skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sometimes having a place for responsible disclosure just opens yourself up to doing more paperwork

100% this. And it bites harder when you’re a scrappy time constrained startup, or just offering a public service.

I maintain a public API that returns public information- observable facts about the world. As such, the API doesn’t have any authn/z. Anyone can use it as little or as much as they want, free of charge.

Of course I get at least 1 email per year telling me my API is insecure and that I should really set up some OAuth JWT tokens and blah blah blah.

I used to reply telling them they are wrong but it gets hostile because they want money for finding the “vulnerability”.

On the flip side, at another company I once got a security@ email that sounded like a false alarm. I quickly wrote it off and sent a templates response. Then they came back with screenshots of things that shocked me. It was not a false alarm. That guy got paid a handsome sum and an apology from me for writing him off.
I'm a software architect, I write code every day, I design every day, I write documents every day, and I report to the VP and CTO every day.

I have met other architects that claim they "don't code" and honesty don't understand how they can make decisions and reduce risk without that background. Most of the time I have a solution because I've been there and done that.

I view my role as one that has the expertise to bring the engineering team to the next level, because if I did all the work - it would just be one person instead of many. I constantly try to unblock, solve hard problems, and reduce entropy - and let the creativity flow to the rest of the team.

This has worked for me, as a software architect, for almost a decade.
> The downside might be people need to move inland.

There's a lot of human suffering underneath that anodyne phrase. Deadly storms and refugee camps and all the rest.

The trouble isn't the final temperature, it's the speed of the change. Given tens of thousands of years ecosystems can adapt. Change the climate in a few decades, though, and many species will just die. We aren't going to know all the consequences of that biodiversity loss until it's too late to fix.

You're absolutely right however that there's a narrow band of temperatures consistent with a habitable Earth. Which is why research into tools we might need to stay in that range is a good thing.
Ah I see, yea I’m not from around there either, so maybe things got mixed up in the article because I totally missed that they were hiking in Olympic park. Hopefully the girls didn’t need to eat the unexpected hotel stay, wherever it was.
I thought this was going to resemble Jumping Flash.

Make a 1.5D and open the viewport up. I wanna play that version haha.
This sounds like something straight from The Simpsons.
Fairly sure Xero use NetSuite (or did- maybe they've since moved) and apparently went to great lengths at the time to make the invoice look like it was generated from Xero.

At least they aren't hiding that anymore.
Brazil court fines Apple, orders to sell iPhone with charger
Lmao that makes sense.

I don’t for one second believe that there are half as many people in there as are playing L4D2.
they aint liquid until they vest and by the time they vest you'd be lucky to have a job so no - nobody in their right mind would go with small crypto startup now
This is already happening for small useful smart contracts / dapps like https://tokentool.app/
that's fuckin true
I think the U.S. federal government is working on a payment system. At first it will just work between banks. I dunno if that means consumers can use it between their banks or if it means B2B bank transactions, but they are working on something (and I recall it’s close).

Edit: FedNow, May 2023, pricing not yet released. It is for business and consumers
You should use quotation marks when quoting.
"You must do something with personal financial consequences if you want to start investigating Apple" isn't a workable improvement.
You're narrowing the range of things that you're describing to not include "normal fast". This can be useful for a variety of reasons. You might be instructing people to skate extra fast this game, while avoiding implying that they usually don't meet the criteria of the word fast. You might be acknowledging that coup is a fast board game, but saying you only have time for an unusually short round of coup (even for coup) before you need to leave.

To quote the person I initially responded to

> However, if there is an opportunity to be more exact, one should take it without remorse.

That is what "very fast" commonly does over "fast". It costs next to nothing, and it specifies the meaning slightly more precisely.

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I don't think "rapid" is really a convincing alternative to "very fast" in any case where the "very" is warranted. I liked the "breakneck" suggestion by the site a bit more, but in most contexts I don't think that it's better, just different.
The weird thing is I was told in the past that Zipcar's telematics module would retain the last 'active' card when it's out of cell coverage, plus has a fixed set of 'local' cards programmed to it (eg, for fleet service).

There is also typically a 'local' card available in situations like parking garages where the Zipcar is valeted up and away from the public. It'll always start the vehicle session, signal or no.
Anyone know what the backend protocol is for those ZipCar mobile connections? Now I'm curious if anyone's tried hacking the cars by GSM spoofing.

I usually do rentals for $35-$65 a day and have them for 24 hours + unlimited miles. Zipcar starts at $11/hr (more for bigger cars), with $90/year subscription, and up to $104/day, limited to 180 miles.
You know what, we don't have the machines from the Matrix yet, maybe it's a blessing in disguise and we're just taking the initiative on this one.
yeah, agreed. i got a really good offer from an european company, with relocation included.
I have come to the conclusion that most or at least a significant amount of human engineering is to solve problems caused by other human engineering.
Despite High Price, Nvidia's RTX 4090 Sells Out Fast on Launch Day
The ridiculous excess of helpful employees is solely for the (hopeful) gain of a Michelin star. They’ve got ambition!
Many databases wire their memory because swapping would be operationally catastrophic and they position themselves as being designed for "mission-critical" applications. I've seen databases get swapped a couple times many years ago, it isn't pretty. Databases have a roughly fixed memory footprint, so sensible configurations don't contribute to memory pressure experienced by other processes.

Database implementations are capable of swapping most of their address space themselves, independent of and better than the OS -- it is a large part of their function. As such, optimization is heavily dependent on both memory and storage being physical. This being true is precondition for most architectural macro-optimizations to work.
Yes, this is the climate change version of McD Theory[1].

1. https://jonbell.medium.com/mcdonalds-theory-9216e1c9da7d
wow. Didn't realize they are shell scripts on linux.

on (an older) macos system, they are identical executables
> I think it’s a bit of a stretch to call a reference to a single line in an episode that aired in 1995 “Pop Culture”.

The fact that plenty of others here got the reference suggests otherwise.
Seems that the priority of the Web3 constituents is shifting from playing games to earn vs. actually looking to play these NFT games for fun.

Do you guys think this space will grow?

Curious to have a discussion on this.
Strong suspicion you've never studied game theory, or even Adam Smithian economics. "Everybody just agree to what is best for everyone" pretty much never works.

People don't work like that. Frankly, it is hopelessly naive of the human condition and akin to saying "why don't we all stop wasting money on locks and just all of us agree to stop stealing?" Or "why do we need money? Can't we just all do our part and only take what we need?" Or "why can't we agree to end wars?"

People tend to (mostly) calculate what is best for them. Most people would just say "the only thing I can control is what I do, not what everyone else does. The best outcome for me is to live like I want to live, regardless of what everyone else does." Some people have more awareness of what is good for all than others, but very few will make huge individual sacrifices for the sake of making a hard-to-detect positive impact on the common good.

See "prisoners' dilemma", "tragedy of the commons", "invisible hand", and so on.

A government, on the other hand -- especially one as big as the US government -- is generally the only way to address this sort of thing. I'm not saying this is a great plan, but I suspect things like this are worth looking into.
Marak (author of color.js) is back online
It was not even yesterday...
Do Solar-Powered EVs Make Any Sense? I Drove Prototype to See How It Could Work
The whole point of solar panels is to offset energy which would be produced (easier) with fossil fuels while heating the atmosphere. They very well might cool the atmosphere more, they might not. That seems pretty relevant.
Seems like this case would involve some sex along the way somewhere
> Someone once told me, “comparison is the thief of joy.”

I've seen it phrased better elsewhere, but otherwise yes.
I really did miss hearing about acid rain in the 90s
I can think of a few ways:

- Hardware dies, logical or physical storage needs to be reloaded

- Algorithm is challenged as incorrect, needs to be tested

- Underlying hardware infrastructure adjusts to 64-bit hardware, and returns different values

- Intel decides to muck with the sine function near 0 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8434128, https://www.cs.earlham.edu/~dusko/cs63/fdiv.html, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v5.9/arch/x86/kernel/...)

and so on
PowerShell is now open-source, and cross-platform (2016)
Seems like something fossil fuel industry would concoct against the solar panels.

> Morpheus : We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky.

I was hoping to read they are pushing for reflection from space, from the lagrange point directly between earth and sun. That one at least possible to turn off, if something went wrong.
Right. But the claim is were in a recession now not that we're right before one..
And if you don't also use competing products you won't have intimate knowledge about what options are out there.
That's not really a great definition, do you disagree?
Because it's a programming language, where they learn to program, and then make programs.
Lots of people say Tcl is homoiconic. It can feel pretty lispy if you want to code that way, since evals and uplevels work a little like macros.
What's the use case for these high end graphics card? Is it for professional use or do gamers actually buy this? Which games require such high end graphics?
How do you define a programming language? What qualities must it have to be one that Scratch lacks?
I don't think you're alone in this sentiment. I found myself on the wikipedia article for cons and found this witty quip in the Usage in Conversation section[0]:

> I sped up the code a bit by putting in side effects instead of having it cons ridiculously.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cons#Use_in_conversation
Then, to clarify, I agree with you. My objection was to the argument used by OP, not with the conclusion.
Cash for Clunkers comes to mind as always.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Allowance_Rebate_System
I personally want something that allows me to work with things spatially, to draw things, to dump a bunch of images into it, and move things around in at least a two dimensional space. I want to be able to embed maps, images, audio files, music, draw connections between them, move them around. This cannot be accomplished in plain text.

I think notes should use a database so it can effectively obfuscate data like the spatial relationships between objects in a note. An open specification and utilizing an open source database would be better. Plain text objects could still be used and easily exported, but you gain so much over simply plain text. Portability is important but it's not as important as having tools that meaningfully improve how you perform the task you're trying to accomplish.
I assume they're talking about the Brooklyn Bridge: https://www.blogtyrant.com/the-man-who-sold-the-brooklyn-bri...
Could this be used for tunneling too?
OpenBet use it quite a lot as well, so it powers a large number of the world's most popular gambling sites.
No. It could also just be pointless. In isolation what does two quarters of negative growth mean? It obviously doesn't mean a bad economy, not always. The economy was awful plenty of times and GDP grew.
In my experience, this is far less common in Clojure and far from idiomatic. The language’s core data structures and abstractions around them are all[1] based around `seq`, which is conceptually list-like in some respects. But among other distinctions (eg seq is presumed lazy by most APIs), it’s used to back various higher-level data structures, with various map structures in common use. There is an actual list type/structure which more or less works like cons, but it’s generally only used for code structure. I’m sure there’s a lot more that’s not “lisp” about Clojure, but I think this divergence is one of its big strengths.

From what I’ve seen, this also seems uncommon in Racket, but I haven’t actually written code in Racket or spent time in the ecosystem, so I can’t say nearly so much about what’s typical with much confidence.

1: Excepting reference types, which are all based around either transactional logic, “transients” which are scope-local mutables, or host VM interop.
Selecting something awful for lunch doesn't have potential for disasterous consequences the way state sponsored terrorism does, though.
Doing solar radiation management as a substitute for drawing down CO2 would be disastrous.

But we're starting to see various positive feedbacks kick in, where rising temperatures cause the planet to release CO2 and methane of its own. We see evidence of this in geologic history too, where a modest temperature increase due to an orbital variation causes greenhouse releases that tip the planet into a warming cycle.

If we cross that tipping point, reducing our emissions to zero won't keep the CO2 from increasing further. We might need SRM to keep that from happening. The tipping point could be as low as +1.5C, we're already over +1C, and we've made essentially zero reductions to our emissions so far.
Bleak, but also hilarious the lengths the fossil fuel industry will be defended and coddled- almost as astounding as the people who refuse to understand how the greenhouse effect works despite encountering it on a regular basis. Scientists have been warning about the potential climate impacts since more than a century ago:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a144161...
Would you take the meds if you were retired with more cash than you need?
Depressed, miserable, gloomy, etc.
These threads always have people saying "hmm, I don't know about this, seems like there might be negative unintended consequences". I always want to say this, so I'll say it here:

Without some drastic step, global temperatures will rise by more than 2 degrees, causing widespread death, countless displaced people, extinct species, collapsed biomes, and so on. Second-order consequences like starvation, viral outbreaks, and wars are are harder to predict, but seem very likely.

The solution to this, if there is one, will not be to reduce, reuse, and recycle. It will not be driving cars less, or eating less meat, or getting more power from renewable resources. Those are not drastic solutions, those are sensible solutions we could have taken a hundred years ago, but didn't. The thing to realize is that the damage has already been done, and we are just waiting for the effects to propagate.

We're now in a situation where, distasteful and dangerous as they may be, technological solutions like this are the only possible solutions. Not necessarily this, but things like this, and as crazy (or crazier) than this sounds. Yes, unintended side effects. Yes, expensive. Yes, not guaranteed to work. That's what's on the table. From what I've seen, anything short of a novel technological solution at this point amounts to just waiting.
The entire grammar is spelled out in the tcl(n) man page[0]. It’s amazingly concise and easy to learn from just this. To answer your question, it’s “as if” everything was a string, but the implementation is reasonably efficient and doesn’t convert all the time.

[0] https://man.archlinux.org/man/Tcl.n.en
There are two Obsidian plugins for this: Map View[0] and Leaflet[1]. You can store the geocoded locations using YAML frontmatter or Dataview inline fields.

[0]: https://github.com/esm7/obsidian-map-view

[1]: https://github.com/valentine195/obsidian-leaflet-plugin
I say cover all land and ocean surfaces with self-replicating robots with solar panels. Instead of the energy going into heat, it generates electricity, which powers the robots, which make more of themselves as well as do other valuable things like wash our dishes and fold our laundry.

I'm sure there is a problem with this idea but I'm not sure what it is.
Ah cool, ty. Now I kinda wish I'd been aware of these projects sooner.
It's good locally, yes, but our current economic system does not have adequate systems to support people who are laid off into other work. Layoffs will result in significant hardship. Also, it's good for a company to have a degree of slack.
"The Haber process consumes 3–5% of the world's natural-gas production (around 1–2% of the world's energy supply)"[1]

Seems like we could cut out most fossil-fuel consumption without making any sacrifice on this front.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process#Economic_and_env...
Nice reference :)
Makes sense; but doesn't help the companies who aren't aware of the secret-scanning service / the ability to become a secret-scanning partner. If you have your own little API SaaS with its own API-key format, then you've probably got API keys exposed in the Github dataset; and someone's probably already found and extracted them. (It happened to us!)

Mind you, the Github dataset isn't the leak itself; the leak is the public repo that the user pushed their key to. The dataset just makes such searches scalable / cost-effective to third parties who aren't already indexing Github for some other reason.
Total comp and work life balance are all I care about for my job. I put in my 40 hours so that I have money to pay the bills, support my family, and have some fun hobbies. The only reason I wouldn’t work for FB is the poor work life balance.

At the end of the day my family loves me and they have a comfortable, happy life, so I’m fine with internet commenters calling me a shitty person because of my employer.
If you're the owner of the business none of your conditions above would apply; they can't fire you and you're not contracted to it. You can of course have disagreements with the other owners, and it's not good to put your whole life into your personal business as if you were a subsistence farmer.

On the other hand, telling employees they should own part of the business is bad investing advice; if you get shares of a company and you're not already a millionaire you should sell them and buy an index fund. Even if you work there.
Sementics.
Since volcanoes do the same thing, we know from observation that the aerosols fall out of the atmosphere in a year or two.
Your are blaming others for your own failure.
If we're talking turn of the century civil engineering, London's Greenwich Foot Tunnel is older. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_foot_tunnel

However, for true balls, you have to look at the French who completed the incredible Haiphong to Kunming railway, mainly to extract tin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunming%E2%80%93Haiphong_railw... Incidentally, I just purchased some bulk solder which is still being produced from Yunnanese tin today. The town was mined so heavily the center collapsed and turned in to a craterous water feature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gejiu There's a mining company museum which features an early computer imported from the US (I have photos somewhere), possibly off the back of US-China anti-Japan collaboration during WWII, which was significant in the area. How times change!

The English of course wouldn't have it and tried to beat the frogs by bringing a line in from Myanmar with the support of the US but failed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yunnan%E2%80%93Burma_railway You can read the minutes of them pompously pontificating in London. It would make a great film, IMHO. China has recently rebuilt the French line as a high speed line to the border, from which travelers may appreciate the relative infrastructure fail that is north Vietnam.
> I would have much preferred if they had maybe 1 or 2 TB4 expansion slots, then take those other 40Gbit/sec TB4 pci-e lanes and have a bunch of standard ports that are easily replaceable on the motherboard

So... You wanted every other laptop? I'm glad I can have 4 fully capable thunderbolt ports on my laptop (and probably don't want or need half the things you think are "standard"), and unlike what you're asking for here, which is the norm in the industry, that's basically not available on any other laptop.

If you just want a relatively fixable standard laptop that's what ThinkPads are for.
Yes, utopia or panoptcion
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We're centuries, if not millennia, away from running into that problem. Artificially curbing ourselves, at the expense of creating self-inflicted problems in the here and now, seems like a bad tradeoff.
This: "We are barely in the early stages of automation". I would disagree from the perspective of manufacturing. Most people do not realise how much automation has occurred in the last 30 years. The labour cost per unit of manufactured product continues to fall at an incredible rate. The future feels like a bunch of 99% automated factories in the middle of nowhere. It seems scary to imagine the day when someone can manufacture a car (end-to-end) with almost zero labour input. Imagine: Semi-autonomous robots at all points in the supply chain: Mining, refining, steel & aluminum production, deliveries (driving trucks), car manuf. plant.

But, yes, I do agree that this statement is generally true for services industries ("office work / retail").
You assume to know my bubble?
Anything to keep ignoring the problems fossil fuels bring us. Unbelievable that anyone is considering such an obviously goofy approach when there's an obvious and easy one.
My first exposure to TCL was for writing IRC bots in the 90s.

Thankfully that was my last exposure to TCL.