skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think range extenders are practical given the weight, complexity and minimal power output.

I think the answer is a bigger battery - but only if range is a limiting factor. Because if the range is rarely used, it's expensive for a "what if" situation that may never happen. Sort of like those 4x4 guys with a snorkel on their truck.
I like an SPA pile on as much as the next person, but I've seen similar ignorance from asp.net webform developers many years ago. Some of those were even "experienced" developers.
"let's encrypt is not good enough, our customers are "enterprise", bla bla"
> there's a lot to be said to just use something more common/mainstream instead. I.e. Linux

For those of us who worked the industry in the 90s and remember the pains of "just use windows like a normal person and forget this weird linux hobby thing", there's some irony in saying that.

Common/mainstream doesn't always (even usually) mean better. With Linux (not Linux the actual kernel, but Linux userspace distros) going in directions away from security and stability in the search for mainstream-ness, the BSDs feel like breath of fresh air these days. Very similar to how Linux felt back when everyone was telling me to run windows.
A software engineer should tell easily whether or not one’s GitHub is authentic by looking at commit history, ownership of repo etc…
That's not a page on union voting practices but on Jimmy Hoffa, the well known union boss who was also a well known criminal.
Great read! Motivates me to start journaling again. The modern day work tiredness is the only friction I can think of that made me go off the track from journaling.
50k is a lot of people, I'm surprised. At least when I've been doing long trips across the US, I've seen billboards adverting fiber internet in a lot of the tiny towns around the interstates.
With Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication And large security proxy networks like CloudFlare, ISP cannot no longer know sites only by IP address/tapping traffic.
I am curious why Microsoft did it? What’s the benefit to them having this IDE? How do they make money from VSCode?
I have been using Every Circuit for a while. While you cant really simulate particular components (easily) it does allow you to simulate some trivial waveforms for basic circuits.

[1] https://everycircuit.com/app
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There's no need to act condescending or call people names ("silly"). A 15 year track record and a public commitment aren't things you can hand wave away.

I'd also point out there's no substance behind your "game theoretic" jargon.
We do not know that this isn't an issue.

You have described one particular case that doesn't involve fraud or bad actors. That is called a strawman argument.
Detect your leaking API endpoints
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Why API leaks are a common problem. Most web and mobile are security tested at some point but APIs hardly get any attention. This means you may have leaking APIs that are live and in production.
Detecting your leaking API endpoints is very simple if you’re using the free tool. All you need is your API OpenAPI Specification/Swagger URL and get instant report.
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I mean the new iPad supports a trackpad and windowed displays, so I think we're already there.
8. Arbitrarily assign points in sprints, making critical tasks more points.

9. Spend time “improving” the “UX” of your system. Use lots of metrics to justify hiding key functionality.

10. Tell everyone not to use code comments and make their code “self-commenting”.

11. Insist on 100% test coverage to waste time. Make most tests test the test suite and private methods.

12. Use O(n²) algorithms wherever possible, and ensure your test data sets are always small. Be sure to say you can’t replicate slowness when you close the ticket.

13. Delay updating software as long as possible. Never update to the latest version — if a new security fix comes out, deploy the old patch because the new one wasn’t audited. Disable automatic updates.

14. Validate data on the client side.

15. Never take tasks from an out-of-band request, no matter how easy or important. Always insist that tickets are properly triaged, assigned story points, and go through sprint planning first.

16. Actually use your vacation days.
Anecdotally, after two years of literally just looking at tumbleweed in the application inbox, as a still-hiring company I have rarely felt as swamped with really interesting candidates and annoying recruiters as in the past four weeks.

The tide has turned for sure.
...unless they're infected with rabies, in which case they might also be aggressive during the day.

I'm also puzzled by what this research wants to prove. That it's Ok to have a large uncontrolled population of feral dogs? No, it's not...
This is utterly stupid IMO.

I find that these broadcast exclusivity deals are not compatible with todays tech and should be thrown out the window. They cause people to pirate content because they can't legally or easily purchase it in some regions.

The NHL should offer all their games directly to anyone who wants them anywhere in the world which they do except for the US and Canada. If a cable company/tv station wants to carry them they do not get exclusivity.
what! i thought this neber happens? twitter banned anyone for saying it did.

apparently its “the big lie”
One of the less known features of Internet Explorer 9, released way back in 2011, was its Tracking Protection. In it, there was an option to turn on personalized tracking protection where it heuristically keep track of trackers that appear more than once on different sites and block it automatically. You can still find it in Internet Explorer 11. And prior, IE8 had a lot of features that was ahead of its time. IIRC, IE8 was one of the first browsers to have ad-blocker built in. This was almost a decade before any other browser made tracking protection a built in feature.
- Most of the Colombians are descendants of Spaniards.

- The law of the sea recognizes that the cargo of a shipwreck belongs to the country of the ship’s flag. There was no Colombia nation at the time of the shipwreck.
IME not so in the real world, you'll have accidental state in your distributed system outside the DBs. You'll have some stuff that actually always runs in one AZ in normal circumstances and your integration partner in another org has whitelisted only its IP. Etc etc, everything that is untested will find ways to conspire to rot. Especially if you haven't learned by seeing these bugs so you can avoid them.

Also you won't have a clear experience and understanding of what happens in the failover and you'll won't know to avoid failover breaking mistakes in your VPC configs, security groups, frontend-backend shared state etc. (And by "you" I mean "your dev team", it's not enough that one guy gets it).

Also^2 if you read the news about all the outages it's very common for failover systems to fail generally, not just AWS - the general engineering wisdom is: always test your failovers. And there's no substitute for end-to-end testing it, instead of individually testing each layer/module. (Bad: "we can skip testing db failover", good: "let's test that the whole system works when there's a az failure")
Harm to consumer is only one side of antitrust. There is another different side about power and control. Both are valid.
>So it seems that it no longer actually "learns to block", not by default.

It does learn, just not on your PC:

By default, Privacy Badger receives periodic learning updates from Badger Sett, our Badger training project. This “remote learning” automatically discovers trackers present on thousands of the most popular sites on the Web. Privacy Badger no longer learns from your browsing by default, as “local learning” may make you more identifiable to websites. You may want to opt back in to local learning if you regularly browse less popular websites. To do so, visit your Badger’s options page and mark the checkbox for learning to block new trackers from your browsing.
This still could be a game changer for the most isolated that would be last on the list for internet upgrades. Though I don't thihnk Starlink has a way to prioritize those people rather than those with fiber internet at their house.
Not according to the law of the sea.
activity brigading just like anywhere else

some organic, some brigading laundered into organic

but some people coordinate elsewhere and send a post here
> There are a LOT more sysops people skilled in linux operation vs BSD operation.

There are a LOT more people directly exposed to Linux, that's true.

But anyone who is actually an expert in Linux (an actual old-school sysadmin expert) will have zero trouble adapting to any BSD in no time.
The problem isn't the tax, it's that there is no way around it.

Let people install alternative app stores and every single issue is resolved.
Yeah, if I had to guess, I'd bet on IRIX too. But it seems that IRIX uses [AL (Audio Library)](https://nixdoc.net/man-pages/IRIX/man3d/alIntro.3d.html), not OSS.
Cathie Wood Sees Inventories as Evidence Inflation Will Ebb
Is this really what happens?
It is not. Catalonia is one of the richest regions on Spain nowadays.
A Golang Based Open-Source Low-Code Platform
Archived version: https://archive.ph/z1Lcd
The website says they are giving 150k in credit, how true is it?
Indeed. Sites like gog.com and itch.io indicate to me that the nerd-hate of DRM lives on. I don't have a Netflix subscription and I haven't knowingly bought a DRM 'd device ever. I even go as far as removing the widevine library when forced to use Chrome, for example.

We're losing the war, but we do fight on.
I had an encounter with a street dog in Sofia/Bulgaria that I will never forget.

We were at the outskirts of the city and decided to take a walk to the center along one of the main roads. After a while we noticed that a street dog was following us at a constant distance of maybe 15 meters. It looked quite friendly and we thought it may be hoping to get food from us, but we did not have any. We talked to it, also waved good bye several times, but it kept following us. Then, suddenly it came closer, maybe to 5 meter distance, and just after that a pack of other street dogs came from a side street, angrily barking and obviously having a problem with out dog being in their hood. But they were afraid of us humans and our dog suddenly acted as if it was our pet dog, walking really close to us. We continued walking and the pack of street dogs eventually gave up. Suddenly after that, our dog was gone. Obviously it had a plan right from the beginning: Using us as protection to get past that pack of dogs into the city center. And it perfectly executed the plan.
Ah yes, I read this one right after having played Universal Paperclips -- which if I'm not mistaken was inspired by it.
A competitor of AWS claimed that AWS' egress fees are excessive and by how much - https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress/

As for a fair price, I think Cloudflare and BackBlaze provide S3 API compatible services with better pricing. Cloudflare doesn't charge for egress at all. This lends substance to their claim that AWS is overcharging for egress.
So they have been toying with it since 2019 and are not interested in manufacturing = they seek IP licensing = nobody will ever see this as a product as all car companies already wound down R&D for combustion engines. Then we have 20% claim versus 6% test result, but the test messed with EGR and engine timing without measuring effect on power/torque curves.
https://ibb.co/JBnLM5d

Needs some work hos
This will be interesting.

For me Sublime seems to hit all the same spots
without the web assembly plug in feature.
Perhaps people would rather take the side of the consumer instead of the multi-trillion-dollar global conglomerates?

Feel free to donate as much money as you want to them though.
For the sake of integrity, signature checking should be mandatory for every ballot. It would/could be entirely automated anyway. There is no burden on the states to perform the check.

Nothing would make me more convinced of an election outcome than having my ballot rejected due to signature comparison and getting the opportunity to cast it again
In the Pale Moonlight (ST:DS9)
> Medicaid ($672bn yearly budget) provides coverage to those on low or no incomes

Only with the ACA expansion, which 12 states have declined, does Medicaid cover non-disabled, non-pregnant, childless adults, and even with children may not cover them except at a very low income (exact eligibility rules vary by state, income-based eligibility for adults with children can be as low as 17% of the federal poverty level.)
That's kind of the subject of this guilty plea.
What's EJ?

I wish people defined their acronyms. It doesn't appear in the linked document either.
Why must players have a “fully equipped build” to enjoy the game? If a player only cares about skins and other bling, are they playing a game or are they building a showcase to display to their friends?
I understand the concern, but also we do all have to act as ourselves in public life in many ways - any one of your identifiable actions could always come back to bite you.

If you want to build any kind of public profile or have much influence in life you kinda have to face this risk head-on to some extent.
From Probability to Consilience: Explanatory Values Implement Bayesian Reasoning
1) Study PSP and TSP for Personal improvement (no higher-ups need be involved)) and Team improvement (Group != Team). Come up with a simple methodology and metrics to monitor and improve.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_software_process

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_software_process

2) Communication Techniques. Eg. 1) On Communication (2 vols) from HBR 10 must reads series 2) The Communication Book: 44 Ideas for Better Conversations Every Day by Krogerus and Tschappeler. While practicing always use problems of relevance and not hypothetical ones.

3) Decision Making techniques, in particular; Delphi Technique (https://www.toolshero.com/decision-making/delphi-technique/). Also see The Decision Book Fifty models for strategic thinking by Krogerus and Tschappeler. Again only use problems of relevance for practice.

4) Research Activities i.e. Problem Domain and Tech. Domain study. To identify new pain points, opportunities for Business and new Technologies/Languages/Tools for implementation. They need not be related but should always end with a PoC i.e. not just ending with a "talk". Inspiration: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31626049
Transmission does not support BitTorrent v2 so there is a growing subset of torrents that Transmission can't download but, say, Deluge or qBittorrent can.
Atom might be retiring, but One Dark lives on in every other editor.
Portable Shell Programming ... Not!
Why Is the Xbox website not working?
I recently purchased a used xbox one and tried browsing for games on their site using a laptop but it does not show any games. Is the site always like this?
A fairly laymans explanation was posted elsewhere in the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31671914

Quoting it here for convenience:

> With homomorphic encryption, the client sends a series of encrypted numbers. Nobody can decrypt them except the client. The server can do arithmetic with them, making new secret numbers that nobody can decrypt except the client.

> There is no usable information to retain.

> So the question becomes: what can you calculate using arithmetic on secret numbers?

> Well, for this demo, treat every article as a number. Then multiply all the articles you don't want by 0, and the article you want by 1, and add them all together.

> The server just sees that it's multiplying every article by a secret number. It can't tell what the number is. It can't tell if the output is "encrypted article" or "encrypted 000000..."

> Then the server adds them all up. If the client asked for no articles, the result will be "encrypted 000000..." If the client asked for one article, the result will be that article, encrypted. If the client asked for multiple, the result will be a garbled mush of overlapping articles, encrypted. The server can't tell the difference. It just knows it has an encrypted number.

If you found the explanation useful, you can upvote the original comment linked above
Thank you for the suggestion.

I have tried tuple, but for me it feels like a step back compared to live share. It has poor linux support, and sharing one screen is not as good as connecting to each other's editors. It just feels worse to watch a video feed compared to something that's getting rendered locally.

I do however believe that tuple can work very well if you are in an environment where everyone has mac computers and similar screen setups.
China rebrands proposal on internet governance, targeting developing countries
Big corporate ran a campaign to dirty the name of GPL, Richard Stallman and the FSF. They won.
Governmental corruption is cheap. The going rate to buy an MP on the U.K. is £10-£15k - they’ll do pretty much anything you ask.
For me, it was (and to some degree still is) finding out the things I thought were amazing… other people did too. I was very alone and kind of helpless when I read The Last Question (and The Last Answer) and lots of other things, and seeing other people appreciate these things and not just appreciate them, but appreciate them they way I appreciated them really makes me feel much more connected than I was when I was younger.
Good luck! A clean slate code editor with Rust's memory safety guarantees sounds great. Just don't fall for the 2nd system fallacy. Keep things simple and pragmatic.

I tried Atom for a while, but it didn't cope well with other IDEs renaming files before overwriting them. I tried to fix it, but the response I got from the community was rather dismissive. It was quite irritating to present obviously wrong behavior and be told that it was correct.

My attempts to dive into the code myself lead me down a rabbit hole of dependencies of dependencies of dependencies, to the point that I just gave up. I switched to vscode and it has mostly stayed out of my way.
His "people send us dumb vulnerability reports" series seems quite arrogant to me, with new severe hole being found in Windows every other week.
I use Ublock and never see these, so I guess it depends on your definition of "really common".
>AWS represents the computing power of its machines in Elastic Compute Units, and 4 ECUs represent more or less the power of a modern CPU.

What does the author mean by the "power of modern CPU"? What which microarchitecture? Which generation? How many cores? In 2019 I had a Ryzen 9 3900X with 12 cores. Was that a modern CPU? How many Amazon ECU would that take to be equivalent?

It seems to me he assumed all the CPUs were equally powerful at the time he wrote the article.
Hardly. It was about standing up for someone regardless of whether you agree with them or not. Had anyone stood up against the atrocious acts in the beginning, they may not have gotten as far.

ie- This isn't about their beliefs, it's about the right to free speech. If no one stands up now, who will be left to stand for you when your time comes.

edit- I once had to take a friend of mine to her abortion appointment. The vitriol screamed at us both (they assumed incorrectly I was the father), was mind-blowing. They brought her to tears, were screaming in her face. It got ugly until I screamed right back. The fury I felt that day was incomprehensible to most people. Literally saw red. Had to comfort my friend afterwards. To me it was evil, spiteful, hateful shit to spew at someone at their lowest and most vulnerable.

They still had the right to spew that garbage.

The times it's hard to swallow can sometimes be the most important.
Ouch. White diagrams on a black background. Someone needs a lesson in design.
> Streaming services wouldn't exist without DRM.

Why? Is DRM stopping piracy? Like what do you think would happen if DRM didn't exist, would the pirate bay be even bigger?

People don't pay for netflix because it's hard to pirate stuff, they pay for netflix because it's easier to do so than to pirate stuff, and it would be the same even if the laws of the universe changed one night and all DRM ceased to function.
Your explanations are nice and clear.

I’ve observed this as an outsider with my wife of Vietnamese background. Just one example — amazing to western eyes — is that our wedding invitation to her uncle, aunt and two cousins (i.e. one nuclear family) contained not one name. It was (if I translate) “aunt ten, husband-of-aunt ten, older brother two, older brother three”. And the two cousins are younger then her! But because the aunt is older than her mother, the “older” status transfers down the generation. That older status is reflected in the inter-family relationships and perceived obligations.

It is fascinating to see the structure of language being persistently deployed to reinforce the sublimation of self and reinforcement of familial status and responsibility.
I was very lucky to have worked with Doug on multiple projects and see his passion for computer science and humanity. He was one of the most humble people and was happy to share all his wisdom. I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to work with him. To be specific, I built out purple numbers for Doug. I remember demoing it to him, it was hacky, and the joy he showed made my soul smile. He was a very special man. I have many other stories, but that is for another day.
My impression is this is a technique of the 2nd tier energy companies (e.g. https://www.isds.bilaterals.org/vattenfall-vs-germany-i-coal...).

Companies like BP, Total, etc operate more like nation-states and have other tools available.

I'd still call them "Big Energy" however.
Mark's dad who had offered him to give him a million dollar McDonald's franchise, this gives massive cushion to follow your dreams more aggressively. Not saying he was a unmotivated bum. But there are many motivated individuals for risk calculus doesn't allow them to focus on side projects instead of academics to get a degree
Excellent read! Having relatives who fall into the poor single mother category it exactly describes their baffling actions and desires that I'd somehow missed.

The title doesn't do this piece any justice.
They clearly got the idea from the opening scene of Strange Brew.
Yes! Few people realize that the DSI synths accept polyphonic aftertouch - it is a beautiful feature.

The Prophet T8 of course featured polyphonic aftertouch and its keybed was also used in the Synclavier.

With current and upcoming keyboards like the HydraSynth, Iridium keyboard and UB-Xa we may be entering a polyphonic aftertouch renaissance.

(The HydraSynth even has a ribbon controller like the CS-80...)

I'd love to see a new Sequential synth with a polyphonic aftertouch keybed like the one used in the Iridium.
If we deleted DRM, streaming services would cease to exist overnight — all their license grants being revoked, leaving them with nothing to serve — and we'd go back to just relying upon the iTunes Music Store / Netflix DVD rental model.

Why is that? You can download everything for free. I don't think people use Netflix to access otherwise inaccessible content but rather because it's more convenient than searching for the right torrent link.
And I just found this very recent biopic on Doug. Just watched 10 minutes so far, but it looks to be really well produced, with interview snippets with Alan Kay, Vint Cerf amongst others.

https://youtu.be/_7ZtISeGyCY
Imagine seeing a link that just says 'David Attenborough' or 'William Shatner'.
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