skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with that scenario is that it's probably the same public legislatures that have failed to fund adequate information security for these public institutions. If such a law was paired with appropriate funding then sure, go ahead. If not then what you'll get is more public institutions getting hacked and officially prevented from paying the ransom to get files back.
Honestly I get the opposite of hope from people on this site.

There is a large vocal population there that seems to _want_ Apple to continue to lock down and take control of their devices, all in the name of "security." Read any comment thread on the Apple vs Epic lawsuit, lots of people defending Apple's "right" to dictate what you can and can't do with your own device.

While there are others on here who don't think this way, I find is a disappointingly small minority on a site which calls itself "Hacker" News.
Technically, I know many 'good' cops who've left policing because of the bad cops. So, I guess maybe in 2005, this would've been true in the context that our current reality is that we've already arrived at the 'All Cops are Bad' era. That's also about the time the FBI first put out warnings about White Supremacists taking over the police...
CommonMark is not trivial to implement efficiently... and not all sites need as much functionality as CommonMark provides. So, would you prefer sites to invent something completely weird and new each time, or use something more familiar that looks like a subset of markdown? Sure, it can be done better or worse, but I don't think the concept is wrong. But honestly, many comment systems only have italics, quotes, lists, urls and maybe code, bold text and images... most of which have been indicated in plain txt files for a long time in quite consistent ways, hardly Markdown's trademark markup.
all those are financial, so i would assume financial.
The main thing isthat it doesn't support system calls, so the vast majority of code won't run. The ability to translate from one architecture to another is super cool though, and if you're curious about it you should check out McSema/Remill:

https://github.com/lifting-bits/mcsema

https://github.com/lifting-bits/remill

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2018/01/23/heavy-lifting-with-m...
In some jurisdictions I think they basically have a blank cheque to get you on any misuse (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/18/contents)
A lot of modern urbanites are probably too young to remember just how bad a lot of American cities were in the 70s/80s. A city like Boston was still losing population well into the 90s. It wasn't just Detroit. It would be very easy for the relatively recent urbanization trend to reverse for another generation or more.
Well, yes, but it's also them not refunding via the original payment processor and them letting the order go through despite being unable to fulfil it. I don't want to make a point that this is the moral thing to do, but the error is with McD here.
Someone tell Wal-Mart!

https://news.wfsu.org/wfsu-local-news/2010-05-07/walmart-sue...

Not sure how that panned out in the long run...
Amazing that iSH has been allowed on the App Store. Never thought that day would come.

Maybe this, or similar methods, is how Apple begins to enable development on iOS, through full app-based systems that are completely isolated from the underlying OS.

Now they just need to allow UTM in the App Store.
They're a financially aligned/incentivized "army of HODLers" - and it's quite worrisome to think how this growing body has potential to lead to regulatory capture, let alone manipulation of content online towards positive speak.
Why does that matter? There's this technology called 'gait recognition' which is more accurate than facial, and can tell you from another regardless of what you're wearing.
Traditional ads aren't the only form of revenue. All I'm saying is that by bypassing the site completely people maybe aren't helping them survive, which could just be what the market decides and we need a craigslist full of ads, wikipedia too.

https://www.craigslist.org/about/help/paid_posting_accounts
I know.

The point is that you seem to have left out some rather relevant context. If that was an accident, no problem.

Some of your other comments in this thread indicate that it may be a good idea for you to review the hn guidelines

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is a pretty cool idea.
I closed the tab when ctrl-f produced a popover. I thought it was an ad.
The problem with winter tires is in regions where you get fewer than 10 days of snowy roads per year. That’s where AWD plus traction control are really helpful. And that technology is also useful on wet or dusty roads, not just on snow.
Fair enough. I'm using ddg and the first link is to https://peer.tube/
Unlike cash, cryptocurrency provides easy access to both scale and anonymity for criminal activity...so bad, inherently.
While cryptocurrencies have rewarded speculators by allowing indirect investment in crime, I do not believe this is a "good". I am not aware of any good effects for cryptocurrency. We are all aware of the substantial bad effects it enables.
Yes, and the EU would certainly not sit by. I could've gone into depth about how the Russian army is only able to support maybe 120,000 troops in the field today, but thought it would be pedantic.
Could you post any resources that discuss this? I don't doubt that you could be correct. After a quick search I wasn't able to find any material online that really supported this claim. There is the well-known condition of 'Postoperative cognitive dysfunction', however that doesn't quite line up with the kind of brain damage you're describing.
Is there anything on Gemini that prevents centralization?

Because lets suppose this will happen, everyone now goes for the sweet land of Gemini.

At the beginning it will be just like the web in the nineties, full of indies web sites, a dozen open source clients, that implements the protocol, yay!

Profit right? Here now enter the 2000's of Gemini.. startups begin to grow stronger most of them mediating and selling the content of others that they get for free.

The individual gemini sites begin to fade, the startups create Gemini clients with a lot of new features starting to turn impossible for new implementations.

(Now its the time we start to ask ourselves, where did we see that movie?)

So whats the point of a new protocol or standard, if it doesnt solve the real issues we are facing nowadays, and the only solution it provides its to manipulate people emotions that we should get back to that romantic era of the internet, the 'belle epoque'.

"Its hard to solve the modern issues? get your time machine pal, lets get to the nineties and start everything again without solving the core issues, and if by chance we happen to thrive, just let those big problems to be solved by your grandson"

There is only one thing we should be doing right now: Decentralize the internet, making "blue seas" for new things to thrive making the moves of FAANGS to centralize and control data, information and computation futile by getting people out of a game they control.

A solution like Gemini would reset the game, yes, but only to have the same problems later, giving the creators were not trying to solve them in the first place.

Gemini is trying to solve a problem by using denial, and as we know, it doesnt actually solve the problems. It just make them disappear temporarily to hit us again in a near future.

You can make a Gemini client in two weeks? thats great, this is probably what you would take to make browsers in the nineties..
Let me break this down for you:

1) There is well established science that links the dive reflex to physiological changes in the human body.

2) Using the dive reflex as an anti-anxiety measure is well established in psychology.

3) Humans do respond differently to things and if they don't make you feel good, don't do them. There is nothing postmodern about arguing "some people enjoy a hot sauna and others find it miserable." My wife, for instance, will not do the dive reflex thing because it ruins her makeup. Individual variation is a thing.

4) I am not attempting to write airtight arguments to win a debate, but writing very loosely to share what I've learned with others.

5) If you're not sure about points 1-3, you are welcome to research them yourself instead of insisting I present them to you as formal arguments.
Which OS doesn't support multi-button mice?
In their defense, they really wanted make a ton of money, really didn't want to pay a huge fine. So, you know, it all kind of worked out. For them.
Airbnb Hires Jony Ive
There's a difference between "IPv4 is only present at the edge" and "only IPv4 is present at the edge".

I think Facebook is doing IPv4+IPv6 at the edge, and IPv6-only internally.
1) You get to skip what might be a 5-, 10-, or even 15-minute line for the cashier

2) You don't need to worry about the cashier punching in your order wrong (which happens frequently)

3) There are a ton of discounts available only through the app. You can seriously get ~50% off your meal pretty easily

I can't even imagine not using my phone to order.
I Still Dislike My Home Work Setup (and I don't know what to do about it)
In that case I'm sure you won't mind if we repave all of the roads to my store twice as often and let the ones you rely on fall apart.
how statistically significant is that conclusion though
These cases are damn hard to win. Surprised they even got more than 100 million.

But the legal bill... easily hundreds of million.
Counterpoint: Most workers get no promotions, they'd be lucky to have a 1% inflation adjustment. They couldn't care less about any pressure to go back to the office.
Some snow but mostly I also like to take the car onto gravel and fire roads. Probably wouldn't use snow tires as I'm in coastal California and only see snow a few days per year in the mountains.
If you don't like their terms or products - then don't agree to their terms and don't buy their products. If you want things your way - don't outsource - make it yourself.

Apple made their product. As so, why shouldn't they have the right to make their own terms?
We each have our own specific breath-rate, box breathing, 4-7-8 or other styles of conscious breathing attempt to slow down your breath-rate and calm your autonomic nervous system, and for many people calms them enough to fall asleep.

I have a very low breath-rate and find box breathing far too quick, and even 4-7-8 often feels fast.

We're building a sleep headband and one component is monitoring your breath-rate and learning what your breath-rate is as you fall asleep. Once we know what your optimal breath-rate for sleep is, we can then play sounds which you consciously follow with your breath, and this will guide you to sleep. It's almost like a personalized breath timing exercise.

Breath is only one of the ways we are working to improve sleep. If this is interesting to you, find out more at https://soundmind.co and sign-up for the waitlist.
Can you provide any greater detail about the behaviors you observed?
Guys, I would like to ask for your assessment in terms of whether you need some kind of application that would make a photo or video proof, and so that it can be verified? I made such an application, and it, in General, was made for corporate use, but I would like to get your opinion -
1. there were moments where it would be necessary
2. No never had any need in this
... and if you would need it then in what cases...
... If not, why not?
Shortly:
Make a photo and put a stamp with id, time, date, location on it.
ID is verifiable - you can recall the original with id.
Trumania: evidence cam

Really need your comments or thoughts about it.
It's quite the essay, defending a man who purchased a house for a low price and made a piece of art decades ago, and continues to extract value from both without making any additional meaningful contributions as regards either. It's almost... like he's seeking... rent. I wonder if there's an economic term for this behavior or any theory about whether or not it should be rewarded.
BTW, it's Wendy Carlos, not Walter.
> Ice cream, as a food that is very close to neutral in pH and without much in the way of preservatives, is a common source of listeria bacteria.

I know very little about food science so apologies in advance but curious as why they don’t add preservatives themselves to the Ice cream and why other pH neutral foods McDonalds do don’t require as much care as the ice cream?
Sleeping.

Urinating.

Defecating.

Navigating.

Grooming.

Voting.

Adjudicating.

Loving.

Hating.
Cleaning these things was my second most hated job when I worked in the industry. But deep fryers are a far more dreadful task.
You’re being sarcastic, in their defense, right?
Peppered with Amazon referral links, too.
Yes. Kinda.

I mean, if it shows up in the Files app, you can mount it and run normal things against that folder.

The thing I want to see, though, is a folder for the photos app. That doesn't exist, since the Photos app doesn't expose it's data as a folder.
Wouldn't rents just shift from cities to suburbs, offices to homes/banks.
> Want to hate on Eich because he's a homophobe? Go for it. Want to call him out on his homophobia? Get on wit' yo' bad self!

But none of that had anything to do with Eich's qualifications or ability to run Mozilla.

Ignoring the other arguments about comparing this to other basic human rights, if his politics are bringing a bunch of hate onto the company then it does impact his ability to do his job effectively.
I was looking for an Aeron B with Posturefit ($120 aftermarket) and swivel armrests (with tab adjusters rather than the gears; gears mean the chair is pre-2005). That combination isn't that easy to find in the used market. I was also looking for something closer to the $400 end rather than the $600 end.

I'm not sure if the Leap V2 is actually better than the Aeron but for what I paid for it ($300), it had the armrests and the lumbar support that I was looking for, so I went with it. Aesthetically, the Aeron looks way cooler -- the Leap V2 looks like any other office chair.
Please don't take HN threads into gender flamewar. Your comment up to and including the YouTube link is great. After that it descends into flamewar boilerplate. We're trying to avoid that here–it's repetitive and therefore tedious and off-topic, plus it evokes nastiness.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Apple expands 'Express' retail store format
Hi! the other co-founder/cpo here.

Pixie is an observability platform which gives access to telemetry needed to troubleshoot your workloads (observe, debug and analyze). It is not aimed to help you provision and manage your workloads.

Projects like Crossplane (which is great!) are aimed to help with workload deployment and management. Crossplane specifically enables multi/hybrid cluster deployments. It isn't necessary focussed on observability (crossplane folks can correct me here :) )
I typically use `⌘ [` and `⌘ ]` for back and forward navigation. It's rarely in conflict with other hotkey combos, unlike `⌘ →` and `⌘ ←`.
Hey, they didn’t force the pill don’t anyone’s mouth!
You might find readers more sympathetic to your post if you spent more time on the copyright issues and less on telling us repeatedly that other people's taste in music is wrong
I disagree, and I'm a little bit insulted.

I'm pretty much in Gemini's exact target market: my websites are simple and almost entirely text, with no tracking, minimal JavaScript, and a hefty CSP. I like implementing simple network protocols and I'm annoyed with the ever-increasing complexity of the Web. And I write command-line software, so Gemini is right up my alley. So when I first heard of it, about a year ago, I was really excited for there to be a new way to convert my sites to this new, simpler hypertext–

But when I tried it, it didn't let me build the sort of site that I, personally, would want to read.

• The documentation sites for my software (https://specsheet.software, https://dns.lookup.dog, https://the.exa.website) all feature inline code samples, complete with the colours you'll see in your terminal. Being able to see an example command and then see its exact output really helps me learn a tool, and I wish more programs were documented in this way. When I re-wrote the documentation as man pages, it was like going from colour to black-and-white, and when I Gemini-ified the documentation, it felt like I was reading man pages.

• My personal home page has blog posts that use styles to sound like the way I talk. I emote. I emphasise. I bold important sentences, and shove side-notes to the side. If I'm writing technically, I'll include charts and side-tables of data. And, again, I like to include syntax-highlighted code snippets and images where appropriate.

I'm not a marketer. I abhor advertising. I'm not trying to usurp the world's communications channel for my own gain. I'm just trying to publish content I want to see more of, and my attempts at offering a Gemini version resulted in exactly zero pages.

This is why it disappoints me when you say this:

> The rest of the web is either (1) best served some other way or (2) not worth keeping.

Do you really think I belong with "the rest of the web"? Or do you think my sites are not worth keeping?
On the one hand, I would never claim my intuitions about media consumption extend to GenZ (or whatever). On the other hand, I see very little original content, competition with "traditional" media like Netflix etc., competition with YouTube, and it's really hard to see what the pitch here is.
I addressed those points directly, which you ignored when you blamed me of arguing use cases specific only to me. Suffice to say your complaint was hypocritical given your statement previous to that was very specific to your use case (as I also pointed out in my aforementioned, but ignored, comment)
Not really: money laundering typically is an on-going activity, while ransomware/hostages is (hopefully) incidental.

That means that money laundering laws are up against a dedicated adversary with resources, while laws preventing ransoms... not so much.

Of course, with cyber insurance, incentives for the insurer may lean towards dedicated circumvention.
They also have to relinquish control of the company. That’s arguably the main force of the punishment.
The Sacklers engaged in unethical behavior to get people hooked on something that made them money. Easy opioid prescriptions created thousands of (mostly) functional addicts who were getting their fix in a high-quality control form via their doctor on a monthly basis. That's bad but that's not an opioid "crisis". You don't get a crisis because of a few evil billionaires. More things have to go wrong. What really turned the opioid problem into a crisis is when the feds cracked down. The doctors had to cut the junkies off or lose their licenses. The junkies predictably switched to the street for their supply with predictably tragic results.

The Sacklers may have done unethical, arguably evil, things to make a buck but there's plenty of blame that should be cast in the direction of other parties here.
Wow what an awful take from PG.
what kind of legal bill would this have all required to pull-off?
> I think you're a little weird

I agree with you that the turn into flamewar was not good, but please don't add personal swipes. That only makes the thread worse—and of course is certain to perpetuate the flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Imagine McDonalds had invented AWS and called it McCloud.
I know everybody loves to hate on the Sacklers, but my life was dramatically better when I had access to opioids. Because of the "crisis" it has gotten really difficult to get them, even for people who need them. There are days when it's difficult to do much more than lie in bed in agony, but nobody beyond a small community of other pain sufferers seems to care.

I'm at least grateful for the few good years I did get thanks to opioids, before they became radioactive. I hope some day we can swing the pendulum back toward compassion a bit.

Everybody seems to want politicians and cops (DEA) deciding who should get them and who shouldn't. That may be an impossible mindset to change.
I prefer "oxidane" for this joke, as most people haven't heard it, sounds poisonous, and dihydrogen monoxide is not wrong but it is irregular.
An unorthodox path for implementing a probabilistic programming language
Raptor makes FSF-certified POWER9 machines. Check out https://www.raptorcs.com/
That is because a lot of people here see the masses of 'normal' or non-technically-inclined people that need to be protected against themselves because their usage of devices they do not understand has a real-world impact on everyone else when things go wrong.

There is no true ideal version of this, there is no perfect world and there is no situation in which you can have full control but also have full protection without also knowing everything about the system you have.

Phones and Computers are 'appliances' that do not need to be changed by the user (and we are talking about the mass-market user here), if anything it needs to prevent being changed by the user due to the larger ecosystem a device is part of.

You can make the choice to not be part of the ecosystem, but most people would very much like to be part of a system, together, and one way of doing that is to have a level of sameness and consistency that so far is not viable without some sort of 'appliance-like' properties of the devices in question.

You can still buy a different device, not take part in an existing system, and do whatever you want. But you will have a hard time getting the benefits of interconnection, scale, and support. Those three elements are pretty much why some brands or devices are sold in masses and some aren't.

To this end I simply have multiples of most things. Some just need to do what it does for everyone else (interconnect, function the same way every day, have some company bear responsibility for practically everything), others are for me (open source hardware, open source software, no protections, but also no end-user support or responsibility).
Ctrl-[ :q!

Knowing Ctrl-[ for escape has saved me enough times.
There don't actually seem to be fewer adds though. In face, more and more real estate seems devoted to then. And their auction system would result in the same number of adds not matter the price because there will always be a highest bidder, and unless there are fewer bidders that ad placements, all placements will be filled. That will pretty much always be the case for and keywords of even moderate popularity/demand.
!!!! I need to go see if I can have Vim on my iPad now...
It's been on our minds for a while, the major issues with this is that IPC between the app process and WebKit is like 100µs, so having the interpreter run isolated from the app process is hard. Plus loading WASM is not "free" (that is, essentially an instruction cache flush) because you need to generate a bundle that WebKit will then load, which is slow (although there has been work done in this area: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JUs4c99-mo). So even if we did some sort of WASI thing where everything is going on in the browser, there are hurdles to overcome to make this viable. Plus the current interpreter almost certainly leaves performance on the table ;)
I switched to DuckDuckGo and FireFox because I disapprove of Google's footprint and the way that they're trying to watch everything I do.

When I switched, about 2 years ago, DuckDuckGo was clearly worse. Now I feel like DuckDuckGo has gotten a little bit better but Google Search has definitely gotten worse.

I'm now using Pocket and Pinboard a lot more because I can't count on search being able to bring up something I saw a couple of months ago.