skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had bed bugs and after I'd recommend cimi-shield treatment. It's a soybean based treatment that as far as I know is one of the safest treatments and long lasting (1yr+) (but expensive so rarely offered). Even dimactous earth can be a breathing hazard if stirred up and you have to leave it round visibly.
United? I don't have much preferences with airlines, but I had a really bad experience with United, so I try to avoid them as much as possible.
Some people use tests as a design tool, and as a way to repeatedly execute code in a known state while developing it. In that regard, it improves upon print statements and, frankly, step-through debuggers. That it leaves behind a harness for triangulating bugs in pull requests is, of course, an invaluable side-effect.
Watermarking would require a separate version of each encoded file for each target device, which is not amenable to efficient CDN-ing.

It's quite easy to grab the encrypted media files, as they go over the wire - do this from two devices and compare what you get. (you don't need to strip the DRM to see if the two files are identical)
> The analogue loophole will remain open until there's a HDMI to optical nerve technology that we're all forced to get at birth.

This is kind of a pointless tangent, but you might not have to go that far. It's probably hard to get a recording of the Apple Vision Pro for instance.
General advice regarding bedbugs…..

Staying in a hotel, don’t leave bags clothes or anything lying around in the floor furniture or bed, put all your stuff in the bath/shower.

When you arrive check the mattress and it’s seams for signs of bedbugs (look up pics on Google of what to look for).

When you get home if you suspect you’ve brought some home, don’t bring anything at all into the house including shies and every single atom you are carrying.

If you can, if you have a freezer big enough, it’s a great weapon in the fight against bedbugs. Freeze everything you can that won’t get damaged by cold. Sheets clothes bags shoes bedding just go on a freezing frenzy.

Study up on diatomaceous earth solutions.
Video of it exploding def shows fireworks going off everywhere, but to your point, trunk looks stocked with loads of diff stuff: https://x.com/BNODesk/status/1874610151959019812/photo/1
In terms of biological and ecological complexity, a tree is vastly more complex, as it exhibits life processes, growth, interaction with other organisms, and adaptability.

In terms of physical processes and energy production, the sun is immensely complex in its own right, but it doesn't exhibit the same kind of dynamic, adaptive behavior that we associate with life.
So it's basically like submitting an iOS app to the app store.
That's why the riskiest moment in an engineer's career is the jump up from senior: The things that get you a strong senior review and the things that get you promoted to architect/principal/staff are completely different. You can end up in a situation where you've done a little too much glue, but not good enough to claim you were doing architect work, while that time meant you did less than expected of a senior doing heads down work. Try to do this with a bad manager, and you are heading for a Pip.

Which gets us back to the most important rule of a software engineer's career: make sure that the person writing your reviews really likes you.
I was responding to your flippant suggestion to "Quarantine, voluntary or otherwise, the elderly and at-risk then."

Which I pointed out is not possible, because those people depend on many other healthy people to care for them. Either those people also need to join the "at risk" bubble (not feasible since they have jobs, school etc) or you don't really have the at risk population isolated as you suggest.

If you don't understand this then you have no idea how care networks function, with duties spread across facility staff, families, volunteers, visiting caregivers etc.

Suggesting you cut off one or more legs of those support networks isn't practical or humane. It would mean people without adequate support for basic needs like feeding, toileting & bathing, leaving aside mental/physical exercise and socialization.
It isn’t dismissive, it’s blatant astroturfing.
I doubt OpenAI would buy the data, they probably scraped it already.

Looks like CGTalk was running VBulletin until 2018, when they switched to Discourse. Discourse is a huge step down in terms of usability and polish, but I can understand why they potentially did that. VBulletin gets expensive to upgrade, and is a big modular system like wordpress, so you have to keep it patched or you will likely get hacked.

Bottom-line is running a forum in 2024 requires serious commitment.
The stock only goes up though. Not sure why
I quite like the "Wiki" on my site. It's half blog, half wiki. The entries can be dated. They are presented chronologically. Navigation metadata is assigned to each entry. But not every entry appears on the blog feed. I can link between entries like [[link]]. Each entry tracks the links to and from it. The best of both worlds I think ^^
In many subfields, the submitter isn't even attempted to be hidden from the reviewers. Usually, even the reviewers can be guessed with high accuracy by the submitters
> Sorry, all domain sales have been suspended. We no longer register nor transfer already registered domain names to new owners.

Dang..
When I was in my business development phase I was taught to make presentations for C-levels at Fortune 500 companies like this:

Make a Powerpoint deck with 50 slides. Compact that down to 20 slides without losing anything.

Get to the point where you have 50 slides like that.

Repeat this process two or three times until you have a deck that is stupendously high density that gives the impression that you respect their intelligence.

---

At times in life Powerpoint has really been my medium, it is much easier for me to put together presentations by putting together various graphics and symbols in PP than anything else, and I've tried.
My understanding is that they're "fine" if you only use them "correctly", and that the reason they're forbidden is that it's so easy to plug things into them in ways that will create a short circuit (e.g., plugging the C end of an A-to-C cable into one).
Once upon a time, this was how all video-to-film transfers worked.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinescope
They even do per-service stuff- their big AI feature is that it will detect people pasting social security numbers or other PII into ChatGPT and block it.
You can build a ternary computer if you want. Donald Knuth would approve.
Anti-cheat is a lousy cover for something that's going to be much more lucrative when used to correlate the accounts of journalists and whistleblowers such that they can be silenced. It's censorship tech.
To do what? Join Substack? No thanks!
>you surprised me

On reflection, I'd like to clarify that this is not an invitation to a Grundyfest*. I was genuinely pleased that the effectiveness gap between low-brow and entertaining isn't as clearcut as I'd thought. That may be worth thinking about

*https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14225033

[note here that applying the low-brow sustainably may require a more active management of surprise than is typical for "entertainments". (Orthogonal to the accuracy aspect, but not to the audience targeting)]
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Glad to hear you spent enough money (or most likely your employer spent enough) to get that status, the airline probably really appreciates it, right about as much as the next 80,000 ahead of you. But perhaps they appreciate those customers just a smidge more.

Hate to break it to you, but all airlines, regardless of status programs have issues. Some are just better at hiding them than others. It’s kind of humorous how a simple story elicits such a feeling of a personal attack. Perhaps try flying private if you’re traveling that much?
The Cybertruck that exploded and the New Orleans vehicle both rented using Turo
> so far so good - you're inviting the comparison of "use a real database" to "use a real X", where X could be anything - a bank, or a nuke.

I should've used different angle-brackets. "ANY <X distributed API service call>" would've been better.

> And I'm lost. Do we hope for a BankLite and NukeLite implementations to exist?

No, but it's still worth mocking BankLite and NukeLite with the same call interface and suitable test data, variance, and jitter.

The overriding point is nothing will ever replace "the real thing", but that's not what mocks are for and it's even worth mocking 3rd party network services which can be, if not more, "quirky" than SQL query engines.
They wouldn't necessarily need to serve different data to each client when they control the whole playback stack, they could get clever by including duplicate frame data with subtle differences and making each device key only able to decrypt one of the variants. Repeat that throughout a show to add additional bits to the signature until it's uniquely identifiable.
Put another way, if you personally taxed all US income at the federal rate for 2 years you’d have less wealth then this handful of people (the federal government collected 4.5 trillion last year). They basically represent another tax on income that everybody pays.
I'm contemplating adding something like that to my https://simonwillison.net site at the moment: most of my content works great as a blog but I like the idea of having some content that's more "page like" which I can continually update - things like a list of currently active projects.
That’s exactly my approach. I learned it from watching the Destroy All Software screencast series a decade ago. While the screencast demonstrates this with Ruby and RoR, it’s still applicable to all my work in Haskell and Yesod, despite some ideologues arguing that there is some dichotomy between types and tests.
Certainly, the best way to browse these days is on Flickr I think:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/57934548@N02/

There's also this old blogger blog where I waffle-on about them:

https://ultraiterator.blogspot.com/

And here's one example of a 16k rendering:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g1B6pVennldNsswyiiA2qOsy2Nv...

If anyone wants to do a print of any of these, definitely let me know (email on profile)! I will be happy to do a 16k render too if I haven't done the one you like at 16k yet!
The cameras you can buy used for a couple thousand dollars have essentially the same sensors as huge cinema cameras, if not better in this application assuming you'll take stills.

Professional editors and color graders have to lower the dynamic range, because there is basically nothing that can get as bright as, say, the sun, and because basically no display can sustain peak brightness over the screen, which introduces an EOTF transfer curves, reducing the peak brightness and thus dynamic range.

You're right about pirated films, but that's because they're typically recorded in a run of the mill cinema while it's playing, not in controlled conditions in front of a carefully calibrated screen-camera combination taking a photograph of every frame.
I notice you said "can" and "if". Does DRM actually use the TPM or not?
> TPM provides no added security value for the vast majority of users[1]

Yes it does. The vast majority of users aren't going to have their laptop stolen by the CIA/NSA and have their DIMMs popped and cryofreezed.

The vast majority of users aren't going to have the case opened and a special-purpose PCIe device installed to steal keys over DMA.

The vast majority of users aren't going to have a dTPM vulnerable to SPI sniffing as modern and not-so-modern processors have fTPM.

This is to provide some baseline level of protection of the user's data against theft and loss.

Are there attacks against TPM? Yep. In as much as there are attacks against SMS 2FA, but for the vast majority of people, SMS 2FA is an acceptable level of security.

If you're a CEO, well sure, you're going to want to do something better (TPM + PIN). I acknowledge that Windows 11 Home users don't have this specific option.

Everyone needs to level set on the type of attacks that are practical vs. involved and who the targets of those attacks are.

FDE (w/ TPM) is part of defense-in-depth. Even if imperfect, it's another layer of protection.
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You can also use the `say` command, which can produce an audio file that you can load into a music player app, which might be more useful since it can remember your place. https://ss64.com/mac/say.html
Wikis are great, but it feels like outside of Wikipedia they've been dying. I wish bashhackers was still with us, and regret even more that there's not other large old school wikis for things like systems software development or other programming languages (or even a newer take on the original WikiWikiWeb). I guess maybe some of it is GitHub pages or that weird GitHub wiki thing now, but they don't really feel the same.
But they don't control the playback stack, once the attacker has the keys. The attacker brings their own stack, decrypting the data with their own software.
I'm not sure that a large % of people would pay for a Windows upgrade - most seem to see it as part of the computer they bought.
This really triggered a lot of old memories from my early career. I started off as the 7th employee - as a Jr dev in a startup that eventually grew to 100+ and felt like an outsider for years. At some point I became a "senior" dev and the insider at this tiny company. It was quite a bit more stressful actually. I made more important decisions but it was super interesting. After having that insider taste, I kept chasing it at bigger corps for many years by becoming staff and eventually leading teams but never got that feeling again. I was either below a director or VP. To be young again...
Not really. The get a cut on both ends, really. If they make you upgrade to keep using up to date Windows because of claimed security issues, they get additional sales they possibly wouldn't have otherwise.

I suspect Microsoft has numbers which suggest people rarely upgrade their OSes anymore; they're more likely to upgrade their hardware. Enthusiasts still will do whatever but these changes aren't targeting or caring about enthusiasts.
Hmm… Interesting. I use Nix so I don’t have versioning issues.

Maybe I would have if I didn’t.
It is not a good way of doing science, but it is the best we have.

All the alternatives, including the ones you proposed, have their own serious downsides, which is why we kept the status quo for the past few decades.
The journal lost, as it would have increased their h-index and reputation significantly.
Arbitrary anti-abuse rules typically have limited upside and significant downside.

HN already has a lot of anti-abuse baked in, much of it highly dynamic, and as dang's said here, largely based on member-based actions. Downvoting and flagging content really does work, even if it's occasionally slow (a few hours to accumulate enough flags to down a comment or new account).

If that's not fast enough for you, or you see a newly-emerged problem, email the mods at hn@ycombinator.com, with a clear and concise statement of the problem and links to examples. More on that in an earlier comment, including some research tips:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42571073>

Most of the time I've reported spammy or abusive accounts they've already been marked as such within the system. Maybe one in ten seems to be novel.
Second this. My GP missed the point — the integration with front end tooling all the way to the database means you get so much more for free.
Have you tried Lima?
Spirituality Is Secure Attachment with Reality
When traveling with a family, we have 4 suitcases. No bathroom we have encountered has that much space.

Why don’t hotels just start building purpose built tiled areas to store suitcases etc? If I put suitcase in a plastic bag that should help right?
Was this post written by the Turkish marketing team?
Going to go goal-free for 2025. Just to see if that makes any difference.
I'm extremely familiar with the capabilities of TPMs (I've worked on deploying remote attestation services at multiple companies), but here's the thing - streaming vendors don't use TPM-based remote attestation. None of them. It doesn't happen. Could it happen? Yes, but it would buy almost nothing - remote attestation is something that's viable in enterprise environments where you can bind TPM identity to inventory entries, and not in the real world where you could just plug in a second TPM on a USB adapter and fake the measurements. And how would you prove the attestation came from the same device that has the reported GPU key? Remote attestation is only useful when bound to other hardware keys, and there's no way within current specs to perform binding between the TPM and the GPU - pirates could just pass the attestation query to another machine.
> This is rather contradictory.

Not necessarily. I'd bet that the fraction of $ microsoft makes from selling windows licenses _retail_ is a rounding error away from zero compared to what they get selling bulk/volume licenses to corporate / OEM.

It's in microsoft's interest to make sure that dell/hp/lenovo ... etc have reasons to keep buying licenses to put on the new computers they're selling.

I suspect that TPM is about making the PC less open than it traditionally has been. For the majority of people on this site, that's going to cause a deathly-allergic reaction. For the majority of the population, there's some security advantages to having windows manage device security from POST.
I'm very confused, if the bed bugs are in/on the mattress, and you enclose the mattress in a cover, how do the bed bugs get out of the cover?
Good to know. My vpn works but I believe it’s wireguard-based. I wonder if yours is TUN/TAP or another driver
The prosecutors asserted that Ko Wen-je, a former mayor, took bribes. He and his supports have maintained that the charges are a political vendetta.

https://archive.is/C0wPw
The life sciences industry’s HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) systems are critical in maintaining the necessary environmental conditions for various processes, research, and manufacturing activities. Given the sensitive nature of the work in this industry, HVAC systems must meet specific qualifications and requirements. Here are some key considerations for HVAC qualifications in the life sciences industry:
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It's always a good idea to check the bed and mattress of a hotel/motel/hostel room before settling in, even with upmarket hotels. Look for small dark spots in the mattress folds and crannies, these are their faeces. If there is a bad infestation you can really suffer.

See Greg Ovens (great YT channel by the way) talk about his awful experience staying in a motel -
https://youtu.be/AOe9mvA3zoA?feature=shared
This is an inspiring article for the DIY enthusiast in me.

I’ve found a simplified approach that works for me. For anything that I do, I use a timer (on the Watch, Kitchen Timer, etc.), as I don't want to use my brain to track time.

While I'm at my desk, I have a physical hourglass, and I like it. The hourglass helps me with a Pomodoro-ish technique without that hard and loud stop alarms. It reminds me of the passage of the sands of time but gives me the freedom to break or push a tad more to finish the task at hand. I love having a few types of mechanical Kitchen Timers lying around.

https://brajeshwar.com/2023/timer/
I can see why the next generation of shooters made A and D strafe rather than turn
In the past year I've worked with a couple of codebases upgrading multiple versions, and it wasn't that much work. The upgrade generator lets you step through each changing file, view diffs, allowing you to edit files manually if you edited the core config files extensively. In general, the more you edit those core config files instead of extending via initializers, the more painful it is, so perhaps you've worked with codebases where there wasn't a lot of discipline.
Depends on your definition. If you count video game anti-cheating software as DRM, the answer is yes. Apart from that, I’ve only currently seen TPMs used as a hardware identifier (in the same way a monitor serial is) for software licensing. The capability does exist however.
Julian.com (Julian Shapiro) is a great, hyper-focused example of regularly refined pages.
On the consumer front, sure, but there are large contractual buyers who have requirements for TPM presence and several software policy systems can enforce it.
If you'd like a reference implementation, it's all under AGPL here: https://github.com/boehs/site :)
I would be worried for Valve if even with their infinite resources they cannot manage to do right by their most popular game on Steam. There's enough multiplayer shooter games from Valve that are also neglected (tf2, l4d, both have huge issues with bots and hackers) to suggest that it is the norm for them, be it due do disinterest, incompetence, or both.
I tried 3 times the "Which is heavier, a 10.01kg block of steel on or a 9.99kg bag of feathers?" and ChatGPT keep converting kg to pound and saying the 9.99kg is heavier.
Legal or illegal immigrants are both human people who need to be treated with dignity and respect, and have the onus to treat their host country with dignity and respect.

Your link mentions the inequality between blacks and whites in s.africa but the H1B revelations as of late have been showing that the immigration is for cheaper labour and well below market rates.

To be Anti-immigration is to really be pro standard of living. Immigrants should come to get the host country standard of living, not to bring acceptance of a lower standard of living.
It's terence tao trying to help others with imposter syndrome. It seems quite unlikely he himself would suffer from it...
I agree with this so much. Too less Glue work for staff+ will get you “Not performing at a Staff level PIP. Do too much Glue Work, you’re suddenly get compared to Senior productivity. You’re on a fast track to PIP unless your manager and your skip likes you. Because doing just the right amount of Glue Work is impossible because the standards are subjective.
My daughter went from being a walk-on novice in a sport to being selected to a US national U23 team.
1) the amount of time and effort she devoted to training was simply astonishing to me as a veteran of Div III and club sports.
2) but along the way she had the benefit of very, very good coaching.

The effort it turns out is only part of the equation. Directing the effort into the most productive avenues is seemingly nearly as important.
The elephant in the room is that HN is full of people facing an existential threat.
Active player counts:

Minecraft: ~185,000,000
World of Warcraft: ~7,250,000
Dragons Dogma 2: ~4000

This seems more along the lines of nobody bothers to crack games nobody wants to play.
My story involves flying over Nepal in a place where you definitely could not see Everest out of the window and having the pilot saying "look out the window, it's Everest!". Pretty sure it was K2 as the plane was west of KTM.