skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've already typed quite a few replies, and I don't want to come across as all preachy.

"into turning off TLS 1.3... (all real examples from posts like this)"

The user.js does NOT disable any TLS settings. HTTP2 I talked about in another reply. Client auto-installing is disabled (as that really fits with our user-base), but auto-checking for updates is not, and hasn't been since I moved to Github (it was from memory, way back when I had it on ghacks where it was shared as MY settings)

Not from this comment, but I was already aware of some of our defaults putting users at risk, which is why Tracking Protection and Safe Browsing are not disabled (except real-time binary checks), and why auto-update checks have never been disabled, and so on. And why I pointed to and tried to make the wiki implementation page highlight those important settings.

I was aware, but this thread prompted me to actually change it - I made the auto-updating extensions disabled -> inactive. The reasoning here is that APP update reminders are in your face, you get a dropdown panel notification, repeatedly - but extension updates are not in your face - so best practice here so no-one is disadvantaged, and one less thing to list at people and overwhelm them. Keep in mind that this is still not aimed at the average person.

I also updated the wiki implementation page to make it a bit cleaner and really point some things out. Thanks everyone

PS: I'm not rabid :)
Thing about the US courts: until that happens and precedent is established, there's no "correct". Both are equally plausible based on how past laws have been expanded past some people's ideas of reasonable. It's the whole "I can't define pornography, but I know it when I see it" concept.
A superconductor suitable for use in an electromagnet that could be cooled with liquid nitrogen alone would be practically "room temperature" as far as these things go. Liquid nitrogen is cheap and abundant, as opposed to liquid helium which is required to get down to 4 K.

As stands at the moment, some older MRIs use liquid nitrogen to help insulate liquid helium. Newer machines use liquid helium alone.
Nuclear-powered city under the ice, Camp Century [video]
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/02/water...

It was a bad design to rely on hashing algorithms to never collide. But it's worth noting that even SHA1 is much more robust than most hash table algorithms, which are meant to run even faster.
Rust IDE support is not great tbh, there are recent languages that have way better support. I would day it's average at best.
"being ratio'd" is completely toxic behavior. It is dogpiling someone on the internet. The quality of replies it encourages is reliably the lowest of the low. Trying to protect that practice is not very defensible; dumb tweets can be quote-tweeted and lambasted that way.
Yeah, well, that can be said for a lot of things that are probably impossible. FTL dirve? Teleporter? Working lightsaber?
AiC: Adventures in Consensus
Most things already mentioned in the comments here, plus:

- Disabling Windows Script Host

- Enabling 'Memory integrity' feature under Core Isolation. This however uses Hyper-V so it is enabled on my laptop but not on my workstation as Hyper-V only supports enhanced sessions with Ubuntu.
That excuse doesn't really hold water though. The S10 still has it, and is arguably every bit as "killer" as the new iPhones.

It's more like cost cutting / engineering laziness dressed up as being progressive.
this thread further illustrates the dumpster fire of self importance that is HN
Syphilis Invades Rural America. Fraying Health Safety Net Failing to Stop It
That's exactly the opposite impression I get from literally everyone I know who has lived (as an adult) in the former USSR and its satellite states (including many people who currently live in eastern Europe). Whether they're "happy" or not I can't say but nobody seems to want to return to a world where you can't buy a light-bulb unless you know someone. Many of them often make grim jokes about what that world was like.
- Update Windows and associated programs always

- Leave Windows Defender alone (no hassle anymore)

- Set UAC to lowest level (Too annoying to leave on high)

- Use Firefox and always update

- Use Umatrix and Ublock Origin

- Use Bitlocker and Truecrypt/Veracrypt for especially sensitive stuff

- Use Keepass for passwords
- Never run any file you don't know what is outside of a VM
> Those arguments are very easy to parry. Even in the scenarios where Soviets got a bomb, I believe keeping it secret would've been of great military value

it was never a secret wrt the ussr. the manhattan project was riddled with communist spies.
incentivize people not to be idiots and move to areas less susceptible to environmental catastrophe
Well and more specifically in places like Colorado that would be enough to take away your guns.
Moving Your API from Express to Serverless Functions?
I think this is an outdated view of things. AFAIK, Windows is commonly regarded as more secure than Linux out of the box.

Having used Windows for over 20 years and never gotten bit by any malware, I think the quality of Windows security has always been a bit overrated. Being the biggest target for malware has its advantages I guess.
Being facetious but I gave up on Windows on my computers just over a decade ago due to this very reason. I was sick up constantly needing to upgrade every 2-4 years and having serious security issues. I went full Linux and I don't consider myself a free software zealot.
Self-reported? Asking questions sure is cheaper than doing fMRI scans, but cultural differences might result in significantly higher noise, making different generations’ and countries’ results uncomparable.
He said 50% of humanity, while a million people is a large number to us it’s nowhere near 50% of humanity.
True, that's why I wrote "Dart had".
Maybe not grandma, but Bob the accountant could install pihole or tor. If only a small fraction of non technical people start using privacy focused software, it would be a big win for the open internet.
Not that I've used it yet, but there's also the "Hardening Windows 10 Workstations" guide from the ACSC (it might be a bit overkill though)

[1] https://www.cyber.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-03/hardeni...
Doesn’t rebco tape use liquid nitrogen?
This article increases my concern that the primary issue here is a failure in process to ensure the safety of passengers before the 737 Max went to market.

We have world class expertise in the aviation industry, and there is no excuse for rushing a product to market without fully vetting it for safety.

Boeing, the FAA, and the airlines moved too quickly to place the 737 Max in the air and too slowly to ground the planes after the second crash. In both cases it appears that these decisions were influenced by an over-reliance on the capabilities of technology over people.
You Don’t Have to See to Shoot Like Stephen Curry
The concept, idea, and flexibility of Arq is great, ideal even. The amount of control is nice. I wish it were open source.

The actual product is pretty painful when you need to do a recovery, especially if you don't know where the file lived on disk. I haven't tried newer Arq Cloud Backup destination to see if it improves the search experience.

That said my experience is from more than a year ago and I would try it again if they were able to bring their search on par with current consumer backup offerings.
Why pay for zoom and slack? Is something lacking from https://zoom.us/feature/messaging vis-à-vis slack ? Easy 'bot integration perhaps (slack certainly have a lot of integrations out of the box)?
I'd be careful running any tools to clean up Windows 10. While I haven't used this one before, I've used others that do basically the same thing. The telemetry features are so baked in to Windows 10 that running these tools can break Windows if you're not careful. And since every major update of Windows 10 changes so much with no regard to user preferences, even if your clean-up works today, it might break in the future.

I try to avoid Windows 10 whenever possible.
I wrote a browser extension last year to hide like counts and such from the sites I visit and it definitely changes your browsing behavior for the better. Reacting to those vanity numbers is similar to slowing down to rubberneck.

Here's the repo if anyone is interested. I still use it to this day but haven't worked on it in a while cuz I'm learning rust.

https://github.com/a13o/disengaged
This might be the first time I’ve seen a good use for &mut &T, very cool!

For those of you not well-versed in Rust, this is a mutable pointer to an immutable string. This means that you can change the part of the string you’re pointing at, but you can’t change the underlying string itself.
> zero resistance in the material at temperatures higher than 8 Fahrenheit (-13 Celsius), perhaps as high as 44 Fahrenheit (7 Celsius)

> The teams synthesized only about a dust-speck worth of [lanthanum hydride] from expensive ingredients crushed to unfathomable pressures between hand-cranked diamond halves

While the temperatures are amazing (when I was young, superconductivity above 0 Celsius was the stuff of science fiction), the material might not have commercial applications in the near future.

Instead, why not use active cooling and powerful insulation? Like this: https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/world-first-as-wind-turb...
This depends entirely on what you are protecting against. Being hacked (someone stealing data for example) or data loss, such as getting a ransom Trojan? I worry only about the latter. I don’t have secrets on my machine that I would be upset if someone got hold of. That makes protection easier.

Use a good backup software with write only snapshots (not mirrors).

Apply updates quickly. Don’t disable any built in protections and don’t add any third party ones.
I too love the fact that about 90% of your comments relate to China, and you choose to attack OP's motive instead of the article itself here.
$1,000 off a 409a? How much would the 409a cost after the discount?

Asking because our 409a cost us about $1,200...
They have customer semi-obsession, but just a selected big customers ( most SP500 and governments ) and I can't think of a company that offers what IBM does ( the full spectrum, not just a subset).

So after getting in, they don't need to be good, they just need to not be too awful.
Can you elaborate more about how the culture would compensate for lower crime?
We've also got it happening to us on our 2015 MBPs in work, at least 3 of us have experienced it. Some more than others.
You can use a form like:

assert_that(foo, is_equal_to(bar));

Which makes it sort of clear that foo is the actual value, and bar is the expected. Especially when you also see things like:

assert_that(foo, is_not_zero());

Perhaps that's what you mean by 'BDD-style interfaces'.
Several of the most interesting people I have known had older fathers who were active in their lives. I'd worry somewhat about degrading quality of sperm/DNA, but all that life experience (if learned from) can definitely help balance things out.
High powered magnets - these will improve scanners (see comment below), turbines, motors, generators.
YBCO superconductors can be fabricated into a flexible tape which is then useful for creating these kind of devices, but YBCO needs to be cooled with liquid nitrogen.
What Is Suspension Trauma a.k.a. Harness Hang Syndrome?
Another bad thing about Windows: 3 or 4 different font rendering engines.
All political terms and discriptors are in constant flux. That is normal. Generally speaking when you refer to left-leaning in a specific country, you mean the leftests of your contemporary time. I’m not sure what Austro-Maoists in the 1970s have to do with today’s leftists in Austria
Head shop I used to go to in the mid-90s kept their "water pipes" in a locked back room. You couldn't even buy one unless they'd deemed you "hip to it, man" or whatever.
> They only review the videos if there's an incident or complaint. So it's not like there's someone watching 40 x 8 hour videos every day.

Right now there isn't, but some day, a computer might be able to do it.
Yeah, but that happens after your door's been kicked down. We see this all the time with city and state $bad_thing "task forces". The many of the cases they bring evaporate in court if they make it that far but the damage is done.
There's also one of, if not the, largest petrochemical manufacturing corridors as well. Tens to hundreds of billions of dollars of GDP.

How about you guys just pay the money so you can keep your gas prices low, GDP up, and imported goods flowing to your house?
I don’t really know how the NES graphics work but the C64 shares the memory bus between the cpu and the ‘gpu’ (VIC) chip. Basically each cycle one half of the cycle the CPU gets to read/write one address and then the other half the GPU gets to read one thing. Sometimes the GPU needs more accesses and then it stalls the CPU. You can’t change the timing of the GPU because then it doesn’t output the picture at the right frame rate and you can’t change the timing of the CPU because then it clashes with the GPU. And also if you speed things up the memory runs out of spec and you run into glitches.

And then, if you would somehow speed up the CPU the software doesn’t run because most of it requires cycle-exact behavior matching the GPU.
I came to the same conclusion and made a Chrome extension to remove several of these numbers (upvotes, karma, etc.) from reddit: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/novote/kepihilioco....
a woe below woe!
the sun into darkness was thrown,
over all a dim shadow had flown,
and my heart sorrowed deep and alone
at the foot of that empty throne.

--
nec novitas solis
nec figura solis
gravitatem tuam lucemque effinget.
volumen necesse non est:
memoria tua tenemus.
pius dominus tibi requiem donet.
die post idus aprilis.
[I]n one instance, a bellboy/valet from a hotel nearby The Promenade was observed in a back alley placing scooters in The Promenade Garage. That bellboy/valet had his own key to unlock The Promenade Garage. Borelli was later observed conversing with that bellboy/valet. Borelli subsequently picked up the scooters and took them away in a truck...

Running this kind of grift kind of undercuts the whole moralistic pretense behind what they're doing.
See also current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19698834
The company has to be US incorporated. Customers can be foreign
"Though it's unsure if Instagram purposely planted this to get me tweet about it"

I suppose it's game-over if Instagram is that good at inception. :-)
Cops use public restrooms. There’s one reason.

I think cops should always have a light on when they are recording; that provides check for people to know when they are or are not being recorded.
It depends what do the type annotations do. I'm not sure how perl6 does it, but for example in python type annotations are completely ignored at runtime, so don't have any impact. We'll see how much / for what does Ruby 3 actually want to use the type information. Sorbet on its own is unlikely to affect runtime either.
I see two options going forward:

- Filters, Article 13 style. Youtube, Facebook and Co have to ensure you can only post legal content

- Accountability. A justice system is able to drag you into a court when you've done something illegal.

We tried safe harbor and it was a nice compromise, but youtube added ContentId for a reason and it also certainly doesn't seem to help against hate speech. I prefer we keep judges assessing what is allowed and what isn't, instead of shifting this burden onto companies. If that requires Know Your Customer laws, then this seems like an acceptable trade off to me.
Instagram is: https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/18/instagram-no-like-counter/

But the screenshots indicate that they’re still showing the count to the user who posted, which is the only user that must not see them. Nice try, but it won’t be sufficient.
I use this to monitor network activity https://www.glasswire.com/
I Talk About Smalltalk Even Though I’m Working in Java
We give a lot more for free than normal banks. We only charge for wires because right now we have a high fee with our partner. We will fight to reduce that over time.
Talk about American exceptionalism. The stagnation is deafening...
Ask HN: Possible to move from non-dev to dev job at FAANG-level companies?
I'm safely ensconced in a very specialized not-coding, not-datascience discipline in academia, with tenure, in a geographic location I'm really not happy with. Right now, I'm on the radar of recruiters for at least 2 FAANG-level companies, because my very specialized discipline happens to be in need right now.

I'd like to bounce to industry, especially if it comes with FAANG-level salaries, and where I don't have to be in the middle of nowhere (no mobility in academia). But I don't have a lot of confidence that this need will continue more than a few years out. I also can code. But I don't have a CS degree or professional experience writing code.

And so I'm thinking something like this: "ok, so maybe if I pursue something with one of these companies, and it works out, if the hotness of my field fades in a few years and they decide it doesn't have anything to offer them, I could switch to an engineering role?" Assuming I have or can to a sufficient skill level to be able to keep up on the eng side of one of those companies, is that kind of move realistic? Or is it like, you start on a non-eng track, you stay on a non-eng track forever?
And the more or less permanent state of war we find ourselves in could also be considered a new normal we've adapted to that XIX century Americans would find creepy and grossly inappropriate.
If the concern is ransom-ware, what works well?
I think it’s what I call the “trough of disallusionment”.

For women in the US at least, your late 20s / early 30s are spent grappling with the reality that the job market is still grossly unfair. Women get fewer opportunities, lower pay and less power. It’s fucking depressing because there is still retaliation for speaking up — any women in power got there by propagating the status quo, and they’re honestly more likely to retaliate. I also suspect part of the increase in happiness is due to the number of women who extricate themselves from such situations and find happiness and satisfaction elsewhere.

I suspect Europe simply pushes the “trough of disallusionment” out further. Sure, there are stronger protections in the workplace, but they only really protect the people at the bottom. As you grow older, the burdens just accumulate.
I think it’s being old enough, to be financially independent enough, to not take shit from anyone.

47 and paid off mortgage this week. Zero debt and have 1 kids college saved up in cash, and low 7 figure retirement savings.

Still need a job for other kids college and medical insurance. I’ll keep working at my employer until I drop dead, as I like the technical work, but I’m on the 3 day plan now. 3 bad days in a row and I’m gone, and I made them aware of that.
You're both close. Rock crawling.
>Or are they only told the application they need to hack on the day - that is truly impressive if so!

No, the applications that are available to attack are known in advance - the exploits tend to involve months of work by talented researchers.

Source: I was around at MWR (purely as an uninvolved but interested spectator) when mobile & regular pwn2own 2017/2018 were taking place.
As would 19th century Americans
I've been using company a provided X1, X1 Yoga 1st and now 3rd gen.

I had several issues with the arrow keys on the X1 Yoga 1st edition.

Tactile feedback while pressing but without actual keypress action on the up arrow. We had a lot of 15 of those, and the issue was present on 8 of these.

3rd edition now has the same issue on the left/right touchpad buttons (the physical ones). If you press don't press on the dead center of these keys, you feel the physical feedback, but there's no keypress action. Again, we got a batch of 15 of those, out of which 10 had this issue.

For the 1st edition the shape of the key was the issue (slant on the membrane), while for the 3rd the key is just too soft (plastic bends before pushing on the membrane).

This is the most brutal behavior a button can have. What's the point of physical feedback if it's broken?

The monitor backlight on all the X1 laptops we have (we're using them since 5 years) developed bright spots. The black level of the screen degrades pretty quickly too, settling after 3 months of normal usage. If you turn on a "fresh" X1 it has significantly more contrast than what you'll typically get a few months on.

Overall, it's still a great line (up and beyond than the HP "elitebook" series), but the keyboard and button issues are really irking me up and the Yoga 3rd edition IMHO has a worse keyboard then the 1st overall.

I sadly cannot compare with the XPS series as I never used the series long enough to judge.
Yes, people sometimes give into stereotypes. Blame culture and society. Just be smart enough and realize that not everything is as it seems.

Playing devil's advocate for a second: If you really think about it, if everyone blindly accepted everything all the time , think how boring life would be. Sometimes not putting two and two together makes the discovery much more interesting. I like a fun surprise every now and then.
> I can't see a normal person willingly accepting this sort of risk

A lot of Germans did in fact do it. So... there.
Even my father considered doing it, being ever suspicious of the handheld tracking device that is the smartphone we forced on him.

There's not much police will (or can) do once it's established that you traded SIM-cards. It's actually discussed in the first article I linked.

There's also a good chance you weren't even remotely physically close to the phone/sim when the crime was committed.
The whole "edge compute" space seems poised to do well to me. Cloudflare's edge KV store and edge server-side JavaScript are obvious, but great ideas.

The wildcard seems to be the companies that own cell towers. If they build a credible edge offering, that's a moat that is hard to beat.
Yeah, the US will never adopt a law like that. Anonymity is extremely protected by the Supreme Court, because the founders wrote and distributed pamphlets anonymously in support of the Revolution.
That would be a cool feature. We don’t have immediate plans to do this.
Our NMR machine that was used for discovering the structure of biomolecules had a superconducting magnet. The whole machine was pretty impressive (massive steel chamber filled with cryo-cooled magnetic coils). You'd "inject" current once in a while and it would swirl around for weeks/months at a time.
The societal facade without computers at least requires a semblance of common sense, good manners and physical health.
ATF is a federal agency. No state is protected against military action against gun holders.
> running these tools can break Windows if you're not careful

I think this definitely needs to be taken into consideration when running these sort of tools, I agree.

> I try to avoid Windows 10 whenever possible.

Good advice. I second it.
- Set UAC to lowest level (Too annoying to leave on high)

I think it's just better to leave it in default position.

- Use Umatrix and Ublock Origin

Firefox already has tracking blocking and I've done tests to check: Firefox is way faster and stable without any extensions. Ublock Origin removes ad page blocks, but actually adds more resources to the program + slows page loads. Just try to turn it off and recheck.
The dreaded “analysis fees”!

We operate at reasonable unit economics. Free should be sustainable.
cheap, not sadistic. The end result is me being the most successful in my family with first a career and now multiple technology businesses.

I spent all that time learning C64 basic and some assembly. I used to type in games that I found in C64 magazines at the library. I had no way to save it, so sometimes it would take me multiple days.

A few times, the power was cut :-( and I had to start over.