skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's odd that this article popped up, as I have been recently thinking about noise pollution when walking my dog around the outside of my neighborhood. My unscientific guess is that 50% of vehicles that pass by are significantly louder than they ought to be, and my further guess is that at least half of those vehicles are louder because the driver desires it. In the grand scheme of the world's problems it is probably very low on the list - but I'm guessing it negatively affects people, animals and insects more than you would expect. Would it be so difficult for noise pollution to be regulated like emissions (in fact, couldn't it be done in the emissions process most states in the USA perform?)
I was a happy Dyn customer for years but when I got this email, I immediately transferred my domain to Amazon Route 53 (consolidating most of my infrastructure in one cloud provider).
Claiming to be Cherokee, contractors with white ancestry got $300M
> You don't get to be King's Scholar at Eton being a buffoon.

No, you get it by hereditary wealth, connections and nepotism.
Show HN: Gitpow mining Git SHA hashes
This exists. Jump desktop and Citrix X1 mouse.
Microsoft Partners with University of Waterloo on AI
You're moving the goalposts. GP was just explaining why base level phishing has been elevated to a higher difficulty level than without U2F.

The way U2F prevents phishing is by binding auth requests to the requesting origin and generating unique key pairs for each origin, so it doesn't matter if the user is convinced and manually activates the key, the phishing site gains nothing it can use on a different origin—even in real time.
> ranking content that users with similar upvote behaviour higher

This is what Reddit originally tried to do before they pivoted.

https://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/11fiab/are_memes_maki...
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk explains why Falcon Heavy’s center core missed the drone
Why? There are millions of places to visit, the vast majority of which are nearly empty. You don't have to go to the big name locations, there are plenty of others that aren't crowded.
Fall, by Neal Stephenson. His books are always fun, and probably popular with the HN crowd.
Opera releases crypto-ready mobile browser for iPhone
Expressive Error handling in TypeScript and benefits for domain driven design
Not the majority, no. But around 25% of people use adblockers, which might be higher than many expect. Also, very few people will stop using adblockers once they have started, so the number will only increase.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/804008/ad-blocking-reach...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquito

> The Mosquito or Mosquito alarm is a hand wound machine used to deter loitering by young people by emitting sound at high frequency, in some versions so it can be heard mostly by younger people.

> The sound was made into a mobile phone ringtone, which could not be heard by teachers if the phone rang during a class.
After the Power Mac g4 cube came out, that form factor became a trend for a little while.

https://i1.wp.com/www.mac-ave.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11...
"2 rooms left" claims are usually true.

It just means either the place is small and only has 2 rooms (eg. A family run guesthouse), or they only have 2 of that exact type of room left (balcony, twin bed, non-smoking), but might have plenty of other slightly different rooms left.
I'm with the child on those tap dryers. They seem designed to blast any remaining drops of water in the bowl into your face or shirt. Hate the damn things and avoid them now. Maybe the places were using the wrong bowl or something. :)
Is that a similar effect to antenna arrays?
Libra compendium, a comprehensive report on Libra
There is more than enough money in the system to pay for the actual health care providers.

Some of the middle men would have to get bent.
I'd agree with the hackaday commenters that this seems like they considered putting eMMC (or any kind of flash) storage on the high-end board. Would have been nice considering the reliability of most microSD cards.
Unlearning...why?

The lax nature of the HTML5 doctype did no one any favors. For most elements (`<br />` included) I still use a variant of XHTML Strict. Granted, it wasn't really necessary to have all the URLs and dates there, but to me, the only "correct" way to do this is with `<!DOCTYPE html>`.

The fact that validators don't choke on this is an accident of history.
Heart Study Shows Why Some Types of Sitting May Carry Greater Health Risks
> The animals are taking their toll from the insatible greediness of wild capitalism.

When all you have is a hammer...
They didn't say warnings were required, they said that warnings were the norm.

Sadly, it appears that warnings are not the norm. When you organize the data on this site by the size of fine, you’ll notice that none of the top 10 received any warning.
You could use something like Gnutella[1], where you flood the network with your query request and that request is then passed along nodes.

Unfortunately (IIRC and IIUC how Gnutella works), malicious actors can easily break that query schema : just reply to all query requests with your malicious link. I believe this is how pretty much every query in old Gnutella clients returned a bunch of fake results that were simply `search_query + ".mp3"`.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnutella
The two questions that immediately jumped to my mind on this are

1) does Coinbase's user base skew more towards Firefox than the average, possibly because of perceived better security/privacy and a desire for that among cryptocurrency users?

2) did the zeroday impact Tor browser users, and does Coinbase have a lot of those?
Offtopic but MATE is also literally the only Linux desktop that gets multi-head right, especially when it comes to hot-adding and hot-removing displays. All others do weird things to the window layout or crash when you add or remove a monitor while the machine was asleep.
> What is linear, one-dimensional thinking? Doesn't say, and it's not a common term, either.

I think this is poorly worded, but it reminds me of the sentiments expressed in the widely acclaimed "Seeing Like a State" by Scott and "Predictably Irrational" by Arielly that talk about how human cognition is wired on rather straightforward reward systems that tend to lead to local optimization and are bad at recognizing confounding.

> What is the difference between top-down and bottom-up? Or rather, what is top and bottom?

These terms have much better history in political philosophy and economics, referring to the direction in which authority flows. In the economics context, this is often presented as the polarizing views of Marx (a strictly work-generates-the-value-bottom-up approach) vs Burke (who implied the desire of the wealth is the sole determining factor of value). In a political context this is a conflict between authoritarian strategies (e.g., statism, monarchism, etc) and anarchistic ones (see 1920's Spain or the Free Territories of the Ukraine on a similar time for well-documented and more modern examples).

These are a different axis than a lot of modern political discourse follows, but were quite important at the beginnings of the 1900s.

> Nature and markets are almost the same thing when you look closely.

An interesting theory, but I suspect a lot of economists and a lot of biologists would require clarification.

> Evolution is a kind of algorithm that operates in many ways. You need just imperfect memory and selection to generate all sorts of patterns, in biological life, as in the economy.

This isn't a particularly useful or predictive insight. You're saying, "Algorithms exist to express both these systems."
Ask HN: How do you store your important personal files?
Is there a common way you store important personal digital files, such as 2FA security codes, passwords from very rarely used systems, scans of personal documents? I always have the feeling of getting lost storing these stuff, and losing 2FA auth codes would be terrible for me, so I am trying to scatter them around and email them to my other accounts, but at the same time I think this is not the safest way of doing things as this increases the potential vulnerability surface.

Do you have any service you use or practice you follow for these kinds of long-term storage/file-keeping needs?
A Snapshot of All DVC Resorts Orlandoshares Only Blog
> It's astounding the number of interview candidates who are super-fluent in JS but can't tell you to save their lives why it's a bad idea to put a click handler on a div.

Go on?
Downvote me all you want but it's said that vacant homes outnumber homeless people by 6 to 1. That's a complete and utter failure of "the market" to communicate actual supply and demand.

(https://www.mintpressnews.com/empty-homes-outnumber-the-home...)
this might be one of the most common misconceptions spanish speakers have about their own language. most people really believes that they have to remove accents while writing in uppercase, and not due to technical limitations, they actually think it's a rule...
"Are customers as dumb as we thought? Survey says: no."
As is true for most HN posts, I should have prefaced with “In most but not all cases...”

People who do not happen to be conference organizers or frequent recipients of legitimate cold calls should, in most cases, ignore unsolicited messages from strangers.
Where exactly are markets mentioned? Look up the definition of laissez faire in relation to free markets.
The twitter thread gives a nice example of a failure of ergodicity that I was not aware of:

"Now consider a gamble with multiplicative dynamics.

Win 50% of your current wealth for heads, lose 40% of your current wealth for tails.

Changes in wealth now are non-ergodic, so calculating the expectation value is not informative of the time average growth rate of wealth.

This exact gamble has a positive expectation value, but it has a negative time average growth rate. We call it the Peters coin game."

Clearly the expectation of return at a fixed time is > 0, but they give an example time series with obvious negative drift.
I got this email and immediately moved my vanity domain to Amazon Route 53.
My old company had a ton of IKEA furniture, didn't seem to be an issue.
Humans have higher expectations for technology. Better than humans is not enough.
I get 10:26pm until NaN:NaNpm
Probably because I am in Northern Norway (Midnight Sun).
And yet this site details numerous examples of GDPR fines being issued without any warning. So clearly this law that you claim requires warnings does not actually do so when it comes to GDPR.
Facebook Model Achieves SOTA Results on Top-1 ImageNet
Since the human visual system is so highly sensitive to faces I think the best approach here would be to apply a facial detection algorithm, then boost the energy for the regions where faces are detected.

Basically you'd apply a heuristic that because faces are so special to the human visual system, the perceived energy of a face is higher than the pixels would otherwise indicate.

This would make seams avoid altering any faces in the scene.
The logical conclusion of people visiting a place is a city. Most of the earth is beautiful if you take mans impact out of the equation.

It's not really a problem unless you think people are a problem and then it gets philosophical
Yellowstone is truly the worst for this. It's an extremely fragile natural wonder populated by some of the most disrespectful tourists the world can offer.

I actually cannot conceive of how the park rangers there manage to keep their cool day after day.
I was not familiar with this expression "exception that proves the rule," but I agree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule
Maybe it's just me, but the author of the article sounds butthurt, and the article itself seems click-baity.
> It's hard to keep up with what's legitimate when seemingly everything you do involves a different domain with a different design language and account management process.

This is so true. When you have app.<appname>.tld, <appname>app.tld, app.<appname>app.tld, cdn.<appname>.tld, cdn.<appname>app.tld, <appname>cdn.tld, <company>.tld, <appname>.<company>.tld, <company>corp.tld, etc, it's difficult for even tech-savvy users to spot fake domains, especially since there can be multiple TLDs used with seemingly no consistency. Then someone comes along and registers <cornpany>.tld, <company>.othertld, or <compаny>.tld (the "а" is a cyrillic "a")...

Even if you try to integrate Oauth so you can tell users "only enter your username/password on auth.<company>.tld", it's not always consistent. Google will require your email before redirecting, some services require an email and a password (whether it's correct or not) before redirecting, others have special company-specific subdomains, and I've seen a couple where you have to click on an SSO link on the login page and type in your company's domain. Then you get services where you type in your username/password into their site and it authenticates through AD or another backend mechanism which never goes through your Oauth flow (my college had O365 setup like this), bypassing 2FA and defeating the "only auth.<company>.tld is trusted" message.

The best solution I've seen for all of this is an internal TLD, but that requires a VPN to access from offsite, you have to maintain your own CA and DNS (which a much greater impact when it goes down), some services will not allow Oauth redirects to them, and it only works for internally hosted applications.
Phoenix LiveView Live_link
Looking at the MTD commands it runs (assuming the ones in the article weren't faked) -- on some hardware it'll clobber the bootloader.

You'd need a JTAG cable and a fresh firmware image to fix that. Hardly something within the reach of a typical home user.
Same here - especially the part about how a 2d creature poops...
VESA Publishes DisplayPort 2.0 Video Standard
I've been experimenting with 2d life, simular to cellular automaton, but with floating point directions, called PPS:

https://youtu.be/gaFKqOBTj9w
Apple is not known for high pay. Employees get little plaques that say “the journey is the reward.”

And your 300k from levels.fyi is not base salary. Base salary is listed as 180k, more in line with reality.
Is a simulation of life the same as life?
Commercial speech is not protected in the United States, as decided by the Supreme Court long ago

The extent of this is carveout largely misunderstood and ripe for challenge, enjoy!

Yes, it goes against the social contract that most people understand.

Yes, you can create legal consequences for A LOT of people anyway, whether the idea is popular or not.
Not even Steam works like that.

Stay offline for 30 days (iirc) and try to play the games you paid for.
I can see the problem with wide chip, yeah.

Specifically re: strings, though, I’ve always wondered whether—as a separate problem—it’d be possible to have an end mill or drill that dices long stringy chip into shards. Seems like it’d make operation/maintenance easier in some respects. Maybe a bit with two parts, where the tip (either end mill or drill) has counter rotation against teeth running down the rest of the bit, such that the chip gets sheared as it encounters the interface between the two parts?
Yes, but at the same time it is a-typical in its approach to many concepts, apparently including national parks. And even there, given the size of the country there is a very large chance that OP's sample size is small even within China alone.

They could have just as well been more specific and simply said 'China' or name the specific parks rather than to write 'east Asia'.
2d life simulator:

https://youtu.be/I6bHpJ2GV0Y
I've built windows exe files using pyinstaller on Linux using docker and wine. Someone else has helped automate this. Check out https://github.com/cdrx/docker-pyinstaller
Are you actually proposing for people to gasp! pay gasp! for content?
Their practice of automagically generating user names based on parts of your first and last name in my time led to two users having (for a short time!) the addresses hung@stud.ntnu.no and pervo@stud.ntnu.no.

Brenda Utthead feels their pain.
He's first name is Liu.
In Europe, it's very rare for flight prices to go down.

There is a certain number of seats available at each price point, so they only way price can go down is if cancellations happen.

I don't know why airlines don't use a fancier pricing algorithm, but I think the protocol for flight aggregators and travel agents is very primitive, so doesn't allow it.
> No, its not for the UX, but for tracking you in every way as precise as possible.

Source? I realize this is HN and FUD about Google/Facebook is just accepted as truth, but this is a little too FUD-y for me.
I thought we were always at war with Eastasia?
There are two dimensions here -- one is that they may not feel it at all; the other is that they may feel it but not realize it's bad until it's too late, and might not attribute cause.

For example, going out in the cold doesn't hurt at first, but the pain builds up. As an adult, you may react to the initial no-pain sensation because you correctly predict you'll be freezing later.

Also consider that as an adult the same feeling can be both good or bad by mental context: consider a warm toilet seat -- warmed by a fancy Toto heater at home vs warmed by a stranger's buttocks in a fast food bathroom.
Flame, the most sophisticated cyber espionage tool ever made
There are so many countries and towns all over the world I have seen which basically just prostitute themselves for tourism. It's as disgusting as it is disgraceful. I don't want to see that - I like societies who welcome foreigners but do not depend on their money and hence won't sell their soul to this economic segment. It's obvious how the majority of the population suffers from this attitude where every service is made for customers who won't come back and accordingly is the quality.

Iceland is a role model in this regard.
Nearly every contest I've ever competed in has had judges who I didn't believe were vigorously qualified. Perhaps not in the final round, or in the most competitive sections, but they were there, somewhere, filling in the gaps. On the other side of the equation, I regularly got "please judge this contest" emails I wasn't qualified for while I was still in academia.

Falling for this phish woudln't need to be a matter of inflating one's opinion of oneself, it could simply happen by knowing that at the low end of contests, the bar for judging is low.
Markets are as complicated as nature itself, and that complexity comes from scarcity. If you open a floodgate, there is a market for which water molecules will make it through first. Those nearest, those not in a grid lock, those in a solid vs liquid vs gaseous state, etc. If you add conscious decision making to processes bounded by scarcity, you get immeasurable complexity. The markets of the natural world brought the animal kingdom from amino acids. Natural selection is a market for gene participants to access scarce resources and propagate, and look what's come of it. Human language and slang is a shifting market for utility and signaling. Who you associate yourself with is a market bounded by extreme scarcity. Who makes you laugh, who listens, who you've known longest, who is physically nearest.

Freedom is markets and markets are complicated.
Iceland is not going to be near the top of any affordability list, cheap flights or not.
I’ll bite: Why is it bad to put a click handler on a div? Because we’re losing the semantic content of the markup?
Ever head of copy & paste?

Won’t make them “useless”, maybe inconvenient for non-security minded individuals.
I have read this many times online and i think i must be the only one who for some reason liked that CRT sound :-P

Though it might be that since i really loved computers, i associated it with computers and liked it via association.
It's ironic how much people make fun of SFDC when they literally invented SaaS and internet-driven platforms
Cool, these medicines I'm taking may or may not ruin my brain forever! The science is not quite in yet. Even though they destroy my short-term memory, in the future, who knows! Boy howdy.
> at least half of those vehicles are louder because the driver desires it

Motor cycles are the worst for this. It's not rare to have whole neighborhoods woken up because one of those passes through.
Whoa yeah, that bug makes sense. Thanks!
Yes, it's called "Facebook", and it already exists.

Probably not what you had in mind, though. Be careful what you wish for.
Even most truth in advertising laws allow for some sales puffery. Typically you can "the best steak in town!" But you can't say "Rated the best steak in town" if it wasn't.
Does everyone on HN have NY Times subscriptions? So many articles posted here are from there and I can’t read them without going through lots of hoops.
This one doesn't use cross products, but instead creates different particles that react differently to each other:

https://youtu.be/12lyvmLdecc
Can anyone explain the popularity and persuasiveness of "whataboutism"?

If "To be fair, isn't this functionally equivalent to the NSA attacks on Huawei and Chinese aircraft manufacturers over the past decade" is indeed a logically valid comparison, is that not a perfectly valid rebuttal to ~scare mongering accusations of "state sponsored attacks" from China? It doesn't nullify it, but it puts it in accurate perspective, no? And should not accuracy be an important part of such conversations?
Who maintains, audits, and does validation for content submitted to these global lists of topics?
I read words in front of me, if they're in front of me, and think about what they actually mean, from a purely grammatical perspective. With many ads, that's already bad enough. Then there's the attempted manipulation versus the reality of the product. I apply this hairsplitting to everything I see, and where the intentions of what I'm analyzing are benign, it's fun -- for me. Even when I "find mistakes", it's more a "it's fun to think about things" thing. But when the intentions are not benign, I use it to fuel my vigilance.

> To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

-- George Orwell

> Because we are lied to all the time, in ways so routine they are beneath conscious notice, even the most direct lies are losing their power to shock us.

-- Charles Eisenstein, "The Ubiquitous Matrix of Lies"

I never accepted or adopted said routine, when I was a kid, my mum often said "you're always thinking", and hating most ads is just a natural extension of that. I just have the one gear, and I haven't tired of it yet.

> Sometimes the design of the ads are interesting, even if the product they're selling is not.

Sometimes we can learn interesting things from a virus, I still don't want the disease. Most of what I could learn from well designed ads, I could learn from elsewhere, too, and none of it is essential, versus the essential things (like words meaning things, logical/critical thought, people behaving, talking and thinking like adults, and treating their clients as such -- and so on) most ads seek to undermine.
Platforms should provide the necessary low-level APIs to hook into their accessibility- etc... features without having to use their high-level UI frameworks, and they should provide lower-level services like high-quality text rendering.

Mostly this already works, I can open a standard file dialog, or copy data into or out of the system-wide clipboard. If there are any APIs for accessibility missing (e.g. for hooking into screen-readers), I would consider that a bug on that particular platform. There's no reason that applications which use the system UIs should behave any different from applications using custom UIs.
Yup, it was a Microsoft Research paper IIRC. That's more applicable to scams that cast a wide net to avoid investing resources on savvier targets in the second, more labor-intensive phase. I don't think it would be too relevant to spear-phishing like this case where the resources are already invested in step 1.