skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I watched all of it. The video quality is subpar indeed, and they claim it took one year to complete. Their "vision" is biased towards people that value "to party" and "to ostentate". It seems like a crypto funded thematic beach resort venture, possibly led by a team without real experience in the hospitality industry.
Nah. People don't get to change the rules. I can't tell you my name is spelled K-Y-L-E and insist it is pronounced "Mark". GIF is a crappy image format. JIF is peanut butter.
or the insurance company jingle
I think allergies and autoimmune diseases are partially caused by the fact that people are no longer work infested with parasites in yhe way they were all the time since forever. Parasites suppress immune responses.

I think we should figure out how to substitute their influence on humans before we conclude that exposing ourselves to bacteria and viruses a lot is a good thing.
I like the use of IPv6 addresses as a cryptographic identity.

Have there been any discussions about DNS-style layers on top of the mesh?
Who are you to decide what is useful/legitimate or not? As a user of $ExampleLibrary, I surely know best what's useful rather than the maintainer.
"Anything that requires deep technical knowledge will provide job security"

I don't think so. The market for the skill has to be large enough.
That truthfully sounds like symptoms of hypomania, which can be exacerbated by antidepressants. If that's the case, then antidepressants alone were not a good choice for you, because they are meant to only treat depression.
> (We don't remember how awful chickenpox was because (a) we're generally vaccinated in infancy and (b) it's not a killer on the same level as its big sibling, Variola, aka smallpox. But the so-called "childhood diseases" like mumps, rubella, and chickenpox used to kill infants by windrows. There's a reason public health bodies remain vigilant and run constant vaccination campaigns against them

Don't understand that line - Chickenpox is not vaccinated in the UK, and public health bodies in the UK choose not to do so deliberately because of public health. The reason is that older adults are vulnerable to shingles - which can be more serious - and being exposed to childen with chickenpox on the regular is thought to give them an immunity boost and prevent them from getting shingles or make it less serious when they do. Charles Stross is from the UK so I am quite surprised he doesn't know this.
What damage did they cause?
Space is hugely, vastly, mind-bogglingly big.

Useful low orbital shells around the Earth are an awful lot smaller. They're still big, like the sky is big, but airplanes do manage to, at least somewhat regularly, collide with each other "in the middle of nowhere" (most midairs are around airports, since there are a lot of airplanes heading in and out of them).

Aircraft debris, however, falls out of the sky in short order. Orbital debris doesn't.

The probability of an initial collision is fairly low, but once you have a few, or someone decides to show off their new ASAT weaponry (which is functionally a satellite collision, just one of them only having been in space for a short while), you now have flak that won't go away, moving in all directions at orbital velocity. That, then, has the potential to start causing all sorts of problems, and once that's taken out a few more satellites with orbital-energy impacts, you start having a real problem.

Will it happen? Those invested in littering certain useful orbital shells with satellites claim not. We'll see.
Especially for analysis tools (as I tend to use colab/Jupiter), the important part of complexity is cognitive load. Installation is a constant, upfront cost in that regard: I have literally never worried about the NPM or nodejs, as they're handled automatically by standard installers... Or already running in shared environments. (And if I'm deeply worried about binary size and dependency depth, I probably shouldn't be working python in the first place, and have other tools I can go to.)

Cognitive load when using the notebook is very low compared to emacs. As has been remarked on often, emacs is probably fine if you've been using it for thirty years, but having to keep track of different key strokes for copy paste depending on what window you're in (emacs vs the rest of the world) is pointless cognitive load. The idioms are so sprawling and out of sync with everything else that the editor is an obstacle in the way to doing what I want.

And while (historically) that perspective may just paint me as a noob, I'll just say that no amount of memorizing editor functionality or micro optimizing configurations will ever help me prove a theorem. If there's another tool that gets the job done and doesn't want to fight me before/while I use it, then it's the better tool.
Printing strings is malware?
Today it's Vim&Emacs versus IDEs.
Muslim women made to feel like 'cattle' as Islamophobic app 'auctions' them off
Great point, while building it I also encountered words I couldn't type.

1. That was very enlightening

2. I added skipping a word by using the [Esc] key

It would be interesting to see if one could safe those words for later and practise just those.
Lot's of cases of depression actually start with inflammation in the gut or in the brain, or other gut related diseases. Diet and lifestyle is a safer and better treatment.
B.a.t.m.a.n
https://archive.is/yZSyv
At some point people need to stop pulling in random unsigned libraries from the internet and deploying them without any review or testing. This chaos seems like it would be entirely preventable with just a small sprinkling of best practices.
Curl feature window is open until February 2
Haha, it's totally trolling us. You can tell because of the little icon for the peanut butter
So are customers supposed to sniff the milk in the store? Wouldn't it be sealed and if not, have a huge risk of bacteria getting in and spoiling it before it would otherwise go bad?

Doesn't seem very well thought through to me.
>>DAMN STRAIGHT that under those unprecedented high-risk conditions the default assumption MUST BE that correlation IS causation - UNTIL PROVEN OTHERWISE.

I'm glad you're not in charge of Science, since this is literally the opposite of science. No matter how many caps you use. The default assumption is there is no default assumption, even if there's a gun to your head.

I'm not defending "the indefensible" I'm explaining common terms that are seemingly misunderstood by large groups of people.
Hey, it's nice to see you people under this post.

Regarding your suspicion, surely this is not the first time someone making a smaller-scale, more humble and cheaper version of a future that some established companies already have.

There are two reasons for prices to be cheap:

First one is that I'm a solo developer who has been working on this for a couple of years now (I've launched the website in 2017, and since 2019 I've been working on to add streaming availability information). As I don't have a dozen people working on this but only me, it's only natural that my expenses are less than an established company.

Second one is that when I decided to add streaming availability information to my website back in 2019, all the available APIs were either: 1-not available for small developers like me, 2-too limited (like Netflix-only APIs), 3-too expensive for my student budget (as I was still a university student at that time). Due to that situation I was in, one of my aims from the start was to make this essential data available to small developers/teams/blog sites.
Google Launches Ripple – Radar API
This is well done, thank you. As someone who's currently learning a language using the refold method[0], this is really really helpful.

My one suggestion would be linking to letterboxd [1] in addition to imdb -- the user scores on letterboxd are more accurate imo than imdb as for what movies i'll like, and i can see what reviewers I follow rated a movie, etc.

[0]https://refold.la/
[1]https://letterboxd.com/
Currently I type on this: https://keeb.io/collections/iris-split-ergonomic-keyboard

My keyboard layout: https://github.com/1MachineElf/qmk_firmware/tree/sb4dv_planc...
I already commented elsewhere, but just wanted to add that this is amazingly useful, especially via your 'Movie of the night' service. I've bookmarked it and foresee to use it often! Best of luck to you, I sincerely hope you get rewarded in some shape or form for building this!
Hi gang. There was an older version of this video that was released first. This newer version has a lot of changes that give a bit of an insight into how they want to present themselves.

Here's a twitter thread detailing the changes: https://twitter.com/jpainio/status/1479863994387161093

The raw side-by-side video is here: https://peertube.social/w/wpDMyuGRYu9ax6Xz3q9Hdi
The redundancy in the MAX crashes was the pilots following the runaway trim procedure. Of the 3 MAX incidents, the one you never hear about is the one where the pilots followed that procedure and continued the flight normally.

Boeing still should never have had the MAX system rely on only one AOA sensor.
You’re exactly right. Cats have an instinctual urge to bury their poop so other animals won’t smell it. The toilet is counter to their instincts.

Also, if a cat falls in the toilet, it’s traumatizing, and they may start pooping and peeing in other places which you don’t want.
Unfortunately, that is not possible. Earth isn't a star and not big enough to provide this much data even outside of our Solar System, let alone millions of light years away.
The problem is that people who can actually fix things generally send their kids to private schools.
The problem with that thought is that having such high fatality rates is a problem for a virus that hopes to become a pandemic - it's hard for a disease to spread silently through the population if several out of every ten people infected end up in the hospital, even with a delay, and of course pretty much all developed countries have contact tracing systems in place even if that fact got downplayed after they didn't work so well against Covid. (Which is just inherently not a good candidate for that tactic.)
npm does as well, they made this change after left-pad.

You also can't unpublish once a single person has downloaded the package, I believe.
The problem is made harder by the fact dense populations of humans sucks.

It increases aggressive, conflict and indifference to other people. Crime is always higher. Dealing with infectous disease is harder.

You'd never convince me to live in a city. Especially while rearing a child. The coffee shop will always be a mile if not 5 or 10 from me.
Australia Says Djokovic Can Be Detained Again If He Wins Case
I am surprised that papers based on feelings if the authors get past per review in the first place.
When you publish free software you give it away as a gift. That's the point.

Expecting compensation for a gift is the error.
I find that I usually buffer 5-6 words ahead, because that's roughly how long it takes me to notice a mistake.

170+@1m is impressive. I'm around 140-160@1m, ~230 burst, regular QWERTY.
This is true for npm. After the incident with leftpad, you can't unpublish anymore. You can, however, publish a new patch update that completely breaks everything.
I have a large collection of RSS feeds that I assembled by visiting various government websites. I wish I had found this site sooner, but they are missing a lot of other government feeds. I would also suggest using Newsboat when reading all the news. https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat
He's a nutjob that blew up his own house while trying to make a bomb or something. There's even an article somewhere. It's not the first time he's being ..weird.
> He could have still committed credit card or check fraud.

but if the freelancer is directly accepting credit card payments he will see the name on the card and he can ask questions if the name is different.
Depends on jurisdiction but some countries have a court claims system for small debts, which costs a few percentage of the amount being claimed. The claim is reviewed by the process and a court judgement passed. Really useful when you need it.
> Horrified me when I realized all my keys were exposed on any server I hopped into.

For someone only half paying attention, would you mind expanding on what you mean by this?
Original upload https://youtu.be/wO61D9x6lNY
Kessler syndrome is definitely a problem.

I've heard SpaceX claims to deal with it by putting their satellites in an orbit that requires periodic boosting to stay put -- if they don't, satellites decay and de-orbit after a few years.

The plan is, I think, to regularly retire (de-orbit) and replace these satellites so they can continuously improve the design, and as a nice side-effect any collisions or otherwise misbehaving objects will at least stop being a problem after a known maximum span of time.
In the U.S. markets F-150 model sales are roughly equal to Tesla sales from all models. If F-150 launch is a success, it will be huge.
Must be wild watching the overton window pass you in the fast lane.
> if SARS1 or MERS had been capable of causing a genuine pandemic with their fatality rate then the response would have been different, so it wouldn't have been a mass extinction event!

That depends quite a bit on how rapidly it spreads. If COVID had started with Omicron's level of infectiousness, it'd have been a dramatically more deadly pandemic.
> I can't imagine the fact that the company disabled ctrl+c in the policy settings making any difference in a liability case.

Taking reasonable measures absolutely does absolve the company. At that point, it becomes a rogue employee who’s deliberately circumvented policies and technical enforcements, who is now potentially personally liable.

It’s garbage, but hey ho.
There is no cat in this image
> leading to a complete phase-out [of ICE] possibly as early as 2040

I have a hard time believing this, if it's something that's supposed to happen globally, including for all good transportation, which is a category where I don't remember seeing much electric vehicles. And as for it happening globally, that'd mean everywhere on the globe, there'd be enough electricity to supply all the needs for transportation and agriculture.
Legaladvice is also a place people love to put creative writing, so I’m not sure how much you can take from that.
Show HN: Postdrop – quickly test and copy responsive HTML emails with inline CSS
This legitimately clever joke buried in the middle of a horrendous video makes it even funnier
> My sense is that it’s time to evolve licensing such that wealthy major consumers of packages that have become somewhat essential are naturally paying a licence fee.

Yes, it's called paid software, but don't worry, it's going to be trendy again soon.

The days of free software contribution are almost over.

Devs want to be paid for their work. too many corporations made billions from open source projects while maintainers live in quasi poverty.

What is needed is a proper market place for paid open source software. Github isn't one.
IINA [1] is an open-source [2], native [3] modern video player for macOS based on MPV [4].

[1] https://iina.io

[2] https://github.com/iina/iina

[3] Written in Swift and designed with modern macOS (10.11+) in mind

[4] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv
> (Apologies for slow load time: this blog runs on an ancient, slow Athlon box and this entry is currently being hammered by Hacker News readers.)

Lol, and yet it still loads lickety split compared to something like cnn.com for instance.
FWIW, here's a more comprehensive overview of the literature in this area, covering not just povidone iodine but also hydrogen peroxide and cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC).

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33865974/

I remember seeing articles about this even earlier, very early in the pandemic. I honestly haven't made up my mind and am not taking a position. I'll just add that I've been using CPC mouthwashes for years because of their general effects, and this doesn't make me any less likely to keep using them. What seems odd to me is that they seem to have become less common in the last several months than they used to be. Not sure why.

P.S. A lot of this info seems to be behind paywalls. If anyone has a better URL to use, I'd appreciate that.
The only way to prevent this is to pin the actual commit. Because the meaning of the semantic version numbers is up to the package maintainers in most packaging systems. And even then you need a way to source exactly that version without relying on the original author's cooperation.

Pinning all dependencies to this extent is extremely inconvenient. More inconvenient, arguably, than to deal with this shit once in a while...
npm also has immutable artifacts.
There are over one million kids hospitalized with testicles. Many of them are on ventilators.

The above statement is true, but says nothing about why those kids are in the hospital. How is it that both the US and UK came to greatly overrepresent COVID hospitalizations in this way?
> Doesn't it seem strange that Snyk is creating a vulnerability report for this + labeling it a DoS?

I think it most definitely falls into "malicious code" that certainly is not done in good faith, and if not handled properly by downstream users, can cause a lot of unexpected problematic failures.

Whatever labels are used to characterize this, whether to call it a vulnerability/DoS or not, are just a matter of arguing over semantic meaning.
The extinction part is hyperbole though - with 7 billion humans out there it would need to hit fatality rates of 99.9...% for a decent chance of the human species to be completely wiped out. And also assuming that it would persist and/or spread well enough to also wipe out the various uncontacted tribes on 2-3 continents.
Certainly a good example of the Streisand effect. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
This is really cool! Thanks for the article

1) Is it possible that the algorithm will fail to find a suitable tile and needs to restart?

2) I don't understand, why or how you get those rectangular ponds and lava areas in the first youtube video. I expected them to be far more organic or am I missing something?

3) How would do you ensure connectivity of areas or points of interest? Any ideas? Would you path a way before or after running the algorithm?
> You never get “all English strings of the given length”, because you’re not brute forcing the output, you’re brute forcing the key, which isn’t necessarily English.

You misunderstand me. If you go through all possible keys and try to decrypt with each key, then for every possible input (of the same length), there will be one of the keys that yield that input. Hence, by going through all keys, you will hit all possible inputs, which includes all strings written in English.

> For the hash-based approach, you’re bruteforcing the secret used for the hash function. That keyspace can be any length, unbounded on either end by the size of the message.

My assumption is that the secret for the hash function input is of fixed length and shorter than the plaintext. This is not an unreasonable assumption — pretty much all existing hash functions satisfy that assumption unless the plaintext is really short.

> In both cases, assuming a large key size puts you past computational sanity for brute forcing, but neither the hash construction nor OTP is secure against “infinite” time.

These algorithms are certainly not computationally feasible, but OTP really is secure against unbounded computation in a way that the hash-based OTP is not. Knowing the ciphertext from an OTP gives literally no information about the original plaintext besides its length.

On the other hand, knowing the ciphertext of the hash-based algorithm must yield some information about the plaintext. To see why, consider an example:

1. The hash function takes as input a secret/integer of a combined 1024 bits.
2. The plaintext and ciphertext is 1000000 bits long.

Here, if you try all possible inputs to the hash function and try to decrypt the ciphertext using each one, then you're going to get a list with 2^1024 possible plaintexts. However, there are 2^1000000 possibilities for what the plaintext could be, so there must be some plaintexts missing from the list. Any plaintext that is missing from the list cannot possibly be the original plaintext.
How does that solve the issue here of new broken versions of packages being published?
Not just that they've fully embraced the "written by randos" but even worse: "as soon as the rando publishes an update or change, use it!" They seem to fully automate updates because packages are so poorly written (and frankly, it probably helps with revenue stream, if their client's websites occasionally break and need them to fix it.)

...and meanwhile NPM's idea of vetting packages is basically "YOLO, BRO!"
For a bit more context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29839786

In essence, It seems to be the case of a developer getting screwed, being disillusioned, becoming political, making bombs?, attacking the ecosystem etc.

Many years ago, I recall another developer of popular NPM packages(Azer Koçulu) pulling a similar thing[0].

https://qz.com/646467/how-one-programmer-broke-the-internet-...

We followed each other on Twitter, I recall him being disillusioned with SV and angry to Wikipedia for some reason(I think he believed on some greater plan or agenda pushed by SV companies, including Wikipedia). I disagreed and got unfollowed and blocked. Later, if I recall correctly, he got married and was touring the world.
I guess most customers of snyk if not all, are going to be happy that they tagged this as a vulnerability. I'm not sure why they would have done anything differently, seems like exactly why they are paid for (I don't use them and have no relationship with them)
Hormones:

Most people's androgen:estrogen balance (and levels) are absolutely off kilter, if they live a modern life (no exercise/only exercise is the gym, lack of sunlight, sitting down all day, living in a city, braindead birth control protocols with only estrogens, etc.).

Tuning that would be the most beneficial. And it would get to the root of the problem viz. fixing a mismatched upregulation/downregulate of neurotransmitter receptors (f.e. increasing sensitivity of GABA receptors, decreasing sensitivity of noradrenaline receptors, and so on) -- instead of just a simple and stupid "hur dur lets flood the synaptic cleft with serotonin/dopamine/catecholamines."

Barring that, there exist others that do not disrupt one's natural HPTA, and are more "targeted" towards neurons, rather than the whole body.

Peptides:

There are an assortment of peptides, but their main uses are specifically in gene expression/and cell signal tuning. They're hit or miss. A lot of woo-woo shit going on, and many people hype them up as a cure-all (because there's money to be made); when that's taken into account (and the lack of extensive research), you'll find an assortment of chemicals to play around with.

Russian synthetic adaptogens:

These are their own category of "adaptogens" popular in the Russian medical community (and seeing Western adoption). E.g. semax, bromantane, selank etc. They act as hormones/signaling molecules by changing the expressions of genes (leading to downstream changes of natural peptide levels, behavior of psychological/catecholamine systems, and so on).

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All of these, in my opinion and experience, are leagues better than the garbage that is peddled by the U.S's medical community -- because this actually changes shit on the genomic level, rather than fucking with the physical processes outright (ex. imagine the difference between cloud seeding to get more rainfall vs. diverting rivers, to fill aquifers. One of these is much more sustainable and has less side-effects).
Do you really expect anyone to believe that you're asking that in good faith?