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Yeah, no hack required.

The CueCat just outputted keyboard data via the PS/2 interface, which was the most common keyboard connection at the time, and with the correct 3rd party software it could be used to decode any UPC barcode without having to install the official spyware software.

A maybe forgotten fact about the whole CueCat saga was that the hardware was given away for free, mainly at Radio Shack in the USA, with the expectation that the company would be able to recoup the costs by...um...I guess collecting user data and charging publishers to generate bar codes.

Of course, people quickly reverse engineered the data format, as it was just a PS/2 format keyboard device, which caused the company to threaten to sue[0] anyone who distributed the software. Much fun was had for a few months skirting this until nearly everyone, other than a few people like book collectors, realized that having a UPC scanner wasn't that useful and the CueCats got stuffed into the junk drawers.

Now everyone has a barcode scanner on their phone and it is no big deal, but at the time, it was a fun toy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat#Security_breach

I understand the author's animosity towards Musk, who is doing Tesla no favors. But to your point:

"The 11,000 pounds towing capacity is about what was expected, as is the pedestrian-crushing 2.6 second 0-60 time on higher trims."

Which is a low blow, especially considering competing trucks are so boxy and high now that they can run over most of a kindergarten class before even realizing it[0]

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/americas-cars-trucks-ar...

Do yourself a favor and listen to at least one of the six part series that Behind The Bastards podcast[0] did on Kissinger. It will give you a background, with sources, on the "controversial" statesman that you'll read eulogies about over the next few days.

[0] https://omny.fm/shows/behind-the-bastards/part-one-kissinger

[1] https://omny.fm/shows/behind-the-bastards/part-two-kissinger

[2] https://omny.fm/shows/behind-the-bastards/part-three-kissing...

[3] https://omny.fm/shows/behind-the-bastards/part-four-kissinge...

[4] https://omny.fm/shows/behind-the-bastards/part-five-kissinge...

[5] https://omny.fm/shows/behind-the-bastards/part-six-kissinger

Eh...I got the soft warning dialog again just now. Re-cleared the cookies and I'm good.

You'll get that for awhile, then a time gated X, and finally a "three strikes" warning. Just delete your youtube.com cookies.

FWIW, I was on the 3rd strike - after a few of the "Ad blockers aren't allowed" dialogs, I started getting an explicit "you have 3 more videos" countdown.

I deleted all of my youtube.com cookies and I don't even get the helpful warning now.

I feel like teenage me might have answered most of these, with varying levels of honesty, but is any kid answering "What’s the best way for someone to lose their virginity?"? Yeah, don't ask that one.

Thank you for the correction

Yeah, it is so obvious that it takes a couple of times to _not_ use the emergency release in the front seats. Even to the point that a warning pops up on the screen telling you to not use the emergency release in order to not damage the door seal (when using the normal door button, a Tesla's windows lower slightly to equalize the air pressure).

That said, I do have serious concerns with the emergency release in the rear seats. It is not at all obvious, even with recent updates[0], and in an accident or case where a rear seat passenger is not physically capable of climbing into the front, I don't know how someone would be able to exit the car.

[0] https://www.autoevolution.com/news/tesla-model-y-got-a-more-...

No[*], but the monthly payments get more affordable. The principal doesn't change but if you're paying 3% on a mortgage and possibly getting a tax deduction on that interest so it might effectively be more like 2.5%, then you can decide to pay that down more if you're earning more on other investments.

[*] It's arguable that low interest rates cause housing prices to rise, since more people can afford monthly payments on more expensive houses.

> When interest rates go up, refinance and sell you previous mortgage for cheap.

Can you explain this, because it seems opposite to the rest of the world (and since this is Hacker News, world = USA). You refinance...at a higher rate, and this is a good thing long-term?

A lot has changed since 2018, especially related to remote work, which negates several of the points of this article related to local labor markets and lack of mobility at least for some white collar jobs.

If you only read Hacker News you might think WfH is dead, and it might be for FAANG-ish companies, but in my industry it is still as remote-centric as it has been since 2020. I see people hired every day and we don't even have a sales office in that entire state.

So yeah, having a locked-in 2.75% 30 year mortgage is going to encourage you to stay put, but that's probably a net positive thing for society because you are going to be more invested in the the success of the school system, and the local library, and getting to know your neighbors.

And if you're on the wrong side of the interest rates right now or need to move, maybe you have to rent for awhile or buy a more affordable house than you expected. That's nothing new and eventually things will revert and you'll be the next low interest 30 year mortgage homeowner. The banks will continue to win.

The English and Scots have a long and distinguished history of dealing with traffic cameras[0]

[0] https://theguardian.com/uk/2003/sep/07/transport.ukcrime

I was mostly riffing on the "Anchor Brewing Was San Francisco" title, but the boom and bust cycle of Anchor is quintessentially San Francisco.

But it goes further, including a disastrous rebranding that is probably familiar to many.

Ironically, Anchor Brewing was:

* Originally built up by Germans

* Run into the ground by San Franciscans

* Rescued and reinvigorated by an Iowan

* Run into the ground by Japanese

which actually is a perfect SF story.

It isn't very intuitive, especially for one of the major features, but:

1. Select a photo with a recognizable face

2. Click the Pencil / Edit icon in the upper right menu

3. Select the People tab

4. Enter the name/names

Oscar Vermeulen, the genius behind the PiDP-8[0] and PiDP-11[1] is making a PDP-10 scale model console[2], shown off recently at the Vintage Computer Festival SW[3][4].

[0] https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-8

[1] https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11

[2] https://groups.google.com/g/pidp-10/c/Q_0LxSvOjaE

[3] https://groups.google.com/g/pidp-10/c/_1MjeJOz0AM

[4] https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipP55SKT4c2F6wcAnIGV3goB...

The sense of stuffiness can be due to humidity, mold, or probably just various household smells.

If your sensors are able to do remote logging, you can do your own double blind test and cover up the displays for a week and log what you feel like the CO2 level might be, and then at the end of the week compare it to the logged levels.

Either way, you might consider an air exchanger - either commercial or homemade[0] that can efficiently move air from outside to inside, without much heat loss.

[0] https://www.loudawson.com/17884/how-to-build-air-cross-flow-...

tl;dr: No

A suggestion from someone who has built three different CO2 monitors - don't chase the numbers. 420/800/1200 ppm has no meaningful difference, and if you don't have a good way to calibrate your CO2 sensor, such as a pure nitrogen environment or taking your sensor outside at least weekly and forcing a calibration, you can easily be 500 ppm out of true.

I suspect that you probably feel more clear-headed outside because there is wind and nature and distractions that aren't an LED screen.

That said, I think an interesting experiment would be to use a CO2 scrubber to remove carbon dioxide, instead of trying to overpower it with more oxygen. Otherwise, just get a tank of oxygen and face mask and see how it works for you.

This is solved by extending the constant time calculation principle to the CPU instruction level. Easier said than done, but probably only really necessary on HSMs or smart cards.

On a side note, the Computerphile[0] YouTube channel has an endlessly fascinating variety of computer science, theory, and history videos. A related channel that is equally worth following is Numberphile[1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@Computerphile/videos

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@numberphile/videos

"The collaboration stopped short of claiming outright detection, opting to describe their results instead as strong evidence of the expected gravitational wave background. That said, "In our statistical analyses, there's a less than 1-in-1,000 chance of nature giving our results without gravitational waves being present," NANOGrav chair Stephen Taylor of Vanderbilt University said during a press briefing." (from the Ars Technica article)

That is far short of the usual 5-sigma (1-in-3,500,000) threshold. So I guess interesting results but not really a major discovery?

I have built CO2 monitors using MH-Z19B, Senseair S8 (same detector used in the AirGradient kits), and the SDC41 modules and my favorite is the S8. It seems equally accurate to the SDC41 and is easier to keep calibrated.

It also has a pin that is enabled when the CO2 level exceeds 1000 ppm so you can build a useful monitor using nothing more than an LED and an old USB power adapter.

Canadian website, but still the same general area as previous orca encounters:

"A pod of killer whales bumped one of the boats in an endurance sailing race as it approached the Strait of Gibraltar"

I considered putting it as both a positive and negative, but I consider it overall a negative until the technology is proven to be as strong and reliable as traditional manufacturing techniques - not to mention faster and less expensive.

They do a similar thing for their launch webcasts - they barely show or talk about the rocket and focus mostly on the pan-European cooperation aspects. It might be a cultural thing but they also know who is paying their bills.

Always. Show. The. Rocket.

Positives:

* Uses liquid methane and oxygen for fuel, which is far easier to work with than the current Vulcain hydrogen/oxygen fueled engine and burns cleaner than kerosene/oxygen engines, which is better for reusability.

* This is an engine that might work well on a small to medium reusable launcher, which ESA no longer has access to after their Vega rocket repeatedly failed and they lost access to Russia's Soyuz rockets[0].

* ESA is at least trying to do reusability after dismissing the idea for years.

Negatives:

* "100-tonne thrust class" is half the thrust of either SpaceX's Raptor or Blue Origin's BE-4 engines, which will be similarly reusable and using the same fuels.

* Additive layer manufacturing sounds cool but I'm not sure it has any real benefits over conventional engine manufacturing techniques. SpaceX is reportedly close to building one Raptor engine _per day_ without 3D printing.

* They are undecided on the fuel ("A version using liquid hydrogen-liquid oxygen is also being developed."). That is an entirely different engine and ground support infrastructure, but they are presumably doing it so it could be used directly in the Ariane 6 rocket?

* Arianespace/ESA is at least a decade[1] behind SpaceX in reusability and due to rocket failures and retirements, and the delays with Ariane 6, won't have _any_ flying rockets until 2024. So they are far behind and do not have a good track record with speedy development.

[0] https://spacenews.com/europe-grappling-with-space-access-cha...

[1] https://www.space.com/europe-no-reusable-rocket-until-2030s

I wonder if it is possible to have a second, independent LLM evaluate the output of the primary LLM and enforce the restrictions?

No matter how you could "outsmart" the initial restrictions, the second pass would detect that restricted content was in the response and block it. I would even make it permissive on an A/B testing basis to allow restricted responses but flag the account and interactions for human(?) review to learn the techniques to tighten the system.

Using Reader Mode (at least on Firefox) and reloading will also bypass the paywall and you also get the added benefit of an easier to read article.

TFA does, using the Russian name for the SA-16:

"The Vitebsk-25-mounted helicopter was then fired upon by two dozen Russian Igla MANPADS missiles, none of which hit the target."