skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn’t describe it as business news, more like mainstream news. Over the last six months or so, I have noticed a massive increase in the downvoting of unpopular opinions. Before you had to be deliberately belligerent to get flagged or downvoted. Now it’s more just saying something the slightest bit controversial.

This is how Reddit operates and I am sad to see it taking over Hn too.
The German regulatory body (and I'm sure similar things are happening in other countries) has only been holding off on boosters out of concerns over the supply for first and second shots but is now rolling out boosters for people aged 70+ or vaccinated with the one-shot J&J vaccine, so I'm not sure why this is getting downvoted.
It can work just fine, just like it can be applied inappropriately.
Sylabs launched their Singularity product in 2015,[1] whereas Microsoft Singularity is from the mid 2000s,[2] so the ripping off is in the other direction.

1. https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/08/sylabs-launches-singularit...

2. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/singularity...
I find that it is very difficult to follow his explanations, due to his presentation style but also because of the concept behind it (making English videos based on an Italian pdf file).
Bayesianism can't decide relevance (relevance isnt a statistical concept).

Indeed, "fallacies" are just discrete constraints on a problem like this.

Ie., that the author's relationship to facebook makes no difference to the truth of their claims shows that we need evidence relevant to their truth first.

In otherwords, you're effectively conditioning on the claims being false when you include this relationship.
> I guess you could say that it was a very well-sealed camera.

Well, it did fall off the seal. Though that's not very typical.
I hate it when people say that, especially when they know very well bruteforce isn't exactly the only way to break a cipher. I think if theu are honest, they all admit all of it is speculation (educated, but still), no one knows if there will be a discovery in physics, mathematics or information theory that can undo a cipher. Or even just a weakness in the cipher.
And unaware to many, did actually power the Asian servers for Bing as production test.
> Thank you for puting the minimal circuit diagram right there.

And I thank them for it being a proper schematic.

Far too many projects nowadays just give a drawing that is essentially a picture of how the circuit would be built on a solderless breadboard such as this [1].

[1] https://v6f7u6f8.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Mix...
The first time when I saw HN in 2006, I was not impressed. It was a weird looking site with an insiders community and it didn’t seem interesting to me at the time because I was a big TechCrunch reader and Arrington’s daily drama was way more fun/interesting to read. A couple years later (around 2009), another engineer that I met shared his habit of compulsively checking HN everyday and I was shocked to hear that the site still existed and that people were actually using it. Soon after I started checking it more and more to figure out what he was talking about… and eventually developed the same habit!
Samsung apologizes for a Russian backdoor they sent to phones in the UK
And his point was to actually provide arguments in support of such a "consideration" is how you argue.
MacOS is Unix:

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/apple.htm
I don't know why you are being downvoted, this is 100% correct. It's the whole reason we do things like power analysis.
Excellent article!

What’s also very interesting is that the article links to page from TrendMicro about malicious Android apps using Java’s version of SSH to infiltrate internal corporate networks.

TrendMicro’s own Android app ALSO contained the same Java SSH sdk.
Andrew Huberman goes to great extent explaining the effects of pretty much everything related to neurobiology, here he talks about blue light and how it affects sleep. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm1TxQj9IsQ&t=1970s

Also a great science based podcast.

edit: context
You type very well for your species. What type of input device do you use?
a lot of software use node based UI

most movie grade CGI (houdini, maya) or compositors were made this way

since most tasks don't require an abnormally large network it's ok (when it's not they try to implement submodules of some kind, it's pretty ad-hoc but it's not supposed to be the average use case)

one value of these is that it's obviously (and visually) lazy reactive. You can do the same with text but it's harder to see input/outputs on text IMO.
>> can we do it better?

>> can we improve security and robustness?

>> can we prevent unexpected interactions between applications?

Of course you can. Are there incentives, though, for MS to do so?

>> Goals [...] Lack of robustness

Did Windows 11 _have to_ become dependent on users' internet connection? I don't think so.

Are there incentives that would guide MS towards not introducing a complete and utter dependence on the net, thereby making it possible to opt-out from their telemetry?
Oh man, that's the one I meant, not AIMA+Lisp. But AIMA is great in general.
Vit d,e,b complex. Magnesium, bob and Brad YouTube videos. Specifically TMj video, but all stretching videos. Massage gun.
I switched to an autoimmune protocol diet.
Did an elimination diet to find my food triggers.
Empuls
You IDE should check the types for you.
Yes, if they have alternative means to discover that data. "They" don't need to decrypt TLS but if they did, they could. We are speculating here.
Basically they are quite similar to just upload an EAR into an application server, they just have more languages to play with other than just Java.

Somehow it is kind of ironic to see how the industry goes in circles.
We need to put an end to marketing and focus groups. Their amoral behavior is the source of all this.
Ask HN: Are methods like zettelkasten / Roam a waste of time?
There seems like a lot of traction for this technique, is it any useful? I want to hear any criticism of it before I start using / trying it out.
No, I read chapters from time to time, I'd love to have time to read all of it.

Maybe, I'll think about it.
> You won't read about the habits, diets and anxieties (housing, options, politics, tools, city life, commute) of people from berlin , moscow , paris, melbourne, while you learn the people, areas and streets of SF by name.

Is that even true? I feel (as in: likely a misperception) that I learn more about life in Berlin these days on hn than from real life, and I have visited many times, trains run twice an hour and I have friends and family there. Sure, there's the occasional council level politics topics about some SV thing but that's rare.

Plenty of platforms offer hard focus on a topic, for any topic, no scarcity on that front. The achievement of hn is broadness of scopewithout losing identity. It's great.
In the research page linked, there is extensive research on the effects of bright light exposure to circadian rythms, which may indeed alter quality of sleep by altering natural biorythms (note that no effect is produced on sleep itself, but rather on its timing, and this in turn affects its quality).

There is, however, very little research linked to blue light in particular, and it is inconclusive and contradictory. The best source they cite is actually against the hypothesis:

"Occasional claims that the light sources with emissions containing blue light may cause eye damage raise concerns in the media. The aim of the study was to determine if it was appropriate to issue advice on the public health concerns. A number of sources were assessed and the exposure conditions were compared with international exposure limits, and the exposure likely to be received from staring at a blue sky. None of the sources assessed approached the exposure limits, even for extended viewing times."

On a more subjective note, how they bury the actual research below tons of related-but-not-really articles, pop media links, and "explanations" makes me suspicious.

And mind, I do set my screen to redder tones in the evening and find it pleasant and probably helps me set the mood to go to bed, but I don't think research supports physiological or health reasons to avoid blue light or spend money on blue light avoiding, as the OP link seems to say (I don't read German :(
> Software-isolated processes

Is it true that this idea is dead nowadays, because of Spectre-style attacks?
People follow a lot of misinformation from the.media, and government nowadays, I wouldn't be at all surprised if this situation described might repeat in the coming months.
The Git repo does not seem to contain the actual application.
"Hipster News"
Our ancestors? I feel sorry for you.
Do you have any writeups, schematics, parts lists, and/or code you can share? I know folks in the flight sim community who would love to know more!
You might enjoy "There Is No Antimemetics Division", a story (told in a series of short stories) about the idea of "Antimemes" (if memes are ideas that spread like viruses and can't be forgotten, antimemes are the opposite, they're not invisible but you can't remember them).

https://qntm.org/scp
The problem is, it's very old, and with Firefox, the good stuff comes with the last versions.

Especially, modern Firefox is wicked fast, while just a few versions before, it was less so. The difference is _staggering_.

I think there is a space for add ons to setup Firefox to be more privacy focused. It's easier to maintain than a fork: compiling on so many targets such a huge software is very hard.
Slashdot was also filled by ‘humorous’ commenters fighting over first posts and beating dead horse memes that had quit being funny a decade ago.
They're designed to fit over regular prescription glasses and block light coming in peripherally. We give them to everyone after eye surgery. They're not specifically designed to prevent macular degeneration. Try them sometime, they work incredibly well. I wear them now when driving.
It's starting to kick off, several households are implementing it, it costs $5k+ here which given the current situation isn't the top priority
But honestly I do hope we reach a point where private solar and wind take over the main grid and the generators
Of course the use of 'you/your' was generic.

But anyway: so you have only electronic devices and systems which are guaranteed surveillance-proof? You never make calls, you never send messages? Ok. All your keyboards are keylog-proof, all your microphones secured? It is more probable, if really that exception is to be taken as «guaranteed», that you do not keep electronic devices at home.
None of those statements are scientific and scientists don't talk like that, so the onus falls squarely on politics and media. And laypeople. People consume a ton of knowledge from their peers, even before social media.

Each of those points has enough nuance to fill volumes of research papers.
To TL;DR the discussion: Some Android manufacturers/carriers include a software package by a company called Digital Turbine, which allows automatic installation of apps through a single click on an ad. It’s not a feature of Android itself (I initially thought it was an add-on to instant apps).

It‘s not like I needed another reason to hate the common Android ecosystem, but here we go. I maintain that there’s no way you can legitimately trust your phone manufacturer’s software. The incentives are just too misaligned. You have to use a third-party ROM like LineageOS (which has its own issues).

Most hardware manufacturers can not be trusted with software at fucking all. Apple seems to be the only exception.

Hardware and software need to be distributed separately (see personal computers), which could also solve some issues with updates. Treble is a good but under-utilized step in between.
What an incredible link and story I hadn't heard of at all. Reading that Lenovo literally knowingly installed self-signed certs on their laptops to send encrypted traffic to ad bots is one of the more horrifying device manufacturer findings I've ever seen.
https://sshuttle.readthedocs.io/ seems worth mentioning for convenient VPN-like tunnelling.
This will sound rude, but I'm more and more convinced that people immersed in nix have never seen a real person in real life.

defined boolean expression reference true.

wat.

I'm a technical person, and I have no idea what this is. And for technical people? Literally everyone says that "nix is really hard to get started with".

nix and nix-related developers, please, please find some real people and talk to them.
2019 was caused by corona virus with what origin? Who was intermediate host?
Is a virus actually considered an "organism"?
"Hacker" "News"

(It's a somewhat obscure reference)
Having less variety of food l and "having to eat cupboard food" don't really go hand in hand. It's not essentials, they're luxurious options.
Yeah but no but...

https://gist.github.com/andybak/f98742b37b801849e1584b7faddc...

This is the code generated for a single cuboid.

EDIT - looking a bit closer, it might not be that bad. That seems to be mostly library functions. The actual user code is fairly concise:

function node_cube_matrix(i=0,j=0,k=0,l=0,m=0,n=0) = translate([0,0,0]);

module node_cube(i=0,j=0,k=0,l=0,m=0,n=0)
{
cube([2,1,1],center=false);
}

node_cube();
> they must be leveraging that new 64 bit technology everybody has been talking about!

Waterfox is a project that has been around for long enough (~2011) that 64-bit was actually a thing people cared about.

> they even give money to Microsoft Edge!

They are saying they covered several topics in the interview, of which one was charity, and another was Microsoft Edge.
Old, unwatched threads are a magnet for referral link spam anyway. Most sites have ended up blocking this.
The making of the Booker Prize
What about UV and oxygen? We are well-adapted to those, but over time they degrade our bodies.

The gimmicky glasses barely stop any blue light at all.

The effect of bright blue light on preventing myopia settles down once you reach adulthood. There's no evidence it helps after that, your corneas have already set.
it's strange i ctrl-f'd "psychosis" and "killing deer with teeth" in those papers and got 0 results
You have highlighted the problem I described in my original reply to the post, and although you have been pretty active in this thread trying to come up with solutions, you seem to summarise with "I don't know the answer" with this reply.

Try imagining your application(s) that requires addresses moving into new markets, like Norway, Sweden, Ghana or whatever.
so this is a handwavy, ymmv answer to a broad question, but i will avoid saying 'it depends' and try for a concise 80% hot take answer.

if you use journalling as a 'write only' medium where you don't often review what you've written, you just want to get the thoughts to stop ping ponging in your brain, then yes these kind of systems tend to be a waste of time because you don't get good roi out of the effort required to link and crosslink verious notes over time. too much organization to content ratio. use paper, joplin, onenote or kjots and move on.

if however you already do something like the weekly getting things done review OR want to / have to keep a lab notebook to refer to what you previously learned and since forgot (which is what i want to try using onenote per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28678449) then adding the additional complexity of roam (eww saas) or zetelkassen (no saas yay) then go for it.
Totally not. You have to be careful about the use case. A company I worked for went crazy on i, and redux and rxjs, redux-form, etc for a mostly CRUD app and it was a total mess. A team of 6 devs couldn't keep up with the complexity of what one or two devs could build decades ago with django or rails.

Nowadays I think that unless you have a team that only wants to work with JavaScript and nothing else, or you need an offline first application or something truly "single page" such as Google maps, it makes no sense. Adding a form validation library should be a red flag you're going out of the intended use case.

If what you meant by your question is if, once decided to use a frontend framework such as react, is it worth vs Vue, Svelte, vanilla, etc.... Then my answer is that it is better to use one of theses vs not using them, just because of the ecosystem, the docs and the libraries you will find. I think Vue is a LOT better than react, but that's just my preference due to it being less verbose, having official solutions for router, state, etc and the amazing reactivity system it has.
I'm sure you're better able to find answer to such questions by digesting the countless reports on the subject.
Where Australia really messed up was basically stopping use of AstraZeneca entirely (IIRC).

Blood clot risk is much higher the younger you are[1]. It would have been far better to continue using AstraZeneca, but limit it to a certain age and older.

[1] For example, 1.1 of the specific clots per 100 000 vaccinations of people in their 20s, falling to 0.2 per 100 000 in their 60s. https://wintoncentre.maths.cam.ac.uk/news/communicating-pote...
The closest thing I have to that is WhatsApp!
There's an excellent chance you will wait forever.

I'm going to give the same example I always do. In 1977 they standardised DES. DES was already publicly known to be weak in two specific ways, the keys are too short (56-bits), and the block size is too small (64-bits). This was done intentionally. Today you can break DES... by exploiting these two weaknesses with today's cheaper hardware. No other meaningful attacks on DES worked, it has performed exactly as designed for well over forty years.

At the turn of the century DES was replaced by AES. AES has 128-bit or 256-bit keys, and 128 bit blocks. So, brute force attacks known to be viable for DES are never going to be possible for AES because physics. You would need one of those mathematical breakthroughs that never happened for DES in, as I wrote, almost fifty years. Don't hold your breath.

Because of this, encrypted material probably gets less valuable over time, as keys which did exist and might become available to you in future are instead lost or destroyed. And the pace accelerates. With TLS 1.2 it was plausible that you (assuming "you" are a powerful adversary able to do stuff like seize people's property) could seize a running HTTPS server and use its "ephemeral" secrets to decrypt traffic from yesterday, or maybe even last week, but in TLS 1.3 the mechanism is more fleeting, perhaps you can decrypt messages from ten minutes ago, but without the client's help perhaps not at all.
The best way to show this to non-observers is to show them the Pleiades. Most people can clearly identify a blobby cloud, but it disappears for them when they look right at it. You have to really look at it for a minute or two for the eye to pick up on it when focusing on it.
Looking at the GUI, I have no idea what it does.

I'm guessing that you actually need to know Nix to be able to use it, which kinda defeats the "usable for non-technical users" goal.

I can see the value of it, if I ever learn Nix, and want a quick way to make modifications without having to google every possibilities.
Business very much is part of hacker culture, and is Very different in tech versus many other industries.
I get so frustrated when this topic comes up.

If you have an OLED phone running Android, you can get cf.lumen and use it to turn all blue light off. This uses only red light and preserves night vision and eliminates eye strain. That alone should give intuitive evidence that maybe blue light actually is a danger to our eyes and to our sleep.

But as usual, the phone developer DONT GET IT and continue to not offer this feature as a default even though any OLED can do it.
It's almost as if English is not everyone's first language.
SerenityOS: Year 3 in Review
Languages aren't hard to learn once you've got 1-2 under your belt.

FWIW I wouldn't consider myself to have "absolute mastery" in any language, there are some I'm more comfortable with than others but even when I'm not I can still be productive.
I have been noticing recently people experimenting with things like WASM kernel modules, and even having the kernel itself (or maybe it was a supporting root-owned process?) compile Rust code in a way that validates it doesn't do any dodgy and then loading the result into the kernel. It makes me wonder whether there might be a way to achieve many of the benefits of microkernels without the inefficiencies and complexity ("everything is now a distributed system") that has held them back in the real world. It sounds like Singularity was pushing in this direction, so maybe I should pay more attention to its spiritual successor Midori.

I also wonder whether there's anything stopping _Linux_ slowly becoming something more like this over time by supporting kernel modules that have direct but _limited_ access to talk to each other in more ways that can be verified at load time. In theory even some kinds of "arbitrary shared memory" patterns could work just fine, and get you pretty close to the best of both worlds even with supporting "binary blob" drivers etc. Instead of requiring modules to be compiled to a special kind of bytecode (which would require compiler support), maybe you could even create some special conventions for how memory is accessed by these sandboxed kernel modules (fake syscalls or something?) that let them be rewritten at load time.

I guess it boils down to: how much could you statically verify the behavior of a kernel module without preventing from having the flexibility to do what it needs to do?
The history of what we call work
Really good. Nice
Wrong, there are many OLED monitors and TVs which do not always emit some amount of blue light. All blue light pixels can be turned off.
I'm not aware of any ops tooling that's built in JavaScript. (I'm sure it exists, but it's not popular.) When the article is referring to build tools, they likely mean transpilation/bundling systems like Babel and Webpack, which are fairly reasonable uses of JavaScript.
This "Facebook == bad" story is tired.
> Why would you want to implement "a kernel" in WebAssembly?

Because webassembly has all the problems (very old) physical hardware has. No multithreading, but a kernel can cheat that out (by rewriting user space programs or interpreting them). Cooperative multithreading is a central component of virtually every webassembly program (ie. we're at win3.1 level). There's uses for drivers, dynamic libraries, permissions, ... all of these concepts have uses it seems to me very similar to what you need on real hardware.
Dr Pepper: Pepper Perks Are Here
I don’t think it is. If it is, it’s pretty bad at it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28816990
You take two leaps here that don't follow:

OP proposed that advertising is psychologically manipulating people into believing their lives are incomplete and asked whether that is a harm. You conflated this manipulation with built-in desires; it is not that.

By analogy, it is as though OP argued that deliberately withholding food from prisoners to cause them distress from hunger is a harm and you are countering that OP may as well describe hunger itself as harmful.

> Most people don’t subscribe to the Buddhist point of view, though.

Buddhism does not consider desires an inherently harmful. Being captured by desires and constantly craving can be, but that's not the same as the mere existence of desires that can arise.