skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of my friends believe the covid vaccines are part of a depopulation scheme. If they're right then the collapse of our civilization would be happening right now though we might not be conscious of it yet.
A linux host (or a vagrant VM)
How weak are they? Detecting very weak signals (-110 dBm) at hundreds of MHz and even GHz is routinely done by Wi-Fi cards and cellphone radios, and GPS receivers detect signals that are orders of magnitude weaker than that (routinely -150 dBm), but only at tens of MHz. My eyes routinely detect submillilux signals when I look at the stars at night, with an integration time of well under a second; if I'm doing the calculations correctly, that's about -70 or -80 dBm in the 100–1000 THz band. PMTs (including microchannel plates) and SPADs routinely detect optical signals much weaker than that.

To a significant extent you can detect arbitrarily weak signals with coding gain and longer averaging times, although if your benchtop machine already takes ten minutes to give you a result, you probably can't afford to wait more than about 36 dB longer, give you another 18 dB of SNR).

So, I'm not worried about the electronics or the signal processing; there's no such thing as an "amount of electronics". Precision analog equipment is not easy to design, calibrate, and build, but you only need a very small "amount" of it, and it can be mass-produced.

Take resistors. When I was a kid back in the 01980s normal resistors were ±20% carbon composition, which would drift by more than 20% over time or if overvolted, with fiendish temperature coefficients. Now you can't buy a ±20% resistor; most resistors are ±1%, ±0.1% resistors are commonplace, and ±0.01% resistors are easily available for a dollar or two. Precision resistors are now made with an extremum of resistance around room temperature, so the temperature coefficient there is literally zero.

No, what I'm worried about is the physics. I'm not surprised YBCO spectrometers turned out to be a pain in the ass; YBCO is a huge pain in the ass in every possible way. What do you think the physical obstacles are?
Incidentally, when I moved to Google after a decade at Amazon, one of the few tools that I missed was iGraph.
Could Being Cold Be Good for You?
It should be illegal, in theory? Insider trading doesn't require a company insider, only that you have non-public information that can reasonably affect the price iirc. Proving that may be difficult in practice.

IANAL yadda yadda.
My hobby: replacing QR codes for table menus at restaurants with rickrolls.
> do you think google's making the world a better place?

Silicon Valley, season 1 episode 1: "But most importantly we're making the world a better place. Through constructing elegant hierarchies for maximum code reuse and extensibility."

Mike Judge is a genius.
Just don't buy anything under 10m above sea level ;)
That’s an exceedingly charitable stance to take, because the actual proper thing to do would have been to send people home before the storm hit, and possibly give them the option of sheltering in the warehouse if they needed to (assuming it was actually reinforced).
I strongly recommend reading the book. Kleptopeia.

It’s focused on the UK, but portrays the US legal and regulatory as system pretty positive compared the UK/EU (early 2010s).

When justice happens, it tends to happen in America.

Organizations like the FBI, FDIC, and US Attorneys are very powerful compared to their European counterparts.

Courts are much less corrupt as well.
BTC probably is much less a store of value when the internet is cut off. Didn't seem very hard for the Kazakhstan government to do either.

I feel like there might be a cautionary tale in there somewhere.
They had a podcast together.
http://web.archive.org/web/20100216070208/http://hackermedle...
> Several comments here mention running your own CA.

You know, i feel like more people wouldn't have a problem with actually doing this if it weren't so challenging and full of sometimes unpleasant CLI commands. To me openssl and similar packages to it feel like comparing the UX of tar vs docker CLIs, where the former is nigh unusable, as humorously explained here: https://xkcd.com/1168/

In comparison, have a look at Keystore Explorer: https://keystore-explorer.org/screenshots.html

Technically you can use it to run a CA, i guess, but in my experience it has mostly been invaluable when dealing with all sorts of Java/other keystores and certificates, as well as doing certain operations with them (e.g. importing a certificate/chain in a keystore, or maybe generating new ones, or even signing CSRs and whatnot).

Sure, you can't automate that easily, but for something that you do rarely (which may or may not fit your circumstances), not struggling with the text interface but rather having a rich graphical interface can be really nice, albeit that's probably a subjective opinion.

Edit: on an unrelated note, why don't we have more software that uses CLI commands internally that correspond to doing things in the GUI, but with the option to copy the CLI commands when necessary (say, the last/next queued command being visibile in a status bar at the bottom)? E.g. hover over a generate certificate button, get a copyable full CLI command in the status bar.

Of course, maybe just using Let's Encrypt (and remembering to use their staging CA for testing) and just grokking DNS-01 is also a good idea, when possible. Or, you know, any other alternatives that one could come up with.
Onewheel+. The version before the XR. Definitely not claiming the issues I had were common at all. But experiencing the failure cases firsthand definitely just put me off from feeling comfortable riding the board long-term. It was definitely a fun year when I had it.
Very cool. It may be worth pointing out to those who love the idea of more screen estate in your laptop bag but are not aware of existing options that you can already do this by packing one or more portable screens.

Less street cred than the featured gizmo but available now and likely a heck of a lot cheaper.

I currently have a portable screen, keyboard, flat mouse and foldable laptop riser with my laptop in it's bag - though haven't used them altogether in public for fear of being "that guy".
so the usa isn’t a free society?
Shouldn't there be a trial before we jump from "accused" to "perp"?
This arrangement is the result of one of the biggest social engineering projects in human history. In order to make this happen the federal government had to massively subsidize loans for single-family homes, build enormous interstate highways (that always seem to be adding a lane), and make alternative living arrangements illegal via zoning.

I read your comments downthread, which I think are pretty insightful; it may be the case that the ship has sailed and we're not going back (and it may even be the case that there's something in our national DNA that prevents us from competently building and operating transit). But it should at least be acknowledged that the status quo isn't the result of personal choice or revealed preference; it was quite literally a big-government social engineering project.
I like them too, but I will say that:

a) on very smooth paper, it will smear. Needs time to dry

b) on rougher paper, I found it to "spread out" like a small inkblot. As if the paper "sucks" the ink in a bit.

Perfectly fine for regular paper
I'm a lefty, and I've tried an awful lot of pens. I agree with the Energel recommendation (and primarily use Energel refills) but I'd put Zebra Sarasa gel pens alongside them.

There are other good options out there in terms of quick-drying ink, but Energel and Sarasa work especially well for me because I'm an under-writer, keeping my hand fully below the line, which lowers the angle at which the pen meets the page. Many pens don't tolerate the low angle.
That was because of the Fed.
Yeah, ideally the city would have kept controlling parking but charge equivalent (or higher!) rates, but then the next election that would all disappear...
Don't say that! I managed to sign up to Starbucks Rewards before it launched here in New Zealand by looking at the staging certificates that were issues ;)

Lots of fun stuff is possible but yeah, it's definitely something you should consider. Let's Encrypt allows wildcart certs from memory so you should probably use one of those per subdomain.
Also on HN today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29815208

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29816829
Sure, after brushing up on this "stb style", then I see what you mean.

Still, it seems like an ugly kludge to cope with a breathtakingly antiquated way of doing things.
Looks nice! Might be worth clarifying in your bio or comment that you founded it too.
but it's not that he just did "bad stuff," it's that he's a fugitive from an outstanding warrant. legally I'm curious if MS would be liable for helping him stay employed as he evaded arrest.
Just in general this is extremely rude to do as an interviewer. I remember interviewing at Google a few years ago and the interviewer laughed at me when I asked her if they used Kotlin in the mobile app that they were hiring for. Kotlin was pretty standard at the time in most 3rd party apps and nowadays Google never shuts up about it in their dev talks, but back then I guess it was so unlikely that Google itself would be using the language in its own apps that she thought it was funny. It came across as pretty rude in that interview setting, though she probably was not intending to be so.

When I interview people I try really hard not to do stuff like laughing at a serious question or suggestion from a candidate unless they're obviously trying to be funny.
I would say that this is why reducing friction this way is not actually a good thing. It has disastrous effects on the entire ecosystem when including a dependency is too easy. It means people will not question whether they should be including a dependency, because it is so easy to do.
This is a real issue with QR codes. Some apps have implemented better options, including - crucially - the ability to revoke (disable) a code. Snapchat had Snapcodes which had some of these features built in for privacy.
Ask HN: How much would you pay an undergraduate full-stack developer?
I run a small literary publishing operation and I have been writing a little Flask based web app to augment the operations. I am in correspondence with a local university near Chicago that I reached out to about hiring a student. I am hoping to learn a lot about hiring a developer and developing a product. In time, this product may become public facing and commercial. How much would you pay an undergraduate? Would you pay them hourly or on a longer term basis?

If you want a little more context about the stack and etc., a brief write-up can be found here: https://www.broadaxepublications.com/home/2022/1/1/song-of-the-broad-axe-publications-is-hiring-a-full-stack-developer-rzzsn

Edit: I should say that I am not a professional developer. I think I did a pretty good job with the project, but it is the work of an amateur.
When Rocket Companies Become More Than Just Rocket Companies
> My understanding (at least where Google is concerned) is that it's a jungle situation and there's a lot of team-hopping and connection-making until you find a place to land for awhile.

I think this is only true if you want to work on something interesting. If you're willing to work in some obscure corner of ad infrastructure or Google Surveys or something and you're not trying to get promoted, you can stick around for a long time at Google and not get much done. At a big organization like Google the pace is pretty slow even if you are trying to get some work accomplished, so that provides cover for those who aren't as effective.
It's perhaps not hard but the expectation if you take a new job is that you won't be randomly fired in a few months because you don't meet some unstated high bar.
Because HR, Legal, and the police all follow her on twitter?

I dont know who the people tagged in the tweet are, but that still seems like a shitty way to report a problem.
> Side note: We use rebase instead of merge to keep a much cleaner project history and eliminate unnecessary merge commits.

Yes!
Don't the nubs on those wear down or the pens dry out? Those Staedtler ones may be better quality, but I recall using fineliner-type pens occasionally when I was a kid, and didn't really like them.

> You get consistent line thickness.

Isn't that also true of various kinds of rollerball pens/gel pens?

> You don't need to push the tip into the paper, just letting it hover on top. There is barely any friction/resistance.

That seems like it'd feel unnatural.
People have known Steven Seagal and most traditional martial arts have been largely ineffective (in comparison to things like boxing and later BJJ and MMA) for a long time. I'm not going to say they're useless as many of their techniques made it into things like BJJ (thinking of traditional jujitsu), but they certainly don't live up to their reputation from movies and what people like Seagal would have you believe with rediculous exhibitions where he effortlessly flips people around that offer no resistance and immediately take a rolling break fall.

You're absolutely right that the internet in general has made this much easier though. There's even an entire website that's been around for probably 20 years called bullshido that is a play on "Bushido" and "bulls**" that covers this topic in detail iirc.
We use unique URLs in email to manage mailing list and notifications, and mTLS for more serious access. mTLS is more complicated than the interface for the usual password manager, imho. It can work at the proxy waistline, gating access by passing a particular header around.
Titanium would be the mould of the cast, you remove it once the basalt set
no shortages here in NZ.
It mostly means "computers person"/"make me a webapp!" as written by a nontechnical person describing or trying to hire for a technical role.

I'd prefer something cooler like "1337 hex wizard h4x0r g0d first of his name" but the HR people like full-stack better.
All this seems to do is remove some external tracking and replace it with DDGs own?

They state they never save your emails, but they don't have to save them to extract metadata or scan for content they are interested in.

We need a self hosted version of this service IMHO...
Uh, so how does cloudflare do it, since the answer is basically "cloudflare".

They have sweet deals with the cloud providers?
The Metaverse at CES
The benefit of poolish and other styles of pre-ferment is usually attributed to enzymatic breakdown of proteins and starches (especially of starch into dextrins and maltose, which benefits the color of baked bread as well). An overnight ferment probably isn't long enough to get a substantial bacterial population going, hence the multi-day or week process of creating a sourdough starter. Why would the addition of commercial yeast speed the bacteria along?
As I said, C code did exist but it was slower so it wasn’t the norm. I don’t know of any other languages being used on those systems (I think C++ was supported on the following generation of consoles, albeit SDKs took longer to be released on some consoles than others). If anyone knows of non-C languages being used I’d love to hear about it.

Back then compilers weren’t as good at writing optimised machine code as they are now and the consoles of that era were built with assembly in mind anyway so it was an easier job writing assembly for them than it would be on modern architectures.

That all said, it seems to be a lot more common these days (ie with the homebrew community) to use higher level languages even on easier platforms like the GameBoy.
No, it's quite possible that delisted stocks behaved differently even on 1-day basis. For example, if I recommended only very risky stocks, the ones that stayed listed and survived likely paid off very well (let's say +40% in a year), while the ones that are no longer listed mostly went bankrupt (-100%). 1-day returns would show a very large difference on average.
I'm not used to seeing BTUs outside of heating systems. It's bizarre. Also I often see GWh/yr or some other such. I don't get it. Just use Watts and Joules (or maybe watt-hours). It somewhat bothers me that batteries are labelled in amp-hours, though it makes partial sense because they typically have a fixed voltage. Still. I guess next we need to introduce the watt-hour-per-second?
I think it's a fairly logical outlook coming from a few assumptions. If we assume:

(1) Political policy is largely outside of an individual's control.

(2) Political policy is more likely to be proposed when it is more favored by the masses (less backlash).

(3) Opposite of (2), political policy is less likely to be proposed if it seems less favorable to the masses, even if those in power think it's a good outcome.

(4) Legislatures take perceived public opinion into account when deciding to propose policy.

Then, if you believe a vaccine mandate is likely to be accepted in the current political climate, and you are against a vaccine mandate (due to bodily autonomy or something), then you may not want to contribute to perceived mass support by contributing to higher vaccine numbers, even if you support the vaccine itself.
yes, sorry, got the terms switched around apparently
Supplements aren't unregulated. They're treated as food. And I'd bet there's some bit of regulation somewhere that says you can't arbitrarily label a medicine as a supplement.
They hardly need to cancel since the risk of hosting vaccinated players is deemed acceptable.
> Hardware DRM systems ("trusted computing") are inherently controlled by remote corporations; at the end of the day someone has to certify hardware-bound keys, and someone has to revoke leaked keys.

And that is not bad technology in itself to have, the question is who gets to sign, and it's a political one. There exist in principle an acceptable threshold that various small OS vendors and Linux/*BSD distributions can pass and virus authors cannot, while allowing for some sort of hardware three finger salute that enables custom self signed roots for organizations and developers that can handle them safely, i.e. a special use case not required by the majority of the population who simply trusts a vendor.

I don't claim the Microsoft tech allows these (most likely not), but I believe these are the correct demands and criticism we should make, approach it as a political issue.

Fighting ideologically against a technology and ignoring the larger political objectives is foolhardy. If the technology delivers value, some vendor will bundle it with pretty pink buttons and corner the market, forcing you to use it too because every body else does and you have no other option. It's how we ended up with solid blocks of DRM from Apple in the hands of billions of consumers that won't even allow you to run your own choice of software, let alone alter the operating system.

I just removed a crypto-miner malware from an IT-illiterate friend's windows computer. There are great many people in this category. If we can't fix their computers by flipping a TPM switch that ensures some level of platform integrity, they will simply go out and buy an Apple device, "because it works better". That's their subjective view, good luck teaching them to value software freedom and learn good security practices.
Wait. What the heck? What's wrong with Steven Seagal? Under Seige is a great movie.
Sit tight and assess! This is like reading a propaganda pamphlet with the inevitable very long term "it may work, we'll have to wait and see in a decade or two, but until then at least our profits are not affected"-solutions.
"Laptop?" More like, revenge of the luggable!
The problem I see with locking things down is that you can't lock down things that the user requires for their job. If the user legitimately needs access to some sensitive information for example, it's just a matter of time before they can be tricked by an attacker into doing something stupid with it. Yubikeys would solve the problem of the user giving away their credentials to the sensitive data but wouldn't stop the user directly giving away said sensitive data. Locking down is also a blacklist approach where you can miss something and it will be exploited when an attacker eventually gets lucky. I'd rather be the one getting lucky and catching those users early than waiting for an attacker to catch them.

I guess instead of a penalty a more user-friendly way would be to attach monetary rewards to reporting phishing emails? That would incentivize reporting anything that looks even just slightly suspicious, which is probably a better outcome from a security point of view even with false positives.
Another commenter made the same post and my reply to that is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29815491
I'm pretty confident it's just luck of the draw. At both companies, giving interviews is an expectation for promotion, so many interviewers don't particularly want to be there and some are bad at hiding that fact.
You'll have to duck out quick before the posse arrives. HN abhors any references to exponential growth being unsustainable.
As blunt as that is, I have to say I agree and thought the same thing reading through their page. I'm sure it's been quite a feat to get this far, but until GUI is supported well, I can't think of a single thing I'd ever personally use it for.
Comparing the experience of porting an OS to hardware that did not ship with it to an OS that comes with the hardware is arguing in bad faith.

I have personally ported Linux to many devices the manufacturer never intended it to run on and I even have code in the kernel. I can generally make Linux run on anything by compiling a custom kernel or drivers with maybe a custom patch or two.

I love having that freedom but that freedom is too often confused as the default end user experience of someone that goes to a store and buys a computer that ships with Linux.

When comparing Linux vs Windows or MacOS for end users then talking about porting to unsupported hardware is silly. If you want to run MacOS on unsupported hardware it will take some hacking too.

I have helped hundreds move to Linux many of whom are elderly and non technical. I have them go buy a computer that ships with Linux and is supported so they never need to open a terminal and everything just works. Dell, System76, and Purism all have fantastic offerings here and I do not know of anyone who has switched back.
> Yes, in fact, they have, plus a lot more things that haven't even occurred to you.

Exactly. Like that comment about the JWST last week that was wondering why they didn't bring down the number of single-points-of-failure. Backseat driving at its best.
"Is the cure deadlier than the disease" is a long-standing question.

It was in fact deadlier for milennia.

It's still not "settled".
I'm pretty sure this instance isn't a lazy regex problem (though that is also a thing), it's straight-up fraud on the part of the party making these copyright claims. They're finding existing videos, uploading their own (infringing!) copies, then making copyright-infringement accusations against the originals.

Google should be requiring people making copyright-infringement claims to provide payment information or a bond, and investigate enough of the disputes to make this scam unprofitable. Allowing this sort of thing to happen unpoliced makes YouTube videos de facto ephemeral; one of the important use cases is that people upload-and-forget things like lectures, and those have a tendency to disappear when no one's keeping an eye on them.