skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm convinced it's a psyop, since they can't get away with dosing the municipal water supply with LSD. Chaos sells ad impressions.

I've had an acute toxoplasmosis infection. It was not empowering; it was fucking terrifying. I now understand why the rat is compelled to run into the mouth of the cat-- it makes everything "bad" and dangerous seem completely normal and rational; whatever life-preserving instincts you learn suddenly become processed as the opposite. There is no "optimizing" this shit into something that leads to wealth and success. It's not fun like cocaine or Adderall. I didn't recognize my own clothes. My own wife felt like a stranger. It sounds like psychosis but nothing was hallucinated; it was instead a state of induced dysphoria or dementia I would not wish on anybody and certainly would not encourage anybody to pursue.

To really understand it, pretend today is opposite day. Getting in your car to go to work will feel wrong, do the opposite-- walk the 50 miles. But sidewalks aren't for walking, silly, so just use the freeway!

Human food won't feel edible, but the opposite isn't pet food. What are you supposed to eat? I never figured it out and stayed in bed eating mostly Excedrin for two straight weeks, on account of the crippling migraines.

My ex's ex also caught it when we (legit) accidentally trapped a stray cat in their former apartment and he returned to retrieve some items. After recovering he refused to talk about his experience like some war veteran. This shit is no joke.

We've rescued four cats. They're great companions and I'm glad we gave them a chance but would never keep cats as pets again.
You're getting downvoted by the fintech crowd I'd assume. May be an argument for them is they see themselves as more manufacturing than finance, perhaps.
Do you trust your immediate manager enough to ask them about these concerns? Do you think they might be able to help?

Talking with HR is also an option with these kinds of concerns. But, especially given that your company doesn't sound very employee-friendly currently, you have to beware of risks: (1) HR might not be open to input, and just flag you as a malcontent; (2) HR might go to an exec to suggest changes, and exec reacts negatively and demands HR say what prompted this.

FWIW, as corporate BS goes, what you describe sounds like pretty ordinary indifferent corporate bureaucracy. I'm not saying it's OK, but if you want something better, you will have to seek that out and vet that during a job search. Also, be aware that corporate BS can get much worse than what you described.

(P.S., Although I strongly disapprove of timecard fabrications, you probably don't want to mention the timecard fabrications to anyone. I suspect that most likely bad would come of drawing fire upon that.)
Ask anyone who lived in Eastern Europe pre-Glasnost what happened to people that wanted change
Minor note: authoritative servers don't have caches. I think you meant recursive resolver (or better "caching resolver" which covers other types of resolvers that may also be caching, such as some stub-resolvers).
Very cool. I hope some day all autoimmune diseases are prevented and no lifelong treatment is necessary. A lot of exciting research around the hygiene hypothesis, even though the progress has been slow, it's going forward.
If you're explaining case to English speakers, don't use sentence with "he" and "her" as examples of how English does not have case, and does not allow easy rearrangement. Because those pronouns are the one place in English where vestiges of case can be found, making it confusing.
One of the annoying things about "code simplicity" is that it is a subjective trait. Whether a piece of code is simple to understand depends very heavily on what the reader is used to, and that's not something that the writer of the code has much control over.
No, this is a story about Harold Grimsby.
Age: A simple, modern and secure encryption tool
The official would be wary of appearing to take retaliatory action, since by being given the note, the person would have already signalled that they are the type to actively oppose bribery rather than just refusing to pay and otherwise turning a blind eye.
And so in the current moment, why do you think the Houthis (if they are indeed responsible, but let's assume so for the sake of this argument) are cutting submarine cables?

What do you think the intent behind that was?
> But I don't understand where the sentiment that native=better comes from.

Some of it is integration, the UI just looks nicer for native apps and the graphical language is the same as the rest of the system.

Some of it is performance, these non-native toolkits always seem to bring along too much junk.

Some of it is vibes, if an organization is willing to invest in a native app, it seems like they are probably more interested in sticking around.
> reinventing the wheel out of ego

Not ego, it’s all about control. When libraries map to business requirements, great! But what happens when they don’t? Now there’s an external team you have to beg to consider your use case or go rogue … or just start from day 1 with control.
The first time I watched battle royal I thought the hacking scene was film magic, because no way could the computer just change letters into Japanese characters like that.
Can you share any anecdotes, or some more details? I've been watching this "app generation", and I've read Prensky's nonsense about "digital natives", so I'm always interested in concrete examples of how it's playing out. Thanks!
Great story of a successful failure.

The app was a failure, because he learned everything he needed to know by writing the app.

There are a lot of software projects that fail in the sense of not being released or used, but valuable from what was learned in the process of developing it.
I've been taking fluticasone propionate (which Flonase is) as a nasal spray nightly, and it's completely stopped me snoring and cured sleep apnea that previously I needed a CPAP machine for. Great stuff.
The author seems to assume that security is (or should be) the only consideration in implementing 2FA. When in practice, practicality and convenience are part of the equation as well. While imperfect, SMS 2FA significantly improves security while also remaining convenient.

Instead of suggesting that we put in place legislation banning it (?!), perhaps the author should come up with an alternative solution that provides improved security with the same or better convenience for end users and the organizations using it.
And thank god for not having those spam links to nitter after every twitter post on hn anymore.
Just a note, I'm op, and I mostly only download stuff at 720p. But I never stream entertainment unless it's live.

Video/audio media is only a healthy fraction of my data transfer though. Most is participating in p2p networks like tor and i2p, hosting my website from home, torrenting, downloading large language models, and other random stuff.
runs as a daemon, communicates over http
Occurred to me that in a war or over the water this wouldn’t be useful. But I think it will be a useful technology (that to be fair likely already exists), in addition to highly accurate dead reckoning systems, when GPS is knocked out or unreliable, as secondary fall back navigation.
That's a great insight, I think you're onto something there
I don't need to offer you a motive. I can't read peoples minds. I'm just pointing out that your assumption that they view our social goals as valuable is unfounded. Emperors have killed their own people before. The power of a state rests upon social contract until the state has real power, and then it rests on the maintenance of that power. You cannot foresee what the maintenance of that power entails, and neither can I, which is why I can do no more than speculate on motive. Again, I'm not saying they don't value the same things we value, I believe that but that's not a claim I'm making here. I'm just pointing out that that doesn't have to be the case. You're ascribing a motive you cannot possibly know to the actions of other individuals, I won't do that. Remember, the state is comprised of people, with goals and ends and desires and beliefs, it's not a perfect alamgamation of the desires of those governed.

Let me ask you, why might a state view a foreign population, not a foreign state but a foreign population, as an enemy or a threat? What is it specific to that population that poses a threat to said state? Is it something that precludes the domestic population from being a similar threat? Why must the state view us as anything more than another colony?
I'm curious as to what laws you think would help? Ban all software written in Canada? Ban American companies from paying foreign companies?

It's a real question - what legal or regulatory environment (that can't be trivially side-stepped) do you see I play here?

And how do you argue against foreign work when unemployment is pretty much as low as it has ever been?
Placenta Study Reveals Troubling Pervasiveness of Microplastics
Middle-class?! The only people purchasing personal EVs are rich people; giving them tax subsidies doesn't seem like the best use of my taxes. You think people making minimum wage are driving around in fancy EVs?

>If you make all the fancy CEOs to use public transport then I'm in.

Why would anyone (CEO or otherwise) not prefer a comfortable, safe and clean public transit option? Also, If I was a CEO I'd be supporting expansion of public transit to include my business locations. Making commuting easier/cheaper to work is a great way to attract talent. I don't have a public transit option where I live, and I would love to get on a comfy bus or light-rail each morning and bang out some emails on my way to work. It seems to me that you don't seem to fundamentally believe public transit can be improved, or maybe you're not sure how it can be. It most certainly can be improved, and cities have shown how it can be done in their own microcosm.
Most of the security benefits of TOTP is really for the service providers. Service providers get blamed when users are hacked because they used the same weak password across multiple websites. With TOTP service provider chooses the key the codes are derrived from, so user cannot choose a stupid one.

Most of the other threats that people talk about TOTP fixing are movie plot threats and not ones that happen in the real world to ordinary people. The only major exception is that webauthn prevents phishing, but TOTP cannot help with that.
I wasn’t aware of this, thanks for clarification. I will leave my comment as-is because it’s my take on the general “we need to ban price gouging on new drugs!” sentiment.
> Their main weakness is that they can be backed up or copied at all

Which is also a major strength. I've had the experience of a phone app losing all of my TOTP information, and spending a long while having to use the recovery paths of various websites. After that experience, I want my second factor to be something I can back up and restore.

That'll continue to be true until either all websites reliably accept multiple 2FA devices (e.g. register multiple hardware keys) or I can buy multiple redundant hardware devices that produce the same TOTP codes so I can register "one" device with a site and still have a backup.

I wish the Firefox password manager had builtin TOTP support.
They seem to have addressed that pretty carefully.
Scary how someone can be so confident in their wrong information.

> An African Elephant has roughly 3x the number of neurons humans have.

An African elephant's brain is not a scaled up chimp brain in any way. African elephants have less cortical neurons than a chimp, and roughly a third of the amount that humans have.

> Dolphins beat humans in total surface area.

Animals even less related to humans and chimps, with no prehensile appendages, living in an environment where building stuff is exceedingly difficult. And of course their brains are obviously different from any great ape.

> Neanderthals are estimated to have had larger brains too!

And were just as smart as us and also had a scaled up chimp brain.
Not sure I would trust IT team if I was at his level
> $1200

Does it have to be that expensive, or is there some novelty premium (like that of Apple products) involved?

Lenovo's own Legion and IdeaPad Gaming series offer models with superior specs, vibrant screens and even (subjectively) better builds in many cases, at a lower price.
"There is no reality."

Tell that to physics.

Every other post here argues their point with evidence of "in my experience..." which, given there are billions of people, is kind of superficial. If they even bother to provide evidence at all.

"Alternative facts" is a euphemism for "lies".

> please ignore this comment and don't engage with whatever this is.

Clearly the poster has some skepticism about the comment, which I was trying to reaffirm for him.

The top post currently includes "People don't leave jobs, people leave managers." It may not be the top post for long though, things can change.

I'm loving this article right now[1]; tell me, are we really in a "free-market" when there is collusion and corruption at the highest levels?

[1] https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/bombshell-potential-crimi...
$500 drone that calculates GPS with only camera and Google Maps
It downloads all the ISOs from the official Microsoft servers for every recent version. For older versions like Win7/Vista/XP it is impossible to download them from Microsoft, because they are not available anymore on their servers.

So for those I had to use an alternative mirror (BobPony), but I checked all the SHA256 checksums to make sure they are unmodified retail versions. If someone does not trust it, they can check the checksums of the downloaded ISO themselves or just dont use this container for anything below Windows 8.1.
Not exactly related, but in the same vein - Deep Impact - deep learning to find term impacts in the context of their document.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12016
I agree but it's probably much more common for people to quit too early.
Extreme salt-resisting multistage solar distilation with thermohaline convection
A lot of these companies don’t ship software at all, they write it only for internal use. It needs to be easily fixable by junior interns, not dependent on Bob the 100X programmer who decided to retire last week.
Learning to Retrieve for Job Matching
> All personal computing happens on a phone

This makes me sad, and is scary, etc. However, putting emotions aside, can we extrapolate from this? Could the next "killer app" actually be an even tinier device? A smartwatch? Or have we reached a local extremum (phones)? And what does that say about attempts to regress towards larger screens (AR/VR headsets)?
To control it remotely or use phone as a key - yes. But to drive you can use keys. And it doesn’t use your data unless you opt in.
It sounds as if you're relatively new to the workforce and have had only this, or similar, experience at one (or a couple at most) workplace(s).

I'm not going to say quit and find somewhere better because the job market seems a bit iffy, but definitely have a look at other options that are around. Every place you go will have pros and cons, and you stick around longer at the places that have more pros than cons.

> to the point that some employees started lying about the numbers.

Not lying about the numbers would be the anomaly, from my experience and anecdotes I've heard. Everyone starts out diligently recording their time, until after a while realise that no one's actually paying attention and it makes no difference to anything material. It's often just a power play from a manager who doesn't know how to manage (and likely never will because they don't get the concept).

One phrase I've heard which rings true with my actions on more than one occasion: People don't leave jobs, people leave managers.

Keep your eyes and ears open for opportunities until you find your fit.
The FDA didn't remove dirt from kids' environment.
Where can I learn more about these phrases to say to capture as many sounds as possible? They listed two in the article, but now I'm curious how they decided which sentences to say, how efficient they are, if they account for the same sounds but with different qualities, like going up at the end if it's a question? It's a rabbit hole I need to find the entrance to.
"Extreme salt-resisting multistage solar distillation with thermohaline convection" (2023) https://www.cell.com/joule/abstract/S2542-4351(23)00360-4 :

> Recent advances in multistage solar distillation are promising for the sustainable supply of freshwater. However, significant performance degradation due to salt accumulation has posed a challenge for both long-term reliability of solar desalination and efficient treatment of hypersaline discharge. Here, inspired by a natural phenomenon, thermohaline convection, we demonstrate a solar-powered multistage membrane distillation with extreme salt-resisting performance. Using a confined saline layer as an evaporator, we initiate strong thermohaline convection to mitigate salt accumulation and enhance heat transfer. With a ten-stage device, we achieve record-high solar-to-water efficiencies of 322%–121% in the salinity range of 0–20 wt % under one-sun illumination. More importantly, we demonstrate an extreme resistance to salt accumulation with 180-h continuous desalination of 20 wt % concentrated seawater. With high freshwater production and extreme salt endurance, our device significantly reduces the water production cost, paving a pathway toward the practical adoption of passive solar desalination for sustainable water economy.

- "Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37681004 https://news.mit.edu/2023/desalination-system-could-produce-...
The problem is needs change - sometimes the environment changes and you're caught with your pants down
I think imposing secularism on an overwhelmingly Muslim country was overreach by western-influenced elites. But nonetheless, Bangladesh’s Constitution, which was legitimately adopted by a government that had the support of the people, expressly incorporates a principle of “secularism” (using those words). Article I of the French Constitution likewise states that France is a secular republic: “La France est une République indivisible, laïque, démocratique et sociale.” Secularism in France, too, was legitimately adopted into law by elected governments.

By contrast, the US Constitution doesn’t mention secularism or anything like it. It has a prohibition on the federal government interfering with established state churches, and a protection of freedom of religion. In that respect, the First Amendment is more comparable to the German Basic Law, which guarantees freedom of religion but lacks any requirement of secularism. And the Basic Law has been understood to allow quite a bit of public religion. Religion classes are required in school (though you can opt out and take a class in secular morality instead). Government buildings in Bavaria are required to display crosses. There is a church tax. I think the German approach better fits America both as a legal matter and in terms of what the people want. (America is by far the most religious developed country—the percentage of Americans who pray daily is comparable to Iran!)

What happened with the Establishment Clause in the US is more like what Ershad did in Bangladesh: he changed the constitution from its original meaning, without going through the proper means for amending the constitution. At least in Ershad’s case, the public probably supported theu result. Even as of 2013, most Americans still opposed the prohibition on school prayer.
> What can I do?

Finding a different job with different managers is probably all you can do.

In a largeish company, it's basically impossible to change corporate rules. If you have a nice manager, sometimes you can get them to turn a blind eye to certain rules, but that's as good as it gets(in my experience).

If you're that unhappy, try to find another job. I took a paycut and now work for a tiny startup with 5 people. My "manager" is the CTO, he also writes code and is in the thick of it. There is no HR and any requests are dealt with on a per-case basis.

I like him, my coworkers and love my job.
It's not exactly a tablet but the Supernote Nomad has a swappable battery (and will eventually have a linux OS option)
Which is directly related to the size of the balloon.
It's just how Lenovo does pricing. As soon as they stop being backordered, they're going to be available at much lower prices, and it helps Lenovo have a better negotiating position as far as volume discounts are concerned for companies who will be ordering them.

It's not like, say, Apple where the price is the price.

For example, the T14 Gen 4 base AMD (7540u, 16gb) is 1400$ MSRP, but you've been able to get it for 840$ for a very long time now. It will be the same for this one.
I thought it was the other way around nowadays, the 'lean' way?. Correct me if I am wrong, I thought founders are encouraged to pivot if can't find market fit early.
Is it okay to abandon my 500th side project?
Distilled water:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distilled_water

Distillation > Desalination by distillation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distillation#Desalination_by_d...

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

Salinity > See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salinity#See_also

TDS: Total Dissolved Solids sensor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_dissolved_solids#Measure...

Thermohaline circulation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermohaline_circulation
The 'prophet of urban doom' says a 1970s-style 'doom loop' is here for NYC
There are 10 types of people in this world, those who have a sense of humor and those who don't.
Late stage capitalism is still better than the late stage socialism in North Korea.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7kbq/palmer-luckey-made-a-...
Very expensive

Not a great side effect profile

Not even very effective

Yup sounds like medicine in the 21st century. I think we're going to cull ourselves as a species because we're not at all aligned with doing things that actually make people healthier, unless that also happens to make good money.
I’ve been on Dupixent and have a large number of allergies.

100% helped eczema. I used to have it to the point all my fingers were split in 5-8 places and I’d rate the pain scale at 8-9/10 (10 being arm cut off). I used to get blisters under the skin that’d combine and basically just peal off the skin - https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/dyshidrosis/s...

Anyway, Dupixent made it entirely go away. I also found my allergies did improve (suddenly wasn’t allergic to dogs). That said, it did have a side effect of severely drying out my eyes and I’ll get weird rashes on my face periodically and it requires injections 2x per month. That said, I can use my hands now, frankly I can think too. Pain is gone, and idc about the symptoms.
Wider A pillars and worse visibility has a lot to do with mandated stronger roofs. Good for rollover survivability but bad for pedestrian safety. SUVs are a ridiculous trend and are more prone to rollovers.
Bypassing the DNS system is trivial. All we need to do is write a browser extension with an input text box which connects to a blockchain and uses it to map custom names to IP addresses (with the mappings stored on-chain) and redirects the user to the IP address directly. The only centralized component is the initial peer discovery phase which requires some hard-coded seed IPs but you could have a large list and rotate the seed list frequently. Anyway, once set up, it would be fully decentralized... You could already do this by using any generic blockchain like Bitcoin. Just use transaction messages to store name-to-IP mappings.

The seed peer discovery issue is not a big problem once the network is above a certain size. Beyond a certain point, you could just ask someone from your local community for the IP address of a node. You just need one good node to be able to connect to the network.