skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given Pu, a gun type nuke is basically banging two rocks together. Given DU, Pu is just hitting it with fast neutrons and chemically separating. Given marginally free hydropower, fast neutrons are a homebrew fusor and a light switch away. DU and hydro turbines are cheap. A hobbyist with patience can build a lowtech fission bomb.

Carfentanil can be manufactured by the billions of lethal doses - or scaled to trillions, with a HELOC.

Virosynthesis isn't a hobbyist endeavor yet but soon will be.

The only reason we aren't all dead is lack of incentive. Of course a sufficiently bad government can change the incentive structure overnight.
Tackling over-tourism is very similar to Brexit: you want to stop those ugly, stinking foreigners from coming and soiling your place.
If only they just kept sending you the money...
As a brit, I had always used the word 'hash', ie. #define being pronouced 'hash define'.
When the word hashtag came into common usage it surprised me how many people didn't know where the word originated from
Ask HN: Leaving a Job at Big Tech Giants for Startup
What does HN think about leaving a posh job at big tech giants for creating a startup?
Right now, the code is tightly coupled with Postgres and it uses some Postgres-specific SQL stuff. But that said, I'll think about some kind of database abstraction layer and maybe even support SQLite. No promises right away though, haha.
Institute a carbon tax and it'll vanish into someone's pocket while the manufactured goods still have the same emissions.
As you start drinking your coffee, a little shutter slides shut across the lid of your coffee cup.

It'll only open if you create an account, log in and agree to every sip you take being recorded and measured.

Sure, it's possible to prise the lid off manually or use a special shutter-blocker, but you often end up with a broken cup. And coffee shop owners call you a thief and find ways to thwart your blocker.
I'm surprised you're surprised. Why wouldn't you want to verify your theory? Look at all the missions to comets we did, they all returned totally unexpected results. Results we wouldn't have if we had never gone out there to verify our theories.
Previous discussion of two years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13637102
> And then later ATI/AMD came along. And now their driver, the only driver, is open-source.

Open-source is great but is their driver remotely competitive in terms of actual usability/quality? As a desktop user I find ATI/AMD is still nowhere near the bar set by NVidia. I believe open-source generally results in better-quality software, but that hasn't actually come to fruition in the ATI/AMD drivers IME.
Norway's wealth comes from exporting oil and gas. That's not very indirect.
In the early days of Chinese manufacturing they would have been importing most.

Suppliers tend to cluster where manufacturers are, and import specialist parts. Of course as you just posted in the other comment, CO2 taxes reflecting the full environmental costs would tend to encourage more clustering, more local production, and generally buying less wastefully.

As popular as plague no doubt, but stuff needs to get expensive again. Perhaps better to say "expensive enough".
I also like the idea of paying out the proceeds of the tax as a dividend per capita. This would help prevent the tax from being regressive. Maybe also cap emissions instead of just taxing so that we can control the total amount of emissions.
you don't think think there could possibly be downsides from promoting only one set of viewpoints? That seems naive to say the least.
Fitbit does this as well: if you want to sync your 'steps' to the app (on android at least) you have to enable location services... wtf?
They could grow insects to process into unrecognisable "filler", right?
The coarse permissions and alarming text from the OS is a problem with both Android and iOS. Often, an app wants something fairly innocous, but has to ask for more, because it's grouped with other things in the same permission ask. Then, the OS message shifts all the blame with scary messages about what the app wants to do.
You can override the styling with your own CSS. See https://docs.commento.io/configuration/frontend/

Right now, there isn't any unique class for root level comments, but it should be trivial to add such a class so that you could style it easily. For example, if I added `.commento-root-comment` to all root comments, you could simply style it with the override in just a few lines.
There's a reason brick doesn't get taller than 20 stories - the walls at the base get thicker, the taller it gets. At 20 stories you're basically building a pedestal on the bottom, to hold up the top. At that point you just get a larger pedestal on the bottom, and no more usable space going taller.

I wonder what the limit is for wood?
You are probably seeking this: https://yclist.com
> * The callee can always clear calls

In the 1980s at school, the phone system in the dorms was a private system (you could connect to the public system by dialing 9 first). In this system, a call was not terminated until the originating side disconnected. So a common prank was to call someone, then not hang up. Now their phone was unusable.
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I'd certainly like to see "Falsehoods programmers believe about passwords". And for that matter, "Falsehoods programmers believe about programming", and possibly "Falsehoods programmers believe about falsehoods". ;)
You can self-host Commento too :) In fact, that was the only way until recently haha.
You can just search on the client after decrypting.
Ask HN: Content Restriction
Do you restrict content (youtube, online/g-play games) for your kids? If yes, what approach or solution you can recommend?
"In fact, wood is a fireproof material despite the commonly held belief that it isn’t."

I stopped reading at that sentence. They went too far.
Front page--click the Submit button.
If you click the "History" link on the front page, you can look at a bunch of examples.
There is a History tab with examples, such as: https://explain.depesz.com/s/vzlS

This is an indispensable tool for Postgres query plan analysis. Even for those who are experienced at reading them, this can help to sort problems.

It's also a great way to share query plans when asking for help from the Postgres community.
Doesn't require Silicon Valley.

Pink slime can now be sold as beef mince in the US. How hard do you think it would be to get powdered cricket labelled as 'protein enhancer' or some such?

Plus people will happily eat things with cochineal [1] in it, so I can't see highly processed insect additives being a problem. Won't be called Cricket nuggets though.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochineal
I imagine they wouldn’t because goods that use significantly less carbon will cost significantly less.

I don’t care what you do with the taxes, the point is making sure that goods are priced appropriately.
> "In fact, wood is a fireproof material despite the commonly held belief that it isn’t."

What? I hold this belief that isn't. I understood the point about keeping its structure well while burning, but it doesn't make it "fireproof"!
There are several similar "erroneous" transactions mined by different miners:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/asapta/some...

So it's at least a bit more complicated than just one miner trolling everyone.
If you diagnose the cancer earlier... it will appear as if they live longer.
Any value to proving the relationship between their hashpower and that account?
> They also killed off most of the forests.

Yeah, keep this in mind; big parts of Europe are hundreds of years after a gradual deforestation. Europe, mostly Western, is highly cultivated. Mind you, thanks to that we're also very efficient in agriculture - NL, despite being one of the smallest countries in the world, is also the second biggest agricultural export country in the world.
Well I agree lots of times what the app wants is innocuous, I'd still rather have the message than not.

Maybe an option to open up a more detailed description of what the app wants the permissions for?
It is not about algotrading. It is about quantitative automated trading
Yeah, let's not open that can of worms. It's tricky. :p
Totally agree. There should also be a log of what feature apps have actually accessed.
I skipped the article when I saw it was TechCrunch. Their new web site is absolutely atrocious. I can't believe this is what web developers get paid to do. Just awful.

Anyway, I'll just read the comments here and that'll be enough for me.
Defs agree. I run my own business and work with other business all the time.

The secret sauce formula is rarely heavily weighted towards general intelligence.

All the dumb things will kill your business way before you have to be the smartest guy in the room . And I think that’s probably true for most the super competitive businesses too.
I agree. The phrase "we take your privacy and security seriously" is an inherent oxymoron; meaning the opposite of what it says.

I really like, and have copied, Tesla's note to security researchers. https://www.tesla.com/about/security

I had to clean up one breach a few years ago. It was, gulp, a breach of HIPAA-covered health info. We wrote to our customers saying

"We're sorry. We unintentionally sent your blahblah sheet to the wrong hospital. We have spoken to the person at that hospital who received it and confirmed that they erased your information. Again, we apologize. If you have questions don't hesitate to call us at xxx-xxx-xxxx"

We could have blamed the the third-party vendor who actually made the mistake. We could have spewed oxymorons. But this message was successful and true: nobody sued us and the govt didn't write us up.

The breach, admittedly, was only a few dozen records. It could have been much worse.

A lesson for tech people: when you have a breach DRAFT THE PUBLIC STATEMENT RIGHT AWAY so you can hand it to your executives and crisis PR people. That way your company has a chance of doing it right.
A German newspaper has some more information on that, for example that this is headed by Rafael Laguna of Open-Xchange https://www.sueddeutsche.de/digital/whatsapp-konkurrent-open...

The aim seems to be to create a system that can replace centralized messenger solutions by allowing use of existing IMAP servers or hosting one yourself. I am not sure if this is correct but the article states that they are already supplying the software for three quarters of all IMAP servers worldwide and seem to be interested in connecting with Google to bring this to fruition.

Pretty interesting read (although only German) but it seems the marketing on this topic may have just started.
On the one hand, I agree about the ideology thing and think it is silly not to have stable driver ABIs, but on the other it is difficult to argue with the kernel devs' point when Linux currently has the best hardware support of any open source operating system, and some proprietary ones, by a ridiculously large margin.
Yes there should be much finer detail in permissions.
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Actually this borrowing is far older than the British Empire. First, the language of Angles and Saxons absorbed some of Briton and Latin languages spoken by their predecessors in Britain. Then the Danes (and Norse in general) introduced many changes that are still part of the language, and finally the Norman conquerors enforced their own French as the language of the ruling class.
Maybe add [2008] to the title:

https://www.depesz.com/2008/12/04/explaindepeszcom/
Ruby vs. Elixir Is Like Comparing Apples and Oranges
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"Alarming text"? It should be alarming that to play my music with my sound system, I have to give away location data.

Frankly, this text isn't alarming enough.
What happens when your calendar meets your note-taking app?
I've created a frontend router/store which allows to make whole backendless applications which share the state by emails: http://router.maniak.pro
It could also be someone trying to screw with the mining incentives to break the network. When this block appears other miners have a strong incentive to ignore the block and try to create their own forked chain with the weird transaction. And if someone succeeds then all the other miners are in the same situation again. I guess it doesn't happen either because miners care about the health of the chain or they have rational expectations about other miners.
Two problems with this assumption per the article: 1) the app previously worked fine without the location information 2) the app no longer works at all without location information.

The only legitimate use case for location I can think of would be to pull down cable/tv/radio channel/station listings. But this shouldn't be a requirement since the user could easily manually enter in the ones they want. My guess is that something like this might be used as the pretext for requiring location. However, if the app continues to require location to function longer term (i.e. that this wasn't just an oversight which gets corrected in a future update) then I would assume that the real use case is something that has nothing to do with helping the user.
>If I want to build a robust wooden house, where should I go

Your local lumber yard. Wood is cheap. The easiest way to make a robust structure out of wood is to just use more material than you normally would.
There’s no such thing as “cured” with cancer, only remission.

In general the goal with Oncology is to help people live longer, and improve quality of life for people with cancer. 5 year survival rates are one broad metric which probably broadly indicates they’re getting better at fighting the disease on those fronts.
It looks like all the articles on this new battery are based on a single table of existing and planned grid-tied power sources (including traditional power plants), published by the energy regulator. As a table of power sources it doesn't include capacity, just peak output, which is why there is no info on it. There doesn't appear to be a press release or anything.
This is one of my go-to sites for optimizing Postgres queries. While all the information is available in the text output there's something nice about the site highlighting the rows scanned for the bad parts of the queries in a dark red ;)

My only nits - it's kind of annoying to have to click a checkbox to make sure my analysis is not public and to keep the window open so I can delete it after I'm done.
+1

A successful trader won't give out the thing that if replicated by 10.000 people will attract attention that may deem this inoperable any more.

Part of my 'hobby' is to find EAs and put them to test in other pairs, timeframes, and try to optimise and get better configurations for the triad EA-pair-timeframe. When I get one, it goes straight to MY 'parking lot', NOT a blog :)
I think you might have your timelines a bit reversed.

Afaik: From the 1960s to early-80s, it meant someone who creates. From the mid-80s to mid-00s, it meant someone who breaks into systems (driven by media reporting on FBI prosecution of the first network-enabled cyber crimes). From the mid-00s to now, it seems to be turning the corner again (co-mingled with the rise of maker culture).
The pilot got on the intercom and specifically stated he was doing it. He assured everyone there was zero risk outside the brief bumpiness and it would get us there much faster. He got loud cheers of support from the cabin, so I guess those nervous just kept to themselves.
It's unfair to use printers as an example. For one, they're still a huge problem in Linux, but for two they're universally regarded as some of the crappiest things to work with in all of IT.
Why are you attempting to equate tech writers with journalistic integrity. TechCrunch is basically a blog.
I recently moved to WeWork after nearly half a decade of working in plainly inferior coworking spaces.

It's early days, but I wouldn't be wrong to say that this is probably the first time in my career that I haven't felt, well, "unmoored".

I freelanced through college, then through grad school, then I worked for a couple of years from home before moving to coworking spaces.

At all these coworking spaces, despite their regular events, I never really felt like I was a part of a broader culture. I don't know how, but WeWork manages to do that. Maybe it's because the people around me there look and act and work like me.

Whereas the average coworking space worker felt like he was struggling (heck, even drowning), the people at WeWork feel like they have more time, that they've done the battle, and if they haven't won, they've at least fought enough to win some peace. I don't know if I'm there yet, but I would like to imagine I'm getting there.

WeWork, with its pricing and positioning (it's 2x the rate of my last office) seems to attract people who want to buy into the vision of success, who don't want to see themselves as just "digital labor".
Structuring email isn’t illegal.
> Google, in its wisdom, has tied "Location" into things like BLE Scanning and WiFi scanning. The excuse is that you can use these things as a proxy for location. That is, if I know you are near access point X your location is probably near Y.

It’s not an “excuse”, it’s a fact. If you allow an app to scan SSIDs you are allowing it to know your location. No amount of sarcasm on the part of OP is going to change that.
I just added security.txt to one of my sites. Great reminder!
At least they acknowledged it, responded to the feedback and fixed it.

Unfortunately I have a Sonos system which became effectively bricked unless I signed a new user agreement allowing the collection of data. There are no physical controls on Sonos so the system becomes useless without accepting.

They used to sell dedicated controllers/remotes years ago but these were also bricked as part of an upgrade about a year or two ago. Unhappy owners were offered a voucher (worth less than the value of a single controller - many users owned multiple in order to fully support multi-room - see https://en.community.sonos.com/controllers-software-228995/s...) for their next Sonos purchase rather than allow them to continue to use the hardware they had purchased and used happily for years.

All concerns, requests to be allowed to downgrade, etc. are met on the official forums with a passive-aggressive dismissal of users' concerns by staff backed up by a few cultist fanatics.

I've tried to avoid any further updates (and deny Sonos access to my listening habits) by having it run on a disconnected network but if anyone accidentally updates the app on the old ipad we use as a controller, your forced to update everything. I just wish I had the same system which I originally bought which I use exclusively to play my ripped CDs from a NAS.
I tried Matrix last month. It's neat, but slow and a little buggy. Recommending it to anyone other than a Matrix developer right now seems a bit of a stretch.
I don't envy the psychotherapists that have a professional mandate to show empathy to people like this.
Android app with Bluetooth/Wifi scanning ability needs Location permission to perform the task, that's GOOGLE policy. :/
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Isn't the answer always the same? To optimize performance and offer services individually tailored to the user. Privacy is a myth from the past.
The fund management industry in general makes money through marketing funds and charging fees, not by beating the market.
The biggest problem with IMAP from my point of view is spam, that is why there is only a couple of email providers in the world, although still decentralized, they trust each other more than any newcomers, which is kind of preventing this initiative.
Foreignrap
The distinction between algo trading vs automated trading is referred to as New York vs Chicago "style" algo trading in the document:

> The phrase “algorithmic trading” has a different meaning depending on if you are in Chicago or New York. In Chicago it will mean using a computer to place trades to try to make a profit. In New York it means to use a computer to work client orders to try to minimize impact.
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Do you know, is it going to have a demo/beta server just to play it.
It's not unusual for Exchange servers to have IMAP support enabled. Many organizations have bought into Microsoft's subscription model, use O365 for email instead of running Exchange servers themselves, and typically won't disable IMAP access.
In the "possibly unknown Postgres tools" category, I'm also a huge fan of PG Hero [0]. Gives you a nice sortable UI to look at running queries, see what the longest ones are, the most frequently called, etc. This is all just reading from pg_stats and such but the UI is very nice.

[0] https://github.com/ankane/pghero
I've worked in a couple toxic MSPs.

There was 1 guy who had been working there for 10 years. He was a 'senior' guy who was more intermediate and took days to work on fixes that would take a couple hours for most others.

Early in my time there I was given a client of his. I was working hand in hand with him. All decisions were bounced off him and agreed upon. The customer complained and when I explained to the boss that I had been working with him all along, he denied it and let me take the fall.

Then another day, couple other techs were given a ticket to work on. They determined a new NAS needed to be deployed because the backups arent working. I was sent onsite to deploy a new nas; that's what I did.

I email everyone involved including him, he was on vacation. He replies all but excludes me; and I'm told he took me down a notch and bad mouthed me badly. Mind you I just did what I was told. He then publicly in front of me told everyone that I was screwing over his client. So I replied instantly, "For the record, I was told to deploy a NAS. I did as I'm told. I did got above and beyond and see if I could get that vmhost back alive; I couldn't and so I agree with the techs who recommended a NAS.

He did this kind of shit often to people; but he was the only person who could work on the internal network. The owners of the MSP loved him. He then got promoted to be the IT manager. This pretty much started the process of literally everyone quitting.

Of note, right after he got promoted. There was another coworker who was beyond angry that he got promoted. He was flipping his lid and tells me that he is going to kill the new IT manager. I report this death threat and I got fired the next day. I was apparently the toxic one.
We're not sure.

One interesting study on breast cancer patients receiving radiotherapy, found that local control was obtained but more women were eventually dying from heart failure from being in the radiation field. This essentially offset the gain. This couldn't be seen with 5 year survival rates. Now physicians are focused on protecting the heart and hopefully, eliminating cardiac toxicities.

That vignette just shows that 5y survival is a difficult metric and only shows a small piece of the picture. Others have rightly pointed out, stratification of data based on stage would be helpful. Improvement in 5 year survival of stage 4 patients, could be very meaningful.

Unfortunately, new treatments are adding months (on average) not years.

The best thing we (as a country) did, was wake up to the dangers of smoking. When per capita cancer diagnoses decline and survival rates remain steady (or improve), then we know more people are living longer.
> phones in […] Kosovo may be reached by dialing the country calling code for Serbia (+381), Slovenia (+386), or Monaco (+377)

That can't be right. When will Americans learn basic 4th school year geography?
That paper says, multiple times, that flying is about the same, or better, or worse, CO2 emissions per mile than single occupant cars.
But, see, this falls apart because at a coffee shop, you're actually buying something. Most services people use (FB, GMail, etc), are "free"[0].

[0] Your personal data is a currency, spend wisely.