skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I'm not judging them, I just said my view of them took a tumble. When I feel tricked, I lose trust in whoever tricked me. And negative trust is often lasting. It's hard to gain trust and very easy to lose it.

BUT: I didn't read the whole article. I read kogepathic's comment first, which gave away the twist and framed the headline as clickbait, and I went along with that. But I now see it's as you say. Lesson learned.

I definitely don't think that writing an intriguing headline and delivering on it with a satisfying story counts as clickbait. Clickbait is something that fails to deliver at all, not something that delivers in a way you didn’t expect.
I wonder how common this UART protocol is in electronics?

Being able to communicate with arbitrary electronics using the $30 Bus Pirate device seems like a very fair price.
Well that's the point of this feature, you build your room. By definition with social media there is too much for one person to consume so you must pick and choose. If you are curating your room this is just another feature to help you do so.
Bad Web Application
My understanding is that you can supply netfilter code which reads/writes to a register memory which is outside of the registers struct. So the rules bytecode you provide can do out-of-bounds access when the rule is executed, rather than when parsed.

You can either do this as NET_CAP_ADMIN, or when you create your own user+network namespace as an unprivileged user. (which may not be allowed on your system either)
Turris Omnia ( https://www.turris.com/en/omnia/overview/ ) kind of fits your bill, but it's more 2020 than 2022. The main downside is that it doesn't support WiFi6, so you're stuck with 3x3 MIMO 802.11ac.

It runs a modified OpenWrt, TurrisOS, which is open source.

They're a bit on the pricey side, so "worth buying" from that perspective will be up to you.

Edit: Turns out there might be a 2022 version which would fit your bill (except the time tested part), but it's not launched yet.
https://forum.turris.cz/t/turris-omnia-2022/15995/144
https://twitter.com/turris_cz/status/1448535213626200066
At least have a degree in cryptography so you can verify your random number generator is cryptographically secure. A trivial task for the average HN reader, except the greatest impediment being that mathematics is impenetrable largely because of the obscure notation that mathematicians use when writing it.
Below average compared to the patient? The problem is that it's true way too often.
There may exist extra timelike dimensions that can be a conduit for information. I hear that the ultrahyperbolic equations this leads to are difficult to comprehend.
They are unlimited(fair use applies).
i'll call n the total number of patients. if n * 9 / 1000 = 13, you'll find out that n is around 1400, which is a pretty high number in discovery studies. Maybe not for diabetes though, i remember hosting anonymized data from a lot more patients two years ago, i felt this was THE subject all the medical founding was put into (that and air quality and its effect studies).
I would think anything that improves renewable energy, electric transport, energy use. Even something mundane like better intelligent controllers for heat pumps, thus reducing dependence on gas boilers, would help.
> Especially once the kidneys go, you need dialysis 3 times per week and the treatment takes hours.

My grandpa went through this in 2020. He was a tough navy guy, and even he said "This is a half-assed way to live", stopped the dialysis, and passed away a few weeks later. Once you're on dialysis, there's not much of a chance of going back to a life without it.
> Maybe LinkedIn (where everyone knows who everyone is) is the only place for honest discussion.

How honest do the too-good-to-be-true LinkedIN broetry stories look to you?
You should probably update your threat model.
The giant archive under the British countryside
MirageOS 4.0 – Self-managed internet infrastructure with unikernels
Too me it isn't terrifying - it is exhilarating and liberating. We are just some crazy thing that happened - enjoy it regardless of what it all is.
I'm also intrigued thinking about a post-meat existence. But I think that while time will then not be measured in hours or days, we will be counting down the total energy available to us from Sol, and if it will suffice to bring us to a new star or other energy source.

There will always be an uncertain countdown.
> and most people using it will be "muh, stop advocating vaccines to me, wanna keep my blood pure" or equivalent types

I don't think so, partly because it's not "those types" that seem to be building these tools which they would if it was a priority for them, and partly because those people already have effective barriers inside their own head. Sometimes it seems like they need the opposite view so they can get angry about it.

In other words, they can't be reached because of who they follow, not because of who they block.
I really don't understand how many tests still allow trick questions like that when we have so much data that indicates that it's an awful metric. To me it indicates incompetence of the test creators.
New Protonmail iOS app includes dark mode and improved threading
That login page tells me nothing. Nor does a Google search for that matter.
Thank you for admitting to this. I won't judge you, you are human just like I am.

I don't want to take some kind of moral high ground here - however, I tend to skip topics I don't know about.

I've had my share of arguing with people online who, by my personal assertion, had no clue what they're talking about. To put it in context: developers who talk bad about PHP.

In the end I gave up doing so. I notice that if I'm perceived as a bad guy (i.e. I try to discredit you based on facts, I'll appear as bully and other people will get the noble instinct to defend the one being bullied). That gave me no credibility and all the credibility went to the other people.

Years later, I read stackoverflow.com questions and answers and I consistently run into absolute falsities related to PHP. I just don't have the energy to try to convince someone what's factually true and what's factually false, having been on the receiving end of discussions.

I used to care about correct information or how to give people means to try to assert if something sounds plausible or not, but at this point - I've no inclination to do so, my energy's gone and I don't even see what the gain is if I waste my precious energy to forcibly improve someone's understanding of the world.

I understand what your motives were, it was refreshing to read what you wrote. I repeat - I don't judge you as evil or bad, but it took some guts to admit to this. I salute you because of that!
"we know that there are plenty of Russian propagandists trying to influence the west's cultural mindset."

The interesting thing about this claim is the question of whether this is also propaganda.

There have been an enormous number of high profile claims of Russian propaganda or interference in western affairs in the past decade, as far as I'm aware they always ended up collapsing, though sometimes people aren't aware of that.

Hunter Biden's laptop story was claimed to be Russian propaganda and the New York Post's Twitter account was frozen for it. Nobody could even reshare it or link to it privately. The rest of the media united in claiming it was Russian propaganda. Now, years later the NYT admits that the contents are authenticated.

For years people claimed Trump's election was due to Russian propaganda and electoral interference. A massive investigation followed, in which it turned out the primary evidence for this was made up.

Then they tried the same tactic with Brexit. Nobody ever found any proof for this; the idea was absurd on its face and was quickly abandoned outside of only the most loony Remainer establishments.

Then there were the claims of Russian hacking of electrical grids. Wrong. Russian servers being pinged by Trump's campaigns. Wrong. Dozens of other claims about Russian propaganda that I'd have to look up, but I know they've been made, always wrong.

Then Russia invaded Ukraine, claiming it needs to be de-Nazified. Immediately described as Russian propaganda, until people start remembering about the unquestionably neo-Nazis battalions that have been fighting as an official part of the Ukrainian military for years and that, uh, this is actually true. The Russian soldiers actually are fighting Nazis. That doesn't mean the invasion was right! It does raise interesting historical/moral questions though, given the mention of Chamberlain. Would the Allies have been morally right to invade Germany and take out the Nazis before they invaded anywhere else? Or were the Allies correct to wait for them to make the first strike? I don't know and the question only just occurred to me to ask, but it seems relevant here.

Now in fairness you made a weaker claim above, about "Russian propagandists" trying to "influence the cultural mindset", a claim worded sufficiently vaguely that it could mean almost anything. But this impression of pervasive Russian propaganda has come from somewhere. If not the endless run of false claims about the prevalence of Russian propaganda then from where?
Jamming is easy enough that people do it by accident. There was a guy with a broken VCR a number of years back that got a visit from the FCC because it was jamming, I think, VOR beacons.

Having a broken VCR is significantly easier than downloading a file and then running a commandline program with a hackrf attached.
>"The answer according to my family: Get a law degree"

Form your own country and become a president.
> There is very little room given for exploration

you literally took words out of my mouth or keystrokes out of my fingers!

> if I tried deriving my own method the person correcting it wouldn't understand and I would be penalized for it.

This has happened to me in the programming classes in the uni.
> Someone who has read cruise contracts in detail will never want to go on one. Cooks with experience in commercial kitchens never want to eat at a restaurant again. Someone who is familiar with standards of bridge inspections in most towns hesitates every time they drive over one...

...someone who writes software for a living is afraid to fly on airplanes (I joke, but only sort of)
I'm from the UK and I can confirm that I am billed for the number I dialed not any forwarding endpoint. If I am inside the UK and I dial a landline (starting 01, 02 or 03) it will usually be included in my monthly contract allowance.

It's regulated by the UK regulator OFCOM. They publish a list of number prefixes and the maximum costs that can be incurred:

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-telecoms-and-internet/advice...

Some of those costs are high, but they are published, and capped. There are no surprises here.

There are a couple of myths that circulate endlessly in this country that:

i) You can receive a call from a scammer who prompts you to 'press 1' to be connected to an agent, and if you press 1 you're dialing a premium number and can incur large costs. This is impossible, inbound calls in the UK are not billable, nor can inbound calls count against any inclusive minutes on a contract.

ii) You can dial a cheap-looking number but the call is forwarded to an international or premium-rate destination and you can incur large costs. This is impossible, you can only be billed for the number you dialed, any onward forwarding costs would be incurred by the owner of the number you initally dialed.
Generating code is a powerful tool that I think everyone should have in their toolbox — use it wisely of course, but don’t avoid it on principle.

This describes an interesting approach that I hadn’t seen. I personally wouldn’t have considered putting the result in the same file because I usually like to gitignore any and all generated code, mostly to reduce phantom merge conflicts. However, some colleagues have the opinion that those conflicts are trivially resolved by rebuilding and thus don’t matter, and having diffs of the generated code show up in pull requests adds value.

What do others think, check in generated code or put it in gitignore?
Right. But it is not surprising that it is taking awhile for that new conventional wisdom to sink in.
Maybe you need a different kind of induction stove?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGBP3sG3a9Y
>makes me feel like this is an out of touch, logically-bankrupt security regime we're trying to foist on the world

This seems like a recurring theme. Other examples:

* default app sandboxes that don't let desktop apps see your home directory or talk to other apps

* browsers locking people out of websites with self-signed SSL certificates, while completely unencrypted websites get a pass

* Bitcoin / "smart" contracts which remove the possibility of human intervention when a transaction goes wrong

* The perennial insistence that using 'sudo' for everything is not just safer against mistakes but actually more secure than just running as root - as though an attacker gaining access to a sudo-enabled account wouldn't result in immediate pwnage anyway

* Having to take our shoes off in airports
Build a Secure E-Commerce App with SuperTokens and Hasura GraphQL
In addition to detaro's comment, it also stops them from retweeting you from their high-profile account in order to cause a "pileon" of abusive messages to you.

Of course people routinely work around blocks, mutes, and account suspensions by posting screenshots of tweets, but there the interactions are de-automated - you can't reply to the screenshot, you'd have to dig up the original tweet author.
Ask HN: Amazon killed Alexa.com, so what's a good alternative?
I use the Alexa.com extension to check the popularity of certain websites. I've relied on it for 15 years to tell me the ranking of websites.

So is there an alternative? A Chrome extension or a website will do.
> Do you agree or disagree with the idea of attention being stolen from us?

Not stolen but bought.

> What strategies and habits have you developed to tender your garden?

I do not use smartphones and trying to get more hobbies outdoors (non-computerish).

> Do you see a link between consciousness and attention?

Nope :) You know conscientiousness is a hard problem. Too hard for me to have something worth to say.

> When thinking about something do you make a distinction between yourself and society?

When I want to think about something forbidden. Drugs, privacy, needness to support a war if any is going on right on your backyard.

> How can we regain our attention? Is it only through the regulation of big tech?

If you don't want to trade (see my first answer) then you know what to do, else go scroll something "interesting" in your endless feed.
A student who pays tuition for 4 or 5 years is more profitable than one who drops out (or transfers) after a year.

Their interests are (generally) aligned with their statements, in that they want to find people who will be a good fit for the school and want to stay there. That means academically and also culturally.

As an aside, my kid got into several schools and was rejected by several others. She chose a small private campus you've probably never heard of that was a perfect fit - and she has thrived like I can't believe. They also gave her a scholarship that made the cost lower than almost anywhere else, including public/state universities.

The real tragedy is people who only look at top 10 schools and feel they're a failure if they don't get in. There really is a school for everyone. And I'm not sure what "government" has to do with it, most universities are either private or run by independent boards of regents or trustees.
So I am wondering. Did the author have a success later? Otherwise it means the mistakes the author think were a problem, were not really a problem but something else.
I'm trying to restore mac OS 9.2 on my still working iBook G4. I am ordering old CDs to see if I can restart the system. It has an Mac OS X Tiger installation that is blocking.
Out of curiosity, do you feel comfortable flying on the more recent ones?
Appreciate your answer.

I built a very niche monitoring product for sysadmins. Actually I built it for myself three years ago, but I want to explore if others would pay for it.

If you are in the space, or anyone else who reads this I'd be grateful to receive some feedback on a 10 minute video call.
"Too extreme" is putting it mildly. Most people couldn't even afford to go to law school. A great many wouldn't have the spare time to study another specialty and a lot might not even be capable of competently understanding the material even if they did go to law school (we all have our strengths and weaknesses after all. For example I'd be a hopeless doctor, chef or teacher). And that's before you've factored in that you also need to keep on top of any new case studies and changes in legislation else risk your knowledge becoming irreverent.

In short, if it were that easy then more people would do it since the kind of jobs it unlocks generally pays pretty well (easily above the national average).
This is almost a half decent article. And I think it's really valuable to point out we should revisit the energy usage discussion about bitcoin.

The key thing to understand basically is that energy usage of bitcoin has a weird distribution over time[1]. Between June 2017 and June 2018 energy consumption of Bitcoin quadrupled. So at that point it was a reasonable thing to say "Oh wow, bitcoin is using tonnes of energy this is worrying". But then the consumption stayed flat for about 3 years. Now, it's reasonable to suggest that the reason that this trend happened is that essentially the energy consumption follows the value of BTC. It's true to say that at the scale of other currencies, it looks unlikely that BTC mining will consume a large percentage of electricity consumption. It could stay in low single digit percentages even if it's used widely.

But there's something else to think about. The adoption of bitcoin isn't just about the value of bitcoin, it's about using it for transactions. So let's look at the number of bitcoin transactions per day[2]. Looking at that I'm not sure I would describe bitcoin as efficient - the blockchain is handling about 300k transactions per day. Visa processes hundreds of millions. You have essentially a fixed number of transactions that is determined by the algorithm, since the block size limit is roughly 4MB and you're only going to have 1 block per 10 minutes. So in terms of actually handling transactions, Bitcoin seems ridiculously inefficient. Actually using the blockchain would result in a bidding war, and the implications of that are very messy - driving up the price would incentivize more miners which would drive up energy consumption, this looks highly likely to cause a massive speculative bubble whose side effect is massive energy consumption.

But The reality is that the adoption of Bitcoin has been more about moving away from the blockchain than anything else. The vast majority of consumer activity is off-chain. Which begs the question what the hell are we doing in the first place?

[1]:https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

[2]:https://www.blockchain.com/charts/n-transactions
Top right of the app or timeline : the "stars" icon. Switch from "top tweets" to "home timeline".

Like old.reddit, Twitter kind of hate it but realise that if they kill it they'll lose a lot of old users.
Wow, I checked your website/desktop (https://dustinbrett.com/) again and tried to open your browser to make some music there. Apparently for Glicol you need to enable CORS. I think that's the only thing that stops the website to make sound now.

But my another project QuaverSeries, the precursor of Glicol, works like a charm in your browser:
https://quaverseries.web.app
Support in a multinational, clock in, clock out.

No stress, (relative to what you are doing now).

You can hand off to another team at the end of your shift.

You got HR, perks, pension etc. You just gotta eat a bit of shit :)

Yes there is a ton of downsides too but look, you are a Linux admin you may as well sit back and use them skills for a while so you can de-stress and get your life back.

Not sure where you are based but there is a massive demand for Linux admins in Ireland (and probably Europe)
In college, I had to read excerpts from Mein Kampf as part of a unit on the Holocaust, which was one part of a course on Abrahamic religions.

Good college professors will teach both sides of historical arguments and/or include authors with complicated legacies.
The bonferoni correction is known to be overly restrictive, though. But yes, probably many more models were fit and results are questionable. The author will at least be able to claim a Science paper...

Also, adjustment of the p-value doesn't do anything to solve the flaws of hypothesis testing. But that's another debate entirely.
There _are_ smaller shabbier pyramids, pyramid of Djoser.

Channelled Scablands were caused by the Missoula floods several thousand years before the Younger Dryas.

...haven't bothered looking for any more errors, as these two are pretty egregious.
No virus checker likes self modifying code
I think it's impolite to label the original answer stupid, he seems to have taken time to at least think about it, and we should keep a civil tone here.

However, I agree with the guy who called it stupid. Not in calling it stupid, but in that it's an answer that creates more questions than it answers.

You could nuance it and take the steelman version, which is that everyone should be generally educated and know a bit about everything, but we all know it's unrealistic. You can't do part of an actuarial degree so that you understand insurance. But you have to buy insurance. You can't flip through a psychology intro so that you can be prepared when you see a therapist. Or read DS&A so that you can hire a programmer. Or read about structures for when you buy a house, or learn to play the piano so you can enjoy music.

You just can't do all these things to a degree where you are covered everywhere.

Now the problem with certain fields is they reach into everyone's lives to a significant degree. Law is one of those, medicine is another, and finance is yet another.

So you can't even narrow it down to "do these things only", because you can't become an expert in multiple broad fields like that. The only realistic answer is to known a tiny bit about a bunch of things, and a lot about one "thing" and then rely on social institutions to make sure you get what you're due when interacting with experts in other fields.
Yeah, it's hard to believe that this is the same organization founded by John Gilmore, who wrote significant parts of GCC and GDB. I don't know how they're going to protect our rights on the electronic frontier if they don't even know when you need to connect your grounds together.
Please note that this is only second incubator. After that will probably be third incubator, preview, second preview, maybe third preview. This will not land before Java 23 or so.
Solar panels because not only is it a decent financial return (effectively 10% pa interest, and climbing with energy prices), but that's a lot of energy generated sustainably instead of by fossil fuels. I'd recommend this to anyone. From a UK perspective, it seems solar PV is still worth doing financially even without getting paid anything for export, now that electric prices are shooting up. And the possibility of one day charging your car from it.
Yep! It is ironic but also makes sense in my opinion. I know more about why the things I'm an expert in are bad than most people do. That doesn't necessarily mean I know how to fix the issues though, but at least I have a good sense of the problems, which is a start.
I find Catia a lot better than FreeCAD. It's not my preferred interface but on the other hand it can handle anything, including projects so large and complex that Solidworks/Fusion/FreeCAD can't even be considered.