skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on what your threat model is and what your technical skills are, but here are some basics:

Fundamentals:

* If you are a Windows user, stop using an administrative account and set up a low priv user account for day to day work.

* Update your software, OS, router, etc

* Use a password manager (Bitwarden, LastPass, Dashlane, KeypassXC, 1Password, etc) and employ long and unique passwords on every site

* Employ the strongest 2FA available whenever possible

* Use a full tunnel VPN when you are on a network you don't control (an algo setup with a cloud provider, built in openvpn appliance on your router, custom setup, commercial offering from a reasonable provider like ProtonVPN or Mullvad, your school / workplace's VPN depending on what you are doing, etc). Better yet, avoid networks you don't control when possible.

* Use an adblocking extension such as ublock origin

* Set your browser to clear browsing data when you close it

* Set up a preference for HTTPS in Firefox or use the https everywhere extension

* Use DNS over HTTPS which is now built in to firefox

* Treat random communications as hostile. Did you get a crazy employment offer that is too good to be true? Does your long lost cousin want you to help them launder money? Are there hot girls or boys in your neighborhood looking to chat with you? Its a scam.

More advanced:

* Disable macros in office / your PDF reader

* Set up script blocking with umatrix, ublock origin, or no script. Check out thehatedone on youtube for tutorials. privacytools.io is another good resource.

* Set up a VM for handling links and attachments. Configure a linux VM, update it, and snapshot it. Whenever you receive a link to a site you are not familiar with, a shortened link, or an email attachment, open them within the VM. If the link or attachment is malicious and code is executed, any payload executed will be constrained to the VM and likely will not be able to break out of the VM and harm your actual host OS. Additionally, many malicious payloads won't execute at all if they detect that they are operating in a virtual environment (to try to thwart reverse engineering or analysis by defensive products). After you deal with the attachment or link, revert to the VM snapshot (thus unwinding any changes made since the snapshot) and you will end up with a clean safe state again.

* Open attachments in Google Drive if you don't want to deal with a VM. Any payloads present will be executed on Google's servers rather than your box.

* If you are running linux, set up apparmor for your browser of choice. Start with the default policies (aa-profiles) and modify to fit your setup.

* When in doubt, check certs. Major corps are probably not getting certs from lets encrypt.
Judge Gave Drug Dealer a 2nd Chance. 16 Years Later, He Swore Him in as a Lawyer
fake cry from the bird app

twitter should respect the laws of the land it agreed to operate in.

That is the original ToS.
Twitter’s moat is speed of new information. It is the fastest way to find out what is going on. That is delivered by a combination of technology, experience design, and network effect.

And basically every major competitor has ceded that ground to them. Google had a whole pilot project around real-time search. It only worked because they ingested the Twitter firehose, and when that deal ended, so did Google Real-time Search. Facebook tried to take this on with “going live” video; where is that now? Most platforms like Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat, etc. did not even try.
Haha

> a game for the ages that lets you craft, build, farm, fight, play, tame creatures

Ultima online was released in like 1997 and did all that.
Aight, you got me. No sarcasm, we need better ways of describing this shit, I’m with you 100%.

Screaming at the top of my lungs:

Hey PG, I’m not a white dude or girl that went to Stanford. In fact, I did great and bad at school. So fuck you. I’m gonna take over your whole shit, so stop discriminating.

Dumbass couldn’t even spot a half assed mmo clone.
I'm pretty sure the actual intention here is to not deliver the promised product and make money. I'm just surprised YC backed this "game"
> I'm basically just swapping some of my natural gas heat out for a few hundred watts of electric heat

Except now you have to compare efficiency of your natural gas system vs efficiency of the power plant + electric heater. Chances are that energy efficiency of the power plant + an electric space heater (which is what you're turning your PC into) is smaller than the efficiency of your furnace. Quick googling comes up with energy efficiency of 60% for natural gas powered plants, while I don't think you'll be able to buy a gas furnace that has efficiency smaller than 80% these days...

IIUC, the only way you can mine without worrying about energy usage is if you have electric space heaters in your home - then it doesn't matter if you turn on the PC or the heater. Or if you own solar panels and you are producing more than you are not able to use (or sell).
There may be a little exaggeration. But there are many occasions where if I do not move out of the way or stop walking when I have right of way, I would be hit at high speed.
lot of the developments will be iterative.

the load they must be under is likely huge.

they will adapt as they go. 30 millions helps them to do so.
I feel like there is some good science regarding the phenomenon of these species sharing accents based on geography, but the summary feels like a stab in the dark as to why.

To digress further... I don't see how this is so much to avoid conflict as it is to gain access to benefits from an out group by using mimicry. Think about cuckoo birds or other parasitic species, they aren't mimicking another species to avoid conflict. Some flowers to emit the scent of their pollinating species to attract them. Certainly other types of mimicry are to avoid conflict, like in the case of eyespot patterns, but does emulating accent fit more into which of these?
There's no absolute reference frame here.

From the perspective of someone on Earth, when it's 10:00 on Earth, it's 6:00 on the spaceship.

But from the perspective of someone on the spaceship, when it's 6:00 on the spaceship, it's 3:36 on Earth.

From the ship's reference frame, Earth is in the past; from Earth's reference frame, the ship is in the past. If you have superluminal communication, the Earth can send a message to the ship's past, which can then send a response to Earth's past.
The Feynman Lectures on Physics Audio Collection
It make perfect sense, motorcars of the time were mostly open to the environment, and early internal combustion engines had total loss oiling systems.

So there was always an oil mist dispersing into the air around the running engine and onto the occupants, and eventually on to the ground.

Also, there were few paved roads, so dust was a real problem.

A scarf or muffler worn loosely around the neck would be raised over the nose to make breathing easier under dusty conditions and to keep oil off the face.

My great aunt (RIP) was driving in 1912, I still have her Kansas drivers license, looks like new.

After she and my uncle moved to LA in 1913, they both rode their new 1914 Excelsior 1000cc motorcycle all over town.
A vast majority of people are poor enough to not tell the difference, or estimate the scales of wealth meaningfully.

Its a strong argument that the 1% rhetoric makes great sense, even if they underestimate the scale of just how badly wealth is concentrated
One historical explanation is that it was due to the popularization of sales culture in the 20th century which began around the 1920s, and greatly accelerated after WWII.

Another historical explanation, as has been mentioned by other commenters, is that it was due to the popularization of African American culture.

But of course, they are just two of the many plausible historical explanations.
I find this article quaint.

It at one point says:

> It was really different from Europe, where people are mostly polite, but quite reserved in their non-verbal expressions.

but it also says:

> Very often Western people criticize Russians for being too gloomy and unfriendly because we never smile.

It seems to be somewhat undecided on whether the smiling culture is a U.S.A. idiosyncrasy, or a “western" one, and it very much is the former, I believe, the U.S.A. cultural emphasis on smiles is wel known throughout most of the world, including most of “the west”.
I'm not saying they don't need to be focused. There are lots of ways to proactively ask for what you need that are more likely to get you and your needs respected, rather than this very common expression of frustration.
More worry about money instead of people, the same kind of thinking that make this plague worse in the first place.
This is a pretty bad deal IMO. If I’m the technical cofounder the first months are basically me getting the (software) product to the point where it can be shown to customers. The next few months will see a sales founder get our first deal.

Once the product is ready to launch, A bad technically founder could find a cheaper CEO. Once the first deals are in a bad CEO could find a cheaper technical founder.

The vesting strategy encourages thinking about founders as employees that can be replaced rather than as partners.
Yeah, it's that kind of lack of understanding & consideration of the context that got us in to this mess.
Here's the low-math version.

We see that matter and energy and all their fields and stuff move through time and space continuously. They don't spontaneously relocate themselves a million light-years away, and they don't generally relocate themselves a million years into the past. They trace a continuous path through time and space. (Oh, sure, for individual particles there's some quantum weirdness about exactly where it is along the way, but I think we're dealing with larger systems here?)

Now, physics have told us that space and time are glued together into a four-dimensional spacetime. So pick any two given points in spacetime — in whatever reference frame you like, doesn't matter if you're on Earth or in a space or next to a black hole — and take measurements of the distance between them, and the time between them. Ask yourself, "can some matter or energy travel along a path from the one point in spacetime to the other?" This is what it means to say, "are these points casually connected?" Because causes and effects have physical carriers, and they must move through time and space.

We found experimentally that there is generally a special speed limit — the "speed of light", though other things also are affected by this limit. We also found that this speed is constant in all reference frames. Some reference frames will disagree on how much space and time there is (your usual twin paradoxes and the like) but it all works out so that all observers agree on how much spacetime is between the points. (The mathematical objects for representing spacetime are quaternions, and the space and time vectors are just particular projections of the underlying quaternions, onto a set of measurements for a reference frame. But I don't know how to operate quaternions, and the specifics don't matter here.)

Now here's the thing:

If you are able to go faster than the speed of light (as measured in any reference frame of your choosing) it is geometrically equivalent to the power to go back in time. It doesn't really matter how you go faster, how you connected those two points — teleport there, open wormholes, warp space — there is some reference frame where you have travelled back in time. If you perform your maneuvers right, and take the right path, that reference frame could be Earth.

There's no other barrier: the speed of light itself was the barrier, and you just broke it. And if you have done so successfully, that means that the way cause-and-effect actually happens is ... something weird we only understand poorly.
API vs. SDK: What's the Difference?
Easy to move is relative. Not hard to have enough non-furniture stuff.

If you live like a bachelor sure.
Nothing that isn't obvious. Maybe they aren't pleasant to be around. Maybe they actually drove customers and an employee away. Maybe they are condescending. Maybe they talk a lot and don't actually get work done.

In short, they're an asshole.

If you have a bad detector for these type of things (like I did) ask your friends. Every single one them knew before I did.
I tend to see posts/comments about racism be flagged/downvoted. Perhaps that is why yours was.
Sierra On-Line Founders Are Returning to Game Development
Debuggers are a great learning tool, but I’ve found they’re useless when diagnosing production issues. At best, you’re using C/C++ and after the crash, you get a minidump from a customer/server.

Eventually, I learned to write code that was so obviously correct and had such good error messages that I haven’t needed to use a debugger in a long time.

In fact, I don’t even know how to invoke a debugger for most languages I know.

Edit: The other good trick is to write your code so that it keeps enough state on the heap to extract useful information from core dumps. For instance, you can keep global references to lists of state that helps track issues down, and make sure they work as expected in -O3 builds. I have definitely played that game in the past.
Thats fair, I didn’t pick up on your use of the word “elective”. But vaginal births have twice the incidence of urinary stress incontinence, overactive bladder and pelvic organ prolapse. There is also a risk of tearing of the vagina, and even tears that extend into the anus [2].
If I could choose a surgery that would prevent tearing of my genitalia, at the cost of money pain and possibly other complications somewhere away from my genitalia, I might well choose that - one might even say that a woman should have the right to choose.

It seems weird that we think that the WHO, an organization run mostly by men [3] would somehow know the “correct” rate at which women should risk urinary incontinence and genital injuries - why wouldn’t we let the patients decide with the assistance of their doctors?

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2718794
[2] https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/labor-and-deliv...
[3] https://apps.who.int/gb/gov/en/composition-of-the-board_en.h...
EU to demand billions in damages if AstraZeneca fails to hit vaccine target
Yes, the US taxes the worldwide income of all citizens, and all residents. But if you are outside of the US 330+ days a year ~$108k of foreign income is tax free. Beyond that the US has tax treaties with ~70 countries to give you a credit for any foreign taxes paid.
Can you elaborate? I don't understand why people die at their computers w/ their pants around their ankles.
This piece doesn't have much substance.
tl;dr; starting a huge VM takes time.

JRuby and it's active maintainer @headius have been great to work with. Surprisingly a very vibrant and active community.
Or a technology at the peak of its influence. Railroads were a huge thing, but peaked in terms of geopolitical influence in about 100 years. Same with modern highways, telephones, telegraph machines, etc.

Maybe bioengineering is the next big thing. That will probably peak in 100 years too.

Edit: which civilization are you attributing the voyage to? The Phoenicians were past their peak. The Egyptians were at their peak, but they basically were cutting a check.
I’ll have to check that actually. Maybe I can give her a high-capacity iOS device and let her sign into that, and then delete everything from there.
I haven't used LSPs too much, but I'll say they work to a good degree.

IDEA is hyper optimized for their target languages, from what I know Intellij builds custom engines for every language, so at least in some aspects (large scale refactoring) and at least for now, IDEA and its siblings are a step ahead.

But for 90%ile tasks, LSP is good enough.
Молодец, нельзя, фу, тоска, почемучка.

When learning Russian these are just a few of the words I found myself saying even when speaking English. Which gives a hint that a good direct translation maybe isn’t quite there.
So it sounds like security related flags need to be more than a single bit, and should probably be stored in different variables
Ultima Online could do 100+ visible people back in 1997.

But I don't believe WoW could do it now, the last time I played WoW, early last year, in a large raid, there would be spells cast from invisible people because the characters wouldn't even load.
> At that point why not just make something properly designed to start with?

Of course that would be ideal development-wise. Business-wise, I doubt most agencies or small teams are going to rewrite W3 Total Cache, Yoast, WooCommerce, Elementor, ACF, Gravity Forms and all the top popular plugins... not to mention all the battle-tested security options.
Yea, I feel like there should be some kind of internet nobel prize and that he should be one of the few to win it. He's definitely a badass.
>So from my layman understanding, the immunity should be more resistant to a mutation of the spike protein.

There have been several studies that suggest vaccination provides stronger immunity to mutations. Here's one titled Vaccine-induced immunity provides more robust heterotypic immunity than natural infection to emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern:

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-226857/v1
House had issues.
A simple home inspection would have uncovered a lot. Lots of things out of code.

Various workers IH sent admitted they were told to do as little as possible to make it look good.
Microsoft Build – Book of News
well you have not been following the news then.

Main opposition party filed a case claiming a document released by the Key party in power is fraudulent.

Twitter marked tweets referencing that as manipulated media.

Police investigating the case arrived at twitter offices to get information that made them arrive at the conclusion.

ref : https://www.rediff.com/news/report/delhi-police-says-twitter...

This in twitter's view if attack on Freedom of speech. Shocking logic.

Twitter has to appoint a nodal grivevance as per IT laws enacted 3 months back.

Facebook, Google etc have done so, twitter hasn't

ref : https://www.rediff.com/news/report/twitter-still-not-followi...

Govt responded via press release to the drama twitter was enacting.This was one of the key slap downs
"Twitter Inc., a USA based private company, in its communique says that it seeks "constructive dialogue", "collaborative approach" from the government of a sovereign democratic republic to "safeguard interests of the public". It is time that Twitter disabuses itself of this grandiosity and comply with the laws of India."

ref : https://www.livemint.com/news/india/twitter-seeks-to-undermi...

Here is the ZoHo founder exposing twitter's stand

ref : https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/facebook-twitter-...

And to cap it off, here is video of French PM Macron elaborating which democratic states should have the final say on free speech, not private orgs
ref : https://twitter.com/vinay1011/status/1397030936353513473
> It almost seems like a lot of people don't want the data to indicate that natural immunity is strong and long lasting, even though the data shows that reinfection is extemely rare.

I too remember when the concept of "natural immunity to Covid" was a wild, dangerous conspiracy theory, along with the "came out of the Wuhan lab" theory. Funny watching the narrative change in real time.
We use it less but they're there, mostly for filtering. It's hilarious because there was one time this company sent me an easy hackerrank. I nailed it, did interviews with them, one of which they followed up on the lame hackerrank instead of something useful like pairing or system design, nailed that too. Then they called me after the final round and asked me to do a dynamic programming problem, just so they "have one more data point". I actually tanked that one but at that point I already felt they didn't know what they were looking for anyway, one of waaax
You don't need to censor free and open discourse to prevent something like that from being a mainstream view.
What is “codswallop”? Is this a British or Indian thing?
That seems unfair. Even after warm-up time Jruby and truffleruby are still slower and the truffleRuby folks are investigating it.

I thought looking into why something was slow was worth writing down as a blog post.

https://github.com/agbell/jekyll-perf
>It is still possible it was a defective test the second time, and something else than Covid.

Now that the whole world has gone banana over a virus outbreak, it's really important to look at and understand how these tests work. Just because she tested positive does not mean she was really sick with covid, nor does it mean that the test was defective if we assume she didn't have it. It's not an on/off thing, it depends on how exactly they test and how the results are interpreted.
Complete, socialist nonsense.

They can rule whatever they want - it doesn't mean it's true.

Hey, how come no one uses the Communist Party of China for the huge number of coal power plants constructed since the 90's - tere's a ton of money to be made!
Show HN: Codemod to Migrate from Moment to Day.js
I’m very sorry to hear that, for both you and your wife.

I hope any healthcare for your wife was eventually able to manage her pain and make her at least comfortable.
Anti-science is a meme. Everything 'science' the general public reads is political, and if you disagree with their politics you're anti science. In STEM there's a blind spot where its easy to forget that the general public aren't equipped to think analytically 24-7 and they are preyed on constantly.
America’s Forgotten Tea Rooms
It's a scam IMO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RQ7NdpW1R0&t=0s
I agree with you that, in practical matters, one has to be concerned with questions like – is it even worth my while debating this? especially with this particular person? I saw the other day someone posting (not here) that COVID vaccines are actually a secret mind control plot to turn us all into slaves of Bill Gates. What's the burden of proof in that debate? Well, for me, the burden of proof is irrelevant, because I've got better things to do in life than even pay their arguments any attention.

On the other hand, I often see debates on the Internet about the existence of God, and one side will claim that the other has all the burden of proof. (Most commonly it is the atheist side saying that, although I've heard theists say that too.) Nobody has to debate the existence of God, of course – whether you believe in God or not, you may well have better things to do than argue about it with some random person on the Internet. But, if you are going to enter into the debate, I think one should acknowledge that one is participating (however amateurishly) in the discipline of philosophy of religion, and then maybe one should pay some heed to professional philosophers' thoughts on the burden of proof–such as Lehrer's view that both sides in a philosophical debate bear an equal burden of proof.
I interpret the article's tone as more of:

> Let's be precise. The actual 1% are not the ultra-wealthy, they're doctors, senior SV engineers, and regional Vice Presidents. That's not who people are protesting wall street about.
ECC Ram would mitigate some these impacts at least. But yes, it's ridiculous.

Some memory sticks I buy get corrupted bits at rated speeds for my memory heavy workloads.

Crucial (micron) would always accept the warranty claim, but Corsair has tried rejecting multiple claims saying their memory is designed for gaming.

Now I decided to finally pay the xeon tax and go ecc memory. Yes, I know AM4 had "ecc support", but even on asrock motherboards it doesn't necessarily work.
This is just too much jargon, too much complexity. Hedge funds don’t care about data meshes. They do care about:

- whether your data has a long history of at least 3 years
- whether it has some predictive value
- whether it can consumed easily thru an API or FTP.
- whether it’s cleaned, formatted and accurate
- whether it hasnt been tampered with historically.