skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are the Upsides of Web3 Downsides?
I’d like to see some Monkeys try and capture my 54kg (129lb) Doberman.
He is ridiculously strong, has broken a few collars and is impossible to move if he decides to.
anyone can give us a run down what was demoed? I find the claim that first version of Rails beats EVERYTHING in existence today (except Phoenix you said, does that mean Phoenix is superior than everything else?) very dubious.
"This add-on is not actively monitored for security by Mozilla. Make sure you trust it before installing."

Hm, well I'm sure it's by a well-known and trustworthy author.

"The source for this add-on is at https://github.com/darktrojan/openwith."

Dark Trojan. Sounds legit.
Because insane (or angry, or radicalised) people are far more likely to vote or express political statements.
"Malinowski has violated the STOCK Act 145 times totaling at least $845,000 in shady stock transactions, according to Business Insider, and now they’re reporting that he’s only paid a $200 fine for his transgressions.

But that $200 only covers one STOCK Act violation, per guidance from the House Ethics Committee – and Malinowski has broken the law multiple times."

https://www.nrcc.org/2021/12/15/malinowski-will-pay-for-his-...
Excited about engineering, not really science.
It should not. The First Amendment exists for a reason - so we don't have to defer to authorities.

The Democrats are responsible for this state of affairs: they have repeatedly threatened the social media giants with legal action lest they combat whatever it is the Democrats deem to be disinformation, which increasingly is indistinguishable from anything that contradicts what powerful government institutions deem to be true.
Could it work by using 2FA with a key, and the employee has to return the key when leaving the company? (in the sense that you wouldn't have to rotate the passwords then)
The topic of star forts is very very interesting, though it raises more questions than satisfying answers.

For example, central Asia has many such forts in the middle of nowhere ([1] [2] [3] [4] [5]), some barely noticeable except from above, and even the surrounding landscape looks so scorched one wonders what really happened for the land to look like this and for these forts to be so erased. If you think natural erosion you imagine millennia, but focus on the forts and you imagine centuries, and it's hard to combine both scales.

Also you can find star forts all over the globe.The kmz file from this site [6] lists about a thousand locations across the globe, it's mind boggling to navigate around them. Who or what civilization managed to propagate this style so far beyond the reaches of what history taught us?

Finally the star forts are most often associated to the finest water canal in the world, and it's also mind boggling to imagine the amount of work involved in modelling the earth at such scale and precision without any engine.

Wild theories abound, I personally prefer focusing on the things one can see or visit and abstain from believing any (hi)story, but even then it's captivating.

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/ZUsQsocutLTXiodm7
[2] https://goo.gl/maps/pkTMLFN7fxYofhkw8
[3] https://goo.gl/maps/SwogTFKo1uuidPNn9
[4] https://goo.gl/maps/1aFRdVHujvL8jLNTA
[5] https://goo.gl/maps/gXTCPXjkSvbFnT2B9
[6] http://starforts.org/locations.html
Good to hear!

Did they explain why it took over 48 hours to reply to you?
This is an important reminder to all of us using battery-powered devices: there is just a tiny bit of electronics separating us from a fire. There is a non-zero risk this electronics can malfunction. It does happen en-masse like with Samsung Galaxy Note 7, and it happens in individual cases like with Samsung Galaxy A21. It is important to be always aware of this possibility, because the consequences can be fatal. For that reason, unless it's necessary, I prefer not to keep my phone in my pocket. I know I will probably be fine, but if there is a safe option, I prefer to reduce the risk.
Don't forget that France24 is not a neutral outlet, it is literally the mouth of the French Government.
I started learning Perl when Hotmail was launched and I wanted to know how to run programs over CGI. I fell in love by the web thanks to Perl
If you're being literal, they didn't actually blow up, and the person removed them from their head before they started smoldering.

The biggest problem for OP is that they messed up their first response, maybe due to inadequate fire safety training or just panic. After throwing the headphones out on the porch, they should have jumped in the shower and stood in running cold-ish water for at least 15 minutes.

This is the basic rule that applies to any situation with a burn, if it's from spilling coffee or touching a hot pan or whatever. It's what we learn in primary school. I would not be surprised, if they do go to court, that this would substantially reduce the compensation for OP.
I don't have YouTube Tv but your comment almost made me dry heave a little realizing we are back at square one with cable tv and bundling channels users don't want and forcing them to pay for stuff. I haven't had cable tv in years but seldom don't miss a show I want to watch. It is mostly all online if you know where to search. Also Canadian so no one comes knocking on my door for downloading.
The transmission speed in air would be very close to a vacuum, so the speed of light (c). This depends on the velocity factor [1], for pure copper it's 0.95 c, so 95% the speed of light.

Actually for air, according to this source [2], the velocity factor is 0.999707085823853610892 c.

[1] https://lowpowerlab.com/guide/rf-best-practices/velocity-fac...

[2] https://www.qsl.net/ac5jw/isbp/vf.html
Is that theory or observation? My understanding is that we know it doesn't react electromagnetically with other matter because we (failed to) observe that behavior, not because we expected it to behave that way a priori.

If modified Newtonian (MOND) theories won out, the theory would explain this observation by saying that there was no matter there to begin with. If neutrino theories won out, the theory would explain this observation by saying that dark matter is electromagnetically neutral. But those are two entirely different theories, trying to explain the same observations, and trying to fill the hole in our currently accepted models in different ways.

EDIT: Per a child comment, you might mean "theory" as "idea", as in "the [idea] is that it doesn’t react electromagnetically with other matter." In which case, yes!
> in the meantime her colleagues got infected and some patients, of who 3 died

Where the patients vaccinated? Because if they were, are they supposed NOT to die?

> That's hate, egoism and inhumane

So can we force you to get all kind of shots because you risk killing people by spreading stuff like the flu in winter? (that does kill people too, whether you are aware of it or not). Are we also going to charge people who transmit STDs next? Be careful what you wish for
Slightly related to your question, if you do get started with Perl you might find Task::Kensho[1] useful. It is a curated list of recommended CPAN[2][3] distributions for various tasks. CPAN is vast, so it is useful also as an introduction to CPAN itself.

[1] https://metacpan.org/pod/Task::Kensho

[2] https://metacpan.org/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPAN
We didn't stop, it just stopped being a hot media topic. I still see threads about it on reddit (and sometimes HN) at least once a month, and probably more like once a week.
The point is, the manufacturers of safe products will have a selling point by being able to differentiated themselves.

Heck, wired headphone makers will get a boost from that.
I use it in one of my web games. It's fully optional but people like to enable it. I wish it worked on iOS. Let's not vilify a perfectly good API just because some jerks use it to annoy users - there's a lot of value in having haptic feedback whether you're building a native app or a web app.
There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity. -- Fred Brooks

Sussman summed up the problem nicely: "We really don't know how to compute!" So we latch onto whatever semi-plausible idea some consultant cooks up, like flowcharts, structured programming, agile, object-oriented programming, test-driven development, microservices, and countless other things.

Microservices impose a transport layer over whatever it is you were doing before. So that's one extra point of failure that you've got to contend with. Complex problems require complex solutions. Sure, there are better and worse ways of doing things, but there are no miracles.
Cloud Battery doesn’t do AirPods, and doesn’t report iPhone/iPad in a big number of cases, including when they’re in low battery mode
PoC||GTFO 0x20 [pdf]
> The American response … You believe that you “deserve” compensation, but at the same time you guys are all crazy on independence and don’t-tell-me-how-to-behave and whatever else. But as soon as a thing goes wrong you want money for it.

Do you believe that all Americans share these exact traits?
>You do realize that there was a quite real chance of someone seeing the OP's autopsy here?

That's an overstatement. The batteries in this thing are the most dangerous part, and yet they are too small to explode with a force that could cause an immediate fatality, i.e neither the explosion itself nor the shrapnel it could generate from the casing or the other components in the headphone are powerful enough. The risk here is burns, and maybe toxic exposure. And while burns can be rather bad (especially since it's Lithium), of course, also depending on how much flammable "stuff" you have on your head (hair, hat, headscarf, etc), burns are not the same thing as death.

The risk of a fatality is extremely low. The risk of lasting scars and disfigurement, deafness (on the battery side at least) and even blindness has a somewhat higher chance.

Then again, just look at the picture in the article. You can see how little damage is there to the actual "fragile" head phones plastic casing. Mostly intact. It wasn't a major explosion, it wasn't a major fire, and there probably wasn't any shrapnel whatsoever.

>>That sort of paranoia doesn't help

>I guess you don't.

This was clearly referring to the "toxic fumes" bit. And it is a fair thing to say, in my humble opinion. The fumes from the battery and plastic certainly aren't great, but unless you deliberately stay there and huff them without opening a window, your exposure will be rather minute, especially considering how small this event had to be. Indeed, what you inhale at a barbeque or just from burning food, or staying at the outside of a gas station for too long will be worse.

The "chemical burns" claim in the article is just confusing to me. I'd get it if the claim was that only the hands had a burning sensation like that, but the arms too but nothing besides that? Such a thing is either caused by direct contact (so hands only) or from fumes/spraying (which would mean exposed areas like the face should be affected as well). The way the story represents it makes me think it might be a psychosomatic effect only, but not necessarily of course. There is a "sweet spot" where these things might have sprayed particles only in a very limited area where hands and arms were affected but other exposed skin was too far away, but that sounds unlikely to me at least...

Regardless, nobody should expect these things to blow up, and it's fair to complain when they do. If it was a singular/very rare incident, fine, really bad luck. If there are a number of reports like this, this could indicate a systemic engineering or manufacturing problem.
humans and their ignorance never ceases to amaze me
The city of Lucca in Italy is a perfect example of walls evolution as there still are the roman, low medieval and renaissance walls.
But when I talk to Americans about their lack of socialised healthcare, a common response is that “I’ve earned my money, if you want your own healthcare, you get your own healthcare”.

That might be a fine attitude. Until you get terribly injured and now you seek tens of thousands of dollars from someone else.

Who do you think that this someone else is? Don’t you realise that it’s just all of the other Americans?
> they’re not fighting against authoritarianism

mandatory injection of substances in your body without one's consent is the textbook definition of authoritarianism. Not the first time it happened in History.
You can start from the official tutorial: https://perldoc.perl.org/perlintro
As a heavy user of macros, looks like I'd want to avoid the ZMK version then. It's a shame, as Bluetooth could be useful.
Future of Coin-OR
No they won't, because they can't do that in all jurisdictions.

What a loser company.
Adjacent to the article in the op:

What __is__ your recommendation for setting up remote backup for private use? I am thinking of something that can be used to sync and / or backup different devices for people of differing tech affinity.

I think this question deserves re-examination now, since recommendations likely change due to the facts in the op.

As far as I know, it used to be that one should either "roll one's own cloud" (whatever that means for a non-technical user), or simply use the best-integrated tool like Google Drive, DropBox, Apple for the devices at hand and live with the fact that the company will train whatever AI model du jour on your private data.

The reason for this binary recommendation was as follows: while services like SpikerOak exist, who say they encrypt your data, the believability of that was never exactly high. Most likely, your data might still get mined. Most likely, the NSA still scans all your docs. However, now you pay extra for "security theater".

Instead of paying for such questionable offerings, the decision was rather binary: decide to either go full-hog (if able) and do your own, or just upload it to Google Drive and stop caring about who reads your private documents.

But now, if Google starts actively reading, policing and deleting your data without even pretending to give you privacy, I think encrypted services start to have a use case again.
I started with Perl but moved to Ruby in the mid 00s. Ruby always felt like it gave me everything Perl did (performance aside, at the time), but with syntax that felt more intuitive.
> and contact a lawyer

It might be my "European" upbringing, but why? Is there any indicating it was the manufacturers fault?
This needed to be rooted out at the legal level: civil rights laws need to be radically scaled back:

https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/woke-institutions-is-j...

There's a reason why lawyers are the second biggest financial contributors to the Democrats among professions:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBwtxXnUUAIAm8W?format=jpg&name=...
I recommend watching this Ted talk.

https://youtu.be/UMhLBPPtlrY

Peter Attia: What if we're wrong about diabetes.
A recent dark pattern I’ve seen is for news websites to add their home page to the history stack when you click a link to an article anywhere on that site so that tapping back doesn’t take you back to the page you were linked from.
Those channels should be in a separate tier to clearly represent the cost. Instead they rely on required package deals that subsidize their insane costs. More plans need a disney- tier
>Scary. Are we, as the consumer, pushing for safer batteries?

Nope, we aren't.

We, as the consumer, say this on HN:

>There is an inherent risk of loss of life whatever you do. We as a society just agreed that there's an acceptable level of it. Lithium-Ion batteries are on the higher level of it but their usefulness outweights it completely. To answer your question, there's a lot of things that have much higher chance of happening on an airplane e.g. a bird flying into the engine or a terrorist attack.

Why push for innovation when you can just accept the inherent risk of death?
Why does it seem unsatisfying? Hanson makes the point that what makes us today, our X billion cells, all are not a part of us 20 years later. We are constantly replacing our individual components and yet still have the same stream of conscious. I suspect that over the next few decades, our understanding of biology and neuroscience will get much much better in explaining this phenomena and giving us the proper single-consciousness way of replacing our individual components likewise.
Are you seriously comparing asbestosis, which develops decades after exposure to invisible fibers, to a literal fire? Billions of people are carrying around lithium ion batteries all day. If they were unsafe, we would have noticed a long time ago.
Me and my partner have fallen into this pattern too, down to sharing interesting passages from whatever ebook we’re reading. I’ve read more books in the past month than I have the entire year!
Well that would be up to the courts to decide.

Depends on whether Bose engineers were unaware of risks of lithium batteries to the extent that they didn't put any warnings on the product, safe from a recommendation to "remove" the headphones if the user experiences a "warming sensation".

Could it be the case that Bose thought that "warming sensation" is the worst that could happen? Let's see what the comments here say!

>In the end you're carrying a high energy density power source on your head that would love to just catch fire. Don't they teach kids anything in chemistry these days?

>I mean I’m glad it didn’t happen to me, but a billion people are carrying around billions of Lithium-ion batteries. Those batteries sometimes catch fire because Lithium is highly flammable. It’s gonna happen.

>Nothing is perfectly safe, that is how lithium batteries fail. You should know so you can properly deal with problems.

>Well, at lease EVs are spontaneously catching fire.

>Everyone is aware of the risks, there were a bunch of stories about airplane cell phone fires a few years ago.

>lithium battery fires are really nasty, and that's why he got a chemical burn. LiPF6 is a contact irritant, PF5 it decomposes to is a gas, and also a respiratory irritant, and HF PH5 decomposes in the air is a dangerous poisonous acid. This is what everybody visiting a lithium battery factory is told on safety orientation. In case there is fire in the factory, run, preferably until you are few blocks away.

I don't even know what to think. I guess they just didn't know.
This looks great, thank you for the hard work!

Have you considered to also expose this information in an interactive web interface? Using a zoomable timeline view (https://www.tensorflow.org/tensorboard/tensorboard_profiling...), both for after the fact analysis (taking a fixed N second trace and then inspecting it) as well as interactive visualization (automatically scrolling timeline with option to pause and scrub).
Is the camel book (o'reilly) still relevant? I found it really helpful back in the day.
> Counter Counterpoint 1: AOSP gets a security update per month and system component updates through the Playstore

Sadly, I don't think that's very relevant. There are countless Android phones in daily use that won't get any security update ever again (mostly because of bad update policies of OEMs). The story is different for iOS. I wouldn't be surprised if that alone makes a difference in statistics in so far as that a random Android phone you encounter is less likely to be so secure to warrant the use of big guns like Pegasus, compared to your random iPhone. And that is regardless of how secure an up to date Android is.

So I think the statistics in the article is less due to Android vs iOS security, but more a reflection of update policies.
> Which is something that they should put on the label.

It might already be there? Just that the warning is so standard and ubiquitous that it is universally ignored (lots of things contain lithium and have the potential to explode).

I prefer the version that takes an AAA battery. A bit safer, especially if you avoid using rechargeables.
Sorry, when I say "dimension" I mean another continuous spatial direction that you could move along, not the "another place" understanding of the word. Flatland [0] is a classic for trying to get in the right headspace.

[0] http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~banchoff/Flatland/

Also, not having a border is not the same as being infinite. Zogg from Betelgeuse started a great series on the topic [1], but disappeared after two episodes. I highly recommend it! But, long story short, it's entirely possible to have a finite universe that, nonetheless, has no edge. Go far enough in one direction and you might end up back where you started.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k3_B9Eq7eM

Assuming there's a physical edge to our universe, there's still the problem of the "observable universe" -- there's a lot more of the universe that we will simply never be able to see or reach, because it's moving away from us too quickly. That defines another kind of edge, one that's much "closer". Entities beyond our observable universe can't affect us gravitationally; it takes time for the effects of gravity to propagate from one point to another, as "gravitational waves", and the universe is inflating too quickly for those to reach us.

You might say that things further away from us, but within the observable universe, might be affected by things beyond, because they're "closer" to it than we are. I think that's correct, but by the same token, I think the information about those effects would never reach us in finite time.

That's why I was thinking in terms of extra spatial dimensions. You might have a bunch of matter "nearby" but totally inaccessible to you, because we're incapable of moving along the extra axis. But that gets back to the research I linked.
Getting back to Harvard, everyone who goes there will be extremely competent
[citation needed]
I only recently added a second key to my password store, and ran pass init to "rotate" the encryption and add a 2nd key.

It's my impression that you push these changes to the git repo, so any other employee would pull and the files would already be fixed to exclude the former employee.

So it's not a case of each employee having to run pass init, they just pull from git and get the updated files.

I believe pass for teams requires a key manager who does this and pushes to git for all employees. The optimal security would be that employees only have read access but that's not very practical.
>Surely the idea of the world putting some effort into producing a material that can help stop this happening isn't completely stupid...?

HN, the forum of innovators who are vehemently against innovation if it's for the sake of consumer safety.

I mean, come one people, it's a business opportunity. Figure out how to make non-self-exploding headphones, with a guarantee, and crush Bose in the free market on that selling point.

Sigh.
RailsConf 2018: Conceptual Compression by David Heinemeier Hansson (2018)[video]
Absolutely, if you turn on and off a light switch while listening an AM radio (even static) you would hear it through your speaker, as in this demonstration [1] (it worth watching the whole video if you are interested).

[1] https://youtu.be/LMxate9gegg?t=104
I have to get into the habit of reading books again, because of the internet I started to just read stuff online because it was just so much easier to keep up to date on things.
Usually this kind of literature are however more similar to university textbooks for which I prefer to read them as PDFs on the iPad as my Kindle tends to mess up the formulas and figures if you get them in an Amazon Ebook format.

Sometimes you get a PDF from Amazon to begin with, for which I find the the Kindle a subpar experience.
> GM just recalled effectively all EVs they ever made.

What has this got to do with exploding ICE cars?

> What's your point?

I think GPs point was pretty clear. You made a completely unfounded claim, ICE cars don’t spontaneously explode, despite the fact that evidence shows they clearly do, and do so at a rate higher than headphones or EVs.