skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
@snapetom (author): what caused you to counter-offer 80% rather than sticking with 100%? Presumably expediency, but it seems with arbitrator on the line you were well on your way to a 100% payout.
Microsoft Office RCE – “Follina” MSDT Attack
> In the US, it’s not easy to sue a company as a customer.

My experience in Canada:

- I successfully sued a large retailer (something mart) over a $60 mistake, that ended up costing them a lot more in small claims court.

Just dealing with the company was insane. Literally yelling at me on the phone that they were never going to pay for a simple mistake. I literally said "well, if you're going to yell at me, let's at least do it in front of a judge."

It was really easy to file the papers, and even serve them myself. The court people helped. The company denied, denied, denied. Day of the case, literally 5 minutes before it was set to start, they agreed to pay everything I asked for (including 2 days of my time), but wanted me to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Which I did.

- Second case, it was one of Canada's largest banks. Error on their part, cost me $1000+ in extra expenses. Fought me the whole way, didn't want to pay anything at all. Went through their internal ombudsman process, but never got anywhere. A few days after filing a claim in small claims court, they gave me everything I asked for. Again, wanted me to sign a non-disclosure agreement.

So I tell everyone I know, that in Canada, the big corporations are more afraid of courts than anything else. Last thing they want is a public record of wrongdoing.
Radio Paradise [1] is also going strong after 20+ years. Fantastic curation and you can even stream in lossless for free (or at least I seem to be able to from the Android TV app).

[1] https://radioparadise.com/
Both statements are true by accounts I've read.

Ladders were added to the desks during a later renovation, I believe in 1970s:

Although the number of employees decreased rapidly, mainly due to digitization, the file remained in its original form. It underwent innovations only in the 1970s, when ladders were installed at the stackers for safety reasons.

Zuzana Greplová, head of the administration and registration of claims documents, who has been working here for more than 40 years, remembers the times without a ladder with a smile. "When the power went out, we had to pull out the outlets and gradually descend them, either in the dark or with a flashlight."

From the Czech: https://www.novinky.cz/domaci/clanek/devet-tisic-supliku-obs...

They're visible in the bottom two photos in this collection:

https://fotoscuriosas.org/the-offices-of-the-central-social-...

(There are also other older interior views.)
Global chip shortage likely to last through 2023: US official
Since slashdot is mostly a link aggregator like HN, unless you want to read their discussion, you should go directly to https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/articl...
Just based on the name it was probably Rabbit Transit:

https://www.giantbomb.com/qbert/3030-20782/similar-games/
iOS User Deletion Policy Enforcement Begins Soon
> Some people have far more than $100k in debt, so the tradeoff might be far more attractive.

That would be the lender's problem for lending far more than anyone reasonably needs to be lent to obtain a degree. They'd have to price the loan accordingly.

> It seems like a very worthwhile trade to declare bankruptcy.

You don't get to just declare bankruptcy on a whim because the outcome is favorable to you.
GitUp – The Git interface you've been missing all your life has finally arrived
It does take a bit of getting used to. Zulip is kind of a cross between chat and a forum.

However, once I did get used to it I think it's been great. Organizing chat into defined topics is super useful for following discussions you're interested in, filtering out those you aren't and for keeping conversations going across time zones.

It's more discoverable than chat but not as rigid as an actual forum. I feel it works well once the learning curve has been surmounted.
Going through this article I realise that apple had tonnes of innovators and a culture for them. No wonder it became what it became after Steve jobs took cover but I feel that the modern giant tech companies (except Tesla probably IMO) do not have this culture now
Absolutely - when they choose ridiculous words like "PATCH".

WATCH
HATCH
BATCH
CATCH
LATCH
MATCH

There, I made 6 near-perfect guesses that would have cost me the game if I started with any one of them.

This is so infuriating. I've lost I think 3 times already because of this type of word choice.

Note: This is only relevant if you play on the hard-mode, which enforces you re-use guessed letters that have already been signaled as correct.
> Maybe you will find problems on your farm that need a programming solution, maybe not. Im not sure that you can force it.

Rigging up some kind of drip tape based automatic garden watering system that uses moisture sensors in addition to timers might be interesting and could involve a little programming.
Fun, clever and hard! Failed miserably first attempt.
"More dangerous" probably warrants some investigation given the stellar safety record of Concorde compared to almost any sub-sonic commercial airliner flying today.
I think that's seed potato production, where the consistency and lack of pathogens justifies the extra cost. Here's a manual:

https://cipotato.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/005447.pdf

It would be possible to grow potatoes for human consumption with a similar system, but I don't think it's currently economic.
We have a system where lawyers cannot charge contingency fees. I guess the rationale is founded upon lawyers being perceived as 'officers of court', and the expectation of ethical conduct. When money is a factor, boundaries of ethical conduct tend to be hazy. while you owe a duty to the client, you also owe certain duties to the court/tribunal and even to the adversaries- including duty of fairness.

It is interesting to note that while some of the U.S. rules of professional conduct states that a lawyer shall represent a client "zealously", such a requirement is missing in our code of conduct rules.
[Article author here]

> This could be engraved in stone.

Glad you liked it. :-)
most of the developed world is experiencing population decline if you exclude immigration.
Wow, I totally forget about this since Spotify. I used to listen to Groobe Salad all the time :) Thanks, donating and tuning in to some nice ambient beats and grooves!
This is super nice.

Used Gitpod to quickly run the Git command on our two repos prisma/prisma (https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/prisma/prisma) and prisma/prisma-engines, downloaded the files, then spent 5 minutes to remove some bots and combine some users, and tadaaa: https://www.preceden.com/git/prisma-prisma-contributors/8303... + https://www.preceden.com/git/prisma-engines-contributors/830...
Yeah, those are the worst ones. Rare, though, for me. Maybe ran into this a couple times and cost me my only loss so far.
The entire point of electing someone to represent you is that they should take care of things for you without bothering you too much. Imaging you hire a lawyer to represent you in court and you constantly need to petition your lawyer for changes to your legal strategy, or you hire a doctor and you constantly need to correct their course of treatment. In such cases, would you say you've hired a good doctor or lawyer? Why is it the responsibility of the masses to petition their representatives? Why isn't it the responsibility of the representative to understand an issue and reach out to possibly effected constituents for a wholistic view of an issue?
Hi HN! I'm the author of the piece referenced in this Logseq post.

> Logseq easily ticks the boxes [Navigability, Organizability, Transformability, and Extensibility] of this ITE framework, but it’s still early days in this new category of tools. The requirements will evolve rapidly, and the framework will inevitably need to be revised.

I totally agree with the need for revision. I actually thought the NOTE framework was the weakest part of my original article [1]... would love to hear some alternative takes on a design theory for ITEs.

[1]: https://axle.design/obsidian-roam-and-the-rise-of-integrated...
> That is, if it isn't 1:1 in correlation, then it is reasonable that you can prevent suicides by limiting access to guns.

The problem here is you're assuming that there's a singular dominant causal factor. You don't need a one-to-one relationship for either a weak or strong causal relationship.

On the other hand, what I'm claiming is that there are causal relationships between gun suicides and drug overdoses. That solving one will help solve another if we look at the causes from a standpoint beyond the first order viewpoint. We need to ask why people are depressed and what in society is causing that. I'm sure you'll recognize that this issue is likely rather complex. I think you'll agree that getting to the root of this issue will save more lives overall (some people will for sure just choose an alternative method of suicide -- such as drugs -- though you are also likely to save a few that are acting in the moment and getting a gun -- which is why waiting periods can be helpful. But either way, they are still depressed, which is a problem we need to solve).
Wordle is simply not meant to be played on hard mode.
DOE computers are used by a wide variety of people/teams/projects, including academics and other institutions though.
Used Macs are a thing. Old ones can be quite cheap.

I still run a 2009 MacBook Pro (for my partner) and a 2011 Mac Mini. Both max out at 10.13 but they work 100% fine, run the latest browsers etc., and do all we need.
Well, sort of... first deliveries were in Q3 2017. By Q3 2018 they were failing to hit 5k, but that still meant 4k/week. Just ~6 months after that, they were at 5,500 per week.

If they failed like that again, they'd still catch up pretty quickly. I have doubts, though. Cybertruck doesn't seem to be getting the same attention and drive behind its launch that the 3 did.
LG G1 OLED. It's my first smart tv, but I'm pretty happy with it. Being an OLED, the contrast ratio is great. And if you mount it, it sits less than an inch off of the wall.
Since Cray stopped making their own CPUs, they have been back and forth between AMD and Intel several times.
Let's not also forget that the .NET self-contained executables are huge in size compared to Go's. An ASP.NET app could be more than 100 MB
Why not CoAP?
Sure, if Amazon decide to open source their app. But we all know that won't happen. Whatever tracking they do will be entirely lost. The data is worth more than the revenue itself.
I've been using this tool for several years now. I think development has mostly stopped though it's still kept up to date with each macOS version. To be fair it's mostly feature complete anyway.

I've tried to transition to other GUIs but I keep coming back for the simplicity and ease of use. It's just a really well designed piece of software.
Ok, that makes it more difficult. For /ü/ make the sound "ooh" and then push your lips forward. For the /r/ try saying /tülkiye/ with /l/ and then note where your tongue hits the roof of your mouth. Say it again and move your tongue back a bit. That's the best I can do with a written description, you could also try listening to the song "Ölürüm Türkiyem" on YouTube ... Yaren Doğan has a fun version.
Oh those are the worst. There should be a term for that early success curse when playing it on Hard Mode. Getting a bunch of greens right off the bat can be a kiss of death.
Yeah, well, part of the venom is because the "optimal solution" is both easy and obvious but institutions are still too cowardly to implement it. (Again, the point is to make this a consistent thing, not wait until you reach the point where 75% of the class is blatantly cheating.)
did $10/mo give you access to almost every CD ever released, playable anywhere?
I believe you're describing something quite similar to Tim Berners-Lee's work on Solid[0].

[0]https://solid.mit.edu/
What was strange about it? I wrote it; I'd genuinely like to know.
The best feature of Clickhouse is replacing entire data engineering and analytics teams and their “modern data platform” with one person and one application.
I loved most of it, but (1) the search feature, specially for non English language, rely on postgres tokenized search which is worse than slack. (2) there is no "gallery view" for all files shared with a group or a person. (3) The mobile app had different render from the web.. and bad RTL render (4) slack bots compatibility sometimes miss the mark..

Other than that... It worked fine. I kinda liked it but slack is more robust for me (even if slow).
Never forget that Apple big-footed an individual to take away newton.com from him. IIRC, "Mark Newton" (edit: ?, from memory) had the domain and Apple took it. Can't find a reference to the story now.
I completely agree that the human brain is pre-wired for language; and in fact we also have experimental evidence that adults are instinctively doing the right thongs for teaching babies language.

But the human brain has 86 million neurons total for everything it does, while GPT-3 uses 175 billion ANN parameters just to read and write digital text in English. To my mind this also supports the idea that current models are at least 3 orders of magnitude too computationally expensive as compared to humans.
First used it as background music for a 60s secret agent themed party. Since then it's been a holiday tradition to listen to the Christmas stations. Every year when I find out it's still online it's like a nice present.
> while I do know that D. Richard Hipp, Daniel Stenberg, and Thomas Pornin will respond

Will they, or if they do will they actually help with whatever need you have? You state you plan to build relationships, do you actually email these people and attempt to get to know them while using their library? Does knowing their real-life identities give you some sense of trust that stuff released by their online presence actually comes from them?

Honest questions, as the idea of getting to know every single person in the first layer of your dependency chain sounds bizarre and unsustainable to me. Maybe you have a different experience, but I personally have only experienced a sense of being filtered through a machine whenever I talk to people online who run popular things I make use of. Curious to know more.
There is more forest in North Dakota today than there was when Columbus landed.
9 Bad Reading Habits and Ways to Conquer Them
> My intuitions come from C and C++, so "+=" should always modify a single object (in C lingo it would be "lvalue") in place. Storing the result somewhere else than the left side of "+=" is counterintuitive to me.

I thought of this as though the list A.b was marked static - then any modification of b through any instance of A modifies the shared static member

>>> class A:
... b = [1,]
...
>>> obj = A()
>>> obj.b.append(2)
>>> A.b
[1, 2]
>>> foo = A()
>>> foo.b
[1, 2]
>>>
Paywall, please use https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/opioid-crisis-bc-canada-1.6...
We would have saved enough to build out 100% solar.

Imagine if we had initiated building out 100% solar decades ago, triggering the PV cost collapse in 1990 instead of 2010.
Urban magnetic fields reveal clues about energy efficiency, pollution
Given that Babbage's Difference Engine output was printed, there's some appropriateness.

Though I doubt VR would be the goal.
https://www.autoweek.com/news/trucks/a32945300/ford-averages...

This article says the average selling price of an F150 was $47k in 2018 and they sold 900k of them.

Seems like a pretty sizable market considering that’s about how many vehicles Tesla sold last year total.

You’re right that most people buy used vehicles, but over 10 million of new cars are sold every year in the US alone.
I've heard "canyon of doom".
Generic SIMD type and intrinsics merged in Odin
IMHO that greeter function of yours is unnecessarily complicated. The same could be achieved in an easier way:

"""python

from functools import partial

def greeter(name):

print(f"Hello {name}")

greet1 = partial(greeter, "Joe")

greet2 = partial(greeter, "Sue")

greet1()

greet2()

"""
> "They even brought up XUL which I was extremely excited about at the time."

Don't forget XAML.

I too was excited for these two things as well ~20 years ago.
For something more abstract and "pretty":

I've used gource[0] in the past to visualise the growth of a product to org members outside of tech.

One particular success story for was contributing to a presentation showing how the tech dept had made a success of expansion. It got some audible "ooo"s like a fireworks display does

[0]: https://gource.io/
I see, my mistake. The coupling is definitely tight. I think the developers across Matrix and Element are largely the same too right? Ideally I would hope that the Matrix team can focus on the protocol, but I can see why they needed to build Element as a way to sell the protocol to the masses. But perhaps now that we have fully-featured front-ends like Rocket chat joining in, the Matrix team can dedicate more of them time to the protocol
You could download things from Compuserv's file forums with Xmodem.

They probably had some kind of escaping to overcome that???
Colleges got paid up front before as well. The loans were not originated by the universities, they were originated by financial institutions.
I don't think it has suspicious ethnic subtext, but the OP clearly did and left an explanation as to why (although it seems to have been flagged now).
How we are migrating our servers from Linux to FreeBSD-Backups and D.R
Telehack – a simulation of arpanet/Usenet, circa 1985-1990
There are already drivers, databases, and games written in GC'd environments. Operating systems are not monolithic enough to say anything, some portions can and probably should be gc'd and others require explicit control over memory operations that don't make sense to a GC. Browsers already have a significant amount of work that they do using garbage collection.

So not so much future as present.
Yes, "might" is carrying a lot of weight in my comment. A good number of trucks do hit 300,000 miles.
You don't seem to understand what Cantillon effect is.

Since the Fed has been printing more money than every in history, the effect is very strong - Wall Street and elites who can "play big" on Wall Street and Business are at the entry point of that printed money. It's FAR MORE than either income tax or credit cars - by ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE!

Neoliberal Economics IS Keynesian Economics. Printing money to solve problems IS Keynesian Economcis.
True. I'm curious how the labor:profit ratio of a tractor compares to grazing animals. The profit of a tractor is essentially zero unless I invest in the equipment for making hay, which would also increase the labor and skill requirements. Animals on the other hand can be raised at the scale necessary for the available land and also be harvested for food.
Good introductory video on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_q-xnYRugQ
I haven't used Rocket.Chat, but I've used the other two:

Threading feels bolted on in Mattermost, but is the primary feature of zulip.

Think of Zulip as a realtime version of NNTP, and Mattermost as a more modern IRC with a "reply" feature. The "right" way to use Zulip and Mattermost is quite different, though each one can be easily used as an inferior version of the other.
The Road to Genocide
Oh, I agree, there are countless problems here:

-There usually isn't a prep course available, nor are there other prerequisites.

-When there is a prep course, it is usually called remedial as if being failed in high school, being an older student who left high school years ago, or just never being exposed to a subject makes you, as a person, deficient. (And, of course, these legally have to be included in a person's transcript.)

-Universities are under pressure to push people through quickly, so they don't want students taking extra prep courses early on.

-Universities/parents/students all want to see good grades and frequently prioritize this over education (which is probably the fundamental problem of education: how to evaluate and what to do with those evaluations)

-There are no ways, difficult ways, or arbitrary ways to drop out of an intro course.

-A syllabus is fundamentally a contract, but you (usually) don't get to see it until you have registered, paid, and been to the course.
...
etc.
I actually think they get promoted for shipping something exceedingly complex and challenging that still barely works. It doesn't matter if a much simpler, robust solution was passed over.
Today was actually a fairly bad one for that.

Even if you don't play hard mode it can be difficult to eliminate even 3 less common letters or so in one shot.
The essence of any wildly popular single-player game = hard to win quickly + very hard to lose.
Not going to give it particularly away, but here are some similar towns I've visited before deciding on my current town (very similar):

* Bloomington, Champaign, Morris, Charleston IL

* Kenosha, Sheboygan WI

* Hendersonville, Gatlinburg, Greeneville TN

* Milton, Concord NH

There's probably more, but these are just off the top of my head. They were fairly similar in the sense you had most amenities and what you didn't have was <1 hr away.
Not only that, but they only rolled out the Comixology web store in the US and UK:

https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/comics-store/home

There is no such page on Amazon.ca, Amazon.com.au, etc. Actually, the route exists, but it's broken:

https://www.amazon.ca/kindle-dbs/comics-store/home

In Canada, the only place I can buy Comixology titles now is the generic Kindle store, and it's pretty bad for browsing comics.
Each lift serves only one bank of 500 drawers, 25 tall and 20 wide.
On the other hand you should by no means let your doctor decide everything, you need to be your own advocate for your own health and weigh in on making decisions regarding risk and benefits of treatments.
> Rocket.Chat is basically selfhosted slack.

What would this accomplish that self hosting synapse doesn't?

It's totally possible to self host the official matrix 'synapse' daemon for self hosted slack-like functionality within an organization, and use the official 'element' client or any other compliant matrix protocol client. If it's for something like company slack-like functionality you can choose to federate or not federate.

https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse

I have one setup where the synapse daemon lives on a VM that's only accessible in company internal RFC1918 IP space so you can only connect to it if your laptop or other device is also on a split tunnel VPN.

Of course you could run it with a public IP as well.
I think it’s fair to mention that there’s no rescue taking place here:

> After just six days training, Jamie Walsh, a paramedic for GNAAS used one of Gravity’s Jet Suits to fly up Helvellyn for the first time ever.

> The journey, which would normally take around 1 hour 20 minutes on foot, was cut down to just 3 minutes and 30 seconds via jet suit.
1% is, of course, a ridiculous number. You'd need scientific notation to express how wonderful you would be after 10 years, if you could do that.
Try to bear in mind that while there is nothing wrong with wanting what you want, others may not share your desires.

I've been using Macs since 1988 and I've never wanted your point 1, 3, or 4, and my dock doesn't take 50% of the width of the screen, it takes about 5% of it because it's on the side where it belongs and where it was on NeXTstep.

So none of this has ever applied to me, and TBH, I can't even imagine it applying to me.
> Those other pandemics are before we had any ability to defend ourselves or even know what was going on.

Yes, of course. And I'm simply adding that Covid-19 would be nowhere as bad as those even if we had no ability to defend ourselves.