skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is peak RAAS. It's just like all the generic brands on Amazon/Alibaba same company but diversify branding to camouflage yourself among the forest.
This doesn't compute, because the purpose of an encyclopedia is to have everything.
Ask HN: Are there Wi-Fi baby monitors with decent security?
I’ve so far refused to get a Wi-Fi baby monitor because of all the horror stories I’ve heard of horrendous security practices. However, our current baby monitor just doesn’t have the range we need when we are outside or in the garage, or at my in-laws’ larger house.

Are there any brands of Wi-Fi baby monitors that I can trust to have acceptable security practices? Yes, it need to be video. I’d prefer an actual baby monitor camera and not a large ugly security camera.
This isn't another Comet or MAX. The 767-300 was introduced 36 years ago and this example is 25 years old. If your running theory is that Delta's got an ETOPS maintenance program that's up to snuff for their own planes and other airlines, but somehow one plane is magically slipping through the cracks… well I call bullshit. If there were legitimate concerns the Ghanaian government would have raised them with the FAA or EASA. It's far more likely that Ghana wants a more prestigious plane than an old ratty 767 and this is the most pressure they could apply without raising the interest of foreign regulatory body.

The history of aviation is littered with the crashes of airplanes brought down by problems that seemed to have gone away - see the De Haviland Comet, for example.

So what's the actual safety concern? The only specific issue called out was a fuel imbalance. You don't want to fly a long, ETOPS flight like that but it's almost certainly not an emergency. What were the other mechanical issues?

Airplanes can fly with all sorts of things missing or inoperative, and they do so every day. Safety issues are certainly one reason an airplane might return to the gate, but on a longer flight comfort and economic issues tend to become more important than they otherwise would. Autopilot acting up? You can fly the plane just fine, but not in the more precise RVSM corridors. Toilet clogged? Not a problem on a shorter flight, but on a long, full flight it might be easier to turn around (especially if Delta has a maintenance presence there). Bad weather at the destination?

With nothing but hand waving it feels a lot more like the sort of "safety concern" Al Baker would raise a stink about than an actual issue.
I heard some stories of a food enterprise with a bad reputation in Hong Kong does something similar, open a few takeaway only shops under different names. I guess they having a catering supply chain would help the operation a lot
How would that work with untrusted strings? As I understood TFA strlen() is an issue if the string is not null terminated
Hebrew has the ridiculous feature of changing the sounds of those three letter roots in a such a way that they sound like _completely_ different words to someone who is not already fluent - e.g. kaf and khaf, bet and vet.

The lack of vowels also trips up non-native speakers/readers.
We tried it, I even made some contributions trying to get it to work. In the end we just migrated to Mattermost, which speaks Slack webhooks natively and is a very competent Slack replacement. We self-host it, too, which is a big win.
I made the mistake of ordering late-night cookies, for stoner reasons. The photos looked decent and ignoring the price gouging I hit SUBMIT

They were absolutely terrible, like the garbage frozen cookies that SYSCO sells to restaurants. I bet you know how this ends.

Zoomed in on the map where they were supposedly from. And it was a Pizza shop that also sold the same awful cookies.
This was the greatest comment I have ever read.
Seems like on this trajectory the debt will all be forgiven anyway, since eventually virtually everyone who goes to school will die with more debt than they started with.
More power to Tabbot and the team over there, but for an active community slack I'm on, 90 days is an extension from 10k messages
I think that's mostly the effect of methane oxidation in the stratosphere delivering water vapor to the stratosphere, plus reduction of the concentration of OH radical in the atmosphere, and some effects on stratospheric ozone:

> "Methane enhances its own lifetime through changes in the OH concentration, it leads to changes in tropospheric ozone, enhances stratospheric water vapour levels, and produces CO2. The GWP given in Table 2.14 includes the first three of these effects. The lifetime effect is included by adopting a perturbation
lifetime of 12 years." - IPCC Report

(That report indicates the radiative factor is more like 26:1 for CH4:CO2)
Hmm... man I tried to like this stuff and used it with good faith. No idea why I don't like non-static UIs. I just want everything like a static page, almost like a physical analog piece of paper. Nothing moves. The monitor is like a loupe that I scan through on a giant canvas. I can empathize with people that like new fangled UIs, problem is with me.
maybe we need a clipboard manager that blocks Chrome in such situations.
How many new users is Zulip picking up every day?
As I read the article, it doesn't suggest the FBI knew the story about Hunter Biden's laptop was true at the time, so the claim that they were "suppressing true stories," while technically correct, is a disingenuous framing of events.

It seems the FBI didn't order Facebook to suppress that story specifically, rather they warned Facebook generally about misinformation and propaganda, and Facebook (along with everyone else) decided of their own volition to suppress the story about the laptop. A story which, we both admit, was surrounded by a cloud of misinformation regardless of the kernel of truth in the middle. So they weren't even entirely wrong to do so on that account.

You could say that Facebook and the media were caught up in something of a moral panic about disinformation at the time, and overreacted, and I might agree.

And again - this wasn't information about a candidate. As far as I know, the only link to Joe Biden is that Hunter Biden introduced a Russian businessman to him when he was Vice President. That's hardly Watergate.
I remember an early LastPass vulnerability exploiting a bug in URL regex parsing behavior of the LastPass browser extension. IIRC it basically gave RCE to any website in the browser extension context. That exploit is the reason I don’t use a browser extension for my password manager (which isn’t LastPass).

The tradeoff is basically copy/paste from password manager, vs input directly from browser extension. IMO, copy/paste clearly exposes the smaller attack surface, because it exposes max one password through the clipboard buffer (assuming no further chaining of exploits to escape extension or browser sandboxes). Whereas a browser extension must interface with the vault, which exposes potentially multiple passwords to compromise by methods only possible when the extension is installed.

(Incidentally, this logic might also explain the popular hesitancy of 1Password users to ~~upgrade~~ migrate to an electron version of the app.)
It’s a long episode, but it is in fact mentioned in a lengthy segment near the end that some workers interviewed liked the accountability and focus the monitoring provided.

Perhaps not the wisest opinion, but so it goes.
What an extremely odd and specific response to a very common four-letter phrase.
Excellent deducktion
You can do this with a chromebook and an android phone. I find it is more comfortable and faster to just type in the pin vs unlocking the phone, so I don't use it much.
Yes they are. (Often, but not always)

Depends on context. In fact, just finding a new context that fits existing discoveries is a discovery.

And then there is whether we have fully considered a given observation.

Say we make a discovery. It will have an obvious scope. Usually. And then a broader scope will be identified. These discoveries are high value and may even eclipse the original!

And then over a very long period of time the more complete implications and ramifications of a discovery should be known. Ever learn something significant that ripples through your mind? Like it has high impact, but it takes processing. And that takes triggers too.

For an example, tell me all you know about cars. We can't really do that.

Now, say I gave you a profound car fact or dynamic, rule... And then we start talking about cars. You will no doubt realize some discoveries, insight as various things about cars comes to mind, and that fact, or insight ripples through... And of course, you will muse about it on your own, insight spreading rapidly that way too.

All of this can make seemingly mundane or obvious things seem boring and ordinary to one of us and powerful and new to others among us. We really are limited in some basic ways we so not often think about.

And...

There are a lot of us people, a lot of discoveries and so damn much to communicate! We are forever behind in many ways, not just the basic latency that lies between us and reality.

I could go on, but the hard fact is we really do ourselves a disservice weighting things like this. Very few of us are qualified enough for it to make sense and for tons of us the data adds next to no value.

The better thing is to communicate whether it is new to us and whether a conversation might help to make the most sense.

All IMHO of course!

I think of this the same general way I do answers to the who is smarter question. Actually answering that is time consuming and we find there are many axis. The answer may not mean much!

But there is a related observation I find very useful, and that is we are all likely smart enough! The difference boils down to the amount of work needed to proceed.

I will stop there. Hope you all get something valuable from this perspective. I did.
Duolingo is a pretty good tool for practice, but for trying to learn a language from scratch it's probably best to go through some YouTube videos for the pronunciation and some books first and consider it a kind of fancy flash card thing to do on the side.
Nope, see comment below.
I ordered a David Chang burger from (what I didn't know was) a ghost kitchen. It took me 5 minutes wandering around an abandoned parking lot to realize the filthy trailer with no signage was where I was supposed to pick up my food. The trailer smelled like old fryer oil, and the guys working inside seemed... generally unaware...

I took one bite and spat it out.
Those numbers are small, There are around 40k posts and 20k users

Vs these, orders of magnitude more users, multiple orders of magnitude more posts

https://www.forumrankings.net/

Also

https://www.neogaf.com/
Smartphone gyroscopes threaten air-gapped systems
So if you have a password manager, your password could be leaked if you forgot to un-copy it after pasting?
Who says it is racist?
Yeah, I just use Google Drive. I know Syncthing is also one option many people like.
>Flights of single, group and squadrons of the ships were detected

So they are now calling them literal ships, not ufo or uap

Also, from their methodology and instrumentation (color cameras) it seems they could have done it in like 80s. Why coming out now?
What are you talking about? How did you get all of that from 'Maybe I'm just pampered'. I think he means, I wouldn't order from a restaurant I have never heard from or been to in person.

I don't know anyone, at all, who does what you are suggesting in this comment.
For it to truly get to the Amazon level, you'll need to start seeing ghost restaurants with gibberish five- or six-letter all-caps names all reselling identical food from Sodexo and Aramark.
You missed the point that was made. The point wasn’t that government is efficient or good but that the experiences with the IRS and DMV don’t account for the sentiment toward government services in the country. The person I responded made a claim that interactions with these two services explain the attitudes people have toward government. I think that is an overly simplistic explanation.
“It was said that in the Age of Legends, there had been horseless carriages that drank the black blood of the earth, long since drained dry. But then, it was said that in the Age of Legends, men had flown to the moon on a pillar of fire. Who took such stories seriously?”

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Ro6QSQaKdhfpeeGpr/why-safety...
Imagine if Google announced:

We are improving Gmail Free plan.

Earlier we limited free users with 15 GB storage.

Now, we are giving full access to the past 90 days. Unlimited GB yay!!!
You're on the wrong web site.
Lots of great stuff - not sure if it's on there, but I like the story about a user complaining they couldn't send an email farther than 150 miles.

Turned out to be related to some sort of timeout (and 150 miles being around the time it would take for the timeout to fail).

I liked it because the user reporting it was debugging in an interesting way a non-technical person might, but it initially weirded out the technical person when they first tested it and saw the 150mi thing appeared to be true (before deducing why).

The story of Mel is also on there and a great (true one). Speed up loops was another fun DailyWTF one and I also liked the one about the cool cam (that saved some flight video game that was way behind schedule).

The old programmer lore stories are great.
Click events, hover, etc have always existed (since js exists I'm pretty sure).
If it’s not the implementation that is to blame then one should use an argument that consists of more than one example provided by the highly corrupt governing structures common in India.
What Aristotle thought it meant to be truly wealthy
The Open Source Series at Pragmatic Bookshelf
The mosquito breeding idea has been mentioned by gates. I am not surprised that he is now breeding mosquitos. That I am certain of. As for the rest. I can't comment on it.
Bummed the article was not about this:

https://www.myconfinedspace.com/2009/04/20/majestic-centurio...
So Facebook didn't censor anything? He didn't admit censoring and the story wasn't censored. Nobody had their posts about it taken down and nobody was prevented from discussing it. Facebook just didn't disseminate the story, they prevented their feeds from selecting it and showing it.

Isn't that what everyone wants? Except that they do that with all stories and have no algorithms at all?

It's not censorship though so I don't know what y'all talking about.
This is one of those things where the distinction between "UI" and "UX" really matters. reddit is fucking up the UI, but the content is still reddit. digg fundamentally changed the content they displayed from community driven to publisher and power-user driven. they could have survived a redesign if they hadn't also pivoted the whole product direction at the same time.
But why choose a (effectively) proprietary format?
PostmarketOS: Considering Sourcehut, Part 2
Humor me as someone without much web development experience - but what's to stop websites from displaying unclosable ads/popups? As in the "x" does nothing, or maybe doesn't appear at all?
I was listening to a fun podcast episode about a couple of folks who founded a UFO-related political third party:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/760511/11204787-gabriel-green-the...

And it mentioned there was a flying saucer craze in 1947- Roswell wasn't even the most interesting story then.

It made me think, these myths and legends are highly historically and culturally contextual. Alien UFOs replaced phantom airships replaced fairies and so forth. Perhaps in just a century, the idea of anthropomorphic aliens will be as dated and quaint as changelings are to us now. Wonder what will be the future myth then? Simulation glitches?
The bookworm, while not generally a worm or even a specific species, is a real pest[1]. Pest control is an important part of any library science preservation class[2]

The fact that borders are chosen as the... borders... to attempt to control the spread of disease is not by accident; It's just logical. Especially in the turn-of-the-century sea voyages, where pests spread readily between passengers. There are other borders in use, see the Apple Maggot Quarantine area[3]

Yes, Zyklon B was used (and is still used regularly[4]. It's a simple to produce and simple to dispose of, breaking down naturally in a few months. For all the horrors associated with it, you can say the same of many other chemicals that have important industrial and agricultural uses. It would have been stupid to ban Ammonium nitrate after the Oklahoma City Bombing[5], because it's used in practically every crop field in america.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookworm_(insect)
[2] https://guides.lib.uw.edu/c.php?g=342245&p=2305086
[3] https://agr.wa.gov/departments/insects-pests-and-weeds/insec...
[4] https://www.redding.com/story/opinion/columnists/2018/01/08/...
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing#Building...
I’ve just bought a ‘new’ GFX card (sapphire pulse rx570 8gb) for my ‘old’ 2010 Mac Pro (12 core, 3.66ghz, 128gb ram, many many disk and ssd drives). I am getting ready to install open core or rEFInd on it in the new few weeks.

Stunning work by these people keeping these machines up to date. I can’t thank the community enough for the effort!
Well I thought github was a "you are the product" sort of deal with Copilot?
Emotional trauma because your plane has to turn around? Give me a break
Selling 2TB worth of burgers for $19.99

https://www.amazon.com/gp/slredirect/picassoRedirect.html/re...
Facebook Truth Machine. Sounds dangerous tbh
I think there are 'old aircraft' and old aircraft. A 767 is an example of the former, whereas a Caravelle would be an example of the latter. Aircraft undergo stringent inspections every x hours, have to comply with Airworthiness Directives (ADs), and even more stringent standards and practices as far as maintenance goes. That's even truer for commercial airliners. So the chronological age of a plane is usually not a great indicator of its true state.

For example, I prefer flying on a 757 to a 737, even a new one, despite the fact that 757s are no longer produced: they have fantastic performance, and a well-maintained 757 is a very good plane to fly in, despite its age. Ditto for the 767. It's a beautiful twin-aisle plane, and I recently flew on one from Atlanta, and loved the comfortable ride. In fact, I was overjoyed to discover that I'd get another opportunity to fly on a 767, having flown on one to Hawaii (Hawaiian used to operate 767s also) some years ago. I would prefer flying on an (older) 767 to even a 757. If the airline does maintenance properly and has a good safety record, then it's actually better to fly a older airplane because it is likely to be more comfortable, powerful, and safer.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32607698, which was posted earlier and also has a more...I don't want to say neutral, but at least more neutral-sounding source. The highstrung rhetoric of the current article ("We are ruled by unelected sociopaths" etc.) is not a great fit for HN.
RimstarOrg – LC Circuit: Selecting Coil and Capacitor (2017)
TIL: Monkeys are racist, somehow.
Or they are so advanced that their “bodies” are made up of individual units teeming with nanotechnology components, most of which are atoms wide, working to generate power from atoms absorbed from external environment, self repair and more. Units take on different roles. Advanced energy transport system that stores hydrocarbons and carries around highly volatile elements on iron structures in a liquid directly to the site needed for energy. Billions of these nano machine units take on a form to create an ultra low power, powerful neural network capable of self learning as well as passing on learned behaviours.

Oh wait that’s humans.
WideTable: An Accelerator for Analytic Data Processing
It's supposedly already been demonstrated by a different company: https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/29/lynk-demos-global-satellit...
Americans view their jobs (2016)
I’ve used this but the existing Microsoft video editor is better. I even set up an account and everything for Clip champ. It may be better for short videos, clips. But in general I feel like Microsoft is existing free video editor is the way to go. I use it a lot.

One huge difference between the two is that Clip champ is very slow in encoding your videos. Microsoft video editor will use all your cores or GPU acceleration. Whichever you prefer. I’ve noticed I get better results with CPU encoding. But Clip champ doesn’t even offer that and it’s very slow.
they never anticipated the internet of internet of things. What a shame.
Agreed. We're all different and there aren't one-fits-all methods. Yet it's worth understanding what has worked for others and experiment with what works for yourself. I don't think we should give Newport's advice for granted.
"shared trust", "cooperate freely". Umm...
Reminds me of those 1000 in 1 game cartridges. Duck hunt 49 was the best.
Wonder how many people jumped ship to https://mattermost.com/
Are they dealing with blackwater or copper or pex? Because any fool can do pex and soldering honestly doesn’t take much skill, and no amount is too much for dealing with some stranger’s blackwater.
I'm sorry that you are going through existential despair over the climate/energy problem. Existential despair sucks, regardless of cause.

I'm not sure that I'm the best person to persuade you that you are wrong, but I can at least share my perspective. I also don't see writing your representative as being all that helpful. On the other hand, as a physicist who's been working on and thinking about energy issues my entire life, I think that the sheer amount of available negentropy that we are ignoring makes it inevitable that someone will find a solution. There are other renewable energy sources out there other than wind, solar, geothermal, etc which are not even being talked about. One of these is evaporative convection energy (basically what powers hurricanes). It's literally an engine that runs on global warming; the more you use it the more it cools the Earth. There are other ideas as well out there, that one's just the one I'm working on. Someone's going to get it.

Some people get depressed because 'we as a society can't work together to solve this problem'. I don't look at things that way. I see it more like when a customer or standard specifies that you have to use a particular library in your code that is maybe not your favorite. You can gripe and moan and try to get them to change it, but in the end that's the spec. And society's spec for a solution is an energy technology that 1) doesn't make CO2/global warming 2) is cheaper enough than existing fossil tech that it will displace it and 3) actually works. Most existing solutions don't meet 2 and most drawing board solutions don't meet 3. But its far from an impossible spec.

Trying to change someone's weltanshauung is too big for a single post, but if you are interested in a different viewpoint, my email's in profile. Either way, I hope that hope finds you again.
You're going to be sitting there for a while waiting for blocking random to fill 19MB. You want urandom.
>The crushing majority of jerks are simply jerks.

You notice how much longer my post is then yours? I'm trying to engage in discussion. But you're dismissing it and presenting baseless shit... in essence insisting that I'm a jerk on every point. You're basically acting like a jerk here.

It's unequivocal. At least in this thread, between you and me, you're the one acting like an ass... not me.

>It's not 'how he operates' that I've seen.

then you're blind, or a liar. He does this 100%.

>No, that's simply being a jerk.

no. It's the truth.