MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by genewitch | 2025-04-07 01:55:56+00:00
Not only that, but they were then told to post forced speech by a court not let locations that sell cigarettes.

Whatever, I don't see the difference between PMI/RJR advertising and Anheuser-Busch, and Bayer, and Pfizer, and the US Army, and six car insurance companies all claiming to have the lowest rates and best service.

I kicked television out of my house in 2002. I don't have any streaming services provided by a third party, nor do I really listen to the FM band on my car radio, nor XM. The ads are too many to bear.

Pihole, ad nauseam. If you bypass my pihole, my browser clicks every ad you show and sends the data to /dev/null except what site, timestamp, and a thumbnail of the ad. Its not botting; I'm actively hostile to advertising.
by acdha | 2025-04-07 01:56:32+00:00
It also seems too close to a common tactic his supporters use of pretending to be a neutral observer to preserve their own reputations while asking questions which reinforce his propaganda. “The machine” never existed except in the sense that breaking the law or bad ideas get opposition, but repeating it without acknowledging it as fictional makes it sound like you’re “just asking questions”.
by mattl | 2025-04-07 01:56:38+00:00
The bottom is the best place for it. It would look really bad on the top and the rest of the mouse is kinda thin.

Also the port is a retrofit over the previous model which took a pair of AA batteries.

It’s not some terrible design choice from Apple, it’s a lazy revision to an old removable battery mouse without much effort needed to update the plastic tooling to make it.
by maronato | 2025-04-07 01:57:02+00:00
Why is this fake news blogspam here? Its source was retracted, its text is AI slop, the embedded video is AI slop, the related articles are all AI variations of the same “news” trying to game SEO.

No, Tim Cook doesn’t use a Logitech at work. This is a misinterpretation of an article from last November: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/11/17/tim-cook-didnt-say-that...
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-04-07 01:57:46+00:00
The score is meant for consumption by users of the software with the vulnerability. In the kind of systems where Parquet is used, blindly reading files in a context with more privileges than the user who wrote them is very common. (Think less "service accepting a parquet file from an API", more "ETL process that can read the whole company's data scanning files from a dump directory anyone can write to".)
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-04-07 01:58:04+00:00
Yawn. IIRC in Seveneves an 'unknown agent' caused the moon to shatter. I dunno even what it was exactly? Primordial Black hole?

Anyway, this thing is not bigger than a 10-storey building, according to latest information, as the article said.

Given the nearly infinite amount of impact craters of all sorts on the moon, while it is still unshattered, I guesstimate with my wet thumb and divining dick held into the winds of probability, that any Seveneves scenario is highly unlikely.

Except if the composition of that thing would be mainly 'Shatterium', but again, why?

So stop hyperventilating, relax, and maybe enjoy some fireworks in the future.
by kjellsbells | 2025-04-07 01:58:42+00:00
I could imagine, maybe, that if tariffs were 100% here to stay, that then, after some period of pain, lasting a few years, investors would have built replacement infrastructure domestically. (The word 'maybe' is doing a lot of work here, but let's roll with it, for the sake of argument.)

But this administration is already using tariffs as a negotiating tool, a cudgel. "If country X does Y, maybe the administration will cut them a break."

That means, as an investor, there is simply no certainty that makes it safe enough to invest in domestic US infrastructure. What if I build a factory and then the tariff evaporates?
by oefrha | 2025-04-07 01:58:58+00:00
This is extremely shameless AI-generated blogspam? The post literally links to three more slight variations of the same post under "Similar Posts":

- Is Apple’s mouse so bad that even Tim Cook prefers using a different brand ? (sic, can't even get spaces right in the title)

- Apple’s mouse is so bad that Tim Cook prefers using a different brand for work.

- Apple’s Own Mouse Falls Short, Even Tim Cook Opts for Another Brand

Shit editing elsewhere gives it away too, like literally missing the very first character in the first paragraph.

While the topic is somewhat interesting, this kind of garbage site should be flagged and killed.

Edit: Turns out the whole premise is blatantly false in the first place, according to the top comment of an earlier submission of the same blogspam (flagged):

> This is apparently a misattribution: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/11/17/tim-cook-didnt-say-that...

> > The Wall Street Journal last month published an interview with Cook, in which he said he uses every Apple product every day. Soon after, The Verge's Wes Davis attempted to replicate using every Apple product in a single day. During that day, Davis said he mostly used the MX Master 3, but sometimes switched to a Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad.

> > In other words, it was Davis who said he himself used a Logitech mouse, not Cook.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42168280
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-07 01:59:07+00:00
Didn't the telco providers learn this lesson from John Draper [Captain Crunch] already before 1980?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper

Also it's such amusing irony when the common IT vernacular is enriched by acronyms for all-powerful nemeses in Hollywood films, just as Microsoft did with H.A.L.
by dumbledoren | 2025-04-07 01:59:34+00:00
> It also ignores the fact that since the 1970s the United States has transitioned more and more to information and services jobs.

Even that would have been better. The reality is that since the 70s the brainpower of the US has been pushed to finance, law and tech. US finance has become detached from ties to the real economy and became a sector that created imaginary wealth out of thin air, law remained a sector that complicates everything for a chance at political careers, and much of the brainpower sucked into tech was used to generate bloated valuations/stock returns for the investors by producing mostly marginally useful things.

Tech did succeed in producing the most tangible results, but it failed to impact the physical world much. After all, it wasn't possible to get a big stock value bump at having farming automatized instead of making the next social/publishing/streaming/gaming/subscription/whatever app for X and shaking the investors off of their money. But now that the zero interest economy ended, that business model is dead and tech is dumping the brainpower it sucked. Like how finance did circa 2008. Multiple generations of top-tier brainpower and all the years of education they received and the experience they have are going to sh*t...
by Taek | 2025-04-07 02:00:41+00:00
Procter & Gamble is welcome to become a media production company, but they can't push their media by paying for distribution - any paid distribution is advertising. Instead, distributors have to want to distribute the content because they think their audience will be interested in consuming it - a high bar to hit if the main purpose of your media is to push a product.

Paid actors, and for example company representatives, do count as acting on behalf of the company and therefore don't count as paid advertising. But, whatever medium they are talking to has to be an unpaid medium. A company representative (or paid actor) talking about a product in an interview is okay if the interviewer / distributor is not being paid to host the interview. (or if the interviewer / distributor is the company itself - that's also allowed).

Does that give massive companies an advantage? I would argue not really, because it creates massive overheads for pushing advertisement content, and since you aren't allowed to pay for distribution, it means that people have to be interesting in consuming your content of their own volition instead of other content that isn't trying to push products.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-04-07 02:01:01+00:00
This is a great article. I didn't know Domino was still around, let alone still being developed.

I spent a good portion of my time late nineties working with Lotus Notes/Domino. I even had all the certifications (Principal CLP Application Developer, Principal CLP System Administrator). (And I worked on migrations from OfficeVision and from cc:Mail.)

A few things I remember really liking, from both a development and administration perspective:

- trivial to set up a second or third server, and have data automatically replicate between them

- super-easy to create CRUD apps for custom business processes, without using any 'code' except formulae that were as simple as spreadsheet formulae

- ability to add extra functionality with a language very similar to Visual Basic

And a few things that were annoying:

- because email was just another Notes application, it wasn't as good as things made just for email (like Outlook or Eudora)

- many people thought 'views' were folders, and that if an email existed in two places that meant two copies, and that they could delete one of them

- 'replication or save conflict' (https://help.hcl-software.com/dom_designer/14.5.0/basic/H_AB...)

Several times I sat with a user at their desk, and developed the first version of a CRUD app for them in real time, whilst we were still discussing the requirements.
by monocasa | 2025-04-07 02:01:37+00:00
They're mostly banned in Denver. I think they put a cap on them, and a new one going up means that another one has to come down. Functionally most have been eliminated because of this.

There's some interesting architecture where buildings have been visibly built around an existing billboard.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.7618828,-105.0111584,3a,73.4...
by bluefirebrand | 2025-04-07 02:01:40+00:00
> when there were over a billion people on Earth in 1800 who could have come up with it

My point is that humans did come up with it. Humans did not parrot it from someone or something else that showed it to us. We didn't "parrot" splitting the atom. We didn't learn how to build skyscrapers from looking at termite hills and we didn't learn to build rockets that can send a person to the moon from seeing a volcano

You are just speaking absolute drivel
by dumbledoren | 2025-04-07 02:02:06+00:00
> Don't start a war against neighbours or other neighbours might get angry

Those other neighbors themselves invaded many countries. They stole the money of other countries. Like Venezuela. They never had their assets stolen. Apparently, they subscribed to none of the moral values and ethics they have been advocating. So that argument doesn't count.

Those are currency reserves. Not the changes in the usage of currencies in international trade. But hey, don't let me disturb the comfortable numbness...
by zozbot234 | 2025-04-07 02:02:31+00:00
The problem with that theory is that the higher prices and wealth destruction are not just "short term", they're here to stay for the foreseeable future unless these political choices are reversed. Think about what factories make - durable goods. Which means if a cost rise is genuinely time-limited, it's just offset by drawing down inventories and you aren't going to see it. That's not what's going on, if anything it's the exact opposite with stuff being hoarded to be sold at even higher prices later.
by zem | 2025-04-07 02:02:34+00:00
true, it wouldn't do a 100% job, but it would be another line of defense. the reason I was wondering about it was that the gp cited an example that was easy for humans to miss, but would be caught at once with a spell checker.

there are also statistical methods to detect words that are changed into other, valid words - check out the grammar checker in google docs for instance. again, not 100%, but every bit helps.
by tasty_freeze | 2025-04-07 02:02:42+00:00
In general it is a good practice to assume other parties are making a good faith effort, but after so many obvious cockups, that grace has been exhausted.

My assumption is that there is a lot of blow-back so they are restoring a few high profile names so they can say, "see, we aren't stopping science!". It is good this handful of people are back on the job, but I assume the NIH is like most other organizations -- the top name isn't doing the work themselves. They lead a team of people and their expertise is used to provide them direction and as a resource to help analyze surprising results. If the top experts lose their staff, I doubt they'll get nearly as much done. Having the 65 year old braintrust spending hours pipetting and staining samples is wildly inefficient. DOGI.
by t-writescode | 2025-04-07 02:03:48+00:00
How would tax cuts help when:

* tariffs are taxes paid by the buyer * sales tax is state and lower level and keeps states themselves afloat.

?

"End of year taxes"? Getting another $200/mo in wages isn't going to even be seen as a wage increase when you go to the store and everyday items are 30% more expensive.
by Taek | 2025-04-07 02:04:03+00:00
The law has pretty firm definitions for things like "in kind payments" and "consideration" - because these sorts of sneaky ways of rewarding people are also relevant to bribes!

So we aren't treading into new uncharted territory where the details need to be figured out - humans have been playing this game for centuries and the law already has effective tools for navigating the tricky parts.
by dumbledoren | 2025-04-07 02:04:15+00:00
> What motivates such a rude answer?

Gentrification.

> Nothing in his post suggests that he would go gentrify a low COL place

Nobody who moves out of the richer countries goes to a richer country. This includes the ultra-rich: Even they move to a place where their money will go much further, even if that is a district in London that they can comfortably afford. So it always ends up in gentrification.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-04-07 02:04:16+00:00
Governments are public works projects basically to keep citizens employed, which is why they disproportionately hire veterans, for example.

Running a government as lean as X would also inspire corruption amongst a myriad of other things. This is one reason government jobs are so "cushy", to disincentivize corruption. If the pitch given to Sahil was "Run the government like X" I'm even more ashamed he accepted the premise.
by mindslight | 2025-04-07 02:04:45+00:00
So the goal is to rely on NATO as allies right after they threatened individual members of NATO and generally telegraphed that the alliance shouldn't be relied upon?

Please, just stop steelmanning these actions as anything coherent that would possibly benefit the United States. In the best case, Trump is a demented has-been that only understands the world in terms of bullying. So sure, maybe the "plan" is to keep bullying Europe until they're joyfully professing that Trump's diapers smell just like roses and asking how high he'd like them to jump. But that just doesn't seem very in touch with reality.
Show HN: Pin My Workflow
by ebfe1 | 2025-04-07 02:04:54+00:00
Last friday i went through a bunch of our workflows and started pinning their hashes... it got annoying so i created a little app to assist, it is quite simple, you can add a list of workflow org you are ok with version tags (if you want to keep them up-to-date) , as the app search through the repo and find dubious workflow, it will prompt and let you know what hash it is updating it to and link for you to verify... if you accept, it add to config and automatically replace the ones that matches the same version tag in the future, saving you time. The config can be saved in same repository so you can rerun anytime.
by eastbound | 2025-04-07 02:05:01+00:00
It’s a ban on advertising, not a ban on marketing budgets. You could still have a Malborough F1 company to make your brand inadvertently visible in F1, and a Malborough Acting company to make actresses smoke in public in defiance to bad males who want to tell them what to do (both are true stories).

If advertising is blocked, the exact same amount of dollars will be spent perverting every public speech.
by k310 | 2025-04-07 02:05:19+00:00
I can't stop the magic mouse from vertical scrolling in GIMP, which zooms the view insanely in and out when the command key is down, or which blasts my fine tracing job to hell at times.

I can't stop horizontal scrolling when I absolutely don't want it. I tried all the mouse settings and probed the mysteries of GIMP key remapping (it still may be there)

Excellent resolution, but sometimes freaky to use.

I really don't want to pay for software to fix all this.

I got an MX keys keyboard because Apple doesn't sell a lighted one except in laptops.
by welshwelsh | 2025-04-07 02:05:39+00:00
There is zero chance that capitalism will solve this problem.

Even if you personally choose not to buy overly advertised goods, the overwhelming majority of people will not make the same choice. Advertising works extremely well, and it will always work no matter what you or I do.

So we will still have the problem of excessive advertising, which negatively impacts even people who try to ignore that advertising.
by j16sdiz | 2025-04-07 02:07:02+00:00
> convince someone with an audience to feature you without paying them to do it.

It takes time and effort to feature a product, how could they make a living?

I can imagine 4 different possible outcomes:

- People just find new loophole and behave exactly as before

- Large media company only features products from their friends and families. Monopoly.

- Only the government and a few selected individuals get the incentive. They gain from controlling the information.

- Only local businesses can survive.

They are very different outcome. You can't just ban one undesirable behaviour and hope for the best. You need to focus on what outcome you desire and how each and every side effects.

-- While we are banning monetary gain for ad, can we stop political lobbying too?
by dumbledoren | 2025-04-07 02:07:21+00:00
> This seems to be an assumption you made, but the poster did not imply or state

He doesn't need to. The dynamics of such emigration are always like that.

> I'm not looking for lower CoL places, I'm looking for comparable QoL places

That still causes gentrification. You will go to increase the housing demand in the place you go to and that will cause all of you to gentrify, including you. That even happens to those who go to lower CoL places - in just a few years, prices skyrocket and the richer emigrants themselves are stupefied - today CoL in major European cities that became popular locations for such emigration are catching up to the places where these people escaped from.

I was a big proponent of such international white-collar mobility before. The statistics and real-life experiences changed that.
by Taek | 2025-04-07 02:07:35+00:00
I have taken one project to $3 billion and another to $700 million, and along the way we have run numerous events, marketed numerous products, and built many reputations. Many of the most successful products (including one that hit 2 million MAU) didn't use any form of paid promotion at all!

So, I do happen to have relevant experience. I haven't run a concert or a protest, but I've done the rest of the things you mentioned, some of which at considerable scale.
by bentobean | 2025-04-07 02:07:59+00:00
Sure, and after that let’s ban: potato chips, sugar water, sex outside the hours of 6:00 - 7:00 PM, caffeine, plastic straws, and non-bran-based cereals.

Yes, people need to take care of themselves, but part of that involves a degree of personal responsibility.

“Let’s ban paid advertisement.” This is not a serious discussion.
by tombert | 2025-04-07 02:08:05+00:00
I know people who actually like it. I've never been a fan, I don't like the little scroll clit that it has, I've always plugged in a USB mouse, but there are definitely people who like it.

I think it's like the IBM keyboard nipple. I have one on my Thinkpad, but I never use it, but I know some people who refuse to use anything else.

ETA:

I never liked the multitouch mice either.
by leptons | 2025-04-07 02:08:12+00:00
>and we are currently in a digital war against Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and probably other nation-states.

Not according to this administration - they recently ended "cyber operations" against Russia:

https://apnews.com/article/cyber-command-russia-putin-trump-...

So, we're basically going to just let Russia do whatever they want.
by TheDong | 2025-04-07 02:08:21+00:00
This also means the function might not do what you want, i.e. if it takes a `&mut T` argument, that argument can't actually be mutated, and anything that relies on interior mutability, even if it's not a mut argument, also won't work.

Rust allows memory-impure things, like interior mutability of arguments, so you can get different (i.e. incorrect) results when using this to run otherwise fine rust code.

For example:

fn some_fn(x: &mut i32) { *x = 2; } fn main() { let mux x = 1; mem_isolate::execute_in_isolated_process(|| { some_fn(&mut x); }).unwrap(); println!("{x}"); // prints '1' even though without 'mem_isolate' this would be 2 }
by qiqitori | 2025-04-07 02:08:26+00:00
"Is Paul Newman known for having had problems with alcohol?"

https://chatgpt.com/share/67f332e5-1548-8012-bd76-e18b3f8d52...

Your query indeed answers "...not widely known..."

"Did Paul Newman have problems with alcoholism?"

https://chatgpt.com/share/67f3329a-5118-8012-afd0-97cc4c9b72...

"Yes, Paul Newman was open about having struggled with alcoholism"

What's the issue? Perhaps Paul Newman isn't _famous_ ("known") for struggling with alcoholism. But he did struggle with alcoholism.

Your usage of "known for" isn't incorrect, but it's indeed slightly ambiguous.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-04-07 02:08:40+00:00
Advertising may have been necessary the way you're describing in the 1950's but it's now so much easier to move information around.

As for all communication being a bit like advertising, a significant threshold has been crossed once you're paying to have your information elevated above that of your peers. If we didn't allow that, the noise floor would be lower, and it would be possible to achieve the benefits of advertising without the harms.

For instance, suppose I'm looking for a plumber... there are only maybe fifteen within a reasonable distance. There's no need for the plumbers to pay some third party for the privilege of being first in the list. I can limit my search criteria so that the results are narrow enough that I can consider each one, and they can instead spend that money on pipes or toilets or whatever.
by joezydeco | 2025-04-07 02:09:16+00:00
That sounds like an actual plan, which is five sentences more than the administration has presented to date.

You've pulled the rug out from consumers' pocketbooks, your stock price is in the toilet, and there's no idea what will come tomorrow, next week, or next year from this group. How do you raise money and plan to onshore your manufacturing in an environment like that? You're better off hunkering down and doing nothing.
by mustache_kimono | 2025-04-07 02:09:22+00:00
> The BSD releases did not form a complete OS and were not runnable except in combination with source code from ATT Unix, which was emphatically proprietary software.

Is that the measure: a complete OS? When exactly did GNU ship a complete OS?

IMHO none of the above is relevant to the question which was first. IMHO both were not first. IBM, among others, were shipping source code with their product, until they didn't. OSS is and was a reaction to an only object model. And there were seeds at Berkeley and MIT.

And Stallman isn't strictly responsible for the MIT strain. As Keith Packard said in his "A Political History of X", the X11 project chose not use the GPL license, because Stallman was simply too annoying.