skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the POST endpoint accepting database chunks (symmetrical to the GET endpoint?) or is it serving up REST-style writes and performs SQLite update statements behind the scenes?

I guess if it’s the latter, it’s just a normal REST API for writes… but it still doesn’t secure read access at all, right? That is to say, you can’t put anything in the database you don’t want all users to be able to see?
I think they mean this as in 'compared to a road accident' (or a pandemic, for that matter).
Who wants to “retire” and do nothing for the rest of your life?

Just save a ton, buy whatever stuff truly makes you happy, and your savings give you flexibility. Like taking a year off between jobs, etc.
We're not absolutely confident that there's not some threshold dose. LNT is a decent conservative assumption for calculating the harms from low doses and reasonable to use for regulatory purposes.

Even so, radiation hormesis has been noted in lab models, etc (slight benefits from low doses).
If I'm standing in a circle with you and three other people and I start talking about you like you're not there, about how what you just said is really stupid, about how I can't believe you'd ever say something like that -- we all understand why that's rude. But that's exactly how a retweet functions (and it's how a lot of twitter threads function, too (when somebody starts addressing somebody else in the thread about a third person as though they aren't present)). I try very hard not to operate my twitter presence that way and yet I catch myself doing it, too, because it's how twitter is built!
Well, "anti-vax" is a sweeping generalization, and usually meant as an insult. The comment speaks of skepticism, not denial or opposition; and, skepticism is very healthy. Critical thinking is a good thing, not a bad thing.
PAKE is theoretical from a web-development perspective because there is no secure way for me to implement PAKE in my web app for a user to log in with in 2022. It doesn't exist - you tell me how to implement PAKE login right now.

Zero Knowledge Proofs would be awesome (something like WebAuthn/FIDO right now?) but I am arguing more in general against client-side hashing methods that are currently usable, mainly JavaScript-based ones.
Yes, for people who provably committed crimes.
I don't know if it really holds up to scrutiny, but I use http basic auth for a semi-public website. It has members (like less than twenty) that I don't know personally other than through the website, but I don't want the website public because I don't want to deal with with TOC, GDPR, legal stuff in general. Once you're past basic auth, it actually does have a login/registration flow, but it seems like I'd need to see a lawyer if I ever wanted to make a member-driven website public and I just haven't gotten around to it yet, so... http basic auth. Is this sound thinking? I don't know.
Google Maps Leaves Drivers to a Dangerous Sierra Nevada Detour
Take a shot every time a Japan-fetishizing article is rocketing to the top of HN.
I explored the situation on a few dells, and they have obvious bugs in their bios ACPI tables: it's as if they had been written by an intern discovering this technology.

Long story short, on at least a few ones I explored deeply (The 7275 or the 9250 can't remember) the dell just can't sleep right, even on Windows.

What saves the day is Windows proper sleep support, including hybrid sleep, that prepares for the worst (save an S4 hibernation image) and hopes for the best (wakes up time to time to check what's left in be battery, to decide when to give up when the power goes below what's called the sleep budget, to ensure the laptop will be able to wake up)

The beauty of it is when laptops have a wrong bios that just cant sleep, windows hides the bug away.

The sad part of it is that Windows takes the blame (the laptol takes a long time to wake up from suspend to disk, and shows the power has been almost exhusted) for the manufacturer incompetence.

I think this is why they introduced a change early on in Windows 10 that when tne measurements at the beginning of the sleep showed the power was going down with a dangerously steep slope, it was a clear sign Windows was running on a poorly designed laptop, and that it should abandon all hope of s2idle working right, and instead just powed off the poor laptop to put it out of its misery and instead try to do a fast start with the hibernation image the next time

The worst part is that the dangerously incompetent people at dell, unaware of their own incompetence (they couldnt write proper ACPI sleep in the first place) decided to double down on the stupidity and did some weird things to mislead windows and prevent it from giving up on s2idle.... which is why dell latops have acquired a reputation they may catch fire when in a bad.

It's all both funny and sad, so I applaud lenovo for finding ways to make S3 sleep work on laptops like the x10 gen1, which uses a generation of intel CPU where the excuse of manufacturer of 'made for linux' laptops is that S3 can't work because it was no longer supported by Intel anymore...
The evil maid could use the credentials within seconds of you typing them in, so you wouldn't have time to revoke anything. With rubber-hose attacks, you might give the attacker a duress code rather than the real password, which wouldn't happen with this one. And let's face it: it's probably nation-states that would do this kind of attack, so calling the authorities wouldn't be helpful anyway.
The article made me wonder if weather could have been a factor (although this seems sort of far fetched anyway). NCEI's archive is, well, 503ing, but Iowa State has a METAR archive and it shows good VFR conditions for the whole day of the flight with only moderate winds at most.
Both aviation and marine navigation generally use nautical miles for as it‘s a little easier to use for long distance travel (plus tradition and inertia). Measuring speed in knots make things like dead heading calculations a lot easier.
Yes, I forgot about Delicious. Yahoo destroyed both of those companies. Unbelievably all the Delicious data is still available. Delicious was one of the only accounts I could log into after eight years in jail. It was amazing to see that 99% of my bookmarks were dead links.
I see a lot of people wanting to retire as early as possible. Most of those never are able too.
Then I know some people who are able to retire right now. But they don't.
I fall in the latter category. And my theory is that once you get enough income you can actually do what you like. In my case still coding, but only projects I like to do. But I will probably never retire. Way too boring.
1% of all jobs or of software jobs? It is much more than 1% of software jobs. There is still some "desktop" work, and a lot of embedded.
You need to make a distinction between color of the shoe (under normal lighting conditions) and pixel values of the shoe in the photograph.

The shoe is pink under normal lighting conditions, but the pixel values are green-gray in the photograph, where the lighting has been manipulated.

So, if you were to use a color-dropper tool on the photograph, you would get green-gray values for those pixels.

But some people are able to do color-correction in their minds and determine that the underlying color of the shoe (under normal lighting conditions) is pink. Indeed, the automatic color correction that occurs as they visually process the image is so strong that they find it hard to recognize that the actual pixel values are green-gray.

Yet when the color of the socks is changed to white, but nothing else about the photograph is altered, the visual cue that prompts them to do color-correction in their minds disappears, and they perceive the shoe color in the photograph to be green-gray, just as others do.
Sorry for the confusion there!
Using knots made navigation calculations easier with paper maps marked in degrees and minutes. A nautical mile is the same as a minute of latitude, and a knot is one nautical mile per hour. Now with electronic navigation systems kph would be just as easy, but aviators are all used to thinking in knots so changing would be difficult.
I'm interested in partnering in some way, I'd want to run an ETL process on your data and export the customers and transaction data out of your system and into my own.

You may learn more, search my sibling post on this thread for "Make Post Sell".

My name is Russell.
I am putting together a podcast about the management side of engineering teams. I want to talk to heads of engineering, CEOs or VPEs, about how they have organised their team and how work is done.

What I have in my mind right now is for it to be very practical so going through the exact engineering process and probably things like hiring, etc.

The goal is to provide inspiration for teams who are changing in terms of size or in other ways to find things they can try out, but also be entertaining.

What I am looking for is guests, but also people who have already setup a podcast to give me some pointers on the practical side of things like getting in all the podcasting apps, smooth production, etc.
Not sure what you mean.

1. There is, of course, a way to implement it in your web app. I don't know what you mean by "no secure way" ?

> I am arguing more in general against client-side hashing methods that are currently usable, mainly JavaScript-based ones.

Even a trivially implemented client side hashing approach protects against a number of attacks.
I want to put together a DIY water cistern out of a 55 gallon barrel by connecting an inlet straight to the tap water through a fine filter. According to the CDC it's fine to store water that way for like 3 months at least, so we can use a siphon to drain the barrel periodically to refill it with fresh water after sanitizing the barrel.

What I'd be looking for in a collaborator is people who are able to spread the word about why this is a good idea or perhaps even advance the idea by selling kits at cost to help get them out in the world for cheaper (assuming bulk discounts). I'd also be looking for a better biologist than I (or whatever kind of scientist I'd need for this part) to help me make sure that the filtration is adequate to ensure safety.

I want to learn more about the required filtering. I have a barrel and I've bought a lot of fancy cartridge filters from McMaster in the past (I do chemical engineering and am weaker on biology), so I feel like there must be a way for me to do this.

The reason I worry about this is because in a power outage the city water supply can go dead. Or an earthquake if you live in a region prone to them. Or a flood could contaminate the water supply. I think that in such a scenario you should have 10 gallons of water per person tucked away so that you can keep yourself healthy and also help your neighbors.

This is a simple project I can try to document and do in a way that is definitely safe (the last thing I want to do is give unsafe advice). It is a project that would likely cost someone a hundred dollars or a bit more, but increasing household resiliency seems increasingly important.

I remember growing up that we always had emergency supplies because it's important in a serious emergency to not depend on emergency responders (with limited time and lots of problems to handle) for basic stuff that you should be able to handle yourself with fairly simple preparation.
The Macroeconomics of ‘The Expanse’ (2019)
Armies are the only thing that matters. If any entity arises that works better for feeding armies then nation states will be immediately abolished by the military.

The only reason civilian governments exist is thei are best way of extracting value out of economy to be spent by armies.

Armies don't serve governments and people. We all serve the armies. And if somebody stops, armies take over and mix things up so they can keep exctracting value, being powerful and doing nothing of economic utility.
Frustating in chrome on PC as well.
Pilot (piston engine, with only around 20 hours of light jet dual). As a pax on this flight, I might not have noticed much unless I was looking out the window.

This seems like a fault of the crew (obviously), but probably more on the PNF (pilot not flying) than the PF (pilot flying). Article says 4 pilots were on board, but fails to mention that 2 of them (relief pilots) were likely not in the cockpit on the departure.

It’s hard for me to imagine that a qualified crew would fly such a non-standard departure with “we were following the flight director” as an excuse. There’s nothing above you to hit on departure; get away from terrain! Fly the calculated airspeeds. Where was the Vr callout?! That rotation to a pitch angle is what takes you off the runway, not the FD command bars.

Once they made the mistake and corrected it, I don’t have much concern with the continuation. 262 knots indicated isn’t that big of a deal that I’d worry about shedding parts from departure flaps and leading edge devices or stressing the gear (they likely pulled the gear up well before breaking 250 KIAS anyway). I’d be more concerned with the safety of an overweight landing than continuing. (A 777 can dump fuel, but the crew that just moments ago couldn’t fly an entirely routine departure isn’t the crew that I want to be calling an audible and figuring out how to safely dump fuel at night and return for a max weight landing. How would they program the FD for that?! ;) )

My prediction is that almost every pax had no idea how close to dying they came until they read about it later.

I catch heat every time I mention that air crew training and certification standards are not uniform across the globe and that I am reluctant to fly on many foreign-flag carriers. (However, Emirates and most EU-flag carriers are ones that I would not hesitate to fly on.)
It just keeps getting better! The next step is to eliminate car thoroughfare entirely, e.g. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hortusbrug/@52.3673495,4.9...
which as of a few years ago only has tram, bicycle, and pedestrian access.
A nautical mile is equal to (about) one minute of latitude, which probably made calculations easier back in the day, with the tradition carrying forward.
It's kind of weird to use Alphabet in this context because people at Google seem to mostly still refer to it as Google, and the comp and hiring standards vary widely between the "other bets".
Of course it is!

Look at fairy tales, Robin Hood stories or Aesop's fables. Not every adaptation is good, but every now and then, you end up with a classic.

What's annoying is how often companies like Disney take a public domain work, make an interesting derivative and then turn around and lobby to make it impossible for their derivatives to enter the public domain. They did, after all, benefit from the same public domain...
That has a fairly high probability of being true. And it's very scary if true.
So.. where I can donate to Firefox _only_?
Clearly you'll be getting a whole truckload of coal in your stocking!
Ah, now I get it. I agree, if writes go through a backend, this should work.
I'm not qualified to help you in this area, but I wanted to add that I actually did try to do this once using a much simpler approach (it was kind of a REPL + conditional logic or fact-based rule engine). I called it "Fred".

One thing I thought really interesting and had noticed (and I think you have also) - current digital assistants don't actively/autonomously engage with the user much. Especially not in any way that would make me think they are "friendly". This is definitely something that can go sideways quickly, but on the face of it, I really do love the idea of a benevolent AI that actively tries to interact with me in a safe way (with the ability to shut it off when you don't want it to!).

Wish you luck and if you have anything I can use to follow your work, would be interested!
History is surely one thing, but another key point is that these speeds are always KIAS (indicated air speed). This is a measurement that doesn’t correspond to either true ground speed or true air speed (but is far more useful for flying than either of these).

Certainly I would find kph/mph slightly confusing as you might expect it to correspond to some actual velocity, rather than something to do with air pressure.

Maybe we should measure airspeed in mbar instead?

(ofc navigation is a different matter, and there just history prevails)
It depends on your retirement goals. Some people prefer the "financial independence" aspect in order to have the freedom to do or work on things they're interested in and brings them happiness rather than for the sake of just money.
I haven't seen what you're saying. I've seen people addressing specific problems, and suggesting specific solutions, and I really don't understand why neovim isn't a reasonable suggestion. Maybe you can point out some of these unreasonably negative comments for me.

Neovim is literally people doing their own thing in their own way and succeeding. I don't understand your concerns or why you don't consider a solution to this problem to be viable just because it acknowledges the problem as a problem. Sounds a bit kafkaesque to me, to refuse to consider a solution because even bringing up the problem is considered too negative. How should neovim have done it? Do you think they should simply not have bothered?
Is there a word for "strictly" organic, because that's what my friend is by choice
> A compromised website that was well designed

Ah yes, "if nobody makes any mistake there's no problem", that's worked so well forever hasn't it?

> Client-side hashing means that, yes, initially the website is not receiving plaintext passwords, but a few quick code edits to maybe add some logging JavaScript or disable the client-side hashing implementation will fix that.

That makes quite literally no sense, did you miss the entire thing and go off with whatever?

The request here is to make the browser's support for HTTP authentication better. The entire point is that there is no "quick code edit" without owning the entire browser at which point you're quite thoroughly owned anyway.
I really wish this was a humorous spin, but I think this is exactly how things have been progressing. Look no further than the forthcoming ban on small ICE engines in California.
> Interest rates are now at zero and can only go in the opposite direction.

Are you asserting interest rates can only go up from zero? Or only down? And for either direction, why?
I don't get the fourth one, the one with the different colored crocs. I put a color meter on the images and the mystery pair is definitely not the same color as the pink pair.
I want to finish a Time Of Flight camera. My initial application was robotics, but this domain is very crowded. The start is here: https://github.com/lnsru/melexis_VGA_ToF_camera Hardware is not complete, current software is raspiraw with corresponding modified camera header file. Tweaked raspiraw can receive test pattern from sensor chip. I want to offer low cost camera commercially at the end, but have no problem open sourcing my early development. I am electrical engineer and I have all the pieces to finish this project alone, but it’s much nicer working together.
This is very menacing, more than could seem at first glance. All sort of crops could bloom much too soon, and be destroyed at the next cold event. And every summer from now on, we'll be under the menace of an extreme hot event destroying major cereal crops around the world. Global food shortage could be around the corner every year, forever. Combine that with a looming fossil fuel supply crunch, and we're on the verge of civilisational collapse, just like that.
Other commenters say it's historical are, well, mostly right, but there is a distinct advantage to knots: a knot is 1 NM per hour, and 1 NM was historically defined as one arc minute latitude. So if you are looking at a chart and doing calculations by hand or in your head, NM and kts are very convenient. It lets you mostly do chart -> distance -> time and fuel measurements/calculations in your head.

Of course this is not perfectly accurate in several ways but given chart projections it's usually Close Enough.

The speeds given in the article are a little ambiguous in the details, the number given in the text is probably KIAS (but maybe not?) and the numbers from FlightAware will be ground speed.
When you translate maps with vast distances down to units, a nautical mile equals a minute of latitude. With long distances, you refer to lat/long over following a road.
75 feets is 22.8 meters.

234 knots is 433km/h.
You're not missing anything, GP is.
They sent me something out of the blue a couple of years ago documenting my total radiation exposure. There must have been a law passed sometime.
> Is this a problem that America has generally? I.e there are areas where most people are scared to walk through in every city?

The problem is more that America has areas where most of the inhabitants are living in fear.
Same here. My "retirement" will likely just be me teaching or doing some other kind of work that has a much lower earning potential, but still would be considered a traditional job. My retirement savings are meant to make up for that.
Wait until we tell you about The Game.
I'm the Director of Analytics at Toronto FC, and I'm always looking for people to collaborate on cool soccer projects with our awesome data. See [0] for some recent public work I've presented.

...

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lah0WSUcuE
Lichess end of year update 2021
> I'm arguing here more against some people who think that using a JavaScript-based system to hash the password entry before sending it to the server is a good idea.

So you're arguing against something nobody is arguing for?
I'm not trying to poke holes in the analysis, and as I said I'm not blaming the author for what they did. I'm just repeating what the author said:

> We can see a correlation between GPU prices and the value of crypto currencies, but correlation does not mean causation. A causation is plausible in this case.

And then they go on to repeat a very reasonable argument, which I happen to believe to be true, but the kind of argument that everyone was already making before looking at any data.

The fact that the correlations do not hold as much for CPUs is good, but still not enough to stablish causation. As you said, there might be some confounding factors that affect crypto and GPUs but not CPUs.
Outside-of-the-Box Design Solutions Spotted in 2021
It seems like it would be easy to miss if it's in a docker container. Would auditing my docker containers be a good idea?

Also, is there a good command to run to reliably check if Java is installed on a system?
It's a a generic solution for page size to be within a range of aligned power of two sizes, but only the bit pattern specifying 64k isn't reserved at the moment. It'll allow for all sorts of page sizes with fairly minimal TLB overhead when it's all said and done, rather than normal huge pages that tend to only increase in page table radix size (eg. on x86_64, 512x each level, ie. 4k->2MB->1GB granularity).

It's real handy for reducing TLB overhead in the general case for the same reasons as why newer archs have larger pages, but in a way that shouldn't require a given os instance to have one base page table size so you don't need to recompile/port older programs that want 4k pages.
>a person whose name is now unpopular was at a university, where they had a printer, and the printer firmware was buggy.

Is this not a quote from Stallman? Is he really so badly in the internet's doghouse that we can't even say his name?
> Great to see fuzzing becoming more mainstream.

Agreed. I wrote a fuzzer at my last job and it found a bunch of bugs right before a release. Nobody knew what fuzzing was so I was attacked by the program owner for trying to break the software and given an insulting performance review for it. Then I had all the fuzzing results and coredumps deleted out of their directories by the program owner so the release looked immaculate. Defense software ftw