They have a submission button, but it asks for a lot of info, it would be kind of nice if you could just paste a github repo and it would pull out the information.
Good idea! However, I want to ensure the high quality of tools through curation. Otherwise, many will submit their tools for backlinks and advertising purposes, turning the platform into a mess. After all, the end goal is to help cybersecurity professionals and leaders find the necessary tools.
To add on to your comment, in the arts and creative space there are substantial levels of opposition to AI as it's perceived as a job killer and maybe at some level perverse or akin to an automated plagiarism system that steals their intellectual property (this is complicated and not my personal take, but I see where they're coming from).
It's quite likely that SJ would suffer from severe reputational damage from being the literal voice of AI.
That name was cursed from the start, too. The original "Microsoft Surface 1.0" was tabletop platform that got renamed "PixelSense"[0] years before there was a "Surface" tablet computer.
I recall it was renamed to PixelSense right when the Surface tablets arrived.
Then they named an entire input device line "Surface" as well. When you search for "surface keyboard" you will get results for desktop keyboards and type-covers for tablets.
Several kids in our family's social group have successfully undergone desensitization therapy for severe nut allergies.
It was much more rigorous than the author's approach, with weekly doctor visits and taking increasingly large amounts of whatever they were allergic to (starting with micrograms of nut powder).
I think my niece had the best time as she eventually was advised to start eating daily measured amounts of nutella.
I mention this mostly because I do think the author was a bit cavalier in his approach (mostly because it's hard to accurately judge dosage from wild plants) but also to just spread the word that the allergy desensitization therapies are out there and quite effective and life changing.
I have direct experience with this and it is indeed a miracle. What's interesting is that the protocol largely emerged outside the regulatory channels, with a handful of doctors worldwide developing it once the science became clear that exposure could help and more and more offering it to patients every year. These allergists have carefully figured out regimens that work and it can take a year of daily dosing, with dose sizes increasing twice monthly, until one can safely eat, say, a handful of peanuts.
There's still today another camp: Many allergists still preach avoidance however and put fear into worried parents about the dangers of oral immunotherapy.
Because it can be hard to find an office that will run your immunotherapy program for you, or costly if you do, many parents are doing it on their own, following dosing protocols they find in Facebook groups or on YouTube. The ones I've seen have been supportive and helpful, not quackery.
Meanwhile the medical establishment is finding ways to monetize this immunotherapy by turning, for example, peanut doses into pharmaceuticals, e.g. Palforzia, which is a recently FDA approved "food allergy treatment" and is in fact simply peanut protein.
Oral immunotherapy is indeed dangerous. Eosinophilic esophagitis is real. Anaphylaxis is common. It's a long, tedious road, with daily dosing for years, and in many people the treatment ends in failure rendering the effort wasted.
Although many do achieve remission, there is no guarantee that the allergy is gone for good. The immunity obtained by immunotherapy is not necessarily the same as natural immunity. It may not be complete and it may not be long lasting. The immune system has a long, long memory and we do not have any reliable tests to determine if anyone's immunity is permanent. For that reason allergists recommend continuing dosing indefinitely to maintain immunity, and continuing to carry an epi-pen. For the rest of your life. You will get sick of peanut butter.
All that said, we are doing sublingual immunotherapy for our son. But I am hoping that within his lifetime new treatments are developed that will free him from allergies completely.
Precise control of the immune system would be the holy grail of medicine IMO. Dysfunctions of the immune system are at the root of so many diseases, not just allergies. If the immune system could be easily trained to ignore or attack arbitrary targets at will it could likely cure almost any infection or cancer. And I bet it could be useful in treating the diseases of aging as well.
> There's still today another camp: Many allergists still preach avoidance however and put fear into worried parents about the dangers of oral immunotherapy.
Because immunotherapy can be dangerous, even when conducted in a doctor's office with supervision. I know two people with serious adverse effects requiring getting rushed to the ER.
We think we know a lot about the human body, and we do, but our immune and nervous system and its myriads of interaction paths are to a large part a mystery, with most of what we think we "know" being observed knowledge without understanding the foundation.
I asked our doctor about immunotherapy and she urged against it saying it was lots of trips each week, risky, unlikely to work and the benefits were limited.
I got desensitization from ragweed prescribed by doctor (Ragwitek). But the allergy causes me permanently irritated throat. That was right before covid, then I got scared that it will make infection easier and gave up.
> I mention this mostly because I do think the author was a bit cavalier in his approach
The author may not have had access to a physician with experience in this.
I live in the part of the US where the only physician access is what can be afforded out of pocket (not much). Self initiated treatments are the order of the day.
You mentioned building drywall room - a neat building technique I only learned about recently that's along these lines (but a huge space and cost savings) is a "staggered stud" wall.
This is something I've thought a lot about (I'm a software developer and used to be a writer/editor at a large cybersecurity company where I was responsible for generating ongoing organic search traffic).
What's different this time around is that it's much more _answers_ focused than _search_ focused, and it's not a smaller competitor coming in to try and play the same game, but a whole new thing.
AI services like ChatGPT are already cannibalizing search in certain areas (programming questions, knowledge questions, "what's the difference between" questions, etc) as they give objectively better answers without all the weird SEO and advertising cruft.
It's a wildly better experience searching for "traditional apple pie recipe" on ChatGPT than on Google due to the brutal amount of intrusive ads and over-optimization and the gap is just getting bigger.
Google can't meaningfully improve their search without killing their profits and growth numbers.
On the other side, we haven't even seen the real google killers arrive which are going to be in the form of better AI assistants (Siri, Alexa and Cortana that actually work).
While it's likely that this is the direction search is headed in, it's also sad because it's going to be yet another layer of abstraction over the world wide web. How long before the concept of websites itself is obsolete?
> Google can't meaningfully improve their search without killing their profits and growth numbers.
This is a really good point and might mark a dead end for google. Most of their money is made when people click off of search and land on an advertiser's landing page. Almost everybody in our circle here on HN is unsatisfied with most of those pages they land on because those pages are designed to win clicks, not inform people.
If it turns out that people want answers more than they want search results then google is arguably stuck between a rock and a hard place.[1]
Content creators are in for a hard time too though. Already in Kagi I can ask a question and get a really good answer based on five or six sources without having to view any of those sources. If that's the future then those sources are going to be missing out on a ton of search traffic. Maybe it'll wipe SERPs off the face of the earth, but it doesn't bode well for search traffic for real content operations.
[1] Maybe we should prepare ourselves for "sponsored answers" -- LLM-generated word salad that still somehow tries to sell you a product.
> It's a wildly better experience searching for "traditional apple pie recipe" on ChatGPT than on Google due to the brutal amount of intrusive ads and over-optimization and the gap is just getting bigger.
So the differentiator is not that AI is inherently better but that the phase 1 of enshittification hasn't hit yet. There is no indication that AI solves enshittification, it's only a matter of time. In that case, why bet on it ? We already know the end result and it's shit.
Your comment seems to indicate that alternative search engines with different strategies might be better, because remaining in the minority naturally filters out the unneeded, and that's a more interesting strategy.
(it also implies that capitalism is a problem in itself and that is something I can only agree with)
I feel like the niche that Envato covered has gradually been eaten away by the site builders like Squarespace, Wix, etc. who offer built in themes and by sites like Canva that have mixed in the actual production applications. Seems like a good time for them to get out or to get a broader investment.
I could understand that for the code/theme side of things, but they still seem like the best site for things like source graphic templates, logos, after effects/premiere pro video files, etc. I feel like that's going to suffer the most from this acquisition. That's what I use for my side projects.
The list you mentioned is what I see being eroded by Canva.
Right now, they have all of those items natively integrated into their online editor, making it stupidly easy for even someone as graphically challenged as me to get decent output.
I'm not a Ham, but my grandfather (W8IGY) was, and I credit him for letting me know a larger, more technical community existed "out there" than what was apparent from the small rural town I grew up in the pre-internet days.
Ham radio's time has come and gone, but I still treasure the memories of listening to him talk to people all over the world.
MFJ shutting down is likely one of the final nails in the coffin, but I'll be sad to see it go.
> Ham radio's time has come and gone, but I still treasure the memories of listening to him talk to people all over the world.
Those people all over the world are still there. Every day. The airwaves are full. Yesterday I was handed off between a dozen Italians working contacts in the US.
I have to hand it to European hams. They don't leave anything on the table at all. Some of the gear they fabricate is world class stuff. I just bought this amazingly well made feedline choke from a French ham on Ebay. I've made these myself and know exactly how hard it is to make them that well. RigExpert out of Ukraine is something as well: they just took over the higher end portable analyzer market.
Is there something like Messier objects for radio?
I imagine some kind of numbered, curated list of radio achievements that would be a mini-lesson on gear needed, antennae, frequencies covered, theory and what the goal is.
Or maybe they're more like Scout badges.
Anyway, I have drifted in and out of a fascination with radio. When I drift toward it I often find I am quickly in over my head — or rudderless.
Countless things to go after. Some straightforward, some esoteric, some ridiculously challenging, like making contact with 100+ 1x2 degree grid squares via 1.2GHz Earth-Moon-Earth ("moonbounce") -- that will take some effort, I guarantee.
My thing is HF contesting. Scratch building antennas is also a kick.
If you are interested in radio, find a club. They will help you get oriented.
> I imagine some kind of numbered, curated list of radio achievements
Yes, this is widespread. The ARRL in the US tracks such achievements. A simple example that comes to mind is Worked All States[1]. But that's just one: there are contests, events, records, etc. If you want to put your callsign on a list somewhere there are lots of opportunities.
Just having a callsign in the first place is the start of it. Those are usually assigned by whatever national government you live under. And they typically have grades: Technician, General and Extra in the US, for example.
Some clubs have awards you can work toward, ARRL has a bunch [1]. SKCC [2] and NAQCC [3] have some for folks who like to work Morse code/CW. I'm sure that whatever aspect of ham radio folks are into, there is wallpaper you can earn while doing it.
There is a wide range. In the US, the ARRL (arrl.org) handles the majority. There are awards for “worked all states”, “worked all continents”, and so on. There are various contests every weekend. There is “Parks On The Air”. It’s called radiosport these days. You could join the ARRL and hook up with a local group for guidance - the addresses are on the website.
A lot of people will tell you to study for the technician exam, take the test, and buy a Baofeng handheld radio. The end result of that is usually that the new licensee keys up a local repeater a few times, doesn't find a community they want to be a part of, and the radio collects dust.
Instead, I suggest finding local ham clubs and seeking out experience with different parts of the hobby. Find people who chase DX (long distance contacts) on shortwave. Find the contesters, people who compete to see who can make the most contacts meeting some condition in a given period of time. Find the parks/summits on the air people, who go to parks and summits to set up portable stations and make contacts. Find the fox hunters, people who compete to find hidden radio beacons. Find the people with VHF/UHF rovers, vans with bit directional antennas mounted. Find people who communicate with satellites. Find people who bounce signals off the moon.
If your experience with any of that excites you for more, study for your license and dive in. I'd highly recommend getting your general class license instead of technician. It's not all that much harder to get and it opens up the shortwave bands.
As someone who listens but doesn't transmit, some of the most fun is actually chasing shortwave pirates around 6.950 MHz. There are a lot of fun radio shows that people put on, and I guess the FCC doesn't seem to care too much what happens below 40m. It might take some of the fun out of it, but it would be really cool to see some of that legalized as a form of amateur non-commercial music broadcast.
If you want to get licensed I found HamStudy's[1] learning method the most efficient use of my time and was able to breeze through Technician and General class. Their "Find a Session"[2] page makes it easy and inexpensive to take the test(s) remotely too.
It's different for everyone. For me, ten years ago, I got interested in quadcopters back when making them yourself was the norm. There is a lot of radio involved, especially at long range. That sent me down the rabbit hole.
There is a kindly person on YouTube you might watch: KB9VBR. He operates out of US parks. A lot. Vast numbers of contacts for that sort of operation. He sells antennas on EBay as well.
If you can find a HamFest in your area (they tend to pick up around the summer months) that's a great place to start and maybe meet a local Ham. If you know someone with a license you can operate at their station and under their call sign with their supervision and pick up a lot of the protocols and what the restrictions on popular bands are.
Picking up a Technical License or General License exam prep book is a good way to learn a lot of the radio and electronics technology too.
Go to arrl.org and join up. Read both their magazines every month. Locate your local ham group and start going to their meetings. They will help you to quickly get a license.
What happens next depends on your interests. The choices are vast and interesting.
Respectfully, this isn't true at all. We just do different stuff these days. We experiment with meshes, lora, digital modes (sometimes with internet backhaul, sometimes not), and other things like that. I just built a 5w 440 repeater small enough to mount in my VTOL and fly overhead for two hours.
Ham isn't dead, it just looks different than it did for our grandfathers.
100%
When I went to defcon in 2013, I saw all these kids covered in piercings and ink, studying for their exams.
They grew up in a wireless world, except it wasn't about DX, it was all local stuff, low power and multi protocol.
The tragedy of the ARRL was being too hardware oriented and not getting on board with open source, until it was too late.
Isn't the ARRL kind of outmoded these days though? Before the internet they were the US clearing house of all quality ham publishing and a great deal of organization. They had a big role to fill. Today, however, that communication flows independently on the internet.
I'm writing as an ARRL member that renews every three years. But I spend way more time learning from forums (groups.io, QRZ, blogs, etc.) and YouTube than anything the ARRL is doing.
There is a major world wide event called CQ WW dx contest in which on the order of 30,000 hams participate.
There are three morse code events each week, one on each of Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The Wednesday event has four separate one-hour sessions. If you tune in on one of these onto 20 meters, you will a whole mass of signals.
My local club, the North Shore Radio Club gives massive help to the Chicago Marathon, with on the order of 200 hams helping out with emergency traffic. Imagine a crowded event in a major city--the cell network becomes absolutely overloaded. Their help with traffic about medical events has doubtless saved lives.
The advent of the new digital modes invented by Joe Taylor (yes, that one, the Nobel Prize winner) embodied in the program WSJTX is massively active. This is a low-signal mode used on HF, LF and VHF/UHF. It significantly helps moonbounce communication.
Perhaps the most social of events is Field Day in which hams all over North America go to (generally) an outdoor location and set up stations to exercise emergency communications and use emergency power setup. You can check the ARRL web site in June to find one near you.
A recent activity is Parks On The Air where hams go to parks to set up temporary stations and pass out contacts to folks all over the world.
I communicated with someone 8,000 miles away from me (Midwest US to South Africa) by bouncing radio waves off the ionosphere from an antenna I built myself using as much power as a light bulb.
The hobby is definitely dying, but it still provides some awesome moments. Tons of nerds here would find it time well spent.
I've done both. If you and your remote station have good antennas, a low local noise floor, and the right atmospheric conditions, a little power can take you to the other side of the planet.
Probably the former but possibly the latter. Sometimes "conditions" are such that a tiny amount of power will go a very long way. Right now, near the peak of the solar cycle, 4 watt CB radios are sometimes heard thousands of miles away.
I dunno about that. There are more licensed hams today in the US than there ever have been. And as a proportion of the US population, the number of hams is close to an all-time high.
I also serve as a Volunteer Examiner (ham who helps administer license exams), and the group with which I volunteer administers remote licensing exams to multiple people on a daily basis. So, anecdotally, I do think there are still plenty of folks out there getting into the hobby.
To me this is more a sign that western manufacturing's time has come and gone.
The ham world is buzzing as of late with how cheap, Chinese manufacturers are taking the market by storm from incumbent manufacturers on both sides (US and Japan) of the pacific. It's both grim and bittersweet because the hams admit their quality is good enough while being so much cheaper and easier to acquire.
Source: Dad is ham, overhear conversations of such from his comms and in radio shops; catalogs from HRO and the like are now half Chinese.
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