skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can: my password manager auto-logs-in for me. Various tools will automatically find and click the "unsubscribe" link on a mailing list website. Scalper bots buy and resell all kinds of products by navigating web stores (unfortunately). etc.

Yes, generally it's more dangerous to make destructive actions automatically on a site you don't know the structure of than against an API a human has considered and designed against. But think about it: the design of HTTP / REST makes that possible. If you tried to write a bot that downloaded random Windows apps and clicked random buttons to "scrape" them, you could easily click a "delete all my files" button in a file management app (not even considering malware). In a REST API, that's not really possible by just issuing GET requests. Google can safely GET any random URL on your site with no harm, unless you've made a serious programming error.
I still have the 4 floppy disks (french version). I remember the sentence generator with random words that was really funny. The word processing interface had a ribbon-style toolbar with tabs and multiple "pages" that we can alternate by clicking on the lever.
How is physical strength unimportant? Stronger people are harder to kill (h/t Rippetoe) and improved strength also helps to avoid carpal tunnel syndrome and neck/back pain for those of us at a computer all day.
How do you go and register a 7 year old as having been born a few days ago?
> I'm still waiting for the EU to enforce at least some degree of inter-compatibility between chat apps. I'm tired of switching between FB Messenger, Instagram, Discord, Slack, Signal, Whatsapp, Matrix and whatnot.

Well, it's happening. The final phase of the legislation passed today: https://twitter.com/SamuelStolton/status/1548955978166575104
Economic growth does not need to be extractive, nor is it zero sum. A vaccine is worth more than the sum of its parts. So is a bridge.

We can achieve economic growth through productivity growth, increasing outputs without increasing inputs through design and efficiency gains.

The economic growth we've experienced over the past 250 years has been an extraordinarily positive development in human history. We are experiencing serious consequences from this growth most notably climate change and the extinction crisis. We should absolutely consider the ecological costs of economic growth and work to minimize them. However we should try to fix these without dismissing the engine of economic growth that's lifted humanity out of the miserly wretched existence we experienced through most of human history.
> Why did the other depts stick to Teams?

You misunderstand. They didn't have a say.
We are likely considered 'the elites' by wage labor. Even though neither one of us have made a hundred million.

There exist many working class people who wanted to get back to normal (polling demonstrates this), or at the very least wanted policies that tried to keep schools open. They also believe the things you're saying make you one of the elites. It's also easier for 'established elites' to want perpetual work-from-home since they're in work that best positions them to experience little economic pain doing that. It might even be somewhat elitist to dismiss this POV.

That's the problem with using such a vague term.
Eh? Telecom networks were always privately owned in Canada and the US. They were never privatized.
I don't think you are missing anything, but you probably isn't in the intended audience. IMhO, just doing it in plain C would have made the point stronger.

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A thousand years ago I was reading the legendary SmallC (for Z80) sources and was surprised to find it didn't use this technique (which IIRC is described in the Dragon Book). I rewrote it and it worked (both less source and object code, and faster too).

My point: it might not be as well known as simple recursive descend. That said, it's essentially limited to expression parsing.
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You’re implying conditions to lose personhood, not gain it
Law is what's written by lawyers who realized getting elected paid off law school faster and by what's decided in courts. Courts are there to decide who and what law should apply to. You don't get a robust fair use test[1] or libraries[2] without someone testing the law in court.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#U.S._fair_use_procedu...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbs-Merrill_Co._v._Straus
The delusion is also a "costly signal" that you're committed to the group.
I don’t know about the other 4 locations, but regarding Sardinia, yes, it’s true. No frauds involved. It’s the climate, the food and the simple living style.
We did this in Australia years ago. The result was well... were 61 billion in so far creating a new national broadband network because the privatised company has a monopoly and had no incentive to upgrade anything.
I use both today. Not a big fan of either. Azure is better if you are really deep into Microsoft tech. I'd lean towards Azure because of our tech stack. If we were not a Microsoft shop, I'd be heavily in favor of AWS.
How do we measure the economic value of technology?

Solow productivity paradox: “the computer age was everywhere except for the productivity statistics” - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox
The problem with this approach is that these are entities which were entirely paid for by the population. Tax dollars built the company, and further taxes plus operating fees were paid by the population to keep it running. Unless the business was able to sell services to foreign states (like how electricity is often exported), then the entity exists solely on the backs of the population.

A sell off is rarely going to result in more than what the population has already paid towards the business. It turns into a short-sighted budget booster while depriving the population of the unique advantages of state-held entities, such as not needing to turn a profit, having to answer to elected representatives, the power to change the management, or hold priorities that solely benefit the population (such as performing costly upgrades for economic or national security purpose).

When looking at utilities there are few avenues that the new owner can take to improve profit other than cost-cutting exercises and increasing fees. Neither of these weren't possible beforehand, but an entity that needs to make profit to justify the purchase price will find ways of generating that profit.

This is usually where the problems start - it's the assumption that a private profit driven entity possesses unique market knowledge, efficiencies and access to larger scales of economies that weren't available to prior company management. In most situations these benefits are overstated and don't render any real benefit to the population, instead the business usually increases costs at an outpaced rate (hello inflation) due to having a state granted monopoly and this levies the entire population with a higher cost of doing business for the long term.
Similarly - I was recently looking for a replacement pivot for my mountain bike, and found a machine shop in Whistler, BC (arguably the current Mecca of mountain biking) that specializes in making upgrades for parts that regularly fail in current models, as well as specialized accessories.

https://pinnermachineshop.com/
The problem is you can't differentiate between "resource not found" and "we never even got a chance to process the request for a resource" purely by status code. Maybe your upstream reverse proxy got mis-configured. Maybe DNS is broken.
The purchase has not yet gone through, Ardian are saying they cannot continue without changes to the agreement, I believe this is due to some requirements by the anti-monopoly authorities [0].

Míla is the company being sold, it was spun out of the national monopoly a long time ago to provide base layer services to all operators equally but was initially (and still mostly, I'm hazy on the details) owned by the old monopoly. The old monopoly has also been privatized a long time ago but has significant competition.

I agree selling the infrastructure part to PE is almost 100% guaranteed to give bad results for the nation. It's like people never stopped to look at what the typical PE playbook is. But I guess it's harder to stop when everything is privatized already and in the hands of very many shareholders, each of them acting in their own short-term best interest.

Source: I'm Icelandic.

[0] (in Icelandic) https://www.mbl.is/vidskipti/frettir/2022/07/17/ardian_saett...
In modern times it dissolved due to diet changes. Looking at the blue zone in California is one of the most enlightening because they can control for so many factors, the records are excellent, and the people seem to be generally open to being studied. There they have found how diet and lifestyle plays a huge role in longevity
Indeed, try doing any sort of data analysis in Go, it's maddeningly verbose.
I don't mean that the attack isn't possible/wouldn't necessarily work. I'm saying it's impractical given that one of the steps to execute it is "have physical access to the machine, the ability to install software, and time to sit around and record the outbound data (or to be able to revisit the site and collect a recording device)."

With each of those requirements, there are easier and faster ways to get data off a machine. If you can install software you can likely download data that software would access. If you can access the machine twice and install software that runs in the background between visits, you can install your keylogger/data collectors and simply record the data on the device.

Stuxnet wasn't about getting data out of the machine, it was about breaking machines. It worked well because it didn't require physical access to the machines. It spread as a virus through the regular updates that Iran was doing for their machines.

If you had such a stuxnet virus in your back pocket, then you can likely steal the data and record it back on the USB device (or any plugged in USB device) on the system.
No, but using extreme possible scenarios as a basis for criminal law hardly seems like a sensible strategy either.
Criminalising certain activities always has consequences. If the threat of being thrown in gaol for abandoning an infant really does have the desired preventative properties, and doesn't lead to other unintended consequences (e.g. women choosing abortion or attempting an unsupervised birth instead if they're at all concerned they'll be unable to care for the child, and risk being gaoled for abandoning it), then sure, criminalise it. Both seem like unlikely propositions to me.
That's two annular wings

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_wing
The author of that article would not know a steelman if it hit them in the face.

The "conventional account" of human history they describe is one that I personally have never heard espoused and I am not quite sure if anyone really ever believed.

I think I would prefer to read the general source material, I find professional "essayists" often tiresome to read.
I don't know much about details of the USA Social Security model, however from what I recall doesn't it effectively require continued economic growth to plausibly be able to pay out what it should without significantly raising the starting age to decrease the number of years it pays out?
I can't wrap my head around the decision. There is a "go to message" button, which brings you to the exact message you were already looking at in the search results but still completely isolated from context.
I was thinking that if Covid continues at it's current level we are going to see a huge drop in the number of people reaching 100.

Not many people are going to survive catching covid 20 times in their 80s and 90s.
Maybe there’s just a higher number of elderly there in general, from people retiring to warmer climes?
Powershell is a good example of what was made after everyone could see that the momentum just wasn't there. It's far from enough to turn the tide. The market will turn sooner or later of course, but not back to what was before.

Package managers is also a good example. Everything is third party and nothing is default. They must be configured to work with your instance of git and python and whatnot. And who knows if the tools expect a case sensitive file system, or wants to open a socket in a mode that doesn't work, or use a certificate store that isn't the system default, or some script that expects a network interface that just isn't there.

You are free to hold your own opinion of course. But if you work with Node or Python or other things that cloud apps are built from, most people will stick to whatever everyone else uses. That's just the reason it is like it is. It's the same dynamic that kept Microsoft close to a monopoly in the office era.

It's great that people use other platforms too in order to keep portability of our tools high, but as for the cloud era, the market is unlikely to change much from here. We'll be stuck with the web for a while, and it runs on Linux.
> this is a class of attacks which are only relevant to a specific, small class of users

Yes.

> It's irrelevant to users who have intentionally enabled any kind of network communications on their computer

No, there are lots of use-cases at least for LAN communications.

> it's also irrelevant to users who have robust controls on what code is executing on their system, or who run untrusted code in an environment which isolates it from hardware (like a virtual machine).

No, it's relevant in those cases too, as part of a defense in depth strategy.
> Octothorpe has never been its “proper” name in any country; just a jocular nickname originating in the US telco industry, which spread from there to computing.

Octothope was coined by Bell Labs. It is certainly not jocular (what?). In point of fact, it is that symbol's proper name and how it is referred to in all Bell manuals and documentation, and this word coinage is little to no different to how the British began using # for pound to distinguish it from £, the currency.

Even though "hash," by hundreds of years, predates all other names for the symbol (originally, "hatch," marks one would make with a hatchet), hashing, the mathematical practice since the 1940's of transformation of a string of characters into a usually shorter fixed-length value or key that represents the original string, was not married in identity or meaning or abbreviation to the # symbol by convention until probably 1990, regardless of location on the planet or country not in North America. No one anywhere in the universe was using the hash symbol in, say, 1975, to refer to the mathematical hashing in computer science. In 1975, the # was the octothrope properly and most commonly (even if no one used that term, they all had a telephone and they still do, and every telephone today still has an octothorpe button, i.e. not a hash button), or the number sign or the pound sign by popularity.

# was never used as an abbreviation for mathematical hashing, again, until maybe late 1980's, probably like about 1991 # became conventionally used by programmers, computer scientists and mathematicians to mean mathematical hash. And even today, every county in the world that has telephones properly has an octothorpe key, not a hash or pound key. Bell coined the term and established it's usage long, long before # was used for math hashes, and even to this day, the octothorpe symbol is likely more common than the hash symbol, just because there are so many damn phones.
Nice, good news. The competition authority was revamped post financial crysis and has some good people at the helm.
But it conforms to many of the others... it's only 20 miles inland from the pacific, and has an (albeit warmer than normal) Mediterranean climate... "winter" lows are rarely below the mid 40s.
These were always private companies from day 1 though.

edit: see upthread, I am wrong about Telus.
What if they’re bad owners?
I don't know any socialists that want to completely disassemble capitalism. I do know several capitalists that want to completely disassemble socialism, or at least greviously wound it at any opportunity.
After many years and reading an insightful post by Ned Batchelder I realized it is folly to swallow errors in low level code.

Keep the low-level simple, always throw errors and let the high level code decide what to do. It has the context and hopefully smarts to make the best decision.
Which question in the parent are you even responding to?
You're creating a false dichotomy. The Mississippi law at issue in Dobbs had an exception for severe fetal abnormalities after the first trimester. So do the abortion laws of every developed country that otherwise bans abortion at 12-14 weeks. Support for such exceptions in the US is vastly higher than for elective later-term abortions.

You're incorrectly assuming that in substance there is no difference because all late-term abortions are the result of medical emergencies or genetic defects. In Germany, which bans abortion after 12 weeks but contains exceptions for fetal and maternal health, only 3% of abortions are performed after 12 weeks:https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/nine-out-of-10-abortion.... In the US that number is more than twice as high, at 7%.

Given the 600,000 abortions in the US each year, getting our number down to the German rate would affect 24,000 abortions of fetuses that most developed countries have deemed to be worth protecting.
The researchers questioned these details, too. Any place labeled a blue zone has to have excellent records they could trace. One of the blue zones is in California. It’s worth looking at their process
I legit don't believe they can store all that data. Youtube alone creates too much data for them to process and handle.

They must be storing either a subset or only partial metadata.
Bogus cryptocurrency apps steal millions in mere months
Disagree. The history is not just "chat". It's a valuable stream of questions and answers, problem solving, code snippets, bug reports, and user stories. It serves the purpose that a FLOSS project's mailing list archive did a decade ago.

Did you know that SLACK was originally an acronym?
When there is no competition Microsoft stops improving their products.

Coincidentally, at this very moment I am re-creating an old paper form for another department in the company. They need it as a PDF.

The people from the department sent me their best effort as a Word document. It's a disaster of mismatched styles, misaligned boxes, things that get cut off for no discernible reason, and stuff that won't print right because it's past Word's margins.

I'm almost done re-creating it in Pages, from which I'll output a PDF. It's gone swimmingly.

Pages isn't yet a replacement for every single little thing that Word does, but for the things it does do, it works well, quickly, predictably, and fast. But that may be Word's downfall: It took the kitchen sink route and became a mess.

Pages is a good basic word processor for those who are interested in processing words. It's less "powerful" at doing all the thousand other things that people use Word for that they should probably do in Acrobat.
What are you smoking? The rich pay capital gains which is way, way less than the average person is paying.
Personally I find struct field tags a nice way to encode the json fields. They also allow you to use upper case names for all struct members. I’ve never had an issue with the way json is done in golang, and I’m kind of confused by this rebuke. What’s wrong with using string pointers? What helper methods are necessary to write? This kind of feels the same as reading a rant against strict types.
For infrastructure, especially in smaller markets, it seems like a public monopoly would be the most cost efficient - even if you contracted out periodic private operational and upgrade contracts.
Slack is permanent for all matters and purposes.

If you need the distinction, label it "discussion" instead of "chat", and assume that important discussions need to be kept around for reference.

We have tons of one liner tickets with only a title and a link to a Slack thread, and it saves crazy amount of time and effort.
Sorry, I didn't mean that I personally find it complex, merely that I've worked in enough "wwwaaah, software is hard, right-click-y, push" organizations to appreciate why GP would use the word complex and would find friction in rolling out a sane data structure

The only leverage I've ever found for using good data structures is when I can demonstrate they solve a "today" pain point, because money/management DGAF about tomorrow anything, and only the tinyest fuck about customer pain so long as the checks clear
George Saunders' recent book "A Swim in a Pond in the Rain" is great: he goes through four classic Russian short stories and dissects how they work.

He also has a Substack where he does the same for other stories, in addition to answering misc questions.
> The author of Nginx had his offices raided by the cops because his employer was pursuing criminal copyright infringement claims over Nginx, which was written while he was an employee of that company.

...and that was also in Russia.
1. Indeed a controversial finding as 1-2 drinks a day being favorable was a classic finding which somehow got debunked about a decade ago. I suspect not because it isn't true, but instead because of the wildly different context. Stressed out people in a high productivity country drinking a few glasses of wine per day may soon turn into more. The alcohol acting as some kind of pain relief, rather than something to enjoy in moderation during a two hour lunch.

2. One thing that shouldn't be missed from the study is portion control. To never be full. I can personally attest that I feel at my best when empty. It's not the same as hungry, I'm talking about the state of having your last meal digested. I remember an older study about these centurions concluding that they were almost always "slightly hungry".
The original requirement is something on the direction of generalizing HTTP into a protocol for transferring all kinds of data with a human representation interlinked.

What would be very interesting, if HTML didn't evolve with the goal of containing all kinds of data with a human representation too. But now it's mostly redundant and people just prefer encoding things in HTML.
Tcc4tcl: Tcl Interface to TinyCC Compiler