skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming you are wanting to block bots and allow real interactive humans: these are not perfect

One option - Make your own custom silly captcha. e.g. Picture of a motorcycle and the person has to type in motorcycle. Or say "What is 2 + 2 X 2". Or "What is the average unladen speed of a swallow?" but that last one may eliminate many guests.

Another option - On a landing page, list the username and password for basic auth set on a sub-set of URL's that has your semi-sensitive data.

Another option - Restrict the site to HTTP/2.0. Most bots can't talk 2.0 yet. Bing can. Google can't. Discord and Steam can't. Most of the blog-spam and malware bots can't. Real browsers can talk HTTP/2.0. Another thing that breaks some bots is enforcing strict-SNI.

Another option, though not super effective - Restrict the semi-sensitive content to having a valid referrer. Easy to spoof and some bots will spoof. Along this line one can block a set of known bot user-agents. Again, super easy to spoof and Google intentionally spoofs on a percentage of requests to look like Android phones and to test if you are giving different data to search engines.

Another option though much less effective - Add robots.txt entries but many search engines will still crawl and index the data, but won't show it in public results. Robots shows intent but enforces nothing and not all search engines obey it. It is good practice to have this anyway. Archive.org partially obeys robots, in that they crawl but will hide results if you tell them to. Once your robots is gone or your site is offline for a while they will unhide the data.
stackoverflow + Google
It was a brilliant book, but I feel it's too stuck in the early 90s to recommend today. It's a pity.
I had a friend who worked at Stanley Tools as a mechanical engineer after college. What they said about how tools were wholly sourced from random factories with no design or engineering done by Stanley was one of the first things that made me realize brands mean nothing.
Actually there still are a lot of Windows ECUs in the wild. I analyzed the update packets of newer cars than mine (equipped with Uconnect) finding even sndrec.exe and the default page of IIS!
Fortunately my company produces Linux-based ECUs, and we use Windows only for Autosar stuff.
I switched video cards recently. The right command was "mhwd -Ia" or something.

Then, I tried pairing some Bluetooth headphones with a USB dongle that has regressed default firmware. Not only had everything changed, I hadn't even heard of the deprecated programs. The only cli tools I used from memory were "sudo", " dmesg", "grep" and "ln/rm/etc".
It's kinda funny when the website talking about high availability becomes ... not available.
when comparing with Darpanet, blockchain has been wildly successful and growing at a very fast pace, compressing 40 years of activity into just 10. But when thinking about just the WWW +10 years, then blockchain is only growing at a moderate pace.
No, cadmium is there, it's supposedly for getting it to stay lit longer. But it's there to be addictive too, it gives them the metallic flavor they have when you smoke one after a long abstinence. Like smoking a battery or some shit. That's the cadmium, battery metal by the way, and it is apparently a naturally addictive element.
Tool brands don't mean much anymore. Cheap and expensive tools are made on the same production line. I bought a set of GearWrench ratcheting spanners a few years ago and got a 16mm "Husky" spanner in the middle of the set.
> Why do you have such an interest in questioning other commenter's motivations?

You’re arguing for a status quo that needs radical change in the face of looming ecological disaster. No one else commenting defending microplastics like you are here talking like this is all okay. What is there to gain by this?
If you like that, you'll love this: http://blackpeopleloveus.com/
The North American Monsoon
My $0.02: Price high with generous free trial, and promote in niche places (like HN)
> So what?

Using the "folder" mental model leads to exactly the bugs in TFA. "Oh, the root folder can only be accessed by root, so if I put a file _inside_ that folder it will be protected". Thats not how it works.

> And you could easily have file access permissions depend on the directory if you wanted to.

No, because you can have multiple links in multiple directories all pointing to the same file.
Well, "withdraw in local currency, exchanged with a fair market conversion rate" is very far from "cash withdrawals are banned" or "can't do pretty much anything". And if you need cash, you can easily exchange that rubles back to good old USD cash with a 5% to 10% premium.

Furthermore, SWIFT is not entirely blocked, it is just prohibitively complex and expensive for ordinary people now.
>> "What if the city builds infra near my land that makes it effective now to develop? Should I pay more tax now?"

> Yes, you should.

Doesn't this make NIMBYism even more tempting? I've got to be against any changes near my land, because it's going to increase my taxes and push me to move. In addition to not liking change in general.
That sounds almost like manslaughter charges are in order. It’s one thing if there was nobody there to them, the relatives told them what might be happening and it seems like they just rushed through with it.

This would be worse in the US system without an integrated medical records system. Somebody might feel like their quality of life is not worth living for because they might have stopped taking their medication. Unless a relative tell the doctors that this patient was seeing such and a doctor for depression and abruptly stopped taking their meds a random busy hospital in the city could rubber stamp the approval and kill the patient.
The comment got edited, you just happened to see it after.
I wonder what the phenomenon is then?
Wouldn't owning USD also protect against this?
Code is free speech though. The rules and expectations the western world has set around speech doesn’t align with sanctions that target code and open source software. The sanctions are not against an individual person, and it isn’t clear yet why the developer was arrested. If it was for knowingly publishing open source software, that would be scary.
American schools are so authoritarian, it's no wonder we are having such a problem preserving faith in our system of democracy in the United States. In public schools, the word of unelected random adults is law, the rules are completely arbitrary, students have no right to privacy, no freedom of movement, sometimes not even control over how they dress or who they speak to. If an American public school was a country, it'd be Putin's Russia, and that only because of the pretense of meaningless "student government".

Maybe if we wanted people to believe that the political system of this country made sense and was worth protecting, we would structure our education system to reflect its alleged values.
How are you SSHing out on the Remarkable? I would be interested in picking one up for this use case.
It's an insightful video, however it doesn't mention the possibility that workers can be exploited through unfair wages, work hours or conditions, so that the various parts of the pencil industry can cut higher margins. Choosing an economic system vs another isn't enough.
Google used to have this.

https://web.archive.org/web/20101126162900/http://www.google...
Non-tech / news / business:

The Guardian Long Read - excellent long-form investigatory journalism from my favourite news source

The Guardian Today in Focus - analysis of news topics; keeps me up to date

Wall Street Breakfast - Recent headlines on financial markets by Seeking Alpha
I’d still support the labeling. I like seeing prop 65 on things as it helps me reflect on my consumerism (and when I notice it on foodstuffs).
I think it would be great if using trademarks as standalone labels were prohibited, and a company had to label everything it produced with its own name. So there would be (Stanley/Dewalt, Stanley/Bostich, Stanley/BlackAndDecker) making it apparent they were all made by the same company, rather than letting a handful of companies confuse the market by creating a simulation of competition.

Also battery compatibility. What cordless tool manufacturers have done creating incompatible battery connectors should be flat out illegal. There is absolutely no reason for it besides undermining the market by creating artificial lock in monopolies.
pihole is great, it sucks how many hours I have to spend to have both Android Pay and root on my phone in order to never encounter ads, I wish it wasn't some sort of an alien concept in 2022 to control the devices you own
S3 is itself a distributed system, so yeah. You've got the two generals problem, it's distributed.
It would help because:

A: his money would be on the blockchain where it's unable to be seized by the bank.

B: as Bitcoin is a world currency it's unlikely would face inflation to the level that the local currency has

C: if he was unable to change Bitcoin into the local currency to pay for the medical procedures, he could transact with someone like a money changer instead

This scenario is kind of the whole reason the Bitcoin exists
This article doesn't talk about "walking" though. It talks about two things - jaywalking, i.e. walking in places designed for motor vehicle traffic, and minor children walking on public street unaccompanied by adults. While both have arguments in favor of current regulation being excessive (the latter probably has much stronger case, my whole generation's childhood is "child endangerment" by these laws, I wonder how we survived) - you comment implies it's about generic walking and racial angle, which it is not.
Echo Darknet Diaries - it’s very good.
For those who missed the news... https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/12/nyregion/polio-nyc-sewage...
Similarly, I’m much more selective about how I spend my time but learning things doesn’t seem especially harder.
It is possibe to have the cookimg surface in a cast iron pan smoothed and in my experience, worth it.
Yes, Lebanese people with foreign bank accounts were probably better off. But not all USD-denominated accounts are necessarily safe (it depends on the country), and sometimes it might be hard to open an account.
People who stick all their money into weird schemes like that take on a ton of risk.

If you hold btc and hold your keys you're fine
Hi, thank you so much, I really appreciate it!

Skimmed through the episode titles, looks like there is some meat inside, will give it a go tonight.

It's kind of amazing to me how important this topic is and how much fake or dishonest info floats around, seems like so many people are just virtue signalling and care mostly about making profit off of it.
[3] used to be decent but it‘a really turned into quantity over quality. He podcasts every day, but it’s filled with ads and promotions.
> September 11, 2001 - the inevitable happenned in an oh so glorious way

What's going on with the footer of your site?
> Sometimes this is actually forced by fiduciary duty.

No, it’s never forced. That’s a meme.
Doing the minimum or being lazy is pretty bad advice. The smart move is to educate yourself on how to organize a union and put together a game plan. This is what corporations are really afraid of and that is because it's the one thing that gives you power. Get bent with the Bolshevik revolution crap. The goal isn't to end up in a worse place.
I wish that I felt comfortable hacking my new $50k car but I’m glad you do. I usually break stuff I hack.
The problem with such taxes are that the proposed tax amounts are never actually high enough to account for the damage done. Should the tax be equivalent to the amount required to reverse the damage? This is assuming the damage is going to or can be repaired.

For carbon emissions, I think the case for a tax is fairly clear, since we _can't_ just outright ban emissions, the harm is 100% known, and we can even estimate the cost of reversing the emissions through carbon capture.

For these chemicals, it seems much less clear. The uncertainty is so great I don't think I could estimate an appropriate tax rate. The danger is that the alternatives presented are a ban, and a low tax that wouldn't solve the problem. Vested interests would push for the second option and present the problem as solved.
I came here to ask if anyone could remember this weird handlettered book on BASIC which illustrated all kinds of concepts including linked lists using arrays of boxes and arrows. I believe this must have been it unless there’s another book that was like this. I vividly remember as a kid reading all these different books about computers and programming. I found that I had to read a bunch of books in order to find the right mix of explanations that gelled in my mind. Instead of reading one or two books on BASIC and getting frustrated, I probably read a dozen. This one really appealed to my visual brain.
> Gojira is three syllables total, go-ji-ra (or non-standard older go-dzi-lla; never god-zil-la for Japanese -- it does not rhyme with deities).

Aha, okay, that's what I was thinking; I was confused by the phrasing that Wikipedia used (i.e. "the product name comes from the second syllable") and assumed that meant that "jira" was a single syllable (the second), and thought that I might be missing something about how the pronunciation works. It sounds like I was just misreading the Wikipedia quote though, so thanks for bearing with my confusion and explaining it!
I think that a lot of technical books are written from the perspective of already knowing the material or expecting a particular learning path. A lot of important details or framing get left out. The technique of reading multiple sources is very clever because it can fill in these defects - I think I might have subconsciously done this in the past and not fully realized why it worked.
> Sometimes this is actually forced by fiduciary duty.

There’s no way that “run the company into the ground” is fulfilling a fiduciary duty.

Please stop repeating this tired meme.
When you branch out you can see some quality differences, especially in tolerances, heat treatment, hardness, etc.

The most expensive brands (snap on, etc) aren't always best, but the cheap stuff is almost always not very good. Some clear correlations by country too, good stuff coming out of Taiwan, Germany, Japan and still some from the US.
Do the police and bank employees not also suffer under this system?
Perun has debunked these ideas spreading around as clickbait

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC3ehuUksTyQ7bbjGntmx3Q
> you can still use shred, despite the usage of journaled filesystems

The docs say otherwise. Journaled filesystems and SSDs are both noted.

https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/shre...
I thought its obvious I was sarcastic here by „not partitioning czechoslovakia” part because thats opposite of what he supported: partially partitioning Czechoslovakia to appease Hitler.
One of my favorite memories of Google:

Seeing Salman Rushdie waiting in line at the No Name Cafe (it's called something else now).
In this specific case, perhaps yes, but in most cases where your country is collapsing you will also want to cross borders. Your cash is likely to be confiscated.
This is user error. Comcast doesn't care.
If it doesn’t load for you either: https://web.archive.org/web/20220813225258/https://bluedotli...
Seems to be hugged to death. Archive link: https://archive.ph/TVNNY
Infographic is missing Hitachi. I assume they are on their own then?
My understanding is Milwaukee is still engineered in the States. Their FUEL line (brushless, high end) is very well respected for most tools.
Our most used cast iron skillet had a tenacious crust of burned-on grease and carbon that had collected over the years, and because the surface of the bottom of the pan was no longer smooth, many foods would stick. Initially I thought the unevenness was the result of corrosion, but no. I took a sturdy stainless steel spatula to it and with quite a bit of elbow grease over a few days managed to scrape off all the crust and get down to the smooth surface underneath. Now anytime anything sticks and the surface isn't perfectly smooth, I use the spatula with a little water and Dawn dishwashing liquid and quickly scrape until it's smooth again (it's easy to feel with the spatula), followed by my normal routine anytime we use the pan: drying the pan with a dishcloth and then by heating it on the stove, wiping the surface with a few drops of olive oil, and leaving the pan on low heat for a few minutes before hanging it back up on the pot rack. Works great!
Science Hoaxes, Spoofs, and Nerd Jokes
>There are many, many people who feel just like he does and are already on the edge, after having been shit on by banks and bank employees for 2 years now. Bank employees humiliate people, as it became a kind of Stanford Experiment.

Are bank employees actually mistreating people, or are they simply refusing to help?
I've been around the internet long enough to spot poorly researched, ghost written "content" and this is bottom tier.
How would you pay your lawyer?
I've cooked on most types of stove: gas (butane, propane, natural gas), electric (coil stove, solid disc resistor, glass top halogen, glass top induction), a few older styles (cast iron wood stove, kerosene camp stove, straight up campfire). I consider myself a pretty proficient home cook. My thoughts on the stove types:

- Gas is overrated. The excess heat it generates indoors is not worth whatever benefits it has. The heat on the sides of pans can sometimes be helpful, but perhaps more often is a hindrance - have to make sure to scrape the sides of pots thoroughly and regularly when making a cream sauce, for example. I don't find gas to boil water faster than an electric cooktop. I usually use an electric kettle for 2/3 of the water with coil and gas stoves, but I don't have to bother with induction. Small portable gas burners (as made by eg Iwatani) are quite handy to have around for those times you really want the advantages of Gas (a bbq or grill would serve same purpose).

- Induction is great, except for wok cooking. Specialized induction wok burners do exist, but are still pretty specialized pieces of equipment. 120v induction hotplates are not so good (but not as bad as coil ones). One thing I don't like about induction is they tend to have some electronic whine when operating - presumably as they switch on and off to regulate heat output. I dislike how complicated the electronics are - when something goes wrong, they're so expensive to repair that it's barely worthwhile.

- Coil stoves are decent, as long as they have a 220V supply - 120v coils, eg hot plates, are awful. I appreciate their ruggedness and simplicity - it's basically a wire from the wall, through a potentiometer, to a big resistor.

- Solid disc resistance stoves are awful

- Cooking on a wood stove is not practical usually, but it can give a nice home-y feel, especially if you're simmering some Apple Cider or Mulled Wine.
I have one from le creuset for my steaks, but every single time I use it, I find it dangerous:

- it's really heavy, you really need two hands to take them sometimes if the food is heavy

- the handle is so small, and that plastic to protect the handle from the heat does not feel safe

- Keep the heat too long, sometimes I forget it is hot and burned myself

Non-sticky pan are quite light. I need to change mine soon (because the teflon is gone now). Maybe some have some recommendation of better cast iron?
Yeah, and the legendary: “Enter your credit card details here to see if it has been stolen.”
The A-10 is more likely susceptible to AA systems, but the point is that they come in later, after the AA sites have been neutralized by systems like the F-22/35 and advanced anti-radar missiles. MANPADs would probably still pose a threat to them though.

But as you say, these systems are intended to be part of a combined arms strategy and generally war fighting capabilities need to be applied for their intended purpose in concert to create an asymmetric advantage. This is one area where the US military is a clear leader. Other world powers have not been tested or are failing miserably like Russia.
Some of the companies I mentioned were using some of the tools you mentioned. You don't necessarily avoid the price shock with tiered pricing models. It just means there's a step function and if some change does unexpectedly put you over the next threshold that just became some relatively senior people's #1 problem today.
Send them back with a legal-looking note "I paid for this phone, legally it is mine and not the child's. As you are a government institution, any request to view it either comes with a warrant, or pre-reading payment of $1,000,000 for every character in the message which you intend to read. Your receipt and acknowledgement of this letter counts as a binding agreement to these terms."

If they want to play a foolish game, play it right back and watch them falter. My father had lots of fun doing this when I was in school, as most admin-level people don't know what truly is legal and what is not.
> ifconfig, netstat, route

Some distros deprecated those tools but they're still alive.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/net-tools/
Ukraine's cyber chief comes to Black Hat in surprise visit
> congrats, you just invented capitalism.

No, thats not capitalism but trade. You need to read up on what actually is capitalism and how accumulation of useful resources (wheat, cocoa, spice) is different from accumulation of money. Basically: it only makes sense inasmuch as you can consume the accumulated stuff, so a million ton of wood logs won't matter as much as one million ton of coins.

> This sounds like a very natural thing to do, almost like it would arise on its own without anyone having to _force_ this on anyone, as opposed to literally every other economic system, including your definition.

You're still thinking in a capitalistic world and you don't seem like you can't get out of it. The whole point of alternative economic systems is to produce enough for everybody. Such that needs are provided by the community. If everyone has what they need, why would there be a price on anything ? Why would more-than-enough wheat trade against more-than-enough wood ? It doesn't make sense. Trade happens because it's a way to solve scarcity, but the whole idea behind anarchism is to understand what is needed and make sure there is no scarcity there.

> In your “anarchism” how do you enforce the non-ownership of the means of production except by force? Do you force the farmer not to grow anything?

In anarchism, all decisions are taken by everyone. No one forces anything on anyone. I know, it's a hard concept to grasp, but communities can think and decide what's best for them.

The farmer can grow whatever they want, but if it doesn't benefit the community then they are on their own. It's all about what is good for the group and what makes us go forward, together.
If we keep the internet free and anonymous, there is no way to stop people from reading your public data and using it however they want to.

That being said, put it in the ToS and pray for the best.
Hopefully juries exist in Lebanon and they understand how to nullify.
Maybe I'll just show my algebraic ineptitude, but how do you know that g' restores "everything else"? I get that gg' = I, of course, but gT*g'? Rubik cube algebra isn't commutative, is it?
So you have a well-established account from years ago that doesn't have a phone number. Congrats. Now try to get a new account to protect your identity.
Article claims "Chinese hacker group Cicada used VLC to deliver malware". Any insights from Videolan.org?
Do you mean "how am I SSHing to the remarkable"? That's pretty straightforward - follow https://remarkablewiki.com/tech/ssh. I'm just doing it from my laptop. You don't have to SSH though, you can plug a keyboard in as well but that's a little more involved.