skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UI/UX Design subscription. Sounds good, right?
go to Google Scholar. The links are about preventing COVID from getting serious once you already have it.

the bicarb & saline are purely for comfort. The one time I left them out, I was reminded why people shy away from putting water up their noses: it burns.
It doesn't sound tryhard; it sounds literate.
The problem with security by obscurity is that as soon as it's widely used, the crooks learn to bypass it. It's literally a relay in the starter wire, all you gotta do is hotwire the starter and you're back to the status quo.

A whole lot of people have these on their own cars, any DIYer can do it in an hour or two. I may or may not have one on mine. But the "security" comes from there being no standard location for any of the components.
Doesn't the system already check the latency from key fob to car antenna? Better yet, you could use two antennas in the car, and triangulate the key fob.
This seems to be the automotive version of port knocking, but deployed in an environment where the attacker has the equivalent of physical access to your server.
> Also, don't be stupid enough to download the VirtualBox Extensions package at work; or your work will probably get an email from a licensing agent.

Place I used to work blocked the virtualbox home page because exactly this had happened.
Remember that each translation has its own style and twist. Some authors will be shits (for the illiad akeles having a wank over Penthesilea in one re-telling vs weeping over her death, vs Penthesilea wracked with grief committing suicide)

For those who are short of time, and like a comedy angle: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001brj5 Haynes blasts through it in 30 minutes.

her books are also great as well

illiad is here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000d7p2
It's not that more than half of everything is bad (technically this can't be, if by "bad" we mean "worse than average"); it's more of a social interplay issue. The specific example you gave:

> if an outfit is described as “mid”, the implication is that the outfit is bad and the person should not be wearing it.

I'd say most people on the Internet have been conditioned since childhood to deliver and expect "white lies" on such topics. The actual mid-tier/average outfit is indicated by nonspecific reactions such as "you look great!". Saying "this looks average" is pretty much an insult. Greatness, or extreme badness, are communicated by expending extra effort on description, delivery or acts surrounding it. Similar phenomenon applies to pretty much anything involving descriptions of individuals or their choices.

In the extreme, you get the supposed[0] German way of doing employee references, where a reference is never in any way negative, but if it looks ordinary, like "Person X is never late", it is to be mentally prefixed with "Literally the only good thing we can say about them is that...".

This kind of heavily biased distribution of scales seems to be a wider thing in general. Obvious examples are all kinds of star ratings on-line: in e-commerce, in app stores, delivery services, restaurants, etc.: 5 stars out of 5 is "good", 4 stars is "meh", anything below is strictly negative.

From my own life, I remember one pre-internet case: school grades. On a scale of 1-5, with 6 being awarded for extraordinary achievements, the actual scale - as perceived by teachers, parents and students - was: 1-3 = various shades of bad; 4 = meh/average; 5 = what parents expect you should be getting by default; 6 = what parents expect you to get if you show minimum effort.

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[0] - Something I've read about multiple times on HN.
I mean, since iOS 11 you can apply a WKContentRuleList to a WKWebView. It's not like some form of ad blocking can't exist on Firefox for iOS.
I think the biggest issue is not even the left/right or political bias of Wikipedia but rather the fact that some committee of wiki editors decide along what seem to be fairly arbitrary/subjective lines that some sources are reliable and others aren't.

And then those claims make their way into Wikipedia where they inevitably (even though they shouldn't) are relied upon by students, politicians, journalists, who then perpetuate the claim.

https://xkcd.com/978/
> (2) as is trying to focus on intent. Do you want to risk absolving Hitler or Pol Pot because they thought they were making the world a better place?

I would argue that "trying to make the world better" is too broad to be an intent.

It's an ideal, or something. Maybe that's just language semantics.

As soon as you dig into that ideal at all, the malicious intent becomes extremely clear.

Ideal: "I am going to make the world a better place"

How?

Intent: "By purging lesser humans so my people can become the master race as we should"

Versus

Intent: "By volunteering my time to set up soup kitchens in the inner city"

Ideal leads to intent leads to action leads to outcome.

My opinion, anyways.
I think the ideal first job in tech is IT help desk, not QA.

Everything that shows up to the help desk is broken. QA people need to have a skill for breaking things or at least an awareness of how things break. They will learn this at the help desk.

Otherwise: I completely agree.
It was not as good as chrome for most of that decade in performance or security. Google was able to use it search market share to advertise its browser but because it was better many people moved off firefox. 2nd reason is chrome used to auto update in the background so I used to install it on all the pcs of all the non tech people I used to be tech support for as that helped me a lot of daily headaches in term of computer troubleshooting
Intentions of information sources can affect what people think qualifies as true
How is the problem of TLS certificates related to Redhat Linux or Enterprise Linux? I think these are orthogonal problems.
I am a bit dyslexic and even though I am an avid vim user, I do often rely on copy paste to avoid silly typos that cost so much time for me to fix. Because I cannot even see the typo, even in the compiler output!
Ask HN: Where to find clients for custom software development work?
Hello,

I have been using upwork and fiver for a while but I have not been able to find good quality clients since everyone comes with a mindset of getting done things very cheap. For instance they won't pay good rate for quality instead they would waste time or just want something cheaper.

This hurts developers who do quality work for their clients.

Also I won't say all clients are like that but I did had some awesome clients but very few.

I would like to ask HN who are into freelancing how do you find your clients or if you run a software development company how do you find you find good clients
> a great keyboard, look to the 2008-11 era ThinkPads for inspiration

For me a great keyboard includes having an ergonomic layout and being programmable via QMK or similar.
The idea is that you deploy from scratch all the infrastructure every 6 months, first to testing and then to production.
> > 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?

It's taken directly from the source cited (page 2 of https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Development-and-Valida...). I'm not an expert in the field and have no idea if this is a good paper, but it has received 267 citations which does convey some impact.

> The fear-of-intimacy construct takes into account three defining features: (a) content, the communication of personal information;(b) emotional valence, strong feelings about the personal information exchanged; and (c) vulnerability, high regard for the intimate other. We propose that it is only with the coexistence of content, emotional valence, and vulnerability that intimacy can exist. Consider, for example, the customer who talks to an unknown bartender about his or her troubles. Although there may be personal content

It's clear that it's not the noun "content" but the adjective, defined as "pleased with your situation and not hoping for change or improvement".

I hope the Wikipedia editors are more literate and willing to research than that. I don't think I want to read your version of wikipedia.
The radiator fan didn't turn on automatically, so my dad wired it directly into the AC controller.

All that trouble, rather than run to NAPA to spend $12 on the thermo-switch that would be easier to install than hacking into the A/C controller. Yeah, I've known some dads like that.
LE by default successfully ran 2 months prior. 2 months and 5 years are two completely different worlds in terms of bit rot. That and there are many generic tutorials and scripts and knowledgeable devs for configuring LE fresh.
I thought RVs had to worry about electricity and sewer hookups for anything over a few days.
So 0000 0002 0100 0007 isn’t part of the magic number?
Cover the two PhD students at the NIH payscales for PhD students on a standard training grant[1] ($43,894 not including benefits) and you've used up over a quarter of your budget on less than half the salary needs, completely ignoring any research costs that need to be covered on top of the much higher payscales of the professors. Plus a large number of PhD students in this kind of work make more than the states stipend above. Not extravagant.

https://osr.ucsf.edu/news/nih-update-ruth-l-kirschstein-nati....
I also don’t fully accept the premise that not reading is why people are commenting critically.

Personally, I read the whole thing, kinda scratched my head about the framing of it all, and came here to find what apparently seemed like agreement with my reaction.

It became more clear what the author was going for when he clarified, and in that light, the post makes more sense.

But I think someone lacking that context or familiarity with the author’s style and taking the content a bit too literally at first (like me) is another source of the critical commentary.

Things got a bit off track when this became a thread about people refusing to read, or lacking comprehension. From my perspective there are two ways to read it, and I think this pretty much guarantees some confusion.
I'm not advocating that. For those that want to change parking, it seems like that's what they'll have to do.
Not the extensions but you can use Brave browser that has its own built-in ad blocker.
> uses half the memory

this is false

> two orders of magnitude faster

incorrect

> doesn't let your users DOS you by triggering huge file reads on each request.

I understood what you were trying to do on your first reply – "Prolly don't want to read the file on every request though" – no need to repeat yourself.

plese remember:

1. it's pseudo code, the optimisation is superfluous

2. it never ran, the optimisation is useless
IIRC they got Northrop to pay for half the cost of developing the stealth pole (since Northrop had a competing stealth design).
It’s not efficient. That’s the point.

The car is a complicated product. It’s not a website. It’s not an app. My employer has 120k+ employees and factories in every continent except Antarctica. Regulatory bodies interject with anything related to access and security, and those bodies are different in every country/region. The product itself is massive physical good that many countries consider domestic production of which to be a matter of national security. Every single physical change to the product is analyzed by bean counters. Shipping the product requires at least some level of expertise in mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, hardware, software, and manufacturing. You need factories, regulatory approval, supplier networks, programmers, drivetrain engineers, management, people to lobby the government, accountants, and much more. You need it all.

You’d be shocked at how difficult adding a single physical button to any given car can be. Scoffing at $1.2mm for a new ECU that relates to security is naive. “I could do this in one day in my garage” is not how shipping a change to automotive products works.
It's not just this but also the fact that there are many more layers of abstraction now than there were even 10 years ago, never mind 20/30/40 years ago, and the real world incentive to understand the entire stack of those abstractions is virtually nil in modern engineering environments.
We had a lot of reports of ksm/ksmtuned consuming a lot of CPU and not making a lot of difference. I think it works well for certain workloads, and can be quite pessimal for others. There are also security concerns because you can leak information about (eg) what glibc is being used by another tenant using timing attacks. So you'd probably want to turn it off if multiple tenants can be using a single node.
> Loud bass carries through pretty much any material. You’re going to need a cultural change where people in dense environments don’t play loud music, and watch their behavior after 8pm.

Not at all. New construction in NYC has excellent soundproofing. Even that is actually more a side-effect of changes to fire codes than a specific demand for soundproofing - buildings constructed with soundproofing as a specific goal can be even more insulated.

If you're in one of those buildings, it's actually quite difficult to hear your neighbors during any normal activity.
Venture Firms Scale Back Megafunds in Strategy Shift
As others have observed: there's a Selection Bias there. A randomized, controlled study would pick people and have them start doing mental exercises when they weren't already doing them. And then force them to keep doing it even when they didn't like it. Good luck with that one.
Likewise, it's been suggested that the 19.6-year (1024-week) GPS epoch is pessimal. Rollover is infrequent enough to be ignored, but frequent enough to actually happen and cause problems.

Folks who know such things better than I do, have suggested that it would've been far better at like a 64-week rollover (or just chop it to 52 and leave part of the code space unused), that way everyone would have to have a plan for it. Nobody could claim they don't expect their hardware to be in use 64 weeks in the future therefore they can ignore rollover.
I don't think many people are truly anti-car activists. Just that we need to redimension their absolute centrality to so many policies and budgets.

I'm involved in pro-housing politics and it's just amazing how many people are like "well, ok, sure, people need a place to live and all, but let's think FIRST about where to store the automobiles. If that works out, then I guess we can build some housing".

They don't say it quite like that, but it's the general idea.

Cities should be about people first and foremost. Places for them to live and do business. Cars are pretty convenient for some things, and many people want one...fine. But base the decisions around people first and then work out spaces for the cars.
eh. I just bought a new mill because of space, but otherwise all my machine tools are from the 60s. yes, the ways are a bit worn. yes the cross-slide and table have a divots. yes, I had to pay too much for a screw because my lathe was broken and I couldn't make a new screw for it.

but they are much better made and with a little tlc are very serviceable machines. and they run less than $1/lb in the US because we shut most of that down.
Why not? – Because coworkers need to talk to each other. What's next, jumping off the daily standup call for a while when a colleague you have a problem with is speaking?

If someone is reducing the S/N of a large channel then it is a culture problem that needs to be solved by the management. I have seen a few Slack dramas like that in companies I worked with (e.g. a person trolling), and it wasn't difficult to solve. Letting team members to arbitrarily block each other seems insane to me from a company standpoint.
I did the same thing but used Java as the initial code generation target back around 2010 (for a personal project). Since the network protocol wasn't controlled by me, this approach made keeping up with changes trivial.
Slack is Salesforce, which is a spyware vendor. There is nothing pragmatic in pretending some superfluous changes makes Slack better.
It'll be interesting to see how the box office does. It's been a while since _The Wind Rises_ and Miyazaki is more beloved than ever and all 3 reviews I've read thus far seem highly positive (and certainly more positive than _The Wind Rises_), but there's also an extraordinarily low level of discussion. I was shocked when I clicked on the first review and realized it was a review - "oh, huh, when did it come out?"

The justification offered about 'people being tired of marketing' sounds absurd, and more like they are finding excuses to skip work because they are old & exhausted, and another step in winding down Ghibli. I expect lower box office than it deserves; even Hayao Miyazaki can't release a movie with zero marketing and expect no effect...
People literally took to the streets (ironic, I know) when they tried this in London, UK
There’s Firefox Focus which blocks many ads (also works as a blocker for safari)
The tool "entr" (and similar like "cargo watch") are so useful there. Save the file and it runs the command. For extra credit I mapped shift-enter to save the current file in my editor.
https://archive.is/AlxKE
It's not mentioned in those two sources, but almost all firearm propellant primers contain lead as an additive. And to make matters worse, it's these exhaust gases that end up all over your hands and face.

I didn't know this until I took my kids to a shooting range in Reno. Before going I had read warnings to make sure to wash their hands afterward, but it was nuts how much residue ended up on our hands after shooting only a single box of rounds; and given the feel of it, likely heavily laced with lead or other metals. I don't think I'd ever take my kids to a gun range again unless I brought my own gun (with well-maintained parts) and used lead-free ammunition--most importantly lead-free primers.

AFAIU it's much easier to find non-leaded bullets than non-leaded primers, though neither is very popular. Until very recently all the discourse on lead exposure and contamination seems to have been focused on the bullet itself.
I find some of your conclusions problematic. Elon wanted to make Twitter less ad-driven and is currently nosediving and can't get out of it. And while a small number of users are gone, Twitter now amplifies extremist opinions that make the echo chamber worse, not better.
This is cool but why is the human in the loop? If the only possible action is for the human to close a switch, why doesn't the platform diagnostic just close the circuit instead of playing the song?
Summer of Unikernels – Golden Gate Park BBQ
came here to post this :)
And an evergrowing administration, at least where my mom works. She said they used to take 1/3 not that many years ago, now it's 1/2. In the same period the administration has grown considerably.

A big problem is they don't always get all the money they apply for, and so with the added overhead there's sometimes very little left to do actual science.
“When compute becomes the basic unit of labor, a currency to represent future potential compute is needed.”

If AIs become central to production, or even a significant limiting factor — then, this article is correct: compute becomes a valuable asset class, and a currency significantly denominated in “compute” (and associated storage and network bandwidth) will be desirable.

OK. This basically describes HoloFuel, the cryptocurrency of the Holo (https://holo.host) project.
Sure. In theory, investors can behave as rational actors. In practice, you get all sorts of chasing the Next Big Thing because there’s too much money flowing around to too little fundamental research.

So I’m ok if we spend $1.2M on research. That’s like 5 developers for one year who would otherwise be allocated by the invisible hand into effectively useless endeavors like high frequency trading or ad tech.

Cut to the alternative universe where they’re working at Blackrock and a car thief is driving their car away.
> Linus' "security problems are just bugs" approach has been worrisome.

Aren't they?
Host theory has been applied since Africans tolerant to typhoid/malaria/yellow fever were brought to the New World...
No, it’s not suspect in and of itself. Often you need to develop a new benchmark when solving a new problem. It’s common to see this in software engineering/CS papers too.

Of course, one should always be critical of benchmarks, and there is an obvious opportunity for bias here that should be reviewed with care. But your phrasing suggests that this is unusual or actively suspicious, which it is not.
Try Jiu Jitsu. It's the best thing ever.
Not necessarily. RHEL-clones are ubiquitous in high-performance computing. Clusters and super-computers are hard to setup, consist of hundreds or thousands of nodes, and are used by scientists who are not programmers by trade. The RHEL-clone model works well for them, as they can't expect their users to keep code up to date with changes in the OS, they are used by known, mostly-trusted users, and the systems they run on usually stay fixed their 5-10 year lifespan. Having a single supported OS for the entire lifetime of the system saves a lot of work.
Germany and Britain and France and Austria were all very much capitalist countries.
It took them many days to find the Titan despite exact knowledge of where the Titanic is.

MH370 could be in a significantly wider area of the ocean so it's going to be much harder to find it. Although prices of it have already been found [1] and used to determine a crash location (35.6°S 92.8°E).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370#M...
Really depends on how much time you spend working portable or not. 14" seems like the best compromise for me on power, portability and screen size. 15" is a little big and the lightweight 15" laptops feel a little too flimsy at times.

I bought a used Thinkpad 220 and it's a cool little swiss army type of device. The keyboard is VERY different from modern thinkpads. More tactile and a lot of cool features. Would be interesting with a technical update. I think the Japanese Panasonic Let's Note may be the closest modern equivalent.
Thanks, I'm trying to get over the desire to perfect things before releasing them.
Causality is never so obvious: When you are thinking hard you use more electrolytes. Deplete too many electrolytes in your brain too quickly and risk causing a stroke. Strokes may cause and are at least known to exacerbate dementia.

(Calories are a bad metric. There's so much chemical complexity they intentionally avoid. Not all "calories" are spent the same way, especially when you are talking about brain chemistry. Optimizing for how much heat a brain generates is directly optimizing for the wrong thing because when the brain is literally smoking, that is a stroke and it is dying.)
Sure, there are places that would kill people quicker than others, but that's not what we're talking about here, we're talking about the benchmark of survivability without artificial means.

Truthfully, as a species, most of us require artificial augmentation in order to survive, which makes that artificial augmentation a poor benchmark for survivability.