skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Search results change thanks to that letter at the same moment I hit enter

This happens so often, everywhere - browsers, spotlight, mobile keyboards, etc.

When Spotlight is behaving itself, it tends to work really well. But it has bugs (or inconsistent wrong behaviors) that cause it to sometimes suggest web searches instead of the app I was trying to launch. And there seems to be no way to actually, completely disable web search from Spotlight.

What does work really well is the JetBrains IDE open-anything search. Not only does it do a good job with normal typing, but if you remember to just type some of the letters of the thing you want to open, in sequence, it amazingly chooses the right one. "ores" -> OrderRefundService.
Please make sure to dump images of these floppy disks and preserve those. These things are getting increasingly hard to read, due both to degradation of the underlying media and lack of working equipment. You might have a copy of some software, demo, misc content etc. that has not been otherwise preserved.
There are women, wives, and females who do not have eggs though.

No one dissects children to inspect whether they have egg cells when they're born. Gender is assigned solely based on the doctor's interpretation of their genitalia appearance.
Ah, that makes sense - why Kindle + Audible purchases have to be made on the web.
IntelliJ has a pretty good vim emulation plugin, actually.
We had a project almost 2 years ago where we needed to run g3.8xlarge instances on AWS in "serverless" mode to process videos using photogrammetry in real time. Going to AWS offices and asking for the solution resulted in "well, seems like you need Lambdas-on-steroids. We won't provide that service but feel free to build it by yourself".

So we built it and the moment we ran the crash test (we tried to go up to 1000 simultanious instances), it turned out eu-west-2 had just 48 instances available. We followed up and AWS confirmed that we just capped their region capacity for those instances. They didn't raise any quotas and suggested we use other regions to bypass the cap.
Interesting for whoever is curious:

> Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 8:01 AM PST (20 days ago)

So it took 20 days to disclose.
Nothing beats the keyboard on Thinkpads. You can also get insanely good warranties on them. X1 Carbons match Apple on build quality, displays and price. Apple probably wins on performance, sound and battery life.
1: Hopefully the delay was so the device updates with time-based activation triggers would shut out the bad actor in as many places as possible at once.

2: I don't see any reason to share the master key with an OEM, the master key could be used to sign certificates down-chain but they should never share it.

This leaves 2 options:

- Google had waaay too sloppy key management (sitting on servers or even possibly developer laptops)

- Google had proper management by putting the keys on HSMs or some virtual HSM with multi-party activation, unless there was weaknesses in the HSMs(or the virtual HSM OS) then yes, some person(s) would've gained physical access to extract it.

3: Universal 2nd stage rootkit?
The law mandated phone number portability in 2003. Everything else is buyer beware. Why is the answer not just "Don't get in a contract with Apple hardware if you don't want to be stuck playing Apple's ballgame?"
No, quite a bit different.
I’m not sure what the point you’re trying to make is.

If you want to try to use Venmo to pay for in-app content, nobody is stopping you. But if the developer accepts the payment and provides the in-app content to you, they have breached their contract with Apple.
Disagree. I barely know what Venmo is and I don't own any crypto, but iirc IRS treats all cryptocurrencies as capital assets so you shouldn't compare that to a fiat transfer.
You got that right! :)
Woah - I had no idea this was a thing! If I wanted to learn more, where would I start? Can you lead me to the entrance of the rabbit hole?
What risks does this cause me as an android user? Does this mean my phone might accept auto updates that install malware onto my device?

What can I do to mitigate those risks?
Excalidraw is one of my favorite tools, and for diagramming it's much better. I'm also a happy subscriber to their private collaborative workspaces features.

With that said, I look forward to tldraw's library getting open sourced, and discovering what's possible to build with it.
Hacking a weird TV censoring device (TV Guardian)
> Some people will say, I just want to get stuff done and not worry about all this safety junk. As someone who works in security and have exploited bugs in C/C++ programs, this is pretty much why we wound up with so many CVEs.

Are constructions like these really the root cause of CVEs? As long as you do a correct check, then you're all good. If Rust can do the same thing in fewer lines, then that may or may not be a good thing because some people might want a lower degree of abstraction or a greater one.
Hand me an iPhone, and I have zero clue what to do beyond the superficial launcher similarities; I'd have to Google anything that's not immediately obvious. Android is simple to use because it already uses the semi-universal UI language that all other OSes (Windows, Linux's gaggle of DEs, ChromeOS, etc) and apps use.

The only people I know that own iPhones IRL are older people who aren't tech savvy (and all of them admit they don't know how to use their phone, and only make phone calls, text messages, and Facebook shit with it); I don't know a single Gen X, Millennial, or Gen Z (in or outside of the tech industry, in or outside of the US) with one.

If Android is "not suitable for real world usage", then no phone is.
I could be mistaken, but TrustCor CA is company C. TrustCor (company B) is where rouge contractor allegedly added "malware", or in industry parlance, analytics software, to a product as part of work to instrument the app that never shipped publicly and thus never harmed users. But TrustCor CA is operated entirely independently from Company B. Furthermore, this entire thing is predicated on an allegation that because some piece of analytics malware appears unobfuscated in their app but obfuscated in others, they must have exclusive access to the source and therefore must be the authors. That's.. quite the leap. I can think of many other simple explanations for why the incorrect build of some software might appear in a software product. Anyway I don't believe it's correct to say Company B that "put malware in" their app is the same as Company C that operates an above board CA. And I'm beginning to question whether this software the opportunistic researches found is actually even malware in the first place.
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How much space do you have and how much do you try to keep free? I get freaked out if I have less than 400gb free.
Do any of you know why people have seemingly completely missed Ada/SPARK?
There are different certificates for each vendor, therefore there are multiple hashes listed in the Bugtracker: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/apvi/issues/detail?id=100
Not 8-bit, but similar style:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D/Generation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commandos:_Behind_Enemy_Lines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenTTD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simutrans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeciv
I'm literally waiting for the day Apple attempts to take a cut on people's income via their banking app.
The concentration matters. Concentrated Na will displace Mg, but in the Na concentration in the tap water Mg will displace Na. If you had a concentrated brine with large amounts of both sodium and magnesium, the Mg would win.
Even some papers are lined with BPA, or similar products. The reactant acid in thermal paper is often bisphenol A (BPA). A good reason to go without getting a receipt.
Where can I purchase an App Store. Not sold separately.

Why would I want one, if I am not in control of it. I just want to run a program on a computer I bought.

Maybe one can argue a consumer will buy a computer in order to get the "App Store product", although it seems to me more like a product feature than a product itself. Personally, I would intentionally choose a computer without an App Store, where I can install whatever I want, and without reporting all the software I use to Apple.

After all, I know what software I want to install. As a NetBSD user I prefer to compile programs myself. The only "curation" I want is small source code size so I can read through the program before deciding whether to compile and test. Thus I have to do the "curation" myself. It cannot be delegated or outsourced. I do not need Apple to recommend software to me. Especially software they did not write. But who cares about me, if I am in a minority, because to the "tech" company proponents, only the majority matters. To the "tech" worker what is not popular is irrelevant. No surprise given the "tech" racket depends on selling adevertising services.

"Discovery" of unpopular software in an App Store is exceedingly difficult. The search capabilities are crude. The design appears to be display "Top 10" type lists and funnel computer owners toward popular programs, creating a lottery for whomever makes the "Top 10" and larger audiences for advertising.
The IANA key ceremony is pretty close to best practice:
https://kimdavies.com/key-ceremony-primer
> "The UK is slightly weird in not having a single unified national identity system"

Weird within Europe, perhaps, but not globally. None of the other countries I've lived in (USA, Canada, New Zealand) had a national ID system either. Yes, the USA has the Social Security Number (and NZ has IRD number, Canada SIN), but those are all analogous to the UK National Insurance Number.
> Coin generation and distribution, particularly when coins can be traded for fiat currency or goods, creates an incentive mechanism to keep the P2P system running.

Ability to trade for fiat currency proved to be a mixed blessing at best, and a downfall at worst, of this approach. When a system is so lucrative as a vehicle for ponzi schemes, it inevitably gets hijacked, and becomes unable to serve its declared purpose.
Flynt – convert Python old %-formatted strings to Python 3.6 f-strings
> recently in Antwerp, Belgium, where over $100 million in diamonds were stolen in 2003

One of my favourite books I’ve read was about this heist

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/7071759-flawless
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> It's not like you can pay $3 to Google to get them to stop surveilling you.

Well sort of. You can pay them for YouTube Premium and watch videos without ads. I might pay for an ad-free Google Search but I have developed an almost reflexive habit of ignoring the ads on Google Search anyway. It's much easier to just look past them in the search results, as opposed to when watching a video where you have no choice.

And I'm sure they are surveilling me regardless.
The comments on some issues are downright unsettling. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/apvi/issues/detail?id=34#c9
I believe the Mg+ Ca+ have a stronger attraction to the Cl- ions in the salt so when soaked in brine they trade places with the Na+

Beads prefer Mg over Na but Mg prefers Cl over beads. So you can recharge with salt brine.

Or it might just be a concentration thing where Na / Mg ratio wants to be the same in the brine and beads. So you just give a really strong brine and most of the Mg etc leaves the beads.
There can be more than one cause for a trend increasing. The way to look at it would not just be to observe anorexia but also whether or not there has been an increase in the merely underweight in the same time frame as the obese. People who eat and are just sated with very little intake. I am not aware of any data on this.

> Most likely explanation is that they are eating foods that aren't satiating and that are high calorie, foods that weren't common in the past. Like I said earlier, people who are eating simple foods like the ones I listed don't get fat.

And as I said I don't think this stands up to scrutiny, and I said why already. Additional: obesity is increasing in wild animal populations too.

On a personal level, I have eaten diets of only foods like you've mentioned and I would still have gone well over my calorie limit if I had done so until sated. As far as I can tell 'satiating foods' is a term with no real science behind it. Believe me, if I was aware of something aside from hardcore stimulants that would actually keep my appetite in check I'd have been eating it for the past 15 years instead of suffering.
Why?

If a company is giving me millions of dollars a year which is going to my employee salaries I am answering their call first. The guy paying me $10k a year will have to wait.
https://exercism.org/ .. since mentors are volunteers most likely, response time may vary
You mean like here? Areva 'funkytown' commercial from about 2000:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNWVmMQKJ1s
That's pretty tactical decisions, usually made in a time window of like 20-30 seconds top. Takes like 40 second to reach more than half the map from the base. Fighting decisions usually also get tactical. I would say that 90% of the game deciding decisions have a time window of less than 30 seconds to make. 70% are in a time window of seconds. You don't make a strategic decision to fight ever, you make tactical decision when the map looks fitting. If you take strategic fights because of long term strategy (instead of deciding tactically) in Dota you will lose.
That article is somewhat wrong. 10 million gallons of water is not enough for 300k households. It's maybe enough for 300k people. 10 million divided by 300k is 33 gallons. The average use per person even in urban areas is around 40 gallons per day - so that's generally ignoring outdoor irrigation. It's more like enough water for 200k-250k people.

So 2% of that is maybe around enough water for 5k people. Arizona has 7 million people. And residential doesn't even use most of Arizona's water.

It's fine.
The Receipts on Vaccine Efficacy
Asked an AI to describe a cat;[fed it to an] AI image generator
An even easier analogy as to what Apple is probably trying to prevent is a "wallet" app which allows purchasing NFTs for the immediate and continued use and consumption of digital content such as music and music videos which would creating an alternate content store for distribution.

The purchase page for the content would show the purchase price in crypto coins but list the USD equivalent price just below.
This is great news, especially given the geo-political risks related to Taiwan. I still hope for the best, but with majority of chips produced in Taiwan we need to be ready for alternatives.
There's probably not much point explaining the cultural value of free speech to somebody who thinks free speech is so awful they can't even bring themselves to mention it without using a minced oath, as though they fear even the term itself.
Ironically, Chicago is generally asserted to the be most rat-infested city in the U.S.
Enterprise deployments. When IBM's Watson gets deployed to run your building's elevator scheduling, we don't hear about it. Nor do we really hear about AI powering hospital backend systems. Or eg fraud modeling at Visa. Twitter assuredly was doing ML on their backend as well.
I think for the industry as a whole there should be some penalty or disincentive for going "we're no longer providing updates" and then "we lost the key that gives full access to the system".
This summarizes a thought I had for a while.

Muggings and robberies happen every single day, probably by the millions.

Hacks also happen, although not that frequently.

Now, what would happen if you combined both? Say a rogue criminal group threatens/kidnaps/holds a sysadmin at gunpoint and forces them to export all the private keys, the keys to the kingdom.

It would be like the explosive mints in Mission Impossible, where if you make the two ends touch, BOOM!

Make the hacking world and the physical mugging/robbing worlds intersect and you probably got an extremely dangerous combination, a nuclear bomb waiting to explode.
That’s what I think it’s funny.

“Why is it so hard to believe the media has an agenda?”

Why wouldn’t it? See Agenda Setting Theory.

All mass media can be propaganda. It’s always a political tool.

Yeah, they were farming for clicks, but to get you to read, not to make money.

You’re not supposed to notice that it’s propaganda tho. Otherwise it loses its power. That’s why you’re getting that gut feeling.

So there is something to be said about a decline in the quality of American propaganda

I think the trick is that when ppl think “propaganda” they think external, to/from another country. But internal propaganda is taboo

The word has a bad connotation for historical reasons but it’s actually a neutral term.
We need a progressive tax on corporate revenue: billion dollar companies should be taxed a significantly higher rate than million dollar companies. (we currently have the opposite)

The power disparity between corporations and citizens is huge and growing. It should be expensive to be mega powerful, and trillion dollar companies should be paying huge taxes to incentivize them breaking up into smaller units: a vertically integrated trillion dollar company is enough of a monopoly to hurt the market even if there are other competitors. It's bad for society.
The study seems small. Really small. 125ish nights worth of data?. The results came back very comparable from all devices.

It's almost like when someone falls asleep it's pretty obvious.

I wish this study did a few things, like get more into depth on the sleep cycle. I own an oura 2. I perused the study, but didn't read it word for word start to finish, so I missed whether it was an oura 1, 2 or 3.

How accurate can these devices tell what stage of sleep the body is in? That's a more relevant question for 2023
Nit: these are not informal rules, they’re clear UBs, they’re “just” not checked.

An informal rule would be “don’t use gets” before it was deprecated, or “don’t use the str* functions”, or “don’t pass a user-provided format to printf”.
The Simpsons got it right: https://youtu.be/eU2Or5rCN_Y
It's not sulfates, it's ethoxylated alcohols.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethoxylation
> you might think it would make more sense to have me pay for exactly how much they lose, not less or more

You might think that, yes.

Why is the flat fee “funny”? Netflix, Spotify, NYT, etc. all charge the flat fee. In fact I’m having a hard time thinking of any non-flat-fee consumer digital products.
How would you recommend an interested student to get up-to-speed? There is so much development in so many fields, but often no idea where to even begin to get there.
Epic is one of the companies I’d most like to see get richer tbh.
No, you completely misread me. If the police are asking for killer robots, that's an argument to defund. Where did it seem like I was in favor of the robots?
https://www.iana.org/dnssec/ceremonies
Assessing the teams behind products and technologies
Again, it’s not about whether or not he wants the stuff on Twitter. If you fire all the staff who find it, handle user reports of it, and remove it, the end result is the same.
Exactly! I should be able to join or leave groups discussing any sort of topic or view point I like on social media platforms without having my options limited or my views censored.

If I don't want to associate with someone I can unfollow them, unsubscribe from their subreddit, block them etc.

What matters is that it's my choice to do that. We shouldn't have that choice made for us by the people running online platforms.
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In the US we have whole home water softeners when necessary, in the EU they’re built in to dish washers.

Just small differences in water treatment and quality.
Electrical, chemical and combustion are the hardest branches of engineering in my observations, mainly due to the abstract nature.

But they are especially hard if you are doing them for any other primary reason than a love and curiosity of the subject.
Greens never do well in local elections. Local governments have no say at national level. It seems the only people who say they suffered a major blow are pro CCP bots.
Yeah, that would be a real problem. It's even if you see some amazing combination.

One way to adjust would be to have everyone in a round play the same position, and calibrate. As in if black wins 90% of the games, a white win counts for more.
The AI hype has been around for much longer than 10 years. Ray Kurzweil's book "The Singularity is Near" was first published in 2005. Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov in 1997
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Has anyone used Yjs in practice? I've tried recently but the docs seem terribly unfinished sadly. And their lacking examples of how to use it for another purpose (other than text editing).
Would you be ok to paying 30% more rent to use a bank app from an iphone to pay the rent?
No, nobody uses PVC pipe for water supply.

We do have quite a bit of lead pipe though.