skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used this to make NI3 (feather explosive) in high school as part of my senior project. It was somehow blessed by the teacher.

The book very specifically says to not make this due to how volatile it is.

We made it in the morning and put it in the undisturbed back room to dry for the afternoon.

We got news of it exploding during a silent study hall and scaring the crap outta everyone there, especially since it was a different teacher in the room. The air current from the AC set it off.

We were again (somehow) given permission to remake it since it went off.
Only theoritically, in an abstract sense only applicable in lab settings.

In real life and in practice there is always some influencing, some internal censorship, some gloves being kept on, and so on. And it's ten times so if the person wants to continue to receive more sponsorships in the future...
Meh. Follow them at your own risk. The best way to learn is to make mistakes and blow your neighbours garage, not being prevented from doing so by someone else.
To handle that scenario, we implemented a per-app network sandbox / isolation mode a few months back. An app is only allowed to connect to IPs one explicitly trusts for that particular app.

The other one is to use the web browser more (since the likes of Firefox have super effective content blockers baked in) and not install apps.
This years Dakar has felt so sanitized and corporate, I’m a bit sad by the series’ progression. And not a single car in the lineup. I will say the Audi team’s raid car is absolutely one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen, though.
Plot twist: we are constantly constructing our feelings from emotionless data. If a drug changes the emotions you generate from data, that's no less valid.
Failures of the Cloud Czars
"Worse is better" has a very specific (counter-intuitive) meaning. It does not purport to be better in the sense you're thinking about it. The "better" is in the sense of "has an easier time gaining widespread adoption because the few things it does promise to do it does very reliably and it is quick to go to market".
Sure, you and I know that. But try telling that to all of these companies out here standing up a "devops team" left and right!
I remember downloading this and something published by some Islamic group on Freenet almost (or exactly?) 20 years ago. Never read either of them. I just wanted them because I wasn’t supposed to have them.

Edit: really makes you feel old when you start talking about things you did 20 years ago on the internet.
>Does the general public perceive cigarettes to be safer than ecstasy?

Obviously so?
The silly, pedantic takeaway for many in this thread seems to be "everyone in the city should put solar on their apartment roof and eschew modern life".

It was actually "Life got better when I stopped watching Netflix and ordering takeout."
Hacker News is, almost by conception, a time-wasting tool. We’re all here despite knowing there’s something more important we should be doing.
FreeGEM/XM – The open source version of the unreleased, multi-tasking GEM
I can somewhat understand, because this is kind of the goal of property based testing—the actual values themselves matter so little to the test that you’re willing to subject those inputs to randomness

That said, this doesn’t sound like a very good way to pull that off because the developer has no control over that randomness (where it’s needed greatly).
Where does DevRel fit on an org chart?
Same here, but I think in those early days, after so many mounts (boots) on ext2, an fsck would execute. I think the number of times was 15.
Sure, if you have 7 figures to spare.
Best story: https://www.motorbiscuit.com/bill-gates-illegal-porsche-sat-...
"I gave an honest description, but somehow an honest data point is unacceptable"

"but that sounds like a flaw in you, not the drugs"

I seriously would reconsider your thesis, that mdma cannot be harmful and your judgment is not tainted.
I think the real reason you cannot have real agile is because businesses don't run in a way that is compatible with agile, so over time all processes within a business will evolve to match how the business itself functions.

Sadly, I think you are correct. It's very hard, at best, to make "the business" operate in a way that's truly compatible with the agile approach on the tech side. :-(

I won't say it's impossible, but it's definitely not easy.
Holy resurrected 90's USENET wars, Batman!

It's important that people realize here that the software we're talking about is not "Linux" as it exists in the tree today, or even any time over the last 20 years. It's Linux of the mid-90's, when the Zeitgeist of the system was a mad rush to reach feature parity with commercial unix on commodity PC hardware that failed all the time anyway[1].

No one wants to hold up ext2 as a paragon of software quality. But in practice in the mid-90's, it worked just as well as its competitors on the hardware where it was deployed, and quite frankly was much faster. It won for some pretty obvious reasons, and was compatibly replaced over the years with evolved versions that have all the features anyone wanted.

[1] Notably here: at that point it was routine to find IDE drives with large multi-track buffers. Almost none of this hardware did any of the write ordering magic[2] internally, nor did the protocol provide a way to distinguish "on disk" from "in drive RAM". The problem wasn't solvable in the regime where the software was being deployed.

[2] Which IMHO was oversold by the BSD people even at the time. Contrary to the way it's presented, the Berkeley Fast File System was absolutely not reliable in the face of power loss in the way that modern journaled filesystems are. It had to fsck on boot and deal with metadata corruption too, it was just much better about it.
ddrescue can't read audio tracks, Audio CDs doesn't have a file system in the traditional sense either etc.

It's not meant for copy Audio CDs but CD-ROMs

That's why CDRDAO or CDDA Paranoia exist for decades.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160528213242/https://thomas.ap...

https://www.xiph.org/paranoia/

https://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/
You've shifted to why one is or isn't happy rather than factors leading to number of children.
Being an Amateur
This exact same thing happened to me. Ended up whitelisting the Google Ad domains as a compromise. Still hurts to think.
You'd need a separate certificate, which at the moment will cost considerably more than $100. Also is your objection the $100 or merely paying Apple?
Uniqlo HEATTECH T-shirts. I wear these as first layers. They feel good and have a touch of elasticity and never wear out.
How is it different from running shell scripts they don't understand (or entire applications for that matter)?
No, please, that would just make it reddit...
Bill's 959 Story:
https://www.motorbiscuit.com/bill-gates-illegal-porsche-sat-...
A custom photo book

About a decade ago my brothers and I slummed it across Europe. I took thousands of pictures during the time. I organized the best pictures into a photo book, made several prints, and gave them away later that Christmas. I have a copy on my coffee table right now, and it is a great conversation starter for guests.
Strongly recommend the 750. I had a blendtec prior which was a piece of shit by comparison.

The motor unit on the Vitamix 750 is very robust and heavy compared to competition. It does have a digital motor controller, but at least it's not a touch screen interface that will fail in about a year due to kitchen duty issues...
Great stories. For me the behavior you've described is what I see in a lot of experienced/senior devs. They're not just good at programming and building things, they're also good at interacting with other people to make things happen in a way that's efficient and brings value to the business.
A link to a Dutch motorway fansite is there, but that site is under construction for an update. Current information on Dutch motorways (snelwegen) can be found here:

https://www.wegenwiki.nl/Autosnelweg#Nederlandse_autosnelweg...
McDonalds pays you in compensation for actual physical labor. You pay Apple to flip an arbitrary bit on your iCloud account that enables features that should be enabled by-default on devices you bought and paid-for.

Bit of a difference there, perhaps something worth being upset about.
This is a gross misunderstanding of "copyright?" The model doesn't need to "contain" the images anymore than a Harry Potter knockoff needs to "contain" huge chunks of text from the originals.
Yes, I agree both that they are objectively superior and that happily they are spreading!

At first I would see people treat them like a slight curve in the road and blow through them, but we seem to have figured them out now
Linux has cdparanoia for decades now, which doea all that stuff and I'm not sure what's new about Whipper.
I prefer to use term "programmer" to describe to people who I am, rather than "software engineer" etc. And because programming is what I truly love to do.

Even though, in my resume I use Software Engineer/Developer of course, because "programming" does not bring you money.

Why so? To be honest, I think that we, the programmers, rarely make real things. Real developers make buildings, software developers do not make anything real rather than text on computer screens.

In its root the purpose of programming as a job was developing programs that would automate processes of real economics. E.g. to automate industries(manufacture lines) or maybe to optimize transportation logistics. Today's economics is post-industrial economics. Basically, the economics that focuses on control of human attention and selling this "control" to other actors. Computer technologies is a big part of it, but it is loosely connected to automation.

Only a limited number (a big number, but still limited) of people are capable to program. This is quite specific kind of mind. And only a small subset of programmers are capable to think in terms of programming and in terms of how to influence other people (the true value of post-industrial economics) at the same time. So, the ordinary programmer, to be honest, does not fit well in this system.

On the other hand there are a lot of people who can't program, and they loosely understand computer systems, but they are good at the art of spreading influence. These people are primary agents of post-industrial economics, and they are truly rule this system. They occupy high positions in companies and corporations, and they spread their way of thinking and ways of management to other minorities (including programmers).

We, the programmers, have to deal with this situation somehow if we want to have our part of the economic pie. Perhaps, through the trade-offs and compromises. But we have to admit that we are only minor cogs in this system. That is how it is in the current Economic Formation.

Looking for better jobs in companies that value pure programming would inevitably imply of looking for companies that don't perform well in the post-industrial economics.

The solution that I see is to do an ordinary "software engineering" job the way the rulers of the System want us to do it, and in the way we don't like to do it. At the same time we can working on the stuff that we love, and in the way we love to do it solely (or maybe with cooperation with other programmers). This is the best practical compromise that I can think of.
Front end web development is an ever revolving carousel of pain.

20 years ago I was in the same place as you but with Enterprise Java.

I stuck with simpler environments where my ability to write and test code worked and code bases could be kept simpler.

You can consider switching to “backend” programming, manipulate data and databases with python. Build APIs with Ruby on Rails. Help business automat some software workflows with Autohotkey.

There are a million niches in software, try another.
I had several of those magical experiences on psychedelics at electronic music parties when I was younger, and was anti-alcohol for a long time. But due to drug prohibition, alcohol was always so much easier and far more available... eventually it sucked me in. Now I'm an alcoholic who can't imagine life without booze, even as it likely shortens my lifespan. I kinda wish that hadn't happened.
Oh, I'm on Arch ackshually :D
But I'm sure you can add another keyboard shortcut on OSX? Isn't there a setting for shortcuts that lets you define that sort of thing? It's been a while that I've used a Mac.

Interesting re. mismatch. I got mine from Keychron directly, they ship very fast. 4 days or so from China.

The keycaps on my Pro aren't translucent at all, so the LED lighting is useless in the dark. It's quite silly. But oh well, at this point I know where most of the keys are.

I think it should definitely come with a key puller and extra caps, almost sounds like they sent you a previously sold one that was sent back or something.
I pay for a few software licenses through Gumroad. The people on the other end are successful small businesses.
It's ok, the UK is only going to get better.
I know I’m speaking from hindsight, but if you’d told me the largest BTC exchange is based on Magic: The Gathering, I would’ve known nothing good would come of this.
> ...due to women wearing makeup and more flattering clothing, so that the top 50% of women are as attractive as the top 20% of men

Possibly part of the picture. It could also be that women aren't expected to disclose their waist, hip, or bust size; yet men are often expected to disclose their height and fitness.
because she remained the same person that she was back then, she didn't grow up, so yea, where's the regret going to come from
Always makes me sad remembering what was lost when What.CD went offline.
Wait what? How does this work? Which CDs had music stored before the start of the first track?
>in clubs blasting massive attack?

Somewhat pedantic, but it's not like "massive attack" is a heavy sound, or something that dance clubs would be blasting...
Yeah, Jon uses roads.org.uk for research, plus (I believe)

https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps/ and

https://pathetic.org.uk/unbuilt/

- he’s great, new videos most Sundays, I think.
JavaScript Hoisting: Thank you for nothing
“You’re building your own maze, in a way, and you might just get lost in it.”
― Marijn Haverbeke, Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming
> I mean, look at it this way: when you ask a crew to paint your house, you specify the colors upfront. You don't iterate with them on after every room, or every wall.

This isn't a useful analogy - more often, it's like asking a crew how much it would cost and how long it would take to paint your house, except the house isn't built yet, you're not sure what you're going to use it for (or whether you'll actually use it as a house rather than a B&B), plus you reserve the right to change colors at any point in the process.
That might say more about you and who you follow than about twitter overall. It's possible you're not exposed to it, it's also possible you are seeing hate speech that you would not classify as hate speech.

There has definitely been a rise in hate speech on twitter since mush took over.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaunharper/2022/10/31/elon-mus...
Even then they may have been able to attract a lot more revenue by keeping the old price, or god forbid, offer a discount. If you grow your free users by 100%, and your run costs are only 5-10% of your business, you do not need that much to absorb those incremental costs. However, if your business model requires 20 dollars profit per paying user, then of course your business model needs looking at. Just like Netflix is trying to say.
Guitars in general are a great answer.

I have a 72 Gibson acoustic I bought used. Sounds and plays amazing. I see no reason why it wouldn't be passed on to my kids and grandkids eventually.
This looks great, I will check it out the next time I `rm` something in the wrong folder.

My only question is if a CLI option is available (instead of the interactive interface)? That is, whether something like:

python3 -m recoverpy --path /path/to/folder --string "My super important string" --outfile /path/to/file.txt

which outputs the match results to the output file without interaction.
I think this comes with long term, heavy use. I’ve heard similar stories.
As a former heavy drinker, drinking responsibly is more about planning ahead while you're sober so you don't have to rely upon your drunk self to make the right call. Going to a bar? Take a cab or walk _to_ the bar, so you don't even have a car to drive home. Or, stay in and drink at home with friends and plan on the friends staying over the night.

You're right, though: put yourself in a situation where your drunk/high self needs to be responsible, and you're asking for trouble.
A new beginning – Blogging with sh
With traditional armoured cars.

Also, those machines are being phased out this year in favour of OMNY machines: https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2022/09/06/omny-ma...

As more of the network moves cashless, there's also less money to collect. As a regular commuter, I haven’t used cash on the MTA for a couple of years.
You're only regenerating pages once when necessary, then they just sit on the server as flat files until someone reads them. That takes up fewer CPU cycles than dynamically generating pages for each request, unless you're rebuilding multiple pages at a time, as with a messageboard or forum. But even then I would expect file I/O to be a bigger bottleneck than the CPU, or race conditions if posts are still being sent during a rewrite.
For your setup-- if I do original CD -> accrual's rip -> burned CD, does burned CD == original CD for all values of original CD?

I'm mostly thinking of those interstitial lead-in thingies on live and concept albums. E.g., if you let a CD play from track 1 to track 2, there may be 5 seconds of crowd noise leading in to track 2. CD players would show this as track 2 at timing "-5", then count down to zero to get to the actual beginning of track 2.

If the user skipped directly to track two, this interstitial thingy wouldn't be played.

Edit: wording

Also: same question for what.cd ripping process. IIRC they broke the tracks down into different files.
Intentionally exploiting selection is sort of the point of "worse is better" as a design strategy. By promising fewer things in the design, you can get software in front of users faster, and you find out sooner what works well and what does not.
What’s described in the OP (Jane Street) is regression testing.

What the commenter just described is tautology testing: whatever result of the computation I get is what I expected.
Sophisticated Linux Implant Discovered Compromising Fortinet Network Security
You will probably need to get a degree, no matter what your future plans are. I would just figure out the type of company you want to work at, then make a five year plan to get there. At 23, five years can seem like an eternity but 28 is practically the same age, in the eyes of society.
Oink.
What he said.

I took a 3 year break from front-end and when I came back, everything had changed.

Nobody understands React because it doesn't make sense. It breaks all the rules of programming all the time. E.g. calling `useState` multiple times with different (or the same!) arguments and getting different things back. Hooks are an abomination.

tl;dr it's not your fault, everyone in JS is struggling the same way until they eventually memorize the magic incantations. Don't let that stop you.
I very explicitly don't have "goals" per-se for 2023. But what I did back on like Jan 01, or Jan 02, is sit down, write up a retrospective of 2022, using some of the same techniques used in "agile" retrospectives. I listed out items for "what went well last year", "what didn't go well last year", "what to do less of this year" and "what to do more of this year". And then looking at all of that, I wrote down some broad themes and "focus areas".

I don't want to get overly specific for various reasons, but a couple of things from my "themes" list.

...

- Math, math, math

- AI

- Finishing things. Too many “open threads” dating back years. Got to close some of this stuff out.
is it that they are older? isn't this just a fallout from "mutations are random over time"?
I'm talking about whether or not parents have ultimate authority over their children. Why do you think murder is a special case that isn't included in "ultimate?" Many parents truly believe it is their right to kill their child if they so choose, and that the state should not be able to intervene or punish them in such situations. "I brought you into this world, and I can take you out of it." You seem really optimistic about the kinds of behaviors and beliefs parents have. Parents are often abusive and -definitely- believe their children are their property to do with as they please. For real. This is the exact kind of thing the original comment was talking about.

If you want to replace "murder" with "beat" or "starve" or "sexually molest" or whatever else, feel free. Murder is not a special case. Parents do not have ultimate authority over their children. It can be easily seen through example in the real world.

> Except that what you're advocating for isn't intervention in just those cases. You're also advocating that the state intervene in cases where: the treatment is harmful to the child, and the well-educated parent knows it, but the state thinks it's for the best, and causes harm to the child. And you're justifying it by saying the parents shouldn't be allowed to murder their kid. Which is really weird logic.

I am not trying to advocate for, nor justify anything. I'm simply saying that the state does not allow parents free reign to do whatever they want to their children, simply because they're parents. Murder is an obvious example, but the state also disallows lots of other things. If parents had ultimate authority over their children, the state could not allow or disallow anything, because they would have no say in the matter.
And Oink before it. But the torch has been passed to the next community, not all has been lost
https://rollsafe.org/mdma-test-kits/

rollsafe is a fantastic resource for harm reduction information. They have links to test kits from various retailers and instructions on how to use them.

They also have a page detailing a stack of supplements you can take to allegedly reduce the neurotoxicity of MDMA. I don’t know about the veracity of that information but the test kit info is spot-on.