skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume if you did it to a cop and they didnt like it something might happen, but I've had it done to me several times and can say confidently: no, there are no consequences.

Edit: There are consequences for shops that modify vehicles: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/washin...

Feels very similar to the whole loud harley davidson thing, where it's supposedly illegal to make them louder, and yet you hear absurdly loud ones all the time.

Paris has also tried automating fines for loud cars: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/paris-try-using-sound-sensors...
That’s not what virtual memory is. That’s not what a bus is. That’s enough.
Wouldn't be surprised if banks or credit unions waved the fee as a benefit for their members
> … doesn’t mean Smalltalk, but the class-based horror used in Python or Java…

If you're suggesting Smalltalk is not class-based then what do you mean by "class-based" ?
It was for health reasons, this is well-documented in secondary sources [0] and primary sources [1].

[0]: https://www.eatthis.com/mcdonalds-french-fries-taste-differe...
[1]: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1990-07-24-900302...
There's no denying its entertainment value, but I agree, it does hold us back as a field of study where progress is sorely needed.

It's clear there's a lot of he-said she-said, with some truths mixed in, but what's clear is that the two sides are different paths in the road to the same destination. It's sad that we can't make it to the finish line as a team, but that's life, and that's okay.
Scientists unravel 'Hall effect' in next generation memory storage devices
Target audience is likely running it in a VM and behind a NAT, if they even have a copy of XP. SP3 wasn't as bad as folks remember, look into "slipstream" for the install.

Also, there are not swarms of infected XP machines around to attack as there were back in the day. Likely no active attacks for TB 1.0 as well.

Worst case something might sniff an email password from an old version of SSL. Don't log in to important accounts I'd say.
Decathlon is a French company, they are huge in France and many EU countries (basically the first brick-and-mortar go-to place to buy any sporting equipment if you're on budget, or just need to buy many sporting gear in one place), and the quality of everything they sell if remarkably high, given the low prices compared to the brand names, across all kinds of products.

If someone is copying someone else, it's those Chinese companies copying Decathlon IMO.
A couple of things. First, I used the phrase "debit card number" to basically mean, "they didn't have my physical card--but they did have the information to be able to use it."

Second, this happened circa 2004-2005. In the US, at the time, all card use was magnetic strip swipes. Debit cards occasionally used a pin at terminals equipped to do so; but, it wasn't a requirement and most use didn't involve the pin. As an example: a grocery store terminal at the cash register might require your pin; but, if you paid the bill at a restaurant, it would get swiped like any Visa/MC.

At the time, in an online setting, asking for additional information like CVV or using address for AVS wasn't standardized so not all merchants required anything beyond a card number and expiration date.

In that era, nearly everyone I knew had experienced a debit card or credit card stolen and used in this manner--and those with debit cards paid the extra price of actually losing our money for a time.
They fired the one guy who could have made this work overnight.
Writing apps and actually getting paid to do so, and then getting investors was a pretty nice motivator. Otherwise, just the ability to play with math using computers was motivating enough (e.g. visualize the behavior of the wave equation or calculate permutation groups)
Seems like weird timing to me, Dodge announced the end of production for the Charger earlier this week. Now this, but not announced as a replacement.
Another company would be free to hand TSMC money to build capacity. The Android market for cell phones is much larger than the iPhone market.
I don't get it. My minimal keyboards are for travel/mobile set ups. The whole point is to be able to throw it into a bag. This knob makes that impossible.
That should be fixed now
That's one issue with TDD. I agree 100% in that respect.

Another partly orthogonal issue is that design is important for some problems, and you don't usually reach a good design by chipping away at a problem in tiny pieces.

TDD fanatics insist that it works for everything. Do I believe them that it improved the quality of their code? Absolutely; I've seen tons of crap code that would have benefited from any improvement to the design, and forcing it to be testable is one way to coerce better design decisions.

But it really only forces the first-order design at the lowest level to be decent. It doesn't help at all, or at least not much, with the data architecture or the overall data flow through the application.

And sometimes the only sane way to achieve a solid result is to sit down and design a clean architecture for the problem you're trying to solve.

I'm thinking of one solution I came up with for a problem that really wasn't amenable to the "write one test and get a positive result" approach of TDD. I built up a full tree data structure that was linked horizontally to "past" trees in the same hierarchy (each node was linked to its historical equivalent node). This data structure was really, really needed to handle the complex data constraints the client was requesting. As yes, we pushed the client to try to simplify those constraints, but they insisted.

The absolute spaghetti mess that would have resulted from TDD wouldn't have been possible to refactor into what I came up with. There's just no evolutionary path between points A and B. And after it was implemented and it functioned correctly--they changed the constraints. About a hundred times. I'm not even exaggerating.

Each new constraint required about 15 minutes of tweaking to the structure I'd created. And yes, I piled on tests to ensure it was working correctly--but the tests were all after the fact, and they weren't micro-unit tests but more of a broad system test that covered far more functionality than you'd normally put in a unit test. Some of the tests even needed to be serialized so that earlier tests could set up complex data and states for the later tests to exercise, which I understand is also a huge No No in TDD, but short of creating 10x as much testing code, much of it being completely redundant, I didn't really have a choice.

So your point about the design changing as you go is important, but sometimes even the initial design is complex enough that you don't want to just sit down and start coding without thinking about how the whole design should work. And no methodology will magically grant good design sense; that's just something that needs to be learned. There Is No Silver Bullet, after all.
Antiviral activity of natural phenolic compounds against SARS-CoV-2
Antiviral activity of natural phenolic compounds in complex at an allosteric site of SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease

Abstract

SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease (PLpro) covers multiple functions. Beside the cysteine-protease activity, facilitating cleavage of the viral polypeptide chain, PLpro has the additional and vital function of removing ubiquitin and ISG15 (Interferon-stimulated gene 15) from host-cell proteins to support coronaviruses in evading the host’s innate immune responses. We identified three phenolic compounds bound to PLpro, preventing essential molecular interactions to ISG15 by screening a natural compound library. The compounds identified by X-ray screening and complexed to PLpro demonstrate clear inhibition of PLpro in a deISGylation activity assay. Two compounds exhibit distinct antiviral activity in Vero cell line assays and one inhibited a cytopathic effect in non-cytotoxic concentration ranges. In the context of increasing PLpro mutations in the evolving new variants of SARS-CoV-2, the natural compounds we identified may also reinstate the antiviral immune response processes of the host that are down-regulated in COVID-19 infections.

Press release in german:

https://www.uni-hamburg.de/newsroom/presse/2022/pm43.html
I'm sorry, I meant no disrespect. I agree inflation is a very real issue, my comment only meant to question whether it's going to continue to be a long-term issue and whether it's an indicator of a broader economic downturn or not.
Pedestrian noisemakers are for safety.
> Is server authroity and broadcast permissions handled or left as a task for the user? Can channels be locked down to a list of users?

Broadcast permissions is currently not handled by the server and left to the developer to implement. We have discussed this internally and will prioritize Broadcast authorization accordingly because we've gotten feedback about this from a number of developers.

> Can users be kicked from a channel?

Not at the moment but again we've gotten feedback about this as well and will prioritize it.

> Is message spam/flooding/DDOSing users in a channel protected?

We have built rate limiting and other protections so bad actors don't affect the good in the cluster. A colleague of mine posted these limitations of Supabase Realtime to prevent abuse: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32511586.
In my experience it’s used more and more as a proxy term for a “generalist”.

You should feel comfortable to work across different layers of a stack, whatever that stack is.

Edit: one clear difference I noticed between full stack and non-full stack engineers is that the former are often required to navigate problems that require architectural fluency.
Drag Coefficient of .35 (vs Model 3 of .23) and a whole bunch of extra weight for this crap is likely to result in very poor range.

Why are legacy auto makers wasting time on this sort of stuff?
I want to like this, because lots of outdoor gear from reputable companies makes me wonder if they even test it, and markups are something like 4x (2x from China to wholesale, 2x wholesale to retail). But first you need to buy a sewing machine, and then there are the materials. You will be paying small-volume prices for a dozen or so items before you make something like a pack.

Have you ever thought to build your own piece of furniture, gone to Home Depot for the parts, and come out thinking you could have just bought one pre-made for about the same cost? Unless you have specialized needs and some free time, it usually isn’t worth it.
The World Has Passed ‘Peak Agricultural Land’
God, the web really peaked around 2004 or so didn't.
Why would you in this analogy? The entire point of the distinction is you can't just temporarily add the mechanic's key to the driver's door, ignition, and bonnet.
I like TDD. It’s just a tool on our tech belt. If done right (takes practice and open mind tbh) the major benefit is you have code that is single responsibility and easy to understand, isolate, or modify.

We have so many things on our tech belt, like clean architecture or x pattern. This is just another tool, and I think it helps especially in building complex software.

Just be practical and don’t try to be “the 100%er” who is super rigid about things. Go into everything with a 80/20 mindset. If this is something mission critical and needs to be as dependable as possible, then use the tools best suited for it. If you’re literally putting buttons on the screen which Product is going to scrap in two weeks, maybe use TDD for the code responsible for dynamically switching code based on Product mindset that week.
I was not comparing utility, only disconnect ability.
>why the downvotes?

The blog post wasn't recommending putting your credentials into ancient software. It said if you're feeling adventurous you could fiddle around with it yourself by downloading it from the archives.
Apple neither has a dominant position in cell phones or computers.
Can anyone enlighten how you would go about producing something like this? How do I even meet a pcb designer? How would I the product made, contact someone on AliExpress?
Challenger is done soon too, I think.
Show HN: I created a JavaScript guitar amp emulator
Hi HN,

I made a plug and play amp emulator using web-audio interface and javascript (Vue.js).

you can plug-in your guitar and your guitar will be distorted. I added a clean and a distortion channel and some presets.

Please try it out and I hope you have fun!
I am a betting man, and I bet all the major banks, Venmo, PayPal, Zelle will all go to court, probably all the way to the supreme court (or does it go to Senate now?) to rule that this is beyond the powers of the Fed.

We will either implement nothing or we will implement a system that lets all these companies profit.

Meanwhile every major country in the world solved this issue 8+ years ago.
Where is the T cell immunity? People are on their fourth and fifth infections now. If there were strong T cell protection we wouldn't see constant reinfection.

T cells will save us has been a big coping strategy from people trying to claim the pandemic is over too soon. Hucksters like Monica Ghandi have been saying T cells will save us for years now.

When... when will it happen I ask. Over a million dead bodies and people still racking up infections. Back up to an average of 500 people dying a day even in our summer lull right now, and it's climbing again.

Where is the T cell protection?
It doesn't mean foregoing all potentially annoying activities, it just means mutual respect. If you sing loudly enough to bother others and are asked to cut it out, a "deal with it" response is basically an anti-social tantrum. As much as you like the sound of your voice, not everyone else does. Deal with it.

It goes both ways, indeed. Good luck if you're ever my neighbor, you just might have to move;)

PS are you actually comparing singing to having children?
Quick thoughts in no particular order:

- nice design, something I'd love to have sitting on my desk

- like the raised look of some keys -- would have to try them out to see what it feels like

- really like the look of the rotary dial, BUT having something stick out does make it harder to slip into a pouch/bag. Also, thinking about the ergonomics of that, you have to lift your hand, move it away from you into the right corner and do a twisting movement. Not a speedy enough action to get much use, IMO. A scroll-wheel would be easier.

- pairing with 2 devices is great (essential these days)

- split keyboard is a deal-breaker for me personally; helps avoid inflammation in my shoulders / wrists (I use a Logitech K860)

- programmable f-keys?

- backlight would be very helpful at least along the f-key row (even for touch typists)

(edited/reformatted; can we get markdown in HN, please?)
Is UPI a protocol, an interface/set of messages, or is it an actual payment rail?

Like, could I use a credit card with UPI?
And you can get Beer from a vending machine.
They also switched from beef tallow to vegetable shortening for the fryers, perhaps for the sake of vegetarians.
IIUC, banks can choose which other banks to interface with, provided that both banks are connected to the same clearinghouse. For example, I think some Netherlands banks still choose to limit instant payments only to other NL banks.
> As someone else here said, fab nodes are more like Lego blocks than a printer’s dpi – moving a design to a new node means rebuilding it in terms of the new node’s building blocks, not just “shrinking the design”.

This is true but 'rebuilding' specifically refers to producing a new chip layout (i.e. the thing you send off to the fab to manufacture). This can be a lot of work but is all 'back-end' work. You begin with the RTL giving the logical/functional design of the chip and implementation engineers push it through synthesis, place and route etc to produce a physical chip layout. This is what you have to redo, you can just start with the exact same RTL.

When you design that RTL with a particular node in mind you can likely achieve better performance/area but it's not essential to do so.

Plus when you want to do the back-end work you need a fairly complete design to work from. So for instance Apple could be getting a back-end team to build a 3nm M2 now whilst the front end design team are busy working on the M3 (specifically targeted and optimized for 3nm).
No it isn't. All of the major banks allow Zelle transfers of anywhere between $2500 to $5000 a day.
"invasion"?

what do you mean exactly? you meant reunification? i don't see how that could be a problem, we do business with China already, it would just become one of their state, you can still trade with them

Or you meant as a result the US would not be able to steal the fabs, tech and workforce? (and by steal i mean purchase, just like we write about how China is stealing our tech when they purchase patents or by other deep internal means)

Samsung is in a worse position than intel, not only it is Korean, and they have problems with their northern neighbor, as well as with Japan, but they also got hit by the anti-competitive behavior and trade war from the US, and were told to stop development of their in-house chip (Exynos), to place Qualcomm as a western leader, despite their poor tech

https://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/71rjyx/why_exynos_...

And i'm not sure if The Verge is a trustable source, they either have insider knowledge or their source is manipulative, because that contradicts with the Exynos story

If what they claim is true, then that'll be interesting to see if their "promise" can become a reality, time will tell

But as a matter of fact, still nothing is happening in the west, and that was my entire point
If you pay me £30000 and give me 3 months, and work with me to determine how your current designs look like, and what your current workflow is, I can make a react based environment for you to do your designs in just as quickly. If you pay me £60000, I do it in 2 months.
The productivity rate went through the roof when we ditched TDD. TDD has a bit of the same problem as strict DDD. You spend a lot of time making upfront decisions about things that does not really matter or you don’t know about.

I see unit tests as a tool to be used where it makes sense and I use it a lot. It is true that testable code is better. Testability should be a factor when selecting tech.
All? No. A lucky few? Absolutely.
At the University I'm associated with, there was a discussion about why more 'practical' classes weren't taught. The answer was 'We're not a trade school.'
What about Dvorak is a bad habit?
The majority of high end EVs are muscle cars. Tesla, Lucid, Rivian are all shipping 500-1000HP cars with the drag race times front and center on the marketing page.
imo Zelle has a horrible user experience. I tried paying my rent with Zelle at one place and it showed up as "pending" for 6 days. On the 7th, the payment failed and I had to call a phone number to find out why: The recipient was not signed up for Zelle. Or more likely he had signed up, but became unenrolled somehow.

... Really? You couldn't figure that out any sooner? ACH or a paper check would have been faster.

Maybe they've ironed out the kinks these days, but I'm sure Zelle would have been bigger news if it worked well from the start.
>A new 3nm M2 Pro chip is rumored to be in the works, and we could see it as early as this fall.

There’s an M2 Pro chip and an M3 chip in the works, according to industry publication DigiTimes.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/apple-to-deliver-3nm...
A facile comparison. Slightly better than "Go doesn't have templates, so I don't like it", but not much. It's also 5 years old.

This article considers each difference (from plain C) in isolation. It does not consider Go as a system. For example, it lists Go's variable declaration as a mere difference. Considering "var i uint64" in isolation keeps the reviewer from nothing that syntax allows easier developer deciphering of the type, and the syntax allows faster compilation - no weird lexer -parser feedback is required, and as I understand it, lets the parser use a faster algorithm. This encourages better Go tooling as well. Easier parsing leads to more implementations, and more tools like gopls, and the multitude of Go linters.

Just listing "differences" with a little isolated commentary utterly misses the point
I didn't mean to give off a faux-naif vibe. I'm aware that people are concerned about market consolidation as such, but I'm not impressed. Anti-monopolists like Stoller lack rigor. They often zoom in and out of geographical focus to make their points, carve industries and products up in bizarre ways to do the same, and typically make their case on short time horizons.

I promise, I hate, e.g., the local cable internet monopoly as much as anyone, but Starlink and our municipal fiber initiative are going to crush them. That's not to say there's never a role for government intervention, but I think we're all much better off approaching the exercise of that power with caution, and more likely to make headway against the purported social ills if we stop shadowboxing against consolidation.

Regarding the beer industry, the article you linked from TheWeek[0] is mostly hand-waving. Put aside the fact that I can (and do) buy %90 of my beer now from one of the dozen local to local-ish New England breweries near my small town. Put aside the fact that I have more options than ever, at competitive inflation-adjusted prices [1]. It makes the case that several giants dominate the mass-market beer business, fine. But what are the harms of that consolidation? It alleges:

- "a long decline in beer prices reversed over the last few years" (see my footnote 1)

- "AB InBev [one of the beer giants] is even buying up beer reviewing websites and delivery operations now." and "if a massive brewer can own a stake in a major beer rating site, it could well influence what beers that outfit recommends to customers in the first place." (emphasis mine)

And that's it. The stake in the review website is kind of gross, I agree, but I find that hard to lay at the feet of market consolidation.

0. https://theweek.com/articles/736059/what-beer-reveals-about-...

1. The 2017 NYT article linked by TheWeek is evidence against this, but only weak evidence. I didn't have time to dig deeply into it, but noticed that it raises the alarm based on a small price increase over a very short timescale. Moreover, it merely assumes that consolidation is driving that price increase.
Yep, this is what I meant. Updated original comment, thanks.
Cracking the Security Engineer Interviews
What does A2A stand for?
Same as drilling the third hole or any other noncompliance with a non-trivial federal law. If you commercially facilitate it the feds will screw you as hard as they can politically justify at that particular time. If you do it as an individual then they'll probably ignore you but if you make it easy for them to bring a case they'll charge you with something that has a lot of prison time and let you settle for big fines.

Edit: Drilling the third hole = colloquial expression for altering a firearm in a manner that violates federal law.
That was very helpful, thanks!
You could combine the 2. Electrify well used lines and use the battery for the last (150) mile(s).

It makes more sense with trolley buses where the urban cores are busier than outlying parts, could work for trains too though to a lesser extent.
As an employee, too. Can't be fun to work under such ineffectual management...
Yup, billing looks like that, and that should change. I use electricity continuously. I use water continuously. And so on.