skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that you can probably give the benefit of the doubt to Ascension here on the factual claims simply because they (or their lawyer) could get in trouble with the court for lying, while they have little to gain in this case by doing so.

The most damning elements, such as Thedacare having revoked the former employees' accounts, not scheduling them and having refused to renegotiate the employment terms would be so easy to disprove that it's hard to see how they could be entirely made up.
Battery-Powered Trains
Thanks. I wonder how much it resembles cocaine, and at what dosage? This is at least a bit of support regardless.
I've heard the (probably unfounded) story that the Soviets saw the Space Shuttle, couldn't figure out why the Americans would build it but figured there surely must be a good reason; so they copied it to also have whatever capability the Americans were after.
This is an excellent cautionary tale against lazily attributing politically inconvenient data to testing bias (which remains fashionable). It may seem like an easy way out, but it also offers an excuse to simply ignore the problem, which perpetuates it.
Why are those your favorites?
Vulkan 1.3 and Roadmap 2022
Paradoxical and other unusual effects can occur with any kind of drug. Brain drugs in particular seem to be prone to a wide variance in the effect profile. I speculate that in part it is due to the heavy "reuse" of neurotransmitters for various purposes (neurotransmitters themselves being mostly reused modified amino acids). For example, dopamine modulates motor activity, reward pathways, attention, and error correction, and more. Serotonin modulates smooth muscle, appetite, uterine contraction, mood, visual salience, and more. Both can affect circadian rhythms. NMDA/AMPA and GABA are widely present and are the basic "wires" for excitatory/inhibitory signals, so drugs that affect these can do all kinds of zany things.

Neurotransmitters tend to be context-depended, so when you wash over the whole body with a small molecule which hits in a neurotransmitter-specific rather than context-specific way, you can get some funky effects. Most of the activity comes from the coincidence that there are some domains which correlate well with context: dopamine tends to affect anything resembling taxis, so physical movement, but also goal seeking, prediction, etc.

On top of all that, receptors and enzymes are physical things, and thus different folks have different affinities for transmitters and drugs. Pharmacokinetics - how your body distributes and clears drugs - is a huge variable.

Modafinil in particular is interesting because it's what drug chemists call a "greasy brick" - highly lipophilic, low solubility, to the point where ensuring consistent bioavailability is hard. Cephalon has put in a fair bit of work ensuring a certain particle size and excipient profile (emulsifiers to facilitate absorption) and personally I've experienced quite the difference between name brand and generic, the later often does jack-all for me.

td;dr - small molecules act on broad regions and impact many subsystems at once. Biology is complicated and crufty.
> What if sailing across the uncharted sea makes God angry?

most of these examples are not structured as a Chesterton's fence type problem.

If there is a prohibition against sailing across the seas in the town's bylaws and you do not know why it is there, then you would have Chesterton's fence. You would then do investigation until you found an old letter from the mayor about his indigestion and a bad dream that told him that sailing across the seas made God angry.

Then as making God angry is understood as not a reasonable prohibition and the mayor's indigestion not sufficient cause for anything (especially as that mayor died years ago) it would be concluded that you could then sail.

The next day God will of course smite you and everyone in the town, but thems the breaks.

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Why is it not malware? The Wikipedia definition of malware lists "steals data".

Last time I tried the amount of deep registry hacks to turn everything(?) of was silly.

Windows obviously ships with malware nowadays. I think you need enterprise edition for a supported way to turn all the BS off.
> If you're curious for more information about BankID they have a site: https://www.bankid.com/en/ I think it's owned as a collab between "all" Swedish banks.

I'm not sure if it's the same technology as in Norwegian banks:

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-85230-8_...
> More importantly, topics are thoughtfully curated to exclude sensitive categories, such as gender or race.

'Thoughtfully curated' by whom? The user or Google? This seems like it's less about privacy and more about advertising. I wonder if it would have been more honest to call it Advertising Sandbox?
Second strike weapon. It is supposed to be able to survive someone else's first strike. First strike weapons can't survive someone else's first strike. It's part of the whole "assured destruction" thing: doesn't matter if you hit us first, you're still going to end up a self lit parking lot afterwards.
Yeah. Looking for this made me feel that there is not company for that.

With your help, then we can create a framework and list of items for automate it and sell our services.
Rust has a mod declaration tree and a use import graph.
Why did you need to make this political? It's just a matter of minutes before someone points out that conservatives love the Chesterton's Fence analogy because most fences are built to keep _those people_ out. And then we're off to the races.
It's really tough to air-gap these days. Are you really going to set up a perimeter where every phone, watch, and computer is dropped off before entry?
Hmm. I've been wondering about the motion-deblur approach for a while, for use in cleaning up VHS / youtube quality videos. Might even be able to get a head start given that h264 contains a certain amount of inferred motion information anyway.
https://tamararubin.com/2018/10/tamara-can-you-come-to-my-ho... Lead-testing as a Service :) That site also has quite a lot of tips on equipment and such. (No affiliation, just saw it from some other hn comment somewhere)
Our own copy of the software, running on our own computer, yet they presume the right to tell us how we may use our property. Another attack in the war on ownership.
> repeatedly making the right call over when to do one or the other, and putting in place appropriate mitigations in case you're wrong

I think succeeding in this part already requires quite a bit of the understanding that Chesterton's Fence is actually calling for.

If you're (in good faith) able to make an informed opinion between choosing taking the risk and gathering yet more additional information, you're already in a much stronger position than what's usually considered as the failure mode of not taking the Fence into account at all.
What is theft / larceny if not an abstract definition of ownership? How does theft work in cultures where ownership doesn't exist?

Isn't ownership a government-granted privilege as well then?

So if piracy is simply the act of ignoring sovereign privilege in open water (sea, space, internet), then I think the only contention one could make that piracy != theft is by asserting that piracy is not only theft.
And yet it allowed capabilities that we have lost in 2022.
gunpowder, movable type, etc.
>taking advantage of the situation for their own personal benefit:

And therein lies the problem. A subset of people get a benefit from engaging in this behavior. So of course they do it at every opportunity.

You get what you incentivize.

Until the outcome is so frequently a net negative (however slight) in so many cases that the behavior is marginalized to a negligibly small number of people/settings the behavior will persist in enough volume to be worth caring about.
Google banned it from the Chrome addon listing, but AdNauseam was built with somewhat the same idea: poisoning ad profiles by injecting fake user behaviour. It hides ads (it's based on uBlock Origin, after all) but it still loads all the scripts and clicks every ad it can detect to poison your ad profile and tell off advertisers. It can also present a nice overview of the banners clicked.

The addon still works, but it seems to be in a state of limited maintenance.
I always wondered, how safe from tampering during manufacturing are devices 'designed in US/Europe/etc' that are built in China? Can anyone shed some light on the processes/practices that keep these devices safe, both from HW and SW points of view?
uBlock Origin can block network requests too. These rules should block requests to trending hashtags and recommended user accounts:

||twitter.com/i/api/2/guide.json$xhr,1p
||twitter.com/i/api/1.1/users/recommendations.json$xhr,1p

Alternatively you can use nitter.net to browse Twitter
This shows exactly the same stats for China and Taiwan which is unlikely to be correct.
I spent hours and hours customizing Foobar2000 and maintaining my library. At some point my database file was lost, and shortly after that I subscribed to Spotify. I wish I still had the time, because it was the best music player ever, and Spotify is really bad in every way other than cost.
He killed his own countrymen (primarily) and this is a discussion about international affairs.
Show HN: Slack App for Scrum Poker
Hey I am Ben and I have built a slack app for scrum poker (slack.thisiseffort.io).

You can anonymously vote on software development tasks within slack, it is used by a few remote software developments teams currently and I am keen for more feedback.

It is very easy to start a voting session using the /effort command, followed by the title of your task. This then invites everyone in the channel to start voting anonymously, ensuring that no one influences anyone else.

Really keen for more feedback and it is also free to use!

Enjoy.

Ben
It’s really easy to get a wrong intuitive sense of the size of these things! I don’t understand why space agencies don’t always have human figures for reference in their visualizations. Or even a simple scale bar! We just get these silly “the size of a tennis court” type textual comparisons. Few people realize how big the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers are, as another example.
> Flameshot can now be run in "one off" mode which means the background systray component is now optional. See the CLI details below.

This was my main turn off from flameshot - I found it weird to have something running in the background all the time just for taking screenshots. I'll be giving it another go.
I have seen a (badly written?) router firmware that behaved suspiciously just like you describe, but the only provable thing was that they checked for updates from the vendor in a rather non-optimal way.

Until today, I am not sure whether this was malice (=malware) or incompetence (=hey, let us phone home every 5 seconds and go crazy if the connection fails for any reason).
Generics were a necessary thing, but the type erasure is a huge problem, and unfortunately one that can't be fixed without a completely new bytecode format. Also, annotations, while a necessary thing to bring it up to speed with modern practices (such as nullability contracts), add to the bureaucracy of Java and make it more painful to work in.

Don't get me wrong; I do like Java, and have written hundreds of thousands of LOC in it over my career. But there's only so much it can do without breakage, and only so much that can be papered over and worked around. Even Kotlin suffers from the JVM it rests upon.
You aren't given notice by the game, but you have a pretty narrow window to build a few ships from the first alien race you ally yourself with; their ships can kite the heavy ships from the Ur-Quan with extreme ease, you're pretty much set for the game if you have three.
"The malware would collect user data and send it to a remote address."

unpopular question, but how is this any different than mistakenly forgetting to disclose 'telemetry' in your code? or backdoors that routinely get disclosed in US embedded hardware products like firewalls and routers? or Discord scanning your entire hard disk? Ill admit the product seems pretty poorly designed from the get-go, but the tactics at work here are pretty standard when you consider things like Alexa and Ring get a pass for similar chicanery.
You're assuming advertisers will just give up fingerprinting technology? This tech sounds acceptable in a vacuum, but in the end it's just one more neat data point.
Because they're a clickbait tabloid machine. Their articles lack essence and research and often focus on "celebrities" or "outrageous" things. And they're often flat out wrong.
It's not surprising at all since Apple was foundational in the specs: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4791
Weylus is awesome. Works really well and pipewire, hardware encoding support are huge bonuses.

The killer feature which sets it apart from deskreen is a way to run it as a service on Linux. Last I checked, it was practically impossible to use deskreen on a headless machine.
Actually Traefik is open source (right?): [0]

I really have to think about the post and update it, perhaps I'll get back to you and put it on a vps, not on "the hub of my digital life", before I share it.

Actually almost everything I learned and use I heard about on the Self-hosted podcast [1], and on one of the host's GitHub repos [2] (who takes personal infra as code to the next level).

[0]: https://github.com/traefik/traefik/blob/master/LICENSE.md

[1]: https://selfhosted.show/

[2]: https://github.com/IronicBadger
He didn't say anything about ongoing negotiations led by the EU. Could be (and probably is) other parties.

I thing this is an important point - the Russians are trying to split the EU. Last year, there were efforts by German and French foreign ministers to talk with the Russia - Lavrov "leaked" their proposals which is not something you do when negotiating. Now the Russians are talking mostly to the US, but also not really talking to anyone, only repeating their tropes.

One of the reasons for their ignoring of EU is that Eastern European countries are part of the EU, but they do not want to talk with them, only about them - they think they are our rightful owners and obviously you are not going to discuss with the slave - that would elevate him to your status.
> I'm just saying it shouldn't be necessary in order to understand an idea

Nobody said it is necessary. Some folk just said they find it easier learning this way.

> But if you use an implementation to understand an idea, you couple implementation to interface in your mind, and so it changes your understanding.

That's a risk either way. It's a risk that if you only learn the high level concept you miss the detail needed to use it correctly in a specific language too (OOP can differ quite significantly from one language to another). And it's also a risk that then when you learn that detail you might forget the high level abstract and still end up assuming the detail is universal. If we're getting worried about variables we cannot control then there's also a risk that you might just mishear the lecturer or read the source material incorrectly too. Heck, some days I'm just tired and nothing mentally sinks in regardless of how well it is explained.

There are an infinite ways you could teach something correctly and the student still misunderstand the topic. That's why practical exercises exist. Why course work exists. Why peer reviews exist. etc.

And just because you struggled to grasp abstract concepts one specific way it doesn't mean everyone else will struggle in that same way.
I think you are overestimating the inclination anybody has to use those.
Most password managers can also store TOTP tokens. A few services support registering redundant Yubikeys. Failing that, they usually give you a recovery code with which you can restore access to an account you're locked out of.
Or current K-9 units?
The Uplift series of books are some of the worst books I've ever read.
It isn't, and those things are just as bad.

As a concrete example of just how far the creeping acceptance of surveillance has come. Remember BonziBuddy[1], and the absolute shit storm over that and the lawsuits and all that?

Well what they did nearly indistinguishable from what Alexa does, and Cortana, and Siri, and Google Assistant. But it's just the way things are now. And no, it's not fine because everyone is doing it. It's still just as bad as it was then.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L958sMz1kWs
I have noticed that Ruby tends to move towards more magic which is true in this case.

I don't see any benefits at all from this.
This take ignores the history of the development of intellectual property rights, convention signatories and WTO.

Many, many things were unregulated in the past but ARE regulated today.

If they wanted to maintain a policy of ignoring IP, etc., they they should not have joined the WTO and signed conventions that hold them to obligations.

These organization and conventions set the stage or provide the framework and law by which signatories are bound.

Your argument amounts to: hey, the US and Brazil and the Middle East and many other countries used slave workforces in the past therefore it’s okay for China to do the same today, else they are at a developmental disadvantage.

In any event, I'm quite sure any patent [had the concept existed] would have run out by the time they were adopted elsewhere.
Hey I am Ben and I have built a slack app for scrum poker (https://slack.thisiseffort.io/).
You can anonymously vote on software development tasks within slack, it is used by a few remote software developments teams currently and I am keen for more feedback.

It is very easy to start a voting session using the /effort command, followed by the title of your task. This then invites everyone in the channel to start voting anonymously, ensuring that no one influences anyone else.

Really keen for more feedback and it is also free to use!

Enjoy.

Ben
I’m slightly curious as to how, in these cases, someone came to decide that blurring was the right way to do it. It seems unlikely that they never thought of simply blacking/ blanking the text, but if so, then blurring must have seemed preferable.

My best guess is that, having seen blurring of faces (which is arguably OK when one merely wants to avoid casual attempts at identification, while retaining a ‘natural’ look), they assumed this was the proper way to do it in all cases.
That's not exactly correct, from what I understand the TRO was not put in place "until after Thedacare had hired replacements", it was put in place until the court could have a hearing. The court did, just a couple days later, and promptly removed the order.

They sort of had to issue it in the first place because Thedacare made a claim that grave harm could happen to the community. It turns out it was bullshit, but they had to hear them out to decide. (Note that I'm being charitable, not defending the principle of the thing.)
From a personal project perspective, I've maintained a few VPSes for quite a while now, but now I run them as a Docker Swarm, and deploy containers onto them - or better, I use serverless.

From a maintenance perspective, it's brilliant. Over time, cruft accumulates on my VPSes however disciplined I intend to be when I spin one up. Now, I no longer have to remember all of the ugly hacks I had to implement to get a particular new app I wanted to try out working, I just deploy and it's done.
Sometimes Firefox takes a lot of CPU power. Then I go to the about:performance tab, and kill some or even all of the tabs sometimes, but Firefox keeps consuming CPU power. What is going on?
"Similar" isn't "the same", but "similar".

In one case, you forbid everyone but the licensees to produce a certain type of nails. In another case, you forbid everyone but the guild members to produce nails at all.

Both are government-granted monopolies.
You can set preferences with a user.js file in your profile directory. See for example: https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js/blob/master/user.js
In your post you say that a PSPACE algorithm exists. Do you have a reference for that algorithm ?

Another commenter here is saying the problem has an explicit exponential or worse lower bound.

If both of those claims are true that would prove P != PSPACE, which would be a very important result.
Does this have something to handle potential PII? One of the problems with using prod data for development and testing is that it is often contains sensitive strings which need to be scrubbed somehow.
Show HN: A tool to help with Berlin's appointment problems
I tired 1000 millicalories, but doesn't look like Google understands that either.
How A Rare Brain Mutation Spread Across America
Vulkan 1.3
Couple made nearly $120k in under 6 hours selling NFTs to save their home
It's math and theory heavy relative to other engineering and applied science fields, because most of it's first principals are based more on lots of data, abstract* math, and optimizations than on physical phenomenon. But probably not heavy as compared to any degree offered by the math department.

But it is one of those newer fields that can vary in how it's evolved locally. Environmental engineering, you would think involves engineering the environment, but in the US evolved into a field dominated by regulatory compliance. And now Ecological Engineering has popped up as a replacement for what environmental engineering was originally intended to be.

[0]Check the curriculum at some US schools. Your local equivalent degree might be named something else, like process or systems engineering.

[0]https://www.isye.gatech.edu/academics/bachelors/industrial-e...

*It's often jokingly called imaginary engineering for its relative lack of physical products.
For some people I have met, the answer seems to be yes. There are definitely people that would rather spend their mindshare improving the animal condition than the human condition.
So weird... I just had a dream about Modafinil last night for no apparent reason and then I wake up to see this post on HN. What an odd coincidence.

I haven't thought about Modafinil in years but back when 'Limitless' came out and I was in my mid-twenties I experimented with it very briefly, along with a host of other "nootropics", but the risk of Stevens-Johnson syndrome put me off of it pretty quickly. It still shocks me when I think about how foolhardy I was to order this Rx drug from overseas.
When I moved to Ubuntu, I installed Wine just for Foobar2000. Eventually moved to DeadBeef, but I'm thankful to have used Foobar2000. Having a shuffled playlist that stays in that order was enough of a draw for me and the lightweight usage was just a bonus (compared to say itunes).
Foobar is one of the greatest pieces of software ever and Linux music software only dreams it can be as good as Foobar.
While I too was against the NVidia+Arm merger, and am glad it's being abandoned, a large part of me feels like they wouldn't do it just because it could be an antitrust nightmare, with Apple and Qualcomm and LG all suing because of anti-competitive practices, and probably winning. I'm not a lawyer, but that seems like a likely scenario from the very little I understand about US law.

I don't think NVidia would be quite that stupid; I think if they were smart they would keep ARM business as usual just to avoid that, and just reap the licensing fees from the above companies.
Senate committee votes to advance major tech antitrust bill
> The article makes the point that people do not build fences for no reason. It costs time, effort and resources, not to mention it's a lot of work and people are lazy. There's always a reason for the fence.

Since this is HN, I think a lot of us have experience with software. If you do, then I find it incredible that you have never discovered some complicated code that serves no real purpose, or at least no good one, and was presumably written to amuse the author more than anything else.