skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't matter the delay the desk will aways try to get out of it being their fault to save on hotel costs, etc.

I loath it but this is one of the few circumstances where you should go full assertive. Don't take it out on the desk staff, they're having a far worse day than you, but stand there and make clear you are a problem that isn't going away until there's some resolution. Suddenly the hotel voucher will appear.

I want the whole system reformed. I've had to do this with United several times now and hate it so much I'll quite literally spend $500 more just to avoid them.
>I have been using DDG for a few years, and find a few problems with their results:

I've tried it a few times, this latest time I've been using it exclusively for a month or two and the results are almost completely worthless 95% of the time and I end up using the !g operator. In many cases the results have nothing to do with that I typed at all.

I've de-googled in every other way possible but Google's search engine is so much better than everything else I've tried that the rest are unusable.

I've heard it said before that Google's effectiveness is mostly due to the vast amount of information they have about me but that's not it. I've used lots of computers all over the East coast that I had never used before without logging into an account and Google gives good results every time.
Read "Atomic Habits" by James Clear, I wonder how can we implement 4 laws to get rid of this bad habit.
The point was that all those brands are owned by Coca-Cola, after all.
The Twitch streamers fighting to keep minority languages alive
A radio observatory on Earth might be using a fiber optic connection to connect to the rest of the world but it's still looking at natural radio phenomena. It doesn't matter at all what a civilization might use as a backhaul, their Space iPhones could use SubspaceWifi, but their radio observatories will be looking at natural molecular hydrogen emissions.

For an interstellar beacon signal radio is pretty good. Lots of natural phenomena are radio sources, CMB is radio, and a lot of things opaque to visible and near visible light are transparent to radio. So a radio beacon has a good chance of being detected just because any civilization that discovers radio astronomy can stumble across it.

The idea that SETI would ever detect I Love Lqwynngh'tch reruns from an ETI has always been ludicrous. Even our most powerful radio telescopes (by sensitivity) wouldn't be able to detect television or radio broadcasts even a lightyear out from Earth. The only interstellar signal we (or another civilization) will ever detect are very intentional directed signals.

If you had an omnidirectional radio source detectable from interstellar distances you could use it once as it would fry itself and anything around it pretty quickly.
LOL @ "LARP" Regarding corporate culture. so true!
The hypnotoad isn't subliminal, it obvious and total mental domination.

All hail the hypnotoad!
Nothing compared to what Elon is doing to a Bitcoin price with each of his tweets
Reverse engineering generative models from a single deepfake image
Charles C. Mann would describe that strain of moralist, prosperity = ruin, return-to-nature type thinking as a “Prophet” mindset, traceable back to even before William Vogt and the early 1900s of, among other things, eugenics, Malthusianism, and an unshakeable fear of the masses in e.g. Delhi (but not Paris!).

On the other side, and especially here on HN and the like, the tech building, win-win seeking, prosperity maximalist “Wizards” essentially just keep trying to build their way out of problems, e.g. massive gains in ag productivity of pesticide treated, fossil fuel fertilized, genetically modified high yielding, mono cropped strains that have already saved a billion.

Cannot recommend “The Wizard and the Prophet” enough, a great history of environmentalism in the 20th century and how this split evolved, and it’s not nearly as biased as I am (though still clearly leaning “Wizard” in its text).

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34959327-the-wizard-and-...
Flying land mines can be equally indiscriminate. Especially if you set the targeting to an ethnic group. These are explosives so they won’t always kill their target, they’ll do a lot of maiming and anyone standing near the target will be on the receiving end too.
Excellent point - does one exist (an easily audited stablecoin)?
XKCD to the rescue! [1]

[1] https://xkcd.com/627/
I’m always surprised how poor engineering gets exposed in products I purchase being an Arizona resident.

No, failing at 122F is not acceptable. If your hardware is exposed to outside conditions, it should operate easily below 32F, and well above 140F.

Considering that phones can operate below 0F and near 122F, that’s embarrassingly bad.

Same thing in vehicles. If you’re driving consistently at interstate speeds, you should be able to cool a cabin down below 72F while driving through 120F weather. Too many vehicles fail this, and frankly it’s repulsive for something you buy for 5-6 figures.
> Bannon agreed to pay a civil penalty of $281,497, Rauch agreed to pay a civil penalty of $128,230, and Ramaiya agreed to pay a civil penalty of $65,780. Sood also consented to the entry of a final judgment and agreed to pay a civil penalty of $178,320.

So the SEC claims they found $1.7M in insider trading, and they only collect $700K. This assumes the ring didn't do more.

No wonder bigger players do this in size. What a joke.
Been thinking of making a chrome/firefox extension that will detect those cookie notifications and automatically nope out of them all for you and submit, but been too lazy to implement.
Dunno about changing my life the most, but this is what comes to mind, because it helped me accept my mortality:

The Dalai Lama’s Book of Wisdom[0] includes a page on the practice of considering each day a number of ways (eight, here) a person might die, towards dying with more grace when the time comes. I started practicing and found it an engaging creative exercise. It’s also helped me take better care of other living things, and to see non-human animals as people, too. I’m still part of numerous kill-chains (weeding the garden, turning the compost, walking, using electricity, eating plants and animals, paying U.S. taxes and benefiting from the infrastructure, and so many more), and I accept that as part of living.

[0] https://www.worldcat.org/title/dalai-lamas-book-of-wisdom/oc...
> I moved to Simple SMS Messenger

Why not Signal? It can be default SMS app (not encrypted) but has the added advantage of switching to E2E if both parties are on Signal.
I don't think I realized this was a thing. Are other developers mocking API endpoints, to test the code their as they develop and maintain it? It seems like a tremendous amount of work - recreating a service that will make an async call back to your endpoint as a means of testing. I've thought about it, but the fact that it seemed like so much additional work and that I'd be mocking a moving target just made me thing that would be a visit crazy town.
But Pogba did the same with Heineken [1] (most likely because he is muslim) yet Heineken's stock price is rising? [2] So either Ronaldo has more influence than Pogba or the whole thing (Coke's stock) has nothing to do with Ronaldo.

1, https://twitter.com/goal/status/1405076977514582018

2, https://www.google.com/finance/quote/HEIA:AMS
If you read the essay, the anecdote is just an anchor for some lucid thoughts on today's culture and how people treat each other on and off the internet. It's worth a read.
Right, it’s still very early and something needing to be contributed to. However I have spoken to the creator (regretfully I haven’t had as much time to contribute as I would’ve liked); he is very open to improvements and the direction of the project is pretty open.
These particular sites didn't need essential cookies and discussion about privacy/cookies was taking lots of time for no real benefit.

Also, I believe philosophically in trying to reduce things like analytics and tracking.
I see what you're saying, and I guess like most, I've experienced both:

* A trivial technological problem that leaves my family helpless though it's literally the first hit on Google

* A critical life-impacting issue, usually health but sometimes things like taxes or mortgage or household maintenance - things where trustworthy experts exist and are readily available here - and they go to random sketchy Facebook groups and get random advice from random people (frequently involving Crystals or essential oils but I digress into whole other rant :P )
I don't think you have to be particularly self-centered to entertain the idea that we might be first. Despite the 8 billion year head start an alien civilization could have if it developed at the same pace as we, just early on, we see no evidence of any aliens out there anywhere. (And, despite billions of cameras, there is no evidence of any aliens here.)

We ourselves owe our existence to a chance extinction of the dominant life form on Earth 65 million years ago. Without that, our mammal ancestors would not have been able to reproduce as frequently and plentifully, which would almost certainly have slowed the development of us if it didn't rule it out outright in the timescale the Earth has left.

There's no guarantee most worlds with life even ever develop multi-cellular life. It took Earth billions of years to go from single-cell to multicellular.

Yes, there has been a lot of time and a lot of star systems, but there are so many things that are required, I'm not at all confident that there is intelligent life out there. Earth is a sample size of 1, and we tend to treat it as if its the norm, but that's just a sometimes-useful assumption. The reality is we might have won the universal lottery.
$KO has been on a downward slope since 6/14. This is market chatter and it will normalize out at some point.
"...why don't VPN providers implement a onion router.."

Pretty sure Nord already does. Probably others.
Can you not just use a router with openvpn?
Like, commonwealth nations? Or just countries too small to bother with the legal fees?
I think there are at least two plausible explanations:

1. They are actually from Earth, hiding somewhere on the bottom of the ocean. Probably Von Neumann probes which arrived millions of years ago, and not actually living things. They check our status periodically and send information to their origin system.

2. We are living in a simulation, and they are spectating us in a god mode with a visible side-effect.
Ideological consistency is often a barrier to amassing personal wealth.
Many (most?) people are simply not curious. When they run into something they don’t know how to do, they don’t wonder how to figure out how to do it, they just sit there until someone shows them how.

I assume when most people here on HN run into a problem, their first thought isn’t, “who can I ask?” but instead, “how can I figure it out?” because most hacker types are naturally curious and relish an opportunity to learn something new.

In my experience most people who zero interest in learning something new when they encounter something they don’t know.
Sharkle: The Generator of Random Awesomeness
In the US it's highly dependent on where you live https://i.redd.it/iijl9wrr6h571.png
> Or more terrorism rather than open warfare.

Some autonomous weapons blur the line, like the 'sniperbot' recently used to kill an Iranian nuclear scientist as he drove by. The weapon itself was mounted to the back of a truck, and could have lay waiting for days/weeks/months. There is no need for the fighters to blend in, when the weapons can - I imagine in the future where some high ranking military or political figure is sniped by a traffic light (by way of facial recognition or a humble license plate reader)
"I throw resumes in the garbage bin because I dislike their terminology" sounds a lot like "I enjoy self-agrandizement"
> Despite there been reasonable solutions like bloom filters and client sided hash detection, so that known child abuse material can be detected, without it needing to compromise the privacy of 99.99999% of users?

This is not a good argument. “Known child abuse material” is the tip of the iceberg. There’s nothing stopping people from creating new “child abuse material”, and the people who are doing that sort of thing are the ones who are more important to catch.
Thank you for the recommendation. It's surprising how easily we're getting manipulated by taste buds and old instincts and how often our brain function is out of the picture!
That would probably fall under "testing [new/other] systems to see if they also result in known good values."
Remember that when the first bus gets blown up by one of these.
If that's the only thing holding you back from Google Images, this is a useful extension:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/view-image/jpcmhce...

(not arguing for GI over DDG or any other image search, just pointing out that those UI issues -- which were coerced by publisher lawsuits, not Google's own preference -- can be trivially fixed with extensions)
There's 44g of sugar in a can of coke. The recommended daily amount of sugar is 24g. Although I take issue that there would be any amount of sugar that should be recommended since it's entirely unnecessary to consume.
> The routing uses two hops; Apple provides the first, and "independent third parties" (not yet specified) provide the second.

This isn’t true though, they have specified who the independent third parties will be: CloudFlare Warp, Fastly, and Akamai. See here: https://www.barrons.com/articles/fastly-stock-outage-think-a...
My first open source project is a CMS
I think it depends on your definition of constructive criticism. Assange breaking news of US coverups of war-zone crimes is useful, imho. Assange serving as a mouthpiece of Russian disinformation is not.
I think that's the idealized version of what's happening. In reality, one side gets loud 24/7 advocation broadcast nationwide, the other side's advocates are silenced by intimidation.

What you're calling social contexts isn't an organic situation. Society didn't decide the context, so much as the context desired by some has been cherry picked and amplified.

Dissenters are ostracized, then the alternative is proclaimed as what society has decided.

It's the social version of communist "elections," where you can vote for whatever candidate you want, as long as it's a communist one.
And it starts with that the terms are colloquial and bereft o an actually hard definition.

“colloquial”, “roughly”, ”perceived”. — these are not the terms that definitions are made of.

The point is that there is no actual hard distinction between “hard science” and “soft science” but there is a hard distinction between an exact theory, and an inexact theory.
Why not run containers in VMs in containers in VMs? :)

Seriously, VMs are hardly as secure as many people want to believe unless you're utilizing enclaves and even that has vulnerabilities. I think a better approach is Seccomp and whatever other filtering makes sense.
One UK clinical trial is transforming Covid-19 treatment. Why haven't others?
You say you don't think it's "full on sophistry" then you go on to describe a full on sophist.
> The mainstream media refuses to acknowledge that and glorifies everything he says.

For some reason I find it utterly hilarious. Because on any subject I know a bit I find reporting by media utterly wrong or willfully ignorant. And it just makes me think what about all the subjects on which I have little or no knowledge. Can I trust anything at all here.

I guess the point is same, like Gladwell media is obsessed with narrative often at cost of details/truth.
White collar crimes are barely punished - what a joke.

Insider trading isn’t larceny, but for the sake of conversation let’s say it was - 1 million in insider trading would be like 4000 counts of grand larceny, each of which carry a max fine of 25K each.

If people were actually fined 100 million for 1 million of insider trading I bet you it’d stop happening.

For comparison $250 or more stolen is grand larceny and has a max fine of 25K and/or 5 years in state prison.
In Google you can manually turn off safe search too https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/510/filter-expli...

That forces it off no matter what your query is.

I, err, only know this because of anatomy class homework.
> While much of the egg’s contents leaked out, some of the yolk remained, and the researchers preserved it for future DNA analysis.

I'm amazed there was still yolk in there! Although I'm sure it's probably decomposed I would still love to see a picture of 1k year old egg yolk!
Right. I think when you're dealing with massive traffic and you want to create a highly scalable API this is one technique. But then if everything is hitting a queue why have an application level rate limit? Adding items to the queue costs essentially 0, and you get to it when you get to it. If you think an app is abusing your API, then change the rate you process the queue for that app, or you know reach out to the app developer and ask them to stop.
Will this make SMS-based MfA more vulnerable if the government chooses to adopt / implement using SMS? There are other options but if the EO only says MFA ..
Do you think that optical phenomena show up on radar?

I know what they are. They're real and they're spectacular, wait until you see one of these cylinders...
Quad9, the only GDPR-compliant public recursive DNS resolver
Not quite:

Wylam has consented to a permanent injunction with civil penalties, if any, to be decided later by the court. The SEC’s litigation against Brown is continuing.

In parallel proceedings, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California today announced related criminal charges against Brown, Wylam, and Sood.
I can recommend his articles to anyone interested in what they cover. It's very common to completely miss the bigger picture, or give an incomplete summary, when talking about processors and their design. If I can name names I've always found Lemire's blog anticlimactic - usually a good summary but not fleshed out until someone else comments with the juicy details.
Classic - thank you for sharing!
glad the sec spends all its time on 6 randos rather than meme stocks, scam chinese education companies, nft/crypto, scam spacs, tesla, etc…

definitely have their priorities right
I'm not leaping to conclude there are aliens in "tic-tacs" flying around harassing fighter jet pilots for shits and giggles but I don't think it's entirely impossible they could be controlling drones from a distance, possibly from a craft out there somewhere that's not light years away. I mean, we have a remote controlled helicopter flying around on Mars right now so that's not a leap too far to consider.

Short of our government trying to hide tech they have, which still has to be near the top of the list, or a foreign adversary having developed some sort of tech that can either fool our tech into thinking it's seeing something, or having something that actually does perform as detected, which is also a possibility, there's not a lot of other explanations.

If it's not our tech I'd have to lean towards the Chinese having developed it first. The Russians would be a very distant next guess. There's just not many other plausible earthly explanations outside of those three. I highly doubt it's any other nation or somebody in their garage deploying that tech.

Maybe Ning Li was on to something. Her and other's work in the same general field seem, at the very least, a bit more plausible now.

https://youtu.be/SuRGdnvM06M
Drop was something like $1 per share which from ~$56 to ~$55.

Where 3 months ago Coca Cola was trading around $50, year ago Coca Cola was trading for ~$45 per share.

That was totally meaningless event, it did not drop in a way I would start buying. There is no real consequences for Coca Cola, maybe some day traders lost money selling for $56 before that event.
And that's fair enough, except he doesn't present his work as merely "first ring of truth" - he presents it as a deeper ring, or at least certainly does not indicate that it's merely an introduction.

So laypeople read his books and listen to his podcasts and don't know that the truth has been fudged so much for the sake of storytelling that it borders on outright misleading. But it was so entertaining in the meantime that it feels like additional insight - which of course is the brilliant trick of his marketing.
Divirsification of assets does help reduce risk. However, you can't eliminate that risk without holding reserves that are entirely made up of the pegged currency.
Camille Fournier on making boring plans
> E.g. what's the difference between a JSOW-ER deploying CBU-103s / BLU-108s or a "drone"?

For those on the receiving end, I can't imagine its anything more than an academic distinction.

For the forces using such items, it could come down to doctrine, or funding fights. It could be that lawmakers approving budgets will find it more palatable to approve a big purchase of 'drones' instead of 'smart cluster munitions'.

I expect we'll see a profusion of new devices marketed as either, or both, depending on the use case and the audience. It may be that the definition will never really be nailed down.

> I think the more important future distinctions are going to be between attritable/simple vs expensive/capable platforms, temporary vs persistent platforms, and organic autonomy vs network-reliant. Where some combination of the qualities is optimal for any particular mission.

I absolutely agree.
Where has he released inauthentic (untruthful) information?
What's incomprehensible to me about the Tether saga is: the idea of a stablecoin pegged to USD is so incredibly useful as a bridge between financial systems... why go through all the trouble and risk of doing it fraudulently when you could... just not be crooked?

The basic idea seems sound: people want to transfer around cryptocurrencies (or speculate on them, fine), but actually selling them for USD is somewhat hard and peppered with regulatory issues. So swoop in with a partial solution: a stablecoin worth exactly 1$ USD that you can transfer quickly around using the blockchain, but doesn't have any price volatility so is a safe store of value until you can move out and redeem for USD through a slower, regulated offramp (of which there are fewer).

That seems like the hard part? They solved all the hard problems, and it's so useful that it should be possible to get rich just by charging small transaction fees, success just requires doing all that plus not being crooked and lying about the 1:1 backing.
From what I read, historians generally like him. The main criticism is that he sometimes uses outdated sources or oversimplifies stuff.
Imagine how much better society would be if there was incentive to spend billions to improve everyone's health.
Where's Pelosi?
Further up they suggest Garmin
One Year Equity Grants in the Tech Industry
AFAIK it survived ETH price crash from $1400 to $90 .
I assume that the time spent in barrel is more or less constant compared to the other variables (such as angular velocity or angular acceleration of the barrel around the time of firing) and can be considered a fixed time delay in the system?
I'd say that the main complexity comes from exposing the logs/analytics to your end-users. I am hoping Svix will help companies implement Webhooks as well as companies like Stripe do.
Right, because information is best delivered in the service of the Rich and Powerful. Journalists™ and Journ-o-lists are the best form of right-think and certified information.
A lot of countries have good tap water, in those countries there is no reason to buy bottled.

In places where that is not true it's probably still better to drink water than coca-cola.
Have you considered adding an open source license? https://docs.github.com/en/communities/setting-up-your-proje...

I personally like the AGPLv3 for web-based projects, but any explicit license so people know where they stand would be beneficial.
There are encryption options, just not with the software provided by the storage providers.