skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since it exists in both versions of FF, could you have anything installed which could be interfering with FF's communication with the rest of the internet? Are you on a network with a router which is able to modify your traffic (requires custom SSL certificate) (long shot)?
To make sure you aren't speeding?
Current Tesla AP can read speed limit signs too.
> While that's absolutely correct, fortunately it's only true for Germany, which will further cripple itself in the tech world.

Sooner or later this will be an EU proposal anyway like the GDPR.

> The more they trip themselves up, the longer the US can easily keep its crown and the trillions of dollars that go with it.

A lot of the success of the US tech giants is built upon the cost of people suffering in a myriad of ways, from the cost of following up with data thefts to literal death from exploitative working conditions. European countries - while not perfect - tend to value their citizens a bit more than the US... and if the US continues on its current path, it may very well see the consequences of dissatisfied citizens. The election of the 45th President was only the beginning of what may happen.
I feel this is an important step in turning software programming into an actual engineering discipline.

Yes.

More than that, anything that has a backdoor or a "default password" should be viewed as being at least criminally negligent or outright criminal.
Yes the CCC also mentions router hardware quite a lot. You buy a 20€ wifi router from Mediamarkt or something and the CCC says it should come with a label until which date the router will get updates because the consumer has no idea they buy stuff that'll never see another update because the manufacturer already build two newer units.

In one podcast I heard t hem compare it to software in cars where if there is for example an encoding error so all bluetooth connections are reduced to a low bitrate they won't fix it until the next version of the car is released
Yeah like in Black Hawk Down.
Technically, highway (construction) code is that roads are engineered such that turns and such can be navigated safely at 15mph above the speed limit (or of 'cautionary speeds').

I state the above entirely on its own merits, not as a judgment of "should I or should I not travel at speed X on this road".
Ad 3. With squashfs via httpfs it would probably be fast enough. I remember years ago httpfs capable of booting livecd iso and it was performant enough. I'm not current with this knowledge, but is there a httpfs, that would download increasingly cache the file while doing range requests as it gets read requests for certain parts of the file?
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This, in a nutshell, is why I try to use VOIP accounts for 2FA where an SMS is required. The problem is that a service provider can tell if your number is a VoIP or a "real" number and refuse to let you use something like a Twilio or Telnyx number -- even though that would be more secure because someone stealing my phone (or SIM swapping me) wouldn't get them anything.

As for TOTP, I'm personally use BitWarden both for storing passwords and TOTP codes as well. Yes, I know this makes my logins all 1FA if someone can crack into my BitWarden account but that would be difficult (short of torturing the password out of me -- at which point regaining 2FA to my accounts isn't my biggest concern).

(This is also why I use a VoIP number for services like Telegram and Signal.)
If you read the rest of that thread, you'll find the issue was resolved and it was not an issue with the laptop:

https://community.frame.work/t/issues-with-power-usage/12261...

> Issue was that I was running linux-zen, strangely. With linux-zen, the CPU wouldn’t get past C3 and idle power usage was 7-13W. With regular linux, the CPU reaches C8 and idle power usage is ~5W. Strange that linux-zen did that, but ok ig

The other main culprit is whether or not you can successfully enable PSR for the display. IIRC, the laptop cannot hit C8 or C10 sleep states without PSR enabled, even if you have the ASPM power saving mode enabled.

Speaking for myself, running Debian unstable, after lowering the display brightness, with the right settings my laptop easily hits 2.5-3W idle.
The image is a mosaic of many observations and the “puzzles pieces” line up so to speak. It’s not a single snapshot.
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> because they never tire and they never break traffic rules and thus never cause accidents

No, because they never tire and almost never break traffic rules in dangerous ways, and thus cause accidents much less frequently than humans. Realistically, this means that instead of following the speed limit they'd follow speed limit + X, instead of keeping the prescribed distance they'd keep whatever distance human drivers typically maintain (while still keeping enough distance to react and stop), and it also means rolling through 4-way stops when they have sufficient confidence that it is safe to do so.
Basically, he wants my 2008 Hyundai Santa Fe.
All you're describing here is a professional network with 2 group of people in it - those you have beers with, and those you don't.
Does everyone just ignore the huge amount of government workers worldwide that have pay transparency? Instead of analysing this they study 1000 people only?
Human drivers "can" be way safer; they aren't always. There's likely some balance where overall, self driving is statistically safer than some group of suboptimal drivers. It remains to be seen but there's always hope.
> What McNamara didn’t keep track of was the narrative of the war, the meaning that it had both within the military forces of each side, but also in the civilian populations of the nations involved.

I'm probably not following and not saying it's easy but aren't there some metrics you could track that with? How was it determined/measured later that the meaning was important? Couldn't you at least do polls in your own country?
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At searching? I can't comment on bing but duckduckgo is different, not necessarily better. In fact for vague matches and context sensitive terms it's quite a bit worse than google.
You could create all kinds of new sounds and technologies and they would have no impact if audiences didn't connect with them.

Some people have a certain fluency with sound and music. It's not about training, although training will bring it out if someone has it. But it seems pretty innate. And it cuts through in a way that the work of people without the fluency doesn't.

Roland used to be masters of this. Their rhythm and bass boxes seemed like stupid failed toys, but they had a magic that wasn't obvious until they were handed to people who didn't try to use them in the "proper" way.

That's fluency from two sources - something the original designers somehow had (until Roland stopped being that kind of company) mixed with the feel the pioneering users had.

This story is another example of that.

Compare with - say - Yamaha's attempts to sell physical modelling synthesis. There was much money spent, a good selection of instruments produced, but it failed to cut through. Possibly because it ended up being a system of presets and directed constraints that limited imagination instead of opening it up. (Or possibly not. It's a mysterious process.)
Is it easier if you reframe it as "good fortune"? For instance suppose that you or an immediate loved one suddenly developed a condition which was treatable and tolerable within your current life but took up 10+ hours per week. It sounds like thus far you've had the good fortune to always be able to find the time to continuously learn and re-train.

Or if you think back to your earliest contacts with technology, whether someone gave you a book, told you the name of some tech to learn, helped you get access to a computer, etc., I think all of us who are working in tech have had the good fortune to have access to technology and resources that helped us train ourselves but I can imagine having had substantially less access earlier in my life and the deficit that could've left. So I think I've been overall very fortunate, and that's part of what's meant by the word "privilege."
GDP is actually a great example. It's actually very easy to increase a country's GDP if that's the only thing you care about. You just borrow more money and then spend it. GDP is literally a measure of money changing hands inside a country. If you borrow as much money as you can and then spend it on things like infrastructure projects, you can instantly increase the GDP. Banks see the growing GDP figure and assume that its a good thing and let you borrow more money. That is, until they don't.

This happened with Brazil in the 1970's, when the oil crisis made Brazil believe that they were going to face a downturn. To overcome this, they borrowed money and went on an infrastructure spending spree. This made Brazil look like an economic miracle, growing when everyone else was struggling. This encouraged more banks to lend to Brazil. The problem is the money was spent on short term growth instead of things that would more systematically grow the economy over the long term. The government (and lending banks) was substituting year-to-year GDP numbers for economic health. Once credit tightened in the early 1980's, Brazil's growth plummeted.

This is of course an over simplification, but I think we are seeing similar problems in modern economies. People often cite China's GDP growth, but they don't balance that out with the debt they are taking on in order to finance that growth.
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I'm a big fan of "mechanical solutions to computer problems." I think it's extremely interesting to see how hard it is to encode logic pre-transistor, and makes me feel spoiled today (in a good way).

My favorite example is the writer automaton [1]. It's something that never stops to impress me, just because it's something that wouldn't be that hard nowadays, but must have required effectively PhD levels of understanding to do pre-computer.

[1] https://youtu.be/OehTO9l1Hp8
I wish they did the same for governments and lawmakers
I sometimes see this argument that nations aren't responsible for what their leaders do... but don't they ? After all it was the nation that elected those leaders to represent them ! (This principle is sometimes applied even to the non-nation peoples, in non-democratic countries, as in "you get the leaders that you deserve".)

Also consider how it looks from outside : you can't expect to be aware of all the internal political details of all the countries, at some point you have to consider the people and their government as a single entity (remember how this is also what nations are supposed to be ?)
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That URL gives me a 404 – should it be https://github.com/nodejs/undici ?
EU Runs World’s Largest Accessibility Test
I'm looking for internships but I don't see any openings on the greenhouse page.
I could see construction zones required to setup self-driving parking buffers for the cars to 'fail' into safely.
The uncomfortable truth is that quality doesn't matter in software. When you need something welded you need an expert. Most companies don't need or even want a candidate with 10 years of Java experience. They want someone with barely enough skills to ship the minimum portion of the feature the business will accept. It's an evolutionary process. If companies wanted high quality candidates the market would deliver a solution. In software it just doesn't matter for most cases.
I had someone go in front of me while circling his flashlight as if to proceed. When I did, he casually walked in front of me. He wasn't actually paying attention and was just flinging his light for directing traffic without thinking about it.

Yeah, the .1% can be really ambiguous and dangerous.
> I think that philosophy took a big hit when during a pretty bog-standard protest / counter-protest someone stabbed the left wing protesters in the back (or, more accurately, drove a car into them from behind).

Lets not pretend that "the left" only started using violence to silence dissenting voices until after Charlottesville. Earlier that year, there were riots over Milo Yiannopoulos being invited to speak at Stanford. And then a few months prior, there were mass riots at the Trump Innaguration (before he'd even done anything).

Its disingenuous to pretend this isn't a "both sides" problem based on issues of hyper-partisanship of the US over the past 10 (or more) years. I think one way for us to put this genie back in the bottle is firstly, for people to stop trying to place partisan blame, and instead say this is an "extremist" problem, and actually work in good faith to try and reconsile.

Anything less is doomed to failure.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Berkeley_protests
[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/21/trump-inaugura...
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAMN
There are a bunch of factors and implications from the piece, which I had hoped they'd go into. But some of the more obvious implications which are often more organizational than they have to do with the data per se:

- the data you are collecting may not include factors that are consequential to outcomes. Treating these unmeasured factors as inconsequential is hazardous. The piece specifically mentions this effect. This effect is not a surprise but yet many organizations fall into this trap so it seems to be worth mentioning.

- the difficulty of measuring some factors will result in their exclusion from the dataset. Some things are intrinsically hard to measure, and many organizations will as a result refuse to measure them, and make decisions without them. There needs to be a conscious and active process organizationally to resist this and find effective ways of measuring them.

- the difficulty of measuring some factors will result in easier but less useful proxies being used in their place. Same as above just with a somewhat different outcome. Organizations are often blind to this happening as they come to believe the proxy is as good as the real measure (or sometimes even that the proxy is the measure). A good industry example of this is clickthrough rates being treated synonymously with audience interest or content quality.

And a point I wish the piece made but did not:

- measuring something does not grant automatic understanding of the phenomenon and gives you no predictive power. It's one thing to quantifiably know the blue button gets more clicks than the green button, but that grants you no insight into why. Many tech companies fall into this trap - where despite investing heavily in experimentation their modeling of the product space doesn't improve over time, since they fail to take the step to convert observation to generalizable hypotheses that improve their model for the product and market.

This last effect IMO is huge in our industry, and is why the same low-level experiments are being re-done over and over again. This creates more product churn and reduces your product velocity - since the lack of proven product models means you're mostly flying blind and using ex-post-facto experimentation on live users to figure out what to do.

Experimenting on button colors is all well and good, but the end result of that data should be a color theory that explains what colors to use when, not forever A/B testing every single button color for the rest of time.
Fixed above. Er, applied above. Thanks.
It's interesting to watch what Amazon runs directly versus what they contract. IIRC they own trailers but contract the semis to pull them. At one point, they actually considered buying an RV park for their seasonal warehouse employees. I wonder why they don't directly sell their surplus like the government does at gsaauctions.gov.
So you're defining closeness as not including blood relation or friendship?

You are quoting definitions which disagree with your assertion. You used the word incorrectly, and now you're doubling down on that rather than leave the word behind.

Better hope good recruiters aren't seeing this! ;)
You have said two things that are false, one of them repeatedly after being corrected, with evidence. This is lying (and not very effective lying at that).

First, you said that we have no vaccine against Omicron. We do. Your explanation of how vaccines work is... not wrong, per se, but not particularly helpful either. I know how vaccines work; I don't know your credentials but I would say I know better than your average HN user (and less than your average infectious disease researcher) for various reasons.

Your characterization of historic vaccines is not correct at all. They are very rarely "perfect", and no epidemiologist would refer to all historical vaccines in that way. Indeed, almost nothing in medicine is considered "perfect", vaccine or no. Smallpox and polio vaccines are very highly effective against basically everything to do with the disease. Other popular vaccines such as those for Hepatitis B, Pertussis, and the already mentioned Influenza have very high failure rates -- many greater than 50%.

The Influenza vaccines reduce the risk of hospitalization for influenza by about 40%, which is substantially less effective than 3-dose Pfizer against Omicron. That vaccine saves at least thousands of lives each year[0]. Those vaccines are vaccines against influenza.

It's no different for the mRNA and adenovirus vaccines that we use for COVID, because the definition of a vaccine has nothing to do with the content of the biological prep: only with the effect it causes (increased immune response). The COVID vaccines (be it Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, AstraZeneca, Sinovax, or otherwise) factually do produce an increased immune response against Omicron, and they therefore are vaccines against Omicron. You even acknowledge that the vaccines help train your immune system to kill the virus, which is literally the only requirement for something to be a vaccine.

The second false statement is that "the previous vaccines offer quite little protection". If you had qualified this as "quite little protection against infection" or "quite little protection against spreading the virus", it would have been accurate, but you did not. The previous vaccines offer considerable protection against three things you should definitely care about: severe symptoms, hospitalization, and death. That they provide little protection against some other things you care about is interesting, but not the full story. Leaving this out is misleading, but I am willing to accept that it was accidental.

Anyway, I'm essentially done here. Feel free to respond if you like, and don't take my non-response as agreement.

[0]- https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/vaccineeffect.htm
According to the top HN comment right now, the new risk only applies to closed source software which has known/disclosed vulns before the software’s declared lifespan ends.

This is not draconian to reasonable software firms and is analogous to structural/civil engineering.
I've tried logging off and on HN, and logon is fine (Linux, version 91).

May be you can try:

1. Check the clock on your machine. Make sure it's not running at a time beyond 2038.

2. Check the disk space on your machine, especially where the profile is stored. Out of space error can be causing other errors.

3. Check the file system read/write permission on the profile folder.

4. Make sure there's not another instance of Firefox running. In fact, reboot just to be sure.

5. Try older versions of Firefox, with the portable versions. There's a command line argument to use an existing profile or a new one. Try those. This would narrow the problem down to whether it's caused by your machine or versions of Firefox.
https://mozilla-firefox-portable.en.uptodown.com/windows/ver...

Good luck.