skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hackers & Painters: Life in Prison
https://streamable.com/mj1qug

I made that for Ross. I’m the one who wrote that fake letter to Emmanuel in May 2002 as a guerrilla marketing tactic. The letter was signed “Steve Peak” as in speak into in existence. Ask Emmanuel or Bernie S, maybe they still have the original email.

Believe it or not, Accipiter is personal friends with Inigo. They met at Zoofari in Virgina where Drew was manager while he was out on bail. He was taken into federal custody in 2019 which surprised Accipiter. Despite briefing and being friends with President Trump, he was unable to get Presidential clemency for Drew or Ross due to Jared Kushner.

Reality has an exploit for a superuser. Come to EFNet and you will see I have been a hacker and social engineer since 1994.

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https://mobile.twitter.com/three_cube

We are elite hackers, cypherpunks and social engineers. Not marketing grifters. I fight for hackers everyday.
As a colloquialism, with the day entry example, using “slave labor” means that the wage is so low that the employer is paying it only defensively in order to justify _not_ being a slave master or share-cropper landlord.

GP is competing with people who write as a hobby rather than a profession. Responses above are about the crass hyperbole in GP, not misunderstanding the colloquialism.
The way I see it, Scaleway vs. AWS is the old tradeoff: enterprise-grade hardware vs. commodity hardware with resilient software.

You can set up one AWS EC2 backed by an RDS.

Or you can set up two Scaleway servers in failover, backed by three CockroachDB Scaleway nodes.

In the second approach, you need more cheap things, but the total price can still be lower. On the other hand, you should not expect the same reliability from a single Scaleway node, compared to a single EC2.
I mean, that's just internet in general, isn't it?
Interesting, I own a pair of Bowers and Wilkins PX headphones and they sound great, no complaints aside from the year the firmware got stuck in some failure state and they wouldn't reboot/function until the battery died.
People were told last year that home made cloth masks were perfectly fine. I applaud skepticism at new claims, made without scientific backing, that now not even one mask is enough.

My guess is that in order to increase the number of people wearing masks, they're trying a new scare tactic: maybe you should wear 2 or 3 masks. Maybe they hope that will cause people to wear at least one.

Gotta herd the cattle somehow, I guess.
I was gifted a high end pair of Beats many years ago, and my reaction was that music sounded “fun”. They couldn’t replace my studio monitor headphones, which were way more accurate. But they hyped up music in a way that was pleasurable.

If you shoot photos or video, you may be familiar with flat color profiles. RAW photos, or Log color profile videos. That flatness is important for professional work. But sometimes you want a JPG straight out of a Canon camera because their “color science” is gorgeous, and the photo doesn’t need much correction. Otherwise — fashion trends aside — an unprocessed RAW is dull.

At this price point, I feel like the Max’s are for people who want a quality fashion accessory that sounds amazing with little work. Kind of like the Bose speakers my dad splurged on when I was a kid. I’d later find out they were not considered great speakers. Did we care? No. They made movies fun, and brought my dad joy as he cleaned the house on Saturday’s blasting Led Zeppelin or some 80s New Wave cassette.

But for a professional tool, the author’s comparison to computational photography catches my eye. Because, despite buying every high-end iPhone for the camera system, I’m perennially frustrated. My DSLR smokes it, consistently. The computational stuff is impressive, but it still just doesn’t come close to reliably capturing quality shots the way my Canon does. But the “best camera is the one you have with you” — and when I’m out and about, I still appreciate having the lates-and-greatest iPhone camera system.

Anyway, long winded but my point isn’t to throw shade at the new Max’s. I haven’t tried them personally. I came close to buying them, but considered the back order and price and decided on some AirPod Pros - my first wireless ear buds. And I love them! They’re life changing for me because I can clean, and exercise, and turn on noise cancellation and get stuff done.

I think the bottom line is, if you love Apple stuff, don’t care about the price — or are excited to splurge on high end accessory — and you don’t do professional audio work, I get the impression that you’ll probably love these headphones. But professional audio engineers are probably going to still rely on monitors for serious work.
People get defensive for Wayland whenever it comes up. While I don't agree with the tone of the article, the author brings up valid points (mostly in the comments though).

Also I believe the problem is not Wayland. It's the lack of other standard protocols on top of it that are required for application developers to not chase ad-hoc, desktop environment dependent protocols for basic needs like screen sharing. The issues are probably political rather than technical, and the solution is coordination between the desktop environment implementers to use the same standards and provide common interfaces for application developers.
Thanks! I visited the page but the table is off the bottom of my screen and I didn't think to scroll. I immediately saw the "submit a job" form and got put off.

All the same, it would be better to also state their range of prices on the page where they estimate CPU and GPU-based cracking costs.
Does the Turing Test past the test of time?
> An atheist claims "there is no God" or that eg "there is no Christian God".

A gnostic atheist claims that, and yes that is a faith-based position. I think most atheists are agnostic atheists though.
Sure. Now let's say you're shopping for a brand new rug for your living room. Are you going to buy it from a site the looks like HackerNews? If so, I'd venture to say you're in the minority. A used rug from Craigslist, perhaps, but a brand new rug costing hundreds, you're going to want a site that looks VERY professional.
There's a lot of conspiracy theory-type stuff on this thread, but the truth is a lot more mundane. Essentially, this is a combination of an org that doesn't do a lot of basic research combined with bureaucracy at work.

I'm a DoD scientist. The funding levels listed here are at the low end for an in-house basic research project. The funding levels would support 1-2 scientists half time, including their overhead rates. Once the funding is granted it normally runs for three years without a significant review.

They funded it originally because the boards that decide whether to fund these programs are staffed entirely in house by folks who aren't really researchers, and who have an incentive to keep their own people employed. They were "silent" about it because to release any information whatsoever about a program, no matter how mundane, requires at minimum a multi-week review process. You can't just answer a reporter's questions over the phone. And any such review normally requires the researcher to initiate it.

So: they had a researcher who was out there, but probably had done interesting work in the past and was a good salesman. He convinced a board of non-scientists to fund him at what the Navy considers a very low level for three years. He didn't produce any publishable work so he didn't have an incentive to talk about it, and the Navy center involved didn't push him to because they have no incentive to do so.
Bad Bunny is a megastar and chooses not to claim the full superstardom. JLo performed at the inauguration and was with her partner Alex Rodriguez a successful MLB player. PepsiCo’s president is also of Latin descent. This doesn’t have to be an either or scenario as it’s made to seem.
(Reference to a Terry Gilliam movie about normal life occurring over a surreal government-vs-revolutionaries backdrop.)
Apparently KN95 isn't as good for preventing liquid transmission (I assume this is important in surgeries) but KN95 is just as good if not a little better protection against aerosoled covid.
If a client asks for it, I'll do it. Otherwise the use case for people with vertically oriented non-phone screens is so tiny that it isn't worth the effort. What are we realistically talking about here? One in twenty thousand, if that?
I quit a job right after college because of the scene in Office Space where they smash the printer with a bat in the field. That movie was kind of a tip of the hat to the Luddites.
The only affordable consumer audio products I have liked are from Marshall. They make a good lineup of bluetooth speakers for home use. I picked up one of those, and it sounds very good for its price. It has very decent bass, and generally good response all across the range. And just for fun, I put a processed guitar in aux input, not bad at all.

Another one which I like a lot are the range of mini amps from Laney. They aren't targeted for normal home use, but they can be used with bluetooth and aux-in. For their price and size, they sound very good. As a guitar amp...ehhh its OK for the price, but its portable.

Its really telling that both are veteran music gear companies.
When you say a KN95 barely protects the user at all, are you stating that they are worse than a cloth/surgical mask? I recently purchased some kn95's to wear instead of the surgical masks when these variations started to pop up.
For my own ventures, I always use a fixed width layout. Saves an almost infinite amount of time, tricky bugs, and therefore
a lot of $. Designers produce designs and you just take the pixel dimensions it always looks good. Done.

OTOH, when clients tell me they want responsive design - no problem! It's job security, and I bill by the hour ;)
Risk Impacts Margins – The Case for Guaranteed Satisfaction
>money/labour flows and dynamics very similar to the international ones

It’s quite different in my experience. Workers can be employed in another state with almost no friction (with the possibility of a income tax declaration at hire) but it’s a lot more complicated to work internationally.
Proposed telescope could have a resolution of 600 km on exoplanets 10.5 ly away
The way I've always seen it is that lack of belief in something doesn't really demand evidence. How would one prove that they don't believe in something?

At least from my (personal) perspective, the lack of belief in gods stems from not having found or experienced sufficient reason to think there likely are gods. It's not that I'm claiming to know or believe that there are certainly not any gods out there in the universe. I just can't find anything to back up the claim that there are.
My Sony MDR-V6s were purchased by a relative in the 1980s for use with a vinyl deck and are connected to a Mac today, having worked with cassettes, minidiscs, CDs and iPods along the way. With nothing more than replacement earpads they still sound great.

Will my children use them? Possibly not. Is it still better than a reasonable anticipated lifespan for AirPods Max? Yes.
I feel like I must be missing something, because I don't understand this author's point at all.

"Lots of websites think “Vertical Screen == Mobile User”!"
No, they don't - They think a 720px wide screen is a tablet user, which is probably a fair assumption.

I could equally write "Just because I browse zoomed in 500% doesn't mean I'm on a mobile"

When you zoom in, things get bigger, so fewer of them will fit on the screen... You have a choice between horizontal scrolling, or the website showing you the version of itself designed for smaller viewports.

Looking at the "How it should render" screens - I just checked the Guardian site, and that is exactly how the website looks at 1080px wide. The author admits that because of their zoom solution they are running at an effective width of 720px, so maybe just.. don't do that??

The proposed solution doesn't seem to solve anything, because physical size of the screen isn't the full story, it also depends on how far away from the screen the user is - which the browser can never know.
So we should endure technical mediocrity forever because we couldn't get our act together socially?

There is a way out. I've previously proposed on LKML that the Linux kernel team provide an official userspace system call library that sits below libc and that all libc implementations would share. We'd forbid new system calls being called except through this library. Optionally, we'd enforce this constraint on all system calls.

This is how Fuchsia works, by the way: all Fuchsia system calls must go through one giant vDSO.
Unfortunately, "atheism" is a broad term which covers both people who do not believe in a higher power, and people who claim that no higher powers exist.
>The author assumes that "the media" are some homogenous lump that all thinks the same and pumps out the same content.

There are zillion examples of this becoming more and more true. Increasingly often, articles are written to support shared meta-narratives, regardless of what's happening in reality. From just last few days, here is NYT and CNN drawing completely idiotic parallels between r/wallstreetbets and MAGA:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/style/gamestop-wallstreet...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/savingandinvesting/gamestop-...

This is borderline self-parody. The fact that several major outlets wrote something of this sort should raise red flags for anyone paying attention.
Technology provides capabilities. Capablities can afford positive utility, as well as destructive power. Even the benign utility, specially if convenient, alters society and societal norms. Changes in society in turn affect the personal and collective mind, from language to philosophy.

Kelly expresses his horror of "no, no, no" when remembering his experiences travelling in technology poor locales in Asia.

'The journey, lasting for the better part of a decade, transformed him. “I was in very remote parts of Asia, parts of which were literally medieval societies in every respect, from the dress, architecture, beliefs, behavior,” he says. “I saw completely vehicle-less cities—people throwing garbage in the streets, no toilets. That's not even to mention the hinterland villages, which were without even metal.” When he returned to the US in 1979, he had a deep appreciation for the technology that made life easier.'

Kelly is focused on convenience. Convenience is reasonably a good thing. And this is the fundamental weakness of his position on the embrace of machine in human society. The mechanised society is clearly far more than just a more "convenient" human society.

There is a fundamental philosophical fork in the road that informs this question: is a human being, as an individual, a complete being, or is species as a whole (and including its civilizational artifacts) the complete being? This can be reworded as: do human beings have souls, or are we mere biological machines?

What Kelly does not consider -- and a cursory grep for "happy"/"happiness" in the Wired article seems to support this -- is what was the individual and social experience of these technology poor societies. Does having "no metal" preclude happiness? Does is possibly promote it?

As hacker news denizens neck deep in technology rich societies, the germinal question is whether we are happier because of technology or not. Obviously we enjoy greater conveniences. Are our societies healthier than before, or not?

Technology comes in two conceptual flavors: as tool, and as garment (immersive environment). It is the latter kind of technology which requires moderation, as it alters our perception and social experiences (whether by extending and/or enhancing senses, or collapsing spatial (transport tech) and temporal (a/v tech) aspects of our reality).

Naturally, those who hold that man is merely a biological machine, should and would argue for unimpeded integrtion of technology into human societies, and in its extremist manifestation, into the very unit organism itself. And it seems entirely reasonable that those of us who reject the notion of a soul-less Human being, to insist that there must be limits to unfettered adoption of technology, for the sake of Human happiness, and well being.
Mystery of India's Plummeting Covid-19 Cases
The simple answer is that, if one is convinced that religions are not real (not even necessarily an atheist, a deist can believe this as well) seeing their loved ones "wasting" (again, according to them) their lives on things that do not exist kicks in an instinct to "protect" these people.

This is the simplest explanation of why people try to convert others to atheism. I'm not making a judgement call, I'm just explaining why people do that. As an atheist (well, I identify as an ignostic [1] which I view it so be a subcategory of atheism) I don't go convince people to be atheist. This is partially because all my close friends are already irreligious; and partially because religion is inflammatory so the cost/benefit trade-off isn't in my favor. However, if I had a very close friend, say my wife, who believed in God and spent a good amount of time and energy I would consider talking about these issues with them. This certainly doesn't sound crazy to me, as long as you're being civil, polite, considerate etc all that jazz.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignosticism
Nipah Virus in China with 75% Fatality Rate, Could Be the Next Pandemic?
Yes, and you should wear a helmet while walking or driving.

https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/scandinavian-walking-helm...
Not used it on M1 yet but Postgres seems to: https://info.crunchydata.com/blog/postgresql-benchmarks-appl...
My dad had a pair of Sennheisers he'd bought when he was younger, and I used those as a kid likely 30 years later.

https://www.cnet.com/news/does-sennheisers-iconic-1968-headp...
20k honey bees took over a tech company’s empty office during lockdown
Glad they are pivoting to this 'Upgrade your Mask,' approach. Noticed a few months ago a lot of energy seemed to be spent on encouraging the final 5-7% of people to wear masks. Also noticed many people 'wearing masks,' were still wearing ineffective or fashion-first masks. So you had 5-7% unwilling to adopt the health practice, but another 20-30% with proven willingness, just poor implementation, yet all messaging was focused on that smaller, resistant audience.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Free_Space/status/135660340017197...
Yet another loan originator for Genesis counterparties, now with half the interest payouts. What are the capitalization and/or insurance requirements? This is all extremely opaque. The main reason they’d borrow is to short it, which means they’ll sell it to cause a liquidity crash. If that doesn’t work, they’ll be bankrupt and you’ll lose everything anyway.
Also, I recommend running slrn against another ~/.slrnrc-reddit
in order to not use the defaults:

NNTPSERVER="news://localhost:8119" slrn -f ~/.jnewsrc-reddit --create -i ~/.slrnrc-reddit

Contents of ~/.slrnrc-reddit:

set auto_mark_article_as_read 0
set sorting_method 9
set use_slrnpull 1
set wrap_flags 7
set wrap_method 2
Spot Enterprise
Ask HN: Who's Looking for a Co-Founder?
You should probably mention what you are working on, where you are located, what stage you are in, who you are looking for, what you can bring to the table and a way to contact you.
> If apple no longer sells the battery, it will be trivial to find a suitable replacement. As long as there is demand, there will be loads of shops able to replace the battery for you.

Its a niche product. You will bot find replacement batteries for it. Heck it is even hard to find replacement batteries for 10 year old MacBooks.

> The real question is: will people who buy $500 branded headphones really have their 5+ year old headphones repaired, or will they but the latest-and-greates shiny new thing?

That’s my whole point. These things are not build (and bought) to last anymore but to be consumed. You used to retain some value when buying into expensive headphones.
Mobile vs Desktop is not a clean division: screens run the full range of widths. Instead, developers should:

* Lay out content based on the viewport width, in CSS pixels.

* Use larger tap targets for coarse pointers (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/poin...).
I didn’t know this! And inability to do this is a huge pet peeve (as well as not being able to zoom OUT and get a desktop-like view on my phone). Does this work on any browser for iPhone?
Time Travel Debugging for C/C++
Reader essentially had, on its backend, a complete archive of every single feed it had been indexing since 2005. A lot of personal sites and blogs have since disappeared entirely or lost some of their content through various misadventure, yet I was able to recover a lot of invaluable information with reader. This is, of course, something of questionable legality and hence my earlier comments about potential liabilities.

Other feed aggregators may have better UX or social integration (IIRC reader have always had an open API available in case you preferred a different client software) but none was or is able to replicate what reader has done for me.
Last month thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25644817

Also, created a central repository (document) with all the info.

Everyone, please fill out this form with your info https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O0pFRvwvPkXtINcTkFPV...
The “solution” he gives for website devs is to “stop naively using screen resolution”. But the thing is, an iPhone 12’s resolution is 2532‑by‑1170-pixel at 460 ppi - bigger than his 1080×1920.
“Conservative” in the sense that they want to preserve existing power structures, not that they don’t want to jump on new trends. Look at the mainstream coverage of the GME fiasco, for example. That’s why they love “progressive” ideas that keep everything the same except for skin colour.
> Have you compared the sites where Astra-Zeneca played fast and loose with its vaccine experiments, and the occurence of the more contagious mutations after on a map?

Correlation does not imply causation. Vaccine makers prefer to test in regions with high infection activity because statistically significant results can be obtained faster. And mutations are more likely to occur in regions with high infection activity because mutations are a numbers game. Most likely we're just seeing two effects with the same root cause, without those two effects being causally linked.
Amazon Unveils Outdoorsy New HQ2, Renewing Its Commitment to Offices
This Isn’t Your Father’s Yellow Card
I don't see how that's so. Could you explain?

Some examples, the fine-tuning argument, the origin of everything, the immense order observable in nature and Mathematics. These aren't very easy to explain away as coming from some random chaos.
This is a good point. I went from cultural religious - agnostic - atheist - religious in my life. The thing I realized is it takes the same part of my inner being to believe the claims of Jesus Christ as it did to believe the claims of theorists make about things such as the origin of the universe, the GUT, macroevolution, the origin of consciousness, and so many other models of physics and evolutionary biology. It all requires faith in a certain viewpoint and model of the world from our standpoint.
perhaps you're looking at US? Generally I see a trend of people moving back to the countryside as remote work is by default now. London, UK is pretty empty too - all the restaurants and offices closed - means all the food that used to be consumed inside the city is now eaten somewhere in the commuter belt. That's a major shift...
https://archive.vn/wip/8Jz2b
Homer Simpson and Topology
This reads like religious dogma to me.
I don't have time to recap on the current status of US politics again, so here's another comment I've made about it in the past: (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25668070)

As well as this Reddit post (https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/kueyj1/mone...), which I've posted weirdly enough on /r/wsb, but even people there seemed to be quite interested in this stuff.