skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While the article veers a bit all over the place at its core it's about a topic I have given a lot of thought to - relationship between information form and content and our expectations.

I still read books but I'm very against fetishising them. I don't understand the emotional connection with paper, typewriters and the general attitude that medium destroys the content. What I think happens a lot is the old correlation vs causation mistake.

Let me illustrate with an anecdote. When I was beginning woodworking I discovered a lot of educational youtube channels which I thought were great. At the same time I bought a lot of books. A couple of years later I realised that those youtube channels were mostly worthless but I still use those books to this day. The paradox is that it should be obvious that video is a much better medium to teach you woodworking. Unfortunately, due to factors outside of those dictated by form, it so happens that books are better, even though they are limited by their form.

Sometimes I think it's self reinforcing by people producing to the expectations of the platform - so the real limitation is not the form but the customer's expectation.

People quickly create mental shortcuts and hence the cargo cult of paper. I reject it. I often find that after reading a history book I learn and am entertained more by reading a few wikipedia articles on the subject. Paper is no guarantee of quality, and modern form is not the limit (modern form has in fact fewer limits than paper).
I wonder myself whether the identification of this cluster of proteins could lead to other novel mechanisms we don’t know about, or whether the cluster is similar to others we know about? What’s the chances we find a lot more of them?
What makes you think that a computer analogy is an apt description of the inner workings of the brain in the first place?

I see this analogy sometimes here on HN but as far as I can recall I have never heard anyone using it outside, let alone medical experts. So I am skeptical of the idea that this is the right angle to look at the brain.
“ This ransomware may have stolen Christmas in cities, states, and companies across the US ” - full title

This story has been posted a number of times in the last few days, but none seem to have taken.

Ransomware is coming more background noise, but blocking people’s salary just before Christmas is going to be particularly acute.
One problem is that Spam is not a well-defined concept. There is criminal activity using harvested or generated addresses. And there is annoying marketing from perfectly legal organizations I have given my address to. I would prefer a spam filter that just handles the first case. I can handle the second case by filter rules or unsubscribing. The problem is that Gmail tries to solve both problems with one solution and the result just doesn't work even close to reliably.
I suspect that their current business model ("free service, but we sell your eyeballs") would stop being profitable if they added enough customer support into the mix.

Facebook has how many? 2 billion users? More than even the largest nation on Earth. Even if there was just one customer support worker for 1000 of them, that would mean 2 million employees.

They would have to start charging for access. Not that I dislike that; it would make things a little more balanced, with users becoming customers.
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Why little appetite? What's difficulty building massive (possibly housing many millions, to deter people properly), gulag-style camps? And make sure to keep them till they become too old to be a serious threat.

Seriously, just clean the streets.
Can it be condensed into a HN comment I won't get bored of halfway through?
Feels like a bad comedy movie.
> In short, voracious readers ultimately become critical thinkers.

No relationship whatsoever. You develop critical thinking when you are in touch with reality, or when you do stuff, more than spending your time in books.
>in Europe at best you'll receive a few hundred euros a month in disability pay.

Uhmm, no, at least not here in Germany. The amount on compensation is related to the severity of the injury. For things that heal you will get Schmerzensgeld ("pain" money), as well as compensation for things that broke (e.g. your car or bike in a traffic accident). If the injury takes a while to heal, in which time you're unable to work, you get compensated for that as well. If it's lasting damage, you will get disability money. If you need care/help (from grocery shopping and cooking, to full blown 24/7 nurse care) that is compensated as well, and may amount to tens of thousands of euros per month. If you're permanently unable to work you will get compensated for that in a "reasonable" way (you won't be poor), and the liable party will also have to pay your retirement insurance dues[0]. If you requires changes to your living situation[1], you will get "reasonably" compensated as well. And so on. Basically, every damage that can be monetarily valued or at least estimated will be "reasonably" compensated.

>In US you could sue for millions.

Where you're right is that you won't get rich from such a lawsuit. Regardless, the total amount in compensation you will receive over a life time could as well amount to millions as well. The amounts awarded in the US may seem large sometimes, until you realize that it's a one time thing, and the health and care costs over a lifetime you will incur may still not be covered by that lump sum.

The only thing here in Germany that isn't really direct compensation but "extra" money is the Schmerzensgeld, and that's usually a one time pay of a couple hundred bucks for light injuries up to low six figures for major injuries.

And it might be harder to "fully" win such a lawsuit too, as in Germany you don't have jury trials[2].

[0] Retirement insurance dues may have to be paid even if the injured party was not working yet, e.g. when the person was still in school.

[1] E.g. you need a wheel chair ramp, or move to a wheel chair accessible place, or need to make changes to your bathroom to get in and out of the shower/bathtub. In some cases, defendants were ordered to pay the difference for getting a larger house so family providing some care could move in.

[2] Tho, there are Schöffengerichte, with "regular" people sitting on a panel with a judge, usually 2 regular people and 1 judge in the lower courts. While the judge can be outvoted in theory by the 2 other, the judge is part of the deliberations and therefore has great input into the decision finding.
The mistel barocco is an option. You can even combine the two sides of the keyboard without noticing that it could be seperable.
63% of the Americans deserve a better democracy. One where this number means they'll actually get universal healthcare... Because as it stands it doesn't work that way due to all kinds of complexities in the electoral system that seem baffling to a foreigner.
If your are against walled gardens, why are you also against making the web more powerful so it has a chance to compete with native apps?
Further to @Twisol's answer, consider the surface of a sphere - it is two-dimensional (if you're confined to the surface, you can only move in two directions) and bounded in size, but it has no boundary as such; if you started walking around on a sphere, you could keep walking forever without hitting a wall.

Now imagine there are two such spheres near to each other. Two beings whose physical laws and interactions were entirely confined to their respective surfaces would be unaware of each other and unable to influence each other in any way - gravity for example is only able to travel around the surface of the sphere, not into whatever 'space' lies in between. The surface of each sphere is its own universe.
The Future of Work Is Not Corporate – It’s DAOs and Crypto Networks
The way to cure this is to develop a habit that severely limits undirected online browsing and socializing. Part of it is just an education of your own aesthetic sentiments. I read James Clear's "Atomic Habits" (not that this is a special book, I was just on another kick in which I really needed to improve my productivity and picked up a suggestion to use a physical counter of some kind to make a habit stick.

I bought a bunch of marbles, and for every bloc of time that I avoid undirected browsing or social media use, I move a marble from one container to the other. My goal every day is to get through an arbitrary number of marbles (160 right now), after which I can do whatever. If I slip up and open a social media page, HN, or start browsing newspapers, I dump all the marbles out of the container, which generally makes it impossible to meet the day's goal unless the slipup is very early in the day.

This has been nothing short of amazing for my life. One issue that I had is I had a physical twitch that would start developing after a couple minutes doing one thing, like a work project, at which I would feel the urge to check the news or social media. This twinge would show up and I would type into a browser window to relieve the sensation. Instead I more or less replaced that twinge with moving the marble from one container to the other. It's made it a lot easier to focus. Over time, I stopped caring as much about the news and became more easily satisfied by very briefly reading summaries every few days.

I think a lot of web addiction is less driven by thoughts or brain issues and more by physical habits akin to nail-biting or cuticle-picking. Most of the attempts that I've made to stop addictive behavior have not worked: they were based on schedules, timers, articulated goals, and other things like that rather than recognizing the physical trigger for the habit, the result of that trigger, and just redirecting the stimulus with another physical action rather than trying to suppress it.
I disagree with tbe self-flagellation Zeitgeist. If we didn't have social media we would still have problems with all of those things. It isn't the well of all sorrows that the Zeitgeist is set on scapegoating it as.

It just displaced several of the other ills for more or less no difference. Remember obsessive tabloid celebrity culture and reality TV being big things? Things like news media unironically going "we interupt this story from Iraq for news about Britney Spears being released from jail?".(Ah yes, the same media claiming them going out of business would be terrible for democracy.) The Paris Hilton obsession?

Innane instagrammers and the pyramid scheme of posers selling guides to being posers are the same societal sickness more or less, manifesting its symptoms differently with the era. There will always be some innanity that is with us long before. From their obsessive focus from the dress at the court to the beads in Ugg's hair and bones spiked through his club!
funnilly enough, i still receive stuff like ; .recent - .0rDer .feeDBack. / . . / in my inbox. Thanks gmail!
The God's Daddy effect: Keep asking for progressively deeper causes until you find one you like.
The leverage of a raise negotiation is another job offer (potential or real).
Just to be pedantic, I’ll point out that’s literally “transparent” matter and we use the term “dark” which is really more appropriate for something that absorbs EM radiation because it also implies the mystery of the holes in our knowledge. English is great.
Also Canadian so no one comes knocking on my door for downloading.

Sure about that?

https://www.thelawyersdaily.ca/articles/12443/copyright-trol...
I like java.util.logging.
Also See:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29602477>
Is this a quote? It's a good one!
An economy of influencers – can’t wait
At this point I feel like just shutting down anything Java-based until Log4j reaches version 2.20 or something.
Thinkers are far less European and Asian than you progress.
Note that the red shift data has been coming into question lately, as it relies on some assumptions of the uniformity of the universe beyond the scale of galaxy super clusters, which doesn't seem like a safe assumption anymore as far as I understand.
> the science doesnt indicate that:

> A

> B

> C

This could mean that the science disproves the previous statement because of reasons A, B and C, or alternatively it could mean that science does not prove statements A, B and C.

It’s a weirdly ambiguous sentence structure.
I really think this post is onto something, many people sharing similar experiences. Is this something to do with working remotely?

Does anyone have any book / podcast recommendations that can help understand this dilemma?
Very much agree. Computer related stuff in general, like anecdotes about buying brands to high level programming, and a wide spectrum of STEM discourse is great on HN, but I often find myself scratching my head like “lol really?” at comments which fall outside that. A lot of people here have a bit of a chip on their shoulder in topics outside their expertise just because, I guess, they have a false sense of confidence in all topics, art to philosophy to psychology to parenting etc etc, due to having high level ability in one hard one.

But to be fair, reddit and every other social platform is mostly terrible with both STEM and humanities.

Books will always be supreme.
This looks worrying, but if you read the issue thread it seems that this can only be triggered if you can edit the pattern string of the logger. This is something you can only do on the server itself (if made configurable) or in the build artefact that you deploy.

From a quick glance at the comments this looks like a minor issue due to the attack vector being very, very small — i.e., the attacker must have access to where the logging pattern is defined, and if that is the case, this attack is probably not the most worrisome they could pull off.

I hope I'm not wrong, otherwise we'll be patching everything again.
Hey @here i have had the same issue with tracking what is executed when jumping into a new code base, sometimes the code base is so large that instead of contributing you start learning what exists. There is AppMap, google maps for codes, used it quite a few times and unlike rubymine, you can track functions, methods easily by tracing views with just instant clicks. Here is the site https://appland.org/ and they have a vscode extension to ease the process of recording maps
I own those and opened them a couple of times to replace the battery and the earpads, no need of further investigation, the battery is placed there and for sure there is a short circuit protection in place by mandatory design, it is also unlikely they got pierced by something since they sit in a large space and the battery itself is rounded, so expansion is took into account, to me it seems that the battery was already compromised from the factory which is very very very bad

edit: no idea if the internal thermistor can fail by any means and it could have messed up the charge/discharge logic
The article quotes W. Zinsser:

But I do know they [technological advances] won’t make writing twice as
good.

So wrong! There's no question Google has improved my writing, enabling
"google-fu" which dials in the precise historical reference or literary
turn-of-phrase I'm looking for.
That is very cool. Maybe you should publish it open source!

Nowadays it would be rather easy to do it on python or ruby with a library that reads these filetypes.
They sued both Facebook and the fact checker.
As the article is dated, this app was released /less/ than a week ago.
> Personally I'm delighted to trade ABC, ESPN, etc [1] for a $15 reduction in my YouTube TV bill. It just makes me wish Google would unbundle all their different providers so I could choose only the ones I want.

They could make several tiers:

- Youtubers-only content: no big media included

- Tier 2: the same + ABC, ESPN, etc...

- Tier 3: same as 2 + exclusive content only available for Tier 3 subscribers

would be a good business model rather than just charging to remove ads.
I see a dozen spam emails per day at most, there are weeks when I do not see spam at all. This is not a big price to pay for independence. The rest is caught by spamassassin. I retrained it several years ago last time.

Sometimes I miss being part of a larger network of email providers that share spam signatures, but not enough to start searching.
It's not a problem of the "amount" of analysis capabilities. The experience is orthogonal to rational. It's the same Chinese Room - no matter how many analytical brains you would throw on understanding what "red" qualia means, you won't be able to explain it and won't be able to experience it until you did.
It’s not the only risk. What if OP had fallen asleep while listening to music? Then there would have been a real risk of the house burning down.
I started reading Brandon Sanderson with this mindset and I'm loving it. Before I would only really read nonfiction but I would easily get distracted and didn't read much in practice. Now I'm reading like 100 pages a day and hopefully it improves my concentration. Even if it doesn't I'm really enjoying the books
Indeed! Design suggestions are fair game, but they are quite rare nowadays and their quality has been dwindling.

The last one I got felt too arbitrary: I decided to improve the behavior of an unused feature from one of our core libraries to unblock a colleague working in the application. The change was straightforward and it took me 1hr to get it into a PR. The feedback was that we should keep the old behavior available, just in case. So I spent a full afternoon wrangling C++ templates to fit in a new API that offered both the improved and old behavior for which there is no requirement.

What started as a small detour from my regular work to help a fellow engineer ended up costing me a day.

In the end, I told my colleague that he would have to take over the PR as I had lost too much time on it. Sure enough, he had to change all parameter names cause the types already describe them well enough:
`foo(Timeout connection_timeout)` -> `foo(Timeout connection)`.

The resulting code looks great, but now it is clear that I have a more pragmatic style. I recognize that I simply failed to stand my ground, and I'll take that into account.
The comments show that nobody can prove a reliable attack vector of DOS in 2.16
Welcome to the Verica Open Incident Database
> Just... publish your article, let actual news sites disseminate it, and do things the old fashioned way

Have you been to a newsroom lately? If it isn’t on twitter, it’s not getting published.
In Europe it usually is, until proven otherwise. At least in the first year (and for some classes of problems, longer).
Time to fork and start removing features.
Are you trying to expose some ideological inconsitency so that you can cry 'Ha! Gotcha!'?

What if the GP didn't condone the FSF suing Cisco, but then recognized they were wrong and thus changed their mind?

What is your comment supposed to achieve? And how is it a worthwhile contribution?
Vein, high-level strictly-typed language with planned quantum computing support
I thought they might mention the most famous public stairs in recent years - The Joker Stairs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joker_Stairs). They've become a tourist attraction to the inconvenience to locals.
This made me want to learn TS — finally a non-boring type system in a mainstream language.
This obviously should not have happened, and I hope that you will get this resolved to your satisfaction, I also applaud your effort at documenting this.

A couple of questions for you:

- were the headphones recently dropped?

- otherwise damaged?

- what was the environment like at the time of charging (extreme temperature / humidity)?

- what exactly was the charging setup, I don't quite understand your description about the 'the stock USB charger connected to a Macbook Pro', do you mean you used the stock charging cable? Or that you used a Macbook Pro charger? Or something else?

- Was there anything that might have given an earlier warning? Such as: the last charge cycle not working well requiring a recharge much sooner than you expected it, a deep discharge or other anomaly?

- Was there any sound (not headphone sounds, but sounds of something popping or cracking) prior to the combustion?

- Do you know what kind of batteries are in the QC-35, are these Lithium Polymer or something else?

- Approximately how many charge/discharge cycles did your headphones have?

Thank you for answering these, if you can, it may help get a grip on how bad the risk is for other users of these devices and whether or not there are any special circumstances that may have caused this.

I have a long article about Lithium Ion battery safety in the works and this is a pretty heavy thing that happened here, it could have easily been a lot worse though, but to imagine what could have happened had you not been in the house or if you had responded even a little bit slower is horrifying, you were - in spite of the bad stuff - extremely lucky that this ended the way it did.
No one thought I could make it: Ramanujan Prize winner Neena Gupta
> This looks worrying, but if you read the issue thread it seems that this can only be triggered if you can edit the pattern string of the logger. This is something you can only do on the server itself (if made configurable) or in the build artefact that you deploy.

Plenty of existing code does things like:

log.info(“foo: “ + request.getFoo());

Rather than using fixed format strings and {} place holders. You’re not supposed to, but it’s far from uncommon.
After years of pain, I was also diagnosed with TOS. I will not go for surgery however, as this can make things more complicated. A split keyboard (I got the moonlander some months ago) did have a little effect for me, however not a huge one I was hoping for. I'm trying/doing a lot of posture related exercises. Some days its better, some days its hard to get through the work day. Would appreciate any hints which made things better for others with TOS and a desk job. It's a constant trial & error with ups and downs here.
None of those presidential candidates has a chance to win, at least as of now. French presidential elections have a habit of sudden scandals changing the landscape.
The prefrontal cortex and (uniquely) human cooperation–a comparative perspective
It’s even worse, a report that they have no data at all. There’s no evidence it worse, there’s no evidence it’s better. Completely worthless non-information.

> However, the data included only 24 hospitalizations of patients suspected of having the omicron variant, with researchers saying “hospitalisation data remains very limited at this time.” The study is yet to be peer-reviewed.
I "read" much more books than when I was a teenager. The difference is that they're all audiobooks that I listen to while I cook or do other housework or during commutes.