skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's very nice to walk into any Apple store with a broken phone and walk out 15 minutes later with a new phone

I think this is something that should be taken into balance.

It's probably less the case with an iPhone, but there is value in the insurance being able to quickly get your widget back to a wrking state.

Say you're a contractor and your computer breaks down. You're not just out the price of a new computer (or of the repairs) but also the fact that if you can't replace it right away, you're losing billable days, maybe weeks. My sister needed to wait a few weeks to have her new Lenovo laptop delivered, and it had no custom options. I wouldn't be comfortable with so long a lead time if my income depended on it. If they're able to deliver on the next business day repair, then it's completely worth it.
For me, it's two things.

The first is the keyboard shortcuts. The forward-slash shortcut for adding blocks is both simple and powerful. Along with AutoHotKey, I'm able to format and navigate around without ever leaving the keyboard.

The second is the block based system. With the block system, it's really easy to reformat a page or move items to new pages. For example, if there's a bulleted list that needs to be moved, I can just grab the top node and move the whole thing at once (because the other nodes are nested blocks)
Clearly the resin identification code and the recycling symbol are causing consumer confusion due to the fact that almost everyone confuses them.

The US Society of the Plastics Industry designed their resin identification code in 1988 and made it similar to the recycling symbol which had been in use since 1970, even though many of the plastics thus labeled were not generally recyclable.

According to wikipedia[1] they eventually changed the RIC "chasing arrows" to a solid triangle in 2013 to address consumer confusion, but I still see a lot of plastics sporting the chasing arrow symbol.

I hope efforts like California's succeed so that the recycling symbol can be reserved for products that can be recycled in practice. (i.e. there are more than a token number of municipal facilities that process that type of plastic into a reusable form)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resin_identification_code
> unqualified morons

so where does someone who is unqualified becomes an unqualified moron?
It actually was used in counselling couples, found its' way into the nightlife, got banned.
Finally, it's been proven!

What are parrots?
Show HN: Remote part-time job aggregator
Hi HN! Solo founder here. I recently quit my job as a software engineer at a FAANG company in order to start some startups and see what works.

RemotelyPro is my latest project that aggregates remote part-time jobs. I initially wanted this product while I was still working my previous job. I wanted a remote part-time job because it would give me the flexibility to work on my startups while still having some money to pay for basic expenses.

Unfortunately, whenever I searched for remote part-time jobs on indeed, linkedin, etc, the results were lacking. It wasn't uncommon to see full-time jobs listed as part-time jobs and for non-remote jobs to be listed as remote. That's why I made this aggregator to filter the current postings in order to get the real remote part-time job postings. I really think that this can add a lot of value not just to people who are/will be in my position, but also to others who might be stay at home parents or people who want a flexible job as they travel the world. I would love to get feedback from you all, and I really appreciate you taking the time to check it out!
Congrats on shipping! I could see myself using a service like yours, and bringing my own server is perfect as I can adjust and scale it up/down as needed.

I'm thankful that Heroku prices are that extreme because it made me learn how to deploy and run everything by myself back in the day.
In some more liberal countries you can buy kits that let you know what you've just bought off that bloke at the end of the bar with the stickers still on his baseball cap.
> (how many people can afford precisely 1 macbook but couldn't possibly afford a second one? Some, but not many)

MacBooks are $1300 pros are around $2500. Most people consider that a large amount of money. A new computer is a big purchase for most people. Most would consider replacing one due to damage to be a big loss.

And if you did replace it, would you buy insurance the second time?
According to the article, the treatment needs to be injected directly into the tumour (although this may change in the future) so the focus of these trials is melanomas. They tested on mice with both melanomas and lung tumours, and found that it reduced the size of the lung tumours even though it wasn't directly injected into them. Seriously exciting!
Can you more deadly with the same infection rate? The original COVID-03 disappeared within half year.
Interestingly enough in the unexplainable podcast episode a doctor suggested a functional disorder- when the brain reroutes itself and assumes it’s damaged when it’s not. It seemed to a layperson, myself, more reasonable than a superweapon deployed internationally that fucks with but doesn’t kill people.
Non-paywall alternative:

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/research/biontech-reports-prom...
Are there benchmarks?
in my experience.

I'm not a tire expert, but it seems to me that the blowouts of the past were a quality issue and not caused by punctures.
Yes. That is what the article is? RPS is requests per second, 20m RPS is apparently a lot, and there's a new botnet that does it.
Fire alarms sound at International Space Station
It has to do with mobile networks rolling out usable broadband (3G) that enabled people to be connected anywhere all the time, which coincided with the iPhone 3G release in 2008.

I still remember how awesome it was I could stream music sitting at a train station while browsing the internet.
Contrary to popular opinion that such conversations are censored to death on popular media, there are still discussions like that happening on reddit, for example in subreddits like /r/changemyview or /r/unpopularopinion. It's just that people asking such questions usually either don't even try phrasing them politely and detached from personalities, or are based on incorrect or incomplete data.
I guess because there is no "lessons learnt" or "how to interview" thinking-- just grab someone from the canteen "Hey bud, you doing the interviewing today".

(and if you think I'm exaggerating-- thats how Steve Yegge described it when he was interviewing at Google, though it migth have changed since then)
Do you have a textual reference as well please?

But that would be a plausible reason for why nobody gets to the bottom of this: they do find the source, but are immediately informed that it's a classified US weapon and they're not allowed to talk about it. Including telling their fellow US embassy employees who are experiencing headaches.
This is why: “ Five years on, reports now number in the hundreds and, the BBC has been told, span every continent, leaving a real impact on the US's ability to operate overseas. ”
This is my experience as well. $10 for each running process (server, worker, database) adds up very fast.
Yes I agree with your summary of the situation. I assumed a phrase like "immaculately designed strategy" would set off your sarcasm sensors but I appear to be mistaken.
That was WebOS which did make it to open source.

https://www.webosose.org
For the second, I get the impression that this is less of a case of a building being bathed in EM radiation (as a jammer might) but (excuse my unscientific attempt at this description) several beams of EM radiation creating a superposition at their point of intersection in 3D space.

The latter case would be harder to triangulate as you'd need to have multiple detectors positioned along each beam line in order to determine the range of each emitter.
The Riddle of the Wooden Bombs
For what’s it worth one of the first jobs I see, while stating “fully remote” in the description has the title of “Handy Man” and a description of

> Seeking an all around Maintenance Person/House Remodeler. We are looking for
someone who is experienced in Rehabs, Make Readies, Service Request, Interior
and Exterior Carpentry, Painting, Plumbing Services, Fixture Installation,
Interior and Exterior Doors, Trim, Crown, Finish Carpentry, Kitchen and Bath
Remodels. Plus much more.

Somehow I doubt this position could be performed remotely.
You would be. He would consider you a senior Java developer.
I have had a limited number of mdma trips and each one has been special.

Last time I measured out a small dose and went for a walk alone, then ran into a friend and got to talking about my current boggle, drew a straight line between that and my childhood and teenage experiences and… woke up in the next morning feeling deeply depressed and just had to put myself together again to get my plans moving and in two hours I had.

If ever there was an example of ‘drug enhanced talking therapy’ that was it.

My understanding though is that it is rough on your serotonin system and if you do it hundreds of times it is more harm than good.
ISS appears to be falling apart. Is it a change in publicity or real?
I would much rather incentivize non-plastic alternative packaging. Consumers should have better options for metal cans, glass bottles, etc for mainstream goods, as those materials are far more effective targets for recycling. But they're no where near competitive with plastic because the production cost doesn't account for the total lifecycle.
It's far easier to enforce information Access control in a services oriented architecture.

In a monolith, a developer doesn't even have to use an access controlled API. They can simply access sensitive data through underlying access mechanisms and return it through an inappropriate endpoint.
Compare it to the cost of third party repairs and AppleCare starts looking like a truly bad deal. I paid $70 to replace my iPhone 7 screen this year, which would have cost $150 from Apple themselves.
> "If you simply firewall the metadata end point (or other microservice your app needs) then none of your app code that needs it will work either."

Just use a local on-box proxy with a firewall (or a dedicated virtual NIC with a firewall, doesn't matter, it's practically the same thing). Have your specific part of the code issue calls that pass through that specific proxy (or the virtual NIC). Apply whatever firewall rules you need.

This solution involves literally zero lines of in-house code to keep and maintain. It builds on the same industry-standard tools we've developed for the last 40 years. Provides all the flexibility and visibility you'll ever need. It's modular, and can extend to accommodate new requirements as they come.

But I guess it just doesn't look as fancy on your CV though.
> That might have to do with the fact that in my experience those BaaS frameworks and other low-code tools are mostly used by teams with a strong focus on product and UI/UX, which don't have deep security expertise or the right mindset.

I've had the same experience. Often these are teams who experience being asked to think about access controls as a roadblock on their way to product Nirvana. Security quickly becomes something to be avoided, often right up to the point where something goes rather embarrassingly wrong.
We tried Heroku, and that was expensive.
We tried deploying manually on AWS but it took a lot of time with a devops freelancer.

Got sold on Appliku and haven't had to think about infrastructure and deployment at all. We also survived for a long time on the free plan, until we decided to have a separate server for staging environment.

Works pretty well. Never had to learn anything about servers and SSH.
That was my idea too, with so many embassies hit, shouldn't it be something in the embassy? (Occams razor)
As have “vaccine passports”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Certificate_of...
> It can be reprocessed, but never recycled

Huh, I didn't know that. TBH, I was pretty sure most of it was just going to landfill somewhere in Asia, with only a small portion really being recycled. What does "reprocessed" mean though? Taking the example of a prepackaged meal tray, what might happen to it?
>What does fusion give us that existing nuclear power plant tech doesn't?

The energy generated per unit mass in a fusion reaction is ~9 times that generated in a fission reaction[0]:

Considering the mass of the four protons/hydrogen
nuclei (4.029106u) and the mass of the Helium
produced (4.002603u) we get a mass difference of
0.026503u or 24.69MeV. So it is easy to see that
fusion reactions give out more energy per
reaction. However, the energy per unit mass is
more relevant. This is 0.7MeV for fission and
6.2MeV for fusion so it is obvious that fusion is
the more effective nuclear reaction.

Which leads to a great deal of confusion on my part as to why we're not spending enormous amounts of money on Fusion R&D. Given the potential of the technology, you'd think we'd have long ago decided to spend whatever was necessary to commercialize hydrogen fusion as a power generation mechanism.

The phrase "electricity too cheap to meter" is likely somewhat hyperbolic, but in comparison to pretty much any other mechanism fusion is enormously more productive and efficient.

[0] https://www.physlink.com/education/askexperts/ae534.cfm
Why glass? Glass is quite recyclable but requires lots of energy to recycle. As soda bottles and milk bottles they might last 20 uses. Glass is also much heavier requiring more energy to transport.
Is it possible to earn on investment service?
The more funds are invested in the creation of the project, the more financial results creator wants to get. I will tell you how much money the creator spends on the creation of the site. On which platform can an investor make money and on which not! Read my article.
Pretty much my story as a whole, especially research part. Know your limit and it really helps understanding different aspect of things which is usually not even a equation in daily life.
Not parent but often it is hard to control layer 3 in modern cloud hosting scenarios. Therefore layer 7 approaches such as this one dominate.
Then the US government is also at fault for knowingly putting their employees in dangerous positions without their knowledge.

That's potentially worse, as it basically would mean the US is using the same techniques on god knows who else. The entire thing could have been friendly fire in that case.
You can buy your own test kit from the harm reduction group DanceSafe https://dancesafe.org/drug-checking/

There's also the site https://www.drugsdata.org/ where you can send in drugs for testing.
Hey! Thanks for question. I guess there is an article that needs updating. Appliku only needs AmazonEC2FullAccess.

Well, if you feel that something is off you just revoke credentials.

I will update the article now. Thanks again
Not a word about security analysis, threat model, etc. That's not how a security tool your life could depend on is presented these days.

Also, is it a coincidence that the "Made with C++" badge is colored red?
Cant speak for this implementation, but deniable encryption has an additional benefit over just encrypting stuff that even if you are actually targeted they need to get really really deep into your life to even know it exists and where.

Be that your super secret draft annual report or a fat bitcoin wallet, it will pass a casual inspection and they will move onto more interesting targets.
A similar thing is ongoing with the term "compostable" for some plastics -- often it only means through special municipal composting facilities. If you threw it in your backyard compost heap, it would not deteriorate quickly.
In Ireland there's a recycling symbol for plastic products that can be recycled.

But if you put that recycling symbol in a green circle it means something else -- "that the companies that produces the product is committed to recycling" -- whatever that means.

This to me is beyond infuriating. Absolutely in favor of these sorts of measures.
>How do you set out to tackle loneliness or isolation?

Not having your media contributing to hyper-polarization of your populace through algorithm enforced bubbling, or riling them up through fear mongering helps. Lack of public works may also be a contributing factor. One thing I will say for the Great Depression/New Deal generation: they didn't have anywhere near the isolation issues our generation seems to grapple with.

> How do you help prevent alcohol or drug addiction? What are the reasons that people become addicted to drugs or alcohol?

Inability to escape or alter their situation except by altered mental state. Get people something they can constructively do (and fairly pay then for their time) and it's amazing how positive coping skills materialize.

For those with non-economic contributing factors, a big part of it seems to be social enablement, removing them from the stressor, etc... Which a robust framework of social services may help more with as long as you don't start trying to turn reaching out into a life tainting thing (no publically available by default records for info brokers to suck up that would adversely effect future prospects).

Also, unironically, a better justice system, post-release process.

These aren't hard. Just not terribly popular, due to the fact you have to pay people to help other people improve their lot. Or literally just inspect to make sure people are effectively using resources available to get their stuff straight.
Not the only terrible one.
Holy shit, I was just thinking the same thing. We were talking about the various things that recruiters use to filter applicants, and they're largely untested, possibly containing unknown bias.

You know what's not biased? Random chance. Just try to get down to the bare minimum reqs, then randomly place in a queue. Then you have two options. Either truly random interviews, or the manager gets to pick out of some kind of priority queue.

There's still biases here, but we're not introducing any black magic. There are biases in whatever minimum specs you set. If you have the manager select, then you have their biases. Also, it would be hard to manage whatever the specs are, because you're probably not going to hire literally anyone, while maintaining this random strategy (without creating a new "system").
Why would you assume that we would hear anything if the sensors were tripped? It would be considered an act of war and would promote real hysteria in the general population if that were the case. It’s far more plausible that it was an attack that is being covered up for national security purposes.
Paying authors royalties on 2nd hand book sales
Native Rust Support on Cloudflare Workers
Federal regulators, narrow banks and Coinbase
It's not uncontroversial at all that microwaving people leads to health problems (the article seems to act like that's a contested idea, it is not). The US also has microwave weapons, not secret at all, even approved for use on humans and apparently also used in the US prison system (did they get the paperwork for use on animals?).

Obviously, any CW-capable transmitter may be used for microwaving things, as long as it is sufficiently robust and outputs enough power somewhere in the GHz-range (preferentially). Within that range, anything works really. Penetration goes way down as you increase frequency, but that doesn't have to be a problem. The US Active Denial System uses 95 GHz radiation (at up to 100 kW) to selectively burn the upper 0.3 mm of skin, because this tends to discourage folks from sticking around, for example. This is also why microwaves are 2.4 GHz (besides this being an ISM band), it gives you just the right penetration depth to be quite useful at evenly cooking stuff.
And the ability to act like a dash cam for my head and store 'current time - 60 seconds' footage would be nice as well. When in creative meetings, I have a hard time brainstorming while taking coherent notes of any kind. I also don't want to have to sift through the full hour recording to find the nuggets that are in there.
The Rocky Flats [FBI] Raid
ah yeah I see what you mean. I'll need to add some logic that filters posts like this out.

I think the person posting the job kinda misunderstood the meaning of remote. I just removed it.
I haven't looked at Apple's books or anything, but I have to guess that insurance winners aren't really a "statistical oddity."

The insured population as a whole is a loser (in terms of dollars) or else Apple wouldn't sell the insurance, of course. But I'd guess that individual winners are still common enough - maybe 20%, 30%? - to not be an "oddity".
Why were they allowed to change their symbol to resemble the recycling symbol?
Thanks for kind words.

While I know how to deploy myself I am fed up with that. Especially when it comes to a new project. There are so many places where you can screw up with a typo or stuff like that.

So while I know how to do it by myself, I don't enjoy doing that and that's how the project got started.

By the way if curious i wrote a post about that: https://dev.to/kostjapalovic/tired-of-deployments-built-my-o...
So what do they find when they send people to the originating location?
The issue is moving it is really expensive, slow and there's not the capacity in those areas to make iterations on the design. There may not have been enough money to actually test it.
I'm not affiliated with this project but I'll plug https://palmdb.net

There's also the subreddit and a discord channel with a very active community of palm developers/collectors
The challenge of finding new tools to fight prostate cancer
Its actually falling apart, roscosmos has been saying their segments have outlived the expected lifetime of the station for a few years now.
I can't speak to Portal, but my Quest 2 is a _fantastic_ hardware product.
NSA ANT catalog:

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

This is the target of the RF flooding...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_ANT_catalog#/media/File:NS...
The problem is, until we are post-scarcity or post-money (I don't know what that word is), then the incentives are there to abuse a system of brain/computer interface and uploaded consciousness. That being said, I don't believe we can ever really get to post-scarcity or post-money (again, what's the word?) without those two things being integral.

Removing the 'negative' from a person's life and allowing them to exist perpetually is, I believe, required to avoid the current selfish race to the bottom of hoarding resources and capital.
Is Callin the Clubhouse Killer?
In other words, this entire botnet can perform the work of... a few dozen decent size AWS instances?

We used to push ~million request per second from each m4.10xl instance when running load tests.
I say something like this every time I see a Havana syndrome article, but their summaries of the US National Academies of Sciences report is just ridiculous.

>The panel looked at psychological and other causes, but concluded that directed, high energy, pulsed microwaves were most likely responsible for some of the cases,

The panels ruling on a psychological cause was basically "all the available evidence fits it being a psychological cause, but as we didn't specifically test for that we can't rule it's the cause." How they completely ignored that and ruled microwaves the most likely cause is a mystery.
The big difference here is that most folks won't be bankrupted if their iPad breaks.
Apple’s effort to court ‘ethical’ hackers draws poor reviews
It seems like they just polluted everything:
"The 116-page affidavit led to a raid this week by the FBI and Environmental Protection Agency on the Colorado plant. It catalogs an eight-year pattern of illegal dumping, burning and polluting against a backdrop of bureaucratic cover-ups and foot-dragging."
(see https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2ZMcAAAAIBAJ&pg=6928%2...)