skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a joke as Peter Theil has been jokingly called a vampire because he gets blood transfusions from young people in an effort to maintain his youth.

That being said, thanks for the links. I read them all.

Here is the results of the Phase II from Alkahest. Not a game changer thus far.
https://www.alzforum.org/therapeutics/grf6019
It's not going to be illegal anytime soon, but in the meantime, you can punish them by moving to Mac, or Chromebook. I did that after an update that went too far
Shoelace is very high quality: https://shoelace.style/
Ene mene mink mank. Pink pank, Eierweier weck.
Well, I'm a bit biased, but myself and Amy Dutton run a podcast called Compressed.fm, a weekly podascast about Web Developer and Design with a little bit of Zest!

https://compressed.fm/
You're assuming something like 24 hours a day of having the car parked in full sunlight, which is not realistic (even ignoring that night exists). For it to make sense, you'd need the solar arrays on the car to provide a reasonable percentage of the energy needed during driving. If this isn't the case, you're way better off putting the solar panels somewhere other than the car (where they can work much better), and charging the car when it's not driving.
> I don't really care to work anywhere that would ding me in a zoom interview over my outfit

I've often found that people who say (and believe) that they don't ding people who dress poorly, do ding people who dress poorly.
> Apple’s existential threat is someone making WeChat for the US.

It's called Signal.
> Nobody spends 50% of their time writing reports. If anything, it's the exact opposite

At my employer we don't, but a friend said that 50% of their time at a big multinational who does pentesting and other auditing services was reporting and fighting the MS Word template. Apparently it's not that abnormal and hard enough to change that my friend would rather leave than work with the team to get it fixed.

> This "multiple rounds of review" thing is news to me too.

Depends on the definition, like do you count your teammates reading what you wrote on top of the boss checking off on the report? If yes, then we have multiple rounds of reviews for every report. If no, then we only have it for certain (not all) public reports. Again, not a weird thing.

(To get a bit meta, your writing style across any security-related comments is a bit "this is definitively how it definitely is" whereas... well, in this case it's objectively not true. Some orgs do spend (waste) disproportionate amounts of time on reporting.)

> the ordinary process for a project like this with a public report is, you deliver the whole project as if there wasn't a public report, with an internal report, and then the public report is based on the internal one (probably post-remediation)

This is also not how we do it. We typically know beforehand if it is going to be public and the report that gets sent to the customer and released to the public is literally the same file. It's not that a second report gets written "based on" the real report. That's how we maintain integrity as a third-party auditor: we don't sugar-coat or alter our reports if it's going to be public. If desired, both for public and nonpublic, we can do a retest and add remediation status. What is different is that we triple check for typos, lines running out of the page, etc., and might be more verbose so a wider audience can understand the findings (some customers are very technical, others not at all; for a public report we mostly switch to non-technical-customer mode). Interesting to know that this is not, at least not ordinarily, the case at places you work(ed).
In 2013 they were fined $731m by the EU for, as the BBC put it, failing to promote a range of web browsers. They blamed a 'technical error' then too.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21684329
I think you underestimate the degree to which this is intentional on the part of “the system”.
> re: the modern upper class that wearing a $2k Rolex or driving a $70k BMW is frowned upon.

always has been moon meme.

unless you're neveaux rich or stupid or both it is in your absolute interest not to show what you have. driving a Prius used to be that signal but today it has shifted. My direct boss was a Schenker heir (the freight forwarding company) and the only way he showed off is by living in a rental house (albeit manged by his management company so he essentially paid rent to himself), drove a Nissan, didn't spend unless you took a closer look (art purchases for his 4th wife) didn't brag with fancy dinners in Michelin star places (but certainly bragged to his wife about putting her on the map with her silly paintings as a wannabe artist - lol "Sex rules everything around me C.R.E.A.M get the money").

Only lower ranks criminals and new-rich idiots show what they have. Everyone else has learned the lesson: if you show it (the plebs and the IRS), they'll come for you.

Also all the people who're truly rich do NOT play by the same rules as the rest of you. YOU decide where, and how much tax you pay, if you have the cash to pay lawyers and accountants to insulate you from the Plebs.

The US is the biggest tax[1] haven in the world today forget the Hollywood propaganda about Cayman or Panama - only idiot cartels and Victor Bout use these jurisdictions but not the white collar crime lords ...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Islands
This is the first time I hear that the Venus de Milo is (probably) holding an apple. Other websites either don't mention this at all or include a single sentence.

I would have imagined that there are only so many ways to make a hand in a specific position fit with the rest of the torso. So I'd like to know what the difficulties are.
As an aside, that's a way cool design! Love the bubbles pattern. If I could get one today, I would.
If you want to optimize to make money:
1. Get good at coding or sales.
2. Get a job at a tech company doing coding or sales.

You'll get even more money if you become excellent instead of good, and relocate to a major city like SF.
Beth Richard and the Amiga CD1200 tear down
It's using simplified characters, but I'm planning to add a mode for traditional. The aim is to guess the word using the fewest steps by tapping the characters at the top.
WhatsApp raises threat of UK shutdown in encryption row
Well it's technically correct. To get a 100kg object from the surface to a 100km Karman line needs about 30kWh of power. That's the same order of magnitude as travelling 100km sideways in an electric vehicle.

At 20c/kWh it would cost $100 to lift a 2 ton car and 4 occupants into space, or $100 each to get to the c. 400km altitude of the ISS.

Of course to stay in space requires far more energy as you also have to go sideways, fast. Very Fast.

But it's still pretty low. Sticking 1kg into Geostationary Orbit and keeping it there would take about 15kWh. A 2 ton vehicle with 4 passengers at 20c/kWh would be $1500 each.

Of course we lack a practical way of doing this other than with rockets, and thus enter the tyranny of the rocket equation. But the fuel cost is still far lower than the cost of the entire shuttle or apollo system, as shown by the efficiency of SpaceX -- fuel costs of $20/kg to LEO, or $1500 for a typical adult.
Lifting an enclosed space is not free. Gravity is still in play so "huge rooms" means more floor space. Floor space is surface area and material costs by the square foot or meter both in terms of construction costs and in terms of weight.

On top of that, any time you're moving through a fluid your speed is determined by your thrust/drag ratio. When adding more space internally you have parasitic drag and induced drag working against you. Parasitic drag increases as you add surface area and when you grow your forward facing profile. Induced drag increases with the amount of lift you need to fly, more sq.ft, more material weight, more lift needed, more induced drag. Airships mostly fly with lifting gas but still generate a lot of body lift once they start moving.

So if you'd like to go anywhere once you get off the ground, you're going to need to balance cabin size against the size of the engines needed to produce enough thrust to travel at a reasonable speed along with the fuel weight required to travel any distance.
Heat pumps don’t work all that well in Canadian climates. They sort of work now.

Advocates usually don’t mention that the solution for the millions of houses with hydronic systems are usually mini-splits, which are both ugly and noisy.

Lots of people who don’t have heat pumps are rabid advocates of them. In some cases trying to ban gas heat.
While I'm on the fence, and don't disagree with the point, this is an awful example to use.

The whole comment is written in a very noticeable Chat GPT "voice", making it very easy to tell it was generated by Chat GPT.

It's also not a particularly fun comment.
Absolutely spot on.

If only there was a way to pay money and then get printers / scanners / Bluetooth / wifi working properly on Linux, I'd definitely be doing that.
Not really. Heavier and lightweight usually refer to the amount of features and requirements of a piece of software.

In that regard, it's easier to see which of PostgreSQL and SQLite is lighter. PostgreSQL requires a separate process running with its own config, plus the library to communicate with it, plus all the things Postgres does... On the other hand, SQLite is just a library that reads files in a certain format.

> It solves more problems than SQLite and “lightweight” is not really a concrete benefit for SQLite.

But it is a concrete benefit. Sometimes you'll have restricted environments because either by power or by permissions, you can't install Postgres or any other database server (e.g., mobile phones or embedded software). Or sometimes you just don't want the user to configure their postgres instance and your software for just a few tables (e.g., system utilities/small services that just need a simple database).
First point true. What's an advanced desktop consist of?

Second point false, unless you're using something obscure and/or one of the pure only open source variants.

Third point. This is down to experience. But when you do decide to do a full reinstall it's done in about 5 minutes. Can't complain about that!
You’re conflating Find My (Mac/iPhone) with AirTags.
sometimes you can heat up some wire and push a couple pieces through the break.

another approach I've had success with is using a little aluminum sheet over the break and pop rivets on both sides
Since you'll have to support clients that don't have jpeg XL support, however, storage savings are unlikely to materialize any time soon if ever.
Just pick one. Focus on that. It doesn't matter which one, it's the execution that causes most ideas to be successful. If that one idea doesn't work after a year of focused effort try something else.
This made me smile, thanks for keeping an open mind, stranger.
Thanks for mentioning Array Cast. We try to aim at an audience that might not be familiar with the array languages, but are interested in who uses them and how they work. We also have transcripts and extensive show notes for deeper dives into the material. We have a lot of fun recording it and I think that comes through. https://www.arraycast.com/episodes
The way you are defining it is fictional, and not the right being abridged.

By forcing the use of 3rd parties, to be able to trade, for people to sell goods they craft and create, there is an abridgement of multiple rights.

This will be overturned.
Ads, it seems
This article suggests that dark mode maybe protective against myopia while bright mode may induce myopia.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-28904-x
Because of the war against Ukraine, I’ve become more aware of Ukraine’s role in the USSR when reading up on history. One thing I’ve noticed is just how much of the most impressive technological feats came from Ukraine.
If you are really paranoid. Backup codes can be copied without you noticing. Even bigger risk if you bring them along while traveling, or worse, leave unattended in hotel room.

The Authenticator apps store keys in Secure Enclave (or at least I hope so). Which in themselves are 2fa by not being copyable thus requiring direct access to unlocked phone before using.

Of course that also comes with bigger risk of you locking yourself out, by forgetting Lock Screen password or phone getting bricked for some stupid reason. Printed paper don’t have that problem, except can also easily be lost.
I'm pretty sure this is his job. He talks about creating a startup every now and then, but doesn't look like that's happening anytime soon.
You can pretty much say the exact same thing about stealing someone's wallet or purse. There's a lot of travel advice to the effect of "don't keep everything in one place". A phone is no different.

A phone at least has the benefit of being backed up. In theory, I could log into a couple accounts on a brand new phone and have access to everything within tens of minutes. Contrast to the hours of phone calls and weeks of waiting it takes if I lost my driver's license, passport, etc.

And though a phone can be used for payments, it must be unlocked. Not true of the physical credit/debit cards (swipe or tap) or cash found in a wallet/purse.

If you have non-backed-up 2FA tied to your phone, you should fix that. Batteries die, and phones can be physically damaged, bricked for some software reason (they're computers, after all), dropped into the ocean or off a cliff, or just legitimately lost (ie: falls out of pocket into the cracks of a car seat and battery dies).

I won't weigh into the punishment-deterrent argument at all, I'm merely pointing out that in theory there's actually a lot less disruption having your phone stolen vs having a wallet/purse stolen. Both suck, of course. Replacing a phone is almost certainly more expensive, but it should be significantly faster to recover from. And backup your 2FA.
> I think the ability to eliminate disease is massively powerful and a net good.

One real-world example of this is genetically modifying the American Chestnut by splicing in genes of the Japanese Chestnut, which is resistant to the blight since it co-evolved with it. The resistance comes from how Japanese Chestnut trees respond to oxalis acid by walling it off, preventing the fungus from spreading.

> That said, I’m concerned about the long term tail end risks of such work.

One bleak science fiction novel that takes place in this kind of future, specifically an amped-up version of the corporate GMO food crop meddling you referenced, is The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi.
Indeed, in general, German words with "ei" or "ie" sound like the second letter. So "Lied" (song) is more like "leed", but "Leid" (suffering) is "lyed".

This is the reverse of how English pronounces "lied" as in the phrase "lied to investors".
> no processes that it forces you to run so that it can spy on your mics

Is this hyperbole or a real thing that happened?
I thought the toughest material was produced by cephalopods, by a process we cannot hope to reproduce. Are different definitions of toughness in play?
Ene mene mink mank. Pink pank.

Use buse acka dich. Eier weier weg.

- That was German.
I read HN instead of world news to avoid anxiety, a different kind of anxiety perhaps.
I can't speak to the big multinational your friend works at, only NCC, and, I guess, a bunch of boutique-y firms that don't qualify as "big multinationals" the way NCC does. And, just generally: if you're contracting software pentests, you should not be OK with the prospect of your consultants spending 50% of their time in doc. That isn't a norm. You should expect most of the time to be spent looking for the bugs you're paying for them to find.

After your edit

With respect to your thing about how public reports work, I appreciate the intellectual honesty of the approach your firm takes, and I have real problems with public reports in general (something I've ranted about here before).

But at a big US pentest firm I think it'd be hard to do public reports any other way. For one thing: clients routinely dispute findings, and they're often right (they know more about their own code than the testers do). You'd have to let them see the report before you could write a version of the report for the public, so you can scrub out the findings that don't pan out.

Another obvious issue is that reports often include tentative findings, which need to be confirmed before the report is finalized.

I'm interested, just as a security consulting nerd, in how your process handles these things. But past that, the question that started this thread was whether having Google breathing down your neck would make this a hard engagement to deliver, and I think the answer to that is almost certainly "no". If anything, Google wants good findings, and the stressful part of this engagement would be coming up with a report that never gets anything more than a sev:med.

(I don't know, Google's a big company, I haven't done a software assessment in over a year, &c &c).
Weather can affect baby names. A couple uncommon ones might be about to blow up
Mantine is fantastic: https://mantine.dev/
How's he handle criticism?
Thanks for trying it! Will add some explainer text.
Since rich people are less likely to steal phones, increasing the punishment for phone theft affects rich people less, which means it's regressive.

(I think using this argument to justify being soft on crime is ridiculous. I'm just pointing out what the argument is.)
I think robots are the better options tbh.

1. They don't need life support that amount to 2000% active mass. Maybe 20% since we can still count solar panel as their life support.

2. They are far far far more sophisticated than what they used to be. Especially with modern processors. We can even embed some level of AI decision making onto these robots so they don't need to call back home for every decision.

3. They are far cheaper and can tolerate far lower safety margin. We can potentially even mass produce them and launch 50 at a time.

Imagine if we're just throwing a bunch of rovers on moon and each of them are capable of suicide burn and landing themselves. Maybe 2/10 will fail but we still get 8 rovers that can just roam the moon for fun.
Honestly I feel like most of the ones in the UK — until Boris — were just as parochial, only scaled up a bit. BJ was a walking scandal who has forever sullied British politics, and it’s no surprise that the various PPE scandals that are coming out happened on his watch.
> get printers / scanners / Bluetooth / wifi working properly on Linux

Use a distro released some time in the last 20 years?
Citation needed. Moreover, what's the evidence that those that make do with only phones would even want to purchase a tablet or laptop?

Edit: also, conflating phones with "desktops" is just being glib and disingenous.
The Fed will raise rates again. But it's playing with fire
Written years ago when, let’s admit it, most of us were still writing “Kiev” because we didn’t know better and were, of course, ignorant.
The Federal Reserve’s Artificial Recession
Yes. That’s fine so long as you never play in person as well, thereby tying a real identity to your pseudonym.

Otherwise you can remain pseudonymous (not anonymous) for as long as you want.

But there is no way to do a mix of in-person and pseudonymous writing/chess/art/anything with a personal “style”.
There are lots of options out there. My parents have a 95% oil burner that works great for heat and hot water.

The gotcha is that the efficient units require more maintenance so in some situation it’s cheaper to be less efficient.
Android phones used to do this.
Often unjustly forgotten among le Carré adaptations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Perfect_Spy_(TV_series)
Yeah both of those responses would be correct and how I would answer as a native speaker. Though depending on the context I would likely say "at school" vs "in school" as my default response.

US native English speaker, so this may depend somewhat on what variety of English is being used.
They need to get their windows fixed!
I would never understand it as "but you said you would do it", I would say "would" is safe to use with non-natives. But it may depend on the native language of the other person. There are some really weird languages out there!

The other day Duolingo did show me you can say "и A и B" ("и" being "and") to say "both A and B". Start a sentence with "and", a conjunction, without anything before to... "conjunt"... I still can't parse it without raising an exception.
Why do you think the cost of launch is due to the cost of energy?
yeah, his questions and comments are quite often naive and cringe. But he has incredible guests, from all sorts of domains, and lets them talk for hours.
>First the maintenance. What is the probability those watches will still be serviceable in 50 years

Extremely high, given that they tend to run on clones of incredibly popular movements like the ETA2824.
I'll plead guilty to having this impression until fairly recently, but it's an incredible database. While we were all not taking it seriously, SQLite was quietly getting better and better, year after year. You do that for a few decades and you've got an incredible piece of software.
Ask HN: Where to post landing page to gauge interest in startup?
Hi HN!

I'm a first time founder who's set out on a mission to help eliminate false reviews from Amazon by building a social rating and review platform that connects consumers with trusted influencers. Fake reviews cost Americans 0.12 cents on every dollar they spend, which is 10 cents more than what NASA gets. I want to know if any of you more experienced founders know a place where I can submit a landing page for my startup, un order to gauge interest before I build the website/platform.
> so Windows is slowly rotting away unnoticed by those at the helm.

I wouldn't call it slowly, but you are right about your assessment. It is already quite some years ago, when evaluating the privacy and security measures of my machine, I had to conclude that MS *is* the adversary.
I have a chuckle when people ask me what virus scanner they would need for their Windows machine. It is like asking how to prevent a deadly disease from catching a cold.
It's not a hyperbole. All the opt-outs are illegal in the first place, but the damning fact is that MS does not allow you to switch of stealing part of your personal data anyway.

You should not run Windows. If you have to, because some legacy software does not have an alternative (and I find that has become increasingly rare), then run it in a vm with no internet access.

Also, we should really stop the meme about the year of the Linux Desktop. KDE has far surpassed Windows already. I use both OSes and have to conclude Windows is beyond repair. Nobody cares about this sinking ship, and that is a positive end of this rant.

*EDIT*
I even think MS thinks the same wrt win in a vm. I can imagine they will ship Linux one time and have win apps open in a legacy win vm.
For British people, the Dutch are seen as plain-spoken and very socially liberal. Also they were the last country to successfully invade, although with some handy PR we now call it The Glorious Revolution rather than “the time the Dutch conquered us”
> needing to use fmt.Errorf to JOIN errors if you want custom string formatting

You don't need to, you can implement Unwrap yourself and format the error however you want, just like singular errors today.

> unexpected for fmt to be doing error biz like that.

IIRC, this has to do with avoid circular package dependencies. fmt can depend on errors (and quite a lot of other stuff) but errors can't depend on fmt, so either a) errors needs to implement its own format string processing, b) a wholly new errfmt package is introduced, c) fmt.Errorf.
> Unfortunately these will mostly be cases of the cure being worse than the disease (e.g. panopticon with facial recognition and use of face coverings leading to jail time).

Not necessarily. Even if we didn't catch any more criminals than we do now, you could probably reduce the problem a lot just by making sure the ones we do catch actually go to jail.