skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In that case, why didn't they just say Epic is banned forever? What do appeals have to do with it?
Looks great! Two things that could make this laptop even more attractive are option for bigger screen (15" and/or 16") and support for AMD cpus
Brave Rewards and outside funding as far as I know.
This is around the third time that I've read about a vulnerability with LastPass.

Is 1Password susceptible to the same attack?
I like the aesthetic and crowd, but it is still a news site made by an incubator behind billion dollar coorporations.
To announce being a prepper would be bad OPSEC. Maybe there are way more, taking OPSEC seriously, sitting back and giggling madly in anticipation of 'the EVENT' which enables them to write told you so with their bullets onto the crumbling walls!1!!
KeePass can emulate a keyboard and type your credentials for you. But it's initiated from the KeePass app instead of requesting it from the browser. It is slower than just having it autofilled but faster than copying it to your clipboard (where other programs might have access to it).
My sense is that there was a sweet spot in the late 18th to mid-20th century when modern(ish) things were still built by human hands, mostly using simple tools, so people could learn to build (and repair) those things for themselves. That accessibility was partly recreated in the 80's with the PC, but things have shrunk down and become hermetically sealed with fewer ports, switches and physical buttons. And memory density has increased to the point where even sophisticated users will never understand all the software running on their machine. Cars have become far more complex than their mid-20th century counterparts, to the point where few people even check or change oil.

Americans are born and bred these days to be administrators of some kind, where all physical and digital goods and services can be purchased on the virtual open market behind touch-sensitive glass. If that glass breaks, you call a (low status) worker to fix it; if something behind the glass breaks, you complain to a (slightly higher status) worker to fix it. You yourself don't do or make anything - you allocate funds and then, at most, measure progress and outcomes.

Such an admin does not make a usable character like that in Twain. In fact, neither would either of the two low status workers, since they only "make" at the tip of an enormous world-spanning supply chain. You'd need to be a machinist, metallurgist or chemist with an interest in low-tech methods. Pretty rare.
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That's one way to look at it. Another is that we have this beautiful open source commons that most devs make use of and we would like it to be richer.
Seeing the price range you pay is interesting, but I'm not sure what we are supposed to do with it.

My wife had her prenatal anatomy scan a few months ago at Stanford medical, $11000 for a 1 hour ultrasound. I personally was on the hook for around $500 and insurance paid $10500.

End of the day, what say do we have as consumers? How did the insurance company negotiate a rate of $11,000? Does the insurance company really care when every year they can just increase premiums and shrug and go "costs are going up! sorry!"

It feels a lot like a pyramid scheme, at some point the gravy train has to stop
The headline is purely click bait. Read the article, they were caught with 100K in cash. People don't drive around normally with 100K in cash.

The whole KFC is a cover for the money smuggling.
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This is pretty much impossible to measure. If we could predict every failure mode imaginable, then I think it might be possible if you could predict humans. However, humans are not predictable and you can’t predict every failure or combination of failures.

In other news, I’m looking forward to Uber Eats saying “Jesus is on a jetpack” instead of his usual bicycle.
> It's the most powerful nation on earth and runs laps around everyone else combined on pretty much every metric.

Guess you're talking about number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending? :-)

https://youtu.be/VMqcLUqYqrs?t=150
This could be very dangerous, depending where an exception happened. Variables can contain critical secrets, like your TLS keys or a user's password and if your stack trace printer isn't aware of what should be redacted now you've got that in your logs.
I am one of the people responsible for making these lists. The fact that the general public as well as journalists think this data is accurate in anyway is really funny. This an exercise of futility that only increases the overall cost and provides job security for me :)

No one working in a hospital knows how much do we acquire things for, or how much we get paid for doing things in advance. And only like 8 people can tell you that information 3 months after the fact.

Take the simple exercise of figuring out cost/revenue of an aspirin administration.

Cost depends on:
1. Are you an outpatient/Obsveration v. inpatient v. ED?
2. Are you on Medicaid?
3. Is the hospital a part of GPO organization or not?
4. Is contractual obligations of GPO includes/excludes Aspirin?

Reimbursement depends on:
1. Insurance
2. Group which you are under the insurance from
3. Contract language whether its a fee/service or bundled
4. Is the visit covered or not
5. how the visit/procedure was coded (most important and opaque factor)

Everybody in the know, knows that these lists are a joke, but no one can prove it.
There is an absolutely stupid amount of energy given off by the Sun. We're finally waking up to the fact we can capture a portion of the small portion that hits Earth every second to power our civilization.

Higher technology levels have only increased the efficiency of our power use and use per capita. I'm not saying we're at the height of technology or development or anything but the idea we'd need a whole star's worth of power output for something I think is ludicrous.

If you've got the technology to build a Dyson sphere (or swarm) it's unlikely you'd actually need to. To even get to that point as a tool-using civilization you couldn't have had unchecked geometric growth. Unless you had some Motie-like biological imperative to reproduce uncontrollably your civilization would reach a point long before Dyson sphere level where it worked fine without having to move the mass of several solar systems around a star to capture some high fraction of its power output.
That's because rent of $1.5k is for the whole of a house, whereas the mortgage is only covering whichever part of the house you don't own.

My rent would be $3k, but I own one third of the house, so my mortgage is $2k.

The alternative would be paying $3k in rent and investing the $100k in equity. The cash-flow from the equity investment would off-set some of the cost of renting.
This makes it worse, of course, as people go into debt in order to appear wealthier than they are.
> I've always been skeptical of those.

CPU usage is a very accurate proxy of energy usage. Second to that, network traffic.

Simply ignore pages that use poor metrics.

> Whereas, say, Visual Studio for instance is on my screen 6+ hours a day.

...and some people have private jets, but this is whataboutism.
Yes, but a much better argument against doing that:

If you keep your passwords separate from your browser then you are guaranteed to be safe from a browser exploit.
If you google anything about affiliate you end up with hundreds of tutorials about building wordpress affiliate funnels or anything like that.

I am a coder :) My idea of "creative affiliate" is building something that users want to use and not something that users happen to end up on.
So the wavelength of black body radiation is called Wien's Law [1]. If you look at the electromagnetic spectrum [2], the IR spectrum is 25 μm to 2.5 μm.

Compare those two and you'll see pretty much any reasonable range of temperatures has a heavy IR element.

Some things to consider:

1. Tungsten has probably the highest melting point at ~3700K. It seems unlikely that complex matter of any kind can realistically survive at such extreme temperatures;

2. Heat above a certain level can itself be used to generate energy in a straightforward fashion. This itself will generate waste heat, most likely at a much lower temperature.

As an aside, recycling heat is often raised as an objection to the IR signature issue with Dyson Swarms but that ignores thermodynamics. Let's say heat recycling for a star like the Sun is 90% effective then that's still 10% energy lost and 10% of the Sun's output is still massively significant.

If there's perfect recycling, well that ignores entropy.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wien%27s_displacement_law

[2]: http://labman.phys.utk.edu/phys222core/modules/m6/The%20EM%2...
Sure. I have one too. I know.

But that’s no reason for it not to work, it will just work more slowly ;)
When Americans post on the internet about European cuisine they lose their minds. Politics is a safer topic for rational discussion.
> the more I see how much personality is packed into even very young people.

Before I had kids, I always assumed that babies were like undifferentiated blank slates and that they grew unique personalities over time and through experiences.

If anything, it's the exact opposite. My kids and the kids of my friends pop out of the womb with insanely huge personality variation. You don't see it at first because babies have so few visible outputs. But once they hit toddler age where they can walk and talk and do stuff, you realize each one is a complete batshit crazy wildcard.

It's only through years of socialization that they learn to mold their inner oddball into something stable and functional enough to participate in society.
Have JSON and REST been meaningfully adopted in healthcare? I thought most things still used the god-awful HL7 with hopes of migrating away.
Does this really matter to a "normal" software engineer? Or is this something that only really matters to the cloud engineers at AWS and the hardware engineers at Intel? I'd like this to be real but I'm sceptical it's just fluff.
Raw Access Notation (RAN): a streamable document format
Pasting a password into a phishing site because you don't have the browser checking the domain for you seems like a bigger risk than being exploited by something like this.
I don’t know if this is Swift’s fault, per se but I find Xcode to be a real pain to use. There’s something about the Apple Way for UI/UX that just doesn’t jive well with an IDE experience. I find myself constantly jockeying around the various windows and panes within Xcode that I usually never have to bother with inside of Visual Studio.
The entire concept is morally reprehensible, and I think poorly of anyone who participates. I understand the relation to the "darwin awards", which is still in poor taste, but this still only exists as a way to feel vindicated and superior to people who were under- or miseducated about vaccines or the dangers of Covid.

As it's just a Reddit echo chamber it doesn't exist to educate, it exists to give the visitors a feeling of superiority to the dead. It's shameful and you shouldn't feel proud of that.
A couple of years ago I worked for a bank replacing an in-house library that basically moved and transformed data from one database to another with a highly contrieved Spring Batch solution.

There was absolutely nothing wrong with the "ugly" framework code, it was quite beautiful, well structured, configurable and fast.
Somebody didn't like that you didn't write java code and the properties file based DSL was indeed odd, but nothing wrong with it after you bothered to read the library code.

The Spring Batch code was more explicit, but much uglier, overall.
Google have had a London office for at least fifteen years, well before they acquired Deepmind.
Hedge fund manipulating crypto exposed by poorly set up API, Chatbot snitches
That's exactly the kind of reason why I included “no known method”: proning was not a previously unknown concept, it clearly changes a known problem, and the risks are manageable.

Remdesivir and other antivirals were similarly reasonable to try since they had a plausible method of being effective, as did the steroid treatments which have been so useful for controlling inflammation.

Now, nobody is saying that we can't _try_ new things but note also that I was referring to “proponents” — not just people who are willing to try something but who are actively advocating it as an effective treatment. The vast, vast majority of those people are not running experiments or even medical professionals who might possibly have some relevant prior experience suggesting it was worth trying.

I'm not opposed to research but I think there's a substantial ethical line to cross when you switch from being open to the possibility of something working to running around telling everyone that it works so well they should avoid a safe, cheap, and highly effective vaccine.
Toast surges 63% after IPO valued restaurant-tech company at $20B
I hope they get this running through Termux now that it supports containers on the latest Lineage OS builds.
Software for Every Need
Cybersecurity censorship assessment of Xiaomi devices in Lithuania [pdf] Pg. 23
Thanks for the feedback, appreciate it! It's definitely challenging to strike the right balance between simplicity and discoverability. I was going for a "show, don't tell" approach, I guess more explanations on the main page would have made your experience better?
You’ve hit the nail on the head. You need a big clearance for landing and take off, with dedicated space and easy ways for people to get to it. This is crazy expensive real estate, doesn’t scale usually beyond 1 target (unlike a parking structure), is scarce, and is ultimately the biggest constraint here that cannot be overcome by technology.
>The next generation will grow up with far more data than can be easily traversed in folders.

"If you can't find it, you don't own it" - Mike Warot

I think the real lesson here is that there is a cost to hoarding data instead of curating it. The reason files and folders were brought into use in the first place was to store masses of data in a way that allowed rapid access, that avoided search. Huge amounts of labor was spent, in very small increments, to make this happen.

< tangent >
The filing system that indexed Marriage records in my home state of Indiana for the century prior to computers was quite elegant in it's efficiency. Marriages are recorded sequentially, in sequential books. At the start of each book are a number of alphabetically organized pages with space for names starting with A, B, C, ... Z with space allocated roughly matching the frequency of the names, but twice as many listings as Marriages. The marriage was recorded in the next available entry. The record number was then placed in the index, twice... under both combinations of last names. Normally, you could find a Marriage record in a few seconds, worst case if you didn't have the date, it's sequential searching through the book indices. If there was an error in the record number, you could check the other entry as index records had both names. Worst case scenario was a sequential search.
< /tangent >

Just because the computer has superhuman speed at searching for text, if you can't describe something, you no longer effectively own it, if you have a hoarding situation.

Just like all those clerks in the centuries before us, if you want quick retrieval, you have to put in a bit of effort and planning ahead of time.

I think the real lesson here is that there is a cost to hoarding data instead of curating it. Just because the computer has superhuman speed at searching for text, if you can't describe something, you no longer effectively own it, if you have a hoarding situation.

We need to better understand the trade-offs ourselves, and teach them to our successors.
We definitely seem to be miles apart on the way we think about our jobs.

To me, protection isn't love.

Workers that don't measure up aren't a good fit. Fire them. So that they can be set free, become stronger, at something they are good at.

A worker at McDonald's that does 60% the output of the rest of the team doesn't deserve $22/hr.
Ever heard of coupons, rebates, bundles? All ways of adjusting pricing based on consumer price sensitivity.
AFAIK fsf recommending a distro doesn't says much about the hardware it runs on. With regard to the blobs still required, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28189184
I do think that Brave would be 100% in the clear (same with any browser or extension) to "MiTM", modify, or refuse to display any part of any web page.

I don't really want to set any kind of precent that browsers should somehow be forced to display web pages exactly as sent.
I am curious about this too.

From what I can gather from the report it should be possible to reproduce the analysis. Probably it is even possible to run the apps in question in an emulator.

Also it should be possible to get the full url of the censorship configuation file and also its full contents.

Given the extreme politics around this, I think it would be better if this type of analysis was done as open source and in a completely reproducible manner.
This already effectively exists. and has since early bitcoin days. https://www.namecoin.org/
They've been quietly trying to enter the featurephone market as well with candybar styled phones with their own custom Android firmware: Qin 1s, F21 Pro, etc.

Although they're not specifically tailored for the American market, folks whom are looking to enter or are following the digital minimalism lifestyle have been snatching them off Aliexpress and making review content for them.
Proposed reduction of QSBS benefit for startups in the US
AI can write code like humans, bugs and all
So now Tim says he won't come back to iOS until they're allowed to link directly to the external payment option from the app. My understanding of the court order was that Apple only had to allow apps to tell users that external payment was an option, not that they had to be able to link directly to it.
[1] is probably the study you're thinking of. There's also [2] regarding herpesviridae, among others.

In short, there are good reasons at this point to believe that amyloid-β's primary function is as antimicrobial peptide, and thus various infections may cause the seeding of amyloid-β deposits. These deposits may then persist for years beyond any useful benefit, especially if the brain's clearance mechanisms are impaired.

Note that, per [2]:

Importantly, in the antimicrobial protection model, neurodegeneration is not mediated by pathogen activities that directly kill neurons. Rather, Aβ innate immune pathways targeting pathogens mediate the AD [Alzheimer's Disease] neuropathogenesis that leads to widespread neurodegeneration. Thus, our model is consistent with the amyloid cascade hypothesis and overwhelming data showing the primacy of Aβ in AD pathology.

[1]. Dominy et al (2019). Porphyromonas gingivalis in Alzheimer’s disease brains: Evidence for disease causation and treatment with small-molecule inhibitors. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aau3333

[2]. Eimer et al (2018). Alzheimer’s Disease-Associated β-Amyloid Is Rapidly Seeded by Herpesviridae to Protect against Brain Infection. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2018.06.030
> the upvote mechanism is definitely harmful in most use cases, because it prioritizes groupthink over expertise.

> but it's also definitely beneficial in places like Stack Overflow, where there's a logical reason to assume that the most popular answer might have any correlation at all with the best answer.

> the best answer will always be at or near the top in a place like Stack Overflow. so the upvote mechanism is useful there. but the most racist answer will always be at or near the top in a forum where racist people just share opinions.

The obvious answer to this however is not to remove the very useful upvote button everywhere but to

- stop frequenting racist forums,

- if they are actually racist, tell law enforcement (where applicable)

isn't it?
> we have seen three major iterations and a number of minor ones over the past 30 years.

... None of which broke existing functionality. I can plug a full-speed device from 2000 into a USB-3 A port and it will work perfectly (as long as there is still software support for the vendor-specific drivers that might have been necessary for non-class-compliant devices).
I'm aware of ongoing issues with it, bit given that the impact of it on my life since beginning of pandemic has been practically zero (e.g. there were no toilet paper shortages were I live), I'm not terribly worried.

I think I could survive up to a month with the things I have in my apartment, except water. Have stockpiles not because of disaster preparedness, just because it is convenient.
That would require each argument be printable (i.e., has a function that prints its contents in a human-readable format), which is not always a given. Also, trying to print an object may cause another exception. (Imagine what will happen if you have a linked list, and a printer function that follows the links and print all nodes, but now the list is circular.)
> In my experience, however, fear almost always comes from a previous bad experience or it transfers from other people.

One day, my nine-year-old child spontaneously developed acute anxiety of car rides. She had ridden in cars daily for years prior to that. Long road trips, everything no problem. And then, out of nowhere, it was a source of acute—we're talking screaming and crying meltdown—terror. There wasn't a single negative car experience that led to it.

Emotions are complex and kids are highly variable. I'm glad you got lucky with your kids and haircuts (mind don't mind them either), but not every emotional experience with kids has a simple narrative explanation.
Resilience. Being multi-planetary means your species is fundamentally protected from almost all catastrophic events. Having presence among multiple stars systems would mean not even planetary level destruction would be a threat to a species. As it currently stands humans are still very much in a precarious situation as an errant asteroid, even a decade away, could mean game over for all of humanity.
> Using & and | for Boolean logic operators could be seen as a useful improvement, but then how does one express bitwise and and or?

Depending on your target audience, a language could just not support these at the syntax level. There are all kinds of applications where you never have to do things at the bit level. There's no reason bitwise and/or/not/xor couldn't just be functions. Then you can also use ^ for exponentiation, which depending on the audience may be a more common operation than bitwise xor.
Frankly, I'll never work for a company with public pay. I don't want equality, I want to be able to negotiate my value to the company whether that is more or less than others. This is why I became a freelancer years ago and have vastly increased my income. I'm paid for the value I provided the company's bottom line, not some arbitrary "equal" amount based on an arbitrary title as a cog in the machine.
I agree that Upvote based sites and engagement based sites usually produce different dynamics, and that upvote places become echo chambers and that engagement based sites tend toward controversial content for exactly those reasons. I think the frustration comes from the fact that many highly specific communities use upvotes as a proxy for correctness. It's one thing to write off Twitter's lack of quality as a facet of its highly general audience, bit it's another one when highly technical (not necessarily computing) forums full of expert hobbyists and practitioners succumb to groupthink. And if you think HN is immune to karma games and groupthink, just look at any thread about $CURRENT_HYPE programming language.
Xcode's faults preceded Swift by many years.