skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends how they laugh. You can laugh in a good natured way at what should be a logical step but weirdly isn’t because of a non-obvious component of a system. They are funny in a similar way to how a joke is- something about the sudden change in perspective but with an flaw in the logic. But you are right that you need to make it clear you aren’t laughing at them to avoid such confusion.
Voluntary use of tools like uBlock Origin shows the way, ultimately though we need regulation to stop the arms race you refer to.

You're right that GDPR hasn't been enforced strongly enough. It is actually quite a good law (imperfect, but pretty good).

I donate money to NOYB (https://noyb.eu/en/our-detailed-concept) to fight for enforcement of the law.

Quality for consumers has only ever been truly won by regulation - all major economies heavily regulate all industries. The market didn't make food safe, regulation was needed (see history e.g. https://www.hygienie.org/a-brief-history-of-uk-food-safety-l...).
My first thought when reading the headline: "why are they referring to the analog TV switch-off by using the name for the color TV standard?". I guess most of us associate NTSC with the color TV standard because of the competing NTSC/PAL/SECAM standards, but they also developed the original black-and-white analog TV standard, which was then extended in a backward-compatible way to allow for color.
See figure 3: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202100564

Doesn't the measurement of current in the presence of light mean photo-voltaic?
>Google pulling an Apple in a couple months and preventing users from installing random APKs

This is the first I've heard of this, unless you're confusing this with the idea of them requiring developers to upload Android App Bundles instead of APKs to the store. Do you have a source?
Not my favorite scenario, an active captain having a $1B bone to pick with his boss.
A very small portion of funding for the Starship program has come from NASA (They won ~ 3 billion for HLS but that is spread over a few years).

SpaceX would almost certainly have gone bankrupt early on if it wasn't for NASA though, so SpaceX does owe it's existence to the US taxpayer in that sense.
> Most people who argue for defunding the police live in a situation in which daily life is dangerous... due to the police. Who often harass them, lock them up, or even shoot them dead.

This is obviously a thorny topic but I think you're wrong. For example here in NYC, there has been a huge spike in crime and shootings, of which black people have been the most common victims. The number of people murdered this way dwarfs the number of people shot by the police in total.

When people are in actual fear of their lives, it's not the police they are worried about. And this has manifested itself in the election.

The democratic mayoral primary we just had, the black and latin neighborhoods heavily went for Eric Adams, the former cop. While the white/gentrifying areas were more heavily for the defund-the-police candidate.

I am curious your perspective? Are you actually someone who lives in the hood and has a fear of your life on daily basis, and fear cops more than criminals?

Or are you more in the "I read about this stuff" bucket, and if so, how does the above fit into your perspective.
Mysterious Israeli Spyware Vendor’s Windows Zero-Days Caught in the Wild
I agree, the pilot may have a valid claim but the article left me without anything beyond "I built this, they didn't pay me and built it."
On Twitter, I've been blocking every account that pushes ads. Slowly I think I've gotten most of them lol. I don't see as many now.
Hooking Candiru Another Mercenary Spyware Vendor Comes into Focus
Fun fact: Actual Gambling machines are also audited on the reg.

A college friend works for my state's gaming commission. During a 'drinking talk' about digital signatures, she told me an interesting part of her job; not just going through the slot machines and validating the payout settings, but also checking the EEProms MD5 Hash* to make sure that it was in a list of 'approved' code hashes.

* - This was 15 years ago, I -really- hope they use something better nowadays.
>the question of whether there are more or less police staff generally probably not that important here.
The Netherlands consist of 17 million people and there isn't really alot of crime around. Exept the massive drug corporations all gathering in the center of their import and export. Our judicial system is not in shape to handle entire criminal enterprises.

>Why has the Netherlands not decriminalized Cannbis-based products entirely?
No one really cares. The state likes that it can regulate the shops. Police dont put you behind bars when they find drugs and will ask you if you 'willingly' do away with your stuff. Everyone is reasonably okay with the current arrangement.
YouTube has some of the worst algorithmic censorship of any social media platform and very little creator support for recourse. People seem to regularly lose channels they spent years building, along with all the revenue and subscriptions. It’s pretty much required to plan for the worst and have backup channels for your backup channels and be ready to start a viral campaign on Reddit just to have any chance to get your channel reopened.

I’d be surprised if anyone trusts them enough to stake their future on another one of their products. Not that TikTok doesn’t have their own serious problems but they have less of a track record and the topics are much more explicit, seems to be less collateral damage, which is easier for a creator to navigate.
This practice was found to be illegal in some countries, right?
> If you live in a society, you agree to abide by its rules or to move to a different society that better suits you if they will accept you. Otherwise you are a renegade.

Wut??? How can a person living on their own land be a renegade?
> how is that consistent with your framing that the problem is being ignored?

And here I'm struggling to understand how anyone can read my comment and conclude that I'm framing the problem as being "ignored." Silly me.
They sound good, too. Be good to hear a review if you get any of them.
Clippy Returns – As an Emoji
Pedophile Problems
Probably the most popular one would be the "new hotness" that everyone used, or aspired to use, before git became popular, Subversion (https://subversion.apache.org/).

There are others that aren't free (e.g. Perforce) and some that aren't quite dedicated to the monorepos & subtree workflow, but which handle it better by design (e.g. Darcs, http://darcs.net/).

But, mostly I'm thinking of Subversion.
iOS impressions down 30% from peak is "not a huge deal"? This is very counterintuitive to me, as iOS both holds the majority share of the US market, and 30% seems like a very high number. Can you explain?
I think so too. Previously we have a naive model of how facebook does tracking. now that apple closed this pathway, it's pressuring Facebook to reveal how they REALLY track or hide the fact they able to do so at some financial cost.
You are making a few assumptions:

1) People want the services more than they value their privacy. Maybe they'll just not use the service if they can't use it without tracking

2) That invasive tracking is required to sell ads. The media industry made billions (trillions?) of revenue from ads before tracking became a thing.

3) That platform ads are the only way to make services that are free for consumers. For example, Vimeo offers an ad free video delivery service that the content creator pays for. If Youtube was no longer free, maybe content creators would just pay for content delivery instead of having consumers indirectly pay for deliver with ads. Content creators have no issue selling ads / sponsorships without any tracking whatsoever. The result would be the same as now (content free for consumers) only that now non-targeted ads would pay for everything.

4) And finally, you are assuming that targeting via tracking actually works well enough to make it worthwhile. From what I've read, ad targeting is nowhere near as good as Facebook et al would have advertisers believe. Maybe invading your users privcy just doesn't make such a big difference in the end.
There must be some other factor at work, then, because I had the same experience when I didn't have cable around 2010. For a few big sports events I tried to get broadcasts, and analog was watchable (by analog standards) when digital was unwatchable because of frequent glitching. Buying a fancy antenna did not help.

Maybe television stations did not care enough about broadcast anymore to invest in digital broadcasting capability that matched the power of their old analog broadcasts.
Writing an efficient object previewer for JavaScript
Discussed previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27764806
I agree, but I still don't understand what people who prefer not to have their eyeballs monetized are doing on Facebook.
This work is associated with Precursor (https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5921), which is Bunnie's project to build a mobile hardware platform from the ground up.
Page 12 is especially interesting, IMO. They are calling on technology platforms to suppress and silence misinformation and "amplify communications from trusted messengers and subject matter experts."

My concern is what about when experts are wrong? Like when the surgeon general tweeted last year, "STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!"
Here's a comprehensive list of every time the "magic compiler will make our CPU competitive"-approach worked out:
That'd be the SW equivalent, yes.
People overestimate how much they can do in a day. They underestimate how much they can do in a year.
> "Nuclear-armed submarines are, by design, nearly impossible for other countries to track."

Not a very persuasive essay. To play devil's advocate, the point of the triad is redundancy to ensure that at least one of the triad is going to work to keep the MAD scenario going. Single points of failure are bad.
If a new technology is developed that allows submarines to be tracked or otherwise countered, which is hardly impossible given the breakneck pace of progress, then all of a sudden all nation-states are going to need to spend money to reinforce one of the other two legs of the triad anyway until countermeasures catch up and crash projects are always more costly than projects executed at leisure.
I only skimmed this but if I understand correctly the CPU needs to be in debug mode to access these instructions right? If so then it's hard to see why the authors present these instructions as dangerous - I imagine once the CPU is in debug mode you would have unfettered access to the system even without these instructions.

(not that it isn't still interesting!)
I bet they do this whenever they jump into someone's american made car, or go into a bank in the country as well.
GitHub Discussions is a much better place to handle Q&A: https://docs.github.com/en/discussions
Many companies are prohibited from doing stuff that they would profit from. I am sure soda companies would love to be able to add heroin to their products etc. However, maximizing random companies profits isn’t societies only concern.
Yeah, that sounds like a flaw in the methodology! And quite a funny one too.
Founders, investors, successful business owners and CEOs are more likely to show sociopathic behaviour than the average person next door.

They are the least competent group to be given power to shape any societal rules and contracts or to define how the humanity should look like.
> As soon as ad supported free services start shutting down because of ad blocking and lowered clickthrough rates on ads because of targeting being blocked, most people will probably start changing their minds.

Or they'll just go outside and find better uses for their time.
One of the interesting things I've noticed is that (around here at least) the over-the-air TV is much higher quality than the local providers (cable and fiber). The local providers streams are noticeably bit starved to me, while OTA looks quite good.
It's not a virtue
You get on your flight to Phoenix and the flight attendant says, “your pilot is Bob Smith, by the way funny fact, he is suing Delta for $1 billion! Pretzels will be coming shortly.” That won’t give you any pause?
Yes, for the actual CRUD there exists a template, but _what_ you want to create, read, update and delete must be defined first (e.g. text and images). You would need to add display-syntax, too - to present what is read to users.

If you just need to display text+image posts, have you thought about a static site generator? E.g. Hugo, Mkdocs, Jekyll.. you can hook these up through Gitlab/Github Continuous Integration and have it automatically serve site updates on new git commits.
Yeah. That does happen to be an inherent problem with a recommendation/referral based system. We do see that people recommend engineers very similar to them in profile/demographic. We try to solve it by seeding with a diverse base of scouts.
Show HN: New way to test APIs with OpenAPI and Postman
Ask HN: Can you tell if a post is edited?
I always wonder if there is a way on HN to tell is a post has been modified. I notice people mentioning "Edit: ..." when they edit their post, do they just do that out of the goodness of their heart even though there is no indication that the post has been edited?
Blame whoever you like. If we agree an activity is harmful, we usually pass laws to stop people doing it.

Other options can be applied, but only really if we don't agree, usually due to personal choice being relevant (some drugs, prostitution, seatbelts and helmets) or non-linear effects in both the utility and externalities (most pollution). Or both (cigarettes, alcohol, sugar).
Alright HN, so what is the end game here?

I'm sure some of you have some experience working in the "ad supported" space, and obviously most of the internet and many of its services run on the ad model. So where are we going to end up if there is a full on public distrust of the current ad model?
How the Belgorod region became the most vaccinated part of Russia
Putting aside the question of whether any company can disrupt the position of TikTok in this space, it's been interesting to watch this new short-media consumption spread across the platforms. They don't need to be "the" platform to use it effectively. I don't purposefully consume it -- i.e., I don't have TikTok or whatever -- but the medium itself can keep me on a platform longer. I'll mindlessly watch the shorts on YouTube, even in-between watching other content, without really noticing I'm doing it.
I see what you mean, but I probably would have laughed at that because it's a really clever solution, not out of scorn. I am guessing a doctor that has spent decade hearing about various blood pressure medications and treatment would have an instant of "That's funny, why can't we just empty them a bit?"
And, frankly, this just reinforces my overall opinion of Pharo. Pharo is really amazing, they've been working on it, actively, forever, and make great strides.

But I'm convinced that Pharo is an amazing development environment and eco-system designed to make amazing development environments and eco-systems. All of the folks are putting work in to improving IDE to make a better IDE.

They're on their, what, fourth(?) iteration of the "widget" set that folks still find difficult to use and under documented. As recently as Pharo 7, when I last looked in any depth to the matter, their rendering model is straight out of the 80s. Vastly less capable than Java2D or Canvas in the browser. It's my understanding it's on their todo list, but I don't know how far they've advanced on this.

What focus there is on applications seems to mostly come from Seaside, the web server application framework.

If you look at their "success" page, most (not all) are web apps.

It would not surprise if someone, somewhere, is fusing Pharo and some Electron-esque rendering front end and using it to create a "desktop application".

And it's not unreasonable to say "Well, web is where it is, desktop is dead." There's certainly arguments in that direction.

In the end, it's moot. The devs have their itches to scratch. Nature of the game. Their itches are not my itches, and an "advanced" rendering model and modern widget set is something I want to use, not write. So, I'm at their mercy waiting for whenever that day may, if ever, come.

If was interested in writing IDEs, then perhaps Pharo would be a place for me. Instead I'm interested in writing hobby desktop apps, and it's not there yet.
I'd say the most important factors that recruiters look at are:

1) current company tier
2) roughly relevant experience (in broad strokes - frontend or backend)
3) university tier (less relevant as you gain work experience)
4) a distant fourth is hackathon/side-project experience (though this is quite useful for college students)
Freedom Phone: Completely. Uncensored
SpaceX is a massive vindication of NASA's approach the last 2 decades to do public-private partnerships and commercial-oriented contracting (i.e. where contractors are allowed more latitude in how they accomplish a mission, are actively encouraged to find other customers, and bid on a fixed-price basis instead of cost-plus).

SpaceX is a huge vindication of careful government spending being used to help stimulate commercial activity while also accomplishing government goals more efficiently.
> lucky. Incredibly lucky.

Yes... I was born in America.

Then I stopped relying on being lucky and took my poor ass (I grew up with a single parent and little to nothing) and worked my ass off to better myself (using the opportunities afforded in the wonderful country I was lucky enough to be born in).

> why should those less fortunate be allowed to live decently

The problem is definition of "decent". Poor people in America make 10x more than the AVERAGE global salary and have opportunities that people around the world envy. "I can't afford a good apartment" in other countries is "I can't eat and my kids are dying".

You say I'm lucky... I say you're entitled.

Funny thing is we're both correct and that still doesn't make "affordable housing" something that's realistically possible for 100% of people in 100% of the US much less the world.
I am not sure, but we tried most things and, at least in what I have seen in NL and after that in Spain, where you can get xtc, heroine and coke everywhere (not legal, but ish...), it does not breed more or worse addicts it seems. While where it is forbidden (US, AU and Asian countries), I trip over the addicts in the streets. In my view we tried all paths except full legalization for both consumption and trade. So full legalization with a lot of counseling (like in Portugal, my current residence) seems a good avenue to try out.

In NL we already had (have? It was that way when I was young) The needles and the police checking dope quality at parties, why not go the extra mile? I am afraid this is not the good of the people but the money made from drugs somehow or is that too cynical?
I think that we Dutch are fnding out there is no solution without downsides to this. The price for defacto/partially normalizing a sector that is criminal in the rest of the world translates to creating a world wide safe haven for people you really don't want to attract.
Can’t really talk beyond Europe viewpoint, so might be different elsewhere, but here in the UK the left often talks of removing Westminster central control and empowering smaller local politics. I’m left wing/labour/union/coop worker and work in crypto, same with my colleagues. I really disagree with the projection that it is right wing ultracapitalist. It’s one of the best tools I’ve seen for cooperatives and community organisations
The problem from what the grandparent post, is why legalize sales but not production?

These are largely historical compromises. It doesn't change, because the conservative right-wing parties (e.g. CDA and VVD) generally want to completely ban soft drugs, whereas liberal left-wing parties (e.g. PvdA and GroenLinks). So, we don't really make progress in any direction.
For what it's worth, home renters already have that right. The right to organize is enshrined in law and tenant organizing is regarded as an important fight against the landlords.
Well, of course. But there's a free-rider/tragedy-of-the-commons problem here: people might reasonably think the monetization of their eyeballs is an acceptable cost to be able to use something like Facebook, even if they choose not to be monetized when they get to use Facebook either way.

However, if nobody could be monetized, then Facebook couldn't exist, making those people (for whom monetization of their eyeballs is an acceptable cost in exchange for Facebook) to be worse off.

The only reason piracy and ad-blocking haven't totally killed for-profit media is because most people don't use them (either because they don't know how, for legal or ethical reasons, or because it's a hassle).
Is that even a bad thing? If people are familiar with git --- its command syntax, its commit model, its collaboration setup --- why not let them keep using this model? Isn't it better for everyone if we put a few hundred people on targeted scalability fixes for git instead of making a few million people drop productive work and learn a new tool?

I mean, most of the people in industry today have known no character encoding except ASCII and its supersets --- and that's a good thing!
Sharing personal memories online facilitated memory retention (2016)
Ads still exist. Advertising has existed for a long time, effectively, without personal tracking. This will weed out the players from the wannabes.
I don't think you ever saw me mention that WHOIS is dead, not least because that's not a thing I believe. What a random thing to say; you can just use the search bar to immediately see the (very few) things I've had to say about RDAP here.
Jackson Palmer could have been a billionaire had he not sold his dogecoins.
both Main Event and Dave and Busters have unlimited play cards that are popular? (you can't play the ticket games with the cards though) What big arcades are there still other than places like those?
Fair dues! I scanned the images and saw no security focused one, but that might have been a lack of coffee. Thanks for pointing it out.
High-Speed Rail Gets Boost from New Coalition
They definitely need a long FAQ. I'm sure it's different than submodules somehow, but in what ways/circumstances/purposes, I have no idea.
Brave's BATs (Basic Attention Tokens) spring to mind.
The results of diversity.
Sleng teng riddim! I wish I could have experienced this on one of the huge Jamaican soundsystems of that era. Before sleng teng, dancehall music was all done with acoustic bass. This changed the game, no one had ever heard bass like that before
> i thought cellular you get a unique ip?

In the US at least, yes, because most cell providers switched to IPv6 long ago. In other places, carrier-grade NAT is widespread.
I was just reacting what you wrote in relation to its parent. Also, please don't edit your comments to say something entirely different. And also, I don't know about you, but both Lutger and me live in the country under discussion.
VFS is being replaced in favor of https://github.com/microsoft/scalar
> I am immediately thinking of the horribleness of how some of the (older) javascript frameworks re-invented the back button (and browser history in general) instead of.. ya know, using the browser.

They did that because the browser didn't support adding to the history via JavaScript.

But even now that the browser does support adding to the history via Javascript ... is that really just "using the browser"? At some level in many modern web apps back button history is not just the browser. This isn't an ancient thing left behind with old frameworks.
Which didn't exist when that issue was created.