skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
can you name one or two? I've never seen anything else besides captive.apple.com
$10 an hour isnt a livable wage in the US.

Why would you advocate for people to become paupers?
Didn't the NRA help form early gun control laws?
But not anyhow less true.
Australia has CSIRO (I'm a former employee), which is not quite the same but has had some big successes such as WiFi, seL4.

From being on the inside for a short period of time, I've had a glimpse at just how hard this is. Projects come and go, getting killed for budgets, politics, etc etc

The commitment and early vision, are very difficult to re-create.

I'm most familiar with WiFi as I worked with one of the inventors. It was patented in 1992 based on research in radio-telescopes for detecting black holes, which had been done years earlier.

If you think about what most computers were like, and what we were doing with them in 1992, WiFi would have made no sense. It would have made less sense when they started work on it.

Most computers were desktops, you didn't take a laptop to get a latte (which was also just barely a common beverage). Most people didn't have the internet, so there wasn't much to connect to. Your computer didn't move, so why have it wireless. Mostly you'd connect to a printer, which was also huge, so may as well be wired.

There was nothing you would do on the network which would use the speed that WiFi was capable of.

It would be almost a decade before it would be somewhat useful, and not until 2008, with the arrival of smartphones that it was a necessity.

So yes, I believe most countries should try to support a DARPA like environment. I don't believe most countries will be successful in their attempt.
> the one culture that's okay to criticize

That would be one's own culture, whichever one that is.
I'm not an expert in software testing, but from my experience branch coverage is still king in evaluating test coverage, and more importantly in flagging sections with inadequate test coverage.
This is a perfect illustration of why the DNS system is fundamentally broken. There is zero reason why icanhazip.com needs to or should resolve to a single host or even a single virtual host managed by some SDN operated by a corp that controls thousands of machines.

These queries could load balanced across the whole internet, the code is small enough that you could just whitelist the code by checksum and then compare results from multiple underlying hosts. The fact that you need a giant corporation to be able to practically run the backend for what is essentially urn:asker.public.ip is absurd beyond belief.

The big players aren't going to fix this because the broken protocols give them a major competitive advantage.
Yes, also bugs on top of bugs on top of bugs. Given that I haven't had a great experience with Next.js and its bugs — a lot of them, and with the usual suggestion of "have you tried the alpha release to see if it has fixed your issue?" — I can only imagine how fun a framework of 3rd order can be when you encounter an issue.

I'm probably just getting old. I see these frameworks by fresh faced frontend developers and I cringe imagining relying on them when you have looming deadlines and complex requirements.

https://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/blitz
Last year I had a bunch of cash right as Covid hit so I bought into a few indexes as well as some Energy and Tech stocks. My annual return on these assets was 48%. I don't expect anywhere near that next year though. I just so happened to have bought at the bottom of the market. I probably could have done a return on the order of 100% or more had I researched a bit deeper. I took a gamble on healthcare stocks that just didn't pan out. All that was was just that- speculation and gambling.
thanks for posting the a non-paywall version
Browser built-in password managers are much less useful for me than some password manager apps like LastPass. I can use it in Chrome, Safari, on iOS, macOS, etc.

If I use Chrome's built-in password manager for example and want to get the password for some website in Safari on iOS, I think that would not be as seamless as with LastPass for example.
“The 3-microsecond long pulse of light would normally take only 0.2 nanoseconds to pass through the chamber in a vacuum. But when passed through the specially prepared chamber, light emerged 62 nanoseconds earlier than it would have had it passed through the chamber in a vacuum.”

So, the pulse emerged 61.8 ns before it entered? It traveled backwards in time? Seems like there’s a typo somewhere.
That’s an interesting parallel, while Home Depot buys their product, in a market place it works differently. As of now Amazon for instance bears no responsibility of what happens with the vendor’s product as long as they have plausible deniability (“paperwork looked good”).

That’s exacerbated when products are counterfeits and legit brands get pissed off, but it would got the same for unsafe products as well I’d guess.

Amazon getting their provisions corrected could make a positive precedent for digital goods as well.
Oh gosh, this tired and constantly disproven theory of laziness shows up from time to time.

The government does this because its been conditioned to at the beck and call of unlimited local and foreign "donations"

But, of course, leave it to the usual HN crowd to blame those with no agency who had it stolen to produce ill gotten gains for the successful
Understanding and knowing about mean reversion is essential to anyone writing an algorithm used in real world finance, along with a bunch of other terms.

It is also clear from other posts by the author that this has not been tested in the real world, only back tested.

Practitioners largely consider back testing to be somewhat irrelevant as it’s hard to achieve real world results that compare favorably to the back test. It is essentially over fitting the curve.
There are laws regulating speech in some way or form regarding: Directly inciting violence. Threats. Various advertising and commerce standards. Specific details on how to carry out crimes. Publishing or modifying copyrighted works without permission. Photographing your ballot. Obscenity. Child pornography. Non-consensual pornography of adults. Laws enabling time and place restrictions with protests. Libel. Trade secrets. Invasion of privacy. Sedition. Various laws restricting things tending to fraud. Various national security laws. Regulations on the content of over-the-air broadcasters. Regulation and restriction of political advertising. Laws against foreign propaganda.

And probably some other things. A holistic theory for what should or shouldn't be covered has always escaped me.
I'm reminded of the story of the joint interview with Bill Gates and Warren Buffet.

The interviewer asked each of them to write down the one thing that contributed most to their success. Both independently wrote "focus".

https://www.inc.com/marc-emmer/bill-gates-warren-buffett-rev...

I remember reading the book The Goal in business school. What impressed me the most, was that the most efficient path to achieving a goal, is often non-intuitive, and sometimes even involves making destructive choices - choices that outside observers would find absurd and distasteful.

https://www.amazon.com/Goal-Process-Ongoing-Improvement/dp/0...

It's not only about choosing a singular goal, it's also about meticulously calculating your path there.

Don't follow the herd. The pack is FULL of jack-of-all-trades that have a smattering of random skills they picked up. Make literally every life choice with directionality and planning.
It's a good list, but like most (all?) of these lists it doesn't offer too much advice on organizational best practices.

IMO a security program which cannot justify its own worth to others in the organization is incomplete.

Most security professionals I've met (and I've been one of them, too) assume that security is or should be everyone's top priority. They struggle to deal with people for whom security is just one of many competing concerns.
Why not?!
Sure, the universities could raise tuition, but that wouldn't take away their incentive to save money on textbooks. I should add that this would work best if the university provides the books to the students and then takes them back at the end of the semester (of course charging for those damaged or not returned and with the option to keep and pay for it if you want to). This way, the same books can be reused for many semesters.

Buying used or copying textbooks is becoming less and less viable as textbook publishers "bundle" required things like online access codes for quizzes that are one time use and only sold with the new book. These can't be copied or resold because they usually contain quizzes that are auto-graded and sent to the professor.

Journal access is a different problem because the big journal aggregator companies seem to have a near monopoly.

Most textbooks have quite a few options, even free options, because any professor anywhere can publish a textbook, and many actually do.

The way textbooks work now, the people making the decision on which books or book bundles to go with have almost no skin in the game when it comes to price. So why not pick the Cadillac of textbooks Everytime. Or heck, just pick the textbook from the company with the slickest and biggest marketing budget.

Right now, many professors switch to the newest edition every 2 years or so. Watch how much longer colleges keep using the old editions of college algebra when they are going to have to shell out the cash to buy new editions. I think the students probably won't miss out on all that new basic math that gets discovered every few years.
Yeah, this honestly seems like a nothingburger to me. They have institutional priorities right now for other civil liberties, and once they feel satisfied with progress there they'll probably re-invest resourced into their free speech cases to avoid churn or even grow that area.

It's short term vs long term thinking and clearly they know way more about the Constitution and law than I do to identify major threats to liberty. It's pretty normal for both lay people and professionals to disagree with that strategy, as there are often disagreements in the law. And while I think having this discussion is important, framing it as an existential crisis for the organization is a bit fatalistic.

It's my opinion, and people are welcome to disagree (that's OK), that much of the angst directed towards the ACLU in this thread is more appropriate and effective if directed at the government bodies suppressing free speech, instead.
Eh, countries like Germany seem to have managed OK with banning nazi symbols - it hasn't proven to be a slippery slope leading to a ban on criticising the government, or anything like that.
The more I read this document, the more confused I get. I am most curious about the proportion of this jet fuel being burned by helicopters. The document has some information about rotorcraft, confirming that helicopters are included (though rotorcraft also includes petrol-burning gyroplanes...)

Page 5 for instance lists rotorcraft. But page 5 is confusing to me; has the categories 'single engine', 'multi-engine', 'turboprop', 'turbojet', 'rotorcraft', etc. Are aircraft being double-counted in these categories? Is a single-engine turboprop plane counted twice, in both the turboprop and single-engine categories? Is a Bell 206, a multi-engine turboshaft helicopter, counted as multi-engine, rotorcraft... and also turbojet/turboprop? There is no category on this page for turboshaft aircraft. Maybe the nature of these classifications is clear to a pilot, but they aren't to me.

Page 7 breaks down total operations into the categories jet/piston/turboprop, and seems to have piston operations as about 1/3rd of the total. 1/3rd is a far cry from 1/9 ratio suggested by 209 million gallons of avgas vs 1.8 billion gallons of jet fuel. Here is my suspicion: that difference comes from turboshaft helicopters. Typical turboshaft helicopters burn many more gallons of fuel per hour than other forms of GA aircraft.

Also a nitpick: GP mentioned amateur pilots, but many general aviation pilots are doing it professionally. I would wager most helicopter-hours are probably being flown by professional pilots. For instance, all the helicopters being flown for news stations and police departments have professional pilots and fall under general aviation.
My guess: it's so far turned out to be impossible to build a robot that works and tolerates the humidity and grease of a kitchen, and has an hourly amortized cost of ownership less than what it would cost to pay a human.
Or maybe they don't have the luxury of ignoring free speech, that others take for granted.

Claiming a stance is a result of "luxury" is not the shortcut to win a debate that you imagine it to be.
> with a timetable of <5 years.

I would put that $20k into Ethereum (2.0) or any other crypto that is scalable, sustainable and has a large DeFi ecosystem around it.
Somewhat buried, but this my favorite takeaway

>Errors of omission are generally much more serious than errors of commission, but errors of commission are the only ones picked up by most accounting systems. Since mistakes are a no-no in most corporations, and the only mistakes identified and measured are ones involving doing something that should not have been done, the best strategy for managers is to do as little as possible. No wonder managerial paralysis prevails in American organizations.

I've seen bright forward thinking leaders who delivered results get canned when one reasonable bet doesn't pay off, but mostly I've watched decision-makers stall when action is badly needed. This explains very succinctly what is wrong with so many places I've worked.
Testing your examples from documentation is actually a great idea.

As a security tester, I can't even count the number of times I've gotten API documentation with omitted info like perhaps-trivial-to-them-but-blocker-to-me how to actually authenticate against the API. If they actually had it running somewhere, that sort of thing can't be missing. (Also, the number of times I've asked for API docs in an API-only test and they go "umm, let me task someone to write that real quick"... like, what did you think I was going to work with, balloons and thin air?)

When appropriate, I'll definitely be recommending clients to include their documentation examples in testing. But they will probably ignore it like the rest of our non-high-risk advice (today's 'low' findings are tomorrow's stepping stones for ransomware).
People do seem to gravitate/grow into their names. The one that stands out to me is Schwarzschild radius: schwarz == black.
the question of how to make a good travelling ground contact is a good one. RF strap down the legs to metal soled shoes; but then you have to train yourself to avoid walking on insulators (or live conductors).. and many surfaces would be very poor grounds even if you had decent contact.

The best defense is a good offense: a broadband, high power transmitter worn near the skull; a "white noise" generator that will jam or at least demodulate whichever Evil Overlords are currently beaming instructions at you.

Of course the FCC will object if you use such a device, which just goes to show they're in on it.
The historical consensus seems to be that Cicero, while probably amenable to the plot, was a witness only, and not involved with the conspirators until after the deed was done.
Some countries use children to mine lithium

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/amnesty-internat...
French conventions are to signal when you're exiting at the next exit.
I’m very glad that my government is probably not allowed to prevent me from accessing content from China. That’s why I live here and not in China.
Did you update from 12.x to 13.0? FreeBSD maintains ABI compatibility across minor versions, and major version updates are usually like `freebsd-update -r '<major>.<minor>-RELEASE' upgrade`, `freebsd-update install`, reboot, `pkg upgrade`, reboot, `freebsd-update install`.

That second `freebsd-update install` removes the shared libraries from the old version and will result in old binaries breaking like you described. The `pkg upgrade` step implies an ABI change as well, replacing your installed packages with the same packages built for the new major version.

It's even possible to keep old binaries working by installing the appropriate `compat` package, e.g. compat12x if you have FreeBSD 12 binaries you want to run on FreeBSD 13: https://www.freshports.org/misc/compat12x/
The Dangers of Low Head Dams (2019)
Rather, the pandemic has provided an opportunity to shore up ailing unemployment insurance schemes in a time when lots of types of work were inherently unsafe. As a result, we've shown people levels of dignity that they've never seen before, but should have been granted. If nothing else, the stimulus checks were unnecessary and the UI benefits were substandard.

Full stop, the reason why American workers are hard to find and hiring is difficult is because companies aren't paying enough money. Executives and shareholders have had decades of amazing wealth accumulation, but that has to end. The unwinding is happening and the gains from productivity, automation, and innovation belong to everyone and this moment in history may force government to adopt policies to make it happen.
I'm gonna guess: tax evasion.

Like in the last two years, quite a lot of software developers in Poland suddenly started doing "R&D", because performing the necessary rituals to convince the tax man that your CRUD app is "research" let you drop your tax rate to 5%.
> "Sea snot", or marine mucilage, is a naturally-occurring green sludge that forms when algae is overloaded with nutrients as a result of hot weather and water pollution. ...It was first found in Turkey in 2007 but has also been discovered in the Aegean Sea near Greece.

Seems a bit of a stretch to call something caused by pollution "naturally-occurring".
> The internet is built on institutional trust.

No it’s not. What is this even supposed to mean?
Neverssl has done some pretty nifty work to avoid caching. It redirects you to a random subdomain over plain HTTP just to make sure the browser has a cold cache. Maintaining a domain, the redirects, and making sure to _not_ accidentally obtain a certificate is a burden I wouldn't want to do, although it is not that difficult to do.

I was reading from neverssl maintainer that they get a _lot_ of traffic, questionable ones more than it is not. Its DNS runs on AWS IIRC, and we all know Route53 isn't the cheapest.
> In the meanwhile, for anyone who wasn't stupid enough to forget, the best you can do is try and stay out of the way.

This is indeed about the best plan I've been able to come up with. Based on history, I worry it's woefully insufficient.
“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. “

–Richard P. Feynman

Wise words for anyone wishing to try out an algorithm on Wall Street.
Why not simply post this xkcd-Comic instead of linking to an overly complicated search engine result? https://xkcd.com/793/
Watch how fast every comment section and social media site devolves into a 4 chan lookalike if you stop all censoring.
Also in sports: https://xkcd.com/2022/
It's worse than that: you shouldn't have to send an HTTP request to another server somewhere else in the world to figure out your public Internet address.
Or how to not be an asshole. YMMV.
Well unless the financial institution is state-run then everyone uses a private business. I assume any private business could enter the space, but Strike spearheaded the laws / regulations. In the US I can’t park my funds with the federal reserve.
A little off topic, but I've noticed my fingers start feeling "fatigued" if I hold my iPhone 12 mini for more than a couple minutes, so much so that I've gone back to using my iPhone 6. I'm curious if it's the magnets. Has anyone else felt anything similar?
e.g (google maps)

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Princeton,+NJ/@40.3667281,...
That's why I don't gatekeep anyone.
Did you read her email? She accused her colleagues of "silencing marginalized voices", among other things. That's an accusation of bigotry.
No, it does not. Treaties require that the parties involved enforce them; like laws they become scraps of paper unless they’re backed up by the sovereign.

Which again returns to the original question; would the US push back, and how far would they go?
I think HTML is considered too challenging or 'low level' in modern front end development. Components are created with material UI, or bootstrap. No one seems to be doing it by hand.

I like coding html (and css) by hand. I find it easier to do that than to deal with frameworks and tooling. So I read articles like this and often find something new (TIL about fieldset). But I've yet to see anyone else do this professionally.

So I don't think most people will ever care about this stuff, in the face of modern "best practices". It's just going to be nested div soup, from here on out.
"Everything is easy when you know how to do it."
i got to witness a murder of crow harassing 2 bald eagles until the eagles just gave up and left. we’re not even talking a lot. There were maybe 6-7 crows.

The theory I heard is the bald eagle(s) could easily take them on but they risk injury and the crows will try to mess them up. So the eagles just don’t risk it and move on +
hunt things that don’t fight back (like rabbits).

also, I can swear that crows taunt my dog who does not like them and will bark/try to catch them. it’s like watching a comedy show with the crows doing something to provoke the dog and literally “laughing” afterwards.
> the UX is consistent with your OS

Buttons in Chrome on macOS look completely different than in native apps.
Buttons and context menu in Chrome's native <video> controls look yet again different, following Material Design.
From the things one could argue are good about native browser styles "consistency with the OS" is definitely not one of them.
> The educational system is not dedicated to produce learning by students, but teaching by teachers—and teaching is a major obstruction to learning.

1) The education system is designed to corral children for working hours so their parents can be cogs in the machine.

2) The education system is designed to produce a minimum competence so that the students can eventually become cogs in the machine.

At no point was the public education system designed for anything significantly different from "average".

Any effective excursions from average are a result of some exceptional teacher bucking the system rather than being helped by it.
CentOS was discontinued,
Crap article.

The problem is that the maths doesn't work anymore. Wages have been flat for so long that the slight increase in costs, distributed around a person's life, caused by the pandemic pushes McJobs into "working there makes a loss" territory.

Every single employer that crawls out from under their rock and howls some version of "nobody wants to work anymore" is saying "I pay crap wages for my crap job, and expected to do so forever". When the boss and all the customers spend every moment of every day taking a dump on you, they should be grateful when the worst that happens is you stop turning up.
The article mentions that the unemployment benefits don't fully account for it:

> In the early part of the pandemic the UI supplement was even more generous, at $600, but its expiry in the summer had “little effect on overall employment”, according to a paper published in February by Arindrajit Dube of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Likewise, in the areas where the current $300 is a relatively larger boost to income, employment growth has not weakened since January, when that uplift was introduced.