skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you like SwiftUI, I challenge you to a SwiftUI fizzbuzz:

a square, screen width, 10x padding, red background.

inside it, a little square, centered and a little square, top left corner, 10px padding, blue background for both.

Tell me that was easy, so that I know you're lying :)
Do you think hacker news should be sued for inaccurate information posted by its users?
Flight sim battles with small toy sized aircraft flying around inside a house. Have to deal with pets/insects/kids etc. while battling as well.
I think you're attacking weakest points of his comment, tbf.
Also 'the borrowers', as OP makes referrence to
No. The winner takes all nature of each seat does tend to lock out candidates who might get in with proportional representation with multiple candidates per seat, so it encourages dominance in that regard. One could say that this is a weakness in the Australian system. Maybe there should be one big electorate with 151 candidates elected on a proportional basis?

The main benefit of the preferential system is that it allows people to safely take the risk of voting for a third candidate. I see it as question of incentives more than raw maths. (Everything I'm saying is from the perspective of the lived experience of being under a RCV system, not the raw maths.)

By way of information the upper house does use proportional representation with typically 6 candidates chosen from each state, each state being a single electorate. Smaller parties do regularly win a number of spots in the upper house.
In that case you don't need a certificate. Just check that the .local FQDN's IP is on a local network.

1. Look up all local interfaces' networks (IP & subnet mask)
2. Determine if .local IP is within subnet range of one of the interfaces
3. If .local IP is not on a subnet of a local interface, drop the connection

This is still "host-based networking" and there's always the possibility a rogue network could be attached to your host, such as a spoofed open access point, or an ISP with lax network security and a customer on the same subnet being attacker-controlled.

What certs prove is "this host currently has a private key and cert, and at one time this private key was used to generate a CSR for this cert, and at one time it was validated that an IP resolvable by the domain name in the CSR was also controlled by whoever issued the CSR". It's a very awkward thing that doesn't really match up to local consumer devices.

We need a vendor key registry, the way MAC address prefixes are mapped to vendors, so at least we could say "the key on this host came from vendor XYZ". The browser would need to pop up a warning saying "WARNING: You are now connected to a local device from Vendor XYZ! If you did not intend to connect to a local device, close this window!" Updates to the vendor registry could also invalidate previous entries if old keys got compromised. But this would be in combination with the aforementioned "is the site on a local network?" logic. Anyone using a .local would have to both compromise a local network and steal a key from a vendor, or be registered as a vendor, and then the user would have to be dumb enough to click through a big warning about a local device.
It's possible that the resistance part isn't even a thing

If I'm honest I only noticed it because the last one I came across seemed to be wired upside down (easy on, resistant off) and I'm almost certain the house before had the same but wired the "right way"

Could just have been some rogue grease or something either lubricating or gunking up the switch haha
Here is the hard one: photos, report cards, all of the "familial documentation." I am a technically-only child and will have no children myself. What will I do with these photos of my mother as a young girl? I've no-one to pass them onto.
Ask HN: What fun have you had with tech recently?
A lot of recent tech has felt… well boring. I fell into this industry because it was fun / weird / creative and it’s felt stale for a hot minute.

What’s something fun you’ve done with tech recently that may or may not be overlooked?
Yes - something where you were the Jerome Powell and would be controlling the Fed funds rate, QE/QT cycle, MBS buying on the open market - would seem topical given current conditions.

In fact I'd even be interested in just a mod for an existing business sim like a SimCity/Anno1800 where you could get loans based rates and consumer demand was in response to central bank activities.

Actually just found that OpenTTD seems to have some of this but haven't played it yet as the graphics are a bit retro for my taste. But maybe I'll take look.
A deep dive into .forever domain registrations
Fighting game where you play realistic kittens, (play) fighting realistically.
A new Freespace, with multiplayer mode but also with the same epic and chilling storylines from the first two games.

I’ve never found a game that replicates the feeling of FS2 but that could be because I’m old now and most of my childhood joy is dead. Excellent game mechanics, short missions, gradually upgrading ships and weapons and the feeling of a vast universe to discover.
The US people aren’t suffering. Unless you count first world problems
Again, so dramatic with the explanation point. :-)

You do know your posting history is readable to all of us, right? It's very clear that your game is to post a 1 or 2 line snipe to try and antagonize people. You do you, but I'm not whining, and you're just trolling.

Best wishes.
Is it true that one reason the US has such a strong credit score system is the lack of reliable data on who people are?

In the UK we have credit scores, but they're pretty irrelevant. What matters here is being able to show who you are (a matter of looking you up on things like voter lists) and you never having been taken to court for your debts (County Court Judgements).

In fairness we also have a lot less unsecured debt and a much more punitive bankruptcy system...
Evil Twin Attacks in Practice (With Rust and a Raspberry Pi)
Perhaps you are misunderstanding the records it is describing.

A record in that data is defined as a particular high in a particular city on a particular day. The data goes back 145 years in Los Angeles.

So if it is the hottest May 24th ever that would be a record.

If everyday followed an identical and uncorrelated distribution then we would expect that 1/145 days would be record.

In your IQ example imagine if you had a school with 365 separate classrooms with 144 students in each one. A new 145th student then enters each classroom. The chance that the new student is the one with the highest IQ is 1/145. So in the universe of the 365 classrooms you'd expect 2 new IQ records to be set.
I guess that's why my VPS is so cheap!
Tesla only make BEV. The Mercedes and VW stats seem to include all their vehicules and it just make another meaningless stats. People know what they get when they purchase a ICE vehicles whereas BEV is new territory. This stat is comparing apple and oranges...

I'm really impressed by the amount of anti Tesla FUD in here...

I propose we let the sales figures talk and see what people are buying instead of claiming people dont want them...

In March, in Europe, Tesla had 2 models in the top 3 for new registrations (all types of cars included).

Source: https://insideevs.com/news/583329/europe-plugin-car-sales-ma...
I do think there's value in setting deadlines; even if there aren't any consequences for missing them, just having a deadline helps me stay focused and serves as a check on my natural inclination to procrastinate on problems that don't have easy answers.
Show HN: FlightHook, a flight tracker for diverted flights
The Apples and Oranges idiom refers to comparing things on axis that don't make sense.

Comparing government's and private charities' efficiency at delivering help is a perfectly rational comparison to make when deciding which things should or should not be delivered by the government. The government's efficiency is always a concern when talking about it taking on new responsibilities.

If government efficiency was moot, why not have them handle delivery/allocation of all basic goods? We know that's a bad idea because the experiment has been run, and private industry is better as producing and distributing food because.... efficiency.
> It’s not that there’s low (or no) demand, it’s that people are not being recorded as having voiced this concern.

It’s worse than that. People _complain about it being on_. Look at any forums about home network or WiFi troubleshooting and switching it off on your router will often be in the ‘first, do this’ sort of answers.

Even here this often comes up. The sentiment is ‘IPv4 has to work reliably because so many people don’t have IPv6 and things need to work for them. You’re only asking for trouble by also having IPv6’. As a practical matter it’s hard to argue with, but it’s not a way to make progress…
Have you Transport Fever 2? The AI manages growth of the cities while you work on building out the logistics. The better your network, the faster the cities grow. Since there are planes involved I would classify the scale as being nation-sized.
^ bot? Doesn't make any sense to me, OP link is not an article.
It definitely was *the way* to do it before OpenZiti and other zero trust overlay networks started to take off. Being "in the VPN" is similar to participating on the OpenZiti overlay network. VPNs allow for horizontal movement much easier than being on an OpenZiti zero trust overlay network does. With OpenZiti you don't need any holes in your firewall open. That's a pretty good reason to consider moving away from VPNs to a zero trust overlay like OpenZiti in my book, but I'm biased, I work on the project. Embracing the zero trust networking mindset is definitely a change of pace but I think it's worth considering.
imo a lot of benefit claimed are not 'low tech', they are just the natural result of simple > complex.

The philosophy of simple > complex isn't low-tech or high-tech, it just is.
A much better Master of Orion (MoO 5?).

Best ever: MoO 2 [0].

Latest installment: MoO - Conquer the stars [1], or MoO 4.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Orion_II:_Battle_at_...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Orion:_Conquer_the_S...
So, coming from a mechanic/blue-collar perspective the idea that everything has to be your job is an insanely dangerous practice. We absolutely have a "not my job" mentality because there are countless instances where poorly trained/inexperienced diagnostic technicians and day laborers have caused catastrophic loss of life and property damage. Is there no room in coding for inexperience? what is the price of a job half done poorly?

"Successful people do what unsuccessful people won’t." is, in my industry, a neat way to start the story of how you lost your hand.
I also work on Fuchsia’s Software delivery team.

For some more detail on how we secure downloading components, we implement a concept called verified execution [1]. We establish a chain of trust from:

* a hardware key (on hardware that supports it), which checks the signature of

* the bootloader, which has a key baked into it and verifies that each boot slot has a properly signed vbmeta structure. This vbmeta then contains a hash of the zircon kernel, and the merkle root for the user space system image blob.

* we boot up zircon, which eventually starts up blobfs, our content addressed file system. It then reads the system image from blobfs, and launches Component Manager and Package Cache (which implements a package filesystem on top of blobs).

* package cache gets launched with the system image merkle from vbmeta, which allows us to know which packages are part of the base package set.

* base packages are then launched upon demand.

This establishes a direct line of trust from the hardware key to the base packages.

For over the air updates and ephemerally resolved packages, we use The Update Framework [2] and Omaha [3] for our package repositories. Each entry contains the merkle root for the package metadata, which in turn bakes in the merkle roots for each blob in the packages. We bake in the public keys for TUF and Omaha into our system image. This allows us to indirectly verify from hardware up that we are fetching the correct software.

[1]: https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/security/verified_e...

[2]: https://theupdateframework.io/

[3]: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/master/...
Ascend was fantastic until it went free-to-play and Hi-Rez desperately tried to monetize it.

I would want Tribes: Ascend back again as it originally was, but with good support for mods and private servers. That would make me happy.
Just a minor thing, but Arrietty is just a movie based on the books in The Borrowers series. Doesn’t matter, your point stands, just like to shout out the original inspiration for the film.
Annotated implementation of microKanren: an embeddable logic language
Yeah, thinking back more clearly, I think you're right. There was a promise of deeper simulation with the extra server capacity, but it ended up just being DRM and a pain in the ass.

I'd love a persistent, deeply simulated SimCity with cross-municipal boundary multiplayer elements.
That's what Artemis is.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/247350/Artemis_Spaceship_...

When I worked at SpaceX, a dozen or so of us once played it between the primary and backup mission control rooms. It was nice having the expensive headsets. All I remember is someone on the other team "hacking" our spaceship by using the company IT system to remotely reboot our team's computer terminals.
You know, messing with crypto anarchists never gets old despite the karma dip.
Volatile market for stolen credit card data shaken up by sanctions against
the most interesting thing about covid is how it revealed that the corpgovmedia complex is pretty much untrustworthy whenever they seize upon a certain narrative...after that point is reached, when their credibility is at stake, they will never back down and will only double down, no matter the evidence, at least until a certain number of years has passed....
> They could use further taxes but that would only negatively affect the poorer strata of population, as we are currently seeing with record high gas prices.

Cut subsidies and give more money to the poor.
Replace your arguments for crypto with arguments for the internet, and zoom back to the mid 90s.

There were a ton of shady internet companies capitalizing on this sort of hype and swindling people out of their hard earned money. Beanie babies were also huge.

Do you know what else was happening? The IETF was finding its feet as an org, RFCs were being written and iterated on, the building blocks of the modern internet were being built behind the scenes, and companies like Amazon were realizing that their value was not selling books but building a massive logistic network that could compete with brick and mortar stores. Porn companies (widely seen as morally reprehensible/unsightly) were also figuring out video streaming and PayPal was figuring out how to deal with online payments.

Yet, if you read the news and weren’t building in the space, you’d probably come to the same conclusions as you are today - the internet is a fad that will die out soon because there’s nothing of substance to it and it’s all just greater fool hype.

Zooming back to today - I’d implore you to go look at the research being done right now in the cryptography space - things like zero knowledge proofs, multi party computation, and threshold signature schemes are becoming more viable as building blocks every day. Same with a shift in mentality from centralized trust to decentralized control enabled by some of these cryptographic primitives.

Is every crypto project going to be the next Google? Of course not, but the entire point of putting VC money into the space is to push the space forward as a whole (along with spurring research), eventually leading to the next Amazon/Google/Facebook/etc. and pushing humanity forward in some direction.

New tools mean fertile ground for innovation, and VCs are interested in finding and pumping money into fertile ground since they usually have massively outsized returns.

Are they always right? Nope, but Marc Andreessen was around in the 90s, built one of the first web browsers, and co founded Netscape. So if nothing else he’s seen what unrealized fertile ground looks like, and a $4.5B fund signals that he sees it again in the space. Of course a more cynical view is that he purely sees the ability to enrich himself and his fund via pump and dump schemes without caring how it’s done but that’s something that only time will tell I suppose.
Well said. The best strategy is to always just say "Yes, thanks!" whenever they offer you something they do decide to get rid of. My grandma used to bring boxes of junk to family reunions and put it on a free table. My sister and I would always be sure to take almost everything. She felt better that it was getting "used" and we just trashed/donated it as appropriate.

People forget that they kept this "junk" for a reason. When you tell them to get rid of it or call it junk, you are insulting them, not their possession. It doesn't matter that you think their reason is silly. They would think a lot of your stuff is silly too. It is so sad that we've lost (almost ?) all ability for empathy. We have become so selfish and it is sad.
License agreement screens to use a vehicle you have purchased. I despair that our profession has brought this to fruition. Plus, 'features' locked behind pay walls. Crazy town.
A major problem with that is that our political divisions aren't actually at the state level. States may be "red states" or "blue states" by their overall majorities, but it's a lot more complicated than that. Rural Massachusetts is politically more in line with rural Illinois. Similarly, urban Chicago is politically more in line with urban Boston.
Train Engineer Simulator

I want a very slow, casual game that takes days — running a train in the mid-1800's U.S.

Mostly I want to, from time to time, look over and see the scenery I am passing through, once in a while adjust the speed, stop and take on coal and water. Most of the time I want to ignore it and be doing other things.

SlowTV + Casual Gaming
None of what you said contradicts the parent post, which is simply refuting the claim that we have some sort of "official" credit score. In reality we have credit history, and various data vendors apply your history to their models to determine a rating for you.
tiny hell (like tiny tower)
Instead of customers for different types of businesses (retail, restaurant, etc.) it will be souls to be tortured for different sins. Occasionally a well know politician or celebrity appears that you get to pick which torture you want to apply.
A modern remake of GoldenEye 007.
I want to drive cars in a full earth simulation. Let’s say Google Maps but in 3D. Pick a car, picks GPS location and drive. If you misbehave you’ll get chased by police.
I want a stratrgy game in which:

- Player plays as either the emperor or the central gov

- Takes a faction mode: each faction may control a few positions in the gov and in military. Each may also control certain economic interests. Each faction has its own opinion for each matter so they may agree on one thing but disagree on another. Each faction also have children factions but they may switch loyalty if too much conflict of interests.

- Delay of information: information has speed and tech advance will increase the speed. But essentially it's difficulty for the central to directly control everything so they have to send officials. But there are complications: 1) Locals might want their own officials, 2) Official belong to certain faction and his appointment is usually a compromise

- Every policy moves through the land tree with a speed and may be blocked if the locals or governor dislikes it. As the Emperor or the central you need to find ways to move policies to as many places as possible.

I feel like this model represents the real world more or less and are far superior than even the most complicated strategy games. But it's very difficult to build.
After that first ~dozen words I gave an example, a counter example, and discussed why this is a somewhat fundamental issue.
> This opinion that Go developers are subpar is silly rhetoric.

I don't think so. But it's a fact that Go was meant for sub-par programmers.
Grounded and polite. Love it.
I just finished a contract on an app with 400K users.

It was in pretty bad shape when I got my hands on it. Last update: February 2020. Targeting iOS 11+, mostly UIKit, powered by Cocoapods with 25 dependencies, and 1.3M LOC.

It took me 3 months to rewrite everything from scratch in SwiftUI, with 100% feature parity. Of the ~20 different view/components that I had to write, just one required me to dip into UIKit (with UIViewRepresentable to bridge).

Now the app is iOS 14+, 5 dependencies (all managed with Swift Package Manager) and 6.5K LOC, with 0 crashes in the last month.

SwiftUI is production ready.
Have you tried Age of Empires?
Or the current days of the web, if you peek at the HN HTML.
Also embracing OpenZiti allows you to give users access to Jenkins securely (or any other app you want/need to keep off the public internet) without using a classic style VPN.
Squad, Planetside 2 and Natural Selection 2 are all kinda like this.
All of retail is not the cheapest goods. From Disney to Roblox revenue is up.

Savings rate is decreasing not increasing.
Also how about a game that uses my worthless crypto kitties
> A problem with each state doing their own thing, is then the state can take away human rights

(1) Why would the state residents vote for a state legislature that takes away human rights from them?

(2) And if this is seen as a real danger, can it not happen as well on the federal level then? The whole US of A voters voting for representatives that take away human rights on the federal level.
I want a game like ghost recon wildlands, but with no DLC, no skills ladder, not mods, less massive shootouts and a lot more stealth.

In the existing game there's an escalation of your bullet spongy-ness to enemy level complexity, this naturally happens as you progress through the map. I would remove the bullet resistance and player levels and go with an almost totally real health experience and I'd try and blend more Hitman style recon elements into the game.

Like being able to drive around, or walk around plain close with no weapons to recon places, and have to talk with locals about the enemy in detail. I'd also preserve progress, if you free an area the enemy should become less of a presence and the freedom fighters should take charge.
How custom are these “custom buffer pools”, anyway? Could DBMS use-cases be similar enough that a single buffer-pool library — if such a thing were to be created — could suit all their needs? A Jemalloc equivalent specifically tuned for managing large disk-backed allocations?
To prove your point, it can happen to the best. This was May 17th: https://www.eurosport.com/cycling/giro-d-italia/2022/biniam-...
One says "junk transfer" another sees opportunities.

Jewelry likely can be smelted, stones reset in modern settings.

Tools can be refurbished and/or moved into 3rd world markets where things are often repaired.

Ok, trinkets and doilies really are junk, perhaps a handful for movie sets?

Hopefully some bright and hustle style entrepreneurs can find ways to upgrade this junk into the hands that rightfully could use them.

The part I'm particularly hopeful about is more homes coming on the market. Yes they may want for a renovation/updating but think of the multibedrom family homes that grandma is living in housing 1-2 ppl and soon could house a whole family? That's going to be helpful to those currently priced out of the market.
I can see a difference between my two monitors that are 60Hz and 30Hz; and I used to push my CRT monitors up to 85Hz (if they could do it) ... >100Hz is just "slap a bigger number on it" seems to me.