem tie-in recently and their current approach of taking on individual politicians (for and against) by name.

Note: If you are active in the ACLU they have a related ACLU Foundation they use to collect 501c3 money, is run by the same people out of the same offices, and actually brings in more money I think than the c4 if that matters.
Yeah. IMO a good strategy is to rely on companies in a non-friendly country. For example, if you are in a Western country, use a Russian company for stuff that you have to outsource to a 3rd party. If you are in Russia or China, use Google and Facebook all you want.
Yes, you can use both supabase and prisma with your own postgres database

https://supabase.com/docs/guides/integrations/prisma
A lot of people don't like these new financial toys like NFTs and tokens. But to say "they should be destroyed" seems... extreme? Just let nerds do their thing online. I don't tell furries to go fuck off because I find their subculture objectionable.
How so? You'd have to figure out the N in a population of hundreds of thousands (the state's prison population) without any other variables to go on.
"child pornography" is in quotes because it is listed as a good faith, legitimate motivation to spy on populations preemptively, when it isn't.
It doesn’t. You cannot legislate math. You cannot change the laws of physics either. These so called “laws” will do absolutely nothing to stop or even deter an committed criminal from so much as sharing child porn. It’s completely unenforceable. Public key encryption is even more powerful than symmetric encryption because it gives everyone the ability to establish a shared secret completely out in the open, effectively securing communications over insecure networks. Complete strangers without ever having to meet in person can send secret messages in a manner they can guarantee no one else can read and no one else could forge.
I don't appreciate the way privacy advocates attack the "think of the children" cliche. It comes off as a flippant rejection of the importance of protecting the vulnerable.

The issue isn't the justification, it's that the ends don't justify the means. Sometimes you can't take an action even if you perceive it'll have a good result (spying on people [immoral means] to protect children [moral end]).
I take a train to a far away city sometimes (and I am due to take it more often from October on) and there isn't always a socket available, or I have to share it with someone else in turns (one socket for two or three people).
The submission URL looks nothing like the Adpeak-generated junk.
NetNewsWire is a great free and open source RSS reader. It has completely replaced Reeder for me. Is also out on iOS
Not to be a pedant, but you’re apparently referring to Ira Glasser (Ira Glass being the mild-mannered host of This American Life).
It's worth noting that "single-writer" refers to a single machine, not a single process. Multiple programs can write to the same SQLite DB at once (although contention can be a problem, etc etc). So, if that admin tool was running on the same machine plugged into that same SQLite file, it could crash and leave the main customer-facing services running fine.
"NANACA†CRASH!!" I would assume: https://megami.starcreator.com/nanaca-crash/
I do the same thing with Netflix. I used to get DVDs (then Blu-rays) but their quality was consistently bad (damaged discs) and their collection has turned to crap. So now I just stream Netflix (cuz the family would lynch me otherwise), but I buy a Blu-ray every month with the money I'm saving.
Pyenv has nothing to do with pipenv.

Pyenv is mainly for installing versions of Python. It's useful if you work on multiple packages that each needs a different version of Python, or if you have one package that you test with multiple versions of Python. (Alternative to apt/yum/brew or manually downloading Python from python.org)

pipenv is for installing Python packages for your project. (Alternative to pip, poetry, etc)
> Microservices was always a solution to the organisational problem of getting more developers working on a system at once.

Microservices was always a solution to the problem that SOA got swallowed by “implementing XML heavy standards” and lost attention to it's architectural principles.

(SOA was originally, and microservices a return to, a solution to reusing components and isolating faults so you need fewer, not more, developers and support personnel dedicated to any given system or collection of systems.)
> I never came across a DBA which has more than scripting experience.

The job title is not “database administrator”, it’s “systems engineer - database”. Frankly if it’s remote I would apply for it, even though I’m not a Postie specialist. Looks like fun work. Hopefully not too much corporate bs. I ran away from a job offer at Iridium because they had too much corporate overhead and management fad baggage to contend with, coupled with pointless face time at the office (no other team member at the location!)
I remember when a key selling point of the iphone was that "there is an ipod inside it!"
> On the other hand, the state of programming is terrible and getting worse.

What does this mean? It's an order of magnitude easier to build an app/service/whatever today than it was a decade ago. Having to maintain separate code paths for IE because it doesn't support many of the APIs and CSS features you need was "terrible"; by comparison, engineering today is heavenly.
Why is that? I may be missing something, but they're already enforcing permissions at runtime, which seems like the hard part to me. It would 'just' need to be integrated with the call stack so you know which dependency(ies) want system/network access.
It's so odd to me that liberals, who seem to care a lot about women's rights, just flat out dismiss women who are genuinely concerned about being raped in prison by males who were secretly transferred to female prisons.

>"But what about the children?" is never a good argument for taking the away the rights of others.

I also hope that you don't point to school shootings to argue against the second amendment then.
$FB was barely profitable, IPOing with a 400 P/E. And they had losses in two consecutive quarters a year after the IPO[1].

AMZN wasn't profitable for 7 years, then fell to unprofitable again in 2012 and 2014[2].

AAPL was net in the red from 1996 to 2003[3].

So, were all these companies "Ponzi schemes" during the eras where they were investing in growth?

And if your only qualification is to "be profitable" for something not to be a Ponzi, then why are you here ragging on places like Coinbase? Coinbase is a 5.7 P/E company with $4b in net cash right now.

[1] https://www.fintopea.com/quote/FB/income-statement

[2] https://www.fintopea.com/quote/AMZN/income-statement

[3] https://www.fintopea.com/quote/AMZN/income-statement
Governments frequently ban encryption for private citizens to "prevent them from sharing child porn".
I use Zsh for CLI and Bash for scripting. Never ran into any problem, production-wise.
Never heard of xref. I'll take a look thanks!
"No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."

Twenty years is a long time.
These days you get more storage and better form factor with an Apple Watch combined with a bluetooth headset/buds.
Yes.100% with that this guy said. I have a 1 man shop marketplace startup. I been at it since 2016. I have to literally figure shit out on the fly. I can't afford a full time engineering time ( i have a pay for play engineer). I pay for the platform from the sales i make. I have no goals to raise VC. I am under no illusion of raising series ABCDFU. My goal is to make sales and put food on the table for me and my family. For me, as a 1 man shop. Surviving IS Succeeding. I am very happy being a thousandaire. techCrunch will never write about me or my start up. So if you have an idea, build it and start testing. your #1 goal should be making sales / money ASAP. Thats it. Do not fall in to the trap of I have an idea i will raise funding and i will exit making billions. That is NOT reality / real world. What you read on techcrunch is not reality, those unicorns are very rare. Good lucky out there. Make sales. Charge money.
I have no interest in discussing The Bible further with you given that you blatantly misrepresented a passage and then shifted the goal posts when questioned about it.
Note that the charge controllers for many lithium cells have volatile state memory--the current draw is minuscule but it's there and if the state memory is lost the battery is bricked.

The battery will shut down when the voltage reaches a cutoff, not when it is truly depleted.
"FIRE has done way more for campus free speech issues this last decade or two than the ACLU despite a considerably smaller budget"

You mean conservative speech? Or has FIRE actually defended speech they despised, like the ACLU used to?
Aren't you still subject to these laws even if you're self-hosted?
This plan is useless. In this day and age it's trivial to create a system for private communication that works outside the mainstream apps.
I'd say if you did what Theil did and use your Roth to purchase your own startup, yes. If you use it to play the market or invest in index funds, no.
My idea was to either use triggers or a process that reads Postgres's WAL and replay transactions to SQLite, by sending updates, rebuilding files entirely, or anything else.

Such replicator processes can be horizontally scaled, and made into an HA configuration.

Of course you should be careful to use on the Postgres side only the SQL features that will map well on SQLite. The range of such features is wide enough for practical applications though.

My real-life example would be a realty site, where changes are infrequent, but the desire to slice and dice the current large(ish) dataset in interesting ways is very high. The latter could be done using a per-node SQLite DB.
Some form of Slashdot finally outlives the iPod.

https://apple.slashdot.org/story/22/05/10/1650258/the-ipod-i...
Let's say there was a hypothetical corporation looking to identify employee participation in a protest. Would you defend that corporation making an FOIA request to identify who might've participated?

Who's freedom of speech do you think deserves to be defended, the corporation or the individuals in question?

Now apply that logic to this scenario, where the group in question is looking to identify individuals in order to make a scapegoat out of them for their own private decisions. Who's freedom deserves defending?
Most MMOs 'benefit' from spreadsheets and APIs. Any situation where players are incentivised to optimize/track/gather statistics benefit from them.

Guild Wars 2 is an example of a very casual MMO that nevertheless has an extensive API, and a wide range of fan-built sites that use it to optimize/track history of trades, manage your account, track achievement histories, improve wiki information, etc.
I suspect that there is a self full-filling prophecy for VC funding. If you aim small (read 50-500 million dollar business), then odds are a DecaBillion dollar business will eat your lunch sooner or later.

The only middle ground would appear to be in businesses which serve defensible tight niches, but in software these mostly appear to boil down to consultancies with a small set of customers.
The wording you are looking for is called "Vertical Slicing". After using it, I'll never go back to "shapes" anymore.
Make it illegal to have them on "app stores" and they will be inaccessible to 95% of the plebs. The remaining who use free software are those who care about privacy and pedos.
We have to agree to disagree, both design decision have their tradeoffs.
Eddy Cue has bigger plans for Apple’s billion dollar services business
> Just let nerds do their thing online.

Web3 is the unusual case where it has significant effects offline that affects people other than nerds, namely in the form of energy consumption and global warning.
So that's a no, then. Noted.
he's been saying this for a while now and I'm not seeing any strong evidence it's true or closer to being true.
This app is great, absolutely worth it if you need to take screenshots for reports, projects, documentation etc. Very powerful annotation tools
The Bank of England has two great introductory papers on money in the modern economy, they're about as easy as it gets when explaining quite a complicated system.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
I believe this is exactly the question Steve Mould asks the Legal Eagle in a recent video about NFTs [1]. Short answer: it's technically feasible but it would probably be deemed illegal according to the normal legal system.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZaTd0hDtkI&t=1231