skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that the disk encryption twice thing is to prevent the so called "evil maid" attack. Where both the boot partition, and the file system are separately encrypted. Frustratingly, the encryption in GRUB2 is painfully slow, so I normally disable that. You can do this by creating the boot partition separately from the root file system, and only encryption the OS filesystem. The downside is that if someone steals your drive, or clones it, they can hammer away at the encrypted filesystem. Not really in my threat model, so I normally go with unencrypted boot + encrypted filesystem. The kernel decryption is much faster as well.

Details here in case I have some of that wrong:
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Encrypted_root_file_system#Avoid...
The size of a laptop often affects the size and distribution of its keyboard keys.

What's appropriate for the user has a lot to do with the size of their hands, and I think this gets overlooked by many who are instead thinking about display size.

As a person with smallish hands who programs (types a lot), anything larger than an X40/X60 ThinkPad form factor has been very annoying to use.

The move to widescreen aspect ratio displays has completely wrecked laptop typing efficiency in my world, since it tended to stretch out the keyboards beyond what my fingers can reach without lifting a palm.

I wish laptop keyboards were treated more like specialized instruments fitted to buyers hands, like shoe sizes. If you consider how much $$ is paid to people that type all day, it's asinine that the laptop industry hasn't matured into optimizing that interface for individuals. Can't I at least get two hand size variants in the average laptop ordering page? Instead it feels like things have only regressed in this department since the classic ThinkPad days.
https://archive.is/s1agx
I downsized from a 15" MBP to a 13" M1 Air, and I haven't felt much pain from the smaller screen. My approach to IDE-driven development is about the same on both. The big difference is solo laptop vs laptop+external monitor(s).

As someone who travels frequently, the M1 Air has been simply amazing. It's so small and sturdy, and fairly light compared to the bigger/bulkier/heavier 15 I had before... and I'm at far less risk of breaking the screen while it's in my bag.

The bigger machines have a much greater surface area which the contents of the backpack can put pressure against. So the larger screen laptops are more susceptible to being pressed too hard near the middle of their screens and breaking.

I wish there were some ultra-rigid screen backs which would eliminate that concern. I don't need something as serious as a Panasonic Toughbook, but something with some arched curved ridges to add strength would be nice.
I’d be a little skeptical about spraying in a bunch of heparin and hoping it binds enough of the spike protein.

This whole idea is predicated on the binding of heparin (a sulfated polysaccharide) to the spike. It’s known to be a co-receptor on cells for the spike protein, and people have designed very clever flow devices to exploit this binding to perform detection of spike. However, without carefully controlling the sulfation on heparin, I would be worried about all the other binding of proteins, and how effective this would be in real complex environments.

There are also open questions about how you would even retain the GAGs in the mucosal environment, and as I haven’t heard that they bind to mucins/mucus, I wonder how many other proteins they could possibly anchor to.
I still use it, I have yet to find any actual downside to it.
What do you mean by relax? Does playing sport help relax you? Sports really is great at #2 & #3. If you are not a competitive person, sports (yoga/golf/tennis) might be the opposite.

Running used to relax me a lot, especially on those slow but long run, I get into a groove and just turn my brain off for 60-90 minutes.

Furniture/Pottery/Glass making classes hit all 3 if you find something around you.
Wikipedia is not some thing handed down by God at the beginning of time. It’s a work in progress by volunteers. If you think a page lacks depth, you’re free to update it.
I travel around the USA a fair amount. In the vast majority of cities, parking just isn't a problem. I drive my car where I want to go and park. Sometimes I have to pay. But the places where no parking is available are very rare.

I am fully in favor of walkable neighborhoods and reducing the need to drive. But lack of parking is just not a stressor that most Americans worry about.
Huh, I didn't know you could repost your product over and over for 6 months
I'm 6'3" and I have large hands. I'd love another 17" laptop. Anything less than 15" is an ergonomic torture device.
> But that would be loud. You don't want attention when breaking in. (Unless you are a fucked up junkie not caring about anything anymore)

Pre-Covid, it didn't matter if you were loud. You and your neighbors were all off at work all day. So long as a thief felt confident there was no alarm to trigger, they could make all the racket they wanted and no one would hear.

Today, it's a little more risky but of the half dozen houses on my street I'd probably only hear one getting broken into and that's only if I were downstairs. Our homes aren't on especially large lots either (7-10k sq ft).
Opinions are like assholes, I don't care about this guy's.
You're right, the technology of horse locks wasn't available so people went to other lengths: branding, guards, registering of horses. In societies where there was the death penalty for such things there was still horse theft.
I don't think the association between Mozilla and Slack is as strong as you think. They aren't collaborating with Slack, they are pressuring them to add this feature. If their goal is to make the web better, pushing for companies that control a significant portion of online communities to add safety features like this is actually a decent act.
I hope it was half as good as the relatively recent snake cult of Syfl and Olly.
https://archive.is/FHE5L
You're giving 0 credit where some is due. This is the other side of the extreme. Most government structures don't last that long, the fact that the one they made has lasted relatively in tact for a few hundred years means their ideas have some merit beyond the bounds of their time. Also I'm not sure who you mean by "us", the ruling class of today?
this is a case where they should have run the idea by an ex car thief.

How is this any better than a hidden killswitch under the glove box or behind the gas pedal?

Once the attacker knows they can just short the circuit.
You don’t need a translation for hundred-year-old poetry. You might need a dictionary, mainly for archaisms (and I mean words that were already archaisms at the time). That said, I don’t like this translation.
As they do this system as well lol.

But good for them. They will learn a lot.
> In another place, the article simply asserts, “the gospels are not independent nor consistent records of Jesus’ life.” A great many Christians would take issue with such statements, which means they are not neutral for that reason alone.

I'd love to see his article on Jesus that absolutely no one would "take issue with".
Prototyping is a tiny fraction of product development.
I've never spent close to an hour on a job application. In senior year of college I probably sent 200 out at 10? minutes each?
Or maybe it doesn't. Replace "x" in x64 and show me how that ends up somehow indicating x86. x64 refers to Alpha 21064, 21164, 21264, 21364, so the "x" in x64 could refer to any of these.

It's like when people call Trojans viruses. Sure, it's common usage, but you just look stupid if you're someone who should know better. In technical contexts, the distinction matters.
Parking laws are strangling America
Google using its huge market share to push a browser to help it know what you are up to. Same as Google analytics, same as Google hosted libraries, Google fonts etc etc. All there to make sure they see you on every site.
Why anyone would use chrome is beyond me.
You don't. You just need to work a bit harder.
The boxed tests, the take-home ones. In particular, the ones available in the United States (I think other countries were using other rapid tests than the US).

I cannot find the link, but the rate was something ridiculous, way north of 50%. I take it with a grain of salt, I can't easily tell if it's just more propaganda from the covid-ain't-real people.
I'm impressed chiefly with how such linguistic investigations can extract so much from the past. We're talking about wind coming out of mouths 600 years ago!

Of course we have writings and written accounts of speech to reference. But there is plenty of that! Fortunately.

And current linguistic traditions can tell us where various groups ended up, a little more data. But very indirect.
Ask HN: How do you estimate feature profitability?
Leap desktop has both GNOME and KDE. I personally use KDE but my colleagues use GNOME. So far, no real issues.
I think Black Mirror is neither a deterrent nor a guide, and 1984 is more on the "deterrent" side. A ton of policy debates tend to get shut down almost immediately whenever someone says "this is 1984". Our level of surveillance is way, way, way below what our technology allows (yet still above what is desirable in a free society), and I suspect 1984's existence is a major reason for that fact.
The trackpads are great (assuming new models are similar to past models), and the keyboards are IMO very good, but watch out for the squashed key dimensions on the SR and QR, and the Japanese layout.
This reminds me of an art project that I've wanted to do for a long time -- turning anti-homeless fixtures into furniture, or augmenting the fixtures to be comfortable.

For example, some sloped areas have spikes to prevent folks from reclining or laying down, but it would be possible to build a chair/bed that's held in place by those very spikes.
For me, the most surprising thing was how much our executive group and CEO care about our values.

Our values were frequently referred to during discussions and decisions were often debated in the context of our values. I had been working at GitLab for about 6 months when I joined the program and it was amazing to see our values be such points of emphasis to our leaders.

Having worked in a number of other organizations in the past, I can't recall one single "company value" from any of those orgs. In contrast, I don't think I'll ever forget GitLab's CREDIT[0] values.

During the shadow program, I realized such emphasis on our values starts at the top.

0 - https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/values/
from the post: "my wife and brother helped me a lot in doing the application work which seriously is a crazy amount of work"
Short answer: yes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_theft
This is why I own a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga :)

It also has quite nice system specs - 11th gen i7 and 32 GB RAM.
It sounds like they didn't build enough.
Even if you put the locks on, they would never be used. If you need it you need it right now, and it's usually life or death. If somebody is trying to steal it, you shoot them. The last thing you want to be doing in a gunfight is fucking with a lock.
Power delivery should absolutely come on every device, period.
The closest I've ever seen to the perfect laptop (for me) was my 2006 17-inch MacBook Pro, to which I wrote an ode: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/macbookpro.html
Right, because desal is totally environmentally sound. And sourcing your water through a country that kinda hates you (for flooding their country with guns, refugees, high fructose corn syrup, etc) is also a great idea.
> disable one or both as they can take more effort to moderate/maintain.

This is why I don’t consider Discord’s version of threading as true threading. They are temporary channels with all the same admin/moderation requirements that regular channels necessitate.

I have yet to come across a Discord server that lets anyone create threads from posts in their general channels.
Yes.

The same magic number (0xCAFEBABE) is being used for Java bytecode and Mach-O Multi-architecture binaries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_class_file

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach-O#Multi-architecture_bina...
This can be true while it still keeping most criminals out. It's going to depend on the location and context. I'd say an analogy for this is engineer thinking versus economist thinking. My observation is that criminals prefer the latter. Rather than doubling down on engineering, they try to move to a more lucrative venture. Getting better at burgling houses doesn't change the upside as much as other crime.

In my suburban area, the biggest problem is unlocked doors on houses and cars. Despite this problem existing for many years, doors are still regularly left open. The criminals don't attempt to exploit the same neighborhood repeatedly. They pass through in waves and then go elsewhere before returning when everyone has let their guard down. When they attempt forced entry, or anything more than casual theft, they get a lot of attention and caught.

They could improve their takings by developing some lock picking skill, but it's also higher risk since they have to spend some more time on each target which increases the risk that an observer will actually notice them. I could easily imagine a dog walker ignoring someone entering a home through an unlocked door, or making it look like they are checking a door is locked when entry fails.
I remember (in the late '70's or maybe early '80's) a friend's car where he added (it was not unusual at the time to add "accessories" to cars, like fog lights or rear lights ) a number (four or five) lever switches (connected in serie) that acted like a dip-switch, you had to set them in a given pattern (like up-down-up-up) to be able to start the car.
Nah, the scariest is that aluminum, like other alkali metals, literally explodes when it comes into contact with water. This is extremely rare with aluminum since aluminum quickly forms a layer of oxide, and even when casting it's unlikely to happen, at least in hobbyist foundries. You can even find videos of idiots pouring molten aluminum into a swimming pool to show that it's "safe" and nothing bad happens. But the possibility is very real, and while it's pretty dang unlikely there's no good reason to intentionally pour your molten aluminum anywhere near water.

Edit: found a Hackaday article that covers this in more detail

https://hackaday.com/2020/12/30/water-and-molten-aluminium-i...
I do not think AI will replace the hard working folks of the web dev "industry". At least, not those who will evolve with AI.

AI can get you so much.

This "so much with AI" is a lot, and great for many websites.

This "so much with AI" is a great starting point for many other websites.

I believe professional (like you?) will be using AI based tools to automate the simple tasks and focus more on the added value only they can provide.
I program with almost all of my script-ey languages, like python, in a similar way - I'm on linux, and I edit everything in Sublime, save it to a file and then run it in a separate terminal. It the command gets complex I'll create a little bash script file, make it execytable, and run that.

I just alt-tab from editer to terminal, check output, etc, and back. That way I have a bunch of unix text-processing tools (grep, sed, etc...) always available. I'm too reliant on print debuging things as I go along, but it's a deeply ingrained habit.
And that's all well and good, but maybe introspect here for a second? You're upset that your accomplishments aren't being respected, immediately after discounting the accomplishments of others.

The point is that your car's modifications and the university's are similar, but different, particularly in scale and broad robustness, which adds difficulty in ways you may not be appreciating.

$1.2 million may sound like a lot to you, but to pay a team of people to work on, and provide materials for them to work with (especially cars, which generally aren't cheap, especially used cars right now!)... Well, it likely doesn't go as far as you think it does.
The freakonomics folk must have loved this one. They live for unintended consequences. That phrase occurs as expected in the article.
Indeed, it's "source available" at best, not open source as it limits how other parties can use the software, even if the creators don't like their use.
How do you suppose "we" make it illegal? Advertisers spend millions on lobbying to ensure pesky laws don't get in their way. They have politicians in their pockets, and millions of internet users behind them who think that giving up their data in exchange for a "free" internet is worth it.

The chances of this ever changing are practically zero.
There's some atrociously written articles on Wikipedia even in the year 2023.

Case example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_intimacy

The majority of the article is woman-centered, even though there's no evidence that it's highly gender-biased, and the only information pertaining to men is that if they have fear-of-intimacy then they might be a sex offender.

Otherwise, the article barely communicates anything meaningful. How do attachment types relate to fear-of-intimacy? Are they causative or merely correlative?

Then there's of course poor writing throughout such as this:

> Fear of intimacy has three defining features: content which represents the ability to communicate personal information [...]

What the hell does that mean? "Content?" Like a YouTube video or something?

This is just the latest example I've come across, and happens to be one of the least encyclopedic bodies I've text I've ever read. So much of what I read on Wikipedia is of a similar low caliber. People scan over Wikipedia articles but don't think critically, in part because Wikipedia has devolved into writing that can't decide what its audience is and won't get to the point. As I've said before, check out the Talk sections of the pages you visit, and you'll find some of the most arrogant responses from Wikipedia's inner circle of editors.

What makes me LOL the most is supposedly scientific articles that are written as if there is no debate behind a scientific idea, despite there being no such thing in science as "case closed." Wikipedia often behaves like it's a peer-reviewed scientific journal, yet has none of the chops to act as such. Anything that you read on Wikipedia that suggest that there is "no evidence" for something is likely to be some buffoon's ignorant opinion on the actual literature.

And no, I can't just "edit" Wikipedia to fix these issues. I've tried. Both my home IP address and my phone IP address is banned from them, despite my having never set up an account with them.
$200k+ total comp for a product manager is pretty good.

I wonder if previous experience at FAANG is becoming a negative factor in the hiring process. Run-of-the-mill Fortune 500s aren't going to pay Meta money ($475k+) for a product manager. More like $120-150k. And maybe they're looking to avoid the expectations (read: entitlement) from those who are used to those kinds of outsized salaries.
> Mozilla Foundation is a nonprofit whose job is to make the internet better.

Through technology? Or through (non-technical) activism?

It seems like a better spend of their time would be to build better collaboration and social media solutions, rather than lobby for a feature like this on a platform that’s mostly used in organizations but not the wide internet.
Thanks for the additional info. If we are were to just look at the repo stats, Kirby is a lot more active than Grav right now. Do you happen to know what the archived repos were and if they are public? If you look at https://devboard.gitsense.com/getkirby you can see the insights for all the kirby org repos

I do want to make it clear that Kirby is a very healthy project, if anybody is misinterpreting the data.
Sold my car years ago and moved to Boston. I'll never go back to live anywhere that requires me to own a car. I bike or walk everywhere, and what makes me hopeful is that biking infrastructure in Boston (and neighboring cities like Cambridge) has improved dramatically in the years since I've been here and just keeps getting better.

Google tells me that the average TCO of car ownership in the US was $10,728 in 2022. Between my partner and I, we're saving $20,000 per year not owning a car (and that's assuming a generous expenditure on bicycle TCO). High rents mean nothing when considering how much you save on not needing to own a car.
As am I! I'm hoping for an audiobook (that's how I took in her translation of the Odyssey) but I'm not seeing any indication of that yet, so I may just have to read the thing with my eyes.
Curious, what % of costs of a grant are usually consumed by the UNi - are these to pay for equipment, power, lab time, etc?

Or are they slurping funds for other aspects of the uni's operations?
I definitely like the flexibility to be able to create a custom solution with a yaml file. Nice idea. All the best!
$475k TC for a product manager role? I am clearly doing something wrong in my career.
I liked the look of the REBOL syntax and was looking forward to trying it, so was then sad to discover that the Red examples look quite different.
For me it’s plug. It just works.
How many of these issues need to be legislated on a federal level? Why not tackle these issues at lower levels instead where representatives are more beholden to their constituents?
Yes, I am.

I have stated this before, and do not hide it.

I do try to give honest replies, not marketing bull**t, sharing what I can when I can.
If you want a fun story about a truly bad translation of the Iliad (and eventually the Odyssey), read Edward Luttwak's story about Stephen Mitchell.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v34/n04/edward-luttwak/homer...
EU AI Act can get democratic control of AI–only if open-source is at the table
You feel complex layers need to be added that will justify your support of judging people by skincolor? Are we letting Asians in or are they too light or doing too well in your worldview? Who decides what colors of people are acceptable for education? Does this get reviewed often? If Blacks start doing well do you kick them out of the program and move to the next group? Will one group always be part of this program regardless of outcomes?

Affirmative action is a cover for acting with a racial bias
Because there’s no product market fit here. There are a myriad of far more secure and user friendly alternatives. I briefly investigated the market thinking maybe I had something cool, but there are a thousand better solutions under 20 dollars.

The only way something like this gets traction is “as seen on TV” marketing to naive consumers, and I have no interest in building for that market.
Because they have no idea how to bring back the salad days of Firefox, so they do nonsense like this.

The Brendan Eich debacle was their Waterloo.
required by insurance
If TXT-records are proof enough when ownership is to be provided for TLS certs. Then, why not just put the TLS-data into the "trusted" TXT-records and skip the multi-billion-dollar-BS-CA-biz all together?
I assume the standard rapid home antigen tests that the US government was giving out like candy.
Because you are not supposed to block your coworkers on Slack? If there is an issue it should be handled by HR.

I can't fathom the idea of coworkers blocking each other in digital tools and pretending like that's a solution to anything.
It does not help. These days the most frequent theft I see is related to wheels theft, catalyst theft and broken windows.
> Bill Bryon's "The Body"

Bill Bryson is not an actual expert on anything but a pop-sci journalist who writes whatever naïve publishers will accept. As a linguist, I was shocked that his book on the history of English (The Mother Tongue) has a factual error or urban legend on virtually every single page, and so I would not trust him about any other subjects either.