skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What actually constitutes a "well-constructed anonymous email setup"? From my understanding I'd expect that with 'NSA-level analysis' that things like fingerprints from creation/usage would show up, making it rather difficult to evade entirely.
I've used Firefox for the most part. Only use Chrome for dev. If Firefox has a better dev experience, I'm all in but not holding my breath.
I would rephrase this article as "Dehumidification Is All You Need".

We should also Paint Everything White, Glaze and Cover the Windows, Roman House, and Plant Shade Trees.

If it's too hot, people should really also move to higher latitudes and elevations. No, seriously.
I have an esim on my phone which has its own number.

I only turn it on if some services asks for a phone number so I don't have to give my main number.

Its on a cheap yearly plan, very low data and calls included but I won't be using these.
Couple more on this list: https://delightful.club/delightful_libre_hosters/
This context is the moreso the browser, complete with it's own sub-pixels, aliasing, simulated/real blurring, zooming, etc.

But file-format context, yes, PNG, BMP, and TFF are the real lossless image kingpins.
I can't find any of my neighbors' courts in here, but I do see one or two backyard courts in my city.
Show HN: MyChart Helper – Chat with your latest MyChart results
MyChartHelper is a free and open source chrome extension that lets you chat with your most recent results from MyChart.

https://github.com/HealthcareBuddy/my-chart-helper

Nine months ago, my mom was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer, and it's been an eye-opening experience. Cancer patients often deal with frequent hospital visits, multiple doctors, and a barrage of tests. Keeping track of it all—especially with the medical jargon—is overwhelming, even with a solid support system.

To help, I taught her how to drag and drop her latest test results into ChatGPT for better understanding. That led me to build MyChartHelper, a Chrome extension that simplifies this process. With just one click, you can chat with your latest health summary.

How it works:

The extension navigates to your medical document summary, requests it, and refreshes until the data is ready. It then downloads the summary and injects the relevant parts into ChatGPT for easy conversation.

Right now, the tool works with Penn Medicine, but it's easy to adapt for other hospitals by swapping the URL in `background.js`.

I open-sourced this tool because I believe it could help others in similar situations.
I created a GitHub organization called Healthcare Buddy to host this because I believe that there should be a suite of free, easy to use tools for people facing health challenges. The world would be a better place if this existed.

If anyone would like to contribute to MyChartHelper or start a new project within the org, feel free to reach out.

Also, if you know of any similar initiatives, I'd love to hear about them. I couldn't find anything like this.
Absolutely. A part of that would have been Steve's legendary ability to convince folks to make the move to Apple even when they had options that looked better at the time. Another part was seeing the potential of those already in the company, another part was just dumb luck.

I believe Job's was providing this perspective more in the late 2000's after he had been through the whole Apple exile/Next thing.
If and when that happens, then I will move off Firefox
What wouldn't work? there is a mix of scriplets, css and network blocks.

Disclaimer; dev here.
Really? I see that problem all the time at work.

There is a limited amount of resources (time, people and money). If you have a list of 100 things to fix, you better figure out which of those 100 are going to drive the biggest improvement.

I see teams all the time focused on fixing a problem without stopping for a minute to ask "will fixing this actually make a difference?".
I think using the example of Nazi research weakens greatly the point you’re trying to make.

Considering we used a monumental wealth of nazi research, and the existence of operation paper clip. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190723-the-ethics-of-us...

Even though you’re correct that Nazi rhetoric impacted creating permissive tobacco policies.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2736555/

To clarify, I think it’s because it’s an extreme example, that while technically perhaps accurate, misses that it’s a hard one for a reader to relate to effectively and misses a subtext of: shouldn’t any research from that source (of which what are the ethics of using it as well?) especially in a lens of 1940/1950, be subjected to extreme skepticism? Where additional replication may not be practical or possible.
Programmer I Know [YT] [video]
Neat! I've been reading How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell and enjoying it. It's a bit political for my liking but overall a good reminder to pause and set aside time to just "be" and shelve the programmed drive to constantly be productive as in economically productive. My therapist recently helped me reframe my drive for being productive as being generative, which I have taken a liking to since it encompasses being creative for the sake of enjoying the process with no other end - economic or otherwise.
I'm self employed and use it (Beancount, as I like the more strict approach) for my business accounts and also for my stock portfolio. Fava, the web UI, is very handy for reporting and visualising things, though I also have a few scripts to automate certain processes like importing transactions from Wise and tracking exchange rates. I really don't have the discipline to use it for daily personal expenses or budgeting though.
WOW that's the reason? I didn't catch that, that's both hilarious and disheartening. Dijkstra is rolling in his grave... I suppose we'll have to move from "nodes and edges" to, idk, "dots and lines", kinda like TikTok has created "unalive"?
Using any Chromium browser supports Google's goal of controlling all web standards
Made me think of alarms randomly going of in the middle of the night.

Then had this thought, imagine triggering lights and siren gradually as one approaches. That way it can trigger much earlier and give a could-be intruder enough signal to stay away. I suspect gradual adrenaline in a feedback loop is more effective too. A sudden effect only needs to be considered once.
At higher lattitudes and elevations, it often gets too cold; and remediating that takes more energy than A/C.

Perhaps we could simply build double the housing and infrastructure we currently have, and move whole populations north/up and south/down seasonally, to save energy?
Sure, but who would buy their houses from them?
nah, they are busy building screenshot, pocket, AI chatbot
HN comment quality has been degrading for a while, I’m no longer that active here because of it (unfortunately). X is a better source in most cases now (if you choose well and only use the following tab).
Musical Minimalism: How to Finish Your Songs [video]
Not who you are responding to but I think it is more a case of, long term it might not work out as intended for them. They are more than free to pursue this goal with all their might, but don't be surprised if in a few years they are burnt out and scrambling for the exit.

That said, it might work out, who knows? But at some point it looks like gambling with your time and energy trying to seek fulfillment. Again, they are free to do this, just try not to harm others in the process.
> There are better things to dedicate lives to.

Then those aren't people Jimmy wants to hire for his company. There are hundreds of millions of teenagers on this planet that want to stake everything they own to make a YouTube channel and reap the rewards - ownership of their work, being their own boss, potentially lucrative amounts of money, microcelebrity if not greater levels of fame, etc. Some will do it, and some won't. Jimmy is very clearly talking to those people.

I know because I was one of them, making my first few hundred dollars ever from adsense at the age of 14 (till I was demonetized a year later and my channel got taken down for copyright, but hey, you learn). I've since grown a bit a taken that energy and it's helped guide me as I learn to make my own startup right now - it's the same adrenaline rush and pursuit of the American dream.
Does youtube have a lot of trash? He s certainly a (very big) outlier but the other trashy content is mostly about expensive cars and shit which is harmless by comparison.

This guy has a genuine love of torturing people
Few related things I had to track down about this site recently:

1. This is an official Mozilla site.

2. Source is at https://github.com/mozilla/releases_insights, under MPL-2.0

3. Thanks to Pascal Chevrel for creating and maintaining this. https://whattrainisitnow.com/humans.txt

As far as I can tell, this is the only official page that documents Firefox 115 ESR being extended for Windows 7-8.1 and macOS 10.12-10.14 up to March 2025.
Indeed, in the early days of Bard, the only way to get it to output only JSON was to threaten a human life[1].

1. https://x.com/goodside/status/1657396491676164096
As in "sick, bruh!" Or "disturbing"? (There needs to be a "Poe's law" for the word sick.)
Only for people who view controversy as legitimacy.
I didn’t say you aren’t in an important industry.

I said if you are in an important industry, a single password should not be the only measure stopping malicious packages to be distributed on your behalf.

Your customers can trust you all they want, but can they trust packages are actually coming from you or a compromised account due to a leaked password.
well, that really is confusing!
This has one of the best sections I've read on why communication lines are important:

>It’s very important as a company we maintain proper communication lines.
... If you skip and just go below you prizemust then call and let the people in charge know. Let’s say you’re a production coordinator and you call a writer and tell him you need some bits about a sandwich being cooked with lava, seems harmless... and then tyler askes her why she is making lava and she has no idea and everyone is confused. This is what happens when you don’t follow proper communication lines.

Skipping over all the typos, it's just such a great visual of the communication breakdowns that can happen when a lot of things are going on.

Also this section on tracking contractors:

> [Y]ou can’t just dump and forget your projects... Ask him to send videos everyday to spot problems early, hell maybe talk to him twice a day. I don’t care just don’t leave room for error. No excuses, stop leaving room for error. Check in daily, receive videos, and know weeks in advance if you’re fucked. Not days.

This is more extreme than I encounter in my day to day, very on brand to MrBeast, but it's interesting to see this constant accountability and ownership are so critical in their production. I see similar behavior in some of the more effective people I've worked with.
80,000 is a few staff?
He already has a huge audience so whatever he puts in that PDF is not really useful to anyone else.

Surprised that he says he studied youtube virality. It seemed that he got his ideas from 80s prank TV but over time his titles became increasingly audacious.

Also surprised that his videos are being watched to the end. The clickbait generates curiosity for watching , but his vids are so predictable it s totally boring

Everybody's riding the "MrBeast" train because he s so successful , even though they truly don't like him. 3 years down the line he will be in court defending his abuses
Exactly how much do employers willing to take people on without a tax ID (or a grasp or Swedish, in this case) actually pay?

My suspicion is "as little as possible".
the insightful intelligent discourse that this site's audience brings often lets the darker side of that blessing - resentment for the successful - to surface.

whether that is convenient altruism masquerading as a disdain for greed or sheer jealousy at their own lack of agency or fortuna or virtu is for their own ego to
hopefully one day confront.
Heck yes, Marvel films, any big Hollywood films, are shady. HN is basically a vanity project so it's less shady. If HN was "optimized for engagement" the way a MrBeast video or Marvel film is, I bet I'm not the only one who would be out of here.
No, only 5% (31% out of 17%) out of people who participate in DEI surveys, see full post https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/02/19/2023-Rust-Annual-Surve...
Oh, great, we'll just move 5 billion people to an elevation nowhere near them, no problem

The most energy efficient solution is what animals have been doing in the desert for millions of years: burrow.
Agile is great. The problem is “agile methodologies” like Scrum which create lots of overhead and ceremony. I have seen Scrum work well but it is the exception.
>If I can turn a C player into a B player, can I eventually get them to A player status?

By definition yes, because a B player by definition can be turned into an A player. But by that token, anyone that can be turned into a B player, is by definition a B player already. Hence, a C player, who is by definition not a B player, cannot be turned into a B player.

>I worry that C player status is something fundamentally broken about a person. Maybe it’s as simple as their intellectual capacity?

It would be motivation. Intellectual capacity can in principle be fixed, but motivation cannot because you would need to motivate them to fix it.
Looks nice! What about data privacy?
tried to input "Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia" and it says it is not valid unfortunately.

Can this be fixed?
> I stopped using Amazon altogether, I just request my brother to order stuff I want.

So... you didn't stop using Amazon altogether.
You say that like web rendering engines grow on trees...

At this point your (multi-platform) options are:

- Chrome + its kin
- Firefox + its kin

There is one/two new "third" browsers/engines in the works that will be ready "who knows when".

The shift you'd make is from Firefox to something based on Firefox / Chrome... then you wait and hope that Ladybird actually gets somewhere or that the Servo engine doesn't take another forever to mature... and someone builds a browser around it. I'd call that mighty slim pickings. Especially considering how beholden the downstream browsers are to the upstream ones, particularly for smaller projects.
>doubly ironic is that 99% of HN users use both of those supported features

completely incorrectly
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I’ve always wondered why heat pumps don’t also have a water line attached. We water cool servers because water is a much better conductor than air, and cold tap is usually colder than outside air. We should be misting tap onto the condenser to make it significantly more efficient and effective at cooling unless I’m missing something.
Is it really a problem? A/C is the dumb easiest thing to solve with renewable energy. We need most A/C when it's day and the sun is shining - much less need when it's dark or cloudy - so consumption almost matches supply of solar power. With some shift at the evening... yeah between some 6pm and 9pm there's still a lot of A/C demand but little to no solar... but this is the lowest hanging fruit for the most minimal amounts of deployed battery storage.
They know what the problems are. They don't have the manpower to develop more than a fraction of what users want.
analyzed photos are automatically deleted and not shared with anyone
I have been looking into building chrome extensions lately.

I have a question and my question is how do you make money out of this and how do you market your extension
Do they also automatically correct for for muscle weakness? Some people's (my) prescription involves the use of prism lenses to correct for this and would otherwise get double-vision without them.
27 kn is quite fast for a boat. A couple of days ago we went on a sailboat which was doing 5.4 kn only with the jib open at 60%. I wonder how it fares in >20 kn winds.
Energy is dirt-cheap in the long run (at least at midday), it's energy storage that will be hard. And it just so happens that storing heat is easier than storing cold.

Cold requires an air conditioner instead of just resistive heating, and you can't go down more than 300ish degrees, and realistically you're not using liquid nitrogen let alone liquid helium. Meanwhile, generating heat with resistive heating is literally just the cost of wires.

High latitudes are ideal here, as you lose temperature without losing sunlight. Wind speeds are generally higher too.
Agreed.

I was the one to bring up the DAO, but the situation is completely different when you get into the details.

The DAO was hugely hyped by early eth adopters. If you were into eth, you were into The DAO. For the DAO to be hacked was like eth being hacked. When vitalik and the eth devs supported it, it was easy for the community to fall in line.

Any Craig shenanigans would have absolute 0 support and be the exact opposite.
To tell that there is high likehood that your server doesn't have some kernel patches applied
The most quantitative measure is IQ. People like to criticize it but in psychology it is the most empirically verified number that correlates with so many things.
I thought they at least claimed they can hit the west coast of the US? and that US ICBMs, launched from the US mainland can strike any target in the world.
I'm also an engineering manager, currently working in a department that feels on fire, and I think there is good wisdom in the article. The part about not fostering a "us vs them" mentality was good food for thought, as I do find it tempting to build short term camaraderie. When faced with big picture issues that can't be changed (believe me, they can't) it's easy to reach for a "We all know that these exec decisions don't make sense, but we can still do right for each other among this BS" type of conversation. But it's worth thinking about what that will do for the long term motivation of that team member at the company.
nobody's actually paying attention, so your goal is really to fight with people online because that's what it takes to get your blood pumping.
> Do you have any insight into why so many signs are in English? I can understand maybe foreign brands, but local mom and pop stores have giant signs like "50% Off. #partytime" especially businesses where no one speaks english.

That "casual English" is somewhat part of the language of the new generation. They're more like catchwords, because people don't really speak the language. People, especially young urban folks, use it to appear "cool".
Nope

Well, there is one scenario I would be OK with, and that is ALL people are subject regardless of status.

Think Larry would take the same deal peons get?

And that right there is why I say nope.
I think that what the user implies here is that the email address (rather than the password) was leaked. Maybe the password was just weak. But there’s not enough evidence.

But the account is from Jan 2013. Maybe not bcrypt yet. If password was never changed, is there a chance that the used algorithm was weak and crackable, and so in the event of a leak this could actually be a problem?
For those interested in this stuff, check out Kingsborough's full version of the Dresden codex (PDF 50MB 75 pages): http://www.famsi.org/mayawriting/codices/pdf/kings.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_Codex
It's odd as this was leaked and big on YouTube at least a week ago. I guess not much overlap of this community and YT drama.
Huge +1. If I'd understood this mantra earlier in my career it would have saved me a large amount of hassle.

For juniors: any time you send something important to your manager, confirm they read the document. Don't ask "did you read it?" Don't rely on reactions in chat. Ask a specific question that would require them to read the contents of the document. For example, if you're sending over a quote from a vendor, and you'd already sent another quote before, you could ask "how does this quote compare to the previous one? [link to previous one]" Always get confirmation at least 24-48 hours in advance of the point-of-no-return (e.g. launch, meeting, changing dates, company-wide emails), very preferably in writing.

And for _very_ important meetings, ensure all parties have either acknowledged understanding of the required information, or schedule pre-meeting briefings with individuals. There's nothing quite like getting thrown under the bus because someone showed up and couldn't figure out the subtleties & context on the fly. Unfortunately you can't just say "it's a 12 page document for a reason." when your manager is confused in front of their manager.
The numbers aren't public, but it was widely reported earlier this year that their revenue is in the billions. I would assume this is mostly API use by businesses, not individual ChatGPT subscribers.
Just create a Hacker News post and hope it goes viral and then some Google employees will unlock it for you ;)
Many things are this way. The number of houses in the silicon valley that still have knob and tube wiring is kind of hilarious.

Can't build new houses with it, but grandfathered in until you have to make changes.
ACE 0. Feels abnormal looking at everyone here. I don't consider myself that successful. Very average or below in career and also extremely below average in life outside of work. Not very many friends, never been in a relationship (I'm old).

Maybe some trauma really is needed in your childhood to produce more drive.

I'm wondering what's the distribution of ACE.
Forcing advertisements on everyone is about so much more than money.

It is about money too obviously. I just think the general public is unaware what ads and ad network control over your online experience actually can accomplish.

After seeing aspects of it weaponized against me, the impact it has on someone unaware of the technology and psychology involved honestly seems like a danger to the public itself.

This may sound extreme if you have not experienced it.
Exactly, exactly, people feel it very uncomfortable to lean on results of Nazi researchers, no matter what objective scientific truth this research may have uncovered. It's like "objective" and "scientific" wane and disappear, because "Nazi" and "truth" are utterly incompatible in the post-war Western culture. We're lucky Nazi-tainted scientists did not discover something fundamental.

Under a more rational angle, any promising results obtained by an enemy should be double- and triple-reproduced, because an enemy may be planting disinformation into it. But this is a bit more serious than somebody you don't like making a comment you would rather have made yourself, and you already agree with the point because you would make it yourself and are now in a bind. That's the kind of uncomfortable situation I initially referred to.
Slower inflation is boosting Americans' attitudes toward the economy
One thing I find interesting over the last few weeks since this was released (and other MrBeast drama) is how there is now a separation between MrBeast the person and MrBeast the company.

Before today, it was never differentiated. Since the drama started, I've seen more news and people (like yourself) clarify that you mean the company vs the person, and I'm not sure its warranted.

While everything was going good, MrBeast the person took all credit for MrBeast the company. Now, it seems like everyone is on tip-toes to clarify they are trash-talking MrBeast the company, not MrBeast the person.

It just seems a bit weird to me.
You keep posting the most hacky disinformation from the most obvious grifters: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/12/24243021/springfield-ohio...

How deep into the grift are you? How much are you donating to these people?

> Luxury beliefs are those that might make your feel good and virtuous, but ultimate hurt everyone in the lower class you think you advocate for.

Your speech patterns are weird. Is English your first language?

> It's not slander if it's true.

So it's slander.