MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rtpg | 2026-02-09 23:32:57+00:00
>I don't think so, I think you're just getting a high end that isn't in the original audio. In the places where there are high frequencies the aliasing and the hiss just gets in the way.

I don't get this, are you saying that this aliasing is just an artifact of the emulation? Like the GBA speaker/headphone jack itself would also be affected by the same aliasing right? And in that case the song was composed for that, right?

I don't think it would be right to go as far as to say that there's a huge strong interplay in every single GBA title's song with the hardware (I'm sure some stuff was phoned in and only listened to by the composer in whatever MIDI DAW thing they were using) but at one point the GBA was the target right?
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-09 23:32:58+00:00
The "taxation" point is arguable since so much of it occurred in the provinces and basically amounted to plunder. Also, centralization is not much of a marker of modernity: the Ancient Near East had large centralized empires, but they were also similarly vulnerable to collapse for practically the same structural reasons; we just know a lot less about those times and places because the sources are so much more sparse and understudied.
by carefree-bob | 2026-02-09 23:33:00+00:00
EVs have a weight issue that fundamentally constrains their overall design. It is really a tough engineering problem to try to shave weight off of everything, because you are starting out with a 700kg battery replacing a 400kg engine + transmission, so you are ~300kg in the hole, and need to remove 300 kg from the rest of the car. That's why they do crazy stuff like use the battery as part of the structural frame, to save on metal there. Every extra kilogram reduces range. Solid things are made hollow. Metal is replaced by plastic. Fabrics are thinner or replaced with lighter-weight engineered materials. Lots of things are removed. Physical buttons gone, flourishes gone, handles gone. Seats are made thinner and with less material. See how they brag about a simpler new steering wheel that is 400g lighter?

All of that and still they come up with a 2300 kg compact two row SUV.

So, if you are going to be redesigning everything anyway to try to get rid of as much weight as possible, why not hire a designer known for sparse, minimalistic, clean design? It makes sense. It may not be what Ferrari buyers want, but you can't really blame Ferrari for giving it a try. We'll see how well it sells.
by imiric | 2026-02-09 23:33:33+00:00
I appreciate the sentiment, but what makes you think that the internet or technology at all can help with this? Judging by the state of the modern internet and WWW, technology seems to be making things worse, not better. The idealistic view of the 1990s that connecting the world would make us more compassionate, tolerant, and rational, hasn't panned out. I don't see a reason to still cling on to that idea.
by wunderwuzzi23 | 2026-02-09 23:33:50+00:00
Correct. Good to see this get more coverage.

Check out my research about unfurling in common messenger apps and also mitigations here:

https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2023/ai-injections-thre...

And here "dangers of unfurling and what to do about it"

https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2024/the-dangers-of-unf...
by kokx | 2026-02-09 23:34:29+00:00
The article literally talks about how one of the server implementations does exactly that:

> Does this affect Prosody?

> Not directly. Let’s Encrypt is not the first CA to issue server-only certificates. Many years ago, we incorporated changes into Prosody which allow server-only certificates to be used for server-to-server connections, regardless of which server started the connection. [...]
by ajross | 2026-02-09 23:34:29+00:00
Point being that if you get a valid TLS connection from a client cert, and then you get another valid connection from the same cert tomorrow, you can be very certain that the entity connecting is either the same software environment that connected earlier, or an attacker that has compromised it. You can be cryptographically certain that it is not an attacker that hasn't effected a full compromise of your client.

And there's value there, if you're a server. It's why XMPP wants federated servers to authenticate themselves with certificates in the first place.
by cj | 2026-02-09 23:34:31+00:00
Yikes. So even if I store my wealth in cash, you want it to deflate by 5% annually?

How do you handle your neighbor who discovers he has a $2m Pokémon card in his closet? Is he forced to sell it to pay the 5% if he doesn’t have the cash on hand to pay the tax?

It’s a messy proposition. I’ve yet to hear a clear proposal that doesn’t have sticky edge cases.
by user7635 | 2026-02-09 23:34:59+00:00
Came across a recent paper, “Reinforcement Learning via Self-Distillation,” introducing Self-Distillation Policy Optimization (SDPO).

The idea is to use rich feedback (e.g., textual/runtime signals) to create a “self-teacher” distribution and distill it back into the policy, giving dense per-token credit assignment instead of relying purely on sparse scalar rewards.

Claims improved sample efficiency and better performance on reasoning / programming tasks.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20802
by al_borland | 2026-02-09 23:35:22+00:00
> Campfire hasn't been actively developed for ~10 years

For people looking for a simple chat that stays simple, is this a bad thing? When do we call something feature complete? If a product is free, they no longer need to manufacture new features to justify continued payments. It does look like there were updates 2 months ago. Based on the few number of open issues, and a PR closed last week, it feels like it’s being maintained, even if it’s not getting major new features.

I’m not a Campfire user, so can’t speak to the UX, but I feel like there is a market for actively maintained projects, that are considered feature completely, which aren’t searching for new features to shoehorn in. In the long-term, this need to constantly add features generally gets interpreted as enshitification by users. Avoiding falling victim to this relentless push for “more” can be seen as a feature in itself.
by wat10000 | 2026-02-09 23:36:13+00:00
If your eyes are closed, then things look the same whether you're in the middle of a calm meadow or on a highway about to be run over by a truck.

If you prefer not to look, maybe because you're convinced there's no truck, or you don't think it would help avoid the truck if there is one, fair enough. But the fact that your personal experience is unchanged is meaningless.
by lostlogin | 2026-02-09 23:36:31+00:00
Yes, my searching also found lots about the legal wrangling. It had been a long gap between visits and the way begging was done was quite different. Being harassed at train stations by (?)Roma was quite full on 15-20 years ago. Absent this time.

I’ve definitely been caught out by a fake, sad story before.
In Santiago a guy had a story. The next day I saw him in different clothes with a new story.
by Marsymars | 2026-02-09 23:36:43+00:00
Ads on billboards and subways actually bother me far more than search ads.

It's visual and cognitive pollution on public space that I've never consented to - I find it viscerally offensive.

We don't accept billboards on hiking trails, or in elementary classrooms, or in courtrooms (as far as I'm aware, though I wouldn't be surprised if someone turns up a real-life grotesque examples) - we shouldn't accept them in other public spaces either.
by JamesBarney | 2026-02-09 23:36:53+00:00
>But at least they could afford a house, right? I think a lot of people would accept living in a house without AC and more likely to catch fire. Is a house like that cheap today? No, right? It's crazy expensive as well.

I don't know many people who would rather live in a house without climate control than an apartment. A house from 1936 with no improvements is worth very little. When purchasing a house like that you're mostly buying the land.

> Car technology in the past was worse, we know that. Cars were more affordable though.

Car ownership in 1936 was far below what it is today.

> Like today then.

No, groceries were far more expensive. You can buy far more gallons of milks, eggs, lbs of ground beef, or potatoes at today's prices with todays median wage than you could in 1936 on the 1936 median wage. We have records of how much people made, and the cost of basic staples. This isn't something you need to guess about you can just google it.

> Young people are rotting at home unable to go ahead with their lives because wages nowadays are not enough to pay for a house and a family. Why do people try to deny this obvious reality? Productivity didn't benefit everyone equally and people in the past had more opportunities to build a life inside a standard that was socially acceptable.

Because 100 years of data says that this is a difference in expectations vs people being poorer. Yeah housing is more expensive than it should be due to regulation but despite that people are still much better off.
by jxdxbx | 2026-02-09 23:36:54+00:00
If something appears blue, it is blue. That’s all color is.

Also, if you took a sufficiently large quantity of air and put it into empty space and shined very bright white through it, it would experience rayleigh scattering—-meaning that air, when you have enough of it and shine a bright enough light through it, is blue.
by cedws | 2026-02-09 23:37:02+00:00
I understand the frustration towards Discord, especially because this is a global rollout of a policy they're only required to enforce in specific countries, but it's IMO misdirected. They're likely trying to get ahead of the legislation. The way the winds are blowing indicates the Western governments that haven't already passed legislation mandating ID verification soon will.

You can move to $ALT_PLATFORM but unless it's self hosted they'll eventually have to enforce the same policy.

Direct your anger at the geriatrics in government who don't understand the risks of these laws first. You only have to watch the TikTok CEO's hearing in Congress to see how American politicians don't understand technology.
by agwa | 2026-02-09 23:37:03+00:00
Is there a reason why dialback isn't the answer?

I would think it's more secure than clientAuth certs because if an attacker gets a misissued cert they'd have to actually execute a MitM attack to use it. In contrast, with a misissued clientAuth cert they can just connect to the server and present it.

Another fun fact: the Mozilla root store, which I'd guess the vast majority of XMPP servers are using as their trust store, has ZERO rules governing clientAuth issuance[1]. CAs are allowed to issue clientAuth-only certificates under a technically-constrained non-TLS sub CA to anyone they want without any validation (as long as the check clears ;-). It has never been secure to accept the clientAuth EKU when using the Mozilla root store.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/secu...
by rubiquity | 2026-02-09 23:37:30+00:00
If you’d like the opposite of this story: I was reversing out of a parking spot. I had moved about 2 feet and a drunk driver hit and ran my vehicle. The driver was charged by police because driving at 40mph and hitting cars in a shopping center in broad daylight got a lot of attention.

I gave the video footage from my car to local police and insurance company and the insurance companies ruled I was at fault because I was in reverse.
by Starman_Jones | 2026-02-09 23:37:31+00:00
Thanks for explaining, but I have to strongly disagree. If the costs for children of citizens are counted as part of the childrens' net fiscal impact ("citizen cost"), and the costs for the children of immigrants are also counted as part of the childrens' net fiscal impact (again "citizen cost"), then i fail to see the problem with Cato institute's methodology. It's fundamentally the same as if immigrants had zero children, but US citizens of comparable socioeconomic circumstances had an equivalent number of children. It gets factored in for the children; not the parents, and it happens consistently.
by c22 | 2026-02-09 23:37:49+00:00
It seems like a tragedy, but actually it can be a boon as long as you travel in neither the leftmost nor rightmost lane. The majority of the traffic entering your buffer will be exiting your buffer out the other side as soon as they can, so you can just chug along at a (greatly reduced, but) consistent speed. Meanwhile, the traffic to either side of you is in standstill, paralyzed by your bow wake.
by sisve | 2026-02-09 23:38:13+00:00
Sure. I can agree with that. At the same time, the reason people aren't doing it is not solely a skill issue. It's also a matter of time, energy, and what you want to prioritise.

I believe I have good enough control over it to fix issues that may arise. But then again, CC will probably do it faster. I will most likely not need to fix my own issues, but if needed, I think I will be able to.

"Critical" plays an important role in what you're saying. The true core of any business is something you should have good control over. You should also accept that less important parts are OK for AI to handle.

I think the non-critical part is a larger part than most people think.

We are lagging behind in understanding what AI can handle for us.

I'm an optimistic grey beard, even if the writing makes me sound like a naive youth :)
by SecurityGeekYY | 2026-02-09 23:38:27+00:00
This caught my attention because it addresses something I've been
thinking about - traditional SDP/SPA still exposes a UDP port during
the handshake phase, and with AI-powered scanners getting faster,
that window is increasingly risky.

NHP's approach of using Noise Protocol Framework for mutual auth
before any port is opened seems like a logical evolution. The paper
mentions using ECC-256 instead of RSA-2048, which should help with
IoT deployments.

Curious if anyone has tested the OpenNHP implementation (it's on
GitHub). How does the performance compare to traditional VPN or
existing SDP solutions in production environments?https://github.com/OpenNHP
by zythyx | 2026-02-09 23:38:56+00:00
That's nice. Can I just get a photo of your ID so that I don't have to go through the pain of hacking it out of your wallet? Sounds like you have nothing to worry about, so it shouldn't be a problem.

While you're doing that, I'm going to be over here deleting my Discord data, installation and everything else that sides with it.
by measurablefunc | 2026-02-09 23:39:03+00:00
Understanding is one of those things that is very tricky to actually pin down. I don't actually think anyone truly understands how modern computer networks really work. We have abstractions for making sense of computers but every time there is a widespread outage of some critical software/hardware system is an indication of the fact that these systems are now too complicated for anyone to really understand. If people truly understood computers then we wouldn't have so many outages.
by nickpsecurity | 2026-02-09 23:39:25+00:00
The Bible tells us how to pick godly leaders. It also gives many examples of those doing right and wrong. For both, leaders exist today with similar worldviews. So, it's directly applicable.

Thomas Jefferson took inspiration for our system from Jethro's advice to Moses:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2018%3A1...

Here's the elder requirements under Christ. Notice that teaching and character are the main focus.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Timothy%203...

Which character traits in the baove passages do you think lead to good leaders? Which do you reject as wicked? I think, and have seen, that they all lead to good outcomes.
by profsummergig | 2026-02-09 23:39:38+00:00
I realize this is complicated,

I didn't say you needed to be a US resident to register a company.

I said that most pre-GC work-permits (e.g. H1B) don't allow you to own a US-based business. If you're here on a work-permit, they (the govt.) expect you to be an employee of your sponsor, they don't want you to start a business.

To your point,

one can be an investor in a US company without having a US visa/residence/work-permit. However, to open a business without living in the US, only a handful of states allow this (e.g., Delaware, Wyoming, Nevada). And once again, if you are in the US on a work-permit, you need to follow the rules of the work-permit. You cannot follow the rules available to non-citizens.
by Huppie | 2026-02-09 23:39:53+00:00
Yeah, totally agree. Maybe it can inspire your app too, wish you the very best and a lot of sales.

Some of the hidden features:

- If you add a task to a routine and end it with a question mark it becomes a conditional where you can add specific tasks or subroutines on the yes or no condition.

- Make it 'weekday?' and it becomes a switch case for the week.

- 'is it 7:30 yet?' becomes a conditional that automatically detects if it's before that time. I use it for e.g. 'before breakfast' (at 7:30) -> go play (with a timer until 7:30)

N.b. 'fun' fact, my daughter wanted an avatar with clothes that you can earn. The idea was pretty easy to implement but getting nano banana (using a great Claude nano banana skill) to generate the correct images took... some practice. I think I spent more time on the images for the avatars than all the other features combined. It took way too long to realize simple stuff like "nano banana won't generate transparency, only a fake white/grey checker pattern"

Also learned the last iPod touch (great device by the way) has a really low screen resolution which can be quite challenging at times.
by lostlogin | 2026-02-09 23:40:28+00:00
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

Martin Niemöller

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/martin-nie...
by LogicFailsMe | 2026-02-09 23:40:34+00:00
My supposed goal posts are whether AI is useful or not, not the brain farts of libertooniian nut jobs who had covid one too many times and destroyed their own high level mental function.

I mean when the chief current libertoonian talking points are we should flood the internet with AI generated child porn to reduce pedophilia, that Greta Thunberg is the Antichrist, or that the most important decision your daughter faces right now is whether she should study to be an engineer or become a sex worker, they have exited the room of serious conversation and entered the insane asylum across the board. I wish we could ignore them but they have the Zeitgeist. Stupid Zeitgeist
by wolvoleo | 2026-02-09 23:40:39+00:00
Ughhh yeah, KnowBe4. Real crap service with emails so obviously bait that a security worker would try them just to see what happens.

The cool thing though is when people post the link on Yammer asking if it's safe, then you can screw them by clicking on it and they have to do the course hehehh

But yeah bad service
by hikkerl | 2026-02-09 23:40:57+00:00
It turns out they were temporary too, as they were not able to defend their lands. Now we are the locals.

Again, unless you are going to condemn them for any attempt made in their defence, then you can't condemn us. Be consistent, else it's just plain racism.

Side note: if you think ICE is brutal you should read what early European settlers had to endure...
by JoshTriplett | 2026-02-09 23:41:27+00:00
> Privacy activists think age verification is not a problem that needs to be solved.

Correct. But more importantly, privacy activists understand that the "problem" governments are trying to solve with "age" verification is people having privacy.

This isn't something we can solve with purely technological solutions. It requires political action to defeat the attempted control, and pushing back on every instance of people trying to paint that attempted control as mere "age verification" and other "think of the children" takes.
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-02-09 23:41:29+00:00
> You do need to be able to understand nonstick coating is unhealthy and not magic.

Prove it. Please, show me a method by which polytetrafluoroethylene is going to kill me. Because if you're like everyone else moaning about "plastic bad" online, you'll be wrong, and if you have some secret insight that no one else has, I'd love to hear it. But a basic understanding of chemistry reveals that PTFE is functionally inert. It doesn't react with damn near anything, it needs heats well in excess of anything you should be exposed to cooking to melt or burn, and even if you were eating the stuff straight, the whole "inert" thing applies to just about any digestive process your body could apply to it, too.
by seanwilson | 2026-02-09 23:41:38+00:00
> When we pack high-density information into a data table or a complex dashboard we are increasing the visual entropy of the entire system. Forcing the brain to decode intricate, non-universal shapes in a tiny 16-pixel footprint, creates a “cognitive tax” that users pay en masse every time they scan the table.

What if it's an icon with a simple shape? How does that compare to noising up the table with long phrases and repetitive words? Is the cognitive tax if icons a lot higher or just a little higher? What if it's an app where the user will be using it for hours, so they'll quickly learn what the icons mean and will appreciate the space they save?

Is a tick icon really that big a deal in place of "Task completed"? Sometimes you don't have a choice because of lack of space too. There's always tradeoffs to make. Obviously try to avoid icons that are hard to guess though but sometimes that's not always possible.

I can't say I've ever felt tired looking at icons in a table, but when designing I have had the experience of replacing wordy repetitive text with some intuitive icons in a complex table and it suddenly looking less intimidating.
by wilg | 2026-02-09 23:41:46+00:00
Why does it have to be "manipulation"? If you don't know about something that you might want to buy, learning about it isn't being manipulated.

Also, the lifespan thing is crazy - what if you learned about something that improved your health, like an exercise machine or something? You can't just ignore the upsides. What if you bought something that saved you money in the long run, like a quality tool?
by MattJ100 | 2026-02-09 23:41:48+00:00
There might be some confusion here, as there is no refusal at all.

As stated in the blog post, we (Prosody) have been accepting (only) serverAuth certificates for a long time. However this is technically in violation of the relevant RFCs, and not the default behaviour of TLS libraries, so it's far from natural for software to be implementing this.

There was only one implementation discovered so far which was not accepting certificates unless they included the clientAuth purpose, and that was already updated 6+ months ago.

This blog post is intended to alert our users, and the broader XMPP community, about the issue that many were unaware of, and particularly to nudge server operators to upgrade their software if necessary, to avoid any federation issues on the network.
by BobaFloutist | 2026-02-09 23:42:10+00:00
I evolved to shit outdoors, bathe in cold water, sleep on the ground, and die without having traveled more than at most a couple of hundreds of miles from my birthplace but I refuse to be limited by the capacities of a glorified ape without language, culture, or understanding of the interiority of others, not to mention indoor plumbing.
by carefree-bob | 2026-02-09 23:42:12+00:00
For things like volume, A/C, adjusting mirrors and seats, I really, really want physical buttons. Not sure what I will do after my old Volvo dies, maybe the touchscreen mania will have gone away by then and physical buttons will be back. I can't imagine myself touching a screen while driving, I don't even know how I would be able to do that.