skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WHile this article isn't about them, using pidgeons trained to peck at images of ships was looked into as a guidance system for early anti-ship missiles. - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
fingerprinting is a vulnerability that didn't exist previously (when browsers were designed).

it's now difficult to remove that capability without affecting sites (display-wise, not fingerprinting-wise). reality sucks.
> some telemetry/update thing

Could be automatic maintenence
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/40119-enable-disable-aut...
, updates to programs, the windows store updates or windows update service...

What says it is Telemetry?
It also barely worked at all.
america must be the only country where reliable public transit is considered a sexual kink, thanks for the that.
No, that's not it.

That's not why my bluetooth disconnects every single time I unsuspend my chromebook, about 2 minutes after connecting bluetooth it'll disconnect again, and will be permanently on the second time.

That's not why I have to reboot my phone sometimes, or reboot my headphones, to get it to "unstuck". And the fact that it works to "turn it off and on again".

It's reliably broken, not just by random patterns.

If it were signal strength then we'd be seeing dropped packets. I get some dropped packets when on the other side of the house, on a different floor, from the transmitter. Yet sometimes I can still not get anything through at all when the devices are right next to each other, until I reboot them.

And power goes down with distance squared. "Right next to each other" is at that point almost (but not quite) "so loud it could damage each other's receiver".
Learning git is not easy.

There is one thing that will almost guarantee no work is ever lost: commit. if something is commit, even if it’s not pushed it can be retrieved.

One other thing that has nothing to do with how it works, but makes all the difference in usability: write commit messages describing _why_.

To learn git is to use git, reading about it has not helped me.
Screenconnect and Splashtop come to mind. Yes - both have their flaws, but are much more palatable then TV.
Would you trust a government imposed GPS based tracking system to properly account for those edge cases? I sure as hell wouldn’t.

Also, those aren’t exempted under the current gas tax model anyway, so why bother?
Apple settles US butterfly-keyboard legal action for $50m
As someone with a kid, this seems like a very bad reason to have kids.

At my funeral, since I will be dead, the only ones who will (presumably) be suffering at that point will be the mourners, so arguably, the less people at one’s funeral, the less overall suffering there is.
lol why do people put up with these scams? I want to sign up just so I can tell them to fuck off when they try that with me.
This bring more choiche power to the final user. But are final users always in position to make such choiches? Do the final user always have the competence? If you open the app store walled gardens good things can enter, but even bad things. Today if you buy an iPhone to you son you sure that apps are reviewed by Apple. With this ACT, nor Apple, nor other provider can give you this certainty of app moderation.
`man 404` would be really convenient. I could tolerate `man http-404` too.

For those that think that `man` is only about commands, we already have `man 7 ascii`.
Careful: whether SSRIs and SNRIs work is unrelated to whether hallucinogenics do or don't. hallucinogenics being shit doesn't make SSRI/SNRIs a good bet.

Also, those exact studies you refer to show that SNRIs work very poorly and are very limited.

Usually studies have fewer than 100 participants:

* people are dropped from the study arbitrarily

* they are not double blind

* they are not representative of the population (overwhelmingly participants are white, male, well off or young with no other health complaints and few serious problems)

* studies are usually very short (<100 days) for medicines that are prescribed for years

They then find drugs are less than 15%ppts more effective than placebos. In exchange you get quite extreme side effects for a significant number of users from impotence to suicide...

The lancet picked this up and did. meta-study. Their conclusions:

>We identified 28 552 citations and of these included 522 trials comprising 116 477 participants. In terms of efficacy, all antidepressants were more effective than placebo, with ORs ranging between 2·13 (95% credible interval [CrI] 1·89–2·41) for amitriptyline and 1·37 (1·16–1·63) for reboxetine. For acceptability, only agomelatine (OR 0·84, 95% CrI 0·72–0·97) and fluoxetine (0·88, 0·80–0·96) were associated with fewer dropouts than placebo, whereas clomipramine was worse than placebo (1·30, 1·01–1·68). When all trials were considered, differences in ORs between antidepressants ranged from 1·15 to 1·55 for efficacy and from 0·64 to 0·83 for acceptability, with wide CrIs on most of the comparative analyses. In head-to-head studies, agomelatine, amitriptyline, escitalopram, mirtazapine, paroxetine, venlafaxine, and vortioxetine were more effective than other antidepressants (range of ORs 1·19–1·96), whereas fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, reboxetine, and trazodone were the least efficacious drugs (0·51–0·84). For acceptability, agomelatine, citalopram, escitalopram, fluoxetine, sertraline, and vortioxetine were more tolerable than other antidepressants (range of ORs 0·43–0·77), whereas amitriptyline, clomipramine, duloxetine, fluvoxamine, reboxetine, trazodone, and venlafaxine had the highest dropout rates (1·30–2·32). 46 (9%) of 522 trials were rated as high risk of bias, 380 (73%) trials as moderate, and 96 (18%) as low; and the certainty of evidence was moderate to very low.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

I think even assuming good faith for all those studies, those are poor results when you include the low acceptability. If you don't assume good faith you're left wondering if these drugs work at all.

It should go without saying that NO ONE should stop or change their medication (especially highly addictive ones like these) based on a HN comment. Please speak to your doctors dear readers.
It's kinda sad how much of the Internet design comes down to "this is why we can't have nice things".

Pretty much everything that can be abused, is. Third party cookies, DNS interception by ISPs, monitoring (and selling) your Web activity and so on. You can really see the Internet was designed for simpler, more innocent times.

Take the trash fire that is IPv6 with its stupidly large address space (ie 128 bits). Not 48 or even 64 bits. Why? To give users a /64 address space. Why? Because MAC addresses were 48 bits and the IPv6 designers thought they'd "solve" internal network addressing by just using the MAC address in the /64 bit space.

Obviously we don't do that because it's a privacy issue.

So it's inevitable that DNS goes the SSL route. It's sad that it comes to that but here we are.

I really wish IP had a guaranteed connectionless delivery option (ie TCP without the connection handshake). Yeah I know there are hacks to kind of achieve this.

Likewise, a lot of CDNs and big sites use extremely short TTLs for load-balancing and other reasons. DNS lookup can significantly degrade application performance to the point people have done research on the speed up benefits of keeping a warm DNS cache. Adding SSL to the mix isn't going to improve things.
Sizewell C nuclear power plant granted development consent by UK government
It is arguably unprecedented, so I am also very interested to see how this plays out.
A few years ago this is what I did. Got the cheapest Brother laser printer. Happened to have wifi, but managed to disable it. It's been working solid via cables for years.
Vueform Is Now on GitHub
PoC: Implementing evil maid attack on encrypted /boot
Also just disk indexing which exists to make your user experience better. Not everything is malicious.
This is hardly comparable to peace-not-war.

Peace-not-war was malware, or more broadly sabotage, this is merely a statement. While both are a form of protesting and stating political stances, one is usually illegal and widely rejected while the other is protected by the UN's declaration of human rights and by the constitution of any non-authoritarian country.
I dunno, people here report having problems with iPhones pairing to their cars. I never had a problem with Android phones pairing with my car. Or with my soundcores. As matter of fact, it works so much better, that even though my phone still has a 3.5mm, never thought I would have to use it and would be quite ok if my next phone came without. Back before I had my first soundcores I would always be annoyed with the cord rubbing against my cloths whenever I move, creating noise. And not having to deal with the cord when I put them on/off, etc. It is such a quality of live improvement, easily one of the biggest improvements in recent years.
This is cool. I wish Kaminsky were still around to see it.
I think I could happily live with say half a dozen fonts on the web (plus variations of bold/italic, if we want to count those as multipliers) for the rest of my life. Sarif, SansSarif, Mono, Weird - that's really my ability or care to tell fonts apart, when I'm there for the interesting article or funny video.

But it's that tension:

I, as a consumer, am happy with simplicity

They, as producers, want branding and differentiation (not to mention tracking and all sorts of other things)

Ultimately, and we mustn't forget this, they the producers are the ones investing effort they need a return on; and we the consumers are lousy when it comes to voting with our feet, dollars, scrolling thumbs and back buttons.
LibreWolf is more slower than even Firefox. Getting 10% better privacy for half the performance and possible incompatibilities on the web is not worth it.
That setting can cause weird rendering issues in PDFs.
Just Juniper Media out of London.
Half-Life of Knowledge
It isn't known theoretically whether perfect play is enough for black to force a draw. It is also an infinitesimal probability that white starts off in zugzwang (i.e. all possible moves are bad).

However the consensus guess is that perfect play yields a draw.
Stockfish won't solve it. We need a full game tree. Stockfish is not designed to build a full game tree.

Generating a full game tree would be a truly daunting undertaking, and I can't even fathom how much memory would it take.
Monads (minus maths, metaphors, or mythology)
This is an incredible resource Jatan, great job!
It is not unique per system. As mentioned in the article, the font only changes version number between TeamViewer updates.
Sun exposure stimulates appetite in males
And how do you define if something is undesirable? Is sending the width of an element ok? Then you can encode any message you want by putting text into an element and sending its size. Is lazy-loaded image ok? Then you can construct a font with different heights so that displaying a letter will / won't put the following image in the visible area.

You can't derive the intention from the page behaviour.
At one place I worked, they were wanting on-call shifts of 12 hours being no more than 15 minutes away from being logged on (it was a multi-week Big Event) with the promise of, maybe, time off in lieu as recompense.

They were most displeased when I declined this opportunity.
Like the standard library - they don't plan to support exceptions.
I am sure they optimize their software too all the time, down to the kernel. Hyperscalers are, almost by definition, at the scale where hiring and managing silicon talent to shave an extra order of magnitude here and there pays for itself.
I have personally been almost hit by an e-bike delivery driver riding on the pavement while looking at his phone. Same for going down bike paths the wrong way, or going through a red light.

In neither of these cases did we actually hit each other because I was alert. If I happened to be wearing headphones and deep in thought (arguably not best course of action on a pavement in a city but not wrong either), I'd be badly hurt.

I guess most people are alert enough to avoid the e-bikers, so accidents don't happen much, but they are still a menace (in my locale at least).

I have nothing against e-bikes as such, I own one in fact and it's a good piece of kit. I just think that as power goes up, enforcement should keep up.
That would equal to fishing without a bait on the hook:)
Robinhood Was Behind Phantom Surge in Berkshire Hathaway Trade Volume
59.5% of BTC mining electricity mix was from sustainable sources in Q2 2022
Agreed.

In the meantime, there is a Firefox addon called Font Fingerprinting Defender that attempt to mitigate this attack: https://mybrowseraddon.com/font-defender.html
I created a set of slides which introduced the project and created a doc with my expectations. I posted a very detailed job spec on Upwork, shortlisted 20 companies, and interviewed 10.

I picked the one I did because they were most transparent with what they would actually deliver. For me it was about a pre-launch strategy, what to do at launch, and how to systematize/scale post launch.
The candidates being the WC deciding event would solve both of them, though. So while the points are in opposition to each other, a new format could find a better way to solve it than now, in which both things happen.
Link to the journal article in Nature Metabolism: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42255-022-00587-9
Fischer is clearly the goat in my view. But it’s not so obvious to me that Kasparov and Carlsen are better than say Vishy or Morphy or Botvinnik or Capablanca…
It's not just the licensed bands but also SAR. Commercial devices with BT are often close to the body. For those devices to be certified they have to operate within specific power levels, and this has to not be operable/changeable. If you can change power levels, you can bust the SAR limits.

It's one thing for geeks to do what they want with SDRs. It's another to get the certification to ship a real product.
Even here in Scotland I was shocked that the wind on Monday felt hot - I've never encountered that here before.

The weather over the last couple of days has felt qualitatively different - and we've had nothing like the temperatures further south.
FWIW Hikaru pointed out that some of Magnus's complaints are kinda moot because Fide created the world rapid/blitz championships. If you prefer shorter games, go win that one. If you enjoy classic, then do the classic tournament.
I'd be happy to have many more resources this way, use a hash and some sort of frecency -- but we've moved away from sharing resources across sites, unfortunately.
It is a really well-written piece that resonates within me, but I am compelled to point out that not everything that the author speaks of is a lost cause. It would suit us better to stop brooding over it, and to focus instead on what can be done to alleviate the situation. Just to offer a few examples:

> When will we have time to sit down, alone or with our loved ones, and look through it all?

The For You page in the iOS Photos app is a good attempt at resolving this. Every now and then the app will notify you with an algorithmically curated album that somehow does very well at keeping out the random food-pics, sunsets, and unmemorable minutiae. This system has its flaws, but it is something. And it has the potential to be a lot better in the future.

> Will Youtube still be there in 50 years? Will Instagram and Dropbox?

Perhaps it is time initiatives like the Internet Archive and GitHub Archived Project were scaled up with better funding. Even for now a lot of cultural knowledge is there and it is safe. People in the distant future will have plenty to look back upon. There are archived copies of HN, Wikipedia, Reddit, and so on.

> If you're young today, your formative years depend on auto-deleted snapchat videos, short-lived memes, stories told in computer games likely unplayable in 30 years.

As someone still in their formative years in this era, I seem to have more mementos (both digital and physical) than my parents did at my age. The only difference seems to be that my photographs are digital and more numerous. Also, the games that my parents once played are unplayable now.

Could it be that everybody has the same experience of fading memories as they age, regardless of the era they were born in? I would think so. In that case it certainly isn't attributable to the change in lifestyle brought in by this century.
Related:

The little book about OS development - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13258063 - Dec 2016 (45 comments)

The little book about OS development - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9586983 - May 2015 (2 comments)

The little book about OS development (2012) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8866912 - Jan 2015 (18 comments)
good for small towns.....cities no....not a good deal at all...
System Design Interviews Are a Scam
That is a classical dark pattern already.
True, but wouldn't the reduction in size make it a little quicker to transfer over slow networks?
many years ago, too many fonts would cripple an average Windows install.
Noto is also the default KDE font family.
navigator.brave.isBrave()
I choose to assume there's a benign explanation for this. Nobody's perfect; nobody can be expected to do everything in the optimal, least suspicious way; sometimes developers just have to come up with a good-enough solution for something and ship it. So let's look for the most charitable explanation of this. It's how we'd want online randos to approach our own work, right?
You're comparing price of buying vs renting with power/network/etc. included in cost ?
Android automatically re-enabling Bluetooth after I just turned it off irks me to no end. It feels like a violation of the contract that I have with my phone.
You can create a separate Firefox profile to effectively use as your PDF reader application.
(not the OP but my 100 Croatian Lipa)

Depends heavily on how stable app/system is.

I'm from PeopleSoft / ERP world. The same PeopleSoft HCM base application would generate one off-hours pager alert a month at one client; and half a dozen a night at another client; due to different customization/implementation/complexity of business logic and data.

Any on-call/on-shift rotation system must be viewed through the lens of actual demand and need.

At first client, we had 3-4 developers total who shared pagers on weekly basis, as per the OP, with no undue stress or impact on their day job.

At second client, we now have multi-tier support starting with on-shift (junior but specialized ops team members who stare at computer overnight and provide immediate response), Tier 1 and Tier 2 on-call support, and multi-level escalation rotation.

And yes, there are still people who get woken up all the time always, because buck eventually stops there :-/ . Being on call sucks, as per the title. I've been in 24x7 escalation roles; I don't drink to begin with so that's not an issue, but it absolutely had significant negative impact on my social & family life, sleep and stress levels. I've spent significant effort to a) Make the system better, both in terms of more reliable application, and deeper and more self-sufficient support team tree, and b) Move myself out of the role, though that relies on success in a).

I do find it fascinating to occasionally meet very senior people, with family and social life, who are positively EAGER to be on-call and engaged for every little thing all the time always - and then, unfortunately, have same expectations of literally everybody else ("Let's all come on bridge, always, for everything, anytime")
when you can't get the name of the duty right (it's a duty, not a tax), it seems a bit rich to complain about others getting it wrong

let alone accusing them of dog-whistling
Totally off topic, but why on earth is text selection disabled in this page on mobile? I was excited to share an excerpt with my team and am just frustrated now.
Because big pipes are biased toward big content because they know where the money is.

It's basically a pro-censorship-by-default position at the behest of the big rightsholder cartels.
I worked on a wireless network management product for ~5 years, integrating with multiple vendors, and I'm putting fiber in my walls later this year
Bitcoin Mining Council Q2 2022 Briefing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ISSe8A3pVc
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I find regex easier to write than to read.

I never copy them from stackoverflow because I'm worried it does some weird magic that I don't want. Instead I build them against one or more examples.
I was loving httpstatuses.com, but the domain has been recently sold and lost all the clean style that made it useful.
Does it count as 'breaking' if you're just tired of the game and don't want to play any more? Surely it's OK to stop and do other things eventually?
I did a short stint with a fractional CTO / front end type for US$1k per day. I had a backend developer from Vietnam for US200 / day. I'm currently working with a product designer for EUR50 / hour.
It was a dedicated server with 4 ARM Cores.
There's also http.cat.
Now imagine if all the energy consumed by BTC mining was available for the rest of the market! The share of sustainable sources would be much higher, and the price cheaper.
Also in Microsoft Azure. So this is 4th win.

The main companies that are missing from their customer list are Amazon and Alibaba.

Both Amazon and Alibaba, have their own 64-big-cores or 128-medium-cores ARM server CPU designs (the 80 or 128 cores in Altra are medium cores), and both designs are superior to Altra in performance and also in ISA level support (Amazon Graviton 3 supports Armv8.4-A with SVE, while Alibaba Yitian 710 supports Armv9.0-A with SVE2).

It remains to be seen whether the custom ARM cores on which the Ampere design team works for their next CPU generation will succeed to leapfrog the CPUs of Amazon and Alibaba (which are using cores licensed from the ARM company).
"There's an app for that" now coming to your terminals...!
The last place I worked at decided to cut the ops staff entirely and put all devs on support duty. Hilarity ensued because no one wanted to do it and the suits were baffled. They established a hard cutoff date for the transition, and at the last minute had to keep some ops on for a few months. Before that cutoff expired, they laid off almost our entire division, leaving only a fraction of untrained and unwilling staff to keep the lights on.

Even more humor, security hadn't been consulted on this and some requirements when they went to implement it. Any dev, during their 2-week support and on-call period, would have their access to the dev systems removed. Anyone not in their 2-week window would have no access to prod.
Can’t blame him when Japan has a nearly 100% conviction rate.
The page should provide a hash, no need to ping a server, just a local cache lookup (like per-site cache schemes now) then a user-selected choice of downloading from the first-party, or an ordered list of third-parties.
>> a phenomena called “ground effect” to significantly boost flight efficiency

I’ve been following rctestflight’s efforts to make an R/C ground effect vehicle https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x617U3s3lcc&t=670s

The interesting thing he’s experienced (there’s many videos, i don’t have a single succinct link to share) is that staying in ground effect is hard. If an r/c plane has enough power to take off, then it has enough to break out of ground effect, and almost certainly it will break out.

The suggestion then is that something like the ekranoplan might have been able to fly normally to some extent. I don’t know how much the aerodynamics of rc planes scales up though, e.g. i don’t think KF airfoils are a thing in full size aircraft but they’re super effective and popular in rc scale.