skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firstly, I just don't think the old image of a bully who beats up a smaller kid is or ever was common. That sort of physical violence is wrong and should be prevented as much as possible. I feel that should go without saying but wanted to make it clear.

These days, bullying has grown to an umbrella term that includes things like teasing. Teasing or making fun of a kid who does gross things is part of a natural reaction from the other kids. Sure you could nudge that kid to stop in a positive way but whose job is that? The other kids? Probably not. The teacher/parents? They have probably tried and failed. So what complacency are you describing? Do you think as a society we can stop kids from being mean to each other?
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Shannon Limit in Information Theory

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noisy-channel_coding_theorem

[2] https://news.mit.edu/2010/explained-shannon-0115
No it has not happened universally around the world, some countries only had the initial shutdown in April 2020 and then the schools were open again.

See here https://covid19.uis.unesco.org/global-monitoring-school-clos... France and Switzerland as an example.
I've worked for a non-profit that is officially Microsoft Office based, and our policy manual say all field staff (who provide their own laptops/computer hardware) need to be able to interact with MS Office file formats. I and an number of colleagues I know have used LibreOffice for years without ever having incompatibility issues with MS Office; for me its been at least 10 years since I've had MS Office on any of my machines... I run Debian or an old ThinkPad, and Mac OS X with MacPorts.
If underground water of that scale that terrifies you, go google "aquifer" some night when you don't want to sleep.

No, this is silly. The amount of water that human beings package for drinking is a tiny fraction of the amount we use for agriculture, which is itself an absolutely miniscule fraction of the amount of fresh water that cycles through the environment constantly (itself, of course, a tiny fraction of the water available in oceans).

Amounts of water aren't the problem. There will always be water. When people complain about water, it's not about how much there is in any one place, it's about flows: how much of this or that river basin or aquifer is being diverted for human use, potentially causing side effects like lake drying or desertification downstream. Those are important effects that need to be managed.

But Dasani bottles in land fills aren't hurting anyone.
You’re right. Currently high frequency trades are penalised by commissions which has a fixed component. I’m still banging my head trying to figure out a simulated tax environment, but I’ll get it done.

The goal is to make it as perfect as it can as an imperfect proxy to investor skill.
Exactly this. Just because things were worse in the past doesn't mean they are good enough now - just not as bad as yesteryear.
The amount of crapware installed on a new laptop shows that even when you pay for a product, sometimes it still turns out that you are the product.
I really wish people would stop conflating reducing the attack surface with safe software default configurations. They are not the same. There is value in hiding your listening sockets/ports from the world. Anyone who does not believe so frankly has never been responsible for security beyond their laptop and maybe some random VM in AWS they SSH into.
While I don’t have first-party JS and Cookies disabled, I have everything third party disabled and had the same experience. Now that you mention it, that is actually extraordinary.
Neonicotinoids (pesticide coated seeds) started becoming popular around the same time that bees started mass dying (early 2000s).

AFAIK, the effect of these pesticides on humans is limited, but it's been absolutely devastating for insects.

There is not much profit to be made on insects (aside from bees), so research and bills are getting lobbied into limbo by the big four neonicotinoid companies and agriculture organizations.
"Few reviewers have technical backgrounds"

This is a huge problem. Not only are reviewers rushed ("reviewers often have only minutes to review each app"), but they're not even competent to do their jobs in the first place. As an App Store developer, it's frustrating to me, because it's obvious that reviewers often don't have a clue. I have to explain the most basic things to clear up misunderstandings.

This is also why scams can so easily get through. Reviewers are no more sophisticated than the App Store customers who fall for the scams.

What I find most curious about the ultra-secretive Apple is that they're willing to admit they have only 500 total reviewers for all the millions of apps and updates. It's just an insane ratio.
Definitely not the US, that's for sure. RIFed as part of a broader restructure and you might get some severance. Fired outright? I wouldn't count on it.
Or a sweet predator targeting system.
I've heard plenty of people say this and I just don't understand it. I use vim bindings in VS Code 95% of the time but the 5% of the time that I use real vim, it all works exactly the same
In individual can not influence this at least not without a significant amount of money. The individual non-serviceable components on each circuit board in the server would need to be over-engineered to operate at full duty cycle for {n} years, meaning one could not use mass produced components. Those components would then need to be protected against all forms of EMF. Two examples of such engineering would be Voyager I and Voyager II. They were designed exactly in this manor. Aside from their nuclear batteries which should be mostly depleted by now the rest of the components should be good for long after they lose power. Cables and fasteners would also need to be engineered to last and have redundant contacts on every connection.

The components used in commodity servers utilize components that not only have a chance to fail but there are data sheets that predict when each component will fail based on the applied voltages, currents and temperatures. There are/were programs that could predict how long a device would last based on the component specs but I forgot what it was called. Something like OrCAD I believe. No idea if that still exists. I could not afford the license at the time 1990's.

Some people may have anecdotes of servers with 30+ year uptimes and that is certainly a thing, but that is entirely luck of the batch and luck of the environment and not in any way predictable. And this is just hardware. This doesn't even touch on aspects of BIOS/Firmware/Driver/Operating system fault handling and stability.
insecticides kill insects?

Big if true. Sounds like it working as designed.
Context.

The more insulated a person is from the surrounding context of a video, the less leverage they have to determine its validity.

It's just like speech: the farther gossip spreads, the less trustworthy it becomes.
> do you honestly believe that Russia would shoot itself in the foot?

That's been the pattern thus far.
Cuckoo Hashing and Cuckoo Filters (2018) [pdf]
Progress is good, we should indeed recognize that things have improved, and you're right to say it. But complacency is the enemy of progress. As long as there are valid reasons to complain, then people should keep constructively pointing out the flaws.

A complaint is not a negative thing. It is the very driver of the same progress that you want people to recognize. If we'd like more of that in the future, then it is simply good and right to keep going.

If you want to try to do better by letting people keep a paycheck on a lower responsibility role until you push them out, it'd be better to have a system where the offboarding period is explicit, communicated amiably, and transparent. That could just take the form of severance pay, or it could be something new.

If on the other hand you're just avoiding confrontation and hoping sufficient misery will make the problem go away, there's nothing virtuous about this. You don't get to ask for gratefulness in that situation.
Should those with low standardized test scores be denied a rigorous education?
>I have a regrettable habit of folding my legs on the chair when working and hunch back, which is unhealthy.

Nerd neck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIsx1t8TJq4

>Anyone who had struggled with something similar in the past, please share your advice and experience.

So here's the thing, my nerd neck was BAD. There are many other videos like this one. There's another trick of fixing your hip angles that will realign things which can help as well; but still effort being made. It's not going to be an instant fix but boy do you ever want to do this. It's a very bad decision to not go this direction. You need to fix your posture for your own sanity.

The thing that really helped me the most. Alexander technique.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iriXg5uZ_oU

There is a spot where when you get aligned properly, you basically keep good posture automatically without thinking or any effort. In fact your muscles will suddenly relax for the first time in a long time and you'll never go back to bad posture. Alexander technique is lazy living, and yet practically perfect posture.

The other thing that will help greatly. Breath properly. When you breath properly, your lungs will put you in good order.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldNnKVGxabA

Incidentally, all of these things tend to lead to anxiety and adhd.
Is that a tricky question? A computer like that could never run Windows 11.

The time locked in update is undefined because the first time an update is available, Windows will never terminate downloading and unpacking it.
But that would be a 'real' security measure. Security by obscurity would be to park it 3 miles away where noone would think you parked it and relabel it as a Skoda.
Depends.

If you are trying to show a repeatable process, whether that's just DIY or microbiology, a video is dramatically better than an article.
> I suggest that you regularly open the NetGuard app and have it in the background so just incase Android OS puts it to sleep.

Shouldn't happen since NetGuard works as a ‘vpn client’ to pass connections through the app—so afaik reasonably it should stay working as long as the pseudo-vpn-connection is up.

(Not to be confused with actually connecting to a vpn server, which it doesn't do.)
I did a quick search for my username, and to my surprise I found that I submitted both a trivial patch and a new splashscreen image for The Gimp 1.1 back in 1999! I would have never remembered that on my own. Lots of fun!
I was at a conference and 5 minutes into the plenary speaker's keynote address, his Windows 10 laptop that he was running his presentation slides from started an obligatory none-cancelable system upgrade. I don't think Microsoft scored any PR points there.
Show HN: Protect files with AES-256 encryption in your browser
Hi, my name is Ethan, and I'm the maker of ZipOne.

For many years, I've been using encryption apps and even 7-Zip to protect my important information, such as taxes, private photos, and other important paperwork. But none of these apps fully meet my needs. They are either too complicated, not usable on different platforms, or too slow. After several painful migrations between encryption apps, I decided to fix this.

ZipOne is an easy-to-use browser-based encryption application that offers secure, fast, cross-platform encryption. It has much built-in security functionality so that you can protect your sensitive files well with just ZipOne.

Select the files you want to protect or enter the information you want to encrypt. ZipOne applies AES-256 encryption to your data and locks them into an encrypted archive in seconds. Once an encrypted archive is created, you can safely save it anywhere or send it securely over the internet.

When you need to retrieve files from an encrypted archive, you can quickly preview the archive's contents without first decrypting the entire contents of the archive to the device, and you can retrieve only the files you need.

It's worth mentioning that ZipOne doesn't directly use your password as an encryption key to encrypt data. ZipOne uses a hybrid cryptosystem, similar to how some password management apps work but different from most file encryption apps. This makes ZipOne easy enough to use without sacrificing security. Thanks to hybrid encryption, you can change your password anytime without re-encrypting previously encrypted files, or you can share encrypted data with others without sharing a common password.

Try it out, and send me any feedback.
You can bind VS Code commands to vim-style commands. I have plenty of VS Code specific features bound to leader-based commands
> as soon as a tiny thing is asked of us to better the course

Well, I also see a lot of people who do the tiny thing but not the big thing. Plenty of people around me are reducing their meat intake (and are vocal about it), because climate change, but still fly on airplanes, some multiple times a year. It's so incredibly frustrating that many people are just green washing their lives, but are oblivious to the fact they're not really doing much at all.

I do have massive respect for the people I do know that have quit eating meat and are now doing all their travels by train.
Don't worry about what normal people imagine. Mostly, normal people imagine what's in Sci-fi, and have no idea how or why the tropes it uses are implausible or impossible.

A single Dyson swarm would dominate almost anything shown in Star Trek, while being mundane compared to the Death Star (or derivatives) in Star Wars.

The replicators in Trek were shown to be capable of self-replication and ISRU in the season finale of DS9 season 5, and therefore ought to have been able to build a Dyson swarm around every Federation planet simultaneously over the course of season 6.

And don't get me started on the absurdity of Marvel putting Thor and Hawkeye in the same battle at any point. Even Norse Thor is absurd enough compared to a mortal human, Marvel Thor is much much worse.
https://archive.ph/20221021230011/https://www.washingtonpost...
> her main duties now consisted of simply being available between 0900 and 1800

Where can I apply for a job like this?
1. Only if they catch you.

2. What does farming weird achievement have to do with freedom?
1. Backlink. (Right now it mayn't have so much DA but with time it will.)
2. Brand awareness + if he like to give an interview, he can do it too. We can start a podcast around it where we interview founders with small Sideprojects (not with $1M ARR)
3. Revenue numbers we are getting from Sideprojects. It will bring people to get product ideas. We are getting founder location. You may connect with other users from your country.
4. Will you sign up for getting another list of side-projects? absolutely no. But if I put 1 marketing hack in every newsletter, you will surely check it
Tech CEO fired two engineers for having second full-time jobs
It’s his job, kinda like Bill Nye.
My girlfriend made me watch one of those Iliza Schlesinger Netflix specials the other day and good fucking God it was one of the least funny things I had ever seen. I think I laughed once during the entire hour and a half. It was all about women and what women think and how men are basically apes, unfeeling monsters with flesh sex toys and bank accounts, at the same time preaching about how hurtful sexism and patriarchy is. It was completely unrelatable and impenetrable to me.

I was kind of miffed that she thought it was so funny and then I remembered all the moments of "locker-room talk" that me and my friends get up to. It's not like we are overtly sexist on purpose but you know how that shit is. I realized that I find that pretty funny depending on the context but she definitely wouldn't. It was good to hear her laugh for about an hour so I can deal with smiling along quietly.

Based on this I'll make the claim that comedy is deeply personal, it's ok that some comedy is not "for you" and as more people of different backgrounds make comedy you'll see more and more things you don't like and that's fine.
It's basically the old doctor joke:

Patient: "Doctor, it hurts when I touch my shoulder. And it hurts when I touch my knee. And when I touch my head. And when I touch my other arm."
Doctor: "Your finger's broken."
I remember a documentary about Sony doing this.

[edit] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/17/business/global/layoffs-i... [/edit]
great news in theory, but in practice, problems remain; chiefly, that google analytics & hubspot still reduce this to 0.9MB/s
Syzygy Chess Endgame Tablebases
An interesting hack. We went with a different hack to accomplish a working solution, but good to know there is alternatives.

The idea in the link is that one transfer the System Root certificates from another (more modern) Mac to which the customer should already own. In theory I guess we as a email provider could continuously buy the latest version of mac and use that as the transfer host (hopefully do not transferring any account specific certificates). It must work without any corner cases (not overwriting anything on the customer end), the script need to work in future macos versions, and the assumption is that the first group of certificates is the relevant ones, and that it doesn't break anything on the customer end.

For those who has not read the link, this do not update the System Roots keychain since users are not allowed to do that in macos. Instead this adds a trustRoot certificate. A nice trick. One of the comments say that it didn't fix the problem for them but who know what their situation was.
I have a 'smart tv' (HiSense) - and while it has a bunch of smart stuff that isn't that bad, the best thing is it starts on the input you left it on. So for me it always opens as connected to hdmi1/chromecast, and I never have to see the smart stuff and the tv itself has no internet connection
Most languages have that already.
Immediate "flashback". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkr1oUH1SV8 . This is a German version while Astérix is a french comic (and perhaps not widely known outside Europe?).
Relatively little. Glass and aluminium recycling are a huge boost in energy efficiency compared to the alternative but plastic and paper recycling a pretty marginal. Trying to recycle paper doesn't really have any downsides but trying to recycle plastic might result in it ending up in the ocean rather than a landfill so I think that, unless you've researched your local recycling infrastructure and trust it, its better to just throw plastic out.
Story is in development. I can't share more details right now
And probably if one can still program lisp, one could write an escape vehicle for an alternate universe...
Even if every bottle used this year was buried full, it would only be 0.06 cubic miles of water. Earth's lakes alone have about 20,000 cubic miles of fresh water, while there are millions of gallons of fresh groundwater.
From what I hear it's almost impossible to get fired in Japan so it seems likely, I have no sources other than: "I heard it somewhere" for this however.
Don't obsess over when to post, but be consistent
Sound like XY Problem

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
Not the kind of people who use vim.
Many insightful comments here in this thread, thank you all very much. I'm really afraid we can't solve a "mediocre diction" problem. The problem is that speech to text still is a open subject where noise and diction could ruin many tools, but in the ideal world (no noise and good diction), accuracy is around 80-100%.
Compiling out assertions in production is like taking your seat belt off when you leave the driveway. Seriously, in my experience, all the interesting stuff happens in production. We deploy two builds, app.debug and app.release. We run generally run app.debug unless there are performance issues, but even in that case, we sometimes run it just to make sure nothing shows up.
Almost sounds like the 'jobs bank' General Motors had for autoworkers. They'd close their plants and then pay workers to sit at the union hall and play cards etc all day.
MX Linux (Debian-based, uses sysvinit with systemd shims) and Devuan would seem to be obvious alternatives that wouldn't require changes to your setup.
This is beside the point in the context of your reply to mckirk. Even the most vigorous supporters of 'gain-of-function' research are not proposing that the resulting pathogens should be be released into the wild in order to promote medical research.
Show HN: Giraf – Share and discover cultural life
Dear HN,

Over the last few years, I've built an app called Giraf, for sharing and discovering cultural life [0]. "Cultural life" encompasses any kind of creative work (music, books, films, paintings, poems, podcasts, etc.), as well as events (concerts, film screenings, museum exhibitions, book events, etc.), places (museums, parks, bookstores, etc.), and the artists themselves who create these things.

Giraf is essentially a knowledge graph plus a social network. The knowledge graph consists of all the cultural things just mentioned, as well as facts about relationships between them (e.g. song P is by artist Q, who's playing concert R, at music venue S). The social network is built around posts of items from the knowledge graph. You can reply to posts with thanks, comments, or suggestions. A suggestion features another item from the knowledge graph -- so it provides a way to say "if you like X, you should check out Y". The social network uses a follow-based mechanic that will be familiar from other social apps, but it's fully human-powered; there's no algorithmic curation.

Giraf represents the use case for social media that has always appealed to me. Most people, whether they'd think of it in these terms or not, are on a lifelong journey of cultural exploration -- listening to music, reading books, watching films, going to shows, visiting places that in some way embody local culture, and so on. Giraf is meant to be a tool that serves this journey.

The app has been really useful among my group of friends over the last few years, for exchanging recommendations in a low-key, async way. It turns out that a dedicated tool like this can bring out a lot of fruitful communication that wouldn't have been brought out in a group chat.

I'm now opening up Giraf to a wider audience. If the idea resonates with you, please check it out and give it a try! And I welcome any and all feedback here.

I'm committed to Giraf for the long term. My goal is to make Giraf financially viable, solely out of revenue from users who find it valuable and want to support it. To that end, I've built an optional, Patreon-style membership functionality [1].

Thanks for reading, and thanks for checking out Giraf!

Ian Hinsdale

[0] https://giraf.app

[1] https://giraf.app/membership/
Idling
Don't forget PornHub, there have been articles about their content moderation teams facing the same problems obviously exacerbated by the platform. Plus the tragic thing there is if you see something fucked up... it might not even mean you should remove it.
Saying you'd rather be fired on the spot is really emotional and melodramatic. Some people depend on their income to feed their kids, so it's not all about making sure everyone feels happy and valued all the time. Saying you'd rather be fired is such a privileged position to be in.
No. Sonic is a single node server and not distributed.
Honestly this seems good to me, I get that some person might feel that this is bad and I get the article but free money while searching for a new job just can't be bad.
I can guarantee you that SAT tutoring is not uplifting anyone. They teach very specifically to the test, it's an extremely inefficient way to try to develop intellectually.

I think the anti-SAT argument is indeed misguided though. As it stands, the SAT is actually the best way for a poor kid from a bad school district to stand out - you can't take the grades at face value, and academic extracurriculars are substantially more expensive.