skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Furthermore, you can publish "The effects of the Jewish population on the 1930s German economy" which can be either a genuine bona-fide analysis, or something which essentially boils down to "Jews destroyed German economy before the war".

When I was in college, I was looking around an FTP server and found a holocaust denier book. So I read it. Well, more moderately skimmed (not lightly).

It was exactly like this - it purported to be a sober view of history, well cited and no name calling. Literally none of the references were to anything real; it was all fabricated bullshit trying to push the reader to a particular conclusion (Jews are bad).

Not being able to tell the difference is entirely the point. These bastards are sneaky.
Tell HN: MockMechanics is now officially open source
Hey guys, a couple of years ago I posted about MockMechanics, a visual programming language/sandbox building game that I've been working on and there was a very positive response [0]. Since then I've been implementing most of the things I promised in my first youtube video [1] and making it ready for an open source release and I'm happy to say it's ready [2]. I've also been building new things and showing them in the youtube channel. It's written in clojure and you can use it to create all sorts of machines, games, musical instruments, etc using little to no code at all. You've seen the piano, the tetris game, the clock the combination safe and so on but since then I've built a 3d printer, a robotic hand, a bubble sorting algorithm, a 7 segment display, a ball cannon, a paint program and more, you can see all these things in the youtube channel [3].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24934722

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrwxbQj5mj0

[2] https://github.com/felipereigosa/mock-mechanics

[3] https://www.youtube.com/c/MockMechanics

Channel trailer with some of the new machines - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQiA42ReNYE
Since when does writing graphic software meet any of your criteria?

You can’t even bring up App Store monopolies since Figma is desktop software.
Do you have a Canadian source on this?
When the Windows 11 beta showed up with the ads and distractions built in, I finally switched my last computer to a KDE Linux.

Love the Windows UI, but their commitment to putting ads in the OS means the OS is no longer the product. Their users are the product. We all know how this ends.
If you're studying a technical field, an Ivy is probably not a great decision, but if you're going for a liberal art or if you are looking for a prestige signal, they are unparalleled.
Yes, and? Still not a reason to prevent advertising the movie on Facebook.
FB has literally unbanned groups that were considered nearly terrorists several years ago (Azov), the second they became anti-Putin.

Goes to show how grotesque those making the rules on Good and Bad are - I am sure we can find similar stuff regarding Saudi Arabia, which is pretty much a Daesh that succeeded at gaining power and keeping it.
Pretty cool. May I ask, what is your background? And, what resources are you using to learn about analog IC chip design?
Can Columbia students sue the school for being defrauded on what they were buying?
You're very welcome! Hopefully it helps!
> and people unwilling to change

I mean the guy used clojure, a functional lispy language with emphasis on immutability. It's as "change embracing" as it gets in webdev when phrases like LAMP stack, MEAN stack are the norm.
> with atrocities which are not well known to western audiance

You say that as if this is a position the west found itself in rather than put itself in. Westerners generally aren't interested in Chinese corpses except as a justification for making more of them.
My ad account got randomly shut down a few days ago too. Was reapproved after review but never was I given a reason.

I hate that big companies can get away with this.
It was earning me a lot more money than a salaried position.
I liked one bit of that movie, when Hugh Jackman is pacing around muttering "I'm too old for this shit" and finishing a bottle of wine during a coding session.
They still are.

You've just gotten old.
It seems there is an intentional effort to drive your digital identity and financial identity/history to your mobile device.

This makes social control much less complicated
The "written in rust" has gotten to the point where I notice myself treating it the same as any other spam/ad. Turned me off from learning the language, which is a shame.
Not to mention multi-player editing [1]. They nailed the execution and no competitor comes close

[1]: https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figmas-multiplayer-technology...
But this is the thing, it’s not healthy to see Adobe as the permanent enemy. They are a reflection of their people and leadership and this is arguably a sign they are a changing company.

Your analogy once was true with Microsoft and Visual Studio in the 90s. It was the main IDE for Windows development (there was no Linux, not really). And it was expensive. There wasn’t much competition until Java took off.

These days Microsoft isn’t seen as the enemy as often. Github is doing fine for example. Companies can change.
There are legitimate reasons for a State to exist.
Fortunately we still vote for our representatives. But I'm sure the US Federal government is interested in your veiled calls for violence.
Buy a 2nd-hand $40 scrap phone, erase it, save a few panorama pictures and a couple of selfies on it and put your SIM card in it every time you are about to cross a border. Then put the card back in your regular phone after that.
The vast majority of flights won't include device searches or these awkward questions. But if you are in a situation where they do want to search your phone, the fact that it's a travel phone is not going to be received well. This will of course depend on the border guard in question. Unless you are a citizen of the country your capacity to enter it is now compromised because the will of the border guard is in practice nearly absolute and without recourse.
Hope they have fun getting into the iOS 6 iPhone 4S I carry around, security by obscurity XD

(And no, it's not my main phone, Pixel 5a with GrapheneOS is my daily driver)
What's your point? The technology already exists and is being used.
Here's a link with a lot more information. The big news today is that the UI component for Bigscreen has just gone live as a part of the KDE 5.26 beta, which is relatively straightforward to install on any Linux distro (or image to a USB stick): https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.25.90/

Maybe the post's main link should be changed to this one? That Bigscreen website seems to be confusing and out of date.
Overall I like this and agree with it, but I feel like there's a deep contradiction or at least inconsistency in it.

It's hard to articulate, or maybe I just haven't had enough coffee yet.

> The most valuable part, I think, is that [being as open as you feel comfortable] really is a positive move towards honesty and transparency rather than a fake hustle culture that has long loomed in our capitalistic society.

> (This doesn't mean there is no hustle culture, there still is, it just shows up a bit differently.)

> Typically, in the creator and founder space, people share learnings and outcomes via Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, blog posts or in specific places like Indie Hackers, Product Hunt, Hackernews or Reddit.

First, let me say that I like that this points out that the problem with hustle is the proportion, not the existence. You've got to have some pep in your step to get by, but when "the hustle" becomes a desperate game that warps the good things in life, well, it's time to retire, play some other game for a while, eh?

With that out of the way, I think the problem shows itself in the way OP thinks of these massive corporate for-profit platforms as "public". These corps are our capitalistic society. Can you build in community in a shopping mall?
Writing automated tests for video games. Why is it interesting to me?

I started to teach myself unity in December 2021. I've personally experienced benefits to writing automated tests and using CICD; therefore, I thought it would be fun to learn about writing tests for a 3D based software. It will be different from the web/CLI based stuff I usually write.

So, it turns out that the video game community (or at least the online circles I frequent) are extremely against the idea of writing automated testing for various reasons. This translates into there effectively being a non-existent pedagogy around teaching how to write tests for 3D based software. Content is scarce, and the content you do find is produced by people who obviously don't write automated tests. So, for me I've hit the books to arbitrage & translate techniques and philosophies into this "untapped" domain.

It's interesting because I've figured out tips & tricks that I'd consider low hanging fruit... For example, if you place a "test" camera in the test case, you can actually see what's going on in the test when it's executed. Or how important it is to clean up every created game object in your test after each test; if done right, you can keep your SUT at origin (0,0,0). Or the importance of "test prefabs" who are effectively mocks of other "real" prefabs...

One innovation that I would like to use/build that I truly consider (((revolutionary))) is this: I want the test cases I write to also automatically (or when tagged with a certain C# attribute) generate the same game objects in a "exploratory(manual) test scene." I think this innovation is the "killer app" that will completely and totally sell the value proposition of automated tests to those opposed. If you decide to build this, please also publish it on openupm and reach out to me.

I have plenty of other thoughts and ideas on this space. I love talking about automated testing; it feels like a very futuristic programmer practice. I hope this post demonstrates why this work and space is so interesting.
GitHub Deprecates GraphQL API for Packages
Joe Biden wrote the Patriot Act. https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4876107/user-clip-joe-biden-w...
Tokio supports io_uring (https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio-uring), so perhaps when it's mature and battle-tested, it'd be easier to transition to it if Cloudflare aren't using it already.
No, I'm being completely serious
It's only illegal if you get caught! :D

This was part of Uber's early strategy when cities responded with citing drivers of rideshare services. At this point, I've seen a rideshare stop in the center of an intersection with traffic to let people out, so maybe the cities were right in the end...
The Uber hack is quite severe and wide ranging
location is taken from your internet service provider; an ISP can generate revenue by selling updates to their IP->location data. As far as I can tell this is traded commonly for revenue, plus govt security people get a place at the table with reviewing sensitive locations and filtering. This all happens without your knowledge.
Right now I’m working on the elicitation process. To see an example, it’s similar to SHELF[1]. They’ve been very helpful by the way.

We already have so many places internally to put in forecasts. Cash flow projections for example. But, all you get is a text box. I’m working on making that easier and more representative before anything else. Making a web app (when all you have is a hammer…) to start. From there, there will be lots more to do but beyond what I’d like to share publicly for now.

[1] https://shelf.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/
KDE 5.26 beta with 'Bigscreen' 10 foot experience now available
why not a quarter bagel, my spreadsheet calculations show nothing but benefits!!!!!
Just yesterday, Facebook started including in-stream ads for Creation Research. I'm a scientist who's work on evolution. i also see several other ridiculous ads that have no relevance to me.

I think it's more likely the folks running the product machine learning recommendation engines are asleep at the wheel; after all, Mark lost interest in his core product to promote AR, so why would th efolks running the core product care?
Habits Killing Your Remote Team’s Ability to Collaborate Effectively
What the fuck? Are you saying I would get denied entry to a country if I brought no phone or a new phone?
> Just because we have the legal right to something doesn't mean there is some magic barrier preventing LEOs from attempting to violating them, or implying the right doesn't exist. They have to be defended by people exercising them and potentially going to court

This is a major flaw in our system, and desperately needs legal reform. LEOs should only be allowed to ask people to do things that they can be legally compelled to do. Acting outside of that authority to coerce other actions should be charged equivalent to impersonating a police officer, kidnapping, or logically similar - the same as if a non-police dressed up in a police costume to coerce someone.

This is of course in addition to the need to make longstanding laws like the ones against murder apply to LEOs as well.

Not that I expect much to ever change. I've got to wonder what our society would be like if Hollywood hadn't leaned into "police procedural" for its cheap production cost. How many hours per week does the average American watch people pointing guns at one another and barking orders? It nowhere reflects real life, yet we've all been primed to think that's how the world operates.
> How can a business, specifically a CDN, not be centralized?

When people complain about centralization with CF the POV is not that CF is centralized in itself, but that much of the internet is centralized around CF.
> The HAProxy configuration is just as simple as Caddy for a reverse proxy setup.

Does HAProxy have built in support for Let’s Encrypt?

That is one of my favorite features. Caddy just automatically manages the certificates for https.
What a beautiful building complex, thanks for sharing. Would love to visit someday.
Starlink, Maxar Satellites Might Be Destroyed by Russian Military
What about War Games ?!
Rankings aren't a bad place to start, they just shouldn't be where you finish too. Keep in mind that there really isn't too much difference between the #2 versus the #10 school or the #30 vs the #50. If two schools are in the same general neighborhood in ranking, that's when you should start putting more weight on the intangibles and how the school meets your needs specifically as opposed to just generally having a good reputation.
Not having read the article either, it's probably fair to say that it's not expected to be a perfect vaccine for meth. Perfect being the enemy of good, etc where wanting something "perfect" for addicts sounds like a recipe for failure. So to your point about alcohol -- there are pills that supposedly cause a significant reduction in alcohol in your system. It was discussed on HN recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31988338
I recall a holocaust among hand crafted toys, a few years ago: They were enforcing "materiel origin" labeling or something and you couldn't sell home made toys without a lot of paperwork to certify they were lead free.

Amazon is too big for laws to apply, and its umbrella apparently covers foreign sellers on its platform.

Another fun toy they sell is the "heated shower heads", a tankless water heater element integrated with a shower head, and usually provided with a standard electrical cord. The safety of these items is obviously good enough that we don't have multiple stories of electrocutions from them, but it doesn't seem right that Amazon can sell these to people where Lowes and other hardware stores cannot.
If you think a plot to kill a governor is somehow destabilizing to the United States, you should probably read about Rod Blagojevich. The guy tried to sell a US senate seat. Corruption has a much farther reaching effect than any single assassination.
The early PCs and BASIC provided such a simple and effective computing environment where any newbie could start reading the online manuals (known today as built-in manuals) that came with BASIC interpreter and start writing some simple code immediately into the integrated editor that also came with BASIC!

I think the loss of a simple, integrated and interactive programming environment like BASIC has been a tragedy. Is there anything like BASIC today that any child, secretary, or grandmother can pick up and learn with as little hassle as possible?
awesome, very cool and very fast!
Daniel Schiffman just started a video series about coding in Apple ][ BASIC on a vintage machine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNkHditYGls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r83N3c2kPw
Damn, i stand corrected.

I've never come across any of these articles, even though I quiet often came upon his programming articles.

Sorry for my ignorance.
Uber confirms alleged teen hacker breached its network, taunted employees
That's an excellent question. Another of my faves is "what are the worst consequences and how do we reduce the risk of a negative outcome? Is it possible to entirely eliminate issues responsibly?"

The former tends to stop all progress, while the latter considers that negative outcomes are real, but that we can productively reduce risk.

Kind of like how OpenAI removed racist, sexist, and other troubling images from their AI training pool and then released it in pieces (to a small group of subjects) to remove as many issues as possible. With that said, they definitely still made mistakes.
My work-based 2FA is tied to my phone and is non-transferrable. If I lost my main phone without switching the 2FA install while logged in, I'd have to go through a recovery process.

Culprits: RSA Authenticate and Okta Verify.

My personal accounts that have 2FA are all backed up with Authy.
What's your superior non-fossil alternative? If it's "renewables", I'd love to see your plan for replacing e.g. Gravelines Nuclear Power Station in France with a renewable facility that can generate 5.5 GW for 24 hours a day 365 days a year, including the budget for the (nonexistent) storage technology required to make that happen and the land area it would need.
Hey, author here. The Snapdragon 670, Snapdragon 821, and i5-6600K tests were done on Linux, and the rest were done on Windows. If Windows is delaying boost, it doesn't seem to be any different from Linux. And lack of intermediate states between lowest clock and max clock on all three of those (not considering the little cores) indicates the OS is not stepping through frequencies.

Since people don't usually write their own OS, I don't think it's correct to take the "maximum transition latency" reported by the CPU to mean anything, because users will never observe that transition speed. Also, processors that rely on the OS (no "Speed Shift") can transition very fast if their voltages are held high to start with, suggesting most of the latency comes from waiting for voltages to increase.

Please also read about Intel's "Speed Shift". While it's fairly new (only debuted in 2015), it means the CPU can clock up by itself without waiting for a transition command from the OS.
No I don't really agree, I don't see everything from two sides, and notice I said: 'asymmetries of the 'two sides' in your hypothetical', i.e. it was the two sides from the other guy's hypothetical, not mine.

The sides are a construct largely pushed by media, and somewhat by people in power as a convenient device for keeping power. But Q-Anon and all that shit - the rich eat babies, etc. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwdkng6ZGp8) - isn't a side for me, it's an illness, and it makes sense that the FBI wants to monitor it. I'm for it.
Cheesy but fun movie
My TV is WebOS. One of my streaming boxes is Android. I stream to my phone from an Android phone sometimes. I have an old Mac Mini with Ubuntu hooked up to a TV. I have two different XBox systems hooked up to two different TVs. These devices all have applications to stream video from things that aren't Plex.
Keep on the good work, looking through your history I find tons of submissions I remember dearly! :)
Expect ratings, reviews, and customer interaction in general, to go down.
The V2 decision to go with 4 128 bit vector pipes instead of 2 236 bit ones is a bit odd, maybe due to sharing some of the design with the N2? Or maybe they want to keep things compatible so code can be migrated from a V2 to a smaller core.
The US Small Business Administration actually offers small business loans to groups of employees trying to get a controlling share of their companies. However, the program is pretty hard to use (like every other government program). https://www.sba.gov/brand/assets/sba/sba-lenders/ESOP_Borrow...

There's actually a bill in congress right now that would, among other things, provide technical assistance and outreach for employees who might be able to use the program: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4141...
> Do you know what phrase I NEVER heard during those days? "What, you didn't know that?" I loved that collaborative feeling.

There was also far fewer variations of things to confound that info sharing. You had a c64, or 128, or Atari 800? You had the same everything as everyone else - same manual, same BASIC, same registers, same books available. You didn't have to worry about what version of something you had, or whether something got upgraded, or what video card you had, etc.

When there was a disagreement about something, it generally wasn't hard to at least point to a common base to start from.
The Road to Zettalinux
An interim solution to the queuing issue to see the Queen’s coffin
Blade Runner Returns as a Live-Action Series from Amazon Studios
> 1. Any malicious person savvy enough to pull off a crime of interest to the Feds is smart enough to provide a wiped or burner phone to DHS/ICE, and they have to know this. So, what is the point in doing this if not to target law abiding citizens.

This isn't even remotely true. See for example the recent Anom honeypot[1]. Criminals do more or less the same things that ordinary citizens do, and often have strictly worse security practices because they believe "ordinary" things are weaker. This makes them great targets for snake oil.

That being said, I agree with (2). It's simply an unnecessary risk to keep this much data around for this long.

[1]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7veg8/anom-app-source-code-...
Snap is losing money and doesn’t seem to have any path toward any decent profitability.

Spotify is a low margin business since no matter how much it makes in revenue, it will always have to give 70% to the labels - a company with high marginal costs that scales with revenue is the opposite of a successful tech company.

Cloud flare is also losing money.

Why would any of these companies besides Zoom be considered a successful company that should have a high valuation?
The foundation doesn't add anything because they don't write the clients. The foundation does research and gives grants using its resources to fund specific areas and fund related infrastructure. The next upgrade and what it includes is agreed by the various open source clients and is enforced by the validators when they decide to upgrade and implement the changes.

Besides that important clarification, validators are already receiving income for their efforts. The tips and MEV are already flowing to their wallets as we speak, it's only the issuance that is locked. The particular change required to unlock funds is rather trivial and can be implemented on your own even if you wanted to. But doing so without a large consensus of validators would fork you out of the main chain and those unlocked coins could be rather useless, this should show the delicate balance that decentralized consensus involves.
Microsoft cares about making edge a success... so it can monetise the users. Hence the ads.
I'm with you on cursive. It's poor technology for communication, but good for signaling. I speak faster than I type, and type faster than I write terribly, and write terribly faster than writing clearly.

Not with you on clocks though but wouldn't die on a hill over it.
60-80% of Tweeters posting on Russia-Ukraine war are bots, 90% pro Ukraine