skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Create an extension that literally shutdowns your devices on your network. When you power them on. The extension will just resume and shutdown the device.

To disable the extension. Do some multivariable calculus and a bit of discrete mathematics to find the nth prime of some random hash the extension gives you.

If that doesn’t stop you from powering on your device until the next day. I don’t know what will.
Theoretically and on paper that would be a nice proposition. Unfortunately we are humans. That will not work
The production of genuine art is productive.

Also it’s very hard to argue that casinos should exist so that’s kind of a non-starter.
A headless library plugged into Electron, basically a CLI.

I know pretty well to whom I have replied.

Yes, Noumental does count.
The standard practice on HN is to take the most charitable interpretation of the parent.
"You obviously do" is the normal response to comments of this type.
The Rise of Cryptocurrency Ponzi Schemes (2017)
Lots of comments here about tradeoffs between having fun and working hard. I'd say work hard, but take a year off every decade or so and just enjoy it.

Personally, I find it hard to get away from work, because getting away means changing mindsets and changing mindset takes longer than 48 hours or even a week of vacation. If you've ever quit your job voluntarily and lived in another country for a bit, you'll know what I'm talking about.
VR Prototypes Reveal Facebook’s Surprisingly Critical Research Directions
>they are cold, they are selfish, they are heartless, they are completely self-centered, they have no empathy, they don't care about what happens to other creatures

Are we sure that there aren’t a lot of replicants walking around already?
Ask HN: Why don't email verifications ever let me DENY the verification?
I have a name that's apparently common in Europe. Every couple of weeks I get an email asking me to verify/confirm my email address.

They never ever seem to have a button that says "DENY VERIFICATION " or "Nope, that's not me"

Small shops I never heard of and big, international, well known businesses - they never have a "Do not approve / register / verify" button.

(Today I just got half a dozen emails from PayPal - apparently somebody is using my email address to register. Based on subsequent emails, even though this email was never verified, they continue to do their business and register. PayPal won't let me deny usage of my email, submit a ticket, or contact support for help without logging in, which obviously I cannot and do not want to do - I'm not to the one who got registered!).

So what is the point in email verification emails, if there's no way to deny it / indicate "Nope that's not me, don't do it"?
Magit changed git from just a DVCS to a integral part of my dev process. Especially in large projects where I spend much more time reading code and trying to understand how it came to be the way that it is. I mainly write Clojure, but for a while I was writing Scala (many years ago, when its emacs support was inferior to Intellij, I don't know what the state is these days). When I was using Scala it wasn't my emacs-style keybindings that I missed the most (though I did miss them), it was the mind-meld instant navigation of the project history that slowed me down. I ended up suffering the emacs support while planning my changes just so that I could use Magit to read history. Then I'd switch back to Intellij for actual authoring.

It's incredibly flexible, but here are some things that I do all the time in Magit that I hesitate to do when I'm just using the cli:

- stage individual lines from a hunk

- rebase fearlessly

- resolve merge conflicts

- view the list of all commits that touched a file

- view a file from the above list at a point in time next to the current version

- name my stashes!

All of these are possible from the cli or other git uis, but they are very discoverable using Magit - I didn't even know you could name stashes until I was prompted for a name while stashing. And Magit will happily log all the actual git commands that it runs, so if you're curious how it works you can easily peak behind the curtain.
ELI5 : How nuke defender, and not have other risks? What method do you follow?
> It’s no surprise that the region that gave birth to agriculture has also refined innovative sustainable agriculture methods for thousands of years. Pigeon towers were one such innovation—and they helped Persian farmers cultivate all kinds of crops on previously arid, thin-soil land.

Didn't ancient Persia originally have much more fertile soil, but unsustainable practices (like the introduction of goats) destroy the soil quality? I guess both can be true, initial poor practices necessitated the introduction of more sustainable techniques.
Point taken - I was thinking of the charges out of context:

A general amnesty issued in 403 meant that Socrates could not be prosecuted for any of his actions during or before the reign of the Thirty Tyrants. He could only be charged for his actions during the four years preceding his trial in 399 B.C.E. It appears that Socrates, undeterred by the antidemocratic revolts and their aftermaths, resumed his teachings and once again began attracting a similar band of youthful followers. The final straw may well have been another antidemocratic uprising--this one unsuccessful--in 401. Athens finally had enough of "Socratified" youth.

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/socrates/socra...

also this:

Cambridge University classicist Professor Paul Cartledge claims that, rather than being a farce, Socrates’ trial was legally just and that he was guilty as charged. Instead of being a warning from history, he argues, it is an example of just how different Ancient Greek politics often were.

“Everyone knows that the Greeks invented democracy, but it was not democracy as we know it, and we have misread history as a result,” Professor Cartledge said. “The charges Socrates faced seem ridiculous to us, but in Ancient Athens they were genuinely felt to serve the communal good.”

https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/socrates-was-guilty-as-charged
Devo Presents Adventures of the Smart Patrol (Video Game)
^ yeah, this is pretty much the answer.

32 bits is not sufficient, emoji and combining characters go further. Even with UTF-32 you still can't treat "one 32 bit sequence" as "one character/grapheme/etc". It solves nothing, but it takes more space in the vast majority of cases.
You've just written a lot of applause lights. What's a substantive proposal do you believe will have a realistic chance of being passed through Congress? If you can't think of one then it may not be as straightforward as you believe.
At first i thought it's related to SEO, but it isn't.
Some of his posts are possibly more on the fictional side, but given that the Linux kernel also has (or had?) code to check for and also avoid a HLT instruction that doesn't work (search for "Checking 'HLT' instruction..."), I think this one is close to the truth (but of course, also begs the question of why MS didn't do what Linux did)

On the other hand, HLT was commonly found in the DOS software of the time, often for quick and approximate timing delays, and I don't remember any specific discussions about that causing problems, so I'm still not sure what the true problem is; my guess is that the combination of protected mode, which increases power consumption over real mode, and the sudden drop in current draw caused by a HLT, was enough to cause marginal power supply circuitry to fall out of regulation, similar to how stress-testing when searching for a stable overclock will sometimes crash the machine when it ends, not when it starts. On the more digital side, interactions with SMM might also be relevant: http://www.rcollins.org/ddj/Mar97/Mar97.html
This unblocks or simplifies so many of my projects. Variadic generics, better exceptions, and TOML in the standard library are huge, self-types are great, and extra speed is always appreciated. Thanks to everyone involved.
it might be relevant that they were giving this talk to nuclear submarine officers with master's degrees in various engineering fields... but yeah, it'd be nice if it were more sophisticated.
Way too cold lol
If you stay on the path now, your variance is very small. You'll be in more control on where your life ends up. This means you will be relatively safe, but also no surprises.

It's really up to you whether "no surprises" is a good or bad thing.
Remember that AWS credentials are easy to lock down. At the very least you could add an ACL to only let them be used on your AWS instances. Then you can set up alerts if someone attempts to use them outside.
Or perhaps Bad Apple
nice! heres my similar project

- https://wumbo.co
- https://addons.mozilla.org/lt/firefox/addon/wumbo/
- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wumbo/edkhadeemcop...

feel free to use any of that for inspiration or reach out if u wanna bounce around any ideas
A lot of debates around christianity seem to resolve around the back and forth between "the Bible is really dumb and filled with insanities" and "people with two brain cells don't take it at face value, and only take away the parts that don't make them assholes".

I always wonder, if these people are smart enough to sift through all the insanities and come up with a safe path that makes sense, couldn't they just stare at the world for a few years and come up with their own sane path that only contains stuff that make sense for them...
Why not just use Gevent?
If you can find a copy 'out there', [2] the 1980 film version [1] of LeGuin's novel 'The Lathe of Heaven' has something of the BR 'feel' to it. (Made by WNET it was aired on many PBS stations at the time.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lathe_of_Heaven_(film)

Interesting trivia: that Dick and LeGuin both graduated from the same Berkeley High School in 1947.

[2]Edit: of course [480p largest] ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8VRbaVNvSA
There are several tools for viewing them, primarily based on Pushshift, an apparently individual-run database that grabs whatever it can from the Reddit API, usually within a few minutes. The frontends come and go; currently the major ones are unddit.com and reveddit.com (which honours user deletions, refusing to show them).

There are also Pushshift-based sitewide search engines: redditsearch.io is made by the Pushshift creator but doesn't show deleted content. ihsoyct.github.io does, but is unreliable, often randomly missing some comments and posts in any one run of a query.

With the amount of constructive comments/posts removed for seemingly no reason nowadays, and the blight of users overwriting and/or deleting helpful, otherwise anonymous comments when making privacy purges, I find it now more pleasant to browse with all deleted content shown than without.
How do they interpret the self-flagellation rule?
Mostly just sounds like you don't like / get along with your wife, which sucks for you but isn't true for a lot of people.
> What would your grasp of the outside world feel like? Over time, increasingly abstract and dreamlike. Even those with whom you had regular contact would increasingly become simplified, abstracted, flattened characters.

I'm going to stop you right there and point out that many people living in the 18th and 19th centuries developed the vast majority of their relationships and understandings of the world through only text in the form of letter writing. And I have found no reason to believe the people of those eras lacked in the intimacies of their relations nor in their understanding of their own world. Certainly not compared to the multimedia deluged generations of the mid to late 20th century.
Are fords engineers unionized? if not, you might be comparing apples and oranges. None of the Tesla layoffs so far have effected hourly positions, and they are still hiring plenty for people who actually build cars/packs/panels. The layoffs were engineering/design/HR/admin/management/etc.
Context in Golang
YouTube Link for the videos - https://youtu.be/w-ngnnhcT-s
Is it really automated? The infographic glosses over the how with a “security research team” in the flowchart. Maybe the automation catches suspicious code/activity (like the urls or accessing sensitive files) and the research team just verifies
I spent a significant part of the covid period absolutely hooked on genealogy research.

As others have mentioned, (1) http://familysearch.com is excellent, incredibly good for being free, and (2) http://ancestry.com is also extremely useful. Yes the latter is paid and expensive, unfortunately. There is a significant degree of overlap between the two, but both tend to have some resources indexed (or indexed slightly differently) that the other does not. It will be difficult to do a serious search without using both to complement each other.

German records are fairly good from about the early 1800’s through the early 1900’s right up to the world wars. The wars mucked with things and for obvious reasons you will find families migrating to escape poverty, war, death, etc.

Some random tips:

* Remember that borders are not static. Name of places and even countries change over time and this was especially true of Germany during this time period. An invaluable tool to help disambiguate this is the Meyer’s Gazetter http://meyersgaz.org/

* Trace to at least 3 generations and 3rd cousins of your known connections, and look at the other trees connected to those individuals on ancestry.com. While user created trees are sometimes sloppy and should be taken with several grains of salt, it is often the case that someone else in the wider family already knows or has researched something, and it can be a good place to start pulling at threads before starting from scratch.

* Spelling of names can change through the years and across migrations. Learn to think phonetically and assume transcription errors happen frequently, both of the records and in the creation of the records themselves.

* Birthdates are just as bad as name transcriptions, finding matching records at +/- 2 years is relatively common, I usually search a person at +/- 5 years when starting out. This is especially true with adoptions, unfortunately.

* Because of the previous, family group matches (ages/gender) are at least as important as exact name matches. Ex a family with a vaguely similar family name, but dad, mom, and 7 children of the right age/gender, might be a match.

* For most of the older records there may be no census or similar. In this case it can be relatively same to assume groups of children clustered in the same place, with the same parent names, are probably in the same family. (Especially true when the parents marriage and all the baptisms are at the same church)
Poor institutions. Low trust. Absence of rule of law. Corruption. Enormous cultural mismatches. Atrocious or nonexistent infrastructure. Insane difficulties hiring competent staff. Investing in poor countries is really hard.
PEP 518 lists some reasons not to use configparser and I agree with them wholeheartedly.[1] Personally I don't want to use ill-defined formats, even for simple projects.

[1] https://peps.python.org/pep-0518/#configparser
It's a Canadian joke - a play on "keep your stick on the ice" from ice hockey.
I’m against civil forfeiture laws, I don’t think they are important in the fight against money laundering.

Anyway I’m not saying money laundering doesn’t happen, it does… and that’s probably the best case use case for crypto and one of the pillars of its value-add. People who don’t care about legality won’t care if crypto is regulated away either. I’m just demonstrating it’s not free to get away with these crimes. Plenty of people get nailed for money laundering every year.
Possibly the largest open source software project? I know it says Open Office is bigger but it seems like Linux has grown since then.
Ask HN: Recommended crash courses in web UI design (30 minutes or less)
I self taught back end, and can now make full apps with ruby on rails. Unsurprisingly, my finished applications never look quite right. I use bootstrap which helps a lot.

I think the problem is mostly with the layout of elements on the page. I try not to overdo things with unnecessary elements, and am at a point where each individual piece of the webpage (e.g. a button, a logo, a navbar, a form) looks fine on its own, but doesn't look professional as a whole (for reasons I'm not yet perceptive enough to detect - I can tell it's clunky but I can't articulate why).

I know 30 minutes is ambitious, but I'm working on an MVP and don't have a lot of time right now (in the future, absolutely).

Any recommendations for crash courses, videos, articles, or tutorials greatly appreciated! Particularly interested to hear from anyone who wasn't a design 'natural', and had to self teach as I am.
Agree, have not been able to find anything that indicates system is using any form of AI such as genetic algorithms, machine learning, etc.

Even the artist when directly asked if it is AI related appears to answer that it is not; though oddly they repeatedly refer to it as being AI-based in their official artist statements.

Here’s the excerpt from the interview were the artist states it is not AI:

“Interviewer: Would it be fair to call this process artificial intelligence?

Tresset: The term artificial intelligence is meaningless, or more precisely its meaning is fluctuating. Some people qualify this as artificial intelligence, I would not. I prefer to consider AI as a field of research, not as a thing.”

Source:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/201...
I should have a look
Indeed.

I liked this GDC talk from Andrew Przybylski, about video game addiction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVwu4RDChsY

He discusses that it's worth understanding how these bad behaviours work. He argues that it's better that people who like games get ahead of the bad behaviour; the risk of letting it fester is a big backlash that throws the baby out with the bathwater.
Journalists steal OC from reddit & then the links are posted here
In ostensibly developed countries we can't get food, fuel or basic medicines yet we're still going on about high tech and green agenda.

We need to wake up, the system is fucked by all these agendas, it is painfully obvious if one just looks.
Ask HN: HN why don't you open the article in new tab by default?
It is so much easier to read and continue reading more or rate what is just read, rather then navigate back.

Curious if the decision to open in same browser window was intentional.
In what sense does it not match? The emotional content of my reaction is anger at the obscene hording of space by a privileged minority who benefit from the productive behavior of their neighbors and contribute nothing in return. The average home price in Atherton is $8.1M. There are 7,000 people there, benefitting enormously from the wealth generated by tech. But they won't build more homes. And they will sue to stop the Caltrain from being electrified because they don't think converting a diesel train to electric is "environmentally safe." I lived nearby Atherton for some time, and it made my life, and the lives of my friends and family worse. I think it's a selfish municipality and I don't respect its ethic.
Unless they are quietly sitting on some really big work (which isn't out of the question), openai seems to be getting substantially leapfrogged by google. In terms of how "well known" googles language models are, most of us already interact with googles models daily via search. This gives them a massive market head start in users, and an enormous amount of data that will be impossible to catch up with unless google completely shoots themselves in the foot on this stuff.
Sorry you feel that way, but I just find it a little disappointing that this thread went down this road and someone made this linkage. I don’t see it as a related issue.
I read this as I’m sitting in a social circle in a park and started checking HN on my phone as people were around
Yeah, a major issue is that there's a shortage of helium with the supplies being rationed so that enough of it can be conserved for medical and other essential needs. Is there going to be enough to supply these airships at a price that makes it viable?
Good summary of other changes: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3660550/the-best-new-featu...

And of course, the docs for the fuller story: https://docs.python.org/3.11/whatsnew/3.11.html

Definitely looking forward to the release later in the year
Thanks for sharing that, I just put together one [0] but hard to extract meaningful data without running at least an average across X (~1k?) attempts. Nonetheless, it seems to perform extremely well based on surface metrics.

[0]: https://codesandbox.io/s/maverick-js-observables-bench-cellx...
I was just complaining to my wife about this.

A vacation is never a vacation. I need at least 3 months off based on how the past chances for a few weeks off has went.
God yes, I sure would have preferred to vote for Bernie over both Joe and Hillary. I was super delighted to get to vote for an actual socialist candidate over a Democrat when I was living in Seattle, and the amount of rich Seattleites who were constantly butthurt over her policies was a regular source of delight.
As a more general tip - not specific to German records - I highly recommend using FamilySearch and Ancestry to identify sources, then looking for and confirming those sources at Archive.org.
For reference California takes 58% of the water. It's not even close to self sustaining and is HIDEOUSLY overpopulated in comparison to the resources it has available (especially when you consider the squandering of them on inappropriate agriculture).
We were talking about vaccines. It's somewhat disingenuous to start talking about abortion.

That said, the fundamental disagreement w.r.t abortion is whether or when a fetus is a person with the same legal protections as a born child, and to what extent to weigh this question, or these potential rights against the rights of the mother.

Abortion necessarily involves the killing of an organism. Anyone arguing otherwise is not basing their argument in reality. However, many commonly accepted and legal actions almost inevitably involve the killing of organisms: walking, driving, excavation, building. Our legal systems typically even allows for the killing of complex, almost-surely sentient creatures for food, and other purposes. This extends as far as the killing of humans under certain very limited circumstances. The essential disagreement on abortion is whether and when the killing that is an inescapable part of abortion is permissible, justified, lawful, and generally not murder.
I don't want to live in a society where exploration and discussion of taboo ideas risks my livelihood. Short of somehow inducing massive change in the way most people think about things, anonymity is the only way to achieve that.
A good exercise I found was to imagine that you are God. How would you create the world differently?
Which device are you on?

I find current UX great on desktop since command + click is extremely easy. A little less so on mobile though (iPhone safari).
The only downside is if half the team is remote, it could cause friction between the innies and the outies.
What's the deal with 27" 5K displays nowadays? I really like my 27" 5K iMac's display, and when I need to replace the iMac I'd like to stick with that size and resolution display. It's a great DPI and big enough that many things that I used to need two monitors for I can do fine on one.

But it appears that the only ones actually available are an LG (who make the panel for the 27" iMacs) and the new Apple Studio Display. The LG model is something like 5 years old and costs around $1300, which is almost as much as the Studio Display ($1600).

I would have expected all the major monitor makers to have added 27" 5K displays several years ago and for the price have come down to maybe the $700-1000 range depending on the features.

Did others make them and then everyone else dropped out leaving LG which stopped development but kept the old model in production?