skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> JavaScript-based PDF viewer maintained by Mozilla. This bug allows an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code as soon as a malicious PDF file is opened. This affects all Firefox users (<126) because PDF.js is used by Firefox to show PDF files, but also seriously impacts many web- and Electron-based applications that (indirectly) use PDF.js for preview functionality.

I don't use Firefox to view PDFs. But it seems that the new MS Windows echosystem might be affected.
>When I’m on the other side of the table I do that

No, you don't. There are many established storage solutions out there. If you're in the market for one, you can easily fill days, weeks or months vetting those. So, why would you bother dealing with a sales rep from a random one you never heard of before, and isn't used by anyone. You don't even provide any details on what makes it different or better from anything else out there.
The poster was joking that it looks like there are less than 126 Firefox users
..and 2024 will beat that handily ={
Red Lobster Files for Bankruptcy
Not anyone. As long as he’s in power he’s protected by diplomatic protocol. No one is going to break international law and risk their reputation and ability to host diplomats for an ICC warrant. Just makes his predicament more desperate long term though.
As much as a fallout nuclear energy world would be cool (with cars running on fusion), I think in our lifetime it’ll make more sense to just have the power plants run off fusion and delivery energy via the grid

We’re already seeing very promising improvements in batteries (some without even needing lithium), so probably sooner we’ll get wildly high battery energy densities
Indeed there was a split second of primal flight response, and then awe. Not like you have a long time to think about it!
Anybody who likes this kind of architecture should check out the series of paintings "Visions from Another World" by Jean-Pierre Ugarte.
Ask HN: How to increase your mental focus?
Searching this question on Google yields endless SEO optimized nonsense about meditation mostly. Besides mediating what are the specific practices that you can employ that 1) refresh your brain after a day’s work, 2) increases focus without taking drugs and 3) extends your working hours without degradation to any other systems.
Not an engineer, but something like this takes 6-8 people working on only this for a full year?
TaaS : title as a service
Kidneys are insanely complex organs.
LONG_MAX nanoseconds is just Friday, April 11, 2262 11:47:16.854 PM, not exactly a future-proof approach. I guess having Tuesday, September 21, 1677 12:12:43.145 AM as the earliest expressible timestamp neatly sidesteps the problem of proleptic Gregorian vs Julian calendars.
ICC Prosecutor Requests Warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas Leaders
What exactly is troubling about sex parties?

There is a lot of implied pearl clutching going on here.
Both [1] and [2] suggests that the lifetime of ceramic capacitors is generally limited. I can't find details on whether the Pi uses type 1 or type 2, but my guess would still be the capacitor with other components within the CPU failing before the 200 years. The USB would definitely still fail (physically or logically) before the 200 years is up.

[1] https://page.venkel.com/hubfs/1_Images/Resource%20Center/Cro...

[2] https://www.edn.com/class-2-ceramic-capacitors-can-you-trust...
Lookup "half adder" and "full adder".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adder_(electronics)
Running from boulders. Punching Nazis.
Wonder if it can print 0.
> while poet Liao Yiwu’s account mixes fact and fiction to extraordinary effect

Global pandemic. Multiple failures by multiple governments. Too many dead. Loss of freedoms. Etc.

And already we're mixing fact and fiction? To be entertained? FFS let's start by mixing fact with more fact. Get the story (read: history) straight before we add distracting color and confusion.
PA Doles Out Millions in Dodgy, Non-Transparent Grants to Comcast, Verizon
Memtest86 is a great build companion as well, it will display populated slots and run memory testing, which I've found is a good overall health indicator, and always run it on new machines.

https://www.memtest86.com/

A couple years ago we bought a new Dell server and after 24h of memtest it would fail one of the last few tests, and identified a particular memory module. We went back and forth with their support, they didn't want to replace the module unless their built-in memory test, which only ran for ~30 minutes, said the module was bad. Finally we contacted the sales people and asked "How long do we have to return the server for a refund?" and shortly after that tech support agreed to send us a replacement module, which did end up passing memtest.
You would be surprised. For one, they can't be bothered to dig anymore. Many of them are mesmerised by aDNA, cropolites (or traces of them in lakes), and whether paleoindians were feminists or gay...
I'd guess reasonably confidently that the majority of firefox users, are on window or mac, got firefox from the web, have auto updates enabled, and are already on 126 (they've had a week to update at this point).

With the exception of LTS releases, if you haven't got firefox 126 yet because you're on a "stable" package manager, I'd encourage you to promptly download firefox from mozilla.org (which will come with auto-updates) and uninstall your package managers insecure version. Given the state of the web and software security web browsers aren't something you should be delaying updating by a week.
There were 24" 4K monitors a while ago, but they stopped making them. Presumably not enough people were buying.

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/monitor/#r=384002160&F=355...
laughs in Australian My local DC charges $333 for 10TB (upload/download inclusive).
To add a bit more precision to my previous reply: You're interpreting "generative" in the way that AI companies have tried to hog the term, which happened only in the last 2-3 years. It's the hyped definition, not the historically rich definition.

Generative art as a general concept has a long, long history, that we can date back at least to performance events like Musikalisches Würfelspiel in the 1700s.
- sunlight has a natural "stop it" mechanism. Feeling that you are getting a sunburn would naturally cause you to avoid sunlight, creating therefore a macro regulation mechanism. This is absent from light behind a glass.

You seriously suggest the we have mechanism to prevent sunburns? Like the thing people get all the time while at the beach?

It must be very inefficient mechanism since all I remember is that when I notice it i am already sun burned.
All those nVidia cards produce a lot of heat.
I have a hypothesis that brutalism is only liked by people who don't have to live in it. Like communism I guess. For the rest, they don't want to have anything in common with brutalism (and communism).
Most people with lots of power or money never want to lose any of it. They see it as if destiny has given them a right over others, so they feel superior
Many worlds is a completely unprovable phenomenon
Sure, there's a reason I scoped to data formats within the continuity of this civilization (ish). I agree that the hardware side is harder (albeit not impossible for the stated target), I'm mostly trying to push back on the idea that civilization and computers will be completely unrecognizable in what is honestly not that long a timeframe in context. If you want to make something last arbitrarily long or through electronics-destroying events, then yes you should consider other options (or really, multiple options at once), but I think that's moving the goalposts.
How much did the migration effort cost?
How secrecy and betrayal led to the creation of Mickey Mouse
If young girls are creepy to you, you should stop watching B-tier horror franchises.
Yes. It's important to remember that we've already lost connectors from < 100 years ago. Now USB-A does have a lot more mass production and popularity for it today which does have something going for it. But remember that changeovers happen quickly and 200 years is enough time that anyone who cares about the legacy dies and there's no market to sustain the adapters. 200 years from now you'd expect all physical connectors to have disappeared with wireless variants taking their place.
Unaccelerated framebuffer can horribly slow, scrolling is actually painful when done memory copies.
So I was checking our site traffic and it got some insane number which I thought was strange as we never get these kind of numbers....

But I see now, cool to see that this was picked up by Hacker News!

P.S. If you are interested in software security we have a Discord community at https://discord.gg/nVDwK8fbH7!
"Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers" http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
This is nothing new. This strategy, developed by Big Tobacco is used over and over again.

Steps:

(1) Say it is beneficial to health (there are always doctors in ads)

(2) When 1 is disproven, deny it (make it a lifestyle thing, expand into more demographics, there was a recent comment/post how there was an ad guy who convinced women to smoke with the right marketing)

(3) Also deny that workers who are exposed more are getting sick, they didn't follow proper procedures, etc. Its the workers fault!

(4) Keep the controversy alive (this will run for 3 - 5 decades), the science is not settled, etc.

(5) If we don't have this, it will stop industrial/economic progress.

(6) It is unfair to ban this until definitive proof exists.Further tests and studies required.

This playbook is used by all industries.

This is a really good summary of some of the strategies employed by Lead: https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.75.4....

Bureau of Mines released its preliminary findings on the
possible dangers of leaded gasoline to the general public.
The New York Times headline summed up the report:
"No Peril to Public Seen in Ethyl Gas/ Bureau of Mines
Reports after Long Experiments with Motor Exhausts/ More
Deaths Unlikely."

"Dr. Henry F. Vaughan, president of the American
Public Health Association, said that such evidence did not
exist. "Certainly in a study of the statistics in our large cities
there is nothing which would warrant a health commissioner
in saying that you could not sell ethyl gasoline," he pointed
out. Vaughan acknowledged that there should be further
tests and studies of the problem but that "so far as the
present situation is concerned, as a health administrator I
feel that it is entirely negative." Emery Hayhurst also
argued this point at the Surgeon General's Conference,
maintaining that the widespread use of leaded gasoline for 27
months "should have sufficed to bring out some mishaps and
poisonings, suspected to have been caused by tetraethyl
lead.'"

Lead is a gift of God: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2023/jan/12/the-gi...

How gas utilities used tobacco tactics to avoid gas stove regulations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37917235

Tobacco: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Indoor_Air_Research
The AI hype isn’t really helping.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2024/05/19/mickey-mou...
For me, it was the only voice that I liked and I am paying $20/mo to access it and I use it all the time.
Might be one of the rare cases where adding a “that” is actually necessary.
> The Blaustahl USB storage device by Machdyne features 8KB of FRAM and is designed for long-term text storage, potentially lasting over 200 years. It incorporates a Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller

Contradiction in terms.

I mean, maybe i'm asking too much, but a reliability training for journalists, will be nice. /s
You wouldn't want to do 1T records on one server even if you could. At that scale, you would prefer to be somewhat distributed for availability and scalability. Also, SQLite has issues at large scale.

A reasonable number for one server is about 32-128 TB, and 1.7 petabytes with some redundancy fits nicely in ~30 servers with a decent distributed database.
Hahaha, I (OP) am actually a Firefox user myself! So this was I guess just poor writing on my part :(
It's only 60fps and IPS so that would feel like buying 4k monitor from decade ago. Deal breaker.
Which they would probably accept if they could get away with just that.

The 3M CEO is a 61 year old man, which is typical for high level execs. According to most studies PFOS particularly affect children, and the damage is over long term repeated exposure over a lifetime, not high dose, one time exposure like a PFOS injection would be, and that's to someone who is at 2/3 of his life. Furthermore, endocrine disruptors seem to exhibit an unusual dose response curve, where lower doses may be worse than higher doses.

In fact, getting a PFOS injection at a well calculated dose could be the kind of stunt a CEO could pull. Sending the message "see, I put my life on the line to show you that PFOS are safe" (CEOs are usually not risk adverse), completely misrepresenting the real risk profile. Similar stunts have happened on occasion.
For you, in one place (or some subset of places).

This article is talking about something quite different to your (or my) experience.
Indirection, responsibility splitting, and accountability factoring are enormously effective organizational tools that allow formal influence to be wielded within organizations through informal means that are legally impossible to prosecute in practical timeframes, and give broad cover to bad faith actors. We have adversarially evolved organizational behaviors that are possibly not solvable through purely legal means applied to post facto acts deliberately obscured through nerfed information retention policies, and the very structuring of responsibility, accountability, processes, policies, influence and so on might be fair game for some manner of more formal scrutiny.
Sounds like

executives from the company 3M

convinced a scientist (presumanly to sign off)

that PFOS (chemicals used for certain non-stick properties in domestic and industrial products)

that seem to leak into human blood when using said products

are safe
The lack of punctuation and capitalization is a weird zoomer style of writing in lowercase because "it's more chill." It is very common in people < 25 years old. They'll grow out of it.
Haven't tested but I'm almost certain the Electron app they're talking about is VS Code. Wouldn't make sense for a code editor to sandbox extensions
That poor incorrect post in that thread from 2018.
The weird thing about NASA's budget when you look at it[1] is that funding allocation appears to be inversely proportional to the benefit. Human spaceflight is the largest chunk, at 44.9% of the budget. Aeronautics and technology are at the bottom, with technology being allocated 4.9% of the budget, and aeronautics 3.5%.

There were good reasons why people were interested in sending people into space in the early days of space exploration. Before automated systems were sufficiently developed, manned programs looked like the best choice. But once automated systems became sufficiently advanced, it was clear that they were the way to go.

You can see this when it comes to reconnaissance satellites - both the U.S. (with the uncompleted Manned Orbital Laboratory) and the USSR (with Almaz, which was completed) began with the idea of having manned reconnaissance satellites, but as time progressed they realized autonomous ones were better.

If we were sticking people in reconnaissance satellites just for the sake of sticking them in reconnaissance satellites today, it would obviously be farcical. But NASA’s manned space program has being doing the equivalent for decades - blowing a huge part of their budget on sending people into space just for the sake of sending them into space (by the 80’s this had reached the point where they had a program of sending teachers into space for the purpose of having them come back and tell students how cool it was to go to space). But since NASA has more open ended objectives than the military, it’s easier to hide the fact that this isn’t accomplishing much, or that these programs have diverted so much from many of NASA’s core objectives.

[1]https://www.planetary.org/space-policy/nasa-budget
>Do you have an actual instance of something like that happening?

My colleague being dragged in front of the board for a similarly stupid situation. Knock on wood I haven't been, but there are far too many people that hear what they want to hear. The only safe course is to stick well within the non-ambiguous accepted medicine responses as much as possible.
Subluminal warp drive has a name in sci-fi - it's impulse drive.

In the fiction, impulse drive - sometimes called inertia-less drive - gets you up to speed without any apparent acceleration in the travellers reference.

That's mighty useful. Mighty useful, indeed!

If impulse drive is possible, we may one day flit between locations in our solar system at high speed, using much less energy and avoiding G-forces. Seems like a nice thing!
I believe this problem diminishes as the key count goes up.
I find this sort of trade-off exercise really fascinating.

There are tons of examples of situations where risk is very different depending on how long or how much/often something happens.

It seems like business schools, who train many of the people who ultimately make these decisions, do a "right shit job" of discussing the actual potential outcomes at scale / over long periods of time. Maybe that's intentional; "hey, you'll have a new job by then" and maybe it's not.

The more I think about it, the more I think all this is an example of the Gervais principal at work.
I thought at first that it was about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis , which makes sense in a textual context, not about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipse , so it took me a minute to understand the relevance of the article.
$ sudo snap refresh firefox
firefox 126.0-2 from Mozilla refreshed

I'm not always happy about the snap mechanism, but this time I'm glad about a quick release/packaging channel. Kudos to the firefox snap maintainers!
[In Linux] You can use 132 character wide text modes as well, so if the boot slowness disturbs you, you could if they work in your system. (Actually also 160 wide, but I wonder if they are as commonly supported..) In addition there's the netconsole, but I guess sometimes the network interface can be down.
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Because Correlation Is Not Causation™, and if they're doing correlation against self-reported data that involves people estimating things it's even less reliable. It still has value, yes, but that value is in finding things for more rigorous methods to examine, not in trying to draw conclusions from such shaky materials.
I thought the rule was to keep the title the same as the article? The title is: "Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe"
Improving your handwriting is pretty simple, it's just mildly time consuming. I journaled for a month and just focused on how I wrote each letter. At first it took me half an hour to fill an A5 page - but my handwriting looked so good! It only took a month for my muscle memory to pick up the adjustments, and now I can write quickly and legibly in cursive.

I tell everyone who mentions bad handwriting the same thing. Buy a cheap journal, grab a pen you like, throw on something to listen to (music, a podcast, the news, a game stream, could be anything) and just write. What you write doesn't matter, just focus on putting down each letter exactly as you want it to look, and take your time.
In the case of the opening story in the link, yes.
But economy, china, developing nations, my personal right to consumption, factor x is making this metric seem worse than it should be, another political thing is more important, technological solution Y will save us, technological solution Z won't help or has flaws... endless list of arguments that derail discussion and end up in effective inaction.

Humanity's capacity to handle an slow creeping existential threat appears to be very bad. Especially when preventing it requires simply stopping / doing less some of the things we are doing.

Apparently the production of greenhouse gasses has gone up in past years regardless of the negotiations aimed at reducing them.

I suspect geoengineering is where this will end up when things start to get really bad.

Question, what are the most viable / cost effective / low risk geoengineering tools?
Crony Capitalism is all around us. Normalized. If anyone (e.g., politicians, corporate leaders, academics, etc) says we have free markets and Capitalism, they're lying.

They're not going to stop lying so be best the rest of us can do is stop believing.
I live in a 50 year old house and there are a lot of things we wouldn't do today. The walls are not well insulated and hard to retrofit. The attic meets minimum standards only because I added extra myself a couple years back - I wanted to do more than the minimum but the way it is built there isn't room for more. At least I avoided aluminum wiring (which was common a couple years before this house was built) but there is a lot about the wiring that doesn't meet todays standards. It isn't just style that we layout houses differently today. This house has been remodeled at great expense (30 years ago) and there are some things that are still wrong.

Which is to say tearing down and building new to the latest standards is a good thing.
Friendly reminder that you can still show a trend over the past 2,000 years, even if the past "~20" don't show the same.
Work from home doesn't mean that home has to be in the US.