skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the Memex (er, Xanadu) is an effective Rorschach test to reveal perceptions of the power of computing.

Many are happy with the status quo, and see it as overly complex

Some see it as evil, like communism.

Some see it as hope for the future. Hope that should have arrived half a century ago, at least.
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Nobody is actually arguing that everyone in the field is goosestepping in perfect synchrony like a cartoon.

But human bias applied by groups is actually very powerful.
New territory. Needs really deep research.
> Putting your iPhone in a case is like buying an Audi, wrapping it in rubber and painting flames down the side of it.

It's more like buying an Audi and putting a paint protection film on it.
In particular, ’rg ‐uuu’ should search the same exact content as ’grep ‐r’.
I agree, I have worked at 5 separate tech companies and have conducted hundreds of statistically significant experiments, changing what people select by default. These methods have been effective at helping hundreds of millions of people improve choices. It’s common practice, think: pricing on Amazon, default tips on Uber, default purchase price in a video game, etc.

I don’t see how this would make me reinterpret all those successful results. Maybe I don’t understand what this is saying.
So, 100% or not at all? No.
Pretty obviously I'm the professor, right? The assignment is WiFi AP
points and attacking authentication. It's in the syllabus (signed,
sealed and approved all the way up to VC). Attacking the institutional
access points would definitely not be okay. Where do you suppose
professional, dedicated IT staff come from?
This isn't remotely true. If you happen to wear diamond earrings you'll realize this real quick. My SO got a brand new Pixel 6 Pro and within a month the upper portion of the screen was visibly scratched up after some earrings received as a gift. Gorilla Glass still scratches with daily use, even outside of diamond.
Another library that collects volunteer efforts: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=130&ord...

Uneven, but some contributors generate very good quality ebooks, and there's some unique stuff in collections and omnibus editions.
Since this is on top of HN now, you'll get hit by the crowd. You might want to implement torrent support too, so you won't get hit that hard.
Although the original commenter referred to junior people, I'm often having to explain these things to those who are not - sometimes to people with more experience than I have (e.g. 15-20 years).

Besides, there are plenty of online resources as well as books on the purpose of branches, and its benefits. Some of these have been around since before Git existed. I don't have a problem explaining the why, and pointing them to resources. It's the inevitable "OK, but how do I do that with Git?"

Extending it a bit: I often work with people who will never read a manual. They'll want to find a quick SO answer, or a short tutorial for everything. But once in a while, you need to read the man page, or the official docs.
Deep geothermal has very little to do with punching a hole in the ground and a lot more to do with the physics and chemistry problem of finding long life materials to use in the production equipment to make power extraction economical.
Yep. At least since I was a kid in the 80s
You only get unencrypted stuff when doing mag-stripe, and that’s mostly just card number and name. Same with tap-to-pay may-stripe emulation (the old way which no one is supposed to use anymore, even in the US per credit card rules).

That’s why everyone has/is moving off mag-stripe (depending on country) and to EMV. With EMV and EMV contactless the terminal never gets the full card number, among many other significant security improvements.
It's actually just economics. These big companies make the systems usable for the majority of the users so if a small percentage needs support the economics say it's better to ignore them because the support costs more than ignoring them. It's a kind of tyranny of the economy.
I can't stand any self checkouts anywhere. I always order with a person.
Find a running club near you and see what PT they recommend. Even finding a gym/trainer they recommend may do wonders. They will focus more on functional strength and mobility (in my experience).
Conversations on Mathematics
Depending on the state, declaring is not required if your dog is service or emotional support.
Ah ha! So this is in the same vein as Reagan's trees causing more pollution than cars?
I don't understand why phones aren't just designed to have a replaceable shell as a first class piece of their design system, so we're not forced to buy random clunky junk to wrap around our phones. The value prop of a case is extremely clear as evidenced by the massive market of aftermarket cases and pretty much anyone who's ever owned a phone. This is akin to trying to gaslight customers into not using laptop sleeves.
I'm 100% sure, soviets copied "Better basic", I just cannot remember Russian name of book, but design is absolutely same, all smallest details, and I cannot remember anything about of source of book.
I don’t like having a case. I had to get a case for my (admittedly old) iPhone because setting it down on a table would scratch its camera lens. How are the newer iPhones for this?
You must have missed the news reports today of a self driving Tesla running into a motorcycle and killing the rider because AP didn't "see" it.
We've been front paged before without problems :) See https://alexcabal.com/posts/standard-ebooks-and-classic-web-...

(Though that article is now out of date, as we now have a database running that handles things like patron registration, though it still doesn't index ebooks.)
Even if it does handle delivering firmware updates to the device, I would be wholly surprised if the terminal doesn't at least do basic checks to make sure the firmware is signed (although, whether or not there are exploits to get around this is another thing).
Hah! I see propaganda has captured you nicely. Cancel culture cuisine; it's enough to claim someone is guilty to indict him. It's his responsibility to prove innocence!

A tangent; Tesla did show their self driving is safe. Doesn't mean it has no bugs.
I know, right? The poors should just accept that they exist to be exploited by their betters.

(/s because Poe's law exists)
I use cron; I think it's pretty neat:

/$INTERVAL * * * /usr/sbin/screencapture $CRONSHOTSDIR/`date +\%s`.png

and then to make the timelapse:

ffmpeg -r $FPS -pattern_type glob -i "*.png" -vcodec libx264 lapse-`date +%s`.mp4

You have to give screen capture permissions to cron.
What's your favourite ereader on macOS?
Solr uses the term “near real time”.
Seems pretty clear to me.
> Is there some software (macos) to regularly create screenshots throughout the day?

On macOS here's a little shell command to take a screenshot every 60 seconds and place it in the /tmp folder:

while true; do
screencapture /tmp/screen_capture_$(date +\%s).jpg ;
echo "wrote screenshot";
sleep 60;
done

You can also include the name of the front most application by fetching it with AppleScript and then putting that in the filename. (Or you could put different app screenshots in different folders)

while true; do
FRONT_APP=$(osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to name of first application process whose frontmost is true');
screencapture /tmp/screen_capture_${FRONT_APP}_$(date +\%s).jpg ;
echo "wrote screenshot";
sleep 60;
done

Of course if you want this to run long term, use a cron job or even better, a launchd job. With launchd you get better coalescing and sleep recovery behavior. You can also add other fun trigger events. Like take a screenshot every time your `.zshrc` is modified [0]. Or a screenshot every time your internet access changes (by triggering on /etc/resolv.conf)

[0] Look up `WatchPaths` on my favorite launchd guide here: https://launchd.info/
Setting up a payroll in a different country is a lot more effort than what most companies want. You can do consulting contracts instead, but it then becomes harder to find people who want long term contracts for single clients (those people need a solid reason to not choose a local company or a bigger global company that has a full payroll in their countries). Not considering you have to do the hiring in the first place.

It’s not intractable, but we wouldn’t have been hiring full remote teams of 10 or 20 people so the effort doesn’t scale much, and the price difference really isn’t worth the hassle.

PS: looking back at the last 2 years, many employees have looked at moving long term to another country while keeping their current jobs. I’m pretty sure even in these cases (= established relationship, proven skillset etc.) most companies bailed on dealing with the international ongoing paperwork.
Why are you assuming that the vehicle was using FSD at the time?
Even if they completely screwed up all the security in a way that would never pass compliance testing broadcasting all card info for every transaction to the network in the clear, with EMV cards all you’d get are EMV tags that are useless for anything but taking that one payment on that one terminal at that one time for that one amount.

You couldn’t use anything you harvest to make a new transaction on the cards, or even replay the transactions you saw.

(Mag-stripe is different, don’t use that!)
> Why shouldn't you?

Because I expect people to have basic reading and Internet searching skills.

As I mentioned elsewhere, I don't have a problem mentoring them on what skills they should learn. I also don't have a problem directing them to resources where they can learn - even telling them what to focus on and what not to focus on. But I expect that once I point them to a resource, they'll go and read it. For things that don't have good resources, or if it's just a small tool/library that's not essential for their job, I'm happy to walk them through it.

Put another way: If you were my boss, would you want me to spend my time teaching the same basic Git usage to every junior hire? Teaching the same stuff over and over again? Wouldn't you rather I either write docs or make a video once and just have them watch it? Or even better, just point them to the many existing docs/resources out there?
They even use http://macc.as

(And have done since at least 2013, according to whois.)
HN is obsessed with the TX power grid....why?
Teslas, infamously, turn off autopilot right before a crash.
I assume that every accident like this involving autopilot is blasted all over every news outlet. This happens multiple times every day for non autopilot cars, which gets little to no coverage. It’s just something we accept as a society.
Bloomberg's terrible analysis depended on Tesla standing still. But it is not doing that. Quite the opposite.
Also, this was the entire point of Tesla. To do exactly this. Getting other automakers on board the EV train was a stroke of genius.
No really guys, our government's hands are tied here. If they don't pay Intel their subsidy, then how else can they ensure continued access to the Intel Management Engine?
Try a year or two, and even that is quite a stretch.

I don't think you quite realize how uncommon your level of fitness is
Renewable here just means electricity powered, rather than oil or gas powered. It is assuming that the electricity is created from renewable sources
Is there? What do you consider the cultural level obsession then?
Youtube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGh4ZIQYKVY
I'm a fan of Pratt parsers too. In addition to the article by @munificent you linked above, I found the following helpful.

- How Desmos Uses Pratt Parsers (2018) - TypeScript - https://engineering.desmos.com/articles/pratt-parser/ - Source: https://github.com/desmosinc/pratt-parser-blog-code

- Simple But Powerful Pratt Parsing (2020) - Rust - https://matklad.github.io/2020/04/13/simple-but-powerful-pra... - Source: https://github.com/matklad/minipratt
Could you tell us more about why? I’m not in this field.
Cheers for calling a spade a spade. I think you’ll agree neither is the whole picture. Engineers like to solve problems and nearly everyone wants the tools to solve problems which are power and money. My only hope is that people try to work on something that serves a social good while also getting paid well. I found it with renewable energy.
EMV tags gives you parts of the card number (so you can tell the kind of card or put the last 4 on receipt) but you don’t get the full number anymore like with mag-stripe.
I used to work with those payment gateways, and I always wondered about that attack vector. The terminal config (where you’d put your merchant ID, etc…) is protected by a PIN code, but suppliers typically just use the same PIN for their entire fleet. It’s not really a secret PIN either, because the terminal tech support will usually end up getting merchants to type it in if there‘s some remote support/debugging needed.

You could reprogram a terminal in a bar in a few seconds on a Friday night. Wait for the weekends takings to clear into your merchant account, and then take off with the money. The way that it falls down though, is that you need a merchant account, and there’s a lot of KYC and due diligence to get through if you want to set one of those up (there are a lot of merchant initiated scams, and your bank doesn’t want to be on the hook for them).
> "given this water allocation, what crop will maximize my return on my dollar"

It has traditionally been "given this water allocation, if I don’t use it I will lose it so what thirsty crop can I grow to keep it" so they grow alfalfa and cotton in the desert.

Though, apparently, this has been changed recently to conserve water for the golf courses in the desert.
With the best possible intentions, the above is very much not a good overview of the current K8s ecosystem.

K8s is hugely supported and invested in by Alibaba, and TONS of companies you've never heard of.

All of these companies have huge, mission critical reasons not to use AWS/Azure/GCP and invest in K8s.

From an end user's standpoint, I am certainly not going to dispute your criticisms about Helm.

Google's original design of K8s seems like it was originally designed to be generically worse than GCP.

However, from an ecosystem standpoint, K8s is a project I'm very confident will be around for a long time.
Unless I'm missing something this is a pretty low quality "thread" (if you can even call it that). The first post is a bog standard complaint about wall st getting subsidies but main st not getting them. The second post (as I can see) is literally "class war is the only solution".

Flagged.
Whats on the click bait check list today? Not written by a technical person, unneeded apple reference and four paragraphs before the subheading point is mentioned.
> I tried running it using the PyPy optimizing compiler, but it’s significantly slower for some reason

I wonder why that is?
Signed firmware though.

Those card readers also typically have photodiodes in them and numerous tamper switches pressed to the case to wipe their internal memory if tampered. Just to be clear I'm not talking about EPROM - they have actual photodiodes inside along with physical switches and a coin battery that will wipe the ROM if tampered.

It's common to have the tamper switches trigger if you drop the terminal. They'll need to be re-flashed from scratch when that happens. eg. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33872627/how-to-fix-tamp...

Anyway the TLDR is that the Card Reader part of any POS system is reasonably secure.
Well, I've had multiple phones with gorilla glass 6 and victus(?). No scratches. Then I bought a Garmin fenix with "diamond like coating", and suddenly my phone had a gigantic scratch. Turns out it scratches even with the lightest touch of the watch. Hard things make scratches with just a slight touch on any modern phone, but most things won't.
I've got a bare-minimum case (clear vinyl, sides & back only, $10) on my iPhone. I've seen "naked glory" iPhones destroyed by drops of less than 1 meter onto hard surfaces (concrete & such). Nice try, Apple.
> It's like preserving a single frame from a movie and losing the rest.

I don’t think that’s necessarily true, because you are unlikely to ever rewatch the movie anyway (and then it won’t be as good as your recollection). The point is to be reminded of the fact the movie existed at a time when you wouldn’t ordinarily think of it.
Perhaps energy laymen are not the intended audience
> The only place where I have lived where this wasn't a problem was New Zealand, and that was 18 years ago, so I don't know if that's still the case. I always give up on public transit after seeing enough acts of human degradation and fights breaking out. Let's not forget the smell.

You were supposed to describe public transit, not a rest stop on an Interstate Highway in the United States :-)

But seriously: the things you're describing are civic issues, not issues with public transportation. The only reason you see them less in your car is because the activation energy for them affecting you is much higher (specifically, instances of road rage, DWI, etc. culminating in someone colliding with you). But that doesn't actually make them less frequent; it just converts the drunk guy shouting on the subway bench into the drunk guy who's about to T-bone you.
If anyone has a vulnerable card processing system it would be Lowes. They didn't support chip and pin over a year after the deadline. Suggesting a whole lot of broken system design that is probably still held together with bubblegum and duct tape.
‘Baby Al Capone’ Pulled Off a $24M Crypto Heist
I'm not even allowed to save an email on my work computer. i can still copy and paste but i cant save. I always wonder how much longer I'll be allowed to screenshot an app by default.
At what point do we observe no accident causing millions of deaths or injuries and adjust our "expected damage" calculation? Decades? Centuries?

We can look past the damage caused by an accident at a coal plant and just count the damage caused by ordinary routine operation of coal plants and quickly reach damage figures that eclipse every nuclear accident in history combined.
Web scraping that creates RSS feeds for any page with CSS selectors.
> What is wrong with this picture?

The federal primary election system…
I've never bought a case before, but I have a brand new iPhone sitting in front of me that I think is going to need one. Why? Because it doesn't lie flat on the table. The camera lens protrudes enough to lift one end of the phone off the surface. It's like a chair with one leg shorter than the others, rocking back and forth whenever I touch it. Are people really using these without cases? I think I'd lose my mind.
This is correct.

K8s abstracted out containerization in preparation for the anticipated long term migration of the ecosystem to Podman et al (lots and lots of people are invested in moving "containers" away from "Docker").
I think social scientists have lost the right to the benefit of the doubt. They don't preregister their trials. They don't publish their negative results. They're notoriously bad at statistics, notoriously let their political beliefs distort their conclusions, notoriously scatter their work over thousands of arbitrary, hard-to-compare small-sample-size studies instead of concentrating their resources. I don't think it matters if this criticism is right or not. The fact that it's even possible to make such a criticism is already a condemnation of the scientific incompetence of social scientists.
It's not very practical nor is it inexpensive for most people to move all of their belongings into an apartment and storage unit, then move it out into a new home.
They can take a line of credit on their home and pay for the taxes, then when they die their home is not passed on to their children for free (and inheriting the low property taxes!). At CA property tax rates, people would not be forced out of their home in their lifetime.

Unproductive assets like real estate should not be enablers of generational wealth.
I think the pixel is, if we mean the same thing. The phone is thin, except the part where the camera lens is, it's kind of extruded. the cases are built around it so it's flat over all
I'm with you with both shell pipelines and Perl "one-liners". The latter was a wonderful step up from the former back in the 1990s: a modern programming language designed around paving the cowpaths of shell pipelines. The power of both has always been inspiring. So many useful, one-off tasks can be accomplished with a single line in a terminal. So much potential power.

But my problem with both has always been that I needed them often, but not quite often enough to remember them without looking things up (again). Over the years, as my memory of these commands has strengthened, I've needed them less often. We don't use computers the same way we did back then. It's like a spaced repetition system where the spacing is set to guarantee forgetting.
The scrambling program tnoodle is open source and you can check out the implementation. [0]

I haven't verified myself, but I do think there is checking involved for some of the events (at least 3x3, 2x2, skewb, square-1, and pyraminx) to make sure the puzzles hit the minimum move limit. Other events like 5x5+ just use a sufficient number of random moves, because it would take too long to find and verify optimal solutions.

I can say in practice that the 2 move limit for 3x3 isn't a problem. I work on some personal projects related to cubing and was exploring the database [1] which has many historical scrambles. The shortest scramble ever generated was 12 moves long [2], and, from what I could tell from an extended inspection, is only "kind of" lucky. It's possible that some other simpler solves exist in the database but I haven't set my computer to crunch out the optimal solutions just yet.

I'm not particularly worried about really-short scrambles being randomly generated; my back of the envelope calculations suggest 3x3 scrambles of 8 moves or less as being one in 3.6 billion, while ~310,000 have been generated since 2014 and I estimate a seventh of them are never used (extra scrambles generated for a round if something goes wrong like the timer malfunctioning, the judge not following protocol, etc.).

[0] https://github.com/thewca/tnoodle

[1] https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/misc/export.htm...

[2] https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/competitions/SofiaAutum...
Alternate take, the people who keep mucking up the perfectly fine UI[1] that I've been using for years should get on that bus, so the rest of us never have to worry about waking up and everything is in a different place for absolutely no reason.

[1] In general, I mean - I actually don't use AWS.
Vaporizing all the material to make a tunnel may be useful tech.

But calling that "entirely emissions-free drilling" is absurd.