skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> every deindex involves someone trying to hide something bad they've done

Maybe you are thinking of every deindex that you see articles written about?

There was a fraudulent website listing my vacation rental as their own with their own number listed as the "owner's phone number" and everything. The entire site is vrbo listings with fake owners number. Every property had the same number.

Do you know how hard it is to get a website taken down in the U.S.? Their hosting provider, GoDaddy, did nothing saying they don't deal in illegal matters and to contact the FBI. The FBI did nothing. The only thing that got the listing taken down was a DMCA request to GoDaddy on the photos and text as they were ripped direct ly from VRBO. In 48 hours my listing was removed. Site stayed up and my listing came back two more times. Each time I filed a DMCA with GoDaddy and the listing would be taken down. Even their BBB listing had multiple people calling it a scam. https://www.bbb.org/us/fl/cape-canaveral/profile/vacation-re...

Excerpt from the letter from GoDaddy:

If you have concerns regarding abuse issues (such as scams, etc) please submit a complaint using the form located at ABUSEFORM.COM. We are not able to assist you with abuse based complaints from the Intellectual Property Infringement Claims department.

If you feel that illegal activity is taking place with regards to this website content, you'll want to contact law enforcement. GoDaddy is not a law enforcement agency and cannot perform an investigation of this nature. We will be happy to assist law enforcement if they contact us directly about an open investigation.

Thank you.

Kindest Regards,
[REDACTED]

Go Daddy
Tesla is known for its NIH syndrome, but I think the reason for better parts availability with other brands is also because they have far more models and an appreciation for working at that scale, so tend to use no bespoke parts unless absolutely necessary.

I agree that these well-known wear parts parts should be standardised. There's no need for each model of car to have slightly different brake pads.

There are also entire companies like Bendix which specialise in braking systems (and may be most known for the vacuum boosters for a ton of vehicles).

(I made the same comment here but got downvoted too. Maybe by some designer who thinks they need to be "unique".)
Precisely, so the less trips you need to take, the more reliable the vehicle is. It's a single axis. It goes from "inoperable and on fire" on the left to "exists only in far flung sci-fi fantasies" and the more trips to the mechanic you take, the further to the left of that axis your car is.

This is why vehicles that need oil changes every 15,000 mile (~24,000 km) are more reliable than ones from a few generations ago that were essentially constantly being serviced.
How much running training did you do and if you don't mind sharing what was your marathon time?
Should Explanations of Program Code Use Audio, Text, or Both? A Study
You don't even need the /s I think.

They travel towards a far away point from the player but near treasure areas, because of their high navmesh density, all path lead in one direction.
I was about to recommend this very mill. Have had it for just shy of 14 years, and it still makes great grinds.
Why not just do it in the Nevada desert? You can set any restrictions you want on how many resources you can bring or how you can transport them.
I wasn't trying to tell that joke--I figured that everyone here knew it already. Maybe there was someone who hadn't, though! So I'm appreciative that you helped them enjoy the joke. Xkcd 1053.
i read it as mpweither arguing that the lack of interoperability is the fault of smalltalk, whereas tonyg points out that the fault might just as well be on the unix side. just as you are not going to blame unix that windows can't read a unix filesystem, it's not clear that smalltalk should be blamed that unix can't access a smalltalk image.

if i want windows to access data on unix, then i write it to a filesystem that windows can read. likewise if i want a unix system to access the data inside a smalltalk image i need to write it from smalltalk to outside the image onto a unix filesystem.

it's all a matter of how you look at it.
TLDR: Create private Instagram accounts named "TBH (local high school)" and request to follow teens at that school (triggering curious kids requesting them back).

>1. What is TBH?

> It’s an app for answering questions about your friends. You’re given a (mostly) positive question, such as, "the person I relate to most," and then it lists four of your friends who are also on the app. You have to choose which one of them the question applies to most. When one of your friends chooses you as a response to a question, you get notified that a boy or girl (there’s a non binary option, too) chose you as the answer. You don’t see the name of who chose you.

Then, when school gets out, accept the requests and put the app link in the bio. Users will get a notification that their follow request was accepted, they'll click it, and are likely to install the app (fear of missing out on juicy gossip!!1!).
No, it really is that bad. I've been reading Scientific American for decades, I no longer do, it's gotten that bad.

I can even pinpoint when they passed the road of no return - it's when they mixed politics with science here: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-are-living-in-... and https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientific-americ... here.

That was when I realized they didn't care about actual science, they cared about appearance.

The old scientific american would have never written an article intended to make people act a certain way by changing the name of things.
It's an opinion piece, not an article.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-complicated-l...
Data Lakes, Data Ponds, and Data Droplets
I see small, walled groups with vibrant and varied discussion re-emerging. I hear about new small groups/chats constantly; I'm a party to several. Discussion within is without fear of consequence, ideas are discussed objectively and in earnest. Disagreements are expected and welcome. Sometimes tempers flare but mutual respect is not lost and empathy is high. The soup of the day is candor, and it's delicious.

It's a matter of time until the bullseye fear is replaced with anger and gives way to courage, and until the mob annoys enough people as to lose any persuasion or power it currently holds. It'll take time, but history shows that change is inevitable.
https://sci-hub.st/10.1145/3428029.3428050
Show HN: Free, async platform to discuss and learn as a dev
It happens before doing the actual airdrop. It creates another FOMO effect for late adopters who missed out to meet the airdrop requirements or to buy in before snapshotting the blockchain. That will pump the price.

After the actual airdrop happens, a mass sell off from many long term holders will happen to take advantage of the FOMO. Everyone knows that another airdrop will happen so I will expect the ENS price to initially to go up for a short while and then go down again.

That is a clear pump and dump.
I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make but keep in mind that most slaves in human history looked exactly like those enslaving them.
Everything you mentioned to provide a dignified life requires labor to produce. If you have enough people who don’t find building houses, studying medicine, researching, and farming to be what their life is about, then those resources become scarce and more expensive (basic supply and demand).

And there is a scale of quality in all of those areas. There’s good food and bad food, cheap basic housing and nicer upgrades, good schools and bad schools with parents who don’t care about their kids’ education. The doctor who graduated at the bottom of his class and practices once a week is a doctor, but not as good as a the person who is the best in the world at neurosurgery.

Resources are scarce, and there are not enough to go around, especially in a sustainable way, to provide what some would consider a “dignified” life, because some people view “dignified” as equal, and others view it at all different levels. Ask 10 people and you will have 10 definitions. Almost none of them will be sustainable for 7 Billion people. In fact, it would mean that the US drops its standard of living and starts providing charity to the rest of the world.

But that charity would require work, which again “may not be satisfying for some or what they think life is about”, so good luck there.

A future defined by a career is very dark if that career is not a vocation or if the person doesn’t view it as a vocation and has nothing else in their life. But I’d argue one doesn’t have to let their career define them (and if someone lets a minimum wage job define them, it’s not healthy. They should find other work that adds greater value to someone so that they can attain a level of income to support a life that they deem dignified.

But that’s it, right? The pursuit of happiness is protected in the US, but not guaranteed. We can’t guarantee that, or some other vague changing metric, because when we deal with 300m people it’s very, very hard to come to an agreement.

There will always be edge cases, disabilities, and people who truly need the governments support. But if someone is mentally and physically able to work and contribute to society, they should reap what they sow.

I do think it’s governments’ role to make its best effort to put people in a position to contribute to society (through education opportunities) and to provide for those who aren’t expected to contribute (kids under 18) so that they can grow into contributing members of society. But at that point, it should be up to the individual to work to attain the level of wealth they want, without any guarantees of success.

I guess safety nets could be a minimum standard of living, but those do exist to some extent (unemployment and one could argue bankruptcy is a reset for those with major financial issues). They are an insurance policy and can’t exist if everyone is using them at the same time.
Ok well I live in western, non-US country and no one I know is earning that as a dev.
All of the x86 assembly (see arch and boot/x86 dirs..) and any x86 assumptions being made elsewhere in the rest of the code is where the work is.
The invention of the printing press opened the floodgates to both open, free discussion and wild censorship. This is a good read if you're into that kind of random info: https://brewminate.com/censorship-and-freedom-of-the-press-i...
Do you mind if I ask what was your trauma?

I ask because on the one hand it’s fair to say that I’ve never suffered. Not like my wife. Not like many on this board.

On the other I have have a pain, and I know where it’s from, but it seems so idiotic compared to what others have suffered.

And yet I seek escapism, the trance state where I try to forget my existence.
Any kitchen supply store. Just google "kitchen supply store" and in any decently sized city you will get a half-dozen within 30 minutes of you.
I use my email inbox as my TODO list. It works great. I have also successfully managed large software teams using a simple prioritised TODO list in Excel. It also worked great. Think about it: if you always know what your priorities are, and you always work on what is highest priority, you pretty much can’t do better. It is an optimal algorithm.
incredible work indeed. kudos to the author!

there is definitely a place for operating systems like this one in the future. the author is creating something many of us want: a system where the user is in control of their computer! fancy that! imagine not having to go retro but having total control of a modern machine.

i hope the author pulls this off.
Indeed! Paul Graham, Sam Altman, and a few others I list in my post all use todo lists.

[edit] Sorry, I misunderstood your comment. I agree, they might be outsourcing this to an admin of some kind.
As the other commenter mentioned, perhaps in the US it is fairly common. I’m not in the US and it’s not common here.
Rather a subtle distinction, when a noted scientist is writing for a lay audience.
I am like all over the place, and as far as I know, the only person who uses this username. So yeah, it was probably me, and I definitely post (and have posted) on a Codex-related community :)
Is there an ongoing shortage of RPi Zero Ws? Cant find any in most places.
Destructive malware targeting Ukrainian organizations
This is always the case when you have probabilities in games... there will always be patterns in an individual's series of random numbers, and people will construct a narrative to explain it.
>Cast iron has a much lower thermal conductivity

I thought this was true (it makes some sense), but the data seems to show the opposite. This source has cast iron at 52 W/m-K, and 1% carbon steel at 43 W/m-K (0.5% carbon steel is at 54 W/m-K). Now, this obviously depends a lot on the processing and heat treatment of each material. But at the very least, the difference is not massive.

https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/thermal-conductivity-meta...
Nearly 80% of the photos that I have taken since 2011 have been on my mirrorless camera that I've only had for nine months. The phone wins when it is all you have and there is something extraordinary to capture, but it has never compelled me to put effort into taking photos like the camera has.
No, merely putting code out there for others to use creates no obligations at all. None of the open source licenses create any such obligations either.
That's why the auto industry is anticipating that leasing will eventually be the standard model. Nobody is going to want to pay half a new car's price just to have a new battery installed.
Someone else already wrote that and posted a link in this very thread: http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/my-final-post-regardi...
Modern filesystems that use CoW will share data between files even without any hard links.
Nope. People will install Chrome, Google will make sure nothing else works with it. And all other browsers die.
I would suggest not starting in the 2.4GHz band, the protocols used there (wifi, bluetooth) are very complicated to understand. Get a rtl-sdr and start with something simpler: FM broadcast (my blogpost: https://www.abclinuxu.cz/blog/jenda/2019/11/gnu-radio-first-..., there is even an example capture you can download and replay, so you can start without the physical radio), police radio (both analog and digital), radiosondes, weather satellites, ISM stuff - temperature sensors, garage and car remote controls, airplane multilateration (https://github.com/mutability/mlat-server )… You can do lot of stuff even with the $10 rtl-sdr, for example I have used it for multilaterating TV and radio transmitters (thesis: https://jenda.hrach.eu/dipl.pdf, unfortunately "layman's explanation" is available only as a lecture in Czech). I know people are even building radioastronomy stuff and passive radars (https://www.rtl-sdr.com/passive-radar-dual-coherent-channel-...) with rtl-sdr.

Once you have basic understanding of the topic, you can get better hardware: AirSpy (the same features as rtl-sdr, but MUCH better signal-to-noise ratio and bandwidth) or bladeRF (costly, but probably the best radio you can get now). For example I'm now building a weather radar based on bladeRF. The bladeRF has a FPGA with open-source HDL, so you can mess even with absolutely lowlevel and bleeding edge stuff.

Going back to your original question:

Most cards load firmware from a file when they are initializing (check "dmesg|grep firmware", on my machine, for example, it says it has loaded /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8153b-2.fw), you are free to modify it. However, all (or maybe almost all) wifi cards have the format of the blob completely undocumented so it would be very hard to make a modification that would allow you to transmit/receive arbitrary signals. Something similar has been achieved with GSM phones (see OsmocomBB), but it requires very complicated reverse-engineering.

Recently, there was a wifi stack released for a SDR, so the other way around: https://www.nuand.com/bladeRF-wiphy/.
Most user-space code is not difficult to port. An operating system is much more work.

Take a look at https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/arch/arm64
Thanks. That led to a minor reading on a very colorful character: https://21sci-tech.com/Articles%202004/Spring2004/Maupertuis...
> Capsaicin can be harmful in large quantities, IIUC.

Citation?
For common programs it's not very difficult, usually just recompile. But if it uses assembly then you are out of luck. Also if it requires a library that uses it.

For an OS it is different, you need to reimplement many parts: bootloader, drivers, task scheduler, virtual memory...
I think the best context to this is this earlier discussion of similar analysis:

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/06/is-student-debt-cance...
It's not like those jokes are the core of Life of Brian. They're incidental, part of the comedy culture of the time. It is impossible for comedy to be truly timeless. If someone was making a movie like Life of Brian today, some of the jokes would be different, sure. But that's true of anything.
Second this. Setting simple rules is the only way I've been able to make consistent change. No soda. No bread. One at a time. I'm probably down only 20 pounds from my max but I feel so much healthier.
Pepper is still used a lot in Kerala, but I agree with you that red and green chilies are used more commonly.
Do they not consider at least the financial loss that would be caused by a collision of their satellite/s? How probable is it that there will come a time when a domino effect of collisions will take out every single satellite?

Also >Taking
away the near-crashes between two
Starlink satellites, the number of near-
misses drops down to just 500 each week — still considerably higher than
any other satellite constellation.

I'm not sure if that's relevant or not.
That said, I just looked through the Männkitchen website, and I'm sorely tempted.
that as well, though some of the most bleak and desolate places like dry lakebeds are already occupied by things like area 51/groom lake.
Where do they claim that? Do they say which kind of sensor they're using? Electrochemical? Metal-oxide? These sensors usually require advanced periodic calibrations, you need to correct for temperature and humidity zero and sensitivity dependence, model sensitivity drift as the sensor ages, take into account cross sensitivities to other gases.

I'm not disputing anything, I'm sure they do all that. I'd love to read some detail about it or a third party review that did a comparison with a reference device. It would also be cool to place some of their detectors side by side and see how much they agree on the measurements.
If the repair is that intense, they should swap her Tesla for a non defective lemon straight off the line (same color) and fix it if/when they get a chance. Or give her her damn money back and let her buy a different car.
Carbon dating is getting a major reboot (2020)
I believe social activism should be entertwined with science - we should use science to make the world a more just and fair place, and we should look to human misery as inspiration for things we can study and improve.

However, twisting scientific terms by using double meanings of terms that have differing colloquial meanings like the scientific american does, doesn't accomplish that and helps nobody.
> “Why are string theorists calling for an end to empiricism rather than an end to racial hegemony? I believe the answer is that knowledge production in physics is contingent on the ascribed identities of the physicists.”

This one and most of the other quotes sound like they were written by some AI.
This is so amazing.

I couldn't even begin to imagine the work that goes into just what's there already.
If you write an open source virus, and deliberately start spreading it, I don't think the licence will help your legal defence, even if that licence says "You can't sue me for deleting all your files".

The problem with Marak's latest changes is not the code itself, but his uploaded packages breaking the implicit contracts of maintaining backwards compatibility and not being malware. Perhaps if the package had been called "infinite-loop-and-spam-console", and that behaviour had been documented in the README, it wouldn't count as malware (because it is not a trojan, and there is no deception), but there's a strong case that he abused his access to NPM's infrastructure (and the wider JavaScript community) in order to cause harm.

I'm not a big fan of allowing single companies (especially Microsoft) to monopolise open source package distribution, and it sets a bad precedent if they start adding rules about which sort of packages they distribute, but I don't think it is gatekeeping if they forbid uploads of packages that literally no one would want to install and use.

In a more decentralised world, perhaps there would need to be a setting in the package metadata that says "This package is intended to be backwards compatible", and maybe even one for "This package is designed to harm the normal operation of software systems, do not run it in an environment where it can negatively affect you". By uploading or hosting packages with those metadata keys set to deliberately misleading values, it should be easier for a court to determine intent, without having to consider the details of the licence at all.
Then you get into semantic arguments: If a directory contains 2 1GB files, does the user care that 99% of their blocks are shared, or that just an under-the-hood implementation detail, and the user wants to know that there are 2GB worth of files in there?
YouTube crypto giveaway scams
Orca maybe -- giant squid no. It is CLEARLY stated in the comments that this is a juvenile squid in a dying state and it's just clutching the surfboard in desperation.

Could make a good calamari though!
I used to work in the oilfield. We had to be clean shaven on site because in an emergency we may be required to use masks, and your face needs to be clean shaven to form a seal. That's how things are done when there is a real safety risk. The lack of CDC guidance on this point speaks volumes as to how serious this is.
Police used fake DNA reports during interrogations
It says "Over the passage of centuries the rotation of the earth is being decelerated by tidal friction from the moon and sun"

Are you correcting me, or not, or what is it you are trying to communicate?
Valid custom elements must also contain a dash.
A perfect seal is somewhat more important in that situation than going to the grocery store.
X11 has no GUI isolation which in this day and age is inexcusable in a desktop operating system. The only decent attempt at proper isolation for X that I know of is Qubes, done using Xen.

Furthermore, Wayland can have lower input latency than X if you are dealing with more complex input. Text nowadays has grapheme clustering, ligatures and text shaping (including runtime text shaping), and other oddities; this is a heavy task that can incur latency. Latency can be reduced by offloading some of this to the GPU. Frame timing combines well with this approach to ensure that only displayed frames get rendered, synced with display refresh. The result is dramatically lower latency when taking into account display refresh rate.

In other words, Wayland's vsync support can make complex tasks like modern text input incur lower latency and use fewer resources.

On Sway, for instance, if you tune the compositor with sway-input, you can actually achieve lower latency than on X11 WMs like dwm, even without a compositor. This is even more pronounced on low-end ARM machines.
I guess they don't want to kill their compile times.
That intense? It’s like having a flat tire and replacing the tire and wheel. Once that’s done, the car is as good as new. There’s no lingering concern.
They kind of do
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/effect...

Also
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/pdfs/facialhairwmask11282017...
Very ironic to see that along with the tagline "An operating system that respects the user".