skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you find a secret trick to dieting, it literally could not matter less that you are "enabling yet more of the bad behavior". Being thin isn't some magically ennobling activity, and the only reasons one might prefer weighing less are practical (health, comfort, appearance, etc depending on the person). A hypothetical magic diet pill would solve 100% of these issues, and would in fact render tackling those core problems useless. Does such a pill exist? Well obviously not, but that's a very different claim from the one you made.
Thanks. In fact, I did consider the guidelines: my impulse was to write "Think about what you're suggesting […] Consider whether this really seems plausible", but I thought that's too confrontational/focuses too much on the person, and "Do you really think…" was a softer/more neutral way of phrasing it. Apparently not!

(This is a different part of the guidelines than "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation" BTW: the comment very explicitly suggests non-Latin scripts not having had "much printing press and typewriter use", so I don't think there's much scope for interpretation there. And in fact, the idea is inherently a condescending and colonialist one—of Western superiority over unsophisticated "those" people—even though it may well be held innocently and stated as such. But I do take the point about not responding to the person, and responding kindly to the idea instead. Will try harder, as I think I usually do.)

(BTW "reactionary" means something specific…)
Can you show a survey of actual threats which supports the thesis that left-wing extremism is as insignificant as you claim it to be? From what I am able to see there is not that much difference between the two.

Here's a recent report on left-wing extremism in the United Kingdom:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

I have not found a similar study on far-right extremism but there is a report giving an overview of the far right:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

Reading these reports shows that political violence currently is at a low level in the UK but that it is on the rise internationally which has the potential to lead to an increase both on the far-left as well as the far-right side.
Could you please review the site guidelines and stick to them when posting here? You've unfortunately been breaking them quite a bit, such as with snark, flamebait, and ideological battle.

What we're hoping for on this site is curious conversation that remains thoughtful across differences. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Tankers Charging Drones with Lasers the Focus of New DARPA Program
I've always thought there's a way to design living conditions for this sort of thing. Like... front door leads to front porch, front yard and sidewalk / bikeway. Backdoor leads to garage and alley and/or road.

The front door would lead to the relaxed communal part of the neighborhood.

The back door would lead to driving and work and the rest.

strangely, I remember going to a friend's parents house in florida. They lived on the intercoastal waterway. The driveway lead to the garage and the front door. The back door lead to the backyard and a boat dock.
Right, but neither are ETH and BTC for 99.999% of the population that can't read smart contracts or manage their own wallet.
> For example, I know things like (a^b)^c = a^bc, and that I can solve for x in x/a = b/c by cross multiplying so that xc = ab, but I can’t prove either of those things.

That's actually kind of hard. Not because the proof is hard, surprisingly, but because you need a rigid notion of what exactly you're trying to prove. That's the hard part. The closer you get to the basics, the deeper the rabbit hole goes. You end up with axiomatizing the algebra, mathematical logic, formal proofs and different formal models...

So _maybe_ start with something less abstract. Some problems which do not involve either algebra or geometry so you can develop intuition for what is a proof and how to see holes in a one. Afterwards, you can try adding more and more rigidity to the things you're familiar with.
Because it's public, while my list is not intended for that
The question of "is the program sentient?" is as meaningless as "can a submarine swim?"

They both accomplish some of the same tasks, but in different ways. People used to think that playing chess well was beyond the reach of a computer.
So weird that we have almost the same rules

news.ycombinator.com###karma
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> A substitute command is ~~a class~~ an application of regexes.

FTFY

(Edit: forgot HN markup doesn't do strikethrough; that's what the ~~'s are for above.)
I downvote for talking about downvote.
Lemoine must be on here because the post got flagged. This happens every time I mention him and sex dolls.
I believe in putting the needs of my nation, and my countrymen above all else. Is that nationalism? I am not against helping others, but not while there is still a single American suffering. Is that a supremacist view?

Basically, remember to put on your oxygen mask before helping others.
> There are times you want the scrolling so you have an idea of how much went by the terminal.

True, it was not very handy, but I was very impressed :)
I'm generally quite stingy as well, but I'm the exact opposite and am more likely to vote on comment threads I'm not participating in. If I'm interested in a thread, I'll either upvote or comment, usually not both. I downvote very rarely, and usually for comments that are shallow or snarky one liners like you'll find upvoted all over reddit.
> You measure everything you eat, and you lose weight for a week or so, and then you get tired, and irritable, and progress greatly slows down, stops, or reverses.

You’re not losing a meaningful amount of fat in the first week. You’re just getting dehydrated.

I’ve seen this process up close multiple times. It usually starts with a dramatic weight loss goal like “I’m going to lose 2kg/week for a month.” The first few days of crash dieting seem to be working, then the rapid progress stops and it becomes clear that the original target is impossible. This makes it easy to justify quitting the diet altogether to oneself, which was always subconsciously the goal of this approach.
“Quantitative Easing”, we were due.
What makes HN so great is that you can always count on being upvoted for a direct refutation of someone, as long as it's in good faith and you make a meaningful point. I try to do that as much as possible with people who correct my thinking here.
>but I also see true potential in the technology and ideology.

If you've been in crypto long enough to become opinionated about it and dissatisfied with it, then design something you think is the right way to do it, and pitch it to VCs. Some may agree with you, especially ones with a more long-term perspective on both the industry and their investment horizons, and who actually want to build enduring value rather than get rich quick.

>All the hate for crypto, even though much of it is uninformed

If you think it's uninformed, then either ignore it, or inform it (via twitter, blog, vlog, research paper, whatever).

>If crypto fails, which is a real possibility in my mind, will I be unemployable because I spend several years in the scammy crypto industry?

Depends on what you spent those years doing and if the same skillset is valuable in other domains. Distributed systems architecture and engineering? UI/UX design? Stuff like that is easily transferrable and in demand elsewhere.
On the other hand, a generation of world-class programmers were raised on the REPL and interactivity (e.g., Lisp and Smalltalk programmers from the 70s-80s).

And interactivity can be an extremely effective way of experimenting and learning how things work and fit together so that you can rapidly develop a mental model of your core primitives and how to put them together in different ways.

It's also part of the appeal of TDD. Small iterative loops with rapid feedback.
What if you're working on the go, eg at a park or one of those coworking spaces. Can't really control the lighting there
Friend just disclosed a 7 vuln chain RCE in a Fortune20 company. Affected all cloud and on-prem versions.

They denied it as it was under NDA during a "scheduled" pentest (their client paid them to pentest and they alerted the vendor letting them know they'd be doing it during a 2 week period like most cloud vendors).

For someone to spend weeks developing that many vulnerabilities to get an RCE and then get nothing from the vendor other than "haha technically we don't have to pay you" - there is zero reason to not go through agencies that sell to governments (ZDI, Zerodium, etc).

You'll get paid and now the bug won't get patched.

Congratulations vendor, you played yourself.
By every owner affected you mean, there is small to no moat and everyone can use it if they so wish.

It is not like PS5 owners are going to be upset for having a straightforward way to run games -- e.g. make their own Blu-ray copies etc.

Edit: To clarify: that this is valued for/by Sony at only 20k is beyond me. But absolutely that valuation should be admissible in court in my opinion.
On the other hand, this number tells me to never submit a bug bounty for the money -- at least to some companies. It is simply not worth most of the time/most of the contexts. Write a paper/publication of some short and use it to get a good job that pays you salaried for more -- if you have already one just publish them immediately with a ping to the sec team. If they want to fix these fine, otherwise... they can pre-pay you to report them to them under contract for a good amount of money.
I have had countless spam messages from unknown numbers (usually with a different calling code) on WhatsApp.
There’s also hnreplies[0]. Keep in mind, they were hacked once and leaked email addresses[1].

[0]: http://hnreplies.com

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26968908
The bar was if it was extremist or not, not it’s level of effectiveness.

If something nearly half the world followed is considered a extremist then I do not believe the word has any meaning left
ChromeOS Flex doesn't include the bios, firmware, or secure boot system of standard ChromeOS. It relies on an HAL that limits what can be updated.

See https://support.google.com/chromeosflex/answer/11542901?hl=e... for more on the difference.
That feels overly pedantic, since bitcoin does function as a ponzi from the investors' perspective if not a textbook one.

The difference is that miners are constantly pulling dollars out of the system rather than some sinister individual constantly pulling dollars out of the system. Hopefully we'll end up with a new word for "decentralized ponzi" to differentiate them in future.

Obviously there are actual ponzis involving bitcoin (e.g. Tezos/Nexo/BlockFi/Crypto.com, possibly USDT/USDC) but those aren't bitcoin itself. Maybe that's part of the confusion.
text mode is pretty fast but slower than Minix's was.

I think part of the reason is that most distros don't use the native text console but use their own (they draw their own characters because 80x25 is not really handy on a 27" display :P ). And I think GPU's don't really optimise this mode like the DOS ones did.

After all, this mode is only ever used for the boot screen (and these days often not even there!). Or perhaps for ESXi or Linux servers, not an important usecase and not something people really interact with on a daily basis anyway.
As a rule I upvote anything I bothered to finish reading that isn't namecalling or spam because I hope it creates more discourse.
You can't be paranoid enough to imagine the disgusting amount of location data being slurped up by unscrupulous apps and traded for any purpose at all. Targeting ads based on having been near or in a store is completely standard.

https://blog.citizennet.com/how-to-measure-store-visits-on-f...

> By using location services on cell phones and 3rd party satellite imagery and mapping data, Facebook is able to tell you if someone visited your store within 28 days of clicking on your ad, all while filtering out employees or people who move past your stores without going in.

> Facebook can't measure all store visits. This is because some people don't have location services turned on in their phone, or are not recognizable by 3rd parties.

https://www.placeiq.com/audiences/

> Reach audiences who visit your location on a regular basis

> Reach audiences who regularly visit your competitor’s locations

> Message audiences who regularly commute past your location
And now I wish you could downvote yourself. :p
>I still have to manually adjust the exposure (which is fine), and fiddle with settings to get the colors right

Yikes, seriously? That’s the best you’ve used?
Unfortunately there aren't any FOSS solutions for using an android phone as a webcam.
You need to keep your head on a swivel walking around Hoboken. My son got hit in his stroller in a well marked crosswalk by someone improperly passing a car that had stopped for us; I couldn’t even see it coming. Luckily he was not injured but it was extremely close to severe injury or death.

The last paragraph rings absolutely true for me. Me and my wife stagger walking in the street now, or I walk out first and the pull the stroller behind me if I’m alone.

I do commend them for making safety improvements, it is clear there’s been investment in pedestrian safety … but stay vigilant.
Nearly $500. Oof.
These are tokens not crypto currencies. Please stop confusing them.
One obvious solution is to use a cross-platform password manager that supports Passkeys [1].

[1]: https://blog.1password.com/1password-is-joining-the-fido-all...
Yes, I'm asking why 443 in Bolton is across from 538 rather than 442. It is not a general rule that the sequence of even numbers is completely unrelated to the facing sequence of odd numbers. They're supposed to be equivalent.
Incredible. But I have a few observations in addition to what others already asked (unprotected rotors in line with the pilot, survivability, ballistic chute etc)

at time offset 02:26 it flies ridiculously close to some tree branches. May be the camera angle but that looks too close for comfort

at 02:41 it flies UNDER some power/utility cable, between 2 poles.

Generally throughout the video it's flying way too low, under the tree line, there were so many obstacles at its height. Are they trying to make me NOT want one of these, was it an illegal flight trying not to be detected and fined massively, was it imposed by the local airspace administration (assuming any were aware) ... ?
Right? It's like administering a driver's license test by saying: "Bring me back a Big Mac, a Whopper, and a Chalupa within 30 minutes" then tossing them the car keys and judging them based on how many items they successfully bring back.

Of course they're going to Google - it saves time, and the interviewer clearly doesn't give a shit about how you arrived at the solution because he literally just left the room.
Me too, why not do it this way?

I wish to encourage conversations I am interested in (or I otherwise enjoy / appreciate). Bothering to write a reply in good faith is nice.

Also, internet points are a worthless, sham, game-ification trick thing.
People area focusing on the 2 weeks thing but your approach is right, and I did something similar for about 6-8 months in order to lose 10kg and keep it off. I kept eating my regular food, just cut my portion sizes in half. It sucked… but it worked.
I bought a Logitech C925E and was expecting a decent camera experience.

It is not a decent camera.

Huge upvote for Camo! Even an old iPhone 6S is far better than any Webcam I've ever experienced!

That Apple shipped a terrible camera in their new Display is baffling!
I am not sure. I looked for an answer but didn't see anything. It appears to behave like a perpetual subscription (meaning free upgrades) but I think you would have to contact the customer support team at the company to get the answers.
Yet another article asking for the erosion of basic democratic concepts.

>A system of laws and protections developed by and for humans can never fully incorporate the needs and desires of nonhumans.

Not only is this incorrect, but it nullifies the whole proposition of the article if it is.
yah, i’ve found that there are a couple “natural” breakpoints that depend on min- / max-content, where things are single column under about 400-500px (~40-50ch), 2 or 3 column above that, and either width constrained above ~1200px or more content columns collapse up. we’re needing fewer and fewer media queries to accomplish this however, which is nice.
You're building ones of those games people get paid to play and you're... proud of this work? As someone who has watched gaming become ruined by micro transactions and loot boxes, that's challenging for me to wrap my head around.

Sorry if that seems rude but I literally can't imagine a sketchier idea than that. If you have game dev skills, please please, just make an actual fun video game that you purchase and own for life. You know, something valuable enough that you don't have to pay people to play.
PNG is a compressed format, so right off the bat it would be weird to have 1GB of compressed image data. According to this[0] out of 23 million analyzed images from web pages, PNGs comprised around 14.4% of those images and averaged around 4.4KB. So this scenario isn't likely to occur in the real world, and if it did, decompressing 4.4KB would happen well under 100ms.

Secondly, PNG is an unnecessarily slow algorithm as we've found out from QOI[1]. From the results, it can encode over 300 megapixel per second in some cases. Now I'm a bit fuzzy on the math, but I believe 300 megapixels means 300 million pixels, and if we assume 16 bytes per pixel (4 bytes RGBA) than that means it can encode at speeds of up to 4 GB/s and achieve very similar compression ratios to PNG. Oh and by the way this algorithm isn't even using multithreading, so I assume it can be sped up even more.

So I wouldn't insinuate that the developers who coded the implementations to decode PNG are programming slow inefficient code, but they're stuck with a bad algorithm from the outset because of the requirements, as you've already pointed out.

I think my original statement still stands.

> There's no excuse for why any algorithm should take more than 100ms

The PNG algorithm is inherently flawed imo. We could do better. The developers who are stuck with this specific compression algorithm have no choice but to do the best with what they've got. But you can always transform the PNG image into a faster lossless format like QOI and then use that. So it's still not worthwhile to give up and say we can't do better since PNG is inherently slow.

Edit: I think my original statement almost stands. Processing 100s of GBs of data in under 100ms is definitely overestimating our current computing capacity. I would probably amend that to something like processing anything under a few GBs of data (3-5 GBs) is definitely possible in under 100ms.

[0]: https://www.pingdom.com/blog/new-facts-and-figures-about-ima...

[1]: https://qoiformat.org/benchmark/
It's very odd that you would group Hellen Keller in with facilitated communication. Keller communicated with many people without Anne Sullivan's help and was the author of many works.

There are even videos of her on YouTube speaking, reading braille, and communicating through hand-spelling.
That has never stopped anyone from doing it.
I upvote when the only thing I would reply to their reply is "thanks!" to save everyone else the scrolling.
There's no reason the standard template library (basically Generic container types and their support) should require compiler support in C++. However C++ programmers tend (incorrectly) to use the abbreviation STL to mean the entire standard library for their language. So this can result in talking at cross purposes.

Thus while your parent may have meant that types like std::unordered_map shouldn't be magic, it's true that for example you can't implement atomics from the standard library usefully without help from the vendor.
Solend is just some random lending market that I--despite being in this space full time--don't think I've ever heard of... supposedly it is similar to AAVE, but on Solana? Just because something happens "in more and more mainstream chains" is meaningless: the chain on which something is running is unrelated to whether it is a good idea or not. I want to be very clear about this: I highly doubt that any normal person CAN do enough research to safely manage loans or borrow and invest with leverage, which is what these lending platforms are for, but that doesn't mean that they are fundamentally broken or are scamming people.
I've been saying for a while that if downvote=disagree downvote is the equivalent of replying "I disagree" or "you're wrong" and nothing else. Such a useless signal would be flagged down immediately as a comment.
i think upvoting too much means they may not count or are filtered.
The parachute unit is integrated into the airframe. If it's used, the pilot remains inside the aircraft and rides it down to the ground.

These parachutes do take a few seconds to inflate and decelerate a falling aircraft. So there is a "dead zone" in the flight envelope: too low to use the parachute, too high to survive an uncontrolled crash.
I upvote maybe around 25-30% of replies, mostly depending on the perceived quality and effort of the message. That's the amount I think deserves an upvote, and more would feel like tipping in the US: automatic and too much.
Thanks for taking the time to explain :)
My major use-case for a KVS is *reliable, scalable* storage. RDBMS has an upper bound on scaleability. Removing the relational component removes a lot of power and flexibility, but improves performance and scalability.

That's often a good choice!

A KVS can be arbitrarily horizontally scaleable. That might not sound necessary for a small project, but even there:

1. You can deal with big data (e.g. keystroke-level event data, etc.)

2. You don't have to worry about scaleability. It's one less thing to worry about.

3. You're set up for success if you take the unicorn route.

That's not memcached. I like memcached, but it's not the same as a KVS.
Isn't this kinda the same as the equity stakes that owners of public shares can exercise? Except opaque and unregulated?
Yeah I always wonder.. Why don't they put those cams they put in phones in a webcam?? Sure they're expensive but so are some webcams. And $200-300 buys you a great compact photo cam. So why not a webcam that needs less components?

It's not even just the sensors, the optics totally suck as well. Even the top webcams often have a huge 'fake lens' that's actually just flat glass and being it is just the usual tiny lens. The logitech stream does this, for example. It looks impressive but it's still the same crap in prettier plastic.

I kinda had to laugh at that odd iPhone clip they introduced at Apple's last keynote. It's basically an admission that their webcams suck.

I know some colleagues that use their phones as cam and while the quality is great it's also super annoying not being able to use your phone when a text comes in or something. I know Apple has some built in tricks to handle that stuff on a Mac but for work I don't always use one (and I don't have an iPhone). So I never use my phone for this. I'd spend 200-300 bucks on a great webcam though. It's just that right now there aren't any.
"Bot" is an interesting adaptive use of Robot. Robot traditionally describing something mechanical with gears and made of steel. Something pretty different that the computer controlled characters in Unreal.
Installed ArchLinux from iso downloaded via BitTorrent just this weekend. BT is great for me because I live in Thailand and we don't always have the best mirrors but generally plenty of peers on fast domestic fibre links.