skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside from fsflovers link; there's a fantastic (paid) firewall software called littlesnitch.

You can use it to watch every process send network traffic, you can even collect samples of the traffic and plot it on a map: https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html

(not affiliated, just a happy customer; it's one of the few things I like the mac ecosystem for.. there's attempts to port it to linux with https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch; but it's not as polished of course)
It's worth mentioning that in the UK you can still pay for private treatment, and thus avoid any queues. You can also buy insurance to pay for private treatment.

A few countries forbid this, including Canada.
Install free Comodo Internet Security.

Disable DNS cache service so that all your apps resolve DNS themselves (can only be done via the registry, change the service's startup type from 2 (auto) to 4 (disabled)).

In CIS, create a new group for all files under c:/windows.

Create a rule denying all in/out requests to that group.

Create a rule allowing only DHCP and NTP requests (255.255.255.255:67 and <whatever-timeserver-you-trust>:123) for svchost.exe (place that rule above the one for c:/windows to ensure precedence).

Use third-party utilities instead of the likes of ping.exe, e.g. hrping.

Refer to CIS documentation in case of any troubles.

Enjoy your privacy-hardened windows.
How Office 365 does automatic DKIM key rotation
Home Assistant has both a HomeKit bridge integration to let HomeKit control HA devices (what I use) and a HomeKit controller integration to let HA control HomeKit devices. The first one is limited to your local network, however, unless you have some sort of Apple hub like a HomePod or recent model AppleTV to stay connected to Home Assistant.
> To understand inflation as it actually exists, we must look not to economics textbooks, but to real-world data. That’s what political economist Jonathan Nitzan did during his PhD research in the early 1990s. His work culminated in a dissertation called Inflation As Restructuring.

The real world of PhD dissertations isn’t that different from that of economics textbooks.
That's fair and its something we will have to get right over time. But its also tricky to find an ethical monetization model for social media.

You can sell your user's data to advertisers, or you can sell control or you can find some other channel.

We're e.g. playing with the idea to add a live podcasting feature that allows user's to comment and tip during a show a la Twitch.
If anyone can hook me up with the right people I'd love to do it :-). Not sure if it's legal to use it that way, but doing video calls with my app while driving with the phone in a holder on the dashboard already works really well.
How else do you think the company should determine if it wants to interact with the union or not?

Obviously the company isn’t going to work with literally any union that emails them and says it has a demand, without knowing if the union has anything to back up its demands or not.

If someone came to demand your money and said ‘or else’ you’d ask what the ‘or else’ is, wouldn’t you?
I've found that unfortunately it's most often people at the peak of the Dunning-Kruger effect who volunteer to do interviews, so hiring decisions are ultimately made in part by those who vastly overestimate the scale of insight they can get from those relatively short conversations.

I had people get visibly angry during interviews where I was the candidate when I called them out on giving me a problem to solve, that they obviously had in their project and spent weeks on figuring out, while I was somehow supposed to do that in less than an hour.

Oddly specific interview questions are a red flag to me, because they indicate someone had a strong opinion on what's the "proper" way to solve a given problem.
And in the USA if you don’t have insurance and are dying you’ll be treated. They act like dead poor people are piled up outside of hospitals. They’ll even discount you to 0 if they see you’re really poor.
that's not good - which one is that?
by rhombus or diamond shaped do you mean the first layer being wider than the input layer - with each following hidden layer being smaller than the previous hidden layer?
Wait for a few minutes before opening it up, check with a multimeter, etc. Mains voltage isn't that scary if you follow basic precautions
Converting less of the switched energy to heat IS efficiency; there's no difference.
I doubt you'll have a working operating system if you were to block all of those Hosts
This looks neat, I'll check it out.

I'm currently using Binisoft (now Malware Bytes) Windows Firewall Control to block unwanted traffic. I'm quite happy with it.

The amount of traffic that it regularly blocks is insane. Windows and installed apps constantly want to chat with their cloud friends.
Steps to mitigate:

Change Windows Firewall settings to block outbound connections by default [0]

Install Unbound [1] so you can actually see the DNS requests (and block them if you want it) your system performs.

server:
verbosity: 1
extended-statistics: yes

logfile: "C:\Shares\Public\Progs\Unbound\unbound.log"

server:
log-queries: yes
log-replies: yes
log-servfail: yes
val-log-level: 2

[0] https://imgur.com/a/ayq5yiF

[1] https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/projects/unbound/about/
What happens when a poor person gets this virus?
> Azure fully integrated them [Databricks] into their service

Could you elaborate on this? To my knowledge (limited!) there isn't any specific integration. I thought they just offered a turn-key managed service, but all that seems to do is spin up a preconfigured VM scale set...
C.elegans is NOT the life form with the smallest brain
Doesn't that just mean the least interesting number definitely exists but is simply unknowable?
That was a fantastic answer.Likewise learned a lot. As someone stuck doing old school RDBMS Sql and Python for APIs , what’s the best resource for me to learn about databricks and spark ?
You are connecting so many dots that don't exist.

Go to a dermatologist / your doctor about the spots. Don't mention anything about using the computer.

The monitor isn't making you tired. Antihistamines will, 1st gen ones will.

Yes, reflective things tend to reflect things, not just monitors. The blue light filter... Is to reduce... Blue light made by... What is displayed on your screen... It's not some magic that just... Filters reflected light.... If the sun shines through your window and into your monitor does the reflected beam strike you in any way? Even if it does glass windows just kind of block mostly all the UVB and some of the UVA radiation without any window treatment such as low-e... Maybe your skin is just changing... Cuz... That happens... People age...

1st gen antihistamines also cause issues with memory and perception and guess what else? Difficulty adjusting to changes in light levels due to things they do pharmacologically to the eye. If you are taking something like Benadryl I suggest you switch to Claritin or Zyrtec... Stuff like that.

Set up your work environment. Cut down on the monitor brightness. Lower it all the way. Lower the ambient room lighting. Have just a tiny bit of back lighting behind your monitor. Lowering the total brightness of everything will make it less straining in general because you won't be shooting tons of lumens straight into your eyes causing them to constrict. It can be easy to think to make things brighter... For example. Maybe you keep your room bright and you have the sun coming in the window shining on the monitor so you raise the brightness on that to counter the sun. Just compounding things really. Instead block the sun with better curtains, move the computer desk and do the rest of what I suggested.
Sure, but that is how it's sold: NodeJS and Javascript are marketed as super easy, perfect for beginners. They're not, in my opinion.
On a tangent re: immortality: reminds me of the names you'd see in splash screens of various products. After one too many years of seeing “Seetharaman Narayanan” in the Photoshop splash screen, I just had to look him up.

https://www.ironicsans.com/2006/09/interview_seetharaman_nar...
> they were being housed in county jails, private homes, and the basements of public buildings

Now it’s mostly the streets.
I'm skeptical this will work nicely with different Emacs/Orgmode versions - unless it's a super basic subset.

In my experience org files break very easily between releases of Emacs/Orgmode. I've spent a lot of time updating orgfiles at each release. Often certain behaviors are just removed and you can't bring them back

Lately I've given up and switched to Asciidoc.. No nice editor integration and literate workflow, but at least I'm not chained to one editor that randomly changes stuff at each release (+ the syntax is nicer)
Magnetic inductive charging has an efficiency of <50%, so now the battery has to be twice as big and your phone gets really hot in your pocket.
The first Lonely Planet book, Across Asia on the cheap, was published in 1973 afaik, so there weren't many electronics around back then. So it has little to do with the type of traveler you discuss, not that these didn't show up in more recent decades.

You can find the original one on archive.org if you'd like.
Twitter characters limits is the negation of intelligence
Unrelated to the content, but is this proper English:

> when the tech giant acquired Activision Blizzard later next year

As a non-native speaker, I am confused about the use of past tense for an (alleged) future event ("next year"). Is it just a typo and it should say "last year"? Or is it business English meaning "will have acquired"?
> capital is what makes future productivity improvements possible. If you took a risk investing your capital, but that return is taxed the same as wage income (which has zero risk associated with it), you would be discouraged from investing that capital, and instead consume more of it (ala, why invest in your business buying plant and equipment, when you could just go on a lavish vacation!).

The fairy tale that no one would invest if, instead of 100%, they were only allowed to keep, say, 50% of the profits is far-fetched. The game would go on, only with more (in the optimal case) redistribution and less accumulation among the already well-off. The issue here is the relative inequality caused by capital gains, which in the long run tears societies apart, because the middle class can no longer afford apartments/houses and vacations, and the lower class can no longer afford basic needs (food, health care, mobility).
Study identifies how the brain links memories
Or perhaps the interviewers are under-experienced, under-perpared and/or under-trained?

True story: I had an interview a couple of weeks ago. I was interviewed by two people who were younger than me, and relatively less experienced than me.

My CV has a number of links to repos for various side projects and such. Best I could tell, neither of them looked, at least not more than a minute. Not a single "Your ____ repo looks ____ let's discuss a bit..." Instead I got ovetly basic questions, some of which didn't map to the role / opportunity.

Furthermore, I could only find one of them on GitHub and it was routine stuff (e.g., wedding website). Apparently, neither understood I was interviewing them as well.

I'll never get that hour of my life back.

I have a phrase:

"How you hire is who you hire."

It's sadly funny how many outfits still don't get that.
> why do we have to prioritize being closer together?

Climate change is one reason:

* https://transportgeography.org/contents/chapter4/environment...

Congestion: if you are driving you are not stuck in traffic, you are traffic. (And EVs may help with climate change, but they don't help with congestion.)

And let's not forget the fact that suburban design leads to bankrupt cities:

* https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/8/28/the-growth-pon...

* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJp5q-R0lZ0_FCUbeVWK6...
The person in that twitter thread clearly has some issues beyond learning Python, their response was extremely angry, dramatic, and entitled. "Angry tears welling up" is not a reasonable response to learning anything, especially when not having a deadline and just learning it for fun. To me this reads more like a mental health breakdown live streamed on twitter than of something that actually says anything about Python. I wouldn't be comfortable interacting with them at all
and other nix distros like both Ubuntu Desktop and Server.
Or task 3 would also be impossible in a country with universal health care.
Interesting they touched on a couple of pain points I’ve had with spark execution, not quite the same thing but I’ve wondered why some of the way it execute isn’t smarter. Bloom filters for cheap way to filter big joins, using single scans to do multiple jobs in the plan.. I’ll have to have a look.
I find it very unlikely to work.

Convolution smooths out functions. If you convolve any function with a Gaussian kernel, you get a C^infinity function (a function that has continuous derivatives of arbitrary order).

This anti-blurring effect would attempt to find for a given function f another function g so that g convolved with a Gaussian kernel is f. But if f is discontinuous no such function exists.

This is not just academic. Letters on a screen are discontinuous functions.

You could say that a certain amount of smoothness is tolerated. Or that all signals are discretized anyway, so the whole concept of continuity is mathematical non-sense.

So, what I provided is just heuristics, is not a solid proof. It's still in principle possible to produce such a anti-blurring algorithm, I just find it highly unlikely, I would not invest much time in it.
That's not what the linked Twitter thread is talking about, nor is it how I interpret "make a quick app for yourself, or make something small to share with the world" or "make a quick application to accomplish a small task." Those things are eminently achievable without having to embrace the level of complexity that's so popular in professional software development.

And I actually think the level of capability you're talking about is within closer reach than most people realize. Certainly it's much easier now than it was even 10 years ago. Probably not something that a non-programmer can accomplish on day 1, but I'm not sure there's many crafts that can be learned that quickly.
FastCache.Cached: high-performance lock-free caching library in .NET
> It certainly seems like if it's worthwhile for anyone to do with unspecialized labor, then it would certainly be worth doing for a specialist

'Anyone' could be a penniless student and his time costs little, specialist may charge $40 per hour.

Also even ideal free market has cost of transaction, discoveravility, etc.

Hospitals have repair technicians, but why would you need one spesifically focusing on power supplies - he does not need different training or equipment
> a lot of people, ESPECIALLY programmers, vastly overestimate the competence of the average person

This is always true, but I think it's a slight misdiagnosis here specifically. The problem isn't over-estimating competence but under-estimating complexity.

I've watched a bunch of very smart, highly-competent people bounce off JS; that's not a fault with them but with the ever-changing and overly-complicated ecosystem.
Car ownership plummeting doesn't mean that every single person needs to stop driving, for those in edge cases, they would continue. And the aim would be that almost everyone is brought within range of public transport and better walking/cycling options.
I can sort of see the point the writer is trying to make. Certainly inflation is not evenly distributed - see healthcare, see post-K-12 education, see housing - but all that said they don't seem to grapple with the recent history of inflation. I'm thinking of Volkher putting a stop to inflation by raising interest rates - cutting off the money supply.

As for the idea that oligopolies are behind inflation, it seems a cry too much the reverse of saying it's all Governments fault.
>I got to thinking, though: what if there was some minimum bound to the number of channels for the base layer of a diffusion network?

>To test out this theory, I needed a way to compress the output of the diffusion model. One idea that came to mind is using the concepts behind PixelShuffle. So I compressed the waveform by 16x using a 1D form of PixelShuffle, increased the base dimensionality to 256, and started another training run.

I'm not familiar with the author's previous projects or the terminology here. Do they just mean he increased the size of the first hidden layer and (base dimensionality to 256) and compressed the output layer by 16?
This is probably obvious to anyone but there isn't anything "good" about this, I expected this to be something along the lines of a crypto donation to GiveDirectly but this is just a sick wannabe Blackmirror power play.
On top of that: HVDC scales because resistive loss in power transmission can be reduced quadratically by increasing the voltage (assuming fixed load, so current drops to compensate). (Loss is also increased linearly by transmitting more power through it. Thanks, Joule.)

If your 5% loss per Mm is at 500kV, increasing that to 1MV (entering the territory of UHVDC) means that you're only talking 1.25% loss per Mm which translates to "just" 22% loss over 20Mm, or even just 5% over the ~4Mm that separates Phoenix and NYC.

That tech exists. We just haven't begun to build it in the US. (There are plenty of obstacles beyond just the materials cost.)
Sounds like a Black Mirror episode.
The JavaScript ecosystem, in my opinion, largely because JavaScript makes it so easy to write awful code and even easier to distribute it widely.
Does anyone have recommendations as to libraries (not applications) out there that allow one to interact with org files?

(Preferably in rust, since I'm learning it rn)
This is yak shaving. I mainly but not exclusively encounter yak shaving when, against my better judgement, I venture into the Opensourcelands. 10x more of it there, at any rate.
> Looks like we are back to that situation again. The promise of big Pharma that medication would magically make mental illness able to be treated completely in an outpatient manner has failed spectacularly. We shut down a lot of these mental asylums without providing a replacement.

Big Pharma had nothing to do with the decision to get rid of mental hospitals. That was part of the generalized 70s breakdown of trust in authority and belief that community can do everything if you just believe hard enough. Care in the community never happened and if your entire strategy, insofar as you have one, relies on that, you just get deinstitutionalisation of the mentally ill. The same period saw quadrupling of crime rates. All part of the same phenomenon of social change.
"Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud"

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-wwszGw8
https://delta.io/blog/2022-05-05-delta-lake-1-2-released/ - big part is open sourced and more is coming (see roadmap on GitHub: https://github.com/delta-io/delta/issues/920)
Funnily enough, I've been looking for the best method to query terabytes of logs dumped into blob storage, and now I have a far better understanding of how that should be done than after watching literally hours of marketing-driven product demo videos...
You're right to be sceptical. Org mode syntax is not easy. That's why a lot of work went into the parser. organice has a big set of tests for its parser and aims to be 100% compatible with Org mode syntax. I'm using it daily since years on 5-digit LOC Org files and don't get a one byte diff where I shouldn't (apart from some documented bugs). If you find a discrepancy, changing/adding tests, as well as modifying the parser is usually not too hard.
Show HN: Open-source enterprise SSO – integrate SAML with a few lines of code
I couldn't find a way to delete an account, so signup with a burner if you want to check it out.
Hey everyone, we are Deepak and Sama, co-founders of BoxyHQ. We are posting our enterprise SSO project to seek feedback from the Reddit community. Over the past few months, the team has been working really hard on our SAML SSO project, our early customers love us. It would be great if you can share some insights or ideas you’d like to see in the project going forward.

One of the most common requirements enterprises have for their SaaS providers is SSO (Single Sign-On) or SAML as it adds a layer of their internal authentication to your product. This way their users can access your product via one of their secure IdPs (Identity Providers), which manages access and security for the entire organization.

tl;dr → https://github.com/boxyhq/jackson
The project is called SAML Jackson. Jackson implements the SAML login flow as an OAuth 2.0 flow, abstracting away all the complexities of the SAML protocol. Our objective is that anyone could Integrate SAML with just a few lines of code. Developers can easily add single sign-on authentication to their products, and it supports most identity providers via SAML 2.0.

More details about SAML Jackson features:

- Jackson acts as a SAML Service Provider (SP) proxy, we do not intend to add functionality to make it an Identity Provider. Keycloak or Ory would be a great choice if you are looking for a SAML IdP

- Integrates seamlessly with all popular OAuth 2.0 libraries out there

- Supports most SAML providers out there - Okta, Azure AD, Auth0, Azure AD, OneLogin, Google SAML, Shibboleth

- Supports PKCE flow, so suitable for SPA applications

- Support SAML login on native mobile apps, a huge advantage since the traditional SAML flow is a little tricky to support on a native mobile app

- Wide range of supported databases - Postgres, MariaDB, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis with an easy-to-extend interface to support other databases
These list contain most MS spyware domains, I think: https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/tree/master/d...

Be careful, though, it's easy to accidentally break Windows Update.
Off the top of my head, I can think of two ways to resolve the paradox:

1. Reject the intuitive definition of "interesting"ness as being ill-formed. We need an objective definition non-self-referential definition of the word interesting.

2. Accept that there are interesting or uninteresting numbers, but their status as objects of interest is tied to a specific time. For example, 1729 might have been an uninteresting number until the conversation between Ramanujan and Hardy. Several of the examples on the Wikipedia page have such temporal limits on when they were / were not interesting.
Ancient Greek Pronunciation: ει (epsilon iota) [video]
I think the problem here is that there's so many tutorials, articles etc telling people that if they want to do data analysis then the best way is to use Python without making it clear that this advice is predicated on you already having a programming education. If you start with a CSV file and want to do some analysis, without knowing programming, then you need to using a spreadsheet app, but this context isn't being reliably given to people. Instead they absorb a background assumption that "real" data analysis is based on programming and immediately drown when they try it.
There's a sister library to organice which works in JavaScript, Java, Clojure and ClojureScript: https://github.com/200ok-ch/org-parser
they are all here downvoting you instead of working so
I like that I can read a comment for a podcast I've never heard of before and jump into the exact timestamp being discussed with a single click. I also like that I can read comments without logging in, so I can judge the quality of the discussion before deciding to sign up.

Things that could be improved: the site is a bit slow and I got at least one broken image - I imagine it is getting HN'd right now, though, so I'll check again later. I also agree with the main page being unfriendly - if it weren't for the side bar, I would have probably never tried it. I also wanted to go to a show's full list of discussions, but I didn't find a way.

Overall I like it.