skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a sad day. As mentioned by others on this thread, it used to be the thing to do - the day you bought a car (always secondhand in my case, I've never owned a new car or motorbike), you'd buy the Haynes manual, and look up the service schedule in it, and do it.

I changed my first car engine (unassisted) when I was 13. Vauxhall Viva that had thrown a big end. The Haynes manual told me everything I needed to do to change it, and I did it all myself - no parental or other adult help, other than arranging engine crane hire for me. It didn't run, but that was because the engine i'd bought was scrap, internally!

I've saved probably hundreds of thousands of pounds by fixing my own cars, and I've done pretty much everything possible on the cars I've owned since - complete engine rebuilds, gearbox rebuilds, everything. I still work on cars today as a sideline (mostly I teach music technology and produce music) - buying and selling cars that need work that people have shied away from as garages are generally pricey and often a rip-off.

If it wasn't for the skills that Haynes manuals helped me gain, I'd never have been able to afford to build and run a rally car (maintenance was a most-weekends job when I was doing say 6-8 events a year, and would have cost more than I earned in a year), and do a WRC event in it.

I emailed the guy at Haynes in charge of creating the manuals when I bought one that had next to no detail about gearbox rebuilds (when a previous edition of the same manual contained full details). Instead of the normal corporate reply, I got a passionate, heart-felt reply from a technical writer clearly aware of the demise of the home mechanic, the increasing complexity of modern vehicles and the pressures of print publishing - and this was around 20 years ago. He even sent me their gearbox rebuild manual (a more generic tome) which I still have, and have used several times.

Thanks Haynes. You've taught me more than any course I have been on, and saved me an absolute fortune.
One of the great things about using linux is the kernel really does matter to both users and developers, and every release tends to bring relevant goodies and fixes.

Due to the unparalleled transparency of not just a GPL source but a completely open development model, there's a whole lot more than just a version number to appreciate and investigate if so inclined.

Also having the bulk of drivers in-tree, kernel releases affect a lot more than just core stuff like the scheduler, memory management, and interrupt controllers.
I wonder if this will be a "Reflections on Trusting Trust" situation; it's easy to spot malicious code in source control, but if your build machine was compromised to insert malicious code at compile time that would be easy to overlook.
"Live free and die" would be more appropriate in this case.
My understanding is that's actually pretty normal and other Vice Presidential winners have sometimes waited as long as January. Then again, with Trump yet to officially concede and Gavin Newsom becoming very unpopular with rumors of a recall, there might be reason for her to wait to the last moment.
So does Ivermectin, and that's not encumbered by a patent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXh1yflndVE
A small price to pay for safety. Maybe one day you will figure it out, and do the mouthwash later?? No. Oh well.
You think that Ivys don’t work the same way, or worse?
I don't know exactly how this works, but you can definitely end up on the list because the airlines OR the gov want you on the list. I guess that once you're there it makes little difference, but I agree with you that these things should be treated differently (the same way in which your SSN is your personal identification number when this is not it's original purpose but private entities hijack it anyway)
Well ... Firstly, human lives are much more important than a preference to use an alcohol-based mouthwash (considering that non-alcohol alternatives exist). Secondly, it very well might be possible to design and/or calibrate sensors to distinguish between both cases based on chemical components or relevant concentration ratios that are specific to mouthwash formula.
Amnesia: – Critical TCP/IP Flaws Affect Millions of IoT Devices
> the narrative has shifted over time from "work on whatever you want one day a week"

This was never the narrative, except maybe when the company was a few hundred people. The project has to have a relevance to the company, just not to your primary project. Most 20% has always been chipping in on a team whose problem space interests you and that you might want to transition to. That's definitely what it has been for me.
That's such a fun story. What do you think they're gauging with such a final test?
It's perfectly scarce and rapidly trending toward 0 inflation. This is one of the key arguments for why it's ultimately a better store of value than gold, which is abundant in the context of the solar system.

I'm curious about what you mean by a possible better store of value. To me, that sounds like saying we can go colder than 0 kelvin.
> In many places there just isn’t safe areas for cyclists that doesn’t end up putting them in conflict with other users of streets.

Cyclists are unambiguously wrong if they cycle on the pavement. Just as cars drivers are unquestionably wrong when they are in a cycle lane. This is cycle riders doing to pedestrians exactly that they don’t want drivers to do, and this is dangerous for people who are in a more vulnerable position than they are. I have zero sympathy for riders on the pavement, I’ve had too many collisions or near misses, including with small children.
Another fascinating channel showing delicate work is the Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration channel.
Rule #1: Charge more than you think you should charge
I don’t see how to word this politely.

What is SolarWinds, and why are all these organizations using it?

Clearly, it’s a giant single point of failure, but other than that, I’ve never heard of them.

Their marketing says they do network monitoring, etc. Do they have a legitimate product, or is this just another case of enterprise checkbox security theater gone awry?
> spike in NXDOMAIN DNS responses

NXDOMAIN is watched because known malware has been observed to use it.

But I tell you: malware can just as easily utilize a valid DNS response.
There could be many vectors including the compromise of the build server.

That Jenkins plugin you haven't updated in years.
Or that maven package no one knows about.

Third party risk management is unfortunately not well funded cyber security vertical.
Abcellera Biologics triples in IPO debut, now worth 15B
Nah, sugar is pretty safe. Proteins can be pretty dangerous to eat.
What happens when freeloaders show up? Perpetual energy?
> you could probably use "for-jane" without risk of collision

Sounds like it's begging for some troublemaker to build up a dictionary by cracking past exchanges and stock wordlists then intercepting other people's sessions as they show up.

(I know there is a timestamp based salt, but the attacker can even precompute the values for their dictionary far into the future)

This feels like the tor HS enumeration attack but a lot worse, since once you find one you can intercept its traffic.

It would be nice if there were a separate "name" and password, and the password used a zero knowledge secret comparison. Troublemakers could still block your sessions but they wouldn't have much luck trying to guess even fairly weak passwords.
Can you cite specific examples of national security officials misattributing a script kiddie as nation-state level sophistication? This is a common take which I've never seen substantiated anywhere. In comparison with hidden cobra, olympic destroyer, or the canonical stuxnet which were all clearly not script kiddies.
Fluid Framework is now open source
Creator of prcount.com here. Thanks for submitting it on HN! :)

I am an engineering manager at a public tech company in the San Francisco bay area for the last couple years. I hope to help fellow eng managers get unbiased and objective data as one of the inputs for performance management.

I'm actively iterating on the product offering. Would love to hear some feedbacks!
New Words, Wrong Words (2013)
More prosaic but if you have a blog etc. you can add a Google programmable search engine: https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/about/
These aren’t “new” substances. We have been using plastic for decades now and there isn’t clear knowledge that it is very bad to ingest. If it was super bad we would have seen the effects by now.
The General Availability of Microsoft Graph Toolkit 2.0
naivity?
Yep. Sotomayor will almost never vote with the conservative 'block' on non-unanimous decisions.

Gorsuch, on the other hand, will hold with a death grip to what he believes the intent of the writer of the law/Constitution was, rather to some desired outcome.

Textualist value the 'system' over immediate outcome, because they really believe they are there to call 'balls and strikes,' hewing as close to the 'rules of the game' as possible.

Someone like Roberts takes the whole enchilada into account- precedent, public reaction, political impact, historical judgement, interactions between the justices themselves, but coming from a conservative PoV, I assume because he thinks thats part of his job as Chief Justice.

I, personally, prefer the textualist approach. It allows the separation of powers to mean something and makes the law at least theoretically responsive to the people via their elected representatives. If the majority wants the law to change, they have the means to do so without waiting for a new set of justices.

Those who want to bypass that by hoping their 'team' stack's the deck- well that only works for non-textualists. Trump is finding out, to his intense disappointment, that all those textualists he nominated to the bench, care not a whit for getting things done for him, but just what the law is, as it is written. So the left should be mighty pleased that the 'other side' doesn't play the game by their rules, and that in this area, at the least, they may want to change their approach.
And even C and Scheme are less exceptional than they first appear when you look at actual implementations rather than the part that is standardized.
Building Glimmer Apps with Web Dev Server
This is the danger of these kind of write-ups; people will look at it and go "oh that's simple, anyone could do that". It's a great example of the cognitive bias called the curse of knowledge.

Edit: a quick counterfactual here. If this is so easy and so valuable, why is it so rare?
The company has been around for a while and has a nice and comprehensive set of products for managing systems and networks.
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I actually quite fancy 'remediative' being a word.. I use it a lot in my IT job (eg, remediative action), and decided to google it today. Alas, not a word-- too bad, it sounds great.
Google Delays Return to Office and Eyes ‘Flexible Work Week’
How to Sell Online Courses
Discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25409356
I'm not disagreeing on the spirit of your statement but I wonder if labour costs are really the prime driver of profitability with high tech manufacturing. It may be, but I'd love to see some of the figures, there could be other factors at play such as environment protection for example.
Not "possible", you _definitely_ consume plastic one way or another.
Of course not, it means that there was an additional check before sending out a massive alert which prevented a false positive.
Microplastics don't only come from plastics that touch your food. When you turn on your kitchen faucet to make chicken broth, plastic is coming from your faucet. If you eat fish or chicken, the plastic is found in the meat. When you wash your clothes, you are generating new microplastics that get dumped into the sewers that slowly make it back into the meats of chickens and your bottled water.

If you want to completely avoid microplastics, you'll have to use reverse osmosis water for everything, grow animal feed using this purified water, raise chickens using this animal feed, etc. Live in a bubble where the air is ultra filtered.
You shouldn't publicly post your EIN on your web page. It is similar to a business SSN, while it is not truly private, there is more you can lose by having it publicly display then just redacting it all-together.
This paper sheds some interesting perspective on the development and detection challenges attached to this sort of signalling, although it's not about computing as such.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-22926-1
I dunno. I seem to see a lot of the same titles for different searches. Non-fiction books are also more difficult to read than fiction; so these types of books tend to be a big time investment (a lot of them feel like extended essays).

There are a couple of books I've read in the past few years that I actually didn't fully agree with. Sometimes they were badly sourced or made some arguments I didn't think were sound, but there was also a ton of interesting and good material in them; which I think made some good points. Based on that, I guess my recommendations for breaking bubbles would be:

"The Strange Death of Europe" (Murray, Davies, et al.)

"The War Against Boys" (Sommers)

"The Fountainhead" (Ryand)
Furthermore: "otherwise" translates to "andernfalls", which is basically "im anderen Fall" i.e. "in the other case".
In one of the threads about the Zodiac cypher, which had been unbroken for 51 years despite being given to the NSA, FBI, and the crypto community at large, there were several people who remarked how simple it was and how easy it should have been to crack.

Dunning Kruger doesn’t cover the entirety of what’s happening, but there’s some pathology at work here.
How is that a Google problem and not simply the other company tracking their own customers?
> The smallest microplastic particles are capable of entering the bloodstream, the lymphatic system, and may even reach the liver.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/22/micropla...
Sorry for the aside, but I really find it truly mind-blowing that such a major, publicly traded company with products that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to use can be a "Windows exclusive" in the realm of network security/technology infrastructure.
You can try it early with the mainline kernel, copy the config from /boot (ketnel wants it named .config ), and then make deb-pkg to build it. That'll make a .deb you can directly install and should work without issue in apt. It won't be identical tp hippo's, since they'll change some of the new options.
> how does the mesh connect back to the internet?

The same way any other network connects to the Internet, through an ISP.

Nominally you can be an ISP yourself, but you still need to buy capacity from other network providers.
It's worth mentioning that the violence in Honduras is, in no small part, part of the US State Department's bipartisan foreign policy from which we benefit. Fast fashion, which Americans consume, is enabled by the precarious situations we've foist upon the Hondurans by destabilizing their government, and installing leadership sympathetic to our colonial interests. Your ex-girlfriend's uncle died for my t-shirt.

> Ten years ago, on June 28, 2009, a general trained at the U.S. Army School of the Americas arrived with troops at the home of the president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, and forced him at gunpoint onto a plane bound for Costa Rica. An interim president was appointed by his political opponents who was quickly legitimized by United States.
— [The Hill](0)

> There was a 1950s-style coup in Honduras in 2009 backed by the government of the United States, and things appear to have been unremittingly messed up ever since. Let me emphasize this one more time. If Honduras is in shambles, it is not because Hondurans are any less resourceful or fundamentally decent than anyone else, or even because its rulers are any more wretched and callous than our own. It is because the structure of the North American economy has made any other outcome impossible.
— [No Wall They Can Build](1)

- 0. https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/45046...

- 1. https://crimethinc.com/books/no-wall-they-can-build
How does Youtube stop anyone from talking to anyone?

Are you dense? They can still talk to each other. Youtube isn't the only way to communicate.

Look at us now, communicating outside youtube.
While it’s absolutely not a requirement, my first guess would be an inside job. They hire for locations all over the world, and once you’re in it would be much easier to spend your time finding and/or creating the scenario for this functionality to get into the build without detection.
You really can't. Even then you're going to have to endure all the after-market sales pitches: financing, floor mats, weatherproofing, etc. The last non-Tesla car I bought took me hours to complete after finalizing the price. Infuriating. If anything, the buying superior buying experience is being underestimated.
Sicario? Did we watch the same film? I mean sure, that's the content they are dealing with-- gratuitous violence and murder is entrenched in that world and they told a story in that world. As far as film-making and story-telling goes, Sicario will probably always be a top 50 if not top 20 film for me. Also encourage anyone to check out Villeneuve's older less known movies (most of course know Arrival and Blade Runner 2049), such as Prisoners, Enemy and Incendies-- all fantastic movies.
Thesis: The dollar will not be dethroned soon and it will not outlast the American Empire.

1. US rate cuts during crises and deficit spending is necessary for the global financial system. If the US responded otherwise, it would have been dethroned.

the Fed's response to both the global financial crisis and coronavirus crash further entrench the US as the global reserve currency precisely because the "American Empire" exists. Allow me to elaborate. During the GFC, the US became the de facto central bank of the world thanks to Bernanke's liquidity swaps with other central banks. There a great video of him responding to a congress person about this. [0] Remember, since the USD is the global reserve currency, all debt is denominated in dollars, so it's necessary for the survival of the entire system for the primary supplier of USD to relax its policies and ensure devaluation so that other countries don't suffocate from a dollar shortage.

The coronavirus crash entrenched the US's role as the global central bank even further since their response was swift and immediate. Dollar swap lines appeared in weeks rather than years and months, and we did not see a global financial collapse as we did in 2008. This liquidity event was just a blip.

2. Debt to GDP is a nonsense metric in this environment. Everyone has massive deficits.

The US is at 100%. Let's look at the other countries.

Debt to GDP in Japan is 240%. We have EU countries Greece at 174% and Italy at 133% other EUs like France, Belgium and Spain near 100%, Germany at 56%, and the more frugal countries operating at 30-40% debt to GDP. UK is at 85%. Sure China is at 50%, but it has a lot of other problems.

3. Interest rates are negative almost everywhere else.

Every country I mentioned in 2 has negative interest rates save China. This will buoy dollar demand over the long run.

4. Other viable alternatives have unstable and untrustworthy government regimes.

Let's take China as an example. Do you trust an authoritarian government who has not demonstrated willingness or ability to do 1 to take over as the central bank for the globe? This is a country who has also manipulated its currency in the past.

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Remember fiat currency has power through enforcement and governance. Power in this regime comes from the ability to govern a currency well. Bitcoin will never be a global reserve currency precisely because its supply is restricted and cannot be manipulated to give governments the flexibility to respond to crises. Bretton-Woods collapsed for the same reason. For as long as the US is in good relative standing to other trusted fiat currencies, it will remain the global reserve currency. Over time I could see a system where different currencies dominate different geographies thereby chipping away at US hegemony, but if the American Empire were ever to collapse, the dollar would be a fiat currency with a power vacuum. Who's going to print them dollars?

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk56d6mPNG0
It's going to take many months (over a year?) to fully distribute, and the first few months of vaccinations are going to deliver the most important phase IV data points. Waiting just a little bit longer isn't entirely unreasonable. Why take chances if the Brits and the Americans are willing to do the final tests?

The main reason why vaccines are so safe (and why the anti-vax movement is so silly) is that they've been tested on hundreds of millions of people. But until you vaccinate those millions you cannot be absolutely sure about the safety.
my argument is that PG's writing is weak specifically because he rejects dialectics. Your argument is essentially that he's writing in a genre that is not dialectic in nature. This is like if I said "I don't like this cookie because it is not sweet" and you said "the cookie is not sweet therefore your argument is invalid".
Hahaha that's great! I wonder if it is just a static catalog of images, or uses all that fancy machine vision to find new images...
Solar system? You are thinking ahead. But then you need to think quantum computing too!

The only saviour is highly valued quantum proof forks of BTC, preserving the original txns
There's no comparison - block off 6-7 hours and a couple bottles of good wine for the series
> We've changed around what we index on for performance evals/promotions and what work we assign them so that we can better accommodate these sorts of work preferences and skills.

It's really cool that you've that. And I'm glad to see I'm not alone in this.
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Dissent, insiders, and outsiders: Institutions in the age of Twitter
The fact that there are poor people that drive does not take away from the fact that the median cyclist income is always lower than the median driver income in all US urban areas so any policy that distributes risk in the form of liability from cyclists to drivers is progressive.
Fantastic system. I've used something similar after file sharing mayhem in a startup of just 3 people. We finally created a few major folders and agreed to never change them.

Search today is still terrible. Nothing reaches across all content or platforms easily, and different scoring systems and operators in different interfaces means it's just as big of a mess as the files it's meant to find.

The ability to direct someone else to a location is also incredibly important, especially because "where" something is can be just as important as "what" is in it. Most systems seem to forget or abstract that away, to their own detriment.
So does wheat, coffee, sesame seeds - in fact: most grains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytoestrogen#Food_sources

But soy gets all the press. People believe what they desire to believe...

And good on you. I too drink 1/2 Liter of Westsoy Unsweetened Soymilk daily. Silk just came out with an unsweetened variety too! :-)
It is only a threat if it can be leveraged.

Deeper heuristics on the deviations in that telemetry from normal could also have provided a signal that something was off -- like the temporary file replacement activity.

Without telemetry that kind of activity could likely continue undetected for longer.
But you have a way to assess the effectiveness of politicians at appointing the heads of regulatory agencies?

Consumers know more about the TV they're going to buy than the bank they're going to deposit with, and that's due to the moral hazard created by taxpayer subsidized risk management by regulatory agencies and deposit insurance.

The FDIC's risk socialization function increases systemic risk:

https://www.nber.org/papers/w22223