skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The obscene rents being in government coffers is somehow magically better than in some billionaire's bank account? You can make bullshit ideological arguments about the intrinsic goodness of one or the other all day but the fact of the matter is that any system of providing for retirement other than literally just saving up resources (which would be horrendously wasteful) and then spending them over retirement is going to necessitate contributions by currently productive members of society. Money has to flow from worker to grandma somehow. And there's always intermediaries. And they always take a cut. Maybe it's you that's not that original.
Great game. Doesn't it push players towards a strategy of working out the solution 'offline', though?

I mean, you start by playing almost the same as standard Wordle, just to guess the answer, without entering it. Then undo everything. Next, figure out a solution which avoids that word. Finally, type in your entire solution.

This could be a bit grindy, and not in the spirit of the game, but it seems like almost assured to win, or am I wrong?

Edit: If there are fewer undos allowed, this strategy gets more difficult
I found SomaFM 22(!) years ago via Shoutcast, and have been a listener ever since, even making sure to come back after they briefly went off the air due to an early-00s fight over streaming fees. Love it love it. Thanks for keeping SomaFM ad-free all these years, Rusty - I will donate till I die. <3
Washington, DC is the city of Northern charm and Southern efficiency.
"is not developed by analogy" is such a strange thing to say. Technology evolves in generations. The mistakes and lessons of one lead to the next. For example, in the sequence of C -> C++ -> Java -> Scala/Kotlin it's very easy to see how in each new iteration previously ugly areas were improved upon.
> No mater how thorough I'd be on washing out apartment, or how careful I'd be with it, they would always find something - and claim deductions on the deposit.

I sat in a PMs office in a high rise I was moving out, waiting for them to take care of something.

I noticed my move-out inspection report (which we were ABOUT to do), oddly already filled, some. "Blinds - dirty, needed cleaning", "Carpet - stains not removed, needed cleaning", about half a dozen items which according to their "costs incurred" ate up most of my deposit. Oddly, since I knew they hadn't been in the apartment recently, even without my consent, because I'd been packing and cleaning. I'd even brought with me receipts for the carpet cleaning etc.

PM comes in, grabs some papers and a clipboard from her desk, including the form. "Let's go get started".

"Oh, while I was waiting, I apologize, my eyes must have caught that some of the paperwork on your desk was for us, so I looked over at it, and saw it was already filled out for the inspection?"

Umm, ahh, stammer, stammer. "Oh, how strange. I must have, uhh, photocopied a previous form without realizing it wasn't empty."

Didn't make any sense on any level, but whatever. We started with a new form, and I made sure that none of that BS made its way back on.
Hi, I'm Justin, creator of My Smoothie Stack. I'm a new developer so I'm grateful for any feedback on my source code [0].

Here's my personal recipe [1].

If you take a look at that URL, you'll see it's quite long. I wanted to be able to share recipes, but I don't have any backend knowledge. I had to get creative and store the object representing the recipe in an object encoded in Base64. This presented some character escaping issues, but those were manageable.

I don't expect this project to change the world. I just wanted a way to practice my newfound React skills and share some smoothie recipes. If you give this a try, please share your recipe!

Thanks for your time!

[0] https://github.com/somewhatJustin/smoothie-stack/

[1] https://mysmoothiestack.com/?share=eyJpbmdyZWRpZW50cyI6WyJGc...
Ah, interesting. Yes, our current position is deeply unhelpful. State enough that VCs will jump to follow some arbitrary after-dinner speech by the Minister, but private enough that we're competing in a 'market' with each other and carry a bunch of financial risks directly.

Colleagues in other countries have suggested that "each unhappy university system is unhappy in its own way". Hugely constrained funding in some countries, direct government interference in others, rampant casualisation in a third, a collapse in scholarship in a fourth...
+1000. Off and on listener and subscriber for 20 years. After dropping Spotify, adding them back to my subscription cohort.
Maybe I went a bit too ham on the Jordan Peterson spiel.
No, for Slack to be as good as Zulip it'd have to basically be rewritten from scratch. Just the speed of the UI means a complete rewrite of the frontend, and Zulip's UX is its strong suit.
I'm not sure if you are the same Cliff Stoll who wrote 'The Cuckoo's Egg', but if so I listened to the audio book in 2020 during the first part of the pandemic and I loved it. It was fascinating to see how a small billing discrepancy led you down such a rabbit hole. I also enjoyed the various solutions you came up with to crack the case using the technology of the time. I enjoy reading about the early days of the Internet. I have a sort of nostalgia for it, even though I didn't get on the net myself until around 1997. Your book hit a sweet spot for me with the combination of (now) retro technology and security. You might guess from this ham radio hacking post that I enjoy that kind of thing. If you are that Cliff Stoll, thanks for sharing your story!
There basically aren't any. I've gone through arbitration three times and each time both parties propose a hilariously stupid number and work towards the middle over 12 hours.

It's incredibly dumb. But it works.
I don't trust Zoom, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't trust any video client. Zoom is uniquely untrustworthy in the wide world of software.
my lack of progress frustrates :P
A very good article. Can anyone recommend more like this to learn more about clickhouse?
SOCAS?
Sheet music. I have a cheap Android tablet that sits on my music stand all the time.

I could use a laptop instead, but I would need something to hold the laptop. Plus laptop displays are landscape orientation, whereas I need portrait. Also, there would be a laptop keyboard sticking out and getting in my way.

The drawback is tablet screens are not very large. If someone made a large-screen (15" or even bigger) tablet, I might buy it. But I would want a cheap, low end one, because all it has to do is display PDFs.
No, the page is not "injected" with anything.

No, they are not "unrequested" (sic). The ads from Brave are opt-in. If you don't want to see ads to receive the rewards, simply don't turn them on.

No, there are no "vulnerable people being exploited". No one needs to pay to participate in the rewards program. Those receiving ads are merely cashing in monthly $3-$10 rewards paid in the token, and go on with their day.

No, no one "lost their life savings" because they participated in the BAT rewards program or because they used the browser.

All your comments regarding the functioning of Brave and BAT rewards are bordering libelous. Can you please at least get one fact straight, or do you just want to throw more unabashed lies around?
There's larger.

I'm trying to find some good visual sources for the US National Archives' Federal Record Centres.

This video gives some sense of scale:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=VczfZAXPqnQ

There are multiple records facilities. Many are in natural caves underground.

https://www.archives.gov/frc/locations
I’ve said it so many times. High quality electronic products that last forever are the items that everyone wants but nobody buys.
Well it depends on what you're selling! Design for what you truly want to sell, and that will end up however it needs to end up, whether that's enterprise or not. This random blogger, and our random comments, can't tell you what you need. It has to emerge from the product development process like a sculpture from a block of marble.
What is an assault-style weapon?
Microsoft coders are, as a rule, notoriously bad, always have been.
Show HN: Find_by_AI() Not Xpaths
Hi HackerNews, It’s Etienne CTO of dev-tools.ai. We are launching our product today and wanted to share because we think it might help folks here.

Do you ever have broken selectors in your UI tests?
Are you tired of maintaining them?
We have thought about this issue and come up with a solution.

We have created a Python SDK for Selenium that allows you to visually identify elements (using machine learning under the hood). Since our technology uses the visual appearance of elements and ML, it is more resilient than XPaths or pixel perfect match and should help you get rid of broken selectors.

We can automatically ingest all the elements from your test cases when you use our package. Any test case can become robust this way with two lines of code.

We also have built a feature to interactively navigate and annotate a web app with your selectors, it’s an easier way to automate test case creation by simply clicking around on elements.

If any of that sounds interesting to you, check out our product at https://dev-tools.ai/ and let us know how we can improve it to help you!

A little insight into our tech:

- We use EfficientDet as our main object detector + some custom code and heuristics

- We distribute the work using Celery + RabbitMQ and GPU workers

- We currently are a small team of two, so the frontend is mostly server side rendering with Flask and Jinja.

We would love to get power users to test out the system and give feedback.
The service is currently free, we are considering different pricing options but not the main concern for now.

Happy to dive in on technical details or geek out about QA stuff.
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I'm not opposed to this. But I also suspect it will do almost nothing to help with the drug overdoses. Bluntly, how is making it legal to possess a fatally contaminated dose of heroin or cocaine supposed to help?

> Fear of arrest can keep people who use drugs from seeking help, incarceration is associated with increased overdose risk, and Indigenous and racialized communities are disproportionately impacted.

All true, technically. But it's also time to put to rest our stereotype of the overdose victim: a homeless young person, on heroin, living on the street. It's the public face, but not the bulk of the numbers. The median overdose victim is housed, employed, without a criminal record, and in his late 30s.

Most people who use drugs, and most people who fatally overdose, never interact with the police over their drug use, at least in Canada. Speaking anecdotally about my larger social circle, fear of legal consequence isn't even on the radar for the guys who like cocaine on the weekend at the bar. Their blasé attitude to the cops is entirely justified. Prosecutions in Vancouver for cocaine possession are at an all-time-low -- only several hundred per year, mostly of people who interacted with the cops for other reasons. Many tens of thousands of people regularly use cocaine in Vancouver and essentially all of them get away with it. And most of them understand this.

So, how does decriminalization help there? Of course, there are compelling reasons to decriminalize anyway. For people at the intersection of homelessness, drug addiction, etc., such a change might well save their lives. The law gives the police a tool to, in effect, harass the homeless, and publicly visible addicts, and it is racially skewed in practice. Ending that, is a just cause in itself. But don't confuse that with having a meaningful impact on the OD statistics. Even if every single prosecution of possession could be transmuted into an addiction ended and a life saved (a fantastical proposition) it still wouldn't even halve the current overdose rate.
That's not really an explanation. An explanation would be something like, "we discovered that you (lied about your identity/used your website to organize or commit criminal activity/etcetc.) - literally anything that gives the user enough context to figure out if this was an accident or a misunderstanding and defend themselves.
XML is chock-full of misfeatures ripe for creating security vulnerabilities. It's not just nokogiri – XML parsing libs are one of the hottest sources of vulnerability notifications in many ecosystems (a large number of those CVE alerts come by way of using libxml2 under the hood, which nokogiri also depends on).

Safely parsing untrusted XML is an extremely hairy task.
...and always have been. So what changed?
Oleg Oprisco’s Dreamy Photography Captures the Wistful Beauty of Ukraine
^ kinda right, you know.

As long as kiwifarms and others are hosted behind cloudflare, this statement is true.
haha, yeah, I just meant in English.
I see alot of ambient/electronic radios, but not much by way of pure chiptune. Which is a pity. I haven't found a true replacement for kohina.com yet, and that site is surely only hanging on until someone remembers that they're still paying a hosting bill.
Recent discussion of "two dates" vs "per-account dates":
https://www.reddit.com/r/plaintextaccounting/comments/uy5nlh...
Wrong. In the UK the universities collectively are part of USS, the biggest private pension fund in the UK The annoying thing is that this was in rude health until the university management controlled board decided to take a pension valuation during the middle of COVID. The driving factor is that 10 years or so ago the university sector was deregulated such that universities are no longer capped in terms of the number of students they can take. This has lead to vicious competition between universities to hoover up as many students as possible. As a result they are no longer willing to cross-subsidize each others pension funds.
I'm relying on this blog post[0] that was originally posted to r/homelab, which stated $20K for purchase and installation of a 27 kW Generac.

While I am comfortable running new branch circuits and panels to code, I suspect most people are not.

[0] https://blog.networkprofile.org/generac-rg027-install-27kw-1...
It is now obvious you have no intention of discussing the technical merits or drawbacks of the material in the book.

It is also obvious you hold a grudge against Lakos and/or Bloomberg for whatever reason.

Guess your crusade of spamming "please don't buy this book" without providing any concrete arguments is the way you present your grudge to the world.

Well, if you ever change your mind and intend on providing constructive feedback, feel free to let me know. I'm also happy to have a call and discuss what could be improved in the book for future editions.

Cheers.
I am on calls all week with our banking clients about getting SAML/SSO squared away once and for all.

We are having a lot more nervous takes around legacy LDAP/AD auth mechanisms these days.
Lots of ways. We can live with much less sugar in our food. One example: sugarcane. According to the (UN) FAO,

"The present area of sugarcane (Saccarum officinarum) is about 13 million ha with a total commercial world production of about 1254.8 million ton/year cane or 55 million ton/year sucrose. (FAOSTAT, 2001)." [https://www.fao.org/land-water/databases-and-software/crop-i...]

That climbed to 1.9B tons by 2020. [WP ... 40% in Brazil] And 13Mha = 130,000 km^2 > 50,000 sq.mi. About the size of Iowa. And then, there's almonds.
That makes sense in people terms, but in cryptography terms you treat some people as trusted, and some as untrusted. The goal of E2EE is to keep the two groups entirely separate.

However, this does make sense when you consider your attack model. When thousands of people know a secret, maybe forward secrecy isn't worth the trouble, and you can simply have one master key that people share between them (to prevent the server from reading any of the communications).

There are tons of issues even then, though. For example, you can't send an email notification to someone and show them the content of the message that mentions them (because you don't know it), plus how do you even know they were mentioned? There are probably hundreds of small issues like that, and the fact that the server knows nothing leads you to push most of the functionality to the clients themselves, which leads to more problems.
Even if Rocket.Chat used the same E2EE scheme as Matrix, you would still have to re-encrypt, given the application-layer protocols are not the same. RC's messages are a blob of JSON which looks nothing like Matrix's JSON events. To preserve E2EE throughout you'd have to speak precisely the same protocol - e.g. Matrix+Megolm or XMPP+OMEMO or whatever, or effectively run a multihead stack (one which can speak both Matrix & Rocket.Chat), which isn't exactly elegant.

This is the disadvantage of bridges, alas: if you want E2EE, you need to be on the same protocol throughout.
Current iPad: Content consumption/games

Old iPad: Dedicated Paprika (recipe app) machine in the kitchen. I cannot rave enough about Paprika. [0-4]

If I had more (that weren't earmarked for development) I'd consider using one as a digital picture frame, status board, and/or home assistant dashboard/controller.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31159358

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29796425

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14474563

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13886047

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12491028
Yup. When my car was totalled I had a number in mind (high 20s). And got a much lower number. For the record, this was like a 3 year old Audi A4, fully loaded.

So I asked to see comps. Sure enough, all but one of the comps was in that ballpark, from about 3-4 under, to nearly 30.

Except one. Which was about 140 miles away, and listed for $11,500. Clearly a salvage or rebuild or something (water damage, whatever, obviously not accurate). Dragging the average down like a boat anchor.

"The ad doesn't say Salvage Title so it's a valid comp."

They just kept repeating that like a broken record.
I use it to play Settlers of Catan, Pictionary, Codenames, etc… several times a week with family.

It’s my only travel device and I use it to watch movies on planes.

I also use it for al my social media apps. Not having them on my phone has done wonders in reducing my screen time.

Edit: I almost forgot! I use it for podcast editing with Ferrite!
The resources that come to mind are actually all videos of Defcon talks by the same person (Major Malfunction aka Adam Laurie). They are pretty old now, but still interesting.

Infrared Hacking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61Fo-zg-DqI

Magstripe Hacking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITihB1c3dHw

Satellite Hacking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyXZX63etog

These all hit the sweet spot for me of technologies we use all the time but don't really consider the security implications.
> retirement is going to necessitate contributions by currently productive members of society

That is the point.

> And there's always intermediaries. And they always take a cut.

Should they not be compensated for their productive work?

> Maybe it's you that's not that original.

That is the point.
I think a significant difference is that supermarkets don't make significant money on their own branded items. They are more like loss-leaders.
I imagine these would be very interesting, but not very applicable to humans (which I presume is the intended outcome). OTOH, since these language models are trained on human language and media, they might have some value. I'm quite split on which I think is more likely (I don't have any experience in ai/ml nor in psychology so what do I know).
I agree with article because you don't need to have it to "start talking" with Enterprise customers.

You probably have to prove that you have these on your roadmap and that you have engineering team that can implement these in not so distant future. That you know these things exist and have will to invest in it in future.
I chose "GREAT", hit that "A", then blanked on any word that didn't have GRET in it at all but had an A in the fourth position.

I then looked up the word list and used the first word that fit the conditions. And that was the word.
Algebraic effects can also potentially abstract all this away and make the runtime pluggable.
I mean a leak isn't an issue as far as equipment damage, which is the general concern with "water cooling" leaking. These specialized fluids are non-conductive.

In most of the facilities I've been in that used these special fluids they had specially designed floors that acted as drains and capture in case any leaks occurred or for incidental spillage as part of replacing components in immersion cooled systems. All of the technicians were properly trained for safe handling, and of course these fluids are not something you want to be exposed to without the proper PPE. How they were plumbed and contained, a leak would not result in direct contact of the fluid to a person, nor would it result in it escaping to the environment outside the containment area.
Every ex-Oracle engineer I've met says it was a terrible place to work compared to the big tech company where I work now. I also don't know anyone who went to work for Oracle after leaving my current company, fwiw.
Yeah, I think the key distinctions are:

- the "topics" are grouped under "streams" that are defined at the organization level. Slack lets every individual set up star groups for channels, but in practice channels are an unorganized mess for all. And, because they have that container, topics are just zero-friction to define.

- Streams, not topics, have membership and permissions. I like this because it means that streams can be defined as an _audience_ for a number of topics. Whether that topic is relevant to you at the moment is a different question, but I often want to be able to skim all of my (e.g.) `team-galactus` topics quickly before moving on to stuff about `greater-denver` or whatever. I also don't want to have to invite people to (or exhaustively document) all of the various topics that they might have a connection to.
>> As a result they are no longer willing to cross-subsidize each others pension funds.

>> universities are no longer capped in terms of the number of students they can take

>> Some form of bureaucracy
I used to do this a lot, but I've given up. I used to run a 'bot to do it, but I got a lot of pushback and discontinued.

Dang is a moderator, and he does it when he thinks it's useful. I suspect he does it "by hand" but, like me, has written scripts to help.

Given that your account was created 12 years ago I'm a little surprised that this is the first thread summary you've seen.
It is misleading because it is out of date but absolutely used to be true (or atleast put forward as true by the CC companies in their contracts), so isn't really a "myth" like you say.

> After a decade of fighting in court, the merchants involved in the suit, along with the card networks, reached an expensive settlement — and more importantly, the lawsuit laid the groundwork for merchants to recoup some of the costs associated with credit card transactions. The card associations have changed their rules as a result of the lawsuit.

The legal situation is still complicated so it is perfectly understandable that there is some confusion and people think the old rules apply.
Sounds like you are spamming your project
Meh, it's not like native speakers use perfect grammar. People who learned English properly are actually better at punctuation and spelling than most native speakers in my experience. And the transactional messages often get only as much review as any other PR. There's some signal here, but not much.
ح م ص

A while back I tried to learn the arabic letters. Let me try to guess.

ha - Meem - Sheen (HMS)
>a privatization of justice.

More and more I'm starting to think that anything that isn't just "justice" is injustice.