skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I think happened is that with computing, humanity began to build a new world, a Different World that's not like the other, old world outside. But since humans were building it, it became just like that. It has the same buildup, the same issues, the same dumbness as the original, real world.

#1: Default permit: people don't like to spend energy, especially not upfront. Integrating "Permit by default" systems is much faster than setting them up with proper authentication, authorization and access rights. Permit default just works, starts quickly, and works fast.

#2: Enumerating badness: you mean, like how we name every single strain of viruses? So now we enumerate computer badness too.

#3: Penetrate and patch: very similar to how our laws work, I think. There are people who create injustises, and later the legal code is upgraded to handle that. Again, reactive, like in #1.

#4: Hacking is cool - well, other criminals are cool too, like pirates and maffiosos, and so on. People are drawn to power.

#5: Educating users: someone has to, doesn't they, if they haven't learnt the thing by themselves? You can't make everyone go away if they are dumb, if you need them.

#6: Action is Better Than Inaction: This one, I think, imitates business. There's a lot of ways to make money in business, and being there early is one of them.

That said, I really enjoyed the article. Permit by default is especially dumb, it was really funny when mongo installed itself with no password and listen on public IP, default port. And how long it took them to patch that. And how that haven't burned the public goodwill! So maybe these things are not really dumb after all?
Use browser profiles, choose a different profile picture for each, then use one profile per tenant. Done.
I suppose the idea of denying by default (#1, #2) and the idea of defense in depth (mentioned at the end) aged well enough.

I'm not sure about educating users. It's obviously not going to be a bulletproof solution. But not educating users at all also does not seem right either: it's hard for a person to care about stuff they have no idea about.
Excluding Tesla: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34518608

Perhaps you should do more research before ending a comment on such a condescending remark next time.
I don't think it was intentional: this is one of those places where ripping the band-aid off is far better than slowly dragging it out. The drip-fed reveal increases the raw number of headlines about the breach and drills the idea "GoTo is bad at security" into people via spaced repetition. If they said "our entire company was pwned" on day one, they would have had their day in the media and by now only HN would still be grumbling about it.

I think what's actually happening is that they're just really bad at security. Either every few weeks they discover something new or they still haven't successfully locked the attacker out.
> Children's imagination is the undocumented, unexplored frontier of human imagination.

Hard disagree. But I won’t repeat Boulet’s points, I’ll just link to the comic¹. The alt text in the images expands further.

¹ https://english.bouletcorp.com/2007/12/11/fuck-peter-pan/
Eggs are so versatile and cook so many different ways that are amazing. Poached is my favorite, and this method is building off that. If you like eggs Julia Child and the PBS archive is a must see.
Invest in batteries, probably.
Which, in my opinion, isn't too bad for a cold and wholly inorganic thing meant to harness electricity for Diablos.

I'm not sure that I've ever seen a beautiful PC. Technology in general is ugly. We do everything we can to hide its shameful guts.

If you look at the most upvoted pictures on /r/battlestations, they're typically small desk jungle-scapes that are appealing in spite of, rather than because of, the box.
You might not need an ORM
https://www.omc-stepperonline.com/

https://www.pololu.com/
The PDF version is directly downloadable via the original site posted (http://www.motorsformakers.com/downloads/mfm.zip). They're making money by selling a print version.
1password. In addition to above, it has Linux support & browser extensions
That's a lot of duplicates.
license raj culminated in 1991 economic crisis for india.
> Have you tried threats and public humiliation?

Looks like we've found a seventh.
Caste solidarity is everywhere when you start looking for it.

Another example, go to court without a lawyer, make a minor procedural violation and the judge will rip your head off. Hire a attorney who does the same thing and all of the sudden it isn't a big deal, the judge may not even mention it. Judges tend to be former lawyers and the legal caste feels that one of them must be paid lavishly for you to receive a defence. Don't pay them? You should be punished!

I modestly propose that tech workers should join in on this game with similar solidarity, members of the executive caste like Sundar should suddenly find themselves without access to email for example, and then should be forced to pay a nerd tens of thousands of dollars to go talk to the guy who runs the email server to have his account reinstated. If he talks to the guy directly, without paying the requested fee and fails to use the correct IT Crowd reference or doesn't know what version of Python added type annotations off hand, his account should be permanently removed and all of his devices banned from the internet.
The reason executives talk the way they do is because when you’re speaking to thousands of people everyone has different base context and interprets things a little different. Messages need to be coarse grained and contain little nuance. This is at the heart of all politics.

It’s easy to assume therefore that the words are intellectual garbage, but that’s not always the case. In fact there’s no way to tell competent and incompetent leadership apart just from speeches they give, but make no mistake the distinction exists, and as an employee it’s critical to ferret out the answer over time as you will learn entirely the wrong lessons if you work for muppets for any length of time.

Fortunately good leadership does exist. It is usually built over decades of a solid skill foundation (ie. Experts leading experts) rather than MBAs, and the top skill is sniffing out bullshit. Of course every company has a mix of people, but in healthy ones there will be a critical mass of competent people and they generally know who each other are and keep things pointed in the right direction.
Are they paying FAANG salaries at $300k+?
Agreed. When I first did it I didn't realize the answer was given after I pressed a choice. I thought it would give me a summary after so many guesses, like a quiz.

Also agreed that it looks much better than a beginner's project!
The ordering is done online.
Why are tech people so behind mastodon? If this is true this sounds incredibly worrying to scale; to the point where mastodon is limiting it's own growth potential
I never expected I'd experience such joy at a website failing to load, or to see it had been turned into a completely different business that doesn't even have a login form.

Thanks, LastPass!
All fat loss will also thin facial fat, and therefore loose skin. I am curious:

1) Does the drug affect the face particularly or specifically more than the rest of the body when conpared to conventional dieting, and

2) whether a more gradual weight loss might have less effect on the face.
When the Ford F-150 Lightning came out I was interested to learn that the battery was powerful enough to power a standard American house for over two days.

This made me wonder why new houses don't come with a battery built in, thereby making power outages obsolete. A battery that could withstand a 48-hour power outage without the occupants even realizing anything had happened seems like it would give the power grid a lot more flexibility and could be a real lifesaver in the case of natural disasters and other emergency situations.

Adding a battery would probably add $10k to the cost of a house, but for a home that costs $400,000, that is only 2.5% of the price. A smaller battery that just provided 12 hours of power might only cost $3k.

I'd be interested to hear from knowledgeable people what the downsides to this idea are. I suppose the battery might degrade over time, and it is likely it would go for several years at a time without being called upon.
Same thing with chess, but written word is much older. Maybe spoken word is next, since chronologically it's much older.

Moving through an environment, self-healing, reproduction, and being powered by pretty much anything that grows are last on the list.
This is a great article on First Light's tritium production:
https://nickhawker.com/2023/01/22/the-nuclear-physics-of-why...

Summing up: you need your fusion neutrons to breed more tritium from lithium. Lithium-7 produces tritium plus a lower-energy neutron that can breed one more tritium. Lithium-6 produces tritium but without the extra neutron.

Most designs lose a lot of neutrons, so they have to either enrich lithium for more lithium-7, or (most commonly) mix in either lead or beryllium as a neutron multiplier.

First Light's design captures 99% of the neutrons, so they think they can breed 50% more tritium than they consume with just natural lithium.
Exactly. This is just offloading of expensive energy storage to consumers, so energy company can show bigger profits.
Love it! Big fan of developer productivity tool like Linqpad.
It won't save lives and wouldn't have saved lives. It's only to improve the efficiency of recovery operations.
Russian, yes. It is miracle, that these USA books were translated in USSR, IMHO.

All these brain-teasers, and, yes, of course, Game of Life!

I didn't have any beads, but I had about 1m of 100 pairs telco cable, so I've used small pieces of wire in colored insulation as beads :-)
This is fantastic and highly addictive! My only suggestion (as others have said) would be to indicate the CORRECT flag's name clearly and give the user a chance to absorb it before going onto the next one. Maybe a box around the right choice or the country name near the flag? Something like that.

The design does make me want to "get 'em all" and learn them correctly and that little change would help.

Kudos on a fantastic first app which is very professional and usable!
Since XLSX etc. use Microsoft's Open Packaging Convention (a ZIP container consisting of mostly plain text), consider adding native support for unpacking and normalizing the payloads so they can be trivially diffed by existing source control systems.
Please do this analysis on other children's books, I think you will find something similar. These aren't masterpieces of storytelling...
Mastodon instances do seem to cache a /lot/ of content from peer servers in the interests of user-perceived latency.
>[using probability it] answers your question in the best way possible, based on the results of its training.

In medical school, we were taught Differential Diagnosis, which is the manner which GPs MUST utilize to solve symptoms. This is a probabilistically-determined ranking of what is MOST LIKELY to be the cause, based on how the patient presents [medical symptoms].

A LLM like ChatGPT is already demonstrating can, with a over-worked (&underpaid) GP, filter through many of the "first guess" diagnosis, and prevent unnecessary testing using information that extend beyond the single minds of patient and doctor. These datasets know how every. other. body. has. responded. to treatment... and if they don't now, they will.

The ability for the "Democratization of mental healthcare" has already arrived, and positive, motivations responses that people are already getting from these system (e.g. finding purpose by asking "what GPT thinks [AUTHOR]'s POV on 'the meaning of life'?") is absolutely profound; and absolutely unavailable to the large swaths of men which society so-readily ignored (e.g. veterans). ...until now.

I am glad I did not finish medical school, because the writing was on the was fifteen years ago, and one of the few justification for an expensive doctor's salary now is [from a hospital administrator's view] just a way to distribute liability among the FEW humans that can remain in competition simply by putting-together absolutely esoteric connections.

Peace.
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Well, employee-owned corporations that aren't controlled by profit-hungry shareholders and the executives who service them are the only realistic way to avoid this problem. Investment capitalism inevitably pushes towards a world divided into wealthy rent-takers and impoverished rent-payers.

It's also not a good system of capital distribution for optimal real-world results, aka progress, due to the tendency towards the creation of stagnant monopolies, but state-run systems are not much better (or different). It doesn't matter much whether the Central Committee in charge of capital distribution is a Wall Street investor conglomerate or a Soviet cabinent of ministers, both systems have same structural flaws.
If I have 2FA set up, would I still need to change the passwords (despite the leak)?
I think at this point, they need to get purchased by Experian, so they can combine into such an ugly mess of problems, that identity laws get overhauled.
If you want to increase muscle mass, why don’t you just keep lifting increasingly heavier weights?

If you want to lose weight, just keep eating increasingly less calories.

Because that trivializes the problem. There’s physiological pushback on many dimensions.
Just finished moving my rig to the T1 this week. It's a very impressive case.

The Mjolnir was what I'd been after for a while but I think the T1 was a better choice for me due to the flexibility it offers.
One of my projects for this year will be getting a slightly bigger AC motor (say a 0.5-1 HP asynchronous motor) and integrating that into a more well-finished project. I have a decent grasp of the software parts and have done some projects with servos and steppers, but using bigger motors has eluded me so far.
> #4 ... "Hacking is Cool" is a really dumb idea.

This has aged poorly; nowadays, the most notable attacks are conducted by state actors (e.g., Russia and China) or for-profit criminal groups (e.g., ransomware) rather than lone hackers doing it for fun.
Youre getting downvoted, but perhaps you meant this as satire? Poe's Law and all...
Agreed. It sounds like a junior engineer bs-ing an interview after reading lots of amateur forums.
Nice little game for curious people. Hard mode: picking the alternatives among geographically-close countries, or countries with similar-looking flags.
Because there's nothing easy about those things, and nothing cheap about building and maintaining a robot that would do them? When you ask the robot to move to another position on the line because they're caught up and the other positions have a backlog, they don't move, and they don't explain why. Also, when they break, you can't yell or threaten them into operating normally again.
V1G to the rescue!

Existing Tesla cars can do V1G (grid-adaptive charging), but not V2G.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34518188
Is HiiT really a good idea for people with increasing levels of being out of shape? That sounds like a recipe for doing way too much way too fast and getting injured.
Most cars use NCA or NMC chemistry which has 500ish cycles. Grid storage will soon use LFP which is cheaper to begin with and has 5000+ cycles. It has a lower density than other chemistries and very poor cold weather performance, making it less ideal for vehicles (though Tesla is using it in the standard range model 3 now). Those downsides don't matter for grid storage and really change the economics of charge/discharge.
I would love to but I'm a bit scared to fiddle with the post now while it's trending. I think it's mentioned in a few places on the website, but not in this blog post. I do also use a bunch of other libraries, but yeah, ExcelDNA is one of the critical ones so mentioning it would be in order.
Winston turned a little sideways in his chair to drink his mug of coffee. At the table on his left the man with the strident voice was still talking remorselessly away....He held some important post in the FICTION DEPARTMENT....It was just a noise, a quack-quack-quacking....Every word of it was pure orthodoxy, pure Ingsoc....Winston had a curious feeling that this was not a real human being but some kind of dummy. It was not the man's brain that was speaking, it was his larynx. The stuff that was coming out of him consisted of words, but it was not speech in the true sense: it was noise uttered in unconsciousness, like the quacking of a duck.
Why is this comment downvoted? This is a legit concern. I don't want to Google/Youtube to track anything I clicked upon.
That seems like a very uncharitable interpretation of what the poster said. I interpreted it as "Medical studies and statistics don't always map perfectly to the individual case."
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I think social networks have unique dynamics that make them more vulnerable to collapse than other monopolies like Google or Ticketmaster. There is a heavy fashion aspect to social media that isn't present in businesses like advertising or ticketing.
"The dude is way beyond ripped. His body fat hovers between 5% and 6%,"

Not in the photo in the article, he isn't. Pro bodybuilders get to that for a hours/days during a competition and feel like absolute shit the whole time. He looks about 10%-ish in the photo.
Nobody is contesting the physical reality of CICO; what they are contesting is that the "calories out" section of the diet is as easily controlled as previously thought.

I'm supposedly on a 1500 calorie deficit, eating ~1300-1500 calories a day and burning ~3000, according to my fitbit. But I'm only losing about 0.5lbs per week.

My conclusion is that I'm really only burning 2000 calories despite HIIT 3x/week, strength training 4x/week, and cardio 6x/week. If it weren't for all this training I would likely be gaining weight on what would otherwise be a reduced calorie diet for someone my size per every major TDEE calculation
If the user can code in C#, why they need Excel?
Exporting to Excel for other non-coder employees, sure why not.

I don't understand the use-case, Excel is horrible tool for anything else than stupid, a few hundred rows data science.
There are other dynamics in place.

You would think a site like Craigslist would be in a good position to make improvements, launch new services, stay on top, etc.

If you try it though you run into many problems. For one thing, Google has a large bag of tricks aimed at gaslighting webmasters, they even have patents on the subject.

In paid web marketing the paradigm is that you make small changes, measure the results, make more changes, and improve your results over time.

Google makes random things happen when you change your web site, however, to prevent you from improving your SEO by making gradual changes. One result of this is that anybody who has a site that ranks well is terrified of changing anything which is one reason why popular sites often look and work exactly the same way they did 10 years ago. If a site like Ebay or Reddit changed their template or URL layout their rankings might get destroyed and never recover.

Another is that a site has a user base that is interested in playing the game of the current site. If you give those people a new game to play they will probably be indifferent. This not only affects niche sites but it affects big sites like Facebook. Really the hierarchy of attempted growth in ascending risk is

1. Acquire a successful site (e.g. WhatsApp)

2. Develop a new site (You have to fight an uphill battle w/o a two-sided market)

3. Make major changes to an existing site (... but millions of users aren't helpful if they aren't interested in the new thing and the new thing might accelerate the decline of the existing site.)

This is not only why sites stagnate but why companies like Match.com will systematically buy up all the sites in a sector.
OK, sure. That stuff is all questionably legal and bad for the market and they shouldn't do it.

I'm trying to find the (sigh) "Largest Con in Corporate History" promised in the headline. All I'm finding is accounting games and market cheating? I mean, these are routine crimes. In the US, the SEC prosecutes dozens of these every year (maybe it's easier to get away with it in India). Maybe there's an argument that the scale here is larger? If so the numbers aren't in the article.
Isn't this properly called "Common Markdown"? https://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-commo...
If anyone's interested in the process for doing something like this, I wrote about generating children's books at the end of last year.

The most interesting part was using ChatGPT to target and tweak certain parts of the story and merge them back in. When trying to make edits to a very small part of the story it understood what I wanted extremely well.

The most frustrating part was trying to get a consistent character in Midjourney. I tried using identical seeds and parameters. I even used a base image of the character to try and influence it. Nothing worked that well. My solution was to come up with scenes that obscured the main character's face—the ones with him peaking out from under the covers or walking down the street.

https://solomon.io/childrens-story-written-illustrated-ai/
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It's pretty easy to come up with ways the body wouldn't take up calories. I and everyone here has had diarrhea for example. I've eaten 5k calories on a sedentary day with no impact on weight as well tho it's hard to account for water without a strict accounting.

What's harder to refute is the loss of weight due to calorie restriction which is mostly physics. This is what the gp is talking about.
Founder of ilert.com here. We're a Germany based SaaS for alerting, on-call and status pages. We even have an importer that migrates your data (escalation policies, schedules, etc.) from PagerDuty to ilert.
Functions fulfill the same function, but they move the code to a different place. Sometimes that's desirable for readability, sometimes it's more readable to keep things inline. It's nice to have both options
Power has two big costs: generation and distribution. Once rooftop solar power is below the cost of distribution it doesn't matter how much it costs to generate power; rooftop solar is always going to be cheaper.

That milestone has been hit in some places Australia already.
What happened to ‘innocent until proven guilty’?

Are mere allegations enough to lose your job?
i mean, your definition of living doesnt have to equal his. he's a retired centimillionaire, he's spending say 10-15 hours a week doing this stuff (ok the penis-measurement-during-sleep thing is weird af) and the rest of it is still his own time to do whatever he wants.

thats still more "living" than the rest of us working class. and perhaps no stranger a hobby than some of us have.