skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ever had a friend or editor help you with an essay? Often they’ll suggest cutting stuff out to make the meaning clearer or rewording something that was left over from an earlier edit.

I do a LOT of check ins — sometimes just for a few characters when, say, refactoring, as I want to trivially undo multi-file changes. Sometimes I do a half of implementing a feature, save, run tests, then finish the job, perhaps eliminating scaffolding erected to make the implementation work, vitally important at the time but would just end up as noise when someone wants to just see the new feature implementation.

So squashing that down to a few check ins can be more informative. Especially if the implementation took a few days so needed to catch up to the head of the tree a few times along the way.
This was a pretty common trick to glitch slot machines, they are hardened quite a bit against this sort of trickery. A mobile phone is much more delicate in general construction and doesn't have access to a handy ground wire.
Don't down play suffering of millions by calling communists boogeyman. They are real at should be opposed at every possible juncture.
Perhaps organic RC systems and training will get better faster in the short term as we get new tech than robotic control systems. I don't see it as likely, but imagining a future where instead of robots we have living organisms that are practically robots is fascinating. After all, ape limbs and hands are far more dexterous than the robotic systems we've built to mimic them. The only problem is control - but perhaps we will learn brain control and training in the brain faster than we will make robotic hands that are as resilient and adaptable as living ones.
India's UPI is getting close. I've lived months without any cash in my wallet, even before COVID.
People always say this, and then my experience with iOS / MacOS devices is always super bad.

Like the other night, I was helping my mother put an mp3 file from her computer onto her phone (an audiobook she got from the public library). It was blisteringly difficult to do. We tried the following:

1) Airdrop the mp3 file, except iPhone thinks the mp3 file is a video, so the only options to open the mp3 file are iMovie, iTunesU, WhatsApp, Clips (none of which do anything when you select them).

2) Put the file in her iTunes and sync it with her phone, except her iPhone has a special type of charger and her MacBook doesn't have any USB ports, so we can't connect the two, but you can't sync iTunes with any phone unless they physically connect through a cable, in 2020.

3) Turn on Home Sharing in iTunes and play the file from Home Sharing. This works (after updating the iPhone to iOS 14 because Home Sharing causes the phone to crash in iOS 13.x). But then we realize if she turns iTunes off on the computer, the Home Sharing also stops, so the iOS device loses access to the mp3 file.

4) Try downloading the file on the phone itself, for whatever reason none of the browsers offer this option, when we open the mp3 file, it plays through the browser, but we can't save the file (so we cannot keep track of where we stopped listening last, or play the file offline).

5) Email the file to her, well the file is too big to email, but Gmail offers to store the file on Google Drive and then send it. We download the Google Drive app on the iPhone, download the files from the email to her Google Drive app, enable offline storage, and then click "Open In" (which is buried two menus deep) to open the file in a SECOND third-party app to finally store and play the audio file (because it won't play in the Apple Music player).

And then I think, when can I finally get all that user-friendly software people are always talking about...
Things to keep in mind when creating utilities
Otis Works to Make Elevators Safe for Covid-19
Among us is nothing new it’s a rehash of an old Starcraft 1 map mod called “The Thing,”

The idea was you had up to 8 marines and 1 was a zergling, stick together until the timer runs out to win.

Fun times. I miss those days.
I think it will take more time to say that for certain. Warp is an exception, but most of the recent improvements to Firefox were initially prototyped and developed in the experimental Servo engine which was to my knowledge intended to eventually replace all of gecko. Most of the team for that has been let go.

I think the thing to be worried about is: what will happen when they run out of stuff that's already in the pipeline? Will they be able to execute the sweeping changes they'll need to do to stay within reach of blink long term? Or will they have to concede like opera and edge did.
My god, somebody did UI I don't like. Its barely tolerable, but I still use it because this world owes me and I can't sunken cost my precious time.
Hey Mike, it's time to write another blog post about some of the cool stuff you've been working on at Apple. Swift is open source so confidentiality shouldn't be a problem -- right?
Isn't the US is, like, at war in Syria?

Wars being a terrible thing and all, one won't expect a speedy and fair trial on a battlefield.
> Assange: passed it onto our lm guy

To me the question is, is that conspiracy? Even if he made only a half hearted attempt, wasn't it still an attempt in case he got lucky with the password hash?

Granted, IANAL, but 18 USC 1030(b) does have language for conspiracy [1]. It's worth noting that conspiracy can exist whether or not there was any actual trespass.

This is similar to conspiracy to commit murder, e.g. The murder does not need to have happened in order to be convicted of conspiracy to commit murder. And that appears to be the way the law is written here.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/criminal-ccips/l...
darkweb <> weed
darkweb = everything illegal in todays society
The brower already has a VM, and from the same people and the same principles who made the Java JVM JIT and the fast Smalltalk one back in the 90s...

Lars Bak, the v8 head:

"In 1994, he joined LongView Technologies LLC, where he designed and implemented high performance virtual machines for both Smalltalk and Java. After Sun Microsystems acquired LongView in 1997, Bak became engineering manager and technical lead in the HotSpot team at Sun's Java Software Division where he developed a high-performance Java virtual machine.".
from the linked article (see below)

see also parent comment where there are 2 more links under "edit: ..." that support the argument that new fuze capability means higher risk of US using it preemptively. I agree with you that preemptive strikes aren't the only options, but all the research I've seen since the Bush era point to that scenario being _very_ likely (and thanks to fuze capability even more likely than unlikely. why wouldn't they use it especially during a preemptive strike. this way they get to say "look it was only a small nuke!")

from the article:

> Because the innovations in the super-fuze appear, to the non-technical eye, to be minor, policymakers outside of the US government (and probably inside the government as well) have completely missed its revolutionary impact on military capabilities and its important implications for global security.

...

> This vast increase in US nuclear targeting capability, which has largely been concealed from the general public, has serious implications for strategic stability and perceptions of US nuclear strategy and intentions.

...

> Russian planners will almost surely see the advance in fuzing capability as empowering an increasingly feasible US preemptive nuclear strike capability—a capability that would require Russia to undertake countermeasures that would further increase the already dangerously high readiness of Russian nuclear forces. Tense nuclear postures based on worst-case planning assumptions already pose the possibility of a nuclear response to false warning of attack. The new kill capability created by super-fuzing increases the tension and the risk that US or Russian nuclear forces will be used in response to early warning of an attack—even when an attack has not occurred.

The increased capability of the US submarine force will likely be seen as even more threatening because Russia does not have a functioning space-based infrared early warning system but relies primarily on ground-based early warning radars to detect a US missile attack.
> "source available" already has a long established meaning, and one that it far more restrictive than the TSL.

The established meaning is “any non-F/OSS licenses that nevertheless provides free access to source code, which may or may not also provide some usage rights”

TSL is exactly that.

There might be some utility to a name for a new subcategory of source available, but it's not meaningfully similar to open source since it remains, ultimately, a traditional, rent-protection proprietary license. The fact that current market conditions give a very particular rent-extracting opportunity that the vendor wants to protect and the vendor focussed rent protection where the most value is...is not unusual, even if the exact current valuable rent-extraction opportunity is different than it was even a few years ago.
Are you arguing those other countries haven’t benefited from highly skilled immigration? I’m from one of those countries and higher education is filled with skilled immigrants.

And the US’ success in attracting highly skilled immigrants isn’t only due to the immigration system itself. In fact. In many cases it’s in spite of it.
Notes on Crypto Culture
Right, but my $400 bose headphones have a broken integration with my $2400 mbp. Swiping the volume controls on the headphones also moves the balance.

Conveniently, because macos is ass, it's nondeterministic whether the balance controls display in Sound Preferences to fix the balance issue. You just have to open and close the settings panel in the hopes that it will display.

I'm a software engineer and I don't even know where to begin to debug this idiocy.

Duolingo regularly freezes audio in chrome. Once this happens, no audio will play in chrome until you restart or kill "Utility: Audio Service" with the chrome task manager.
The 2.25 thing seems like it's very conservative. The general advice is that the most you should spend on rent in a given year is 30% of your salary, but let's bring it down to 20% to be conservative. Let's say we get a shitty mortgage rate of 4% over 30 years. Assuming your income won't change at all over the course of the 30 year mortgage and spending the equivalent of 30% of your salary per year, you end up spending 9 times your income on the house. Going off of Google's mortgage calculator, the cost of the mortgage is about 172% the cost of the loan for 30 yr/4% so that means you could buy a house that's ~5.25x your income to be equivalent to the money spent on rent.

Obviously this is ignoring a lot of things like HOA fees and taxes, but if even if you're mortgage payment is 50% of your monthly housing expenses you could still pay for something that's more than 2.25x your salary.
“They copied all they could follow
but they couldn't copy my mind,
so I left them sweating and stealing
a year and a half behind.“

—
Rudyard Kipling
14000x Speedup (2015)
Hedge against that by buying their shares. Sometimes I think the big caps are just call options on future corpo-governments.
Alt-Left is back and Alt-Right is forward. Sadly, their equivalents on Mac are also for navigating to the beginning and end of the line so if you're in a text box you lose that control.

Your alternative is handy. I wonder if it also works on Linux.
What gestures were you missing?

I have libinput-gestures working just fine with 2, 3 and 4 finger events, although I vastly prefer a 5-button vertical mouse (Evoluent) and keeping my fingers on the keyboard over a touchpad...

With some small scripts I was able to have things that macOS can't do out of the box at all, like maximizing windows, snapping windows - pretty much anything I could script, I could do with a touchpad gesture.

One thing that really matters - you have to have the right brand of touchpad for it to work. Mine is an Elantech (ELAN0501).
This, but also remember that we're living through a transition from SAAP to SAAS, where the "service" is actually data extraction for advertisers. For that, software must be minimally useful to a user, but the true aim of UX is not user-satisfaction but data extraction or subscription lock-in.
I'm not super worried about voting per se. If I get downvoted to death and my account banned, I'll have my discussions elsewhere than HN, and I have plenty of venues to have intellectual debate of higher quality than being downvoted and gagged every time I speak an unpopular opinion. I'm still probably far from that based on my current karma, but I've seen a noticable change in the quality of the community in the past year or so.

It's just that I think it could be a great platform for controversial intellectual discussions, but the algorithm is designed to promote conformity rather than raising unpopular but well-backed opinions. For example, I've gotten my speech muffled by the algorithm every time I speak out against specific Apple practices, or against the current version of capitalism (not even capitalism as a general idea, which I agree with, just not the current implementation). Somehow saying something against Apple or contemporary American capitalism on HN is just like saying something against the leader in authoritarian regimes; you'll be flagged, beaten (downwvoted), muted, and banned by the community.

I definitely like the drop-down idea. "I disagree" would not be one of the options for downvote. Some of the valid options I can think of are:

- Irrelevant to post

- Irrelevant to parent comment

- Offensive or violent language

- Personal attack

- Scientifically inaccurate

- Too terse / needs elaboration
This looks like what we used to do with electric lighters to turn them into weak tasers and zap each other at school.

Disposable cameras had a little more umph though.
What are they going to do? Force him to pick up a package he says isn’t his?
When an app is uploaded to the app store, it is compiled for every different device separately. You likely have a higher resolution phone/device than the OP, so there's more image data on your version
This comment made me so happy.

I must ask: what led you to view this video?
They’re certainly bothering people and threatening peoples’ freedom.

All of them? What percentage of the dead were terrorists? Because "they" in this case is referring to around 1 million people now.
Civil rights leaders launch The Real Facebook Oversight Board
I guess like depleted uranium bullets is a useful way to re-purpose a byproduct of nuclear weapons production, flinging blades at an enemy is a good way to re-purpose decommissioned servers. I can only imagine the military uses for all the severed cable ties.
Mass-privatization and dismantling of the government in Russia (that was done with strong influence and election tampering by the US) caused increase in poverty, increase in death rates, lowering of life expectancy in Russia. A lot of people in Russia died due to US election tampering. This is a under discussed topic in the West.
That's true. I don't have that much experience with car repair so I might be wrong in perceiving the 90s and the 2000s models as the optimum in terms of car reliability - the stuff mostly works without funky issues, parts are cheap, repairs can be made by anyone who spent some time with a wrench, and you don't have to visit a shop with a license for poking around car's computer over every minor issue. That is to say: advances in computer control don't have to go hand in hand with making the cars expensive to service and not end-user repairable. But they do, because greed.
FYI: IPv4 will (in theory) insert 0s when they are missing. I used to always use 127.1 in place of 127.0.0.1, but then maybe a decade ago, some tools started throwing errors because they didn't recognize that format.

The place where the "011" issue hits me most is when scripting with day of month, "date +%d" (IIRC), will say "09" on the 9th of the month, which blows up because "9" is not a valid octal number.
> What did they do? They took bets on unknown people and believed in them more than anyone had before.

That much is pretty evident, following their story from afar.

> They set strong norms and fought back hard against bad behavior towards YC founders. They trusted their own convictions, were willing to do things their way, and were willing to be disliked by the existing power structures.

I don't think this is quite as well known, from what I've read. I'm sure that's in part, by design, since Silicon Valley can be kind of... 'cozy'. I'd be curious to read more though.
That’s certainly true, but we’re looking at minimizing harm. The question is, is there a better alternative?
I wonder what the relevance of a government is if they're internationally recognized, but don't actually control their own territory.

Who operates where and does what has always been more fluid than just 'well they're internationally recognized'.
i would like for everyone to just put a mask on and quit trying to appear clever.
Because people do not care for privacy and freedom of press/freedom of speech, Assange will be prosecuted, sentenced and our liberties from that day hence forth curtailed.

Freedom of speech and privacy will be viewed as an act of sedition
To quote the whitepaper [1] itself:

The maximum bandwidth of a Sidewalk Bridge to the Sidewalk server is 80Kbps, which is about 1/40th of the bandwidth used to stream a typical high definition video. Today, total monthly data used by Sidewalk enabled- devices, per customer, is capped at 500MB, which is equivalent to streaming about 10 minutes of high definition video.

My reading is that there are two caps that both apply to the same, device-to-cloud data usage:

- 80 kbps instantaneously per bridge device (e.g. Echo)

- 500 MB per month "per customer" (not sure if this is different from per bridge)

This seems reasonably consistent. At 80kbps, 500 MB would take about 14 hours to transfer, which is much less than a month, but I think the expectation is that bridges rarely max out the 80kbps.

[1] https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/sidewalk/privacy_secu...
iOS Reminders does
The 50s and 60s were a golden age of middle class prosperity, because median family income went from $29K to $42K with only one adult working. If you were living through it, it must have been amazing.
Yes, this sounds straight out of a dystopian future novel.
Missing an arm or leg? You will be hit.
Extremely short or tall? Hit
Walk with a limp? Hit
Pink hair? Hit
If you want to make this configuration local for your login (user) only, put the xml config into:
$HOME/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
Rather than the global one in /etc/fonts

Reference: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration#Font...
You must live on the coasts. I moved back to the Midwest during COVID, and all my old friends from school have bought houses because good houses here cost $100k-$200k, and I have a yearly salary around that amount and cannot afford to even get a mortgage on a house on the coasts.
I wonder why nobody else built upon Slashdot's moderation system, which isn't very far from what you suggest here.
We’ve also had centuries to improve the technology of books and I think that makes a difference.

Although the weaknesses you cite seem like problems in search of a solution. No one ever expected books to have variable font size ... why would they?

Lastly let’s recall the book five hundred years ago is dramatically different from the book of today. For example your point about liquids is now in many ways resolved by the cheapness and ubiquity of books. 500 years ago, not so much.
> Thanks to the export of fundamentalist Islam from certain countries,

Yes Saudi Arabia which we continue to sell weapons to and blindly support. This administration is even more willing to bend to SA, as seen with Trump's visit and subsequent veto the bipartiston resolution to end US military assistance in Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen.

> while America has been fortunate to be spared from a major terrorist attack since 9/11

That is untrue. The Orlando shooting was absolutely driven by islamic fundamentalism, as was the 2015 Chattanooga and San Bernardino attacks and arguably the Boston Marathon Bombings.
That same argument could have been used to justify staying out of WW2. Even if Hitler was guaranteed to stay out of US affairs post-war, the fact remains that joining sooner would have resulted in millions of Europeans keeping their lives.

Same here. Prematurely joining conflicts now allows us to save scores of lives abroad (at least in theory).
Show HN: Decode audio files in the browser without insane memory usage
Sure and all of this is moot if you can’t afford a down payment. The down payment and closing costs on a 1.5mil home are massive

Paying the mortgage itself isn’t the problem. We already pay the landlord’s mortgage.
It's anecdotal evidence, I can see that. Your point that people who did have covid and still have shortness of breath and fever episodes months after is just a completely unrelated lifestyle issue is a little far fetched. We do need more data about this, but we shouldn't discount the limited information we already have.
Ask HN: Are there any kbfs alternatives?
The only feature I use from Keybase at this point is kbfs because it's so darn simple. I'd love to get away from Keybase, however, now that they're owned by Zoom. Are there any existing (open source/self-hosted) alternatives to their kbfs product? Here's what I'm looking for:

- syncs to many devices
- encrypts and syncs in the background
- auto encryption (I don't have to do it manually for every file)
- new devices can decrypt existing files

Thanks!
Everyone who disagrees with you is involved in a magical communist conspiracy?
I do like the concept but no way to trigger a reminder is a bit of a personal dealbreaker.
There is no _bad_ on this scale. There is only "aligned with our objectives" and "not aligned with our objectives". And we short-hand the latter with "bad" and the former with "good" to create the propaganda association of ethics. So yes, I would gladly repeat your comment unironically.

I think this is sound. Pax Americana is part of the foundation for massive human progress. It has led to a Golden Age the like of which has never been seen before.
If people are just folding and folding maybe try playing shorthanded? Then optimal play is much more aggressive and fun.
The road ahead isn't clear though. A self-driving car knows something is there but it doesn't know what it is or what it might mean about potential future events. You and I know a plastic bag is likely to be a one-off non-dangerous thing but a car doesn't (it might know about a person, or a bag, or another car, but it won't recognise all of the things it could be). Consequently it has to be cautious and should take action within the bounds of what is safe using data from around the car.
If I were to squeeze 10% out of a project I had spent significant time and resources optimizing I would be thrilled.