skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is not making its case particularly well, because it's pointing to two examples of weak security and suggesting that they were weak as a deliberate choice to make it easier to develop with those tools, when it's rather more likely they were weak simply because the developers were incompetent with or unconcerned with security.

(The third example, ElasticSearch, certainly lacks security as a design choice, but it's fairly clear to me that it lacks this choice simply because the developers believe it should never be a globally accessible service, rather than to make it easier to use.)

Furthermore I'd like to repeat the now pained challenge to writers of programming topics: please, please, please retire "considered harmful". At best it is high-handed and smug, at worst it is meaningless puffery.
This is really nice to see; apart from the weirdly named, macOS specific NS* apis, Swift has been a real pleasure to use and, refreshingly, feels like a language designed for humans first. I hope this means Swift has a chance to eat Rusts’ lunch :)

Does anyone know how c++ classes and struct will interact with ARC?
If I’m buying a series hybrid with a small battery, I would like the ability to tow small loads, drive with the windows open, drive faster than Tesla’s rated speed, drive on wet or snowy roads, etc. Some margin for error would be welcome.
Berlin’s Zalando is another counter example being now bigger than the US original Zappos.
This will probably be the way it's handled honestly. I think it's the best option.
When my baby was born about a year ago here in UK I would always say his weight in kg when someone asked, and people would literally stare me blank in the face and say they have no idea if that's a lot or not. Once I converted it to pounds for them they were like "oh yeah, he's a big baby then".
This.

If you're sending 250,000 double opt-in SMS messages and can't cover $0.007/message you've got a serious pricing problem
Ah, yes, I remember that Bose feature, I had a Bose BT speaker a few years ago (actually it's still here somewhere, but I haven't used it in a while). But I don't think it's a synthesized voice - the German version has a distinctly disappointed sound when it has to inform you that something has disconnected. Good to know that the headphones have that too (as a "con" argument for getting QC headphones).
I'm intrigued by mesh networking, too. I'd like to see an open source implementation of Bluetooth Mesh networking for embedded SoCs like ESP32 that's not limited to a single chip (and ideally usable with MicroPython).
This could make cool games possible running on all those hacker conference badges!
I looked into Dendron after this thread, but the graphing is just so much worse than foam that I will pass. Creating a graph is super slow for some reason, zooming in and out is done in big increment instead of being granular, it doesn't show the direction of the links and as soon as you zoom out, it hides the name of the nodes.

I also just like the fact foam uses pure simple markdown and just uses the first heading as the node title in the graph.
Island: The Enterprise Browser
Awesome, easy way to read papers in the browser with dark mode without inverting image colors (like what Dark Reader does)
I'd bet you'd be a fantastic person to lend cycles to keep the guesswork within reason. And if you had cycles to put to the weeds, I doubt an engineer would turn you away. We should get in touch! pavgup at gmail dot com!
The problem with this line of argument is that there's no single "price for electricity". Either it's dirt-cheap when oversupplied, or eye-wateringly expensive when undersupplied. Within the past two months, spot price ranged from 3 cents to 1500 cents.

Renewables push down the cost when the price is already low, and do nothing when the price is high
Hi terry. It's easy. Copy the code from https://github.com/isneuu/autofix-grammarly-errors/blob/main...

For chrome or brave browser, go to your grammarly web, press F12 and paste that code. It will open what is called Console.

For Firefox, press F12, and you'll see tabs starting with "INSPECTOR, CONSOLE, ..." Press console and paste the code. I haven't tried it for firefox as my primary browser is chrome.

I've pasted the readme file for your convenience.

1. Go to Grammarly Web app
2. Go to Editor Settings, turn on "Auto-jump to the next suggestion"
3. I made it primarily for the "Correctness" tab in Grammarly. It also works for others.

Please know that I'm eager to reply to your queries here and help you. This tool definitely helps. :)
"supported" is somewhat of a misnomer IMHO. It's only supported if the other tools you're using support ESM. Otherwise, it's not. And it's really annoying when libraries choose to go full ESM because it breaks things like tests and deployments in weird ways.

It's a pain in the ass.
User resources: time, computer CPU and memory, user network bandwith, etc. are free for company. Why care?

In free software, developers are users, so they care. Software is free, but developer_as_user time is not free, so it better to spent 1 hour time once to save 1 minute every time in the future.

In commercial software, developers are not users, so they don't care. Software is paid, so ROI is important, thus it better not to spent 100 hours of developer time + 1 hour of upkeeping time every month to save 1 minute of users time, unless it's important to crush a competitor.

Commercial producers are quadruple prices, until users stop to buy, drops quality, until users stop to buy, stuff ads in, until users stop to buy, shrinkflate, until users stop to buy, and so on.

Did you switch to a competitor product? No? Then why company should care? Vote with your money.
It's my impression that some language communities have a higher fraction of women than others, although none approach 50% AFAIK. For example, looking at the names of R package contributors, it's my impression that a higher fraction are female than for Fortran-related projects on GitHub. (I use both languages.) Is the R community doing something different from others?
In a slightly different direction, I'd love to collaborate with someone on writing and producing low-budget short films in NYC. I have some plot ideas bouncing around, as well as some basic equipment and (mostly theoretical) skills in cinematography, sound, and editing.
I don't even really get the gist of what he does/is selling. I am probably not refined enough to get it but glossing over multiple pages it kept reading the same to me. He writes a lot, goes on walks and has a "SPECIAL PROJECTS" membership program.
In one of our cars, the car will just connect to whoever last was connected although sometimes this means it connects to someone's phone that isn't even in the car.

The other car has a preference selection that will try the preferred phone first and then will try whoever else is in range. I like this one best since I'm usually alone in this car. Either option really doesn't work great if you are sharing the car, the car would never really know who it should connect to if both phones are in range. I wish the car would somehow factor in RSSI into the auto connect decision, like don't pick the default or most recent phone if it has significantly less signal strength than the other devices in range.
No. Flat-out means at full RPM, which is not a thermal decision. It is a limit based on cylinder size and flame speed. Any higher and the fire is still burning when the exhaust valve opens. That is why engines with big/wide cylinders cannot turn as quickly. This is why a large ship with 2-foot wide cylinders might max out at 100rpm while a sportbike with 1-inch cylinders might at 16,000rpm. The capacity of the cooling system is a different issue.

Because of the physics of air movement, sitting at idle is very hard on a car engine. Idle means no speed and air has to be forced across the radiator. Flat-out would mean at least some forward movement and lots of air across the radiators. Any radiator system meant to survived idle while stopped will handle flat-out at speed indefinitely. Those Japanese sportbikes racing around the track are not overheating, but they might if asked to idle at the start line for too long.

Where I am, it is normal to see cars/trucks with carboard across their fronts to reduce airflow. In winter there is too much cooling and engines have trouble getting up to temperature at any forward speed. This is a big issue if you are relying on the engine to warm up and de-fog your windscreen (hybrids).

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/honda-crv-civic-heater-1.59...
Look at the map in that link you posted, Greenland, Canada, Russia etc are all high. It's a long page, what exactly are you referring to to disagree with me?

That data probably isn't super relevant to this argument though, since it includes alcohol. I don't think alcohol is more easily available in the US than those other countries because of the USD.
DPI is deep packet inspection in this context. HyperScan did some groundbreaking work for DPI, where you (1) have to match a huge number of regexes at the same time, (2) need high and consistent performance, and (3) don't need the starting points of matches.
No, but a BLE extension for audio is being created.
Great! You can find me on Twitter to be updated on the progress of the project:

https://twitter.com/marekgibney
I was thinking about this yesterday when reading that some people with
long covid experience the smell of meat as that of decaying dead flesh, which
none of us wants to hear but is not technically wrong. Could it be
that whereas we're socialized toward certain perceptions, a disorderly
shutdown of the senses causes something like a reboot to factory
settings?
Keep in mind that the Souls RCE exploit was unknown for many years, and the modding community rallied to get it to FromSoft's attention.

The modding community maintains its own 'anti-cheat' system called Blue Sentinel, which was updated day-of to block the RCE exploit. At least, the same day the warning was made in the Discord servers I'm still in.
I'm convinced every side project should lend you awesome learning experiences. Why else would you do it? These specs and the chipsets that are implementing them seem to be deeply maddening, but I bet that's a good thing, right? :)
I want the web to be more end-user programmable. Web apps big and small should offer plugin extension mechanisms! Ideally plug-ins are frictionless to author, and powerful enough to build fun UIs. Today, only really big premier apps like Figma and Google Docs have this kind of feature.

One problem is that it’s very difficult for an app to run arbitrary, untrusted user code in a way that’s secure and efficient, especially in the browser. Apps need to worry about XSS and unintended remote code execution, much less try adding those things as a feature.

I started working on a Typescript/WebAssembly library around the QuickJS JavaScript runtime to address this need. QuickJS runs modern ES2020 and provides an API for the host process to set CPU and memory budgets for the execution environment, which is completely sandboxed. My work so far exposes a basic interface to create VMs, expose APIs from the host to the guest, and evaluate code.

Repo: https://github.com/justjake/quickjs-emscripten

NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/quickjs-emscripten

Areas of work:

- Make the library importable as ES modules on the web without a Webpack build step.

- Design higher-level but still security-conscious APIs for building plugin systems on top of the existing library.

- Expose more QuickJS C APIs to library users.

- Performance or ergonomic improvements.

If you share any of these goals or would like to help out, please drop me a line on GitHub (eg by opening an issue), or via any of the links on my HN profile.
See, that's the point. That's only _American_ conservatism. It's not what a CDU represents in Germany, nor what Die Mitte represents in Switzerland - both of which are decidedly conservative parties.
<i>Rooftop solar is still losing, but yes renewables in general are still competitive</i>

They aren't though, how many people do you know with an electric car, solar panels, a battery, without a grit tie? AKA they get all their power from renewables?

I personally don't know anyone like that, although I know plenty of people with solar, an electric car, or even a small solar+battery setup.

Why is that, because its super expensive, the tesla will be the cheapest part of the equation when your done.

And that applies to PV and wind at grid scale too, because for every MW of PV+Wind being installed there is a MW of natural gas plants being installed. So the actual cost of a wind turbine isn't just the turbine/panel, its the gas plant and its fuel. Which means that until we get magic pixie dust batteries that are less expensive than a gas plant, the price of wind or PV will never really go lower than whatever the cheapest backup source is. And that is the fundamental issue with the economics of solar/wind. Worse, battery costs can't just be added in because one has to take the duty cycle of the renewable source and multiply it enough (maybe 5x-10x) to get a 100% average duty cycle sufficient to charge those batteries.

So, at this point to get a rough approximation of the price of wind + PV needed to compare it fairly against the legacy power generation one needs to multiply by maybe 10x. And that is why every random person with a farm isn't covering turning their land into power generation.

So, maybe solar thermal solves the battery problem, but AFAIK its crazy expensive at this point too.

So, we keep pumping carbon out our tailpipes because we can't even get renewables to grow significantly, nevermind actually dealing with the impact of doubling or tripling the electric production needed to heat peoples houses and charge their cars.

The only question is how many more decades we will pump C02 into the atmosphere before we say enough, and either dump massive amounts of money into renewables, deal with grid instability, and try to "conserve" out way out of a crisis, or just get out of the way and start reprocessing the "waste" we have sitting around into new plants that can for a small fraction of the construction costs actually solve the problem.
>"If you're concerned about vaccines but not about other common drugs, you're in need of some risk calibration."

The good news is that I am not concerned about the safety and efficacy of vaccinations. I misinterpreted your comment because of the way it was worded. This is because I know some over the counter pain medications, like Tylenol, can be dangerous. So, I assumed there was a risk to Advil that I wasn't aware of and wanted to know more, given your background as a Biochemist.
We have very different memories of the 90s. I remember it being full of slow, memory hungry and buggy apps.
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https://twitter.com/GibraltarGov/status/1488531136506646544

There are 119 new positive cases in Gibraltar today. 71 are vaccinated and 48 are unvaccinated.

If vaccines didn't prevent transmission, one would expect that second number to be 10 or less given the base rate of vaccination.
Hey there! Sure! Sent you an email!
Fetch is a popular browser api to download and request stuff from the internet. Having the same api both in browser and in node allows easier re-use of the same application code or libraries on frontend and backend.
How long before greed is literally evolved out of our brains?
The ease is in moving between measurements. How many feet are in 102.3 inches?

Sure I can do the math to calculate it in my head and take a few seconds.

How many meters are in 240cm? Don't need to 'calculate' it the same method. I just move the decimal over. 2.4m...

I say this as an American who finds our use of Imperial pointless. Infact, there is a highway in Arizona that uses metric instead of imperial, as it was a part of our move to metric. (The current measuring and weights system in the United States is based on Metric, we do use it, just converted into another measure)
Vodafone teams up with Intel on OpenRAN in challenge to network suppliers
The real difference is Coca Cola made with real sugar than the more common HFCS.
Austrian businesses I think, but yes
You use a dumb contract in a situation where otherwise you'd need a solicitor? Please, explain.
I'm working on a voice computing project to bring text-to-speech to new audiences.

I think it's totally under-utilised and an easy-to-use tool of generating voicegrams could be super-sharable and - more importantly - useful from a cognitive perspective.

I think that cognitive differences could be levelled using text-to-speech! And provide an alternative and measurable way of consuming quality content.

My email is in my profile!
Working in a GENERAL relational language (ie: not just a query one, like SQL, but general to make full apps, like python/delphi/c# + linq):

https://tablam.org

that is my attempt to resurrect the spirit of the FoxPro/dbase kind of tools.

Is on Rust, and is also my way to sharp my skills on it.

Now, I'm in the process of improve the parsing to be robust like in Rust, so i can show good error messages:

https://github.com/brendanzab/codespan

and also, hopefully, implement a solid type inference that work fine with the challenge of infer joins like "customer CROSS JOIN address".

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The idea, long-term, is create a tool alike MS Access/FoxPro+Excel that I think could be great for a lot of companies (that are using stuff like "BigData" tools -like hadoop- when them are struggling with more fundamental issues!) and improve the condition of make business apps/analysis.

I already hear some interest when the vision is described in full, and I certain any company that use Excel/Access to deal with data and/or make business apps is anemically served by it.

The alternatives now are only for the cloud, and I instead wanna a local-first/on-premise offering...
Except when you go to slide your seat back as you're braking to a stop, and you find yourself skidding to a sudden and complete stop with the steering wheel in your chest.

Mechanical adjustment is fine for up-down, tilt (if it uses a dial), and lumbar, but for forward-back I prefer electric. Also because manual forward-back adjustments are very coarse.
I think there's still a big market gap around an easy to use, high-level PaaS like Heroku but not sure this quite fills it.

Besides getting jammed into Salesforce, it seems like adding data warehousing, job queueing (besides basic Redis), and better metric support onto Heroku are common growth pains for startups.

Cursory glance: pricing seems reasonable. That's probably going to be a tiny fraction of whatever you're going to pay the engineer(s) who use it, anyway
>The advantage is not having to remember all those funny constants

This, very much! I've done a ton of physical simulation code in my life. Whenever some newb or student comes to me for the first time with their simulation code that mysteriously doesn't work, in 90% of cases they stupidly didn't stick to SI and forked up some unit conversion, or mutiple. I tell the to keep it in SI and never let me see them make that mistake again. (Only exception is simple 1-to-1 unit conversions of parameters and results, when some stupid interface definition demands it that can't easily be changed.)
Good for who? good for Google. But how is giving free content to Google good for the poster?
Being litigious and earning revenue from non-practicing patent ownership are fairly intertwined.

Being a new company with no history is, likely, strategic. Patent wars between practicing entities tend to be multi-front. Each side brings its own war chest of patents claims. Settlements tend to be more of a cease fire than a permanent end. They agree to stop suing each other.

Being non practicing means that a patent war can't interfere with your more important interests. Being clean slate means that whoever you sue can't return fire by going after the rest of your patent portfolio.

"Patent trolling" isn't black or white definitionally, but it has earned its bad name. It's an ugly game of dirty tricks.
I think its pretty common, especially when building software for other people, to make all manner of invalid assumptions. This is a nice, succint story to demonstrate how easily things can get over our heads. To ground it a bit -- if people aren't buying your product, or aren't using your feature the way you expected, you try to understand them. But if they or the world don't make sense, you might need to more literally get into their shoes to figure out why. How often on HN do we see people complaining that what someone does makes no sense. Whether another political party, upper management, non technical people, etc. Its actually the main thing that drives me away from HN at times, because those comments never go anywhere substantive.
In 2021 there are only two useful types of power: cheap power and peak power, and nuclear is neither.

Base power is only a useful term if it's cheaper than peak power, since you can fill 100% of your power needs solely with peak power.
S-T-R-E-T-C-H. Lay down on a carpeted floor and move.

First whatever feels good. Then on my back for side-to-side head rolls, arms over head, legs lifts, sit-ups, bridges. Then side planks, and finally on stomach for push-ups, planks and some yoga positions. Every day is different.

I think the resulting brain/cell oxygenation from rhythmic slow deep breathing is why it works.
>>I think we get the best of both worlds, having lower voltages in most living spaces

How is this possibly a benefit for anything though. It's not like 110V is safer in any practical way, if you stick something in a socket it will kill you just as much as 220V would, so it seems like for literally no reason at all American homes have a much less "ability" to support a wide range of devices that work without any issue elsewhere in the world.
I'm writing a FHIR server in NodeJS. The currently widely used FHIR server is a JAVA based monolith called HAPI FHIR.

I haven't seen many alternatives to FHIR server other than HAPI FHIR. It's a super challenging project and I'm not even sure I can pull it off.

Feel free to collaborate - https://github.com/rukshn/aurora
Yeah but that site has a strong monetary angle from what I can tell. This is just a simple list board of people sharing ideas.
Need this for bioarxiv also!
> Edit: And I wonder if and when these will start to appear in PhD applications, as PhD students are employees in a sense and often need to teach, too.

I applied for CS PhDs last year and Stanford did indeed require a diversity statement.

I don't remember any of the other universities I applied to asking for this. MIT certainly did not.
This criticism is as misguided as "end all regulation."

The specific problem that the US patent system enables is that patent rights can be assigned to anyone, just like any other property right.

That is what allows NPEs to exploit this manifest economic inefficiency.

Ending all patents very much throws the baby out with the bathwater.

The federal government can and should intervene to reform the laws that allow this.
The job market has gone wild. You're likely looking at a ~30% raise and perhaps much more if you can jump a level. No reason not to look.
> Also where are you that's 99% vaccinated?

Someplace where children are forbidden, I guess.
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