skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Students get only two bathroom breaks a day for seven minutes each during classtime, and in order to request “bathroom privileges,” they must key in their student ID numbers to the app. It only green-lights them if there are fewer than 25 students taking restroom breaks, and when they return to class, they must key in again or risk losing the right to relieve themselves.

"Losing the right to relieve themselves." Keep saying it until it makes sense to you. I keep trying... More evidence for the "School Or Prison" meme[1].

1: https://maristane.com/school-or-prison/
Humm. Works for me (famous last words); try again:

https://github.com/gangelo/dsu/wiki
Now that's some serendipitous reading.

I've been on the hunt for possible mechanisms (for further study) as to why last year after trying an SSRI (escitalopram), to treat an anxiety disorder co-morbid to my ASD, that I ended up in the hospital in a hypertensive crisis. Was an all around terrible experience and I hope one day I can figure out WTF happened to me.

Interestingly the BP rise seemed to be mostly diastolic driven and I had crazy excessive urination which made me think about ADH/aldosterone/etc. Seeing ADH is potentially linked to ASD definitely catches my attention! Some of the alternative theories are, I am a MAO-A knockout (unlikely because of lack of intellectual disability), or possess a hyperfunctional SERT (also linked to ASD).

Really excited for the results of the whole genome sequencing I ordered to arrive.
Huh. I had this as a child as well. Stopped well before I turned twenty. I can still vividly remember a doorknob seeming immense and then a tiny knob in the middle of a vast stretch of door.

Thank you for sharing!
Makes me wonder if there's even smaller building blocks of the universe. Smaller than Photons, Gluons, Neutrinos, Electrons, Quarks and we just can't 'zoom in' enough to know about them.
I didn’t quite understand the context so I looked into the Timedoctor software they mention. Timedoctor can be configured to periodically take a screenshot of your user’s (/employee’s) screen, so the boss can look back at what they were doing every e.g. 3 minutes over the course of the time they logged. They also offer continuous screen recording.
https://support.timedoctor.com/knowledge/the-screencasts-scr...
How would you know how sane people would act, if all the people around you were raised similar?
The argument essentially is that a $100/h job is worth five $20/h ones but you wouldn't see that in the stats which only count > $0.

Mortgages and cost of living don't go down if you take a lower paying job but you're certainly worse off.
Middle management.
KPI stands for “Key Performance Indicator”. Lines of code are clearly not this; they don’t indicate anything about performance one way or another.

(Now, mind you, I’m sure that lots of other ‘KPIs’ are nothing of the sort, either.)
You're welcome my friend; lotta love and fun went into that gem, hope you enjoy <3
Also a peeve of mine, it’s super common on landing pages and causes me to just bounce off of what was probably a paid link. Sometimes I wonder how much money if paid traffic gets wasted simply by trying to force a call to action form down peoples throat on a landing page before people even know who you are
I'd like to submit my blog, but I can't.

The "Submit your blog or podcast" button at the top of the page takes me to an advertisement for an unrelated website.
So cars=bad∴cars->ASD? Is that your argument?
What they could even do is buy physical Blu-Ray and mail the out to people who would return them after a few days, for a subscription fee.
For those that have not visited your local library lately. Along with books, I regularly borrow audiobooks, whole tv series, movies, switch and ps5 games. And they give me access to yet another movie and music streaming service that they pay for. Once I add in the library system and requesting stuff from other libraries it is rarely that I can't get access to something I am interested in.

This isn't the library I went to as kids that had a tiny rack of VHS tapes in the back. They seem to have fully embraced the digital era.
Though it may seem like you possess omniscient knowledge of all that exists, this too is a false belief you've picked up from different ideological indoctrination you've been subjected to, one which is much stealthier than Christianity.

A possible remedy:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautology_(logic)

They key flaw in your model of reality (or in your ideology's terminology: reality) is the inconsistency between "always" and "some".
The Innovation/Execution Spectrum (2020)
Security is a consideration, but ultimately it's a design decision for the product. Companies can generally make design decisions for their products as they see fit. Apple is no more obliged to provide the escape hatch you describe for the iPhone, than Zojirushi is obliged to let me to change the song that plays when I press the start button.
I remember when Ctrl+S in notepad didn't save, that one took a surprisingly long time to arrive.
Companies that pay for ads don’t like controversial topics, not sure why this is considered censorship? The content isn’t being blocked the ad companies just are not willing to monetize such topics. Getting rid of google, meta, etc… isn’t going to solve the problem.

Weird that a blog about capitalism doesn’t recognize that.
Within the DOD the most common solutions are SSH keys using the CAC, Kerberos with PKINIT, or using some type of intermediate systems to handle the auth like CA PAM.

There can still be a root password for emergencies, but it wouldn't be available for remote access -- ILOM or some other BMC (or even a serial port concentrator) would be configured for HSPD-12-compliant auth for remote console access, then you would use the root password for system access (though you could also just reboot into a separate operating system, since disk encryption isn't required except for mobile devices).

I'm not sure what the above poster's command or organization was doing to comply with HSPD-12, but they were most likely doing something. The compliant reports are generally public, also.
A couple of things: Most Blu-ray discs require an internet connection to play on most players and PCs. (don't really know why, but discovered this at work.) In order for this to happen, the DVD and BR makers are going to have to ramp up quite a bit.

Personally, I like the disc options because of no commercials. However, it does take us back to the storage problem and surely they will start putting commercials on the discs.
Which makes it worse, because the one thing that this doesn’t do is anything that focuses on the actual behaviors being done.
bluray also just has better image quality and it is a little sad that the image quality of the average movie watcher has decreased slightly from bluray to streaming.
The cost of being able to watch a reasonable cross-section of media has risen faster than wage growth. All of the diffuse streaming services without sharing agreements have, in their greed to not share the pie, put themselves into competition with grocery stores. Being able to afford two streaming services — or one, based on Netflix’s hostility to account sharing! — is a luxury that fewer can afford each year. They can scrabble all they want for the shrinking pie of available money to spend on entertainment, but unless they stop siloing and start accepting cross-membership across the board, they’ll all go bankrupt once someone realizes that the Blockbuster store model with its $2 rentals and the collapse of commercial real estate is about to become viable again.
> How do you incentivize this?

Who needs to incentivize it? People already have an incentive to produce goods and services, because people want and need things in order to live whatever life they want to live (food, clothing, and shelter at a minimum, but of course there are lots of other things people want), so they have to either produce those things themselves or produce something that can be traded for them. Of course the latter is the most common alternative since much more wealth can be created by specialization and trade than by everyone producing only for themselves. So the natural state is for people to be doing specialization and trade in a free market. That is what you get when nobody tries to "incentivize" anything.

> Your view seems fairly communist

Not at all, it's the opposite of communist, since it involves no central planning (which doesn't work).

> Your contention is people hodl bitcoin because the supply of btc is not fixed?

My contention is that since the supply of Bitcoin is not fixed, Bitcoin is irrelevant to the discussion we are having, which is about the case where the supply of money is fixed.

As far as why people hold Bitcoin instead of spending it, obviously that is because they expect its value in terms of other things they want to go up. I have made no claim about why that is. All I am saying is that it can't be because the supply of Bitcoin is fixed, since it isn't.

Also note that the people who are holding Bitcoin are still spending money to get things they want, which means they are still having to earn money to get things they want. So the fact that they are holding Bitcoin does not mean they are holding money. They are not treating Bitcoin as money. They are treating it as an investment asset like stocks or bonds. So again their behavior regarding Bitcoin is irrelevant to a discussion of how people behave with money.
>> Furthermore matter is just condensed energy, so why bother with some wonky immobile megastructure when you can just decay your everyday trash into pure energy.

True, matter is an energy... however the only known way to convert matter into pure energy is to make it annihilate with antimatter ( akin to electron-positron). We first have to have a good and cheap source of antimatter! And the matter annihilation may still generate a lot of particles/matter - that may be a waste (or not) depending what you do with that further.

A Partial conversion of a matter into energy is also fusion and fission reactions, but they are limited by the difference between source and end element of reaction here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_peak#/media/File:Binding_... - e.g. H2 -> He3, That uses only a tiny portion of matter, no energy that can be extracted from Fe56 (max), and all its close elements are also useless for either fusion or fission energy extraction.
It conflates data collection with selling data. Google, Meta, etc do not sell their users' data (for purely commercial reasons).
Good point. Apparently (MDN) there should only be 1 main on a page, and it should not include sidebars, generic headers/footers repeated on other pages, etc.

So, you might have a site-wide header, a main containing a content-specific header / content / footer, and then a site-wide footer.

Not sure how useful that would be, but interesting to me as a sometime web hacker.
> When Netflix had just about everything, piracy took a big hit.

So never then.

(Also if this is circa 10 years ago every study suggests piracy is lower today than it was then.)
Optery hasn't addressed that yet, but right now starts at the source (the data brokers), and then submits removal requests to Google directly via their Outdated Content Removal Tool. Here's now it works: https://www.optery.com/optery-and-googles-content-removal-to...
I don't agree with it myself...

... but more often than you would hope any maintenance work is considered like this. System maintenance, codebase maintenance. Even some sorts of support too.
Right, I remember (as an outsider to google) the push for https coming after Firesheep [1] and the google research on the actual CPU cost of https [2], both in 2010. Snowden's revelations came in 2013.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesheep
[2] https://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.h...
Usually means they're getting paid in other ways.
And if people are resting and vesting, even if it’s not a pay issue, there’s definitely a culture issue in the company.

You also need good examples from leadership, good recognition of good work, good ways to provide both positive and negative feedback, good roadmap planning, choose the “right” things to work on that are both intellectually challenging and provide good value for customers, have good engineering processes in place that minimize gatekeepers and pedantic bikeshedding…

Not to say any of that is easy. Just that the natural consequence of getting too much of it wrong is that people just mentally check out.
Most zip implementations allow this.
That the iPhone is a general-purpose computer is an implementation detail, not a product feature or guarantee.
It's getting even dumber because these studio curated streaming services don't even have their entire library available on their dedicated service. Want to watch 2007 Transformers in the US? Well too bad, no one is actively streaming that one. Want to watch Transformers 2? Better have Max! Super frustrating as a customer.
I don’t think a change with effects rippling out would be a cancer.

Cancer self-replicates whereas this would simply be either fast catastrophic failure for all levels above, or a change whose effect got suppressed (either died out, or maintained but doesn’t change next level behavior) and only had limited temporary impact.
That depends a lot on the library. My local library has a pretty limited digital selection.
Some have, but this is far far from universal and it’s a bit annoying when people insist that it is all libraries.
At some point you're making a choice between old users and new users. And the number of old users will only decrease if you don't have new users.
Covey’s: “start with the end in mind” is not a bad advise when building something complex. With procedural languages you do the same, you first write the signature, parameters expected to go in and out, and then you start writing the way to achieve this.
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There was a swatting incident and they have a time window where they'd like to corroborate IP logs.

An IP address is no different from a license plate on camera. It's a lead and the evidence was gathered at a crime scene. Nobody's home is being entered into. Nobody's iCloud account is being unlocked and ransacked. Gathering these logs alone won't lead to those things happening either.

I'm all for limits on power, but this seems to be entirely reasonable. This isn't a fishing expedition. IANAL, but I don't see how the 4th would be violated with either a court order or willing third party handing over the logs.

If the investigators get the IP logs, they shouldn't then be able to take those logs and ask the ISP for everything that those people were doing. The burden will be on the investigators to find more evidence linking one of those IPs to the call.

More crime will happen digitally year by year. Swatting has already entered the public consciousness. Just wait until people start strapping bombs to FPV drones or calling grandma with your voice.

We shouldn't stop at the software stack as some kind of impenetrable legal barrier that shrouds investigation. We should respect and enhance limits on power, but we also need to modernize the judicial tools to tackle the new reality.

The framers couldn't have imagined "swatting". The law needs to understand this. It should provide scoped-down investigatory tools that simultaneously guard and respect our constitutional rights and privacy. Access to anything beyond the scope of an actual crime that took place should be restricted.
I just use streaming sites from Asia... ad-block ftw
I didn't quite understand what the author meant. For example:

> I believe that we've sunken into an era where the bar on entertainment, humor, innovation, business, politics, and many other aspects of modern society has been lowered to reduce the distinction of talent over fluff...

Lowering the bar on access, I think is a good thing. That anyone with just a smart phone and a great idea could make a film is great. When I was a teenager I saved up to buy a Super-8 camera — but then the film, developing was expensive so 3 minutes became the typical length of my films. (Also, I couldn't afford a sound camera or equipment, so....)

Some of my favorite bands began with cheap guitars and amplifiers found in pawn shops in college towns. Now they can even distribute their music without having to dupe cassettes.

But if instead the author thinks we've lowered the bar on quality — well, that's pretty much on us as consumers then.
maybe they are right now?

Aren’t they? Pretty sure that most tactical and strategical decisions are automated to the bottom. Drones and cameras with all sorts of CV and ML features. You don’t need scary walking talking androids with red eyes to control battlefields and streets. The idea of “Terminator” is similar to a mailman on an antigrav bicycle.
The most valuable work I ever did, at least in monetary terms, involved zero lines of code (or certainly mergeable lines of code) for significant amounts of time while I figured out if the thing was possible, desirable, tested it, advocated for it… My manager was fine with this.

I’ve got to admit, I found this kind of _frustrating_ at the time, but if I’d insisted on writing something, anything, from the get-go, it would have been a complete disaster, and no-one would have thanked me for it.
Early in my career I once optimized an inherited 10,000+ line C program to less than 500 lines. It was a C program making SQL calls into a Sybase database.

No, not because I had some brilliant insight but for the simple assumption that my predecessor may not have been aware of how to write functions or use parameters to supply variable data to the SQL query. They had literally written the same SQL statement inline with a couple of changed values in each SQL call.

I just rewrote the code making the SQL call as a function call with bind variables as parameters into the function. All the replicated inline code was replaced with the function being called in a loop with the changed bind values supplied from an array.
The thing that’s really stood out for me of how the vast majority of things produced for these services - often at great expense - are just flat out garbage.
I suggest this as a form of theoretical equilibrium, i know it won't happen.

The question is about fairness. You work for these money, did not steal them. If you steal, the court can decide to take them from you, but mistakes happen and you know that you have some X amount of money, go to the grocery store and boom-you have nothing. No court, no police, no judge. And then you must go to court and write tens of pages of proofs to get your own money, not my or their, YOUR OWN! I am starting to become a bit angry exactly because this happened to me. They saw the mistake, and unlocked the money in about 2 business days, but the block was put friday evening, so 2 business days was 5 real days for me.

I know the benefits of cards and things, i like how I don't have to count coins but there must be some balance.

Currently it's like the DMCA thing. I can right now just send youtube few DMCAs for few random videos I choose. If they even come to me and tell me that I am lying, i can tell - "sry, my bad, won't happen again for the next few weeks" and i'm fine.
The difference is that this can have more real and immediate consequences. What if you're in another city and have no where to sleep except hotel, and suddenly you have no money for hotel. You have no money to get a ticket to go home. And no food? You may carry some cash of course - 20-30 euro? Most of the hotels are 50-60 euro (unless its a real hole). And then what?

This is not some joke torrent site where we play pirates vs Big Corps. This is real life.
Last such example was in Canada where many protesters found out that their cards were frozen. I can't remember the exact time or what they protested against but i'm sure you also heard of that.
I love how unapologetic the response is. Calling it what is, how it’s abused, and by whom.
As someone who reads a great deal (both print and screen), many times I've glimpsed part of a written word, or even something that looks like a written word, and my brain has automatically generated a complete (and wrong) word. I catch it when a moment later I think "why would that word be there" and either I'll double-check and the word will turn back into whatever text fragment or letter-looking thing, or more rarely my memory of the pseudo-word will change.
No. The attacker needs to load on a program and then run it against the target program to extract keys. This doesn’t work with anything in the Secure Enclave and things like iCloud don’t expose an endpoint for the attacker program to send data to. Plus you can’t load a program on the device if it’s locked.
I think at the end of the day the economics of streaming just aren’t there. Rights holders saw how much Netflix was making off their content and realized they could get way more if they cut out the middle man. But the cost of creating quality content requires selling it for way more than a monthly subscription that people are willing to pay (or else you get ads). There’s a reason movies cost 5 bucks to rent on Amazon or 15 bucks to buy outright.
I’ve spent a lot of time in CA’s central valley. It’s unfortunate but there may be certain use cases where tracking a student’s out of class time could be relevant.

It would be better as an opt-in thing for students that need “guard rails” rather than universal.

Have been volunteering as a Big for the past few years and Little had problems with wandering the halls for long durations while on a bathroom break. In this case it wasn’t malicious far as I know but a way to quantify time spent seems justified.

Edit: every individual should have bathroom access whenever they need it of course.
Ask HN: How do you securely develop in Node or Python?
I'm new to using languages that pull down 100 packages to my development environment from third parties. What is best practice here to avoid my development environment getting exploited? Run everything in a VM?
A robot cat would be impossible to control too if you programmed it correctly!
> It’s stupidly user hostile and yet there’s no alternative other than physical media (with all its negatives) or piracy.

Physical media isn't always an alternative either. Movies usually still come out on physical media, but TV shows increasingly often don't.
So, does the school give an explanation for this restrictive rule?
Both sides of Istanbul have airports, yes, airports.
> Not at all, it’s the opposite of communist, since it involves no central planning

Central planning is a feature of state capitalism, not communism.

(It’s true that regimes–universally of the Leninist bent which adapted Marxism in the hopes of getting it to work in situations where the prerequisites did not exist–claiming to be Communist in ideological orientation almost invariably got stuck in state capitalist phase, but even by their own description that was a step on the road to communism, not communism.)

Of course, yes, I recognize that people using “communist” as a pejorative would probably also not make that distinction.
Nitpick, The CARES Act [0] was early 2020.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARES_Act
Great demo! Thanks for sharing! Copying the un-mangled code here for future reference:

NNNN7[SDD*N1024/RDD*N1024/R+N4096<[RN1+RR]SDD*N1024/RDD*N1024/R+N4096<![PPN4000N4000]SDD*N1024/RDD*N1024/RS-XN128-N12*N512-+RR*N512/YN128-N12*+]PPN30*

If you start a line in HN comment with 2 spaces, the line is reproduced verbatim. See https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc for more details about this.
Adding more choices, especially for fundamental stuff like we're discussing here, actually literally does make the device harder to use.
Kind of great that this is true! Speaks well that kube is generally pretty secure out of the box.

Being subject to denial of service is a risk though.
Agreed. We don’t know all the information but it seems like a misaligned solution for a real problem.