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I'm just astonished by this.

Millions of people (in the US alone!) suffer from this illness and I think everyone has wondered, or heard it wondered, if it's imaginary.

For all these people to know there's something actually physically wrong with them is massive. It'll shift the thinking of everyone in the profession, of their families and friends and colleagues, and of themselves.

It's a huge, huge breakthrough.
Comparing multiples of minimum wage is one of the worst imaginable metrics because minimum wages mean very different things in different countries. The US minimum wage, relative to many less developed nations (which are all that is compared), is extremely high in terms of the purchasing power it provides. For instance the article mentions that in South Africa drivers earn 5.1x the minimum wage. But what does that mean? Well we can figure it out pretty easily!

The recommended minimum wage in South Africa is $173 per month. Of course things are cheaper in South Africa, so that doesn't tell you anything by itself. But we can use Purchasing Power Parity measurements to make it mean something! South Africa's PPP is 0.455 [1]. What that means is that a basket of goods worth $1 in America would cost $0.455 in South Africa. So we now can use about a 2.2x multipler to start ballparking buying power.

So 5.1x the minimum wage works out to 173 * 5.1 * 2.2 = $1,941 in US dollar equivalent purchasing power per month. Now let's assume full time work of a basic 40 hour week to get this into an hourly rate. $1,941 / 160 = $12.13. Lo and behold, their "5.1x the minimum wage" works out to almost an identical market rate for drivers as in the US. They earn about $0.20 less per hour, in adjusted spending power, than they'd earn in the US. Whenever a datum leaves you wondering what it really means, it's often one that's been chosen to present a sensationalized image to what's often a pretty boring reality.

[1] - https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/PA.NUS.PPPC.RF?location...
I'm using Fennec F-Droid and can confirm this bug also affected me, and I really don't know if it can be solved without an update (which is not yet available, as it seems)
The irresponsible part is that he says you "must use a filter" if you attach an antenna but does not describe what that would entail. There's not even a link anywhere that would describe how to make a filter or even what he's talking about ("I have a filter... There's no bad power going into this thing!")

When you, "make something dangerous easy" you have a responsibility to be very specific in how to use your invention safely. Otherwise disaster seems inevitable.
I've never had a spec that would thoroughly describe how to handle every case. The ability to understand and interpolate vague business requirements is expected to scale with your level; if you take a "not my job" approach to such decision-making you are perpetually entry-level.
I wholeheartedly disagree about your characterization of Go. There are indeed some advanced and misguided features, to wit: goroutines and channels. On the one hand, these primitives make writing some types of programs easy, but it enforces one specific model to a fault.
if uBlock got compromised as an extension even for 1 day, the amount and value of data uBlock can collect will make anyone very very rich.

It's on the level of saving passwords as texts in terms of privacy.
You need an ESR version of FIREFOX for the older ADD-INS.
Can someone here point us to a suitable D/L now?

I was on ESR versions for a long time. Damn Firefoix, why'd you do this?! We have already FOUGHT it off once!

Many thanks - otherwise a great product, is FireFawx
Ha ha I guess you're right! I can't be bothered to switch to a different programming language just for this feature tho :-)

Anyway then you would get stuck policing exactly how long a "line" is, do comments count, etc...
My ISP puts the local router on IPv6 by default (resolved with a phone call fortunately), which I imagine is tunnelled through a number of IPv4 gateways as port forwarding doesn't work. It's the first time I've seen this.
Honestly I skimmed the first part of the article and then checked the comments. It may be a design cliche, but it may be true. I didn't make it to that part.
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> Was it difficult to find the exact source, or not? Is there some reason that getting directionality on a constant 315 MHz signal is harder than one would think?

Physically, it's easier to find a UHF beacon (315 MHz is considered ultra high frequency) than it is to find a lower frequency beacon (lots of direction finding contests are done on VHF and HF). The higher frequency means a shorter wavelength and better phase (direction) resolution with a smaller aperture (distance between antennas).

However, many (most) hams don't have equipment that covers 315 MHz. UHF isn't popular because it is shorter range and more expensive equipment (you can build HF equipment with much simpler components, and the design is less complex). Plus, 315 MHz isn't in one of the ham bands, so ham direction finding equipment probably won't be designed for it even if it is UHF.

A wide band SDR would include 315 MHz. While there are many younger hams that enjoy cheap SDRs like the RTL-SDR, many of the older, grumpier hams see it as dangerous and letting undisciplined "hackers" into their hobby. To build a direction finder with an SDR you either need to have an expensive multi-channel SDR (I have a Lime SDR that would work), or you need to construct your own mixer to feed a single channel SDR, or you need to wire up two RTL-SDRs with a coherent clock signal, which puts this out of the range of your "common hacker." Here are two ways you could do this on the cheap: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/building-a-passive-radar-system-with... https://www.rtl-sdr.com/building-a-direction-finding-system-...

So while most armchair HN readers would love to tell you about how easy this is, most people don't have the equipment sitting around to do direction finding on a 315 MHz signal. The best most people could do would be to "wardrive" around the neighborhood and look for where the signal strength peaks, but this will really only narrow it down to a few houses and then you need to start knocking on doors. A good direction finding setup would pinpoint the exact house.

Source: I'm a ham (recently made extra), but no, I won't tell you my callsign to prove it.
The thing I don't understand is that if Boeing has been this bad for this long, as many reports indicate, how has nobody come forward to talk about it until these crashes? Zero whistleblowers? Zero people worried about safety enough to call a journalist? How?

The MCAS system design is just so obviously flawed I can't understand how nobody stuck their feet in sand and started saying no, under any circumstances, this is not happening.

I guess you could apply the same question to the people at the FAA, but even after reading the article I still don't understand how the FAA is involved in oversight at all. It kind of seems like they are just checking boxes, but I'll admit that as an outsider the whole FAA/regulatory system is not really something I think I can wrap my head around.
ANy solution yet, Bob?
Adware came bundled with chrome itself (for the money), i.e. installing new browsers is not out of the question here. That excuse feels really flimsy and tailored to permit only the exact choices made and no other option. But there are other options, such as helping users to get rid of adware when it's detected in the browser. It would also result in a larger benefit of improving their system instead just the browser.
I appreciate the YDKJS books a lot more when he is in descriptive mode rather than prescriptive mode.

From this interview, it sounds like he agrees, but can't help giving advice sometimes.
That could still be very interesting. Eg. There are some other illnesses like MS where patients can get fatigued in a similar way to CFS, but not always. If we find a similar response between the fatigued and non fatigued MS patients for example, that could still point to something that is going on causing the fatigue in both cases. Ron Davis’s line on this was to point out having one disease doesn’t mean you can’t have any others.

There are a lot of other interesting overlaps showing up. One of the more interesting to me (because I have it) is that about 40% of CFS patients are testing positive for small fiber polyneuropathy on punch biopsies that appear to be autoimmune in origin. Is that itself an underlying cause of some 40% of CFS cases or is it just a common comorbid condition that whatever triggers CFS also triggers?
Agreed. With first passes ay a project, better to get it up in the air first. The Wright brothers didn't start by making a 737.
Thanks. I'm glad you like the article. :)
I think they used gpt-2 for qa without any finetuning.
Profanity is honest in the sense that is show your emotional state but it doesn't tell if you are right or wrong.

Additionally, it often doesn't help to engage conversation with people having an opposing view point.
The land tax along with the house. Perhaps, you believe the land should be taxed more highly and the house should be taxed less. When permitting is tough, the fact that you got the permits to build the house should increase the value of the land. While the structure may be taxed, it also can generate revenue. If land value is a high percentage of the value, property tax should have similar incentives.
Even today it is very hard to get an accurate CFS dianosis. Patients often are diagnosed with as suffering from a viral infection, or psychological, neurological, or immune disease. They almost always only get a CFS diagnosis after all the other treatments fail. I definitely would not be surprised if it turned out to be present in the past, but misdiagnosed.

One thing that certainly does not help is that the primary symptom of ME/CFS, post-exertional malaise, is counter intuitive. The pain and fatigue comes after a delay, which hides the cause and effect. Everyday physical activity can also be enough to bring back symptoms. This means that if you don't know what you are looking for then ME/CFS will appear to come "out of nowhere", like a mystery chronic illness.
I second or third librarything; I've used tags for things like "box1" or "shelf2."
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It's a constant, yes. We haven't tried any other learning rate schedules (for my poetry GPT-2s, I simply drop the LR 10x each day or so). I have no idea if this is optimal for transfer learning or not.
Usually the whole certificate chain is distributed as a bundle, and most software don't bother checking revocations.
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All tor exit nodes.

https://check.torproject.org/cgi-bin/TorBulkExitList.py?ip=1...

Tor is a beacon
That works well for closed stack collections. Open ones, not so much.
The Anki card viewer is very customisable, because it's actually a web browser (on Mac it's an old Safari). Most pre-modern CSS and JavaScript work. Data can be stored in card fields, and inserted into JavaScript tag like old-school template-based web development.
Letting a certificate expire is the same as flicking a switch IMO. Mozilla is a real organization with full time paid staff, things like this don't just slip through the cracks, especially when the 'fix' is to let Mozilla run spyware on your computer.
Frankly I'm surprised he didn't get in touch with the car manufacturers. I mean, that's the device that was having issues!

GM, Ford, Toyota, etc would have troubleshooting guides at the very least but I wouldn't be surprised if they were able to narrow it down pretty quickly with a simple phone call...

"Well the fobs work on the 315Mhz spectrum. So I'd start by looking for devices transmitting on that frequency."

If they did contact the car manufacturers and they didn't give him this basic advice then shame on them.
> After I say something, I hear it pronounced back at me by a native speaker.

I imagine that being sufficient is going to vary a lot by individual learning styles and ability to mimic. I'm guessing you are rather good at mimicking sounds/music/etc.

> That's 90% of the feedback a tutor or teacher would give you, only it's there for everything you say.

I'm not so great at mimicking, so without someone telling me I'm actually pronouncing the words wrong, I'm just going to converge on an incorrect pronunciation. I cannot self-assess the accuracy; I need a tutor to point out that what I mistakenly believe is correct is not correct -- that is provide feedback to me. (I've tried similar exercises to what you describe and it just results in incorrect convergence)

This is especially an issue with Chinese where my native English brain naturally ignores tonality. Since the information is being stripped away, it's borderline impossible to self-ascertain whether my tones match or not.
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Are we talking about Firefox extensions or something else?
but can you configure it. https://job-openings-in-kansas.blogspot.com
How do you discover these number in 1966?
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Protein already came and passed. That's why cereal breakfast was introduced to avoid proteins in the early 1900s.

Ironically the man behind the campaign against protein was called Dr Kellogs and you can guess which company he founded.

There's a great documentary called In Defence of Food. Check it out.
Hi all,

posted already yesterday, but maybe it's of some value and not so many people have seen it. Disclaimer: I'm the author :)

Kind regards and best weekend
Johannes
Nvidia will stop producing non-A die variants of Turing for RTX 2080 and 2070
Hacker News is not reachable by IPv6
I just noticed when trying to access hackernews from an IPv6 only network that it is unreachable.

How does one best contact a hackernews sysadmin to fix this?
Flicking a switch, releasing the deadman's switch, is there really a difference?
Not sure of the Firefox implementation; just pointing out revocation isn't necessarily straightforward.
Then the FCC comes knocking?
> For instance, I already use a master password to encrypt/decrypt the password database in Firefox.

This feature uses SHA-1. [1]

> Why not allow the master password to also protect the settings and store them encrypted so a third party can’t modify them?

It cannot protect against such. It can protect against a household adversary such as a 4 year old, and that's about it.

[1] https://palant.de/2018/03/10/master-password-in-firefox-or-t...
Point is, reporting should not involve storytelling at all.
Just installing a JDK and gradle seems perfectly easy IMO. On Linux it’s just a package manager command, same for Mac if you are using macports or whatever.

Or if you don’t have a package manager, the instructions still a lot shorter than this medium post! https://adoptopenjdk.net/installation.html?variant=openjdk11...

Nothing against docker but especially when running in windows or Mac where it runs in a resource limited VM, I think you’d potentially be hurting your compilation performance a bit by running everything in docker.
People saw what happened to Assange, locked up in an embassy, to Snowden, having to hide in Russia, to Manning, rotting in a cell again, and to countless other whistleblowers worldwide.

The chilling effect is real.

What has likely also played a part: at-will employment and blacklisting.
I would like to meet someone who writes code without any bugs. Now if you're not putting bugs on purpose in your program, you probably don't know what they may arise from. So why use a tool (prints) which is deeply influenced by your assumptions on the program and which probably where wrong in the first place?
Some more arguments for the debugger:
-No need to recompile for each print
-Available for multi-threaded progs
-possibility to see the state in libs you're dependent on, in which you can't put logs nor asserts.
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There is a story in a similar spirit about showing that one of the supposed Mersenne primes (2^67-1) was in fact composite -- (probably apocryphally) by simply doing the arithmetic by hand on a blackboard during a talk.

For more details, see:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_prime

- https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/2105/whats-the-famou...

- https://mathoverflow.net/questions/207321/how-did-cole-facto...
This is the first time seeing a TERF in the wild. I am saddened by her opinions. Having many trans friends, I believe that trans women are women too.
Not exactly clients, but the Parity multisig "hack"[0] was pretty wild. All it took was one permissionless call to permanently wipe the shared library of a large bunch of multisig wallets, thereby freezing those wallets forever. Some of the impacted people, including Parity, are still pushing for overriding the wallets to be unlocked, despite no support from anyone else.

0: https://blog.zeppelin.solutions/on-the-parity-wallet-multisi...
I’m not an expert but as I understand it, many chips have hardware offloading (what I referred to as Hardware NAT). However, it’s bundled into a closed blob. Meaning it may only work with the kernel it was developed against and that it can’t be modified.

However, the mt7621 has the smallest closed blob and exposes enough for open development of hardware offloading. It’s this same access that allowed for the great ath9k and is what is allowing for a great mt7621.
No. They are intentionally keeping that information secret to prevent people from trying to self-treat with it before more studies have been done.
FCC can’t really do anything about a Chinese person selling from China
> tends to get mirrored onto many frequencies for some reason I'm not familiar with.

Play with this for a few minutes: http://www.jezzamon.com/fourier/index.html

And watch any of these: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=vibrating+reed+...

Okay, so think of a radio receiver as being sensitive to a particular frequency, because it has a filter in front of it. A vibrating reed of a specific length, if you will. (This is almost exactly true for certain types of crystal and SAW filters, actually.)

But when you flip a digital output from 0 to 1 or vice-versa, it changes state very quickly -- the output is essentially a square wave. (Physical limits mean it does have a finite slew rate...) Which means it contains components of every frequency. Think of coming up to one of those vibrating-reed meters and smacking it -- a single impulse excites ALL the reeds.

Smack it regularly (change the pin state at a specific frequency) and the reeds that're way off frequency will just sort of bounce around but not be particularly excited. You're creating noise, but it's just noise. But the reeds that're odd multiples of the smacking frequency will vibrate too -- these are the harmonics. They'll get really excited, almost as excited as the fundamental. (The evens essentially cancel out.)

Here's what it looks like on the radio spectrum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC36AqL5mw8

Incidentally, this is why so many chips now boast "slew-rate limited" outputs: to intentionally slow down those transitions, to reduce the amount of noise that has to be filtered and shielded in order for the device to pass RF emissions testing.
Not unfixable, but there was a fun story about a game that shipped without the ability to be patched, so the developers later "patched" it by buffer overflowing their own EULA:
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/194772/dirty_game_dev...
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Oh, so you say that. That's different, then, that totally negates anything I ever witnessed.

> doing the thing they enjoy most inflicting pain

I'm not going to insult your intelligence by listing known sadists and sociopaths with childhood trauma or brain damage -- from serial killers to Hitler, you name 'em... but do you know of examples where no damage could be found? I haven't even heard of that once, nowhere in pyschological literature. And all the truly happy people I've known have been kind. All the cruel people I've known are weak and never really at ease. Your "I say" isn't even a "in my experience", you can't even commit that much.

> I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

-- Leo Rosten

This matches my experience. It's not the argument, it's the summary of it.
Are you programming on your phone in landscape mode?
The malicious code may well have the necessary permissions to write to the profile folder, but not to modify the executable.

Under the Unix security model, for example, that would be pretty likely: your profile's owned by your account, the executable & its containing folder are owned by root & go-w, so code running as you can tamper with the former but not the latter.
I've known several people over the years who have had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and most of them have at some stage or another had to deal with discrimination from people that told them it was a made up illness. Having a solid test like this will make a phenomenal difference.
It's not impossible, but it's much harder to do this in a way that reliably persists through Firefox changes and updates. In comparison, changes to the prefs file are trivially persistent regardless of when and how Firefox is updated.
> certificates need to expire while the original person deploying the system is still working on it.

This seems really arbitrary. Elaborate?
>So in order to protect the opressed, we should allow their opressors an equal platform to share their totalitarian views?

Yes. That's one of the founding principles of America. Cloudflare is a common carrier like a telco, not a hosting provider. The content on websites that use them as a CDN shouldn't be paid attention to by Cloudflare one way or another, as long as it's legal. This is their position, and it's the correct and most moral one. You also seem to be missing the fact that Cloudflare famously banned Daily Stormer; the only time they've ever banned any website: https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/

The best way to empower extremists is by trying to stamp them out. You can never, ever win when your primary weapon is censorship. Fascism thrives and festers in darkness.
I don't use Docker; I run dnscrypt-wrapper on my own server and clients connect to it using your dnscrypt-proxy software. Please pardon my ignorance, but how would you propose automating key rotation in this circumstance (assuming the key is "sdns://...")? Right now it's an involved process of interactively logging in weekly to generate the keys and copy-paste the value into the dnscrypt-proxy.toml configuration file - for each client! I'm probably missing something obvious. Thank you for your work and reply.
Openwrt is such a gem,not just for home routers but also for IoT gateways etc. Its installation base is probably on par with Debian. I have long been hoping that Linux Foundation or somebody else to endorse this project and give it a huge boost on top of this already great project.
Couldn't you just walk around with a laptop and an RTL-SDR device and measure how strong the (near 315MHz) signal is at various locations as you move about?
I'm feeling that cliches is not the right word. To call something cliche generally means it's over-used, tired, boring, etc.

But the article itself is not saying that. Perhaps maxims or truths, would be better?
I don't understand the details but here is the link to the paper

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/04/24/1901274116
sure, but the paper could have included the code ... :)