skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why should a finite carbon brain be able to map out a coherent and finite model of something much, much bigger than itself.

Have asked that and have a guess: Darwin-style selection rewarded getting some rational understanding of the most important parts of nature -- fire, rock tools, clean water, agriculture, staying warm in winter, basic geometry, bows and arrows, the Pythagorean theorem, levers, wheels, boats, etc. -- we encountered. Well, it so happens that in this universe such "rational understanding" is enough to understand basic math, physics, chemistry, biology, ... back to the Big Bang, the 3 K background radiation, cells, reproduction, nutrition, diseases and immunity, ....

I gave up on the US education physics community when my teachers couldn't give a valid proof of Stokes' theorem, explanation of Young's double slit, or the beginnings of quantum mechanics.

So, now I have several polished treatments of each of Stokes' theorem, Maxwell's equations, and special relativity. Got a good background in probability (Neveu, Poincaré recurrence, martingales, etc.), enough to get a good path through thermodynamics. From Rudin, etc., got enough solid Fourier theory to check carefully the uncertainty principle in physics (doubt that what physics does there is fully justified) -- also carefully treated in a great course in "Analysis and Probability". For differential geometry, an Andrew Gleason student gave me some lectures and explained that the keys are the inverse and implicit function theorems, proved in a book by W. Fleming and just exercises in a Rudin book -- local nonlinear versions of what is easy in linear algebra. So, now I attack physics as a curious amateur!

I do remember a remark from a good mathematician: "Physics abuses its students." Well, they can abuse me no longer, and I can still do high quality study of physics.
This broke Wifi on my PC because it disables WinHttpAutoProxy service.
It removes the ability of a user to choose a vendor that will 100% abstract away the responsibility of keeping a phone secure and free of malware. It requires that the user educate themselves a fair amount to input answers to decisions about browsers such as the one discussed here, versus allowing their OS vendor to just do whatever they think is best.

Many users don’t want more options, they just want an opinionated and reasoned one-size-fits-all experience. Such a desire is incompatible with a fair and open market for browser software or app stores, for example.

Allowing a user to choose any app store means the user can no longer choose not to ever be able to choose an app store, for example. This increases the chance for malware or deceptive software to end up on the user’s device.

The only way I can think of squaring this circle is for Apple to sell two different SKUs of every iPhone: one that can sideload (and allow apps such as alternate app store apps to install other apps), and one that cannot. Then users can choose their overall security model once at time of purchase.

Absent that, the DMA is choosing the “you must have more choices” choice for users, whether users prefer that or not. Many users choose iOS because the security choices are already made for them and can’t get fucked up by their own configuring.
don't remind me of all the great works buried deep in the in the cheek of history
Humans have apparently been testing this stuff since the '50s and experiments on rats breathing in perfluorocarbon were done in the '60s, and humans in the '70s, and that'd be where James Cameron got the idea.

https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2021/08/can-humans-...
Broken for me, looking in the console several resources can't be loaded. Although no blocking is active. Also tried two different networks.
> Do we care about "real" reality if we can, more or less, make sense of some of its manifestations through our senses?

we can - Who is the we?

our senses - Whose senses? What experience the sensory input?
my guess is that its not used by the ARC dGPUs which have their own equivalent for it? But I guess it makes sense to use it for iGPUs.

With that said, seems sketchy to send untrusted data to the ME which is essentially an independent computer, running an independent OS with the ability to have persistent state. Seems like a security failure waiting to happen.
MJJMP also influenced "Existential Comics": https://existentialcomics.com/comic/135

(with a cameo as straight man in https://existentialcomics.com/comic/139 , but the real question is: did Maurice ever "speak of the pompatus[sic] of love"?)

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQNGHMf15I4
Huh, I hadn't even noticed that the content graph was in the corner of every Obsidian docs page. That's a bit pointless.
Even with JavaScript the main page seems broken; the text box doesn't actually do anything. Works better (for me at least) by using the actual URL (e.g. https://inspect.new/news.ycombinator.com) instead.

EDIT: seems like the form submission is doing a POST to https://inspect.new, which returns a 500 error.
Pilet: A modular tablet-console based on pi5 with 7-hour battery life
Broken with Brave default shields.
> Now what you do?

When the ambulance arrives wave your hands and say "over here!". So they can do the "last several meters" of navigation by homing on your visual presence.
Enterprise Support for Roundcube
Some related links:
http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/

https://web.archive.org/web/20190703172150/http://www.hacker...
I totally agree with you but "being obese" is just a data point. Being obese is defined by your ICM, which means nothing else than being heavier than the norm.

Being obese with a balanced diet is absolutely not the same thing than being obese because you eat too much "bad" calories. Obese or not, a balanced diet gives you everything your body needs to function properly, be able to move and for your mind to be clear.

The thing is, obesity is a really, really recent trend in humanity history, so recent that a lot of countries are still not concerned by the phenomena (but it's changing). It's pretty certain that _something_ in the environment changed recently and made the humans obese.

People who blames other people willpower just don't understand that if obesity is in an uptrend, it means that people who were previously healthy are becoming obese for some reason. Something new pressurizes humans to become obese and the only question is not if you are concerned but when will the pressure be high enough.

I think it's refined sugar. Plus a bonus of sedentary lifestyles.
Hah this triggers me.

Last week we got a pentest done on our apps. This week we got some high-prio tickets on our board because they found major security violations!!! Our app, which uses an API, used a dangerous permission! "android.permission.INTERNET"

How they can report this with a straight face, I don't know. Makes me want to go in the security business though, if that is the level of competence I'm absolutely positive that I could do that job and earn a lot more than a generic app developer.
I was a postie for a short while. A particular row of houses had no number 63, 61 and 65 were next door to each other. I always wondered if I posted something to 63 would it land in my sorting rack? Sadly I never tried, but I am fairly sure it would have. I often observed manual intervention to resolve addresses, from years of collective postie knowledge.
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More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41321911
The name of the rose
> When a request to `fetch` or XMLHTTPRequest is made from ANY site, the browser will still populate cookies for 3rd party sites.

I think this is the problem here? Just send the request without cookies if CORS doesn't allow it.

(I also think third-party cookies were a mistake in general, and it would be a good thing if they were removed. There were some plans but well, Google.)
In Switzerland anyone can use the national database of addresses.

https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/official-directory-of-buil...
Whether the government was allowed to compel a company to write and sign code was going to be determined in the "Apple-FBI encryption dispute" but the FBI withdrew the day before the hearing since they had found another way to crack the phone without apple's help. I wonder if this will ever be re-litigated or the government just learned its easier to pay someone to write an exploit than it is to pay a company to write a backdoor.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/deep-dive-why-forcing-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93FBI_encryption_d...
I considered that. Ai also tends to list duplicates when generating exhaustive list.
There are settings, but at the end of the day it's just html/css/js. The publish site is not the easiest to customize, but it's possible.

We can create a js and css file.

I didn't need/want to change much, but I know I could. I just added tags, creation and update times, my newsletter form, plausible analytics etc.

One feature I lack is the ability to define canonical links..
Congratulations on shipping! I like how opinionated Kardinal is, which means it should work nicely for anyone who shares the same kind of infras vision as you.

It's also such an interesting moment for you folks to show up on HN, I just shipped the first preview version of my Kubernetes operator(https://github.com/pier-oliviert/sequencer) that manages ephemeral environments. I can see some things that are similar with both our options as well as some things that are quite different.

Maybe if I had one question is: What made you go for Istio as the main network mesh?

Good luck with the launch!
Show HN: Ruroco – like port knocking, but better
Hey there HN!

ruroco (RUn RemOte COmmand) is a tool that lets you execute commands on a server by sending UDP packets (instead of knocking on ports).

the tool consist of 3 binaries:

- client -> runs on your notebook/computer and sends the UDP packets

- server -> receives the UDP packets and makes sure that they are valid

- commander -> runs the command encoded by the data of the UDP packet if it's valid

The commands are configured on the server side, so the client does not define what is going to be executed, it only picks from existing commands.

I use this tool to open up the SSH port on my server via ufw, but only for the IP address from where I'm connecting, so the SSH port appears closed for everyone else, except me.

This is my very first "real" rust project, so any feedback is highly appreciated :)

Enjoy!
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Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41314542
Apparently the worst case in the opposite direction is the University of Warwick, where a single postcode (CV4 7AL) covers 5000 individual residences (so probably about 5000 people given these are likely to all be student rooms, and sharing a room is uncommon in the UK).
This concept fascinates me: 'a spell of insanity and committing various crimes'

Do enough crime, buffer overflow. Must be insane! Just playing around, know no additional context
Amazon and Apple both picked their names to show up early on in lists, and anyone who remembers the phone book days remembers all sorts of plumbers with names like "AAA plumbing"
Well we already have UPRNs[0] but they're a little unwieldy for human use.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_Property_Reference_Numb...
to be fair, he did lose eventually, and it took the CIA impersonating a vaccine distribution program to take blood samples to find him, which is pretty fucking omnipotent if you ask me, although sowing distrust in vaccine distribution did have some unintended consequences...
>It's definitely not a tool empowering people

I agree. My point is that as a business the only moat they'd have is to not do client side requests, in order to hide the prompt.
In Germany, 3 months notice is common but it depends on the individual contract and there's a maximum defined by law (depending on the years of employment). You also get to take your accrued paid leave before the end of the contract.
I think https://publicwww.com/ could do the trick?
The Silicon Valley Canon
Big difference between RS422 and RS485 is the drivers for RS485 are required to survive a minus 7 volt difference between the two grounds.

Old R422 drivers would smoke if you got more than 7 tenths of a volt difference. Which would happen if you had a open ground. Or lighting hit. Or some big motor turned on. We had an RS422 based system with 50 units on one pair. One of them was holding the line. Coworker unplugged each one till he found it. And half of them didn't work after that.
In games with elo ratings the skill level is quite clear. If I play vs a GrandMaster then I will lose 99% of the time. I can watch the replay and see what he does better, but even then I will probably understand just a part.
The USA does have zip+4 which is an extension on the zip code system and sounds like it’s about as specific as the UK one.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_Code#ZIP+4
> But now we get to use a key feature of infinitesimal changes: that they can always be thought of as just “adding linearly” (essentially because ε2 can always be ignored to ε). Or, in other words, we can summarize any infinitesimal change just by giving its “direction” in weight space

> a standard result from calculus gives us a vastly more efficient procedure that in effect “maximally reuses” parts of the computation that have already been done.

This partially explains why gradient descent becomes mainstream.
While they're still blaming Microsoft as if it isn't possible to run the code they update outside of the kernel and only use the kernel mode code for observation and action, but not logic.
The Bayesian approach to A/B testing gives an interesting example of how frequentists and Bayesian approaches can differ.

A frequentist approach tries to limit the probability that a test setup will accept a 'false' result, one that could simply arise by chance.

A Bayesian approach actually calculates the probability that a test result could occur 'by chance'. You can then stop the test at any point and be sure you only accept <x% of results that could occur by chance, by the power of expectation values you never breach the x% limit no matter how often you 'stop' the test.

The interesting thing is that while these would seem to be very similar, there actually isn't anything stopping the Bayesian approach from accepting any test eventually. Giving it 0 statistical power in the frequentist sense. The only thing the Bayesian approach ensures is that for any 'false' test you accept after time T there are many more that will keep running.
Most effective climate policies identified in new study
Sure, they're just examples of compelling software. I can't give real examples of software which compelled users to buy into Be's vision in huge number and made it a success, because in fact Be failed.

In practice there's always going to be a certain element of post-hoc justification as to why this or that software really mattered and how it "couldn't" have existed for other platforms.
This sounds like bad design by the property developer and a sloppy building authority. The first is corroborated by the lack of unit numbers. Who does such a thing?

The BAN actually only tracks down to the plot level, so I assume all your structures are on the same plot. From there on it is the building authorities job to check building plans and to enter the substructures into the cadastre, where they are usually lettered. It's the developer's job to mark the buildings and entries. Sloppy work, all around. So sad.
Let me instead mourn the death of native Linux gaming and the potential for Linux to be an independent platform in the future.

Don't get me wrong, Proton and DXVK are very useful tools for compatibility with legacy software but Valve really jumped the shark by positioning it as the default way to run Games on linux and alledgedly even actively discouraging native ports. We had Wine long before Proton (or Steam for Linux for that matter) and so what if it's a little bit more convenient now.

IMO peak Linux gaming was between the early Humble Bundles that required cross platform support for inclusion to the Kickstarter era where many campaigns felt the need to promise Linux versions to the Steam Machine hype that even got some AAA developers on board. Not seeing anything like that these days even with the Steam deck - seems most developers don't care to provide official support when gamers will buy the games to run with Proton anyway.
It's called UART, to the best of my knowledge.
Totally fair, just spittin' in the wind
> The Stardate time format had nothing to do with Sun. I added it to Tcl while working at Scriptics, as an easter egg for the then-upcoming Tcl2K Conference. One of the conference events was a competition to implement a standard-to-stardate conversion utility, using an arcane formula. Only one guy entered the event. He spent a couple hours agonizing over the implementation (as he was looking for a job at Scriptics, he was eager to impress) only to have the easter egg revealed afterwards. Of course he won the competition anyway. And he got the job, too. –
Eric Melski
> Can we talk about the elephant in the room for a second? tens of millions of people are taking this, and they'd need to keep taking this medication for the effects of the drug to remain.

This is untrue, you can stop taking the drug and the effects will persist, most people keep weight off after coming off the drugs.

I've assembled some stuff on this here:

https://glp1.guide/content/do-people-regain-all-the-weight-l...

There are anecdotal reports of astounding levels of hunger returning (more than before perhaps) but this can be solved by a more gradual wean-off (like the ramp up).

> I just don't get the lack of skepticism.

There has never been such a con-free, researched solution to weight loss (and originally these drugs were meant to treat type 2 diabetes, so it's more like we have a viagra situation on our hands).

Don't read what the media puts out, go back and read the research papers. It's not magic -- it's well researched, and while it's not clear exactly every effect, there is a growing body of evidence.
the problem with UK privatization is the same as with California PG&E ... it's private in name, but the incentives are all bad.

there was (is) no point for optimization on costs as the profit was a fixed percentage (so it ended up quite the opposite) instead of a price cap. (ideally the cap would be a simple formula based on input prices, to at least make the lobbying transparent. sure, this also has a built in profit percentage, but the important difference is that the profit is not fixed, so the private company is incentivized to push the costs down.)

see https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/energy-bell-the-sketch-of-an-i...
Ozempic face isn't real -- it'd happen for any other effective form of drastic whole-body weight loss.

There's just been nothing so effective (and relatively side-effect free and cheap, believe it or not) up until now.

Note that the wider class of drugs are called GLP1 Receptor Agonists.
8,200 in Germany is way too low, and I'll add some fun facts.
According to Wikipedia 30,000 of the theoretical 98,901 are currently in use. The number of people per postcode does vary a lot, from zero (no one lives in a company that has its own postcode) to none living in a demolished village of Billmuthausen (right on the inner-German border) or the two people living in a district that had no postcode until the problem was fixed in 2015. Yes, they forgot Gutsbezirk Reinhardswald (a quarter the size of Frankfurt/Main) which is almost all forest but has a forester hut with two people. There are even four Austrian villages that also have a German postcode in addition to their Austrian one, and a swiss one. There are even still four-digit postcodes with no five-digit update in use: Feldpost, the Germna army postal service.
Quite a lot of it is Reaganism, via Thatcher. Probably dates from the Winter of Discontent.

It's not entirely without merit, but only because there's a tendency to drastically underfund and micromanage state services. And things like the Post Office Horizon fiasco do not make the government look good here.

On the other hand GDS is excellent - but that's almost entirely as a result of staff professionalism, rather than being driven by whichever ministers had the leadership of the civil service.

An odd outcome of the ID discourse is that we now have an extremely high tech biometric identity system .. but only for immigrants.
Maybe nowadays the authentic restaurants might be more expensive, but I think historically it's been the other way round. The authentic restaurants were cheaper and opened to support the local immigrant population who wanted they tastes they were familiar with and missed from home, but the more expensive restaurants had the foods adapted to the local tastes so that they'd appeal to a wider range of people.

If you look at Chinese restaurants in the UK, the older ones have radically different menus to the newer ones that cater primarily to Chinese students. The former is mostly based on Cantonese cuisine, but changed significantly to what Westerners expect, the latter is from all over China and usually pretty authentic.
TIL, thanks for this insight -- where did you find this rule of thumb?
However, if you want to succeed and stand out among the competition, it’s crucial to understand the latest trends in dating script development. That’s because it not only helps you stay ahead of the competition but also enhances modern relationship-building.
What's better about this vs. Mozilla Observatory.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/observatory (formerly https://observatory.mozilla.org/)

Or Security Headers?

https://securityheaders.com/

Or VENOM?

https://github.com/oshp/oshp-validator

Applaud the effort, these are things that more devs should be aware of when building websites...

Hey some specific feedback on this tool... On mobile, it has a lot of "view port wobble" and the input fields aren't keyed right, it's just using a straight text input field so you don't get any ".com" buttons as you type.

The forms use light gray text on a dark gray background -- that isn't at all aligned with WCAG standards. https://i.imgur.com/BNCC5Dx.png

And it really needs to work on what it thinks is a valid URL. https://i.imgur.com/N1ctafd.png

Small UX stuff like that annoy me more than if a page has a privacy policy setup correctly. (=

Lastly, Permissions Policy... good concept, but still in "DRAFT" so not quite something you can ding users for not adopting just yet.

https://www.w3.org/TR/permissions-policy/

https://caniuse.com/permissions-policy

If you want to play around with it, here's a good tool to generate examples. https://www.permissionspolicy.com/

Oh lastly lastly, there are some really easy tools out there for helping to create a Content Security Policy, these really speed up the process. (Just make sure you disable your ad-blockers before running.)

https://csper.io/generator

https://github.com/april/laboratory
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Some more discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41299205
Your wording gives the impression that you are implying that Firefox is different. clarifying for anyone who doesn't know: Firefox on iOS is just another Safari wrapper, just like the others.
There's certainly been distrust/mild distain for the govt in Scotland, Wales, and The North since Reagan's gender-swap, Thatcher, for broadly similar reasons Reagan is maligned
Whether it is safe for you is not answerable by randoms on the internet, but the class of drugs (GLP1 Receptor Agonists) are VERY well researched (like other commenters have pointed out).

If the wealth of anecdotal experience isn't enough for you, read the published research and trials.
Maybe too late for this now if they've taken your repos offline and not just your login, but a tool like myrepos[0] can be set up with a cronjob to make sure you keep a local backup of your repositories up to date.

0: https://github.com/RichiH/myrepos
Obvious solution is for the councils to start charging extremely high fees to Royal Mail for such cooperation.