skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am somewhat skeptical about the long covid thing. Not that the disease doesn't exist of course, but of the relationship with covid specifically.

To put it simply, we all got in contact with covid at some point. Some were asymptomatic, some mistook it for a cold, and some were confirmed cases. Plus there are vaccines, that are said not to be as effective at preventing long covid than they are at preventing severe (accute) covid. Some even say the vaccine itself can cause long covid-like symptoms.

So how many of these case really "long covid" and not just a condition no one really took into account before a global pandemic affected us all in a relatively short amount of time. There are some conditions that are known to get triggered with any kind of infection (ex: EBV), or other kind of disturbances. Covid is one of them, but so is the flu, or anything else really.

And then, there were the lockdowns, raise of remote work and all the resulting social changes. People took some weight, others lost some, sleep patterns, eating habits, etc... have changed for many people. All these could be potential triggers for some condition that while not caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, is a result of the pandemic.

I say all that because of a personal experience. In late 2020, I got unwell, very unspecific symptoms which felt mostly psychosomatic, and it lingered for months, with ups and down, and a global trend towards improvement. When I talk about it, "long covid" is usually the first suggestion, and I would believe it, except I didn't get covid at the time. No contact, no symptom, PCR and IG tests negative, etc... it was before I got vaccinated. I finally ended up getting covid for (I think) the first time last year, and it was a typical, milder than average case, with none of the "unwell" symptoms resurfacing. I still don't know what happened to me, and why, though the lifestyle changes caused by the pandemic may have something to do with it. But had it happened after a covid infection, I am sure it would have been attributed to it.
These are great details. I'll only add that the first part is related to the executive buy-in that's necessary for anything.
I've read (don't remember where) that Android's kernel barely resembles upstream Linux.

A little more about UBports...

It's not like you can use /dev/video to use the video camera on a Linuxified phone. Instead, the system is a Debian wrapper around Android, and Android is used to get access to the proprietary device drivers. Those capabilities are then exposed to the Qt-based SDK.

So, to take a picture with the camera every few minutes, instead of running a command on a cron job I had to write a whole [GUI app][1]. Either I manually start the app using the phone's touchscreen, or I think I can launch it in dev mode remotely using tools on my laptop, but the phone still has to be manually unlocked.

To top it all off, there's a memory leak in some camera-related Android service, so the app crashes after a few hours. The bug is allegedly in the Android code, so the UBports maintainers can't do much about it (maybe backport a patch onto the source from which the Android base image is built? Who has time for that?).

For all I know, it's a good phone, but for my hacking use case it's less than ideal.

Still, any old phone camera is way better than the webcams I have lying around.

[1]: https://github.com/dgoffredo/ubuntu-touch-intervalometer
A big issue how? If you block password auth, ssh scanning is a nonissue.
A lot of those crashes are probably running executable code that the attacker hasn't bothered to write yet.
Building our own private Discord knockoff
He is bad at League, but that article framing it as some kind of mental disorder is grasping at straws. 20% of all League players are in the Bronze tier. I've probably played more League than SBF has and I'm still Silver. Why? Because I'm just trying to have fun with my friends. Not everyone is trying to climb the ladder. A lot of guitarists have been playing for years and only know the basic chords because that's all they want to play. There's nothing wrong with that.

The other examples the article points to that SBF has "fried his brain" are not compelling to me either. The author is attempting to explain how SBF could have lost all this money. I think the simplest explanation is that his "intellectual ability" has nothing to do with it, he's just a crook who thought he would get away with it.
The one I wrote in BASIC on my Apple IIe never finished, it hadn't even got the interesting bits of the set after a day or so and I needed to play games.

FRACTINT was great because I could use my 286 and it was fairly fast because used integer whenever possible.
A dollar is not a dollar. A dollar is something different for kids than it is for their parents. A dollar for a kid of rich patents is not the same as a dollar for a kid of poorer parents.

Poorer parents likely try to keep worries about money as far from their kids as they can, even if not easy. Rich parents might casually discuss investment ideas at a common dinner.

As a result a dollar may be seen much more as a reward by kids of rich parents than by kids of poor parents.
I understand that there is a great community effort to run local instances of the open source version of "Logitech Media Server" (LMS).

Where I get really annoyed is that Squeezebox Radio devices are rendered either really hard to use or essentially useless.

Factory reset is bricked because it relies on mysb.com (as I understand from the forums), but moreover something as easy as streaming internet radio shouldn't be possible to carpet-pull. I don't think it's a fair alternative to say "in order to use your kitchen radio, you should run your own LMS server on a computer that's always-on" (also why not just use the computer to play the radio then in the first place).

Owners of a Logitech Squeezebox Radio can also be senior non-tech people and vision impaired. People can be happy with their device and not able to switch, certainly not forced to switch with a damp announcement like this:

> We're shutting down our servers in 1 week. Here's a QR code that you can't
> see if you're blind. And here's ZERO official advice about how you can continue
> to use your radio.

For something as simple as streaming a few internet radio stations, it's super annoying -- and shouldn't be legal. There should be a strong consumer regulation to protect from such carpet-pulling. When a company markets a device, it should be obliged to keep the service running... otherwise pay back the money or go bankrupt.

p.s. small typo in the title, worth correcting to make this more searchable. Should be "UESmartRadio.com and MySqueezebox.com servers closing"
If all large third party app developers boycotted the App Store and set up a successful alternative and then forbade Apps on their store from have any additional functionality when distributed through Apple’s store, the Apple fanboys would decry this as anticompetitive and unfair. Which is precisely why those developers should do that.
How the FBI targeted Camus, and then Sartre after the JFK assassination (2013)
I think I now have to create an online version of it. Web Audio and CSS transforms should be more than up to the task.
digitally-mediated autism is a form of environmental autism !
Personally speaking, I've got much worse at stripping tree bark off with my teeth since I evolved opposable thumbs.
Protect Your Assets: How to Stop Rising Inflation from Affecting Your Financial Future
Limitations of certain implementations are irrelevant.

The protocol does not have any such limitation.
I haven’t quit but have pulled back and am using it far more occasionally rather than most of the time.

The sense of increased focus after smoking is a big plus for me, but the decrease in focus after that coupled with the overall disorganized thinking is a big minus. Disorganized thinking can be great if you are trying to generate a variety of ideas, but bad if you are trying to communicate them. Learning more about what is actually happening in my brain with focus, memory, agency, etc has been one of the biggest motivators in pulling back from chronic use. I don’t enjoy it much knowing that I’m avoiding other things or going to be grumpy and depressed later because of it.

Agree about the grey area for quitting. There isn’t a rock bottom, but with chronic use there is a kind of dull limbo where everything feels harder to do, but you’re demotivated to make a change. It is literally a drag - it slows and lessens you overall.
Most of an individual's intelligence is inherited from their parents, and that's been proven multiple times with large-scale studies of adopted twins. It wouldn't surprise me if reward response was similar.

But it's unlikely we'll make any advancements in our understanding of genes and intelligence or behavior, because this kind of research is out-of-favor and almost impossible to fund now.
> Apple insisted on lower credit standards for applicants' approvals which resulted in a lower quality portfolio of credit-card holders that don't make their payments on time.

I thought they only made money when people didn't pay on time and thus have to pay interest payments?
Having flashbacks to CompTIA A+ certification I did in highschool. Even then the material was on to Windows 95 at the time. (Balding & graying)
I don't think Windows 3.11 had any built in networking anyway. It's only network support would have been via dos networking TSR's.
I agree that that sentence didn't, but further down in the article stronger claims are made, sometimes obliquely referencing prior work. So it would be interesting to see the original paper to see what they cite as supporting evidence for this hypothesis.

Obviously this is something that can be controlled somewhat with the appropriate selection of subjects (there are a variety of families that have experienced generational rags-to-riches or riches-to-rags, for example). Though the N in those cases is likely to be smaller.
no, think of it as a distributed network with manual switching (changing browser tabs, data cached/queued up in your brain)
But the plane is owned by the airline, not the manufacturer, so they are inside
a Boeing, but they are not a Boeing insider.
It's not perfect, but it's better than not doing it. He enjoys it.
> They also have to be price competitive.

Yes, that's why I said early to mid 2030s: extrapolating current trends, that's when a 200kWh battery will cost $US 10k-15k.
> Since ~2013 Apple designers have been throwing over board lots of conventions the company had been itself establishing for decades.

For decades, all the conventions had developed on desktop. By ~2013 it was clear that mobile required different conventions, and that it was important to also unify conventions to some degree across mobile and desktop.

Also, traditional desktop apps had largely limited themselves to the UX vocabulary provided by the OS's graphical widgets. But with the rise of high quality CSS and JS, websites and apps became more free to develop their own conventions, separate from anything coming out of Apple or Microsoft. Hamburger menus and pills and what have you.

So it makes perfect sense that Apple started to evolve more rapidly around that time. And good for them -- none of these rules can or should be set in stone.

(And please don't make this about generations, that's just silly. Trying to assign blame to entire generations is utterly meaningless. Generations are made of individuals who disagree with each other.)
Something something German car industry decline...
Weird! I never noticed that.

Indeed, it does!

cd "$( mktemp -d )"
mkdir a b c
touch a/f1 a/f2 a/f3
cp -r a/ b/
ls b

Resulting content of directory b on one my FreeBSD machines

f1 f2 f3

Guess I usually

1. Don’t use cp -r so often, and

2. When I do use cp -r apparently I don’t put a trailing slash

Cause I only ever had problems when trying to use rsync, not when using cp or mv :S
I hate db passwords too. They are super fast to crack. They are just annoying and not a security feature. I don't use them, eg passwords like: "c00lz500". I use passwords like "". We use firewalls and internal networks instead.
We do it together, just 2-5 minutes a day. When I'm away he does it on his own maybe 50/50.
Yes, it is correct. You can't do it in practice, because it requires you to control the ISP.

This automatically makes it a non-issue for pretty much all home and small office networks. Meanwhile, the DEFAULT state for IPv6 is being open to the world.

> I didn't misconfigure the router here. Please ask for whatever config info would convince you of that.

OK. How can I ping your address? It should be easy, right? I'll even give you my IP: 208.52.76.162 , what do I need to set up to be able to ping all your internal hosts?

Let's make that experiment.
I set up a honeypot once and logged the passwords of created accounts. I then used 'last' to find the incoming ip.

I then used ssh to try and connect to the originator (from an external box). I went back 5 jumps until I got to a windows server box on a well known hosting service that I could not get into.

Lots of what looked like print servers and what looked like linux machines connected to devices. Maybe just the exploit at the time.
Now, where is that pad of paper? Bah, the pencil is broken — who took the sharpener??

My computer goes with me everywhere and is ready as soon as I open the lid. Unless I forgot to charge it.
This tells you something: It's shitty everywhere and moving employers will most likely just get you a new set of problems.
It's both funny and sad. Sad because Germany technologically is years behind even other European countries like Sweden and Estonia.
They intentionally chose a game of chance to eliminate motivation driven by an inherent desire to perform well at a task, isolated from the reward. Their goal was to isolate the response to the extrinsic reward (prize), vs. people who just enjoy doing well at things.
Wasting food doesn’t seem like a rational choice for an environment protest.
> I wonder what the ecosystem would look like if things were otherwise.

Shameless plug - I'm building https://github.com/AlexErrant/Pentive which is basically GitHub/Reddit for flashcards. Very much pre-product and a WIP, though the offline client proof of concept is done.
Make Habits, Not Goals
For a while it was linking to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCo3XwTRg9o
Car makers want to drop it because the electronics in modern cars -- and especially electric cars -- generate so much AM noise that it because very difficult to receive AM radio.

I would love to see AM radio mandated in cars because it could be an excellent emergency communications system during a major crisis. A few AM radio stations in each area have been, for years, provisioned with generators and back-up hardened transmitters for this scenario. (see the "EAS" system: https://www.nab.org/amtoolkit/amEas.asp )

Even if the reception would be too noisy while the car was moving, it would still be useful when the car was stopped/off. After a big earthquake or blackout, if cell phones were out, people could still get information on AM radio.
So theoretically then they would be more level headed employees, and might not have as strong inclination to harm others with their seeking of SES. e.g. the reward stimulus of money is lessened so the negative externality of harm is a stronger counterbalance?
Once upon a time, on USENET, someone had a .sig that predicted one day computers would be cheap enough they'd come in cereal boxes and we'd throw them away.

That day appears to have arrived.
> Few are likely to be connected to the internet

This is my point, actually.

You wouldn't be directly connecting the PC to the Internet. You'd connect the PC to the KVM switch's PS/2 and VGA connectors. The KVM switch present the corresponding virtual desktop to an appropriate user over the Internet using RDP or similar.

Again, I'm not sure such a product currently exists, but I assume it is, given the needs of data-center admins.
You've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines in comments repeatedly lately, such as by crossing into personal attack here.

As another example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39141487 was particularly bad—you can't post like that to HN, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. Ditto for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39066809.

We have to ban accounts that keep breaking HN's rules like this. I don't want to ban you, so if you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the intended spirit, we'd be grateful.
If you care enough, you'll do it. Every day I brush my teeth, write in my diary, do my Anki, check email, eat something, etc. It's only a few minutes a day.
Reminds me of Warren Ellis Super god comics: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/a8/9c/a5/a89ca5a914ff4574548862af4...
> through the DOS computer language

Oh yes, that DOS computer language. Bill Gates was fluent in that language.

Totally makes me trust everything else in that article even more.
ALGs (for SIP and FTP) are not enabled on OpenWRT by default. And I don't think any other ALGs had ever been widely used in practice.
Behold our priorities as a society
While that certainly explains why they might use a microcontroller, it's certainly not necessary. The lock can be connected to a simple switch used for signalling occupancy, same as any security or commercial fire protection system. Auto-closing and auto-opening are akin to an automatic door, which operates just fine as a regular door, but has a fairly dumb motor attached for accessibility. Perhaps the microcontroller solution ended up being cheaper - but based on this (particularly going to out of order after such a trivial "hack"), the mechanical solution is far more robust, because at worst you can still operate the door manually.
Anyone know of a hardware spectrum analyzer that renders with a cruder display, only showing the main harmonics/or harmonics above certain thresholds as straight lines? I would love something like that for FM synthesis intuition.
idk if when looking i found one i liked even in software :(
Says who? There is no research quoted in this article, only opinion.
It's weird sometimes how you can get a risk premium for being easy to fire, but actually be very difficult to fire due to unique knowledge of some platform. Like being the only guy who can answer questions from the train repair technicians.

Not going to name names, but a person like that was discovered when his employer looked for the oldest serving employee and found out that it was a contractor whose contract featured an hourly rate one usually gets for short-term contracts, like +100%. His stay had been, shall we say, extended a bit.
I think a problem is that this press release is mixing content from the scientific study with an interview of experts talking about it, and the colloquial assertions made in that conversation happen to have a bunch of extra speculation that isn't part of the study they discuss; for half of the press release the "standard of evidence" is like in science and for the other half it is like in this HN discussion thread, where people do rise many interesting (and possibly true) hypotheses where we don't have any evidence (yet).
We lost the battle, but not the war.
I recently tried Copilot out of curiosity and this is my experience too: It helps me getting started, which for me is 99% of the challenge. I know how to solve problems, even complex ones, but for some reason getting started is just so extremely hard, sometimes.

Copilot lets me get started, even if it's wrong sometimes. There have been times where I have been surprised by how it took something I wrote for a server, and presented the correct client-side implementation.

I've used it a few times to describe a problem and let it handle the solution. It's not very good, but I wonder if one should place more blame on PEBCAK and put more time into problem-description. I gave it a few more paragraphs to describe the problem, and eventually I could take it from there. It was still wrong, but enough to get me started. Immensely helpful that way.

Another aspect that I'm wondering about is if it will be able to do more with better documented code. Anyone have experience with that? I've started to write more doxygen comments, and hoping to see if there's a slow shift to more accurate predictions.
The dream of many of these companies is for AI to completely create a movie, picture, or anything else creative. At some point, there will be no need to steal original content and many creatives will need to compete with many times more AI generated content for jobs.
DNA isn’t all that matters, but it matters more than everything else put together.
"Postal addresses are hard to work with as most streets are unnamed, and usually, only local postmen and policemen can comfortably navigate with them."

Another example of a silly and easily fixable problem that will likely also go unresolved for years for the same cultural reasons.
Yes the government is subsidising the purchases of books when it puts a 5% VAT on it, where its substitutions are not. The state is financially supporting the product in order to incentivise its use. A tax incentive is an example of a subsidy.
> when Judaism began & who started it

A bit off topic, but this is a very tricky question to answer. The traditional answer is Moses, ca. 1200 BC. The real answer would take many PhD theses to arrive at. It's really a process that took place between the 10th and 5th centuries BC (and arguably continued even much later than that).
>security by obscurity

I detest this phrase right up there with "fake it till you make it". All security is by definition obscurity. Just a meaningless platitude that rhymes.

I suppose un-formalized un-proofed security practices will eventually be broken or counting on hackers not to do any investigation of your system will get you hacked, doesn't roll off the tongue though.
> Is that wrong?

Honestly I don't think so. This is one of the things that's always bothered me about copyright, that for the entire history of humanity storytelling has been a place where practitioners build on one another and add their own takes and ideas. Stories are shared and become part of people's cultural and personal identities and I don't think they should be able to be owned to the degree they are today. Copying your Phantom Menace DVD I think is totally fine to be illegal but making your own take on it, making art based on it, or telling other stories the same universe I think should be allowed.

I would require compulsory licensing and percentage fee remittance for "covers" or "remixes" of someone else's work. Like if you remade Phantom Menace, made Muppets Phantom Menace or novelized
it. But what's called fanfic today should be able to be published above board.
His decks:

* computer

* culture

* English

* math

* music

* nature

* where

I don't think we've ever pulled anything out of the deck. There are some cards that it says, when we mark [easy], that it will ask him again in 6 years. We joke about how at the age of 17 it will be asking him how to spell "sing", or whatever.
The Ruin of Mumbai
AI AI AI
I mean, racism is a fairly fuzzy term and not based on hard science; plenty of people refer to the condition of Palestinians in Israel as "racism" (or in fact do use the word "apartheid"), but to invert what you're saying here — they can just convert to Judaism [1], so should the term apply? Anyway, regardless of whether we want to call it racism, Muslim societies were definitely anti-Semitic.

1: E.g. this man who actually did convert, immigrated to Israel, and then was jailed and beaten by the PA when he tried to visit his family in the West Bank https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-convert-to-judaism...