skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly, and we've already asked you more than once not to. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Probably. IIRC the price of Botox injections has come down a lot in recent years, and it's a relatively safe outpatient procedure, so if social media trends are anything to go by I'd assume quite a few people are getting it.

Any good cosmetic work should be almost invisible to someone who isn't looking at a before-and-after photo. I recently got some work done (long story, but one of the best decisions I've ever made) and my doctor said he strives to do work that's so discreet no one will notice and so gratifying that you'll tell everyone anyway.
As opposed to encrypted SMS? I'm genuinely intrigued at the idea that's a thing.

As for the rest, is there any actual evidence of widespread interception of SMS 2fa actually being a problem?
Yeah, so? It's a lot more productive than a low-effort comment on HN.
It's not work that sucks. It's having to work that sucks.
The enshittification will continue until morale improves.
Well, the jig is up: you don't own anything unless you physically have it.
" Traitors who fought their country for slavery weren't heroes. The Founding Fathers were"

Someone said a few years ago:

"On the one hand, we had people who fought with gun and sword to murder, rape, and otherwise exploit my people. On the other hand we had people who fought with pen and parchment to murder, rape, and otherwise exploit my people."
Someone downvoted you but it wasn't me. We possibly shouldn't carry this on too long in case people feel its gone way off topic, but.. these are important subjects. To address some of your points :). "if your religion needs 200 yr of theologians" ... its not the religion, its the Bible. Big difference. Its hardly surprising if a book written 2000 yrs ago, totally different time, culture etc, needs expertise to be understood , and going to it directly and trying to make sense of it cause confusion, right? Pretext for genocide etc... well, terrible things have been done in the name of religion, but terrible things happen with or without religion. Look at Russia/Ukraine. I'd argue its not religion causing it. People that want to hate will find something to fight about be it religion, resources, power, football teams etc. I do agree actually that where people's beliefs are incoherent this is the source of many ills. But I'd argue against that being the fundamental religion being incoherent. Regarding abuse by clerics, I do agree, and I think a lot of Christians would, that the rule of celibacy for priests is extremely unhelpful, and has led as you say, to deviant behaviour and abuse that has wrecked people's lives. The response by church(es) has been severely lacking, often appalling, and the main reason for that would seem to be that the hierarchy themselves are celibate, not having normal healthy relationships and haven't a clue how what to do. So I, like many others would advocate ditch the celibacy requirement ASAP. The hierarchy don't necessarily think they can do that though, they think they'll alienate churches in the developing world, cause a schism etc, its a mess. But, and you may think I'm an idiot to say this, I argue again, that's human failings, and doesn't mean that the religion should be thrown away as unworkable. I would believe, that's not what Jesus would have wanted. Now, maybe you don't believe, and that's absolutely fine. No-one should ever be pressured into having any beliefs or religion (yet another thing unhelpful people have done within the church, and again, nevertheless not a reason to disband it IMHO). But I would say, maybe stay away from the church if you don't believe, but if you have any hint of belief, try to fix these problems. By, like I say, challenging people. Regarding Judaism, Christianity and Islam being the source of oppression of women, that's certainly an interesting one, I'd have to go away and think about that. Gut feeling , its unlikely to be the only source of that, but I know what you're saying there's certainly been structural oppression of women within organised religion. To summarise I think a lot of things that anger you about the church its absolutely fair to be furious about, and these issues massively frustrate people inside it who still regularly go to church. Where we differ is indeed that you say people should stop being Christians whereas I do indeed say people should be better Christians. Hope you can find happiness and purpose anyway whatever route you take. :)
It seems a little bit uncharitable to assume the UX on client certs has to be as bad as the UX on SSH keys, although I'll concede the point that historically it has been.
This is called Hacker News for a reason, boy...

> A hacker is a person skilled in information technology who uses their technical knowledge to achieve a goal or overcome an obstacle, within a computerized system by non-standard means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker
Of course! I'm talking about the kinds of checks and scans that are made on the code during the pre-commit hook
Olfactory Function Relates to Sexual Experience in Adults
He's a professor at Caltech and did Nobel laureate-level work. He might be less productive than his prime and still be competitive with other professors, particularly since he brings deep understanding of the history of approaches in his field.
https://archive.is/mCsP4
I only listed facts, not mythology.

> in exchange for

Washington didn't do it in exchange for anything.

> any formal rule

Washington wasn't offered a "role". He was offered absolute power.
lately even when you have it you’re just renting it. stop paying the rent and it turns into a brick.
I think having choices is better than not having choices.
fwiw I haven't ever been in a house with a bolted-down safe, nor am I aware of anyone I know ever having one.

they exist but uh. most people just have portable fire-safe boxes as far as I've seen. or nothing.
Where I have encountered this, the path to a solution requires discovering that the problem is a generic error message that has an unbelievable number of different possible causes. And in the process of solving that, the specific problem was incredibly specific.

For example Django is very good at giving a small number of (useless) error messages for a wide variety of things that can keep it from starting up properly.
This is super cool. I've spent hours trying to get ROS and rviz working on my Mac, will try this out.
At home I can fuck off on a walk whenever I want, or do calls walking, I have a nice standing desk, the food is always healthy, I can take a hot shower when my neck hurts or go on a run when fidgety, the chair is always set up correctly if I want to sit, there's nice window blinds against glare, there's a balcony to inhale fresh air and look in the distance...

Whereas office means trains, so cramped seating and touching a laptop, or driving a car thru obnoxious traffic jams. I think WFH is much healthier for me.
> Which also suggests they kind of sucked

The Spartans were paranoid and insular. More likely than their being illiterates is that they destroyed their own records.
> Even simpler is to prohibit payments for these experimental treatments, but let people who whould die anyway participate in them as long as it is free for them. In return the drug companies could use the outcomes as data points towards their aproval applications.

Hell I'd even approve my tax money to go to those companies which end up saving lives as reward.
I don't see any lies.

The link supports the claim is that 'Molṑn Labé' is used as a "political rallying cry", in this case by Rep. Jeff Duncan making a political rally cry in support of access to guns.

That is indeed a Spartan saying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molon_labe .

It was also used "by members of the extreme right who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021." For example, from 'SPARTANS ON THE CAPITOL: Recent Far-Right Appropriations of Spartan Militarism in the USA and their Historical Roots' (found via Google Scholar, but the URL doesn't seem to work stand-alone from HN):

] The display of ‘Spartan’ symbols during the insurrection of 6 January 2021 represented the culmination of an increasing recent trend whereby the U.S. Far-Right has appropriated martial images of the Spartans (linked especially to the battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC) to support their causes. Three strands of appropriation have been prominent: Three strands of appropriation have been prominent: first, exploitation of the phrase MOLON LABE, supposedly uttered at Thermopylae by Sparta’s king Leonidas, by the firearms industry and gun-rights activists as a selling-point and a rallying cry against restrictions on gun ownership; secondly, use of imagery from Zack Snyder’s film 300 (2006) by supporters of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign; thirdly, invocations of ‘Spartan’ military symbols and Sparta’s martial reputation to mobilise violence against the leftist movement labelled ‘Antifa’.

> Is my takeaway supposed to be that anybody who names anything after the Spartans is associated with a bunch of idiotic boomers who were way too butthurt over losing that election?

... No? I think it's supposed to be that perhaps your understanding is incomplete and there is context you aren't aware of? Perhaps a newer context than one used to, for example, choose the name "Spartans" for the Michigan State University mascot back in 1925?
Aerodynamics of a Cow [video]
This.
My friends' father is approaching 92. He worked in his auto repair shop until the age of 89. He was a pillar of the community, known everyone and their cars, and had generations of customer coming with cars to get them serviced.

I don't think he became a rich man from this. He had a house, raised his family, and that's all. He just enjoyed fixing cars.
i have a similar setup with an amd threadripper thinkstation.
https://archive.is/CkyyJ
As a long time CLEAR user, I don't find this to be a very "big change." They've intermittently asked to see ID in the past. It adds maybe 10 seconds to the transaction. Not showing ID is not the primary value. It's skipping the line. At busy times in busy airports, CLEAR + PreCheck is much faster than PreCheck alone. An ID check is not going to change that.
Isn't this the same effect as vacuum welding? Eg NASA doors in space station has to have some kind of isolation painting?
Why don't we just have a schedule/tier system?

Category A - approved by the FDA, basically what we have right now

Category B - approved by some other established regulatory body (EU). Comes with all the warnings, doctors can write it off-label, insurance companies may not cover it but doctors can ask for a variance

Category C - approved by some non-OECD body. Insurance companies under no obligation to cover

Category D - experimental, this is stuff maybe still only in animal models, but pharmacies can still order and dispense it

Category E - experimental and basically limited run from pharmaceutical companies. These essentially need to be tailor-made or produced by a GMP kilo lab. There are plenty of drugs in this category - I worked on them - and the intended recipients are entirely animals, QA, and regulatory agencies. But maybe if some crazy S.R. Hadden type (billionaire in Contact) wants to guinea pig themselves, let em.

The latter category also opens the door for custom therapies (gene/mRNA) that you basically can't test the active pharmaceutical ingredient for efficacy on.
Why?

Have you ever sat in a customer service chat with someone who wasn't very helpful and very slow sat the same time?

There were probably handling several other chats at the same time.

Why shouldn't we replace those interactions with an AI that is fast and infinitely patient and friendly?

I am willing to be convinced otherwise, but I don't see how fighting technological progress that is net positive for almost everyone is productive here.
Far from all, mostly traffic and a few others
FYI, I am actively avoiding any service that makes it hard for me to talk to a human. I don’t think I am the only one.
You can buy an "economy" set of NIST traceable gage blocks for about $120[1], that are accurate to 50 millionth's of an inch. Metric sets are also available in the same price range.

Fluke has an entire line of NIST traceable tools[2]

For a stiff fee, you can ship things to NIST to have them calibrated[3], or buy standard samples.

In the US, NIST traceable calibration can be had for almost anything. I suspect the same is true (calibration back to a national standard) in most of the world.

You can get GPS disciplined clocks for about $200, the long term stability of those are tied to UTC, which is as good as it gets.

If you can afford to spend more, there are devices that can input a laser, and tell you the frequency of that light, down to 1 Hz resolution. They use optical combs, and a lot of physics, and have an internal atomic clock reference.

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My point is that we have an amazingly affordable web of precision that we can fall back on, this allows people spread across the globe to build interchangeable parts that will fit properly on a regular basis. It is freaking amazing.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Shars-Rectangular-traceable-certifica...

[2] https://www.fluke-direct.com/category/fluke-nist-certified-t...

[3] https://www.nist.gov/calibrations
Do you sit on cushion or mat? Or just on the floor directly. And are you sitting cross legged or some other method?
AWS used to be not only sane but elegant: every instance had an entirely-arbitrary internal/private IP address, some could optionally have a second public address, and which instances (including external IP addresses) could talk to which other instances was entirely and solely defined by security groups (as well as, of course, any OS-level firewalls that you'd generally disable), which were pretty much just flexible and reusable firewall rules where the concept of a "security group" replaced entirely the concept of a "subnet", which became an obsolete legacy concept.

They needed to support multiple adapters per instance, which they later added (maybe with a separate security group per adapter, which they might support now but I don't know off-hand); and they also needed hierarchical security group inheritance (the same way traditional subnets can nest into each other), which they didn't add but I guess you can now simulate them (though this sucks and I think is part of the downfall of the elegant stack) using multiple non-hierarchical security groups (which was not supported originally: security groups were permanently fixed in a one-to-one relationship with an instance).

This original elegant cloud-first model of instances and groups made network engineering pleasant for once... even fun! I remember thinking how great it was that all of my arcane physical networking and routing knowledge might soon be obsolete: that I could now think in terms of the abstractions of instances and how they talk to each other, drawing abstract circles around them without having to think about limited address spaces, and that they would assuredly fix the only two shortcomings of the original model...

...but then the network engineers showed up in force and ruined it all. There is simply no good reason for all of this VPC IP-address subnet focused insanity once you go cloud: they are just re-instating all of the frustrating limitations that come up when doing real world network engineering, presumably because they weren't willing to throw away their knowledge and realize all of that stuff is obsolete.

Like, seriously: we want to be able to replicate some enterprise network? That's madness, and it makes it all worse for everyone that this is even a supported goal. This is all virtualized networking: we don't need to be thinking in terms of subnets and gateways, we don't need to be manually configuring our egress... if you have a ton of hubs and routers and have to run cable all over the place, it makes sense, but this is the cloud!

And so now we all actually had to brush off all of that networking knowledge I was happy to give up as Amazon deprecated and fully removed "EC2 Classic" and have forced us all into this VPC insanity; and maybe if you never really tried to grok how AWS worked 15 years ago when it wasn't pretending to be a pile of legacy networking equipment you just shrug and accept that this somehow is all necessary, but it really isn't.
I particularly enjoyed this quote

>“The main thing is finding something that you enjoy doing, that preferably doesn’t harm others, and that tests whatever aptitude one has, that tests one’s ingenuity,”
Based.

It's trivially easy to generate passwords with 128 bits of entropy and have them managed by a password manager.

Until the password manager gets hacked. Well, tough shit. If your primary device gets hacked, the hacker just has to wait until the next time you log in with the bullshit gazillion factor authentication.

And it always collapses to 1FA for the lost password recovery process, which you're gonna have to provide if you want customers.
The uk military budget is something like US$55b/y

So presumably something comparable for a few years of conflict, not that I think this is even remotely probable
"Today, tech companies promise to create algorithms that can analyze old music to create new music. But music is ambiguous: is it mostly a product to be produced and enjoyed, or is the creation of it the most important thing? If it’s the former, then being able to automate the production of music is at least a coherent idea, whether or not it is a good one. But, if it’s the latter, then pulling music creation away from people undermines the whole point. I often work with students who want to build algorithms that make music. I ask them, Do you mean you want to design algorithms that are like instruments, and which people can use to make new music, or do you just want an A.I. to make music for you? For those students who want to have optimal music made for them, I have to ask, Would you want robots to have sex for you so you don’t have to? I mean, what is life for?"
Germany was uber green for like 50 years, yet it failed to deliver technological breakthrough. All green bets like diesel, biomass, natural gas, wind and solar, failed to deliver. And current leader in solar and batteries is China.

Germany is now burning huge amount of coal, and importing it across globe from South America. And yet it struggles to heat it's houses.

Current German economy is not sustainable without cheap energy.
thanks! yeah please do and let me know what your experience is like. Hope this helps!
Ironic since my experience during the transition away from ASCII displays and shortcut inputs is that the touch screens and deep menus were slow. Touch won because it was more approachable, at least for the shallowest options
Because up to this point my experience with automated systems in banks, phone companies and web services companies has been awful even for trivial requests.

Until shit improves, I will be bashing on those and prefer companies that allow me to get human interaction asap.
Not sure who you are referring to since Teller and Ulam both died a while ago.
Agreed, it's shady or at least questionable why a singular private entity has been handed a monopoly position blessed by the government to exchange money for line cutting at every major airport.

How did this contract come to exist? How does this further the interest of taxpayers?
No, the people building the shite customer service chatbots that we all hate using should take a stand.
Unless you're wealthy enough to delegate it to an assistant, I'm sure that's really hard for anything that doesn't involve going to a local store or service. (Or, again, personal advisors of various types but again we're talking lots of money involved.)

ADDED: And the fact that going through online travel/hotel/airline sites is mostly easier (and cheaper) than dealing with most travel agents used to be. Until something goes wrong and you can't walk into your travel agent's office.
I used Siemens NX daily and Mathematica at home. While such programs are certainly “bloated” they work well and provide an incredible amount of value. The communities around musl/suckless/cat-v have absolutely no answer to how they could possibly replicate such programs in their paradigm.
I’m more shocked at the notion of the T1, HDSL or whatever being run all the way to this STB. Imagine 1.5Mbps of bandwidth straight to your house and only being able to use it with this one limited device!

But of course, the Web and lots of other goodies normal people might want to do online were not even close to mature yet. So this could plausibly be your only network-connected device. Wild.
> The most serious was Manafort, and it was related to his previous work in Ukraine, before he was hired by the Trump campaign.

Manafort's work in Ukraine, by the way? Doing sketchy shit on behalf of Russia there.

Definitely not suspicious that his next gig was Trump's campaign manager, working for free. What was he getting out of that again?
Using the imagery of a people who were a historical loser does not necessarily imply that you, too, will lose battles. After all, things like Apache helicopters are named after historical losers, but one can still win battles with them.
This is how quite some enterprises run their infrastructure
I'm the exact opposite. Unless I'm watching a video, I'm usually not full screen. I keep my windows either side by side or centered with the desktop being visible on both sides. I absolutely hate it when apps like browsers, VS-Code-without-split-view-active or Slack are stretched the full width of 5120.
Paying money to skip lines seems fine.
I was randomly ID checked with Clear this morning in fact. You just hand them your license, they scan it and hand it back. Nbd
Perhaps it is more about the structure of the corporate workplace and less about how meaningful the work is?

I love writing code, I don't think I'll ever fully quit, but I also really want to retire early.

The problem is that corporate America is riddled with politics and inefficiencies, and offers little to no long term security for all but the most senior employees.

From what I've seen the people who never retire are in academia, medicine, own a business, or are just so accomplished that they effectively have corporate tenure.
That is sadly an impossible dreams due exactly to every (useful) software being a complex system.

It works the other way around. You as the designer tell the computer which interactions it should handle and how. There are sadly no ways around that.
I stopped having back pain when I started working out. Hand pain I don’t actually get from typing, but trackpad use is rough. I use a mouse now and it’s much better.
Forrest/Nedela Collection: Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95
I recently got only FAQs and phone tree leading to automated messages for customer support for Legoland. For a large enough business angering a fraction of a percent of your customers is worth it compared to shelling out for actual customer support.
Same here - how they are allowed to continue to be a trade is beyond me. My friend is a neurosurgeon and has more than a few stories about times she's had to fix or more often, mitigate, damage done by chiropractors. But at the same time, nothing is done about other quacks like supplements, homeopathy, etc...