skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yeah, nothing like being forced to commute for several hours every week so I can hear my coworkers' jokes.
In the long term, GDP per capita matters but in the short term, you can run ahead of the piper and raw GDP growth is a much better proxy. In developing countries, children become productive fairly quickly and then it takes them quite a long time before you need to worry about the burden of supporting them again.

It's a Ponzi scheme but one that multiple countries have pulled off successfully.
I don't think those bottles have been altered in anyway, a lot of standard glass bottles will have imperfections in them that look like that, amplified by the thickness of the bottle itself. You don't see this with jars because they tend to be thinner than bottles.

The rubik's cube inside a bottle is a fairly easy one, if you've ever seen a disassembled rubik's cube then you will clearly see that it's possible to just feed each piece in one at a time and put it back together with some tweezers and a lot of patience.
That sounds reasonable, but you'd think most people would also be concerned about their databases being publicly accessible in the first place, yet here we are.
Consider the cost of the alternative: commuting time, car expenses (or bus/train), loss of control over office annoyances.

And kids grow up, fast. Once they're all in school it's a whole new dynamic.
My question was regarding the federal government's involvement. I can't fathom why they would let so many people die, unless we elected hundreds of sociopaths to federal office.
That's fair. Proof of concepts definitely get the point across better than a natural language explanation.
Both of us had been waiting to see Schieks Cave for so many years that we experienced a sort of “rapture of the deeps” upon our arrival at the cave. Perhaps tiny bubbles of sewer gas had lodged in our brains. We gazed up the 75-foot shaft to the street, the entry point for official tours in the past. It was like looking up from the bottom of a deep well-hole, light streaming through ventilation ports in the hexagonal lid far above us. Lid fragments lie scattered about our feet, lids that had tumbled down the shaft and smashed like cookies when someone got careless.

So when they ask you in an interview, "Why are manhole covers round?", now you know.

Recommend not R'ing TFA while eating dinner, as I just did.
I was thinking along the lines that putting high G pressure on your circulatory system is probably putting a lot of stress on the brain that otherwise wound be there. The sled head they talk about seems like it's almost mild hypooxia or something.
The bigger problem is the use of dynamic HTML for UI everywhere. It'd be slow even if you used C to drive the dynamism, although having JS there doesn't really help.

As far as VSCode being a "snappy" Electron app - I still vividly remember that bug when users were seeing it hog an entire CPU core for itself while not being interacted with, and it turned out that it was caused by blinking cursor in the editor. You know, the kind of problem that was already solved by the time Windows 1.0 came out? And sure, they fixed it... but every desktop Electron app is a potential minefield filled with stuff like that. Some of it is just not obvious until you run it on slower hardware. Or in remote desktop - that also flushes out a lot of "GPUs are fast enough, who cares" problems.
Other things being equal, WFH is a huge boon for short employees - you can't see height over VC.
RCA 3301 at Pentagon Army Telecommunications Stratcom, IBM 360, Spectra
Seems like you should be able to smooth out and reuse the foil, but perhaps not.
One of my favourite of W.H.Auden is Funeral Blues. It feels timeless.
There are many woods that can be steamed compressed, and then re-expanded with boiling water.
Between instances of twtxt.net I actually plan to do this. I'm working on more "federation" features that allow users to be spread out over multiple twtxt.net instances.

Of course this doesn't for folks in the twtxt community that just host a twtxt.txt file, but that's okay.
Then we're not comparing only WFH but rather pandemic-from-home. I've dropped off kids at daycare and worked from home. It was much quicker than daycare+commute to office.
>pointless self-destruction and misery.

Maybe its pointless for you, fair enough but it can be meaningfull for other people, i myself think it's interesting.
Facebook, Twitter, or even Mediawiki, don't permit any random IP address full database access. (Or had better not.)

Rather, for the first two, large numbers of agents may request access limited to a specific account, with limited capabilities granted.

Even Mediawiki, with an extraordinarily open access model (painfully so in most cases) has checks on extensive abuse, and gradations of permissions.

Suggesting that any of these are comparable to full DBA access as the Meow attack (with considerable merits0 targets suggests an exceeding poor grasp of distinctions or misreading of GP's comment.

You can do better.
Weird Shell – Structural Regular Expressions Unix Shell Made in Rust
> Of course for many things, microblogging is too short

the software behind twtxt.net is quite flexible and configurable. An operator can choose to increase the MaxTwtlength limit by configuration.
ULPT: Bad experience interviewing with a company? Spam them with fake resumes
A Covid-19 Vaccine Reality Check
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23957892
The simple reason this is true is because people didn’t hold very unorthodox viewpoints at the time.

They didn’t really feel space sores because US society all largely agreed on everything.

It was the 60s the Vietnam war and the civil rights movement that led to large numbers of Americans questioning the US and the orthodoxy.

In the decade or so following the end of WW2 Americans did not really hold views that were outside the norm.
Google acted inappropriately and in my opinion deserves the kind of punishment that is severe enough to curtail stuff like this.

That said, Facebook and other companies are just as bad.
The concept of a cartel continues to elude you. Shareholders do not band together to increase the price of a product. They pool resources to produce a product.
You're being too generous. Peters clearly hallucinates features; whenever he gets community acclaim, it's a failure of the community.
Thank you for being gracious!
Wouldn’t the fact that your skull decelerates slower against an airbag than against a steering wheel mean that your brain hits your skull with less force?
Micro, solo and vocal: The new million-dollar lone-wolf VCs
I think I can answer this. My mum got the Bose QC 35 and out of the box they worked fine without the app. I got the exact same thing about a few months later and after turning it on it just repeated some audio telling me to connect to the app which did not happen on the exact same product my mum had. Perhaps mine came with a newer firmware version OOTB.

As for location, android requires it for an app to scan for bluetooth devices (Not required if you connect via android settings). Maybe you use iOS?
Whoa cool! How have I never heard of this before?
This is interesting. The allegation is that Google didn't properly notify users about combining Doubleclick and other Google data.

Google did run a popup notification about the change, but:

The ACCC alleges that the “I agree” notification was misleading, because consumers could not have properly understood the changes Google was making nor how their data would be used, and so did not - and could not - give informed consent.

It's not exactly clear what the ACCC is saying here? Is it that Google didn't explain it enough, or is it that no amount of explanation is enough because user's "could not give informed consent"?
How do you know which copies are bogus? It can't be just by saying that the one you have the most copies of is the right one. The problem is that most legit copies will be subtly different. While an attacker trying to forge page contents can make their copies identical. You can't do fuzzy matching when deciding what to store since that would require all be the nodes to agree on the fuzzy matching algorithm. That's going to mean hard-coding a complex algorithm that requires constant updates into your Blockchain infra.

A proof of work does not seem viable either. You're asking for the submitters to pass it for no reward, so the difficulty factor can't be particularly high. But then it becomes useless at blocking somebody who is actually deriving a benefit from submitting (fake) results.

The giant company will in this case build an index that's far superior. The crowd-sourced version will have huge amounts of duplication of popular pages, and massive underrepresentation of the long tail. And can you imagine how inefficient the distributed version will be both on storage and bandwidth. There can't be any facility for scheduling pages to be crawled at sensible intervals given the push model. The indexing nodes will just be flooded with pages they didn't actually want.

The crowd-sourced version will also not be "random people" like you suggested. A lot of them will have an agenda, and will be trying to manipulate the index to meet that agenda. And manipulate it in a way that's not useful to the people making searches. At least the company's goal of making money is furthered by building as useful an index as they can given the resource constraints.
yeah, underrated Function of Gov.
I was doing a robotics engineering PhD at a highly ranked university a few years ago. I contacted the dean of engineering and the office of legal affairs and informed them that my advisor had submitted falsified data to journals, falsified financial statements to his sponsors and the university, performed experiments risking serious bodily harm on human test subjects without IRB approval, committed wage theft against multiple students, and slandered several of his research assistants to keep them from getting funding and work outside of his control. They swept it under the rug and gave him tenure. This was one of the universities that was in the news for faculty members and administrators accepting bribes from celebrities a year or two ago. They added another billion to their endowment and I left with my MS.
Designing for Extreme Low Power
Framing it as "hypersensitivity" really misses the point - if companies want the more diverse part of their workforce to feel respected at their workplace, its not out of "sensitivity".
It's basic decency and a given that a professional environment should be provided to employees.
> So if someone purposefully for some reason goes in and configures their router to map a port to a specific internal IP address to allow internet traffic to their ES cluster it isn’t secure?

That's not what I'm talking about. Suppose your router receives a packet whose destination is that internal IP address. Then it's going to send it there, unless it's configured to block that traffic.

> So am I also “obscuring” my IP address when I am testing an API locally and I configure it to only listen on 127.0.0.1:3000?

No, quite the opposite. Listening only on the loopback interface is a real security mechanism. Binding to 127.0.0.1 achieves that (though there have been bugs in the past; binding explicitly to the loopback device is better).

> Oh no, I just told you my IP address!

That's exactly my point! The address doesn't matter, the actual network routing is what matters. Same thing if you're running an actual airgapped network: what makes it safe is the fact that it's physically disconnected, not that you used particular addresses on it.

Real-life example: the UK military's internal servers have real IP addresses in the 25.0.0.0 range. Probably some of them are insecure. But it doesn't matter because, even though they have public IP addresses, you have no way to send packets to those IP addresses, because they've got proper firewalling in place. It's no different from if they were running a private network - except that it means they don't have to mess around with NAT, if someone connects from a VPN they don't have to worry about address collisions.... IPv6 works the same way.
I agree. The movie is my Top 100 list. The story is "OK."
Okay, that's interesting. I've used mine ~6 hours per day for 5 days a week for 2 years. Why can't mine hold a charge for more than an hour? Maybe there's something I don't understand about how batteries work that I am doing and that I could do differently.
Any statements by Shay Banon?

Crickets AFAICT: https://twitter.com/kimchy

Also: https://twitter.com/elastic
There's an animation of 5551 here: https://juggle.fandom.com/wiki/5551
Colorizing is a red herring; it's akin to syntax highlighting: it's nice, but if you need it to determine important information then something's amiss.

I'd much prefer consistent and predictable information conveyance. Ie, I don't need Midnight Commander to be lit up like a christmas tree because I know immediately what information is displayed in its tables and panes.
> Why not assume the best of people?

Why assume negative connotation where there is none? It was a silly conspiracy poking light-hearted fun at conspiracy theorists.

The GP's phrasing "the guaranteed follow-up" that made me suspect the GP had seen conspiracy theories about other video games, but hadn't yet seen any conspiracy theories about this latest find, and was anticipating a future conspiracy theory. Sorry if my phrasing sounded malicious.
I think I'm having a somewhat uncharacteristic relativist thought... I feel that the indiscriminate and nearly unregulated collection of any data any company feels like grabbing hold of _should_ be countered.

I feel like the wrongness of deleting unsecured data is a pittance compared to the crapload of other wrongs that have been visited upon us 'products' by failures of diligence or desire or consequence.

I would very much like to hear, if it turns out to be so, that the operators of 'meow' are selectively targeting more likely corporate data, especially with customer/user data, but in the end I'm still ok with the idea of burn it all and let the DB vendors and IT staff who let their asses hang out explain why security was so low on their priority lists.

And yes, I'll take some potential difficulties in my own life due to unexpected deletion complications in the process. I'm not asking anyone else to accept anything I'm not going to be okay with myself.
Probably another excruciating step - cellophane goes in, box goes in and is put in the cellophane, then the cards, then the cellophane cover is sealed.

Irrespective of whether this is the case or not, I am blown away!
Covid Privacy Summit with leaders from major contact tracing efforts
This being HN I'm surprised someone hasn't tried to train a neural net to read hard to read gravestones and made an app.
I have to admit this has a great title.

I am familiar with Neeva and listened to the podcast with its founder which I recommend to people interested in the field.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sridhar-ramaswamy-your...

I am a bit skeptical about the whole thing for two main reasons:

- Sridhar spent 15 years building the behemoth that is Google's ad business. It has to be hard to shrug off 'don't be evil until you do' culture and mindset that easily.
- I think they can do a good job at specialized searches (like the one illustrated in the article). But the problem is that the web search is general, not specialized. They can not expect the users to pay $30/mo and still go to Google for general searches. Bing API results are subpar to Google results.

I do welcome a paid model for a well executed search engine. I would personally pay $100/mo for one that meets my needs.
I mostly don't use bluetooth. I keep them wired 95% of the time and noise cancelling just eliminates office noise. The remaining 5% of the time is typically on a flight to somewhere connected to my iPhone a couple of feet away.
Yes, that's what it does. It's not zero, but it's definitely less. But you probably only hit an airbag a couple of times max over the course of your lifetime, whereas on the field you'll hit your head the whole game. And I don't know how you could put an airbag in a helmet, there's not enough space to slow your impact
But the answer to that shouldn't be to return results that don't even contain the words searched for.
> You know, this starts to sound like anti-vaxxers

Do you support gate-keeping?

> Yeaaaaah, I definitely see the parallers with anti-vaxxers.

They did not educate themselves via facebook posts nor via youtube videos.

Regardless, are you saying that self-teaching is something only by charlatans? The only difference between being self-taught and being formally educated is that you do not have a mentor and that you do not get a degree at the end. You are going to use the same resources (books, handouts, presentations, etc) to learn stuff from.

> It's that you will fail and you will have side-channel attacks

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23952211

In addition to that loup intentionally implemented only DJB's algorithms (or algorithms based on DJB's primitives).

> You do not have the resources or the skills that multiple hundreds or thousands of people have

Yet their record is much better compared to other similar libraries that have the support of "multiple hundreds or thousands of people". looks at openssl

> a) developing crypto and b) breaking it.

> I've built my "novel" crypto scheme (any hash algorithm can be used to create a symmetric cipher), and I like it!

Loup implemented DJB's algorithms, not their own.
I hate this post deep from my guts. I only felt disgust reading it. It contains so much half-truths and it is bending the truth so much while also putting words into the remote work advocates' mouth so blatantly that I can only abhor everything he writes.
He is entitled to his opinion, but picking such examples like Basecamp which is known for being one of the most empathic IT company out there and attacking them is hideous.

And the whole idea of NOT to be evaluated based on your results but based on some blurry, fuzzy I-am-your-manager-and-I-evaluate-you-based-on-some-non-measurable-soft-skills-which-you-will-never-find-out-or-understand thing seems like right out of an employee's nightmare and it's borderline Orwellian.

You cannot complain about the performance evaluation being difficult and then proposing to ignore metrics and outcomes. That's not how it works.

Also your boss as your mentor? Seriously? What's next? Your boss is your best friend and you should move in together with him? Might happen in some cases, but hard to take the post seriously after this.
Georgia is going to launch something soon and Estonia is doing a digital nomad specific one, lower initial fee but also needs a relatively high monthly income.

https://www.insider.com/georgia-welcoming-long-term-visitors...

https://estonianworld.com/business/estonia-to-implement-a-di...
From the article:

>The downside is that, unlike gravestone rubbings–which I learned are harmful to the gravestone–it’s not easy to keep and store foil rubbings.
ah yes. the tax exception for a church means churches don't pay taxes by default. i like that circular logic. just like women not being able to vote for hundreds of years - they shouldn't vote now.

your claim was that I needed to prove my point that churches should not pay taxes. i said the claim is invalid, because taxes are paid by default, by everyone, unless an exception is granted. so what needs to be proven is why the exception should be granted to churches.

this has nothing to do with separation of church and state. you have profit, or own property - you pay taxes on it. being religious is not a valid argument to pass on city expenses to everyone else on the block.

my position is not a "challenger." rules and laws are not written in stone as the word of god you pretend the bible is. they need to be reexamined frequently, and someone granted a tax exemption needs to prove again why that exception is still valid.
For some basic apps:
Notepad++ annoys me most. Modern, updated regularly.
But wants to update plugins before even appearing it seems?!?

iTunes(thanks to iWife) annoys me with it's updates. It checks for updates after you've started the program, pops up to get in your way and doesn't give you an "Install on exit" option.

Paint.Net does it right. Opens up, lets you get things done, checks for an update, gives you the option to install on exit. More should be done this way.

Playing games, Steam and all the many games with their own servers etc.
Example of bad, It takes me roughly 2 mins to get into GhostRecon:Breakpoint.(not that good a game really but that's another day).

Example of good, Rocket League. Starts up, gets you going. (Disappointingly not a League of actual Rockets but good fun anyway. :-))
>Couldn't count anymore the number of discussions I had about doctors and how absolutely incompetent some of them are: the usual reaction is like 'No, you don't say! But the selection process ensures only the smartest get selected,so what are you on about?'. The second one is PhDs, and in general all sorts of professors almost elevated to god like level. You almost get a free pass to spread whatever shit you want if the credentials are right.

It's like the old joke: what do you call the worst-performing graduate from medical school (or a PhD program), the one who was at the bottom of their class? You call them "Doctor"!
Generally they also believe playing/watching sports is mostly pointless and appeal to lesser intelligences.

Apparently they’ve never done a thorough exploration of existentialism or nihilism given how smart they are.
Honestly I wouldn’t worry too much about it. This article vastly overstates the benefits of offices. Sitting in an office every day doesn’t magically make mentorship opportunities appear. You need to proactively seek those out no matter where you’re working - ask questions, ask for advice - and if someone is willing to talk in person they’re almost certainly willing to talk over video chat too.
> The number of jobs available for those graduates? One - that professor's - when he or she retires.

This simply isn't true. Remaining in academia is only one of many career paths for graduate students, and many are financially compensated much better.

Some examples of these include physics and math grad students being recruited by hedge funds, comp sci grad students being recruited by tech companies and geology grad students being recruited by oil, gas and resource companies.

Even within academia the size of the market isn't static. New and emerging universities are hungry for qualified research professors and many come from these programs.
> It's called libsodium

And it's a gross mess. It's actually called NaCL.
The Life of a Bolt