skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using hashbrown as evidence in a comment defending linear probing is odd when it specifically notes that it uses quadratic probing.
AllStar: Continuous Security Policy Enforcement for GitHub Projects
> I found the thought of job security as a goal distasteful.

reevaluate your distaste when you have 3 dependents.
good find randompwd! yes that job posting is old feels like 20 years ago.

we already launched a vehicle recommendation engine (https://driverbase.com/recommendation/step1) and a marketplace that is now almost up to 1 million vehicle listings without webscraping (https://driverbase.com/inventory).

this sell my car feature is new... we just launched it last week and it is definitely a work in progress:
https://driverbase.com/company/update-v5681/

as you can see in this thread we take user feedback very seriously and have been actively making improvements.
> I think it'll end up more like V for Vendetta.

I also love to read this kind of parallel between fiction and reality. However, when you have some experience working in defense you find out reality is more like: there's real criminal to catch, real victims to protect and to save, it's not like we have any time for non critical stuff such as going after pacific dissidents, and controlling all the medias like in V would be so much work and pointless it's not even considered.

About Exxon, well international finance is particularly hard indeed which you'll find out quite fast you start working in the AML sector, but guess what we* are making progress. But let's face it as scientists: there will be no silver bullet. All we have left is to compare cost/benefit ratios of different compromises. As such, you will always find a single case of something to complain about on some tech forum if that's what you get your kicks from.

*we: people who are actively working on it rather than complaining anonymously about single cases and making generalities about it in order to propagate some agitation on some obscure tech forum to predict a future like in a teenager comic book

It's funny here, users complain about Exxon and others having unethical behaviors or even breaking the law, I relate to that, but at the same time they are against using tech they create to increase security. How do you live in such a contradiction? Not to mention mass surveillance will create tech jobs you are probably part of the small number of people who can apply and get hired and actually work on it with their own ethic.
You're missing the fact that they have a pretty much limitless supply of capital, and _have still not been profitable_. It's not as simple as "just raise your prices." I would think that's pretty obvious. Why wouldn't all business just do that if it were that easy?
If you buy them in volume, you can buy them with the data already on from the manufacturer. I'm pretty sure it's programmed into the flash before the flash is assembled into the sdcard packaging.

You can do a similar thing with microcontrollers - if you're buying sufficient volume the manufacturer will supply them with your program already on, saving you a manufacturing step.
There are significantly more than 21 results listed on Google. Google automatically hides what it considers "duplicate results". There's an option to "repeat the search with the omitted results included" on page 2, which reveals all of the 7,000+ results, of which the vast majority are different routers.
> But we're the only ones who have some accountability

Had. But after all the failures this has eroded quite a bit.
What is your point? Did you read the thread?
Can you be more specific about what you mean by this? There's something like 1 to 4 socialists in congress, which makes them a powerless fringe minority, so it's confusing that you would talk about them as if they were in charge.
Just a quick suggestion: if you restrict the security module, do so in a way that someone can still run the OSS version in a basic secure way. If there are lots of insecure instances of your db out there, or someone else steps in and provides a solution, that doesn‘t reflect well on the project. This wasn‘t great about elasticsearch and they changed it later.
The RCP8.5 scenario would require that humanity burned almost every last drop of oil and did nothing to mitigate carbon. That's not likely because the remaining fossil fuel deposits are significantly more costly and energy-intensive to extract. Eventually the energy return on energy invested will drop to economically nonviable levels. It's debatable whether the carbon emitted in 8.5 is even physically possible.

My guess is humans collaborating on a green future will mitigate emissions ever so slightly. But it will be energy/financial crises that force us to.

So can we look forward to fewer impacts under a more moderate pathway (say 4.5 w/m^2)? Probably not. The IPCC has consistently under-estimated the impacts and ignored feedback loops. Even the latest AR6 report says "Additional ecosystem responses to warming not yet fully included in climate models, such as CO2 and CH4 fluxes from wetlands, permafrost thaw and wildfires, would further increase concentrations of these gases in the atmosphere." We're locked into runaway climate impacts for centuries either way, not much of a consolation prize.
No. It is not. Read the thread. And read the submitted article.
Berlin is SV without the sun, with grumpy people, and with entry level salaries.
Most rights end at a nation's border and most rights are a balance of conflicting interests. The former may be wrong, but it is the way of the world. The latter means that one person's rights may have to be restricted to protect the rights of another. Failing to recognize this by painting everything as contrasts is your choice, but it most certainly does not mean you are right.

Police investigative powers are an example of this balancing of rights. They need investigative powers to enforce the laws which protect our freedoms. The flip side is that investigative powers can easily be twisted to become surveillance, then be used to take away our freedoms. I don't know what the solution to this conflict is. I don't think anyone knows, which is why the state automatically seeks overreaching powers and the opposition seeks prohibition rather than offering solutions.
Here in Israel the Golan Heights are just filled with Syrian land mines from 50 years ago or more (Israeli mines too, but at least the army has the maps for them).

Sometimes a cow blows up or worse. The sad thing is that they get more, not less, dangerous over time. The reason is that they drift inside the terrain over the decades and they can get even in areas that were thought to be clear.

In fact putting a landmine is my pet example for something that is easy to do and terribly difficult to undo.
I am very thankful to all of you putting all these questions and answers. We have a bi-weekly meeting under the open compute project and you can find previous talks there too. www.ocptap.com
That was the interesting detail that I was looking for too. I'm guessing that it's because at the bottom of the article you can see that he wants you to pay $30 for his ebook and video that will tell you how.
I have met several people who can tell me "You told me in the afternoon in early february that you wanted to visit Moscow", with me barely remembering it, that the line is blurry.
That's false.

TLDR: The air gets cooler but still can't cool you. Your body produces heat that has nowhere to go and you still die. Then the walls of the cellar heat up immediately, because cooling 100% humid air requires sinking a lot of energy.

If you found yourself in conditions of an actual heat wave as described, you would despair at the fact the air can get cooler in your cellar but it doesn't cool you at all.

Which is counterintuitive but unfortunately that's how physics works.

First, humidity does not have to be very close to 100%.

In fact, in most cases it isn't and the reported waves of 35C WBT are almost all between 42 and 44C in absolute temperature. This means the air has to cool down 7-9 degrees before it even reaches dew point.

7-9 degrees is a huge temperature difference when temperature is over 40C.

Unfortunately the problem isn't the air temperature. The problem is your body's ability to remove heat. And if you take air and cool it down the temperature will drop but humidity will rise. The wet bulb temperature is preserved unless you can somehow remove water from air. And with wet bulb temperature being same 35C your body still doesn't have any way to remove heat and you are still going to die.

Only after the air cools down by 7-9 degrees celsius you can start seeing any effects, but don't be too happy.

Because physics has a nasty trick to play on you.

The effects of water condensing on walls of your cellar is going to be your cellar walls heating up immediately.

Yes, water cools stuff efficiently when it evaporates but just as efficiently it heats it up when it condenses.

Conservation of energy is a bitch. Please, learn some physics, it is really fun. And sometimes terrifying.

So your cellar is very likely to have very limited ability to cool down very hot humid air and condense water out of it.
It was a multisig.
In my country (Germany) afaik a little over 10% of the population are at least millionaires. So I think the likelihood to have a millionaire living next door is quite high.
United States Bill of Rights
I already commented but have another way to think about this.

Release the Blackbird from rest. It’s easy to visualize what happens: the wind turns the propellers, which turns the wheels, and the Blackbird rolls forward.

While the Blackbird is going slower than the wind, this is a straightforward system.

What happens when the Blackbird is going the same speed as the wind?

In that case, the wind is no longer pushing the rotor, since there’s no difference in speed. However, the rotor is still spinning! So now it acts like a propellor — pushing against the wind.
"DevOps is great, but it's not a title."

If you are out there interviewing for a DevOps job and you hear things like this: run. Every meeting you have with this person will be a living hell. Endless debates on semantics and definitions while your project is due today.
Who's paying these Russian nationals? Russia or Libya?

The USA has done every kind of outrage. But it'd somehow be a bit worse if Libyans were paying the USA for American nationals to come fight.

Splitting hairs, I know. Bush 41 turned a profit on the first invasion of Iraq. And there's plenty of off-the-books operations like the Iran-Contra scandal.
I read it that they've invented a product called time card, rather than the concept.

Its an accurate and stable clock source. which is an important distinction. The Meinberg PCI cards appear not to have a local clock source thats well disciplined (ie a temperature compensated oscillator)

Having an accurate time source that is updated once every second (typically) with a 1pps GPS is grand for most things. But if you need a stable clock as well, then you want a tiny atomic clock onboard as well. This is so you can run a clock source for an entire datacenter, or local section.
It's not multisig if keys_required=1.
If you have power you can just use a heat pump like a window unit. This is about places with unreliable or negligible power grid.
It was marketed as censorship resistant and code is law and blah blah blah.
Yeah, the ePrivacy Regulation has been in development for years now, being held up by the Council.

It was supposed to be adopted soon after the GDPR, but 5 years later and we're still waiting...
Let's start with the obvious - those are not Russian warcrimes since those are not Russian troops and its not a war.

And well - let's be honest whataboutism is actually a good defence. And there is a long list of very bad stuff done by regular armies in this century without repercussions.

So until we sort the American warcrimes by Blackwater and the likes no need to lose sleep over Wagner.

So just file it under - the world is a shitty place, be happy you are not there.
https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4546583
At work, we use MinIO as a replacement of the S3 Api on our CI servers since we dont want to call production APIs for integration testing.

One of the challenges we had was "pre-filling" the MinIO server with testdata. Some tests require reading a testfile from our mocked S3 API. We wanted to have those testfiles instantly available at MinIO startup, but couldn not get that to work with docker volume mounts, MinIO simply would not recognize the files and serve a 404.

Has anyone got that working or a proposal for an alternative solution? We resorted to uploading the files via the application on startup (if it is in "testing mode"), but that does feel like a dirty hack.
For me being controlled by China is a huge no. I am from a third world country, so neither USA, Europe, etc. But I don't like the totalitarian way of China. And before somebody thinks I have something against the Chinese people, my best man and best friend is Chinese. This is against the Chinese government's totalitarian way, not against the people.
Co-written by the guy who fell asleep in parliament.

Is he named Jacob or William. What is this bullshit?

It's just like Boris. I mean Alexander.

Alexander Boris De Pfeffel Johnson.
Jacob William Rees-Mogg.

How are we governed by people who can't even consistently name themselves? Or are they going for plausible deniability?
Olive oil from the 79 A.D. Vesuvius eruption stored at the Archaeological Museum
You get it right! We aim at online teachers and online instructors, however some of our initial users have been using it business-oriented and suggested that there are quite some creative ways to use the app.
Yeah, I really think that having diverse and plentiful raw materials on mostly unused land is always going to be valuable. Off-earth mining is where disruption will eventually come from, but that's going to take a long while yet to become competitive with on-earth mining.
Isn't this why many companies outsource. They can get away with these shenanigans whilst keeping a level of distance and feigned unawareness.
> underground car parks tend to get hot too

This is something that has puzzled me every time I park in the underground garage under City Hall in Palo Alto. It is always so hot down there compared to the outside air.

I was about to ask if anyone knows why that is, and then realized I could search for the answer:

https://www.google.com/search?q=why+do+underground+garages+g...

Lots of interesting opinions there, including a previous HN thread.

One discussion I liked showed up when I'm signed into Google but was missing from an incognito search:

https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2013/07/05/stupid-geophysi...
Ruby's Hidden Gems: Bullet
You're right! We aim at online teachers, online instructors and online course creators!
When you have collisions, the timestamp might be the thing that decides which update came first. The higher the precision of the time stamp, the faster you can run stuff.
What sounds like the most reasonable strategy to me is to have a single atomic clock in every datacenter, and then some basic hardware in every server to communicate with it.
Setting aside the specific topic of typing, the article is a great read simply as an inspiration in analysis and introspection. A great example of a "healthy sense of doubt", applied internally and externally, pushing along learning. Good piece.
Companies like this that depend on large MNC fixed contracts have limited capacity to grow or innovate. They provide a basic service at a fixed annual fee. So they grow by cutting from their employees.

Remember a similar situation in India when employees went berserk, rightfully so.
I’d suggest that communication is just as important as technology skills. Most end users and people paying for the technology don’t naturally understand the problems and challenges. These things need to be be explained clearly, in a way they can understand.

One of my favorite quotes that illustrate that is from the movie Boiler Room.

“There is no such thing as a no sale call. A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made.”

Communication is often thought as a speaking skill I would add that listening is a skill as well —- equally as important, if not more, than speaking. I’ve see so many bad designs because the developer failed to listen to, and fully understand, what the users really wanted.
Ask HN: What are some promising “healthy social media” projects?
I recently quit Instagram and Facebook but I do feel that I'm missing out on what's happening with my friends. I'd like to follow and potentially use some new (maybe dweb) alternatives.

I know Mastodon, Diaspora...

In my view a healthy social media alternative doesn't need to be distributed but it need to:

- limit the reach of posts, keeping the communication in your social circles and not trying to be a media company at the same time with millions of followers on some accounts

- have to algorithmic feed - chronological is just fine, thank you

- no ads if possible, or no micro-targeted ads.

Do you know any project like that?
Is it neocolonialism, or is it more like letting people vote with their feet? In a perfect world, we'd all be able to choose where we live.

Most of the people I talk to in Australia are more concerned about all the people that DON'T get let in.

Another lens is that countries are in the business of providing defence, governance, economic opportunity and lifestyle services. Immigrants are customers.
> Either way, after a few plays it was destined to disappear due to regular wear and tear on the record's groove.

Is vinyl really that delicate, or were record players in the 60's put more downforce on the needle?
> I would have thought these structures move air up and out by the [chimney effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_effect) instead of funneling air down as the article describes.

That's what wikipedia describes—pulling cooled air from underground qanats up through the house and out the tower. I was surprised to read in this article about air coming down through them. Now I don't know which one is correct.
Fabulous idea. I've taken numerous courses through Udemy, currently taking one to upskill in React, and I've found a big gap to be the lack of interactive exercises (where the real learning takes place).

I'll definitely have a look. Good luck!
We are indeed using Electron for some elements of the app, but we’re strongly focused on delivering performance as a feature. Using Rust for the heavy lifting has enabled us to do that. Additionally one of the early concerns raised with Electron was that we might lose some of the tight integration with the OS that people have come to love and expect. We made sure that didn’t happen.
Thanks for trying it out. I’m glad to hear it works well for you.
- Ben, 1Password
Looks great! The front page is very inviting and friendly for course creators.

I don't if how someone who's looking to buy a course would feel about that. Have you use tested it?
> including the increased polarization in the United States which is having its effect as we speak.

The increased polarization in the United States is a product of the end in the mid-1990s of the overlapping pair of partisan realignments starting just before WWII and a return to the normal condition encouraged by the US electoral structure of a strong, stable, sharp partisan divide, combined with modern mass media technology.

The 2001 terror attacks are coincidental, not a cause.

Denying this is closing your eyes to major structural problems with the political system in the United States and, as long as you deny something, you are categorically unable to fix it.
It's a still-active city, not an archeological site where everything has been in stasis. Why would you assume everything there is 2,000 years old?
Instagram launches hate-speech 'limits' to hide abuse
Accenture, ransomware attack claimed by the LockBit criminal group
I suppose The Barefoot Architect by Johan van Lengen[0] is a nice introduction to low-tech solutions for enthusiasts. The caveat is that I loved reading the ideas in it but never got around to try any of them, so I can't vouch for how it works out in practice.

[0] https://www.lloydkahn.com/2007/11/barefoot-architect-handboo...
> single pair Ethernet

For anyone wondering:

> In addition to the more computer-oriented two and four-pair variants, the 100BASE-T1 and 1000BASE-T1 single-pair Ethernet PHYs are intended for automotive applications[17] or as optional data channels in other interconnect applications.[18] The single pair operates at full duplex and has a maximum reach of 15 m or 49 ft (100BASE-T1, 1000BASE-T1 link segment type A) or up to 40 m or 130 ft (1000BASE-T1 link segment type B) with up to four in-line connectors. Both PHYs require a balanced twisted pair with an impedance of 100 Ω. The cable must be capable of transmitting 600 MHz for 1000BASE-T1 and 66 MHz for 100BASE-T1.

> Similar to PoE, Power over Data Lines (PoDL) can provide up to 50 W to a device.[19]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_over_twisted_pair#Sin...

> The IEEE 802.3bu-2016[12] amendment introduced single-pair Power over Data Lines (PoDL) for the single-pair Ethernet standards 100BASE-T1 and 1000BASE-T1 intended for automotive and industrial applications.[13] On the two-pair or four-pair standards, power is transmitted only between pairs, so that within each pair there is no voltage present other than that representing the transmitted data. With single-pair Ethernet, power is transmitted in parallel to the data. PoDL defines 10 power classes, ranging from .5 to 50 W (at PD).

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_over_Ethernet#PoDL

100BASE-T1 is IEEE 802.3bw-2015, 1000BASE-T1 is IEEE 802.3bp-2016. 2.5 Gb/s, 5 Gb/s, and 10 Gb/s over a single pair is 802.3ch-2020: the focus of these is in the embedded automotive space.

* https://blog.siemon.com/standards/ieee-p802-3ch-multi-gig-au...
> Notably, this is for mobile phone sensors, which are highly "physics constrained" and need every trick in the book to achieve decent image quality.

How about cameras used in endoscopy?
Which doesn’t mean it couldn’t have become one again.

As an outsider (non-Persian) I feel Iran would have been evolved into an interesting ally for the US in the long term, if we hadn’t meddled in their affairs all those years ago.
>We have a free media

Err, we have a media which is in a symbiotic relationship with the government.

I would not consider this free.

There are few genuine journalists out there looking for the truth and they have little impact on the masses.

The one that did (Assange) has a trial going on as I type this.
Yes, yes it is neocolonialism. And it's easy to justify by saying "in a perfect world", but we don't live in a perfect world do we so that logic is just completely flawed. "In a perfect world we would do X" does not mean that doing X in the imperfect world we live in results in a better world.

It is neocolonialism because it is extracting the most valuable and profitable resources of less well off countries for your own benefit. Sure they can't compete with the massive incentives offered by the uber wealthy countries. Probably because those wealthy countries have been exploiting their resources including human capital in the past which keeps them poor and dependent.

But they should be thankful that their children get to sew shoes for us for a few cents a day.
It is early US time but still mid-afternoon in Moscow. The perfect time to try to bury a story or derail any conversations into dead-ends and flaming tarpits of whataboutism.