skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ransomware is often not triggered quickly. They will compromise a box, install a back door, and hang onto it for months. You also have to consider that once they pop it, they can check other vulns that are available and will still be present after the restore.

When I do remediation I usually recommend restoring only business state but installing and configuring all OSes and applications from scratch with latest freshly downloaded versions. You can't trust any executable or dll that has been laying around.

That is not the restore dream that the backup provider sold them but reinfection is common. Once the bad guy has a privileged credential it is trivial for them to investigate for other vulns to use in the reinfection phase and nobody has just one critical vuln. If a business is susceptible to ntlm relay it's also going to have unsigned smb and non encrypted ldap traffic for the same root cause -- it was the default in 2005 and never got modernized.
PG&E current rates:

https://www.pge.com/tariffs/Res_Inclu_TOU_Current.xlsx

average billing is currently 38.2c/kwh
Just a brief reminder: If you need to zip/unzip files from the command line on Windows, you can use BSD tar.

I needed to write a script that zips a directory from the command line, and found out that Windows 10/11 and at least Server 2019 includes BSD tar by default! You can use it like this:

'C:\Temp>tar acvf backup.zip directory'

So, no need to install any third-party zip/unzip CLI tool.
On the other hand, many of the only children I know (I'm close friends with 4, all from different backgrounds - one a non-US childhood) are all quite creative and independent people. Sometimes being allowed to be bored is excellent.
In spite of sugar, a lot of people went hungry.

You can note that average male height in the US continued increasing up until the late 1980s.

That points to a general caloric deficit up until roughly 1990--which is roughly where we claim the "obesity epidemic" kicks off.

Also, a graph of sugar doesn't include caloric fillers like "soy protein" which now seems to be in everything.
I often see this argument that if we'd all pay for services like Facebook, they wouldn't have to charge.

Let me offer a counterpoint: if there is money on the table, corporations will get it. Example, you pay for cable, and still get ads. You pay for Netflix and still get Netflix ads in the app. All paid aps harvest and sell your behaviour data. Greed does not permit that money be left on the table.
This always struck me as an odd title. Should I be concerned about gaps?
I'd like to see trends since like 1950.
Seems to be not hitting every user the same way. I also did not have any direct message about ad blockers, but I did notice videos not loading correctly and requiring a page refresh to work. Updating uBlock seemed to fix that issue. It was only afterwards that I heard of others having problems.
Ever lick a battery?
The point is the added calories aren't coming from sugar, contrary to what everyone here thinks. And even if sugar did somehow magically make you fat regardless of calories, sugar consumption has actually gone down, yet the obesity and diabetes epidemics have only gotten worse.
A massive increase in environmental plastics may also have something to do with it.

"The scientists theorize relationships among the global increase of plastics production, human exposure to microplastics, and the global increase of overweight and obesity in populations." https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/programs/geh/geh_newslett...
Yeah I'd believe a stronger sedentary lifestyle is the biggest factor in the waste line stagnation if the diet is not the same.
They did not have omnipresent smartphones in 1970.
I have like five or six pis they get packed and unpacked every time I move
Wait, so you are saying that because 200 years ago Chile was a colony of Spain, the modern Chilean government is not allowed to enter into a mutually beneficial partnership with anyone in Europe lest they be accused of "colonialism"?

And are you also saying that a European University that spends a billion or two euros designing, building, and operating the thing can't call it a European telescope because it is located in Chile? That must be the world's stupidest problem. People sell the naming rights to things all of the time.

Plus, you state that "Europe can take all of the benefits", which is simply untrue. Observatories are funded by selling observation time to scientists. Any astronomer anywhere in the world will be able to buy time on the telescope. Their discoveries benefit everyone in the world. Meanwhile Chile gets a slice of that money, plus a constant stream of astronomers visiting the country to use the thing. And all it cost them was some land that is literally useless for any other purpose. Seems like a great deal for Chile.
Small differences in data analysis make differences in results
Banning facebook would be a great thing for local replacements because it's relatively easy to replicate and will re-create some online advertising business. Once the local startups take off there will be pressure to dismantle business-hostile aspects of gdpr to sustain it. EU completely submitted to american online superiority, but as china shows, protectionism can fix that.
I always get stuck moving from lathe technology 1 to lathe technology 2.
IMO the graph is misleading a bit.

Sugar is much less of a problem if you are also being very active on a daily basis. For example, your work contains physical component or maybe you are walking a lot.

So while the graph is showing dropping amount of sugar consumption, it is not taking account for also falling healthy limit of sugar consumption, ie. the fact that we should be eating even less overall given falling activity levels.

And this is especially true for kids whose activity levels fallen dramatically since smartphones.

I can tell that the same amount of sugar has much less effect on me since I lost weight and started running a lot every day. And I know this because I put on a continuous glucose monitor from time to time and can observe sugar spikes from foods to debug my diet.

You can learn a lot wearing CGM like the fact that my local Starbucks was serving me lactose-free milk regardless of what I ordered. You can tell lactose-free milk on a CGM because of a huge glucose spike. The reason? "Lactose free" is misleading. In reality they don't remove lactose. Lactose-free milk is obtained by adding to milk an enzyme that converts lactose to glucose and galactose which can be easily absorbed by the body and cause blood glucose spikes.
I've seen Tao Te Ching's translation on the HN front page for several times. It seems people are interested in it.

The thing with Tao Te Ching is it's too ambiguous because: 1) The Chinese language is very overloaded and thus very ambiguous. 2) Classical Chinese is even more so. 3) Tao Te Ching is intentionally filled with clever puns which makes it more ambiguous.

The problem with translations is the translator has to interpret source texts into specific meanings in the target languages. It's like opening Schrödinger's cat box, or unwrapping monads in Haskell and Rust, which essentially deduct multiple possibilities into a single deterministic value.

If you're really into it, you probably want to learn some basic Chinese and classical Chinese (lucky they're not so different from each other), and figure out how to look up in the dictionaries. It's probably not as difficult as it sounds - all you need to do is decrypt with dictionaries.

Maybe there should be a new form of digital translation, just like hovering texts on Duolingo and it will display all the possible meanings of the word/expression.
In the 2000s, I went through a wide variety of PC laptops (Lenovo, Toshiba, Dell, Alienware, Sony, etc.) all within the range of $1200-$6500 and they all died within 3 years (except for the cheapest one which was a Lenovo with Linux). Some died within a year.

When my first Macbook lasted for more than 3 or 4 years I was surprised that I was upgrading before it died. I went through many upgrades with almost zero issues(one HDD failure, one battery failure). I still have a 2012 Macbook Pro that I've since installed Linux on.

When I bought the first touchbar Macbook (late 2015?) I spent around $6k maxing out the options, and I was surprised at how totally trash it was. Hardware QC issues were shocking: particles under the screen from manufacturing, keys stuck within the first hour of usage, external monitor issues, touchbar issues...

I haven't bought a laptop since.
> Do not ever use CBM's C64 PSU. Get a modern one; they're all safe.

A thousand times this! The C64's PSU is a pretty awful voltage regulator that badly creates two voltages (5V DC and 9V AC, so even two different types), and only gets worse with age, to the point that it overshoots the 5V DC by so much that it fries the chips.
Facebook is violating your right to privacy in both cases. You could voluntarily hand over your data or voluntarily allow them into your home. But the EU isn't going to allow Facebook or anyone to force people to give up their rights. It is illegal unless Facebook also allows use without giving up their right to privacy.
> You can note that average male height in the US continued increasing up until the late 1980s.

Fat is estrogenic, and estrogen accelerates growth plate fusion.
Google is within their right to do this but it's too bad.
Interesting. Maybe it is Google Fiber in Bay Area, or something more specific like that.

I get it on my devices when I travel outside Bay Area and my friends everywhere else are getting the treatment that people are complaining about.

But with just uBlock Origin, haven't seen anything pertaining ads on YouTube on Google Fiber in Bay Area.
One of the stills [0] shows a Tilta Nucleus-M focus/zoom wheel [1], see it in use on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx5s0M-_ib4

[0] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/images/2023/10/behind-the-sce...

[1] https://tilta.com/shop/nucleus-m-fiz-unit/
Murdering over 8000 civilians intentionally — over a thousand being children — is more moral than Hamas killing 1400 IDF soldiers, settlers, and some civilians? How’s that calculus work?
Id watch this movie
The statement came from Reagan "there will be no negotiation with terrorists of any kind" https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/1980-ronald-re...
Some might say football is pretty awesome and needed. After all, football is life
You might wanna use Unhook.
Saturns rings?
If you want to try out Cloudflare Pages again, you aren't required to have github integration. If you want to just upload and host some static assets you can use direct upload. You can basically just drag and drop/manually upload a zip file containing some HTML, JS, or other static assets and create a static site that way. (See: https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/get-started/direct-u...)

(Disclaimer: I'm an engineer on Cloudflare Pages)
In order for morality to have any worth at all, it has to be an intrinsic truth (or rational determination) separate from god anyway. If the only reason something is moral is because an original creator declared it so then I don’t personally see the difference to us attempting to determine our own sense of morality based on what feels right. If it’s just an appeal to authority, why does it make a difference if that authority is god or human?

Now, if one believes in a creator that is many orders of magnitude (or infinitely) more intelligent than a human, sure, saying that they probably have a better insight into morality and we should listen to them makes sense. But it would be because of their greater ability to understand what is moral, not them being the law maker of morality.
This seems to be more like people doing software development on their laptop vs at a desk with large monitor, a proper keyboard and ergonomics.

(on a tangent, there are no osha-approved laptops, they are not ergonomic. To work for hours, you should have a proper body posture. You should be looking forward at the screen with your head balanced on your neck, not up or down. there is also posture for arms, wrists, shoulders, etc.)
Oh such a great resource. Thank you for posting.
That's what a politician might say, but there is an absurd amount of regulation in most industries. What it results in is debatable.
Fascinating. Japan's caloric intake per capita has declined since the peak in the early 90s. No wonder everybody here is so lean. I'm always shocked when I step off the plane in Germany or the US at how fat everybody is.
I presume when building something if that is feature or product/ service. Majority is questioning pdfs as sort of semantic search with LLM support to deliver “conversations” back in the UI. This kind of thing was part of Azure OpenAI playground since July.
“Defund the police” means to reduce funding to law enforcement and reallocate that funding to social programs. In the limit case, you eliminate law enforcement directly. Some people in this thread were denying this or claiming that this idea was only advocated on “Twitter and at the fringes of academia”. This claim was false because the idea was actually published by the New York Times.

Whatever particular hair you’re splitting doesn’t change that, and the fact that you’re focused on splitting that hair in particular only demonstrates the degree of bad faith and intellectual dishonesty required to make this extreme proposal sound like anything more than the gibbering nonsense it is.
Isn't it true that even if the firmware was open, as long as the hardware is closed it could still be backdoored and doing things you don't want it to? Where do you draw the line?
Would derail the thread pretty hard and I'm not sure even which one to pick. But my favorite memory was walking the streets of Seoul and getting in a little street market. There was this kid who was the son of the shop owner, playing on a cheap Android device. Super into the last update we shipped. You could tell he was gonna sit there on the floor in the corner and this would be his day. I was suddenly so self conscious about how we made levels and updates. Until then it was just the next update at the office, we had to make it good and polished and respectful of the player. But now it was this kid's world, much like Super Mario Bros had been to me. It was important. It was a really humbling moment.
> A competitor would let people outside a group of already successful channels upload stuff.

Why compete with YouTube on YouTube's terms? You cannot beat on e.g. storage costs. There may be a market niche for a smaller, more cost-efficient platform that pays established creators a bigger fit than YouTube can.
It’s crazy. Even with an adblocker you are subjected to a crazy amount of ads or hostile design. With ads, it’s just a free for all on your attention.
Can't you copy the url and open in incognito?

If you are using Firefox you can open it in a container that is not logged into YouTube no ?
How is the deferred rendering in TBDR different from the deferred shading and deferred lighting that have almost completely supplanted forward rendering in commercial games and engines?
That was always allowed. What's your IP?
Sugar's effect to 1970s waistlines would be determined by preceding decades. Insulin tolerance and other MBS things develop slowly over a person's life.
> In a godless universe, you are no more significant than a rock.

Can you think of anything in between? Why the extreme jump to “it’s either all or nothing”?

To state that The Only way to not be a meaningless hunk of rock is to worship your god seems like a pretty big lack of imagination.

I don’t need your god or your god’s rules to appreciate that you’re probably an amazing person in many ways. My partner is “godless” and she’s far more amazing than a rock.

If you want to argue that certain people need religion and that it may provide more benefit to society when those people personally worship their god I can see how this may be a sound argument. Some people really do need jesus, but this hardly means everyone needs jesus or some other sky god to see the value of other people.

This is such a good example of why I push back on organized religions and their foot soldier bible thumpers… this all or nothing thing. I don’t want your god, I don’t want your religious prudery. I thinks it’s amazing that you find meaning there, i really genuinely do. But it isn’t for me. No. I don’t want your god. I still see your value and still care—and, honestly it’s not a wild impossibility that I see value in others and that I do this without a god.
They have been rolling out ad-blocker detection with warning popups telling you to disable it. Mine were skippable the first few times but that lead to a final 3 warnings with the player refusing to load after. They seem to be doing a lot of A/B testing with the system currently.
The article is specifically making a point around the sheer quantity of equipment used by Apple, vs Olivia Rodrigo.
Meetings are a common occurrence in working life. Maybe even a little too common. By that I mean that many meetings could have been an email. Regardless of how that, a large part of office working life is made up of meetings. In the meetings, a great deal of information is conveyed verbally. In order to work as efficiently as possible, you need to learn to screen, remember and follow up on this verbal information. If you do not ensure that you follow up on the verbal information that falls within the scope of your area of responsibility, there is a great risk that you will be sitting in the exact same meeting again in six months. It's something neither you nor anyone else wants to have to go through. So in this article I share how I try to avoid it and categorize verbal information as effectively as possible.
How many Kilowatts has this man saved by computers not having to load trackers and render ad banners!?
In iOS you can add Firefox as a password manager auto fill option. Then when you tap in a password field, the relevant passwords should prompt to auto fill.

I haven’t tested this with Firefox’s password manager, but I did test in firefox and Bitwarden is auto filling correctly, and in iOS settings I see Firefox is listed as a password manager.

It’s settings->passwords->password options. I don’t think apps can automatically enable auto fill, you might have to manually enable this.
Do you think Tik Tok is a YouTube competitor? Netflix?

You can compete with YouTube without cloning YouTube.
Funnily, that's how it really fees like whenever I try to diet. I can't really expect myself to be productive if I am on calorie deficit.
I can only see brutality personally. I’m not prepared. Once I lose my way of making a living I think it’s done basically. Time will tell, but it’s never been kind before, why now?
I love their naming sense.

Very Large Telescope

Extremely Large Telescope

Overwhelmingly Large Telescope
Added sugar is not necessarily problematic, but consumption of anti-thyroid substances like high amounts of PUFA (especially seed oils), chlorine, bromine, fluoride (in absence of iodine) can make it so, by way of increasing energy supply which is not properly consumed. Industrial pollutants like PFAS and hexane byproducts also play a role.

There's a very good reason why sugar is so "addictive" -- it's good for you! It's an obscenely easily digestible source of energy, whose products are used very easily by the cells. In the case of fructose, its consumption is relatively more insulin-friendly than the glucose-heavy starches. Sucrose is half glucose and half fructose.

Seriously "addictive" sugary foods are psychologically problematic usually for other reasons. Pure cane sugar is not very addictive when consumed alone. Try it.
The Tom Scott video linked else where in this thread shows that the existing 4 telescopes have on-prem facilities to resurface the mirrors with a layer of 99% pure aluminum 1000 atoms thick. I'm guessing that quality material fabricated to be installed that precisely is not cheap. The mirrors are moved around on custom built hover crafts. When the 4 scopes are used at the same time, the "plumbing" to get the lights to the instruments at the same time is so precise, it is measured in nanometers.

There is nothing about these facilities that is normal off the shelf components. Everything will have a cost associated that reflects that. What ever back of the napkin math you are attempting doesn't even come close to being accurate.
> IMO the graph is misleading a bit.

...how?

Like, seriously how? The graph is about sugar. It doesn't have obese or similar words in it.

If there is a graph of "U.S. citizen's smartphone usage trend from 2010-2021", are you going to say it's misleading a bit because it doesn't take sugar into account...?
> Alternate title: the graph that broke HN's brain.

It breaks my brain, but on the "Holy hell, that's a TON of extra calories for the entire population to be consuming."

That graph shows almost 30 pounds of sugar consumption differential between 1970 and 2000. That's roughly 15 pounds of bodyweight per year every year in calories. That's a HUGE amount of body fat packed on that has to be explicitly removed.

In addition, even in 2020, there's a difference of somewhere between 5 to 10 pounds of sugar consumption relative to 1970 which is roughly 2.5-5 lbs of extra body fat every year. That's 4-8% more calories consumed by the population every year. That's a LOT.

If there is no corresponding decrease in caloric consumption in some other category (remember: there was a big anti-fat push which switched everything to turbo amounts of sugar) then it's no wonder there is an obesity problem in the US.

Side note: my favorite anecdata on this is iced tea in Austin, TX. In the early 1990s, the default iced tea serving was a 32oz glass of unsweetend iced tea. When I came back in the late 2010s, the default is now a 16oz glass of sweet tea which is actually a hyper dose of sugar. Think of the gigantic amount of extra calories that people eating out are now consuming.
I think a major factor is that today people eat a lot of food designed by engineers to maximize sales. Designs that makes people overeat probably increases sales so they optimize for that.

So we should expect people to continue to get fatter as we get better at engineering food.

Note that I don't think that engineered food is inherently bad, just that today most food are engineered to be unhealthy because that is better for sales.
That part is pretty clear. People are eating more calories than they did in 1970. The more difficult question is: why are they doing that?
Red Pine's translation, with translated historical commentaries, is the best I know in English.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1556592906

I've read the original in Classical Chinese, as well as many translations, over many years, and for me, his translation is the best and most grounded in the work itself. He is an American that has spent substantial time in Chinese monasteries, and has won prizes for his translations generally.

Of course the linked version by Feng and English is a classic, and if you like it or can take some value from it, by all means enjoy it. I'd suggest skipping Stephen Mitchell or work from others that don't actually understand Chinese, as it's more likely new-age feel-good, and not the work itself.

For those interested in Taoism, I'd also advise reading Zhuangzi (the best version in English I know is the comic book drawn by Tsai Chih-chung, translated by Bryan Bruya, "Zhuangzi Speaks: The Way of Nature" https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691008825/

For every person that likes Dao De Jing/Laozi, I'd recommend reading Heraclitus. For every person that likes reading Zhuangzi, I'd recommend reading Diogenes... and vice versa. I am not a student of Western classics so I don't know the best translation, but Guy Davenport's "Herakleitos and Diogenes", https://www.amazon.com/dp/0912516364 , was good for me, and includes both.
*Anti-Namecheap article.
But those would probably not be able to afford the other equipment and crew, that was my point.