skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another thing that's basically a real security hole/opportunity with BLE sniffing is to record the unique IDs of all the BLE devices you can see, along with geo-location data.

Do this enough places and over time, and you get a map of what devices are where and at what time, with the assumption that the devices are probably linked to people.

Expand that to a government placing little innocuous BLE sniffers all over the place collecting data has some pretty evil big brother vibes. Or on everyone's phone so we are all sniffers.

But it kind of goes both ways. You could sniff outside a police station and just skim all the BLE devices you can find, and assume with enough data over time the frequent ones are mostly owned by police officers. Then have an app that alerts you any time one of those LEO BLE devices is in range of you. Basically an undercover LEO's Fitbit could give them up.
Weirdest tip of all: eat 2 TBS of a tasteless oil (e.g. avocado oil) every morning at 10am.

The theory is that obesity is cause by a misalignment between the body's sense of how much food it's eating (which it determines largely by smell and taste) and the actual number of calories consumed. High density, tasteless calories fool that system into thinking you're already full, so you won't want to eat more.
Search for "Shangri La Diet" to learn more details.
"The answer is sort of yes - browsers aren't magic! All the information browsers send to your backend is just HTTP requests. So if I copy all of the HTTP headers that my browser is sending, I think there's literally no way for the backend to tell that the request isn't sent by my browser and is actually being sent by a random Python program."

There is a way.^1 One might need to copy the static elements of the TLS Client Hello in addition to certain HTTP headers.

1. https://blog.squarelemon.com/tls-fingerprinting/

See, e.g., https://github.com/refraction-networking/utls

"problem 1: expiring session cookies

One big problem here is that I'm using my Google session cookie for authentication, so this script will stop working whenever my browser session expires.

That means that this approach wouldn't work for a long running program (I'd want to use a real API), but if I just need to quickly grab a little bit of data as a 1-time thing, it can work great!"

Sometimes Google keeps users logged in. For example, session cookies in Gmail will last for months or more. This makes it easy to check Gmail from the command line without a browser. It also means if someone steals a session cookie and the user never logs out, e.g., she closes the browser without logging out first,^2 then the thief can access the account for months, or longer.

2. Of course, it is also possible to logout and disable specific session cookies from the command line, without a browser.
Great writeup! I think it was incredibly brave to pick Kafka in 2015. I started with 0.9 and it was an absolute nightmare to manage for years. We hit a lot of the same issues listed in the blog with scaling, cluster recovery, topic replication, numerous zookeeper problems.
I had an Alltrack, only in white. It was totaled in an accident last November, with only 11,000 miles on it.

The first thing I thought after we knew we weren’t injured was, “oh NO I am going to have to buy a new car!”

Used Alltracks with more miles were going for both more than what I paid and more than the insurance payout (also more than I paid).

I have given up ever having a manual again. I managed to get a Honda Accord hybrid, and the only thing I can say about it is the gas mileage is nice right now. But it’s absolutely soulless, I feel unconnected to the road when driving, and it’s just boring and an appliance.
> Have you ever been on 101? This seems like a really out of touch comment in relation to 101 itself.
> Your website says you don’t live in the US and you did your education in NYC - so I feel like you might be really unaware of how this road operates and how many of these others operate…

I grew up in southern California and did my undergrad in the Bay Area. I've probably put around 100k miles of driving in California with myself behind the wheel and that includes the fact that I have been mostly been living outside California for more than a decade. Last time I drove through the Bay Area was a couple months back and I did in fact drive on the 101.
Wow, wish there was a Debian version!. I miss JeOS!
Simpsons Already Did It

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpsons_Already_Did_It
> "...to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers..."

> "...We still won’t allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians."

Good. This is a non-story. Calling for violence against ruthless (non-civillian) invaders is appropriate.
I'm working on a personal project where musl is the foundation of my project. So I'm interested in learning about all the downsides, corner cases, and footguns of using musl. Can you please share some pointers (search phrases, mailing list/forum posts, etc.) for me to read more.
> Ah, you get it. Russia should do that, go back into their own border.

My point is that "no fly zone" is pretty similar to "boots on ground", even if they're "peacekeepers". It's not some sort of special military operation you can declare that won't provoke a response from putin.
> In the past "woman" was tied to the reproductory organ.

At what point did everyone stop strip searching people and inspecting their reproductive organs? Must have been before I was born.
My question is who is starting the Signal equivalent of Substack? You know, for when these guys stop loss-leading, fuck everyone over and start monetizing.
Invasion of Poland literally triggered WW2 with the UK and France declaring war against Germany. Has anything comparable happened yet? No? Then how is it different from any of the dozens of wars fought since WW2?
>"I wasn't aware it was up to Putin"

I am not sure if this is sarcasm, but yes, it is pretty much up to him.

>"He's annexed territory in the past, he's attempting to annex it now, and he'll attempt it again in the future"

I think Ukraine is where his career ends. The question is how long. And in any way I do not think that he will attack NATO unless in return. I could be wrong but I prefer having a chance not to be annihilated vs a guarantee to the opposite.
Wow,the cheapest used Yaris iA within 500 miles of me is a 2017 with 78k miles for $12k.
I've heard "if you get the flu you know it" spread around the internet for years, but given what we know now about the wide range of severity in cases of covid can that really be said with any confidence? Are we certain there aren't people who get the flu and are asymptomatic, or who just end up with mild to moderate cold symptoms?
Feels weird to have to say this, but Trump is the leading candidate to become US president in 2024, not some fringe extremist.
Well, you’re not forced to straight-up hire the candidate just from Litebulb, right? A score in a report should not be assumed to reflect the entirety of a person, which unfortunately is a common mistake (e.g. school, college or university diploma). You’d most likely want to still sit down and talk with your candidates and evaluate them individually, which you'd have to do anyways if you want too see if they fit your individual company. Litebulb just replaces what would otherwise be stupid LeetCode Q&As or old unmaintained home-rolled coding problems, not the rest of the hiring process. Specifically, Litebulb does not offer “the magic button” to find the perfect hire for your specific company.
Do blind people have trouble speaking because they can't see faces?
Impossible is already pretty good on “ground beef as an ingredient in something”. It’s comically out of the range where it will succeed economically, but it’s also early; if they can get the price down to compete with utility ground beef, I think it would already do phenomenally well in the market on a taste and feel dimension.

It’s not going to knock off any boutique burger and obviously not even a round steak, but I think that cultured meat is at least even-money to take a 30% market share of “beef” in the next 30 years.
My Model 3 changed my opinion entirely on cars... the more I drive it the more I love it.

I was weary of moving to an electric drive chain and a car I can't maintain myself (my previous Mitsubishi could be serviced with scant more than a 10mm socket and an impact driver) and wasn't sure about losing almost all physical controls -- the only thing that annoys me is there is no easy way to open the glovebox, for everything else the touch screen actually seems easier than my previous physical controls.
Thanks for doing this!

What would be your advice to new platforms that want to take a free speech approach, while attracting users across the entire political spectrum? (to avoid the fate of Parlor and Rumble)
everbody seem to fascinated by Stalin, but only mention Trotsky in passing. It should have been Trotsky at the center stage as secretrait, even Lenin wanted him but alas the man died. I dont think there would have been Stalin if it was not for Lenin and Trotsky. Zinoview and Kaminev were .......
And they’re wildly unprofitable. Wonder how that will resolve?
You paid $350 for checks? They didn’t adjust the alignment or change the fluids?
> If I drive myself to somewhere in the centre, my car will sit there using up space while I'm doing my thing.

In the absence of terrible laws, it'll be stored somewhere that's more space-efficient (e.g. in a multistory car-park) compared to a taxi cruising around the main streets looking for fares.
Perhaps DDG could tell us what their sources of information are, that they are able to discern what is disinformation.
The rankings lag reality by quite a lot. I think MIT probably was the #1 university in the world a couple of decades ago, but wasn't ranked ultra-high then. It is ranked ultra-high today.

There's a #1:

https://www.topuniversities.com/qs-world-university-rankings
> Online advertising existed even back then but it was less obnoxious as far as I can remember.

This is almost laughable. Popups were so bad that every major browser was forced to add pop-up blocking features. Pages were stuffed full of ads—I can't even begin to tell you how many times I was the millionth visitor or had won some sort of sweepstakes.

IE5/6 would "click" when iframes navigated, which meant that you'd be barraged by audible clicking as pages loaded their ads. If you were on dialup, you wasted heaps of time waiting for the ads to load and redirect and slowly render in. There was no such thing as an ad blocker.

> Web analytics that tracked users across multiple devices was unheard of.

Nobody had multiple devices.
Then why would you advocate for busses in the land of suburbia knowing that is one of the least efficient forms of transport for suburbia? Busses are great within cities and places that have optimized their topology and layouts for them and for super commutes. They absolutely suck for getting you from random parts of SF to say emerald hills.
There are a number of writers who have disclosed their “offers too good to refuse” from substack, including their first big name who they paid well into six figures to jump platforms.
It predates this from earlier verisons of Mac OS. This was a "Mac OS" tool before it was a Mac OSX CLI tool.
And yet streaming music services have largely replaced simply buying music. (Ditto for video.) So YMMV.
Why don't more people use distroless?

Based on debian so no musl headaches but even lighter than alpine

https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless
Funny enough, on Firefox for Android, I can't download BOB_89A.GIF. I can view it ok, but saving it fails.
For the reference Rust did consider a similar style of C++ FFI back then [1] [2] [3], but to my knowledge it went nowhere due to the sheer amount of work required and the inability to future-proof. Inline assembly is another similar feature that D is substantially different from Rust, and the rationale for Rust [4] was also similar: D's inline assembly DSL only works in x86 and x86-64.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/5853

[2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/602

[3] https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/better-c-interoperability/...

[4] https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/2873-inline-asm.html#implem...
I interviewed at IBM in 1997 or 98 for a job developing their mainframe processors. They made me an offer, but I told them I had a better offer from SGI, and asked if they could match it. They were so offended by this that they never replied to me. I never heard another word from them. Very strange people.
The actual opening line of Lord of the Rings is so disappointing and unremarkable though:

"When Mr Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton."
I think he's right. People are giving up on covid mitigations a lot faster than people are dying of covid. Every day I see fewer people wearing masks than before, and death rates are trending in the opposite direction.
> Perhaps this is inherent complexity?

I don't think so. I use Solid Edge, which is quite good at this. You can push geometry out of the history based parametric scheme into freeform modeling. There's some pretty fascinating YouTube videos from Siemens showing importing of 3d cad models from other programs, and then repairing parts of them. Granted, I've never done anything on a truly massive project like an assembly with ten thousand rivets or something.

The author sells two different CAD products that supposedly do the same (zw3d and ironcad), but I haven't used either of them

In my own personal experience, using Solid Edge outside of the consumed-sketch history mode and in free form mode (which still has both sketches and a history stack) has been much much more pleasant. I started using it long after they introduced that "synchronous technology" as they call it, and didn't even realize that history/consumed-sketch mode was an option for quite a while.
I don't think people being "doxed" is the secret to creating positive interactions. See Facebook, for example. Even LinkedIn has a surprising amount of toxic threads, considering people's professional reputations are at stake.

The issue I have with Substack in particular is that it was essentially founded around political newsletters. I'm not sure, but I think Bill Bishop might've been their very first newsletter... and he writes about Chinese politics. Of all topics, that is one where people might have good reason to want to be able to preserve their anonymity. Of course, you could get around this by signing up for different newsletters with different email addresses, but that makes it unnecessarily difficult to read paid subscriber-only posts. I feel like the company took a wrong turn in adding social network features instead of keeping the focus on individual writers and their individual audiences.
The theory of induced demand says that increasing the amount of roads/lanes available increases the amount of driving - not necessarily of congestion (which implies driving at slower speeds).

In areas that are basically entirely car-dependent, the implication is that more roads encourage more journeys, and that fewer roads result in more journeys not taken. It's unclear why persuading people not to travel is inherently a good thing. Presumably they're going somewhere to see people and do things.

Perhaps building new roads doesn't help them do that any faster, but there are more people getting to do the things that they want.
> Congestion pricing is a quick fix

It doesn't actually fix the problem. The problem is that people can't get to where they want to go without difficulty because of inadequate planning/maintenance. Congestion pricing just changes the nature of that difficulty. People will still be negatively impacted, either by additional delays caused by having to select longer routes to where they're headed (when that's even an option) or by suffering financial penalties for something that is no fault of their own.

Fixing the problem means actually updating and maintaining roadways to accommodate demand (something that should already be the norm/expectation for every road built) and doing a better job planning for increased demand in the future so that the government isn't caught off guard and can budget accordingly to handle those costs and needs quickly.

Yes, actually fixing the problem once they've screwed up costs a lot of money, and it's true that congestion pricing could help pay for that (assuming that 100% of all money collected goes to that effort and nothing else), but in the meantime drivers continue to be negatively impacted, traffic forced to alternate longer routes will waste gas, hurt the environment, cause more wear on people's vesicles, cause increased wear and congestion on those alternate roads, and the administration/overhead of congestion pricing eats into every penny you earn towards something that should have been budgeted for and paid for by our taxes in the first place.

If the question is "How best to pay for what we should have been doing already" it's so much faster, and easier to get the funds needed to properly manage/maintain public roads by collecting a very small amount of money from a very a large number of people on the promise that they will be able to drive on any public road anywhere without needless difficulty, than it is to only collect funds from a very small number of people over a much much longer period of time while also inconveniencing every driver and pushing problems onto surrounding areas.
They keep turning Bluetooth back on with every update, so you can't even avoid this if you don't use Bluetooth unless you're vigilant.
>There was once a man who lived for a very long time; perhaps three thousand years, or perhaps a thousand million years, maybe a trillion or so, depending on how the scientists look at it.

>I have just been informed, that the debate over the question ‘is it right or wrong to have immortal souls’ has been finally brought to a conclusion.

>I was playing with my dog, Mark the brown Labrador, and I had forgotten that I was also playing with a dead man.

>I am forced to write to my neighbors about the beast.

You might be surprised these were generated by GPT-2 https://www.aiweirdness.com/how-to-begin-a-novel-19-11-19/.
Docker images used to be entirely Debian-based but have slowly become almost entirely Alpine based. A lot of Debian users have become Alpine users, and I've been mulling over if I should join as well (since I've used Debian for 20+ years but are friends with Alpine devs and users).
> I have a hard time understanding both cheating at a marathon and killing yourself over being discovered to have cheated in marathons.

I think, generally, the abuse that's occurring here is that people willfully raised the profile of a perceived wrong. Lobbying the people who run the races or local papers that ran stories about him to correct those things is appropriate. The national media showing up and people trying to bully or harass him crosses over into ethically bankrupt behavior under the guise of "justice".
It is worth noting that the average age of cars in the United States has been going up every year for decades now [1]. Cars continue to get more durable and thus Americans aren't scrapping them at high rates.

In many comparable countries, mandatory inspections/maintenance force older cars off the road and into scrap heaps at a much higher rate - certainly at a higher rate than necessary.

[1] https://www.bts.gov/content/average-age-automobiles-and-truc...
I genuinely wonder if such kumbaya rhetoric stays the same once the person actually experiences the bombing of his own house and see people around him heart or dead. Or just forced to leave his own home abandoning everything behind.

Watching closely Russian politics for the last 20 years, the one thing they do perfectly is use this kindness and tolerance of the West against them. Once in house the authorities repress everything that is democratic, decent, free and different, they demand the outside world to stick to their values to the letter, ousting every little deviation from it as the West hypocrisy. And then using it to further convince his own people that the West is rotten.

You can't win the fight if the other side always plays dirty. I believe this is more than just Ukraine-Russia conflict, this is the Cold war that actually never ended.
I do appreciate electric mirrors and air conditioning, but the rest of this list is pretty hard for me to buy. I think I'd be called a 'modern person (and one of my cars even has most of these things!)
I'd really be interested in @WalterBright's take here; the article, while interesting, does not reflect the state of Boeing's use and successes (failures) with 3D CAD over the past few decades. While my work with Boeing has been purely as a third party, as a developer of aviation maintenance software, we had a deep understanding of how airframes are not only designed but supported on an ongoing basis. Engineers certainly had complaints about tooling but I never once heard anything approaching Brouwer's narrative.
The one that's not part of Nato?
I really want to like Alpine, but we (Fly.io) have seen so many DNS issues with customer images that we’re now recommending Ubuntu or Debian slim. The extra ~50mb is a worthwhile trade off to avoid hard to debug musl-libc issues.

eg https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/musl-libc-alpines-greatest-we...
Yes, there are many. The Saudis, the Israelis, Turkey, the French and British (Libya), the US itself (Iraq, Vietnam), etc...

Any single of these countries in the last 20 years have engaged in wars of aggression that have done more damage than Russia has and is likely to inflict on Ukraine, and thus deserve a similar magnitude of response.
Thank you for your honest feedback buddy. We will fix or at least improve those aspects asap! :)
Truth, because different people have different axioms or goals, might be subjective. I don't think this relates to quality of information.

A higher quality information media will give you the tools to get more information, and this is for example where wikipedia shines by requiring citations. Even if some piece of information there is wrong, you usually get the tools to obtain more information, and you get a summary (where they do attempt to stay neutral) of multiple positions when there is no consensus.

Quality of information is not precisely equals to truth, some questions to ask of any information relay:
- Do they give you the sources for their information ?
- Do they make a good faith attempt to stay neutral ?
- If not staying neutral, do they make their position and conflicts of interest clear ?
- Do they provide adequate (non-strawmen) summaries of opposing views ?
- What is their process for correcting information ?

Of course wikipedia isn't perfect, but it is a higher than average quality of information on the internet. You should use wikipedia (or any source really) as an authoritative source (something isn't tree just because it is written their), but it is an excellent starting point. As most other good sources of information are.

You can't easily judge the veracity of any piece of information on any platform, but you can more easily judge a good faith attempt at providing you the tools to obtain further information.

No platform is going to be perfect, but these criteria should help anyone to filter out bad news sources, and it should not be impossible to convince most people that these are good criteria.
Thanks, I'll take a look. I was hoping to try my luck at open source. A few years ago I attempted trying to contribute, since a lot software really fascinated me. However, I always got intimidated by the code bases. Hopefully now I'm more prepared since I've worked with larger codebases.