skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Comments arent signed but change meaning of document

Do you have an example of that assertion handy? The only comment-influences-execution behavior I'm aware of is in SQL[1], and I haven't ever seen any XML system (in any business domain) which does what you said

1: I mean, setting aside linter suppression, which pedantically does impact execution but I meant of the final software
How do you prevent selfish leechers that use network bandwidth, but don't contribute to it, like on public torrents? Using people's cellphones as relay nodes is a non-starter because it's going to be a massive drain on battery life, so you'll have to rely on volunteers setting up their own wired base stations.
Patents for Software and Genetic Code Could Be Revived by Two Bills in Congress
Exactly! IPv4 management is hideous compared to IPv6 once you grok it. The sooner you upgrade to it, the sooner you can deprecate horrid mitigations like NAT.
The MS-RL is still the shortest, clearest copyleft license I'm aware of it. It is nearly as readable as the MIT. https://opensource.org/license/ms-rl-html

It's just weird that it has "Microsoft" in the name. Though I suppose not much weirder than MIT license being named after a University or BSD license being named after a University's Unix distribution.

Also even Microsoft doesn't use the MS-RL much anymore having standardized more on MPL where they use copyleft licenses and Apache License most everywhere else.
> My main concern is power level. How much power can you emit if Joe in accounting is 8 feet away from it, and how does that compare versus normal building mounted or pole mounted antennas?

My thoughts exactly. Who would like to sit that close to a 5G Base Station?
Novo's older obesity drug is safe and effective for children, study finds
I don't mean to pry but I often see people make statements along the lines of 'if Id been rich when I was younger I wouldve died' and I never quite get it. Just drugs stuff?
Investing in the Unknown and Unknowable (2006) [pdf]
In fact, the force of self centering is more a problem for small 0402 parts!!!!

The force is so strong, it can 'Tombstone' the piece during reflow. This is partially why 0402 is used rather than the more electrically convenient 0204. It's easier to tombstone on the long edge.

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Also, if you don't care about tombstoning but need the better parasitics of a 0204 capacitor or the better heat capacities of a 0204 resistor, try them out!!
Not quite. It has some incompatible default settings, and is missing a small percentage of obscure bash features that I sometimes like to rely on. I'm sure I could do it all with zsh just fine, but it would be more work for me mentally.
They didn’t care when they were spraying down entire cities with bacteria to test the spread of biological weapons.
Open-source release of Aurora: a foundation model of the atmosphere
Hello HN!

We are a research team at Microsoft Research. We are pleased to share that our project, Aurora, has very recently been made fully open source, including model weights. We've attempted to package the model and weights in a way that makes it as easy as possible for anyone to get started.

On medium-term weather prediction, it sets a state-of-the-art amongst operational AI models outperforming GraphCast significantly. However, this is not what's most exciting.

Aurora has been pretrained on a large variety of data sets, unlike other AI weather models, which makes Aurora ideal to be fine-tuned for downstream atmospheric prediction tasks, e.g. by adding in new variables. In the paper (link below), we fine-tune the model for very-high-resolution weather prediction and for air pollution prediction, two areas yet largely untouched by large AI weather models.

Our hope is that the community can use Aurora by either directly leveraging its predictions or by fine-tuning it for specific applications. Feedback would be much appreciated!

Link to the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.13063
I really like the concept. But it also sort of makes me sad - what about all the DNA we haven't archived, which could hold so many secrets about solving diseases? Of course we don't all want it sequenced when we're alive because of the privacy concerns.
This is because it also releases serotonin, and the serotonin turns into melatonin, which makes you tired.
No, exactly not. Not rub, ingest.

There is increasingly more evidence that skin contact before oral ingestion (and in particular on wounds or eczema) increases allergies, and consuming the allergen orally whilst avoiding skin contact reduces it.

It’s even being used in people with allergies to reduce, and sometimes even overcome the allergies completely!
Are We Thinking About Obesity All Wrong?
> People write well about what they know.

Its my long standing observation that people with a varied and interesting life history make the best fiction authors, rather than those who loved books and went straight into writing fiction.

which probably is the problem.
I don’t think most of us here on HN are experts in international humanitarian law, and certainly not in this thread. The sources I have read which includes opinions from such experts seem to make it pretty clear that this attack did indeed violate international humanitarian law[1]:

> Whitson said the high casualties of the attacks demonstrate that booby-trapped devices are “inherently indiscriminate”.

> “They’re incapable of being directed at a specific military target, and it’s very obvious from what we’ve seen and what was completely predictable that it would injure military targets and civilians without distinction,” she told Al Jazeera.

> Whitson added that the explosions were a “deliberate decision on the part of Israel” to create chaos in Lebanon. “This is exactly why booby traps of ordinary civilian objects are illegal – because not only do they cause physical harm and injury, they cause psychological and emotional harm.”

> Huwaida Arraf, a US-based human rights lawyer, echoed Whitson’s remarks, saying that the explosions violated the prohibition on indiscriminate attacks as well as a ban on booby-trapping devices associated with civilian use.

> That latter curb is laid out in the 1996 Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps, and Other Devices – a UN treaty.

1: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/18/do-lebanon-explosio...

Most of here on HN can only speak of our own morality on the matter. And it seems that quite a few HN users have no problems with this blatant act of terrorism, or at least deem that any problems they do have with it are worth it for some—in my opinion—twisted reason.

EDIT: As I was writing this, the Intercept emailed me the daily newsletter including this article which also cites experts in international humanitarian laws casting doubts on the legality of this attack.

https://theintercept.com/2024/09/19/israel-pager-walkie-talk...

> “I think detonating pagers in people’s pockets without any knowledge of where those are, in that moment, is a pretty evident indiscriminate attack,” said Jessica Peake, an international law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law. “I think this seems to be quite blatant, both violations of both proportionality and indiscriminate attacks.”
That's not much of weighing in. "Not everyone likes it, and it's ok"

Pre-reform Linus 1.0 had his own flaws, but at least had a clear opinion on things, be it good or bad.
What hosting providers would you recommend?
Old stuff, bike renting companies were proposing that in Brussels years ago, before doing that will their own employees. I guess the scheme has been abused.
That should be fine. If it's part of every modem/gateway router, there should be so much bandwidth it doesn't matter. Standard QoS techniques can apply - don't allow someone to take it all when there are more people who want bandwidth.
> The only exception is for users in the European Economic Area or Switzerland, who are protected by stricter privacy laws that either require consent from platforms to collect personal data or for platforms to justify the data collection as a legitimate interest. Those users will not see an option to opt out, because they were never opted in, LinkedIn repeatedly confirmed.

As I've already said: GDPR is a godsend!
Netflix still has to serve 20k videos to 300million people. That's about a 750million hours of streamed content. Serving that content is challenging.

Then they have their ad network on top of it. Then they have their analytics apparatus. Then they probably have a whole suite of tools for content producers. Then they probably have a bunch of janky tools for things that didn't exist as products 15 years ago.

Seems reasonable to me if you put in a little more thought about the problem and scale.
Positional Externalities [pdf]
Unless something has changed, one of the issues with Tor is that it tries to send traffic through servers that have the most bandwidth which are pretty much certain to be servers owned by the state a lot of the time because a random person's residential cable modem is going to be a lot less capable.
> Yeah right because when someone calls people and asks effectively "do you support the war or do you want to go to jail" you totally get data that is not skewed in any way whatsoever.

That line of argument is old and tired and debunked. We also have witnessed in Europe the sad spectacle that is Russian diasporas throwing protests in support of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and repeated violent attacks from Russian expats targeting Ukrainian refugees.

https://www.newsweek.com/russians-ukrainian-refugees-attack-...

It's very odd how this whole talk of oppression and free speech crackdowns only surfaces in the context of sanctions.
Unless there is a lot of blind workers in the room, much better, yep.

Blind people at least should have a way to be able to evacuate a building with sound clues instead the traditional lights that turn up if there is a fire and are useless for them. The emergency lights are mandatory by law, but including emergency blips could be also useful for everybody in some areas where a lot of blind people are expected (or live).

Blind people should be given the opportunity to evacuate a building or a school just by their own means, even if is alone or left behind in a emergency. You can't always rely on touching to orientate yourself if there is a fire. Specially metallic things.
Better to eat than rub in, supposedly that helps the immune system recognize it as food rather than invader.

Data labeling is important ;-)
Cool, you don't but obviously you don't deal with a ton of normal users. They are not running NASes, they will just toss Google some cash for bigger GMail box.
As soon as a streaming service starts having availability issues, it will garner a reputation very quickly and lose customers just as quickly. Being able to serve N amount of content reliably and consistently (even if less than M amount) is still a strong demonstration of good engineering practice in my opinion.

On that point, I can't honestly recall a time I had Netflix streaming issues that weren't because of a problem on my side. Maybe I've just been lucky though, so ymmv.
Data labeling is important when training your model ;-)
An excellent post, thanks.
Vivaldi embraces Snap distribution channel for Linux
i expect in the future all information perhaps could be recovered.. everyone possibly revived.. so its a question of how early
For who though?

If you're a user of whatever-data-format designing your new application, you could always use the subset you actually cared about. No-one forced you to use all the complex bits in XML.

If you're a library author - well, yes, you could implement a Json parser at first that was eval(input), then something more complex because that's a security hole, then something else again because that's not too quick, then a new library like JsonPath to get queryability, and... all your work is still less functional than the system you were trying to replace. So yes, you can possibly implement Json libraries in less code than implementing XML libraries. But unless you had a reason to implement a new XML library from scratch anyway, that isn't actually a win.
The reason your Columbia shirt has a tiny pocket near your waistline (2019)
I definitely want to avoid learning how to set up and use the compiler and linker when I just want to use some package.
All true, but I think we might underestimate the amount of data sitting in Pivotal.
Human Consciousness Comes from a Higher Dimension, Scientist Claims
"open"
It's coming for all the old "legacy" web names with strong domain ranking and decades of backlinks. Private equity is snapping them up as fast as possible, loading them with ads, and bleeding the brand dry.
What is the latency or bandwidth bottleneck in nat v4?
Scribble there best quotes on the tombstone. Nobody remembers names, besides those who already knew a guy. But good recipes, good quotes, they are memes, glider guns they will see heat death.
The only 100% safe method is to not do the illegal activity at all. There's always a risk/rewards analysis to be performed when committing any act that could have negative consequences whether you're playing the stock market or doing credit card fraud. For any major criminal that gets caught, you can usually read the arrest affidavit which offers a pretty interesting look into how the criminal was caught despite the careful measures they took. The one for DPR is interesting to read and shows how despite taking careful measures, DPR left a trail of breadcrumbs that investigators used to track him down. His use of Tor was pretty solid (assuming the whole affidavit isn't complete parallel construction fiction) but it was everything else he did outside of it that got him in the end. There's another story of a university student that sent threats to his school to get out of an exam or something through anonymous emails over Tor. They only caught him because he was the only person using Tor on the school network at the time the email was sent. If he was off campus, he may have remained anonymous.

An analog crime I think about is the murders in Moscow, Idaho. The criminal did take some careful measures like wearing gloves but he left a knife sheath behind that contained DNA evidence. Everything else they had on him was circumstantial, he owned a similar car to what police thought they saw on people's doorbell cameras and his phone went offline during the time of the murders and also pinged a tower close to the crime scene hours afterwards. Police found a partial genealogy match to his DNA which I'm sure they compared to similar car owners and cell tower records. If he hadn't left the sheath behind, wore something like a Tyvek suit, and simply left his phone at home, the suspect pool would have likely been too large. His careful measures (turning off his phone, making multiple passes in his car) likely contributed to police focusing on him once the DNA proved a link.
They look so much like drum vibration modes.
My definition of stimulants is wider than your definition.

The drug antagonizes the adrenaline receptors. Adrenaline stimulates people.

They are selling it as a non-stimulant drug because people are stupid.
Whoah, cool. I'm one of the authors of the geometric search tree paper, and we totally hadn't see that paper, but will for sure dig in! Thanks for mentioning it.
There’s a link to their YouTube channel in documentation. That has a few demos, although I did not check them out
This man is surprised that his google results are terrible. I have to assume this is a frog boiling thing and he's only just noticed the water heating up. Having switched to Kagi years ago, I'm immediately horrified by the state of Google if I ever end up on it. It's appalling and has been for a few years now.
And I thought I was the only one. Thought the same
Actually, in LinuxCNC dialect the gcode does have many features most machines will not understand.

This is why these machines can drill and helical-tap plates with thousands of holes with ease. Also, some folks will cut gear-profiles with a slitting saw, and 4th rotary axis...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI27vSoxCeo

Trying to pull these things off in a CAD/CAM package is usually a fools errand the old guys prank kids with... oh that sounds easy... lol =3
The best way to pull this off is to bet the tool will end up shutting down and build the replacement before it does. A good example of this is Pinboard: Maciej knew the product inside out, and he knew what being acquired by Yahoo meant. So he started building Pinboard in 2009, caught the various exodus waves from Delicious in the later years (esp. 2011) and ended up acquiring it for $35k in 2017.
Out of curiosity, what parts of NAT management tend to be so horrible in practice?
`install -y` is a fun analogue to consider here.

A "Hey, this is really going to delete files. If you're just playing around here, maybe try it with the --dry-run flag" seems sane and (so long as it's asked for) means less syntax to have to know up front.
is there a clause in US patent law where if you choose to either selectively enforce your patents, or not enforcing them for a while then suddenly starting to do so, invalidates your patent?
Since there is no competition and people will keep using Google whatever happens, might as well push the ad-filled garbage site than the ad-free handwritten blogpost. The former probably makes them more money, everything else humanity holds dear be damned.
CC0 wasn't intended for code and you can be hurt by liability/warranty issues. Creative Commons themselves suggest pairing it with an Unlicense or 0-Clause BSD.

https://opensource.org/license/unlicense

https://opensource.org/license/0bsd
The actual problem is a bit different than what people reading your message might think. AFAIK, GrapheneOS doesn't talk to Google, by default.

The nature of the problem is more about:

* being somewhat at the mercy of Google (in hardware, and in where they take Android, and how they might frog-boil), and

* in supporting this compromise, to the exclusion of advancing more open and sustainable ones.

I suspect that the relative number of principled techies has dropped dramatically, as the number of people developing computer stuff increased massively, and we let the Leetcode interviews and the VCs lead astray prospective new principled techies.

Debian, for example, has a critical mass of principled techies for historical reasons. Not many projects do. And it's really hard to find new principled techies, when most people are just imitating what they see everyone else doing: posturing and promoting personal brands with open source (because they heard it's a good way to help land ), or launching open source projects that they hope to be startups (usually essentially investment scams, whether they realize that or not, or the rare legitimate ones). They're not bad, they just haven't seen much different. Plus the occasional state actor sleeper on a project, which we have to assume is happening, plus entire projects that are giant long-con honeypots.

So I'm hoping GrapheneOS somehow manages to be sustainable and have integrity. I think founder strcat is principled and passionate, for example, though I don't know the current contributors. I sent the project a little money I could spare. Because GrapheneOS is the best user-respecting daily-driver option I see at the moment, and I couldn't wait or flail around any longer.

Purism might be a good daily driver, and I think they respect users, but their entry level price point is too high for me and most people. And they seem to chronically have financial problems, so I don't know how long they'll be around. Last I checked, running their software platform on affordable used third-party hardware, as entry points for large numbers of principled techies (like Linux was), wasn't yet viable.
Consuming berries, tea, and red wine may reduce the risk of dementia
Is it somewhere on GitHub/mind sharing a screenshot?
Or jus buy a DRM free games on GoG and let them install/play to any family member as you wish.
I'll add that https://github.com/0xType/0xProto is worth checking out, if you haven't. What mono (and proportional) fonts do you find work best for you?
My anecdote. My wife ate PB&J sandwiches all through pregnancy and when breastfeeding. Still, my son was diagnosed with a peanut allergy as an infant, before he was even old enough to really munch on a Bamba.

Also "We have no peanut allergies in Africa"... come on. Maybe it is less prevalent, but what nonsensical quote to include in an article.

It's my experience that Americans, through peanut butter, also eat more peanuts in general than other cultures. Most other places I've been to only have limited snacking or cooking with peanuts and don't really eat any peanut butter (if it's even available in stores, which it often isn't unless there's an "American Food" section).
> If those hypothetical tourists don't feel strongly about their own nation

We do feel strongly about it but we can't act on these feelings. The government is not taking any feedback.

Again, it's like screaming into the void at something you can't change, like weather. Except in this case, if you scream loudly enough, you will get arrested and charged with "discrediting the Russian armed forces" or "spreading fake information about the use of Russian armed forces". First time it's a fine, subsequent times it's a felony.
I witnessed spiritual bypass many times in the context of people becoming "spiritual" as an emotional avoidance strategy. It's even more tragic in my experience because at least traditional religions have very strong and developed frameworks for addressing various types of grief - both individually and as a group.

Modern-day spiritualism is dominated by shallow inspiration masquerading as profound psychological and medical insight. Courses on "raising vibrational frequency", literal belief in astrology, crystal healing, etc.
I recommend [librenms/librenms: Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system](https://github.com/librenms/librenms), which is Open source and free.
I tested with many concurrent goroutines, and confirmed that calling `unique.Make` does not cause any data race condition
There was an article a while back about a guy who ingested poison oak in order to develop tolerance for the irritant.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40399224

I discussed that article with an old-timer here in New England told me that a slightly less extreme version worked for him: letting goats eat the massive growth of poison ivy on his land, then drinking the goat milk for a few weeks or months.
I did a lot of setting posters in serif type a year ago or so and came to the conclusion that most tools do a horrible job of kerning.

It did not seem so bad to me at any point in the past (making posters for a college radio station in the early 1990s, making posters for the Green Party in the early 2000s, etc.) I don't know if I got pickier or if a patent war caused regressions in most text rendering systems. I figured out how to manually kern in Powerpoint (awkward but I can get great results) and also a bunch of options in Illustrator that improve things but still require a manual kerning to look right consistently.

I look around and don't see a lot of people setting posters with Serifed fonts and I think it may be that people see they look awful and don't have the knowledge or time to do anything about kerning.
> Perhaps that, rather than a technical limitation, is the reason most high-profile arrests related to TOR involve criminals making some other mistake, rather than the security of the network itself being compromised.

I have no doubt that the government doesn't want to demonstrate how weak Tor is to the public, but it's also got to be dead simple to find those kinds of "other mistakes" they can use when they've identified the person they're looking for and can monitor whatever they do.