skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting bug observed in 19.07 by users of some routers: the unit will perpetually boot into failsafe mode despite not being triggered to do so. Recompiling with the failsafe module removed from the build solves the problem, but exposes what is possibly the root cause - configuration changes remain only as long as the router is powered on despite being saved, nothing persists through a reboot of the router, and the unit will always start up with the default config.

I had to test it on my (deprecated) Netgear EX2700 and could confirm the exact same problem. Other than the lack of configuration persistence, 19.07 performs just great and I was pleased with many of the new features and changes. Unfortunately I'll have to stick with 18.06.6 as I have power outtages every now and then.
I'm interested that they did not touch on ADD medication there.
This would be an exciting new development in corporate fuckery. I suspect (hope) it’s unconstitutional or otherwise illegal.
There are places that are really risky to drive to.
In Buenos Aires, ie, it was reported that multiple Uber drivers got physically attacked by taxi drivers when they got identified on downtown.
In some countries, like Brazil, there are some really risky areas where driver could potentially put his/her life at risk. Areas where not even police can access.
I love the in-line audio samples here, really drives home the point and gives context for those sounds I didn't already know well. Great use of technology to improve presentation.
Don't use text file. Use regular piece of paper, put it in tamper-evident envelope and keep register with events regarding envelopes.

When you take something from envelope, note the date, the why, the number of envelope you opened and the number of envelope you then put the piece of paper in. Every time you open envelope check with the register that the numbers agree.
How about this as a very early idea: start with something like the Virtuix Omni that allows the player to freely move and rotate. Add 3 thin metallic pillars surrounding the device, going up to about 2m, which would rotate with the player. At 2 different heights on each of these pillars there would be a pully controlling a slightly elastic cord via fast acting actuators. The other end of each of these ropes would be connected to the sword controller.

Most of the time, there wouldn't be much tension coming from the cords (other than perhaps representing gravity pulling on the sword's mass), but when a hit needs to be simulated, the right cords would rapidly tense, according to the simulated properties of the object being hit.
Everyone likes an honest person until they meet an honest person. Lol.

I wish people didn’t have to feel pressure to hide behind platitudes and white lies just to be socially acceptable.
Notam – Notice to Airmen
Do you keep track of all the things you buy in case price goes down so that you can complain to customer support when they do?

In my case, I contacted support to see if I could get a discount before making the purchase and they told me to wait two weeks for an upcoming promotion. Also quickly exchanged a defect mattress.

Not saying they're the best, but complaining because they don't have retroactive sales....
Not the OP but as I grew older I started to realize that calling someone a “loser” (seen as bad) just because they haven’t “achieved” much is simply not ok, it only helps to prolong this (I think unhealthy) state of affairs where everyone should be seen as doing something, anything, preferably something “productive”.
Can I ask what medication it was?
This person held a research position in the psychology department of a world renowned university, and claimed to be writing an app to gauge Facebook users' personalities. T This is more than just "simply working at a university", Kogan held a research position and proposed an app with a purported academic purpose that was in his field of study.
https://freeotp.github.io/

iPhone backups back up its data correctly—my codes survive new phone restores where they do not with Google Authenticator.
Firepath? Not that weird perhaps.
Once you slipped and accepted the "gift," he and all Epstein's handlers had the person by the, you know what. So after that, nothing is rational.

I also think it's easy to say "how could they do x and y with a 17 year old..." but humans are made of flesh and blood.
Doctors are not always researchers. The mind of a good researcher is very curious. A good practitioner has to rely on heuristics for troubleshooting due to the high dimensionality of the decision space they deal with.
I never said that. Maybe someone else in the thread did though.
Pretty crazy is how modern scholars don't see a difference between average lifespan at birth and at some age.
Humans were always living up to 100, conditional on survival until some age.

Moreover, to become court official, one had to reach some wisdom first, hence the age
Yeah I always feel fantastic the day before I get sick. I don’t have any sources, but I remember reading that it’s due to your immune system ramping up and getting ready to fight. Not sure how much truth there is to that, but every time I’m sick, I can look back and see I felt great the day before.
Not that I agree with the salesman's approach, but luxury cars do cost more to maintain than cheaper brands.
Precisely: I want to do it because it’ll be interesting, the same reason I had a BeBox in the mid nineties and a Plan9 network in the 2000s.
You're definitely not alone - though I disagree with your view, I've been in enough back-and-forths about it on HN to know that plenty of thoughtful people here are against life extension, for various reasons (that can't all be just reduced to Stockholm syndrome).

For instance, there's worry that life extension will vastly worsen economic inequality. Another problem is that a lot systems in society (e.g. retirement, insurance) is implicitly based on current average lifespan, and a sudden extension of it could cause such shockwaves in the economy that it would create more suffering than it would save.

I mention these two because I acknowledge them as real risks, but despite them, I'm 100% in support of life extension. I sincerely hope that one day humans will be able to extends life indefinitely, while retaining full capacity (i.e. no everlasting life in a body of a 90-years-old).
Gary Vee has a great pov on this...his thesis is that we hoist our self image problems inot most situations and that we should fix our self image first and that will take care of us in that we will not a negative reaction to critics
Ask HN: When will an Indian tech company surpass Reliance in market cap?
In America 5 of the top ten companies are tech companies. Google and Facebook are relatively recent additions.

China has Alibaba at the top. In India it's a conglomerate and a bunch of banks. Yes, TCS and Infosys are at the top but they've been around for a while.
What I like is that your reaction is probably pretty common.

Imagine the reaction a person from the 18th century would have if I told them it's silly to burn things to make light. You're the 18th century person in this scenario. You have never seen an incandescent light bulb, let alone an LED so I'm clearly crazy right? Of course you burn things to make light, how else would it be possible?

There is no need to send your password to somebody in order for them to authenticate you as someone who knows the password. Symmetric PAKEs which do this are actually relatively common in new systems that had a cryptographer help design them today, Bob knows the correct password is "Sesame" and Alice tells Bob something which proves to Bob she knows it too, but even if Eve hears everything both of them say she doesn't learn "Sesame" and won't be able to satisfy Bob that she knows the password.

For real human passwords, verified by humans, like "What's my favourite vegetable?" there's a wonderful protocol the Socialist Millionaire's Protocol, which lets you play this out, each participant says what they think the password is, and the protocol tells them both if they gave the same answer. Because humans are in the loop this can use low quality passwords, if I try to "brute force" you by guessing every possible vegetable you'll get sick of me wasting your time and disconnect.

Better yet, asymmetric PAKEs make it possible for Alice to tell Bob a fact which Bob can use to verify that Alice knows some password P, but without Bob knowing P. Eve can hear everything they say and still doesn't know P and can't impersonate Alice.

This stuff is almost as old as the World Wide Web.
Painless Bug Tracking (2000)
"shows an unhealthy level of grandiosity"

... plus some very unfortunate gender stereotyping.
It’s the American exceptionalism, the belief that the US is unique in how much freedom its citizens have. The land of the free. In reality, citizens in other democracies have as much or more freedom.
Yes, yeltsin's or putin's rule were better then Stalin rule.

> Not sure why you are bring communism or stalin into the mix. The 10 years after ww2 were far better for russians than the 10 years after the soviet collapse.

Bringing up Stalin, cause you talk about period of history when stalin ruled - after ww2.

And absolutely, Russian people were not better off after ww2 - the country was still destroyed, villages still burned and only slowly rebuilding, dictatorship was in full swing, including very real oppression, torture fear and what not. Oh, and purges were right before that war, so country started it already down.

After wwii: Famine of 1946-1947 with some residue of famine in 1948. Good thing indicators grew after that, but that makes people just not dying of hunger rather then we'll off.

The war was followed by smaller purges, to the point some expected large ones to start around stalin death. Closely after war is when cultural purge happened.

Not even speaking about what russia did in territories they took over (and no we did not wanted them) and what they did to Ukraine.
Laying the foundation for Nigeria's technology sector
> Now I usually tell the driver to start the ride as soon as I get there

They already bill for wait time. I needed to get picked up from home once but my house is on a street that Uber's mapping system apparently doesn't understand how to navigate to properly. The driver went to the wrong place to try to pick me up, and they billed me for "wait time" even though I was exactly where I said I would be!
The issue is for many people this is an unstable equilibrium. When things start going wrong people drink more which makes things worse.

My best friend was a raging alcoholic for 20 years, he would go through cycles of moderate then heavy drinking, hit bottom, give it up for a few months, and repeat. Unfortunately he simply loved alcohol and really did not want to give it up.

Total abstinence seems like it gives up a huge positive, but insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. Many people simply can’t have alcohol in their lives and be happy long term. That might not be you, but it’s something to think about.
A lot of times it's just an uncomfortable question to answer, even more so for someone who is already a bit socially awkward. I've never had a problem with alcohol, but routinely go through periods where I just abstain for various reasons. And in those periods I get all the questions about why I'm not drinking. It's just boring to answer them over and over. And to be clear, no one is being a jerk about it, just more of a curiosity. Many people can't imagine not drinking, so it's a surprise.

As an aside, a trick I use to control the number of drinks in a business situation is to order liquor neat. I can sip a scotch for an entire meal while other people drink multiple beers or mixed drinks. Don't order something that's easy to drink.
Vice is too left leaning for me. I dont think much of either party and vice are democrat fanboys, so this article is too biased to be consider news. Everyone says vice is controlled by the Permanent-State/M.I.C. Actually it's pretty obvious so..
I've had trouble falling asleep for a long time, and at some point years ago started taking ambien for it. It took a long time to realize just how strong an impact it was having on me (could write a long blog post about it). Stopping wasn't easy, but now year+ later I'm basically back to normal, and feel like I have superpowers compared to the time when I was still on it.
WebAuthn is definitely the way to go. The security key approach is such a better user experience that the app based approaches.
Seems more likely they get blindly ported over because nobody can decipher what the hell the code was supposed to do.
> Everything that starts with NS was part of NextStep.

Not quite. Everything in Foundation gets the NS prefix because it's in Foundation; only a fraction of it came directly from NeXT.
So you give them a zero star rating and move on.
Alright thanks for pointing that out, I misremembered it then.
First Mesozoic slime mold discovered in 100M-year-old amber
From 2017:

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Is Hiring a Team Worthy of a 2020 Presidential Campaign - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's latest hire is further fueling speculation that he could be planning a 2020 presidential bid
https://people.com/politics/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-team-20...

>Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan have hired Democratic pollster Joel Benenson, a former top adviser and longtime pollster to President Barack Obama and the chief strategist of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, as a consultant,

>In January , Zuckerberg, 33, and Chan, 32, hired David Plouffe, campaign manager for Obama’s 2008 presidential run, as president of policy and advocacy. They also brought on Amy Dudley, a former communications adviser to Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine. Ken Mehlman, who ran President George W. Bush’s 2004 reelection campaign, is also on the charity’s board.

>And Zuckerberg’s personal photographer, Charles Ommanney, was the photographer for Bush and Obama’s presidential campaigns, Business Insider reported.

Joel Benenson and David Plouffe are working elsewhere now. Amy Dudley is still the spokesperson for Zuckerberg iniative.

Zuckerberg has had incredible PR army working just for him, not for Facebook. I think there has been switch in his personal ambitions and change in PR people.
Days ago they were saying this wasn't true.
Yet another reason to create a nationalized NHS-like system.
I was working at Facebook when the CA story broke, but not when the events happened. I was in a department far removed from any of the involved parties. I haven't worked for them for several years now, and I currently own no FB stock outside of broad-based index funds¹.

As I recall, the sense of unfairness that was going around was rooted mostly in it feeling like old news. CA was the ghost of a bad policy that had already been rescinded, and there was very little awareness of that in the media coverage. Instead, there were loud calls for Facebook to do something, but every reasonable thing had already been done years before.

When I worked there, nobody believed that the policy which birthed CA was a good idea, which is why it was long gone. Also, everything had played out already in the public eye (in the tech press) -- anyone who had been paying attention should have known about most of these things already.

¹ It seems silly to make all these disclaimers, but they seem necessary with the mood here.
Linux has always worked great if you choose your hardware wisely, and for a long time in the 90's it was perfectly viable to put a Linux machine against an SGI, Sun or DEC system as a workstation. Really, Linux had traction even before the 21st century cloud and 'droid reality came along.

For most of the 90's I was using Linux in some capacity, professionally as well as personally.

I also had a Linux laptop (Winbook, Sony, and then Sceptre..) on which I did a lot of development and for which my carefully selected hardware did in fact work, just fine - it was certainly viable as a dev platform, and for us Unix programmers at the time, a small and light Linux laptop was far more preferable to the pizzaboxes that had to be carried in the trunk .. or more, bigger iron that you would stay at the office to use, instead of having at home.

The point is Linux really did okay in the 90's, in terms of providing Unix devs a way of working away from the computer room. I think this is an underappreciated mechanism behind Linux' success over the years .. you could carry Linux with you pretty easily, but this was not the case for Solaris, Irix, etc.
You've left out the part where Apple makes products that have user experiences that are miles ahead of whatever existed at the time.
"Making everything a reference: The Billion Dollar Mistake" is the talk I want to see
Show IH: Making Online Payments Simple and Easy
> But the Internet is mostly pull not push.

It is (well, technically - not reasonably with push notifications being abused for ad delivery), but there's a lot of push content embedded in the pull content. For instance, when I visit HN, I pull information intentionally. If I follow a HN thread to an interesting article, I again pull information. But the ads that are in that article are definitely push.

'b0rsuk already linked my longer exploration of the topic. In a lot of places in that essay, you could replace "advertising" with "propaganda" with no loss in the argument. The way I see it, the two are different only in their goals (direct economic vs. political gain) - beyond that, they're the same thing.
A web of trust style arrangement would be interesting, 2/3 of previously named recovery pals would have to verify you.
I know, but want you to imagine what the world would have been like if it'd been a beBook instead. Like, could've happened 5 years sooner, imho.
Fastmail and other paid options lets you do that.
This comes up again and again in one form or the other, yet new languages still seem to be making the same mistake. Of all languages I've touched, Rust seems to be the only one that mostly circumvents this problem. Are there other good examples?
It's not OK for two reasons, one a tiny bit paranoid the other much less so

1. The server operator might accuse you of doing something offering as proof a record that "you" logged in, but actually they knew the password so it was them.

This seems kind of silly if the server is a forum about a video game you like and the consequence of the alleged wrong doing is a permanent ban. But if the server is your bank, and the consequence is they convince a jury you tried to commit fraud and you go to jail when actually their employee has stolen your money using access to your password... that's pretty serious.

2. People re-use passwords. They know they shouldn't, but they do anyway. So "of course" the operator of "Puppy Fan Forum" knows your password, but it's also the password for your Amazon account, and next thing you know there's $1000 of dog treats billed to your credit card going to the operator's home in Ohio.
The key takeaway from that article, for me, is that the government body that is supposed to monitor, enforce, and penalize organizations who fail to follow the HIPAA rules is basically doing nothing.

So with no consequence to these massive lapses, why would these companies care?
That's a somewhat misleading response. It isn't mentioned in the linked article, "Weird and Innovative Chips", but in an entirely different section called "Unix and RISC, A New Hope".
That's a good reason to regulate some of these practices out of existence. As you say, what happens today is a natural low point in the landscape of online information distribution; the only way to raise it is to reconfigure the landscape.
I mean making a distinction between mind/consciousness and body is one thing, and while I wouldn't, those of a religious bent might try to justify it. Making a distinction between brain and body is just sophomoric. The BBC unfortunately seems to have content-farm mistakes like this fairly frequently in their online writing.
Can you elaborate? I can't remember the last time I thought "oh darn it why is this a reference", but I can think of a billion problems I've had with nulls in jvm languages
rust, f#, ocaml, latest version of c# has an option to sort of get rid of nulls, zig
As someone who's been on the keto diet, the majority of the past five years, this seems blasphemous.
Let's also consider the other direction -- how fresh vegetables and fruit, plus whole grains, beans, nuts, seeds, and herbs improve mood, behavior, resilience. Throw in some vigorous exercise, and for most people, drugs can't do better, without the drugs' side effects and cost.

For many people, switching from a standard American diet to largely those ingredients would register as changing who they are.

I just finished reading a chapter on it in Dr. Michael Greger's How Not to Die -- the chapter is "How Not to Die From Suicidal Depression" with plenty of footnotes to primary sources.
The Caldera one is always "open source-code", not "open-source code". The words happen to appear together but aren't being used with the same intent.

I didn't know about the NT example. It's a new one to me. But it's also very isolated. I said "essentially nobody" not absolutely "no one". There are a few scattered and rare examples before 1998, but it was not common parlance and most people had never heard about "open source" before Tim O'Reilly bankrolled OSI.
What was the life expectancy once you reached the age of 30 in 200AD China?
I once read an article in Readers Digest with the title "Why we gossip". I started reading, prepared for something which was probably going to point out all the flaws in those people who gossip, and how they can be rectified etc.

But the article took a very interesting turn. It said, (paraphrasing) without gossip, people in power will arrange everything in the general direction of usurping more power (e.g. dictators). And how gossip serves a very important evolutionary need (a powerful, guerilla style technique to destroy power-grabs). If you were under a dictator, openly criticizing them leaves you with a small chance of being murdered. Hence you will choose instead to gossip. Imagine if the dictator then tells all his subjects - "whatever you have heard about me is untrue, it is just some haters hating".

So there is another explanation for haters (and their apparent obsession) - they look around and see a lot of injustice. Usually they are powerless to do anything, and waiting until they achieve something in life might make the problem much worse before they can offer their viewpoint. So perhaps hating has an evolutionary benefit - it gives clues to non-haters to then go and do their own additional research. Sometimes it results in reducing the power of those who become so out of touch that they just casually dismiss all criticism as hating, much like Hillary thought everyone who doesn't agree with her is a deplorable person.
there are a few completely different ways to interpret this, can you explain?
Arguments like this are why I gave up on scripting languages. "go build" generates one statically-linked binary that you can send anywhere. You can build a Windows binary from your Raspberry Pi or vice-versa. It is how everything should work, because distributing (and cross-compiling) is something you should have to spend 0 time thinking about. Now I spend 0 time thinking about it.
Its not far from being able to do that, though. UE already has very well integrated, introspective build tooling - whats missing is an editor, basically, that could handle the code-base of UE, and then .. wouldn't take much effort to integrate and complete the dynamic runtime/compiler-onboard loop.
Biggest lesson I learnt from life after meeting some of my idols and heroes. Don’t put them on a pedestal.

They may have achieved great things in one area but in other areas they are somewhat average and very much like us. Anxiety, doubts, misdeeds, regrets, emotions etc.

Like pg is great but he’s also not a god. Don’t treat him like one. We’d prolly be disappointed. He’s said a fair share of crap as well some very insightful things.
NHS has plenty of data breaches.