skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quality of the articles on the front page seems to be rapidly declining...
With regards to buying a print of the Great Wave from David Bulls work shop (which I'd personally consider as original as any other print), I got this e-mail from the Mokuhan team back in January:

> The printing is going very slowly - we limit each run to a maximum of 60 sheets, in order not to overly wear out the key block. And we cannot turn our top printers (the ones working on this project) into 'Zombie Great Wave Printing Machines'. They take turns working on this one, mixed in with plenty of work on subscription prints and other designs, so we end up with a new batch of prints every 7~8 weeks or so.

> [...] At present this email address is in position [ 2,017 ] from the top of the list

I signed up, gosh, feels like years ago.
Seems like a waste of time if it only works for one person on each side of the call.
I like audiobooks, but they have some limitations. Nonfiction -- for example. Figures, diagrams, photographs, ... don't translate to audio very smoothly.
In a printed book, eyeballs can tell readers where the quotations, either in quotation marks or indented text blocks, start and end. But what does the audiobook narrator do with them. I hear some saying 'quote' and 'unquote.' But then I wonder whether they are doing that for all the quotations or only for the quotations that don't provide some good clue for the listener to infer that it is a quote. And nested quotes must sound just about atrocious, although I cannot remember hearing any. Why not?

Another problem may be that publishers may develop modern technology that can make it difficult to pass an audiobook from one reader to another, even if it has been purchased. Used audiobooks on CD can be found (but not conveniently) at some thrift shops, typically less than $1.00 per hour of listnening, but CD as a medium for audiobook publishing seems to be now a dead end, and it is not possible to tell for sure by looking at a old and used CD whether or not it is in good enough condition to play on one's home or car equipment. The typical prices for new audiobooks (on whatever media they are published) appears to be approaching something closer to $5 per hour, and even used audiobooks sold on websites offering a large selection are often around half that much. I am around 40 hours per month of audiobook listening, and that is a little bit beyond my price point. Librivox is a great free source, but they are somewhat short of titles newer than 1922, if that matters to you.
My previous comment:

"including grazing, deforestation, and the collection of firewood"

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316721412_Blame_it_...

"The authors analyze archaeological and ecological evidence to understand the relationship between human populations, goat herding, and land degradation. They argue that the widespread adoption of goat herding practices played a significant role in the process of desertification. Goats are known to be browsers, preferring to consume a variety of vegetation, including shrubs and trees. This selective feeding behavior, combined with the increasing human population and expansion of agricultural practices, led to the overgrazing of vegetation and subsequent soil erosion.

The paper highlights that the degradation of vegetation cover and loss of soil fertility had cascading effects on the ecosystem. Reduced vegetation cover resulted in increased exposure of soil to wind and water erosion, leading to the expansion of arid and desert regions. The loss of vegetation also had a detrimental impact on biodiversity, as many plant and animal species dependent on these ecosystems faced habitat destruction and population decline."
I went to typing school.
Yeah, I definitely think the biggest productivity gains I've had in my entire life were the command bar in VSCode and the integrated start menu search in Windows 7. Keep the UI simple, but searchable, even better if I never have to take my hands off the keyboard to find and execute a command.

On a somewhat related note, does anyone else find scrolling on the page really laggy? Not unusable but definitely noticable. I'm on desktop Firefox.
Perhaps you can explain why you think KAM somehow proves this while there are simulations - and this new work - which prove the opposite.

Those models are all perfectly Newtonian. The solar system isn't.

It's usefully Newtonian on the timescales we use to push things around it. But over much longer timescales planetary orbits are influenced by variations in the solar wind, visits from external objects, redistributions of mass in the Kuiper Belt and Oort cloud, and so on.

These are mostly tiny influences, but enough to make claims of unconditional stability rather questionable.
Brew Another Pot, Robinhood’s 24-Hour Stock Trading Is Here
I ask chatgpt for bash scripts. So useful and every time I’m learning something new
Not what you’re asking for, but after developing RSI, I decided that I’m probably better off not learning 10-finger touch typing. Especially on a laptop keyboard there’s a risk involved.
There is something to be said for it, though. Free markets exist only where they benefit consumers.
https://archive.is/7VoDg
Yeah, anything larger than a pocketknife is explicitly illegal to carry in the UK, plus a whole bunch of random moral panic stuff like nunchucks. What the verse means is people carrying knives with intent; that you're entering a subculture where people might stab you in a drunken argument that turns into a fight.

(Used to be Glasgow, these days it's London, always young men in "gang" contexts)

This means the original "tape a knife to the dashcam" gag would be illegal. For car self-defence purposes you're better off with a tyre iron, "breaker bar", socket extender or something else that's a plausible car tool that you just happen to grab.
The original PowerPoint.
Well, for starters here is an article about malware specifically targeting ASUS routers.

https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/22/c/cyclops-blink...

Hopefully that clears up the first question of "why does it need malware signature files?"

As for your router firmware? You should seriously update that. New exploits get found all the time.

Hackers use compromised routers as parts of a botnet, a intermediary route, or as an access point with which to steal data with Man in the Middle attacks.
Something I struggle with is knowing how to resize UI elements.

I want to change the proportion between 1 and 2:

https://www.marginalia.nu/junk/resize.png

Not only do I need to guess which of the 3 horizontal bars is the resizable one, it's literally a single pixel in height and very hard to click.

Flat design is such a regression in terms of UX it's difficult to comprehend how intuitive the Windows 95 style was, largely from reliance on universally familiar spatial metaphors.

That's ignoring the fact that none of the icons have labels so you have to learn the Mayan alphabet to figure out what they do (and these icons change sometimes too!)

It also seems like preference dialogs have just sorted given up any pretense of trying to make sense. Instead of navigating a hierarchy, I'm supposed to guess which keywords to search for in order to find the correct option I want to change. It's a real downgrade. The affordances of search boxes are notoriously ambiguous for this exact type of task. I want to change the pixel scaling on the screen. What do I search for? Screen? Display? Resolution?
Since entrepreneurs often take out loans with their equity as collateral it's likely she's actually negative zero.
In my neck of the woods (France), Ubiquity is fairly expensive. I've had good results with a cheapish (~100 €) netgear "business" access point, the wax214.

It supports poe, wifi ax (but only on 5 GHz), wpa 3 and can broadcast 4 separate networks, each on its own vlan (but it doesn't do any routing). It's been great for random iot junk that I don't want on my main network.

Routing is handled by an old HP elitedesk I've saved from the bin at work.
Because people have gotten life sentences for petty crimes like stealing a pair of socks. You have to compare Holmes’ case with how other people get crushed by the criminal justice system, and then you can’t help but notice the double standard.

https://www.democracynow.org/2012/10/25/a_life_sentence_for_...
Please forgive my extremely ignorant question, but could Chinese be written phonetically, maybe using the IPA or some existing/custom script?

If so, that should require much less memorization than memorizing thousands of Chinese characters, and a "morse code" could be made from the phonetic script.
Great job. I wish I had seen this a couple weeks ago when I could have driven down to see it myself.
Many, many times :)

My point is that it's never described. Even in the detailed options for those cookie banners that permit you to tweak things. Sure, there are (some) details about "our partners" and advertising etc, but exactly how the service will be improved is never explained.

The reason is simple and obvious: nobody knows. Companies collect data in the belief it will be useful in improving the service, but generally chuck it into a data-swamp and occasionally rake it over to extract basic info like navigation routes.

I'm also rarely convinced that improvements can't be better determined by focus groups and other similar methods.

"Improving our service" is a glib catch-all that rarely stands up to scrutiny.

There may be specific examples where a cookie is genuinely the best method to improve a feature -- in which case: name the feature, list the metrics, declare success/fail criteria, and stop collecting the cookie after the decision has been made.

Edit: typos.
A first look inside JetZero’s blended wing body
I went to a typewriter course in the 1970s as a teen. A couple of years before I saw the first computer.

The interesting question would be do you use "correct" 10 finger typing?

I don't. I use some 6-8 fingers mostly blindly. Actually I have to do it blindly because the keys E-R-T and U-I-O on my current keyboard are so worn off that I cannot read the letters anymore. So I take a bit of pride that I can type blindly and don't replace my keyboard:)

This works well as long as I don't think about it. But as soon as I start to look at the keyboard and think about it, especially R and T or I and O get difficult to get right.

Yes, some colleagues type faster than myself. But the correlation between a fast typist and productive programmer is not very high in my experience.
Hardware people can't write software
Then you are a free-marketeer. Is advocating for choice in the marketplace something to be ashamed of? If people stick to Apple despite their history, they're indirectly saying that the quality of the product is so much that despite the inconveniences, they still consider Apple products a net positive.

They can deal with it if they don't want to use competing brands that are quite as good.
Interesting because there are 100,000,000,000 stars in the galaxy. If even a small percentage have unstable systems there are going to be quite a few stray planets floating around.
A part of me agrees, but it does kind of feel like Apple is the trendsetter/gatekeeper for a lot of this stuff. Everyone crapped on Apple for removing the headphone jack, or making non-replaceable batteries...and then quietly started doing all that themselves.

I am super happy that companies like Framework are getting some traction, and there's a fairly high likelihood that once my current Macbook breaks that my next laptop will be a Framework, but I also feel like Framework is still kind of a niche outlier; Apple seems to be the "test the limits of what customers will tolerate" company.
Mind the clock drift. https://github.com/abiosoft/colima/issues/274
I hate to say this, but I won't fault Apple's decision to do this. If you think they're abusing their market power, vote with your wallet: stop buying Apple.

If you still choose to buy their products despite this 'abuse' then you're indirectly saying that it's a net positive for you & that you don't mind.
Maybe they are just cargo-culting humans? ;)
Interesting. A real life example of latency and half-life[1].

[1] https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/04/25/n1-latency-and-half...
What a fabulous window into the past and into the fashions of a bygone age.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_in-line_package#Lead_coun...
This sounds like a climate change problem that should receive a quick solution for the sake of the planet.

Amazon is well placed to provide distribution of these parts at reasonable rates. Maybe they can be forced into such in order to continue receiving government contracts. Assuming they wouldn't play nice.
I just searched [Nest thermostats turned off the heat because of a botched software update] and the first result was correct
But then the marketing team is out of a job
I created my first online profile using non-anonymous credentials just recently on GitHub and have been reluctant to post anything that might give away anything unintended.

I'll probably set up a generic landing page and then return to the comfort of a more advanced threat model.
Not a class, but a whole school? Wow. For how long did you attend?
Who is our century's Tesla? Fabrice? Solomon Hykes?

In terms of impact both are huge, Fabrice's works are a marvel and Hyke's repackaging of ELF with YAML is considered business genius - he could sell anything I'm sure.
Codename SCNR is mainly focused on web DAST, serving as a modern scalable scanner, but it can be much more than that.

Major key points that make it stand out are:

* I provides data[1] and execution[2] flow tracing to help with vulnerability exploitation during automated and manual audits.

* Scalability[3] by allowing you to setup your ow private cloud of scanners.

* A multitude of interfaces[4].

* It supports modern webapps via a Google Chrome backend.

* It boasts great performance due to its Rust backend.

* It can easily scale up and down, vertically and horizontally[5].

* Unparalleled configuration ability due to scripting[6].

* Easily integrate via its simple yet powerful REST API[7].

* Great reporting full of context about each vulnerability[8].

* Ease of use via its Web user interface[9].

* No scan target or URL/page restrictions.

Thoughts and feedback are greatly welcomed!

[1] https://ecsypno.com/blogs/articles/following-the-data-taint-...

[2] https://ecsypno.com/blogs/articles/following-the-execution-t...

[3] https://ecsypno.com/blogs/articles/introduction-to-the-distr...

[4] https://documentation.ecsypno.com/scnr/

[5] https://documentation.ecsypno.com/scnr/how-to/scale.html

[6] https://documentation.ecsypno.com/scnr/deployment/scripted.h...

[7] https://documentation.ecsypno.com/scnr/interfaces/rest-api/i...

[8] https://documentation.ecsypno.com/scnr/how-to/generate-repor...

[9] https://documentation.ecsypno.com/scnr/interfaces/web/index....
Professional marathon runners have heart enlargement issues, which can cause problems. But afaik it stops being an issue once they retire.
Woah, I had no idea of the queue. I'll settle for my current mass-produced print.
> The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite index may be up a fifth this year

That really shows how ridiculous things are still. There is major pain in the startup sector, but people are still totally deluded when it comes to the rest of the tech sector. It's still extremely overvalued.
Thanks for the link. If I want VLAN support I'm out of luck?
Cute fleurons.
What is the value of "Glassdoor’s Best Places To Work"? Is it supposed to help lure in talent?

I don't know anyone (especially at this point) that care about these outside corporate PR/HR teams

- The culture here is bad, the CEO is a douche, and people are leaving, what do we need to do?

- Nothing, we just keep deleting those reviews, until... we quit too and it's no longer our problem!
It'd far more useful to know when I can see the Great Wave near me.

Otherwise the site, as nice and minimalist as it is, is rather useless.
It is a concept called "bundling" in antitrust where the valuable M2 is only sold in concert with a less exceptional tablet in order to be able to charge triple markup for the tablet and storage upgrades...

Unbundling is a heavily pro-consumer move and enlightened governments are pushing towards forcing companies to do it (and penalising companies for bundling, though there's far less of that in the last 20 years than there ought to be).
This might be another piece of the puzzle of Fermi paradox. Life is not much younger than universe. Maybe we owe development of life to the unusually lucky period of stability in our solar system right when the life began to be feasible here.

I think there's a very good chance that we are one of the first intelligent species in our galaxy.
> to express the same sentiment, some languages require up to 10 times more tokens

this does not make sense, does it? it may be a true metric as per the setup of the comparison, the existing models, the existing corpus etc. but logically it seems an artifact rather than something deep about language information density.

nevertheless it seems worth investigating. I would suspect that once various irrelevant biases are removed (a sort of ur-LLM) there will be an interesting comparative landscape.
Another rich heir. They mostly reproduce with each other and with top sport/entertainment people, but her reputation made that only the first category is available to her.
You hate to see it but this is brutal, correct, and brutally correct.
It’s a trade-off. The Ribbon demonstrably enabled average users to discover and access functionality that they never knew about or understood before. The numbers were very significant. (I think I read about it in Steven Sinofsky’s newsletter called Hardcore Software. He was in charge of Office back then.)

Power users by definition tend to invest in learning the software. They’ll be initially annoyed at changes, then adapt. And in the era of continuously delivered web apps, there really isn’t any UI stability left for a lot of the widely used software (sadly).
Highway means a main road connecting significant destinations.

Freeway means a multi lane, restricted access, motor vehicles only, type of road.

Freeways are almost always highways as well.

Highways are, more often than not, NOT freeways.

For example, in the bay area: Highway 101 is built to freeway standards all the way through the bay area. I seem to remember as a kid some sections south of Gilroy were not freeway but that's since been rectified.

In contrast, highway 82 is just a highway and not a freeway, consisting mostly of El Camino Real.
The Code is the Law between Parties
Interesting article. I had no idea of this phenomenon. It's very well explained too.

Tangential remark: substack is becoming as annoying as medium now. Especially on mobile. One big popup asking to register. One constant toolbar asking to register. One constant toolbar asking to install the app. Many interruptions in the main text for subscribe and share reminders.

That didn't take long for it to go bad :( I only heard about substack about a year ago when Snowden's blog was in the news and they were still saying they'd keep it clean (like medium promised initially as well). And it was pretty clean then.

I was even thinking of putting my own blog there (which is free and unmonetized) but no.

On medium it's become so bad now that I don't even open their links anymore unless it's really something I am so curious about I'm willing to put up with the experience. I really hope substack doesn't go the same way.

Sure they have to make money but alienating your userbase doesn't seem a great way to do so in the long term.
awesome stuff, thx :)
I achieved what proficiency I now possess by chatting with people on IRC, newsgroups, forums, and IM platforms in the 90s[0]. I took a typing class in high school on clicketyclack typewriters and was buzzing around 80-90wpm much to the chagrin of my instructor.

[0]relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/386/
The kind of hardware offloading included in consumer router hardware is fundamentally broken by design. Relying on the ethernet switch to handle NAT instead of the CPU makes it impossible to do software-based QoS (eg. the SQM module's cake or fq-codel) or any other packet processing that said ethernet switch isn't equipped for.
I recently tried to disable the consent to share my data with external companies on one website.

There was "accept all" and "manage" buttons, and under the "manage" button there were 100s (yes, multiple 100s) of sites listed, each with consent on by default, and to disable everything I had to manually scroll through it all and click on each item.
> After those reforms were loosened in the 1980's and 90's, they became routine.

Correlation is not causation. 1973 marks the end of Bretton-Woods i.e. abolishing the Gold standard and, hence, an unprecedented expansion of the monetary base. The 1970s are remembered for their high inflation rates similar to today. Inflation also helped the Federal Government to finance its Vietnam war. Since 9/11 the FED is printing money like crazy which helped the government to finance its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. With the Covid crisis monetary expanded like never before. Now we have a banking crisis, high inflation rates and a looming recession. But you tell me it’s because of the bank bosses‘ boni.

That’s exactly what I meant with „go inform yourself“ — it’s not meant to sound rude but it’s about understanding what’s really going on.

It’s the warfare state needing cheap money and credit. It’s not you and me. Especially not the American worker. That’s why I was directing my comment to left-leaning citizens: Learning about monetary and general economic theory will sharpen your arguments and help you to win your fight for a more egalitarian and free American society.

May I suggest this little classic on money and banking:

https://mises.org/library/what-has-government-done-our-money

You’re welcome. ;)
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Maybe it’s multi-licensed? You can freely choose which one you use if more than one license exists for a given product.
In the discussion about the 1-bit Great Wave someone posted this:

https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/great-wave-spot-differenc...
This message object seems to be missing the HIPAA^ENCRYPTED field (pun intended)...I am assuming the encryption is implemented above this layer? Is there a standard for HL7v2 encryption?
A part og me would find it interesting to see hat would happen, if CRA makes OS developers fully liable. It would probably result in most developers straight up shutting down their projects.

Most commercial projects use open source as a core and integral part of their offering, for which they would have to maintain this software as liable corporate projects.

My assumption is that this would result in a non-trivial price jump for software.
I bet HN keeps server logs; would you say you're being surveilled by viewing this page and posting that comment? If not, why not? What's the difference between that metadata and any other?
I got one years ago, and was a little bit underwhelmed but I'm not sure why. I originally thought the colour of the boats was off, but looking online it seems that some people render them in a richer red/brown than they actually are.

My copy actually is just lying in a cupboard in the original packaging. I never got around to actually displaying it!

Beware the import duty from Japan too!

The whole wood-block printing process is amazing, I just wish he'd branch out from copying Japanese stuff. Hardly any of his other works float my boat.
I think the proof shows that these kinds of systems can be stable without any rebalancing for very long periods of time but then suddenly they are not.