skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why I'm Contributing to OpenStreetMap for Christmas, and maybe you should too
So what do you use?
Symbolic half-measure having little to no actual impact.

They should just legalize marijuana federally, that would be real change with tangible consequences.

This is shallow campaigning for reelection, in lieu of actual legalization.
I also enjoyed Ventoy a lot, but recently I had the weird issue that it would fail installing a distro on a somewhat odd industrial system, where Rufus worked fine. It probably did something that the odd UEFI implementation didn't understand.
It’s open access as a Christmas gift right now!
New Jersey Deli Worth $2B Was Part of Fraud
I had an HP proliant with 4 xeons, 40 total cores (80t), 192GB of ram, and 8 spindles. The 4 (four) power supplies ran about 600W idle and the BTU graph went to 1500W equivalent. I ran it on 240VAC on 2 supplies and it was generally around 1kw/h for my usage.

It was electrically equivalent to a bitcoin miner.
NASA likely to delay again plans to reach moon with Artemis III, watchdog says
Yeah, I've worried about this a lot. Perhaps there's someone I could hire to give hucksh a clean bill of health. I wonder how much Bruce Schneier would charge? :) (That's a joke; I'm confident that, even if he'd do it, I couldn't afford him. But something like that is what I'm thinking of.)

Googling "security audit my code" finds several companies that offer such a service. My concern would be (aside from the admittedly non-trivial benefit of just having better code), would it make a difference to anybody that was on the fence about it? I suspect that the matrix of "potential customers" vs "what auditing service they'd trust" is large.

Thank you for the comment.
A relative of mine works in cybercrime and is astounded at the amount of money that's in online scams. He says he wouldn't be surprised if they made more money than the drug dealers- less risk too. With a description like that I expect this isn't a very big dent.
rclone is no protocol though
The book is a great example of how we do pretty much everything with computers today: abstraction. You can definitely learn how a transistor works but this book/course explicitly starts with "you've got a NAND chip - GO!"
> Abstractions are comfortable

No, those abstractions are invisible.

Most teenagers simply don't understand that a phone and a tablet and a desktop and a laptop and a cloud server are all computers. They don't understand that an app and a web page and that thing you install on a desktop are all programs.

As soon as you educate them such that those abstractions become visible, the questions start to flow naturally.
Apple simultaneously doesn't want to become a thin client to the browser, yet they also see 3D/GPU/AI as the future and want to be at the forefront. They don't want to cede local compute to cloud and edge services.

This is shaping up to be a fun battle ahead.
To me the most interesting part of it, as well as a note to self, is how quickly scammers have adopted AI for targeted voice cloning, deep fakes, and as a tool in their scams in general.

Can’t trust anything these days.
I love the idea of this after playing with it for a few minutes. My main gripe is that the font size is way too small for my old-man eyes, and it doesn't seem to remember or restore the previous zoom-level when launching (meaning I need to re-zoom-in every time). If it were possible to set a larger font-size or if the previous zoom level was saved and restored on each launch that would be a greatly welcome addition to what seems like a super useful tool.
That thread seems to be a bit of a dumpster fire.

Someone there said:

> Is it? I don't see what the big deal is in installing a chrooted Linux environment (or SSH/RDP client to remote into an external machine) in an Android device?

I've skimmed through comments and I have not seen one explaining how to do this. Surely if it is simple then they could say how?

Let's say I am in the room with a TV and Fire stick and I have a phone. How do I install Linux on it?

I don't have any USB cables, wires whatever, I don't have a laptop (if I had a laptop what would be the point anyway...).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/22/nasa-arte...
It shouldn't need to. What good is a plea deal if you have to work around it because the charge was originally different? Either you have had the charge reduced or you haven't. Handling this any other way isn't good.
Gamers have celebrated the introduction into then mainstream and a major medium. But it you look at the numbers, the market is primarily mobile games that are either gambling or gacha.
Yeah, and I think that's where the tension is:

- bacteria evolve much, much faster and over a wider range of capabilities than you'd think, so this is possible - hell, even probable - given the range of extremophiles we've seen

- for practical purposes, though, every adaptation comes with a cost, though, and the bacteria are not currently immune to this treatment because whatever they use for their membranes in absence of this threat is cheaper than something not vulnerable to this, which means this adaptation is disadvantaged where the polymers are not present

- the amount of time a bacterial colony has to evolve a response is basically limited to the amount of time it takes for a dose to kill the entire colony, which may not be long enough to reach a solution given the distance the genome would have to travel

- but, re: point 1, it's not guaranteed forever, which is why no scientist will say so

- but the media sure will, and for practical purposes may not be wrong
Finally time to run LLMs on browsers.
I cook from basic ingredients almost exclusively. This avoids most of the issues in this article, but then again prices for these have doubled or more over the last two years. At least there it is more in your face.
I agree. They know their time is coming with being forced to allow other browser engines, and are actually putting in an effort now that there’s competition on the horizon.
You can romanize it however you want, "Turkiye" is what diplomats use in order to be diplomatic. I'm sure if the CCP asked for "China" to be romanized as "Zhongguo" in official communication then they'd oblige just as well.
My guess would be that by the president pardoning these crimes, it would potentially make it more acceptable for governors to do the same for state level crimes.

However, it still doesn't solve the overarching issue of draconian drug laws.
> I don't even know if it's because of the marijuana. Perhaps the breeze is concentrating a load of carbon monoxide in certain places, and it just happens to also concentrate marijuana scent… but I think it's probably the marijuana.

Could also be hypochondria. Hypochondria isn't a personal choice and there is no blame in that suggestion.
You're behaving foolishly. If you spend just a moment looking at it you'd see the author isn't even taking the religious text he's quoting seriously! So your great fear of accidentally interacting with a religious individual is overblown.

Well, since you chose not to read it, and continue to choose thusly in similar situations, you'll never really be able to confirm or deny whether or not"his experience of life is relevant" to yours. Not sure what the point of engaging in discussion on an article you admit to refusing to read is...

So you are basically refusing to read this simply because the author is even willing to be aware of what's in the bible. What a bizarre and anti intellectual stance.

I've been seeing this strange kind of attitude more lately -- for example, I encountered a young person who refused to read books that were more than 20 years old "because they might have bigoted ideas in them since they're old"

But avoiding reading about the past because it scares you is a great way to remain stupid and cede control of the world to others without such hangups.

> God smote Onan, starting a 4,000-year-old tradition of religious people getting angry about wasting sperm on anything other than procreative sex.
What is he studying? I feel like a lot of older people in non technical fields, even if they work with files, could not reason through exactly how to define a file.
India passes telecom law paving the way for Starlink amid privacy concerns
I have a cool and quiet fetish. I’m extatic that my M2 Mac mini only uses at most 30 W and I’ve limited my x86 box in the bios to use at most 65 W.
Send multiple pieces of the file and reconstruct the file on the other end. It's more reliable to send smaller chunks and the transfer can be hash validated on individual chunks and after reconstruction. Multiple download streams typically performs better too (from single or multiple servers).

e.g. BitTorrent for the multiple servers case.
From Senior to Staff Software Engineer..A Managers Perspective
It's not really an issue with the cable, but with the iphone's use of the cable. If the iphone allowed you to just turn off the specific accessibility features so you would never be asked by this misinterpreted signal, the problem would go away.
When my kids were smaller, they would often request that I make mazes for them on restaurant placemats, etc. Since I was working in crayon, many of the traditional maze generation algorithms, which relied on removing walls, were inapplicable.

What I found, though, was that you can construct mazes additively, while ensuring a single unique solution, by looking at the dual of the maze. If you start by drawing a shape with an entrance and an exit, you can start at any wall (including the borders, and just start drawing lines out that do not intersect previous lines. Basically you get a forest-like structure.

The neat thing is that this method can generate all mazes, and you can look at any generated maze, and if you just look at the dual (the tree-like graph of the walls) it's surprisingly easy to see the solution almost immediately. Hard to unsee once you get into the mindset of looking for it.
undress.app, not sure if should hide or bring to light… The larger problem as the DMs illustrate is blackmailing for bona fide nudes…
China does the opposite. To get access to government jobs (which include essentially all middle management and up positions in the private sector), there's an exam, the "Gaokao" ... administered by the government.

It is absolutely infamous for the amount of fraud and corruption, as well as how far government employees will go to force their kids through the exam. In both senses - preparation, cheating, outright fraud.

Fraud horror stories:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53316895

Preparation horror stories:
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/magazine/inside-a-chinese...

Cheating horror stories:
https://time.com/4360968/china-gaokao-examination-university...

Having 5 different options in the private sector + a fallback (the state universities) seems a very desirable outcome compared to that, I must say.
"Mainstream" is not paying $60k+ for a Chevy Blazer when the ICE model of the same name is $25k cheaper. This will sell terribly.
I _really_ like it --- have you thought about a more abstract icon? Agree w/ folks elsethread that just removing the text would be a huge improvement --- perhaps have an option for displaying total number of blocks and collapsed blocks?

Where are the currency conversion ratios pulled from? I guess that requires 'net access?

Possible to add a right-click menu (say to collapse blocks and so forth)?

There seems to only be one fold point for a given block? (The markdown one for instance) --- it would be nice if the first and second line were always possible collapse/folding points.

Perhaps menu commands for collapse all/show all?
it's not possible now therefore it will not be possible in the future therefore we are safe forever. maybe time to write about Oprah better.
But they should. Imagine something like a Helm in every household
I’ve come to the realization that the only thing I can do is limit the number of things I sign up for. At least then there are fewer breaches that impact me, and managing them doesn’t become a burden.

However, with something like 25 years on the internet, that is easier said than done. I have a lot of legacy accounts at this point, and the solutions I’d use today didn’t exist 25 years ago. Some places let account be deleted, others do not. Sony for example, will not let me delete one of my PSN accounts (I have two for some reason). Seeing as they’ve been hacked multiple times I find this unacceptable. Even when a company does allow it, I have no way of knowing if they delete my data or simply set a flag on my account in their DB to mark it inactive.

I really wish there was a way to push the reset button on my online life. Knowing what I know now, I’d do things much differently. It all basically bowls down to RMS being right.
You mean Mouse [0]? It's coming 2025!

[0]: https://youtu.be/av3K-PEEF1c?si=5pTMiN1s-SxPcb83
It's interesting you say that, as i remember seeing an article years ago about asbestos in water pipes in California, and thought the same as you (i think) imply: that's got to be super dangerous.
> It's not "silicon wafer to Tetris"...

That is a good point, I had just assumed that information was available somewhere online, but it doesn't seem likely.
I've done this too, and it also took me multiple (3!) tries to get through the entire thing. I interleaved it last fall/winter with Ben Eater's amazing series on building an 8-bit computer on breadboards. I bought everything over several months from China, then built the subsystems as the parts arrived over the winter. You should do that next! Aside from being (maybe even more) rewarding, it looks damn impressive to see all the flashing LEDs and understand what's happening.
That's pretty good. I'm glad that you made the switch you wanted.
> You need the right terrain. Forests are not a good place for cavalry. Roads are needed to shift cavalry (and fodder) around.

Bigger distances, lower population density and WORSE roads = cavalry is MORE useful. That's why Eastern Europe used a lot of cavalry all the way till 1920s (and it still won battles at that point) while west switched to mostly infantry much earlier. Cavalry was always more expansive than infantry, but with larger distances it was well worth it.

> Roads are needed to shift cavalry (and fodder) around.

Roads are needed for people too. And horses can travel long distances faster (if you adapt to it by taking spare horses etc - which almost everybody did eventually).

With population density low enough and roads bad enough - cavalry had huge advantage over infantry (namely - it can be on time where it's needed).
It's well developed and used by doctors in Russia I hear.
> The sales numbers speak for themselves. No one bought it.

What universe did that happen in?

Anyway a lifted sedan with a hatchback is basically what the majority of people buy these days and associate with "SUV"
In the real world, performance also can matter.

With an MVCC architecture, snapshot can have much better performance than serializable. This is exactly why Oracle originally became popular.
Yes that part is very easy. I can’t understand why someone would choose to give up their prime years for a child. The entire idea of retirement is a direct consequence of this. You don’t need to retire if you can you know, just continuously enjoy your life the entire time.
Database isolation levels is a multi-threaded problem, you have to apply the same semantics to your database as you would your code. If you don't want "phantom reads", then lock the whole table, which is bad. So maybe don't do that and grab a copy when your transaction starts instead. It's not broken, it's not common knowledge and should be. It's why we had DBAs force everything to stored procedures because the DBAs were the abstraction layer and high level experts who knew all these details.
Missouri and Ohio have both legalized recreational home cultivation in the last year; the first two red states to do so. Hard to overstate what an achievement that is. Prohibition is more or less over at this point, outside of the deep red south.
Great writeup, and having a lot of issues with fluentd buffer overflows over the years it absolutely tickled me that was the main clue that led to the discovery of the issue.
Exactly my story. Never made it past page 200 or so.
But lit's DSL isn't a part of the browser. Neither is lit's data binding/reactivity. Nor lit's rules on directives. Nor lit's tasks. Nor lit's context. Nor...
Is this in response to the demolition of the old AOL HQ?

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/northern-virginia/d...
Open AI Assistants with retrieval are incredible, but very limited in functionality.
Unfortunately one of the caveats about what librsync is not (from the link):

librsync also does not include any network functions for talking to SSH or any other server. To access a remote filesystem, you need to provide your own code or make use of some other virtual filesystem layer.

Having this seems to be one of the primary requirements.
Considering it’s been 10 years since he promised it’s coming out this month, every month, no I don’t think so.
Not the Fire stick, that was just a monitor. The question is, how do you install Linux on your smartphone?

There's actually several options, here's one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cuntubuntu...

This is also a decent explanation of that plus another option: https://www.androidauthority.com/install-ubuntu-on-your-andr...

Getting Linux to be the "base" OS is a challenge, but if you don't mind the sandbox Android sticks you in you can do quite a bit as an app. In terms of using it for hacking, you probably can't get raw packet spoofing from that because you're not on the "base OS" level and I'd guess that Android doesn't have a raw packet interface (though let me underline "guess"), but you'd have access to any hacking tool that uses normal sockets and such, which is quite a lot of things.
One thing the President might be able to do is to remove legally-sourced marijuana use as a disqualification for holding a US security clearance. It is also disqualifying for other Federal background checks related to buying handguns. Maybe the change from Schedule I to Schedule III would do this automatically.
> With parental permission

Back in the 90s I was a minor and doing similar things, I don't think I could have explained what I was doing to my parents. Even if I had the funds, they wouldn't believe it wasn't some scam or an illegitimate thing. I think teenagers who are tinkering don't always have buy-in or understating from their parents, so getting that kind of permission can be tough.

I think I didn't have a debit card until 18. Then I got old Unix boxes on eBay.
Imagine the hearing damage having a server in your room would bring (speaking as someone who got tinitus from a defective Toshiba laptop harddrive)
What? It’s easily the most accessible.
Eastern Europe adapted to this and also used mostly cavalry tactics, some countries all the way up to early 20th century.

What works better (cavalry or infantry) mostly depends on population density, distances between population centers and road network. Less dense, less wealthy countries with large open spaces prefer cavalry. Urban, densely populated countries with good infrastructure prefer infantry.
> Make sure you understand how your database behaves (as best you can) and act accordingly.

This is what it boils down to. In the real world, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, PostGreSQL are all different. You must understand the concurrency control and locking model implemented by each database product, as they will behave differently from each other.
1Password shows compromised accounts and links you out to the site to change the password. It also has reports to show duplicate passwords, weak passwords, and things of that nature.

It’s not completely hands off (and I don’t know that I’d want it to be… there are a few passwords I don’t want it changing without my knowledge), but it’s something.
Bleach-resistant C. diff was in the news recently:

https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/1...
It was probably his own smartphone which was already equipped with all the tools he needs and a server running somewhere. If it's a new smartphone and you haven't done any preparation at all, then simply installing an SSH/RDP app and renting a VPS somewhere is done in like 10 minutes.

I don't see any reason why you would actually need to root the android device and do everything locally. That may be a fun thought experiment, but it's completely unnecessary in practice.
Z80 has a non-maskable (NMI) interrupt line that will break whatever code is currently executing without allowing the software to opt out (EI/DI instructions), and then jump to a hardcoded page zero location, I believe it is address 0x66.

This line is typically tied in popular Z80 machines to the vertical blanking generator (frame refresh - 50/60Hz). Presumably, the OS would then schedule the tasks in a round robin fashion and most tasks will cooperate and yield control quicker to allow a not too choppy experience.
Nice idea. A couple of small suggestions:

- Perhaps choose some base rate of inflation and determine if the product price has increased in line with that or slower/faster.

- Use a bold font to highlight the product weight.

- Use an archived version of the product page today - that will reduce maintenance time moving forward.

And a question: are you using net or gross weight? When using gross weight it may very well be an update in packaging that is impacting the reported number.
Ha, thats funny.
The problem is that in my experience a lot of devs thing SQL transactions with the read committed transaction level given them guarantees they do not.
Then the DB gets into a bad state. And then they switch to nosql because SQL "doesn't work anyway". :facepalm: (I have seen that story more then once.)

Most applications can get away with read committed + a sprinkle of row level locks (mainly `for update`).

If not I prefer (in postgres) to use full serializable snapshot isolation with scaffolds which automatically setup/comitts/aborts and retries transactions, setting read only and deferrable as needed etc. Sadly it's often not viable.
>Mostly because they asked.

Actually, I thought this was really classy of them to actually announce/ask the world that they would please call them Turkiye.

Doesn't bother me - but I thought it was interesting that they actually asked.

I have a light interest in the etymology of naming of places and countries. There was a really interesting book I perused in a book store, which was the origin of place-names for all places in California. 90% of place names are by the first/most documented land owner.

Lots of airport codes are named after the original farm fields that were used as strips, and those were named after the farm/land owners. (or after pilots who died)
I believe the Biden administrations has gotten the ball rolling in getting the DEA to start the process of investigating it for rescheduling. Along with what looks like a few congress people, Cortez and Gaetz? I could be wrong on that. Granted, if so, the process should get sped up. [1]

But ideally we have the solution on two fronts. The DEA should still reschedule it. But Congress should also seriously implement a law decriminalizing it.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/dariosabaghi/2023/07/31/dea-hea...
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