skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Things I know at 31 that would have changed my life at 21
As has been pointed out, claiming "agents" is basically cop-out as opposed to making a substantive point

But I'm curious in general, would a site like HN ever attract state actors, or even corporate collusion (from a fortune 500 for example, founder asking friends for upvotes or friendly comments I've seen). It's an honest question, I can picture twitter and facebook and these massive dau number sites attracting psyops type stuff. Does it happen on the scale on HN and other "popular" sites that are still niche compared to the big ones? Does Ravelry have multinational threat actors posting? It would be interesting to understand that whole ecosystem
If you want or need support or maintenance for my project in your business, offer me cash. If your first thought is, “hah, as if finance would ever green light that…” then I encourage you to fork it and tell your manager it will cost your company two to three times as much to do it yourself.

I think both are perfectly valid options. Just make informed decisions and in doing so, demonstrate business competence.
Tether Pushes Back Timeline on Audit
A tilt–shift lens can make the focus plane no longer parallel to the plane of the film. This can help make a narrower range of focus for a scenes at middle distances than would be possible with a typical lens.

A narrow depth of field is more characteristic of photographs of nearby objects, so people who are used to looking at photographs end up with the impression that the tilt–shift photograph is a picture of a much closer (and thus smaller) scene.

This is not the only use of tilt–shift lenses. They can e.g. also be used to keep more of the scene in focus than would be possible with a typical lens.
Aren't forums like this for devil's advocating, like, almost exclusively? Working as expected!

We've come a long way since that post in terms of strategy and focus. Most of that time was spent with between 1 and 3 volunteers, working a couple hours a week.

Transparency is a good goal in itself, I think. People are already using this public data, we're just trying to make it more accessible.

"Policing the police" was the original phrase used on reddit, but if you look at our website (https://pdap.io), that's not a phrase we use.
I was wondering if there was a licensing thing that prevented them from publishing it. I thought it was kind of weird too.
FoxyProxy is another popular one with millions of users.
The difference is really I wouldn't be developing any of the software. I'm literally selling things you can get off of say GitHub.

Although I'd probably need to not be completely blunt about it. It'd just be mostly an open secret where any of the dev teams would know that's exactly what I'm doing (and any sort of LICENSE file would make it dead obvious) but to procurement and whatnot it just looks like you're funneling money to me in exchange for some software.
The difference is China is used as a bogey man. IMO it's a distraction from what's truly important--that all social media platforms are manipulating us. The part where one has Chinese lineage is irrelevant to the problem.
Firefox has a much worse history than Chrome when it comes to breaking extensions.
I'm wondering if anyone here has real insight into the economics of his situation at this point. On one hand it seems like his life has been ruined by the state after spending 20+ years in prison, costing his family everything in legal fees, and forever being associated with this murder. I feel like anyone wrongfully convicted (or even just accused) should have some serious recourse but I suspect that there isn't any. On the other hand, can he realistically make out better than most of us (i.e. turning this into a mid-7 or 8-figure fortune and living happily ever after) by getting book / movie / TV / speaking deals now that he's out?
I didn't say I think he was innocent- I have no idea. My only point was that there was a "free mumia" movement that also pointed out problems with the legal case, such that there was no airtight prosecution that would have led to the resulting death penalty.
Can you say more about this? Feel free to reach out to my email (josh.chamberlain@pdap.io) if you'd like to share more. It sounds like you have some expertise that would be incredibly useful to us.
Can't open it on MacOS Monterey because owner cannot be verified.
Let's assume he thinks that (unlikely as FIDE isn't a very trustworthy or respected institution). Before saying so he asks his lawyer if it might get him on legal trouble. The answer is "yes it will". Magnus thus stays silent.
Well stated. We have normialized - minor or not - human rights infractions. Yet have no shame in calling out others.
Tomorrow Night. Only the best theme out there.
Levitating man is just an unicode encoding of an old Webdings (or windings?) font.

There was an accepted proposal to add many windings and webdings letters as unicode endpoints. Thus, levitating man in a suit.
> In this scenario, it would be a lot easier to setup a honeypot thanks to all this additional information. In some cases, even blackmail you if you have a private TikTok account that's been linked back to your real identity.

What's the difference between TikTok and any other site in its ability to associate IPs with your posts? How exactly would TikTok take advantage of your video viewing or posting data to set up a "honeypot" or do blackmail? Any plausible example would be fine.
Then this is clearly a library UX problem. Him not understanding what he's doing is the point!
Tik Tok is a garbage dumpster filled with junk. It’s no more a threat than an empty can of tomato soup. It is hated because it can’t be bought and controlled by Facebook as it’s a China company.
Now this meeting will be get many more urgent meetings.
China is preparing to invade Taiwan in the coming decade and the US is committing to defend the 23 million people there from invasion. What part of that is propaganda?
The CCP literally sits on the board of ByteDance.

ByteDance CEO Zhang Yiming has stated on the record that he will ensure his products serve to promote the CCP’s propaganda agenda.

Companies that refuse, such as Alibaba, are stripped of their power and their leader (e.g. Jack Ma) literally disappear for months.

Read more about what happened with WeChat as well:
https://chinamediaproject.org/2018/04/11/tech-shame-in-the-n...
Self-esteem is also influenced by height, colour, gender, ethnic background, religious background, etcetera.

OP seems to think not only that good parenting can beat external social influences, but that perfect parenting is simply a matter of deciding to be perfect. OP probably blames parents for all negative psychological outcomes for children: “It's not ‘caused’ by the culture or the environment, but by parenting”.
I must disagree. Software supply chain is very different than supply chain of physical goods, but, it is still a chain of supplies in the form of software code.

Looking at it strictly from an open source perspective is having too narrow of a focus. If I purchase O365 licenses from a reseller and they buy it from Microsoft, that's a supply chain. If I have an embedded system that has a proprietary OS made by a 3 person company who use a proprietary firmware from other vendors, that is a supply chain.

The npm example is a good example of a convoluted and unreliable supply chain. OSS is an example of a supply chain that is by design unreliable, the suppliers disavow all responsibility to support or guarantee its features. OSS supply chain being unreliable does not mean the supply chain does not exist, it just means you have to compensate for the unreliability yourself. The real life equivalent would be sourcing materials from guys standing at a street corner selling stuff that "fell off a truck" or "made in their garage".
Sharing masks and code open sourcing is a arguable question. I definitely don't share anything outside of commercial company
Eh this is a weird take -- if you are poor and everyone you know is poor, I don't think life jackets are the #1 thing you worry about, or even the #100 thing.

In rural communities, people are dying of many things, like not having medical care, drug addiction, murder, suicide, etc.

Obviously fate made this outing seem like a bad idea in hindsight, but I'd also say that leaving a 14 year kid to support a family of 4 is a bad idea in foresight.

i.e. if this is your takeaway, (respectfully) consider a different perspective
Can 'Unit of Work' Transform Union Organizing?
LOL, can you make it dynamically have as many calculators as there are cores on the CPU and guarantee that each calculator only uses a single unique core for its own calculations?
> Plenty of land

Land is generally not very valuable by itself, it is locations that are valuable (specifically desirable locations in growing cities). There are highly limited locations available in Canadian cities, particularly the desirable cities of Toronto and Vancouver.

Same with the Bay Area, NYC, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Auckland etc. Singapore does probably the best job of the above at keeping housing relatively affordable despite very limited locations.
It's obviously subjective, but a YouGov poll in the UK found that 47% of pelt required 99% accuracy or higher to be considered beyond reasonable doubt. Only 12% set the bar below 90%.

Source: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2019/1...
What I wanted to convey with the extreme examples was that macbooks die more often due to QC issue or something. They have died after the first year of warranty thrice on me.

Due to this it is certainly mandatory to buy applecare+ for macbooks. I have not used iphones after the 5s so can't comment on that but it seems they have less problem than Macs.
I'm not comparing, the comment I replied to is. I just pointed out that it is, in practice, wrong that western government agency do need judicial warrants to acquire corporate data.
Proxy extensions are not the same as adblockers.
Next up: comments that dynamically generate from the code itself, like tooltips in a game. /s

"...only from %s domains..."
A new London one was planned for September 8th but cancelled due to the venue becoming unavailabel (day of Queen's death). https://www.meetup.com/london-hacker-news-meetup/events/2881... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32660447 . If I recall 180 people signed up.
They're going to use your video watching habits to control your mind?

If this is so easy, how can we tolerate Youtube, Facebook or Google, especially with their connections to government?
Search a Year – Search the internet for results in a specific year
Hi HN! I made this little project because I wanted a way to easily search for things in specific years, so I’d be able to search web history, or backdated articles or stuff like that. Search A Year lets you just search for anything, but can target current, or historical years. I’ve found it helpful when searching for recent answers to questions about the best products to buy, or for finding older results.

Also, fwiw, we built OldestSearch.com a few months ago, and it had some novelty and HN seemed to like it, but it made me think it’d be interesting to build something similar with a bit more utility.
Using Inertial Sensors for Position and Orientation Estimation
I think my favourite was the recent “Doom can run Doom”.
For your first example, use a method with a fitting name.

Second one is not a good example, because I think it's a very common pattern and email.match with com|net|org provides enough context by itself. It's just bloat imo.
I'll tell you more: there are Unicode glyphs without known usage.
I’m not sure how people run such low power usages honestly. My desktop is about 700W when playing games alone.
Backporting from an entity that is hostile towards MV2 makes me suspect that Google isn't going to play ball and make maintaining an MV2-compatible Chromium fork easy.
It kinda looks like it.
I don't really understand how this is any different from any other social media platform besides the entity your data is being sent back to. Is the Chinese government really any worse than Google, Meta, etc.? I think if you really feel passionately about this specific instance, then you should also feel the same passion about any other social media platform that collects your data and does with it what they please.
This is the perfect example of how we, as devs, way overthink what people actually want / are comfortable with.
Everyone is talking past each other.
I'm a full blown social media abolitionist. I'm upset about the propaganda wars conducted online. I'm frustrated by the difficulty of filtering through Russian, Chinese, and CIA propaganda online in order to understand history or current events. I do not think that Russia, China, the US, or private companies should have such capabilities.
From what I've seen, this is no different for adults. Getting adults to ask for help is really difficult, and I've given up trying to pursued it (inorganically), in the workplace. On the other hand, getting adults to give "XY Problem" [1] fueled demands is very very easy.

1. https://xyproblem.info
True, I just thought it was funny. There is no reason to cheat ever either.
Maybe the difference in what you two are is that psychological is often internal to one person whereas cultural can be internal to many people.

For example, me working on the fear that I have to open up publicly because my house was robbed when I lived overseas and was a semi-celebrity can be my personal psychological journey. The collective "don't share too much about your private life online" could a collective cultural belief stemming from many different experiences that impacted individuals to have such beliefs and fears.

I've been thinking a lot about whether to change culture (group) or change psychology (individual) and my latest belief on this is that I want to get better at loving myself and loving others and then train the handful of people who also want to do that, with the idea being that if a few of us start, it may spread to others, this going from the individual to group, maybe psychological to cultural.

I don't necessarily like the psych/cultural distinction, as I think both often influence how I'm feeling. Scared to post because I might get robbed again, also scared to post because people may resond with "you shouldn't post things like that online."

So I think maybe it's both. However I still like the idea of starting with me and maybe a few others who really really want to get better at it and maybe influence by osmosis.
What you're describing (bootstrapping a company to exit) doesn't seem at all like a failure.
If you look through the old mailing list postings, the oft-left-implicit problem with Klingon (as well as Tengwar, Everson’s [EDIT: misspelling] pet project) is that it may get people into legal trouble (even though in a reasonable world it shouldn’t be able to). So in the unofficial CSUR / UCSUR they remain.

A weird solitary character from the 1400s isn’t subject to that, and even if it’s a mistake it’s probably not worth breaking compatibility at this point (I think the last such break with code points genuinely changing meanings was to repair a mistaken CJK unification some time in the 00s, and the Consortium may even have tied its own hands in that regard with the ever-more-strict stability policies).

Similarly, for example, old ISO keyboard symbols (the ⌫ for erase backwards, but also a ton of virtually unused ones) were thrown in indiscriminately at the beginning of the project when attempting to cover every existing encoding, but when the ISO decided to extend the repertoire they were told to kindly provide examples of running-text (not iconic) usage in a non-member-body-controlled publication. (Crickets. The ISO keyboard input model itself only vaguely corresponds to how input methods for QWERTY-adjacent keyboards work in existing systems—as an attempt at rationalization, it seems to mostly be a failed one.)
Yet people have loans outstanding 20, 30, or more years after taking them out, so obviously there's some amount of flexibility in the system. In any event, on its face, this system would not encourage prompt repayment but rather the opposite: the slowest possible repayment.
The design is horrible and a relic of skewmorphism.

Single tally memory is useful on small screens. I just wish they’d display the stored value somewhere.
Chrome web store. Avoid Shopify at all costs.
> That's a lazy thing to say. It's obvious that TikTok is qualitatively different from the perspective of the US and its allies.

No, it's lazy to say that your assertion is obviously true rather than arguing for it. It's an easy thing to do when you're part of a government-led crowd.
This is a frequently asked question! here are some of the previous answers -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29370676 (Nov 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28981484 (Oct 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28441182 (Sept 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27726982 (July 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27284079 (May 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27236708 (May 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26886074 (April 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26244468 (Feb 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26158300 (Feb 2021)

The amusing thing (since meta is a form of crack) is that I used the same tool to look these up.
BS. China has said themselves they're preparing to invade Taiwan in what will be a bloody war. Would you prefer deterring that or letting another Ukraine happen?
Isn't the mainstream media selling that very propaganda...
As mentioned by others the Rust code shown in the video is for the Minecraft server implementation. But the game itself running on the in-game CHUNGUS 2 was written in another language, and then they have a custom assembler that translates that code into Minecraft blocks to be loaded as the 8kb ROM.
It's not at all material to the point you're making, but to nitpick: Hans's first move was actually 1. d4 and thus the Wikipedia article you should be linking to is that of the Indian Defence [0], not Alekhine's Defence!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Defence
What you say is true, but that doesn't mean it should be posted to HN. The purpose of this site is to discuss articles. This one's behind a paywall. Even if you sign up for a free account, you may have used up your two free articles per month. That invites people to comment without reading the article. That's not why HN exists. (I actually checked the comments hoping someone posted a copy of the article.)
Even hn has some supertweeters, fascinating.
This doesn't seem relevant to the article

His idol was Warren Buffet -- not exactly a reckless risk taker

And he was into regenerative farming. That is very much NOT a "get rich quick" scheme.

It was about building value over the long term.

This comment says more about you than the subject of article (and not in a bad way, just saying it doesn't really apply here)
Wait, but it would be ok for a Chinese company to gather data on US citizens as long as our companies could gather data on Chinese citizens? What about countries that are not China or the US? Those are all one way relationships when it comes to Facebook/Twitter.

As a Canadian, a lot of the arguments about why TikTok is a national security threat come off as extremely US-centric. If applied consistently these ideas result in each country having its own social networking companies.
> This leak showed that not only are they working on it, but it looks really cool.

I think it's simply a matter of being in control of your own product.

It ain't cool that people can just hack your servers and dump your stuff that's a work in progress for the world to critique and make memes about.
Answering my own question (just for the record): I'm pretty sure now that I've looked into this some more that Magnus was contractually obligated to play this game, and so this is hist way of refusing to play without technically breaching the contract.

This conclusion was informed by this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cSP9hMpbPo
Depends on the browser and platform. WideVine support on Firefox for Linux is limited, one of the biggest effects of this is that some video platforms refuse to serve up high definition video to Firefox users on Linux. Netflix, for example, will only allow you to watch video at 720p on Firefox for Linux. The existing WideVine support comes directly from Google.
Tether Is Working to Be More Transparent. But It Is Falling Short
For what reason should Apple ban TikTok but not Facebook or Instagram?

I think Apple is doing the right thing here by not playing favorites, and instead instituting App Store policies designed to protect user privacy regardless of which country a given service hails from.

And Apple would be harmed by blocking TikTok. It's one of, if not the most popular social media app on the App Store. Banning it hurts Apple because it would mean users who like TikTok now have incentive to move to another platform.
I remember those. RT US was largely coverage of domestic policy/events and very little about Russia. You could watch the same topic coverage from the BBC, CBC, DW, Al Jazeera English or even Democracy Now and not see much, if any, difference.

But of course everyone who had never actually watched an episode would screech propaganda while embracing other state-funded channels. The Beeb saying “America border policy bad” is ok, but Russia… totally different.
Canada has a lot of government and quasi government jobs (most of the economy) that are basically sinecures. I can see all of they skewing the numbers. Not that I dont believe some people in actual productive jobs also prefer wfh, just that if you work for the federal government or RBC or whatever and your job is effectively doing nothing, you'd rather do that at home.

I've been hiring lately and actually (completely anecdotally) found that people want to at least have the option of coming into an office
Don't miss the other video showing the overview of the CPU, it's seriously impressive: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FDiapbD0Xfg
The thing is, looking at the page, there are many other characters that were not added - the large red С-looking characters, for example. But for some "bizarre" reason, those were not included in Unicode...

Of course, the simple answer is that Unicode actually includes any character that someone cares enough to ask to be added, with rare exceptions.
V1 sound comes from the pulse jet engine that runs with a "batch mode" cycle, ie there's a valve at the front that opens and closes at something like 30 Hz.

The Stuka had the scare sound siren and it had a much higher pitch.
No one is protected by the First Amendment. The government is forbidden to do things. "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of..." several things, including freedom of speech.

The idea that corporations were given First Amendment rights by a recent Supreme Court decision that made them people is very frustrating to me. Corporations were deemed "people" in 1882, in San Mateo County v. Southern Pacific Rail Road, but it doesn't matter even slightly what they are with regards to the First Amendment, which doesn't specify who is speaking. Whether you're a citizen, noncitizen, undocumented immigrant, visitor, or soulless capitalist entity, if you can speak, Congress shall make no law.
In natural language, asking "is there" is implicitly asking for more than just a truth value. It's expected that the response will include an example; a witness to the answer "yes". The indirection is considered polite and non-aggressive by many people. In particular, a direct question like "What software exists for this?" is sometimes met with a "Have you tried Google?", when the intent is also to get recommendations and not a pile of search results to evaluate as a newcomer.

In this case, they got a rude answer anyway. I hardly think that's their fault though.
Brelyon is turning heads with immersive virtual monitors
The charges were pursued by a private prosecutor who was hired by Chevron, after the real prosecutors passed on the case.