skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A small question: how many time you do not lock your screen in the office while going to the bathroom, to eat something, ... ? How many time while doing casual things you need to switch an instant to something else, quickly entering credentials etc?

Now you are in a café, you'll unlikely left a laptop on the table, but you might have an impromptu need to just look at something, perhaps not even entering credentials per se, but still showing something, even by accidents. MANY information have leaked that way. Many innocuous information per se led to discovering of something else valuable to attackers.

You can be perfectly aware 99% of the time, there is still a 1%. Not only: what's work for you? Recently I see a trend, a cohort of people who start working much in time terms and produce far less in substantial terms, they seem to have lost smartness, like what I've seen in SK/Japan where they toxic work culture create an incredible level of inefficiency masked as commitment and hard work, the hard part is the only true ones, the outcome is bad. In the western sauce is even worse: people start to be less and less effective without caring. Managers start to organize toward inefficiency and less smart behaviors encouraging them.

Work is a serious thing and should be done seriously witch does not means at all being available 24/7/365 for 99% of jobs, but being effective, concentrated, with all you need in hands, for a defined timeframe. Such timeframe can be fixed or flexible following targets, current needs etc. But nothing more and nothing less than that. Stereotypical laptop/craphone nomadic smart worker is the antithesis of that. Is the elogium of people who prefer living in a fiction snapping fingers and shrugging "ops, I spilled my drink" with the same involvement of "ops, I've just crushed a plain onto an NPP"... Pushing such model is obviously harmful. Is the tentative of creating a legion of stereotypical Ford model workers all easy to source and substitute, all cheap, all unable to see the big picture, all living on their sofa or in the metaverse (see virtual revolution movie from few years ago [1], for instance) such model gives the maximum easiness to the ruling class but also the worst overall outcome, the result is something that can't last longer and just live disasters behind for generations.

If we really want to progress, to work less, with less fatigue, with more free time we need the exact opposite.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Revolution
The idea was turned down, luckily.

There are too many downside at this point in time.
Isn't this just Anki (flash cards) with extra steps?

If you find a new word put it on a flashcard, and get exposed to it daily (spaced repetition) pretty soon you'll have learned it.
Not directly, but movies are sort of covert marketing. Ex: for certain political and cultural viewpoints
Pointing to the original content on web.archive.org is a really nice idea. That keeps the original content accessible and gives people the opportunity to remember the deceased person.
I've started doing Yoga ~ 3 years ago, and along with switching to a plant-based diet, it's one of the best habits I picked up. I've tried all kinds of sports before, but could never make it stick because I didn't enjoy doing it (e.g., for me running, going to the gym or doing weight lifting at home is extremely boring).
> UEFI is defined by a versioned standard that can be tested and certified against. By contrast, every legacy BIOS is unique.

The "standard" for BIOSes was at first the IBM PC ROS's Reference Manual, and later the PS/2 Reference. Naturally, many vendors failed to implement it correctly. But the problem with EFI is the same. Still hoping that someday, EFI netboot support will be something usable.

I once considered using EFI as a basis for booting some of my bare-metal works, but:

- it requires the GPT partitioning scheme, which in turn requires handling of UUIDs. Their endianess is not little, big - its mixed. mixed in the same value. This is a quirk inherited from Microsoft.

- EFI system partition is the FAT file system, which is an FS that is even older than the legacy BIOS. Many gory details. Legacy from Microsoft.

- EFI "executables" are actually windows executables, who still start with the 'MZ' header from MS-DOS. The real mode code for displaying "This program cannot be run in DOS mode" is, depending on the toolchain, sometimes still included. Also legacy from Microsoft.

I don't see why Linux users should be enthusiastic about adopting this.
That was still true 25 years later and for a few lucky ones it still is today. I think parents compensate the time they cannot spend with their children with exaggerating measures for their safety. Or for social signaling people are very concerned about safety in general because they have no other channel to show that they care.

I can understand it in a large cities though, traffic has indeed become more dangerous because the density increased massively. Not from the US, but the usual horror story you hear is that you cannot leave your kids running around or risk getting called CPS on you.
Since lockdown live audiences have forgotten how to behave
Agreed, I'd love to see some data on that claim, and for it to be in context with the friction a new design has against an existing userbase when a design change occurs. I get that as time goes on, functionality, usecases, userbases, developers, frameworks, etc all evolve over time, and it's wise to make changes to keep up with those shifts in paradigms (rise of mobile use vs desktop in the 2010's for example).

Never once heard: "Man, I sure wish this thing that I've gotten used to and enjoy using for the passed 10 years would suddenly reshuffle everything so I have to relearn where everything is just so it keeps up with whatever the new trend is". To be frank, sounds more like someone in search of some job security.

Changes are necessary over time yes, but without some studies backing it up, I can't fathom that change for the sake of staying "fresh" belongs anywhere in software design and development. As an imperative from marketing/management to attract a new userbase, sure, but that's not a Design or Dev motive. If there's an opportunity to unify the standard of design or consolidating/eliminating technical debt while undergoing a significant overhaul, sure, understandable. But "It seems a little stale, we should change it"? From a User's perspective? Please don't.
My dream for WebAssembly is direct filesystem / local database access in Electron apps and mobile apps powered by a WebView. So you could have for instance, a Rust binary that does almost everything and is able to use DOM for rendering.
Currently if I understand it correctly the only way to do that is without WASM actually. A separate binary communicating via IPC with JavaScript in the renderer process - I'm not sure if the latency is good enough to put any front-end logic in that binary.

Edit: Actually it's quite viable as it is and I'm not sure how I did not think of it sooner. Just run everything in WASM and make requests to the database like WASM -> JavaScript -> IPC and latency is not a problem here.
My favorite answers to the Trolley Problem:

The Union rep: "First of all, it’s not even your train yard."

The C'est la vie response: "NTA. Trolley accidents happen."

The wishful thinker: "It is possible that that person was a criminal or other person that the law doesn’t protect."

The Nihilist: "NTA. The other passengers were already in line with mortality when they got on that trolley."

The victim blamer: "This is a scenario that could have been easily avoided by simply not standing in the way of a runaway trolley."

The "it's just a job" solution: "NTA. What is the point of being a railway worker if you can’t save five people from being killed. You’re not a hero, you’re a railway worker"

The Hater: "YTA and a f*ing scumbag. I hope they find your body in the abandoned train yard and run over it with the trolley because you deserve to be f*ed over by life more than anyone else."

The "I know this one": "It’s a real life example of a Trolley Problem"

The worst action is inaction: "YTA. It's not your responsibility to choose the least harmful option. Just pull the damn lever."

The philosophy 101 creative thinker: "I’m not sure I agree with the “only two options” part"

The Existentialist: "YTA. You chose to be a pawn in someone else’s game because it was easier than trying something different."

Common sense: "NTA. If you don't do anything, the trolley will kill 5 people. If you do something, 1 person will die. Seems pretty clear cut to me."

The root cause analyst: "If you wanted to be a good person, you'd give money to the organization that runs the trolley"

The Twist: "You are responsible for the death of one person. That person is you."
Thanks for the helpful explanation!
The things the parent comment referred to (instruction caches and branch prediction) are in the processor hardware rather than other compiler optimisations.
I don't see why Linux users would care about this. It boots the system, nobody cares it uses some old MS tech.
One of the things I was most impressed by was how he managed to aim for some camera worthy bushes to land in when there were SO many better options for safety.

I wasted an inordinate amount of time analysing the whole thing myself, including but not limited to finding the location based on geographic features - and then testing in Flight Simulator.

I'm pretty sure I wasn't the only one.

I'm disappointed he's not thrown in jail for reckless endangerment.
Why not? If i'm a potential customer and i see some features are missing, having the roadmap to visualise how they plan to evolve is great. Without that, why would i waste time contacting them, bothering with an NDA and what not just to know if they plan on adding X or Y?
Fusarium is a regular component of the gut microbiome according to the study below, especially and overwhelmingly in, I kid you not, vegetarians!!! I'd imagine the raw food trend in vegetarianism would exacerbate this. I did not expect that! This rabbit hole goes extremely deep! If it gets established in the gut microbiome, it would be generating regular small amounts of zearalenone and people so infected would not experience full blown mycotoxin poisoning like say an immunocompromised person.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5411236/

"Finally, Suhr and colleagues examined 16 [fecal] samples from 15 vegetarians, while Hallen-Adams et al. used the same methodology in the same laboratory to isolate and sequence fungal DNA from 69 samples from 45 people on a conventional Western diet.22,23 The distribution of fungi differed considerably between the 2 groups (Table 2). Plant pathogenic Fusarium was detected in all but 2 samples from vegetarians (14 samples; 88%), while it was only detected in 2 samples from participants on conventional diets (3%). Malassezia and (presumed) foodborne Penicillium and Aspergillus were also present in more than 50% of vegetarian samples but much rarer in conventional diet samples. "
Sorry for being populist. Design is created for a purpose. If your goal is to ”take over the web”, a design that appeals only to a small minority means your design failed.

Also, Figma's website looks pretty normal. It's barely registering in the scale of “neobrutalim”, whatever the hell that's even supposed to mean for a digital media.
I saw a gardening-related site being sold for several thousand dollars by an expired domain reseller after the owner died. This happens a lot.

From a SEO perspective, you should be fine as long as it wasn't previously a malicious or spammy site.

From ethical/emotional well that's your decision. Personally I'd be fine with it
I mean, at some point surely the host will take it down anyway, once the registration expires. At which point it will likely be squatted on, automatically. At least you'd be making productive use of this little patch of web land.
Ask HN: Why am I getting probing traffic with “binance.com” as referrer?
I get a lot of bot traffic to various potentially sensitive endpoints on my blog. Stuff like Wordpress admin or other endpoints that could allow a site to be compromised if they existed. It's really common so that part doesn't surprise me, but I noticed I get quite a bit of this traffic with "binance.com" listed as the referrer and got curious.

My first thought was that someone is spoofing the referrer. I don't know much about crypto exchanges, but it seems like Binance is a pretty "legit" one, which is what made me think they're not sending this traffic (plus, who would do this and leave their actual referrer exposed?). I thought maybe it's a homoglyph phishing attempt, but it seems to just be the legit binance domain string.

I'm curious why anyone would choose to spoof this domain specifically? Most of these bots report no referrer, a few report google or bing. What may be the motivation for using the binance domain?
It was really obvious to me as someone who hasn't flown, even. As a layman it was obvious there would be at least a checklist of things you'd try first.

Like to get the engine running again, figure out if there's anywhere close enough to land/ditch safely, radio ATC, etcetera. And he didn't appear surprised or stressed out, he looked like he was expecting it.

Plus having the parachute on in advance, and so many cameras?

But this guy? This guy just pressed triangle and immediately pulled a full on GTA-V move.
In case anyone is interested, I have had good results with Linux on a specific Dell XPS machine:

http://h2.jaguarpaw.co.uk/posts/how-i-use-debian-dell-xps-13...
Designers mostly don't initiate these kinds of things. Some Jony Ive-like rockstar designer is fairly rare.

If you want the source of most redesign initiatives, look at the middle management and executive levels. At the end of the day, if they want a redesign and a designer says "no" they'll just be replaced.
Personally I would add the mention as a comment section in the HTML Source. It gives attribute without it really impacting your site's content. The same way as I treat credits where credits are due but aren't really directly related to the product built.
I do think there is a problem that merits discussion. But to ring such alarms and place it in this context doesn't do that discussion justice. There is more nuance to be had.
Ask HN: How do you preserve individual browsing privacy in a household?
I'm receiving targeted ads and suggested content on my individual device related to searches that other family members recently made on their respective devices.

A typical household connects to a single router when accessing the Web. To the external world they will all share the same public IP address.

If I understand correctly, individuals are often tracked by their IP address, besides other identifiers. Which may be one possible cause.

How can I preserve the privacy of each family member and avoid the annoyance of ads and content being misattributed to other family members?
The code is not from a disassembler. The developers of the sm64 disassembly project used a disassembler to look at the machine instruction output of the game’s functions, and then wrote their own implementation in C that results in the same output.
I know you're joking but a server under a desk is a fine alternative to a lot of compute-heavy background tasks where you can tolerate downtime without any user-facing effects.
It's crazy that the check for this was right there in the original code and was obviously missed when porting to Java. Great example of why unit tests are part of the code (and were missing in both in this case).
I don’t know about the Saturn, but the PlayStation is the first mainline console that I know that had a C SDK and games were written in C on it.

The first Nintendo handheld to use C was the GameBoy Advance which was also the first Nintendo console that had an ARM processor.

It’s true that C only really took off in the 90s while the 70s and 80s are more of a proto-C era which still built the entire Unix system.
I know a lot of people feel more comfortable coming out now which is a good thing, but to add some anecdata to this...I know, and have heard of, a large number of people who claim to be gay or bi and by every indication are not. Not that their sexuality is my concern, but a few of them are obviously just posturing or something. I don't know if they've attached virtue to certain sexualities, or maybe they need to feel like they're a minority so they aren't "oppressors" (they're all whites, of the concerned variety), or if they got invested in gay culture and feel like they belong to it, or if they fetishized it or whatever but it's weird. I literally had one woman tell me, who proclaims her bisexuality every chance she gets and paints her nails rainbow colors on pride day, say that sex with women was gross...sorry lady, but I don't think you're a bisexual...

Is there a word for this? It's like the label of something has taken on more importance in their minds than the meaning behind it.
The article is about audio cassettes in Egypt and how Sadat banned them. (after a cursory glance-through)

The headline is misleading. I thought I was in for reading about some open source version of Ableton or something about laws and sampling/remix culture :)
Restoring Vintage Computers
Show HN: Blockchain note that can be edited by anyone but only once an hour
It's an art you create with your words that will be unchangeable by no entity in the known universe
for the next one hour.

Lot of people asked why I used blockchain for this:

using a server to show notes has it's own drawbacks,

mainly, the person who has access to the server can manipulate what notes to be shown. Or if the server's bandwidth is slow, people from other country will have hard time reading/changing the note. or if the server's network is banned in certain countries like north korea/china people from that country cannot read thenote

as the note is stored in a smart contract on the blockchain, no one can change it for 1 hour and anyone on earth can read/change it without any third party interference.

I'd love any feedback you have and if you think of anything it doesn't have that it should, I'd love to hear that too.
> Hello again, Vivek, founder/CEO here. In the interest of moving swiftly, here are the actions we are going to take:

So you are taking action only after news spilled all over the internet? So I can assume that if no one(in internet terms) known about it (as described in links pointing to other DMCA cases), you would do nothing to remedy your illegal (from moral stand point of view, no real one) actions.

It's only illegal if you get caught and find someone willing to prosecute you. Also if penalty for breaking law is a fine, then this law only applies to poor people.
>Is there any research that supports this claim? If I use an app for 6 years, why would I suddenly need a change?

obviously designers get bored with designs and want to change them, so I would guess that other people who use the apps that did not design the apps might also get tired with it, probably there are people out there who are not designers but have a heightened design sense and they get bored whereas people who have just average design sense don't care.
It may be a huge difference, but the problem with asking Youtube to take that kind of decision without a court order is that you're expecting them to have expertise in aviation law. What next? Should they remove house flipping videos because of realtor regulations in various jurisdictions? Remove DIY videos because some jurisdictions require electrical repairs to be performed by certified technicians? The list is endless, and the precedent is so very bad.
> People adjust their use of gasoline based on the constantly shifting prices. This is how demand is shaped to match supply.

Yeah, but unlike electricity gas can be stored efficiently and long term - your typical 5-series BMW has ~60l of tank volume, a Ford F150 has ~90-100l, not to mention jerry cans. That means when gas is expensive, a consumer usually can choose to simply fill up the tank at another date.
Because Python might be the best tool for a job that has memory constraints?
Because "removing legacy" was one of the key arguments of EFI enthusiasts, and its still plenus bovis stercus.
Ask HN: How do I find a technical cofounder?
Hey folks, I find myself in a bit of a weird situation.

My background is in marketing and revenue operations, I am moderately technical but I am not a developer or engineer.

For the last couple of years I have been slowly plugging away at a digital SaaS product aimed at the tattoo industry, I've hired freelance developers to build an MVP but find myself not entirely happy with the speed and quality of the freelancers I've been working with.

Basically, I need help, but I have no idea how and where to find someone technical who would be interested in working on this project with me.

I'd love to hear any recommendations from folks here about how one would go about finding a technical cofounder.
I never resorted to lawyers. She is the the lawyer (She got her license years ago) whom told me she was going to sue. I threw in PG&E because it was related to trees. I don't have the money to consult lawyers. I can barely pay my property taxes.
Productivity doesn’t only depend on hard work, but also on many other factors, such as capital intensity and institutions.

One example that comes to mind is that in the UK I get a new laptop every other year and whatever software licence or training I may need. My brother in Italy was given a 5 year old laptop that would crash every other hour and his budget for software and training was 0. The result is that he used to work twice as hard as me, while being half productive.

EDIT: if you want data, compare the GDP for hour worked in Italy with Germany or the US: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_labour_...
My 15 years old daughter was taking public transportation to go to her sport club 20 km away when she was in primary school. Needless to say she was the only child alone in the train. She has all latitude to go where she wants as long as she tells us if it's far. Some friends of her just can't get out of their home alone excepted to go to junior high school (maybe it is even their parents who bring them?), such a gap!
There are many cases of immigrants saving the life of small children in trouble. Men are brain-wired to protect and rescue any children in distress. The problem is that we slowly assumed that other people is dangerous or insane by default just by a few outliers and just to be sold things.

And that when you progressively restrict what people can do in a society, or everybody feels watched and judged 24/7, at some point you will start to encourage perverted conducts of escape.
Yes, I use it and find it helpful; was much nicer using a regular coding language to build the infrastructure than learn another domain language,
25 years ought to be enough, no?
anyone here from a place like Latin America to somewhat counter the crazy white nationalist rhetoric? at least racism in central and south america is a bit less binary.
Less legacy code for them to maintain. I see that as a win.
We're they keeping the dirty generation at surplus level for safety precautions, due to renewable sources unreliability?

If yes, I think the math is misleading.

It doesn't matter if you generate 97% from renewables if you can't trust it and still need to keep dirty sources, even during renewable peak...