skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or, people are creating throwaway accounts to post controversial opinions.

I really don't think HN is big enough to be a worthwhile target for sockpuppets.
Well, in 2022 I still stumble upon dialog boxes in the vein of :

Do you really want to cancel ?

[OK] [Cancel]
Privateering stopped being a thing in the late 19th century. Being state-sanctioned, it is kind of a declaration of war, especially nowadays it would be. Confiscating assets due to sanctions is very different from privateering.
Mowing grass is a normal thing. That story sounds like it would only happen once outside of an 80s movie.
I'm tired of the TnT Russian team cracking my macOS apps. Both Lunar (https://lunar.fyi) and rcmd (https://lowtechguys.com/rcmd) are now available for free on macOS piracy websites.

I made many attempts at discouraging this through anti-piracy measures I learned while working as a malware researcher a few years ago. But if I want my apps to also be available on offline devices, there's really no way to combat this.

The apps are also targetted more toward power users which are more likely to know about cracked apps. This is really hurting indie devs.
People can simply set the volume on the player louder if there's more background sounds. The trick to the loudness wars is to sound louder (than other songs) at the _same_ volume. If a bar or radio is in the background at a fixed volume, the loudest songs stand out.
Chimpanzees consider intent when judging wrongdoing in others
This is interesting. It seems to be the way forward. I think it should be extended to everything including hardware and medicine. Free market. Free to copy, free to improve the work of others. Companies need to get creative; be the first on the market then sell contracts to users, sell subscriptions, loyalty programs... They don't need copyright or patent protection; they just need creativity and they need to build trust with their customers.

I don't believe for a second that this will harm innovation in any way. Big pharma dies most of their innovation using taxpayer money anyway... It costs them nothing so why would they stop R&D? If they did, some other company would quickly step in and do the R&D using government money...
Form over function? Or beautiful but useless (snark intended) The citrus press by Philippe Starck comes to mind. Many bars own it and display it but don't use it because it sucks. The last sentence came from a bartender who has it on the shelf.
There are many things one can do which lead you to have less profit.

One can run false advertisements, hire mercenaries to attack your factories, dump below-price goods on the market (and jack up prices once you're out-of-business), sign exclusive anti-competitive deals with your suppliers, vandalize your employee's homes so none want to work for you, and so on.

No one would argue that any of those are ethical, but none of those are theft.

Confusing words like this is a standard tactic, but it's not conducive to having reasoned discourse.

It's also not conducive to attack a straw man. You put a lot of words in my mouth. I said we shouldn't impose Western IP regimes on other nations. You somehow changed this to music piracy in the west. There's no logical connection there either.

As a footnote, on the topic of piracy in the west: when I was in college, there was a lot of copyright infringement. None of those kids had money to buy what they were pirating. A couple of decades later, no one I knew from college infringes on copyrights. The lost profits were zero. Indeed, in some cases, people bought software they pirated in college because by that point, they were used to it. It's in discussing scenarios like that when the analogy to theft breaks down. The tools for addressing it are different. As a matter of policy, it makes the most sense to target places where there is the most capacity for losing profit. One example of an IP regime which I thought was clever -- from an Eastern European country shortly after the fall of communism -- only criminalized copyright infringement for non-minors. If I child wanted to copy a $5000 CAD program or a $200 IDE to learn to use it, it was legal. Copyright enforcement started once kids hit 17 (and was enforced). The West forced the country to shut down that "loophole," but it seemed like a reasonable policy to me.
Across the street from where I am in Florida I have the same exact design (colors and all) as the article’s first picture from Austin.
It would be nice if there was a service that would give one headline per thing going on instead of 100s of different angles. An ideal top 5 headline app would be as follows:

1. War in Ukraine still not over, causes massive spike in worldwide commodity prices.

2. COVID cases and deaths falling. Covid measures being cancelled in many jurisdictions including yours.

3. Something important happening locally. New law passed, etc.

4. Most important science news of the day that will impact my life within the next year. No cancer studies that might cure cancer in 20 years. I don't care.

5. Most important tech news item of the day.
Any SATA connector that is powering the drive has little pins and can be not well made and cause fire.
Yes, on the Molex site is a big amount of amperes that can go through. But you hardly find a PSU with 24 direct outputs for HDDs.
I was hoping for 5, but got hundreds
You're amazing... So I guess you've never had to help a family member clean their system of said virus/malware/adware?
It really is weird. I arrived at a hotel with a small bag. I checked in to the hotel and tried to carry my bag to my room. A staff member was all awkward and kind of took the bag off me to carry it 10 steps to the lift then 10 steps to the room.
They then walked into room and wouldn’t leave until I realised it was about the tip.

It’s basically a standover extortion at that point.
I'll bite, why the "Wow"?

It was a random, intermittent file corruption that didn't cause real harm to the authors organization and was, clearly, very tricky to track down.
Probably would have been effective if not for Putin's support
Ok, still ambiguous, are we talking about becoming women or hating women?
Yeah and Adobe weren't behind the creation of either Photoshop or After Effects - both were acquired.
C needs to die. Pro tip for language designers: require all fields to be initialized any time an object is created.

Really impressive debugging too.
I remember they had one of the crazier glassdoor pages I've seen - basically a bunch of disgruntled leavers calling the CEO a monster, from looking more recently it seems like they may have made some positive changes.
I can go to an all you can eat restaurant with my empty stomach. I can’t go to an all you can eat restaurant with an empty garbage bag to fill up with food for later.
Better, introduce peace messages in the Russian translation, and reliable information about the war in Ukraine. This way the software will be banned in Russia, and everyone else speaking Russian can continue using the software without problems, which seems fairer ^^
Can we take a minute to talk about parent poster's name? It seems more than a little relevant:

Super.

Cuck.

L'Chaim.

supercucklchaim.

...who shows up here to throw a problematization grenade. Calling innocent things "Nazi".

You understand what this is, right?

It's an impersonation. A parody. A troll.

Or worse, you might say.
We do. And surely we can improve it?
My company does not pay the employer side of FICA (7.4%) on RSUs
> Sugars are part of a balanced diet

Citation needed. Only two things are necessary to live: protein and fat. Carbohydrates are decent fuel. Literal sugar (as added fructose/glucose to regular food for taste) isn't required for a diet to be called balanced or healthy any more than alcohol is (both are considered fuel for the metabolic system).

Thankfully the body is quite resilient and can work with reasonable amounts of sugar or alcohol in the diet, but to say it's part of a balanced diet is a bit of a stretch.
Lex Tabarrok on DeFi Decentralized Finance – Crypto and Blockchain
None of those things are happening to on-chain Bitcoin. You seem to be confusing Bitcoin with cryptocurrencies in general. A bit of research will show you that the two are not the same.

The beauty of the Bitcoin system is that any participant can easily and continuously audit the available supply of Bitcoin for the price of a Raspberry Pi and an SSD.

You can also accurately predict the inflation rate and supply for any point in time in the next hundred years.

Try doing the same with fiat, gold, stocks, or real estate. You will quickly discover it is much harder if not outright impossible.
Apex Legends streamers on Twitch. Only really tough problems requires me to have no distractions and most of the time, I solve them using paper. But I like having background noise, as it will provide something else to focus on when I need to reset my thoughts.

Other times, I just listen to my local music library. No criteria other than my mood. I can't listen to podcasts or any informative things as I tune them out when working.
This shows why it's so important to be with the person or at least be able to talk to the user directly when conducting user research.

I've seen too many founders write by email/instant messaging, or worst sending forms when asking questions about their product.

Talking to a person directly will get you so much further !
About this "manufactured obsolescence of light bulbs" conspiracy theory which gets repeated over and over again: it's not that simple. Light bulbs have a spectacularly bad efficiency already, but the early light bulbs with their extremely long life were even worse. To quote Wikipedia, for a given light bulb, "A 5% reduction in voltage will double the life of the bulb, but reduce its light output by about 16%". So it's a tradeoff: if you make the filament thick enough, you'll have a light bulb which lasts for decades, but shines very dimly while consuming a lot of electricity. To improve efficiency, you can make the filament thinner, but then it'll burn out faster.
FCC considers crackdown on bad wireless receivers
CentOS 7 is already at 5.10 so it should affect lots of production systems
> Of course it's analogous to theft, because someone very literally ends up with less money in their pocket.

Do they really end up with less money if the person wouldn't purchase it otherwise? A realistic example I've lived, is that purchasing the software/movie or whatever copyrighted material is impossible due to its unavailability in the local market, the absence of payment methods to purchase it online and/or the heavy cost compared to the cost of living in most parts of the world.
"thinking" meme; If I don't have antivirus, I won't be alerted to it.
I might not find "master branch" to be offensive, but if somebody I'm working with asks to rename it, I'm okay with that.
Activate would make sense for opt-in, no?
It has been less than a month after fixes emerged for kernels and your PoC exploit has already been released into the public. Should you not have waited at least a bit longer (for example 2 months) before disclosing this vulnerability so that people/companies can keep up with patching? Don't they need more time to patch their servers and legacy etc before this becomes yet another log4j exploitation fest? That is if this really is the new dirty cow vuln.

I get responsible disclosure is important, but should we not give people some more opportunity to patch, which will always take some time?

Just curious.

Also, nice work and interesting find!
Sim Ant was the first game I bought with my own money, back in the day, as my start to collect ALL the Maxis games after getting my hands on SimCity + SimEarth. This was an excellent thing to wake up to.
Like so many, I gathered my first experiences with programming in Basic (or is it BASIC?). My first computer was a Commodore 128, and my mother sent to a week-long programming course that for some reason the local Sparkasse (quasi-public bank in Germany) held over the Easter holidays

And here we used PCs running DOS, so I almost certainly did my first baby steps programming using GW-BASIC. Little did I know the Basic on my C128 had also been written by Microsoft. Ah, to be that young again...

I expect Microsoft is not going to get many PRs, but it's a nice gesture. One day, some digital archeologist is going to have fun (or curse like a sailor) inspecting this code.
I somehow feel tiling WMs occupy the same mindspace these days.
Because they use formal methods preventing this kind of thing from happening?
You know you can pay YouTube like $10 a month and never see an ad again, right?
I love Rust, but would it have prevented this problem? IIUC there was no memory corruption at the language level here. This was really just a logic error.
I could see that. When a popular Reddit sub banned me I considered doing the same, but decided that they were not really worthy of my vast insight. For what it's worth, I've also noticed that anyone challenging the popular media's narration of events are immediately pounced upon.

I am Israeli, I don't trust popular media's reporting of events at all. All the recent slander of Russia has all the same characteristics that does slander of Israel. Including the armies of online Dislike-Clickers who chastise any question or display of today's villian's perspective.
Transport app Citymapper gives up on reinventing the bus (2019)
So, it is OK to invade a country, and cause losses among its civilians, if the president of that country does not qualify for the western definition of democracy?

Also, both Chile or Guatemala were democracies when the US financed and organized the coups that deposed their elected presidents, just to put some friend dictator.
Amazing, it even warned me after I spent half an hour on the game! I wish more programs would do that.
> where it's the honest people who are jailed for not demanding bribes

In India they keep on getting transferred to different departments, sometimes in in some remote area where you will have to live without your family.
Show HN: Collate web pages to read later with Sammelband
My favourite example of rebracketing is the origin of the word "orange".

European languages got the word from Persian or Arabic. But in Persian it's "narang" and in Arabic it's "naranj". (And in the languages they got it from, the word also begins "nar-".) So what happened to the initial "n"?

Answer: rebracketing, not as with "alchemy" from an article present in the source language but with an article that isn't there. You start with "naranj", import it into (say) French: "une norange". A bit of elision and it sounds the same as if that initial "n" weren't there, and after a while people forget about it.

Even better, in 19th-century Scots we find "nirrange" where the word has gained an initial n- again via another rebracketing from the indefinite article "an".

(Also, a nitpick: "etymology" isn't the only English word from "etymon", not only because of "etymologist" and "etymological" and the like but also because "etymon" itself is an English word, though not a common one.)
Hello HN. sammelband.app is a hobby project written in Javascript that I started recently after stumbling upon Mozilla's Readability library. It is a web app that takes one or more URLs and extracts the relevant content from each web page to a single document, which can then be downloaded to your device or sent to your email. Pocket integration is available, and I plan to add integrations with other bookmarking services.

How useful is this? Honestly, I'm not sure, but I've learned a ton about web dev during the month I spent on this. There's also a special joy in seeing something I kludged together in my free time live on the Internet.

Source code:

https://github.com/PizzaMyHeart/sammelband-server [back-end]

https://github.com/PizzaMyHeart/sammelband-frontend [front-end]

(I'm not a professional dev, so please forgive me if the code makes your eyes bleed.)

Any feedback is much appreciated!
I’d agree with you. It is in a similar vector.

The problem with that is that, different to drugs, social media is not regulated (in terms of UX and manipulation of behavior/emotions).

Social media is allowed to make their platform as addictive as they possibly can. You’re not allowed to create and sell a drug that is perfected for addiction.

Social media and video games are sort of a Wild West in terms of regulation, and I think we’ll have to see some in the next years to combat this.
If the creation is the part that matters why would they want to keep selling instead of taking a page out of indie game dev collectives or open source projects like Godot and Blender who earn salaries through Patreon-like monetisation strategies? Then piracy basically becomes a non-issue because it's the labour that matters, not paying for an artificially scarce digital copy. This seems like a pretty easy "best of both worlds" approach, no?
Evening use of light-emitting eReaders negatively affects sleep (2014)
Debian stable (bullseye) is still vulnerable: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-0847
Good. It's insane that the west is calling out censorship from Russia, but is doing the exact same thing itself.
Zambia, just like Venezuala or Cuba, or North Korea, is free to leave whatever system was forced on them by the west. And they can probably steal western trade secrets without many repercussions.

Hungary and Poland can test whether they can get outside of the EU's legal jurisdictions and whether they can lead decent lives doing that.

Just to reitirate, ultimately these things are actually voluntary. But they come with consequences. And it's not like these western values of trade, and individual rights are really western any more, when Japan and Korea has had success with them, arguably China was well (before Xi).

But there are consequences if you want to go it alone, and it's questionable whether other economic systems actually work as well.
I avoid those stands even in a totally safe environment after watching a friend with heavy panniers warp his front wheel in them.
I'd have been tempted to point out that in Ireland it certainly isn't a thing.
Correlation vs causality. I've read another paper in a French acadamic review another study showing a correlation.

In all cases, as always, only a large meta-analysis of these studies may lead to a conclusion of a correlation.

And if that correlation exists, having a mental illness doesn't imply you're smarter and many super smart are in good mental health.

And where do we draw a line between mental illness and a person having some issues to solve - as everybody does? Psychiatrists have assessment tools but those are by nature linked to a particular society. So the line varies from a society to another.

For my part, I think that many western societies are pathogenic by their organization. People with some level of responsibilities are under an enormous pressure from their top management, in order to meet their exorbitant level of wealth extortion from the employees and workers. They do well financially in comparison to workers but they don't get rich. They are the one paying the psychological price of extorting that wealth, while having enough information and intelligence to understand that they won't ever belong to the 1% and being the motor of this atrocious excessive form of capitalism.

Another sort of issues is to not fitting well with others.

Or you're super smart but don't know what to do of your life. You understand too well how the system works towards a bad future (climate crisis, depletion of biodiversity, social inequality getting higher and higher, probable wars to come between the West and Russia and the China, democracies turning into authoritarian regimes...).

But I do agree that Mensa is certainly a place with higher proportion of "issues". One needs to have personal issues to want to belong to a private club of "super IQ" only. The principle of it is totally absurd. If I were to date someone who belongs to Mensa, that is definitely a red flag.

I could belong to Mensa according to a test I took with a psychologist ; that's 2% of the population so we are many who could. All the Mensa members I met couldn't help dropping their membership in the conversation - like some can't help letting you know they studied at Harvard 25 years ago. Smart people are as idiotic, pedantic, boring to hell as the rest of the population.

To finish, IQ tests ate tailored to pinpoint a very specific form of intelligence, conceptual and verbal. An human being is much larger that. So the whole principle of these tests ate dubious - except for the very few reasons where they can help.

For example, when you see a smart kid doing bad at school, an IQ test may prove that the cause of his/her issues is not the academic potential. Maybe for certain specific jobs, but I don't know for which they are really suited for and on what grounds.
ok this has to be a troll
No, because if you try to force unmotivated programmers to do work for you the result will likely turn out to be garbage.
Because all major sea powers, excluding the US, signed the Paris treaty of 1856, making privateering, basically, illegal. Since then harassing your enemies shipping in international waters, or those of your enemy, fell to the respective navies.
I disagree that it's a common phrase. It's used primarily when talking about cancer or infestations. It is almost never used in any engineering context. Except when people speak about Flash. You don't find that odd at all?
When I used to write software like this. We typically had some sort of 'vpn', it was usually an isolated network 100% so you did not need that in the first place. For this I would have used an MDN on an isolated network. We would then write a solid bootstrap program with a watchdog on an ISR. Basically it would have an A/B area then we could flip between them as needed. If a particular version did not come up on a vehicle we could default it back to the old version. Usually some sort of flag that said 'yep this version is solid use it from now on'. Usually also the program itself could declare itself as bad usually catching itself in the crash and writing something out somewhere.

Not 100% as vehicle env is pretty harsh. +/-12V in 1-2 seconds on crank so you better have something to deal with that. -40f to +150f so you better have HW that can deal with that. Worry about how much flash wearing you have left. Oh and just general bouncing around, kicking hitting, coffee spills so your hardware better be decently hardened. Even then you still usually had those 10-20 vehicles that you just had to touch them. Usually it would be in the middle of Montana somewhere. If you were lucky it could be at a terminal. Oh and dont cost too much as your competitors probably have better and cheaper hardware.
This is a bit of a hilarious take. I mean we have international laws and treaties already. Nazi Germany was found guilty of “Starting a war of aggression” (but the USSR wasn’t, funny that).

The truth is international laws and treaties are worthless for the most part. The only thing enforcing them are states - states that have complete sovereignty over whether or not to enforce them.

For the most part international laws and treaties are just cover for powerful nations doing what they want.