skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - Use network separation to control the amount of damage a compromise can cause.

> - Use firewalls to limit unneeded network connectivity and encryption to protect confidentiality.

Are we still on this? Why isn't anyone pushing for zero trust? A concept made significantly easier to achieve thanks to container orchestration.
Node.js long polling toy example
>been asked to throw out peanut butter

Because it could be used as a bio weapon?
I don't think anyone with actual power over the issues wants shorter prison sentences. The public loses money on prisons, but there is an industry of basically sucking profits off all the different things that prisoners do throughout the day, and in also taking a cut for other things like how they broker relationships like which healthcare providers get paid, etc. They take orders-of-magnitude too high profits on moving money, making phone calls, video calls, ordering books and stuff, mailing packages, buying some ramen noodles, privileging someone with an ankle bracelet, or charging rent at a halfway house (they own those too), or just the slave or near-slave labor wages for doing a job, etc. And the states get stuff like free firefighters, as we all know. A privileged minority is gaining all the real estate for the new prisons, offices, halfway houses, too. They want to keep doing what they are doing. And it's not just the private prison industry or anything it's just the whole thing is this bloodsucking.

It is corrupt extraction of human ability and based on suffering, it is just not tracked closely. People do time for the worst things. Using drugs is not a real crime worthy of punishment, for example, but people just sit and sit and work and work for really dumb stuff like that. Justice system seems clearly not some rehabilitative thing where people involved are helping in good faith. That is maybe what they imply on tv crime shows or something.
Wrong? The most popular languages are Javascript and Python...
RSS is alive (again) and well again for me, too. NetNewsWire was the first Mac app I bought in 2002, and today I'm using the latest incarnation of it.

The biggest difference to me about modern RSS is the unrealized potential and lack of imagination.

There were some efforts at making it a bit more successful around 2005 with the likes of Feedburner and ads, but eventually it was realized that walled gardens were easier than open standards.

If we had put one tenth as much effort and imagination into making RSS a way that you could get timely information from the web, in such a way that it was as common and no-brainer to people as email is, as we did for web ads, user tracking, and email spy pixels, I think the web would be a lot healthier today.
Apple ships macs with like 80% charge
Why would aliens follow standard invertebrate non invertebrate evolutionary lines? I can imagine a world where vertebrates are generally smaller and simpler creatures. What if insects had evolved efficient lungs and vertebrates had not?
> But brick laying is all about looks.

I’ve seen stores with moulded facades designed to look like bricks that are attached to reinforced concrete.
I've built a desktop app that enables you to load CSV files and perform SQL on the CSVs.

I imagine it would be handy for anyone who starts learning SQL because you don't need to setup the database or use command-line.

If you are interested, please try it out: https://superintendent.app
I legitimately think this. I read my comment again. Can you explain my delusion?
Yeah, I hate to be pedantic, but there seems to be some disconnect with the actual HN guidelines here:

> Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Perhaps this rule needs a refreshment?

I agree with dang that the Bloomberg article is more useful than the report itself, but the moderation action does not seem to be in line with the actual guidelines.
So our current situation is exceptional and not steady state and can't continue indefinitely (wasn't going to anyway).

I think his main most valuable point is that the status quo can't - and that stands.

Personally chasing constant growth doesn't sound like what we need to be aiming at anyway.

It would be saner to be engineering some long term stable state that we adjust as soon as new potentials become available.

Like aiming at a fixed upper limit maximum human population on earth with an acceptable minimal standard of life as opposed to letting blind growth search out the natural feedback loops instead.
I am definitely risk-averse. For that reason my savings rate is still pretty high despite a much lower income nowadays. So my only risk mitigation is "spend as little as possible without feeling deprived" - but sure, everything can crash all at once.

Because of this risk, I keep thinking about keeping myself economically relevant. I've been in this Resistance (as Pressfield would call it) limbo for almost two years but here's hoping I do something about it.
Well one could argue that any strucured process with more than one thing/node will embed a continuation to connect the two parts.
> or respond with the successful-career-appropriate cynical unconcern.

If what you want people to do is punished, people won't do it.
I’m working on https://simplePDF.eu!

It’s a web-based PDF editor: add text fields, checkboxes, pictures (watermark) and signatures to otherwise non-interactive PDF documents
It’s automating the document review part, to be sure. Basically massive parallel grep against gigabytes or terabytes of preserved electronic documents. Paper document sleuthing (“doc review”) used to be the most common (and most reviled) work of first year associates. The first pass is now automated and so they’re doing much more valuable second-pass work now.
can verify that bloomberg law uses (or at least used) cloudfront, considering I set it up years ago :)
> They hi-jacked the browser's `/` key to focus the field, which is something I hate.

This is one of the two comments on the article (the other being the rationale as a response for why they used the '/' key to do that behavior.)
Infinite economic growth is possible, heat death of the universe be damned.
The biggest issue with U.S. airports is the seating. No matter what airport you go to, its the same shitty chairs. You see people sleeping on the concrete floor where millions of people walk just because that is better than trying to rest your neck contorting on those chairs.

I was blown away in Europe. Entire sections with basically beach chairs. You could even pay money to sleep in a sound proof pod.
I use SQL, or something like it, on pretty much any project that needs to store any significant amount of data. Easily the most bang for my buck out of any of the skills I picked up in high school.

Even if it's not SQL proper, you should learn a query language of some sort and get used to the idea of asking an engine to help you sort and filter your data in a consistent way. Once you have that mental model down, you'll find you can migrate between the SQL-likes and the SQL-not-so-likes comfortably, and pick the best tool for the job at hand.
The standard model of particle physics does predict the electron should have an EDM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_electric_dipole_momen...

However, a nonzero electron EDM indicates P and CP breaking; in the standard model it’s generated through loop effects from the CP violation in the CKM matrix, making it very very small (1e-38 e•cm).

The experimental results are that it’s zero with a precision of ~1e-28 e•cm. So, there’s TEN orders of magnitude between experiment and theory—-that makes it not a particularly silly thing to measure, but a particularly appealing experimental target: lots of models of new physics predict something substantially larger than 1e-38, and the small value in the standard model makes a nonzero measurement an obvious signal.

Contrast the muon g-2 measurements, for example, where a new lattice QCD calculation of standard-model effects claims to adjust the prediction in the 10th decimal, reducing the tension to 1.5 sigma. If an electron EDM is found anywhere in the next… 8 or 9 orders of magnitude, it’d be an inarguable sign of new physics.
i think its great for hoa and leasers, really. or people owning multiple apartments and their leasers.
I'll grant that the battery life isn't terrific on the Carbon. Also the M1 CPU was a masterstroke of engineering by Apple.

(Having said that my new Nano is working a lot better than the previous Gen6 - seeing 7 hours remaining on 50%, with very light use, and definitely a whole lot better than the OG which has a 6 year old battery - got a refreshed after 3y, it was never great, and now says thank you after an hour or so).

I really don't like the Mac OS, but that's just a personal preference - and can appreciate the above points separately. I know thousands of Mac users feel the same way about Windows; I'm just set in my Win10/WSL2 patterns now. :)
I agree with this on the whole. I’d add the form factor of a phone works against anything complex also.

No D-Pad/Joystick or hardware buttons really makes it difficult to design anything that will hit that fun + complex loop well.
I can see play.date/steamdeck rolling in sales, as the portable market has a huge back-catalogue and is underserved.

Ultimately, our utilitarian glass slabs are only really good for lists. Lists within lists.
Microsoft deletes all comments under heavily criticized Windows 11 upgrade video
Guido von Rossum learns F# from DOM Syme
The themes I recommend are about the heritage of festivals and human sacrifice. The writing is impressive, but I wouldn’t recommend it as strong reasoning that liberty is threatened by totalitarian forces.
The author is a HN user, hopefully he drops by.
...or with the Star Wars theme playing in the background.
Looks to be a bot account (which was created at the same time the comment was posted).

The comment is an exact quote from this article at US Holocaust Memorial Museum: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-perse...
What kind of cryptopunk sides with the police?
Per diem reimbursements are not taxable income, neither are direct reimbursements for business expenses (including michelin-starred dinners).
If I'm not flying for business, I'm intentionally not spending money in the airport as much as possible. I'd rather time my travels to get a decent meal for a good price before I get to the airport.
By which metric? TIOBE paints a different picture where also Python and JS are high but not exclusively.

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
Just a general suggestion for comments: if you’re going to use abbreviations, it’s probably a good idea to spell them out on the first mention.
This wasn't the case in Mexico city airport a month ago. most people there were wearing KN95s properly.
Did you see the sentence about current lack of transparency with insurance companies?
Think Like an Epidemiologist
So it’s a visual wrapper around SQLite?
The ones sold in Europe are not nearly as small as these, that’s because the last time i went to the us i bought one of these little cubes, although i can not use it. But i really like their design.
This, I spend a lot of time going one to one to convince people before going to the larger audience, people knew the expectations and if they had any concerns, I was prepared. The only time it didn't go as planned was when a team-member wanted his hour of fame.
He was right in a sense, the 00s and 10s were the era of the dynamic languages. In momentum if never quite in absolute usage.

But my sense is that we're gradually swinging back around to static typing via gradual typing + mainstreaming of ML style features like generics, unions, records that are more expressive than the C/Java model.
But the status quo is already change and loss of expertise and teams and products continue along fine.

Also you maybe discounting the change in code itself even when I have years at a company I’m still continually learning things because I’m working on new things or new things are being built. If I left a new hire would be able to ramp up on these fresh code based without much hassle. So expertise itself has a half-life in a fast moving field like a lot of software shops.
The more usual description is of the embedded energy of various products and services.

Electronics have an exceedingly high embedded energy, given the tolerances, purities, rare minerals, etc., utilised within them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_energy

The bond-energy of goods is less significant, particularly if that bond-energy existed in the raw form of the material (e.g., wood or plastic (petroleum)). It's the energy used in transforming, processing, and transporting materials that matters.
It's not that extreme. A colleague flew return between CA and Switzerland every two weeks (13 hrs direct each way). That is ~250,000 miles per year or about 5,000 per week.
Pretty great segment from the .NET Conf: Focus on F# talks: the creator of Python learns F# from the creator of F#.
Protonmail is practically a honey pot. Can't sign up without leaking some kind of info like a cellphone number or an email, you know, to prove you're a human or whatever the justification is.
That's a good point, but I think people doing layovers might not take that into account.

e.g. you might be flying from cheap place to cheap place like Poland to Thailand with a layover in Zurich and think "if I have a long layover in Zurch, I could grab some lunch."

Or maybe it was just me, forgetting how ridiculously expensive Switzerland is :(
Singapore's airport is ridiculous (I mean that in a good way). They have a movie theater. They have a swimming pool with pool side bar. A ton of other random a attractions

https://www.changiairport.com/en/discover/attractions.html#/...

And good food choices, over 150 of them.

https://www.changiairport.com/en/dine/dining-directory.html#...
You've taken a bit of a throwaway question to its most absolute and painted the entirety of HN with it there

Maybe it is in the nature of HN readers :)
> could you imagine how such people would feel if they were part of one of the out-groups instead and didn't just get lumped together but also had been attacked by the centuries of racism in the US?

You do realize that the majority of white cis heterosexual people live outside the USA right? This is often a source of frustration for me, as people in the USA don't seem to realize the rest of the world exists. All of these things about whiteness, white cishet and white supremacy don't really translate well outside of that context.
Even as a PM, SQL is one of my most valuable skills. I can handle trivial tasks myself without bothering data analyst and speed up the processes by a lot
As someone who follows the semiconductor industry, I’m amazed I hadn’t heard more about what happened to HSMC. There’s little info around for what appears to have been a multibillion dollar scam
(2012)

https://web.archive.org/web/20120215000000*/https://www.scot...
> You've conceded it does have value to you, as you want something in return.

A signing bonus is significantly less valuable than salary; that signing bonuses are substituting for salary increases is a sign that employees are losing leverage in negotiations, i.e. the complete opposite of what you originally claimed.

> People in a free market are paid according to the value they produce

Indeed, and thus the fact that the labour income share is so much lower than it was 30-40 years ago is an indication that the current market is deeply distorted (e.g. by the famous "anti-poaching agreement", and no doubt more recent equivalents).
SQL is going to eventually die because of its three-pronged relationship model that implies query-time complexity. Learn it if you want, but especially backend and analytics people would be better off learning Gremlin or Cypher.

Edit: downvoting this is not going to make it untrue.
The point of this article is more on the importance of data integrity in databases than on SQL itself.
A petty bit of libertarian propaganda not especially relevant to this discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26714928
I suppose if you have a printer that doesn't support PostScript or PDF then you could pipe the output through GhostScript. This is what CUPS is relying on anyway.
But nobody (as far as I know) who has used TypeScript wants to go back to vanilla JavaScript. I find that fairly telling.
Are you actually asking, or just attempting to muddy the waters?
One doesn't exclude the other. All types of work-induced health problems are possible.
I love the no-nonsense, down-to-business way he starts every show:

“Hello. In 1896…”
There's now a trend to add gradual typing and type hints to dynamic languages, while at the same time, "static" languages are incorporating ideas from dynamic languages. So the end result is a symbiosis, not opposition.
The only even close to being something I could let my non-techy friends or relatives use is FluffyPokemon or RainbowUnicorn or something like that.

And even it's still missing features.

Cinny (https://cinny.in) is the first Matrix client that actually looks promising. They just plain stole Slack's UX and it's working. There's no need to be unique for the sake of being unique when it comes to UX.
DeadRinger: Exposing Chinese Threat Actors Targeting Major SE Asia Telcos
This is amazing. I am on Mac OS, and honestly even for me it looks enticing. I will try it!
Yes! with few additionalfunctionality added (e.g. regex, parse_date, tsv).

Initially, I wanted it for myself because I used Excel a lot but I never loaded CSVs into a database (dunno why). Using SQL is much more convenient than Excel's formula.
We don't need static typing, we need code signing. Or at least removing the biological equivalent of auto-running code on CD's inserted into a Windows 98 machine.
SQL is an important skill to have, in particular one should learn about database normalization and the normal forms - very important stuff!
> We're very far from exceeding the limits of available energy on Earth.

At least some of the proof of work crypto currency fanboys certainly have their greedy little eyes on it though.
Yeah try that with a random laser printer :) .
Does Dropbox support a carbon tax, the only thing that really matters in sustainability?

And, let me back into my account, ****. Nevermind.
the op is saying "if we autofocussed, we'd need to load all the JS involved in performing the search"
Correct, often a root cause fix turns out to introduce much less complexity than a symptom fix.
Not if you can both Doublethink cleverly enough.
A completely non-responsive marketing page. Haven’t seen that in a while.
Wooow, I hate how that bot tricked me. That was like... too smart; eventually the entire internet is just going to be bots tricking each other into believing they are not bots...
I feel like bricks were probably shaped the way they are today specifically to help bricklayers do a good job easily and quickly. If we're moving to automated wall building maybe using traditional brick is just a waste of effort. Automation will probably benefit from using different shapes or materials. For example a human can't handle a 30 pound brick but a machine might be a lot faster if you use larger bricks with different mortar configurations.
From what I'm understanding the hard part of doing that stuff concrete is curation time. There's a lot of projects trying the "easy" route and effectively do additive 3D printing with concrete instead of glue. Conversely, they have the same problems... they look pretty ugly: https://www.realestate.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/0...

Doing it "properly" means building proper moulding, rebar, vibration casting all the stuff that sounds like almost impossible to automate with 2021 technology.

Bricks have the advantage that they're pre-cured, so you don't have to wait ages until the wall actually supports something — and if that something is just the next layer.
Easy iPhone Hack
That's quite the review, I'll definitely consider it for the future. The thing with the Freestyle 2 is, it's actually very cheap for a split keyboard. But to hit that price point, it's really quite a conventional keyboard in other aspects.

I once built a custom keyboard but made a couple of mistakes, and I realized the Freestyle is not bad at all :)
Love robots and UI: The role of AI in the design industry
Best I can do is Bogo security
>which is 8% of the 80-char limit.

What a strange problem to have. Why not just increase the limit? Why can't you have a special title with a higher limit?
The reason is because airport operators, quite simply, don't care. There is a company that shows up and says "we can provide restaurants for everything in your airport". You check off the box of "provide services behind the security gate". They get to take their big profits.

And it's a captive market! What, you're not going to take a plan out of Dallas cuz you hate DFW? No! You're in Dallas! You don't have that much of a choice in the first place.

Airport operators of course benefit from _some_ customer satisfaction (in the same way that airliners feed people to keep the peace in the planes themselves on int'l flights). It's not like there's _no_ feedback loop. But "my beer is too expensive" is not going to register very high on their concerns.

There are also "legitimate" issues around how (especially behind security gates) there are logistics costs in running stuff. It's not like your delivery person can easily just show up at your doorstep with your frozen steaks or whatever you need to make food. But if they can put vending machines with reasonable costs at the top of Mt Takao, I feel like they could do a _bit_ better here.
How did a Romanian startup manage to accumulate $60M in funding?
"Also just want to add that working in a physical job for 50 years is much better for your body than sitting at a desk for 50 years. "

The experience of my neighbors from an industrial city is 100 per cent opposite. Physical jobs tend to consist of endless repetitive tasks that put a huge strain on certain joints and sinews while leaving other parts of your body idle. And many physical jobs will expose you to health risks such as breathing dust.

All the miners, steel workers, construction workers etc. I knew had major problems with their joints around 35 years of age and none of them could continue to work in their original job after 50.

On the other hand, negative effects of sedentary work can be mostly compensated by not eating processed crap (to prevent obesity) and exercising moderately three or four times a week. Plenty of people do that.
Three must listen adventure audiobooks
> "static" languages are incorporating ideas from dynamic languages. So the end result is a symbiosis, not opposition.

If I may ask, what ideas are static languages incorporating from dynamic languages? Could you help clarify?
The company I worked for didn't require it, but budgets were ummm... generous?

A last minute request (2 day before) to fly business to smaller European city was responded to with "yeah, that's fine, just keep the ticket under $20,000".
I'm curious, the list of not-included countries is largely unsurprising however what makes South Korea difficult?
AIDS predominantly infects gay men. So your saying the police were right to beat up gay men in the 80s?