skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the unfamiliar, in addition to 'loud pipes' motorcycles, the biggest thing this is for are 'fart cars'. They're all over NYC. These are generally BMW 3 series, Infiniti, etc that are tuned and have specific exhausts to sound like they have more performance than they do, and to backfire after revving and then spooling down a bit... aka fart. They try to achieve the loudest possible rev and backfire, sometimes sounds like gunshots. They drive up and down residential streets in the outer boroughs mostly at night, revving and farting over and over. Residents here in NYC despise them.
Right now we have no solution, we’re relying on ‘mostly works’ real world stuff to stop the biggest scams, and lots of small scammers are running around scamming lots of people and not being punished for it.

If someone does a big enough scam on a big enough target (like a crypto ransom on a major oil pipeline), they’ll get the attention of someone who can ‘bend the rules’ enough to make their life hell and get you anyway, no matter where you are. But that doesn’t stop them from ruining a ton of people who aren’t that noticeable. Because those people aren’t noticeable, it’s also a lot of value that can be extracted that way, which makes the problem worse.

Most people currently consider it working well enough to be better than the alternatives based on overall numbers.

however as the scam economy develops, which it has been doing, something is going to break.

it’s not going to go in the direction of random police officer in Vietnam, Nigeria, or Russia arresting his buddy (no matter how solid the evidence looks) because someone in the US wants it to happen.

Think what happened with email and spam in the late 90’s - up until that point, spam filtering was a niche thing only nerds did. Then it got to the point email was useless without it, and thankfully for email, spam filtering worked and the providers provided it.

Phones, phone providers haven’t been interested in, so except for some business cases almost no one uses phones directly any more (it’s texts or everything to voicemail first or whatever).

So no idea how this is going to go - curated marketplaces for anyone online? Federal/EU Gov’t certs to do business online? ‘Great firewalls’ to keep the scammers out/limit traffic to where it can be policed? Consumers bailing on online purchases except for specific already known and ‘trusted’ names?
This announcement is confusing, because it makes no mention of OpenSearch. The announcement implies that OpenSearch should no longer be available on AWS, but (of course) it is.
Well, it worked, but when I read the article, I was disappointed. And I'm a supporter of high quality typed schemas for biology!
Well, I'm on Android, so that wouldn't apply, at least not directly. I've never investigated biometrics. I still don't think they're necessary here.

Tapping the notification, nowadays, requires unlocking the screen. That's PIN entry #1. Then, MS Authenticator itself requires you to enter your lockscreen PIN, for #2.

(Some time ago — months? years? — it used to be you could acknowledge the MFA request from the lock screen.)

Edit: OMG it's a setting! I've disabled this nonsense. I swear I looked when it was first introduced, but IDK. MS & defaults. I love Cunningham's Law sometimes, this is going to make MS Auth somewhat less annoying.
You seem anxious to bring Russia and Ukraine into this conversation, which is puzzling.

I'm uninterested in that, but let me give you a limited response in two parts:

1. I consider nuking a major city a war crime, regardless of who does it (the US, Russia or Ukraine).

2. If Ukraine or Russia nuke any city there will be world trouble of the sort that will make our little conversation here irrelevant. So pray it doesn't happen.

Thankfully this scenario is highly unlikely.
There's a huge infrastructure for game discovery - Dedicated subreddits with millions of subscribers, curators, massive infrastructure from companies like Valve (Steam) and Google to help discoverability, forums and discussion groups and Discords and Kickstarter...

People are hunting endlessly for good games. But cannot find them.

Even me! I'm a knowledgeable nerd with time, but I can't find anything worth playing. I know many people in the same situation.

There aren't really unknown gems. Great games don't go unnoticed. Many indie devs just like to think they do because they don't want to accept that their game just isn't very good.

Hollow Knight and Disco Elysium are great examples. These could never have gone unnoticed. These are professional efforts from teams of dedicated, very skilled developers, who did a lot of non-obvious things the right way. Nothing replaces a game like Disco Elysium especially. It was always going to get noticed. (I don't know HK as well but from what I've heard it is also exceptional at what it does.)

I'd be interested if you could name any unnoticed game that approaches either of these two in being compelling to play.
There is a huge difference between the amount of noise generated by a Toyota Camry vs a car or motorcycle with a purposefully modified exhaust.

I lived on a road with light-medium traffic recently. I couldn't tell you if 10 or 100 passenger cars went by the house.

My blood pressure would shoot up whenever I heard a car with a "Burble Tune" go by: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZugoUx_sgrY
This is a very nuanced take, which is rare for Stadia threads which are just about Google bashing. I completely agree with your view on how this is meant to play out.
I mean these seems like the lowest bar for enforcing a violation...I believe we should do something similar with parking violations, speeding violations, and others. The only one type of violation I generally dislike is red light violations given the predatory misuse we have seen and the contextual challenges of interpreting WHY a car goes or doesn't go during a yellow-red light.
Here's a decent example of a "fart car" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZugoUx_sgrY
> He too saw how many engineer-man-centuries these machines could save and approached the Nazi government which of course blundered that and thought computers were irrelevant.

Zuse built "computers" and process control for military R&D and production. He wasn't a major concern or priority at a high level, but given resources "thought irrelevant" projects wouldn't have gotten.
Where I live it's just like you described in AUS. Policies on this stuff varies city by city.
Probably good for there to be competition in the cross-platform space. Maybe Electron is a little overly-bashed, but it's best when it's not the only game in town.
To be fair, riding a quiet motorcycle is likely to get you sideswiped more if the people can't hear you at all. I've noticed the difference of head movements when changing the exhaust on my new motorcycle, from stock to a louder aftermarket. Prior, people would just veer into my lane without even checking. Anecdotal, but very noticeable difference for myself.
I have filed a couple of issues on the community board, but there are two things which are dealbreakers to me (most of the rest of the issues — including the attachment data leak — have been resolved).

1. I despise the binding of ⌘- and ⌘+ to zoom, and even more ⌘0 to zoom reset. I know that those are standard Electron things, but there’s absolutely no reason to make them priority bindings for 1Password.

Beyond the zoom binding, I find the default size too big, so I am running at two zooms down by default. Every time I go for the ⌘0 (all "displayed vaults" in 1Password 7), my zoom resets because of this nonsense. What would make more sense is to: (a) remove those bindings; (b) let one of the collections or accounts be marked as a _default_ collection or vault and bind the display of the default to ⌘0; (c) offer zoom sizes either in the view menu or preferences; and maybe (d) offer the zoom-in zoom-out functionality only in the menu.

2. I absolutely cannot deal with the fact that preferences, collection editing, and a few other things are pseudo-modals that block the use of every other part of the 1Password 8 UI. It’s the #1 thing that calls 1Password 8 out as an Electron app, and it makes me so not ever want to touch these things, which makes them far less useful on a day-to-day basis. If you are unwilling to fix the fact that these things are garbage, at least enable multi-tab capabilities (I would love to see a tabbed 1Password interface). That allows VS Code to be less immediately annoying.

These are in order of annoyance, not priority. I consider the pseudo-modal issue to be more important because it makes the new features that you and Dave speak of unpleasant to configure. Fix these, and I’m back to recommending 1Password 8 wholeheartedly. I’m even missing 1Password mini less and appreciating the replacement a bit more (it’s still not _quite_ as good, IMO, but it’s getting there).
Nix: An idea whose time has come
yes, this. what do you think would be hypothetically an apt repercussion? maybe a few drops of butyric acid down a window pane?
It was announced by elastic and I'm not sure it is in their best interest to advertise their competitor.
10000 wait state memory :)
Go on a ridealong. You'll be arresting white people all day.
Just Scam without the L would be a great name for a Scheme implementation.
I'll be curious to see what happens as well. I ended up going with Opensearch since I use AWS. I figured I'm already locked in to that environment anyways, so why not
At this point in AWS' life, enterprise sales is king. Not surprising that there's shades of Oracle / Microsoft in them. May be, Google hired Oracle #2, Thomas Kurian, to head GCP for similar reasons. Like it or not, Oracle-sized shadow looms large over BigCloud.
https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/3685
A confusing title perhaps increase the number of clicks, but also make people unhappy and increase the number of flags. The guidelines ask to use the original title https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html but sometimes you can add some detail. For example "The Latch SDK: open-source toolchain for biology applications" or something like that. (I really dislike "solve software", I´m not even sure what it means.)
Web Host Questions
Looking into web hosting companies, ideally with the following criteria:

- carbon neutral/responsible business operations

- relatively easy to contact the company for support

- prioritizing privacy

1. Does anyone recommend a company that fits the profile?

2. Does the web host affect emails from my domain being delivered to other people’s spam?

3. Opinions on using a web host based in the EU due to privacy policies there vs. the US?

Here are past threads and some companies I’ve researched:

https://www.greengeeks.com/

https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/

https://uberspace.de

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21604544

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9988817

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5041578
I get maybe one a week. Last one sent me a super old copy and paste. Included a link to a networking event from last September, and the job link was to Amazon’s internal job listing site.
Would love to see this feature for Byobu terminal.
I don't know who started the trend. I personally first heard about the term from Mike Acton's CppCon 2004 talk.

But as pointed out by another comment, I don't think it's that mainstream. Outside HPC and game development. At least that's what came up when you google the relevant terms like cache, locality, etc.
FWIW, my smallish project [1] (Rust + GTK3) builds and works on Windows out of the box. I use the MSYS2 build environment.

[1] https://github.com/GreatAttractor/vidoxide
I really hope this is not mandatory as the article is suggesting. Does MS really think every device on earth has an active internet connection and force people to consent to data collection? I wonder if the OS will refuse to setup if you genuinely do not have a working connection (which many people may not do, making Windows now inaccessible?)

Imagine buying a new laptop and the inability to set it up because no network is available, seems extremely nieve and short-sighted. A bypass surely is possible in such circumstances?

Hopefully a regulator can step in and allow users to consent whether they want a MS account or not (and indeed, to be able to use the OS without ever connecting it online)
But why would anyone do that? What's the advantage of having a loud motorcycle?
I like the idea and would gladly pay money for a open source federated search engine that isn’t awful.

Lately I have been admiring the efforts to make the web less “corporatized” with the open, decentralized projects of the fediverse (but not all the useless blockchain stuff that’s usually associated with “decentralized”). I think this project is a necessary step towards the future of the web, but I can’t comment on the financial viability of it.
>> And don't forget that allied troops in Europe were rebelling (even turning their arms against their officers) at the prospect of being shipped to the pacific theatre.
> I've never heard of this- was this really a widespread occurrence?

I also never heard of widespread armed rebellion but definitely there was a lot of animosity over who got to go home, who got to stay, and who had to go to the Pacific. I would not have wanted that job.

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/points-system...
I was expecting the hash to be MD5 to at least give people a chance! :D
The cops in NYC more or less ignore everything (unless your black), I've seen people walk right past them smoking weed and they didn't even turn their heads. Every once in a while they'll set up a table in the subway to search backpacks, but they don't dare stop anyone, instead they just stand around comparing their benefit plans for 2.5 hours and counting down until they can retire with pension. Same topic every time. Amazing to hear them rattle off the precise number of years, months, and days until they get their pension. They probably know their HMO handbook better than the HMO does.
And I too completely agree. I agree that I had a head start with learning graphics programming in C in 1996 and have since contributed to developing game engines, games using those engines and most recently (3-4 years back) prototyping the integration of ML models into gameplay. Try doing that with acceptable frame rates and it's a tiring but fun challenge if you like such stuff.

I have swapped between writing games/tools/libraries and working at FAANG the past 7 years and I can say that I get to work as Research Engineer at FAANG's only because of the prior game programming experience. Like anything else, it's not for everybody but game development is very interesting and IMHO cheap way that is at the intersection of some math/physics/performance/complex logic all in 1. This graphics deep dive also gave me opportunities to work in 3D scientific visualisation, augmented reality etc.

The only problem with game development is learning it from scratch/ground up while worthwhile is a long, arduous route; early starters have an advantage and now with game engines like Unity you may not have to poke under the hood but without that poking you cannot master the graphics tech stack. But then we can say that about mastering any subject!!!
At least let people change the hash function to MD5 to give them a chance! :D
That's pretty much my use-case too. I want my laptop, but smaller :)

Primarily, I want software I can trust, because I trust that the developers' motives are aligned with my own: a useful tool that I'm in control of.

In my experience, most Free software fits that bill; whereas most proprietary software seems more interested in persuading me to buy something or sign up for something that I don't want. (Most, not all; I can think of counterexamples.)

Bluntly, Free software is usually much less full of skeevy bullshit.
#'d so easier to refer to in comments:

1. lately been using Baidu + Bing + Google + Yandex if run into something particularly tough to find, e.g., reverse image search. EntireWeb can also be helpful

2. tend not to use DDG, Neeva, Qwant, StartPage, You, etc. or most other traditional alt engines since most are Bing based, a couple are Google based

3. am tracking Brave, though don't use much, as they are scraping some direct

4. neera.ai (not Neeva as already cited) has interesting UI- basically unrolls DDG's bangs & mojeek can also be helpful -- haven't had chance to suss out if they direct scrape or bing under hood, etc.

5. Contextual Web, Exalead, Gigablast, Yacy, etc. are mixed bag in my experience -- sometimes get lucky, tend to not have coverage for everyday use, more when going exhaustive search on something

6. honorable mention to web.archive.org which has saved the day for me many times

7. honorable mention to Breeze, which is topic search engine founded / building, re: https://breezethat.com/ -- mix of Bing, Google, and we direct scrape
1. True, but neither one was shown here, so you can choose any assumption you want, and mine was innocence (the law requires the same assumption until proven otherwise)

2. There is no evidence that any prevention of crime was gained in exchange for the deaths of these innocent unarmed people. If anything it created an environment where the law is respected less.
Seems kinda impossible to do, lel
Not very well. The brain evolved in environment that encourages the assumption that events are dependent. The concept of independent events is not natural to us.
To add to what jsnell said, the Yubikey requires a tap. A physical interaction from someone sitting at a laptop, which is something a trojan cannot accomplish, and a tiny barrier from the human that doesn't materially contribute to fatigue.

Now, I don't really know how much of a difference it makes for trojans, since presumably the resulting token/cookie/etc. could just be compromised in place. One might hope is scoped or at least of a more limited lifetime, I suppose.

(Compromise by trojan is one of those "all roads seem to end in pwned" events to me.)

I will note that it at least requires some authentication to happen prior to compromise, so if some IDS is blaring off alarm bells, all hope might not be lost if the device can be cut off fast enough.

(The point here, though, vs. MS Authenticator, is that Authenticator adds nothing but massive amounts of friction over the supposed Yubikey state of affairs. Edit: although, see another of my comments: apparently MS Authenticator's behavior is configurable — for uh, some reason —_so I've switched it to "less annoying" mode. So, I'll forgive MS a touch, but AIUI it's the default to fatigue the user…)
Why do they do that, is it basically sadism, i.e. deriving pleasure from others undergoing discomfort or pain?
They had already done that. At that point, Japan didn't care a whole lot about those territories. The IJN barely bothered to make a defense and the Japanese Imperial Navy opted out entirely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Manchuria
The term in the community is “burble tune” and, yes, it’s extremely annoying and lame.
I don't completely understand it but California laws seem to permit the sale of new motorcycles with very old designs. It appears that the laws come into force when a new model needs to be certified, or something like that. So you can buy a brand new XR650L from Honda, that still has a 1980s carbureted engine design and no catalytic converter, and that's a CARB-compliant bike for some reason.
Yes, but the point is to show that each password produces a sha256 not correlated to the sha256 of other passwords. That people actually tried to guess this way shows that not everyone is aware of the sha256's purpose.
Neither are acceptable, I was not trying to argue that one was morally superior just that the presence of one dies not justify the second.
What knowledge do you have that it is true other than a thirdhand account by someone on a web forum?
Yeah there is always some excuse when there is just another overdue and over budget nuclear power plant under construction...
Reddit is a cesspool, nothing can make those endless pedantic comments palatable.
Is it really that common to need to haul/tow stuff? I live in Europe, and the only people I know who need this regularly are tradespeople. Most people I know don't even have a car at all!

Also, 22mpg efficient. You gotta be kidding me. You should getting at least 35mpg before you can call yourself efficient. A Vauxhall Zafira (MPV) can do 41mpg. A smart car can do 67mpg.
I find touch support much worse on KDE unfortunately. GNOME works really well on my surface pro, KDE, not so much.
Yet, you didn't apply that level of criticism to the parent post either. Some person's niece saying the police chief said it? Like that wouldn't be news worthy? Like the police chief wouldn't immediately raise that to the press because "look what these liberals are telling me now"? Um, he's sick. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.
Most interesting to me are how many tickets police and politicians rack up with traffic enforcement cameras. "Do you know who I am!?" works on people, but doesn't work on robots. That's a good thing.
When I first heard of the new-ish trend where car makers are now playing fake engine noise through the car's speaker system[1], I thought "how stupid and phony". But, the more I think about it, it makes a whole lot of sense. Obnoxious engine noise is mostly for the benefit of vain drivers who need validation--so just play it at the driver, and keep it out of the community environment. It's a win-win. Driver gets to drive around hearing his loud vroom-vroom noises, and the public benefits from the quietness of modern engine design. There's no valid reason to deliberately project your vroom-vroom sounds at everyone else around you when you don't have to.

1: https://motorandwheels.com/cars-with-active-sound-design/
This is just a completely imaginary attack on people you oppose. A textbook example of a "strawman argument".

The problems of pollution, climate change, etc are real. The science is clear.

Please don't make up an imaginary bad actor who has bad motivations for why they want to solve or improve some of these problems. This is a rhetoric device designed to distract people from the problems and solutions by getting them to dislike, distrust or hate the people trying to help.
"It would do nothing to rents or mortgages intrinsically"

Most people have their property taxes escrowed with their mortgage payments. Taxes can easily account for 25% of one's monthly payments. As for rent, the property owners just pass the cost on to the tenants by increasing rent. So property taxes are related to rent and mortgage payments. Even if not included directly in the mortgage payment, it affects how much of a mortgage one can afford.

"It would be a massive disincentive to the wealthy, since they own the most property and are used to it being an asset not a liability."

I'm not sure about this. Just because they own more property doesn't mean they would be the most affected. The tax would likely be a larger percentage of a "normal" person's income for their own home and thus more impactful to them. Plus, if the wealthy are renting out the majority of the properties, then they can make up for tax increases by raising rents (because property tax increase priced more people out of homes (because the price drop was a drop in demand), increasing demand for rentals). I do agree that it should incentivize full utilization of rental properties. But I don't think there are enough vacant rentals to affect supply/pricing, but I don't have the numbers. I would think that most owners are already utilizing residential rentals pretty much at full capacity in the markets that are the tightest.