skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you want to build a Twitch clone, or are you unhappy for one reason or another with the existing selfhostable FOSS projects doing this?
Generating card numbers that pass the mod10 (Luhn) check is easy. He figured out how to pass the 3 digit code check. Given that it’s only three or four digits, and that plenty of breached cards are available to hackers, it’s probably not super hard to crack.

I suspect that test cards we get from processors work on a lot of production systems, in case you’re interested in starting a career in criminality.

With a big enough training set of cards I wonder if an ML would have any luck with the CVV.
I wasn’t trying to denigrate it: I was genuinely curious what it’s good or bad at.

Every language has a reason to exist, although for many it’s simply because it can.
Read any state’s declaration of secession. Slavery was the direct cause of the war.

Not by the North to end it, by the South to preserve it.

> The General Government, as the common agent, passed laws to carry into effect these stipulations of the States. For many years these laws were executed. But an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery, has led to a disregard of their obligations, and the laws of the General Government have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution.
Nothing. I'm not really that proud of anything.
Good catch. The Trackpoint in the photo had piqued my interest. But Trackpoint has come with 3 buttons for about 20 years, and I'm pretty sure the middle button gets used heavily by many people.
Ephesus was founded after this rise in sea level.

Ephesus was founded 3,000-4,000 years ago.

The sea level rise occured over a period of 21,000 to 3,000 years ago.
A little over 2,000 years ago was the height of Rome. 2,000 years before that the dominant empire not that far from there was Assyria. 2,000 years before that it was Mesopotamia and woolly mammoths still roamed the Earth. This is about our limit of recorded history as the earliest surviving writing (actually pictographs) is from ~3500 BC.

Obviously there was history before then and we can really only see evidence of this from surviving archaeological evidence (as per this article). So another 2,000 years before Msopotamia we've found remains of Neolithic villages that are now under the English Channel.

And yet we're still 4,000 after the ruins from this article. It's wild. Stonework has a tendency to last. Wood obviously wouldn't. You really wonder how long humans have really been in permanen tsettlements and we can only imagine what life was like then, what language they had and what they believed.

And to put it in even more perspective, if the entire history of Earth as a whole year, all of the above happened in the last 83 seconds.
The JavaScript Block Statement
The real purpose of this process isn't filtering out brilliant programmers but who are more obedience.

Managers aren't some kind of stale guy but predators who sucks slaves' blood. They actually know what they're doing, they're sending a powerful messages that they have power to order subordinate dumb things, like memorising riddles.
Be wary of websites that are just slick designs
I feel like a lot of developers overestimate the hardware specs that they need.

My main development machine is a simple Ryzen 3 with 8GB RAM, and I run two electron apps (VS Code and Slack) at all times.

A comment in a separate thread here mentioned virtualization. That and gaming would be two legitimate use cases, but for plain-jane development, "8gb ought to be enough for anybody" (har har)
Apollo 47 is a one-page RPG with 1,199 additional pages of flavor text
Spoofing useragent works. From the look of it, it's a nginx-generated 403, which probably means they hardcoded their nginx config to block web clients they don't consider good webcitizens.

The string they're blocking isn't [Ll]ynx, it's libwww. Which Lynx has in its user agent string. They're not blocking wget or curl.

It's probably a misguided attempt to block custom written bots, maybe a particular one they've had trouble with in the past.
Am i wrong to think that for 1000 dollars this laptop should come with 32gb of ram? Though its great that one can upgrade the memory.
> What workload do you do that 16GB isn't enough?

Run a C++ IDE on a medium-large codebase and you can very quickly run out of RAM.
> The government doesn't want to eliminate people who might be viewed as drains of resources. They want votes and voting demographics they can pander to.

Very curious, can you name any politicians that panders to disabled voters?
> struggling with 2 EUR/liter fuel

I converted this for Americans like me:

2 EUR/liter is about $8.02/gallon

A 17-gallon tank costs $136.74 to fill.

(Using exchange rate of 1.06 and 3.785 liters per gallon)
Looks like old people who have had the smallpox vaccine (weird scar on shoulder) should not have to worry.
> BUT...they shouldn't get section 230 protections, which are for common carriers.

No, they are expressly for what would be, under the law without Section 230, publishers.

The entire purpose of Section 230 is to allow platforms (and users!) to freely moderate content on based on their own views of what is appropriate without incurring liability as a publisher as would otherwise accrue to those exercise such control of distribution.

(Section 230 protections wouldn't be needed for common carriers, who would, as such, be forbidden from exercising the kind of editorial control which would, without a safe harbor, produce the kind of liability from which Section 230 provides a safe harbor.)
> buy low, sell high.

for many, it's been buy high, sell low. it's always a gamble.
The ssd isnt too bad assuming theres usb 3/c to plug supplemental storage in, but thats jmo
How does this compare to mediasoup?
imagine owning property
One needs two devices now.. a mininal dumb phone and a smart phone for app use only.
Honestly, the terminology is ridiculous and exhausting. There's no real definition for senior/staff/etc responsibilities and qualifications.
Only on the internet, that someone working for a cost-center division, building an piece of internal software used by 20 users, gets to lecture how a $2 Trillion Dollar, building multiple Billion real-world user products, generating > $500,000 per engineer profit should run their hiring process
Looking at docs in a browser
Your solution to anxiety derived from lack of medical knowledge is more bureaucracy between a patient and their healthcare provider?
> I think people in this thread are forgetting that subsidized housing is a very limited resource and therefore we need to focus it on the people who need it most.

I think it’s more that the supply of subsidized housing is so low that it’s literally only people in the worst kinds of situations that qualify.

Obviously someone saving for a 100k down payment doesn’t need it, but there’s a whole sea of people in between that have no options now. Rent is too expensive, and subsidized housing is unavailable (only goes to the people that need it most). Ergo, I’m stuck in my parents’ house until I die, unless I want to pay extortionate rent for a shitty apartment.

Meanwhile, the people that do get subsidized housing suddenly have both a nice house and a lot of ability to save. I can totally see how that breeds resentment.

I’ve heard it said that the best way to get a house would be to have kids, divorce, and then become a single mother. Which doesn’t seem to be too far from the truth.
I actually faced this while researching how to aid a family member under the representative payee program and began to wonder how to spend their funds in ways that would benefit them and avoid accumulation of assets and all that stuff to remain below 2k.
https://www.ssa.gov/payee/faqrep.htm
‘bet you wish you could afford a Mac’ edition. Why can’t HP come up with a unique style? I’ll just get a thinkpad for $150. Its mostly just used as a text editor. of course my primary is a mac m1
I said "first hand" experience intentionally, and the reason is because the content that you're reading is going to be biased towards the people writing it. Just like anyone who is recollecting a bad situation and outcome, they are going to leave things out, misrepresent what was said, and sometimes straight up lie to take any blame off of themselves. They're not LARPing so much as they're extremely biased about what happened. I grew up in a Christian school, attending multiple churches, and I have NEVER once seen someone turned away in the way that you describe. Does that mean it doesn't happen? No, there are shitty people everywhere. But these places are known for bending over backwards to help vulnerable people, at least that has been my first hand experience.
On Aging Alone (2021)
One thing that really blew my mind was learning that Beringian civilization lasted thousands years before the ice sheets receded enough for people to move into North America as Berginia was slowly swallowed by the sea. This is sometimes referred to as the "Beringian standstill population". By the time people made it down to Mexico they were likely another few distinct civilizations removed from Siberia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beringia#Human_habitation
Maybe I'm just too cynical, but this seems like something that's so superficial, you'd only call it it out to distract from something else. To convey the feeling of first class support, without actually providing it. If I'd been the product manager, I'd have made the change, then strictly prohibited marketing from mentioning it precisely so that people can notice on their own.

I've run not windows on laptops for years, with custom key bindings for the windows key, and not once has it ever bothered me that the symbol on the super key is some funny squares instead of the word super.

It's a really small point so probably not worth dwelling on, and yet, they chose to make it a focus point of their copy. I get try hard vibes.
> Kept my coding ... skills up to date

What are you up to date about now?
Bankruptcy is hardly a win.
That’s making a lot of assumptions about who I am and what I do based on nothing.
I don’t know much about Dagster but it does not look like they have a validation tool equivalent to Wall, which requires Airflow. So you would not get validation with Dagster unless you brought it yourself.
I think (and this is just my intuition over the years) in the UK 'anti social' is used very broadly to mean 'detracting from the public interest', where here in America I've most often heard it to mean someone who shuns the company of others.
Nah, they make you log out of your vm as well as the thin client, or cause your vm to auto log out when you're not connected for a couple of minutes. It still takes 10 - 15m to get logged back in.

As a bonus, you get to interact with a slow, remote desktop all day.

Or the real kicker - the hardware gets over provisioned because the incentive is to cut costs. You try to log in, get on a bum vm, then have to log out and try again and hope to get a good vm.

Makes for a very productive workforce.
I’ve been in tech 22 years. For the first 10 years it was leetcode gymnastics to prove I had the chops. All these did was to serve as a basic filter for weeding out people who didn’t know what they were talking about. The actual leetcode exercises didn’t do much to prepare you for the actual job, it was more that the existing team wanted to be sure you were nerdy enough.

The last 12 years in tech I’ve actively fought back against leetcode and homework coding interviews. Unless you’re going to pay me for my time, I’m not going to work for free.

Someone in a thread said “show them the actual day to day during the interview” is spot on. If you are interviewing and they aren’t doing this, move on. If you are interviewing for your team and aren’t doing this, start.
> The no-whiteboard companies are very few, hardly ever seem to have openings and not hiring junior engineers.

I think no-whiteboard companies correlate pretty heavily with ‘good place to work’, ergo, they’re not looking for people as often as revolving door companies.
> There’s really not a lot of of discussion of foreign trade in the documents the states ratified to enact secession.

Because tariffs are a congressional matter, not a state matter. They were trying to justify secession via the states' rights angle. Also, politicians don't like using money as a justification for their actions. It comes off tacky. They want to appear noble and virtuous. Sorta like how nobody invaded iraq for oil. You invade iraq for democracy. Just like the american independence was about "liberty and freedom" not tariffs and the right to steal native land west of the appalachian mountains. "Liberty and freedom" by slave owners. Using your logic, the iraq war was about democracy and the american independence was about freedom. Do you believe russia is invading ukraine to free ukraine from nazis too?
Thanks for the info, will have to look into it.

It seems they did spent a bit of money to build a campus in St. Petersburg but with Russian tech exodus, not sure how that would work.
Other than buying I bonds, nothing. An those are more because of inflation than actual recession.
GPU aside, the fact it comes with FHD not QHD is a bummer. FHD probably just fine for gaming but for text based works like programming, writing, etc, for me the QHD display is a minimum necessity.
Powers will use any excuse, the excuse is a distraction. It’s much clearer and more effective to properly name what they are doing rather than indulge their demand of what ever silly term they invent to justify it.

There is no such thing as textualism, there is just (1) a belief that your are doing a thing you labeled textualism but is philosophically incompatible with the concept of the law or (2) lying. Anything from the right in the us as it relates to the constitution is (2).
It is stating a simple obvious truth as if it was a profound deep discovery.
Einstein had already published several papers in physics and he was about to receive his PhD when he made his major discoveries in 1905. The idea that he was just some outsider patent clerk is an urban legend that needs to die.

As an active researcher, I often find papers in distant fields easier to understand than those in my field. Papers on topics related to my research but not that close to it are particularly difficult. When I'm unfamiliar with the topic, I just see some text written in everyday language. And while most researchers are not great at writing, they are not particularly bad either, because they write so much. When I read such papers, I have absolutely no idea what I'm missing or misinterpreting. I may interpret technical terms with specific definitions as everyday words, and there may be shared context, implicit assumptions, and basic background knowledge I'm simply unaware of.

Hence my default assumption that if you read a research paper and think you understood it, you probably didn't. Research is so specialized these days that you should require something better than your own beliefs to convince yourself that you understood what you read. Relying on external validation ("an expert is someone other experts on the topic recognize as an expert") is pretty useful when you are not an expert yourself.
Is there a benefit to respecting locale and not just using Unicode?
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Sadly Russia never really recovered from communist revolution which resulted in a century of negative population selection, especially visible in its “leadership” today :(
It's fascinating to think about the past in this fast backwards fashion, I love it (and also fast forwarding from past to present).

What you said about the language reminded me of this video about PIE language, I speak some European languages and it's amazing that many words feel so familiar. And it's even nicer to read the comments, all that people from around the world finding stuff so close in their native modern language!

https://youtu.be/FD2yPqODlBA
s/bet\ you\ wish\ you\ could\ afford\ a\ Mac/We finally sell the OS you want/

I hate MacOS. Honestly, I understand the appeal, but can't stand using it. I would literally rather be forced to work in Windows.

If I could buy an M1 with Linux support as great as it's Mac support is, I would in a heartbeat. As it is, I'll be delighted to have options between System76, Framework, Dell, Lenovo, HP.
The Dark Side of Sentiment Analysis: An Exploratory Review Using Lexicons, etc.
Sorry, to clarify I mean there was probably little actual reason to migrate to the east coast of North America at that time.
I have bigtime anxiety so I ordered some of this stuff after reading this blog post a couple days ago. I took my first dose this morning, and I gotta say it really does feel like it helped. Obviously this could be placebo effect so I will reserve full judgment until I've taken it for a few weeks at least, but having tried all sorts of stuff for anxiety—both prescriptions and supplements—I can say it's not typical for something to work right away the lavender seemed to. Very promising!
Originally CVCs were intended to prove that you had physical possession of the card (before chips and NFC). Now it is required everywhere for every purchase.
There are not many that are as cost effective and scalable for the number of applicants that a tech company can get.

> Here’s another avenue, show me your OSS work if you have it.

For the complaining elsewhere in this thread about how leetcode filters for people who have free time to work on it and thus selects for upper middle class... this is even worse in that regard. Furthermore, the contributions of a new grad are... often "poor".

The take-home test is similarly derided in many circles that refuse to do leetcode and the "write this program" is even less transferable to doing interviews at other companies.
From my experience, it seems the fraud paranoia actually trends towards increasing the relative fraud rate. The layers of bullshit serve to trip up and exclude those the programs are meant to serve but don’t bother the fraudsters at all. Layers of bureaucracy don’t hurt people who are willing to just lie - it’s like why dishonest witnesses are often more compelling. It’s much easier to tell an internally consistent story when it’s all fabricated.
The evidence is very sparse, and what we do have suggests that modern hunter-gatherer societies are, on average, no more violent than humanity in general. (My personal if limited observation, having lived briefly with several, is that they seem to be notably less violent than the -- often frontier -- communities around them.)

Steven Pinker has muddied the water with quite a lot of nonsense in The Better Angels of our Nature. An interesting, better-sourced and less cherry-picked read is a 2013 paper in Science[0].

[0] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1235675
Hell I bet there's even a sizable number of people who would be Republican's if it weren't for the fact their demographic has been personally victimized by them. Being gay, black, Hispanic, Muslim, but otherwise conservative puts you in such a weird spot.
There is a lot of programmers who are bad at both, programming and leetcode. And they have jobs.
You’re misreading the post above. They want to be able to say things like “we passed this law to prevent fraud” or “we are tough on crime”. That the actions are counterproductive and hurt those they are meant to help us an externality not a goal.
What does "Linux laptop" mean? Are you basically paying $1000 for high quality drivers for all of the computer components?

More importantly, if companies keep on releasing Linux laptops and only laptops we may really never see the Year of the Linux desktop :(
Electrify America will be 100 percent solar-powered by 2023
We do tend to build near sources of water, but rivers and lakes have always been popular. I see no reason to believe they would have been less popular back then than at later periods.

Obviously there’s a good chance a lot of significant sites were flooded by rising sea levels, but no reason to expect all of them were.
> Uniform Metaphor: A language should be designed around a powerful metaphor that can be uniformly applied in all areas.

Nope. Not true. Not if you want to create a successful programming language. All successful programming languages used in the real world are multi-paradigm languages.
The zero-marginal-cost dilemma results in a market price of 0.

That does not mean a use value of 0.

And with any level of fixed costs, there is a nonzero production cost.

Market function in this case is highly inefficient as it results in underprovisioning and a deadweight consumer loss of value.

Sometimes the marketis the wrong tool for the job.

Finally: you're also misstating what the marginal cost dilemma is. Resources need not be infinite, but rather either non-excludable or with marginal cost below average cost. Both can occur with an otherwise finite good or service.

And an infinite resource might face other limitations which result in a nonzero price. The Universe could well be infinite in dimensions. Even were this the case, such that space is unlimited, lack of access to that space would result in nonzero land prices on Earth for humans.

(Paul Krugman actually wrote a paper on the economics of a space-colonising civlisation early in his career. I don't recall his specific argument or of it parallels my own here, but it might make interesting reading.)
Insert is on F10. Maybe the Function keys are hidden behind Fn, pretty common on laptops and compact discrete keyboards these days.

Keep in mind your X1 was at least twice the price of this thing (honestly I feel they are overpriced, Asus do literally the same thing for $1k less)
Look, you are thinking in the wrong direction or plane.

What is the group of customers for your labor output that will never put you through a test?

Hint, other beginning developers.
If you're near the main drag, Bayridge is full of ambulances, school kids, church bells, people gunning their engines.. it's pretty nuts. But go 2 blocks away and it's chirping birds I think.
It's not a matter of statistics, it's a matter of demonstrated product defects that have predictably lead to deaths, that Tesla refuses to fix, even though they know it's an issue. I hardly consider that an accidental death. As you said, it's well known the sensors on Teslas can't accommodate the target use case (Level 5 autonomy). And yet Tesla won't admit this. That's what makes this negligent.

Imagine if it were your loved one who died in a Tesla using a technology that Tesla knew or should have known to be deficient and intentionally oversold its capabilities. Would you shrug and point to industry statistics? Or would you be mad at Tesla? Be honest.

Frankly, the attitude that Tesla should be allowed to test their beta-quality products on public roads (I certainly didn't agree to participate in the beta test) is what I find to be ridiculous.
I think there is a terminology divide here. OPNsense being more an "appliance" type solution calls the system software firmware, a bit like Android. It's not firmware in the traditional sense like updating motherboard firmware.

In that context the quote is about rebooting the firewall VM after an OPNsense update not about rebooting the host.
Is this available for others to use or internal only? I think the answer is the latter as a google search didn't turn anything up and I didn't see anything in the article. But if I'm wrong I'd love to kick the tires a bit.
I did two things that greatly helped me.

1) I at least made an attempt at some of Cal Newport's suggestions in "Deep Work" and schedule working blocks for myself. I adopt a different posture, maybe wear different clothes, If you can afford to, get a second cheap laptop and use that only for work... And then go somewhere else physically. Even if it's just a different room.

2) Consider trying a few sessions of neurofeedback therapy. I did it in high school and really felt my ability to concentrate and think along a single track improve significantly. I can't guarantee anything but it's worth looking into.