skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tether offers 0% returns, though. It's a great business for them, they can get riskless 3% yields and pay nothing on 50B+ in float.
I have Davison's book in my shelf but never read it cover to cover.

I think it's much more advanced. It's like a third course in statistics, whereas Freedman can be used in first year.
And also GitBlit

https://gitblit.github.io/gitblit/
Yes, indeed it is.

Here's an archived snapshot-

https://web.archive.org/web/20221017203040/https://github.bl...

Looks to be about local git command vulns.
There was an article posted here not too long ago which talked about decoding an old Polynesian map, which the sailors used to navigate between islands in the pacific, and it turned out to be similarly situational - the map wasn’t useful for telling objectively how far you were from one place to another, but it was very useful for navigating from one spot to another based on references to what you could see.

I’ve mentioned it a few times around here, but James C Scott’s Seeing Like A State* has a fascinating look at the way language changed to prefer “overview”-type ways of describing location/distance/etc, as opposed to these more situational/embodied measures & directions which were previously commonplace.

* https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780300078152
Any suggestion of using Linux for end users, even if they really only need a browser, is quickly beaten down.
How Chinese citizens use puns to get past internet censors
> the board is not going to be where the real decisions are being made

Are you basing this on supposition or experience? Yes, Board business happens off the clock. But that's prep. If a Board member is being systematically excluded from material negotiations, that exposes the Board to a host of liability.
I have an exceptional ability to fix things: often I can fix things before determining why they are not working.

This is immensely frustrating because I like to understand mechanical and electrical devices and take pride in my craft, so if I fix something too easily I don't trust that the fix will hold without a mental model of the thing.
>I couldn't even get into my gym the other day, since they'd transitioned to app sign-in only (phasing out barcode tags)

If it is QR code based, take a screenshot or picture of the QR code. I just login with the photo app anymore lol.
Presumably, it is referring to strength of sunlight at that latitude. 3:1 runtime to charge time for strong solar lighting really isn't bad at all if the cells are durable enough for a wearable item and the speakers don't suck.
Kanye West to acquire ‘uncancelable’ social media platform Parler
It was a helpful reminder to finally learn Ctrl-\ for SIGQUIT.
Yes, this was my (clumsy) intention, 'far' in the sense of angular deviation. The thing about our analog brains is that we are very good at processing signals that vary proportionally to some quantity but not very good at internalizing 'limit switch' type signals.
I think dracut also uses pigz to create the initrd when installing a new Linux kernel rpm package.
Happen to HK protesters. Antigovt democracy protests can be tracked participating in protests through credit card use
> the other had a legal order due to a debt from her ex-fiancee due to a cancelled wedding

Hmm, working as intended? Or do you think legal judgments should be easily avoidable?
iOS 16 VPN Tunnels Leak Data, Even When Lockdown Mode Is Enabled
Just like any age, apply to as many jobs as possible
If you re-read the quoted bit it addresses this "dark side" vs "far side":

> The hemisphere is sometimes called the "dark side of the Moon", where "dark" means "unknown" instead of "lacking sunlight"

[ed note: compare "dark ages"]

So the "unknown" (relatively anyway) side of the moon is less mapped, but not because it's unlit, but because it's dark. The lit side of the moon is well mapped, not because it's always lit - sometimes it's unlit, but it's certainly the known bit as we've been looking at it since before we were human.
> if you need anything unusual or you make a mistake, the escape hatch is always to get a real human, so you've now wasted time.

I’d argue that the majority of users can’t be bothered to RTFM (and the “M” here is usually one sentence above the call to action) and just want someone to do it for them / hold their hand. These customers are a big drain for customer support and ironically make automated support appealing. Meanwhile the legit edge case becomes a casualty of this automation.
> Submarines do have their own sonar, but using it comes at a price – loss of stealthiness.
Yes, insulators were (and still are) used between track blocks.

The maximum length of a block with this system (versions of which are still used today) varies greatly depending on local conditions. I've seen 2k to 10k feet as a general performance range.
I wear headphones constantly outdoors (walking/running) but can’t recall the last time I had them on indoors. If I’m indoors I’m using good speakers.
I was thinking more along the lines of a conventional bicycle, not an e-bike. The primary problem with DUI is the injury and property damage that others suffer as a result of a crash. This is because of the mass of the vehicle that the DUI uses. If they were on a bicycle, the danger would be minimized for others, and they would be the ones who are injured or killed in the crash.

Based on the remark about individuals making a choice to operate a vehicle while under the influence, having them use a bicycle instead of a vehicle that's significantly heavier, the choice changes from do they drive under the influence and take the chance on injuring or killing people to do they drive under the influence and take a chance on injuring or killing themselves. Whether that change influences their choice remains to be seen.
I don't know about any evidence to support this claim. By law, industry will be shut down before any private home is affected. About 40% of gas and electricity is respectively used in industries. That means there is a lot of reserve before any home gets a blackout. Short term rolling blackout maybe, anything longer highly unlikely.

EDIT: Just saw the edit. Yeah, that doesn't seem like a big deal to me. In 2019 after a damaged cable, there was a 31-hour blackout in some parts of Berlin. In comparison a 2 to 3 hour one happens all the time during storms etc.
That's irrelevant to this particular discussion. I'm not talking about regular "dismantling a nuclear plant", but if 1/100 of the plants have 1000x the cleanup costs due to accidents, that changes the math. I pulled the above numbers out of my hat, they're probably wrong. I'm just adding a bit of nuance to the TCO calculation.
Why do you sometimes post your educatedguesswork.org blog posts via the r422 user?
The fuselage of a Boeing 777 has a diameter of about 3.7 meters, or about 12 feet. So you're looking for something that's less than 4 meters high, and less than 4 meters wide. If it is more or less intact the wreck might be pretty long, so on a reasonably flat ocean floor you might pick it out at 10 meters resolution, but in less ideal conditions you might need closer to 2m resolution to make it stand out against the background. There are the wings, which are very big, but also very thin, so their usefulness really depends on how they are angled.

What we have are pretty good 400x400m maps, and increasingly more 100x100m maps.
I am sympathetic to both of you regarding the word "trivial".

No new problems need to be solved, so in that sense it is trivial.

It costs a lot of money in absolute terms, so in that sense it is not trivial.

The cost (for global battery based storage, the most expensive serious storage option) is in the order of 6 months global supply of crude oil to turn rocks into batteries (i.e. the dumbest possible limit on the cost of recycling), those batteries last at least three years even using the worst cycle-count estimates I've seen and throwing the batteries away at 70% of initial peak capacity, that's trivial.

Opening new mines and factories, even if the new mines provide new work for workers currently in fossil fuels, may be a significant geopolitical and economic shift, so in that sense it isn't trivial.

And so on.

For hydrogen, it's "build a tank that only leaks a little bit". (We'd probably be better off adding some carbon to that hydrogen, but I have no idea if anyone is working on that at sufficient scale even though the tech is over a century old).
Are you doubling down on the following or just trying to change the direction of the conversation?

> He is open about having been diagnosed, not about having a "public breakdown", being "increasingly unhinged" or "quite evidently sick". Those are your inventions.
See also: shareholder (US-model) vs stakeholder (German/European-model) debate.
Topic discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33173163
It's open source! Don't like it fork it! Simple as that. You're not forced to work with anyone you don't want to for any reason.

This always feels like a self tell for people with a very authoritarian mindset.

Just because someone like yourself would use conduct to exclude individuals from participating does not mean that others will.
Maybe he needs to personalize the merge window more.

Hash your git username. Mod by 14. That day in the two week cycle is now your merge deadline.
Any time! Yeah jq is great, but my usecase is covered better by these two together.

Truly the Unix philosophy at it's finest. It's the only way I search JSON these days! (or YAML with "yq | gron | rg" to get results, pop into (n)vim and to my thing :)
I don't know how much people is required to run that type of operation, but even 0.5% can pay for a lot of people when you are sitting on a pile of cash worth >20B.
Yep, which is why I find the use of "science" as a political battering ram to be one of the most infuriating modern phenomena.
You’d be amazed the creative places flight crew find to write down names/notes of people that are just truly wonderful to work with. Each fleet generally has a known place to look and see some notes.
That used be my perception as well. I have now had back to back jobs where there is some maverick in the SRE team. A single guy who modifies some configuration at 2AM for services your team supposedly owns can ruin your week. Some people think lack of bureaucracy is a get out of jail card, and they are often right.
timestamps are submitted by the miner solving the block, so a misconfigured clock could be the culprit, but most often these are attacks against a difficulty adjustment algorithm or re-org scheme where a lot of hashrate is used to overwhelm consensus and assert that their tampered chain is the correct chain.

This is typically used for forcing a block history in smaller networks where it is easier to dominate the hashrate. Zawy12 is a researcher who has put a considerable amount of work into different rolling window hashrate adjustment algorithms to combat this, like LWMA etc.

It's a fun fact that not a lot of people know: These same algorithms are used in heating elements and thermocouples so that the heat level does not 'overshoot' the objective and is able to maintain heat in windy environments or variable temp environments while staying in a certain window.

If you've ever used an e-nail or soldering iron, chances are you've used something that employs this same tech.
Everything you wrote plays into why Khan's FTC will attempt to block this merger, but none of it plays into a legal basis to actually do so. Like I said, the net result will be that the lawyers get to bill lots of hours.
Golang has panic / recover / defer which are functionally similar to exceptions. It's actually a fun exercise to implement a pseudo-syntax for try/catch/finally in terms of those primitives.
You can import 100% of Uranium from actual allies without problem.
Fun fact, Trent and Atticus are still scoring films, most recently Pixar's Soul! It's a great soundtrack[0] that has a number of jazz tracks contributed by Jon Batiste as well as Reznor and Ross's synth pieces. Fair warning, it's a very different vibe compared to Social Network, much more relaxed and atmospheric. I particularly recommend the track Falling, which plays during the opening credits sequence after the main character dies (if you haven't watched Soul, this isn't the spoiler you think it is lol. You should watch Soul, it's great)

[0] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_keoZPbaxTzFnlAJVB2...
> this device can gain 1 hour of charge in 20 minutes in direct sunlight, it would take on the order of 100 hours to collect the same amount of energy indoors

Depending how frequent and heavy of a user you are, the economics may work out such that they'll be passively charged enough and never require active charging.

Related idea: It'd be cool if cellphones could charge in light whilst powered off. Then when they get old, they'll sit around and always be topped up and ready to go.
military submarines do not as a matter of practice run around in general navigation pinging things, because that kind of defeats the purpose of hiding where you are
I do a lot of cloud infrastructure and system admin, at 62. I freelance so no one cares about my age, only what I can deliver. I see lots of freelance opportunities for that work because many companies don't need full-time, can't afford, or can't find people.
Dude, come on. That statement needs several strong caveats.
It's a really great product!
They also locked out all the other developers. So effectively this is a hostile takeover.
The owner whose account might be hacked or might just have decided to do this kicking out all the active devs from the github project at the same time is some important context to go with the issue.

The other maintainers have already started a fork.

https://github.com/PlaceholderMC/PlaceholderMC
Nunjucks – A rich and powerful templating language for JavaScript
It is disappointing to see that iOS 16 continues to have the same issues with data leaks outside an active VPN tunnel as previous versions of the operating system. Even though Apple has introduced the Lockdown mode feature as an optional security measure, it does not appear to be effective in preventing these types of data leaks. This is a serious problem for users who are at risk of being targeted by cyberattacks, as their confidential information could be exposed to ISPs, governments, and other organizations
See the authors reply about not taking this so literally. If you're using ECS, you're following the advice of the article.
depends on what kind, you could have head-band style with thin film over the surfaces and low power in ear transducers, i'd probably buy none (granted the pv film doesn't degrade in a year)

which reminds me that I regularly find old PV pocket calc, with I forgot what kind of oxide they used, still working fine..
I feel like the „semgrep.py“ idea is not that good, because someone could legitimately have a semgrep.py or semgrep.js or similar file which wraps semgrep.

Edit: thanks for maintaining semgrep, started using it heavily in day job and the team started writing Frontends for it.
I agree, but I'd disagree with your reasoning on why unit tests delivery better bang for the time spent. In my experience, integration tests are very fragile, and something like selenium is like testing egg shells by dancing on them. Sure, like all tests they improve reliability, but the amount of effort required to maintain them is enormous compared to unit tests. Given that unit tests generally are at least the same amount of code again, that's one hell of a whack.

Re "It's that the process of writing good unit tests forces you to write well-structured code": it doesn't ring true to me. I've see a lot of beautifully structured code that doesn't have a lot of tests. Much of the Linux kernel is like that. But what is true is it you are forced to write tests, you forced to write code that's testable. As anyone who's tried to write unit tests after the fact will testify, the difference between code that's designed to be testable and code that wasn't written with that in mind is so dramatic, it's almost never worth the effort to retro fit unit tests unless you are doing a major refactor. That's because you have to refactor it to get decent coverage.

Which brings us to the 100% code coverage thing mentioned in the article. The benefit of insisting on 100% code coverage isn't that 100% of the code is tested. It's that 100% of the code can be tested. What less than 100% means is that at some point the programmer gave up making his code testable.

But maybe I'm wrong about the benefits of 100% code testing for reliability. Sqlite's report on the difference achieving DO-178B made to bug report levels was an eye opener. Still, they say to achieve DO-178B, the size of the unit test code went from 1-2 times the original code base to 7 times. Again, that's a _lot_ of an overhead. But maybe that's what we actually need to be at.
Agreed. "A good reactor design" to that definition is enormously hard though - I'll be incredibly happy if that gets solved, hopefully with a modular "built in a factory" design that can be easily replicated and remain very safe.
You seem to have missed the second sentence in what you replied to (and the relevant bit if TFA):

> The article even explicitly states that these can be charged from indoor light.

These apparently can also gain useful charge from much smaller energy sources than direct sunlight, including typical indoor light levels. Even if it isn't enough to run them indefinitely, it could extend their run-time between plugged-in charges.
I never said 100%. I am not sure if I put off the wrong vibe by accidentally insinuating that founders are lavishly burning money or something. That’s not my intention. My point is that 50k/yr is not enough to live in SF or NYC. Something is filling the gap.

The logistics aren't really the point. No I don’t know how exactly founders do their taxes. But I do know that when you work 24/7, a lot of things look like business expenses.
For further comments See: Tails 5.5 – (Portable Debian O/S and Tor Browser) Released → (October 17, 2022) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33231830

Note Well!

Update the Linux kernel to 5.10.140. (Linux kernel bug ?)

Tails 5.6 is scheduled for October 25.
On the Frontline of the Meme Wars
Whoaaaaaaa. Whoa. Easy there.

I don't want to get off topic here, but talking about Kanye West as "arguably the most popular hip hop artist of all time" should also come with that argument attached to justify such a grandiose statement. I mean, I need to see some Claire Danes w/red yarn vibes to even begin to understand that position.

You can talk of Kanye and Swift in the same sentence (never had a struggle meal, I see your nick Taylor ;) ), but Kanye vs. Nas? Jay? J. Cole? Sheeet, even Em? I don't even know if there are metrics that could make that statement valid unless you restrict it to some weird "early 'aughts" sub-generation.

I challenge thee to numbers, graphs and beyond all - cultural import! <gauntlet slap>
Further fragmentation to support many methods (eg languages and frameworks) to develop apps on a single platform also spreads the support of the platform thinner as there are fewer developers using a core set of methods on the platform, resulting in wasted and duplicated efforts across all the various methods.

Your approach results in, for example, a developer familiar with a single or very few languages being able to develop across multiple domains using the same language regardless of whether it is appropriate for that domain. Basically, using only a hammer to build a house.

Another approach that results in higher quality software is to have domain experts in each area using the languages and tools most optimized for that domain.

Do you hire 20 Javascript developers doing all the programming across the entire solution? Or hire a mix of developers with different skillsets to achieve better quality? The hiring of only one type of developer is a lazy approach, in my opinion, and is largely responsible for poor quality of software with greater complexity.
Similar but worse, the Horizon scandal in the UK where bugs in Fujitsu stocktaking software sent post office workers to jail and ruined lives because administrators took the software's side when it found accounting shortfalls https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56718036
and the effort to track these animals sometimes could take a long time and a lot of foot travel
Note Well!

Update the Linux kernel to 5.10.140. (Linux kernel bug ?)

Tails 5.6 is scheduled for October 25.
>> Their docs and website try very hard to suggest you should use it for some kind of CI process...

Just a piece of feedback for the record: I have been stuck in exactly the same place the few times I was interested in trying out a ripgrep alternative that understood semantics, but didn't have such an urgent need to actually understand how to get things going.
It's also named "Pause key", but one could argue that if your keyboard doesn't have any of these two keys, it cannot really be called "standard".
GitHub profile makes GitHub crash
Protip: if you're on a massively-multicore system and need to tar/gzip a directory full of node_modules, use pigz via `tar -I pigz` or a pipe. The performance increase is incredible.
Given that, why wouldn't this just be upstreamed into gzip? If it's a clean, simple solution that's just expanding the use of a technique that's already in the core binary?
It's invaluable that someone with expertise is providing the public with this knowledge; thank you. There is too much misinformation out there.

I wonder if a tl;dr with concrete advice in non-technical language would reach a much wider audience. I know the technology professionally, I already understand almost everything in the article (that I read), and I'm not sure what you are recommending - Tor? Apple's proxy service (whatever they call it)? I think Brave offers something now? Firefox VPN?

Also, another reason "even the best system provides only limited protection" is that there are many other ways to track people. I know the article is about IP addresses, but a non-technical reader might not grasp that IPs are only one piece of a larger puzzle.
When ATMs were first implemented they would dispense money before or at the same time as giving your card back.

This resulted in premature conclusion errors. They went to the ATM to get money. They got their money so they left... forgetting their card.

When ATMs were updated they fixed the design error. Now the card popped out and had to be removed before money would dispense. This resulted in a spike of people leaving with money hanging out of the ATM because they had been trained that removing their card was the end of the task. (Which is why money now gets sucked back into the machine if it hasn't been removed fast enough).

The point of the anecdote (other than that you hire HCI experts before implementing an interface) is that implementing a new and objectively better system doesn't necessarily result in an objectively better outcome when replacing an incumbent worse system.
Unless you have a plan to undo Wickard v. Filburn, yes they have the authority.
I would like to demonstrate against a k8s. Sign me up.
See related submission (with a slightly clearer title): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33240274
Optimizing the hell out of my website
See related earlier submission (with a slightly confusing title):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33237352
> Taking down content immediately based on one party making a claim is ripe to be abused.

I absolutely agree, and in my opinion we already see this with DMCA.
That's because when they were young a 'normal land line' was the state of the art tech. Why were they fine using state of the art tech then? I guess older people at the time found it confusing and the people complaining to you probably thought they should get with the times.

It's the same stuff just in a cycle.