skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> See, I thought that was a big strength of a lot of the AWS documentation over Google Cloud.

Just to clarify, I’ve never seen a code sample published by AWS that has you explicitly specifying your credentials. (Now I await 15 replies showing me samples hosted on Amazon)
Because, as you no doubt already know, the only useful advice is "just do it" - the whole point is that you are more capable than you think (or I guess not you since you've already put yourself to the test I suspect).
apparently https://gatlib.com and also https://butbicket.org/ also do the same
Resistor matching is still a thing to this day.
Dull people require interesting environments. Interesting people thrive in dull environments.
The whole situation with Alex Jones has undermined the confidence I have with our court system and our government. Initially I thought there was some Mandela Effect going on because I could have sworn I remembered Alex Jones losing a Sandy Hook civil suit case multiple times before. Turns out, he’s being sued multiple times by different sets of parents and from what I understand, this latest case isn’t the last one.

Regardless of how justified this feels, I nevertheless worry that using the civil court system in this manner sets a dangerous precedent.

Firstly, because this is a civil matter and not a criminal one, there is no protection against double jeopardy. He can keep getting sued over and over for the same thing. Indeed, it really looks like these parents/their attorneys are out to destroy Alex Jones through lawsuit after lawsuit.

Second, fining someone a billion dollars is just ludicrous. Yes, I know he is not worth that much and will ultimately end up paying far less. But the mere idea that such a large fine was issued undermines confidence that the restitution is in any way reasonable. Not just because the number is so detached from reality, but because such sums look like the financial equivalent of the death penalty.

I am very worried about how civil suits can be used to go after people. To me at least, there need to be additional protections along the lines of what we have in the Eighth Amendment. What I’m seeing with these Sandy Hook cases feels like cruel and unusual punishment. Also keep in mind that you do not have a right to an attorney in suits like these and you have to pay out of pocket.

It is not unreasonable to think lawfare like this will be used against other people in the future.
You can get pretty far with a thick wool base layer, packable down jacket, and a wool hat/mittens/socks. Maybe not ultralight one bag travel, but with some reasonable clothing choices - not terrible.
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I would advise to send an email to your boss now with cc'ing another manager about the login to document
Maybe it was B team?

There was an issue that slipped into the iOS backup a while back, where some engineer had added a bare sha1 hash of your password (it's been a while, but I think they were trying to add encryption of the metadata in addition to the existing file encryption).

The existing encryption was GCM, AES keywrap, and pbkdf2, so those things were done by teams of widely varying skills.

I probably could have gotten another CVE from that, but I wasn't sure I was supposed to be poking around in that stuff in beta. Somebody else did report it and it was fixed.
> And I think they have a point.

They may have a point, that won't change the reality of the situation: letting them do exactly what the developed countries did, will kill them. That's not fair, that's life.

> So yes, idealism likely will not solve anything. But it can help make the transition to a sustainable economy.

No, idealism by definition will produce idealistic solutions that won't amount to anything. You are advocating for controlling a system by considering that with enough ingenuity, trust or whatever, we can do it. No, controlling a complex system is done by understanding its baseline or attractors and tweaking its inputs carefully to bring it and maintaining it there.

It means indeed that injecting aerosols in the atmosphere to control the climate is a foolish errand, and the practical approach is energy sobriety. But don't go advocating this position by talking of ideals and fairness, you won't convince anyone.
True/false is more widely used than yes/no in this context. The fact that the author felt the need to explain that yes/no maps to true/false indicates that they also believe this to be the case.

The only time I can remember seeing yes/no used in a format like this is YAML, and that caused problems[1].

[1]: https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/why/implicit-typing-removed/
Makani is a fantastic documentary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd_hEja6bzE
Also, frees someone up to be promoted.
Your point doesn't work they way you seem to think it does. Any power you enable/disable can also be enabled/disabled in the future.

Let's say you want to enshrine the rights to free speech so you put it into the constitution. Any future government can just take it out, just completely ignore its existence, say it doesn't apply in this situation, or work around it but requiring some civil agreement.

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To put things more concretely with a different example. US Democrats never modified the filibuster to allow supreme court judges to be confirmed by 50/50+1 votes. One may think that they didn't want their political opponents to have this power (IIRC they enabled it for non-supreme court judges so this seems like a valid argument to make). However, if that was the case then it was pointless as their political opponents enabled that power.
stone tablets :)

I dont actually know, I'm sure some designer has an excellent blog post about it though
> surely you can name a couple of people

Yes, I can name dozens of people who would have made excellent CISOs in 2017 and meet my (low) bar of (1) relevant IC experience and (2) some relevant formal training.

> The buck never stops at the CISO, just like it supposedly didn't at Twitter.

If the buck doesn't stop there, it certainly passes through.

Let me flip this around: should you hire a Software Engineer with decades of management experience at a bank to the Chief Financial Officer? What about lawyer who's worked at a hospital to be the Chief Medical Officer? Would you hire an MBA without any legal experience to be your Chief Legal Officer? No, no, and no. If a company did any of those things and shit hit the fan, people would be irate and the company would be rightly criticized.

So why is it okay to fill CTO and CISO roles with MBAs who have no technical training or experience?

It's not, and I don't think juries are going to put up with this over the next couple decades. The "new field" argument is increasingly implausible.
No, blame the FCC for not properly clearing frequencies used by safety-critical equipment before reassigning them to 5G. They wanted to stick cellphones right next to altimeters, it should be their burden to make sure all the altimeters currently deployed won't get hit with sideband noise.

The FAA's approach is reasonable because safety-critical equipment is, well, critical to safety. The FCC got rolled by the 5G hype train and failed to do its job - i.e. allocate frequencies to avoid unintended interference.
Anyone who has ever been a local knows that locals spend time living their life; they rarely go to museums, etc in their own town; and if they do they probably go to specific ones multiple times (the ones that go with their hobbies, say).

There is something to "not being a stereotypical tourist" but that's easy enough to do by being polite, and paying attention to what is going on, and wandering off the beaten path now and then.

Visiting off-season can be a great deal, especially if you're not concerned with weather (for example, if you're going to be visiting museums in Rome, they will be open during the rain as well as the shine).
Okay, name one person.

I'm sure it's easy to find lots of qualified people with compsci degrees, but that's not a relevant degree.
> Early steam engines were developed well before the locomotive steam engine, which is generally what we associate with the term "steam engine".

Atmospheric engines, WP has a good description and history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcomen_atmospheric_engine
By which point we might be onto the next PM. Or the one after that going by the current rate of attrition...
Not sure how this helps me get the candidates in the first place. Something's filtering non-white-male, non-asian-male candidates before they even apply to our organization.
I think playing an instrument is easier to do this kind of interviewing for than software development. The latter is mostly about communication, whether it be by speech or writing. Those are things in which gendered signals are found all over the place.
Interesting, didn’t know, will try it. Does it do “jump to definition” out of the box?
There are probably billion dram chips in the world.

And all of them need to be so perfect that a billion single cells are refreshed, read and written every few ns.

It's very normal that sometimes a ram module breaks.

That's the reason why ECC exist.

ECC also exists btw for bit flip from space radiation.
Reddit is the best place outside HN that works similar for a lot of niches. But HN is still the best forum
Well you aren't fully packed unless you also pack an income source to refill the card, travelling (at least for a lot of "true" travellers) is about finding a sustainable means of "going infinite" (to borrow MTG terminology).
like https://amazoff.com
>That might be a bad example, because Windows applications are expected to bundle their own libc (MSVCRT). I'm not sure if modern Windows even ships with a copy -- it definitely doesn't ship with copies of all the versions that applications might depend on.

It went the other way - Microsoft moved away from the "unstable C runtime" policy and introduced the Universal CRT (IIRC in 2015), officially being promoted to a Windows component, a guaranteed stable ABI, and shipped with Windows since W10.

>Linux follows the Windows model, where the stable interface is the kernel (Linux's syscalls, Windows's ntdll).

Ntdll is decidedly not guaranteed to be stable, and its direct use is explicitly discouraged by Microsoft. Win32 has always been the official and stable interface for NT-based OSes.
That makes me wonder if I could do so with my 1966 South Bend...but then I think I'd probably finish the cylinder bore with a cheap Chinese Reamer, which is not something he would have probably wanted to purchase for a one off operation. (Think $300 for a cutting tool, vs one I can buy today for $25)

You bore thecylinder to rough dimension, then use the reamer to set it to final tolerance.
I mean looking around where I live (a quiet, fairly middle class suburb), I'm sure they would get bored pretty quickly. There's no stores or landmarks here, just some playgrounds and bits of greenery. People live here, they do business and entertainment elsewhere.
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Just imagining a couple of possibilities…

It could be for helping them moderate vaccine or climate misinformation, e.g., https://www.tiktok.com/safety/en/covid-19/

It could be part of establishing or expanding their research division mainly devoted to getting smart people inside the company, having publications and patents in their portfolio, or inventing algorithms that scale better with big data. There are open quantum computing and scientific computing jobs too.
Ask HN: WebAuthn – Replace Password or Second Factor?
I'm wondering should we be thinking about WebAuthn as a method to replace passwords or should we be thinking of WebAuthn as a easier second factor in the authentication flow?
> So SpaceX cannot continue to maintain the zero-marginal-cost service for the terminals they sold to Ukraine

It makes absolutely no sense to say that this has "zero marginal costs". Internet connectivity for the ground stations has costs. Operation of the ground stations has costs. Supervision of the whole system has costs. Ongoing fighting of Russian countermeasures has costs. Ground stations and ground terminals even have opportunity costs -- possibly very large opportunity costs, considering the money the same hardware could be generating in rural US instead.

> I’m not a socialist

Good for you.

> but SpaceX should be nationalized now.

Now you are a socialist by definition. Congratulations. It started in my country in 1948 with large industrial concerns, then this trickled down all the way to self-employed people. You're at step 1 now.
That's your choice. Some other people only visit trusted sites.
Agree, this is ASK HN after all. They do know what they don't want, however (Notepad++ or VS Code). So, we should stop telling them to use Notepad++ and/or VS Code.
While an interesting idea, you're now:

1.) Going to throw people into an unfamiliar role for, say, a couple years. So they're going to heavily lean of whatever permanent staff/civil service there is because their knowledge of the job is extremely limited

2.) You'd basically be asking/telling people to take two years off their job--for probably quite limited pay. (Sort of federal grand jury duty on steroids.) Which I can't believe would be very popular.
I went through this when working for a bank. It really felt like an outdated and not well thought out idea. I automated almost everything that I did daily. If I were doing something nefarious I would have automated it and it would still be running to this day within obfuscated automation accounts and systems, not as me. This is not even a new concept. This applies equally to mainframes, on-prem servers, clouds, kittens and cattle.
> I don't use software that thinks it knows better than I when I should stop using it.

First, it's not software that thinks it knows better. It's whoever maintains that software. Humans. Who read and write the code that makes that software work, and who find problems with the software and fix it.

Now, with that out of the way, and the assumption that someone maintaining software should notify you if the version you have has outstanding problems, yes you should still be in control of making the decision to continue using it, or to get a newer version. But you should be OK with software maintainers having thoughts and opinions about whether specific versions are problematic.
Because even the author uses true to describe what he means by yes.
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You can think of it the way Finance people hire Astronomers & other physicists.

Physics may have nothing to do with financial markets but the math tools and research skills physicists have are useful in finance.

The same goes for Computational chemistry and analysing of data for a video streaming site
The thing that holds me back from Google cloud run Is that it is difficult to replicate that exact environment locally for testing and dev. If you’re working with stateless apps then that’s fine, But what is the typical local workflow of developing against a database, task Queue, etc.?
This depends on the person. Looking at this past febuary it had a min of -4F.

We had similar in AR back in 21 and I was outside in a tshirt or if more than 10 minutes the thinnest windbreaker ever. (Single layer of plastic and compresses to a baseball size or so.) I might go to a hoody at -20 but not sure even then.
A Buddhist monk might call this kind of travel extravagant.
That's asking for phishing.
Similarly I recently ran into the YouTube trainhopping community. Was surprisingly interesting. e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8OYWjIvycY
so basically:

- it wouldn't be a problem if Apple did use USB-C, because "good enough" USB-C chargers are "everywhere" (e.g. come with your laptop, tablet, previous phone, etc.). And aren't too expensive either.
Now that "The Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill" is in-place, of course they do.
I will bet you anything that had they numbered the cards in reverse, the 3090 would still sell better. There is something about having the highest number that pleases the minmaxer in us.
My bank website doesn't have third party ads anyway.
> gives us some information about the DIMMs, but unfortunately with no overlap with the information about the ranks. We eventually resorted to pulling a DIMM out and checking which ranks were still present when doing the grep above

Did they pull out the sticks of memory while the system was running? Can you remove and re-insert a stick and have any chance of the system continuing to operate?

I can easily imagine chips getting fried this way, unless they're specifically designed to handle such cases.
We're specifically talking about a field where even a decade ago "proper education" was only offered by a couple of schools in the world.

Compsci is not an infosec-related degree.
> Use [...] Postscript instead.

My Postscript is somewhat rusty but I think defining a fixed page size is THE first step in any postscript file. I don't think that's really better than PDF in that regard.
The title is a bit clickbaity and misleading. The tech he used gave him information on his targets, which he then provided to a hacker. There are no details about what the hacker did, but he probably used social engineering and/or guessed passwords to gain access to the target Snapchat accounts.

The law enforcement tech in question (Accurint) was not directly used in the hacks.
Too bad about http://www.dicker.com (surprisingly non-NSFW link)
So the days of using ctags are long gone?
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I didn't plan it, but I did this once in Bergen, Norway. Showed up and immediately got soaked by the rain (I think I had a pathetic little umbrella). Noticed that most people outside seemed okay with the rain and had nice rain jackets. Found a store, bought a nice rain jacket. It comes in handy now when my kid wants to play in the rain and I don't want to be miserable afterwards.
I'd probably be okay with that, but I don't like being uncomfortable. My girlfriend gets heat stroke when temperatures go over 25 degrees celsius, so that's a definite nope. Still want to visit Japan at some point though.
You could just use your old lightning cable? the port on the phone didn't change, you could use any existing lightning charger and it would work just fine. There's no requirement that you have to use the cable bundled in the box.
I would recommend starting with DigitalOcean. It may have little overhead but a much more cost effective and you can stay on it for longer before migrating.
“An AUP notice recently went out in error that included incorrect information,” a PayPal spokesperson said. “PayPal is not fining people for misinformation and this language was never intended to be inserted in our policy.

It's ironic that under PayPal's prior policy they should be fining themselves. Who seriously believes that a company like PayPal accidentally publishes a new terms of service that accidentally contains whole clauses that somehow nobody noticed? Did they hire cats as their lawyers? As they admit, their own claim is blatant misinformation.

This thing started after they tried to ban the Daily Sceptic and other anti-COVID-lockdown groups. They kept changing their mind about what policies these people had supposedly violated, then discovered that the targets had a lot more respect inside the ruling party in Britain than PayPal expected. The government wasn't having any of it and started talking about legislation to stop them doing this sort of thing; just days later PayPal suddenly restored the accounts they'd banned, claiming it was all just a misunderstanding all along.

Then just a week or so later this happens, and days later they (partly) backpedal once again after cancelling PayPal accounts becomes a meme that goes viral on Twitter. Their former CEO (David Marcus) condemns them on Twitter, then Elon Musk does too (one of their founders).

This whole episode makes PayPal look chaotic and incompetent. There must be some massive internal culture war going on between activist and non-activist employees. The revised ToS still claims they can fine people $2500 for "intolerance" or anything "objectionable", which tends to have a remarkably flexible definition based on whatever activists want it to mean that day. Keeping any deposits on PayPal after this would be extremely unwise. Even people on the left aren't safe from being labelled intolerant, as many lifelong feminist campaigners have recently discovered.
Chinese law requires companies to make provisions for representing the interests of the CCP within companies of significant size. This isn’t a conspiracy, it’s routine business law.

There is no need for the CCP to conspire to control businesses. They have ultimate control of business law.

The idea that companies and governments are independent things is a pretty capitalist perspective. There’s a wide range of other perspectives on this issue.
If you follow the original comment, yes.

I think you need a better discussion tool here.
I think there's "off season" and there's "midwest in January" - you can aim to visit Chicago in the very early spring or late fall just as the boat tours begin or end.

As in all cases, careful research can reveal opportune times that you can balance with your other goals. If you want to see the cherry blossoms in Japan, you're stuck to a very particular time, for example; but I don't think they put away Mt Fiji until very late in winter.
From what I've read Lufthansa never banned AirTags, regardless of what a misinformed customer service person on Twitter may have thought.

They clarified their guidelines to say that active transmitters were not allowed in the hold because they couldn't be put on to flight mode (pretty much correct according to ICAO guidelines), and then after all this blew up later clarified their position by confirming that AirTags do not count (also correct).
I on the other hand went to public school and would send my children to one. Anecdotally, some of the most successful people I know went to public school, many of which had parents that could easily afford to send them to private school.
Also Horrorstör: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13129925-horrorst-r
> I don't think most people legitimately enjoy "empty military museums" "walking across town aimlessly twice"

Not in and of itself, you are right, but I do enjoy the happenstance encounters along the way. Like the time I was aimlessly walking through a neighbourhood in a far off city, heard someone holler in my direction, and out of that was invited in to join their barbecue. I don't remember the rest of the walk at all, but I sure do remember the fun people I met and the great time I had there.
Very frustrating they removed the setting to turn off that annoying notification.

But I'm not surprised. Reddit is trash
Yeah I’ve checked my credit card and ATM transactions against google’s exchange rates and they almost always are extremely close matches. Local banks seem to basically just provide the same rates with the extra annoyance that you have to carry around a ton of cash.
So I guess compared to you I really am a contrarian.
At the risk of angering potentially a lot of people, I never really saw the usecase of NFTs as the mainstream userbase saw them. Folks I used to work with claimed they made tens of thousands of dollars "flipping" NFTs and the whole thing just made absolutely no sense to me.

Why was there such noise about NFTs again?
Bad job ads? I believe there was some data showing that the "10x rockstar bla bla" style of ads tended to put off underrepresented minority candidates, in particular.