skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! An AI that looks at the ads for us and just filters them out. Now it doesn't matter what they do to circumvent the blocker since the AI works by recognizing the brands and ads themselves instead of relying on page structure.

Imagine having smart glasses which seamlessly filter out product placement in movies, sporting events, even the ads in the real world. It's a dream come true. Our reality can finally be clean again.
You make it sound as if being formally taught somehow precludes this.
It’s exactly because I do care, that I’m so frustrated. Mozilla was our best chance to have a truly independent browser. And they blew it. And they’re still blowing it, destroying their remaining good-will with one tin-eared, alienating move after another.

This is not “less than perfect”. This is gross incompetence. Firefox has been in steep decline for over a decade, yet the same people who are responsible for this monumental failure are still in charge, still running it (into the ground).

If they do not get some more capable people in charge, Firefox will continue its decline into irrelevancy, and we’ll all be worse off, when Google, Apple and Microsoft are the only browser vendors left standing.
Ć is C-with-acute-accent. C' is C-with-apostrophe.
They actually published papers in Game Programming Gems about how the camera works which was the real insight. To work right, it has to participate in the physics system, attached with a spring to the back of the character you're playing as. When you do that, the control coordinate system being relative to the camera rather than the player seems natural to the playter. You almost need tank controls when the camera can just jump willy nilly, as the remasters of the original Resident Evils have proved.
So does this mean that if you purchase an unlocked phone directly from the manufacturer rather than your service provider, you shouldn't have this problem?
Very surprised that you feel this way after traveling throughout the state. Honestly, it blows my mind that places like Vallejo, Bakersfield, and Placerville are all part of the same state compared to places like the Bay Area and Socal. They don't feel remotely the same to me.
Except it's not about the tech when you're actually having an effect on people's lives, and we should be more willing to openly talk about that. Is it easier to pretend that stuff doesn't exist? Sure. But it does exist, and we do need to actually discuss what happens in the real world due to the technology we work on.

I agree with you, and I'm not asking anybody to pretend that anything doesn't exist. It's just that I would prefer that the "politics / culture / social / whatever" conversations happen somewhere else. But that's just me. I understand that not everyone will agree.

But still, for me, I'd much rather see "How I built a startup on Guile" than yet another story about how (Facebook|Instagram|TikTok|Twitter|Usenet|Gopher|UUCP|BBS's|whatever) are bad for our mental health. shrug

Even better, I'd like to see "How I wrote my own Guile interpreter in COBOL, added Java and Rebol interop, ported it to the Raspberry Pi, and interfaced it with my handbuilt analog computer, and then built a startup out of it."
TSMC plans new chip factory with Sony in western Japan
Probably more relevant than Roko's Basilisk is David Langford's story "comp.basilisk FAQ".

https://www.nature.com/articles/44964
What's the deal with "covid-causing virus" in the title? Is there some kind of virus relationship ala HIV/AIDS that I wasn't aware of?
They care when they believe it confirms their already existing bias. You will scoff at an adult telling you that D&D will make you satanic because you know that you are not satanic and have not had the urge to worship satan because of D&D.

But if they are telling you social media will make you feel bad about yourself, and you actually are feeling bad about yourself, you are likely to say.. yeah that is probably right. It allows them to cast their insecurities on to "Social Media" and say "I feel this way because of X". Otherwise where are these feelings coming from? Am I really a loser?
This is a great piece. It’s almost like huge numbers of researchers forget how to evaluate evidence when the study in question makes a hated outgroup look bad.
If you think the discourse here is lower quality than on twitter, I'd really like to know how you're curating your twitter feed.
There is an alternate defintion of hacker, that of the "startup hacker" or "growth hacker," that this site seems to follow more closely.

Disappointing, for sure.
To answer your question, yes, it is more of a conflict of interest. A journalist is tasked with writing truthful articles that do not mislead the public. This holds at least for those who portray themselves as such (e.g., by making arguments appealing to our sense of truth or reason; i.e., anyone whose opinion we should at all value).
In this case, however, the journalist is directly or indirectly paid by Facebook to spin the situation. As such, this is a conflict of interest (the integrity of journalism in particular being in the interest of the public).

The whistleblower must provide actionable (in court) and therefore truthful information. Such information was, by definition, kept secret from regulation authorities who are tasked with enforcing societal rules. Rewarding this the whistleblower is not a conflict of interest.

I mean, you could construe the wordings to say that the conflict is between loyalty towards the firm and loyalty to society / laws, and if this is a meaningful and acceptable rather than absurd contrast, then you are probably Elon Musk.
For everyone else, it is hard to see a conflict of interest here.
Impulse Tracker uses VGA 80x50 text mode.

https://github.com/herrnst/impulsetracker/blob/master/IT_S.A...

http://www.ctyme.com/intr/rb-0069.htm
Well I meant in contrast to US prison cells, since I assumed most users here are from the US, maybe I'm wrong on that front.
Zuck and his employees at Facebook need to talk about the social impacts of their tech, for sure. But why does that topic need to be discussed on HN? We (both broader society, as well as the subset of it that makes up the "tech community") have other forums for that.
You might enjoy lobste.rs more for straight tech content.
thanks! last time I checked it required installation of beta drivers which wasn't something I was very excited about doing.
COVID-19 is the name of the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...
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I second this. Twitter and Reddit are not places I’m interested in participating in any kind of political discussion but for whatever reason I’m inclined to participate here, frequently against my better judgement to just stay quiet. I’m coming here regardless because it’s how I keep my finger on the pulse of the industry and for better or worse use that to make most of my tech leadership decisions at work, so it’s nice to be able to do both in one place.

That said I probably spend too much time here because of it.
For software performance, can you always trust inlining?
Yeah. The only way to win this is to get every user to block ads. Just install uBlock Origin by default on every browser. Drive the advertiser return on investment as close to zero as possible.

Only then will the web change.
Oh boy. Is it too early to say RIP?
It's absurd how much people deny PED [1] use. It's pervasive and an open secret in basically any context where men are shirtless: actors, models, MMA fighters, bodybuilders, etc. Even law enforcement and firefighters.

The closest someone like The Rock gets to admitting using them starts with "one time in college...". When even his use is a debate, good luck convincing someone that a slightly smaller actor gaining 25 lbs of muscle in a few months isn't normal. As they happily tell you in interviews, gaining muscle like that is just a matter of working out 6 hours a day and only eating broccoli, chicken, and rice.

1. "Steroids" isn't very accurate. Other things like HGH and SARMs are common, and steroids these days would often be called "testosterone replacement".
if only they shared the videos in these type of articles
Tangentially related is the concept of a memetic hazard, although this would be more something that targets the collective hivemind rather than weapons that target individual human brains.

https://memetics.miraheze.org/wiki/Memetic_hazard

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/understanding-memetics
From https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-joins-zoom
> Initially, our single top priority is helping to make Zoom even more secure.

Although the git graph looks like it's their only priority at the moment...
The quality of [Facebook's] secret research into mental health is abysmal
this is Saudi Aramco erasure and I won't stand for it
They were acquired to appease investors/public relations during the explosive pandemic growth phase when a multitude of security issues were uncovered.
My parents also taught me that video games are a waste of time growing up, and now it is something I am very grateful that they did.

I recall a classmate in college relating to me that he had put in over 8000 hours in various games. I almost pitied him. A year of his life gone, unproductively looking at a computer screen.

Of course plenty of people have similar habits. Older people watch a ton of television, others sink themselves into social media. But I'm glad I never got addicted to gaming.
Because Zoom only wanted the employees and the appearance of caring about encryption and didn't care about the product.
OCaml, invented in France, is taught and is reasonably popular there.

If you get past the quirks of the syntax, it's a really nice language, deserving more popularity in the industry (it's already popular in CS circles).
Maui is not Galt’s Gulch by any stretch of the imagination.
Well, cool. It’s nice that it’s allowed now. Now please make it feasible or, better yet, unnecessary.
A bit disingenuous I think; people are concerned about security when worrying about random packages, but privacy with Microsoft.

MS have a history of being hostile to open source, but have been able to launder their image somewhat.
There's submarine fiber to Vancouver island now, in a diverse ring, so yes.

Still is some microwave operational on sunshine coast but not as a primary thing.

Big parts of trans Canada microwave have now been dismantled. There was a mountain top site slightly NE of Hope that could only be reached by its own cable car. And lots of other mountain top sites east of it going all the way to Lethbridge.
My beard is not grey enough to have actually participated in this, but this is what I gathered as hobbyist:

TENEX started out as modification of TOPS-10 code base, afaik due to expanding needs leading BBN to create both TENEX and custom pager addon to PDP-10. Some time later DEC acquired TENEX code, cut it down some, modified some, and released it with support for the official DEC pager included in later PDP-10 models
Looks like machining marks to me. I doubt something like that would be 3D printed.

I guess you could say that it was a very well-sealed camera.
Thank you! I followed the link on my phone and WTF is this bullshit? There's a popover that tells me to either download the app or "Return to /r/popular" ...despite not having come from there in the first place. No way to just close it and, you know, read the content. At least, no obvious way.
I have... noticed something similar to this too

I have a single remaining windows box that is completely idle with a rust disk and it's started spinning up for no apparent reason

how did you figure out it was Chrome?

edit: going to try procmon with the filter set to the disk
Would you be interested in a wrapper around hacker news that lets you filter to only technical discussions?

(I'm already playing with wrapping it so that probably isn't hard to add)
Zoom wanted the hashes, not the employees.
Privacy and security are the same thing. When one is compromised so is the other. Any untrusted code that runs on your machine has the implicit capability of exfiltrating information that would rip apart your privacy.
We could also forbid the insecticides killing the bees, and let consumers pay the higher prices on agricultural products.
Yes, indeed. If it's a cheap one, it's starting current will probably be 4x it's run current. But it's probably a 400 watt unit, and at 1600 watts for starting, barely within spec for the tiny relay in the smart plug. That said, I have blown the relay in one of my smart plugs with switching motors. But I cycle a dehumidifier in a similar way, and that's been running for two years now.
Yeah that's pretty much it -- "CGI, except containerized/as a single binary".

I guess I could make a Docker image that had a CGI-compliant server and an admin endpoint where you POST'ed file contents?

The current design I went with is that you upload a .zip or .tar.gz file that contains a "manifest.json" and then your source code.

The "manifest.json" points to the entrypoint file for each function you want to deploy, and says what HTTP endpoint it should live at, and what language it is.

It supports JS/TS, Python, Ruby, WASM, and LLVM langs (C/C++/Rust/Swift/Haskell/etc):

{
"version": 1,
"handlers": [
{
"name": "javascript-signup",
"language": "JAVASCRIPT",
"endpoint": "/api/signup",
"entrypoint_file": "src/signup.js"
},
{
"name": "python-login",
"language": "PYTHON",
"endpoint": "/api/login",
"entrypoint_file": "src/login.py"
},
]
}

The platform runs as a single static binary, or a JVM application (can be in a container), and it does a bunch of magic with GraalVM to convert the source code into executable functions, perform any kind of bundling/dependency library installation, etc, and finally creates the HTTP endpoints.
There was a heyday of WM stuff back in the late 90s. You had the minimalist stuff, a bunch of partly emulated platform UIs (OpenSTEP, Windows, Mac, etc.), but also tiling / text-based WMs (emacs etc.) and full-on 3D desktop platforms (compiz). Acme is an early example, but I can't see why it's otherwise notable.

In hindsight it feels like that heterogeneity, which seems to have been born of the millenial surge in Unix popularity linked to the rise of Linux and the internet, later cross-pollinated to Windows and WMs became a thing there too.

More recent trends include multi-screen/docking, high-DPI and what appears to be a general shift toward IDEs, a dalliance with containers and cloud deployment. What does the future hold? VR development (xrdesktop? cube?)? Tactile feedback? Keyboard input seems outmoded...
Literature Review of the Impact of Social Media Use on Mental Health
> He chose sides, while simultaneously claiming he is neutral.

Funny how he was a hero who was "speaking truth to power" back when he published leaked documents showing Bush era war crimes.

The issue seems to be that he didn't refuse to publish your preferred candidate's documents when they were leaked to him.

He's guilty of not choosing your side.
I rather doubt it.
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I’m an analytics guy in the insurance/reinsurance industry. Most people think of that description as falling under the umbrella of the actuarial profession But there are lots of us that can code, understand numbers, and help execute much of the same work. Just didn’t spend 5-10 years taking tests.

HN is a place I visit to understand some of the latest tech I should/should not use to get my job done. Also it’s an honest place that tells you clearly whether your comments/submissions are useful or not. I like that kind of feedback. Also I like this site because it allows me to gather and evaluate viewpoints I both don’t have or don’t agree with.
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This is a website run by a venture capitalist org, ycombinator.
FYI, these are guidelines for "on-topic" for HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Having a potential, perceived or realised conflict of interest doesn't stop you from covering a topic or giving your opinion. It should be advertised so that people consuming your opinion are aware and so can take it into account.

This is exactly what NPR and the journalist has done here.
I believe it was "the" game that the platform was marketed with, just like the Switch got Zelda BOTW.

Stores with a video games section often had a console available for kids to play in the store for marketing. I assume Nintendo was providing those, and as far as I remember, the N64 ones were always playing Mario 64.
I was thinking low disk costs. There doesn't seem to be much need for a CPU other than input validation. Although I guess currently our analysis is mostly done offline with a downloaded partial data set. It would be nice to do it in the cloud.
AFAIK there are no public access TENEX systems - nor emulated, I think nobody yet implemented the necessary BBN pager and I don't know if anyone recovered tapes with OS.

There are, however, publicly accessible TOPS-20 systems, including one at SDF which should be soon available moved onto recent~ish made physical PDP-10 system (a TOAD-2 PDP-10-on-a-Chip)
Japan got two small nukes, the proposals were for ~300 significantly bigger ones.
hey all - this is my first project in web3.

i combined solidity and javascript to create an on chain generative art project, and it's been an absolute blast.

cheers!
Because even today the movement and agility is unparalleled. There is no other game that feels a fluid and solid when moving your character as Mario 64. At least in my opinion
You don’t know what you’re talking about. We all know Lakitu is an accomplished cameraman, all the merit is his for being able to keep up with Mario :)
Yes, and they called it "hacker news".
> Criticizing retaliatory and intellectually dishonest hit pieces makes him sound like he isn't open to dissent

Non-sequitur.
Is the author of the extension bound by the FB EULA? I'd guess no.
I don't speak it, but I'm told Dutch is very similar to English, at least grammatically.
With all due respect, the danger to a telemetry pipeline is almost always downstream effects, like court orders to intercept network data or human assets that knowingly exfiltrate data. Even if you assume that Microsoft has the best of intentions and that all of the telemetry is for the purposes of improving the software experience, it’s a naive assumption that this doesn’t increase the attack surface substantially. With no user accessible kill switch and with all teams operating with good intentions, you still stand to create scenarios like telemtry-for-surveillance, even if the probability of such a scenario is small in the grand scheme of things.
> There is no doubt that he really is guilty of leaking US secrets.

The problem is that illegal activites and blatant murder are being protected under the concept of "secrets".

We are not talking about leaking plans to made a nuclear bomb here or trademark secrets. We are talking about proofs of obstruction to justice and violation of international laws by part of US.

If a senator would be caught red-handed importing and selling cocaine, could just shout "but, but, this was a secret!! to the police?". Probably not.
I found this article[1] answered allot of the questions I was left with after reading the linked article.

> “What we normally do is put a satellite transmitter on any animal that we deploy instruments on. In this case, we didn’t, because we expected this (camera) just to be gone at sea for a couple of days,” said Lidgard in an interview Friday.

> “With hindsight, probably not a good idea,” he added with a laugh.

> The idea, he said, was to deploy the camera four or five times, each time removing it from the seal to get the data after a few days and reattaching it to continue the research.

> In this case, Lidgard said he thinks the seal was starting to go through the moulting process and was foraging for food when the camera fell from its back.

No video footage there either sadly.

[1] https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/10/08/lost-seal-mou...
I think people do read the articles.

For a while, I was adding a reply to most of my posts where I pulled in a key bit of the article and maybe made a brief comment. I thought this would be a good way to encourage discussion, but I was advised it could also steer the discussion, so probably better to keep it to a minimum.

This I did, and while fewer posts gain critical mass without that condensation nucleus, it’s clear my best posts usually do end up going somewhere really interesting, and that the articles are definitely being read.
If I could filter all politics out of hacker news that would be great. the comments especially are filled with "useful idiots"

I have filtered a lot of politics on twitter by blocking prominent politicians and mute words.
Sure you can use vscodium with the official marketplace. I use that for over a year now without issues.

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/DOCS.md#how...
What if the air is being actively refreshed and filtered. I believe this is what needs to start happening in most indoor environments. This would definitely help with reducing the amount of cases.
I think that you'll find that in many cases the move to adopt those things like insecticides was incentivized by the government at many levels (ag grants, research grants, etc). So you now have conflicting messages by the government. "do this!" "don't do this!".
Looks extremely promising!!!
Google-based Android. I'm switching from iOS to an ungoogled Android distribution sometime this year due to the iOS spyware that's coming out in 15.x.

I also can't install any apps on new devices without giving Apple an email and phone number, which is its own kind of bullshit.
Auth0 has some good articles on this
https://auth0.com/blog/refresh-tokens-what-are-they-and-when...
https://auth0.com/docs/best-practices/token-best-practices
https://auth0.com/docs/security/data-security/token-storage
Len Sassaman

https://evanhatch.medium.com/len-sassaman-and-satoshi-e483c8...
What semiconductor are you planning to make that doesn't already exist (and already cheaper due to economies of scale than you can make it)?

There's a reason that whole countries prefer to 'buy-built' rather than 'build-their-own'. Ferinstance, China would prefer to buy ready-made chips from the USA than have to build their own semiconductor industry all the way up from scratch. But the US won't sell what the Chinese want to buy, so the Chinese will need to 'build-their-own' by throwing hundreds of billions of dollars at the task of doing so.
What do you mean by “no one is uploading anything to their own repo”? Everything I’ve wanted (exception: dotnet debugger) is on https://open-vsx.org/.
Original title - "The best part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux"

Why remove "The best"? Feels like unnecessary editorializing
Nowadays you need an operation system and a system to keep it at bay. Weird.
Linux is so much easier.
In the words of Officer Barbrady, at first I was happy to learn to read and
then I read Atlas Shrugged, and I vowed never to read again.

Private enterprise meets our needs and desires by design, but there's nothing
noble nor particularly interesting about that. Certainly nothing that needed
1,200 turgid pages to explain.
oh, TIL. thanks for the correction.
So what?

If they sold a feature, it's yours.

If I buy a car containing eg. heated seats, but the feature is disabled, because I didnt select the proper addon package, who is going to sue me, if I add a switch, and connect the heating elements to 12V supply myself? Or buy an addon controller? Or even buy addon seat heaters?
It's entirely possible they genuinely cared about encryption for their own product, and didn't give two hoots about the Keybase product.