skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people going to those sites or TheDonald in it's heyday are bonding over being able to say things that cannot be said elsewhere. To those users none of the discourse is toxic.

There are similiar left leaning sites where the anita hangout that have similiar discourse but no one finds it toxic.

Combine those two groups and you have the most toxic place where everyone feels attacked, the need to attack and piling on a victim feels good. That could describe twitter or other public squares.
Text summary is here: https://www.justine-haupt.com/blimpdrive/index.html

I thought it was a really cool looking (if scary) project. Justine was on HN a while back for her rotary cell phone (also a super cool project).
>Think about it: Every business, from tiny boutiques to online giants like Amazon, tell you exactly how much each of their items costs. Why shouldn't it be the same when we're shopping for a job?

That's backwards. The employer is shopping for the candidate, not the other way around. You are the product and they are the one handing over whatever your price is in cash. That's why they ask how much you cost ("what's your salary expectation?") It's the product, the candidate, that typically dodges this transparency.
“The Yeti” –A Monster Galaxy Accidentally Discovered at Dawn of the Universe
I was just searching for someone bringing this up. Of any advice I could give someone setting up SSH it would be to use a FIDO key + short lived sessions.
> Seems to be a lot of uneasiness, of late, about the way credit is allocated in science.

Of late? You should read up on Newton/Leibniz hysterics over who invented calculus. The arguments over who invented the first light bulb, car, etc. Whether greek knowledge ( the foundation of western civilization ) originated in the near east or even in india. Heck, people still argue about who "discovered" america first. There is national, religious, ethnic, racial, gender, sexuality pride tied to "priority". It's not just in science/math, it's applies to everything.

> These figures are supposed to be idolized and idealized

Why? They weren't particularly good people. Neither were saints.

> Achilles elevated Greece by giving Greeks something to collectively aspire to or adulate.

Are you talking about science/knowledge or politics? But you are right on the point. It's what this is all about at the end of the day. Politics.

Without politics, the discovery/knowledge would be what is important. Because of politics, the people become the focal point.
The worlds smallest parachute is 3.25m square [0]

This is only possible because it's behaving like a wing and generating lift if you look at the shape closely... probably out of luck to find a piece of debris that is going to behave like an airfoil well enough, but this parachute user can land with zero injuries, if you only want to survive, perhaps some concessions can be made, and this made me wonder:

If you found such a flat and light enough piece of material with a useful surface area - how best to use it? even if it's not the right shape to generate significant lift, there are different ways to use it, and one of them causes the smallest terminal velocity - the obvious use is directly against the airflow like a flat parachute - but would it work better if you tried to convert your downward force into a horizontal one by deflecting the air into one direction? (like a really bad glider, or those wingman suits). My instinct says yes, but without lift I can't explain why, I suppose because I can see where the force is going (horizontal) rather than just "dissipating" through turbulence.

I suppose at the minimum, by directing the flow to one side you provide yourself with significantly more horizontal mobility for choice of landing site.

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/88729-sma...
Technical debt isn't technical: what companies can do to reduce technical debt
KDE is hiring a contractor to improve Hardware integration [pdf]
I don't even think it would matter if it spun. She went into trees. Lighter tree branches are about your ideal landing.

There is one case of a guy who apparently hit a pine tree perfectly, then a snow bank *and walked away*, with no injuries that were obviously from the landing. No aiming or anything, pure luck. (The injury situation is uncertain because he was injured when he jumped and hadn't had time to take stock of his injuries.)
[announcer] Get ready to Rumba!!!
It's the opposite of artificial price fixing. It's natural markt forces of supply and demand.
You have to rethink the interview process from a social psychology perspective. See

https://job-interview-answers.com/job-interview-tips/about-b...

seriously.
I remember this tool coming out of the Qubes community, where people seem to be justifiably skeptical to adding dependencies. Also if this were to run in say Dom0, a shell script is easier to use and inspect than installing applications in the privileged environment that may be stuck on whatever old version your Dom0 environment may be.

So, please keep it as is, continue to do this one thing well, and leave cloud synchronization to the number of other tools already exist to this end.

I wonder if it is useful to consider the duties of backup (which may include version) and synchronization as separate. At least it helps me not fall for the false security in thinking that one system will just do everything.
How will this work on the long run? Will you try to upstream the required changes or will the forks have to be maintained perpetually?
Isn't this how the War of the Worlds, started.
A few observations of bright flashes on another planet. Humans then trying to understand and speculating the meaning?
Launch flash? Or impact flash?
Maybe Wells just got his planets wrong in his write up?
You said "but we're not farming dolphins". My point is that hunting dolphins is better than farming them, not worse.
UK English uses single quote marks by default, falling back to double quote marks for nesting.
Yes, what you describe is entirely believable. And one of the legitimate reasons why enterprise software is slow to upgrade.
Those big companies can be disrupted even faster if they break something though.

I'm not allowed to talk about it, but I know people in tier-2 support who were on an all night phone call with a big bank customer because if the computer wasn't up by morning the government would shut them down. (somewhat like the government did shut down some big banks in the 2008 crisis, but this was in the 1990s) At the start of the call the rep told them "We are pretty sure we know where the problem is and it isn't you, but we need you on the phone anyway just in case anyone has a question you are ready to answer." That is also why big companies have the million dollar support contracts: someone who can stay up all night and answer obscure questions.

Break things is a bad thing sometimes. I wish more of the move fast and break things companies would realize who annoying it is when they break something.
I agree with you that many modern commercial dairy and meat farming practices are barbaric, but milk is a nutrient dense superfood, whole cultures subsisted for centuries eating basically just dairy products. Milk products are not bad for you.
As someone who’s spent a lot of time working in the world of telco, it’s depressing how inherently unsecure the networks are in their design – Some networks attempt to improve on this which is good, however I simply wouldn’t call them secure.

My suggestion to anyone seriously worried about security – Consider the Internet access on your device no more secure than open WiFi at a coffee shop, and assume Calls/SMS are no more secure than a public conversation.

In short, use data/internet based over the top applications with encryption that you trust, obviously also trusting your endpoint/device too.

However remember that even that does nothing if your worried of location/device tracking.
Because companies are willing to pay _any amount_ to get the right person for the job. CEOs are payed millions. Engineers can be payed anything from a minimum wage though to the same as the CEO.

But yes, I don't understand why a company would not at least advertise a minimum of what they are willing to pay to get a candidate to apply. Perhaps they are happy with the candidates they are getting.
Regardless of effectiveness of this particular strategy; I really loved his Devil/Angel inner dialogue, because it reminds me of how I get a handle on "things that threaten to engulf me."

Right now for me it's "cryptocurrency bots." I could tell that without the dialogue, the possibility that I could get insanely rich with some coding would just eat me up, especially because I know that on one hand it's almost certainly possible, but on the other-- I am a bad-to-mediocre programmer.

So I know I have to "make a deal" with myself, and in some ways talk myself down, and figure out the logic that would get me to do this in a reasonable way (because I know that for me, "don't even try" isn't an option.)

I have convinced myself in the following way by coming up with this statement: "I probably cannot make a billion dollars with crypto bots, but I'm going to have to allow to try it out to make sure."
Yeah, but in reality it was probably this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxINRbE2R8A
Specifically 16:49

RIP Norm.
Ah. I was just agreeing to the part about incentives. Not to the claim that it was a pyramid scheme. Sorry for my part in not clearing up the ambiguity present in your question. I shouldn’t have quoted the whole paragraph. This would have gone better if you had asked for clarification instead of making that assumption.

>> I understand that what people think of Bitcoin is of great importance to you

> Sure isn't.

Ok.

> Weird shift to a personal attack, but what else do you have left after failing so badly?

You seemed to care about what people think of Bitcoin. Now you say you don’t. I’m surprised given the level of zeal you are displaying.

I’m curious why would you take it as a personal attack to point out that you care about Bitcoin?
I saw them on bikes in China 5 years ago .... perhaps they're already here
Not to toot my own horn but also darklang (https://darklang.com)
Following this logic, the first whom they need to block should be American ISPs.

North America is the biggest source of spam mail, and DDOS by far.
Never heard of that functionality, but googling brings up this https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2020/08/jump-to-any-line-whi...

> if you want to jump to a particular line and set an execution point there, without executing the preceding code
I just don't know people that still use Facebook with any regularity. I understand selection bias is at play (I'm inclined to hang out with people like myself, and I think Facebook is a flaming trash-pit).

I made friends on Facebook years ago. I felt fundamental changes in both the user-base and use-cases that I don't find enjoyable. I assume most people under the age of 40 feel similarly, and those that don't aren't the type of person I'd want to be around.

I'll rephrase: It's not that I assume nobody is making friends on Facebook in this day and age, just that I'm less likely to want to befriend them myself and I was applying this personal assumption unilaterally.
I prefer the term “lipstick on a pig”.
Oh that’s very clever. Makes me wish javascript/Typescript had macros so I could define this all in a single call.
location-based quality of life is mostly wherever you have been long enough to make family and friends, except for a small window of young flexible adults.
I think for the same reason that Fawlty Towers ended after one season, there should never be a sequel to Office Space.

It’s too perfect. It could only go downhill.
Apple designs the hardware, firmware, driver and OS.

For a Windows laptop the touchpad might involve 3 different vendors. And Windows supports older graphical APIs that just don't understand pixel scrolling. OSX doesn't, Apple just deprecated all of that years ago and told everyone to rewrite their app.
We'd probably have to say Leonard of (Anglicized form of 'Vinci') for maximum consistency in that case. Lenny Vince for short.
Kinda surprised to see a fairly boring snowflake picture at 14th place. Sure, it looks technically well executed and the black background makes for a clean picture, but still it looks pretty unremarkable to me.
Moon has ”moonquakes”

https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/1...
To those seemingly confused by this: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~coke/history_long.txt
Good to know, should be fixed now if you enter and email and hit subscribe. Thanks for reporting. Mind letting me know the browser you're using so I can verify?
I've read that IBM offered training programs to secretaries, so it was a good career path. And there was a stereotype that typing = woman's work.
Well, but the reason we want to decide the number of guards in the first place is that we want to prevent a streaker. If, in order to decide the number of guards, we use a process that increases the odds of a streaker, isn't that counterproductive?
Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system (2010)
AFAIK it's not a free OS update with the feature. It's a feature of the new Apple Watch Series 7 that will be available for purchase later this fall.
Yes, with caveats and reasons you don't often see it.

As a practical matter, you want to fit the indexing structure to the properties of your data model as closely as possible. Increasing the generality of high-dimensionality spatial indexes comes at a high cognitive cost, so most complex high-dimensionality indexes are bespoke designs to limit generality. Things become pretty messy when you mix dimension types that are interval-like (e.g. polygons) and monotonic-like (e.g. temporal) so almost no one does it.

You can build, say, a general 8-dimensional index that can handle (some) distributions of interval and monotonic types simultaneously, in addition to the usual boring data types, that has excellent performance and scalability characteristics. It would probably only require something like 1000 lines of C++, so not too onerous. However, the code logic would be nearly impenetrable to read, never mind write, which matters for practical engineering.
Don't expect natural language to logically "make sense". Just don't. It doesn't work by those rules, and trying to force it to do so just leads to seventeenth-century grammarian jackasses and Strunk and White.
I know it does happen, but I wouldn't say it's common. Generally speaking, most of the software I use runs without issues on newer JVMs, despite being built for an old one.
The usual difference is just predicate ordering -- (1) for every program there exists a tape big enough vs (2) there exists a tape big enough for every program. In the first case, each individual (valid) program can get by with a tape of _some_ fixed length, but there's no bound on how big that requisite length might be. In the second case, since the tape requirements can be arbitrarily high you would need a legitimately infinite tape to service all possible programs.

IMO the given example muddies the waters a bit by conflating the conceptual tape a given machine is running on (which might be infinite for non-halting programs) with the physical tape you've used so far (for which it suffices for such tape to be finite at any fixed moment in time, though the amount needed might grow unboundedly as time increases).
One would assume that absence of credentials would necessarily = auth failure.

Like, the basic flow would check the validity and, implicitly, the presence of the auth header. To bypass auth in the case of the absence of the header itself would need to be an explicit conditional. IF no header, then authenticated. Right? That’s crazy.

I suppose I could look at the code.
Because internet is slow, spotty, and 4G eats a lot of battery. FM radio is lightweight and instantaneous.
In New Zealand you could get tyres retreaded decades ago, however it was banned for light vehicles, due to safety reasons I believe.

Truck and specialty tyres in NZ still get retreaded by a company called Bandag, and you sometimes see detached tread at the side of the road. I am guessing that retreads are only allowed for dual tyres on trailers, where if a tyre fails it isn’t catastrophic. I imagine they are not allowed for the critical front steering/braking tyres on the tractor unit.
One member, one vote. Worker cooperatives are democracies.
(Replay engineer): we basically record all the inputs and outputs to a program. In the example of an HTTP request: when recording we'd record that a request was made, and the response. When replaying, rather than make the HTTP request, we return the response that was recorded.

If you're interested you can learn more about how Replay works here: https://medium.com/replay-io/how-replay-works-5c9c29580c58
$1.39 per successful verification?! Isn't that really high?

Seems to me with many things it's relatively easy to get say 100k sign-ups, compared to 100k active profitable users. Could be pretty costly.
What is the difference: terminal / console / shell?
There's a signal to noise ratio to consider here.
Run flat tires are expensive, heavy, and hard riding. On the other hand, they don't go flat. I recently had a flat in my VW and I missed having my old Mini's run flats. Sometimes you just aren't in a place where you want to change a tire.
Having come to note how much a new government or regime likes to blame and badmouth its predecessor, and how the media successfully makes mountains out of molehills, I wonder how much that applies to our official recorded history ...
I agree auditing would be prudent but frankly the developer is the first line of defence and will share my blame.
StackOverflow points are quite valuable IMHO.

I haven't used the site in almost a decade, but I posted a few extremely valuable answers back around 2010 about stuff like how to redirect a request or round a number in SQL (/s), and over the decade these stupid answers have netted me thousands of points, keeping me in the top few % of site users. As the quality has fallen off and the main focus has shifted from programming to meta-pedantry I've completely stopped using the site aside from what links Google takes me to.

The points however, are extremely valuable still. Whenever I have a tricky problem, I can post a question with a large bounty and dozens of strangers from around the world will spend countless hours of their time doing research and writing up multi-page solutions completely for free. Of course half the time the act of writing out the question makes the answer obvious, but still.

Having said that, I still think the quality of answers was better 10 years ago than it is today even with a bounty.
Well, that and rationalization. Everyone's subject to rationalization.

You can say 'maintaining the status quo because fear and outrage boost engagement'…

…and they can think 'we represent the social engagement of ALL people, how dare you tell us not to support genocide fanciers when our data shows that's a solid 27% of our actual platform'…

…and then they can say 'we are trying to turn the massive ship, Senator' and tell each other 'stay the course, we have a responsibility to ALL our users', and the whole time, engagement will still be king.

People don't always know why they're doing what they're doing, and even if they do, they won't always tell you.
See also: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Schmidhubris
Official info on those 4 points:

https://www.michelin.com/en/innovation/vision-concept/

It is a company vision, not a product announcement, so as expected much of it is fuzzy and hypothetical, and it may or may not apply to this particular product.

But this part offers a clearer idea of what rechargeable means:

> The tread can be “recharged” using a 3D printer, which means that VISION can be adapted to motorists’ changing needs, for maximum comfort, safety and sustainability.

They also have an official page for this actual product line, which is called Uptis (Unique Puncture-Proof Tire System):

https://michelinmedia.com/michelin-uptis/

The FAQ on this latter page says stuff relevant to sustainability:

> Today’s level of rolling resistance is about the same as a zero-pressure (“run flat”) tire

...

> Uptis will have the same mileage of a standard tire.

I believe this is an important part of sustainability because if mileage were worse, you'd gain in one area (reduced waste) and lose in another (increased energy usage). So if mileage really is the same, that's a good thing.
Everything is always up for negotiation.

I know a few people who paid more than sticker price for a car in the last year.

Companies can advertise min, max, whatever. The person accepting is going to be deciding based on how good the total offer is versus somewhere else. But if a company knows which way prices are moving since they do a lot more buying of labor than an individual does of selling of labor, then the company has an advantage. Reducing this advantage helps level the playing field.
This feels like something that would get me to abort a signup flow. Unless it's something that has a really good use for the information (a bank, maybe?), this would raise identity theft warnings. Even if there was a good use, it would still be something I'd have to think about.
Then they won't work. I hear SF has great social programs, so... yeah.
This is separate from the idea of comparing the arguments against requiring IDs from the cross product of { two camps X two applications }
Not all companies offer eSIM. Also, if your phone breaks, with an eSIM you are left with nothing.
> Doesn't stealing someone's idea for an app/innovation and respinning it into your own implementation count as IP theft?

This makes the assumption that apple hasn’t been putting deep thought into the keyboard design since before the first watch was physically built. I think it’s safe to assume there’s a 30 slide keynote filled with different designs and user study results.
spiped looks like netcat with symmetric encryption. If your SSH server has password auth disabled, then all you're doing is moving the attack surface from one thing to another.

You're making a trade-off no matter which way you go. spiped probably has a smaller attack surface than sshd due to being less code, but it's also less "tried and true" than openssh. Not to mention, managing symmetric keys securely is more difficult than with asymmetric openssh keys where you generally only need to copy around the public key.

OpenSSH is plenty secure enough to be exposed to the public internet as long as you keep it up to date and do not have it misconfigured. But if you have a strong reason to not make it public, then I feel that something like Wireguard is really a better way to go.
Real-time drone intent monitoring could prevent repeat of 2018 Gatwick incident
Fuck I'm old
We've come a long way from the web replay days. We re-wrote the recorder to support additional runtimes like Node.js and Chrome. Replay is also cloud-based, so recordings are shareable and super fast.

We're really grateful for the support we had within Mozilla in the early days, but what we've come to learn is that projects like Replay really benefit from being able to be nimble and solely focused on a great experience which is difficult when you're a small feature in a larger product.

Also you can find our runtime forks and entire frontend on github. http://github.com/RecordReplay/

Happy to answer any additional questions.
The problem I see on FB is less with what people argue about, but how.

It feels like people are just saying things at each other trying to "win" an argument.

Of course, that's a problem with education, not FB. And I think it's a good thing that it's surfaced on FB.

FB can act as toxic behavior multiplier, though.
OMG! Those fake internet points mean people's jobs!!!!

Sorry. I feel better now.
I don't trust any security-oriented software of any kind.
That is a clever solution! For a transportation company at least.

I wonder what happens if an artificial island and a major city pops up in one of those pentagons - presumably a fun tech debt to tackle :)