skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In a potentially life or death situation

Which, once more, was not happening here. The car was lost, not out of control. And the built-in solution was applied, and worked.

What do you really want here? You've never been in a Uber that took a wrong turn? Never argued with a cab driver about a route? Never been stuck in an airliner at the end of a runway waiting for clearance? Vehicles do things their occupants don't like all the time, and no one freaks out on the internet about it.
Fungal growth in the intestine is surprisingly common and largely an unavoidable hygiene issue as 15% of the microbiome is fungus, that people need to understand and address.

The term "Candida" has become the buzzword often used to describe this issue by lay persons, though it oversimplifies a more complex problem it does its job and lets people discuss the issue, which is usually straightforward to fix with options like antifungal medications, biofilm disruptors, a carnivore diet, probiotics, and other interventions.

Dismissing these concerns as "crank" or "quackery" , the same school of thought as those who play dumb about fungal overgrowth and mislable issues as crohns, ibs etc etc , comes across as disingenuous and seems aimed at discouraging others from educating themselves about basic hygiene and health.
Fall into the pit of success
Web3: Fantastic Sdapps and Where to Find Them
Developing Web3 projects has become commonplace, and anyone can issue their own token (even a struggling student, with a little help from ChatGPT). All that's left is to write a DAPP (Decentralized Application), add a user interface (UI), deploy it on a server, and voila! Your Web3 project is ready.
Er, not really in 'Northern England', the Picts lived in what is now Scotland.

My favourite aspects of the pictsies ('Nac Mac Feegle') was their fear of writing, given its association with lawyers.
I use CalyxOS and sync with the Nextcloud app to my home server. There is Seedvault built in but I've found it to be slightly janky. Many apps can directly operate on files synced through the Nextcloud app like that, or at least directly export backups to Nextcloud through the file provider APIs. Calendars and contacts are supported through WebDAV apps lile DAVx5.

It pretty much just works with little manual involvement.
Last time I had an Apple device the only way to backup was plugging it into a desktop with iTunes.

How do you figure Google's backup (which backs up contacts, messages, photos, mail, and remembers which apps you have installed) is bad? What more could it do or should it do in your opinion? Also Google Authenticator now backs up to your account and you can recover it through a logged in browser.
Don't automatic pet feeders run on timers? And vacuums run on a timer + sensors? And thermostats run on a timer + sensors? I'm not seeing why any of those would be on a network, much less the Internet. In order to put them on a network in the first place, you'd need to have a way to configure it locally (e.g. bluetooth), so why wouldn't you just set schedules there? The whole point of automation is that you set it up once (like when you open it) and then never touch it again. Again, best practice would be to never connect it to a network at all.

The AirBnB use-case seems fair enough. I'll still maintain that having devices connect to hostile C&C servers (which is the current status quo) is not a basic best-practice or an incremental improvement. The recent story about inverters being bricked by a distributor demonstrates why. Literally damaging electrical infrastructure (which is what happened) is one of the the boogeymen used to push for better security, and can put people's lives at risk. That attack should have never been possible.
Get a headset. You can get a FB account with one and better still there is actually some customer service.
> Would you allow prisoners to volunteer as teachers, nurses, engineers?

If part of their job description was the equivalent of clearing brush/cutting fire lines in emergencies, I might consider it.

> Why is the market for firefighters the only one that gets free volunteers from this pool?

Do you have another source of willing, not-risk-averse, physically fit and competent people that are not doing anything else, know each other already, can be there ready to work together at a moment’s notice, and won’t bail partway through to go fill an instacart order?
The new Meta rules have a carve-out that allows allegations of mental illness and abnormality based on gender and sexual orientation, but no other reason.

You’re seemingly making the argument that this is good because those allegations are statistically popular.

If you support freedom of speech, shouldn’t all insults be allowed rather than just those targeted at a specific group?
I think the original Broadcom chips were overstock in the normal market because they were somewhat a nuisance of unnecessary checkboxes that would reward you with further testing/diagnostic complications in return for paying too much..
> Being trapped inside a car indefinitely is dangerous

It was like two minutes, tops. Again, it's on video!

And I love that you started from a position of needing an emergency escape button and when challenged it's... because the occupant might have to pee really bad.
> especially not seen in the light of how anyone who dared to venture outside of the desired narrative was treated in the last decade or so.

You're bringing external baggage into this discussion. The problem is, we all have different types of baggage. You may have "dared to venture outside of the desired narrative" but not everyone had, or maybe they had discussed these matters in private chats and forums and are only now talking about them online. I find that keeping personal beefs out of reactions helps keep comment quality high.

Though you make me curious. Is the appeal of HN to you when discussing these matters that it censors less?
Step 0: Use a reasonable device.

Story from a few years back: I have an old Samsung Galaxy I needed to migrate off of. As I recall, the only way to back up all the important data without involving trusted cloud infra was unlocking the bootloader and using TWRP. Don't recall if rooting was also part of the process - I think I wanted to back up before attempting rooting and later actually reflash it. Somehow I think I managed to trip a hardware fuse in the process because the device bricked and I'm not sure if I will ever be able to get at that data or if it's already gone forever...

Especially infuriating that what caused the full data loss was an attempt to back it up!

I'm so done with combating malicious manufacturers and OSs.
Previously (10 points, 6 hours ago, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42647606
Ask HN: Burnout Guidance
Friends and family tell me I’m insane for entertaining the possibility of taking some time off due to burnout.

I’m currently dealing with some serious depression and trying work on these things myself, but it’s proving to be challenging and have set a timer to re evaluate before I dig myself into a deeper hole.

Am I disillusioned to think time off would help me? Clearly the tech industry job market is tanking, so I see there is risk here. Would be nice to hear from people in a much clearer state of mind than myself.

I’m 29, have about 1.1M USD with 150k cash emergency.

Hoping to touch grass for a few months away from a screen and remember life is worth living. I’ve spent countless years second guessing myself hunched over, studying courses, doing graduate school, breaking production, fixing production. It’s fine, but my head is elsewhere and I can’t seem to care about anything anymore.

Fitness wise I’m healthy, eat healthy, sleep well, workout a lot and socialize with friends.
You could, but in many cases you wouldn't want to. You will get superior results with a fixed compute budget by relying on external tool use (where "tool" is defined liberally, and can include smaller narrow neural nets like GraphCast & AlphaGo) rather that stuffing all tools into a monolithic model.
As a policy, it shouldn't make anyone mad. The fact that there is organized and successful resistance to prescribed burns is a failure of CA politics. I hope this event eliminates at least some of that resistance.

As a message, presented on its own, it connotes a reductive sophistic denialist take. Getting to the effective policy requires an effective message. Like you and I have talked about before, the burden is on the advocate to craft a message whose whole meaning (denotation & connatation) conveys what they intend.
With Port Strike Averted, Dockworkers Draw New Curbs on Automation
I thought the core of your concern, then I think it's addressed by the lack of regret in reality. Do you have any data on prisoner firefighter retention and turnover? My understanding is that these people ought to fight fire after fire and stay in the program.
Relevant comic, "The Science News Cycle"

https://phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1174
I am not sure how that is relevant. What would be relevant would be that I have installed Linux for a few now former Windows users on laptops and they found the end result to be better. They experienced better battery life, faster boot times and faster program launches.
A lot of the web is fine without CSS, many are improved by disabling CSS, especially ones that use CSS based paywalls. Also when disabling JavaScript you will get a lot of broken sites, unless you also disable CSS.
That is not quite correct. A court is undoubtedly interested in what an expert witness has to say.

It is the lawyers appearing before the court that may attempt to play the person not the ball, by variously undermining or bolstering their standing as an expert at all.
https://www.seat61.com/international-trains/trains-from-Madr...

3 switches but still doable, overnight direct train was shut down after COVID unfortunately
I also worry about this which is why I've been researching things and posting my findings here. I wish this got picked up by at least the student newspaper. UW should be able to present their side. Hard to predict whether we will ever know the truth.
Thanks for the tip! Added screenshots to homepage - after features. Is that a good position? https://extradock.app/
Not really. Look at any open source Java library, and you'll see that unless it's small enough to implement in a single package, it probably contains public classes that aren't meant to be part of the public API but are declared public so they can be used in other packages in the library codebase.

That's why they introduced a module system for Java in Java 9. It sounded pretty cool to me when they announced it, but it was a bit too late to make much difference in the Java ecosystem (Java 9 came out 21 years after Java 1) and I haven't heard much about it since then.
The important stuff gets auto uploaded to my NAS via the NAS app, whenever I'm home.
All of the BigTech companies are still hiring - just in lower numbers. But so are the non BigTech companies. So if you are looking at a smaller pool either way, you might as well shoot for the moon.

Even if they do have to “settle” for enterprise dev, they still need to practice for DS&A to increase their “luck surface area” to get into those companies that pay top of range.
Hi HN,
ChampStats.ai is a tool I built for League of Legends players who want to understand champ interactions. Many existing sites are bloated, cluttered, and offer vague/conflicting advice. This is designed to be clean and intuitive.
We do:
1. Team Synergy Recommendations – Find the most synergistic team comps based on champion interaction stats. No more guessing which combo will carry harder.
2. Pre-Game Win Likelihood – Get a clear, data-driven prediction of your chances before the match even starts.
3. Counter Matchups – Discover precise counter picks and how to exploit them. Perfect for climbing solo queue or dominating flex.
What makes ChampStats.ai different?
• Transparency: I show the actual stats, calculations, and number of games behind every recommendation.
• Streamlined UI: Built for speed and clarity, with no ads or unnecessary noise.
• Always Up-to-Date: Refreshed with every patch.
This started just as a data-science project, and because I found the insights interesting, I built it into a full site. I’d love to hear some feedback from any players and devs.
Thanks for this information. That's actually really helpful for me to know in my server administration dealings. I _hate_ disk IO and disk thrash. I was aware of kernel stuff but completed eluded me that I could modify it. I put it to 7200
Not just chip exports. It also limits model weights.

From the article:

In addition to the semiconductor controls, the new rules also limit the export of closed AI model weights, which are the numerical parameters that software uses to process data and make predictions or decisions.

Companies would be prohibited from hosting powerful closed model weights in Tier 3 countries, like China and Russia, and would have to abide by security standards to host those weights in Tier 2 countries. That means the controls on model weights don’t apply to companies that obtain universal VEU status, one of the people said.

Open weight models — which allow the public to access underlying code — aren’t affected by the rules, nor are closed models that are less powerful than an already-available open model. But if an AI company wants to fine-tune a general-purpose open weight model for a specific purpose, and that process uses a significant amount of computing power, they would need to apply for a US government license to do so in a Tier 2 country.
Blarg, you're getting downvoted just for explaining your reasoning. We're a community, the flag feature is there for a reason, and near as I can tell it's fairly proofed against misuse. I don't agree with your assessment but I respect that you made it and acted on it.
See if there’s a hackerspace or makerspace near you. Many have regular nights/days where they get together and work on stuff.

Our local one does Tuesday nights and Friday days where everyone who’s available comes on and works on projects, either their own or group projects.
If you think Servo can't compete with Chrome on performance, please watch this talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTURkjYJ_uk
Connector size doesn’t matter to you?
Thank you for writing and sharing this! I very emphatically agree that we need more people showing us the honorable parts of messy things, and wish I could say so as beautifully as your piece does.
"I back up my photos using termux, rsync, and rsync.net. This model seems pretty solid."

This is a common workflow.

In addition to termux/rsync we do see a number of people using syncopoli.

FWIW, my personal phone is an iphone and I use the excellent 'iexplorer' to browse the phone as if it were a filesystem.
Funny how the "shortened" url is actually longer than the real url. Any reason you shared it using the former?
Keyboard for writers has word-count odometer, sprint timer
Those people usually use GUI for that. They may even not know what CLI is.
I have an issue with this because a lot of my internal documentation is drawings at various layers of detail. For whatever reason this is what works for me, and it appears to help other people on my team. But they always lag. I've tried committing svgs (useful but immediately out of date) and I'm now using mermaidjs in markdown (because github now renders these in the browser).

Do you know any framework/tool that would keep my drawings up to date? Maybe a pre-commit hook or github action that would check invariants in the code and fail to build without modifying the pictures?
Maybe it makes some things easier on Conservancy? I am not sure.
TIL! Thanks for the info. I didn't know there was an actually functioning state fire insurance plan. I guess all those news articles about insurers pulling out of California is political propaganda I fell for :/

Here's a link if anyone's interested https://www.insurance.ca.gov/01-consumers/200-wrr/California...
You don't know what you are talking about. Low FODMAP diet for example is advocated by John Hopkins Medicine institute , Yale, Cleveland clinic etc.
I fail to see the reference to be honest. I remember the term from OpenGL, when I rendered something to a framebuffer (actually its attachmets) and then applied to the current framebuffer. It helped me to do effects like night vision. Does using offscreen rendering imply using OpenGL?

Does GPU rendering mean that I have to involve OpenGL/Vulkan?
Why are your competitors and predators asleep?

At night it is harder to see food. It is harder to see predators, some of whom are in fact nocturnal. It is harder to notice visual cues and gestures from allies/kin. It is harder to navigate, both due to difficulty seeing distant landmarks and nearby obstructions, so you are more likely to get lost and/or injured. It is colder so your body has to spend more calories to keep you warm.

There are adaptations that can improve nocturnal capabilities, but these typically come with tradeoffs that make diurnal life harder. Evolution is a series of many baby steps - either you need to adapt to not sleeping while you're still at a disadvantage at night, or you need to adapt to being awake at night while you still need to sleep. Neither path seems like it would have been advantageous to our ancestors.
My best guess is that your soldering iron is running too hot, or that you're using the wrong kind of solder. It's generally not an issue.
There have been a ton of improvements! Much better performance overall, way larger data size limit (1K-->10K rows, 100-->500 features), regression support, native categorical data and missing values handling, much better support for uninformative or outlier features etc.
That's a good point, but the Gaza protesters would of course counter that they were slapped down (for stupid reasons) and the war in Gaza (which is illegal and genocidal, though initially provoked by Hamas) continues to be supported. So their protest, while not useless, wasn't effective in bringing change.
The deadline doom loop – by James Hawkins
Have you heard the one about lychee? There is some compound in them which can lower your blood glucose levels. The sugar from digesting the fruit will eventually push up your sugar levels, so it all ends up okay eventually, and the drop is relatively small. But if you already have a low blood sugar level, and eat a lot of lychee it can maybe even kill you. So don’t eat them for an empty stomach just to stay on the safe side.

That is my other “tasty fruit with a weirdly dangerous rare side-effect” fact.
It helps to be able to pinch yourself.
Really interesting! Though what do you back up? Just files?
Self-hosted Nextcloud + Nextcloud's auto-upload feature. Works on non-media as well.

Used to do complete system mirrors with lower level backup solutions, but gave up, when I realized, that I won't be restoring it to a phone anyways.
Not that there’s anything wrong this this, but I tend to see them focused around 3D printer stuff and rarely much software. I’d love to see more software hangouts
I worked for Peter Kirstein for many years - he always had wonderful stories to tell.

In the article Peter talks about the temporary import license for the original ARPAnet equipment. The delayed VAT and duty bill for this gear prevented anyone else taking over the UK internet in the early days because the bill would have then become due. But he didn't mention that eventually if the original ARPAnet equipment was ever scrapped, the bill would also become due.

When I was first at UCL in the mid 1980s until well into the 90s, all that equipment was stored disused in the mens toilets in the basement. Eventually Peter decided someone had to do something about it, but he couldn't afford the budget to ship all this gear back to the US. Peter always seemed to delight in finding loopholes, so he pulled some strings. Peter was always very well connected - UCL even ran the .int and nato.int domains for a long time. So, at some point someone from UCL drove a truck full of obsolete ARPAnet gear to some American Air Force base in East Anglia that was technically US territory. Someone from the US air force gave them a receipt, and the gear was officially exported. And there it was left, in the US Air Force garbage. Shame it didn't end up in a museum, but that would have required paying the VAT bill.
It's more likely that your iron is under powered for your application, and frankly a copper tip will likely make the problem even worse. There are three dimensions that impact heat transfer (temperature being equal): Thermal mass of the tip, thermal conductivity of the tip, and power transfer to the tip.

If your iron cannot support a regular tip, it's likely that it cannot get enough power to the tip to sustain the heat being pulled from it (copper will just expedite this). You can try a beefier tip (or load up a tip with wet solder which can kinda give the same effect) or you can get a higher power iron.

I've been soldering for 15 years with all manner of irons, I've never needed a copper tip, but I often need more than your standard hakko or weller. 400C on a the hakko is not at all close to being equal to 400C on a Metcal for instance.
on the topic of alignment, the library (libpool) fails to align chunk_sz to allow storing a pointer when in the free_chunk list.

This issue is sidestepped in TFA by using a union, which ensures appropiate alignment for all it's members, but in the library there's nothing which prevents me from asking for a chunk size of, say, 9 bytes, which would store pointers at misaligned addresses when creating the free-list.
Question 1: Will this un-break uBlock Origin?
This might be a way to protect people who really don't want an account from having their identity stolen. If you deleted your account, one of your connections could see that and make another one in your name to mess you up.
What do you think the people from the biomedical engineering lab and the physics lab from the article should be doing differently?
That makes me think of the rejoinder: "It was for States Rights to do what?"
Recommended hours not nearly hit enough when they have to finish the night's homework then catch the 7am school bus...
Doesn't milk contain protein ? Do oats contain the same amount of protein?
I can remember my mother giving me carob 50 years ago, because it is "healthier than chocolate". Never forget.
Google Wave, represent!

PS. Of course y'all young'uns won't remember ...
We'd be happy to help some of these kids do Show HNs of their projects. Would that be of interest?
You missed my point. On the contrary, having every light switch in the house need its own network stack is not just insecure, it's overengineered and expensive.

It's fine to have a computer or "gateway" device that calls outbound to a server for outside access, no firewall rules or VPN required. The point is there should only be one point of contact with the outside world, and that's a tech device with enough power to update, secure, etc. As Wi-Fi standards and such change, people should expect to replace it.

Hardware in and on your walls should be dumb, cheap, and long-lasting. Insteon's technology hasn't substantially changed in twenty years, most of my smarthome hardware is over ten years old, and is no less secure or current than when I installed it. And of course, all of it works just like a "dumb" counterpart when the Internet is down or there's no smarthome controller involved. This should be cheaper at scale than "wi-fi smart outlets", if they aren't selling your data to offset the cost.
Lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012)
Craving sugar is a hallmark symptom of B1 deficiency. Source "Thiamine Deficiency Disease, Dysautonomia, and High Calorie Malnutrition"
by Dr Derrick Lonsdale the world expert in b1 deficiency.

B1 is only absorbed in the ileum (small intestine).

The biofilm grown by the fungus (candida) is what covers the skin of the small intestine and it stops the ileum absorbing b1.
It is very common and nobody will shame you for asking water in Brazil. Some cities even have laws mandating that filtered water should be served for free.