skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's for anyone who wants to join the browser game to figure out. Mozilla is going downhill fast so everyone clinging to it is just delaying the inevitable. The new winning browser is either going to be a forked or new engine it certainly is not going to be Gecko with the Mozilla Foundation at the helm. It's just stupid to pretend that there is hope for Mozilla or Firefox if there is no purge at the top.
You plug off-brand cables from Amazon that you know contain microcontrollers into your USB-C port? Brave!
The worst is when they won't accept new calls in queue, and just hang up.
You can still find all 8 episodes searching vk.com
And that's pretty much the exact same infrastructure you'd need for distributing authorized_keys.

Instant revocation seems to be a giant hole in this article's argument which isn't addressed at all. If you fire somebody partway through the work day, end-of-day cert expiry is not good enough to prevent compromises.
P.S. you can do the forward version of this, online schema changes, directly in the Arctype SQL GUI https://arctype.com/blog/changelog/planetscale-exports/. I imagine we'll have support for Rewind too in the future. Game changing feature.
I have a bunch of USB-C devices where the card edge connector doesn’t seem securely attached. I haven’t had one fail yet so far.

As I see it USB 3 is already a disaster. USB 1 and USB 2 worked on a tree topology where you could plug a tremendous number of devices into a single port and have it really work.

With USB 3 it seems there is some limit to what you can plug into a root hub and once you go over the limit you plug in a mouse and your keyboard drops out. I looked in the specs to find what the limit is and they don’t say, they also don’t promise that any specific topology of hubs is going to work.
Alternate link for those hitting the WSJ PayWall

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/24/22994332/uber-yellow-taxi...

(link submitted by pseudolus https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30789593)
Portability, scale

Nuclear is expensive the way we do it now.

Nuclear is unpopular because there have been concentrated efforts to vilify it by corporations

Nuclear waste is not an issue that any nuclear scientist or physicist considers worth debating
I think something like Wikipedia's current events portal [0] is a great way to take in news. I think it tries to give a sort of impartial global overview rather than focusing on a subset of stories, ideologies etc., with a minimal amount of sensationalism. Everyone comes with their own bias so I'm sure this could always be improved upon, but I think the approach is great.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
New data-sharing requirements from NIH are a big step toward more open science
I thought this demo was very impressive: https://www.reportmill.com/snaptea/RM16/rm16.html
Before USB-C if I forgot or lost my laptop charger I was totally screwed.

After USB-C I can even charge my MacBook with my Nintendo Switch charger, and I can always find someone that’s got one spare in the office. I’m so done with those incompatible circle-pin chargers!
Universal healthcare would be a fantastic move for the US.

I don't think the US spends money on making healthcare worse for people though. (Unless you want to argue that universal healthcare would be cheaper than the current standard and thus by way of opportunity cost the US is spending on worsening the healthcare of it's citizens)
I really like PWNDBG, as it goes. But I am trying to spend more time with the Ghidra debugger, which is ... kind of pants, but it's getting better and it's pretty nice to have everything in one place. :}
I've been thinking about this -- original video could be the NFT, and the purpose of the system would be to verify / validate the content (instead of the weird pyramid schemes it's being used for today).

The issue is with the hash, esp with lossy compression algos. If the video is re-transmitted somewhere, its content remains effectively "the same" (eg, it is that particular person, saying these exact things, at some specific time and place). A regular hash will not match as the video is different bit-to-bit though.

So for this scheme to work, we would need some kind of a "domain hash", something that is very precise in aspects that matter, and fuzzy in ones that don't. In case of videos, one dimension could be the text transcript. But even then it falls apart pretty quickly.
I like the more rugged connection than the previously dominant connector for small devices, microusb. Those connectors just aren't meant for the duty cycle they are regularly subjected to, and trashing a small electronic thing because the friggin' port got bent or ripped out or desoldered while the rest of it works perfectly fine is intensely frustrating.
Huh, so people actually look at/pay any attention to that feed page?
An x ray lamp is not radioactive unless you are eating bananas.
If the same person answering those tickets answers the phone, do you think it would be any better?

The medium doesn’t really make a difference. The issues is that some companies front line support is just an FAQ document regurgitated by a human, with no ability to deviate from those canned set of responses.

If you have a problem that the front-line can’t handle, you have to escalate. If they can’t escalate for you, send a letter. If the letter doesn’t get a response, have a lawyer send it on their letterhead.
Aka the Google model
Tailscale (and other similar solutions) works on the network level. This is not a bad idea in itself, but SSH certs operate on the application level.

The fact you can ping the server shouldn't mean you are allowed to actually access it.
My experience with plugging in/out is that the plugging in part is better now, but C connectors require much less force to be plugged out by themselves and I have been bitten by cables unplugging just because they were bent in the wrong direction multiple times.
They would just find a way to outsource that to the cheapest possible source. And ensure that the human is not empowered to do anything for you that's useful. Platitudes as a service..."We're sorry this happened to you. Have your tried rebooting?".
I just don't understand what the node-ipc dev was expecting when he did that.

"Hm, maybe if I put malware into a community-trusted module that destroys files of people in a certain geopolitical region, the countless innocent citizens that are affected will realize what they did wrong! Wait, who am I actually targeting again?"
I was in an airport terminal where all of the restaurants and cafes had tables with iPads. I went to one of the restaurants and ordered a burger using one of them. From what I remember I was the only patron there.

About 40 minutes later, I'm looking at the waiter walking around and it didn't seem like he was waiting on any food from the kitchen. He also didn't come over once, and probably assumed that I was just hanging out and watching the US Open on the TVs.

I flagged him over and it turned out that my order did not go through at all. I then spent another 15 minutes waiting on my food to actually arrive.

If I'd spoken to a human from the beginning, this probably wouldn't have happened.

The burger wasn't that good, anyway.
Hi cardamomo
I understand your skepticism and thank you for your criticism. What you see so far from Bionic Reading is the base. Of course, children should still learn to read. Because only when children have acquired a vocabulary, their brain has the representation products.
Reading is already very well researched. I absolutely agree with you on that. Unfortunately, people are reading worse and worse. There may be many different reasons for this. But I'm sure you agree with me that reading is a cultural asset that everyone must use.
Who reads worse, has thereby no advantage. Doesn't it?
Reading transports knowledge. That's why I think it's important to take a closer look at the way we read.
That's why I get a lot of feedback from people who have dyslexia and can read better again with Bionic Reading.

Thank you for teaching the children and best regards from the Alps,
Renato
And (in Australia anyway) you have to listen to a machine say "This call may be monitored for quality" - but they don't "monitor" the awful 5-45 minutes of waiting, then pressing buttons, more waiting etc to eventually get through to a real person – the low quality half of the call, from the customer's perspective. I hate that.
I'm in Texas. A LOT of Californians disagree with some of the laws that Texas has passed. How long will it be until my hard drive gets reformatted by some protestor in San Francisco who localizes my IP address?
"Researchers analyzed survey data and serology results from 26,823 adults in France. They found no relationship between the participants’ belief about whether they’d had COVID-19 and their antibody test results from blood samples collected between May and November 2020."

That is a rather astounding conclusion.
Good point, I'll concede that one.

I think there is some level of malicious intent implied on the grandparent that I don't think you can attribute to TSA policy makers though.
This is also an interesting point! I assume there's a network of monitoring stations all over the world which are hooked up to the internet & other modes of speed-of-light communication.

https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/Richards&K...

https://www.ctbto.org/verification-regime/monitoring-technol...

I can't figure out how to get their data in real time and set up push alerts, though...!
You can’t fix Mozilla without chopping heads off the top. They aren’t authentic actors in the game they’ve presented on this HN link. They are activists who commandeered a vehicle.
Thanks! The ReportMill design app was the major driver of this.
This is absolutely very true and a welcome improvement. I'm not saying USB-C is all bad but generally, in my experience, being able to insert the cable without regard to orientation is a tiny improvement when compared to the issues I've experienced.

I'd rather have relatively high confidence that once inserted it would generally work and stay working.
I understand that companies get a lot of call volume around incredibly basic stuff, you can hear it in their menu design, but in the last ~10 calls I've made for support 1) I had to because the online ticket/chat option went nowhere and 2) the phone support was a several hour ordeal that usually went nowhere but in a few instances I got what I needed.

I don't know what the solution is but it's unfortunate that the 95% who can't read their monthly statement have ruined the first 3 menu pages on phone systems and now no one wants to pay humans for the very real edge cases.
The New RouteLayer
I switched almost entirely over to non-alcoholic beer in pandemic. It wasn't particularly health or problem related, but just that I like the taste of beer, but don't need the alcohol and two real beers would leave me slightly hungover/tired the next day while NA beers don't.
yeah, I wish the CIA was clever enough to do that, but if they did, why couldn't they just transition the russian government? I was amused to see that Chubais left Russia yesterday; he was part of my russian politics class in the mid 1990s.
In fact most of the names are the same.
I didn't know there was a name for this concept in general. This is exactly how I think about writing code in functional programming languages. And as far as I can tell, algebraic effects are an extreme case of this, where your program is essentially a big graph of decision points in response to as-yet-unseen inputs.
The whole thing about rights is that you do not have to pay for them. If I have a right to vote, you cannot justify doing something that denies me the option to vote by claiming it is worth something to me.

I am principally concerned here with the actions of organizations that create problems for third parties, such as when their actions, or failure to act, facilitate fraud against people who are not their customers.
Got to say the fact that you thought someone leaving a 1 star review on a service you don't own, google, was worth you escalating it to a real person tells me these companies are doing the right thing. And shaming the CEOs when you made the choice to use their product is a bit silly and you come off as entitled, not righteous.

How do we or google know if he was disgruntled vs fired, how do we know if he didn't come in as a customer after he was fired and was treated like shit?

I'm imagining the situation where in your world where every business who got a bad review would be calling google. Imagine the number of bullshit calls they would get? And how much all of us would have to pay to support that?

If you want a real person to help you, pay for it. Plenty of companies are willing to sell you a service contract, even google, if you're willing to pay.

Vote with your dollars (even if the original poster preemptively tried to say why that won't work ... it's the ONLY thing that ever has in my experience)
hexomancer's script (elsewhere on this page) could be turned into a GreaseMonkey/Tampermonkey user script.
1. We had no idea what we were doing.

2. The market moved in a different direction from the one we expected.

3. We were trying to do it without the kinds of connections we needed to get funding.

4. We stuck at it too long, such that we were considered "too old" by the time it was mature.

5. Our product would improve user's lives but only with a highish startup cost -- some of which we could have mitigated, some of which we couldn't.

6. We had no idea what we were doing.

7. The dotcom crash reduced access even if we had known what we were doing.

8. We had no idea what we were doing.
My android does this and it's definitely a huge plus.
Share with us what size your home is that makes it unreasonable?

I live in a big farmhouse in the country, with multiples wells, barns, and pantries, so storage is not a concern at all. But I could see where it would be a problem for smaller homes and apartments.
100%. I've already seen articles in non-tech media that explain what happened to a non-technical audience, and the explanation sounded a lot like open source is the problem and that proprietary software would never have these problems.

It wasn't that long ago that using open source software required a lot of politicking inside my clients, and we could easily go back there with enough spooked executives.
From the perspective of user with slightly advanced knowledge of tech, I totally understand your reasoning and agree. Never knowing what devices will be able to work together in an efficient manner kinda drives me nuts thinking about USB-C.

On the other hand though, from the perspective of a person who just buys and uses tech without thinking too much about it, USB-C is actually kind of great. The device will work perfectly with the included peripherals (unless the manufacturer screwed up massively) and whenever I connect things differently, I'll at least get some use out of it. In a pinch, I can charge my phone on my laptop charger, my laptop on the charger for my wireless headphones and my wireless headphones on the charger for my phone. Neither of them charge as quickly as if they were attached to their original chargers, because they all have incompatible fast charging protocols, but it still works.
For those in the know, do platforms like Twilio make it any easier to select some standard template that should make this more common? Like, assuming they have reps to begin with, does something like Twilio make doing the right thing easier or harder?
I've never had a problem with USB-C other than using very cheap cables that break.
That should be easy to test, by leaving a few of the same harnesses within reach of the birds. If the birds pick up the stray harnesses too, it's likely object attraction. If the birds leave those alone or merely attack them (like picking them up and dropping them from some height), it's empathy.

In any case, it's not altruism unless the birds take on a risk themselves by trying to remove it from others -- it's merely social behaviour.
The CA is in a gpg-encryped secrets store (pass) and has a password on itself, so it can be backupped like normal data to an off-site location.
What's the urban/rural split here? Most counties are rural, and by and large the countryside's been hollowing out for years.
I bought a sump pump, and called their number to ask some question. 30 seconds and one menu option later I was speaking with someone who clearly had a lot of technical knowledge of the sump pump. I was very pleasantly surprised since I am used to expect no human interaction and if I get a human on the call, it would be someone who can only provide "common sense" level of support. I wish this were the case for more companies.
A lot of people I've talked to seem to think Purescript is a better Haskell.
> I recall a commentator speaking about how they'd read the newspaper each morning with a knot in their stomach, wondering if a nuclear mishap had occurred somewhere in the world.

Given the Russia, Ukraine, Chernobyl situation, I think my generation also has claim to worry about nuclear mishaps caused by geopolitical wars.
I think a major change was to improve the physical connection and be rid of polarity; old port was fragile and prone to being forced in backward.

Personally, as someone who gets a lot of crud in the port, I can say cleaning out USB-C is far easier than B micro, and less risk of pin damage.

Though I agree with much of what you are saying, particularly the compatibility aspect
> So, your best argument to disagree with what I said is that I haven't read enough?

Look. The UCI has a long and well-documented history of banning new bicycle technologies and approaches specifically to prevent them from winning races. These aren't out-in-left-field claims: they're well established history. For example, the UCI really did ban recumbents on behalf of the safety bike industry in order to keep the velocar out of races. And the UCI really did ban small wheels in order to block the Moulton from winning championships. The UCI really did ban the superman position, fairings, and even attempted to ban disc brakes, among many other items. Your response seems to be to question that this happened this by demanding to know why the UCI would do such a thing, rather than going and looking it up for yourself.

> We don't use small wheels because of engineering reasons. Not aesthetic reasons. That's why Moulton lost out.

You keep making this claim about Moulton with no evidence for it at all. Small wheels are faster and stronger than large wheels, and permit many more aerodynamic frame design options. They allow a wider and more stable wheelbase. Small-wheeled bikes are unquestionably faster than large-wheeled bikes: the racing records make this clear. It is exactly because of their advantages that the UCI banned them.

There are basically three downsides with smaller wheels, all frankly minor. [1] They are harder to gear, but that's easily dealt with nowadays. [2] They are somewhat bumpier, but I've ridden 359s daily for a year on Rome's San Pietrini: it's not an issue. And, this is trivially dealt with using a tight suspension, which also glues them to the ground and makes them more efficient than large wheels (and is what Moultons did btw). The primary problem with small wheels is [3] that it's more challenging to design small-wheeled bikes with high mechanical trail, and racing bikes tend to have very high trail. None of these outweighs their significant advantages in races.

> If the UCI didn't have this rule, professionals would be riding a bicycle that looks totally different from what regular folks ride. And that's a problem with attracting people to the sport.

Right. That's why disc brakes were banned too.

I think I'm done with you. You keep calling me a conspiracy theorist for stating well established historical fact.
You think the choice of what to test is unintentional? It’s not that people actively prioritize harm, it’s that they actively prioritize not thinking about harm when it will hurt profits. The repeated pattern belies claims of ignorance.
Aflac has recently (past year) 100% stopped their phone support. Calling their phone support tells you to log in to their website.

I hope you don't have trouble with their website!

I was able to get my issue sort-of resolved by making a complaint to a regulator -- I now have a direct line to someone capable of taking my phone call. But that's not an option for every company.
YouTuber = William Osman

It always bothers me when blogs don't include the person name's in the title and just refer to them as "YouTuber". It's less egregious when it's social media like Reddit, but it's different when it's the way they earn a living.
How do you hash something so fuzzy as video / speech? Two different microphones picking up the same audio will result in two digital recordings that hash differently.
>I wish I had made my kids do more chores around the house to better prepare them for adulthood.

How exactly cleaning and throwing out the garbage prepares You for adulthood ?
So much hospital bill stuff is just rampant clickbait. A man got a $120k hospital bill after an allergy attack, a baby costs $36k to be born, etc.

No one actually pays these amounts without insurance and if you have no insurance you probably don’t pay at all and just default on the debt. No one is paying this. No one. You never hear stories of people being utterly bankrupted by a huge hospital bill.
Yeah, this is where I'm coming from. If, conditional on an exchange actually happening, having this information increases my likelihood of survival to three weeks afterwards by some substantial amount in expectation, that's fine and totally worth it.
Before USB 3 I thought USB was highly reliable but since USB 3 every Windows laptop I’ve had has had problems with devices being recognized, devices dropping out, plugging a device in causing another to drop out. I don’t know how I’ve gone for years this way without serious data corruption. (Thumb drives and hard drives drop out.)

External monitors with combined USB and display have generally behaved a lot worse with Windows than Mac OS with symptoms like: some endpoints work and others don’t (often the USB Ethernet doesn’t work), the monitor that the Mac enumerates in 5 seconds takes 50 sec on Windows, etc.
Ah, the classic USB plug superposition:

https://i.imgur.com/yyEwOHK.png
`ssh-keygen` #Certificates:
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/ssh-keygen.1.html#CERT...

"DevSec SSH Baseline" ssh_spec.rb, sshd_spec.rb
https://github.com/dev-sec/ssh-baseline/blob/master/controls...

"SLIP-0039: Shamir's Secret-Sharing for Mnemonic Codes"
https://github.com/satoshilabs/slips/blob/master/slip-0039.m...

> Shamir's secret-sharing provides a better mechanism for backing up secrets by distributing custodianship among a number of trusted parties in a manner that can prevent loss even if one or a few of those parties become compromised.

> However, the lack of SSS standardization to date presents a risk of being unable to perform secret recovery in the future should the tooling change. Therefore, we propose standardizing SSS so that SLIP-0039 compatible implementations will be interoperable.
This is neat.

Can someone say what the "encrypt+" column to the left of the the Op code is in the screenshot?
Are the criticisms accurate? That should be the main concern. This is a free speech country after all.
Expecting all scientists to be honest is wishful thinking.

We will always need to invest in finding error and fraud, no matter how we perceive scientists honesty.

The moment we stop doing these investment, we're doomed.
I have one too. It’s super useful to see what voltage and current the device is using.
Looking at the example in one of the apps (Reeder 5) doesn’t work 100% the same as the patent. For example, neumann (a last name) is bolded as NEUMANn the first time it appears and NEUMann the second time it appears.