skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they hack my PC, they can keylog my passwords, so I do not fear this single point of failure. And without that, password managers just allow me to generate secure passwords
Swedish speed skater Nils Van Der Poel drinks cream and eats crisps, LOTS of it, while training just to get enough calories in his body to continue training so number 1 is faulty.
Thank you for the TL;DR! I started this extraordinary life history article and after the first "n" paragraphs I forgot why I was reading it ...
I was thinking the exact same thing. I stopped reading after three sentences and couldn't find the scientific paragraph right away so I just when to the HN comment section to see if some could give me the gist of the story.

Many of these articles are written to increase volume, but its my take that no one really cares about who ate what this morning. Scientific papers often do the same thing
I occasionally find myself going in a feed-refresh cycle between apps. Anything new in this reddit group? What about RSS on theoldreader? Nope, HN? Podcasts? Oh well, back to reddit. It's almost impossible to pull myself out of, it has to be a real conscious effort.

Another stupid time-waster is reading about a thing I want to do, instead of just doing the thing. Such as reading opinions about some video game I already own, instead of just playing the game, or watching videos about playing guitar instead of actually doing it. I get cross at myself for how easily manipulated I am.
My ISP has at least 10 ranges (a result of the shortage and mergers) and there's little info about which ranges I could get IPs from.
Soaring lumber price adds nearly $19,000 to the cost of a new home
Surprisingly, just changing the port is highly effective. Scanning every ipv4 address still chews bandwidth even for just a handful of ports.

Add ipv6 into the mix and it's straight up infeasible to scan for even ONE port on every host!

Port knocking + key auth + non-default port is pretty damn good security, even against zero days in SSH.
Sorry I am missing your point. That makes sense if first VPS is serving multiple ssh servers; so you harden one instance. In this case, the person has only one instance. Instead of hardening oracle VPs, they could harden aws instance.

Bastion makes sense if it’s locked down more than destination. This doesn’t apply if there is only one destination and one public service (SSH).

I suggest using AWS AMS or putting it behind vpn.
》I was the only Hispanic faculty at my department, had 13k+ citations, 2 books, & papers in Nature, Science, & PNAS

Author complains about merit, but list his race BEFORE his credentials.
Unfortunately. I have seen some ISPs DHCP servers assign IPs with no particular subnet(s). Could be a case here as well.
I don't know if it's the mental difficulty or the stress associated with the task that is causing the energy to be burnt. I'd like some clarity on that if anyone has studies.

> I feel like this is already known?

I'm not sure about that. I heard a lot of people say "exercise doesn't help you lose weight because you eat more", not "exercise doesn't help you lose weight, because it doesn't really burn calories.".
Student Saves Skyscraper
> If I have to invent weirdo gymnastics in my database to enforce something, it's probably best to do in code.

What if you had to do weird gynmastcis in the code instead ?

Setting up a trigger that checks if the row being inserted has a foreign key that points to a row of another table that has a column with a value that you were expecting.

Easily done with a trigger that requires no round trips, but many see it as an overhead because you now need to maintain a function with DB migrations.

If you do it in the code, you need to make sure you do a second call to your DB to do this validation everyone you insert in a specific table, something that can be missed when witting code.
Mizuno ransomware attack, cyberattack on Ukraine and more news of the week
I didn't know this about myself, but apparently I feel the same because I exited there after finding out very little about the claim in the title of the article.
Who knew that heavy space polka was something I needed today, thanks :)
England's oldest pub, serving alcohol for 1,200 years bankrupted due to Covid-19
Technically, MySpace is still alive, so while I do think that Facebook won't technically die, it may, at least for North America and Europe, functionally die, although its momentum might stop its fall in i.e. Africa (in a similar vein, the Opera name is very popular there even though it's no longer heard very much back in Silicon Valley).
"The politics of the university are so intense because the stakes are so low" -- Wallace Stanley Sayre¹

¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law
(I have an extended family member who is currently a research assistant at MIT).

Different faculty have different areas of expertise and research. Let's say you've got a handful of professors in the economics department. Each one has a thing (or two) that they're currently all about. One might be about international fraud, another about comparative economics, maybe another is into the whole basic income thing, so on and so forth. Each vies to attract other talent to the university that is complimentary or congruent to their own. They tend to want to see that grown into a larger "program" at the university, a sort of cabal. Academic merit is valuable as a second tier priority. You won't people that further your area of passionate research, and you want the people that do it best. And so those climbing the ladder, have to choose research that appeals to the people they want to retain them.
European Witch-Hunting (A Brief History)
Interesting thank you for the writeup! I tried to find a comparison of sound latency for old phones, modern mobile and e.g. MS Teams, but couldn't find any.

I didn't know there were echo cancellation in old time phones:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_suppression_and_cancell...

Is it maybe the background noise filters that mess up sound latency in Teams?

I used to play with friends over a privately hosted Ventrilo server back in the days, and the conversations were always crystal clear and felt like instant.

Maybe the VOIP providers just timeshare calls too much in their servers or have bad routing of packages.
I'm not a feminist, much less a radical feminist, so no.

My view of “TRAs” is based on what I see in media. The main issue I have with them is that they seem to really want to bring back traditional gender roles, after all the effort to get rid of them. A boy likes playing with dolls? He's actually a girl! Let's cut off “her” penis and put “her” on puberty blockers!
Congratulations! I would be happy to lose "only" 10 kg (hell, 5 kg would be good for a start), but since Covid and home office my weight has been (slowly, but steadily) going in the wrong direction. Yeah, you can and do burn calories by exercising, but it's depressing how little it is. And it's also depressing if I look at the graph that some 40 to 50 year olds seem to still have the metabolism of a toddler - I'm definitely not one of those! OTOH, you can feel superior by thinking these people would be in big trouble if there was a famine, but that's (fortunately) not the world we live in (although it's pretty fucked up if you consider that we are complaining about these first world problems while in other countries people are starving)...
As a child I have been taught everybody should do their best to arrive as precisely on time as possible yet +/- 15 minutes is always absolutely fine. Nobody is a precision machine, traffic is always a disaster so that's natural and being crazy pursuing extreme punctuality is just unreasonable stress for everyone. Apparently obsessive-compulsive punctuality, being sure everyone must arrive on time with sub-minute precision is a psychological disorder caused by some sort of childhood trauma. It was a shock for me to encounter this but given the fact the job, the company and the boss himself are pretty awesome in all the other aspects I take this with understanding and acceptance.
I don't even understand what it is. Is it something like Second Life? And is that like an old Vernor Vinge story called "True Names" which in turn is like a bunch of old Star Trek episodes and other such things? When I see "metamates"I read it as "metamites" and then as "catamites" and it makes me wonder what is really going on.
Would be interesting if github started using this on their copilot outputs.
Counting and estimating calories is a skill that should be taught in schools.

The public health benefits are unparalleled.
Wikipedia says that zebrafish have a generation time of 3 month and the article says that the glowing ones reproduce even earlier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebrafish#Reproduction
City of Hope Medical Center is developing the PIpepTolDC "inverse vaccine" to treat Type 1 Diabetes and other auto-immune diseases [0]. They have had two successful trials in humans [1, 2]. The third trial is recruiting adults with T1D onset 1-4 years ago [3].

The PIpepTolDC treatment is expensive because it is labor intensive. A technician must take some of the patient's blood, isolate their immune cells, replicate the cells, desensitize them, and then inject them back into the patient. BioNTech is developing a new category of treatments for auto-immune diseases [4] which should be inexpensive injections. These should include a treatment for Type 1 Diabetes.

Frankly, this tech seems amazing and ready to cure many diseases. The pace of development seems slow. I wish there were some way to speed it up. About 80,000 children develop T1D every year.

[0] https://www.precisionvaccinations.com/type-1-diabetes-vaccin...

[1] https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.aaf7779

[2] https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-8587(20)30104-2

[3] https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04590872

[4] https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-det...
"many liars and cheats" I guess it takes one to know one?

A decent technical test would weed out any actual liar, no? or do we need people who thinks they're fbi interrogators?
Can overeating solve obesity? :) Cause it'll encourage me to exercise right?
Look at Nim's front page: https://nim-lang.org/
It features several code samples showcasing many important language features.
> have to take some amount of insulin

There are quite a few pathways for your muscles and liver to release "stored glocose". If you want to artificially do it, get a glucagon siringe and get the worst hyperglycaemia you ever had since your liver starts converting glycogen into glucose en-masse. Natural release of glucagon is also regulated by having a low carb diet.
Well, not all organizations need to be strict bureaucracies. Bell Labs didn't work that way.

You could certainly argue that the giant bureaucracy model hasn't worked very well for science.

Even if you think it has worked well, I think you could see why some people may not like being an ever smaller cog in an ever-growing soul-crushing machine.
I agree. But I’m old fashioned.
I would never dream of going into the office without a collared shirt.
Honestly, I don't know what to think of a CEO, who publicly puts her authority behind a video suggesting that doing anything off the open coast line of Zürich may be a viable business proposition. (It's a bit like selling a technology driven by the glaciers of New Mexico.)
Nice feature. But that string reverse example is exactly one thing that annoys me in Go: the lack of higher level batterie functions for strings, maps and slices.
It's easy to understand, put yourself in the shoes of someone who's life has been engrossed in facebook and social networks since the early 2000s -- warped vision of reality
this was a great read. I just had to keep reading, almost felt like following the people solving the mystery.
Seeing a rocket launch live is definitely on my list, but it's a bit difficult living in an entirely different continent and all.
> I don't even understand what it is

it's bullshit
Check Sparc before all that stuff, iter is outdated but there are alternatives being worked on.
> Normally, by that time of day (noonish), I would have checked the weather 17 times or so already, all but one of them a pointless reflexive tic.

I'm as online as the next guy, but why would someone check the weather more than once or twice a day? Granted, I live in California so I don't worry much about extreme weather, but even when I lived on the east coast I would only check the weather once in the morning.
No you’re not alone in it. But yes there are plenty of us who find it a really effective way to get drawn into an article. It works for me through infectious enthusiasm. If I have a sense of a curious mind trying to figure something out, I get interested in the thing they’re trying to figure out too. Bill Bryson’s Short History of Nearly Everything made me interested in tons of scientific areas I never considered interesting before, because it is all about fascinating people repeatedly failing then eventually succeeding in understanding some natural phenomenon. The human angle is the perfect gateway for me. Maybe if I had more discipline I could just force myself to start reading a dry, factual scientific article in a field of little immediate interest to me until I start to notice data points that pique my own curiosity. But it’s so much easier for me to get infected with the curiosity of some compelling character who is overflowing with it. And it sticks better in the memory.

If it’s a field I already have a strong personal interest/background in, then I generally just want to get straight to the findings, so in that case I wouldn’t read a long form popsci article like this one. But calories/diet/exercise stuff? For me that’s not very exciting, yet I do want to understand it better (for practical benefit), so anything that helps pique my curiosity in it is good.
My Remote Mob Programming Experience
I had no idea that/how the economic sustainability of a career in wizardry would be so closely founded upon sheep. And that wizardry would, amongst the practising masters, inevitably lead to sheep-rearing.

I also loved how it all tied back to adventurer plot lines, political machinations, quests, guilds, and the like.

What a wonderful read. Fascinating.
If you want to make progress you change the world as it is to the way it should be and throw out notions like thinking people are 'wired' in certain ways to rationalize the status quo.

These bug issues or bad software practices are results of a culture, and work cultures can be fixed. Hence OPs example of experiencing a very different culture in another country, and presumably German's aren't genetically built different to respond better to software error reports.

And the best time to fix it is right now because it'll be more expensive in a year.
Google Wordle Easter-Egg
I (and somehow the rest of our company) has been spared the constant slack problem but I still don’t know if this is the nature of our work (we work on hardware) or the culture this company has somehow cultivated. Or both.

First, we use Teams. And we have set up Teams to be messenger/chat oriented first, and group chat second. In fact, the group chat feature is heavily controlled and limited to posting domain/company-wide updates. I don’t know if this was intentional, but so it goes.

Result: people use Teams as a substitute for walking across campus to ask a quick question. Or to bounce off an idea. Or to quickly check status. Or to send gifs in meetings.

Second, as a hardware focused company, traceability is super important. You don’t want to be leaving technical decisions on ephemeral chat. You don’t want drawings, schematics, and instructions lost to people just chatting in Slack/Teams.

Result: email/Jira/wiki it is.

Third: as a hardware focused company, the personnel is divided into technicians and engineers. And the technicians do not actively look at their phones/computers. It can be hours sometimes before one of them responds. Last thing you want is a tech looking at their phone every 10 minutes while wielding a rivet gun.

Don’t expect a design engineer to be so quick on their response time either. They’re either deep into a CAD design, in a design meeting, or on the floor with a tech. Don’t Ask to Ask is not specifically taught but most everyone learns to Just Ask because who knows when you’re “Hey I have a question” is getting answered.

Result: most online communication is asynchronous anyways. Urgent matters will result in a call or someone running across campus.

I’m sure Slack plagues many a hardware company. But somehow we have cultivated a culture that discourages spending too much time in chat or storing important info there. If a question becomes too long or complicated, we ask each other to email. If a question is asked too frequently, it is logged in the wiki. If a question becomes rather convoluted, we call each other to quickly resolve the matter.

Messaging doesn’t need to be the enemy. It can be a powerful tool to keep in touch with others flung across the campus/globe.
There is a notable difference between those characteristics and the sartorial. That will be left as an exercise for the reader.
Differently, why do people trust closed source password managers?
If you block them with an ad blocker, it gives you a second to rethink this reflex.
Apparently the currently available product is indeed like Second Life (aka VRChat, a game that was released in early 2017 with superior functionality and is still the most actively played VR game) but "The Metaverse" is apparently referring to a group of interconnected products that hasn't been fully released yet.
Selling ads on social media is slowly dying. Either you bet really big on some new magical tech or you'll have a hard time justifying your valuation in a couple of years. At this stage, the vaguer the better.
He probably meant "Your company, your collegues and only then you, in that order. Remember your priorities, peon."
How is an interactive tutorial bad?
But it's not just `!=`, it is `!variable = value`, see [1]. That does not look like "not equal" operator.

[1] http://skiplang.com/docs/lvalues.html
I don't understand, why are you running it on a separate server ? You can just install it on your computer and it will likely be faster and work also when you don't have internet (and free). IDK about other OSes but on archlinux it's just a package to install.
Whenever there's insignificant science making "controversial" claims like "you can't lose weight with sport" journalist will provide storytelling instead of science.

The whole premise of that "You can’t exercise your way out of obesity" is that you burn more calories when you start running than later on as you continue. What's so controversial about it? It's normal that body optimizes for energy expenditure that's why we develop strength, endurance etc. And that's why when you're truly doing sports you're running more, faster, lifting more, etc. you increase the challenge to give your body greater burden to carry.

If I start lifting 20lbs and 3 years later I still lift that of course I won't lose weight.

You have that same thing in other disciplines - "historians" who can't make any meaningful contribution yet want to make name for themselves go on claiming "that or that king was gay" or "vikings were trans" or whatever fits the trending topics of the day and they get media exposure.
> insurance company keeps making her switch formulations depending on whatever is cheapest this month

That's batshit insane... Around here generics are now available for short acting insulins but while they should be the same they are not (ballpark maybe) but insurance is allowed to force cheaper if equivalent (according to them). My physision is writing force prescriptions the insurance has to obey since switching will be bad for the patient with the only benefit going to the insurer.
What were the going to do travel by sailboat for weeks? Some of the most important/powerful people in the world? They aren't used to zoom so flying it is.
In capitalism rich/powerful entities don't necessarily have incentives to make the world (or even their own direct neigbourhood) a better place, and most big entities act only based on their incentives, not based on morals and ethics.

They however have strong incentives to invest all available resources into their own survival, prolong their own life and/or earn more money.

Depending on how the managment is in turn incentivised they will typically also prefer short term success over decisions that would make more sense long term — e.g. short term a search engine saves money by not spending a ton of money on quality when they are in a monopolist position, while in the long term it fould bite them.
Nice. Now I wonder what not eating avocado toast for 3 days is like.
That's pretty rich coming from a 2,200-year-old Roman consul who commanded thousands and literally wrote the first how-to guide of abusive labor practices in the mass agricultural sector.
It’s really crazy. Like there’s no way this thing takes off, it looks like a nightmare. VR is suuuper far off from mainstream adoption if it happens at all.
Anyway the Patriot hit the fuel tank after the warhead had separated, turning the tank from one big projectile into lots of smaller projectiles spreading out to hit lots of targets, and leaving the warhead untouched.
You'll often find angry greybeards on here griping about how you shouldn't do X or Y. Don't run your own mail, don't write your own crypto, don't run K8s. And you'll also find greenhorns talking about how they've been doing X for 10 years and never had a problem.

The thing is, both perspectives are valid. It's true that you can sometimes do really complicated things yourself and it can work out fine. And you can also get burned really easily. So the reader needs to figure out for themselves what the risk is and if it's worth it.

But there are things we should all do that are just never easy to do right, like.... backups. There's just no cheap and easy and good way. If you want real off-site backups, you're going to have to either pay a small fortune for a managed service (either in subscription fees or network egress fees or both), or physically carry a bunch of drives or tapes somewhere else weekly/monthly. And of course you also have to restore regularly or the whole thing could be a waste. It's just a pain.
Sure fast food is convenient if you have little time, but people have survived poverty and mental health issues long before it.
Not sure if you’re interested in feedback, but your angry and extreme feelings about Musk and everything connected with him make your opinions too easy to disregard: you’ve made yourself the HN equivalent of the angry crazy guy shouting on a street corner.

I know it’s the trend in the world, the established media, social media, etc. but it’s possible have have a more nuanced view on things than ALL VERY BAD or AMAZING AWESOME.

For example, one can reasonably criticise Musk for his stupid outbursts on Twitter and elsewhere (and of course, also criticise the media for breathlessly reporting every bit of nonsense he spouts for clicks.) He is notoriously bad at predicting the timing of when things will happen. Robotaxis are probably 5+ years away, if ever. Tesla delivers their new models much later than promised, and has poor customer service. Hyperloop was a concept that would probably have been ignored were it not for the outsize attention that Musk gets. Etc.

But… these views can reasonably coexist with also acknowledging that two of his companies have revolutionised their parts of our world within a very short space of time. SpaceX has revolutionised the commercial rocket space, and Tesla has driven the whole automotive industry towards building EVs by leading from the front. And it’s almost guaranteed that neither of those would have happened without them being led by Musk (and Shotwell).
The body absorbs refined carbs very quickly. The glucose rush will increase insulin levels to very high levels and make you feel hungry again soon leading to the consumption of even more calories.