skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Orcas will tail slap things to stun or kill them, and some fish-eating orcas do this after corralling a school of fish together into a tight ball or cylinder. Then they swim in fast and slap the edges with their tails, either stunning or killing several fish that they can then just pick out of the floating water.

However, the seal punting the commenter was referring to does indeed seem to be for sport, play, training, or all of the above. Here's a video: https://youtu.be/G7WGIH35JBE?t=21

For one, it shows the sheer power of an orca. According to the NOAA Fisheries, a harbor seal (what transient orcas typically hunt) weights 24 pounds at birth and then 180-285 pounds as an adult. So, if we assume that seal in the video is an adolescent or an adult, the orca is launching something probably weighing at least 100-200 pounds about 50-100ft into the air. I do find it disturbing, but I have seen some cases where the orcas had played with a seal and then let it live.

This discussion of power reminded me of orcas hunting dolphins. The following videos might be harsh if you really like dolphins, but it shows the insane power and speed of an orca. They can move so fast in the water, jump tens of feet out of the water while weighing several tons, and ram things with such force killing them. That's also why I balk at calling them the wolves of the sea. I do not know of a single other predator that has the intelligence plus the insane physicality that they do. I think one would be hard pressed to find a more apex predator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTirD7pCBVE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JsBB0BGM4M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVbvhtNzFj0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQQMrHYlYvI
The first steam engine was invented in, well, it really depends on your definition of steam engine, but let's use Newcomen's engine and say 1712. That engine was HUGE, and the idea it would ever be made portable is comical. The first usable steam engine doesn't seem to have come along until 1769.

The first transatlantic telegraph cable was laid in the 1850s, and how many decades did it take for international phone calls to be essentially free?

The first road vehicles were unreliable and suffered from poor roads, it took decades for the Model T to arrive.

The first mobile phone was invented in 1973, how long did it take for there to be cell service across most of the world?

So, to answer your question, technologies can be in their "early phases" for quite a long time before they have any meaningful impact.
Is this story by any chance about you?

Every variable and every method name was given a female first name. "Each of these is named for one of Sten's girlfriends." Given the number of names required, it was improbable that these were real girlfriends, but Sten gave no hint about this being fiction.

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/my-many-girlfriends
Negative, Ghost Rider. Disingenuous at best.
brain computer interfaces apparently https://maxhodak.com/
well, that's gross
Ask HN: Do people still use DeviantArt?
I remember back in the late 2000s, I used to spend a lot of time on DeviantArt and even shared my own artwork. I can't remember why or when I stopped using the site.

Do you still use it? Did your usage drop off in the last decade? Why?
The 6509 and 2811 and other older models are amazing. I use catalyst switches and routers I bought from ebay and craigslist almost 10 years agi that were probably resold several times after production use. I am no longer in networking but I was always impressed when I ssh into some arbitrary switch or router to troubleshoot and see 10+ year uptime. I bet 20+ is common these days.

I am sure others have stories in this regard. Someone told me their remote router died after 12 years uptime but only because of a lightning strike.

From a software perspective, the Cisco IOS has been doing "unikernel" before it was hyped. Can't say that's a factor but having a standalone binary as the entire OS might perhaps make testing and shipping a sturdy stack easier?
Nothing to do with the article, but I liked looking at the culture, at the time, in the film. Like the old man in the trench coat and pipe, that walks onto the roof across the way during the second take of "Get Back". You see him again during the song "Dig a Pony" - I guess he liked the Beatles, I wouldn't have guessed.
> Gandalf will be replaced by a UniFi USG-Pro

Octeons are truly amazing chips.

Get them while you still can.
Because she is routinely subjected to horrific misogynistic abuse online, I think this near-end paragraph bears repeating:

Mary Beard is a great scholar, and I don't want to be misunderstood as saying otherwise. There is more than just language proficiency to successful academic life, after all, and it is by no means the most important thing. For many reasons, knowing a language well is less valuable in academia than than knowing something else about the people who used the language, or having something worthwhile to say about texts written in it. The Czech writer Jan Kresadlo was at home enough in Homeric Greek that he was able to write a brilliantly hilarious Science Fiction Epic in it. But his facility with the language did not mean that he knew the first thing about Ancient Ionian land tenure practices.

But, that said, I think I agree with a couple of the authors points: She is brave to admit her lack of fluency and may have overstated how hard it is to learn.

Also worth reading is this, linked from the original blog: there's a conversation amongst latinists/classicists and they don't all agree with this polemic:

https://www.metafilter.com/181221/Lingua-pulcherrima
Ask HN: How to sync uBlock origin custom filters between PC and phone?
I use Firefox on PC and Firefox for Android on Android.

I regularly create my own filters using uBlock Origin. How do I create a sync between the phone and PC instances?
Only on Android is it so simple to sideload, and even then there are lower level app capabilities that require root even for sideloaded apps.

Good security is layered. Just because privilege escalation attacks are sometimes possible without root doesn't mean you throw open the floodgates and ignore the threat of root. The point of banning rooted devices is that privilege escalation attacks are much easier in rooted devices.

Of course online banking doesn't require locked down devices, but online banking is more secure in locked down devices. I don't see why banks should weaken their security posture on root just because they aren't perfect in other areas.
Joni Mitchell Says She’s Removing Her Music from Spotify
Key word: joining Brave Rewards
they just want to sell the job to you so you don’t pay attention to what matters, like compensation.
I also worked at a large retail store before, which also forbid taking things home if they were broken.

We had a that was damaged from being a display item, but only cosmetically. They wanted us to throw it in the trash compactor, instead of donating it to a coworker had a kid at 19, single mother, and made 7.50/h.

We snuck that crib out the back and hid it behind a dumpster while my buddy came to pick it up for her.

Possible abuse isn't a reason to have shitty policies.
Yes, this is how it works on the kindergarten floor.

In the real world, they have to bribe their way to the same effect.
You should put that in the article. Unintroduced acronyms really bring down a piece of writing.
Huh, I thought they listen on an invalid IP address by default for security reasons.
Have you contacted support about this?
The issue I have with Tor Browser is the greater chance of 0day exploits for Tor Browser existing/being held onto, when compared to browsers like Chrome that have much greater resource for security.

Remember, Zerodium revealed a 0day in all Tor Browser v7 and under once v8 had been released
https://twitter.com/Zerodium/status/1039127214602641409
4 hours a day of real work seems low, but certainly not 40 hours a week.
Ubiquiti's Octeon hardware is amazing -- but only after you expunge the horrid "bonus software" that they throw in there for free.
I am definitely interested and just signed up! Thank you for that invite. I'm obsessed with orcas and want to continue learning more.
Yes, at the limit (not sure if US laws have caught up to Australian ones in this regard) they could potentially be forced to push an app update to carbon-copy all messages from specific people at the client side, unencrypted, to the government. This is generally why people care about having the app available on F-Droid, because you can more easily analyse DIY "supply chain security" on your own copy of the app. The other solution is what Matrix does, which is to encourage people to develop many different client implementations.
> I'm pretty sure you can't use Linux as a host machine though, which really sucks.

There is a moonlight host for linux called Sunshine [1]. Works great on Ubuntu and Arch. Just note that it'll use software encoding unless your nvidia driver is patched to enable NvFBC, using nvlax or nvidia-patch [2]. But for non-gaming use, software encoding is more than sufficient with minimal latency compared to vnc.

[1] https://github.com/loki-47-6F-64/sunshine

[2] https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch
As the post you're responding to notes, Cecilia is the patron saint of musicians -- the song is about the fleeting nature of inspiration, not a literal description of a interpersonal relationship.
A lot of that is just creative destruction as Schumpeter defined it. Destroying old world orders to make way for new. Although the environmental destruction definitely needs to be addresses for progress to be sustainable in the long term.
Like implementing social credit score and aloowing people activities based on it? Oh wait...
Through the Tor Uplift Project,[1] Tor Browser's Fingerprinting Protection feature is now available in Firefox on desktop and Android. The feature makes Firefox hide some pieces of identifying information from the sites you interact with, such as your timezone (which is set to UTC), some of your fonts, your keyboard layout/language, and parts of your user agent (for example, your browser version is set to the latest ESR version).[2]

To enable Fingerprinting Protection in Firefox, go to about:config and set privacy.resistFingerprinting to true.

Some Firefox forks enable Fingerprinting Protection by default, including LibreWolf[3] (desktop) and Mull[4] (Android). If you are on Android, the release version of Firefox does not include access to about:config, and you'll need to either switch to Firefox Beta/Nightly or use a fork like Mull, Fennec F-Droid, or Iceraven to take advantage of this feature.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Tor_Uplift

[2] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-protection-agai...

[3] https://librewolf.net

[4] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/us.spotco.fennec_dos/
Yet RRD databases are awfully big but often compress to single digit percentages. We use them to store one time graph data, so they do not ever get updated after the report job finishes. I'm looking for an alternative and it better not be a huge json array of arrays plus a header dictionary. It also should be an on disk something, not Influx or Prometheus.
It's a massive black market yes, if you want to steal something and you cold choose its always power tools. They are expensive and easy to sell. Just talk to working class people who do labour and they will explain you further.
This is becoming pretty funny to watch
Please take whatever fight/flamewar you're trying to start elsewhere. I'm just trying to get people to accurately describe what happened -- particularly if they're also calling out people for not looking up the facts.

OP's description of the events doesn't match the meeting notes of what happened and doesn't accurately describe why people were criticizing the decision. California has nothing to do with that.
Accepting those points for the sake of argument, now that the less-lethal variant is here, why haven't we stopped doing those things yet?
They make it sound like a nuke. A dozen of you devs here can band together and come up with something better in a few months. The post compromise capability is not what makes it powerful but the zerodays used to deliver it.

How about we do a YC startup and buy a few RCEs for android and iphone from zerodium and do this? (Just kidding to undermine the "most powerful" exaggeration in the title)
Money is only one part, liking your job and the work you are doing is necessary for many people.
Something that can help people.
The "Expect the unexpected" part of this is, frankly speaking, bullshit. It has sentences that are a contradiction in terms, like "Planning should reflect an unplanned work allocation".

The problem is that if you put aside, say 20% of time for unplanned work, this is effectively broadcasting to all the teams around you "Oh, we have planned 20% downtime", and they will feel extra vindicated in asking you to do stuff for them as part of this "unplanned work". This is in addition to the bevy of middle manager vanity meetings, all-hands, quarterly meetings, and a bevy of other useless meetings that managers seem to be able to put on their developers' calendars seemingly on a whim.

The only correct advice, and one that is not put into this because it is unpalatable to someone posting "thoughts on leadership" is to push back hard on "unplanned work" in addition to leaving some slack time in planning. Otherwise you will end up with the typical developer who feels constantly threatened by management and has one foot out the door.
there, we have it! the legalists were right, we are born bad and only the environment can make us good. :)
Hetzner is pretty good in general. $70/month gets you a 16 vcpu VM with 2TB free egress/month. Their additional egress pricing is peanuts compared to Google. Google, AWS etc egress is so overpriced - as if we are still living in mid 2000s.
Good stuff is good stuff.

I was surprised how 2000s kids enjoyed Michael Jackson's music, even those without parents feeding it to them before.
Immutable ledgers are a godsend and are useful in many different contexts:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_Transparency

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lab_notebook

- https://www.newamerica.org/digital-impact-governance-initiat...

Adjustments needed for shipping, banking, or taxes are trivially accommodated; those are additional events which can be appended to the log.
What do you define as "real" work? In most productive days of coding I get 4/5 "real" hours of focused, concentrated work. Very, very rarely would I get more than 6 without finishing the day mentally exhausted.

Meetings? Doing more than two back-to-back, hour-long meetings is an ordeal if you want a productive meeting. You can sit there and stare into space for far longer, or just keep minimum attention. But intelligent debate with multiple individuals for longer than that is hard to pull off, especially if you also want to get the productive work as mentioned above.

Meetings of the "just being present" and responding various, random emails that need little care? Feel free to spend 10 hours a day on those, for sure.
Ask HN: User-script manager users, which one do you use?
There are so many: Tampermonkey, Greasemonkey, Firemonkey, etc.

Which one do you use and why?
Employees and other shareholders benefit when the value of the company increases. Why is that hard to understand why they'd want to increase profits?
Yep. Used to work for a data science company and all the people who could code production quality stuff changed to some kind of "developer."
The same way "Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?" was.
Not only are they spewing out a lot of manual code. Additionally they include a lot of auto generated and versioned code. Azure python for example has a duplicate of every method for every version of the api.
Good points! I also like the others raised in the comments, as it paints a picture of a very complex process.
AI power text line for suicide seems horrible to me. Every time I am hit customer support and need to face AI first my stress level increases. AI powered virtual assistant seems like the worst thing that happened to customer support in the recent decade. Every time I listen to a presentation by some exec how introduction of AI assistant improved some performance metric of a customer support dept, I actually feel bad for customer and for tech industry, that helped bring this change closer.

> can we go any lower?

They can always offer estate planning services right there in the chat. I bet some lawyers would jump on this ad placement opportunity.

> There is only one legitimate way to handle data here, for law enforcement or medical professionals, otherwise delete it.

What about research? It would be hard to navigate and share it responsibly even with research facilities, but it is a very legitimate use case and potentially useful.
I only knew them through Red and Blue albums and somehow it created one vision of the beatles that is split from reality. So much I don't want to watch Jackson's movie.
It hasn't been for years now. The systems get a unique password from the factory and is on the tag.
There is literally an app store full of software to accomplish all sorts of tasks. The marketing slogan for a while was "there's an app for that". How much more general does it need to be to meet your definition of a "general purpose" computer?
Cringe intensifies.
The physical structure of their brains is more complex. I thought that was clear from the follow-on context regarding their brains. Is it not a line of science to understand how brain folding contributes to intelligence? Further, orcas certainly show high levels of emotional and cooperative intelligence compared to humans. Sons stay together with their mothers throughout their lives in the same pods, and as far as I understand, there's relatively little, if any inter-pod fighting. They also readily share food throughout the pod. They are deeply connected to each other in a way that I think we have a hard time understanding.

This is a good book to take a look at: https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Thinkers-Inside-Dolphins-Porpois...

> Are you able to understand what orcas "think"?

No I do not, but one can surmise from the scientific study of them and behavioral observations. My point about them making a strong statement is that it isn't backed up by anything except a human-centric bias of intelligence.

And the person I replied to make an incredibly strong claim:

> complexity of communication in even the cleverest animals is very low compared to human language

That needs backing up. In the event that there is no backup, which I don't believe there is, then we have to leave possibility open, possibility that's informed by scientific and behavioral studies.
It’s only really feasible to ship APIs in an end-user operating system that can make forward binary compatibility guarantees.

Python doesn’t make a sufficient guarantee of forward compatibility for either scripts or its C-linkable libraries. This means that, unless an OS vendor does a bunch of extra maintenance work on the Python that they ship, an application built in or making use of the Python shipped in one version of an OS may not run on a subsequent version of that OS.
Yep. It’s all just physics and chemistry.

There is a gradient of temperature from the surface to the inside of the food. Depending on the composition, it will take more or less time for the thermal energy to propagate.

In addition, cooking involves chemical reactions. Now, I’m not a biochemist, but if I had to guess, most cooking chemical reactions are probably endothermic (short of setting your food on fire), in which case the chemical reaction comes f cooking will remove thermal energy from your cooking medium (e.g. water or oil) and your cooking medium will cool down even if you had perfect insulation.
Also: the speed of light barrier and age of the universe. It takes a LOT of energy or a LOT of time to get from one place to another.
"Always-on culture"

I guess people who use Twitter don't like seeing bad things written about them on Twitter. Though the solution is to disown Twitter and all who use it.
That's awful. Are there other "security by obscurity" measures you would like to see? For example, making these apps blend in with icon changes, fake splash screens/façades that look like games? Would people have done this already if it were common to build and use alternative clients to the major messaging services?
Well, I actually respect the guy for creating JS and his work in the field but I'd never willingly support a person donating money intended to stop certain people from having basic rights.

A very distant second is the whole chromium bullshit
TCP streams glittering in the dark near the Tanenbaum gate
Evil in what sense?
Cars do not have transponders that publicly transmit data, so that comparison doesn't work.

A better analogy is phone numbers, where you can have a number that's not listed in the public registry.

But as long as the data is public, this is what you get, even though owners of private jets don't like it.

It does seem like there are some options for hiding ADS-B data.

https://www.flyingmag.com/faa-privacy-for-ads-b/

https://jetstreamlaw.com/minimizing-access-to-ads-b-data/
There's nothing weird about both of those being true.
It almost seemed like that global working knowledge of computers as tools would be the new norm, up until the early 2000s. In my own practice I saw more and more snall business owners writing their own websites and simple systems before coming to me to improve or polish up what they had. I always applauded that and I always try to make sure my clients have a full mental picture of what's really happening inside apps they commission from me now. Even if that means boring them with lots of details... they are savvier because they understand what can be done, and how. Sadly there's been a concerted effort by the FAANGs, mainly, to turn everything into an appliance and take that power away from users. You're absolutely right that anything that puts more power within the average user's reach is good for free computing and for free software development as a whole.
(Small business owner): I prefer the "write me a function that squares a number" approach as the big filter. If they cannot do it, stop right there. If they write it and struggle a bit, stop there. If they write it at a normal or fast speed, continue. If they write an inlinable generic function that accepts anything that can be multiplied - things are looking really good.
it's true; now that we have managed services i'm honestly not sure how we spend our days. i should take an art history class.
I'd just tell them. I wouldn't expect to get a different problem, but even if I did, so what. Those types of questions are all about the same, and coding questions are more about code than problem solving anyway. Even if you've already solved it, you can make mistakes when you do it again.
> [bunch of stuff I don't need]

They tend to be the things that you don't need until you absolutely need them right now (or yesterday).
.NET Myths Dispelled – Celebrating 21 Years of .NET
Would you mind sharing the code? How do you know subscribers have messages waiting for them, inotify or polling or something else?
This blog is all about playing a chrome's trex game using gestures.
If within those books there is knowledge/instructions on semiconductor manufacture and computer networking, then we could rebuild the internet with relative ease and re-disseminate our books at that time.

I vaguely recall someone or some group compiling instructions for 8-bit CPU chip manufacture in case of a worldwide catastrophe. Google isn't finding anything, but maybe someone else knows what I'm talking about?
These are all excellent points that I think people forget about and assume that humans have attained some sort of innate intelligence due to our societies and technologies.

The ability to store information is a big technological leap. Even then, it's taken us as a species 5,000 years to get here once we had writing.