skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a condition of human social life. Tribes protect their area of interest, the domain in which they dominate is what provides them bread, butter, and prestige. But it is more than that nowadays, it is the primary identity marker for many. In some sense this is needed in a civilization to enable the scientific endeavour, but I feel like the gravitational pull that reverts to mean, has always, well yeah, reverted, is a function of the cost of information movement. Today crazy ideas can gain traction in days, rather than decades, and I fear that some of these narrative bubbles are beyond pulling back in.
Made me wonder how much of it we're breathing. Especially in the fog if it's waterborne.
If you’re a builder - someone who lives to work, not just works to live - then you should start a company or work for yourself. Otherwise you’re wasting your potential by transferring it to someone else.

Find your people or you will go insane. That’s my unsolicited advice for you.
> if you get anything stuck to it

We bought these Lodge scrappers and they remove anything stuck to it.

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Hot water and this kind of brush is all you need to clean cast iron:

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These days, you pretty much have to "attack" some systems just to be able to "hack" them due to the modern propensity to put intentional road blocks in the way of anyone who wants to modify something they own.
Well, yes. I'm not touching you right now.

And if you're offended by that, you are being egregiously unreasonable. Exactly the same is true of the picture-taking "concern".
> That afternoon when someone is staying with you and they go see another friend who lives in the same city and you go to work or stay home and do laundry or whatever

Great article, but this is a ridiculously hard to parse sentence with the number of `ands` and `ors`.
Manufacturers carry liabilities for the products the make all the time.

That's true for consumer products and even more significant for things like guns.

In most places you're a not even allowed to manufacture guns not to speak of Marketing and selling them.

Offering a service like tornado cash (e.g. getting financial benefits from transaction fees) would be just as illegal if they used potatoes instead of cryptocurrency. There are laws dealing with money laundering specifically and "doing it on the Blockchain" doesn't circumvent them.
Uh... no? What single, central authority are you beholden to when you transact using Bitcoin?

"Lots of mining is centralized in large pools." or "lots of people choose to buy their Bitcoin through Coinbase" is not anywhere near the same level of dependence on a central authority as "PayPal can freeze my account at any time and I'm SOL". It's like claiming the internet is a centralized system because AWS exists.
Indeed, and if the k8s api was so precisely laid out that you could look at a log of side effect changes that came as the result of scalers, operator, templates etc that would be one thing, but we aren't there yet.

Right now what i have is "oh the cluster is in a different state (there is drift) than the code, lets be a detective to see why this changed".
Yeah, agreed. Plus you can keep home folders as separate partitions, even synced to the network daily, so nuking a machine and restoring from a backup can be done remotely with just a few cli commands
Nancy Pelosi spams me from different numbers, after I tell her to stop each time. Is this the sort of thing that makes people like, trust, and vote for you? Or is it just desperation or cynicism?
That’s NJ Supreme Court, not federal court. They’re notorious for getting overruled at the federal level.
Which means that the tower owners that PGPP partners with could absolutely still track users based on the IMEI if they configure their equipment to always ask for it. (It won't work in some edge cases like duplicate IMEIs but those are not super common).

They may not be doing it right now, but if this sort of thing catches on, it is likely that they will start trying to do it.
Under regulation flying was so much more enjoyable than it is today. Yes, prices have come down but I’d prefer to go back to regulation. I’d be better for the mental health of the flying public.
Same, Kagi is great. I tried to make do with DDG and uBlacklist, but with my rules file reaching 269 domains in about 3 months, I gave up.

Love being able to customize the ranking order for specific domains.
I had an old laptop, on which VLC struggled with a video, but MPV worked fine.

I like keep multiple of these critical applications around. Sometimes, for a use case, one works better than the other.
“In contrast, employment increased well above the normal pace in the last two quarters, including nonfarm business employment (+4.3 percent annual rate) and private payroll employment (+4.6 percent annual rate)—more than twice the pace of pre-pandemic employment growth.

Falling or slow growth of output combined with rapid growth of employment is consistent with low or negative productivity growth.”

I.e. more workers working and ‘falling’ output due to inflation adjusted output means lower productivity.

The world should be less productive with all these supply chain constraints, war, pandemic etc.
Err, pedantically, configure was not for cross Linux distro compatibility, but for cross unix compatibility. It existed long before Linux was a sparkle in Linus’s eye.

And even then, it handled even some non unix environments as well.
Do you write a comment like that every time someone roots a cable modem too? That seems a little over the top.

This is an exploit of the base station device. It seems that it might be used to grant access for which the owner hadn't paid, but that's also something that can be trivially patched around at the routing level ("sure, it's a valid base station, but if it's not on the list of paying customers it doesn't get packets"). It doesn't seem like there's a broader exploit against the network at all, beyond allowing the thing to attempt a DoS attack (something that is also always possible with jamming hardware, but very difficult in practice given the number of satellits).
perhaps ironically, it may be the chemicals in our environment and not dietary choices which are driving high obesity rates: https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-p...
Practically speaking, roughly 100% of those devices are fully regulator-approved and compliant with standards, because roughly 100% are running firmware from vendors who rely on regulatory approval.

Essentially 0% of those devices are user-controlled in the "I can make the radio do whatever I want" sense.
Atmosphere currently deploys Ceph out of the box on dedicated white-box hardware to allow you to get distributed & highly available storage out of the box without any dedicated appliances. However, one of the common things we’re seeing is Atmosphere users who want to make use of their existing infrastructure before migrating to something like Ceph.

Dell PowerStore arrays

Over the past few weeks, we’ve worked on adding the implementation of Dell PowerStore arrays to Atmosphere, this will allow you with a few simple modifications to have a fully tested and integrated solution that will leverage your existing storage array rather than deploy a new instance of Ceph.

We’ve done this by integrating a few things such as allowing for different CSIs for the Kubernetes cluster used for operating the cloud. The default is using RBD, powered by Ceph. It also allows you to switch to using the PowerStore CSI if you’re integrating with an existing array.

For Glance, we’ve instead switched up the integration to point towards storing images inside Cinder so that it can make use of the PowerStore array for storing all images. Finally, Cinder is configured to use PowerStore to create volumes there using either fiber channel or iSCSI.

We’ve validated all of this internally and we’ll continue to support this system. We’re happy to find ways to get our customers to be able to make use of their existing infrastructure to integrate into OpenStack and allow them to get the best experience to get bare metal, virtual machines & Kubernetes all in one simple solution.

For more information about how this works, check out the Atmosphere documentation that covers this topic specifically.

We’ve got a lot more updates on the way, so stay tuned and make sure to subscribe for more updates on news and feature updates.
Not good. Quality is gonna slip hard.
That's an interesting take! I think I agree with it. Of course every builder might not have the risk appetite for that but they could join an early stage startup as an alternative.
Just something to be aware of. For stuff like this – names of inventors etc. – it's best to look for corroboration in 20th-century (pre-Wikipedia) sources.

The same thing happened with the inventor of the hair straightener; Google and Wikipedia were fooled for years, giving names like Erica Feldman and Ian Gutgold, which had been inserted in Wikipedia to replace Madam C. J. Walker.

Google is after all not in the reference work business, but in the advertising business. It's happy enough to deliver information that's good enough for people to come back again and again.

Wikipedia is by and large based on the same principle. It contains some truly excellent content as well as a lot of dross.
There are many non criminal use cases for private electronic transactions - just as there are for cash.

So why is it a crime to build a thing that has both legal and illegal applications, like knifes, guns, dollar bills, gold coins, ... ?

And don't get me started with "Most activity on tornado is illegal". It is a privacy service. So unless it is broken we don't know this. Are we going to take the word of the "Authorities" for this?
It's 500 Internal Server Error for me.

Archived copy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220812135641/https://matt-rick...
Yes, but 99% of the makefiles you encounter in the wild comes from autotools.
Yeap.. I guess they breached some community guidelines or maybe was just a whim of some self serving mod.

edit: I've emailed HN for comment.
DrivethruRPG, DTComics, Wargamevault, etc. Always check out the deal of the day. Support indie creators and their passionate need to provide you with amazing memories...

Humble Bundle

Bundle of Holding

Google Play Books is IMO the most consumer-friendly standard ebook service overall right now, but I admit I don't really give as much attention to DRM factors in this area. Reviews from customers are not super helpful there so check elsewhere if you are a review-optimizer. But the deals are honestly really amazing; search for "the" or some favorite topic, enable price drops, set max price to .99 and ask yourself how much you care about DRM in these cases :D (I do care myself but it's a nuanced sort of caring). Their comics bubble navigation (swipe up) is great too. They don't take the price-obscuring approach Amazon does to upsell Kindle Unlimited or promote authors who pay more, or however Kindle's obscurantist search/browse is supposed to "work".

A weird issue with Google Play Books seems to be caching-related though...I often have to force quit and reload the app so I can view the items I just added to my wishlist xD

Project Gutenberg always...I have a daily excerpts page which draws from almost 500 of my favorites there (profile)

Oh and various other publishers like Evil Hat, Green Ronin, Steve Jackson Games, Troll Lord, Goodman Games, etc. Some of them host mind-blowing deals on their sites occasionally. IMO if you are a publisher you should always do this, it's one of the best ways to leverage being a small publisher in a big world.

Speaking of which, get on email newsletters for ebook publishers, they'll often include links to every service they sell on. If you like Star Trek books then get on Simon & Schuster's email list, this is like the best time in history to be a fan of Star Trek books... it's like a constant fire sale. Great strategy IMO.
I think it's the same as putting "truth" in quotes since we aren't actually talking about provable/verifiable things. Religion is all about faith which is literally believing in something that can't be proven, else we would call it facts/truth. The commenter is using all-caps to designate this as a word people are using incorrectly.
and pop press: https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/12/weather/california-megaflood-...
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As someone who is not familiar with this transit system, but familiar with my own....this is criminal ... I would have a fit to be charged for not using the service.....

we have a different system. timed tickets....or monthly passes or day passes....wtf is this robbery.

no offense...but this is the opposite of free market principles at work...this is straight extortion
As someone who was writing code 25 years ago... it crashed all the time and it was plenty non-essential. My OS crashed most days. Even phones crashed all the time. It's much better now.
Yeah, there is something deeply wrong about the whole thing... But what do we replace it with? (Out of desperation, perhaps, I even dreamt of a build system based on a C library, with the usage being, say,

tcc -run mybuild.c

:)
And if you optimize with something like gifsicle, you might be surprised at how small GIFs can wind up being: https://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/
It’s entertainment. Academia shouldn’t be entertainment, at least that is my opinion. I’ve seen more than a few erstwhile respected professors turn into talking heads without much substance by sudden media fame. One of the better stories was the one that started bringing in his own newspaper clippings to the universities media department in order to rank higher on the yearly media ranking. After that he rented an apartment near Harvard and bought Harvard professors lunch to publish the photos.

I think Bret rightfully treats it as a secondary career and that his patrons are very right to support him.
Perhaps there could exist a middle ground for cases where it does not risk significant "random" memory bloat and similar issues. I 100% think there are edge cases where laziness has value.

Although in your fromMaybe case couldn't you just have it generate short circuiting code under the hood instead of always evaluating? That isn't necessarily quite the same thing as laziness.
>the socioeconomic status of a person is already used as the basis for financial aid

Well you're getting no financial aid at all if your estranged from your abusive parents.

This is what happened to me, I did get some help, the rare times my mother wanted to cooperate. For the last year of college she didn't.

It would do better for society to completely ban affirmative action, but stop requiring parental income information on financial aid forms.

I've had so many friends, who had to run away from abusive homes, since their own parents liked to hurt them. As in like, one friend reflecting on her abusive relationship with her parents, said "Cops complicate things".

And when this happens, you don't want to document it. You don't want to build a massive paper trail, to prove you've been abused. Even if you can, getting a dependency override is ridiculously hard .

If you have abusive parents, society tells you no college for you until you're 24, unless you somehow mystically pull enough money out of your behind to pay out of pocket .

A black kid with a supportive single mother, even if they struggle, even if she barely makes minimum wage.

Is doing much better than an Asian kid with a parent who beats him. That's my point.

Affirmative Action ignores this.

I think domestic violence is so common , that we just need to give everyone a bit of help.

It doesn't matter what you look like.
A shell wrapper could do that, but Makefiles are a DSL to do exactly that with less boilerplate.
I think we have left this level a long time ago where one could answer:
The system is in a physically secured location. As long as there is no physical access it should be safe.

See mobiles like iPhones, gaming devices like XBox, Playstation etc. authenticators like chipcards or security token and HSM.
All have to asume that the attacker has physical access to the device.

Security Engineering Ch. 16 "Physical Tamper Resistance" is a good read for some special classes of devices.
But I would recommend all topics from this book even unrelated to this thread. ;)
It's an idea you can easily test and entirely depends on the thermal mass of the item. A well ventilated room can move heat away from food much faster than a fridge can simply because the fridge is heavily insulated and is comparatively poor at circulating air.

A quick experiment you can do is take a big pot of boiling water and put it in your fridge. Wait 5 minutes. The internal temp of fridge will now be hotter than room temp. At this point it's as if every item in your fridge is now sitting out in the sun. Every item is in the danger zone until the fridge cools that entire pot, which can take a few hours.
The builder pattern is imperative configuration.
I'm surprised this thread got so large without anyone mentioning Lotus Improv or Quantrix. Quantrix was the later re-implementation of Lotus by lighthouse design, after Lotus had canceled Improv.

Improv/Quantrix was a multidimensional spreadsheet, Each model could contain multiple tables, and of course multiple views. Formulas were separate from data, so it was easy to audit a model. Clicking on a formula (in 1991) showed you all the related input and output sources.

It was the first spreadsheet with pivot tables.

Of course since it's secretly a database down below, you could do databasey things like joins and group by. In 1991.

Videos of using Improv.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbsfvdZXE7s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbsfvdZXE7s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTko_Pt2ZZg
IANAL but if your website has indicated that the software is useful for circumventing the law (I don’t know if they did this) then I imagine it could be possible to make the argument that you’ve induced a lot of people to commit felonies while profiting from it directly.
Possibly. I don't yet follow what relationship this fact has to finding evidence of lower cancer rates. Is it maybe you were answering to some other reply?
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Of course; what I'm suggesting is that they would have simply used less ambiguous language like "working with" or "providing support to". Their weasely language suggests that they need plausible deniability because their insinuations may turn out to be baseless.
> In order to make activated charcoal with all its nooks and crannies, regular carbon sources are transformed in one of two ways: either physically or chemically.

> In physical activation, wood, coal, or any regular carbon source is first heated up to 600 to 900 degrees Celsius (1000 to 1600 degrees Fahrenheit) in a chamber filled with inert gas. The inert gas ensures that the carbon doesn’t burn. Instead, as the carbon is heated, any impurities left on it are vaporized and removed, leaving nothing but pure carbon.

> Next, the pure carbon is exposed to oxygen or steam baths at even higher temperatures. This causes the carbon to fracture and form the fractal shapes with their extremely large total surface area.

> In chemical activation, raw carbon sources are mixed with an acid, base, or a salt. The mixture is then heated. Chemical activation takes less heat and less time to achieve the end result, which makes it the method of choice for large scale activation.

Doesn't look "easily" to me but that's the first link google showed me (https://www.thinkcrucial.com/blogs/blog/how-activated-charco...)

What bothers me though is that our environment is changing so much and so fast that homo sapiens could not emerge tomorrow like they did first. No way a primate without culture or science is going to regularly scramble a charcoal filter to drink water.
Good old Selye. It's generally true that a stressor that doesn't overcome the body's capacity will result in adaptation toward future instances thereof.

Of course there are limits, as the idiot who tried working his way up from BBs to develop a bullet immunity learned the hard way.
So you have to decide which tribe he's in before you can decide if you agree?
I am also annoyed by this and just resort to an all English office installation most times. However, for the office user market it is a clear advantage. This way anyone can pick up the tool and discover.
Most crimes have what's called a 'Mens Rea' element, which means you had to have criminal intent. So before they knew the Taliban uses it, not a crime. Now that they know? Well, kind of a grey area. I bet you could construct an argument that they commited a crime if any NEW feature/code commit somehow benefits the Taliban after they knew the Taliban uses it. It's legal for me to sell someone a car. It's no longer legal for me to sell someone a car if I know they are paying in drug money or they need it to have a new 'anonymous' car while on the run from the police.

Funny story. Drug dealers try to do this with analogs. They will go to a lawyer and get the lawyer's opinion that whatever benzo/fentanyl derivative they are ordering from Alibaba does not fall under the Analogs rules. They then try to argue if arrested that this shows that they didn't have criminal intent and went to great lengths to make sure that what they imported was not illegal drugs and hence no Mens Rea. Don't try this. It doesn't work. You have not found that 'one secret the Feds hate'.